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> I often get bogged down with "how do I monetize, market, and maintain this", which just kills my motivation.

If someone is thinking that way, then they aren't engaging in a hobby, they're engaging in a startup. That's two different things.

I used to fall into this way of thinking before I recognized what a trap it actually is. Now, when I start a hobby project, I intentionally ignore possible monetization of it. If I feel a strong urge to monetize, then I move it out of my recreation time and into my work time.
Do you feel it's been a positive experience?
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Even if you compared studios in NYC to 1br's in Tokyo, Tokyo would still have a huge rent price advantage.
As someone who works at a company with a lot of remote workers but also people who regularly work out of offices, I haven't personally experienced this. I'm sure there are people who feel forced to come into an office even though it's not their preference and resent those who don't have to. But I find that there are a lot of people who like coming into an office, people who mostly like working remote, and people who like doing a bit of each. So I don't see any sort of widespread resentment of people who choose/are allowed to work at home.
When you say "based off of", you mean spiritually, not codewise, right?
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That isn't going to matter is it. The date in some regions goes up to Friday May 1 but not on to Saturday May 2. At least not at the point in time I'm writing this.

The URL has 5/2 in it which appears to be a date.
Assange is accused of a crime. Should he be forgiven because some other people are also accused of crimes?
It is strange! One of the problems some moderately poor people have is eating too much food.
Yeah--that after discarding the alien theory people gravitate to US technological tests is pretty flattering to a government that spent record-setting amounts of money on the F-35.
Where did you get the idea his work was rejected? Also, his work was rejected by top journals for decades until people finally realized he was correct.
> About 50% of our users completely skip the onboarding altogether.

How is this different than when you had no onboarding? (serious question) Did you make other changes that made the onboarding process less important to end users?
No. What you describe are still work hours. They can, and often do lead to overtime (paid or not), but its far fetch from wrapping your work at workplace, coming home, and continuing doing the same stuff. At least that's how common doctors's work looks in Switzerland.
It would mitigate this issue to an extent, but also introduces new challenges (for instance and as pointed to elsewhere: dealing with officially/unofficially adopted children). I'm not sure if there are published numbers on what fraction of adult asylum seekers are attempting to use children in this way, but the preoccupation with "solving" this particular issue demonstrates that either (a) that fraction is disturbingly high or (b) we'd like to make the process even more complicated for no particularly good reason. The trend of every policy along the border seems to suggest that (b) is more likely, which is upsetting.
> If that was true, that every loan by a bank was multiplying assets by 10, because they're required to hold 10% in reserves...

It is true. Assuming that banks are exerting their full capacity for lending, banks would be multiplying the money supply by 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking#Mon...

> ... then we would instantly have runaway unimaginably huge inflation and everything would collapse.

That isn't true. If you get loan to buy something, that isn't free money. You're going to have to not buy other things to pay back the loan.
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The comment to which I was replying implied that participating in a kickstarter was like being an investor (from context, in the financial sense of that word).

So we're talking financial investments, not regular exercise.

In the financial sense, an investment is where you put money in with the hope of getting more money out. There are levels of risk, and generally the more risky the investment the higher the expected payout.

That's not what kickstarter is, at all, as you have zero chance of getting more money out (in this kickstarter for example)

you're giving someone money in exchange for the hope of a product downt the line.
The improvements in autopilot in my friends model 3 is truly astonishing to me versus the first gen auto-pilot in the model s. If the incremental improvements over the last 2 years are any indication of what's possible over the next 2 years, we are going to see amazing things. It may not go everywhere in every condition, but so what? Isn't it still totally mind blowing how far it's already come?
Probably one question that would directly answer this is—can Stripes who live in SFBA transfer from the SF hub to the remote hub?
Treason has a specific definition in the us Constitution and it's a quite difficult bar to cross.
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This is my experience at the company I'm currently at which has offices in SF and other US locations, as well as a significant number (as a % of the Eng team) of remote people across the country. I don't know the origin story, as the practice was in place when I joined this team, but it's proven its value time and time again. We do consciously make time to document and discuss how to make that information more useful/discoverable/accurate.

* Use the tools - ticket tracking, chat rooms, wikis or other documentation repositories

* Own it - engage in the conversation, do the work, help the whole team get better, accept responsibility, acknowledge your own mistakes, and acknowledge others' wins and contributions

* Do it in public - @mention people in tickets, etc., use PUBLIC chat spaces, use org-wide sharing of documents

A company I worked for in the past, which had a SF office and a smaller number of remote engineers, did not embrace the value of thoughtful written communication, and ultimately didn't see the value of remote engineers. It fostered a culture of "need-to-know" conversations where they felt if you couldn't be "in the room" then you simply weren't going to have the information you needed. They didn't value recording (video, text, etc.) the agenda, discussion, or outcomes of these discussions, so it only lived on in the individuals involved. This artificially stunted the remote engineers, and in turn it backfired on the entire team's productivity.
:) I like this routine. All you need to do is find one or two more people to do nothing with you. And you are set.
Yep and scrappy, a very good attribute for a startup or even for a maturing silicon valley company.
Prusiner actually proved his case well over a decade before the establishment was ready to accept his findings. They literally denied his results were true and accurate. Accepting that proteins can catalyze misfolding in a cascade was not an easy thing for the establishment to accept (however, by the time I attended UCSF, prusiner's work was already being suggested to be valid, and people were already working on mechanism).
It totally would have been simpler overall, but each incremental step we made was significantly less work than the refactoring required for pread.

Question.

In 10 years will you be saying this about the next incremental problem that you run into? If you think this likely, then the next incremental problem is an excuse to do it right.
How some CBP agents feel about the wall has no bearing on the actual realities of building a wall. People don’t dismiss the idea out of hand because of the people who hold the idea, but because _it’s an objectively bad idea_. And that’s after “doing my own research”. Did your friend ask those agents how we would pay for the wall? Or how we would maintain 2,000+ miles of wall? Or how we would handle the massive ecological damage caused to migratory species?

And do keep in mind that it’s possible to be a racist without explicitly saying it. This can of worms never opens well on HN, because 99.9% of the people here have always had pleasant interactions with the police (i.e. they’re white), but American law enforcement, especially CBP, tends to hold certain views about people who aren’t white, and that’s how you wind up with immigrants being denied basic things like water and medicine.
Perhaps, but step 4 is definitely not; if you're freely daydreaming you're not developing awareness of the mind's activity.
It would be better to mmap the file into N single-threaded processes instead of mmapping the file into 1 N-threaded process. This is exactly why signals are process-global instead of thread-local. The intent is that they were used for inter-process communication. The whole notion of processes and signals predates the notion of a thread, and threads are essentially a performance optimization for 30 or 40 year old hardware. If you use single-threaded processes then all of the processes can MAP_SHARED map the file and then they all get access to the file contents as each process is updating the file. And they all also have their own address space and can crash separately from each other.
The Iraq War leak suggested war crimes, but not treason IIRC:

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/wikileaks-press/
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I guess this news gives Assange a valid reason for his bail-jumping. He was suspected of raping in Sweden. That was what he was bail-jumping for. But the real reason is the threat of his extradition to US for... what? revealing the war crime of the US? That shall never be a crime. War crime shall not be hidden. US shall be punished for obstructing the information of war crime.
.. while the learned and wise hone wisdom, kleptocrats in Washington DC write gag orders and cheap leases
Thank you for your concern, but I never and would never place my life in the hands of any one piece of anything really. Be that technology, person or process.

The Fitbit has given me a heads up a little earlier than I otherwise would have got it, the value added for me is that it's cheap and a great indicator. But an indicator is all it is and it is part of a wider protocol we have in the house for preventing and detecting Autonomic Dysreflexia. A vital part, but still just one component.

I do wish I could turn off the step counter though, and if it could detect when I'm asleep that would also be great. The former I don't think I'm ever going to do very well on and the latter is really not the fault of the device as I don't move around very much at all.

Thanks again for your concern! :-)
I am not surprised that USG has cooked up a tenuous conspiracy charge with which to try and stretch its jurisdiction ever further.

But I am amazed at how many people in this community have accepted the government's narrative at face value. It rests not merely on the notoriously bad CFAA, but also on a theory that chatting during a criminal act is itself concrete furtherance of a conspiracy.

USG's reasoning can be straightforwardly applied to persecute any journalist that interviews a whistleblowing source, as the source is breaking the law by leaking information to the journalist and the journalist is encouraging that crime. This is chilling.
The 'architecture of life' described by computer modeling
Can you email me, I would love to move more and more of this stuff inside the wire and if we can do something that we can then share with other quadriplegics so they can keep control of their own medical info; that would be very groovy.
You could just use gitlab: https://gitlab.com/pages?page=1

Much better imo
I don't even understand what point you're trying to make.
So no one is uncovered and report crimes committed by nations because they created self serving laws? Sounds tyrannical.
No, not if we look at the entire supply chain and the construction of the power plant (whatever the source of power may be).

But people don't get as emotional about the resources required to build windmills (so long as it's not in my backyard) as they do about nuclear. And once a windmill or a dam or a solar farm has been built, there's a belief that there's no ongoing environmental damage. Whereas nuclear (and coal and gas) require ongoing resource extraction.

Again, I'm not the one making these arguments. I'm saying this is public perception. (Or at least my perception of public perception.) I happen to think the only environmentally responsible way to supply all the energy we need for 7 billion people (and growing), especially when more and more of those people are industrializing, is to go nuclear. Every other option seems like a guaranteed way to kill ourselves in the long run.
He's the only one who could testify about the truth behind the DNC leak (Seth Rich) and the Podesta e-mails (phished). Neither were 'hacked' by the Russians.

With the Mueller investigation effectively over, it's time to turn the tables. Assange is a valuable asset in this endeavor.
Front page for this post? Seriously HN?
Absolutely. Getting more work done. Less fatigued. Able to concentrate more.
Maybe you have some alternative definition of "positive quarter" but according to Tesla, Q2 will not be positive.

> ... we expect to return to profitability in Q3 and significantly reduce our loss in Q2.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459019...
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Lying about the war crimes was treason in my view
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The vast majority of the colonial theft and exploitation came after industrialization, and as a result of it. Once you're 10x wealthier and more technologically advanced than the rest of the world, it will be conquered, one way or another.

And while individuals got very rich from colonizing, and rulers got much pride from ruling vast new lands, the colonizing societies as a whole did not really get richer from it. There are benefits from colonies, but there are also costs.

Of course, Spain and Portugal did build vast preindustrial colonial empires in the New World. Not by being (very) much more advanced, but mostly by the incredible luck of having much better immune systems! The fact that 80-90% of the New World people just spontaneously died on encountering Europeans, for reasons none of the sides understood, is one of the most astonishing events in history to me!!

So they (mostly Spain) had a few centuries of weird prosperity in mountains of gold and silver, while still having a primitive mercantilist economy. Once capitalism and the industrial revolution started elsewhere, they were left in the dust, their pretty metal stashes no match for liberated human ingenuity.

You do ask a good question. Why did the stars align in 1760s England, and not in the several other places in history that seemingly had most of the ingredients? I've seen it asked a few times, and never answered. I won't pretend that I, some random programmer with opinions on a web forum while eating breakfast, have the answer either...
DrRacket is a pedagogic IDE, originally intended to be simple for new students and non-majors.

Some people like DrRacket for real development work.

I'm an Emacs person, but I use DrRacket when I want to use the Macro Stepper, or see how the arrows work in my syntax extension, or use the renaming feature, or put each process of a client/server system in a separate IDE that fits in one window.

I find I also fire up DrRacket when I want to very quickly make a running code example for someone, since it it somehow seems easier to iterate than Emacs sometimes.

I prefer Emacs for the bulk of code I write, though.

P.S., Thank goodness programming students are still being shown things like RAM usage (DrRacket can enforce limits) and that GC is happening. :)
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The right to a speedy trial is held by the individual, not the state. It is not a safeguard to liberty if proceedings move so quickly that the individual cannot mount and adequate defense. This is particularly true of extradition, a situation where there is no room to correct an improper decision acted upon.
> Just give me a takehome project and I will show you how I program, it is really that simple!

I once applied for a job where that was the entry exam: they gave you the specs for a program about a month in advance of your interviews and you were expected to bring in the solution you wrote. The task was intentionally extremely difficult (they specifically warned you about that).

Although I didn't get the job, I really did appreciate that approach to skills testing. I thought it was brilliant.
I'm working on one. It's nothing like any of the comments here. You all are trying to add complexity and I removed it.

All the comments here are along the lines of "I want a faster horse".
Not a given, particularly for people fleeing countries in crisis, disarray, or violent turmoil. Or if a parent died during the migration, etc.
I can't help but localize this to my own home. I live in the "Twin Cities", on the Minneapolis side. The two cities are different (and competitive) in many ways. One key difference is their attitude toward historic preservation. Minneapolis develops far more aggressively, and tears down old buildings all the time, regardless of historic significance. St Paul preserves its old architecture much more carefully.

So despite the two cities being separated only by a river and about the same age, they look quite different.
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I think one of the fundamental things about remote work culture is default working async with occasional blocks of scheduled sync time, instead of default working sync with occasional affordance for async time (when you're at a meeting away from your desk etc.). You're working more the way an open-source project works, with higher-bandwidth higher-latency communication channels like email or code review tools instead of in-person conversations.

If you have timezone issues at all (outside of your on-call rotation), that means you haven't figured out your remote story yet. Which is totally fine! I'd have trouble imagining how you figure it out without already doing it. So it makes sense that they're starting in a half-remote state and then intending to get really remote at some point.
You realize you sound pretty far out-of-mainstream when you say things like that, right?
It's not a trial, it's an extradition hearing.
Thanks,

How about this "fact": The fact that these variables are all typically linear or additive?
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Or it can be used to expedite the clearance of real families instead of subjecting everyone to the same questioning methods.
The future of programming languages is and has always been to simply reinvent smalltalk.

Seriously, read the original "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" [0] and it still sounds very fresh, even radical today.

[0] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....
Yeah that's true for the distributed application you mentioned with the wire. Certainly advantages there, especially when you control all the nodes.

I hate seeing the fields of a communication protocol listed in two structs - an ifdef BIG_ENDIAN and LITTLE_ENDIAN. They will invariably be inconsistent, someone will change something in little but not big, or even worse, update one incorrectly and not test it.
Should law enforcement focus on prosecuting a shoplifter who reported Jerry Sandusky’s crimes while ignoring Jerry?
Last time I was arrested it took 2 years of going to court once every 2 months, saying that there is no movement on my case before it was straightened out. This all for a very minor offense that I happily plead guilty to after the lawyers had sorted everything out. I could have just as easily plead guilty and paid all my fees on day one if the legal system in the US actually functioned.
State of art can be miles away. In a UPS truck. Being delivered.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but this doesn't seem to be a compelling example. He's in an extradition hearing for something that happened 9 years ago, and the article says "the extradition process could take years".
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_isolation.
None of the things he revealed can be classified as treason. War crimes maybe, treason no way. I also wonder why he never revealed any of Russia's alleged crimes in Ukraine or Syria. Just a thought.
In this case there's a bit of a conflict of interest, considering that he was the one who showed that the government accusing him committed crimes
In fairness, nuclear is also just incredibly expensive. Witness Vogtie. Take away all taxes and regulations, then compare the price of, say, Iowa, building a nuclear plant instead of just slapping up windmills wherever they want. (Remember, we're assuming zero regulations. So while slapping up windmills would normally be incredibly illegal, we're able to do that under the conditions that our thought experiment postulates.) There's just no way to make nuclear compete. Which is why when you drive through Iowa, all you see are windmills everywhere. It's cheap. Much cheaper than nuclear.

If people want nuclear, the government has to provide the lion's share of the assistance to make it happen. Even then, there are no guarantees you'll be in love with what that looks like. At Vogtie for instance, the government has taken the unprecedented step of prohibiting future users of Vogtie power from ever switching to cheaper wind or coal alternatives. And that's on top of the government agreeing to pay over half of the initial construction costs. So you basically have government paying the lion's share of the tab, and mandating that everyone use it, and it's still over budget, late, and more expensive than wind and coal alternatives.

Too many analyses of nuclear power ignore the financial realities. Iowans choose wind, because it's cheaper than nuclear, solar, and coal. So they slap up windmills, and they have the old coal plants to fill in the gaps. Now Iowa was not trying to put its nuclear plants out of business, but as a consumer if you can choose an electricity bill at 2 cents per kWh, wouldn't you? Or would you continue to pay the minimum 8x 2 cents per kWh for nuclear? That's why nuclear is on the ropes in the US, if you give people a choice, they tend to vote with their wallets.