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I really like reading stories about trading and especially the quant end of things that isn't as present here. I would like to enter into one of these fields but I don't think I could long-term justify doing work that creates little to no social value[0] - even the most insular, ridiculous app startups at least sell products.

Is there good (i.e. interesting, not necessarily "crazy" and exciting like this) financial work out there that does something beyond make returns for shareholders? It seems like index funds would be one of the best places to work in terms of being at least tangentially related to working on something for real people, but I'm financially illiterate beyond high school economics so I could be way off base.

[0] Yes, I know market liquidity is necessary for companies to do business. I've also heard that trading firms are way populous past the minimum needed for efficient markets - please correct me if this is wrong.
To the best of my knowledge, the IRS has avoided the specter of regulatory capture simply because there is no single industry big enough to take down an agency with such a broad mandate. Most of the industry-specific loopholes that the IRS does administer are not carved out by the IRS itself. Rather, those are the product of lawmakers making deals in Congress. And of course, the IRS isn't generally telling people what they can and can't do in the marketplace. They're just saying that, regardless of what you do, taxes must be paid.

In other words, I suspect your tax lawyer friend is not a very good example of the problem see with captured regulators in the financial industry, where the balance of power between the regulators and the "regulated" is practically inverted.
Really bored of this nonsense at this point. Take this for example:

If you absolutely MUST run Linux, my recommendation is to minimize the interaction with the base distro as much as possible. CoreOS (when it’s finally baked and production ready) can bring you an LXC based ecosystem

Systemd is absolutely key to how CoreOS works. It's the basis for the distributed init system it provides — a major selling point.

Taking any of this blog's advice would be harmful. I'd suggest a better approach would be to accept that the majority of distributions have settled on systemd and that generally this decision has not been made by idiots. So it would be worth either understanding what their pain points are and how they can be solved with an alternative to Systemd, or to help solve the issues that are apparently in Systemd yourself.
That was before, with Uber he uses more taxis because the price is lower.
I sometimes wonder if the whole systemd push is a "gottcha" in the direction of Oracle and their RHEL clone.
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Does the guy in charge want his most private search history leaked? Because that is how you get your most private search history leaked.
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Got some of the best things happening here at Ozonetel Systems! This is just the beginning .. :D
That's pretty sad, I was able to get it up-and-running on my first Gentoo installation.

I guess time doesn't equate to knowledge, eh?
With the irony that Poettering was the guy to pull the plug on the alternative. And alternative that could live on top of any init out there.
In other words, you want free content. But content costs time and money to produce. And content is inevitably colored by the source of the money. When the source is advertising, the content you receive is optimized for advertising. Of course, this is not a problem if you're happy with the content you're getting now.
Yeah, the EBay auctions are going up fast:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...
Whats the source you have for this information?
Unlimited bandwidth is better for me because I can use the connection without worrying that watching too many videos or downloading too many game updates will cause me to lose the internet access for the rest of the month or get an extremely high bill.

AWS bandwidth usage is not an issue because when the traffic to my websites increases, my ad revenue increases too.
Why aren't they instead recommending journalists use Tails?
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They were locked down very hard with the NDS at the policy level. They didn't lose on content but they did have a lot of problems with piracy. So for Nintendo, experience doesn't suggest they will lose out by being such a closed system.

If anything, they might have drawn the conclusion that they have to lock it down harder. They certainly took that tack with the hardware and code, but I don't know about their current developer policies.

I don't think they'll actually become the loser because of it, but I do think they could get a lot more engagement if they opened things up considerably. I'm not sure what kind of difference that would make, they make a killing on licensing and they probably don't want to risk endangering those profits while they're in the top spot (~45 million 3DS units shipped¹, ~4 million PS Vita².)

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_3DS (sidebar)
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Vita (sidebar)
Boo. I'm betting they'll put up a patched version later.
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Doesn't answer everything but does give you some real world ranges to consider: http://codingvc.com/analyzing-angellist-job-postings-part-1-... (was posted to HN a few days ago I think).
I would recommend http://www.ramnode.com/

Reliable and cheap, even more so if you take 5 minutes to google for a discount coupon.
I find myself reminded of a poster at a school toilet: "your mother does not work here, clean up after yourself".
systemctl is pretty obviously the inspiration for a lot of things in systemd though. The idea that one or the other is better is up for the debate, but they're both based on the same idea.
Although it's made for a desktop, it actually looks fine on a small device in landscape mode. I'm using an iPhone 5S and it's just wide enough to view the content fine. https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A3GTI3fvKXgL9
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You're right, sorry, it was off-topic and with a big wink. But you know how it will go, the data center will never be without water. It isn't much different here (indeed in the Netherlands) I can tell you.
? As you may be aware, there is limited support for versioning APIs using "go get" (Go's nearest equivalent of this). The developers of Go argue that the maintenance of your dependencies is your responsibility, and you should clone everything you need to your own environment. That gives you ultimate control, allowing you to pull and update them as you require, modify and bugfix as you see fit, and makes it hard, if not impossible, to end up relying on two packages with different versions.

That's the last time where I heard about this wonderful idea that vendoring everything is a solution, because versioning is hard: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2066438441/haunts-the-m...

I'll take the solution where I can send a PR to the maintainer with updated dependencies over this sort of thing any day.
Thanks for the effort, jcr! I know about the evolution/history of ASME, ASA and ANSI, but like you, it hasn’t helped me locate copies.

For the 1979 version, it’s possible to purchase it online through the IHS.com store, https://global.ihs.com/doc_detail.cfm?&item_s_key=00009858&i... and I was really close to purchasing it, but decided instead to give it a few more days, maybe someone has access to it in a library or something.

If we can't find it anywhere in the next week or so, I'll just order it (100 USD with shipping).

Again, thank you very much for your effort!
Just curious, why ingest an amount that is so far beyond the recommended daily dosage for vitamin D (which is, I think, less than 1K IU a day?
> The bill, H.B. 161, directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”

What about the IRS? Doesn't actually every government agency collect data?
And systemd is changing precisely none of that.

Nothing about systemd removes the basic unix command line. Because he's most definitely not explaining the init system, which wouldn't have been the same from year to year then, or even similar decade to decade.
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Try Chocolat then. It's not OSS and pretty close.

But I won't be using Chocolat anymore, after they pulled a bait-and-switch so that Version 2 can't be used without you paying for version 3.

Bad dev, no cookie.
>I wonder how my day-to-day activities would change if I knew I was constantly eating away at my monthly limit.

That takes me back to my days with dial up with the best plan available being "100 hours of surfing for 100 bucks"

That was before a flat rate was ever available and it beat the other plans where you paid literally by the minute and it came out to much more than 100 bucks for 100 hours of online time.

Oh, how I remember setting an egg timer during the week so I don't surf longer than the time I allowed myself just so I had like 8 hours on Saturdays and Sundays to surf uninterrupted.
If you're coming up with creative ideas to avoid this particular legislation, it's only fair to also allow for creative counter-measures.
Well, the very distro-specific bunch of scripts in /etc/init.d (or is it /etc/rc.d/init.d/? or /etc/rc.d? or a symlink to ...?) were some kind of tight coupling, too.

Plus: This tight coupling did not exactly replace existing communication features. It created new ones. These are made use of.

Yes, systemd is bringing lots of new functionality. Under the hood - that is why sysadmins love or loathe it and users mostly don't care. That "tight integration" argument is mostly one that comes from people (please do not take offence, you're weighting it carefully indeed!) who bemoan that other userspace system infrastructure is left behind feature-wise. And those who love to argue about and against design decisions.
When I try to drag off the side, it's scrolling sideways and kind of breaking the UI. I'm using Chrome on Windows.
I meant "IE 11 user here", IE is just one of 3 browsers I use.

Yes, so the site owner should just fix the feature detection (webgl and experimental-webgl) - that's normal.

It used to be best practice to test a website in IE, Firefox and a WebKit based/originated browser (Chrome/Safari). Opening the site with Chrome now shows a dialog that apologize for limited testing, ok.
Collecting and analyzing information for foreign intelligence and counter-intelligence. This seems like a fairly necessary organ of state for the country with the largest military in the world.
NOAA and the National Weather Service, within Commerce, came to mind for me. No more weather forecasts for Utah, since municipalities would be prevented from providing utilities to federal agencies that collect data. Like the temperature.

Thankfully, reading the bill paints a little more optimistic of a picture, but I can still see several interpretations of the wording that could have unintended consequences.
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Possibly one of the most naive comments I've ever seen on here.

We keep a military at the most basic level - so that another country can't send a boat full of troops over here, or airplanes filled with troops - invade us - and take over. In other words, basic protection against normal acts of war. Imagine if you, thizzbuzz, suddenly awoke tomorrow and found out the dictator of some small European country died, and you were the heir apparent. What would you want to have to make sure that Russia didn't just come in the next day with tanks and declare your country was now theirs? Oh - that would be a military.

So great, you've made sure you have that. Now at the very least, if some other country violates your sovereignty, you can at least put up a fight, and it will be a visible spectacle to the rest of the world, which might come in and try and help you.

Next up - Inhabitants of your country speak one language. The rest of the world speaks other languages. If a newspaper in a neighboring country starts publishing articles calling for an invasion of your country, in a language most of your inhabitants don't speak...isn't that something you'd like to be aware of? Who do you expect to be responsible for keeping tabs on that? Are you just going to hope that one of your citizens keeps tabs on it for you and drops you an email (at dictator@smalleurocountry.eu) to let you know you might want to be on the lookout for an invasion? Or would your citizens prefer your government is a little proactive about this? (assuming you're a benevolent dictator that wants to keep his country.) Sounds to me like you want some sort of government agency that keeps tabs on such things - you know, for NATIONAL SECURITY.

What you DON'T want, if you have an American mindset, is for that agency to be spying on all of its native citizens. That doesn't mean you don't want such an agency to exist.
Perhaps somethings are more valuable than money to some?
I was toying with the idea of entering financial software, one company I was introduced to (Premise) was working on building crowdsourced economic data. They surely make their money by selling this data to hedge funds, etc, but I see the overall mission of having a much more accurate and detailed view of prices and inflationary trends as being a noble goal in the world of finance. Better measures of inflation and other economic activity can markedly affect monetary policy and in turn affect the well being of billions of people.
the red color hurt my eyes. ORZ...
You're right. I hope we can improve that now that the release is out and the preassure is a bit less :-)
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I completely agree. Having played with Docker on CoreOS for some weeks now I see that it will push a much bigger and different change than systemd, which, on my Arch box was just an update with no real problems, I just had to learn some new commands.

Docker though... man how different it is and how clean it makes my system feel. I do feel that Docker will move towards some kind of Docker optimized minimal dockers that are not Debian or Ubuntu or what ever, that is just a stage so you feel some familiarity.

CoreOS meanwhile, who will ever touch its init system except to auto-start containers? Which will be done by nice tool which hides systemd in the future I guess.

Ok, my posts does focus on the server side of course.
> 1) Why store a package, wouldn't an index rather than another repository be more efficient and flexible.

I suppose the authors experienced the "guy deleted his Github repo" effect one time too many. It's a very sensible decision. Getting packages for git urls is fine when you're hacking something together, but there is absolutely no way I'd put anything in production relying on something that fragile.
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Systemd is most problematic because of its own-everything monolithic nature, and the changing of kernel interfaces to match. The vast majority of Linux systems are not desktops, and probably not servers either. The kernel and the core utilities around it (like init) should be designed with multiple implementations and all machine types in mind. This means phones, set top boxes, TVs, routers, automation hardware, supercomputers, and more.

If the core utilities around the kernel and the interfaces they use are well-documented, designed, and modular, then different machine types can pick and choose the components they need, and easily write their own by opening a well-defined API on something in /dev. If systemd continues to take over and alternatives smothered, very quickly the kernel will become useless to any system where systemd makes no sense, especially non-desktop embedded systems.
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This should be further up.

I personally found myself skimming through the written version while her delivery left me glued to the screen and quite moved.
Tetris first came out as an indy-esque game in the Soviet Academy of Science, then spread from office to office, and was then picked up by a Hungarian company and then spread to the West.

Nintendo wanted then an exclusivity deal for consoles and sent Henk Rogers to discuss the matter with the soviet (other people wanted to same thing at the same time).

This is described the documentary "Tetris - From Russia with Love" linked somewhere else in this comment thread.

The rest is history: Tetris became bundled with the Gameboy and that was hugely successful. That huge boom in popularity is certainly why many people erroneously refer to "The Original Tetris" as either the Gameboy or NES version instead of the Electronica60 one (here's some footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gAgQQHFcQ )
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Out of curiosity, what ended up being the root cause of the timedatectl problem?
Money isn't what we're optimizing though. It's freedom.

Having a software product as income source means you don't have to have a day job working for somebody else. It means you can spend your time doing whatever you want, be that working on your own personal projects, surfing, traveling or, yes, earning more money. You can even choose to build open source Mac text editors and give them away for free.

It's your choice what to do with that freedom. The important point is that we, as software developers, are essentially handed that freedom by nature of our skill set.

That's a really cool thing. So while I can see an entitled end-user saying something like the grandparent's "you already have a job that pays you, so give us the output from your nights and weekends for free", it's surprising to see that attitude from somebody who would be most impacted, were that to become a reasonable expectation.
True, it can be a real pain if your environment slightly differs from the developper. I just give up most of the time if I have to compile myself.
Part of the reason people would even want to send a boat full of troops is because of the way our military interacts with the rest of the world. It's an unfortunate situation to be in but that doesn't mean it needs to continue forever. If we would just scale back the size of our military presence it would definitely be safer for everyone.
Thanks for the detailed answer. "If you have an LLC and want to take investment, it is relatively straightforward to convert to a C Corp if its early enough in the company's lifespan." Do you mean company's lifespan or the cap table structure? I found this article http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/converting-llc-corpor.... It seems to mention only that the conversion should happen before the investment.

My intent is to get our saas product out and start charging through our website. So, I was thinking that forming an LLC is the cheapest way to get there. Spending several thousand dollars to form a C-corp seems too much at this point. http://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-set-up-a-C-cor...
I also use Mitro. It is free, has strong crypto, allows sharable secrets, works cross-platform.

I wish there was an API. I would use it for storing integration test accounts.
Fascinating article. As an aside (note the name of the blog), does anyone know when the use of the word 'chirurgeon' migrated to the word 'surgeon' in English? The link below notes a reference from 1893.

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirurgeon

German still uses the word 'Chirurg'.
Great, I too wished I had time to create this at some point :)

Thank you for making it!

Maybe look into making the tag adding easier when you can. For example:

1. click on the repo

2. click on 'Edit tags'

it would be good if the focus immediately switched to the tag edit box without having to click on it to edit it

Also, README's not in the 'default' markdown mode don't render so well. For example if the README is in org-mode...
See my reply to "thizbuzz" in this thread for a very basic understanding of why I think having an intelligence agency makes sense at a basic level.

As for your mentions of karma, and my commenting on "throwaway" being in your name - you're right, I don't click through and check the status of a user before replying to their comment on this forum, or any other - because I'd rather reply to what they wrote. Was I tricked by the "throwaway" in your username? Absolutely - your plan worked as you desired. If you think this makes me lazy, so be it. I'd say you intentionally mislead me, because putting "throwaway" in a profile is a common convention on internet forums, and I absolutely just accepted it as is.

What does "American" mean to me in general? I'd say the founding fathers of our country made clear their intentions in the Constitution, and Bill of Rights. To me, being American at present means agreeing with those intentions - which encompass a lot of ideals about personal freedoms, and rights to privacy.

I think the current attitude of many branches of our government toward our rights to privacy is "un-American" - especially with respect to the NSA. I'm not going to write a treatise here on exactly what that means, however I think it should be self evident to those who have a good grasp of American history. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that recent immigrants who have achieved citizenship and taken the requisite tests might have a better understanding of the concept of what "American" ideals supposedly are than many native born citizens.
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Brilliant? Is it brilliant to simply revert to how the free market is supposed to work, where consumers pay producers because they think the product is worth it?

Ad-supported sites fool consumers into thinking they're getting something for free, when in fact they're still paying, just indirectly . And not just the original straight-up price, but a host of additional costs[1]. Don't believe me? Where do you think the advertisers get the money to buy ad space? Of course it's baked into the products consumers buy from them. There is no free lunch.

What does it say about your product if users aren't willing to pay for it? What does it say about your business when you tell users its free but don't tell them you've hidden your charges in the prices of the products that are advertised? That it's actually costing them more?[1]

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237
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tilaa.com for EU servers, I like them a lot- IRC support and a general "no bullshit" feel.
This line of reasoning is drifting dangerously close to the conformist call of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" or in this case, RedHat. If systemd turns out to be a mistake in RHEL, it wouldn't be the first time something enterprisey did something wrong. We (Linux users) can't afford to let enterprise thinking, which is often more political than technical, dominate the community.
I agree... there's too much room to get screwed over royally with cofounder vesting cliffs. The equity stakes are so much higher founder, and the compensation is usually either mostly or entirely stock. That means that if there's a breakup, the founder who gets booted is completely screwed and lost a year of their life for nothing.

I wouldn't have a 1-year cliff for any below-market employees. I'd reserve 1-year cliffs for employees with market salaries that happen post-funding.
What can I say, some people in 2014 like to live in 1978.

It was fun for a while, but I grew out of it.
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You seem to be confusing the NSA with any agency that does any intelligence gathering or any military action of any sort. Yes, "NSA" stands for "National Security Agency," but that doesn't mean that other agencies can't perform legitimate actions for national security.