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Khosla is from India and people from that region have utter disregard for the law. These rich indians took our jobs and are not taking over our land. (I am a person of Indian origin so I think it okay to have this opinion). Wrest back beaches that belong to the people.
I completely disagree about having a number pad. I chose my laptop (in part) because it had a numpad.

I also use a macbook at work and the lack of a numpad frustrates me.
Nothing too exciting. Perhaps counter-intuitively, tech giants are the most straightforward to get into because their interview focuses so much on whiteboarding ability. I personally know people who have gotten into Google/Amazon/Facebook straight out of bootcamp because they had great ability to solve these sorts of problems.

My personal journey took ~2.5 years. I didn't think it was possible to get into a tech giant out of bootcamp so I never tried. Worked two different jobs for a year each, figured I'd give the interviews my best shot, and got accepted.

For background knowledge, I used Algorithms 4th ed. as my textbook. My source of practice problems was LeetCode - did a few/day over the course of around 6 months leading up to the interview.
What do you mean by "doesn't curse?" IIRC one of his first lines in the series is "this is some raggedy ass shit..."
The WHO is a fairly reputable source.[0]

[0] http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
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> Highway construction is every bit the subsidy that public transportation construction is, perhaps more so.

Well, first, my understanding is that the Federally funded roads are paid for from the Highway Trust Fund, that gets gas taxes and commonly shows a profit, that is, gets used for other than highways, but I don't have good data.

Second, on this thread the beginnings of this was cost/benefit analysis. There if benefits of roads exceed the costs, then it's okay to spend general tax money on the roads.

The reason I'm screaming subsidy is that I don't believe that passenger trains can pass traditional cost/benefit analysis anywhere in the US except in NYC, maybe SF, and that's about it. Or, for NYC they will do what they do because in some sense NYC needs it, to heck with cost/benefit analysis. But recently I did have to pay a surtax to support the NY MTA when I never use it -- apparently they are not charging enough for their tickets. I'm not part of the unique NYC thingy so should not have to pay for the MTA for NYC.

My view of the trains being pushed now is that no way will they pass cost/benefit analysis unless count all kinds of distant benefits that traditional analysis never did. So, to me, the only way the trains could roll would be just flat out subsidies taken from people by force via the tax laws. Bummer.

I'm less concerned about the bad aspects of private cars than you are.

I regard the trains as a scam intended to make a few people rich from money from the Federal government from tax money. E.g., supposedly Musk's businesses have gotten $1 B or more, or was it $5+ B. It's a lot. To me, Musk is sucking on the public teat.
Not true. You can hold down one finger in place as the "click" and then drag with the other finger just as if there were buttons.
Ask HN: Has being in YComb helped you raise funds after demo day?
In particular, do other VCs look favorably on your startup for having been in ycomb when it comes to fundraising, or is there little to no difference in the long run?
Yes VC fund vintages are likely maturing.
A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
> Most people are not using laptops as tools to create anything.

Even for people creating stuff. The touchpad is way more important than the keyboard as a developer. I can spend a lot of time scrolling, scrolling, reading code and documentation and stuff. Ok there is a lot of shortcuts involved, but keyboard quality needs to be real bad before it becomes a show stopper.

Sure there are days were I code all day. But even there, the IDE is doing a lot of the work too. In a language like java, you never have to type a method, class or variable name beyond the first time you defined them. And the IDE will even suggest good enough variable names.

Now that I'm thinking off, this is probably the longest sequence of word that I have written unassisted for the day. Commenting on HN, or documentation, or email is what a good keyboard is useful for.
It would seem that ICO may change that.
there is a company already doing that and beyond.They call themselves "buffer"

https://buffer.com/transparency
My biggest pain point when I contribute to open source has always been the owner/maintainers being unresponsive to new issues/pull requests.

I wonder if this is a consequence of the behavior Hammer is describing?
Great compilation!
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Where the hell are you living in this country?

Just curious, 'cause the rent in places like Waterloo, IA is about twice the number you quoted.

And there's not much going on in Waterloo, IA.
"deserve to be there" is very clear in its meaning.
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deleted dropbox from mac machines after recent privacy issues - e.g. [0]

still using it on windows machines because of public links, but won't be for long, until hopefully iCloud gets this too

good luck with the IPO - will be the first one publicly traded feature and not a product ;0)

served me with some free GBs gained from various promos over the years well; so long and thanks for all the fish!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338
Heh. I tried running that code through three different beautifiers and they all failed spectacularly.

For those of us who don't enjoy visual self-flagellation, here's an attempt at untying the above ball of yarn:

#define F for(i=0;i<l3;i++)

main(n)
{
int i,j,
w=640, h=480,
l=w*h,
o[] = {
~w, -w, -w+1,
-1, 1,
w-1, w, w+1
},
b[l*5];

F
b[i]=rand();

for( puts("YUV4MPEG2 W640 H48" "0 F30 C444");
puts("FRAME");
)
{
F
{
for( n=j=8; j; n-=b[ i + o[--j] ]&1 );

b[i+l] = (n^5 && !b[i] | n^6) - 1;
}

F
putchar( b[i]=b[i+l] );
}
}

EDIT: I had no idea you could italicize code blocks! This was an accident, but I'm going to leave it because it looks pretty. Has this always been a feature? I've never seen italicized monospace before. That first line is supposed to read "for(i=0; i < l times three ..." but the asterisk is somehow causing HN to italicize the code block. There's no matching closing asterisk, so this is pretty amusing.
What happened to the code? The domain has been gobbled up by Sedo.
It's awesome. It finally makes keyboard shortcuts discoverable.
It's "just" a Sedo squatter page.
My view is that the auto industry has long and usually paid for itself as people buy cars (there was the 2008 bailout). For the highways, my understanding is that the Federally funded ones are paid for from the Highway Trust Fund which gets the Federal part of gasoline taxes. IIRC (I don't have good data) is that that fund is a favorite for raiding for money for other projects, maybe even trains.

So, I don't see cars as a scam. Passenger trains? Yes. Cars? No.
The best example I can think of is a set of instructions on a medium. You've got jumps as a normal part of programming at this level. If the address of the jump is corrupted by an environmental factor (e.g. Hard radiation), then the jump
may end up in lalaland. A sled in this context would be placed at the end of and in between sets of instructions
with a jump back to a safe location to restart. So a jump to an invalid location or past the instruction set would have a chance of recovering back to a valid subroutine.
How much BTC/ETH could Google mine if Goog put all resources into mining?
Ask HN: How much BTC/ETH could Google mine if Google put all resources into mining?

Probably enough to do a 51% attack on the bitcoin network and convert all bitcoins to Google coins?
>> butterfly keyboards are amazing once you get used to it

Curious - what makes them so "amazing"?

Speaking only for myself-- going back to the 80s, there has only ever been one keyboard that I've ever used that I couldn't get used to (Surface Pro Touch keyboard). For all the others, once I got used to them, I never really felt like one was better than another, just different.
No filenames. Just functions. Collapsing info from multiple files is a big part of the goal. IDE search works well enough that I rarely know what file I'm in.

I use names from the code. I do want to be able to locate the code later.

I try to omit most conditionals. The goal is to show the path of interest, not all possible paths. Some conditionals are interesting though --very likely errors, process cancellations, scary bug-tempting edge cases.
Yes it is when you factor out cost/quality of life.
Not one person is doing this. People did temporary hacks like PayTm because they didn't want to take hits on their business.

Today no one. Not one single person is taking cards or PayTm. If you wave a card in front in front of their face they ask you to withdraw cash from the nearby ATM and come. In fact its already a few months since I did a electronic transaction to buy anything near my home.

This whole act achieved nothing at the end.

Your best measure is Police constables, especially the traffic ones. They are back to asking bribes on the street. In Bangalore every 1 km has a police party doing this.
There are lots of things I miss. Datatypes is definitively one of them. AREXX ports everywhere (I hate the language, but you don't need the language to make use of AREXX ports; Dbus is like what you get if you take AREXX and give it to a committee; the beauty of AREXX was the sheer simplicity that made it so trivial to add support for it to "everything" to the extent that many tools built their central message loop around checking for AREXX commands and built their application around dispatching AREXX like commands between different parts of the app).

Assigns is another one (for the non-Amiga aware that stumble on this, on the Amiga, I'd refer to my files with "Home:", but unlike on a Unix/Linux, Home: is not an environment variable that needs to be interpreted like $HOME or something that needs to be expanded like "~" - it is recognised by the OS as a valid filesystem path, assigned at runtime; similarly, instead of having a $PATH that needs to be interpreted, all my binaries would be accessible via "C:" for "command" - "C:" is an assign made up of multiple actual directories, one of which would typically be Sys:C, where Sys: is the System volume, and Sys: itself is an assign pointing to whatever drive you booted; Assigns are like dynamic symlinks with multiple targets, or like $PATH's interpreted by the OS)
IMHO high end Chromebooks now have the best keyboards. Typing this right now on a Chromebook Pixel (2013). My workmates have those Thinkpad keyboards with all of the extra features - mouse buttons, nipple thing and what seems like 1-2 extra rows of keys compared to the Chromebook layout. Again, 'IMHO', these keyboards are way too complicated and a bit old-fashioned looking. The cruft-free Chromebook keyboard is vastly superior.

I also have low-end Chromebooks (just two of them) without the superb feel of the Pixel or the back-lighting. I don't type on these keyboards, instead I use 'Synergy' and a Logitech K810 portable keyboard:

http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/bluetooth-illuminated-...

I carry the Logitech K810 everywhere, I would be lost without it. It also comes with a 'delete' key (as well as backspace), this omission of a 'delete' key is a mild deficiency of the Chromebook layout.

I can remember the introduction of the special Windows keys that crept in between the CTRL, ALT and SPACE keys. At the time I thought these were a bit silly as you don't really need a choice of buttons to get to the Windows 'Start' menu. What I like about the Chromebook keyboard layout is that those silly keys have gone away.

The aforementioned Logitech keyboard also trims down on the amount of useless Windows keys, they are still there, on the left, but not the right.

If you are left-handed then the requirements get more interesting. I don't punch numbers in to the keypad with the dexterity of my friends in accounts, I wish I could but it isn't going to happen. Therefore those laptops with the number pad - or even full keyboards with the number pad - are just not for me, best avoided at all cost.

Another benefit of the carry-along Logitech keyboard is that I can also use it with my phones. Rather than peck away at a message I can type eloquent messages with things like punctuation.

For the day job I use a Lenovo Yoga consumer grade laptop instead of a Thinkpad. IMHO these keyboards - chicklet with backlight - are better than those legacy-style Thinkpad keyboards. I still use the portable Logitech keyboard with it though. This amuses my colleagues, I take them through some tutorial on something and there is this inevitable question about how come I use the same keyboard/mouse with so many screens/computers.

My only feature request is that Logitech (or other) make their Bluetooth keyboards/mice work as USB keyboards when plugged in with a micro-USB lead, as happens for charging. This would enable me to get rid of my wired keyboard, the one I use after rebooting my desktop PC to log in and get 'synergy' started.

As for Synergy, it is not entirely perfect as there are times when keys get 'stuck' in between the keypress down state and the keypress up. This is probably not a problem for most users however I have the repeat rate set to massively fast in order to move cursors around extra quick.

https://symless.com/synergy#purchase-pro
CCD manifests itself as greater overwintering losses to colonies. Bee farmers have lots of colonies. They can split colonies and buy new queens. It's not like Dutch Elm disease; it doesn't kill all the bees.
Bumblebee colonies are also much smaller than honey bee colonies.
Beans, nuts and tofu may be 'good' vegetable sources of zinc but they're still awful compared with meat. You'd have to eat 2.5 cups of baked beans every single day to maintain recommended daily intake.

(Not concern-trolling, just a vegetarian who was disgruntled to discover how easy it is to become zinc deficient, after specifically asking a GP if I needed to take any supplements, and was told no. I take a 25mg daily supplement now.)

Source: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Zinc-HealthProfessional/
I have an ASUS Zenbook UX501VW laptop, and the build/construction is very similar to my old 2011 15" MBP (unibody).

My model has a numeric keypad (but no End key, wtf) but its successor for 2017 got rid of the numpad.
It's not false, and you didn't write enough to say why it's false. Or, NYC needs subways. And, for commuters to NYC, they need trains that also connect with the subways. E.g., for a while my wife was working in Manhattan. Well, I put her on the 7:33 AM out of Chappaqua and picked her up there in the evening.

That situation just does not apply anywhere else in the US unless you insist on SF.
This is one of the best product demo's I've seen. The product is just so fully formed, even back in 2008. Really is presented as "it just works".

"Why do you keep sending me this crap" without comment, made me lol.
The keyboard is how I chose my most recent laptop. My only requirement was non-multiplexed edit keys. It's incredibly hard to find this despite the abundance of space available on modern laptops. The only ones I could find were two Lenovo models. One of which is already discontinued.
Full productivity on dumbphones was realized when you learned you could hit 1 to activate the first item in a menu, 2 for the second etc. 5-2-3 boom new text message
That's what everyone said about facebook, but it's up 4x since IPO, and 8x from the post IPO dip it had.
The exception that proves the rule, eh?
foo*bar

baz

See? No italicization.

Now I'm curious what triggers it...
Interesting. I hadn't heard that quote from Simon, but it absolutely fits.

One of the brilliant things about the show is how it wove in so many elements: rival criminals, politics, law enforcement, the media, the church, well-meaning citizens, etc. There was so much tension, angst and striving from all quarters. All of this created a separate entity--a system--wherein all actions and motivations served to form a near-perfect tension that held everything and everyone in a state of suspension.
He lives in a world most of us have never heard of and talks like like that is normal.
Tried a few, but honestly, the website seems to be better. I suppose the UI could be a little spiffier, but it not only works, but keeps working long-term. Most of the apps I've tried work okay-ish at first, and then fall into disrepair after a year or two due to some combination of developer boredom and site/API changes.
There is such a principle and even a law, cost/benefit analysis. And it doesn't consider your externalities. C/B analysis is especially simple for a train -- can estimate the benefit from the ticket revenue. If more is needed, then the train fails C/B analysis.

But for the NY and NYC MTA, they don't care because NYC needs the trains. For the rest of the country, they should and do care.

If you want my tax money for your new dreamy trains, then I will tell my representatives to vote no.
foobar

baz*quux

Aha. HN's parser is matching with the asterisk in the code snippet.
Get a degree in clinical psychology. You'll learn that everyone basically shares the same thoughts of inadequacy, the same kinds of guilt and shame. And that these feelings don't really go away with "success," but they might lessen with conscious attention (therapy, coaching, etc.)

But even better: share your feelings with a group of your peers. You'll find that they can all relate, and that you're not alone. The antidote to shame is (healthy) vulnerability.
On top of this Macron wants to ban encryption (just like May in the UK). It all sounds like lip service and bluster from here.
Is that the same technology as what's used in the Surface? I was really disappointed by the Surface touchpad. Sticky texture, small, too close to the edge, scrolling is discrete and clicky... It felt like a synaptics touchpad from ten years ago.
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It's not like I underestimate modding, but I just try to not overestimate my own abilities. Reverse engineering require significantly higher programming skills or ability to learn and a lot of time.

Even in that case most of attempts to get something to playable state end up with nothing simply because there are rarely more than one expert who want to work on the same project.

With code created from scratch there is better chance someone else could continue the work if it's wasn't completed by original author.
Compare that to the first 5 years of Amazon post-IPO.
The key words would be to ask for an "iron panel". In most US states you can also order one yourself without a doctor's visit, but without much option of having insurance cover it.
"There are not many shows taht are better than the Wire; my favorite part about Omar is that he doesn't curse."

I loved the wire - truly.

However, I think I would rate the first season of true detective as being better than all of the seasons of the wire except for season 2, which was my favorite.

I was surprised to learn that s2 (dock workers, etc.) is not very well liked - I thought it was by far the most interesting.

EDIT: WIRE SPOILER: also, as long as we're talking about it ... the resolution of the omar character in the last seasons of the wire was incredibly anti-climactic and just downright weird. I understand they got the rug pulled out and had to quick wrap up the show but that was really just the worst and most useless bookend to his character arc...
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Why is selling from low VAT countries a problem? VAT is only one of many potential government revenue sources.
Folks might enjoy the lectures about this which V.I. Arnold taught to 14–16 year old students, https://www.mathcamp.org/2015/abel/abel.pdf
Signing in from a different machine.
Overall, The Sopranos stands near the top in my book, but it did suffer from some unevenness. There seemed to be experimentation with directors that didn't always work (an Imperioli episode comes immediately to mind). And, there were some episodes and arcs that didn't have the same weight overall.

Still top-tier, and I think it laid a foundation that others have built upon, in sheer game-elevation alone.
Will read it after I finish 'Reinventing Your Life', another book that was recommended to me.
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it went from $2 to $16 (split adjusted). The real difference is that it was much much smaller at IPO, meaning it's pretty much impossible for FB to continue generating outsized returns whereas Amazon actually did much better from 5-10 or 10-15 than FB possibly could.
Perhaps, but why not spend our time to build a world like this? It's just a matter of choice, there is no reason for work, work,work.
Saving everyone a Google search: AMZN opened at (split adjusted) $1.49. 5 years later it was at $19.47. Over that span, it maxed at $106.69 (Dec 1999).
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I love your post.

Because our successful American C students come from wealthy families as well.
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It reads like a random collection of facts. There's no narrative to it.
I'm absolutely willing to agree that vegan frosting is also bad for you, but I don't think anyone is saying "all vegan food is healthy". Hell, Oreo cookies are vegan, and they're terrible for you. Same goes for arsenic.
you're right, it is. and the meaning (especially in this context) isn't offensive.
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Yeah, that's entirely subjective, both myself and my girlfriend _vastly_ prefer the keyboard on my XPS 9560 versus her Macbook.
I see. So are you saying that the "bee problem" is overblown and we can farm our way out of it?
"Investing" in those days was "speculating." Hundreds of dubious companies made it to IPO that would never make it that far today, and most of those lost all their public investors' money.

https://mattermark.com/technology-company-ipos-then-now/
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Hey HN, HackMIT organizers here. This is the 2017 admissions puzzle! It contains a variety of security, AI, and RE challenges. If you're an undergrad and are one of the first 50 people to complete it you get automatic admission to HackMIT!

If you start playing, feel free to join the Slack! Link is on the command center.
Netflix shows all kinds of stuff about how food and big business can be bad. Since they subsist on fees alone, and not on advertising, I guess they can be more free to show what people want. The good news is that with the internet, you are free to access whatever news source you want. I personally don't even have a TV subscription, because I can find what I want without annoying ads online anyways.
I lost interest when the model M was described as ergonomic. It really isn't. For one, the keys are still diagonal which is an oddity from old typewriters and causes many issues. Another issue is the key placement on the IBM is traditional and causes much wrist strain.

If you're going to compare ergonomic keyboards, at least get your shit together and start with abase mode that's actually ergonomic, such as a Kinesis Advantage.
Indeed, it's incomplete. It doesn't discuss digital/CG audiovisuals, popular genres, fashion, or world events. Memphis is important and worth diving into but it's only one facet.
I had the exact same thought at time of posting this. The question I ask myself then is how ?
Meanwhile, others on hacker news preach about how free Europe is. Love it.