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I've tried out just about every chair/stool made for the purpose and none satisfactorily fit my body's construction. I keep thinking I might have to invent something that works for me.

Meanwhile I make do with an adjustable stool that's sorta OK at a desk height greater than usual office furniture. I don't sit too long, getting up to stand or move around pretty often.

Not sure how much this has to do with problem solving vs. dealing with malformed bones and warped body structure. Maybe it just shows seeking comfort is overrated.

Though I do like to walk and enjoy the scenery, the hectic crowds, or especially the wonderful companionship of my wife. If inspiration strikes, I'll try to hang on to it, though I rarely do. Amazing how often the idea recurs when I can at last recapture it.
I thought it quite normal on here to work a full time job while we work on getting our side stuff off the ground, and I'm doing that same thing.

There are plenty of people outside the startup world working multiple jobs to make ends meet and take care of their families. It's a matter of life requirements and prioritization.
NY police are murdering people on video already. Will this change things?
I've done this. It can work, but it's a huge commitment. YMMV.

Protip: make sure you understand (as in, have your own employment law lawyer explain, not rely on what you think, or what HR tells you) exactly what any explicit or implied employment contract says about this. This will prevent any number of more or less unpleasant surprises down the road.
I'd say it's more the shortsightedness of the developers who build on others' platform. It's OK to tag on but you've got to make sure that your core value prop is not a value added feature to that platform. Twitpic could have branched to something else 2-3 years ago, but they did not, and as a result, is eliminated from the game.
Really enjoyed this article - seemed to give a pretty objective look at what happened then and parallels to now.

What I liked most though was the author's honest assessment of what happens if Uber and others win. Most people seem to imagine this utopia of competition between the ride share companies, but given that Uber is already engaging in immortal practices to eliminate competition and hiring people to schmooze regulators, I doubt that's the direction we're headed. If they get their way, we'll be complaining about them in 20 years when they are established, another company comes along, and Uber tries to regulate them away.
I meant that independence, whether just greater autonomy or full independence, would have been able to capture the ethnic Ukrainian and Tatar vote in a way accession to Russia never could.

From what I understood Crimea was already very independent so it was already more a matter of degrees either way...

You're absolutely right though that independence would have meant becoming dependent on Russian influence in practice (which is what the world expected and why everyone was so shocked by the annexation.)
>He raised $1 million from friends and family and started his own hedge fund, Thiel Capital.

Hence the major difference between him and everyone else, including Stanford Alum, Sullivan & Cromwell Lawyers...somehow he found himself $1M.

There is no way I or really most people, could go out today and from the people I know gather $1M I simply do not know people with those kinds of pockets.
No, you are looking at it backward. The compiler tries to optimize the program so that it will run fast.

If you force it to execute this code it only benefits the very rare security program, yet every single program will run slower.

That's a bad tradeoff. Better to make the security program jump through hoops and let everyone else run fast.
> Startup employees work hard, but the founders still bear most of the risk and responsibility.

As much as I am a fan of startups and their founders, this statement seems excessive. In many cases, the financial risks are passed on to either angel investors or VCs (there are some startups funded by the founders' own savings or mortgages, which is a big risk, but there are still many that aren't). I don't see any significant negative consequences to the founders if a startup fails (they're not risking personal injury, bankruptcy, a lifetime of debt or anything else as severe).
Actually, most carriers aggressively turn down customers that send dialer traffic, due to increased overhead versus total minutes (most dialer calls go unanswered or last only a couple seconds). Carriers would LOVE a magical way to distinguish, in real-time, a dialer call from non-dialer. But since they can appear from any number to any number, there's no way to know.

Instead, the carriers look at aggregate stats, and if it's too bad, they raise rates, charge fines, or disconnect customers. Some companies take a hard line and just cut any customer off if they appear to have any dialer. Others don't want to throw away an entire customer for only one fraction of the traffic. So everyone dances this line, trying to jam as much dialer in as they can get away with.
And you'd need a fairly mundane day job so your problem solving circuits aren't perpetually exhausted.
NASA centers (and "competency centers") are almost completely unrelated to each other. Policies and procedures at one center have nothing to do with any of the others, and HQ may say, "thou shalt do this", but there's no guarantee a given center will pay more than lip service to it. And not even that if their politics-fu is strong enough.

Oh, and JPL is completely unrelated to the rest of NASA. To the extent that I'm debating removing "the rest of" from that previous sentence.
I suppose it'll be interesting to see the "failure" rate for these cameras, how often someone "forgets" to put it on, and how easy it is for the camera to get "damaged/stepped on" in a scuffle.
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Colin, if you don't me asking (and this is extremely off topic), do you know of any resources to read up on the differences between FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD now 11 years after the split.

I'm not looking for you to take sides on the matter. I just enjoy reading history and would like to read a recent review of the two BSD now 11 years later and how they compare.

I've looked and looked for the past few months and can't seen to find a good solid length article on it ... which is why I ask.
I love that book...

A long time ago I wrote up some experiments I did in the early 90's thru 2002-ish, where I rendered multi-million-point-cloud 3d strange attractor images using a z-buffer/shadow buffer combo.

http://technocosm.org/chaos/attractors.html
I'm convinced Uber is the next Groupon. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
How does this make any sense considering that most people don't choose a career in finance and get by without "severe and aggressive punishments"?
This will turn out to be the most important technology news of the year. I live in a lower Manhattan, and as a well-dressed white person, my interactions with police are invariably polite and deferential (including when I got a ticket for running a red light on a Citibike last month).

But I know from friends that those same police officers become totally different people when in a different environment (particularly uptown and in poorer Brooklyn neighborhoods) and especially when dealing with people of color. There is bullying, there is haughtiness, and there is often a complete lack of respect.

Video cameras can change that. The knowledge that any citizen can file a complaint about an unnecessarily hostile interaction means that police officers will begin to act the way they are supposed to, as the only members of our community to whom we grant a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force.

I also believe that video cameras will have a positive impact on police, increasing the respect they receive from the community and their self-respect, and enabling them to prove that they are often in the right around contested confrontations.
I walk daily at work, years ago my work published two different "hearth walks", quarter mile and full mile. The first is easy, walk through entry and do the full length of the deck. Having done this for years people comment when they don't see me. Its a quick little breather that serves two purposes, it lets me soak in nature - the deck is bordered by dense woods - and I get a reprieve from my desk.

throw in a good heartbeat app and I can push myself to 120+ beats for a good burst of morning and afternoon energy.
Except there's quite a bit of content there that's not from reddit.
What's with all the accounts being created to shower praise on this app here?

abarriga, batmelon13, mzegers, nicoberman, and daniellr all created in the last half hour. Diasol and omena haven't commented in a year.
I wouldn't call them "best practice guidelines". "Wouldn't it be nice if..." is probably a better description.

Or maybe, "I think it would be cool if...".
If you've got nothing to hide, why is the camera a problem?

But more seriously, does anyone know anything about these systems? I'd be concerned about them getting shut off (accidentally or not), and about ensuring that the recordings made are retained for a reasonable period of time (however long that is). Are there off the shelf solutions for this?
Funny article. Seemed like it was blaming the Germans risk adverse business culture for the state investigation of potential monopolistic business practices by Google and the flagrant flouting of transport laws by Uber?

Seems to me like those kind of things are an important part of the state's responsibility to protect its citizens.

The fact that Germans do need to start investing in their digital startups seems to be unrelated to me, or have I completely missed the point?

I'm happy to step into a taxi that I know is correctly licensed and insured.

I'm happy that Google's absolute monopoly is being questioned, in exactly the same way that Microsoft's monopoly was questioned 10 years ago in the browser wars and the EU.

I would like to see more German investors take fliers on risky startups, and not just the kind of startups that help us to share pictures and statuses about what we ate for lunch.

As a final note I'd like to add that I'm not anti-US companies, or pro-German ones, but this article did seem to be grasping at straws.
As of 10 years ago, jitneys were extremely common and convenient in Baltimore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation#In_w...

"'Hacking' in Baltimore has grown grass-roots style to a region-wide phenomenon, originating from 'Hack Clubs', organizations usually operating in converted rowhouses where 'hacks' made their cars available, distributed business cards with a central number, employed a 'dispatcher', and hung around the rowhouse waiting in line for calls. This practice continues today, but hacking has evolved to the point where people nowadays just wag a finger toward the street, and wait for anyone to stop. This new way of getting around remains popular, despite being incredibly dangerous, due to disillusionment with the city transit service, and the fact that licensed cabs seldom stop for fares in the most dangerous parts of town. There are plenty of willing drivers, and competition can be fierce. The fare is negotiated and paid upfront. Police maintain this is illegal, and sometimes enforce with $500 tickets, and a trip to the courthouse. However, hacking is so prevalent in certain parts of town that cops don't bother making traffic stops."
Speaking as someone who has worked for NASA and is familiar with "testing", that rule makes me a little queasy.
I have a plan, as it happens. I'm going to leverage HTML5 audio processing soon, as a bit of an exercise really, and work on Javascript processing of my 300 baud tape collection, that's why it was in my mind to make the comment.

I have my 8 bit computers - ZX81 and BBC Micro still working, for years I have wanted to use my PC audio for data transfer and now I have some time to play at it for a bit. I even have the idea that I might try and connect my ZX81 to the internet in this way, writing a REPL in ZX basic and using the ZX81 as a dumb terminal.
I think you underestimate the cost of living in Alaska. I live in Juneau and it is very expensive. Maybe not NYC or SF expensive, but in 2012 the median value of a single family home was $332,000. Food and gas are also very expensive. Things might be slightly cheaper in Anchorage or Fairbanks. You might be able to find some cheap land somewhere undesirable and build a house or a cabin, but it's going to be very expensive to get building materials shipped there.
Because the C standard permits such optimizations. It is really just a case of inlining followed by dead store optimization, two fairly common optimization passes which are normally desired.

The subtlety is that while the compiler considers it a dead store, you don't, because you're going behind the compilers back to examine memory afterwards.
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the strange thing about this is that economics is a very academic subject with little practical application
I think having no immediate stressors is what frees the mind. Part of our brain loves stimulation but to function with massive amounts of stimulation our brain has to work hard to surpress our impulses. Walking is just one way to do that. Another is to just know all the time that things are going to be fine.
Taser is one of the leading vendors. http://www.taser.com/products/on-officer-video/axon-body-on-...

This is interesting because Taser has sold to almost every police department in the US, and so is well positioned to make these cameras standard equipment.
This is a great and necessary step. But what happens to the videos after they're taken? Do people need to go through long process of FOIA request? Do they have to sue the department to see them? Or will all videos be posted on a Youtube-like site that's accessible almost/anyone, soon after it was taken, and not controlled by the police department taking the videos? I don't want 30 percent of these videos to "get lost" after they're taken.
Hunch fits the location and approximate acquisition price, but I can't speak to how screwed over the non-founders were (or weren't).

Not sure that "everyone talks about" it (though that applies even more so for carrentals.com, IMO). Maybe they meant "everyone in NYC talks about it".
Totally unscientific, but my personal theory is that exposure to different visual / audio stimulation can make the brain jump to different paths when working on different problems, and taking a walk makes me experience more stuff than I will by sitting in the same chair all the time.

The brain doesn't seem to work well in a vacuum, so if you spend all day staring at the same four walls, it might let you focus, but there's not a lot of entropy coming in to make you think in different ways.
Fun with multicast DNS (2013)
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That very much depends on the contract. I have said this before and I'll repeat it on the off chance that it will save someone's bacon one day: insist on accelerated vesting clauses in change of control situations.
Right. Ultimately participating in a startup as an employee and as a founder are two totally different life choices with very different skill sets required and very different arcs. Founders have to juggle making sure the company is on track building value with courting investors, keeping track of the balance sheet, designing the product because they're the only ones with enough skin in the game to do them effectively.

It's a different level of hard work. And a different set of circumstances if the business fails.

Honestly as a society, we should be less focused on raising the mostly already-high ethical standards of busy founders and more on providing education and support to the next generation of startup founders and startup employees. Employees can bounce to any number of happy-to-have-them bigcos because those skills are almost as rare as those you need to be a founder.

If you're looking for a bottleneck, look in the mirror. There's always more that can be done to build the community. There's a huge hunger for tech skills, tech companies, tech products.
That's correct, although most bigger companies do offer a health insurance (mostly to avoid waiting lists in the public health providers). In any case, private health insurance in portugal only costs a few dozen euros per month.
I've never been offered options that vest upon acquisition. I don't know what's usual though.
It worked out fairly well for Rapportive:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/linkedin-picks-up-rapportiv...
The geopolitics in Ukraine are quite different though. Right now they're focusing two things:

a) maintaining control over as much territory as possible, given Russia's original goals [1] and the huge importance a land-bridge to Crimea has to Russia (imagine having to ship water, food and oil for 2.5mln people by sea.)

b) preventing a Georgia-style frozen conflict, which is Russia's preferred technique of destabilization lately.

It seems they have only just given up on b) but they're still working very hard on a).

Either way; I doubt there are many parallels with Scotland at this stage of the conflict.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya
It's because memset is a standard function and has a defined standard way of acting, with the most important part being that it doesn't produce any side-effects. It's also worth noting that accessing memory that's no longer in the current scope is undefined-behavior, so the compiler can assume it doesn't happen. Thus the memset has absolutely zero effect on the actual program and isn't necessary.

In general this isn't a big deal. It's only a big deal here because we're working on the assumption that you might have an issue in your code that invokes undefined-behavior and access contents of memory that you're not supposed to be looking at anymore, and the compiler's just assuming that your program won't ever allow that.
That's a pretty cynical worldview. If a founder doesn't have to share his wealth because of a bunch of paper and decides to do it anyway that is generous first and possibly good business second.

After all there is no obligation on his part to ever do another start-up, there is no obligation on those rewarded to join in the future and the incidence of 'repeat teams' is low enough that I don't think it is a factor at all.
> Thiel has drawn upon his wide-ranging and idiosyncratic readings in philosophy, history, economics, anthropology, and culture to become perhaps America’s leading public intellectual today, assuming a mantle once held by the likes of Thorstein Veblen or Norman Mailer.

That's a laughably preposterous characterization. Leading public intellectual? Comparison to Veblen, author of "The Theory of the Leisure Class", a scathing critique of the wealthy?
That's why those events should be logged, and it should be easy for the camera to know whether it crashed or the officer turned it off (by saying having the offer to turn on switch and then press a button. Such two actions would be hard to replicate "by accident").

Also, the officers should be punished and/or lose credibility in a trial if it's known that the camera was turned off by them during the time they were supposed to use it - like say when confronting a suspect or whatever. Obviously, going to the restroom or other such events should not be punishable.

"Forgetting" to turn on the camera before engaging a citizen/suspect should be punishable. Turning on the camera and keeping it on during the interaction should be as necessary as police officers ID-ing themselves.
The compiler constantly makes judgement calls on whether or not your code needs to run.

For instance:

if (something)
do_something();

Elsewhere:

#ifdef CONFIG_RUNTIME_ENABLE_SOMETHING
bool something = false;
/* and some means of changing something at runtime */
#else
const bool something = false;
#endif

If you don't define CONFIG_RUNTIME_ENABLE_SOMETHING, and thus "something" cannot change at runtime, then the compiler should recognize the if as always false and throw away the call to do_something(). If that was the only call to do_something(), it should throw away the code of do_something().
per se: by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically.

I understand that some (most) of these guys are, in fact, doing this because it's the right thing to do and they are, in fact, that invested. I merely wanted to point out, counter to the tone and implication of the article, that's not the only reason to do this and they were still handsomely rewarded for the risk they took.

Conversely, I want to point out to anyone who thinks not doing the right thing wrt your team so you can pocket a few extra percentage points can have a negative consequence.
I don't see any negatives to having these body cameras for police officers. Not even in terms of costs since reduced lawsuit litigation and settlements so counteract that.
lol attention employees of Seahorse: leave glowing comments about our software on HN!... Aside from the lameness that devindotcom points out, the app is pretty cool, let's see if it gains traction.
Wow, I had no idea that such a thing existed. That is far more feature-rich. Thanks for posting it.

However, one advantage (or disadvantage depending on your P.O.V :) ) of the Clojalyzer is that it's not tied to Clojars. So, for instance, if you have a Java project with a single Clojure script in it, you can Clojalyze that. While it is tied to Github, that's not fundamental to how it works and I plan on improving it soon, to also allow copy/paste and fetching from other urls (at the very least).
From day one, if you talked to a Groupon merchant, they would mention how Groupon is fleecing them or even bleeding them dry. Hop into an Uber and talk to a driver, many of them having been driving for 6 months or even a year, and they still talk about how they love it and are making good money.
This is a good first step. There needs to be strict punishment for officers who turn off or fail to turn on their cameras when interacting with the public, though. Also, if footage of an incident where an officer was wearing a camera doesn't exist it should be presumed to be exculpatory for the accused.
So the underinformed get a better idea of what you mean by "criss-crossing and mutually dependent relationships" I'll say that there are many, many phone companies, and they constantly buy and sell DIDs (phone numbers).

They all run different hardware and software, and can't even keep track of who owns what DIDs. During the average day there are several phone network outages throughout North America as certain sets of numbers become unroutable from certain networks. Carriers often end up sending CSVs and excel files with their latest updates around, frantically.

In this system, Caller ID is a fourth class citizen. No one can spare the time to care about it, no systems are standardized, and no networks are responsive in anything like the time you'd need to maintain a system that monitors what caller ID information is allowed to originate from what place.
For a highly experienced senior engineers capable of largely independent delivery of projects with roughly 8-10 years of experience on a platform, very deep understanding of at least one language with a bunch of experience in one or two more, etc etc seem to be getting about that much including grants at the big companies, particularly after being there perhaps 3 years and getting grants annually.
> Maybe this species continuously grows

Sounds a little like Bean, from the Ender's Shadow series. A mutation caused him to grow indefinitely. The researchers may have missed a nominative opportunity here.