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Okay and I very much agree that this is a problem, but that is an entirely different problem that needs to be addressed with a less corrupt law system. Not related to using prisoners to work instead of letting them rot in a cell.
In fact, public school quality seems to be one of the biggest contributing factors to a home's price. And good / bad public schools seem to be dotted randomly across the Bay Area, so you have this weird effect where houses prices right across the street from each other could vary widely based on which school district it's in.

Take Castro Valley in the East Bay. Highly rated public schools. Your kid will get pretty good schooling there, but you need to fork over 900K for a little 4 bedroom split level. A few blocks over, you see the same house for the bargain basement price of $600K, but lo and behold, you're in Hayward, where you're going to need to send your kid to school wearing a bullet-proof vest.
A pretty quote, but—unless one defines “the free enterprise system” so that it encompasses democratic socialism, social democracy, other versions of the modern mixed economy rather than just classical capitalism as targeted by Monopoly (which, unlike Friedman's statement, predates the widespread emergence of the various forms of the modern mixed economy and the Communist-originated-but-eagerly-adopted-in-the-West conflation of it with “capitalism”), it is rather obviously false, and that was clear even at the time he said it, since the whole reason various forms of the modern mixed economy displaced classical capitalism everywhere in the developed world is that they are generally superior on the point in question.
That's actually not my experience, they always ask or at least give some fairly obvious sign that they want to, if they don't ask I always ask first. I've never just leaned in and kissed them and everyone that I've talked to say they hate that.

But I still hear LOTS of people say this and it's exactly what I'm talking about. Everyone keeps saying men need to be aggressive and I really do think that's what causes a lot of the sexual harassment.
I believe it's possible YC has overextended themselves such that top AI companies - the most valuable companies in the future - are going to first try Gradient Ventures or more specialized funds, and it may cost them their future. I understand they want to be a destination for AI, but I have a tough time imagining it. Maybe when they opened the floodgates to 100+ per cohort was when their brand became "the best anything and everything of startups," and if a rich, connected AI veteran launched his own AI fund, I'd be more excited to knock on that door first, if not an AI fund from an org intimately tied to a top AI shop.
I like Ohio Linux Fest (https://ohiolinux.org/) even though I have to fly across the country to attend it. It's cozy and it's got heart. I remember having breakfast with Ethan Galstad (Nagios founder) a few years back, and he keynoted it last year. They had some great speakers last year, a father-daughter entrepreneur pair (Joe and Lily Born). It was lovely!
That's just addition. Do you only need addition in a marketplace? Subtraction requires you convert to another form prior to actually subtracting, so you have to know what form you want. Multiplication and division? Harder.
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R = r + e

R^{3} = (r+e)^{3} = r^{3} + 3r^{2}e + O(e^{2})

Unless you expect the error to be significant with respect to r, you can ignore the higher order terms. And voila, you get an approximately normal distribution.
the history has shown so far that we cant control/regulate these large economic cycles.
Haskell has currying, which is cheating. :P
It all depends on the project.

Some systems have 45+ min build times. Compilation is part of it, particularly for C++ system, but a test suite that is slow to run, data-intensive steps, and bloated code repositories all contribute.

One of the primary motivations behind Google's Go was the slow compile time of their C++ code base.

In some cases the most fundamental problem is finding the will to deal with it. With a long build it is still possible to make slow progress. Small changes might be able to speed up the build somewhat, but there is a lot of fear that rearchitecting the system to speed the build will fail, waste time, or otherwise end in tears.

I say rearchitecting because often it is the architecture of the system that gets in the way of fast builds. For instance, I think of a system that required automated integration (as opposed to unit) tests because (1) the system was fragile such that we couldn't trust that a "small" change wouldn't break the system and (2) there was any real plan for how certain components fit together, so we were not able to test them in isolation.
That's not how the timeline of the article reads. The prison was the last resort after the other suppliers went out of business.

From the article, it says they were weeks away from no cheese at all. The prison specifically stepped up the market demand. They didn't push other's out of the market.

Haystack is paying market price for the milk. They are paying full value for the milk and they aren't paying the labor costs of the prisoners. They are buying milk.
Software quality isn't the easiest thing to define. In some cases, it means "no bugs", and it certainly looks to me as though the places turning out really-low-defect-rate code for, e.g., aerospace applications are doing a fair amount of up front planning (plus other things -- reviews, dedicated QA groups, etc.)

In other contexts "nice to use" is a better measure of quality, and I definitely agree that some iteration can help there. Even so, I'd caution that iterative development and a planned overall architecture aren't necessarily incompatible. And when following an iterative approach you have to be pretty careful to optimise for something that most users like, rather than a just bolting on everyone's pet feature.
Your chart needs to be updated. It's no longer climbing at the same rate, because that rate of growth was impossible to sustain. The chart will increasingly begin to flat-line in the next decade. Student loans will not be the source of the next financial crisis, that problem is trivial to solve as necessary. It involves a trillion dollars; the financial crisis involved tens of trillions of dollars.

1) The Fed was printing nearly a trillion dollars per year for QE in prior years, one print run like that directed at student loans instantly ends the problem.

2) Option one is a bad premise, as it rewards the student loan borrowers and punishes savers (debasing the dollar). Alternatively, you can drop the interest rate on student loans (which would encourage a greater pile of debt long-term but solve the problem short-term). Or come up with any number of other easy solutions to the payments such as lower caps on monthly payments based on income.

3) The Feds can begin bringing down the cost of college education at any time, by slowly reducing their loan backing. Universities will be forced to unwind their spending bubble.
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I'm not sure why a pessimistic comment is at the top of practically every HackerNews article, but in this specific case, what data do you have to support YC becoming a "typical VC." What have they done in the past that has been typical? They have re-imagined the startup industry. Not in the way airlines say "we've re-imagined economy travel," I'm saying turned the startup world on it's head. With that said, YC having $1BB to incubate and then further grow companies sounds like a great fuckin idea. With an enormous fund that spans market caps, they'll be able to fund even more moonshot ideas, which is even more exciting when you're talking about companies that have double bottom lines.
LastPass Premium is $1/mo and your password vault is exportable. It's a pretty cheap service to be locked into.
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No, I think crispyambulance is right. The article said every other local supplier closed doors, so Haystack couldn't have bought the milk at that price.
For cases like this, it's probably more important to look at what the predictions were, rather than when. We accept that it's impossible to time markets... Well, that applies to both bulls and bears. I'm not familiar with Peter Schiff at all, but if he was calling the correct failure then, it's worth considering that he's calling the correct failure now.
With KeePass you create a new entry for the domain, then make it refer to the original to avoid duplication of user/password. But yes: allowing one single entry to be used for multiple domains would make much more sense.
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The two most played games on steam have a decent linux port.

At this moment they make up nearly 1.3 million concurrent players. The rest of the top 10 games that do not have a linux port accumulate close to 0.7 million concurrent players.

For a lot of players, CS:GO or Dota 2 are the only games they play regularly, so linux is a viable option for them.
Paul Graham's own writing and advice is not really followed by YC though.

As an easy example, look at his recent post about naming your startup, versus the names of the companies allowed through in a recent round of seed funding.

http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/22/y-combinator-demo-day-summ...
I'm assuming it's the Reddit effect. People read headlines, upvote, and move along without ever clicking the link.
Sure. If you only use mac/iOS then that's a perfectly valid strategy. I use a windows machine at my job, Apple/Linux for my personal projects so no dice. I would imagine that's not a super uncommon scenario outside of the SV bubble where Mac is the only thing people use (not throwing shade, it's just kind of the thing there). To me, a valid password management strategy MUST be cross platform. Also keep in mind that 1p can store more than just logins. It can do SSH creds, software licenses, secure notes, you name it.
But that is very interesting, that means that when saying the numbers they were basically using something similar to Arabic numbers!
Plus, then I have to give you fake name, fake email, fake number, etc... and it's like why bother... Moving on.
Both have company cultures built upon secrecy as the base value, I believe. "Why would you want to withhold this kind of information?" then answers with "Because you want to withhold any information, except on a need-to-know basis."
> Emacs maintainers sometimes commit directly in the Elpa repository (and package maintainers are expected to deal with the consequences, such as "two diverging mainlines")

Is a model like this what you mean when you say "No, we would continue to use Github for the foreseeable future"? I guess if you're doing all the legwork, it won't be overly visible to other people who want to contribute. Still though...
Even if that's true, the I-know-better, snark-plus-clichés genre is a problem here regardless of how bad an article is. This sort of comment is common on the internet and poisons the environment it's posted to. By practicing it here, you degrade the community and make it less interesting for all of us. That's the real reason not to do it: for much the same reason you don't litter in parks. We want thoughtful conversation here, not acid. Even about bad articles.

Btw that longitudinal Harvard study has been well-known and interesting for long time, despite its flaws. Previous HN threads have discussed it without sinking into snark and I doubt that the community has become smarter since then.
That's exactly why it seems obvious!
Or don't care and use something else. I now run a literally problem-free Hackintosh dual-boot and life is great. With hardware better supported on a literal hack system than on Linux. (Didn't buy hardware intending for a Hackintosh, either; I just happen to tend towards Gigabyte motherboards and Intel processors and everything shook out great.)

Linux isn't "my software", so why would I buy hardware for it--especially when nothing else has a problem with it? Your OS is not special no matter how much you yell at people on HN about it. Your OS doesn't matter to anyone else no matter how much you yell at people on HN about it. Attempting to put the onus of "due diligence" on the people you want to do something is just straight-up nuts--and, tbh, the same rhetorical evasion that's come out of the Linux zealot camp for decades now because it's easier than acknowledging problems and that the things you like aren't universally appropriate.

And the thing is, you actively are providing great rhetorical reasons to not listen to people who do have a sense of user empathy--which you lack, it seems, as you would rather browbeat people into using it than understand why they don't and maybe make it a better value proposition--and want people to use Linux. You're literally, precisely acting against the interests you purport to hold!

When you're in a hole, just...stop digging, dude.
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Hey HN,

https://sendnda.online/

This is my first attempt at building a commercial product. It's a simple service designed to let you send legally binding NDAs to people as quickly and easily as possible. Eventually I would like to expand to other types of contracting.

I've been very inspired by Indie Hackers and have decided to take advice learned form there and launch early. The service is fully functional but the payment system (Stripe) is in test mode. This means that you can send a templated NDA to anyone and get a legally binding e-signature for free while we're in beta.

Right now Stripe payments are in test mode[0] so when it asks you for card numbers just put in 4242424242424242 for Visa and use and 3 digit CVC number and any future date for expiration. You can sign up for fake subscriptions that will allow you to send unlimited NDAs or you can try the one-time purchase NDA.

I built this MVP using Wordpress and as many plugins as possible. This allowed me to get this together in about 12 days. There is still a good bit of custom code in the form of plugin extensions, modification, webhooks, and more. If you have any feedback on the service or questions about the stack, please comment here and I'll respond.

[0]: https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards
Well, a sum is just an average multiplied by a constant.
Plus, back then, people weren't shy about tar and feathering ingrate politicians.
Maybe they assumed you're Indian based on your name?

But then again, this doesn't give them excuse.
A lot of people are talking like the hacking risk applies equally to all forms of cryptocurrency, but I really don't think that's the case. Smart contracts in Ethereum have a much larger attack surface than, say, a simple Bitcoin purchase to cold storage.
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Some laws are dumb, and civil diosobedience in the form of a mass breaking of those laws is often the best way.

> Getting high is not any kind of civil rights struggle.

You're right, it's not. At it's core it is a matter of pure, absolute personal choice and that is far more fucking important.

If I want to consume a naturally occuring substance recreationally and I'm not harming anyone, then anyone who disapproves can try to stop me clack clack.
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There are lots of ways to make prisoners happier during their time in prison.

Provide places that one can ensure one's own health and safety, including private cells. Make sure folks have enough underwear and toiletries. Provide actual medical and psychiatric care. Provide well-balanced meals. Heck, we could easily make sure masturbation isn't against the rules.

We could extend that stuff by doing things like paying the prisoners minimum wage. The money could be used to pay child support, debts, help support a spouse, pay for nicer toiletries, and so on. Or just saved up so that the person can actually afford to get on their feet after prison.
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Denverite here. It's not Silicon Valley, but rents and housing are pretty out of control here too. Additionally it's still very car-centric. Lots of opportunity though.

I really have no idea what the "enclose a bullet" part means.
That's not the whole explanation, IMO. If you had the same distribution of accepted candidates with both the loose and strict policies, I'd still expect interviewers to use the strict one.

Why? If their hire doesn't work out, they've got a much better story - "Our hiring processes are really strict and everyone got on board with it, it must've been something else that went wrong". And when the hire does work, people at the company get to self-congratulate about how "elite" they are.

The costs of extraneous interviewing and leaving positions unfilled is borne more by the company, while the costs of making a bad hire is borne more by the hiring manager, so the hiring manager makes choices that offload costs more onto the company. Principle-Agent problem.
Which city? In NYC, a stand-alone townhouse in need of TLC with any outdoor space would probably start somewhere around $4-6 million (Manhattan). $2-3 Million in the outer boroughs (the ones that are up-and-coming, some of the gentrified neighborhoods are approaching Manhattan prices). All of those neighborhoods have poor public schools (yes, I know there are exceptions these days. But they are just that - exceptional. Not the norm). You would most likely have to send your child to private school. Minimum $20k/yr/child starting in kindergarten. Many push $40k/yr/child.

In surrounding suburbs with top public schools and ~45min rail commutes, a well-kept ~2k sqft house would be around $700-800k. New construction with all the trimmings: $1m+.

For many, this isn't really a "choice".
> Peter Schiff is always predicting a crash, his call on the housing bubble is more of a stopped clock type scenario

You're absolutely correct that he sounds like an inevitable broken clock outcome. However, his premise on why and how the last bubble was going to explode, was extremely well supported by argumentation & data. He didn't just say it, he argued it out and supported the premise, and he was right. It wasn't luck, it made perfect sense, and he wasn't the only person using the same argument details.

He's right this time that they've blown another huge bubble in asset values via cheap money / hyper low interest rates. The Fed has finally gotten to the point where they're openly admitting to that (Yellen just did so recently). This is the third time in 20 years they've generated vast asset bubbles with cheap money. Schiff is wrong on the timing because he has persistently underestimated how long the Fed could keep the bubbles inflated via said cheap money.

Raise interest rates just to the average level of the prior 50 years, and see what happens to the housing market.
Theoretically not; but as we have seen, there is often a gap between theory and practice.
I don't believe that asking or visiting questions on SO is very clear indicator on what is happening on the market.
Hiring on SO (for example) is more interesting. AWS is x5 than Azure, but both are growing.

http://www.reallyhyped.com/?keywords=azure%2Caws
If we get a UBI, I'm quitting my developer job and just going to coast the rest of my life. I don't care how many corners I have to cut, lol. Gonna milk that cow as hard as I can.

My dad used to ask to be laid off jobs (blue collar) so he could collect unemployment for a few months. He did that off and on for years.
I'd love to use nouveau. Unfortunately, they aren't concerned with anything other than Linux, so there's no FreeBSD port for me to use.
But wealth is not just money. Infrastructure, industrial base, technology sector and military / space exploration complex, domain knowledge (just think about how hard it would be for a new upcoming power to replicate the deep knowledge of all the people working for something like NASA), highly educated population with valuable skills (tech, finance, science), real estate (houses and flats in US are bigger than rest of the world).

For another nation to get to the level of US it would need all of these things and it would take decades and massive investment to build up all of this. Few very rich people taking their money and leaving for some other country would not be the end of the world.
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If the voting for stories is fair, then "too much" means "the HN community is more interested in this than I am".

There's a lot of activity lately so it makes sense that there's more news on this lately. IMO it's relevant to HN. If I see stuff that I'm not interested in on HN (of which there is plenty) I just move on to the other stories.
It says "BaaS" in one diagram, I didn't know that one. I've probably been referring to the same as "Middleware-as-a-Service". And I'm disappointed in it. As amazing as it still is that Amazon and friends let you spin up machines at will, this day and age, I find us (where I work) still rolling a lot of stuff ourselves, that I'd hope by now to be able to buy as a service inside Amazon. (From Amazon, or from 3rd parties that integrate into your Amazon account, somehow magically, I don't know what that model would be.) Still we're doing our own Elasticsearch, JMS, databases (been burned on RDS), cache, Kubernetes, and so on. Is this just a market that hasn't matured yet? (While SaaS probably has?) Not because AWS offers nothing for it, but just because it's quite not always the best of breed.

(Disclaimer: while we practice DevOps quite a bit, me being a Java architect, I'm still not an operations expert, so I may well overlook something real obvious...)
For them to understand, you'd have to reduce the problem down to square pegs and round holes.
Yeah I suppose unregulated is the wrong word. My overall point though is that this is something the local government can and should do something to fix.

Boston is currently also experiencing a housing shortage/crisis, and has a short and long term plan to help with it, which has already begun to start working.

Over the last 3 years new housing development has outpaced growth (which is also projected to stay strong)[1][2]. And rents are finally starting to dip. [3]

[1] - http://bostonrealestatetimes.com/boston-mayor-walsh-announce...

[2] - https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&...

[3] - https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2017/05/28/bo...

Saying "this is cyclical the market will correct" is probably true, but corrections can take a long time before becoming swift and detrimental. It's possible to fix it quicker, less drastically, and improve things over the short term and long term with well thought out government intervention.

The private market isn't flawless. Steady growth is better than boom and bust.
modern medicine, a vehicle, a computer, easy access to good food for only a small part of my salary.

Got some news for you. You are not representative of the people that the system failing. These things are luxuries to that demographic.

feeling powerless and forgotten" is something that just doesn't matter compared to those in my opinion.

Neither does a shitty, elitist attitude born of ignorance of the people you are attacking without even attempting to understand them.
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I'm not in any kind of hole here. Maybe you're projecting your experiences with other Linux users on me. I'm clearly explaining my viewpoint and reasonably giving answers to critiques of it. If Linux is not for you, then so be it, but I disagree with your reasons and I am free to express that.

Re-reading this discussion only shows one of us being unreasonable and abrasive. I don't care to engage you any further unless you change your attitude.