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bitbucket also supports free private repos.

I'm not suggesting you shouldn't try or use this option (I've always been a fan of most of Microsoft's dev tools), but I've been using bitbucket as my "side project" source code control system for free (incl. private repos) for years.
Actually we are! We are a little unusual for having 50% female employees in a industry that is 99% male. I think I like the robots more than the humans most days though :)
Google Self-Driving Car Project
CSS: Thinking Outside the Box Model
Koenigseggs Nnew Regera Listed at $2.36M
He is in my industry, but unless you are into the modified truck world and go to SEMA every year you would probably not have heard of them.
I got into web dev before web dev degrees existed also. at the time a strong portfolio was certainly more than enough.

however, I'm talking about a time where they would hire anybody who knew a smidgen of HTML. and I wasn't straight out of high school. I had spent some time in the world of work first, proving that I could meet deadlines and handle responsibilities as a production artist and graphic designer. and for that matter, I went to a high school which got profiled on CNN as "the Harvard of high schools." I was studying both Ancient Greek and Latin at the age of 15 or 16.

so, although I did it without a degree, and I've met plenty of great programmers without degrees, or whose degrees are in linguistics or philosophy or film, I would have to say, the responsible thing to tell a high school kid is that a degree is pretty damn useful.

also, web dev has picked up a staggering amount of complexity in the intervening decades. think of all the perspective you would gain if you were to fully investigate, for example, the convoluted history of MVC - from the GUI, to Rails, and then back to the GUI via the browser, where we now have to host a kind of recursive MVC. or imagine having to make sense of JavaScript without knowing that the "Java" in the name was a marketing gimmick from 1997.

yet at the same time, most CS degrees appear to suck anyway, and many CS degrees probably even do severe and active harm, insofar as they encourage the bizarre anti-intellectualism prevalent in STEM culture. you're more likely to avoid an unthinking contempt for English majors, for example, if you never had to find out what a major was in the first place.

so, like anything in tech, there's tradeoffs.
On the other side of things, Apple has issued about $39 billion of its own bonds over the last couple years. A lot of it is longer term (30 years), but for the comparable bonds with 1-3 year maturities, they're only paying about 1.0% or a little under. It's not a huge difference vs the 1.06% + 0.2% quoted in the article, but they are making some money just by the fact that they have great credit and can borrow at a slightly better rate than they can receive on these comparable bonds.
Swiss watchmaking will definitely survive. (See also: flint-knapping)
Computers can suck sometimes. Maybe stepping away from them for a while might be helpful.
Hey! I thought if people share what they are currently working on under the same thread, they can give feedback to each other more easily. I also believe it's a good way to get to know community.

Here is my feedback : I was expecting to see tuition on your landing page. Saying not cheap, seems confident but it makes it hard for me to take incentive to ask for an invite.

> If you get into Google, Facebook or Palantir, we’ll refund 100% of tuition. No catch.

I wonder how people approach this kind of offer. Seems tempting, may also increase motivation but I wanted to know what people say about this ?
They are probably referring more to infrastructure projects being disproportionately focused on the south east, rather than only executing infrastructure project with macro economic effects.
this was a better answer than mine. kudos.
I'll disagree with this. As long as they don't find any stuff that they need Windows/OSX for they might be converted for life.
There's also a very human tendency to get attached to the stuff you grew up with.

Even if they switch...so what. They got a free computer and a chance to learn a lot. That's a pretty awesome head start.

I also hope that the library has some nice "here's why programming is awesome and here's the books that'll get you there" type of course set up :D
I did some basic WinPhone development (i'm mostly on linux/unix) and was pleasantly surprised by the smoothness of the tools. I recommend to check it out by building some simple stuff.
You're welcome! But I have to admit that I am curious why you thank me for that.
"Then maybe we should stop pushing the myth of "do what you love." There's nothing wrong with doing a job that you hate,"

We should stop pushing the myth, yes, but we should not fall into the opposite extreme. The situation is in reality quite complicated and there are far more choices than "do what you love and be bankrupt" and "do what you hate and make money", and, for once, the complication works out in your favor.

Job seekers: Make a list of your interests and talents. If you don't have a list, either think harder, or start trying some new things, stat. Order them vaguely by how much you like them. Now, go down the list, look out in the world, and ask what kind of living you can expect to make with that skill/talent/interest. Be realistic; for example, some musicians may make millions upon millions, but the median outcome is fairly poor. And be realistic about your level of talent/interest/dedication.

Most people really ought to be able to find something that is both at least sort of interesting and at least sort of economically viable. After all, in the US, even "median" income is a pretty good outcome, especially if you don't hate your job.

I practice what I preach. Technically, in a perfectly-aligned-for-jerf world, computer programmer is my second choice of job. My first-place job would be a music composer, preferably for games. (That's not just because "games are cool", but I actually like the idea of trying to create soundtracks that match up with the desired moods, and especially at the time games had much more interesting soundtracks than movies.) However, a sober and realistic examination of my skills, interests, and talents, matched up with my assessment of a rather high likelihood of total failure as a musician, along with the incredibly small number of slots available even under the best of circumstances, led me to discard that option, no matter how passionate about it I was. Everything in the 15 years since I graduated with my computer science degree has only reinforced my belief that I would have been a miserable economic failure as a composer. (It isn't necessarily "lack of talent", but that my talents led in a not-very-lucrative direction.)
Being good at networking and being an expert in your field are not mutually exclusive.
Apple rewrites app store economics, plans to lower its 30% revenue cut
What exactly can you do from your (presumably since it's HN) Mac that you can't do from Windows that's preventing you from switching now?
While this might be true, I'd have said the same about privacy/universal surveillance a couple of years ago.

When the message is condensed and communicated in a way that everyone understands (even if that means highlighting some relatively trivial effects because they're more universally digestible), it becomes easier for Joe Public to identify with.
I think Thomposon would probably look with wry amusement on the orgiastic capitalism of the enterpreneuring and wantrepreneuring class.

I'd love to see Fear and Loathing in Startupistan, but I'm not a tenth the writer that Thompson was.
Your project seems perfect for sandstorm.

The gap between "you can run your own server" and a one click install via sandstorm is profound.
I had a career at that age because I wasn't enjoying school and I had a skill which I could get a job with. It wasn't because I was more responsible than my peers and I still hung out mostly with people my own age only I'd go to the office and they'd go to class. Although I couldn't party as much as them on weekdays.

I still had the experience of first time being on my own though since I moved overseas for my first tech job.
proto3's JSON is an improvement on ascii protobufs, but since it uses field names, it doesn't have the same backward compatibility guarantees as a format that uses tag numbers.

It would be nice if we had a standardized JSPB wire format that used tag numbers, rather than the various unofficial implementations we have now.
Yes, the endless complaining that something new-to-the-poster exists is the most tedious aspect of HN. Nobody has time to look at anything new, but they have plenty of time to bitch about it at length.

If people said to themselves, "Nope, don't have time to read some docs," and went about their business without dropping coder angst-bombs, there might actually be useful comments to read that would help someone decide whether looking into Brunch or whatever was worth the time.
It's not production ready, it's quite flaky because of the NAT penetration. it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. It's a POC, i don't have the bandwidth now to make it robust.It's meant to showcase it's possible.

i coded it a while ago and then though to post it just now. (it actually took longer but i just pushed all code in 1 day)
5. NetworkManager
This is down? Any chance for a reupload?
Because we are slaves.
https://bitbucket.org/ and https://about.gitlab.com/ have free unlimited private repositories. Both are excellent.
Artificial Intelligence for Biology?
I think you can sum up some of the grievances of the OP as "felt mislead by Cassandra/DataStax marketing". But, some of the criticism is not really the fault of Cassandra or DataStax at all IMO.

- CQL stands for Cassandra Query Language. As a user of C*, I don't remember anywhere in docs it claiming it conforming to the SQL standard. They do mention it to be "similar to SQL" which is a fair comparison.

As a counter-example of another somewhat similar database, AWS DynamoDB. The absence of a CQL like syntax really frustrates me.

- Data Modelling: Effective data modelling is difficult in all DB systems, inherently more so in NOSQL or non-ACID distributed DBs.

- Counters & Collections: I feel that criticism is legit. I felt similar pains too. I've learned the lesson there not to trust all marketing claims.
I'd say that's a good mix :) And I really don't know any subject matter experts/actual practitioners who are "reasonably neutral" :)
Hey! Been there. You are not alone. Nowhere close, that's just how depression makes you feel. You're already reaching out, that's great, keep reaching and while most people won't get it those of us who have been through it will recognize where you are and some will reach back. That's how we got out, and some day you'll be the person who's reaching back and trying to help people get through it.

First, and most importantly, if you're _very_ depressed you may need help to break through the veil of darkness that's surrounding you. Peace and happiness are still in this world and their seeds are still in your heart, but depression is system of barriers that you may need very real and tangible help to break through. Sometimes our minds malfunction a little bit, it's in their nature.

If you love HN maybe check out the vlogbros 3 minute talk on perspective and depression[0]. It's the nerdiest account of depression I've ever heard. They also have a crash course on psychology[1] which might make psychology less unknown and therefore less scary if that's maybe a reason you're turning to us instead of a psychologist who is probably better equipped to help you (I'm only guessing based on reasons I don't go to the doctor when I need to.)

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ooCeoh6608
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo4pMVb0R6M&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...
Live. I don't even know you, but I want you to live.

As ridiculously cliche as it sounds, "This too shall pass." Time will heal your wounds. You'll gain experience from this and it will make you stronger.

When we're down, we think "But life is too painful, death will give me peace." There will always be times of pain, humiliation, and loneliness. Sure, but life can be wonderful too. And those great moments are always worth the struggle.

Get help. Call a suicide hotline - I did once. You'll get through your situation. And you'll go on to have wonderful moments in life and the inner strength to beat whatever comes next.
> most of my work was statistics/stata oriented

Your stats background could prob make you a lot of money if you could shift into data science. The stats + programming would be a good fit.
Nice, didn't know that. I'm a .NET guy though and have only used SVN and TFS at work, so now I can use TFS at home as well. Probably should learn Git with my next project...
Microsoft realizes that they don't have a monopoly on this stuff and many other tools are just as good and as useful as theirs. So they had to actually innovate. That being said I would still not use Microsoft as getting Windows is a headache compared to getting OS X. I recently wanted to deploy my QT App on Windows and found out my old Vista box will not suffice for MVC2013, I need Windows 7. My Mac from 2009 is still good it can get 10.10, but the Vista box from the same time is SOL when it comes to compiling Chromium. When Windows is as free as OS X and Linux, then I might considering developing on their platform.
That would be fitting (they have rounded corners after all); but they would be very uncomfortable.
XML isn't painful because it has a schema, XML is painful because it wasn't really designed for RPC, so getting to feature parity with something like Protocol Buffers takes a whole stack of XML technologies and a huge mess of complexity.

Protocol Buffers were designed from the ground up for RPC, and as a result are far simpler and more convenient to use than XML. Seriously, nobody who uses Protocol Buffers compares them to XML, because it's not even a comparison.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview...
Wow, OSX automatically goes into DND when mirroring? That's a neat feature. Does that require a connection that allows the mirrored display to inform the Mac that it is a TV/projector? Or will it go into DND any time you use a mirrored display mode, even via a VGA cable where the Mac doesn't really know what kind of device is on the other end of the cable?
Yes I just know my Masters in chemistry and my girlfriends Ph.D in the same were obviously unsound career paths.

People drop the art major line constantly, but it's whole swathes of the sciences, engineering etc. that are out of work now.
Never Donate to the Red Cross..... There are far far far far better organizations out there.
Thank you for trying to explain. I think I still don't understand though. Would you mind explaining it a bit more?

And thank you, I'm glad you like it!
That's a good point. You still need those. I don't believe there's any way around it whenever you're using a decentralized network like the DHT, you need to somehow "get into" the network, so you need to know someone from it.
OK then where does braeburn keep its cash, in banks? Afaik, you practically lose money by keeping it in banks.
I have a friend who is a level-headed critical thinker that reads a lot more than I do, who did read Moldbug when he was publishing, and he still hates Moldbug and I can hear the blood start boiling when I ask him to explain why. I won't ask again.

One of the sad facts of the internet is, whether you are the one saying "[X person] is a racist" or "[X person] is not a bigot", to the casual observer all they see is (conversation) "[X person] blah blah racist bigot."

I can understand why this decision was made, even if I don't agree with it. The people calling out Yarvin would have made it uncomfortable for everyone. So, go ahead and get on with your conference then.
Let’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN — and here is the essence of all I’ve said — you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH.

But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

That right HST quote always seems to materialize right when I need it.
Good points. He may have done this "rationally" (quotes because of huge controversies and arguments, ignoring).

But the question remains, what might he have done if he lived. He may have been done at that moment, but as his essay observes, people change with experience. He may have been a completely different HRT in a few years, if he had been open to it.

Maybe sometimes it's worth watching the grandchildren or the grass for a few years, until you finally recognize a change in the world.
But rapid price inflation for certain goods seems much more likely in the context of a natural disaster. Without a coordinated response, for a certain amount of time there will only be X tents reachable from the affected area, where # of people who need tents >> X. Ditto for vaccines and non-perishable food. Absent (enforced) price controls or incredibly nimble infrastructure repair, rampant price inflation for bare essentials seems more likely than not.

(edit to avoid further confusion: The point of this post is simply to point out that local economies behave very differently after a disaster. In particular, if you need X of something in order for people to not die and you only have << X available (perhaps 0), then cash handouts aren't really helpful in the short-term.)
Show HN: Basiclytics – Real time web analytics for blogs
FAQ: http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/faq/#q1
> What is the name of your occupation? What are the educational requirements to work in your career?

Being filthy rich; none.

-- Dr James Altucher, PhD.
My gut feeling about Aluminum foil is that because of the hard oxide coating it's difficult to get two pieces to make a continuous electrical connection along any length of it. And you can't solder to it.

My suggestion is to use copper tape or thin tinned copper sheet instead.

My other suggestion if hand prototyping is to use vector board with top and bottom ground planes. Note a lot of vector board designs are total crap. Either no ground plane or has 'power buses' The buses are horrible for grounding. The reason is you want the return current in any signal to travel in a ground plane under the wire. with a 'bus' the return current runs off down the bus creating a large loop.

Loops are bad, any magnetic or electrical field that the crosses the loop will induce noise.
It wasn't 30x performance improvement; it was 30x less disk space used. Which is nontrivial at their scale.
That would be an interesting study. As China develops a significant upper middle class, lots of niche pursuits, like handmade shoes, fine wines and distilled spirits, hand-made clothes, fine art, etc. should experience a global boom. The expansion of pursuits like keeping horses should boost, literally, the buggy-whip industry. So maybe fine mechanical watches will come back the same way, on the wave of wealth in populous countries.
This whole area is very underserved in how people interact with their computers, glad to see people pushing at it.

You could do worse then really digging deep into emacs org-mode and learning it well.

It takes what you are doing to a much higher level but doesn't exist on the web yet.

Also (as mentioned elsewhere) get yourself up here https://demo.sandstorm.io/demo
I have a huge goal/hope that when the time comes, I have the courage to do what Hunter did; to realize that it's over and the enjoyment is gone, it's time to move on, even if it's terrifying.
Show HN: cXn – the extensible open-source CDN
"I do not understand why countries want to give up so much power to foreign corporations?"

Because:
a) "Countries" don't give up those things. The corrupted and bribed politicians do.
b) If you are not corrupted, you can't get elected. The system rejects you from the start. If you are somehow magically elected, you are threatened. If that's not enough, the USA "brings democracy" to your country.

PS: All high level politicians are corrupted, in every country.
The answer is they shouldn't and the U.S. needs to get a territorial tax system as soon as possible.
It's called "sadCamelCase", as opposed to "HappyCamelCase" ;)
call me at +961 71 371133. i'm no organisation, i'm just an ordinary person like you. So if you feel like talking to someone give me a call anytime.
I thought that the US had a STEM shortage ?
I'm going to counter with the fact that the CIDA worker thought that this was a complete waste of resources. Sending a team of people to look at how pretty the toilets are is ridiculous. If you can't see that, please don't oversee any charity money.

And I never said it was a doctor. And it wasn't. Just an official taking a tour.
TFS's version control system is - in my personal opinion - broken. TFS hosting git repositories? Works fine. I mean .. The git part works fine.

So, it depends. If you just care about a place to put your code, I'd say that's quite decent. If you want issue tracking I'd say 'you can have that'. What was shit/terrible in the past?

(My experience is based on a TFS setup on-premise, latest version/patches. VSO is usually ahead and better)
"When the message is condensed and communicated in a way that everyone understands (even if that means highlighting some relatively trivial effects because they're more universally digestible), it becomes easier for Joe Public to identify with."

And nothing of importance changes. And it's too late.
> It feels odd to call this a startup instead of a charity or non-profit.

Everybody is spinning their small business or new charity as a `startup`. Maybe culturally they are aligned with startup principles but my idea of startup was a small group of people looking to shake things up (a market, a technology, etc) rapidly, grow fast and cash out.

A guy selling shaving cream on etsy is not a startup by this definition.
As the kids say, "pics or it didn't happen."

Show me cases of price gouging for vaccines during an outbreak, or tents during a disaster or whatever. (And not just isolated assholes attempting to profiteer, either — because there's always going to be "that guy" — but systemic inflation.)

Otherwise, all I'm hearing is a lot of "seems" and "shoulds", which sounds pretty belief-based to me, particularly when I keep seeing evidence to the contrary.
Is it a moral imperative in your opinion? Is it based on what other countries do? (hint: no)

IMO, it is non-obvious that they are obligated to do so.
That's why i love my automatic watch, where you can see (and hear!) all those tiny pieces moving. It's fascinating and a master work of centuries of engineering and craftsmanship. Why should i buy a watch made by some mid-20s computer engineers, manufactured by some chinese slave, when i can wear the testament of centuries of finest engineering!
You said: "they should have defined their schema upfront".

We tried. It was not only less disk efficient, but also slower for queries. Wasn't the result we expected, but alas.
2.5 refers to 1.3, which is clearly about identifying one's own possible conflicts of interest. There is no suggestion that one should accuse others of having such conflicts. Even if such an accusation were to be made, it should be specific and neutrally phrased, not a passive-aggressive blanket condemnation of anyone who might disagree.

The only way that applies, even considering that IETF and ACM are two separate organizations, is to Fielding's own conflicts of interest.