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Can you clarify what you mean here?

The way I see these two sentences are contradicting each other:

> Why build apps now which be obsolete when 2.0 finally rolls around?

> It's like maintenance isn't even really a requirement anymore.

Also, your example application seems to have issues with management, rather than maintenance.
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New app to manage invoice, estimate and timesheet online.
I don't view point 1 as phony: it's not written in the language of a direct attack, and it's fair that you have other concerns but it's also a very legitimate concern that the accident of birth has a huge factor on people's life outcomes and the current policies magnify this. While correlation is not causation it's also true that the US's highest periods of growth corresponded to its most open innovation policies.

2. There are category issues here. Sam and Paul tend to e focused on early stage start-ups -- often you have one employee on a platform and you need them to have solo-ownership of that technology stack -- you simply can't train someone because you don't have someone senior to them on that stack. As you get larger, the cost-benefit of changing changes, but it's still important to take on training in manageable sizes: many companies are hiring 30 engineers with 4 junior positions -- maybe they can get that to 8/30 but I think if you inject too much inexperience in a culture you get too many problems in the code base. Some of the biggest bottlenecks to hiring juniors are other engineers: no one wants to do excessive overtime as a salaried work because they are training someone -- anyone who has on-call time wants to be confident it's going to be rare that they are responding to crisis and this tends to result in not wanting to put out fires from certain categories of mistakes.

The other issue is that for training to generate a good return on spend for company, employees need to stick around, and furthermore if their value was negative or less than salary during the training they need to stick around at below market rate for their current skills. Good juniors tend to grow at incredible rates, justifying $20K/year but it's hard for companies to effectively budget and act to retain these people.

The net result of high turnover and environments that are poor for training is to bias towards seniority: it seems a bit backwards to fix this by restricting talent so aggressively that start-ups are forced to hire more junior people -- they already have significant risk without having inexperienced people solo entire platforms.
Question for Sam about the issue of high-skill immigration: Does YC have any sort of tracking of the number of engineers blocked from going to YC companies because they could not get a Visa? Could Sam write an essay with some anonymized examples of what happens when a skilled worker is prevent from working for a YC company? This kind of first-hand evidence can go a long way toward convincing other people of your point.
There is also an other reason for not wasting "a single byte":

Branches are the only Jumps with condition. So, when you have a far destination that is more than 127 bytes away, you have to do that:

want to do:
BCS far_dest

Have to do:
BCC no_jump
JMP far_dest
no_jmp: ...

So, when you wasted to many "single bytes", you may end up up adding 3 Bytes and at least 3 cycles to your conditional jumps.
I was going to downvote your comment, but instead:

> All the coolest stuff in FreeBSD comes from OpenBSD

This is juvenile "I'd rather push a Ford than drive a Dodge" level commentary. It's not true, and isn't even interesting.

That any BSD is getting support is a good thing -- it opens the door to others following, and is good news.
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>A third change would be something to incent people to hold shares for long periods of time. One way to do this would be charge a decent-sized fee on every share traded (and have the fee go to the company); another would be a graduated tax rate that goes from something like 80% for day trades down to 10% for shares held for 5 years.

"However most empirical studies find that the relationship between [Financial Transaciton Tax] and short-term price volatility is ambiguous and that "higher transaction costs are associated with more, rather than less, volatility"." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Effe...
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> 1. It's stated with this phony "non-discrimination" angle. "How dare you xenophobes deny others the right to come into the country and compete for jobs?"

Actually, the quote is:

> I don’t think I deserve special rights because I happened to be born here, and I think it’s unfair to discriminate on country of birth. Other than Native Americans, all of our families are fairly recent immigrants.

...and the factor not considered here is legacy. Including Native Americans, many Americans have fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and even some female relations who fought and possibly died in U.S. uniforms, partly for their families. And it's a general point. Your grandmother might have founded the local library. Your great uncle might have built the local rec center as part of the Lions Club.

So you don't deserve special rights for being born in the U.S. Your predecessors left you with special privileges through various forms of sacrifice over the years.

To be clear, I'm very pro immigration, especially when it comes to bureaucratic nonsense (H1B), but I think a lot of people are (ironically) missing an entire cultural perspective on this issue.
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kobot,

Thanks for the feedback!

- Yes, you can edit or delete a list. Just tap on the dots at the bottom of each list. You'll be able to edit the list name, budget and currency (if needed) as well as delete it. We'll consider making it more obvious. Thanks for the heads up.

- Good point. As I said above, we might as well change that icon to make it more clear.

- That's definitely something we are looking into. Hope to have that added soon enough.

- We are experimenting with it still. We will make adjustments :)

And just another quick related note: you can edit the items you add by tapping on them.

Hope you can give it another try soon enough and thanks again!
Logical conclusion? So you believe, in the absence of the 2nd Amendment (which allows law-abiding citizens to arm themselves), police executing warrants against suspected law-breaking criminals can safely assume that their targets wouldn't possibly be in violation of gun control regulations?
It is kind of telling that companies would rather import engineers from Dehli than train ones from Oakland.
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You seem to be mixing up different levels of wanting and intention. I may not want to eat my brussel sprouts for dinner, but when I poke them with a fork and raise them towards my mouth I am intending to eat them. Not pull them away at the last second. I'm sure no one enjoys dumping a stock as it plummets, or wants to dump a stock when it plummets, but when they are actually carrying out the process of selling that stock, then they do want the trade to go through. It is their intention to successfully complete the sale of the stock. That's what we're referring to.
They have tried this before and failed,they will fail once more.

Even if they had something to offer, in the senior managers mind Facebook ≠ productivity.
Title should read "Telephone carriers leave 60% of Android phones under threats."
I personally made an app using Mapkit that's in the App Store. It's not exactly a huge or complex app but it works fine. I think it all depends on if the developers feel comfortable writing it in Swift. But the truth is why do you want it to be written in Swift? Does it really matter?

Shameless promotion: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mappa/id931699397?mt=8
Speaking of tibetan singing bowls - I highly recommend Klaus Wiese's work [1], especially "Tibetische Klangschalen I" and "Tibetische Klangschalen II". He really knew how to deal with this stuff...

[1] http://www.discogs.com/artist/228551-Klaus-Wiese
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What's your idea of a low-memory virtual machine? For test purposes I'm running FreeBSD/amd64 under Hyper-V in 128-MB RAM without any problems, although it is using around 32-MB of encrypted swap. That includes the Salt minion, Postfix, and an untuned static Apache 2.4 installation. Of course, it's much more comfortable in 256-MB RAM with around 44-MB RAM free according to top, and of course that's workload-dependent (e.g., my mail relay running amavisd-new and ClamAV wants 1.5-GB RAM after loading all of the spam and virus signatures). I could definitely see wanting to run FreeBSD in 128-MB or less RAM, but I'm very curious about your specific workloads. (It's the gearhead equivalent of wanting to look under the other guy's hood. If you're doing something cool, I want to hear about it!)

P.S. Hyper-V will let me go as low as 32-MB RAM, so thanks to you I'm keen to try out different operating system installs (and workloads) in low-memory environments.

P.P.S. Upvoted parent - I think the parent comment contributes to the discussion, even though I would personally love to see commenter go into more detail.
Well, keep in mind that we the Europeans had a few oppressors in the last hundred years. We know how it looks.
How much of the economic growth is simply due to adding more participant the the economy vs innovating new markets?

When you start normalizing for factors such as inflation and population growth, US economic growth in the past couple of decades ends up being very low.
Why not use pro players' games and use that as a training set to train a machine learning model?
I think this answers your question: this new phase of hiring is based on new customer work we need to fill, plus increased community involvement we're planning to have. This is not based on any new investor funding.

This round of hiring is for engineers with experience. We are likely going to be opening another round of hiring in the near future (reading: next 5-9 months) for less experienced developers, but the details around that are still murky.
A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym :D
Unfortunately, you can't. IPSEC isn't enabled by default in the FreeBSD kernel.
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Ask HN: Monitoring tools for LAMP server?
I'm a Fullstack dev at an SMB, we have currently one rackspace server to service our sites (a lot of it is static content).

I'm currently the only one who can manage with a terminal, so the server management stuff falls on me at the moment. Rackspace has plenty of health monitoring tools, but I would like something that allows me to go through PHP/MySQL/Apache logs. Preferably something a la jenkins, where after some config work it's as simple as logging in and users can peruse logs. For the moment it's one server, but I do need support for multiple Virtual Hosts.
I'm a netsec freak that doesn't have ANY social media accounts, but I can't rationalize hating on this.

Social Networking at the workplace has potential to really make things flow better, and you're using it on the behalf of a company rather than putting anything personal on there. I'm not afraid of vacation photos leaking to the internet because I'm not going to have them anywhere near this service.

I'm sick of receiving emails like, "Jeff is out today" when instead I could look at the meeting event on my FB@Work account and see that Jeff is no longer attending.

Information in the workplace really does need a bit of decluttering and I see this as a positive thing.

Just as you don't own your work computer and shouldn't have anything personal on it that you're not willing to have your bosses see, don't include any information on here that is anything other than planning around getting real work done and poking others about a ticket.

(If they include ticketing, I could see this being huge. Someone needs to bring request tracker to the modern era.)
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> You don't chose your co-workers.

This is where you're going wrong. Personally, who I will be working with is one of the biggest factors in deciding where to work. A great team can make a tough job fun and a terrible team can make a great job unbearable.

> Can you ask people to leave their family behind for a week so they can bond with their co-workers?

Honestly, I think if you're a 100% remote company that's a totally reasonable demand. Even just counting commute time of 1 hour a day, that's already 250 hours of additional family time that's been returned to you—more than enough to make up for a single week of "working" non-stop.
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> That said, I've tried making green threads for C and it was a nightmare. I got something working though, so it's possible, but still a nightmare.

By green threads, do you mean coroutines, or something more complicated? Try the libco library, it implements them in under a hundred lines of C + a small bit of assembly per architecture: https://gitorious.org/bsnes/bsnes/source/1a7bc6bb8767d6464e3...
The article didn't show all the letters in the font, but 'y' caught my eye. Was the space between intended?
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How can they possibly know the accuracy of health predictions based on Facebook likes? I don't see any info about when data was collected, but I would think that you need at least a decade of data to make an accurate determination. That would be the entire history of Facebook.
What you describe is called 'slow playing' in poker, not bluffing. Put it this way, if spoofing (bluffing) were legalized in markets, how do you think it would work out for the little guy? Who has the advantage in no-limit Texas hold em? The guy with the biggest chip stack bullies the pot.
I've used this in the past: https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash

Doesn't offer logs, but shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

Edit: See demo here - http://linuxdash.afaqtariq.com/demo.html
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The information about side channel attacks is really interesting, and useful to defend against real attackers. But there are no coffee shop hackers. Nobody is sitting at Starbucks trying to break into your Facebook account or glean the secrets of the bake sale you're organizing next week.

It would be really nice if reporting news didn't constantly require praying on the unfounded fears people have of things they don't understand.
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No, all the domains in question were .io. The first few .io domains I registered, I used Gandi, then I thought I might switch to namecheap since they were, well, cheaper. Now, I think I'll stick to Gandi.
Sounds like you're taking the brute-force approach, and the aforementioned thesis could show how to improve that. The powerpoint is surprisingly clear, IMHO.

From the paper's conclusion: "We propose a new approach to find significant light paths in clouds via searching for their collector area
which comprises their entry point on the lit surface of the cloud. In addition to this new formulation we have proposed a new, GPU-based algorithm to find these collectors and compute their contributions in interactive time. Similarly to our previous model, we account for the varying anisotropy of light transport by treating separately light paths of different orders."

Of course, that's avoiding assumptions about how easy it is to integrate in your rendering... ;)
The social network/collaboration tool we use at gigantic_company is fairly useful. However it's mostly a less-usable version of facebook with document sharing bolted on.

One of the bigger issues with the tool, however, is adoption. Maybe an enterprise facebook would have a higher usage rate because everyone already knows how to use it?

If everyone actually used the official collab tool here at gigantic_company it'd be a lot easier to find out if another department already solved your problem so you could learn from their implementation, rather than relying on the tribal knowledge of someone who's been here for years and years. I'd like that.
Ask HN: Tutorials for ASP.NET MVC and C# that are like railstutorial.org?
Hello Hacker News,

Last year I learned Rails using Michael Hartl's excellent Rails Tutorial. This year I'd like to learn ASP.NET MVC and C#.

What I loved about Hartl's tutorial is its comprehensive nature: it introduces readers to everything from fundamental web concepts and common Unix terminal commands to Ruby, Rails, testing, tools and deployments, and ultimately builds a functioning website that you can just share the link to with your friends. I've been searching for similarly thorough tutorials for ASP.NET MVC, but haven't been able to find any. So I figured I would ask here.

tl;dr: What are some good resources to learn ASP.NET MVC for someone who has ~1 year of Rails experience? Don't assume knowledge of C# or Visual Studio.

Thanks in advance. :)
I'm not sure if binaurals/isotones are of much use without at least some basic biofeedback equipment, but YMMV.
I'm wondering. Does anyone know if the tumor was cancerous or benign? They say that a lot of women have this, so I'm thinking it's benign like an adenoma, but in which further growth can cause later complications.
> We currently have a teacher retention problem

But we don't have a lack of teachers. Couldn't retention just reflect poor compensation and bad working conditions?

> While it should be easier to fire bad teachers, the problem is that in places where it's easy to fire bad teachers, good teachers often end up getting fired for political reasons.

That's true of any job, though. What makes the teaching profession special in this regard?
300g of carbs is the same amount of sugar in 3 litres of coke.

Do you really think that is reasonable for anyone?
The 3d printers, yes. The Shapeoko 2 runs off of an arduino and gets its data over a serial connection.

At least that's my understanding of it. I've never used it myself, only watched it run for other people.
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to complete your side projects?
How do you all keep yourselves motivated to work on side projects despite long days at school or work? I am a full time student and working at an internship and am having trouble staying dedicated to these side projects that I want to work on. At the end of the day after finishing homework all I want to do is go to the gym and then go to bed. I would love to hear what you guys do to keep yourself motivated to work on your projects.
Any more In Memory Databases ..which you have tried ?
Time for a benchmark.
In dev it will show exactly where in the console, assuming you have a sane dev environment, and if you're running a tool like jshint, you can catch any such error fast. That is a non-issue, and not even one unique to Angular.
I have been writing Swift for 6 months now. Almost every single day. I will be shipping an App to the App Store this month written in Swift. The language is fantastic and the future of what languages should look like Swift.

However, I do not do billable consulting work in Swift. I am twice as slow writing Swift than I am writing Objective-C. The toolchain is very brittle. The debugger is near unusable. The instruction pointer bounces all over the source file while debugging. SourceKit crashes all of the time. Multiple times an hour. And build times are about twice as slow as Objective-C builds.

Swift is fine for personal projects or small libraries. I'm not going to bill hours in Swift until another major release.

Btw, I send a weekly Swift newsletter: http://www.swiftnews.co
Ask HN: So what is the agreed definition of a startup?
You´re conflating two concepts that are the opposite of each other. The examples you gave are about people putting _themselves_ in more danger when they have safety gear. This is analogous to cops being more likely to de-escalate situations instead of just shooting prematurely (the latter of which is much safer for the cop in general). The concept we´re discussing in this thread is making _others_ safer in the presence of a situation involving cops. The defenses in all of these alleged excessive cop violence cases has been that they were trying to protect their safety and were thus premature with firearm use (et al). The effect you´re describing in essence exactly what we want: cops will feel safer and thus be less inclined to excessive personal-safety measures that are actively dangerous to civilians (like quick trigger fingers).

I´m not sure I articulated that all that clearly, sorry...
"Download for iPhone" only.

Enough said. Next!
Pretty typical law enforcement logic for the United States. It's about like, to protect you from the supposed harm of smoking cannabis… We will anally search your wives on the side of the road, put you in prison with hardened criminals, and blow up your babies with grenades. Oh, whoops, it's almost the same topic. It's just more unusual to see this bizarrely inappropriate level of force applied to unlicensed kitchens.
Yeah, it's a pretty bad idea to let a 8-pound cat make all the important decisions as well...
Well, it's more of a pain to setup right. It doesn't take 10 seconds anymore.

Then like all cloud services, things get bad when you can't properly boot or start the network services. I used to run Arch with a more recent kernel and that kind of happened after an upgrade.

To be fair, I can understand why they don't want to support Arch as it's probably a bit of work, but they are also a cheap service, so some people (like me) like to have a little server running there just for personal stuff (IRC bouncer, ssh tunnel etc.). And in this case, you want something closer to your own system.

They still provide a good service in my opinion as I still use them :)
The real problem here is the concept of "overdue" tied to interventions. Babies are like wizards: they are never late. They arrive promptly when they intend to. And there is actually not much evidence that arriving within a week or two on either side of the "due date" has any correlation with health problems for the mother or baby.

So, a well-educated OB can be a bit casual about the exact age of the fetus because it doesn't really matter all that much.
Come on, 0.1% of the people need Dtrace...
You say "in fact" but the papers you site are the farthest things from "facts" that are imaginable. They are academic models that are at the same time, grossly simplified and grossly over-complicated, that have all sorts of debatable assumptions, with the whole thing being obfuscated in academicese, thus making any sane evaluation of the logic completely impossible. Did you actually read these papers? Did you understand the models and the math? Do you agree with the models? Why? Do you agree with the assumptions behind the model? Why?

Relevant: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/10/getting-eulered/
Are you sure about that? Many people log into their bank accounts while online at coffee shops. A passive attacker could tape an old android phone to the bottom of a table, with a custom sniffing program running in the background.

It sounds like a stretch now, but could become a more common threat if some code is released to the script kiddies.
It's an unusual feature. Perhaps it calls for a 'go fmt' (nim fmt?) type tool that canonicalises names, to be automatically run on check-in.
i have been looking around for this lately aswell, the best place i've found is pluralsight.