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I for one don't mind that they use tax payers money - because for all its many and varied biases* (national & cultural blindspots, party political) - its output is valuable and often of benefit/interest beyond Blighty.

* BBCs insistence that it is unbiased is unrealistic imo (but not as outlandish as Fox's 'fair and balanced'). Its more of an ideal rather than something anyone/org can achieve. I admire their attempts to achieve some kind of balance, although sometimes the BBC can filter too much thats not 'centre-ground' (but less so than US networks).
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I have to say these three do wonders and are critical for sustainable productivity.
If you're as fogged out as you seem to be, then the hours you're spending at work are pretty much completely unproductive. I'd suggest you use them more wisely by going home and getting a really good nights sleep. Consider it an investment in being more productive tomorrow.
Read Ogilvy on Advertising - makes you think all the (non copy filled) adverts of today are crazy. Copy works.
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Two things:

1) You don't outsource your core in business, so outsourcing tech is not appealing for tech startups, period.

2) Typically tech startups are more of a growth optimization problem than a cost optimization problem. Outsourcing to cheaper parts of the US, let alone overseas, usually doesn't increase the startup's growth potential.
With all the SV talk about $100k+ salaries, the reality is that in the US you can pick up average developers at a pretty reasonable salary. Think closer to $30k-60k. Add on top of that the cultural issues that make it more difficult to have developers handle other issues throughout the day like client support, writing documentation etc, and you can see how it really isn't that huge of a gap. Remember there is no actual developer shortage in the US unless you are talking about the very highly skilled top tier developers.
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Bitcoin technically has the capability to store at least 1K bytes per transaction using multi-sig outputs. 66 bytes per output * 15 possible outputs (for standard transactions) = 1K bytes. And you could do even more than that with non-standard transactions, making transactions with 3K bytes or more.

That said, you probably don't want to do this, because it contributes to blockchain bloat.

We made the decision of storing the data in a DHT because it's more efficient and you can store much more data than a few thousand bytes.
1) Stop reading HN.

2) Work your ass off for the next 3 days. You can do it. And for the next 3 days, have as many lunch and dinners with your team as you can -- meals with your team during a crunch time are a great morale booster. Also, don't pull all-nighters. Even if it's a crisis, you still need sleep.

3) On day 4, have the awkward conversation with your team lead, manager, etc... and quit.

4) Promise yourself you won't get into that kind of a situation ever again. And if you do find yourself in that kind of a situation again, promise yourself that you'll look for and deal with the warning signs sooner than three days before a deadline. (I know it's clichéd, but especially with burnout, prevention is much more effective than any cure.)
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When you start dividing responsibilities horizontally like this, IME you end up producing worse software. Being responsible for testing drives you to good design. Being responsible for deployment raises considerations you might otherwise miss. When development and QA are separate it's all too common for only one to have an understanding of the actual customer requirements.

Better to slice vertically. Everyone takes responsibility for a small piece of functionality, end-to-end.
Why wouldn't you control the IP with outsourced development? Obviously, any competent company would make the outsourced developers / development house hand over all rights to anything they produce under contract so this would be a non-issue.
> where some users are trying to game the system by charging a big battery array during low cost hours, and then "selling" it back to the grid during peak hours (at inflated, subsidized prices).

The idea that a utility wants a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose kind of situation is annoying at best and downright infuriating at worst. If they're willing to sell power for $X now and willing to buy it later for $Y, what does it matter the method? I mean, there are people working on grid-scale storage batteries to do precisely that because utilities desperately NEED additional peak capacity when it's a hot day and everyone's A/C is on in the late afternoon. Why would it be OK for the UTILITY to utilize grid storage, but not an INDIVIDUAL?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage
Yeah, I feel less and less confident in relying on Google's XMPP. I was conviced that this would be the time.

But I waited until today (17th February) to reply, and... well, Google hasn't shutdown its XMPP servers yet, apparently

Go figure...
Well, it's certainly the Sierpinski triangle page to end my browser.... ><
A bit like 99 in French: quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

four twenties and ten and nine
I imagine that there will be an array of property arrangements. The important part, though, is that there's one set of rules that applies to everybody. Not "no weapons" unless you claim to be "the State" and then suddenly you can shoot pepper spray and TASER cartridges from the sky.
You're probably viewing it as a programmer. You see the exponentiation operator, which to you means "computation", which implies some "work" must occur to get the "real" number out of the calculation.

As far as a mathematician is concerned, there is no difference between 9^9, 387420489, 387420499 - 10, 774840978 / 2, or 193710244.5 * 2. They all represent the same quantity. That some are not in their fully reduced form does not change that they are unambiguous representations of the same number.

Even if you are unable to see it that way, we can easily rephrase the exercise to be "write down a way to compute the largest number you can in 15 seconds". This is an enlightening mental exercise, it would be silly to dismiss it for such trivial reasons.
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Users are still allowed to install any extension from outside the garden they want.

It's yet another hoop to jump through, one that further splits "developers" and "users" and makes it harder to be a "casual developer" - one who just wants to make an extension and share it among a small group.
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I just learned about the Neptune Pine from another HN post. Neptune just announced their latest device, the Neptune Duo. I was hoping for something like the Neptune Pine, but smaller and slimmer. This fits that bill, but once again it's two devices, almost like today's smartphone and smartwatch pairing. This just moves the phone part to the wrist. And it's much more expensive, without any specs at this point. I'm disappointed, but maybe someone else here might be interested.
That's a very expensive battery for the given capacity. If you want to be efficient check out the gel batteries used to power golf carts and forklifts. You'll need 24 2V cells if you want to do this efficiently both from a cost perspective as well as to reduce line losses between batteries and inverters. (24 and 12V are really not adequate for larger power installations).
Don't want to be a downer, but after many years (15+) a software developer, I'm pretty sure I should have gone to business/economic school.

A few things that spring to mind:

a) badly paid compared to the value produced (still better paid than teachers)

b) ageism in the industry

c) the developer ego's (in general) for some reason are over the top, making it impossible for people to have normal discussing about various topics (you can see it here in HN) almost as bad as discussing politics

d) the next best biggest greatest thing being discovered every 2 months by 20 year olds that just discovered something from the 70's and you still have to pretend to be enthusiastic about it for networking/job interviews

e) sexism in the industry

f) in general, a sense of immaturity both on the development/architectural side, but also on a personal level in most places/conferences

g) networking has more to do with success than actual skills, at least in business school you learn that from the get go

Maybe I'm just getting old and want to scream at kids to get off my lawn.
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Probably no pedantic asshole corrected me when I was a kid and now it's a habit.
Aight, so I heard about the post 2000s lawsuits but didn't understand the grounds on which LEGO was able to sue.
We could have used this last week. A pole was damaged (I don't know how, just that it was damaged) and in the middle of a sunny day we lost power for 1.5 hours. Really looking forward to this technology.
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>Is there some N such that BB(N) can produce any "arbitrarily large" number? Not infinity because that would mean it doesn't halt, but that there is no number which can not be exceeded by saying in effect "plus 1".

This would imply BB(n) is not well defined. To the contrary, BB(n) is finite for every n.
So far, I am not sure, but I think a flag in the manifest will allow a pure networking access ("Use the host network namespace").
I never knew about that page to this day. I left a 'happy' piece of feedback.
Should I have a serious issue, I'd probably look for a feedback page to report my problems, and would find it.

So I think the feedback there is seriously skewed towards "unhappy".
And last but not least: when disconnected solar panels are 'open circuit' and the voltages will rise very rapidly. You can arc-weld with two fully illuminated 48V panels in parallel.
If only the system were just about malware.

I remember when Chrome kicked any youtube-downloading extensions out of the chrome store. What happened? A few people downloaded non-chrome store extensions, but most of them downloaded the ones that were left in the store - the malware extensions that promised to download youtube but didn't. Huge spike in malware on Chrome installs that I saw.
> It was best summed up to me by a very smart friend when he said, "They are great Xerox Machines." Asians are great at copying and really good at predefined applications but culturally they are trained not to see how to solve problems from the start. They copy well.

"They"? Good job over-generalizing one billion individuals.
I'm wondering how the EFF feels about this, amogst others.

HTTPS Everywhere is currently only available via their website because it's actually securer than though AMO. If mozilla wall-gardens firefox in the interest of security, I guess they've got some serious issues to settle.

I also wonder bit what happens to developers who need a small userbase to tests their alphas/betas before publishing, as well as custom-built extensions.
> And I'm sure he'll be the first to want the government to step in when his hotel starts blocking personal hotspots.

Why do you say this? When have I ever indicated this? If it is possible for a hotel to block RF that I want to transmit or receive, then obviously I have checked into the wrong hotel.
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Reminds me of Moonwalking with Einstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_With_Einstein
OT - What is the OS used in the screenshot we see? Is it the version of Kubuntu he talks about or is it something else? or even a theme on Windows?
Every hire is so crucial early on and one bad hire can really set you back. I know from my experience that early hires are typically done through connections rather than recruitment. I am sure there are very qualified candidates overseas but finding the right guy would be seemingly much more difficult without any prior knowledge or experience with the candidate.

I am sure this is very dependent on the company and technology. But generally every startup I have worked at has depended on a core group of developers early and they usually had some prior history or at least connection.

I can imagine this might be different for founders without a tech background... and anecdotally that appears to be true (non tech founders appear to be more open to outsourced development). That's pure speculation.
I was wondering how hard it is to get actual vote data. I want a tool that lets me vote on issues I care about and compare my own preference against actual representatives to see how well I'm actually represented on issues that have actually come before them.

There was a tool out prior to the last election that tried to do this, but it compared your preference on divisive issues (like abortion or immigration) to parties - not actual vote records and individual congress critters.
That is useless advice. More so, it is hurtful advice. "Get a long night sleep" is not always an option. And the person above is clearly asking "When a long night of sleep is not an option, what else can I do?" We all know there are professions (fire fighters, police, soldiers, nurses, doctors, computer programmers, etc) where it is sometimes necessary to work extreme hours. And the question being asked is clearly, how do you keep operating when you have to work extreme hours? If you have no answer, then don't post anything, and let others answer.
(From your comment to this:) "It took me an entire extra year just to get one class I needed to graduate"

Yeah, from what I've read, a lot of state schools are much less of a bargain than they appear because they simply don't care if you can really graduate in 4 years. The private school I went to would move heaven and earth to make this possible, deal with unexpected overflows in majors (you could pick any and change to any as you wished), etc., which is one of the things you pay the big bucks for.

I have something akin: gross parental betrayal I didn't cotton onto soon enough, resulting in my fruitlessly mostly wasting a decade trying to get the necessary undergraduate science degree, which includes useful recommendations for graduate school, i.e. lower tier schools aren't good for this, for the career I'd prepared for starting in 1st grade. Programming and system administration were just things I was good at, but I didn't truly dedicate myself to programming until all that drama was over, with a huge opportunity cost. Never tried to learn a lot of more pure CS when that would have been a possibility, then again I started seriously studying software engineering in high school.

Also thinking I had plenty of time to work things out; turns out I have a genetic disability that permanently took me out of the work force in my early-mid '40s (picking a date is hard because it started when I was 37 and I turned 41 when the dot-com crash made finding employment very hard).

I.e. make the most of the here and now without foreclosing on the future (as I've seen others now regret).
Honestly? Refuse. In my experience, there are very few situations where crunch time affects the bottom line. There are some, to be sure, but chances are slim that you have stumbled upon it. More likely, someone higher up got impatient and is driving this. I have worked many a Saturday nights until 3-4 am to try to launch a site on Monday, just to learn that there was going to be a month long delay because someone else didn't do something. I had a deadline of "we are launching this thing on Friday"... for 12 weeks straight (finally launched it once it was truly ready a year later).

For working weekends, I've adopted a policy of roughly one weekend a year. That's how often I believe true emergencies happen (at least for most situations; Google SRE need not apply).

Look, if it's an isolated incident, take some breaks, find something to distract and relax you, get sleep. If it's a second or third attempt to get the team to crunch hard, quit.
> Are you an anarchist?

I don't think it's quite that simple. I like simple, pragmatic solutions. Generally, yes, I think that the internet(s) will replace government, and I think that this situation is desirable.

I'm concerned that the government will arm the skies and that the people on the ground will become targets. I think that's a reasonable concern.

It makes more sense to me to ban weapons in the skies altogether. Whatever happens, I think it's important that there's one set of rules for everyone, whether they happen to be acting on behalf of the 'state' or not.
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I find this unbelieveable too. Developers being unable to test the addons in the same browser that end-users use is stupid.

That aside, I honestly can't see the value of the developer edition at all.
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But BitCoin community is against abusing the financial block-chain for general purpose [0]. Reducing bloat is good, but why bloat it in first place?

[0] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_chain#Objective
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Finding talent is one of the biggest challenges facing my startup and most at the moment (and most/ all other start ups I know).

I would rather hire someone who I can meet face to face most days as you just don't get the same dialogue working remotely as you do when you're sitting on the same table. This is coming from someone who as worked as a consultant working mostly remotely for the last 6-8 years, and I did a degree remotely.

If I can't find a quality JS dev in London (it's not as easy as you would assume, but then I've only just raised money), then I'm willing to outsource portions. Still have a number of options!
If you are burned out, it may very well be that you will miss that 'hard deadline'. However, very few deadlines in life are really 'hard' (as in you will lose your life if you don't meet the deadline.) Talk to the folks who have set the deadline to see if it can be rescheduled. If they cannot or will not reschedule your deadlines, then resign yourself to the consequences of the missed deadline and start thinking of your life beyond the deadline. If it is some sort of application deadline, remember these sorts of deadlines are artificial. You can always apply the next round. Or a different opportunity will arise. All the best. Don't make burnout worse by stressing about deadlines. If missing the deadline isn't going to result in your death or the death of a loved one, it's not a final deadline.
I would like to see the claim about state of John Kerry's penis be backed up by a credible source. Thanks to the American anti-masturbation movement there's a fairly good chance he too has been a victim of genital mutilation.
You have obligations to your team and your company and yourself that just can't put off.

Yes, and they have obligations to you. Notably, not to kill you. That's the level of seriousness you're looking at - people who push through chronic fatigue (or adrenal fatigue) and carry on working extended hours without proper rest run quite a significant risk of death. Accept the fact that you are now totally unproductive and (possibly) actually having a negative impact on the project.

Best solution: Find a freelancer to step in for a few weeks to give you a break.
Less good solution: cut your hours in half and hope the rest of the team can pick up the difference.
Denmark is not a socialist country, and they certainly have marketers, especially in multinational companies like Lego. In fact, their current CMO held the same position at Revlon before joining them.
"I have always wanted to have add-ons vetted by someone I can trust."

That's fine, but what about those, who want to homebrew their own plug-ins, experiment with something from GitHub etc? Mozilla could make signed plug-ins a default choice, but not prevent others. A good model, imho, is implemented on Android -- your (only) default choice is Google Play, but if you know what you are doing, you can install any app from anywhere. This way users, that need a hand holding, are protected, but more tech savvy ones will not have their freedom denied.
Different theme as well, and some other things (like the preferences dialog).

Testing proper integration on those aspects will get pretty hard.
Everyone's giving different answers, which is not surprising. We all have different strategies for coping with unendurable burdens.

My strategy is sheer bloodymindedness, but I find I can only dredge that up so often. When I push through burnout when I know I shouldn't, I end up knackered for months.

It's an effort I can really only dredge up once a year or so. Make sure you talk to your boss about this.
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I have a tennis version of this. EVery day makes a huge difference.
not that I don't agree with all you say but... having lived under outright occupation by vast amounts of russian forces (former czechoslovakia), seeing how lack of freedom of speech, travel and... well just lack of freedom, centrally planned everything and the rest of it screws up entire generation of people, I would still opt for US.

But that's the thing, that goes thought topics here too - US stepped down, and is continuing downwards, from "that hunky good friend of yours that you don't piss off and do what he says, and all is more than OK, otherwise he'll steal your lunch and breaks your leg" to simply lesser of all evils... BRAVO :(
A hard cardio workout, followed by a 20 min sauna, followed by a healthy meal... every morning. Tell yourself burnout is childish, and you're simply stepping up and doing what needs to be done. Then do it. Don't over think it. That's a big part of what burnout is, just refuse to play that mind game.
I've heard similar versions of this story, with the added anecdote being that the use of diluted alcohol as antifreeze wasn't unheard of prior to the use of ethylene glycol becoming commonplace.

That ties into the anecdotes of Parisians shouting "Viva Le Prestone!"[1] as troops moved through their city - each Jeep had "Prestone" stenciled on the hood, partially to mark that it'd been treated with antifreeze, and partially to warn GIs against attempting to drink it.

[1] http://www.300thcombatengineersinwwii.com/summer09.html (scroll down to the notes from Warren Chancellor.)
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Hey buddy. You're killing it man. Thanks for all that you do.

One thing I've still not grokked about your vision: What kind of redundancy can you expect for the DHT? It seems clear that, for the foreseeable future, there will be millions of copies of the bitcoin blockchain. How can you know that there will be a sufficient number of copies, distributed in a sufficiently diverse pattern, in order to ensure preservation of the DHT?
Such as these? http://www.batterystuff.com/batteries/golf-cart-products/

I don't really see orders of magnitude jumps in power/$. Or am I looking for the wrong thing?