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I have spent some time reading about attachment theory [1], and I believe that what hoopwhatever (on my phone, sorry) said might not be unfounded. The attachment model (hownyou relate to other people) you are taught in childhood will stay with you for the rest of your life, so whatever you see as normal and healthy might very well not be.

I come from a family situation not unlike what you described, but where the teasing was a symptom of something else. We were never allowed to be serious, where the constant banter was a way to distance ourselves from issues. After my parents died I have talked to my siblings about this, and while they are now in good, loving relationships, they admit to having had a really hard time forming a relationship. In my own case I have had a really hard time talking about my emotions and I have been independent to a fault. I have since realised I was more or less suppressing my emotions throughout my childhood and we'll into my twenties.

I had a huge problem realising that my way of attaching to other people was causing me to feel bad, but when I finally decided to work hard to see my emotions and try my best to talk about them, all my relationships (romantic and otherwise) became much better. I constantly fall back into teasing mode and not being emotionally present (because hey, it is quite fun) but I have become much better at being emotionally present when I should.

I just wanted to say that it is extremely hard to see any problems with your own attachment model, because it is very natural to you.

This became an unstructured walll of text with too much personal info. I am not sure if I can read any meaning intonit myself

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[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory
This article is very tongue-in-cheek. The title says PHP but you don't have to know PHP to appreciate the humor (or should I say "humour"). At least some of it applies to any C based language.
check out flippa.com. there are lots of sites for sale that use adwords for income. most probably requires some kind of on going maintenance though.
Nice? 2.9% sounds horrible. Why do we pay that much again?
Here are some fun counter-examples

let sqr = x => Math.pow(x, 2)

let property = name => obj => obj[name]

let distance = p1 => p2 => Math.sqrt(sqr(p2.x - p1.x) + sqr(p2.y - p1.y))

let byComparing = f => (x, y) => {
let fx = f(x), fy = f(y)
fx < fy ? -1 : fx > fy ? 1 : 0
}

let points = [{x: 1, y: 2}, ...]

let byX = points.slice().sort(byComparing(property('x'))

let byStartDistance = points.slice().sort(byComparing(distance({x: 0, y: 0}))
> As to loading assets, plenty of games used a streaming model where you can explore huge worlds without issue.

The streaming model isn't simple though. You need to decide which assets to load, when, and when to discard them. You also have to consider how your level is designed, i.e. if you've got three tiles, and a player travels from tile a to b, and then b to c. When he moves from b to c, you can remove a from memory, but what if zone b + c is too big to fit, whereas a to b is okay.

A really interesting presentation was given at GDC this year from Insomniac games on streaming http://s3.crashworks.org/gdc15/ElanRuskin_SunsetOverdrive_St...
They were never happy to use copyleft software, and they (then NeXT, now Apple) have been trying to weasel out of it since the 1980s, long before the GPLv3 happened.
That's appealing. If you handed me a pen and paper and asked me to code, I'd leave.

It bears essentially no relation to my work day-to-day.
Maybe it's a cultural thing but I've never seen the phrases "catching heat / catching flak" used when it's not in return of an action (I don't see any official definitions online either but as far as I can tell it's in return of some sort of action). What you're describing just sounds like typical insulting / disparagement.

I don't really know how much evidence is in any of those claims (I thought there was supposedly evidence, not zero, but I really don't care enough to bother looking anyway) as I never really wanted to talk or even fight about anything relating to Pao but I could see that changing the context for catching heat / flak if there is or isn't evidence.
The sad thing is that the main risk is that banks use the same token for Read access as ReadWrite access to your accounts. There's no need for that; OAuth solved this problem years ago.
I think I wouldn't work for free.

I did say I understood why they do not want to do it, I'm still curious what the actual impact on their revenues would be (or can we not talk about that because the situation involves a bigger company that has lots of money?).
Show HN: Convenient way to shop for car repairs – Repairshift
So what exactly do they do there for so many hours a day? I'm having a hard time imagining anyone doing anything productive for that long.
The level of resemblance with a psychotropics' trip is simply fascinating. It's definitely really close to how our brain reacts when is flooded with dopamine + serotonin.

I wonder if the engineers at Google can make the same experiment with audio... It'll be funny to listen the results.
Despite this being a public forum of great scale, and a certain degree of PR involved etc. etc., I think its great that you took the time to respond yourself (or even saw the post in the first place). I was considering a few services for transitioning a home grown billing system (old and tired), and this helped me decide to go with Stripe.
A good resume is a trick. A trick designed to get an interviewer to ask about something on it. Because every item is something that you can talk about with passion and detail for as long as you want or need.
ALL companies are aggressive in litigating against anyone who they feel borrows their ideas via intellectual property laws. It's basically REQUIRED (by those same intellectual property laws) to maintain your 'intellectual property'.

Now, one could argue that there shouldn't be such laws or that they should be shaped differently, but that's a different discussion, in some ways.
This actually sounds like a bunch of features I won't use, and you're excluding the features that I would want. I assume I'm not your target audience.

1. Nothing is free. Even if you provide it for free, there is still awareness, evaluation, switching costs, and long-term trust (that you will remain motivated in supporting this project across the next few years)

2. I think I can create a self-driving robot. If you think you can create a simpler interface, create a simpler interface. Put your money where your mouth is. Pics or it didn't happen.

3. If your service doesn't talk to my bank, how will it know where I'm spending my money? I've got better things to do than data entry.

4. What documents of my transactions? Do you mean your app will OCR my debit receipts? I'm paperless and try to avoid receipts, so I'd rather just have you talk to my bank.

5. Oh, I don't have to trust you with my bank info, but I have to trust you to login with my Dropbox/Google info? Those creds are more valuable to me. Why not just do local storage to a local Dropbox?

6. Accident-proof car!

7. Features like?

I don't mean to completely shoot you down; I merely want to deflate you a little. This granstanding post is quite the brag, but without substance it's meaningless.
Which is completely orthogonal to my question about whether the characterization being made about the impact on indies is correct or not.
Substitute kinder and more considerate for that second "smarter". I've had successful interviews where I felt like garbage and unsuccessful ones that left me feeling good about the experience. Both kindness and consideration override a waterboarding about the decisions behind variable names.
That's my point: in this situation, you can't display an error and keep going. How do you know that you are not in this situation when you catch an unknown exception?
Background apps are even worse, as by default they are suspended.

If the system requires memory the ones with higher memory footprint are the first ones to go. They aren't asked nicely, just killed.

This might have changed on newer versions though. I am typing this from memory.

Also on the Watch there are also time constraints. How quick an app is allowed to execute.

Windows Phone also has similar constraints.
It's pretty annoying when a page automatically opens up a new tab to direct you to download their Chrome extension.
You have trouble with reading comprehension...
Ledger is nor a solution to this problem.

> Ledger never creates or modifies your data. [...] no automated tool will ever change that data.

Therefore, Ledger is always stale, and only useful for obsessive stamp-collectors.
Would it be wrong to interpret this as the possible end of browser focused engineers?

It seems to me that consumers have spoken that they prefer native apps (especially mobile ones) that they can quickly find on their phone's home screen. Consumers are using desktop web apps less comparatively to native mobile ones.

So rather than people making web apps and then trying to port them to native, we're going to have a bunch of native apps that port to the web?

OR

... maybe web goes back to being the defacto standard if people start making insane unity engine powered byte code based web apps that perform like native..
I think it's your personal impression, because I didn't feel like the author was bragging about how great his method is.
What do investment banking interns (and bankers) do which benefits from such long hours? Lots of manual data processing? Reading? I absolutely benefit from uninterrupted stretches of 12-24h working on problems sometimes, but only infrequently -- usually hit diminishing returns between 4-12h. The only times where I've been useful >24h was when the task was more "set up this thing which has lots of waiting on other people or long-running processes", or in some cases where external factors (transportation costs, outage window) meant a single 48-72h sprint was worth more than maximum productivity during that period -- and even then, some level of rest during some stage made a huge difference.

An entire summer of 17h days is difficult to imagine as a productive way to work.

"It's just hazing" is a reasonable answer, but surely that would create a market opportunity for some alternative entity, or at least would mean the hazing has to be limited in duration.
I guess the OP is referring to the code quality of said apps.
Oh. I can't believe I missed that and kept hovering over it like an idiot, then going aaaah, crap, I have to press Alt. Jesus Christ.
Thanks for proving my point.

If you won't code for me in an interview, why would I possibly be interested in you?

Thanks for saving me so much time.
Despite what tumblr would have you believe, most people are not like this.
But you have to be superuser to chown.
Crowdfunded high speed train tickets in France
Apple doesnt give a shit about native apps vs web apps. Recall that the original plan for 3rd party apps on the iPhone was web apps only--they only allowed native apps because so many people clamored for them.

JavascriptCore is a top-notch javascript engine for the web. If Web Assembly takes off, Apple will just integrate Swift with it, ship a low-power, high-performance engine, and keep selling a ton of devices.
I will not use Stripe's services while I see these support issues cropping up.
> if the same solar can't be used for other purposes

This is a pretty reasonable assumption, since the solar in use would presumably be built out specifically for the desalination. The solar capacity in the scenario wouldn't exist unless it were used for desalination, because it wouldn't be built.

I have no real opinion on the economic feasibility of large-scale desalination, but it seems reasonable to assume that someone building a desalination facility in California can get the sunshine they need onsite, without taking energy from existing solar sources.
Getting into Silicon Valley and Early Stage Startup
Hey guys, just wanted to create this post because I am a big fan of Y Combinator and its News site. So about me I am 27 year old living in New York, I currently work in the music industry as a freelance EA for famous Musician (Make about $1000 a month work from home) and work part time retail job (Home Improvement). I am a college graduate with BS in Business Admin, but for the past several months I really wanted to get involved with SF, Silicon Valley, and a very early stage startup. Although I don't currently code or anything technical, I consider myself a problem solver. I am the person who wont back down from a problem and will recognize if I don't the answer to something, I will find out how to. With this said, I really just want to help a young team or person with anything to get my foot in the door. Money is really not my immediate concern being apart of a something that is focused and hungry with the potential to grow really excites me. I just want to be around people with the mindset to really create change. If any of you have any tips for me I would greatly appreciate it. Maybe you have an idea or working on something cool and wanna drop a line, I would be more than happy to hear from you. I even have a very small amount of money saved up to invest in. I really want to help out in anyway I can. If you want to discuss in further detail my email is georgealvaran0305@gmail.com

Also I am looking to move the SF Bay/ Palo Alto area, any recommendations is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

George
If people don't want to manually enter IP addresses, they're not internet in web browsing, they want a fire and forget solution that shows them cat pictures.
Yes. Conduits and iteratees too, for that matter. And I believe, there was some talk about "Machines", which I did not understand at all. Am not sure what is the current status of that approach.

I thought conduits and io-streams are preferred over pipes.
Absolutely true. Most indies operate on such a shoestring that a single quarter is a big deal.

Total streaming revenue might realistically drop by 30-50%, assuming a large fraction of Spotify etc users cancel while Apple Music is free.

Catalog sales will take a hit too, a large hit for iTunes sales. Probably less for other channels.

And artists with new records coming out now will likely take the biggest hit. On the other hand, no one releases records in the summer.

October begins the new indie release year, so maybe the timing is almost as good as it could be.
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I think it's brilliant too - possibly the first ever piece of genuine digital journalism.

And I think it's worth making a distinction between two aims - understanding a little about code and the culture around it, and learning how to write professional code.

Obviously you're not going to do the latter in 38,000 words.

But it's superb at the former.
...as in not responding to email? That is certainly a little different.
FYI I'm running Chrome 43.0.x on OS X 10.10.3 and Enable "Ok Google" is disabled under chrome://settings. I don't remember ever enabling it, so this behavior is correct.
Wish I was the owner of that house without the property taxes of course :)
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Who on earth would really write that? Surely you'd use the optional braces to make it clearer:

a => { return b <= 7; }

Sure you can write it without that, but only if you want to write willfully unclear code to annoy people, like writing an entire function body on one line. Just because you can do that doesn't mean that functions are inherently unclear.
> a minute of work inputting them in to Excel

plus carrying receipts around all day, and logging into online sites to copy over autoamted transactions...
> Or write a function that takes an integer and returns that integer's index on the Fibonacci sequence. That last example: they wanted me to do this with pen and paper over the phone.

I fail to see what is the difficulty on that, looks like very straightforward and easy question to do, even over the phone.
It's flawed since it does not allow to specify a target market. I can't find a comparable rental in my market at the reported price.
I just use plain English for that, always a one-sentence summary. Details are for traditional BDD language, which has the advantage of being machine-readable to generate test stubs.

The purpose of the one sentence summary is not to be complete, but to keep large feature lists readable at a glance.
Where? You can turn off voice-activated search, but that doesn't actually disable the extension.
Software Patents Are Fucking Awesome
It's almost as if... different people use financial tracking software in different ways!

To me, not connecting to bank account(s) is a deal breaker, and I would have no use for such a product. I've used (and suffered with) Quicken for years and years because 1) it connects and downloads from every bank/investment account I have ever had, 2) its interface is bearable, and 3) my data is stored offline. I probably use about 2% of Quicken's features, but I can't do without them. I don't use any of the budgeting features, the bill pay features, the integration with tax software, etc. I just want to get a big picture overview of my accounts, watch for fraudulent transactions, and not worry that my all my data is online and ready to be compromised or lost.

If there was an alternative to Quicken that satisfied the above 3 requirements, I'd consider switching, and I would definitely be willing pay for such software.
> All of these payments services are going to die within 5 years anyway.

Ooh, can we bet money on that?
If you get the paywall, either use a Google search result, or use this link - https://archive.is/mfEvt
100% honest AND 100% correct. Many of the best developers I've worked with underestimated their abilities, and many of the worst overestimated.

Experience can be similar too. Many of the best see themselves "merely" as an important contributor to a team effort and remember the mistakes they made, etc. Many of the worst honestly believe they did a great job, led the effort, etc.
Our overall support response times are actually substantially faster than, say, 3 months ago.

Part of it is, I think, because we're growing quickly -- even for the same problematic case percentage, there are going to be more in absolute number. (And, as Stripe becomes more prominent, the cases that happen will themselves get more attention.)

In addition, the cases that get public attention generally aren't clear-cut. For example, the other discussion on HN a few weeks ago was about a marijuana-related business that most likely violated our ToS.

We care a great deal about providing great support at scale. Each of these cases triggers a lot of internal discussion about how we might have been able to do things better.
This letter and other bleating from labels is just about trying to get a better negotiating position. What this letter doesn't mention is that Apple is offering a higher cut on an ongoing basis in exchange for the 3 month free trial.

>Apple won’t pay music owners anything for the songs that are streamed during Apple Music’s three-month trial period, a bone of contention with music labels during negotiations for the new service. But Kondrk says Apple’s payouts are a few percentage points higher than the industry standard, in part to account for the lengthy trial period; most paid subscription services offer a free one-month trial.

http://recode.net/2015/06/15/heres-what-happens-to-your-10-a...
Proprietary software doesn't give the developers any freedom beyond what they already have by virtue of being the copyright holders to their code.
Thanks for sharing that. I love his message that, even if you're not __feeling__ the love right now, you can still control your __actions__. I also like his thought that affection compounds exponentially. ;)
I've seen a lot of writeups about interviewing here on hacker news. Things I liked in this particular one:

- Admission that arbitrary coding challenges that are unrealistic to the applied job are ridiculous

- Recognition that you need to understand the engineer and approach things from their point of view, not from your own selfish view as the interviewer

- Urging that being polite and humble is important. Even if you don't like the candidate, there is no need to attack or diminish them.

One question I have: What is wrong with copying and pasting solutions to issues that have been solved before by others? I tend to do this all the time myself ( albeit I often end up rewriting the solutions to tailor them more to the problem )

Overall decent suggestions for interviewing.
Nope. At least soon that won't be the case. (soon as in a few months maybe a year) Check out the lightning network:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/13/down-the-blockchain-rabbit-...

"In theory, this distributed micropayment network–the Lightning Network–could scale Bitcoin transactions up to “billions of transactions per day” across the planet, with minimal use of the blockchain and minimal fees (zero, for direct channels.)"
Instant and way more than 7 tps... Settled on the blockchain and still decentralized. ;)
The smell of the marker has an almost instantaneous effect, like many perfumes. I'm not immune to chalk, but chalk doesn't smell/make enough dust by simply drawing. Things are different when you re-use the cleaning pad too often. In my place, I always wipe with a damp cloth to avoid the problem.
This is an amusing joke poking fun at the sheer number of npm packages, but the linked packages for detecting positive[1] and negative[2] zero were at least a little interesting:

[1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/positive-zero

[2]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/negative-zero
Is It the future yet? A week with the Apple Watch
I understand UPS is probably not the most popular name around here, but their address API is actually quite good. I would also trust them with the data quality as they actually got real people verifying the addresses when packages are delivered.
No knock on the great work you guys have done to make Stripe easy to use and visible but I'm pretty sure thousands of people try to defraud you every day because you're a platform to transfer money. Money is a popular thing to steal.
Ask HN: Is there a self hosted LastPass alternative you know of?
After the recent security breach at LastPass I became curious and when searching for a self hosted alternative, I specifically want something I can host INSIDE my own network. Unfortunately I didn't turn up much.

It would need to work on OS X, have decent browser integration and crucially run on a server in my network. That way I can control the accounts for my family.

Anybody got any suggestions?
Saving you a click: Rand Paul advocates for the 'flat tax'.
When One Man's Fruit Is Another Man's Poison
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What do “immutable servers” and AWS environments have in common?