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Hey Mate, Think Remote! :)

The only place where I worked on the last 8 years that I couldn't work remotely is not the kind of place that I would work anymore.

For me these days, if a company doesn't have some remote policy in place (I mean... not full remote, nor once per week, but the option to, sporadically, work from home on a sick day or to be able to do some coding/admin stuff on the road) it automatically flares a red flag as a place that would not be a magical place where I could do the best that I can.

If the place doesn't have the remote-some-times flexibility it's probably a place with bad management practices and an out-dated culture.

Same thing regarding talent pool... Why on earth do you need to smell the emanating creative fumes of your employees every day from across the hall? :P
> At the end of the day it doesn't matter where you are.

I think that it matters, instead. Unless you are one of those people who are oblivious to their surroundings.

You are not going to code 24/7. And when you will have done your share of coding for the day, or even if you would just like to take a break, then being in a nice place will help you to recharge yourself.
Daddy, what does the “new” keyword do?
I don't get the point of ignoring definition lists for your reason. The ones you proposed are ugly.

If definition lists aren't supported then it's an inferior breed of markdown and should be discontinued where possible
For any radical community building idea (like a cult or a commune) Detroit poses some interesting possibilities.

It seems like an urban acreage with a bunch of houses or other buildings could be bought for the price of an average house. I'm imagining some sort of new age Amish colonizers.
Is a 40,000 core disaggregated rack really that different from a 4 core laptop? Google pioneered this way of thinking [1]. tl;dr the datacenter is a computer and that computer will inevitably have an OS.

[1] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rxin/db-papers/WarehouseScaleCom...
'For a new Liberty' - Murray Rothbard
Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
A Beginner’s Thoughts on Programming Languages (Part 1)
If you read the news, others have been hacked too like Home Depot, Target, etc.

Perhaps it is you focusing on Sony that is the issue, since others are getting hacked as well?
Shift – We bring test drives to you
I'll repost my question from the blog here (And thanks again Lyst team!):

Really enjoyed the write-up, Lyst team! Thanks for the info.

As a member of another large-ish Python dev shop with a number of dependencies, one of things that have kept us from moving fully in the direction of Docker is total deployment time. Since Docker is a 1-process/1-container model, our dependency sizes can be large since we run a number of processes on a single host. This means that our network into a newly launched host would be theoretically very large. How did Lyst deal with that? Or was the flexibility and slight slowness just preferable to something like shipping pre-built AMIs?
Ask HN: Who's using AWS Lambda and what are you using it for?
100% of epsilon is still epsilon.
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Yep, I live deep in the mountains and travel to cities when I need to. Works well. Better than anything I did before anyway. It also gives a good perspective on what happens when you fail; nothing.
And the most excellently named railway station, "St. Leonards Warrior Square".

While the housing is cheap by London standards, it's still the south east and it's possible to get cheaper and better in the north, west, or Scotland.
I live in Grimsby (UK). You don't want to come here. It's depressing, boring, smelly and awful. I'd prefer to be in somewhere like London than here.

The only good thing is that we have decent broadband.
Two:

1)Antifragile by Taleb. It has given me a whole new framework with which to think about the world. He is consistently one of the only "modern thinkers" that I trust, and who delivers no b.s.

2)Confessions of an Economic Hitman by Perkins. Not a new book, and I didn't read it this year, but when I did read it, it made me realize that the world works much differently than I understood it to on the surface, and that you should never trust any business or government at face value.
Only after you've tried to account for all of the intangibles, though. The right location can give you many benefits—workforce, networking opportunities, media access—that aren't available everywhere. Some of that can be done virtually, but in-person meetings still are much more memorable for many people.

Also, if all your company is doing is "hacking code", then I doubt your company will be around for very long.

All that being said, I do agree with the sentiment, and I think that the benefits of high-cost locales are probably not worth the increased cost of living. I definitely appreciate my Midwest mortgage payment.
The person you're replying to meant "is intuitive to us" when they said "making sense".

As for systems where it's hard to come up with a complete and consistent model...

- If coin flips were decided by a cryptographic random number generator, it would be intractable for us to extract the seed or even to distinguish the output from true randomness or go-both-ways indexical uncertainty.

- Probably-approximate-correct learning is not possible for all models [1].

- If we're unable to eliminate Boltzmann brains [2] from cosmological predictions, that would seem to imply agents should constantly assign near-certainty to being surrounded by heat death and ignoring that is more of an optimization-for-the-cases-where-you're-not-and-things-matter.

- If the number of rules is larger than the number of atoms in the universe, we're never going to be able to remember them all or write them all down.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct_...

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
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I think it's a wonderful thing that the TCP/IP model (as originally envisioned) does not preclude endpoints from implementing their own transport protocols on top of IP, irrespective of what the rest of the network uses.

Unfortunately, reality has conspired against this possibility in two ways: NAT boxes, and the fact that transport protocols are implemented in the kernel on most operating systems (hence, an application cannot use its own transport protocol easily).

The deployment of IPv6 is a real chance to, at least, fix the first of these problems. Let's hope it does.
I believe this method - or a very similar one - is often used in Japan (as documented in the book here: http://pa-mar.net/Main/Hobbies/Tsutsumi/Gift%20Wrapping%20Bo... - and seen "in person" in stores in Japan)
Programming related: Perl cookbook (helped me to setup my first online business and do what i do today)

Life related: The Power of Habit (didn't skip a single day at gym for 3 months non stop because of what i learned from this book)
The DCOS supports network virtualization. Changes in underlying infrastructure can be manifested all the way up the stack to applications and their schedulers. E.g., the DCOS can rewrite network routing tables based on placement decisions.
at $work we're using redmine, it's not great, but it works and does 99% of everything we need.

for personal projects, i use trac, because it's easy to setup and works, although again it's not great. especially so if there's a team of people using it instead of 1.

my personal favourite would be bugzilla, although it's a pita to set up, and doesn't have repo integration (or didn't last time i looked) which is a shame.

i've also used basecamp before, was not a fan.

the thing to remember is, all project management stuff sucks, so find something that does most of what you want and work around the bits it doesn't do
MPI will run on top of the DCOS. That is the point. It supports a multitude of scheduling models all running multi-tenant.
It's not knee-jerk hate. He was a business genius, but a fairly rotten person. The latter is why a lot of people don't like him. To see why, read about his behavior at Apple, his daughter Lisa, and check out the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which gives a taste of both.
This might be the most dotcom-ish post I've read since joining HackerNews.

Don't get me wrong on this but even the argumentation is clearly wrong here:

> work in places so magical they could be on the cover of travel magazines

> under an umbrella on a beach in Senegal, in cafes in old Arab medinas, and more

> Adventurous Startups.

and then

> YOU’LL BE MORE FOCUSED

I've tried this myself and my experience was that working abroad is totally doable but by no means did I achieve focusing more on my work.

Instead I would pick any chance meeting new people and discover the new environment.

Also: In my opinion everything comes down to networking, which is why a lonely beach in Marocco might not be the right place to start this...
It's reasonable to look as far back as the 1970s/1980s when the net population of Wayne+Oakland counties stopped increasing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County,_Michigan#Demograp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_County,_Michigan#Demogr...

The decline didn't quite start then, but the drop in population is certainly one of the big contributing factors.
Hey! It's also pretty far from Europe, Morocco is 3hrs away from Paris and London. And a lot of people simply don't want to live in Asia, they'd rather go to Africa.
I don't understand why quantum theorists don't take pilot wave theory and the oil droplet experiments more seriously.

This goes back to Einstein, whose main beef with QM actually wasn't indeterminism. Instead, determinism was supposed to be a means to restore locality. Bell's theorem tells us this is doomed to fail, and indeed Bohmian mechanics restores determinism only at the cost of locality.

Even though experiments with walking droplets are an impressive demonstration that wave-particle duality isn't necessarily something mysterious, they don't help to address the issues at the heart QM.
Just think! When you've built the app and captured 100% of the diesel fishing boat mechanic rating market, you'll make dozens - nay, hundreds - of dollars! Users could search, sort and filter all 6 diesel fishing boat mechanics in town!

I'm being sarcastic but you're right. I live in a small town (in a small country) and there are a lot of unmet needs that software could address, and minimal technical competition. The other side of the coin is that the market is small, and capturing lots of geographically disparate niche markets is hard. Even nth runner up success in Home Automation for Rich People in Big Cities is a lot of money.

Innovating in small markets is fun and part of the reason why I'm here, but big markets are competitive for a reason. The adages about small startups being just as much work as big ones, and owning 1% of $10^9 being better than 10% of $10^6, still apply.
Show HN: Evolve 3D projections of an image, on hardware via webGL
Organic chemistry is very interesting and one of the more patentable stuff because the result and technological processes are not trivially reproducible.

The patent has always been a trade off of disclosure vs exclusivity. You make something innovative tell the public how you do it, you can monetize it for a couple of years - that is your reward for disclosing how stuff works.

But if I can see in a glance what the improvement is and can reproduce it without the need of your disclosure, than it should not be patentable.

Right now we are given the right to patent the outcome, not the road to get there.

Of course with your previous background you could crush me with legal information why the law is the way it is and how everything is legal. And I would not even bother to double check you - you will be right.

But for me the system is broken horribly now.

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries

We have lost the limited times clause. Copyright is virtually infinite right now. Nothing written by the time we were kids will enter public domain before the time we die. And with clever patent extensions for drugs ... this is going in a bad direction.

I am not constitutional scholar, but for me this clause strongly implies that patent and copyright are for the progress of society and not the authors. So if we are in point where they stifle innovation and progress - the system must be reformed.
It's fixed, but not packaged. You need to compile it by your own and add some dyld suppressions.
If you want to harness your own habitual behavior you should check out Minihabits. Using some of the techniques in the book got me writing every day

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebo...
May or may not be great while you're working, but what's gonna happen when the startup goes bust and there are literally zero other jobs there.
Extremely unlikely for these types of services. "Credit" is often different than a subscription service - typically in the TOS of the latter, there's a cancellation of services for nonpayment. You don't "owe" anything unless you got something and didn't pay for it.

Very few of these things will send the product without a completed transaction, and even if they did (one time), the odds of a company selling a $40 debt are insanely low.

When consumers need an extra layer of protection against bad actors, this is a great way to go about it, and the risk to your credit is actually very low.
It clearly can't work for all startups. It has to be something that is rooted in the company's culture. The guys at Maptia received a crazy amount of applications when people heard they were based in a Moroccan surf town. There are lots of people that are interested in this. Also, remember, it can also be only for a few weeks.
What the USAF and RAF have in common is a very clear idea of who their real enemy is: the Army and Navy. They would gladly sacrifice all war fighting capability, if it meant burning the other two services in the process. Hence the Eurofighter, and now the F35. I refuse to call it the Lightning; the original Lightning was a proper weapon.
Why are talking about politics so bad? If you dont talk about politics and if you are not allowed to mention Israel's complete blockade of the Gaza Strip then how can you understand why running a startup incubator there is such a feat?

Many of the extremely intelligent people on HN are here because they want to change the world in some way. Hopefully for the better. Politics is one of the most powerful tools for improving the world. So not talking about politics makes no sense.
Personal development that changed how he approached business. It helps to not frame things in terms of startups/business. Getting kicked out of Apple and failing initially at NeXT was a major let-down that showed (most importantly to himself) that he was fallible. He probably knew he wasn't always right, but if just about everything you touch goes fairly well, it's pretty tough not to get a big head about it. This derailed that train.
Everyone has flaws. MLK, Jr. was a terrible womanizer but nobody brings that up because it, rightly so, shouldn't taint his civil rights legacy.
Lots of British game companies. You can find world class game development studios scattered more or less at random throughout the UK landscape.
Tweet gap at prime meridian
The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter

The depth of his exploration of the human condition through the continuation of H.G. Wells' classic just floored me. My jaw was dropped practically from page one.
How do you deal with the red-tape? It looks like you need a working visa to work in Morocco.
You can do a passable impression of sum types that way too: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2917
Remote is nice when it works, but it doesn't always or for every company. Where I work right now, for example, people work remotely but still have required days in the office for meetings etc., while I couldn't work remotely as too much of what I do is physical work with networks and servers that wouldn't be possible remotely - those are the people that will be hit with "you have to move" and so quit, especially since chances are that in the middle of nowhere, there will be few to no career opportunities for them.
I discovered Jiddu Kirshnamurthi in 2014.

My thought patterns have been permanently altered.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Enchiridion of Epictetus

Parallel Lives by Plutarch ( Favorites are Cato the Younger and Julius Caesar)
Delhi’s government just found out what Uber is–then banned it
> In my experience, anti-virus software really slows a machine down, almost to the point that it might be better off with the virus instead

That's ridiculous.
It has been a hell of a long time since antivirus applications affected the performance of a machine that way. The performance impact on any remotely modern machine is negligible.

And under no circumstance is it 'better off with the virus instead'.
No, currently I have not added anything to the cloud. I have started uploading some albums to Flickr, but I find their Interface rather clunky as well.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber.

I'm cautious to say it changed my life, but it definitely changed my view on many things.
I'm more aware of the ubiquity and power of debt, and I can no longer take those for granted.

It's an extremely interesting read and has a broader intellectual appeal, elucidating the roots of money, morality, and the roles of markets, nations, and friends with regard to those.
Might work better in the UK than the USA. Average fishing town in the UK is closer to a big city than the average fishing town in the USA.
Emacs installation simplified
> also the objects hype seems a little strange to me

That passage struck me as odd as well, the answer is:
He is selling something to you as you read it.

A bit obscure because the product doesn't really exist anymore as we read it 18 years later.
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Postgres' full text search is nontrivial to set up and use, even if you have some SQL experience.

Seemed pretty straightforward to me.
I looked up "The Power of Habit" and came away with a few books, which one are you referring to?
Google Buys Alpental to Gain Fast Wireless Technology
I hate that statistic. Apple makes far more money from their App Store sales than Google does, and Google supposedly owns a substantially larger part of that market. I'd like to see breakdowns of this market share geographically. I'd like to see U.S. market share, and then regionally in the U.S. how that market share pans out. And then demographically how that pans out. In my demographic, in the Southeast U.S., I can anecdotally tell you that Android does not have anywhere close to the market share that iPhone does.
ironically there is an ongoing discussion on python-devel to migrate from hg to git+github

IMHO it's an error, but I am not a core python developer
Some rationale here: http://planspace.org/20141207-make_it_easy_to_install_emacs/

Feedback/improvements appreciated!
I lived in New Zealand for a few years, and the almost total lack of a tipping culture there rocked. Service didn't suffer. If anything, service was better because maybe the employees were less inclined to engage in excessive tip-seeking behavior (e.g. ultra-attentiveness, flirting). I talked to some kiwis who found the notion of tipping for service mildly offensive--like casting off some coins to the peasants based on your judgement of them.
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

The book hit me at a particularly receptive moment. I was on an airplane headed to a meeting that easily could have done remotely just as effectively without the excessive time and money cost. Ironically, I read the entire book on the plane.

The book is great at illustrating what types of meetings need to be in person and what types don't, dispelling common myths along the way with solid research.

They concluded that our current default of a compulsory office presence with only occasional remote work permitted is exactly backwards. It should be the opposite. The types of meetings that require you to be in the same room to be collaborative are the exception, not the rule.

It's a truly great book and I recommend all creative professionals read it.
Antifragile - This book change my ways of thinking about life. Also this year I've read Black Swan, another great book by the same author.
Simple GTD with Apple’s Reminders App (2013)
I think this reinforces the notion that ideas are fairly cheap; it's execution that matters.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Finally got around to reading it and I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier. I'm honestly considering staying in school and going for a masters or PhD in computer science after reading it(about to graduate and have job in industry lined up).
* Eat to Live (nutrition)

* The Promise of Sleep (sleep)

* Spark (brain health)
UK researchers set out goals for Lunar Mission One
I do read the news, and I am aware of the hacks on other companies.

Specifically I meaning this - http://attrition.org/security/rant/sony_aka_sownage.html and the table at the bottom. Over 30-40 high profile attacks on a regular basis (every couple of months). And more recently hacks on the PS network, Sony pictures, customer details etc that were so high profile.
It's crap to say "everyone has flaws" as if every flaw is equally bad, and in that way dismiss any criticism of Jobs, although I realize we're on Hacker News, so undoubtedly anything critical of Steve Jobs will be downvoted to oblivion. Try the comparison with Christopher Columbus instead — do you think he was a great man with flaws like everyone else?

In any case, I don't think Steve Jobs is in the same league as MLK.

There's a difference between disowning your child and riding your workers to the brink versus being rude to somebody at the supermarket. Nobody's saying the iPhone isn't a great achievement, it's just not surprising that some people don't like Jobs as he was a pretty terrible person (personally and professionally.)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. The story gradually unfurls itself from the first few pages and new layers are constantly being added. It was written a few years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki but seems even more relevant today. It's very short and can be read in a single sitting if one is determined.
Not sure about idyllic, but iD software started in a lakehouse in the middle of nowhere a distance out from Shreveport, LA.

You don't need ready access to endless city noise, light pollution, or urban gang violence to launch a successful startup or attract talent to it.
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller. To be honest, I re-read it, but it had a much more significant impact the second time (I originally considered it to be weaker than "Black Spring" and "Tropic of Cancer", but this time round, due to certain personal circumstances, it resonated with me in a very powerful way – his ruminations concerning compassion, interacting with other people, the meaning and value of work and creativity).
nfortunately, the only new book I read this year was "The Great Mortality", a pretty interesting but a tad too un-academic account of the Black Plague in Europe. Hopefully, I'll have a lot more time to read in 2015.