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Ask HN: Work from Home or Co-Work
I have been WFH for past 2 years. I have recently started on a new challenging project. However I find myself getting distracted while WFH. Reading news, checking up on stocks, etc.

On the flip side, I have my desktop computer setup at home and 100 Mbps internet.

Co-working I feel motivated to do work and allot of random thoughts/distractions are removed. However it comes at a cost of $350 per month + $175 parking.
In addition to the gas costs + mileage.

I have a tough project which I am looking to have finished in 3-4 months. I am not sure which is the most efficient option for getting the most productivity out of.

Co-working I have access to only my laptop and the internet is a bit slow.

Any thoughts or shared experiences would be helpful.

Thanks
>> But again the landscape is dominated by FOSS.

> Which landscape? There is not one landscape. Is Apple's XCode FOSS?

Xcode the IDE is not. The Clang/LLVM compiler, LLDB debugger and many of the other tools are open source.

http://llvm.org

http://clang.llvm.org
Google was just for convenience and something to start with (and not worry about user management). We also want to be able to use the Google Drive Sync. Once we sort out other pressing issues, we will certainly add other methods to login before announcing again. Pull Requests are welcome too!
Yap I understand why Wankel didn't meet emission standards. But neither would have the standard piston architecture if it weren't for innovation i.e. extension of it's complexity.

As a ex-fan of combustion motors for many years, and having built a race car, I no longer see investment in combustion motors as sound. Electric motors are far simpler and smaller and are starting to yield similar results to combustion motors. That's where innovation should be heading.
I wonder: In the article they mention that the reasons for such effectiveness are "rapid personalized feedback" and "entertaining content keeping kids focused".

Those reasons could apply to many educational fields. So i wonder: are there any other apps/sites showing very strong gains versus standard teaching?
I don't disagree with the sentiment (hiphip-hurrah for better planning!). But in this case, I'm not sure we have sufficient information to claim malice.

Perhaps they only came up with the idea 3 days before Colbert? Perhaps Colbert asked (last minute) for a cool, new, live demo? Perhaps they were just being opportunistic, and this turned into one of those unforeseen firedrill moments? Externalities being what they are, they did a bang up job of pulling it off in time.
I think it's more likely by header the FBI meant HTTP response header not IPV4 header.

Legally I don't know if we should allow "fuzzing" without a warrant. They've put people in jail for doing less.
So I guess the KKK isn't racist. Interesting...

> "We're not racists," Chambers told CNN Monday. "We just want to be with white people. If that's a crime, then I don't know. It's all right to be black and Latino and proud, but you can't be white and proud. I don't understand it."

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/12/a-kinder-gentler-k...
All of these analyses of how they might have located the server are great. I'm pleased to see folks trying to prove or disprove that the FBI is not trying some parallel construction here.

But what worries me is that all of this will have to be eventually dumbed down to an explanation that a jury of average joes can understand. The increasingly technical complexity of evidence in some of these cases worries me that our system doesn't have an adequate way to deal with it.
> 2. :( Can't pull that off right now.

Why can't you quit? You already gave your notice. If they are not trying to replace you, that's their problem, not yours. If you are short of money, can you get another job first, do some saving and pursue your idea on the side?
I'd like to see a First Amendment challenge to this. From the article:

> [A]ccess to the main street will be restricted to people with company-issued bracelets

Justice White, for the Court:

In places which, by long tradition or by government fiat, have been devoted to assembly and debate, the rights of the State to limit expressive activity are sharply circumscribed. At one end of the spectrum are streets and parks, which "have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions." [0]

Restrictions based on time, place, and manner must satisfy three requirements [1]:

1. Content neutral

2. Narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest

3. Leave open ample alternative channels of communication

The article is short in details, but #2 would seem to be the death blow. The broad, sweeping nature of a blanket restriction of access to the town's main thoroughfare is highly suspect.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. First, the government is going to have to show how a three-day drunk fest meets the definition of a "significant government interest."

[0]Perry Educ. Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n, 460 U.S. 37, 45 (1983).

[1] Id.
42 (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer
Hello from 42 (https://42technologies.com) !

We're looking for a full stack engineer to help implement our next gen physical retail analytics platform.

We make it easy for anyone in the retail organization, from executives to store managers, to make informed decisions based on data. You'd think that large, multi-million dollar fashion empires already do this, but the reality is that they are paralyzed by their legacy infrastructure. We aim to fix that.

The ideal candidate would have no problem writing significant chunks of infrastructure. You are obsessed with clean code and API design. You also have an interest in normalizing tons of dirty data. This is a position for engineer #1, and as such, you will have lots of responsibilities and tremendous impact on the direction of the company.

Experience with retail is not required.

Some projects you'll be working on:

- A/B testing for retailers
- Goal tracking
- Data storage infrastructure
- User management system
- Customer segmentation
- Personalized recommendations

Our stack is composed of:

- AngularJS, CoffeeScript, Grunt, Jade
- Microservice architecture
- Mostly NodeJS (not religious about it)
- Postgres, LevelDB, Redis
- Gentoo / CoreOS / Docker

What we can offer:

- Competitive salary & equity
- Define our culture and technology direction
- Relocation packages (including help w/ visas)
- Whatever gear you need
- A sweet office in SOMA (San Francisco), with infinite snacks!

Send an email to nick@42technologies.com if you're interested!
Google Groups were just convenient when we started, compared to other mailing list software. It is not the greatest, but better than most other things out there - and gets the job done.
Wikipedia has a link to a copy at archive.org, for anyone who missed it in 2010: http://web.archive.org/web/20101006104124/http://blog.okcupi...
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I searched for jobs in Dallas, TX and it showed me jobs for Virginia
They probably won't argue this in front of a jury since it's a pre-trial motion to challenge the evidence the FBI collected. No idea how a judge will understand this, I guess they bring in experts to testify if the FBI's claim is possible or not.
What is the goal of Paul Philips? He is obviously frustrated by his experiences at Typesafe, but what does he really want? Show us that he can do better? Create an alternative Scala? This seems not be realistic and he seems to be realistic enough to know it. All this sounds like emotional actions from a disappointed ex-lover.

Paul, if you read this: why don't you do something completely different? Leave Scala and your personal rage behind.
jason nelson (i) had me splitting sides when i first saw his infinitely zoomable image sydney's siberia :

http://www.secrettechnology.com/sydney/

looking through wayback archives it seems siberia was posted around july of 2011

it is a brilliant idea, very ripe for self discovery, and hopefully randall and chomakode came to it in their own way because when i saw the comic i immediately went into the webs looking for a shout out to jason nelson..

i was waiting for this inevitable post and link on HN for a platform to expose more people to the weird and wonderful art of jason nelson (ii)

..

i was introduced to nelson through his gamegamegame(iii), a wild platformer that could best be described how futurama describes beck: 'transcends genres even as he re-invents them';

(i) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Nelson

(ii) http://www.secrettechnology.com/ (warning autostarts noise)

(iii) http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/gamegame.html
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Sadly, after Kelo v. City of New London it seems that "significant government interest" can mean "anything which makes the government any amount of money".
Music festivals and other events are held in public spaces all the time. By the look of the town, the detour around the shut down areas might take a whole extra 20 seconds.
The simplest case is trivial. You place the hidden service box (HSB) and the Tor gateway (TG) on private IP space, and deny the HSB all connectivity to anything except the TG.

Ideally you actually place the HSB and TG in different network segments so packets from the HSB must pass through a router to get to the TG and vice-versa, ensuring a compromised HSB has no possibility of sniffing any incriminating broadcast traffic to/from the TG.
That's true. I'd say the balance tips slightly in favor of HN's preference for original stories [1], mainly because the thread here also fills in the context. But yeah, this one is a borderline call. If people feel strongly about it we can change the url back.

1. HN already consists of pointers to stories, and pointers to pointers don't work as well.
https://onebillion.org.uk/apps
I snowboard every chance I get, and this hits the nail on the head. You always get a bunch of idiots that refuse to understand that they live in a resort town, and that the town only exists because of all the tourist dollars. It's the tradeoff you have to understand if you're going to live there. In the article, the town is getting a "donation" of 5% of their annual budget in order to let budweiser turn it into a frathouse for 3 days. It's probably a good trade considering what towns like that are and how they're perpetually cash starved.

You always get the pretentious rich jerks who retire there and think it's Marthas Vineyard, not a town full of skibums whose goals are pot, pbr, and 120 days of snowboarding a year (and don't get me wrong, no hate for skibums; I'm jealous...)
$500,000 might qualify as significant government interest.

They close streets frequently. For movie shoots, parades, etc. And I don't even know that $500,000 is involved in those closures.
Experiments with Nimrod
A lot of tanks has opposed engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposed-piston_engine

main reason - "flat" configuration
The modified “hydraIRC limited-use source license”
That statement is not racist. I doubt that statement is the full extent of the KKKs racism...
Great! I'm pretty sure those 250 connections will be ready to go when you are. Good luck with the work.
And I love the CSS thing that mimics the Symbolics interface (Putting a border around links on hover). But people want "CSS they can trust", as I like to put it. Startuppy Silicon Valley CSS. It may be just marketing, but marketing matters!
You're missing the highly relevant, distinguishing factor:

At one end of the spectrum are streets and parks

It's the main street of the town, not an open field or fairgrounds.
Is that what this is? http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms
Nice project, but IMHO, PHP2JS would be more useful, specially for migrating prehistoric php applications.
Compare France and UK.

France banned alcohol advertising; introduced minimum pricing and introduced stricter drink drive limits. They've seen reductions in deaths from cirrhosis.

England does not have minimum pricing[1]; does have alcohol advertising, and has seen significant increases in deaths from cirrhosis.

[1] this was a shoddy U-Turn, where evidence based choice was rejected based on lies pushed by the alcohol industry. Minimum unit pricing of 50 pence per unit would affect very few drinks. (One unit of alcohol is 10 ml of alcohol, so you multiply the amount of drink by the ABV then divide by 1000. 175 ml * 13.5 / 1000 is about 2.4 units.)
so in other words... i'm right, you're a white guy.
Of course, there's nothing racist in that statement. Their actions don't seem to be in accord with their words, though.
I find the screammer websites very nice (even though it wouldn't hurt to split off the manual/api to its own document).

The crane website I find utterly horrible. Reminds me of the typical Node.js or Ruby websites and that makes me shiver. A software library is not a consumer product. Design for a lipstick brand can not be used for an airplane company. Software deserves a professional "no-bullshit" design.

All three have a crucial mistake in common: Lines wider than 40em. A line must have between 8-12 words on avarage. And that is a typographic law, don't question it, we have known that since we wrote bibles.

The thing with "modern" web design is: I rather have no CSS then BAD design. And fact is 99% of all web developers are not worth their salt. They completely ignore the lessons of hundreds of years of typography.

My father is a designer and to my luck he taught me about typography. Everyone who touches a website should have read Jan Tschichold. There is no way around it, you will only repeat past mistakes.
Customer-Centric Mindset in Mobile App Development
It's probably not exactly true that CL has "more features" than Scheme. That is to say, the Scheme "core" language (well, as of R5RS) describes the essential functionality that qualifies as Scheme, but the major implementations have tons of additional/optional utilities, convenience features and extensions.

The sum total is that the complexity of CL vs. Scheme may not in practice be all that different. Take a look at newer Scheme standards, R6RS, R7RS, the SRFI's, and implementations like CHICKEN to see what I'm referring to.

Still CL and Scheme are different languages, each has its fans. It does seem to imply that the stuff it takes to get the job done is more or less independent of language, whether it's included with the base language, or contained in modules or libraries, the features need to be there somewhere in some form.
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It seems to me that many core tools could use such updates. They're widely used yet most of them predate modern development techniques and tools such as widespread linter usage, unit tests, peer reviews before committing, appearance of various stable and portable libraries or even compilers, security scans.

I wonder what other nasty things would appear after a serious code review of the GNU and BSD core code bases.

I do agree that the code has been read probably hundreds of times and executed millions of time, but I doubt there have been many formal attempts at improvement and the overall methodoloy resembles brute forcing to me.

I could be wrong.
Where's this $2m coming from? The article says the company are paying ("donating") $500,000 and that drinks will be unlimited - which presumably means provided by the company?

Will the 1000 party goers spend $1.5m? $1500 each at a 3 day party where you're not paying for drink sounds really high.
Thanks so much! I was going to flag but was unsure if it was appropriate.
Thank you for such a detailed reply!
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Then you shill your service with a pseudonym connected to your real name so they find you anyway
downloaded the apps, will test these with our 4 year old over a few days.

What mobile apps that effectively teach kids programming would you recommend? I have seen Scratch mentioned, and some Minecraft mods, any others that would actually work? The UK has an initiative to teach primary school kids programming, but I dread to think what the quality of teachers or children to teacher ratio will be.
All of the stuff that I expect to leak or get hacked lives on box A in a private network. The second host in this network would be the Tor gateway B, hardened, stripped down of any unnecessary stuff. Its only function would be to route traffic to/from A into Tor. Obviously it would have to be connected to the public internet but at least it would have much less software that can be hacked.

As an additional security measure, B could live behind a firewall that only let connections to Tor nodes. (yup, it might be a PITA to set up.)
You're of course right that we don't know the real story, just what it looks like. However, asking an artist for an original work of art in order to promote their book on your show seems like a rather unlikely request.

Also I'm not assuming malice. However, I wouldn't congratulate them for pulling it off; this is itself encouraging the wrong thing.
I hate to reply to my own post, but I just tested the Windows version of Keepassx and it works just fine, reading and writing the cross-platform database file with perfect reliability.

So the only drawback is no browser plugin.
Your last link is irrelevant. Did you read the part where he said he was Asian?
Would be good to see some kind of vetted ratings collected from a large sample size on which apps actually work better than others - there are so many apps out there and each will try to claim they work better than the rest.
Time to Talk
A simple solution:
Use Gearman to queue the jobs and use supervisord to run multiple instances of the worker to process these jobs. Should do the trick.
There are different ways in which a programming language isn't right for someone.

For example, it can be like beef liver. It's not that I don't eat it because of a commitment to vegetarianism. I'm not a vegetarian and I'll gladly eat rare cow on a bun. It's not that I don't believe beef liver is nutritious. I just find eating beef liver an inherently unpleasant experience. It's how I feel whenever I try to use Python [even though it is quite likely more popular than beef liver].

There are also languages which aren't right for me because they don't really fit with what I want to do. Swift for example is only available on the OSX platform and I don't own a Mac.

Neither of those apply to Common Lisp. The reason Common Lisp isn't really for me is that there are simply less painful alternatives for the sorts of things I want to do. And one of the ways in which those alternatives are less painful is because of their communities.

It's not that language communities shouldn't be opinionated. I listened to DHH talk about Rails in the early days on an older Hansel Minutes podcast. The object is "person" and the table is "people". If that offends someone, then Rails might not be for that person.

But the Rails community gets to the point quickly. It lays out the facts and moves forward. Within that community it is not considered acceptable to say, "read this book and these five papers and drop a few thousand on commercial software, and then we might consider you worthy."

They tend not to tolerate that. But from the heritage of usenet.comp.lang.lisp that's still considered by some a perfectly entertaining way to treat novice questions in the Common Lisp community. Answering easy questions is dull and being snarky is an outlet for creativity in comparison.

In the end, my hypothesis is that programming languages live and die the same way as natural languages, either the community onboards new speakers and the language lives or it doesn't and the language dies [take this as a Kuhn paradigm if you prefer a reference point in science]. C remains vibrant as the language of Unix and its descendants. JavaScript thrives as the language of the web. Pascal and Algol and Simula are less than vibrant or thriving because few people are learning the language.

By analogy some members of the Common Lisp community often behave as if it's wrong for babies to babble, that toddlers should learn the alphabet by reading Faulkner, and that only then are they qualified as persons.

Norvig's article is about learning programming, not taking ten years to learn a programming language. Contrary to a portion of our dialog, he's a bit language agnostic.
Ah very interesting story, I didn't know about those LDO problems.

I guess BJTs at that power level are slow, as opposed to mosfets, which are much faster, so there's that as well.
No I don't tolerate analytics on my phone (thats just insane!).

None of my websites have analytics, and I feel violated by the ones that do. Especially newspaper websites are big offenders. I even go as far that my custom build web server does not have a log. I don't want to know who visits my website, in fact if I had a log I'd get rid of it like it was the plague.

Why don't you just ask your customers what they want? That's what I do, I believe I also get more accurate information that way.
A faster string search would be nice. I used to (and still sometimes do) use less to analyze large trace files. With a few hundred MB the searching becomes a real bottle neck.

Couldn't be that hard to do a boyer moore for non RE substrings.
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Good find. It's confusing Arlington, TX with Arlington, VA. This is happening because "Arlington, VA" was listed as "Arlington, DC" because it's a suburb of DC and thus wasn't matching. Mutli-state regions like this are a tricky. I've updated it so new jobs will be categorized corretly and old jobs will be recategorized tonight.
I work for one of the big cable companies, and the internal culture seems to be "innovate, but slowly and carefully". Everybody is fully aware of the threat Netflix et al pose to the incumbents, but progress is slow. So many of our resources are spent just trying to minimise costs and maximise revenues, without really changing the game.

Comcast, for all their flaws, do seem to really care about innovation. I watched a video about the development of Xfinity X2, and their R&D department looks like it has insane resources.

It's a very interesting space to be in, on all sides.
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I am compelled to echo the the first statements by quarterwave and kjs3. I was personally saved from a morning of mindlessness, and I will be soon opening up an IC or two to see for myself. You said I could do it. Thanks kens.
Check out quickdocs.org

It's the best centralized source of CL docs I've seen and the design is fairly modern.
Except you're not allowed to go drink beer in the street:

access to the main street will be restricted to people with company-issued bracelets

Does knowing that alter your opinion? That's not intended as a slight, btw. I'm genuinely curious.
"[even though it is quite likely more popular than beef liver]."

It's a total digression, but if you don't restrict your population under consideration beyond "all humans", I would guess that's not the case.

Quite a few more people eat cow than program, so even if Python is significantly better liked amongst programmers than liver is amongst cow eaters, there's plenty of room for liver to be "more popular".
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I wonder if the town Chief Wiggum is also being paid to look the other way when 1000 drunk people destroy the place.