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> Personally, I'd rather car insurance were tailored as individually as possible.

Aren't you then saying that ultimately you would prefer if insurance didn't exist?

I mean, that would asymptotically approach a prediction of your personal future losses, and thus your premiums would asymptotically approach your future losses, and thus what's the point of giving your money to an insurance company only to get it back later?

But why wait for insurance to not exist, really? For most things, you can actually get exactly and ideally, without any approximation, what you wish for: Just don't buy insurance, and you will only pay for exactly your individual risk--there is no way to tailor your insurance more individually than that, is there?
it works but not when it becomes routine IMO. pulling 1 or 2 all nighters in a row, gives kind of a once in a while snap-out of it effect. I have no proof other than this worked for me in practice only in the decade and half that I suffered from it.
The person I responded to said they believed in one year the market would have entirely imploded.
It’s also a popup that comes up several times every week or even day on windows. Really wish it was easier for apps on windows to run in user mode only and stick to it, but it seems like everything needs UAC on a regular basis for one reason or another.
As a Swiss I think you got a healthy attitude. Many Americans seem to think that they have no power over what's forced up them in the workplace. You're selling a valuable, sought after and potentially unique good - your expertise. Don't let BigCorp trample all over you, they need you. Employee retention rate is a very important metric for any good company - if they don't care about that it's a big red flag for any potential employee. In fact, IMO governments should publicly list retention rates of all employers.
Nowhere did I say that Swiss startups are hopeless, either due to this reason or overall. This was a conclusion driven by nextstep and few others. And I think it was largely due to my mistake. I should have used "latest" where as I used "best". What I really meant was:

>> 2. Behind Silicon Valley on latest technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.

In fact I said that if it weren't for immigration uncertainty, I would move there tomorrow. Last year, I moved to Seattle from SF to experience a change of pace. So it's not that I have blind love for all things SF.

SF has a lot more startups trying out things in a small geography. They are trying a lot more things and failing a lot more and consequently learning a lot more.

There are benefits and drawbacks of not being the first mover. Many a times you do not waste time, effort and money going after dead end ideas (remember HomeJoy). Sometime it leads to missing out on things like AirBnb (especially relevant to as tourist driven economy as Switzerland).

With lesser startups being formed, comparatively lesser capital available - Swiss ecosystem is trying to find it equilibrium. And as I originally mentioned - they are really smart people. They will figure out what is best for them.

This thread was also a good learning for me. Every word matters. Sometimes, you try to sneak a post in between other work and things slip!
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"The mov-only DOOM renders approximately one frame every 7 hours, so playing this version requires somewhat increased patience."

Favourite line.
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Although it probably does not fit your use case something like Common Lisp would shine in a situation like this.

You can build your code at runtime from the spec and then compile it at runtime to get pretty good performance.
there are plenty of senior devs at FANG making that. not just machine learning/data scientist magician but just good devs that have been there for 10 years
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Oy. Please don't. Homes for the homeless ideas are always whacky, always terribly substandard and... Just plain terrible.

When homeless people get into housing, they are no longer homeless. Done.

Yes, we need more affordable housing. But if it isn't something "normal" people would find desirable, don't start dreaming up ways to let homeless people live in it.
Yeah no kidding - price of the graphics card doubled since I got it.
I can't edit my previous comment anymore.

The point 2 should have been:
>> 2. Behind Silicon Valley on latest technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.

I instead used the word "best" which doesn't really capture what I had meant. This thread also helped me develop a better understanding of my learnings.
Just stash crap in bins or drawers rather than on top of your desk.
10x developers definitely exist, quite amazing to work with them.
My 2 unasked for pennies - the kernel is already too bloated with support. These are hacks and should not be mainlined. Let them fix their hardware and give arduous instructions to patch...they deserve it. Don't further pollute the kernel. Imagine if a tiny hardware vendor tried the same...ubiquity is not an excuse.
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Really expected more when i read the title. It's a stretch to call this a "water-cooled machine", when it's just one all-in-one CPU cooler.

Water-cooled machine should be a custom loop. It's a lot more hassle, but that's exactly why it's interesting. All-in-one systems are just like traditional air systems with big radiators, the only big difference is that you can move the radiator around.
Because many people there are successful yet depressive.

It seems that depression forces people to search for problems that aren't there
You can do whatever you want with Windows.

Even after tweaking dozens of settings on my Mac, I still don’t like it.
This seems like massive overkill, but it doesn't look like OP actually cared about money, given the $400 VESA mount and the $159 (wat) custom PSU cables. Also surprising that one would spend that much money only to get a little bose speaker.

But if ya can afford it, more power to you.
I can, but it’s not just one source with one clear answer.

https://www.uni-bonn.de/Press-releases/sleep-deprivation-lea...

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/27/9134.short

Lighter reading:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-a-lack-of-sle...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/how-sleep...

I should admit that there is still some debate around this issue, with key points being:

1. Do people who experience a psychotic break or symptoms during sleep deprivation represent a vulnerable group?

2. Sleep deprivation is often seen in the context of stimulants, from caffeine to methamphetamine, and they are known to potentially lead to psychosis when abused.

Personally I’m in the camp who believes that sleep deprivation is more than capable of leading to transient psychosis without preexisting risk factors. The problem is that long term sleep deprivstion studies can’t be done for ethical reasons, so it’s hard to know for sure. Ultimately it comes down to a combination of studying more limited sleep deprivation, and evidence gathered in the field over time. It is all highly suggestive though.
> It might not give you a very good insight in to an applicant.

I'd argue pointless whiteboard trivia doesn't give you good insight into an applicant, either. And yet, 90% of companies do it.

> Most people's public code is of roughly equal quality (eg 'not great').

I disagree with this. Unless you're looking at a toy or unfinished project, most code that's released (on npm, maven, or something similar) is actually fairly high quality. Certainly higher quality than what I've had to work with in production systems that were making millions of dollars a month.

> Building a great team is about hiring great people more that just great developers.

I completely agree. So why do we dehumanize potential hires with standard practices that involve (for example) memorizing algorithms you'll never use? I mean, HackerRank is a testament to how awful our culture is. Is there a DoctorRank or SecurityGuardRank or WaiterRank?

> It's hard to trust someone's public code.

I think this is complete BS. There's people much smarter than me that are getting screwed by these terrible practices. Max Howell, Homebrew's author, was famously rejected by Google for not passing some stupid whiteboard exam, when just about everyone at Google actually uses the software he authored.
No need for bluetooth, just use the horn.
It is factory calibrated for general desktop usage, but not necessarily for photograph reproduction.

Buy the cheapest Datacolor Spyder5(S5X100). The hardware is same between all the versions and only the software differs. Then get the open source DisplayCAL(https://displaycal.net/) that works with Datacolor sensors and other manufacturers. I calibrate my display once or twice a year. I also use it to calibrate my gaming computer and laptop.
Thanks, that's interesting. Although it seems to presume that the recycled aluminum alloys would go back into aircraft and thus would need further [relatively costly] processing/refining to remove impurities and meet modern specs.

However, unless expensive to process at all (recycle) they could be recycled for other uses --like park bench frames, ladders, food service furniture, new truck beds, camper tops, etc. I can see where cheap iron may be more economic than even recycled aluminum though.
The switch stories are always either “from Mac-OS” or “to Linux”, the former being a “oh no you didn’t” and the latter being “I’m with cool birds now” narrative.

It’s basically non-stories because your OS matters as little as what programming language you use.

Pick the one that works for you, but don’t become a fucking missionary or tie your personality to your brand of choice.
Is there some site where i could find the mass estimates for all system components, as well as injection trajectory/delta-V budgets?

All GLXP entrants i heard of seem to have planned to make do with exceptionally low LEO insertion mass. Which sometimes made me think of them as vaporware.
Huh, that's a good point. Apologies if my comment came off as accusatory.
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how about pastebin, ghostbin or even HN comments as websites? maybe run them through archive.org or even some other site with RSS as an overlay ...
Mac isn't really an option if you want a powerful desktop though, unless you want to spend $5k I guess...
Factory calibration is a thing in UltraSharp line, can't be compared to hardware calibration but works pretty well out-of-the-box.

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_up2718q.htm#hardwar...
Ruby and Rails have been around for about 10 years at this point. It is stable and for most websites it just works (up to a certain size). It is not as exciting as JS is now but people are using it to get things done since it is relatively mature and used a lot in startups. Likely why you see it referenced a lot here.
I left my first job because the company(Yahoo) was burning. My manager was great, I'd love to work for her again. I left a few months earlier than I needed to though, because her new manager was an asshole.
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I second that - Anyone reading this thinking about building a PC, make sure you use this site. Can't stress that enough.
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I missed that in the article, thanks! Indeed the anarchism on display in the Dispossessed was very collectivist, I hadn’t realized how directly it was based on Kropotkin.

My experience of anarchists is such that I happily group most anarchists together, and place them ideologically far, far away from Stalinists.

Are you thinking Kropotkin’s ideals are close enough to communism that I shouldn’t belabor the distinction?
I guess no? But I did for sure notice a change in my ambition / perspective a while ago after I crossed the theoretical threshold mentioned quite a bit a few years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1381927

I guess I value time more now? Honestly I may have to sit on your question a while and maybe it was one that was lingering when I posted my comment.
Noto was hired as a C-level, serving as COO (and by some reports, CEO in all but title). The only way he was getting promoted internally is if Jack quit.
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> You can make it act exactly like vim if you wanted to

Thanks to Spacemacs, Emacs is already better Vim than Vim itself. I know what I'm talking about. I'm a die-hard vimmer.
You'd have to be making 700k+ a year to be banking 300k after tax. Perhaps the valley slipped away from me but I find it hard to believe that there would be average employees in that range.
Is this from Google Maps or somewhere else? How do you handle the copyrights?
They do a base calibration. Do a Google search for Dell Calibration report. It shows what they calibrate. Keep in mind, it's still a pretty loose calibration. I've never once gotten two of the same models that look the same out of the box.
'Art can be for everyone': behind the scenes at the Museum of Selfies
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I’ve heard quite a few people complain that Emacs caused them RSIs. That’s why I stopped using it too. Vim is much easier on the hands in that regard.
Are there any industries this product wont be working with (for example, adult video sites)?
I read “The Lathe of Heaven” when I was younger. I remember being fascinated by it, as only a young person can be.

I hadn’t really thought to look at her other books since then (which is probably about 35 years). I’ll definintely be reading “The Left Hand of Darkness” and “The Dispossessed” due to the comments on here. Thanks HN!
And thank you U.K. LeGuin for introducing me to a world of ideas and possibilities.
Try Spacemacs
Second that, it pulls data from a number of retailers and has localized sites with local retailers which is a nice touch.

Something I noticed is that if the item price can’t be displayed you can search around the item options and enter your own pricing to get a feel of the price of the system if parts would be in stock
> I'm guessing that within 12 months Jack will not be a part of Twitter nor any other tech company.

Interesting thought, especially considering the relative success both of his companies have had in the prior 12 months (in the stock market, anyway)
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I've had similar a experience doing Android Development. I much prefer OS X over Windows 10 for doing work, but performance can be a real issue.

Over time, and with every new yearly incremental software refresh, compile times on my MacBook getting slower and slower, it started to hurt productivity. So looking at options for new hardware, I realized I could either spend $3000 on a new Mac, that on paper might not even be that much faster then my current machine, or just throw together a PC from components for a bit over $1000 and get a much faster machine.

There is just no good Mac option if you're looking for a simple i7, 32GB RAM, 256 SSD for a reasonable price.
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Stripe is a payment company. Bitcoin was a way to pay for goods. Now it’s not.

Bitcoin is no longer the kind of coins you trade for a sandwich. It’s a house that you sit on as an assset and take forever to sell.
In our workload this is definitely the case. When on the GPU the processing is almost infinitely quick. It's the transfer to and from the GPU memory which takes the time. This might be the case in the parent post.

There was a guy who managed to go directly from the SATA controller to GPU memory by modifying the Linux kernel for some postgres database queries and got massive speedup. Would love it if that sort of optimization could be more readily available.
But 0.1X managers are always telling us they are a myth. Do the math. :)
It's probably easier for managers to overrate their skills and performance because the problems they cause are often not overt; if parts of their team are underperforming, the knee-jerk assessment is that "there's something wrong with Joe" rather than "there's something wrong with our process" or "there's something wrong with what I'm doing."

Some of my worst experiences with management involved cases of serious micromanagement. I'd say if you're micromanaging, there's a 99.9 percent chance that you're a bozo and you don't belong in the position you're in even if you had initially earned it. You have trust issues with your employees and you've failed to build a team and environment that allows people to effectively manage themselves.

The best mangers I've known are the ones who are minimally involved. People who are given the space to make choices, be creative, and fail every so often, will often figure out how to manage themselves.

I'd argue that people usually leave both managers and companies because companies too often fail to recognize the broken patterns of managers. This is anecdotal, but I worked at one place where more than half of the development team(those with the most talent) quit within a span of 2 weeks, and somehow upper management decided it was not the fault of our tyrannical manager and instead replaced those positions with junior developers they could underpay and abuse. It's all the more insulting when you can point out the problems and provide actual solutions, and the aloof men in suits on Mount Olympus allow the problem to fester. I might have stayed for another year had they booted out our manager.

The fact that most people have stories of terrible management is astounding, and it doesn't say very much for whatever training managers receive(if any?).
I did it at a FANG, and it wasn't 700k/year. Admittedly, this is the longest runup in stocks we've had for some time, but just prudent saving and investing (and possibly working for a FANG outside the valley) did it for me.
You just need to know about these keys on Youtube:
Pressing ">" speeds up the video, "<" - slows it down.
"f" - toggles fullscreen, "c" - captions.
You can be very fast reader, but you can't keep up with me when I'm watching videos in 2x.
Good gaming PCs are good development and creative machines. All of these activities excel with more cores, ram and gpu cores.
I bought an Ibimatic punch at a barrage sale a few years ago - it punches a row of square holes in a page and allows binding using cheap plastic “combs”. The documents are never quite as satisfying as real binding - perhaps because I never took the time to resize the texts and the 8x11 format just isn’t well suited to books.
Anyone can be an amazing photographer - but there is a distinction between a camera nut, and a photographer, to this end, Ken Rockwell makes a really interesting point:

"You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment."

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm

You can guess which category I feel this fellow falls into.

I hope he got a great deal of pleasure building his system - it does look very impressive (if not downright pretty), but it doesn't make me think any more, or less of his photography.
Understanding how labels are learnt in Keras
Yea, I got to,

"I first realized the worthlessness of stuff when I lived in Italy for a year. All I took with me was one large backpack of stuff."

1. The old cars are usually project cars that offer hope to many people. They think one day I will be able to get that vechicle on the road again--if I can get sone disposable income. Reality is most won't, but I get it.

2. Rich guys and Brad Pitt can live out of backpacks. Loose the credit card for a few days and see what happens. You start to look at trash differently.

3. Yes--the peasants keep stuff. Yes--they need to cook, and they need that stuff to cook. Yes--they fix things when they break, so they can't throw away tools, and stuff.

4. When the tyranny goes, that old bike comes in handy.

5. I'm a little sensitive when rich people tell me what's valuable, or how to live a full life.

I grew up with the wealthy, and their kids. They just are so disconnected, their advice only makes sense in their gated communities. Many claim they were poor when they were young, but 99% of the time, broke was only going out to dinner once a week during the tough times.
Dogfish head's IPAs are pretty terrible compared to others. They may have been one of the early ones, but certainly nowhere near the best now.
The best software teams I've worked on didn't have managers, they had facilitators.
i have some honest questions for you though. i write software daily yet don’t have much knowledge of what you have described here and have even less inkling to want to do any of that. so i think setting up an effective e-mail server is simply beyond the scope of nearly everyone. moving to the “cloud” isn’t some fad for e-mail, it’s just not everyone has the IT knowledge and even less want to have it. what is the real benefit beyond not having your e-mails crawled? is your server really more secure than google’s or microsoft’s?
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Is there a way in which that would make sense?
What I want to know about is that lovely desk
* I haven't considered it, I just do what my accountant advises

* A general contractor? I hear that term I think of those guys who work on your house. Could you be more specific?
Great photos, I’m so glad that they weren’t posted on Instagram...

Nice round-up at the bottom of the page:

In the end, the Boneyard gets us all.
Spam is done by massive botnets that crawl the web at a rate nearly equal to Google's.
> My 2 unasked for pennies - the kernel is already too bloated with support.

Is this not the ultimate fate for any monolithic kernel? Because by design you need to add everything to the kernel.

While these patches might apply to micro kernels as well. I wonder if there is kernels that abstract the cpu into a device driver to even keep microcode bloat out of your kernel?

As a side thought; If you abstract your cpu like this; will it allow you to hot-swap your os between devices and architectures?
Why use a domestic cleaning service?
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My experience with startups has actually been quite positive.

I negotiate compensation on the assumption that anything stock-related has zero value.

Then I just enjoy the other great perks of a startup I care about: influence over technical issues, and camaraderie.
So software is eating the world, except you know, where there are moats?
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Use the "punycode" extensions, until all browsers build this functionality in by default.
For this terrible pun, I am sending Akagiyama missiles your way.
I am definitely of the same mindset - but it's also my hobby and I do get some fun from building a bit of an overkill system (and documenting it in detail) :) I also viewed the build as its own project - I tend to do these very long blog posts about such projects in the 12 years I've been running my website.

I started out with just the cheapest camera I could get my hands on, including working on my high school's yearbook staff in ~2000. Now that I've been working for over a decade and have some resources I pick up a few gadgets here and there for my hobbies.
Many startup companies in Berlin are English speaking as their daily operations.

The point is if the majority of people are native German speakers you take a major productivity hit moving to English, say 10% which increases your costs and demand for people.