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How's the $177k/yr and 0.96 equity treating you?

What choices have you made in the past year that make you feel you're worth $63k/yr more than Colin? I mean, is Colin just not quite as smart and good at technology as you? Have you two talked about how much better you are than him?

That rhetorical line of questioning is a low blow, but as CTO you might be able to answer: what positive open and honest discussion has the open equity/salary table actually encouraged?

Idle gossip around the virtual water cooler is one thing, but for open salaries to be appreciated, there have to be positives that outweigh the obvious negatives.

Another thing not mentioned, does Buffer give bonuses for good work or is the spreadsheet an employee's total compensation?
I would definitely be interested in such a service. I've basically stopped gaming these past 3 years and now my old rig is severely out of date. It is too much money and hassle to buy and build a new rig that I wouldn't be using that much anyway (and will be out of date in a few years!)

If anybody out there seriously starts working on such a service, let me know!
This is pretty common advice and not a point of contention for front-end folks.

> if you're only going to be using the style once on a page

Herein lies the the problem. You now can't use that header anywhere else, meaning the it's non-composable. You end up writing less, and more maintainable CSS when you treat components as immutable and composable.

Most people consider the additional readability of separating out the `id` to be negligible.
Invitation sent. I don't know when they disabled the form to ask for an invitation. I used that more than a year ago when I joined. Maybe it's the curse of any online community to get shittier as the time passes...
Not sure. The behavior you posit sounds like a virus, but the regular cells would lack the machinery to translate the artificial genes. Defenses against bacteria are mostly directed against surface proteins and these proposed organisms would have regular proteins
Not even close to that age bracket. Those Sierra classics were relased from 24-31 years ago, at least twice as old as WC3.

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards - 1987
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown - 1984
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter - 1986
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel - 1987
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood - 1991
The question is, what will you do different to succeed where they failed? Because otherwise, you're just gonna fail like they did.
Any other indie game marketplaces? Yeah there are a few: GOG, Indie Game Stand, Humble Bundle.

Other sites that release data like that, not sure.
That frightended me a little to.. It seems like these things can fly by if operators don't fuck up on a major scale like recently with Malaysia(?).
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Ask HN: Which psychological hacks do you use to motivate you and feel happy?
I'm currently looking for tricks and hacks that make me focus on getting things done and that make me feel happy.

Have you been in this situation and did you find something that "magically" made you feel good and productive? Please share your insight.
I agree with this guy. I was not aware of the multicore "problem" So, basically problems that don't exist are made up and then complicated solutions proposed. Does seem to go well with the python3 philosophy overall.
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Thanks for the perspective and this incredible article. It's quite motivating and I love how you use the light (being a photographer I think it's easier for me to see) and the details/texture.

Going through the article, I felt two transitions:
a. Where you did portraiture with landscape background,
b. where you did the imaginative landscapes

would do imaginative sketches of landscapes

The place where the article really connected/resonated with me was:

But then I started getting annoyed. I got annoyed with how students are taught
and with how art schools take advantage of eager young art students.
I saw too many of my peers taken advantage of. They charge tens or hundreds
of thousands of dollars and give very little in return.

So for one thing, I wrote that angry rant that a few of you might have read.

In 2013, I started Art Camp.

What you are doing is incredible and it's nice to see your passion being cohesively molded into a purpose which helps you to give back.

Kudos!
I don't have feelings one way or the other about the answer, and don't appreciate being told how I should feel. In Atlanta, the only two Superchargers I'm aware of (also the only two on the map) are at the Tesla dealer and at a large work/live/play location (Atlantic Station). Neither is at all convenient if you're driving through the area. I get that things are probably great in California, but from what I can see from the article and around town things are different in the Midwest and on the east coast.

Edit: and what the hell are you trying to imply with "women traveling solo"?
That requires storing an extra two fields per String (int length, offset;), which is costly. Users who need constant-time substrings can simply implement their own class `Subsequence extends CharSequence` with a constructor taking a CharSequence and two ints. Users who need to pass a substring to a foreign function which only accepts String do need to copy, but that's not a major enough use-case to justify upping the memory usage of most applications.
Not sure I understand the benefit, it's denser, on the other hand from what I understand DNA generally does have much in the way of size constraints. If I remember large swathes of DNA is inactive and there isn't selective pressure to clean up this wasted space. Coupled with the fact that it is apparently more error prone and seems to show why evolution didn't go down this path.

Probabably will be very useful for synthetic purposes where there isn't too much concern about fidelity after 10 million years of copying.
Interesting... would it be possible to charge from the outlet at regular gas stations? Assuming you carry an electricity meter to be able to pay for the energy you take. Alternatively, what about a small generator that you fill with gas in the event you need to top up and there's only a gas station nearby?
In this case, performance shouldn't have changed much -- at least in a big-O sense -- but memory use did. And the JDK guys have been swearing for years that the garbage collector handles that for you, so I'm not sure alarm bells would have gone off.

(We'll ignore the fact that every article I see about high performance Java talks about using memory buffers or some kind of "off heap" scheme specifically to get around the garbage collector).

I need a random number. I see that Java has a class for this ( http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Random.ht... ). It doesn't guarantee anything about performance. It doesn't even really guarantee anything about the algorithm it will use in the future, but does say that it currently uses a linear congruential algorithm. Should I (1) write my own random number generator? (2) "proceed with caution"? or (3) write a test case, see if the thing is fast enough for what I want, and pay attention to any changes to java.util.Random in future releases? Personally, I generally pick (3).
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Using the || (or ||=) operator when assigning a local variable from an argument is ruby idiom to specify a default.
Not really.

1) Public information is income/assets after deductions, and deductions vary greatly.

2) Only selected newspapers get the whole dataset, everyone else can search in DB, but the searches are logged by Tax Administration (presumably to help police in case someone gets robbed).
It didn't go away. I was reminded of it recently when I read this: https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2015-July/092770.ht...
Wow, this is probably the future, but for an old guy like me its horrible.
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18 years ago, and I just now realized the title was chosen because they are all DNA letters.
What is the latency of a setup like this? Could I play an intensive FPS and be competitve?
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What are the "obvious negatives". Not trying to be snarky, I honestly wonder what people think the downsides of this approach are.
This is completely untrue. People talk about salary in other places of the world very regularly, because it is often public.

People don't talk about salary in the US because companies will fire you for it.

Edit: See kasey_junk's response and my follow-up.
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OnLive (now defunct), NVIDIA (ramping up), Gaikai (working with, or acquired by?, Sony) just to name a couple. They don't give you your own VM to host and manage, they're subscription game streaming services, but it's the SaaS version of this.
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"So if you make that experience a condition for calling another being intelligent, you are effectively saying that nothing but yourself can ever be intelligent."

I think you are confusing the principles of whether an observer can determine whether an entity has an attribute with the question of whether it does in fact have that attribute. But those are entirely different issues because, for one thing, the observer may simply not have the tools yet to make such a judgement.

Matter is made of atoms. For a long time we did not have the tools to determine that. But that didn't change the fact that it was, and is, true.

Now suppose the human race died out before it ever developed such tools. Obviously, it would still be true.

Now suppose that due to our limited intellectual abilities or for some other reason, it never was, or will be, possible to ever develop such tools. To me, it's obvious that that has no bearing on the truth of the proposition any more than if we didn't have time to develop the tools.

Similarly, the question of whether you have awareness is independent of whether I or any other third party can prove you do.
Please don't upvote stories that will serve only to provoke toxic and embarrassing flame wars. You can, instead, join me in flagging this off the front page.
Many large governments do this. The US does too probably:

"It has been reported that HBGary Federal was contracted by the U.S. government to develop astroturfing software which could create an "army" of multiple fake social media profiles.[36][37]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBGary#Astroturfing
I have a VMware ESXi box at home that I use to run a Windows VM with a video card passed through. I've been using it to stream Heroes of the Storm with Steam's In-Home Streaming and I get a consistent 30 FPS (1920x1080) with no noticeable lag.

Admittedly, it's not exactly the same as the setup in this article since it's not streaming over the internet, but I would assume that as long as your latency is low and bandwidth is high, you'll have no problem with this setup.
Presumably this is a parody. It's very difficult to tell.
I have been wanting to learn Clojure for a while, but I am not an iOS guy.

I do not want to take away mfikes' thunder (super solid and amazing work by the way, sir. Saw your blog post on earlier work on /r/clojure on reddit ... I think, maybe a week or two ago), but how viable is something similar on Android?

I would LOVE to have something like on my Nexus 6 while in the park and outings with the family.
If all of your matches were against people hosted on the same cloud, I imagine the latency between game clients would be very low and then the latency would just be the same as your normal client <-> server lag.
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Or a prion - not really a virus, but an agent that causes the body to misbehave, almost by accident.
What is this garbage? Several links to the Discovery Institute....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute#Controvers...
I wonder how much of this post is covered by patents now owned by Sony.
Perhaps he should do it again once the planned superchargers for 2015 are in play. From the perspective of a non-owner who doesn't live near Ohio/Virginia, it appears to me that there are a lot more scheduled for install before the end of this year: http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
They could start by pairing social programs with jobs.

eg. instead of paying people to go on welfare, they could instead pay them to build a bridge, office tower, housing, etc.
Yup, I really like lattice's offerings.
Discussing one's salary seems to be a particularly American taboo. Yet it's curiously dissonant with the overall American enthusiasm for all things money.

I wonder when it started? Somehow I can't imagine 19th century Americans being so secretive about how much they're making.
This is actually a cost savings. Windows games are much cheaper than their OSX versions and they are available much sooner on Windows than OSX.
Can somebody explain how they got the police to help them?

"You remember the RAT we sold you? Yea... That's broken because ... Help us or people might notice." If that's it.. Wow. This whole story gets more fishy by the minute.
Those are short lived pollutants that do harm only if emitted in populated areas.

Yes, they are very dangerous in the middle of a city, and that's why urban vehicles almost don't emit them, making ships more representative.
substring() was always defined in the 6 and 7 JavaDoc as:

"Returns a new string that is a substring of this string..."

Both implementations satisfy the API description so the API didn't change, the implementation did.

Optimizing your code based on the internals of a supposedly opaque data structure is a bad practice and if you get burned you only have yourself to blame.
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I agree with your general assessment re: experience, but I wish people would stop talking about these sorts of things in years and months. I understand why it's difficult to express it in hours, but even a very rough estimate of total hours spent is a far, far more useful metric than "years".

My personal experience with studying Japanese has been that there's roughly two camps of people: those who become fluent-ish in 1-2 years, and those who know ~100 kanji after 3 years (1-2k for fluency). The primary difference between these two camps is that the former studies 6-8 hours a day, and the latter has Japanese classes thrice a week, that's it.

Speaking in hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of hours gives you a much better idea of what's actually necessary to make the magic happen, and makes it easier to judge how well you're doing: is making barely any progress in 1 week a bad thing, or a really bad thing? That depends on whether a week translates to 3 hours or 50 hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)

Spoiler Alert.

A sci-fi story which mention a device that adults use to control what children can see.
I guess you're not going to own all the infrastructure and simply have it as a cost of business which you can pass on to the customer.

On top of that hardware costs vs performance along with hardware h264 encoding is getting cheaper.
I can speak for myself that I often forget that the new page exist.
> The average post in /newest is so bad that it's not clear you want to promote any of them to the frontpage randomly.

You're quite right. We tested this, and it was terrible.
/newest currently has a memory of 20 minutes. If a post gets no votes in those first 20 minutes, it is pretty much dead.
Yes! Thanks for a correction!
In the beginning, I kept on buying fields. But even if not, one or two farmers can cover a bunch of kittens, and then marginal woodcutters are better. Until later, in which calculation is pointless unless you really care.
Blit is not that story. Blit is about a fractal neuro-brain hack that kills people who see it.
Ask HN: Abuse of my Google apps email
Recently I am started seeing eamils landing in my inbox for various signup confirmations for various services which I don't have any idea about.

Looks like some spammer using ramdom_name@mygoogleappsdomain.com to signup for services and the signup confirmation emails landing on my catch all google apps admin account email.

Should I be worried about this abuse?
What about the fact that there is a system of ghetto-ization that ensures that a huge chunk of the black population is marginalized and ostracized? What about the fact that the worst areas (where said crimes are committed) of the densely populated urban swaths are disproportionately inhabited by African-Americans?

What about institutionalized educational and police racism? What about the presence of drugs and the lack of social workers cause God forbid rich people pay higher taxes for the well-being of others?

What about the absence of fathers leaving innocent children to grow up without good role models because daddy is in jail for an egregiously long "drug offense" sentence (i.e. toking on a blunt)?

That stuff is systemic, showing out-of-context bar charts from the FBI doesn't make it right.
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>To their defense, they seem to have thought that they were using harmless bacteria.

Ignorance is no excuse especially when non consenting people's health is at risk.
Well management is different. Its very easy for a developer to hop from a junior position to a mid level to senior to lead if they have the chops both technically and personality-wise.
It's fun for a while, but boy do I hope this chat is not the future.
to me this sounds like complaining about evolution (in the biological terms). things are evolving, some experiments are failing, better ways of doing things are emerging. is it stressful? sure. can one at sometimes feel overwhelmed? absolutely.

it's always a balance between getting things done and evolving the way you craft your things.

all things that are successful are build on other things. it's extremely rare to start from scratch.
I have better luck getting upvoted on weekends or as a side article to a topic-of-the-day, but I tend to submit articles that are either directly computer related or about systems that are not going as planned.
Most discussions about salary are federally protected in the US and backed up by court decisions in nearly every state. If you get fired for talking about salary you almost certainly can seek redress from the National Labor Relations Board.
The US DOE provides a nice interactive tool for comparing emissions between electric and gas-powered vehicles. The DOE data show that, in all US states, an electric car has lower CO2 emissions compared to a gas-powered car with average US MPG.

You can enter your zip code and it will graph the CO2 equivalent:
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.php

Gas powered cars with average US MPG produce 14815 pounds of CO2 equivalent per year.

Ohio produces 70% of its power from coal. Entering 44101 for Cleveland, you get 9074 pounds of CO2 equivalent per year, 39% less than gas-powered car.

Entering 94103 you can see that electric cars in San Francisco produce 4152 pounds of CO2 equivalent, 72% less than a gas-powered car.

A big part of the determination of CO2 emissions is the MPG of gas powered vehicles. In a few states, a hybrid electric has lower emissions than an all electric car because hybrids have a much higher MPG. This is explained nicely here:
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-car-emissions

The average fuel consumption for gas-powered vehicles in the US is around 24 MPG:
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
From a pure network connectivity standpoint, you're essentially looking at a bare minimum of ~two frames of latency (about 30-40ms), ignoring additional latency added by video compression/decompression. So, probably not going to be useful for competitive FPS play, but for most games it'd be tolerable, if even noticeable.
I thought the solar system book was incredible and I am going to talk to my wife about using it as a home school resource. I would definitely love to see more materials show up that are like this. It would be great to have some options for turning things on and off, like page flipping, removing some of the higher level math as it might throw off younger students, and it would be great to have a lock-in mode.

The lock-in mode would be a parental control that keeps a child from going to other sites, so that I could set my kid loose on a book and know they aren't playing video games.

While I acknowledge that other platforms make e-books and interactive books, I love that you are making a centralized location on the web for the creation and curation of these resources.
I'm so sick and tired of the race card. My parents are immigrants. They didn't have the language privelage that [non-white] natives have. It's such a sorry excuse blaming your failure on others. There will always be inequality in the world. Somehow against the odds my parents worked their asses off and put our family in a favorable position. It took working two jobs, going to school for 8 years but somehow they did it. I can't stand hearing racial this or that. But to appease the racists out there, Morgan Freeman has many times been asked if it's impossible to be successful as a black person, to which his response was 'look at where I am now, that is evidence that you can be successful" [paraphrased]. You have to want it, not whine about something else.
I honestly don't see any of that as reason other than, "Talking with people is HARD!"
No. It was recently revealed that even a much simpler problem, detecting genitals in on-line worlds, was so difficult that the world was shut down. It might be possible to detect certain words with speech recognition, but the teacher will just use different words. http://fusion.net/story/143218/lego-universe-had-a-huge-dong...

Twenty years ago we learned that even censoring specific bad words in online chat rooms is impossible. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-12-02/features/1995336...
No. The latency isn't just in the game like if you connect to a high ping server, there will also be some delay from when you move your mouse to when the screen changes. This is one of the reasons competitive fighting game players say never practice online. You're gaining useless muscle memory.
The guide advocates an EC2 security group that allows everything, plus disabling the Windows firewall. That's quite insecure, and unnecessary.

It's probably better, and not more work, to create a security group that only allows:

* UDP on port 1194 (Openvpn server)
* TCP on port 3389 (Remote Desktop)
* ICMP (for ping)
> To their defense, they seem to have thought that they were using harmless bacteria.

It's the "seem to have thought" that I have a problem with. How thoroughly did they do their research? It is one thing if someone puts his finger up and says, "hmm, I think it's safe". It's another if rigorous, thorough tests are done that show conclusively that the bacteria is safe.

Analogy: I fire a gun straight into the air. The bullet eventually comes down and kills someone. Is a defense that "I thought it was safe" valid?
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You are completely correct, however I have personally seen two employee handbooks that forbid discussing salary and, living in an at-will state, I'm sure if I discussed salary I would be fired for something completely unrelated.