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In the centuries before books became cheap and mass produced, a family would own only a handful of books. These books tended to be passed around and reread repeatedly. The modern period of being read widely was preceded by one of being read deeply.
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I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children
No of course they can't be, they have a lot of money.
I work in the bay area with all-local manpower, ask me anything. We bootstrapped a line of products with absolutely no help from banks or accelerators.
Make a list of five people who you've worked with previously that you wouldn't mind working with again. Reach out to them. Ask whose firms could use extra help. If they're not in the present position to need extra help, ask if they know anybody who is that they'd be willing to introduce you to.

You'll probably have a client around call #3 or so, in the present environment.

This works even better if you have been good about keeping in touch with them prior to this.
I find it hard to believe that mid-level restaurant desserts don't have a healthy profit margin. Most desserts in these restaurants are food service cheesecake, topped with whipped cream and chocolate drizzle, and marked up to $7 or $8.
JD @ Pachyderm here.
We try to talk to as many people as possible about their data infrastructure so I have a decent sample size on this. My experience is that there a specific use cases for which streaming solutions are gaining ground but there's still a lot for which it isn't and probably never will. Streaming is great but there are a lot of situations where it just doesn't fit. I think what might be going on is that there isn't a lot of chatter surrounding batch based processing so it seems like it's going out of style but the use cases are still real
Soda seems to taste pretty good to them.
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> Once you see it this way, it's hard to stand in line at Starbucks and think "I'm not an addict."

Except "addict" is a loaded term, which implies... well, unequivocally maladaptive behavior.

You seldom hear about people who lie to their loved ones about their hidden coffee stash, or steal from their child's piggybank to sustain their caffeine fix.
I wasn't familiar with that, but that approach for HTTP URIs doesn't appear to be a spec requirement. Is there any indication that other browser vendors are going to follow that approach with HTTP URIs?
Tom may have copies; I can ask him!
User namespaces recently got merged into libcontainer (which is used as the default backend for sandboxing in Docker). There is 1 technical question left to resolve to enable it by default: how to abstract away the concept of UID mapping, and how does it impact sharing of volumes between containers? There is an ongoing technical discussion, I am optimistic that we will find a solid solution soon but don't want to make any promises we can't keep.
By this reasoning smoked marijuana is equally as addictive as nicotine and more addictive than snorted cocaine or orally ingested opiates (i.e. prescription painkillers). That seems pretty suspect to me.
Quick update, we actually spent some time optimizing the APK size, and we got it down from 3MB to 800KB, trying to get this down even further. You should see the improvement starting with realm-java 0.79
The topic was modern C and in modern C environment NULL is defined as

(void *)0

There is no point in writing longer form and it's still clearer and safer than 0 alone.

C++ is another story with its

void* hate

built-in. In this land you rather write

(type*)0

or

(type*)NULL

(or

static_cast<type*>(0)

for extra purists), but as you're denoting pointer type already in this notation, there is not much gain in using NULL instead of 0 (well, beside grepability).

In many cases you can be done with 0 alone in C++, that's true, and in such cases NULL at least poses some intention, but if you're not careful enough, you may end up putting NULL alone (without pointer-to-type cast) in some variadic function and things start to blow up all of a sudden (that is if your NULL integer width isn't the same as pointer width). That's why having a habit of writing

(type*)0

is a good thing in this land.

Regarding musl check also:

http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/include/stddef.h?i...

In short, musl's stddef.h has following lines:

#ifdef __cplusplus
#define NULL 0L
#else
#define NULL ((void*)0)
#endif

NULL defined as 0L for C++ is nice workaround, but it works only for LP64 platforms.

In the same vein for Windows C++ x64 environment you need NULL to be 0LL, as it is LLP64 platform.
@sshykes, as an employee at Farmlogs I can attest that people here work long hours, if at all, out of their own will. In addition, I have worked at other startups before and I don't think I work super long hours here. There are 5 stars on Glassdoor for a reason. Most of us start late and stay late and love the flexibility in the work hours. Overall, the team really believes that we are building something world changing and cannot make it happen fast enough.
This is welcome news. I audit each addon/extension/plugin I download. I spotted some dodgy plugins in the past that logged traffic and sent it back to a remote server. Not cool. Others would simply not have time to manually audit, so this news is fantastic. I learned the hard way that Firefox addons are pretty lax in terms of sandbox features. Why are plugins allowed talk to the public Internet? Such a massive security hole.
>It's a game of Germany getting fed up with paying for the rest of the EU

fed up with giving out loans that end up back in Germany due to how much Germany exports to them as well...

Germany's obligations on austerity politics is what put Spain and Portugal in this mess to begin with. There's absolutely no economic argument for austerity in a 2008-style situation. People stopped spending, so the solution is for the government to stop spending as well?
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The problem with FarmLogs is the same problem with anyone wanting to provide cloud-based services to agriculture: who owns the data? And specifically, FarmLogs Terms of Service clause 7 "Content" does not leave one feeling warm and fuzzy on this topic.

This has become more of an issue with farmers over the past year, as they realize their data is a commodity just like what they raise--whether crops or livestock. How much of an issue? Two examples.

First, the Iowa Power Farming show was last week. One of the largest ag shows in the nation, and the back of the program had an advertisement from Ag Leader which started with the line: "Settling for a precision farming partner that wants control of your data just doesn't cut it." Additionally, several vendors in the precision ag and sensor/drone areas were stating similar lines. Whether BS or not, they wouldn't be saying it if there wasn't a need for them to.

Second, the January 17, 2015, edition of Iowa Farmer Today also addressed this issue in their editorial page article "Who own precision technology data?".

It's not that I'm against using technology for ag. It's I'm against others using my data about my farming operations AND MY LAND and making money off of it without cutting me in--or selling/providing it (raw or as a "derivative work") to other entities I may not want to have it.
That's not really true. You really need to understand JS to work with React, especially since you need to combine it with other libs since it's only the view layer.
> 24%

Woah. That's just ... insane.
It's probably the only one that works, and it's just a hint (the conversion function is weird btw, it accepts hexadecimal symbols ranging from '0' to 'z'; it actually "decodes" any base from binary to triacontahexadecimal (36)).
>It's a game of Germany getting fed up with paying for the rest of the EU.

The eurozone economy has been largely run in a way that benefits germany. When germany needs low interest rates the euro zone gets them and to hell with whether that suits Spain or Greece or Italy.

And the bailouts that were given are not handouts, they are loans.

If a bank lends you money they are not 'paying for you'.
Before going on a long vacation of sight-seeing I thought, I should buy a nice camera to memorialize the trip, but I don't know what to buy. Three days of research later and I figured out how the sensor type & size, shutter speed, aperture size, ISO level, and magic proprietary software combine to create a good picture in different environments. I couldn't explain it to you, but I can now find the best point-and-shoot camera for the lowest price.

I never did end up buying a camera, though.
Well exactly, he's acknowledging that Greece is bankrupt rather than cash-poor.
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Because it is socially acceptable to be addicted to coffee. Plus you can buy coffee almost anywhere, and it is really inexpensive.

In a situation where coffee would be banned, we would in all likeliness see a rise in coffee smuggling, a drop in quality of coffee, and coffee addicts would face problem due to the illegality of the stuff : imagine that one day, your dealer is all out of coffee. That would cause a withdrawal syndrome. So people would keep stash of coffee, and other behavior charateristic of 'drugs addict'
Coffee served at starbucks is in much lower quantities and milder concentrations than what one would normally ingest or inhale in harder drugs.

They do boil tea out of coca leaves, which normally has a small amount of cocaine. It's only when it's concentrated, snorted, that it gives the temporary super high.
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Thanks for the info! How much would the cell phone plan cost that allows unlimited sms messaging?

Is there any reason to use twilio over something like this? Twilio costs 0.0075 / message
Only Nobel price winning economists think that inflation works. Krugman and now this dude. Not to mention stuff like giving away nobel prices for "encouragement".

I feel really sorry for physics, chemistry and other researchers who must be really worth something to get this prize just to have a moron believing that printing money solves economic issues sitting next to him.
...and the next version gets an extra $5 of shielding per dog* and so is made completely immune to even a H-bomb EMP.

* at a $5000 markup, but who's counting?
See my response to tptacek
Quite ironic that now IBM has a role in the occupation of Palestine [1]. IBM is sometimes mentioned in the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).

http://www.cjpmo.org/DisplayDocument.aspx?DocumentID=1081
Hm... solvability of the problem for a board of size n is equivalent to labeling the nodes of the n-cube with n colors in such a way that any node's neighbors take on all n colors (thus, each node will have one neighbor of each color). This means the number of pairs (A, B) of adjacent nodes such that B has any particular color must be the same as the number of ways to just choose A, which is 2^n. This is also the number of ways to choose B of a given color, times the n many ways to choose a neighbor for B. This means the number of nodes of any particular color is 2^n/n. As this must be an integer, we must have that n divides 2^n, and thus, n must itself be a power of 2.
Depends on the provider. Thirty bucks? But you'd better make sure their "unlimited" means "unlimited".
Thanks for the interesting question.

Let's take a stab at the case with 3 squares/coins.
When the second prisoner comes in she will say that the magic square is 1, 2, or 3 based only on the state of the 3 coins. There are 8 possible states for 3 coins, so whatever strategy is devised must partition the 8 end states into the 3 outcomes. Since 8 is not divisible by 3, that means 1 outcome will be assigned at most 2 states.
Those 2 states can only by reached by 6 possible input states (since each input state can only reach 3 output states - one for each possible coin flip). That means there are 2 remaining possible input states that cannot reach the given outcome. So for any possible strategy the jailer can choose the output with only 2 states and one of the 2 input states that cannot reach it to foil the strategy.
Copyright protects the works of natural persons, not corporations. It protects the individual creators when they make a work; they can of course immediately assign their rights to the company, eg by a work-for-hire arrangement, but [co-]creators are always natural persons.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/201
Insane? But Merkel says they are recovering well!

Oh and for under 25yr olds the rate is... 50%.

[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5908da36-db09-11e3-8273-00144feabd...
> There isn't a person in this country (US) who truly cares about all the collateral damage of our drones.

I care. As do tens to hundreds of millions of other US citizens. Tell me, what we were supposed to do about it again (that we didn't do)?
You'd probably want to integrate their analytics.js library rather than Segment.com itself when it comes to testing/playing. The hosted service segments what integrations you can use by what plan you're on; to try out Salesforce's $25/month service, for example, you have to pay Segment $350/month.

https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js
Sure, which is why it is sometimes useful. But people who make Java libraries that are production quality, usually don't forget to publish, and if they do, they are quickly reminded to do so. I am not aware of any production quality Java library from the past five years that isn't on Central/jcenter etc.. Older ones aren't on GitHub, either. In fact, supporting sourceforge might be more useful than GitHub, for that reason.
Interesting. I'm curious if any of them would become hostile after being actively rejected (rather than just passively ignored).
Google to shut down Gtalk on February 16, will force users to switch to Hangouts
$2210 to be exact.
Yahoo mail already has dropbox integration
This is being done with IMSI Catcher detector [1] using machine learning to learn which towers you commonly connect to, then warning you when:

a) a new cell tower ID has suddenly appeared at a specific lat/long when it wasn't there before

b) the encryption/protocol changes or gets degraded

[1] https://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/
> I feel like she might as well be productive, and since we co-habitate I'm basically already supporting her.

Does she feel that way? Or does she feel like she's unemployed and, however much she might like you, if she has an argument with you she's going to be homeless? Power disparities get people to do things they're not really into and tend to stifle their ability to speak freely about it.

> So HN, how would you deal with someone that has a bad attitude, lacks pride of ownership and quickly gets defensive?

Fire them. I like to talk to people to find out whether it's something that's external - maybe they've got a lot of stress going on at the moment, maybe there's some issue about the environment and we can move them to a different part of the building, maybe they started for one job and ended up doing another and we can find a place in the company where they can be productive, maybe they just hate meetings and would prefer to get a digest of the meeting by email... but if all that sort of thing fails? If there are serious problems with someone's attitude, that aren't being fixed by going 'when you say X I feel like Y,' or 'when you do X it has Y effect' ... that's something for them to address with a therapist. At the end of the day, I'm your boss, not your mother.

That needn't be a bad thing, it could just be you sitting down and going 'I don't feel like you're particularly invested in this, like you might rather be doing something else, and if we go ahead with it it's going to be a lot of stress. I want to share this with you but only if you feel like you're actually interested in learning this stuff. If you're not, then I'm okay with that - I want you to be happy. But we need to talk about it, because I'm quite serious about making this project work.'

If she still insists that she's interested and doesn't take kindly to hearing about the quality of her work after that, then you can be more blunt. 'You said you were interested in this sort of stuff and now you're saying it's not worth your bother. What's going on?'

I do think you're going to end up in a position where you're firing her if it really is a personality mismatch between the work and her. You can fix a lot of problems in someone's work, but I've never seen someone fix an attitude to get someone who's not invested in their work invested. I've seen them provide environments that better suit the person, tasks that better suit the person, even provide examples of good attitude and a guiding word here and there... never seen someone change someone just not being interested in something though.

In extremely blunt condensed form? My feeling is that you can have a girlfriend or you can have an employee, but you can't treat your employees like your girlfriends or your girlfriends like your employees without a significant trade-off being involved. Companies aren't counselling services for their workers.
'On Campus, Hanging Out by Logging On' (Dec 2004 Article about Facebook)
This is a decent overview, but I feel like I should bring up one thing it didn't mention: safety. We're a significant distance away from being able to emulate a whole brain, and... that's a good thing.

Imagine your brain were scanned, and you found yourself running as a computer program. Consider the powers that would give you. You could make copies of yourself, obviously. You could tune some parameters, to try to increase your intelligence. You could A/B test your copies with identical memories in identical situations, to see what effect that tuning has, and you could incorporate enhancements that wouldn't work biologically. So there's a pretty high chance that you'd end up with a superhuman level intelligence, or at least John von Neumann level intelligence. Plus a large number of copies.

At the same time, the emulation might be imperfect, the modifications and enhancements might have unanticipated side effects, there's a whole lot of opportunities for sanity damage. That's on top of the base rate of humans being evil or turning evil when given power, which is itself uncomfortably high. And finally, there's one more wrinkle. Suppose brain-scanning and whole-brain emulation technology are in the wild, and a bunch of different people scan their brains and start running on computers. In this world, if you hack into someone's hardware and halt their brain program, you can repurpose it to run copies of yourself. While computer security is probably better in that future world than it is today, I seriously doubt that it will be better by nearly enough.

If you're thinking of getting into brain-emulation research, please consider also putting some work into safety research. And in the unlikely event your work should pass the level of treating mundane ailments, and moves into the territory of breakthroughs, please remember that you are playing with fire.
Alright but in the case of Redis, this low latency networking like RDMA or whatnot isn't available right? So, today, off-the-shelf, installing Redis on a remote server, you're probably gonna be off by at least an order of magnitude, no?

Also, on the target server, you still have at least one cache miss to retrieve the item from the hashtable (and potentially more for large hashtables).

It would be nice if there was a commonly supported API for doing this kind of stuff that doesn't require exotic hardware and came with a usable abstraction something like TCP. I know off-the-shelf Intel NICs have "Direct NIC Access" which can easily do wireline work from userspace, but afaik that's only for Intel NICs, and the API isn't as smooth as most socket users are used to. We need something like SuperSockets, but written to target NIC hardware directly, I guess.
Anyone a proactive cat who wants to learn how to use the computer?
can someone add the microwave at my work to this list?
It means there is more room for growth that you are missing. So you should spend more, but not much so that you keep at the 40% rule.
The real relevance of content in school is often terrible, but until we can truly figure out what we care to educate our children about (which is exceedingly difficult without being able to agree on what skills will be needed in the future economy) compulsory education will remain hindered in this way.

At least for me, I would like to see a de-emphasis of content and A stronger focus on preparing young people to educate themselves, to be curious about our world. If you bring this to the table on your own I would hardly worry about 'learning less after school'. After all, only you have done your learning this far in life. School is only one structure for learning (that is often expected to be/treated as if it's the only one).
It is theoretically possible to avoid that via cryptography but I doubt the cell phone protocols include that.
farmers talk to each other, a lot. Ideas spread very quickly, word of mouth is huge.
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In a strange coincidence I downloaded that very app about 3 hours ago. But their site was down or not accepting signups or something, so I left it aside.

Anyway, from what I can tell, it's selling point is that it gives you one match a day... as opposed to the endless waves of matches of OkCupid or Tinder.

Whether or not that's actually a better experience, I don't know, but I do know a few female friends who like it. So that's enough to get me interested.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield used to be separate hospital/medical insurance providers that were in many states. In some cases (New York until recently) they were partially owned by the state.

Check out the Wikipedia article... There are dozens of affiliated health insurance providers. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cross_and_Blue_Shield_As...
You're entirely on point. This loses touch with the platform; one wouldn't use Material design in an iOS app and expect as much success as a more native experience, and vice versa; the same works for the web. It's a different platform with different goals and expectations.

Also, hey everyone, before you downvote the parent, please recall this article that you voted so highly just a few weeks ago, and consider its implications on building a web ui on top of canvas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965048
I feel the same way: first time I used docker when I found I can't specify file to use, I feel inconceivable.
> For almost anything any team can do, you have to assume there will be five other teams, just as good or better, doing the same exact thing.

That may be true for your typical cloud / SaaS / consumer internet / AirBnb for XYZ -kind of startup but there is many many fields in technology where killer teams are exceptionally rare.

Most of these technology fields are not as sexy as building the next Dropbox but very often all the more sophisticated in their core tech. Think about bio-tech, energy, nanotech, lasers, (space) flight, AI, etc. It is never bad for a startup to assume that there is competition and to research it but it is very possible for the right people in a particular field to team up and be the best.