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Immature? Starting a company in another country when you're 19-21 is hardly the mark of someone that's immature. She's not giving anybody a bad name - she's got a handful of experiences and accomplishments that will help her career immensely.

And comparing her to the Collison brothers? 2 incredibly smart guys that were well-accomplished and millionaires before entering YC?

Nikki, I really enjoyed the write-up. Looking forward to see where your next adventure takes you.
Being scared away by laziness, monads, and people generally talking like math geniuses, I guess.
Always be proving that your infrastructure is resilient. Pain should be felt by stakeholders, not engineering.

When 24/7 means millions of dollars, hire a four-shift redundant geo-distributed team.
Ask HN: What skills should I learn for backend freelancing?
I've worked as a backend developer for two years, and I'd like to try freelancing. I'm moving soon (Philly), and I'm wondering where I might spend my time most profitably in the ~3 months before that happens. My current plan is to look for contract work with web dev agencies with a design / branding focus but perhaps limited backend expertise.

If you were hiring me, what would you look for? Are there particular topics, CS or otherwise, I should study? Is it reasonable to start freelancing so early in my career (should I be looking for a full time job?)

Any advice is very much appreciated!
First, this stuff isn't small potatoes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_economy

Second, if that kind of thing isn't what you want to work on, fine, don't. No one is trying to push you into that. Knock off the hating.
Unfortunately a slight oversight. I thought mp4 was supported. Fixing now. Thanks!
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It's been years since I worked in the domain name space, but as I recall vaguely, part of the registrar accreditation agreement is that you have provisions to transition your customer domain names to another registrar in the event you stop being a registrar, voluntarily or involuntarily.

The way this has worked in the past (again iirc) with other companies is that the registrar wholesale migrated their names to another provider who purchased them at a discount.

I've never been through the process personally, but given the quantity of registrars that are going into and out of business from time to time, I'm sure it's a process that's been pretty well standardized.
DISCLAIMER: This is what I remember once hearing in an ECE class. I was hesitant to post this comment given that it might be garbage, but perhaps someone can help confirm or disprove this.

I once heard that one of the reasons the Soviets continued to use analog systems was that they were "faster, more compact, and more power efficient" [than a digital computer]. This came at the cost of flexibility. For example, an op-amp allegedly can do integration faster and with less power than a digital computer, but the IC can't be reprogrammed. Digital computers have huge benefits, but ones that come at a cost.

Thoughts/input anyone? As I said, I might be completely off base so please nobody take that as anything more than "food for though".
Has there ever been big business in retrofitting cars? More likely a small number of hobbyists will retrofit and for the rest it'll gradually roll out from manufacturers. Cruise might be hoping for a partnership with Audi or something.
ML and Haskell are statically typed, and have tuples as you describe them. For instance, the tuple

(42, "foo", fun x -> x+3)

has type

int * string * (int -> int)

in ML. It would probably be a serious extension to C++'s type system, though, and for limited benefit: you're asking for yet another way to do Cartesian product. Structs already do that. What's sorely lacking is sum types:

type 'a option = Some of 'a
| None

type 'a list = Cons of 'a * 'a list
| Empty

---

Integrating the STL at a syntax level gives a special status to the standard library, preventing users from writing effective replacements or analogies. Also, C++ has precious little orthogonality left, let's not destroy it.

---

What kind of modules are you talking about? C++ has compilation units, classes, and namespaces. What capability do you want that they don't already provide?

---

Good luck on the fast compilation front. That one will likely require removing things from the language, or making some major compatibility-breaking changes in the syntax (to make it easier and faster to parse), and possibly a rework of the template system. No. Way.
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I have mad respect for Haskell as an idea incubator, but it's not what I'd reach for as a systems programmer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7895890

Rust is awesome because it's bringing powerful ideas like this to a systems language.
Yes! This!

We all know that those silly apps/games/etc aren't solving any big world problem, but neither are watching TV, browsing cat gifs, etc. What we do during our chill out time is up to us, and I'd say there are way worse things to do than coming up with silly coding projects.

Let the Yos and fart buttons of today help these developers improve their skills in a fun way during their spare time, so that tomorrow some of them might be able to move to those big problem solving projects.
Try seafile, it is very perfomant for me.
>the invention of modern accounting was literally the driving force behind the renaissance //

Go on?
Systems work is the only good reason I've heard not to use Haskell but it's not a good reason for not having learned Haskell.

I've heard from people that learned Haskell independently or went through my guide alike that benefited greatly from having learned Haskell despite not using it at work.

Types are a more compact and faithful representation of code semantics than what most non-Haskell programmers are working with internally. Haskell also teaches you, beyond thinking in terms of types (heh), how to identify patterns & abstractions that most languages wouldn't allow you to credibly leverage.
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Definitely pursue what you love doing, but I would only recommend starting a new company from scratch if you have some industry expertise, as well as some savings or other means to support yourself for a year or more.

If you want the startup vibe, but want a much more stable life, look for a startup with 10-20 employees, and profits.

And don't rule out getting a "normal" software job. Market rates, regular paycheck every 2 weeks, bigger team, plenty of resources, and you still have the potential to find a "startup-y" culture and some fun projects if you look around enough. Plus you can stash half your salary to fund a war chest for later entrepreneurship.
Rust uses LLVM, so it benefits from the same optimizer as clang. The front-end is less mature of course, but also Rust is less complex, so may not need man-centuries of work to be parsed properly ;)

Currently Rust doesn't outperform C++ partly because LLVM is optimized for the C subset (can't take advantage of extra aliasing/immutability information Rust has), but given that Apple is now betting on (quite similar) Swift I expect LLVM to rapidly improve in this area.
You're at least being honest by saying it's about fear - because it is.

I teach Haskell to experienced programmers and people that have never written code before. I know nothing about math, I dropped out of uni after one quarter, I have not studied math since that time. Most of my students didn't know any math and weren't any worse for it.

https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

If you start going through the guide and get stuck, I will help you.

Only fear can stop you, be brave!
If I understand the basic premise, then other mostly stable and abundant gases (like Nitrogen, or even air) could probably be used as well, if the transistor size and voltage are small enough. (That's wholly conjecture, though. I also am not a sciencer).
I was agreeing with you, actually.

People can build whatever they want.

Yo is a step towards bigger ideas, better skills, more resources to make bigger ideas happen, etc.

Let the market sort out what's a good effort and what's a piss-poor one.
Cobb county? Just curious, I've lived in the area for a couple of years, and I can totally picture what are you talking about
Aww :( I have two grandfathered 25gb free accounts and I was hoping they'd get more storage.
One of the many reasons I had to switch to IE on my laptop, it just sucked way too much.
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It's not about specific problems, but rather when you can't compromise on performance and still want to raise the abstraction level from C.

There are up and coming languages that can claim to compete in that area, but they're still rather immature and/or lack developer support.
what's funny, I read it and didn't go to heroku's website - now all the ads I see are from them
Ah, I miss my TI-99

> YOU SMELL A WUMPUS!
> This is yet another press release from the 'I want to build upwards in newly hot urban neighborhoods and get some of that upper-middle class 20-something moving from the suburbs into the city' money.

I'll take it. The "I want to build condos so I can cash out ASAP, and then turn around and stick that money into mortgage-backed securities so I can also cash in over the long haul, perhaps at the expense of those same people I just sold a condo to" money has been dominating the conversation for far too long.

Back in the 2000s I got kicked out of a perfectly fine apartment along with everyone else living in the building so that the property owner could flip all the units over to condos. Last I checked the building's still at ~50% occupancy, down from 100% when I was living there. And about half the units that are occupied are also for sale. It's far from the only former apartment building in that neighborhood with a similar story to tell, either.

Yes, that does mean that there's an incredible amount of vacancy in the area. But - and this is critical - the amount of vacancy that's a reasonable option for people who aren't in a good position to take out a 30-year is very, very small. If you're in your 20s and single with no kids, a 1-bedroom apartment is a great idea. But unless you're confident that you'll remain single with no kids for the rest of your life, a 1-bedroom condo (that you probably won't be allowed to sublet) is a kind of stupid idea. And all those empty condos units are difficult to flip back to rental because condminium developments have legal encumbrances that make things more difficult. So for now they're going to stay vacant and continue being a senseless waste.
OK, that's a great point.

My response is that I'm not really trying to not be marketed to, I'm just trying to be not surveilled. If a company wants to market to people who are trying to avoid surveillance, I'll support them, as long as they don't surveil me to figure that out.

Amazon could do that. Google can't. Apple probably could, but they're pretty heavily invested in cloud stuff at this point. Microsoft is, well, Microsoft.
They stole $200 from my adsense account accusing me of clicking my own ads, which I never did. Their automated system never let me prove I didn't do it so they just stole my money.

I give a flying fuck if I was a false positive in a huge corporation with millions of customers they can't serve all with quality support.

No, Im not giving them my business never again until they apologize.
So really cheap hardware should be free, too?

Who should take on that cost?
In some or perhaps most of these cases this is probably more about managing finances than anything else, but a company has at least a theoretical direct stake in its employees. At the risk of sounding blunt, they incur the cost of having to replace them and the lost productivity in the mean time. If the employee is, say, the lead developer at a startup then having insurance on them might be the difference between the company being able to hire a replacement or having to fold.
The part that I really am not sure of is the difference between failing and giving up or the difference between failing and pivoting. Or is failing just when you have to get a full time job?
Does this method fail if someone closes the door behind them when they leave the bathroom? I'm not sure of the exact setup of the bathroom, but I can imagine that many people would instinctively close the door behind them rather than leave it open. Maybe at ATK they have a strong culture of open = unoccupied.

What would be ideal is if it could be wired to the locking mechanism of the door. That's probably decently simple to do if the door is locked using a deadbolt because something physical is actually entering the doorframe. If it's just a lock that prevents the doorknob from turning, then you'd likely need to disassemble the locking mechanism and see where you can attach a switch.
Other transgendered people that loved the game would care.
How good was the trackpad scrolling when it was working compared to the Mac? I got a Macbook Pro recently, and I'm amazed at how terrible the trackpad scroll is on every windows laptop I've ever used compared to it. I have to wonder what the deal is with that.
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I can even think of situations where it would make sense to take out insurance on your neighbors home. For example, if you observe that your neighbors are hoarders, you might try to get insurance on their home in anticipation of the home's eventual condemning (which would wreck your homes value through geographical association).

The only problem there is that I suspect that the insurance company would not be particularly keen on that.
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A major frustration for me is that OneDrive does not show up as a folder in Windows 8.1, unless you link your Windows account with a Microsoft account. I absolutely won't be logging into my computers with my Microsoft account, which has made OneDrive much more difficult to use. It works well from Office, but nothing else. I've tried installing the old version of the client, and it fails with an error that I already have a newer version.

It sounds like ExpanDrive would probably solve this issue for me. (At least until Microsoft hopefully adds back support for using OneDrive with local accounts at some point.)
Well, you still get what you pay for. Is there a PC laptop with a decent trackpad experience at any price point?
I think the biggest immediate payback from this technology is for trucks. A trucking company with a large fleet can more easily afford the cost if it cuts full consumption and reduces accidents.
Curious -- where did all the money go? How did you manage to spend $700k~ -- you hired 2 developers (full time, why?) and took care of ops over 3 years? How long did it take, four years?
If it makes you feel any better, the insurance company is much better off if you live a long life, and has a strong incentive to investigate suspicious accidents.
The humanity.
no blog updates since '13 tsk tsk. I was excited.
I've been posting these comments regularly for months now. It's not really a new policy so much as an artifact of someone being public as moderator and focused on HN. There's no way PG could have done this; it takes far too much time. I'm not sure I can keep doing it either.

When we kill or bury a post, yes, we've been posting comments saying why. People use the terms "kill" and "bury" to mean a whole lot of different things, though, so it doesn't follow that any given expectation will be met. Also, there are other things that we do (e.g. penalizing posts for being off-topic or threads for being flamewars), that users do (voting and flagging), and that software does (voting ring detector, flamewar detector), all of which affect what appears where on HN.
Based on a screenshot [0] the price appears to be $12/yr.

[0] http://domains.google.com/about/img/sprites/features.png
Well, let's see, a modern chips die size is on the order of 300mm^2. Let's be generous (I think) and call it 5mm thick. A single helium canister can contain around 300 cubic feet of helium [1]. Those are nasty units to work with by hand, but https://www.google.com/search?q=%28300+cubic+feet%29+%2F+%28... suggests one such cylinder would be enough for 5.5 million new chips, assuming the entire chip was just helium. You can probably safely add at least two more entire factors of magnitude for the fact the chip will still mostly be silicon (or something), my gut suggests 3 or 4 is probably even closer.

Oh, sure, there will be losses and such, but this is still a trivial expense next to the billions of dollars of fab work that will be required. In these quantities we literally use gold without hardly a second thought for price.

[1]: http://www.praxairdirect.com/Product2_10152_10051_14626_-1_1...
This is what failure feels like. I hope it helps.

It does help. Keep writing. Welcome to the club :)
>This is a tax code discussion that has perilously little to do with life or mortality. Just taxes and ways around them..

I'm not sure that this is just about taxes. Walmart, for example, made headlines for taking what the industry affectionately calls "dead peasants insurance" on many workers. They realized that low wage workers, unlikely to be able to afford routine doctor's appointments, maintain health and dental insurance, etc. would have a lower average age of death than other workers even if they were currently in good health and easily insurable. Walmart knew answers to questions the insurance companies weren't asking, and made this bet.

As morbid as it sounds, this is nothing more than a numbers game, like the stock market or daily fantasy sports. Better information equals better results. Smart companies only do this when they believe they have an edge (though if they are worried about PR, they won't do it at all).
It's all about reducing the risk. Accidents happen no matter how well you've engineered your maintenance and deployment practices.

Do everything you can to reduce the risk, including building a resilient system, AND not taking a major swath of it offline during a high traffic period.
<i>If the game goes to the best player with near certainty, then unless there's a lot of noise ...</i>

that's what the guy is saying, that in soccer, the best team does not win with near certainty. You understand now.
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Yeah, that's why you generally need an Insurable Interest in someone to buy life insurance on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurable_interest
That's a little harsh there fellow. And it sounds a little on the jealous side of the opportunities she arranged for herself as well.

I think of myself at 22 (I'm nearly double that) and I know damn well I was immature. I doubt I would have made it as far as she did without blowing something up at that age. I understand some of the reasons behind investing in such young founders, and not to be ageist, but nothing like maturity set in for me until my mid-late 20's. Before that I was basically a big kid who was smart enough to get into trouble and old enough to buy beer. I was arrogant, undisciplined, self righteous, and judgmental while lacking sound judgement myself. Your experience may have been different, but I sort of doubt it.
The company that $parent is the founder of. Which, if you google for, you discover that their page is titled "Blog Logo" and contains no content. Check back in a week or so, I guess.
Keep in mind the insurance companies have carefully calculated the premiums so that, on average, the company pays more in premiums than it gets in payouts. I think it's more about financial planning and tax avoidance.
There is a strong culture for leaving the door open, to avoid the awkward door knock. This defiantly does mean we can have false "occupied" states, but in practice at our office this doesn't happen.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=chamber+of+literary+fame#!/story/f...
Call me cynical, but if I had a harassment issue with someone in upper management in a company I would go to some kind of government agency - not HR. Why should I trust HR when everyone there is an employee of the company?
Yes, the startup world has serious HR problems, but I don't think traditional HR departments can solve all of them.
Also that's white/indian/asian male privilege.
To be clear, you lost 35 lbs after getting and as a result of the fitbit?
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The UK also has favourable visa arrangements for Australians - certainly more so than the US, which seems hell bent on rejecting any desirable immigration.
Your employee's life does not provide value to the company, their work does, and they can end that work at any time that they (or you, in most states) choose. You do not own your employees, or their future labor.

Being allowed to take out insurance on your employee's life makes about as much sense as being able to take out insurance on a hotel that you're renting a room in.

edit: clarity
We 3d scan the cavities in the driver's side footwell, design brackets in CAD, then manufacture them mostly out of 3d printed polycarbonate and aluminum. They bolt directly onto the existing components and are tucked away behind the trim. It's one of our design requirements that the actuators are completely hidden and imperceivable when not in use.

We don't touch any of the existing drive-by-wire controls, even if they're present. It's too dangerous to send signals down a CAN bus without a full understanding of the safety implications, and that kind of proprietary information isn't available to us.
Amazon does not deploy changes during times that they feel can be customer impacting. For North America this means that deployments will be during the night.
> Your only involvement is as the hook that enables the tax advantage.

Agreed. I think what a lot of people are uncomfortable about is that an employee's life is now a "tax-advantaged investment vehicle" for a company.

Anybody other than me commoditizing my life (and death) seems to lack human dignity.
> Talk to us

> We aren’t ready for everyone to join yet (you currently need an invitation code to buy or transfer a domain), so we want those who join to play an active role in helping us improve. We're working hard to offer our customers the best domain experience possible, and we welcome your input, questions and feedback.

For a company that is notoriously bad at communicating with its customers, this is the one thing I would expect Google to not get right. Even at the private invite scale, I seriously wonder if Google will be communicating with customers with the tact and empathy required of good customer service.
Thanks for the link to the video. Always been a fan of Meyers but have never been a talk of his.
According to the article, if the device is small enough it doesn't require helium or a vacuum.
I'd say even if you're trying to be a good driver in this situation, your eyes are going to "glaze over" after 1 hour of staring at lines and occasional other cars without using the wheel or pedals. If this is true (and I'll grant it's a fairly big "if"), then this product would effectively impair the driver even more! Are we really that confident that the technology is good enough to lower crash/injury rates, even with zoned-out drivers? Perhaps it's trading one type of crash, for other crashes that are less harmful overall, but do we know?

I'd heard of this kind of fatigue before, and just now pulled up an article abstract[0] in search results. It says "analytical results indicated that 80 min was the safe limit for monotonous highway driving." Highway driving would be even more monotonous with this product. I'l grant that this may not be very solid scientific citation and reasoning here, but it seems like nearly common sense, that a driver can't remain alert for hours on end with a computer doing all his work.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003193840...
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