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I keep seeing more evidence that the economy is not doing well. I am also a contract worker. I am a programmer. I believe that there is not enough money going around/being generated by consumer spending to actually pay the majority of the workforce real competitive salaries with benefits.

Even in the startup world I believe there is a crunch. There is a fair amount of funding being thrown around, but for the most part the money running operations at startups is not actual revenue but capital funds. And not everyone works at a well-funded startup.
Needlessly dying in your prime does to me.
They probably only affect the Chinese App Store. The stores are separate, and the Chinese one is censored.
> Though some foreign collectors are ready to pay up to €10,000 for the unusual car, Karavkin says he is not ready to sell “a part of his life”.

Unfortunate. Seems like it'd be a smart play to sell it to a hipster and buy two modern cars. Hopefully he'll get some better offers after this article.
I was in a similar position as you two years ago. I had an app with steady sales, I handled rate customer requests, but for the most part didn't know how to improve my app and ended up wasting lots of time.

Then I realized that my app was finished. There was nothing to improve.

I concluded that there was only one possible thing to do: start something new. I made enough from my first app to support the family, and started working on my second app.

Now I have two apps earning money.

Also, 15h per day is way too much. I work an average of 4h per day, any longer and I lose concentration (unless I'm cranking out some interesting new code, then I work any minute my kids let me)
You assume that people can magically decide when their stuff appears on HN.
That's part of exactly what makes the problems with rand() so intractable. Whether a program performs as specified is an arbitrary function of real world state.
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What's his h-index?
They should use cryptol instead which was recently open sourced.
Mine is rather mundanely functional: I display the attempted URL in boldface, point out that it is not found on my server, then offer a sitemap:

http://www.warplife.com/this-page-does-not-exist.html
It appears you are either a big fan of Bakunin, have a poor understanding of Marx in history, or simply suffer a grossly inaccurate understanding of Marx's political theory.

Marx most certainly did not pair authoritarianism and communism. Ever. You speak of a mythical version of Marx's conception of the state in particular, and Marxist theory in general. This mythical yarn was spun by Soviets--and other despots and their followers--who were desperate to dress themselves in Marxist garb, as well as Western powers desperate to discredit Marxist theory and drum up national opposition in response to feeling threatened by it.
The content on trackers drops off sharply with popularity. That was what made file-hosting services special. You could find something only three people cared about in the past year.
Thanks for your feedback and few more WIP items for today (the 0 day). In few minutes. :)
easy answer: take a break/vacation!!!

hard answer: assuming you've taken the vacation, some options, in order:

1. if you're missing payroll, then cut staff & costs - you're bootstrapped and don't have 6+ months of payroll.

2. if you need help with leads, hire a startup marketing consultant (example: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=764310) to generate new growth hack ideas.

3. if you believe in your business model and you're simply "ahead" of the market, then use the time to "clean up" the business, e.g. automate things that are manual/expensive/unscaleable.

3. if you don't entirely believe in your business model, use the time to experiment with pivots e.g. soft-launch radically new things and see what happens.

hope this helps,
adam
How have people found wrapping other non carbon back ends (even own RDBMS) in graphite-compatible API - in other words I I am collecting time series somewhere, how simple is it to get grafana as a front end?
Why is that unfortunate? He's made this creation so that he could drive it, not so that someone with more money but less creativity could drive it so he can drive a run of the mill car. It's fairly obvious he's put a chunk of his soul into this machine.
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So they should just have made tabs compulsory. Problem solved.
Nothing that you can't do with GraphViz.
Why? He may not need the money; but he may have very fond memories attached to that old car.
dmpk2k is right: the requirements on iterator validity are the obvious consequences of using a reallocatable array. Replace a std::vector with malloc-ed memory and call realloc every so often, and you'll find your pointers to elements in the array don't stay valid. It's not a gratuitous problem; you'd run into it no matter how you implement your grow able array.

Interestingly, keeping track of indexes into the array avoids the issue completely.
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Perhaps I should litigate against people that say I haven't when they can't be bothered to follow the very next link in the next sentence: http://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/

Or this one, linked a few paragraphs later: http://stratechery.com/2013/obsoletive/

Here's another one, for good measure: http://stratechery.com/2014/best/

So actually, I have. Mush indeed.
The 'ease of app discovery' was doing fine as long as apple didn't kill of every app that made app discovery easy.
Are commuters to blame for the poor working conditions in the public transport industry? No. Do commuters suffer when conductors go on strike? Yes. Does it work? Yes. Does complaining to your boss work? No. Its unfortunate but at the end of the day the only thing he can use (apart from quitting outright) as leverage is malicious compliance, which includes working the exact hours your paid and nothing more.

I feel for the student, but a workers' rights are more important to me. If I were in the students position I would be pissed, but not at the professor but at the institution. The same way I don't get mad at conductors going on strike because of poor working conditions even if I have already bought a ticket.

The 75 hours was also in reference to allowing every student to do the same (you either allow all students to have a look, or none), and I can tell from experience that it will end up taking quite a bit of time. Most students mean "could you go over the exam with me" when they ask to review their exam. Just having them glance at the red markings will generally not do them much good anyway. And putting them in a box for pick-up (while also being more unpaid work) is generally not allowed in my opinion. The university holds on to the exams for administrative purposes, meaning he would have to supply photocopies instead.

(Source: TAing and TAing friends)
Not only that, but anything which goes wrong with it he can fix. The service schedule is defined by what he thinks is reasonable and whether it is running well.
Wow, that car looks really nice. Is it easy to design a car to be so beautiful? If so, why don't we have more lower end cars with such beautiful designs?
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Turns out actually meeting a market need is important (Path), having a functional business model (Square), knowing your target customer (Dropbox), and we'll see with Medium.

User experience is a differentiator. It's not the only thing.
Recently (yesterday I think) an exploit was released for Windows which works from Windows 10 all the way back to Windows XP. The title of the article was something about "One bit to rule them all" because it only took one bit to trigger the exploit. It had something to do with running a program with scroll bars, and giving Windows invalid parameters for that scroll bar.

This way, when you are a normal user on a computer, you could get system permissions (higher than admin!) by running their exploit. It wasn't quite changing a single bit as they claimed, you had to develop (or run) a program that exploited the bug, but scroll bars were the key. That's the joke here I think ;)
We had peer to peer streaming 18 years ago. It does not scale for larger audiences, so if it stays on the 'skype' level then it will do fine, otherwise you're going to need some kind of redistribution network to handle the fan-out.

If you're willing to tolerate lag and decreasing fidelity you can also use peer-to-peer relaying but this only works for a very limited number of hops.
First of all the choice of C is because it was the language I was the most confidant writing secure code in. I'm not going to learn a new language and then right away start try to write secure code with it.

Clang has some great tools I use like the various sanitizers. Static analysis sucks and almost never finds any real issues but we still use it.

If you think toxcore should use protocol buffers, feel free to port it. This is an open source project and contributions are welcome. If you do a better job than me then I will merge your contribution. We are at #tox-dev on freenode.
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rand() and random() are different functions.
Learning, reading, resting.
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It looks like it's 180W, so it would run for about 4 pence an hour (in the UK, depending on rates).
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Apparently this is not official.

Also the only action is "Power Cycle" ?
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Are there any that are, say, 48 port GigE? 10G and 40G are a bit much for home use...
Ya, my wife's mom lives in south china and we just visited her over Xmas, coldest 7C I've ever had to deal with.

Japan deals with poor insulation using kotatsu, and things like heated toilet and train seats. Ugh, it still sucks though.
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This is true, however: 48V circuits are generally priced 'per-amp' just like 120V or 240V circuits. That translates into much higher cost-per-watt and with the efficiency of AC switching supplies being well over 90% you're probably better off from an economics point of view of getting the highest voltage supply that you can get and then to step down in your rack mounted devices.
How hard is it to found a new university and get accredited degrees in Canada (or the US)? Seems like there's quite the opportunity to do just that if you can identify excellent and underpayed teachers.

I think many students primarely look at the teaching and don't care all that much about the research output (outside of name recognition/can I get a job with a degree from X-university which is the initial motivator).

Well executed positioning, offer great teachers more money/benefits/being treated like a human being and you could have a nicel little university set up.
We were thinking about heated floors; still not that great, but the best you can do in a south Chinese apartment without central heating.
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No, it's not official.
This is only the first version and Power Cycle is the feature I wanted to do most while I was out and about. I plan to add more very soon :)
This reminds me of Human Heater from HBO's Silicon Valley.
It's pretty common here (nl), you have to ask for it but it is usually available. I'd advise against it because you're deviating from the bulk but if you need it you can usually get it, especially at the larger colocation facilities.
Ironically, as soon as you need a tool to make whitespace visible in order to determine which delimiter you're using where, you're just using C-style braces again, only now there are two kinds of braces, which are incompatible, and otherwise visually indistinguishable.
what are the next steps of practo?
There are a whole bunch of apps that do exactly what this one does and more, and many of them are free.
The last paragraph from one of his follow-up articles, The Importance of Going Viral, is relevant:

"In fact the response has been overwhelmingly positive from everyone, except regular faculty. Not one message of support from anyone in a tenured position, in Physics or any other department. The status quo has considerable appeal when you are in the position of privilege."
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At least when I was growing up in the '60s-'70s, the connotations of Sherpa were entirely positive; Wikipedia also doesn't indicate anything bad associated with the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa (well, who knows about the quality of the "psychedelic power pop band from Auckland, New Zealand" :-). A nice, helpful expert who because of nature and nurture was better suited to the extreme environment of the Himalayas, who therefore carried more stuff than the "white" with whom the two formed a team, and got serious billing along with the latter. Moderately well read people from my era give equal billing to the team of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary who first officially conquered the summit of Mount Everest.

Of course, not really following mass media since the '70s I don't know if the term has degraded since then, but at least it started from a good base. It's like the American usage of Indian tribe names for naming sports teams and Army helicopters, that's not done out of disrespect, although there are of course the inevitable malcontents.
Not to diminish the accomplishment, I think it is really cool, but I won't say "I'd buy that for a dollar." A blog engine with provably correct posts and comments though? That's a real kickstarter. Although the use case might not be the internet as we know it.

But require the comments to be provably correct and assume the post as premise and I think we're onto a winner.
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The key text is in C99 §6.7.4: "An object that has volatile-qualified type...". Note that this does not say "An object accessed via a pointer to a volatile-qualified type": What matters is the type of the underlying object, i.e., how it is originally defined.
Well it's easy to create nice looking 3D models (like the renders in the article). But designing a real car is something completely different. Aerodynamics, weight, space, it's all what costs a lot of R&D.

I think this is why Tesla was working with Lotus on the Roadster. It's very hard to design a car from scratch.

But lets hope they succeed. It might be a good boost for the country.
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Well that's not a very accurate title is it? We will lose free, unhindered access to them, but they'll still be there.
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Awesome news. Congratulations to the team. Helthcare in India is one vast problem to solve and I guess practo is doing pretty well in the domain.
To me Rapidshare was a very shady place to be full of warez, never visited, never cared. good riddance
"which is expected to cost an Aventador-like $400,000"

I suppose is low-end compared to a Pagani Huayra or other obsessively engineered hypercars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga7_w4Ib2MM
Great news on Net Neutrality
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10G and 40G are a bit much for my office, even.
iPhone 5S, 8.1.3. I'm using Safari directly. Clicking "Try It Now" opens a new window (apparently blank, but maybe a white canvas?) And I can't do anything. just a white screen. Just re tested. This is the same behavior on the iPad Air, 8.1.3.
Same thought, It's tagline was "Making World a Better Place" :) !! People reaction was "Brutal"
You know that when a dictionary calls a definition of a word "archaic", they mean "no longer correct", right? Using "litigate" to simply mean "argue against" or "dispute" is to confusingly misuse the word.
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RapidShare was my childhood hero!

I think appearance of google drive/dropbox is the main reason of this. People easily share data with them.
I guess the form of the car is very much a trade off of competing interests - cost to build, ease of maintenance, available space, etc. Since you asked specifically about lower end cars, I'd say it's just that supercars have their preferences set very differently than low end cars. Nobody cares if this car doesn't have good boot space, or is expensive to repair.
I'm currently living like that in Japan. In fact I'm writing this sitting in a Kotatsu. Last week it once got 6C in the apartment. We use a DeLonghi oven, a small heater and a Kotatsu whenever we need a place to get warm. With the Kotatsu we were able to get the bill from 120$/m down to 80$/m. I have to say, one can get used to it - the constant change in temperature keeps up the blood flow and I feel a lot stronger against the cold compared to when I stayed in Switzerland, which gets a bit colder in winter outside - but always has cozy 21C inside. Only one thing: A Kotatsu is such a trap to get lazy. It's also dubbed 'bad people maker' in Japan - I can totally see why.
Considering how more interconnected the world is getting your going to see the salaries of jobs which can be done remotely decrease and teaching will be one.

However in your argument, with plenty of PhDs available the chances of finding another Prof Robinson should not be impossible. We can always find traits of teachers we like and dismiss others for similarly arbitrary reasons, the issue being how do you make this work for hiring decisions. One person's dream candidate may not even rate for another
Deadlisting. :)

Competitive advantage from tool exclusivity.
I merely must add, that such DIY vehicle can't be safe. You should have extensive knowledge not only to build a vehicle, but to make it road legal in most parts of this planet.

Actually, if you're thinking that assembling your car from scratch would be nice idea, and logic fails you, there are so-called "kit cars". Car constructing kits, if you wish. On street I've seen only Fraser[1], though.

[1]: http://www.fraser.co.nz/the-car/buying-a-kit-car/
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Yeah, without taking any credit away from the donors (or from the GPG authors, of course), we should be grateful to her and ProPublica for bringing this to light.

It kinda bothers me that, while I can make a donation to ProPublica, there's no way to express why I'm doing so. On the other hand, maybe there's a danger in becoming too donation-focused.

EDIT: After donating, they say: "Please consider sending a note to thoughts@propublica.org or tweeting @ProPublica sharing your reason for donating. We’ll use some of these messages to encourage others to donate."

Which I think is fair enough.
I've been told that the French OCaml crowd have (or had) a habit of naming projects after animals. In this case, cockerel.
>Dwarf fortress stuff is like that

dffd exists for things that aren't github(etc)-appropriate such as tools. No real reason to use anything else unless you're trying to monetise it with adf.ly etc (which might also count as a reason not to download).
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It is brutally hard, because competition is intense, but I'd struggle to say it's in any way unfair. When complaining about the discovery problem generally the developer believes they deserve special attention, but so does everyone else.

Back when we used to sell stuff via operator (carriers) portals people would still use tricks like starting game names with the letter A to appear at the top of the lists, so attempts to game any system are not a new phenomenon.

Ultimately you have to play the game you find yourself in.
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Physics is a field that has been irresponsible about this for years, at least since the first PhD unemployment crisis of 1969. Most other fields practice "birth control", and professors in many fields are shocked when they see that fewer than 5% of physics PhD(s) stay in the field.

This guy unfortunately has a bad bargaining position because (i) there are a lot of people to replace him, and (ii) most of them come from the third world so the opportunity to live in Canada and get paid $34,000 in loonies looks great to them.

(The other area of academia that is this bad is biotech, where you can spend as long as you like in postdocs, but getting to a tenured position is unlikely)
One big problem is that the union that represents contract faculty also represents graduate students and for the most part isn't taken seriously by the general public. For example, I saw an ad from the union at York University calling for the same domestic and international tuition rates. It's like they have no clue how government funding works.
So... I'm conflicted about this. Sure, on one hand peer-to-peer streaming could solve some of the problems she's talking about, so long as there's a large enough audience for each video. Services like Steam have used P2P very effectively. At times it can break down to a very frustrating level quickly, so you'll still want CDNs around to act as seeds. It also doesn't work for live broadcasts which is becoming more common with the likes of Twitch. Also, the current technologies being discussed (marketed?) would require a plugin to work. I don't think this will fly until a browser-native solution is engineered.
Not to take away from the article, but this is like saying Yo-Yo Ma is so good at playing the Cello because he's talented.

He is talented, but that's not why he's good. He's good because of years of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears.

Most of the success of this campaign is due to Werner Koch's years of hard work. The article was the catalyst.

EDIT: I'm as grateful as the next guy for all the generous donors, to Propublica for publishing the article and to Julia Angwin for writing it. Let's just not forget who the real hero of this story is.
Not sure if it can run BSD proper. It should be able to in theory, there's nothing preventing you from flashing your own OS image, but I can't find that anybody has actually done it. There is a facility for virtualization as well. Not sure how desirable it'd be to run on bare metal though, as it uses dedicated hardware for routing that I think is proprietary, so it wouldn't work. If I was going to try it, I'd probably pick up one of their cheaper products first to test it out on (most of the lower end stuff is similar internally).

I'm with you about the GPL though. It's my biggest complaint about it. Apart from the proprietary hardware (which OK, I guess I can forgive it), they definitely seem to be playing it pretty loose with the terms of the GPL.

Pf is indeed nice and it'd be cool to run OpenBSD on it. That said, as I mentioned I really like their configuration tools and they make iptables actually quite easy to configure.

Your best bet for a BSD router is probably to pick up a cheapish computer and put in one of the Intel or HP quad-port ethernet cards and then plug into a dumb switch. They can be had for surprisingly reasonable prices, I saw some on Amazon for ~$80 (the quad-port cards, that is).
It's very cruel to treat rats like fund managers!
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Yup, I'm using DigitalOcean Manager, it's free and works great:

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I've been there a few times, the content is actually pretty good.
It's funny that what gets called "maker culture" these days in the West is nothing like what goes on in the Eastern Bloc countries, which would fit the term far more closely.
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