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31, married so all numbers are as a couple. Lived in DC for a year then moved to Denver. Started at a defense contractor then gave that up to work remotely for an ecommerce company for almost the same salary.

Net worth is about $450k, ~425k in Vanguard and $25k in checking/savings accounts. Of the Vanguard money, 2/3rds in 401k or IRA accounts and 1/3 in taxable accounts. Came out of college with $210k in debt (paid for both of us to get Bachelors and Masters).

Anyone who has questions about investing or anything, feel free to reach out. Email in profile.
>I think some people sometimes lack any perspective on the topic.

Apparently you think Linus is one of those who "lack perspective"?

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.2/01701.html

I get that systemd isn't the kernel, but it's close enough. There are many who would agree that breaking existing behavior in the name of security isn't wise. I have also not yet seen anyone point out specific security issues this solved. Unix has worked this way for a long time.
Annoyingly, that book has never had a Kindle edition available in the UK Amazon.
Unless 65 is faster it's not worth it to me... I work very fast, like Chrome, like other apps on my OS, and there's no excuse for Firefox to run slow like it does on my Windows and Mac still.
But I'm in their target market and I don't want a replaceable battery. I just want the battery to be serviceable when it wear.

For a given phone size, a replaceable battery require some additional space which means it will be smaller than a non-replaceable one.

I don't want to buy one or two additional battery to carry with me when I can get a battery that last a bit longer and that I can charge with any power bank. (mine or the one of a friend as there is no compatibility problems)

Users who want replaceable battery are niche in the niche.
> That's just not true, lots of private capital has financed reactors before.

Mostly not. For example France's reactors were 100% state financed and state owned. Incl. the electricity distribution and the building company (Areva).

In Germany the whole nuclear industry was state directed and the power plants were belonging to a few companies - with electricity companies being 'forced' by the government to invest in nuclear electricity production. The whole research around nuclear technology (fuel production, reactor technology, storage, ...) was state financed. The electricity companies were given huge distribution areas where they had a monopoly without any competition. Politicians were given well-paid jobs in the industry.

> economically sensible (especially counting in disasters), but that if they were they would finance themselves

The reality shows the opposite. See the UK: nuclear power does not finance themselves by market mechanisms. The financing is set up by the government and there is no market. To build them is a political decision and the UK government sets the market accordingly. Well, it tries to.

> So what? The U.S. has the one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, yet they barely do nuclear at all.

What does it have do with France what the US does?

> unless they're not in fact bankrupt

They are not bankrupt while they get more government money.

> Think of all the research you could fund with the money spent on that forced premature rollout of renewable energy in Germany.

There is lots of money spend on research in Germany ... nut now much more on renewable energy. The research was already instrumental to bring PV prices down and make the technology applicable on a large scale. The impact of that was far beyond Germany.

> Think of all the money that still needs to be spent to make it work.

Well invested.

>Think of what you actually achieved in terms of CO2 goals, so far. It's an absolute embarrassment.

It's not. The Energiewende is not about short-term CO2 reductions.

It's a broad long-term project to switch the energy landscape to renewable energy - starting with electricity, starting with getting rid of nuclear power. Coal is next. It has a five decade horizon.
well, shoot. I was going to apply but now I'm thinking TechStars is probably better. YC is great but I'm probably 'too dumb' because I don't look like a typical candidate on paper.

Peter Thiel has some interesting thoughts on the decline of SV. Interesting times to be an inventor.
> that drug-sniffing dogs are trained to give positive indicators

...in America.

Do you have any evidence this happens elsewhere?
He has this completely wrong. The idea in pare-mutuel betting is not to pick the winner. The favorite usually wins, but the house cut makes betting the favorite a net lose.

The goal is to find underpriced bets, where the collective estimate of the odds is far from the prediction systems's estimate.
Well, a week later and I think I'm a convert. I didn't like the look at first, but after using it in my IDE and actually typing with it, it's quite nice.

Thanks.
The hard-coded alt+# for switching to numbered tabs is a deal breaker for me. I wish it wasn't but I have ingrained ctrl+# for switching and alt+# is used for my window manager. I accept I'm in a minority, but it seems like a strange design decision for an open browser.
My personal rule of fairness is that 1/3 of the direct-value an employee brings to the company is probably the most that can safely be paid directly to that employee without hurting the health of the business and its indirect-value employees.

But if the employee is getting less than 1/4, they have a good reason to look for employment elsewhere. At least in software dev.

At 1/18th, the employee should probably be interviewing with competitors as often as they are billing hours. If that does not work out, it should be possible to go independent and undercut your former employer and their colluding competitors by charging only 9 times your former salary, giving yourself 1/3 of that, and investing the rest into growing the new business, such as by poaching former colleagues and business development personnel, and offering them 1/4 to 1/3 of what they bring in.

It seems very dishonest to me to bill at near-partner rate for junior associate work. If the latter aren't that useful, making the client pay a rate as though they were doing vastly more or better work than they really are getting done is very unethical.
hey, thats a very good question and one that we get very often.

Zapier is a complete automation suite where in an event will automatically trigger a bunch of actions without the ability to modify the event data or decide the action based on the event.

We enable all these usecases where a user will have to see the event and then chose which set of actions to trigger. the user can also send a modified version of the event data to the actions, while in Zapier, the event data consumed by the action layer cannot be updated in real time.
Our definition of autism, like many psychological conditions, is based on symptoms--behavior and development--not causes. We're learning more about the underlying reasons why brains work the way they do, so that may change eventually. But right now, if you have a large number of autistic symptoms, you most likely meet the diagnostic criteria for ASD.

In young children, the visible symptoms of autism may mimic other developmental conditions, so a professional diagnosis is important. An intelligent adult can make the distinction for themselves, given enough information. (Though they'll still need a diagnosis to seek treatment or accommodations.)
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Thanks for the reply.

I thought most gamers just streamed through OBS on their main machine, since they are always tinkering with various OBS scenes in real time, etc..

It is audio recording holding me back but it's in the context of recording programming tutorials where I would want to record my desktop inside of a Linux environment as a screencast video.

Right now I just do things through WSL but it's not comparable to a native Linux set up, and VMs are even worse (I tried the VM approach for over 5 years and it sucks).

Would you mind going over the work flow for using one of those CamLinks? It's the first time I've heard of that before but it seems like it might be an interesting solution -- or at least something to look into as a last resort option.

I'm not opposed to building a 2nd machine but how can something like this come together to solve my problem?

Let's say I have 2 computers (1 running Windows and 1 running Linux) and I have 2 monitors, and in non-recording mode I would want to leverage both monitors in Linux. Would I need a third monitor to make this work? What does the set up look like?
I'm a business owner, and I've had disputes with employees based on our gross collections vs. the employees pay MANY times, the reality is this: Your value in what you do is based on what the market is willing to pay you. It's not based on what the market is paying ME for work you're contributing to. Your pay isn't based on my gross collections minus costs. No part of what I collect from customers are you entitled to. I hired you for a job, at a rate we agreed to, and if you believe you are owed more I welcome you to see what the market offers you.
If only they could solve their culture problems at scale and blog about those solutions.
Don't accuse people of lying when they are clearly not lying. You may dispute the details, but the OP did not lie.
As the article says, sample size is a huge issue here. But if it's true, my guesses would be this is because women generally have:

1) Smaller body size (less resistance, less work)

2) Higher body fat percentage (more stored energy)

These are ultra endurance challenges, where tiny advantages can become huge differences.
That’s all good. If an algorithm can predict the odds then you can compare the odds of the algorithm to those give by the bookies and voila, there you’ll find you under priced bets.

Picking the favourite to win is a measure of how well the algorithm is at predicting the odds.
Having pops without jack indicates that either some other software layer is choking (e.g. pulse if the audio is still routed through it) or a hardware issue. You indicate that the hardware is without issue elsewhere, so that leaves the linux ALSA driver/driver settings, pulse (if it's interfering), jack, or the recording app. I do recall some mentions of a few of the Scarlett devices having quirks in the past, though I haven't personally been all that involved in those discussions.

If jack or the recording application (connected to jack) were causing the issue then you should see an xrun reported from jack which makes me think that there's the possibility that it's being unexpectedly routed around via pulse (which can cause all sorts of shenanigans) or it's a know ALSA level driver quirk with respect to the device. The latter is unlikely as you're indicating that this is a USB device (IIRC the firewire ones were the more fussy ones). Even if you're not striving for low latency I would recommend some of the audio communities as they're likely to have stressed the same device a fair bit and may have encountered similar issues.
> You only need to pay remote employees competitive local rates

I completely disagree. Employment is a two-way marketplace - I'm looking for an employer, and employers are bidding on what I'm selling: time, knowledge, and experience. They are bidding against not only employers local to me, but with all remote employers as well. They're free to choose someone else to work for them and I'm free to choose someone else to work for.

"Competitive local rates" are appropriate for people whose choices are local. As a developer, my choices are global. Those are very different markets.

I live in Harrison, Arkansas and I make significantly more working remotely than I could make locally. When negotiating salary at my current job, I recall my exact statement to this effect: "I'm not expecting an offer with a base salary equal to what you'd be offering me if I were in Santa Monica - but I'm also not willing to accept an offer that's the same as what I could make working for a local company. I'm confident that we'll be able to meet somewhere between those numbers."
EDIT: this should have read "he got many more lucrative offers at graduation THAN friends who were in schools"
It's not FUD when you have a list of incidents (https://community.letsencrypt.org/c/incidents) and it's not FUD just because I don't have 0days sitting around. If this is just the incidents from one CA, and assuming this is an example of best effort, there would naturally be many more, and possibly worse, exploits gone unnoticed on the hundreds of other CAs.
https://github.com/uber/aresdb
I just updated and immediately noticed two things that bothered me:

1. It added a new search engine (amazon.com.au) to my list that I'd culled down to just DuckDuckGo

2. It started recommending extensions for websites I visited

Maybe I'm overreacting a bit but why does it feel like every time I update anything recently I then have to spend 5 minutes going through the preferences to make sure it hasn't changed anything. It makes me hesitant to update any app when I feel like the developers are working against my interests.
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People who like this should also check out Robert Bosch's "TSP Art" (TSP stands for Travelling Salesman Problem). While this submission focuses on mazes, Bosch focuses on non-intersecting paths. The two problems are clearly dual, since a maze's solution is a non-intersecting path, and conversely every non-intersecting path is the solution to a corresponding maze.

http://www2.oberlin.edu/math/faculty/bosch/tspart-page.html
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After a few minutes in the Group Policy Editor, most problems are solved permanently. Also, use the LTSC version, not the regular one.
Exactly.

I've not had an employer concerned about the number of hours I work in a given period in a long, long time. They're concerned about productivity. Whether it takes me an hour each day or twelve hours each day, if project goals are being met and I'm making them money, they're happy.
“McNamee [early FB investor] also profited from this mentorship [of Zuckerberg]. Along with his venture capital firm, Elevation Partners, the author made a fortune off an early investment in Zuckerberg’s company, a subject about which he is now suitably circumspect, given his belief that Facebook, along with Google and other tech giants, today represents “the greatest threat to the global order in my lifetime.”

Frankly, from someone who made millions by funding "the greatest threat to global order in [his] lifetime", I expected a bit more soul-searching than "suitably circumspect". Maybe it's in the book and I just need to buy it to find out?
Get multiple vpn's and switch between them. Log into your email always over the same vpn but don't login to other email accounts with that vpn. Have multiple Google accounts one for each vpn. Set up your own vpn using Linode hosting https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/09/how-i-made-my-own-vpn-serv.... Create multiple persona's, search and browse differently for each one.
Yeap. I collaborate with them and it was crazy.
ohey. you came to the right place :-)

no wires, composition of boxes, no vi bindings yet, but def. something wanted and what we are going for

I want vi/emacs/spacemacs for diagrams
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I'd describe parent as a control flow graph, not a data flow graph. Control flow makes clear the interpretation of that cycle as an iterative "loop". In data flow, the cycle shown in your parent comment would instead represent an arbitrary fixpoint: the output of 'end' would be some value x = end(loop_body(init(x))). This inherent ambiguity where the same constructs are given different semantics is actually one reason why visual representations can sometimes be confusing.

The same applies to parallelism - does it represent divergent choice, or a fork/join structure where independent computations can be active at the same time? You can't make both choices simultaneously within the same portion of a diagram! Of course you could have well-defined "sub-diagrams" where a different interpretation is chosen, but since the only shared semantics between the 'data flow' and 'control flow' cases is simple pipelining that's so limited that it isn't even meaningfully described as "visual", it's hard to see the case for that.
I'm working on a course much less bulky than this one. Basically mixing the first two semesters of CS at any university with your standard bootcamp curriculum. I have a theory that teaching each concept in multiple languages side by side will be far more effective than other methods.
Ask HN: Companies friendly to side projects?
Is there a list of companies that don't restrict their employees from working on side projects like amazon does? Bonus points if the company is remote.

Note : I'm not in california.
Asteroid's impact during the blood moon was equal to a ton of TNT
Aren’t those actual events ? Those are people with previous coal mining experience that are now coding.

It’s like reading about teens that built apps.
>Add the wrong ingredients into the Big Data recipe, and what you’ll get is a potentially toxic output.

Shouldn't the Big Data algorithms apply the same principles?
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If you don't me asking, and I don't mean to sound rude, but - what took so long to launch? 2017 YC to 2019 launch is a really really long time for what seems like a basic tool. Everybody I know has cobbled something together like this using Zapier/IFTT and other integrations or custom microservices, it just seems like you're a bit late to the starting line.
My grandfather was saying "help!" through an oxygen mask on his face for several days before he died. I didn't know how to respond because there wasn't anything we could do. He struggled like this, in pain, but at the very end he had an expression of complete joy and peace that was really moving to me. I was very close with my grandfather and felt I could understand what he was feeling without any words. My interpretation is that he experienced some type of complete acceptance of death and/or awareness of something beyond death. It was really beautiful and comforting to see, especially after watching him struggle for days prior to this.
Interesting post with lots of architectural details.

I like how they highlight the different existing things they tried and what the shortcomings were which led to building this, although not sure where I could use this to solve a problem.
Paywall in place for me?
Apple’s bug handling is broken.

Anyone who has filed a few rdars knows it is thankless work. The amount of work you have to invest for anyone to even look at your bug is high. In the instance of this particular bug, I wouldn’t be surprised if at least part of the reason it took a week and a half to handle since it was reported was that the initial reply to the reporter was “please send us the exact steps to reproduce” and then nothing was done until the bug reporter replied back. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn there were even a few iterations of this, since I personally experienced it.

Then, your bug gets looked at. But you don’t know anything about its status. Until anything from a few days to a few months later, it gets closed as a duplicate. Of course there is no way to know in advance that the bug was already opened, and that you could save an hour of work time instead of making a minimal reproducible version of your app which reproduces the bug.

At least, that’s been my unfortunate experience.

/rant
What exactly is the reason a miner can't learn to be a code? The reason they are teaching code is because it is looked as a skill with a lot of demand which is the whole point of the programs that teach in-demand skills. I honestly don't follow what "Coders on the other hand have been taken as a joke long before the twitter thing happened. look no further than Mr. Trump" means, can you rephrase it?
I've been pretty happy with https://www.passwordstore.org/ Keeps passwords encrypted in git, and there's plugins and open source apps for just about everything. Throw your store in a private repo somewhere and you're good to go, no need to worry about Bitwarden or Lastpass or anyone else going out of business.
Aaah, look like you hit the nail on the hat.
As language geek I love the ongoing work on Racket CS.

This is a good way to improve language implementations with safer technology stacks.
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I think there's more to Hamming's advice than just parroting back what the consensus is in a given field though. Hamming did something that most people just don't do. He intentionally cross pollinated by having lunch with people in different academic disciplines. His harassing questions, "what's the biggest problem in your field?", and, "why aren't you working on it?", I think were first and foremost, meant to help him get a better idea of the broad strokes of the field in question (I'm sure he also got a certain amount of perverse pleasure in being a pest). But after that, if you look at how he writes about people's responses, I think he was also trying to get people to think about the big picture for themselves, and in this context, it doesn't really matter what your answer is to his questions, so long as you've given it some thought.

His observation, that people who tended to give satisfactory answers later tended to have more prominent positions (I can't remember if he also said anything about the importance of their direct contributions), really just lends support to the idea that it's important to step back and keep the big picture in mind. He made similar observations when he talked about people who work with their doors open vs those who work with their doors closed. And that those who kept their doors closed tended to find themselves working their way towards irrelevance in their field, despite much greater short term productivity.

Mostly I find he's got advice that seems generally useful in any career, which can be boiled down to be wary of working on something without regard to how it fits into the bigger picture.
I have zero evidence, but based on what I've observed, read and been told I believe it because I believe women to be mentally stronger than men.

For a woman to succeed to the same degree as a man she needs to work twice as hard, fend off unwanted advances, put up with man-splaining, optionally give birth and then juggle that and work, possibly deal with abortion, often alone...

The list is endless. Being a woman is WAY more difficult than many (most?) men can ever hope to imagine.
It's the other extreme, but Sweden is the same. If more of the world was like that, we wouldn't have subprime crisis
It's still hidden under about:config -- I've set media.autoplay.default to 2 and it'll prompt me if I want allow the playback.
I think you may have missed his point slightly. He isn't questioning whether one can identify important results after the fact. He is questioning whether one can identify important discoveries that haven't yet been made. In many fields of inquiry one can assemble a list of important open questions. The issue is whether if you keep that list and check back whether 1) any of those questions have been answered 2) whether the answer turned out to be important 3) whether other questions not on the list were answered and turned out to be more important. He is arguing that 1 and 3 are the more likely outcomes so that a question being on such a list is likely not a good indicator that it is a fruitful avenue of research. Some examples would be things like grand unified physics theories, the Riemann hypothesis, whether P=NP. Will any of those be solved in the next 10 years, unclear, will something not on the list but also important be solved, chances are highly likely.
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there's a really interesting market at the bottom as well - super low power CPUs. 8/16 bit stuff, not RISC at all (since DRAM itself is a huge power draw at that level), and so on. fun stuff.
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