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> In the United States, wagons were increasingly common on the roads. Drawn by up to 20 animals, they were a popular way of transporting goods over long distances – and the men helming these vehicles liked to drive on the right. They’d sit on the rear leftmost horse, so it was easier to make sure oncoming traffic didn’t get too close if it was also on the left.

Why did drivers sit on the leftmost horse?
You're right. They will start paying devs with tokens.
Do you not also buy food and clothing from companies owned by people richer than you? I feel like the main difference with rent is that the owners aren't that much richer than we are, and sometimes we meet them face-to-face, so the relationship is more comprehensible.
In my opinion, always be wary of your CEO asking you to buy more company stock. If possible, do your own research or if you are working in the core product team, see where things are going. Or use stop losses and limit orders etc to make full use of the stock brokerage account.

When I got my RSUs in my last company they were worth $45, the company had just announced that the company had lost some customers. While I thought things could only get better from thereon I put in staggered stop loss order - sell x at $42, y at $40 etc, while letting the upside open. I did sell some of the RSUs at $42. Then things turned around and I was lucky to sell some of the stocks at $70.

Recently I quit the company. The quarter just before quitting was terrible. The CEO talked about the stock prices during the All Hands and asked people to pour in some more money into the company stock. This sent alarm bells ringing. I sold everything as soon as the meeting ended.

Then again, this whole thing might not be for every one.
Whaaaa? What kind of shit company would take a loser on board for a paltry payout,m
sorry, the truth is that not everyone has a right to own a home. life choices, man, they make a difference.

edit: who is downvoting this? does someone out there actually believe everyone has a right to own a home? like as in, the government should give everyone homes? wtf?
That AngelList link reminded me of just how many of these roles seem to be on the site. I mean, it's filled to the brim with people and 'opportunities' you'd see mocked on that 'For Exposure' Twitter account.

And it gets worse if you're not looking for software development jobs. At least for the former, there are some paying extremely high wages to make up for the low end ones expecting Silicon Valley quality engineers to work for free. In non tech jobs... forget it. Anything that doesn't have 'manager' in the title (and many that do) is probably not going to offer enough to live on in the location its based in.

The site has its uses, and it's not bad in theory, but I suspect it needs more moderation to strip out stuff like this.
I disagree about Amazon. They took the Walmart tactic and moved it digital before Walmart did, that's how they grew. Become a logistics expert, and expand horizontally.
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What you describe is California’s Proposition 13. It does essentially the opposite of the Land Value Tax that the parent is advocating. The acquisition value system and 1% cap ensure that land investors (rather than local governments) capture the windfalls from the appreciation while they own the property. The split roll for land vs. new construction taxes new construction at a higher rate (rather than the lower 0% under the Land Value Tax) so Proposition 13 discourages (rather than encourages) investing in improvements.
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So, where exactly does the wealthy landlord get the money to pay the land-value tax? From their own labor? From their savings? From after-tax interest earned on their other investments? Of course not! They're going to raise the rent to cover the additional tax, and if the renter can't afford it screw them; they'll be kicked out and replaced with someone who can.

This comes up a lot in discussions involving income inequality. If the proposed solution is "tax the rich", you have to be really careful to tax them in a way that's not trivially easy to pass back onto the less-rich.
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For positional goods where there is a fixed supply people will tend to bid up the cost until it can't go any higher. I mean, in theory we could just build giant apartment towers all over SF but nobody wants to make that legal. And the number of medical residency slots, the construction of new hospitals, etc are very restricted. But fundamentally with higher education the number of slots of prestigious institutions has to be limited or they wouldn't be prestigious any more.
I'm also an engineer at Wallaroo Labs. A while back I wrote up some information for people who were interested in Pony:

https://gist.github.com/aturley/49b60c98306d90ffc2f981515827...

I've been using Emacs as an editor. We use a combination of make and pony-stable to build projects. For package management we use pony-stable. LLDB is your best bet for debugging, and if you follow the link above there's a link to the pony-lldb project, which is an LLDB extension that makes it easier to work with a few Pony datatypes.
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While that's technically correct, rent is often at least one order of magnitude more than the cost for food and clothes.
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In general terms, I agree. Since B vitamins are mostly water-soluble[1], generally it has been assumed that excess would be excreted, and research that suggests that some of them are not so harmless is news.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin#List_of_vitamins
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At the very least they must advocate for the earth and health of the ecosystems. However, it is much more tempting for fools to put the earth through a wood chipper, just to dance in a pile of mulch that we call money. Monsanto could actually be a world saving company, but they are not trying to further nature, but exploit it. And then, when they screw up, they try and hide it. It is not going to last forever, but they believe that with lies they can last longer, and this is incorrect. Not to mention that we are eating what they are growing. The Egyptians mastered irrigation and the Native Americans taught the pilgrims agriculture, for what, so we can enslave our farmers and hard working agrarians on a treadmill of defeat and lawsuits? My country, how I weep for thee.
More like, “we’ve analyzed our data to death and know it’s not worth beans, but we don’t have to tell anyone else that, and there’s a sucker born every minute who thinks they can beat the stock market by squinting at this-or-that data firehose just right, so we’re happy to charge them for the attempt.”
> What can be done I wonder?

The best option would be to build more. Unfortunately, this also seems to be the least popular option.
Yes, but in context that clause seems more aimed towards an intern being accidentally useful, not picking up tasks with a deadline more than X months out.

Having something done now that will start being useful later on still has arguable immediate value from the perspectives of scheduling and investing in the future of the company.
The hate and neo-nazi subreddits are entirely on the far-right.
Mob programming sounds like a goofy nerdy substitute for "getting a meeting room and figuring it out on a whiteboard".
Pathologist.
Free person such as yourself can buy freehold land and freely build a skyscraper and then freely rent out apartments and become a free billionaire.
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Can anyone even remember a case where a large corporation has a big problem and they have secret evidence they won't provide actually does exonerate them?y 6 It must have happened at least a few times in history, but just like Windows Vista,
No it's not that...as tempting as that is often...

It's that the spoils of the new economy are accumulating in a way that completely forgets the middle 90% of the country. Kevin is obviously really smart, but has access to things I don't even have in a state school by virtue of being a sharp high schooler in Palo Alto, much less when I was in high school.
Ha, I pocket my pocket knife in that pocket as well.

Ease of getting to the knife quickly is the thing. The larger pocket is full of everything.

I would miss that pocket.
Granted, every investment vehicle under the sun will have its ups and downs. It's a plausible case that real estate is worth having for its purported counter cyclical properties in some sort of advanced and complicated investment portfolio. From none of that does it follow that owning real estate is some sort of reverse scam where the owners are reaping incredible and reliable riches off the backs of the poor renters as the person I was replying to implied.
When they bought GNIP they ended their partnership with DataSift. It was a major blow to DataSift. It was a shrewd move on Twitter's part. My company switched over to using GNIP and our DataSift sales rep told us tons of other customers switched too and that he was leaving because of it.
Nope, that would be hugely unprofitable. To give you an idea:

The P100 instances on Softlayer would cost around $2,000/mo, and would generate approximately $170/mo in ETH when fully optimized. One could probably build a DIY rig with the same hashing power for less than 2k total.
Such a misleading headline and article, most vitamin tablets (atleast in the UK) contain no more than 1-2mg of either B1 or B12, if anything you're going to get more from eating excessive meat which is a higher risk. This study is extremely suspicious as to who funded both it and whos behind this article.
Trump sends his from his phone, and the other person/people use the desktop version of Twitter.
Well, "continuation" is the most common name for this.

In a language like C a continuation is... the return address to the caller, and, ipliedly, the caller's frame pointer.

That is, the closure {<return address>, <frame pointer>} is a function of one argument (the value being returned). (When this finally clicked for me, a long time ago, I was astounded by the beauty and obviousness of this idea. Exclamation points abounded in my head.)

call-with-current-continuation (aka, call/cc) in Scheme is basically a reification of the caller's return closure as the "current continuation". To "reify" is a fancy term that means to "make visible an implied value" (the implied value is the return address and frame that is then made available as a first-class value).

So it's all very simple, really.

And if you structure the whole thing as a loop over calling the "current continuation" which then returns the "next current continuation", then you can move all activation frames onto the heap.

But putting each activation frame on the heap is a bit... expensive, as the work the GC has to do greatly increases, as does the amount of garbage (especially if you never call call/cc!). So the next idea is to have "delineated continuations", which... is basically like having a stack for each series of frames delineated by calls to call/cc... which is a lot like... co-routines... which people tend to implement with call/cc...

Now, monads... are a lot like such a loop over calling the current continuation. Normally, in a language like Haskell the order of evaluation of expressions is undefined for optimization reasons, and also in order to force you to have pure functions (or vice versa). Having only pure functions means that the order of evaluation can be left undefined, which increases available opportunities to parallelize, defer computation, etc... But when doing I/O, you kinda need to force some order. Well, a monad is the construct that lets you do that. In a monadic context you can think of the current continuation as not just a simple closure that returns the next current continuation, but as a closure that closes over the current state of the monad, which for the IO monad is actually the state of the world. But it's really still a plain closure at the end of the day -- one that notionally closes over more of the state of the world than a typical closure does.
Twitter is ALL ABOUT who you follow. I hated it for years, until a popular post here on HN a couple months ago.

A user compiled an absolute SUPER LIST of the best people to follow, and now my feed is full of really interesting information, diverse viewpoints, and stuff I wouldn't find anywhere else.

This one account was kind of the tipping point for me, finding GOOD TWITTER

https://twitter.com/humanprogress
> While I found some great friends during the "gaming years", most of the time games were ruining my life.

Yeah, I had my "gaming years", too - EverQuest in particular ate my life for a while to the extent that it threatened my mental health and my marriage.

What I discovered though was that EQ was a symptom, not the cause of my dysfunction. Gaming is an escape; I was at a point in my life where all I wanted to do was escape from it, and EQ offered that in unlimited quantity.
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None of the problems with Ebay are the software.
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Maybe even _that_ reasoning relies upon simple hypotheses being more likely. In this case, the simple, and therefore favoured, hypothesis would be that "models with a simplicity that is similar to that of other successful models are more likely to be true".
Your adviser was right though. If there was an infinite amount of money then they'd have lecturers who are dedicated to lecturing. But there is never enough money so...what options are there but to do the things that will bring more in so that your role/group/department/university survives.

I've seen it myself...groups whither and disappear due to lack of funds.
Yep, they're biased towards leftists.
I'm curious about that. I can see why it would be idiotic for me to do it, by I'm not Ken White. Why shouldn't he send them a few polite questions?
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Something yes, but not improving it directly. Besides, Ubuntu proper isn't even the most used distro probably. Mint is likely more used.

My point is, those who work on Mesa (OpenGL / Vulkan) and Linux graphics stack have way more direct impact of Linux gaming (they are fixing bugs that affect games, improve performance, add new functionality and so on).
Not if someone "convincingly tells me," but if I've seen convincing evidence that demonstrates the backup is essentially identical, sure.
Actually I, too, would rather watch Transformer instead of Citizen Kaine. And I accept that later is a great film.
> You can't get students without grants.

That is definitely not true for many non-experimental science departments. Many students are TAs and as such care not a bit about grants. When I was getting my PhD I had to teach 4.5 hours/week (often structured as 6 and 3 at alternating semesters), which gave me my stipend and free tuition (and was a useful skill to polish). Maybe I spent another 4-5 hours preparing for classes and grading (we got student graders but I seldom asked them anything as grading was quick enough).

I was paid by the department and it did not matter to me whether my advisor got grants or not; what mattered were research interests and his guiding of research. This was the picture across the department; changing advisers was quick and based on mutual interest, not financials / grants.
I don't feel you're answering the question. I asked exactly why you felt there was good reason to consider, let alone assume, that Wikileaks is choosing to withhold meaningful and impactful information on Trump.

If I take your response as the answer then it would imply you believe that somebody would choose to simply not publish substantive leaks if they couldn't get them published by wikileaks. However, I'm sure you don't believe that, so that must be a straw man - leading me to believe that you probably are simply choosing to not answer the question.
Im currently interviewing (and looking for a job (resume link on profile)) and Ive gotten multiple approaches. Most time consuming one has been "do this test before we even talk to you on the phone". Which I get given all the phony devs out there. But it does get a bit tiring.

One thing Ive noticed is that asking for the hardest interview they have or can do usually gets them excited to talk with me. Which I like because there is nothing worse than a boring "reverde a linked list" type of interview.
As someone thinking about pursuing a PhD to ultimately become a professor, can you link me to your talks or blog posts on the subject of what's required to be competitive?
Not until there is advocacy for the health of the soil and surrounding environs. If there were a Ministry of Soil and Earth that they had to answer to, they wouldn't be able to pull half the stuff they do. Unfortunately Evil pays well in the short term.
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Arrow is a columnar format. TileDB does clustering across multiple dimensions based. Arrow is great when you request specific columns. TileDb is great when you want rectangular sections of the space (think getting tiles from a map).
I curl up my headphones and tuck them in there; easy to access, and they tangle up with themselves but not the other 4 things in my pocket.
+1 the lack of local development has been the only thing holding me back on GC...this is exciting
The problem isn't with the REST interface Twilio offers necessarily but that ~3 years ago when I first got into Go + Twilio the third party libraries created had pretty serious flaws. For example they'd use the default http.Client which doesn't set proper timeouts and can lead to various issues. At that time I was unaware with such issues and struggled. A first-class library would alleviate these issues for people who are in a similar spot.
Motivation: The Xbox360 pretty much forced gamedevs into heavy threading if they wanted to get anything done. It had 3 PowerPC cores with 2 hardware threads each. The cores had huge memory latency and no out-of-order execution. IBM's attitude about OOE was "Statically compile for a fixed target" and "Run 2 threads per core and that that'll cut the effective stall cycles per thread in half". The PS3 had only 1 of those PC cores, but it also had 6 unique cores that were practically high-power DSPs. If you manually pipelined data movement and vectorized execution, you could get amazing results. If you ignored those cores, the PS3 was crippled. The XBone and PS4 have friendlier cores, but they are still surprisingly low-power and there are 8 of them. So, you still need to thread and vectorize or you'll be dragging. Even on the PC, Sutter's "The Free Lunch is Over" is over 12 years old. Outside of games, the browsers force single-threading and cloud servers profit by selling multicore machines pretending to be many single-core machines. But, in games have to run on non-virtual hardware.

Execution: You can google around for "game engine job system", but unfortunately, game engine blogs have really fallen off a while back as most of that crew has moved to twitter. So, the best material out there is in the form of GDC presentations such as "Parallelizing the Naughty Dog engine using fibers", "	Destiny's Multithreaded Rendering Architecture", "Multithreading the Entire Destiny Engine", "Killzone Shadow Fall: Threading the Entity Update on PS4". Slides and videos are available around the web.
Yep. It's a pity Firefox doesn't let you select and copy the address for a link.
I wonder how much eBay has been impacted by this type of "wedging". I would use eBay primarily to buy/sell musical instruments but Reverb took a pretty big chunk of that market and provides a better and more trustworthy experience than eBay, at least in my experiences there.

I know there are a few fashion-related sites like this out there and I'd guess there are other "Reverb for X" sites as well.

I'm sure there is still a fortune in the long-tail but specialty sites seem to be more of a concern than a direct competitor.
Not saying it's equivalent..... But there is /r/SocialistRA/ its a place where people are actively organizing armed groups for the purpose of a theoretical future communist revolution :\

I hung around there for a bit, as a liberal supporter of the second amendment, and advocate for socialized healthcare... but when I clarified their positions, I found them to be far more extreme then I was personally comfortable with.
This is the first time I am reading objective comments about Monsanto. Thanks, HN. Even reddit is full of Monsanto shills.
I doubt they'd single out his data, but twitter may restrict the sale of data for everyone with a lil check mark. (Just speculation).
There have been a lot of those. The problem is network effects. (Sellers go where buyers are, buyers go where sellers are)
the President himself is a known racist who barred blacks from his properties

"“Trump promises to end race bias,”"

http://time.com/4508889/presidential-debate-1970s-bias-donal...

people are using violence to keep symbols of black oppression

"1 dead, 19 injured after car plows into protesters in Charlottesville"

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"Richard Spencer: 3 supporters arrested in shooting after event"

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What most investors fund is something that creates value, and then convert that value to cash later. Creating value is the hard part.

It's not always about a company's profitability either. Startups focus on exponentially growing their assets rather than cash flow then selling it all to someone else. Like Facebook can make more wealth from WhatsApp than they could do by themselves.

Of course, profitability is often close to the actual value something creates. Twitter is a really odd case in that it's a big part of many people's lives, but they won't pay for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India

The suicide rate among Indian farmers is 1.4 to 1.8 per 100,000. That is about 5-6 times lower than the overall rate in India or the United States. Most people pushing the story are relying on the fact that there are a lot of farmers in India, so even a low suicide rate is a lot of people dying.

We should, of course, be concerned whenever people are choosing to commit suicide, but it is nonsensical to point to a population with one of the lowest suicide rates (less than 1/10th the overall Japanese rate!) and call it an epidemic.
Why isn't the description the name of the product?
I would have never noticed.. maybe they will go to 12chan or 34chan or whatever and talk to each other.
Consider fashion or home goods. Frequently you see something you like based on pattern, texture etc that cannot be easily described in words. Image search is the perfect fit for these kinds of purchases.
Trust / credibility / reputation attacks, of various sorts.
Yeah, some of those setups are serious. At a certain point, you're living in a datacenter instead of having a lab in your home. :) I've seen a couple that got new 20 amp circuits dropped for their labs.
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I'm not sure which features of Erlang modules you're interested in comparing to Pony classes, but I'll take a stab at trying to answer.

Pony classes are defined using a "class" keyword. Classes have properties and functions, where functions are like methods that you would find in a language like Java. Pony supports structural subtyping via interfaces and nominal subtyping via traits, and it disallows multiple inheritance.

I'm not sure how much that helps, but if you have more specific questions I'd be happy to try to answer them. I'm a little rusty on my Erlang, but hopefully it will come back to me.
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