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I might be naive, but I don't see having to choose self-employment or salaried work as a all-or-nothing, no-going-back decision.

You could easily secure a well paid job for a few years, and save enough to support working on a start-up or starting a consulting business.

If things do not go as planned, I can see no problems in going back to being employed, since your skills won´t have
withered in the meantime, and possibily learned new ones.

It seems to me that the startup culture is seen sometimes as a "get rich quick" scheme, where the goal is to retire at 25.

A normal career in most professions lasts 30/40 years...
I live in france, am 29, I worked 2 months in my life.

"what they do instead"

Trying to go back to school, I learned programming for 2 years in some technician school program, did not get the degree, after that I expanded my programming skills by myself, but it has been pretty bleak. I'm quite ashamed of myself. I have many ideas of projects, but they really seems to be out of my reach in terms of skill, experience, motivation and networking. I took anti depressants for 4 years but am not so unhealthy in term of mental health...

I'm back at school again, for some equivalent degree, but on 1 year, I have an internship starting wednesday, I really hope it will hook me to some job opportunities.

If I don't get the degree nor a job, well I could really try to start some crowdfunded game project or social network, but I don't feel the industry really needs that many programmers. Maybe I'm really incompetent.
TF claims it's just a proxy. Seems like it's got fresh content though.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-has-not-been-resurre...
Don't wait! :)

AFAIK, there are no more planned syntactic changes before 1.0. (just library changes and some minor semantic changes)

Also, with Rustup (http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html#installing-rust), it is very easy to stay current with the latest rust.

With the holidays coming around the corner, now is the perfect time to dive in!
Hang on, you've brought too much logic to this discussion. This violates the ease of creating clickbait!
I think they ought to add a one argument version of the copy() keyword to bitwise-duplicate and fix up the pointers on the built-in slices and maps. This would support the copy-change-replace semantic their example for Value follows.
"So, what a wireless speaker has to do with cloud storage?"
— my first thought after opening the website.

"Oh, its not wireless"

"And not a speaker."
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>While not discounting the power of the torrent protocol, there were many p2p software before it which were more popular then it (napster, kazza, edunkey/eMule).

Even before those things became popular IRC was a popular way to trade files. The first MP3s that I downloaded came from an fserv on IRC. That lead me to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.* on Usenet.
I'm not so sure.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-has-not-been-resurre...

Although for being just a proxy, it has fresh content.
I assumed that they will not fire their best engineers.
But will their families relocate to Europe, having to speak weird languages and spend a lot of money? Zurich is super expensive.
I am not completely sure what an "http multiplexer" actually is. I this similar to something like apache, nginix, or a nodejs http server (like express)?
I think the tagging features in the upcoming 0.9.0 release [1] will help with the navigation of metrics. With that we're adding new types of queries to help in discovery. [2]

[1] - http://influxdb.com/blog/2014/12/08/clustering_tags_and_enha...
[2] - https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/blob/master/QUERIES.md#...
Your intuition is spot on - Mercer is one of the biggest HR/benefits consulting firms, and primary use cases of their surveys are to inform execs and provide a reference to HR when calculating cost of living comp adjustments when execs are relocating
I think a better solution would be to add another axis, rather than give more positions on the like-dislike axis (such as engagingness, interestingness, etc.)
1. Real world issues that I personally encountered: hard to find a flat to rent? → build a zen process around this individualistic race, disappointed with your city lifestyle? → build the city of tomorrow, difficulty to learn how to sing b/c you have a visual memory? → build an app to visualize your voice, etc.

2. Whatever gets me in a state of free association:

- Semi-randomly browsing HN/wikipedia/the-web while learning new concepts got me a fair number of new ideas.

- Running or any physical activity (preferably outdoors) that occupies my body while not requiring a lot of thinking so that my mind is free to wander.

Now those are only ideas in my head. Right now I obviously can't launch three businesses and learn many hobbies while rebuilding my city, wish I could, I'm already committed to other things. So I write them down for later when I'll be asking myself "what's next?" otherwise I can't focus on the task at hand.
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A few years ago, when Dropbox was starting to get popular, I was thinking of a similar scheme. You would pay for the device, and then you would get X% free cloud storage as long as it was online. Some people would prefer a fixed up front cost and no monthly fee.
Your comment seems irrelevant - the article never claimed that english has the most (or even a lot of) irregular verbs. If you have some linguistic insights regarding irregular verbs in Polish I would be curious to hear them (I really mean it)
I have to enable "ideas mode" and I when I do start looking at my day to day life with more critical and objective eyes. I run a software company too, so I'm not short of people throwing ideas at me!

Here's a couple of examples, one business focussed and one more personal.

Story one...

A few years ago one of my developers quit because I forgot their job review. Bad times followed as we were busy and replacing a good developer is not easy.

Once the dust had settled I looked for a web app to ensure this problem never occurred again. I couldn't find anything, and so my company built a HR app to simplify our HR processes and automate the heck out of them. A couple of years later www.staffsquared.com was born. So this was us building a tool to scratch our own itch, which is a common approach.

Story two...

My other half is obsessed about checking her bank account. She logs in twice a day to see what's happening and to ensure that her card(s) haven't been used. She's worried about identify theft. Thinking about this, I came to the conclusion that it'd be really cool to have a text message service that alerted my partner to any "strange" transactions. Some banks in the US provide this, but in the UK it's not a thing. I haven't had the chance to pursue this idea any further just yet.

So my approach is scratching a personal or professional itch. My co-founder and CTO at my software company takes an entirely different approach. He likes to build things because he gets a kick out of making cool technical shit work. I can't roll like that, I have to have an understanding of the problem and how my proposed solution will fix it. It needs to address a pain. I am technical, but I don't get a kick out of building things for the sake of building them to learn, experiment etc.
Is there any example code available for this or a similar task being 'solved' using deep and reinforcement learning?
Everyone should just join Ello and sink Facebook, its time has come and gone.
It's a router at the application level. So a request comes into the multiplexer, and you have your routes: /app goes to the app controller, /faq goes to the FAQ controller, etc. Then there's binding parameters from parts of the URL, etc.

(normally you'd say "router" or "routing layer" but Go calls their router a "mux" so "mux" and "multiplexer" are the typical term for request routers in Go.)
Demand also that everybody who has been involved in this in any way be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

And not even just the US law. I'm sure what the Nazis did was totally legal by their own laws, and yet they were still punished. Some crimes supercede local laws.
Hey where is your tool for learning sheet music? I never finished mine :(
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Why is Linode so much better? I got a bunch of free credit for DO and I'm only using it for small things so I went with them, thinking about spinning up larger projects however and would like to look at my options.
Resonates here... the fear of reaching the last years of my life and look backwards to see that my existence didn't have a purpose, a meaning...
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If your future economic prospects require ever increasing consumption then surely there's a problem; resources are finite.

If we need more people consuming more and more stuff (that mostly gets put in landfill within a couple of years) then we're completely screwed. We need to start restructuring our way of life to accommodate the need to conserve resources, for one, and the need to support a basic standard of living for all people (across the world) for another.

Instead of encouraging increased consumption we need to be levying massive taxes against disposable items, requiring all goods to be largely recyclable, requiring the ability to repair before production can be licensed.
There's still peer to peer networks (see firechat and hong kong protests), there's still the whole field of steganography (hide data in pictures of cats for example), finally, there's still offline transport. (usb sticks with copies of wikipedia in Cuba for example)
The value of the rouble has collapsed over the past year, I think he means tech workers would only be too happy to leave.
You don't have to be signatory to the ICC for torture to be illegal. The ICC is fairly recent. We didn't need the ICC at Nuremberg. We don't need it now. It can be prosecuted within the US justice system, or a new tibunal can be created for it.
This would hurt the ego's of those who spend so much time carefully cultivating their Facebook persona.

That said, they already have an invisible dislike button in "I don't want to see this."
Is it really that big of a deal that they are "THINKING" about a dislike button? Haven't all of us at one time or another "THOUGHT" about a dislike button?

Is this a surprise? Uggh.
Some seriously excellent points
Not all corporate jobs are soulless, mind crushing Orwellian nightmares, and nothing prevents you from looking for a fulfilling job if you are unhappy with your present one, especially in our field.
That's incorrect along a couple different axes. The biggest problem is, most providers wouldn't be hosting ColdFusion code at all; ColdFusion is archaic and has a terrible security track record. But even if they'd built that UI in Scala, the onus is on the hosting provider to make sure the code is safe.

Being a hosting provider is a big, big deal. They have less margin for security errors than almost any kind of tech company.
Left handed programmer here. I used to mouse on my right until i switched 10 years ago. I never looked back. Also, it tends to piss off anyone who uses my computer, and there is a bad bad part of me that enjoys that. So maybe there is something to this whole 'sinister' business.
What other option is there? Revolution? If you can't get enough people together to vote the current crooks out of office, you certainly have no hope of staging a revolution.

In the end, these people need to be prosecuted in order to lock them up. That means the DoJ needs to do its job, but in the corrupt system of the US, it also means that Congress needs to understand the gravity of the situation.
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No, I said for example. There are other examples of counter claims to Paleo. I wasn't saying that research was the end all, but you can't say its a Paleo Strawman when there is a very large segment, even in "clinical research", that believe one of the strengths is because "its what our ancestors ate". I was simply providing a single point of counter claims, not making a full statement, so saying I was using a strawman is taking my entire statement out of context....

Not to mention, you say "such a diet worked so well", except we have no proof that the classical "paleo" diet very closely resembles our ancestors or even that (poorly) mimicking their diet would produce the same results in modern day and the research I linked is an academic counter claim to that very statement.
Yep. I'll repost an older comment of mine:

Development of graphite is effectively dead. The datastore component (carbon and whisper) has design issues, and the official replacement (ceres) hasn't seen any commits this year. There are a some alternatives, though.

For data storage Cyanite [0] speaks the graphite protocol and stores the data in Cassandra. Alternately, InfluxDB [1] speaks the graphite protocol and stores the data in itself

To get the data back out, there's graphite-api [2] which can be hooked up to cyanite [3] or influxdb [4]. You can then connect any graphite dashboard you like, such as grafana [5], to it.

[0] https://github.com/pyr/cyanite [1] http://influxdb.com [2] https://github.com/brutasse/graphite-api [3] https://github.com/brutasse/graphite-cyanite [4] https://github.com/vimeo/graphite-influxdb [5] http://grafana.org
Sorry, but I really don't buy the argument that USA is worse than Russia in this respect. Snowden, while I totally applaud what he did and would love to see him pardoned, or protected under whistleblower laws, leaked a ton of highly classified information. Again, I think he did the right thing, but him being prosecuted is not the same as "if anyone speaks about the actions the U.S. takes in secret they are hunted to the end of the world." Plenty of people have overtly criticized the U.S. government without any fear of retribution.
I'm really curious to see how productions of the future are going to be funded, because I think the current business model is on borrowed time.

I simply don't watch a lot of TV any more because I can't cope with all the adverts, and everyone I talk to about this says that they don't watch TV in real time any more and just skip all the adverts. So I have to wonder what the actual value of advertising is in the first place; probably a lot less than what retailers are currently paying.

And if the value of advertising is inflated, TPB might well become the least of the industry's worries.
OK. Thanks that makes more sense
What this tells me that there probably exist deeply weird images that would be recognized as something by one person or by very few people, but would be just an unrecognizable mash of colors and lines to everyone else.
> Alternatives include:

Frankly, I do not believe those are viable alternatives. Suppose I put food in front of a hungry man. Formally, his options are eat or don't eat, but it's clear that they are not equal from his point of view. He might not eat if his conviction is strong enough (say a hunger strike) but this doesn't change the fact that the options are not equally balanced.

It is not fair or reasonable to assume that TV show aficionados have a strong enough moral conviction that copyright infringement is bad, compared to their desire to see more of the show. After all, in a way, the show is designed to make us want to watch more.

Okay, now on to the former alternative -- paying for cable and only watching GoT. The first thing that needs to be said that this alternative is not universal -- there are countries where HBO is unavailable. Even this simple fact has implications -- a non-trivial market for torrents, for instance. But let us ignore this and assume cable is available.

I think most people inside a capitalist society are trained to evaluate objects. This means that if you want to sell me a bundle, I divide the price based on the objects in the bundle. Usually, this is used by marketing in a devious, but smart way -- for instance by adding free modifications to a car, washing mashine, cell phone plan, what have you. In our case, it is detrimental -- people who only want to watch GoT and nothing else hardly see value in the entire HBO bundle. In fact, they actually see negative value in it, especially if they do all of their TV watching via their computer.

The reason why I say they see negative value in the bundle is this: If you are asked to buy a fairly pricey bundle but all of the things in it except one do not interest you, you again divide the price... and note that you pay a lot of money for something you don't need. That's not a feeling a seller should promote.

I think the smart move by HBO would be to offer individual shows for purchase on their website, and alongside them offer the HBO subscription as a discount on all the shows. This way the bundle feels like a discount again.
It is easy to criticize the US but the entire West is working together. Is Assange or Snowden safe in Germany or Norway? The longer Europeans pretend that the problem is only the US the easier it is to have business as usual.
Yeah, I think Kazaa and eMule did this as well.
How is that going to help you? Going rogue on your own is not going to get these people in prison, or prevent that it will happen again.

You need people on your side. You need a majority of Americans on your side. And once you've got that, you can vote the politicians out of office, elect some better ones, and finally see justice done. And maybe before that, you can use the threat of this happening to get the current crop of politicians to finally care about justice.
This sounds great compared to my anecdotal experience with DB write performance; but is there a collection of database performance benchmarks that this can be easily compared to?

The best source for DB benchmarking I know of is http://www.tpc.org/. The methodology is more complicated there, but the top results are around 8 million transactions per minute on $5 million systems. This FoundationDB result is more like 900 million transactions per minute on a system that costs $1.5 million a year to rent (so, approx $5 million to buy?).

The USD/transactions-per-minute metric is clear, but without a standard test suite (schema, queries, client count, etc.), comparing claims of database performance makes my head hurt.
A left-handed pitcher can last in major league baseball into his early 40s, an age when most position players and right-handed pitchers would have retired. There is an advantage from unfamiliarity in boxing (another comment mentions fencing). I believe that Marvin Hagler was naturally right-handed but taught himself to box as a left-hander.
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Yes but human brains are not random access -- computer memory is. Your analogy holds over distributed networks, where transmission time and data loss are positively correlated with distance. Your attempt to compare human neurons to a CPU core, however, has little value.

Neural nets != Human brains
That's a very myopic view and here's why -- virtually all governments in the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian because of the global economic crisis and the civilian unrest that it provokes. For example, replace Putin in your sentence and you'll get "United States is increasingly cracking down on any possibility of dissent and threat to it power". You can support that statement with facts about police in Ferguson, US conflicts with China in Asia Pacific, and of course US crackdown on dissidents like Assange and Snowden. You can also try that exercise by replacing Putin with "Greek government".

Demonizing Putin is what your government wants you to do to avoid seeing the bigger picture. The real question is WHY is Putin cracking down on threat to his power?
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what they are doing. They recognized that their techs are not 100% utilized so they are going to "farm them out" so to speak. Based on other commentors UPS and FedEx have already been doing this for years. I was in the software side of FedEx Services (Ground and Smartpost) and I did no know this.

They can probably also make a decent margin on those repairs. FedEx and UPS basically take a loss on some major shipping accounts just to get the volume. When I was at FedEx the strategy seemed to be swaying to not fight for non-revenue accounts and let UPS take them. UPS is so much bigger that they can play that game better than FedEx. The big retailers would just switch back and forth to however offered the lowest rate.
I second this 100%! Jump in, you won't regret it! The rust guide is a great place to start: http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html

The folks on the IRC channel are supper helpful too. Don't be afraid to ask!
Yep, im pretty sure just the mac address collection from wifi radios would be enough to track what store you have been in if you run an Android phone.

I have wifi and gps turned off except when i am lost.
Sorry, a bit of an overstatement.

I was comparing it to Napster, and I thought Kazaa also had a central repository.

But both Kazaa and eMule have the same "supernode" like search mentality as bit-torrent (in bit-torrents it's the trackers).

I was referring more to the fact that unlike Kazaa/eMule where you needed to first find a "supernode" and then search for the file, bittorrent actually had the "tracker" url inside the download link (.torrent or magnet link).
That's an excuse and not a reason. The real reason is to watch it for free. Nothing else.
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I'm not suggesting a solution, I'm simply stating that lots of brilliant people have been aware of this eventuality and have been actively working on next generation processes to address it.
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I'm really sorry to hear about your struggles. One wonderful thing about software development, is that credentials and pedigree are not required. If you can make software, you can get a job. Even if you can't write software, there are lots of related jobs. I've been writing software professionally for about 15 years or so. Before that I had flunked out of an electrical engineering program a couple times, and was waiting tables to get by. I considered myself a failure. There is always hope.

Writing software isn't really about intelligence, although it probably helps. It isn't really about knowing the "one right way to develop software." It is more about being willing to admit you are wrong. Learn from your mistakes. Also a good dose of stubbornness is needed to deal with tools that don't work properly. Sometimes the documentation will lie to you. It helps to not take the little failures too personally.

Best of luck to you.
So, if it's "Only $49/year" (top of page) but also provides "1TB of personal cloud storage for $10/month" (bottom of page), how many months are there in their years? Do I pay per year, or per month? Is the hardware "free"?

Very confusing, and that took maybe 20 seconds to find.