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"And generalists aren't supposed to make such money."

I think the general modus operandi for the freelance economy is the generalists are supposed to find capital and customers, and hire the freelancers. If they do their job right, the generalists (owners) can make a lot of money. They just don't fit as easily into niche jobs.
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A little correction from someone who happens to wear one: An actual Timex will probably run you $30-50, depending on how good a deal you find. Walmart knockoffs are cheaper, but much less durable; I bought one once, and the face was almost unreadably scratched within a month.

It's not a piece of jewelry, i.e. a status symbol, but it's comfortable, inconspicuous, and functional. It gives me the date and time at a glance, is accurate, times things, and has an alarm. I can strap it on my wrist and forget about it, because it lasts years on a single battery, and endures in the face of dust, water, scrapes, and bumps.

I actually think Pebble is going in the right direction here, with longer battery life and color e-ink, but smart watches have a long ways to go before they can compete with plain old digital watches. I have to worry about charging and protecting my phone, as I would with a smart watch, but my current dumb-watch is entirely worry-free.
Haha me too! I think that it's rapidly converging on Austin though. Getting more expensive every year, more condos going up, etc.
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What's the tool/project? If it's popular and you're struggling, a lot of folks may not know about it and may step up to help out.
Not to mention the recording of your surroundings, and audio from before and after the query.

Such a recording contains quite a bit more than your average search engine query.
Let me ask you this - how would I use citusdb in such a way that it does not become a tax on my growth?

In other words, big data usually precedes big revenue, but most data products are priced per datum not per revenue.

So to put in indelicately, who can afford this and if they could, why would they? (after all those who could afford it, eg: bloomberg have strong reasons not to)
All humans are born into situations from which they benefit, without having previously earned or merited it, and for which they have obligations, also without having previously agreed to it.

Since that aspect of human nature seems to me impossible to change, my attitude is to try to live with both benefits and obligations I have "inherited".
There are a few major problems with this "research."

1. Asking what people "prefer" does not reflect what they actually use.

2. Textbooks are very different from the books most people read

3. College students are in a conspicuous time of life when physical books are more readily available than eBooks (and often free). That doesn't hold true for most of life.

> Digital media are failing, especially eBooks are

I'm not sure where you're getting your data, but I think all of these anecdotes are highly exaggerated.

Amazon began selling more E-Books than physical books back in 2011. [1]

To be fair, I, along with millenials prefer reading physical books. They're nicer on your eyes, you get to "feel" them -- print is a great medium.

But I now read exclusively on my iPad and eBook.

Why? When I want to read something I want to read it now, and I don't want to end up with a library of crap I have to move around.

Textbooks are particularly terrible in electronic formats. The formatting is never right, graphics are always messed up, code often has line breaks in weird places, etc. If I were still in college studying CS, of course I would get the physical copies. But I'm not, so I don't.

>They started printing out their photos again
I don't want to counter anecdote with anecdote, but I can't find any empirical data on number of photos printed, so I'm forced to. I literally don't know anyone who has printed more than a dozen photos in the past couple years (with the rare "year in photos" photobook exception).

>They have huge DVD collections
I have friends whose kids didn't know what a DVD is. Most people I know have some DVDs laying around, but I feel like you're vastly overstating the prominence of physical media.

I even ditched my vinyl record collection for Spotify - it didn't provide enough value to lug it around

I would guess I'm on the "early adopter" end of the spectrum (as well as a bit of a minimalist), but the notion of physical products that we own and lug around seems to be clearly on the way out, as not only electronic but "in the cloud" media take over.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/technology/20amazon.html?_...
A similar thing was done with Siri and a garage door a while ago: http://delian.io/siri-open-the-garage

It's curious that in both cases you actually have to create a special app to enable any custom behavior from your phone. It would be nice if there were a bit more extensibility in these automated assistant/search/whatever thingies.
* Eat well. Make sure you're getting enough calories, good fats, protein, iron, B vitamins, vitamin C, etc

* Sleep well. Different people need different amounts. Mine is 7 hours.

* Exercise daily. Even if walking for 10 minutes.

* Take good care of your teeth and floss daily. For whatever reason, this seems to be a pivot thing for me. If I'm taking care of my teeth everything falls into place, kind of like the famous Adm. McRaven speech on making your bed every morning.

Most importantly:

* Reduce your sensory inputs to increase your mindfulness. Stop checking the web every 20 minutes. Stop checking your phone every 10 minutes. Stop listening to podcasts on your commute. Let your mind sit and calm itself. If you're like most of the HN demographic, you're probably trying to fill it with information constantly. Stop that. Learn to say "no" to the needless.
So, consider "Hey, tomorrow is angersock's 34th birthday! We're organizing a surprise party in his hometown of jonestown!".

Now, they've given away my age, birthdate, and where I was born. That's the sort of information that, while private and something I don't give away, they know and give away without thinking.
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As I understand, they didn't write a formal proof, but only the pre- and post-conditions, along with loop invariants. The formal proof was then completed by automatic theorem provers.

There has been some research into contracts inference, but with very limited results. Even if you added all the pre- and post-conditions manually, I'm not sure loop invariants could be inferred (especially as they can get pretty complex).
firefox.exe -p -new-instance

Should open a new instance of Firefox in the profile dialog, where you can create a new profile.

I'm not sure about "-new-instance". I've only used -no-remote but the release notes say remote commands have been removed. Some quick research turned up -new-instance as a substitute.
Where in Manhattan did you live?

I'm going to guess Washington Heights.
You trust them? How do you know this just makes you more suspicious and gives them more of an illogical basis for placing you under increased surveillance.
This conclusion seems very, very misguided. Literally anyone around can know better what a girl that age is planning than her father. I think the whole article understimates very much the amount of useful information that can computers can infer. Reliable models take time to develop, so intelligence agencies are overwhelmed with false positives, but I'm increasingly confident they will get there. Target is a good POC - though it operated on a much smaller and simpler data sets, it also demonstrated how much interesting knowledge can you get out of the data.
If you're wondering what the heck SSA is: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~keith/512/2013/Lectures. Specifically this one: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~keith/512/2013/Lectures/11InfoChains.... The folks at Rice have the most approachable material on program optimization I've come across.
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The most likely explanation is that it doesn't work. Bootstrapped companies are very strapped for cash. They often use a distributed team early on. if a distributed team worked, at least some startups would continue on the model - after all it's in the company culture and muscle memory. And we would hear about them. (especially when they succeed really big.)

We do, sometimes hear from them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7134592

I currently work at bootstrapped, distributed and profitable startup.
This year we did appx $15mm in rev.
http://www.inc.com/profile/buysellads (member of the Inc. 500)

So the question is: does this distributed model work for others? Others don't often report in. (And does it work for succeeding really big?)

Maybe it's the term I'm looking, but look through this: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=distributed%20bootstrapped&sor...

As you scroll down try to piece together the story you're seeing. Click through to the companies. As I read it, hiring seems to be one of their biggest challenges. They're just not growing as much as they would like.

18 people in an office can build a $1 billion company with 10 million+ users in 18 months. (instagram.)

What's the closest a distributed team has come to that?
I think the main thing from this claim is that the audio is shared with third parties.
I'm a trust agent on Bitrated, a big fan of the project. Centralization makes it easier to get a system like this off the ground, so this is a great start.

I'm also the operations lead on another project, OpenBazaar. It's a decentralized network for trade that includes the same type of system as Bitrated. It's not as far along, or well polished, because decentralization is really hard to build.

Only time will tell if these types of systems will be more popular centralized, decentralized, or perhaps a federated model in-between.
For me its not necessarily a raw measure of just time saved.

I realized that the physical habit that we've all developed of pulling our phones, unlocking , checking time or messages etc is a really really annoying physical habit.

It's disruptive and awkward to do, interrupts conversations or basic interactions with things in your environment.

A two handed fumbling time check/message check becomes a no handed operation with a smart watch.

I don't actually check my messages any more often, in fact less, since the notification is actually much more obvious then phones chirping in a pocket and my decision about whether to handle the information now or later is just much more quick and fluent.
> All humans are born into situations from which they benefit, without having previously earned or merited it, and for which they have obligations, also without having previously agreed to it.

But that is by choice of those who choose to give birth to those people, not those who are born. You bequeath those benefits onto the recipient (both as a society and as parents) by creating/sustaining the environment into which they're born.

> Since that aspect of human nature seems to me impossible to change, my attitude is to try to live with both benefits and obligations I have "inherited".

I as well, even though I might have disagreements with it. I don't have any qualms about the amount I contribute into social security yearly (My income surpasses the max contribution limit), nor that I have to support both of my parents because of their poor life and financial choices.

The only recourse I have is to ensure that any children I have are as burden-free as possible. I'm not just giving them the gift of life, but the gift of freedom, which is equally priceless.
You got lucky.

Right now the average processing time for PERM is 8 months (235 days): http://dolstats.com/ and it used to be worse (government shutdown). Also preparing PERM takes some time and it can't be speeded up. So it can take well over a year just to get PERM and it doesn't take it account risk that you will have to start over for any reason (e.g. change jobs, change in company legal or organizational structure, HR got busy, someone involved in the process like manager change jobs).
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I wonder if they are getting the usual 5% or if there's some sort of partnership based on the two companies' histories together.
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It sounds like they were trying to enjoy suburbia in NYC. Why in the world would you buy a luxury car here? As the anecdote points out, you're never going to drive the damn thing anywhere fun.
and you live in a frikin mansion 10 minutes commute to work (if you live in Alpharetta)

Yeah, but then you have to live in Alpharetta. Would be nice to see more jobs ITP. I currently work for a large enterprise company, at an office in Roswell (our office was moved here from Alpharetta a few months before I started) and I see lots of people (including me) commuting up. I'm coming up 400 the whole way so it's not too horrible. But I don't think it's a coincidence that the people who have to use the east side of 285 (we have lots of people who live in or near Decatur) work from home a lot. Still, it beats living in San Francisco... I actually moved here from SF when my wife and I realized there was no way we could afford to settle down there.
"it's not a bland gadget"

I pulled up an images search of the apple watch and the white watch looks almost identical to the new pebble, to the point of "oh oh someone's gonna get sued".

I claim that a dude on the street at a glance is not going to be able to tell the difference between an iWatch and the pebble. Maybe with a couple minutes of study or if they have a watch hobby / fetish they'll notice quicker...

So is the trash talking about the pebble's style simply astroturfing or are there specific complaints that can be addressed (I'd respect someone who said it needs a Disney Frozen sticker or My Little Pony branding. I'd disagree, but I'd respect it a lot more than providing no specific data other than the mfgr label defining what makes it cool)
I am saying two things. One, that the differences highlighted in the article do not predict the observed women participation rates in SV startups (i.e. the correlation of GRE scores could stay the same, but the participation baseline still increase 10%). In fact, the numeric difference he mentions (19% men, 6% women passing the cutoff) is a 3x difference, while the participation difference is more than 6x. So at best, it can explain less than half the effect.

Two, and this is the more important point, I absolutely claim that low numeric GRE scores and low workplace success might have some common cause, as I explained in my description of the feedback. That cause is not pre-graduation -- its effect is. Low participation in the industry causes fewer women to be drawn to the field, to be less interested in math etc.

I just want to point out what it is that I don't claim: I don't say that there is no significant innate difference in math abilities between men and women. Maybe there is and maybe there isn't. But its existence -- if it exists -- cannot nearly account for the huge gender gap we see in SV, doubly so because participation rates have been dropping since the eighties.
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I see font rendering in linux is still pretty horrible.
This is an ok introduction, but for a much much better introduction check out the book "Conceptual Mathematics". It does a little better than using abstract words like 'objects' (which has a particular connotation for programmers).
To be clear, I don't claim that non-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies do not have value. You're right that their de facto value is revealed through trading activity on exchanges. I view value as subjectively revealed by market prices, not through any sort of labor theory of value or other nonsense.

I'm arguing that non-Bitcoin CCs don't really add any marginal value to the CC ecosystem, and that it's inherently unstable for multiple CCs to coexist. Whatever rationalizations people are making to justify mining Litecoin and holding onto it (ignoring sunk costs of Scrypt ASICs) are inconsistent with reality.
I got your automated email and came to HN to see what others were saying about Do ... found nada. Like a half dozen links posted with no comments. I'm planning to play with it -- I just hope it doesn't confuse the home/life automation crowd by splitting into two apps. It's already a really fragmented ecosphere.
This deserves an infinite number of upvotes. Read this last year, then bought a copy as a reference. Really great stuff :)
Very sexy.

Though the band ruins it for me, as I wear my fitness tracker while doing actual fitness. The rubberized Garmin Vivofit can handle the beatings.
> You could live exactly where you wanted to live.

Until that awesome employer has layoffs and your options get really limited out in Nowhere, UT.
Pretty astounded at the changes they made to ES6 generators. Twenty-two times faster[1] is incredible

[1]: https://wingolog.org/archives/2014/11/14/generators-in-firef...
That Kickstarter policy update was in response to the rising levels of failed projects on the site. It was an attempt to fight off bad press. Of course, it turned out to be pretty toothless (Just take a look at the joke of a 'risks' section of almost any kickstarter project. That section was also introduced by this udpate).

I'd agree with you that Pebble probably have a better chance than most at delivering on their promises, but as people have commented elsewhere, Pebble are only really back on KS as a promotional exercise. This is not really comparable to most other KS projects.

Still, it's one rule for them, another for everyone else. KS are doing well out of this promo too.

Perhaps someone should go and report Pebble for their other rule-breaking? Those watch pictures at the top of the page are clearly computer renderings. "If a simulation or photorealistic rendering is discovered after a project launches, that project will be canceled." :)
I doubt that's Openbox. It would be one of the many tiling / dynamic WM's out there (DWM, Awesome, i3, Xnomad, etc).

As for which WM specifically, it would be impossible to say for certainty since every one of them can be configured to look like the other - so only the OP would know for sure.

I'd speculate that you're right about Linux, but only because the article exampled was about ArchLinux. However that could be a red herring and the aforementioned WMs would also compile on most modern *nixes (or at the very least, a few of the notable BSDs)
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I'm also surprised Atlanta isn't on the list. I live here for now, but my main gripe is that there isn't much to do in or near the city. We don't have any worthwhile natural features like mountains, lakes, or beaches, and the cultural scene (museums, etc) is a joke.
> Runtime information.[n] The runtime needs accurate maps of stack frames for both GC and stack copying, something that is not available from standard backends today.

This is now incorrect as far as LLVM is concerned. LLVM has experimental support for late safepoint placement (contributed by Azul), which allows copying GC and relocating stacks: http://llvm.org/docs/Statepoints.html
Sure I trust them. The moment it's discovered that they've failed to hold up their end of the bargain, they're out $30 x some significant percentage of the users of that service per month. That's not chump change (to say nothing of the potential class action lawsuit for utterly failing to hold up a contract while continuing to charge customers for the services stipulated in said contract).
From a moral point of view, this is actually how it should be done. But the thing is, for one it is easier to get money from someone who has it than from someone who has not. Then there is also a nasty political debate hidden in there, about how you as a community should take care of each other in order to prosper. That poor driver may really depend on that road paid by others to make a living on his own, and you as a government will gladly bend the rules a little bit off from what's equitable for everyone, otherwise those poor bastards (becoming jobless and having too much time on their hands) will make unpleasant noise, unlike the quiet (wealthy and mostly happy) payers. After all, you wish to keep your political seat AND appear as a good caretaker which governs for the people, right? And finally, the reality is not always in harmony with our sense of justice, and if the you're not going to pay for infrastructure of remote areas that have poor economical prospective (...or corruption, or what not), the infrastructure in those areas will most likely collapse, for not having enough means of self-sustenance. The country is like an organism that should take care of its organs to prevent falling apart, no mater what.
"Having to restart after installing an extension is another. Every time I see the request, I can't help lose a bit of respect for it."

Restart-less add-ons have been around for long years, so if you see one that wants you to restart Fx, you can blame it on the addon's creator (I know there may be some edge cases where it is a must, but those are pretty rare).
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But is this the best pedagogical approach to teaching this area?

In the book "Conceptual Mathematics" the concrete example is finite sets and mapping between finite sets. That is way more understandable than 'objects' and 'how to go from one object to another'. It's just too abstract for a general audience I believe.
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Alpharetta is great (if you are 35+ with kids)

Not so great if you are a young couple before having kids and want to have some city action, I agree...
I think that most ITP jobs are more tending toward younger startups, Rails, Python etc. Alpharetta is much more enterprise / Java / .NET, funny how your tech stack needs to change dramatically based on where you choose to live...

I actually think the cooler jobs are midtown ;)
Interesting choices:

> half of Americans claim creationism explains the existance of man

This is a fantastic explanation, it just doesn't originate from science.

> 50% of Americans think there was a wider conspiracy behind the assassination of JFK.

This is a perfectly logical thing to believe even in the absence of evidence. It's reasonable for any assassination of a prominent figure.

> 35% of Americans think that global warming is a hoax.

This topic is super-politicized. Uncritical acceptance would be unreasonable (and many do accept one side of this without questioning it). Most people aren't going to do any research into the topic. The 65% who believe global warming probably didn't do any research either.

I think it's not even very fair to call these 'odd beliefs'.
I'm surprised to see this as well. Alternatively: by road, Raleigh is equidistant from Philadelphia and Atlanta.
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Can someone explain HN's front page algorithm? This is on the front page with 0 comments & 4 points.
> What's the closest a distributed team has come to that?

Tough comparison since so few companies embrace remote work, but see Automattic.

> does it work for succeeding really big

For really big companies there's always only so many people in any given city that you can hire. What's interesting is that most office based teams are effectively distributed in the collaborative work that they do with offices in other cities, yet they don't embrace individual distributed workers.
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