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> it would be great if others started helping improve it

Better set your expectations low and see bug reports as helping. I help maintain a 10 year old open source project with 100 of users, mostly companies, and help in form of code is rare (2-3 per year and some of those are too specific to be included). We mostly receive "this <insert feature> doesn't work" or "can't install on <my -sometimes misconfigured- server>".

> I'll be making it possible for anyone to compete with me without near the investment it took to create them or helping to improve the software

With most copyleft licenses such competitor doesn't have to attribute you and has no obligation to ever contribute. Only if the competitor redistributes the software do they have to include the original source. If that's your worry choose a license where commercial use is limited.
Great article about opportunity cost and trade-offs.
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Some sort of enabler for content. I work in content marketing (not click bait shit but helping b2b companies tell their story without hiring a full design/marketing/dev team).

Our process and system is super efficient recording video + sending notifications to team members to edit, add captions, strip audio for your podcast, set up your podcast, set up your alexa flash briefing, etc.

But it takes hours to do all of this if youre on your own and thats ONLY if you know how to do it all. Content is the black box most have no idea how to do. If you don't pay our agency to do it for you you are kind of out of luck.

We sell a book on our process now and sell about 50 copies a week. These people are validated and want to learn how to do it, and are willing to pay to learn.

It only makes sense to build the platform that automates this process for these people and offer it to them. They've already paid to learn. Might as well offer the platform to do it.
> She has been refused access to footage identifying the crook because of data protection rules.

I am really speechless
What are your thoughts on tools like https://placeit.net ?
Sure, but I can't get labor priced low enough to build my consumer throwaway products locally.
Somebody clue me in on "asymptotically better database behavior"
It's been a few years but it was GCC 3.3 as I remember, always being called in C89 mode. Worst part was that there was a debugger, but it couldn't actually be used. All you get is printf()
> tasks that could easily be automated

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me automation was easy I would be richer than Jeff Bezos.
If everybody never writes a database, who does it?
True, but when you're boarding the plane on the other end there is no sign that says 'remember, your bags will be left unattended in a public space upon arrival'.

Schiphol does it about equally dumb where the baggage carousel is past the last security check and 10 meters from the public spaces. It would be trivial to take one or more bags that aren't yours and walk out.
To the degree that there are such people, they don't hang out here.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, especially not on divisive topics. That's flamebait, and it's the last thing we need.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What’s the added cost for that?
I know that the Shavit launches are all retrograde despite the geography allowing for a southward launch because transfer from polar orbit to LEO isn’t cost effective for their platform.
India has the same system.
What is a good live example of this stylized content?
This is just nonsense. I don't see how the GDPR possibly allows civil actions for infractions, doubly so for countries outside the EU.
Of course you don't "need" them. However, I don't believe I'm describing a large scale boilerplate. You can get this with a few servers and a couple hundred a month these days. Heck, you can do it on a laptop w/ minikube probably (though obviously not ok to do in prod, just goes to show the costs are not the problem here). Sure it's easy to run an app. But it's not easy to admin it as you grow (even though you are not yet "big" and still may be only one or two people).
Equifax Board Members Keep Their Jobs Despite Data Breach Blunders
> Yeah that's why they said audio production, and not home use.

Yes, but the comment was specifically about dynamic range in audio production, not about higher bit rate's prime benefit of reducing artefacts in digital summing. The noise floor at 16 bit is -96db, if you're down there, you're doing it wrong.

> 96db of dynamic range sounds like a lot, but not when you're stacking 45 tracks. Also compression and saturation later in the chain will further bring up that noise floor.

It's more than enough if you're doing proper gain staging - the number of tracks is irrelevant.

Any mastering compression of more than 3db gain reduction is
mostly excessive, but let's say 6db. So a final master will bring up a noise floor 18db at most (if gain staging was done properly and as you say you left plenty of headroom for the mastering engineer - although clearly you wouldn't be able to use all the headroom). That's still a noise floor of less than -78db, but more realistically around -85db.

Saturation usually only add harmonics not gain (obviously depends on the kit you're using).

> And you don't get that full dynamic range because you want to prevent clipping in a recording, so you give yourself something like 12db of headroom away from the maximum, and now you've lost a good chunk of your dynamic range. 24 bit recording lets you keep plenty of maximum headroom while also staying far from your noise floor.

Myth. Watch this [1] and you'll realise that there's plenty of range with 16 bit. People were producing with 16 bit for years perfectly fine. Before that high end studio tape machines (like the classic Studers or Telefunkens) were equivalent to about 14-16 bits (based on their noise floor) and we had decades of music produced and recorded on that format.

I am not saying that 24 bit isn't better than 16 bit. Of course it is, there are tangible benefits in summing and it gives you more headroom to work with. But, I'm saying it's a myth that there's not enough dynamic range or that you're somehow just bumping along above the noise floor. If you are then you're doing it wrong.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
I think you're talking about code that doesn't work, while the person you replied to is taking about code that works. Yes, one should always strive to write conformant code, but in practice For e.g. no large x86 C project can 'just' be recompiled to PowerPC or ARM or X64.
I'm pretty sure that is true the other way around though:

Back in 2011 I built a couple DBs with Redis, and I've definitely seen people swapping other databases (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.) storage engine for RocksDB and others. I also know the storage engine we wrote (Radix Storage Engine) could be used to build LevelDB and Cassandra on top. Even Cockroach makes for a pretty solid storage engine.

Could you give an example of why you couldn't use VoltDB to get FoundationDB like properties?
For those who can't/don't want to watch:

1) Install author's $8 app.

2) Put phone into restricted mode with Safari restricted.

3) Tap on a link opens author's proxy app which opens non-restricted browser of choice.
Not only desktop and mobile, but it can be used as the storage format for larger scale distribued systems. For example it's the on disk format for FoundationDB.

>Beeing coded in a single C file makes it portable as hell.

It's not coded in a single C file...
Personally, I think global's with constructors are kind of an anti pattern. I've noticed a high correlation between crappy app's and app's with a lot of pre main() code. Especially if some of your global's have threads: because then you potentially have threads running AFTER main exits... I've seen a number of apps with random crashes at shutdown because a thread that was started in a global was still running and since main returned globals were being cleaned up and the thread used something that had just been cleaned up.
I've come to appreciate the value of a "social media" platform that has anonymity and ephemerality by default. I like being able to participate in discussions without being expected to trade my identity or privacy for the privilege.
besides the " marry myself to a cloud vendor" part it sounds like you want a platform as a service. AWS and Google both provide more or less what you've asked for. Just takes minimal glue to turn the features on.
I didn't like the carpeted walkways there to be honest since it just made it more difficult to pull my hand luggage.
I bought a North Face SURGE which advertises this, but at LAX and Heathrow I was made to remove my laptop from the bag regardless. It just ended up wasting time as I tried to run the bag through with the laptop in it both times, and both times they made me take it out and send it through again.

Luckily I was able to return the bag when I got back to the states. It was nice otherwise, but I'd really bought it for the TSA convenience.
As a startup -> enterprise -> startup guy, I see your 8 years of enterprise experience as a huge plus, honestly. If you’re having trouble getting back into startups, it may be one of two things:

1) employee thinks your risk averse

2) ageism. Unfortunately is real when applying to startups.

As for 1, I think proactively addressing this in a cover letter / interview would be helpful.

Hit me up if you’d like to talk. We may be hiring.
Temporal Convolutional Nets (TCNs) Take Over from RNNs for NLP Predictions
High-quality coffee in a hotel room: gear and guide
well... one way, you have goons, the other way, you have livers.

The problem with mincome is the hedonic treadmill.

the folk receiving mincome will grow dissatisfied with their lot and militate for raises. negative feedback is unpleasant but necessary.
Either the title here is wrong, or the link is wrong -- not sure which? The "Training Makes Runners More Efficient, but Not Cyclists" is here: https://www.outsideonline.com/2301366/training-makes-runners...

(btw, I hate sites that do this: change the URL as you scroll, so it's really one long site instead of separate pages. Grr.)
Musk is an engineer. I see no issue with what he said.
Alternatives to passwords have "kind of worked" with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: When they became valuable and exchange breaches became costly, people started using 2FA (exchanges made them mandatory) and ledgerwallets en masse. We should be making these kinds of technologies cheaper and dumbproof so that everybody can use them. Some alternatives proposed in the past, like OpenID, were almost comically complicated for Joe User.
This is going to be commonplace. The other day RaboBank in NL refused to stop spamming me citing 'privacy concerns'. No kidding. After escalating it to a supervisor the situation was quickly resolved but still, that was pretty dumb.
Last month I flew out of San Jose, CA's airport.

They were very behind schedule from what I gathered from talking to people in line (it was my first time there).

They didn't even ask us to take our shoes off or go through the spinning metal thing or unpack electronics / liquids from our carry-ons.

I walked clean through with a do it yourself mBot robot kit[0] that wasn't in the box. It was just a bunch of loose parts thrown into a compartment of a backpack. I imagine from a random person's POV, this could have looked like a build your own bomb kit.

In the TSA's defense they did have a dog sniffing around the line. Not sure if that's standard. It was the first time I've flown since the TSA started.

[0]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818505613/mbot-49-educ...
Are you familiar with this patent application?

http://ipwatchdog.com/patents/US20090265214.pdf
Increased production (and the associated environmental risks) would happen no matter what we were burning. Switching between two fuels doesn't change the amount that has to be produced: if for some reason we couldn't burn natural gas, the same increase in energy consumption would cause the same boom in fracking other oilfields in order to satisfy the demand for the other hydrocarbon.

Edit: If the concern is that the economics of NG are driving higher consumption, then you've got to realize that you could still reclaim the net win by doing some legal thing to halt consumption. The important variables here are damage per consumption and consumption: you want to lower both, but if an improvement in damage per consumption raises consumption you don't want to go back and make the damage per consumption worse. The only reasonable course of action if the damage was too high would be to go in and say, keep using the least-damaging fuel but you're going to have to burn less of it.
I wrote a database for my app and it was the best decision we made.
>I may be missing something important here, as, again, everything I know about American culture I know from the internet, so, if I am, please feel free to tell me.

Americans, as the saying does, live to work. Many tie their individual worth to the jobs they do. We invest a lot of ourselves into our jobs (those we care about anyway), and oftentimes the output doesn't equal the input.

>Wouldn't the low pay motivate people to work at pulling themselves out of those jobs and into the private sector?

You greatly overestimate the average person's drive to better themselves. Plenty are fine to get something that pays the bills and that's it.

>Secondly, which worker do you think is more productive?

You're going between 2 extremes that I didn't mention. My comment about companies offering jobs comes from the understanding of how positions (mainly in the white collar industry) used to be in the 50s/60s/70s vs. today. People that worked at the IBMs/RANDs/GMs/etc. of yester-decade worked there for decades. They were loyal to that company, almost to a fault. When they retired, they were given an expensive Omega with their name engraved in the back. Some even got pensions. Note this was also largely in the context of the pre-globalization age. Nowadays companies have no problem axing whole divisions to meet their bottom lines. They will go overseas. They have no problem leaving an area they've been at for decades. All the while, baby boomers continue to wonder out loud why their kids don't have the same earnings potential as they did. Not saying any of this is good or bad, it just is.
Windows displays calendar appointments on the lock screen. Not sure about Mac. Maybe that was what they saw and flight name was part of it?
Can I somehow integrate this with my 1982 DeLorean?
What do `cp` and `mv` do under the hood?
I am somewhat familiar w/ this product and I'm afraid I'm not articulating how simple I expect. Where do I click to search my logs?
I think the article the original link points to "The Psychological Side of Heat Exhaustion" is pretty interesting, too, though.
> Microsoft's only option is to completely drop the root cert, right? So there's no real non-nuclear option...

In small-scale disputes MS (and other browser vendors) would not have to nuke an entire large CA to get their way. In principle they could just blacklist the individual certs/names, leaving the CA's other certs alone.

That ability/implied threat probably does mean that the CAs tend to comply with MS piracy/copyright-related revocation requests, because refusing to comply would piss off MS (and possibly law enforcement) without actually stopping them from getting their way by other means.
The same people who write cryptography software.
If your Android phone supports USB-C, there's another alternative: you can embed your TOTP tokens on a Yubikey and access it via USB-C and the Yubico Authenticator on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.yubico.yubioath/

You can also use GPG keys embedded on the Yubikey for encrypted emails via OpenKeychain and K-9.
Certainly the story here is about the negligence of Airport Security, but let this also be a lesson to the girl about backing up your work to the cloud.
So the only safe way is to not take the laptop out, then they'll call you and ask you to get it out ?
Most manufacturers do in broad terms disclose how the boot sequence works. Here is an example of the information disclosed about a Cypress microcontroller [1]. In some applications the startup time can be critical so this needs to be known. The code that runs before the engineers code doesn't usually have any effect and it puts the microcontroller into a known documented state so you don't really need to think about it.

[1] https://community.cypress.com/community/psoc-6/blog/2017/05/...
Even phone confernces (using VOIP conference providers) have awful quality.

VoIP, especially multi-tenant voip like conferencing is 70% dependent on YOUR local network connection and 30% the provider's infrastructure. Having a high bandwidth pipe is no guarantee for 100% clear and jitterless voip communication. Have you had a network engineer take a deep inspection of voip traffic to see if there's any QoS or packet filtering going on that could degrade performance (i.e. if you're a small office that has your voice traffic occurring side by side with literally every other network device you're GOING to have a bad time).
Simply put, if you save half of your take home, your passive income will approach your living expenses in roughly 10-15 years. And that even with a conservative draw of 3%, you can start to live off that money without touching your principle. There are a lot of assumptions about inflation and not getting stuck in a long bear market, but it's still a fairly solid way to look at how our spending keeps us tied to our work. The really big takeaway from MMM (who lately has been seeming more and more out of touch sadly), is that every dollar you remove from your budget works double, in that it helps you grow savings, but also decreases the amount of costs interest you need to live on.

Compound interest is something that more people should really understand.
This is typical of pretty much all US airports. It's very rare to have baggage claim inside security.

The deterrent is that there are a large number of security cameras covering that space, and that continues out to parking structures, so it's a very high risk crime and not reasonably repeatable.
This is exactly why I moved from Oni to VSCode with neovim embedded.

Oni was just way too slow and i couldn't use the plugins i needed from my previous vim setup. I switched to VSCode and now I get best of both worlds!
I don't follow. She's willing to pay a "reward for [the laptop's] return", but not the ransom? What's the difference?
Gmail/Google was one of the biggest platforms that supported XMPP. Then they removed it completely, with of course made supporting XMPP less meaningful/attractive for others.
Even in that situation, I would reach out to a local independent recruiter I. The area where I was looking for a job.
Oh thanks for pointing this out. I'll hit the Muckrock team up and see if we can get the text button in there.
I'm not interested in looking it up and linking here, but there are several quora answers about how Leo wasn't really "robbed". He was unfortunate that every year he had a great movie, something was better.
I love the XML question (whether your app does stuff with XML).

There have historically been some big security holes when parsing XML that it is a security code smell now if you are working with it (especially in lower level languages like C or C++).
That seems pretty easy. It's much harder to try to understand where someone is coming from and engage with them in a positive way, even if you're rejecting their idea in the end.
But they're still going to have really long commutes because they can't find housing near where they live unless they outbid software engineers, which would raise the rent. And then the software companies will just have to raise salaries to beat them and more money will go toward the landlords.

If you have a mostly-fixed supply and you subsidize buying that supply, you just raise the price. In order to increase the number of people who are able to live their jobs, you need to change the physical structure of area near their jobs to have more housing.

You can't turn money into housing by just adding money. Only construction can do that.
The variance between TSA employees is pretty wide. Some are pretty good about letting you use these pockets, others insist you take it out. I fly TSA Pre-Check and it's surprising how many TSA employees are hazy about the program, even when they have an Pre-Check screening lane (sometimes I've been asked to remove shoes, etc.)

IMHO, the TSA is another government program soaking up way too much money for far too little value.
Did it ? last i've tried oneNote, it was a buggy piece of crap, coulnd't even finish the import(on win 7). so IDK , databases ?
Nah, but they used to.
Your link is from 15 years ago.
I'd suspect that this is a widespread(-ish) problem. When you check your bag, it leaves your control and is handed off between TSA and your airline just enough that they both have plausible deniability when something goes missing.

If something goes missing, they'll be happy to start pointing fingers at each other - trust me.
I had to roll my own transactional database for an embedded product working in a very constrained environment (2MHz ARM, 2MB total memory). I did very extensive search and I found no product with the combination of characteristics I was looking for:

- working in very small but more importantly, constant memory (predictability is a must for reliable embedded app),

- provide provable transactional characteristics with guarantee to roll back to previous state in case transaction is interrupted and still be consistent and able to accept new transactions,

- minimum storage overhead -- the amount of overhead was directly translating to competitiveness of the device at the time as multiple vendors tried to provide their own solutions for the same preexisting platform

- storage write pattern that would provide wear leveling for the underlying flash

I ended up writing my own database (less than 1k LOC total with encoding/decoding data using BER-TLV) that would meet all characteristics, take few tens of bytes of stack, take few bytes of overhead per write. The database would vacuum itself and coalesce record state automatically. It had some O(n^3) algorithms but THAT'S OK since the amount of data could never be so large that it could pose any problems.

The project took 2 years to complete. I spent maybe a month designing, implementing and perfecting the database. I wouldn't say that the Akin's law of spacecraft design applies here. I would probably spend more than that if I had to integrate existing product and end up with inferior product anyway.
I’m not saying it’s easy, but in an age of so much disruption it’s honestly amazing how Excel continues to dominate. And I say this as someone who spends most of my waking hours in Excel...
This is one of the harder parts of hiring for a startup. Where I've struggled in the past is finding the right balance between someone hungry enough to work at a startup (let's be honest, a lot of people just want a 9-5 with a steady paycheck, and there's nothing wrong with that) and someone with enough structured background to help improve process/efficiency.

It sounds like you might have this mix. The more you can show that you are a "startup" person, the better. The best way to do this is by researching the startup and playing to the hiring manager's needs.

Of course, this is entirely dependent on the type of startup you want to work for. Pre-PMF startups are incredibly fun, but require a very specific type of person. If you're looking at startups with $10+mm in ARR then your enterprise experience is going to be much more well received.
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Not to forget this quote for the ages:

Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded
by (mostly Republi­can) computer engineers who broke
from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little
democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their
laptops in each other's garages.
How do you embed neovim in VSCode?