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Our app is iOS and Android. When we implement cross-platform libraries we use C, specifically C11 because it is supported by both platforms.

We do not and will not make any effort to support MSVC. Failure to compile our libraries may have an impact on our already easy decision to disregard Windows Phone/Surface.

You are the ones fighting for developer mindshare these days. The onus is on you to justify making more work for people when your company would dearly like those people to consider porting their apps to Windows.
Good writeup. I posted it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9463254.
>Microsoft will support .NetCore for at least 20 years. Without doubt.

On Windows for sure. Not on *nix though.
If you want to talk about low overhead redundancy schemes based on Reed Solomon coding, let me know, we used them to halve disk space requirements in QFS as opposed to HDFS (with no loss in reliability), and it could be stretched arbitrarily far to get at least some redundancy with an arbitrarily small overhead.
When you're poor -- and specifically when your low income is unreliable -- money is (or at least feels) perishable. Been there. Worked as a security guard in college for a company that was riding the JIT staffing idea (it was the Hot New Thing of the day; this was the mid 90s) so I had no idea how many hours I'd have in a given week.

So when you don't have reliable income, money just kind of starts disappearing because you fall through the cracks of the banking system. Low balance? Service fee. Cut things too close with that rent check? Overdraft fee. Can't deposit your check in the bank because you literally need the money today to pay a bill and it will take three days to clear? Check-cashing fee.

As a result, you get conditioned (especially if this is the only way of handling money you've ever known) to think "crap, this money is going to disappear pretty soon -- better spend it now so I'll at least have stuff rather than have it get taken away." Luckily I joined the military and took their personal finance classes later, but I still (20 years later) have bad financial habits I have to consciously check from that time in my life.
The OP said:

"Don't pay them. Nothing at all happens if you don't pay medical bills. Just ignore the bill collectors, don't answer the calls or even open the envelopes."

I took that to mean ignore any court summons as well.
Really shows the incredible privilege and connections he had, so early in his life, that catapulted FB over all the other budding social networks.

It's always about who you know to give your work wings (which is apt, since his project was a social network)
This is an amazingly fun game. This reminds me of the first (and only fun) stage of spore.
A clique, a subreddit, a treehouse, a coffeehouse, a salon, a third place, a safe space, inside the magic circle...
It's not exactly a package manager (it doesn't do proper dependency management) but for development I absolutely love Scoop[1]. It makes it so simple to get tools for Windows command line without Cygwin.

Disclaimer: I'm a contributer

[1]: http://scoop.sh/
Is there someone else thinking of installing Visual Studio and the full stack required to develop .NET but is a bit scared of filling their system with many GB of stuff that is probably not immediately necessary and installing services that will probably not be of use anytime soon, slowing their machine down and making it not as "versatile" anymore as they would like it to stay?

Of the times I installed VS in past, just to toy with it, I remember that after installing it I immediately had many ram eager services loading at startup and had a dozen items more in "installed applications" and whatnot which were all strictly interconnected making always hard to find - in case you wanted to remove the full thing - if you managed to do it fully.

..what version of VS would you suggest to install anyway?
I feel like I've had the same issues with hotels in general. Internet is commonly subpar, down, or inaccessible in the room. In some countries it was still common to have wired Internet or maybe wifi only in the lobby (sucks if you only brought an iPad with you).
> and this will-inevitably- lead to reductions in eligibility and payments, including what treatments are avialable from the health system.

I was in Oz a couple of weeks ago and the government announced they're "reviewing" Medicare. The way they kept stressing that they're working with doctors and it's not a cost-cutting exercise made it painfully obvious they're going to do cost-cutting.
Anyone notice the irony?

Okay, a few days ago it was, "I'm gonna rent this out for some extra money".

Now the vocabulary has amusingly changed to "our sanctuary".

I somehow don't associate the word with FOR RENT signs. A sanctuary is literally a sacred place. That precludes it being a marketplace. (At least according to an obvious Western/Christian interpretation of "sacred place", pretty much in effect since old J. C. cleansed that temple of the traders and money changers.)
"I feel exhausted, struggle to concentrate and find myself procrastinating.."

That sounds like the problem. Not that you are 33 or your co-workers are younger. You should find out what is up with the concentration and procrastination, take steps to address that, and forget about age. At 33 I don't think that is the issue.
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Let me know if you want to chat sometime (email in profile). I run https://sysadmincasts.com/. Nice to talk to someone doing the same thing ;)
AirBnB refunds you when they fail to deliver the advertised product... Right?

Or do they just keep your money and tell you find a legal hotel somewhere else next time?
You can use CrossWalk to ensure you have the same Chrome version across all Android devices. That said, it does make the APK very heavy.
i used airbnb once for a trip to europe, and one of the hosts cancelled on me the night before, causing me to scramble to find a hotel that was wildly overpriced. the next airbnb in the other city was run by a couple of weirdos who i didn't feel comfortable interacting with.

i'm never using it again - seriously, what is the advantage here? given the very real risk that someone can cancel on you, or simply make you feel creeped out, why would i choose this over reliable commercial accommodations when traveling thousands of miles? cheap hotels are just fine, and they don't cancel reservations on a whim.
I just wanted to say that I have read and thought about your article many times over the last few years; you and I have some similar ideas.

I had wanted to read it again a few months ago, but my google-fu failed me. Thanks for linking it here.
Yeah, their JIT stuff is like 30 years old at this point...
First: Don't worry too much, it's bad for your health.

You can read some filtered versions like:

Best (less gravity): https://news.ycombinator.com/best

100points (filtered): https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100

Last: As a public service, please check Newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest from time to time to pick interesting stories before they disappear unnoticed. It's nice to be the first to upvote a story and see it later in the front page.
another rather awkward presentation from the zuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCuvzENr4oY
You have to go through a refund process. If they host doesn't agree to the refund, it goes through arbitration which takes a long time and is kind of pain.

They are supposed to find you alternative accommodation, but they didn't for me when my host cancelled <24 hours before I was supposed to arrive, or when my friends were staying in an AirBnb when the host was evicted(!).
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This needs to start long before high school (much of a person's personality, including how they view money, is already locked in by that point).

Personally I believe elementary is the place to start education about essential life skills, which include dealing with money (budgeting, saving and investing). And that education should continue throughout until high school graduation.
If you really go back and do some digging into the roots of facebook, you'll be amazed at how much press he got early on. He supposedly offered to do computer support work for the Harvard Crimson and in return he got press connections. Even before he launched thefacebook, he was getting write ups with facemash.
I can imagine a million things that would be annoying for the home owner, but would not be considered crimes or anything that would get you a reimbursement. Guests smoking in a non-smoking home. Leaving a big mess, but not damaging anything. That's the price of renting your place.

As soon as something is stolen or damaged, though, I would hope that AirBnB would cover it no matter how small.
Him being on CNBC had nothing to do with privilege, Facebook had 100,000 users at this point (also, what about the other guy that was interviewed? His startup failed. So much for his privilege).
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Secret was legitimately controversial, sure.

However, those headlines (in my opinion) were chalk full of hyperbole and amounted to a campaign of vilification.
> other city was run by a couple of weirdos who i didn't feel comfortable interacting with.

you can also pick to rent the whole unit to avoid interacting with the host.

but yeah, imo airbnb is hit-or-miss now
Neat! The semi-persistant decks are a nice feature and will no doubt prove useful for any form of long-lasting multiplayer games. My query though, why send the image url by default? it seems like an overhead that can be done without. How random are the results likely to be?
Awesome! Will do Justin.
I'm extremely excited to check this out! I really like the idea of translators, and low and behold when I log in there's a tutorial on them in root's home directory! I might switch to this if the ui is bearable enough.
Runtime performance for Agda... well, it leaves a lot to be desired, at least with respect to the MAlonzo compiler. For example, operations on the natural numbers à la Data.Nat get very slow very quickly-- but while the representation used by Data.Bin speeds things up a lot, you just can't do the same Peano-style structural induction on it.
Please.

Your comment only has any punch because you made it on one of the rare negative outcomes. And you could have made it after any similarly rare disaster. Their home could have been trashed after letting a friend stay. After having a cleaner come by. After a plumber. After they left the door unlocked. After somebody broke in when they went away on vacation. And you could have said, "Well duh, what were you thinking leaving your house unoccupied."

Life is risk. Running around and acting smart after the negative outcomes is boring and easy. It's the same game played by the vast number of people who explain why a startup could never work after the startup has already failed.
Court summons come registered mail, and are from the court, not from a bill collector.

Obviously you should open mail from a court.
Actually that's not quite correct. The knapsack problem has 2 constraints: weight and (traditionally) "utility." This problem has 3 constraints - weight, volume and utility. That probably makes the problem more tractable.
I wonder if anybody has made a 'choose your own community' site. You choose how many people you're given access to (say, 100, 10K, 100K, 1M+) and the only information you get is from those who are nearest to you in location and interests (based on an adjustable scoring algorithm) and anybody you've previously conversed with.

Smaller communities could make for more specialized content, and everybody living on the edge of a bubble means theres plenty of opportunity for valuing middleman-style culture sharing (AKA reposts.)
Wow, I had no idea people felt like that.

That's like the WORST possible way to run your finances if you want to get out of poverty!
I don't know about any major project. I was waiting for MS to commit to running CLR on Linux (or any unix like clone) so that I can consider the CLR languages seriously (I am very interested in F# in particular).
Airbnb is great when traveling with a larger group (family, colleagues of the kind you'd want to share a house with, etc). There are plenty of cities where cheap apartment hotels that do short-term bookings basically don't exist, often for legal reasons. (I'm looking at you, Singapore and Tokyo.) When traveling with young kids, meaning you need a kitchen, a washing machine and more space than the average Japanese business hotel, Airbnb has been a lifesaver.
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True, and you need inordinate amount of luck too. Stars have to line up just perfectly. There were other viable social networks that were much more engaging than FB at the time, but FB worked quickly to capitalize on their traction and momentum. Have to give them credit for that.
I don't know that I agree, but hyperbolic headlines and vilification are different than manufactured controversy. The difference being that with the latter there's no sincerity.
Sometimes you don't know how much you value your sanctuary until you've lost it.
For sure; my meaning was that since their volume wouldn't be as high typically, it may not be worth operating the fleet (whereas if every day was launch day, perhaps it would be). Basically I agree with you.
Possibly from a purely financial perspective, but unlikely from a holistic perspective.

The headaches involved with owning aeroplanes would be immense. They're large expensive heavily-regulated mechanical beasts.
To me it comes off as a kind of PSA for Vice's 20-something target audience. There's nothing really new to take away if you're generally familiar with the current understanding of how the brain develops, and if you've experienced adolescence.

It's a given that mental health is difficult to understand and will be for a long time. How can a human fully grasp the pathology of another brain? To get reach even a basic understanding requires a lot of individual time and effort.

But prevention - that's something we all might be able to do something about. Mental illnesses are systemic and build up from patterns of stress that we deal with in youth and adolescence. This researcher mentioned social "risk factors" like poor engagement and sheltering. But I can't help but suspect that the sheer scale of modern society is just not something we are designed to cope with. People thrive with structure, and modern societies give us the curse of too much freedom and not enough guidance.

We're talking about illnesses that cost us $300 billion/year (in the US), more than twice that of all cancers [0]. Some kind of mental illness affects almost a fifth of adults. You can't look at this and not suspect that this is a disease of modernity. If we want to solve it, we need to solve society.

That's a bit bold, sweeping, and maybe tangential, but it's what I wanted to say.

[0] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/cost/index.shtml
You've been fired several times. Are you sure that maybe you don't have some sort of "doesn't play well with others" issue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9442157
Have you ever been laid off? Why was it a positive for you?
I thought the main benefit is supposed to be no head of line blocking in multiplexed streams.
What about Stylus (CSS-preprocessor) support?
Is the last part actually part of the paradox, or just a funny quip at the end. I found that bit quite hilarious, I could imagine that fitting into a Monty Python sketch or something quite well.

>The next week, the executioner knocks on the prisoner's door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, was an utter surprise to him. Everything the judge said came true.
It might be a bit ironic that you focus on the immaturity of the host and/or journalist.
removed regrettable bit - but he or she is right about the options; ethically and legally, they could have continued to try to make it work, or they could shut down the company, sell the assets and distribute the proceeds to the creditors and then the owners of the company (the investors)

Really, one could ethically do either one of those things; it's just that depending on the situation and your perspective, well, probably one or the other is the better choice.

Now you seem to be arguing that the choice between continuing to run a company or not is not one that has an 'admirable' option. And maybe from you point of view, it doesn't really matter.

There's a stadium down the way from my house. when the football player makes a home run or whatever, well, personally, I don't see how that matters; I don't care, and I'm mildly pissed that I'm going to have to pay for the bonds to build the eyesore. But even so? I don't go to football forms and tell people that the large man getting the ball in the hole or whatever isn't an admirable achievement. It's the game those people want to play, and that's fine.

I personally find business really interesting, really in a similar way to the football fan. Most of this stuff doesn't really matter. Some of it does, but even that stuff doesn't matter as much as people say it does.

To me? the decision to give the money back to the founders, rather than shitting the money away when you know you have been beaten, is admirable because investors seem to select for overconfidence; quitting before you've spent every cent implies that you were able to project that overconfidence to the investors, but that you were able to remain a rational person.

I mean, it's not world peace, sure, but it implies some attributes which within the context of the business game are pretty important.
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> So at the scale of Apple

I suspect Apple's "scale" is a rounding error of air freight volume, and unlike - say - retail, there's very little consumer value-add for owning your own freighting service.
Don't people always say that you need to spend as much time promoting your product as building it?
Life is risk indeed, and by allowing strangers into your place without any supervision, you are significantly increasing the risk that something wrong can happen, don't you think ?

EDIT: Oh, and the startup comparison is silly, most people who run startups don't even put their own home at stake in case everything fails.
I think they will. I think we're slowly moving to a post-Windows Microsoft world and MS is taking a leap to be a big part of that through tools.

I do not think Windows will be a thing in 2025.
That's not a very high bar.
> He was actually strongly opposed to the idea initially.

Source? What changed his mind?
Oh dear, no.

Legislature is the business people. The executive is the developers. The judiciary is the test team. That's how it's designed in the Constitution. The "original intent" of the judiciary was to be the guys waving their hands frantically saying, "Uh, this is a bug," while being completely ignored because there's a ship date to meet.
It's a testament to Airbnb's PR that the people quoted here don't know about previous issues like:

http://gawker.com/man-unwittingly-rents-out-apartment-on-air...

http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-host-cant-get-squatter...
I think this is a good idea. There can be a change in the structure of where things are hosted (think moving the images to a CDN as traffic increases) which won't require a new client to find the optimized images.
They decided to call time and close up shop with money still in the bank (which has to be returned to the investors unless some other agreement with them is made, the founders can't just run off with it and donate it to the cat society), rather than keeping on running the company until they couldn't pay the bills anymore.
Thanks. I developed and used it as a utility in a bigger library that worked heavily with types, but later exported it to its own project so I could share it, after I realized how useful it was, even stand-alone.

It is very highly optimized, as performance was of critical importance.
Yes. People who have always done well have no idea how expensive it is to be poor.
Seems like a big success to me. The founders each took 3 million cash off the table on investment and now are closing up the company. Corporations are just a vehicle to make money after all, they got their pay day and ran.
> I'm sure many other people, when faced with roadblocks like these, create a do-nothing profile but don't bother deleting afterwards.

Or don't use playlists and find other websites.
We opted not to do any fancy encoding of the data, even though it would make it easier to store (we would need fewer volunteers).

Instead we store individual files whole and unencoded on each volunteer's machine, allowing the volunteer to make use of them as they see fit; no one has to be able to contact other volunteers in order to get useful data.

Of course, since each volunteer's client is downloading files at random, you may not end up with the exact file you wanted (to pick an example at random, perhaps you wanted the fifth reel of the soundex index of the 1880 US Census for the state of Tennessee, but you wanted a collection of Lois Armstrong records from the 1920s instead). This turns out not to be a problem, however, as anyone can use git annex to manually pull down any file in the backup that they want. It gets counted as a copy by the backup system along with all the rest, and increases the redundancy of the backup.
When I visited Argentina a few months ago, I saw remarkably many gold and silver shops in BA and elsewhere around the country.
Love the obsessive part :)
> Monthly payroll is illegal in California, for this reason

Monthly payroll is the usual in the UK. If you switched to weekly, most people wouldn't save enough to make their rent each month, where the trick on monthly income is to just front-load all the big expenses to just after you've been paid.
Oh yeah. They even have preview badge on the home page. I was just thinking they could have stated it little bit politely. Something sort of, if you are not comfortable sharing the logs then wait for 1.0. blah..

But who cares :-). Many are downloading and I have it too!
Light weight compared to VS proper, which on my mid-sized solution is sitting at 1.2GB, and 250MB with no files open.
I doubt it. Feedback systems are very powerful.
Was able to build it and run the HelloWorld.cs example. You need to build coreclr and corefx on windows for the managed components, since only the core cpp source can be built on linux at this time. You also need to install mono and grab nuget and use it to fetch a few packages. But all in all it feels fairly historic.

http://i.imgur.com/XyCB3uA.png
> ovechtrick is an ass for responding to me rather than you

It does seem odd that he/she did that, but maybe it was just a mistake.

Anyway, thank you + others - I understand now. I now see that donating to others wasn't an option, and that the choice was between a) running the company into the ground or b) returning the money to investors. Given that, I'm inclined to agree that b) is the admirable choice. And probably also the selfishly strategic one too.
Tox[1] is aiming to fill that gap. It works, and although it hasn't been properly audited (that I know), most people agree that it's reasonably secure and anonymous. It's also completely p2p with no federation of any kind.

It has a ways to go in the way of frontends and mobile support, but it works. The biggest feature it's missing is proper synchronization of your profile between devices (which is a development priority). That and it has a small network of users, so you won't be talking to your mom over Tox.

[1]: https://tox.im/
Whao man, that's pretty cool. VR vs holograms - i think holograms win.
How long until I can develop with Unity game engine from Linux?