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Id take a few weeks for yourself, then find a 6 month contract. That'll get you back on your feet again professionally and financially. Depending on how the contract rates are in your area, you should then have a small runway again to think about your options. Id avoid committing to anything too big too early.

I don't know the details of your startup, but if possible can you reduce costs / reduce scope of services to the point its self sustainable? If so, go for it. I've regretted shutting down past projects, sometimes a bit of time off can give you new perspectives on things, and you've presumably built some value even if its not realised yet. YMMV but something to think about rather than outright closing it all down.
Indeed. The UK had all-concrete "prefab" houses made of reinforced concrete slabs joined together. They had two critical problems: firstly, if water gets into the reinforcement it rots from the inside out and cannot be fixed without demolishing the house. This can make them impossible to mortgage and insure. Secondly, due to single skin they leak heat very badly. Some have been retrofitted with brick second skins for this reason.
There is also my own 'minifs' https://github.com/buserror/minifs ; it's targeted at embedded, but it works fine on x86s too. Haven't ported it to musl yet (mostly due to the fact that musl wasn't yet merged into crosstool-NG) but that's high on my list.

One thing minifs does is that it has a 'cross linker' took that jettisons every piece of code/library that is not actively linked by executable; also, instead of installing everyone's crap everywhere, I build the distro the other way around, and 'pick and chose' the bits that packages need until they work.
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I started a discussion on the mailing lists trying to suggest a default /usr size to 5GB, maybe you can contribute :)
buy a 20.00 burner phone from 7-11 and port your number into it, use the web account or phone options to set up your forwards. Put the phone in a drawer and shut it off. It should last years if not too many people call it.
The abortion debate is largely orthogonal to the personhood of a foetus.

There is no precedent for making it illegal to refuse to risk your health, well-being and bodily integrity to sustain another person with your own body. If the risk is negligible, sure, everything else would be denial of assistance -- but pregnancy (to say nothing of birth) is extremely risky as far as biological processes go.

You could argue about a voluntary pregnancy being some kind of contract that suspends your right to bodily integrity but that still wouldn't apply to unwanted pregnancies, which represent the majority of abortions.

Arguing that a foetus' personal rights are violated by early stage termination of a pregnancy is just special pleading biased by religious ideas about the inherent sanctity of life. Most nefariously, the same people who argue for the rights of a foetus also oppose the welfare that would be necessary to address the social impacts of the unwanted birth. Or to put it more hyperbolically: "A human's life is holy, until they are born".
I don't know. Consider television advertisements. A 90% fraud rate (false, fraudulent, invented impressions) versus a 0% fraud rate baked into impression numbers reported to advertisers surely would affect how much sales movement they have to show, doesn't it? I mean sure, as the other comment pointed out cpc prices must in some sense rationally reflect the fraud amount.

But nobody is perfect, no market is perfectly rational and efficient, and at the end of the day the quality of advertisement that next to no real person sees must be different from one where every impression paid for gets seen by a real person... (including you and me.)

It would be a strange world otherwise.
Wow. Can't believe I've never seen that overhang climb video before. Found it hard to watch - I just can't imagine doing anything like that. But extremely impressive.
Thanks for the suggestion. I might end up doing that, since I can't compile some of the biggest ports (php-5.6 right now).

This seems to be a common newbie problem. Expert users change the default partitioning on install, knowing they may need to compile some big port, but I think 2GB isn't a safe default for those people who will precisely be using the defaults since they don't know any better.
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Unix permissions become increasingly complicated while usage moves in the other direction.

Complex permissions were a must-have in the era of time-shared systems. You'll find some slow-moving multinationals that still have people shelled into production unix boxes, and where they have thick policy manuals around who is allowed to become what kind of user. But it's on the way out.

Two use-cases dominate now: unix servers that nobody ever shells into. They boot into a prepared image, or have configuration pushed to them. And - single-user workstations.
> In real terms adjusted by the price of coke, the median household income has fallen by 69%. (for giggles).

Not necessarily that far-out: since the core CPI that goes into inflationary figures is measured using things like the cost of a loaf of bread, I always thought it'd be nice to be able to flip that around, and see historical economic charts measured in loaf-of-bread-units. It would also allow for easy cross-comparison between figures from different countries.

(To go actually far-out, though, wouldn't it be interesting to have a salary and a bank account denominated directly in inflation-compensated purchasing-power, such that if you got paid 1 BreadBuck, it would buy you exactly one loaf of bread today, tomorrow, or twenty years from now?)
I'm curious; can you point to any references?
I wasn't talking about a new one, but using an existing one to generate card-style pages. One could then run a script to render them to svg/png images by using something like Phantom.js. Just an idea.
Quasar's instrumentation is much less intrusive than JRebel's: no fields are added and no state changes tracked. There are only minor additions to the actual execution bytecode (again, no class-layout changes) that capture the stack. Those errors mentioned in the documentation (we should change that) are now automatically analyzed and tell you exactly where you've forgotten to annotate a method. Finally, with the changes in Java 9, instrumentation will become completely transparent, and require no manual annotation on the part of the user whatsoever.

> Java and the JVM provide enough tools to retrofit any concurrency model out there, but retrofitting anything won’t be the same as taking it into the initial design

The concurrency model requires no retrofitting. It is simply a strict superset of Erlang's. The computer and OS also support a full shared-memory concurrency model, yet it can be restricted -- not retrofitted -- to run languages like Erlang or Rust, with a more restricted model. Same goes for the JVM. It has a general-purpose shared heap, but any language may restrict its use. No retrofitting is required. Quasar doesn't impose any further restrictions (that's not its job -- simply to provide fibers), but a language like Clojure certainly does. Clojure is no less safer than Erlang. The implication is that an Erlang running on the JVM requires no C code to implement something like ETS, but the underlying JVM semantics are no more foreign to Erlang than the underlying machine semantics, and vice-versa: Erlang is no more foreign to the JVM than to the hardware. Erlang simply places restrictions on their use, and they both provide lower-level abstractions.
Not worthless... just more expensive.

If half of all banner ads are never seen, then that just means the cost is $10 CPM instead of $5 CPM.

Marketers then manage their budgets with this in mind.

Also, traditional display advertising (TV, Print, Radio, etc..) aren't directly measured at all. They have to go through indirect survey channels for any feedback. Yet, advertisers still use them and it has worked fine for a century+.

CPM will be fine forever. Intuitive people don't need direct measurements.
Yes. Which is why you should never trust a company with info you wouldn't trust their competitor (or any other company for that matter), regardless of how kitten-loving and un-evil they are today.
I don't know why this comment is downvoted. It is true. The vast majority of businesses will never deal with machine learning. ML has very limited applications in the "real world", as opposed to regression analysis with some small samples.
When people bemoan how things were cheaper back in an earlier time, they are often forgetting to take into account:

CPI Inflation (when adjusted for inflation, these 'cheap' things are often as expensive as they are today) this is seen with the movie ticket example http://greyenlightenment.com/debunking-the-gold-standard/ Maybe some things are a little more expensive, but it pretty much all evens-out.

Improved Utility (you get a better product despite the higher nominal price)

New products (your dollar buys things that didn't even exist even as early as generation ago)

Expenditures such as food & energy constitutes a smaller percentage of income than generations ago.
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I hope Project Fi has a side effect of improving existing Google Voice / Hangouts integration. While it's been slowly getting better, some of my texts sent via GV in Hangouts never get delivered, some arrive out of order. In addition, I've been able to crash Hangouts reliably and reproducibly (in latest version, by picking a GV sms conversation, pulling up the other person's contact card (by tapping their avatar) and selecting "send hangouts message"). And we still have no group SMS integration in GV.
Same here, that's why I posted the link.

Anyway, I think SpaceX's engineers are extremely under pressure right now. These missions are extremely risky, everybody knows how difficult is this field and I personally believe that the amount of pressure the team is facing, it's consistently increasing the potential risk of a failure.

SpaceX is a private company and, like all the other private companies in the earth, it has the goal to make money and make investors happy. Every single failure of the company is a big hit on the brand and a loss of millions and millions of dollars, this put the team under an excessive amount of pressure.
Exactly. I've been using Ambronite instead of Soylent to get my vitamins as well as calories from real food ingredients but in a liquid form.
Quasar does preemptive scheduling, and even used to have time-slice based preemption. The latter was taken out as it proved to provide no benefit whatsoever, because processes that benefit from time-slice preemption are better off using the kernel's scheduler anyway, and the JVM gives them that option. Erlang has to do it because it only exposes a single scheduler. That's is still a strict subset of the JVM's capabilities.
I have to say I am very disappointed in the information, after the title got me so excited.

No announcements about Excel? I really hope R lands in Excel, it will open big opportunities for developers and businesses.

Also there was a guy from MS, who created python tools for VS and asked if anyone would want R tools for VS. After receiving a very warm response, never heard from him again. What's up with that? Parallel to that RA has an IDE, which uses the VS shell. Will we have more streamlined R workflow in VS? This is important for a lot of people...

What about R.NET?
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It probably doesn't hurt either. Bill Gates (and Warren Buffett) seem to be doing fine at philanthropy.
What about mobile devices with partially trusted (or even untrusted) apps?
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The bikes are extremely unsafe in the environment that they are being used in. That the risk is only to themselves is neither here nor there.

The choices in my mind are pretty much to either remove cyclists into dedicated highways or remove motorized vehicles. I just don't think one of those is even slightly viable.
Last time this happened I was the only sysadmin in a fairly small ecommerce company dependant on mysql.

The leap second caused our databases to all peg at 100% CPU/memory consumption..

Given the wide adoption and commercial nature of mysql, I can't begin to imagine how systems designed to be super precise will handle this..
I didn't downvote you.

As for co-author, the Cambridge dictionary says:

"To write a book, article, report, etc. together with another person or other people:"

Which given Pike's participation on what defined the initial UNIX graphics userland, makes him a co-author.
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True, but the legal definition of a person and the dictionary definition don't have to agree, so it's important which personhood we're trying to redefine.

Should orcas be legal persons? Probably not. They can't give consent and will never be able to, in principle. This is different from a mentally underdeveloped human or a human child because an orca will neither grow up to be able to give consent nor could they reach that capacity as a species (within human timeframes).

Could orcas evolve to become legal persons? Maybe, but there isn't any selection pressure guiding them in that direction.

We should however acknowledge that "personhood" is not a well-defined requirement for the rights we grant to persons. We should probably extend some of those rights to certain animals independently of whether we can consider them persons or not. They're autonomous and have some form of sentience -- it seems only fair to acknowledge that in how we treat them.

That aside, the real debate here is animal rights and what constitutes animal cruelty. Personally I think Sea World is criminally abusive because it is necessarily incapable of holding large water mammals like orcas in captivity in a way that minimizes suffering for them -- the tank size alone could not be large enough for that; the economics just wouldn't work out.
Compassion makes you a nice person to hang out with. It doesn't make you an effective person.
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> My long term giving is hunger focused, where a $50 donation is less meaningful and it makes sense for me to grow my money first.

Why is it less meaningful?
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Compassion is the feeling compelling on to help others, no? In that case, the best thing to do is to help others as much as one can- that is, as effectively as one can.
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Imagine how expensive coke would be without the US corn subsidy.
The application of the EMH to a market as overhyped, information-poor and illiquid a market as startup investment is questionable. And another consequence of competitive markets is that funds with board seats, insider information and ability to negotiate preferential terms based on expected follow-on investment take on less risk than you when investing, but they shape the market prices for the asset.

$20k is friends & family or crowdfunding money, and I suspect that whilst there will be some winners, the median return on those asset classes will be -100%
> GDP per capita has risen far more slowly in the UK than in the US and Japan (not to mention some of the faster-growing Asian economies).

Oh, I don't think you should cite Japan as any example anywhere. The financial situation over here is catastrophic, and there's not telling when the country actually hits the wall, but when it will it will hit it BAD. Demographic decline, Productivity stagnating, retirement paid by workers (less and less of them), humongous debt (spelling out default of hyper inflation in the mid term) - and a Nobel laureate should know that GDP growth is far from a good economic indicator...

> and austerity, as Keynes noted, is essentially anti-growth

Huh, does the author seriously believe that Keynes was constant in his beliefs? The guy changed his mind about many things thoughout his life: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/11/economic...
Is anyone else curious what he'd have found if he'd continued and actually done the planned testing.
Why do people run marathons? It's a personal challenge. Hundreds of thousands of people do non-record breaking runs which are pain, suffering and followed by elation at success.

That he was the first was a big part of it, but the reality is remove the words "never been climbed" and the sentence still works. Climbing everest, running a marathon, [insert challenging sports thing here] - each person strives within their own measure and tries to exceed their own expectations.
It does actually, package managers in linux update all of your drivers along with you programs for more than a decade now...
Someone else will be the consultant, perhaps spending $20k on more useless products. In that case, you doing the consulting is still net positive.

Perhaps a better suggestion than not earning that $20k is to earn it by working with companies which do not produce useless products. Certainly worth considering for someone who wants to spend $20k to do good. On the other hand, perhaps they are already doing that .).
Wonder why they don't add an average weight to the time rather than this troublesome extra second.
That's a case for creating a wrapper shell script that you launch through ExecStart=. Nothing to do with whether your process does the daemon(7) dance or not.
Because it is essentially a law that makes it illegal to hire unskilled labour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQj1qlsjVoM
Just before the point where Elon says "gosh darn"?
> It's like breaking down the value of a human being through how much plasma can be extracted and selling it at market rate.

That certainly puts a floor under the value of a human being.

> You cannot break down the Co2 that is processed by a tree into dollars

Why not?
No, compassion does not make you a nice person to hang out with:

"Compassion is the response to the suffering of others that motivates a desire to help. Compassion is really the act of going out of your way to help physical, spiritual, or emotional hurts or pains of another."

Giving your money to the Gates Foundation concentrates it on areas that are already receiving disproportionate help (e.g. from the Gates Foundation).
`Burning' the cash is actually an interesting idea. Especially if you think inflation is a problem.
I shared it with my colleague who's not into programming but loves board games, that got him quite excited.

So I thought that this project can be used as a motivator to teach kids programming :) because it's like look kids, with this simple code, you can generate these awesome cards, isn't it great?
never tried it myself, but you can take a look at the accompanying code "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat
It's not about it being a surprise that this happens as long as it is allowed. It's a surprise that there are no laws in place to protect consumers.

Especially in times when most "tech savvy" people advice the use of cloud services for backups, syncing, sharing and communication, a sale of a company becomes a privacy nightmare for those who listened and tried out these services. There should be more people that spell out that it is not safe to upload your data to someone else's computer.

Would you upload a backup of your data to my computer? Of course not. Would you do it if I made an over-designed one page website and offered an iOS/Android app? There are a lot who do that every day. Once the deed is done, I shouldn't be allowed to do whatever the hell I want with your data. Selling or sharing data with third parties should be strictly opt-in, no matter the circumstances.

Imagine your Dropbox, Password manager or backups being sold to the highest bidder. A company which you previously trusted becomes greedy and sells you out. There's nothing you can do about it because "you should have read the small print 10 years ago, when you started using the service." It's not surprising that there are people who'd sell you out. What is surprising is that it is allowed.
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> "Don't be fooled, though: Even in Haskell you can write very ugly code."

> Also very much the case - I've done it!

On the bright side, refactoring ugly code into not ugly code is substantially easier in Haskell than many other languages! ;)
I experienced similar problems in other kinds of applications as well. 100% cpu usage until restart.
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> Is this a surprise?

According to studies cited in the last week on HN, yes. People underestimate the sociopathy of the corporate world. Or perhaps expect more European norms to apply.

> If a company buys yours, does anyone expect them to buy everything expect for the information on their customers?

Pretty much everyone in the western world that isn't the United States expects that because it's enforced by law. Although US companies are trying to get their proxies in the US government to have that stripped away as a "trade barrier".
The leap second caused our databases to all peg at 100% CPU/memory consumption.

I remember being utterly ridiculed that weekend, after swearing about fixing servers on Facebook.

It didn't take long for apologies to arrive on the following Monday, once the corporate sysadmins logged in and saw anything Java-based had also massively, massively failed.

It's the small (and petty!) victories.
This sounds rather exaggerated to me. 10% of the systems will have trouble with it? Perhaps during the leap second something will bug or look weird, but outside of that second I doubt it's even 1% that will have trouble recovering. Also, many systems don't even support the leap second, nothing will happen at all until they sync with time servers the next time and correct for the second. Many systems are off a second or so anyway.

As a quick example, Javascript is not designed to handle leap seconds correctly, so I doubt we'll ever see the value 60 out of new Date().getSeconds(). Things will just be off by 1 second for a second.

Edit: Another example from the Windows Time service:

> The Windows Time service does not indicate the value of the Leap Indicator when the Windows Time service receives a packet that includes a leap second. [...] Therefore, after the leap second occurs, the NTP client that is running Windows Time service is one second faster than the actual time. This time difference is resolved at the next time synchronization.

It will just be a second off and resynchronize next time.
I've generally only run with thinkpads, but I find OpenBSDs ACPI to be measurably better than everything else on power management.
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The work going on in Spark[1] is pretty interesting from this point of view.

Using R functions via closures against Spark RDDs in a cluster has the potential to deliver pretty good performance against large scale data.

[1] https://amplab-extras.github.io/SparkR-pkg/
Any idea if they're layering any additional security onto the unsecured WiFi connections it seems to prefer? (attwifi, xfinitywifi, etc. are all unencrypted, and I personally only use them in very limited ways for that reason.)
There was a smiley in the end you know... My point was that these "tests" really shows nothing. It's a very specific scenario and if you read the comment from jlouis you would know that his scenario was very different and would yield a different result.