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Paul would strongly disagree with the idea that a startup is defined by a random list of traits and that you "know it when you see it". He very clearly defines a startup as a company aiming for (and potentially capable of achieving) a very high rate of growth.

Team composition is literally irrelevant.
This site, like many others on the northeastern Mediterranean coast, is most likely submerged due to earthquake activity in the region. The site here is on the coast of the Argolic Gulf, which is a graben (down-dropped tectonic block). The main fault is on land, on the southern shore[1].

I want to say some of the temples where Paul lectured to the Corinthians are also underwater due to faulting (the Gulf of Corinth is tectonically subsiding) but I can't find the reference. (I'm not actually sure that he gave lectures, either; I think I heard this in a geology class).

[1]: http://eqgeogr.weebly.com/blog/active-faults-of-greece-map-a...
I can almost imagine a high priest of ages past:

"You must toil hard and suffer through your miserable life, because if you are a good person, after you're dead you'll experience the sublime eternity of the heavens".

Then people start killing themselves to get to heaven faster. The high priest pauses, thinks and pronounces:

"Oh, and whoever commits suicide goes straight to hell, no questions asked".
Even if PG is wrong about the effects of behavior, every startup is still likely to fail. So being mean just means odds are a mean person is likey to wind up failing and an asshole.
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They are billionaires because they care about the cost of living. Make no mistakes journey to riches is through the path of making tiny little sacrifices everyday.

Heck, you can make decent money and retire in your 30's if you are little care about how you live your life.

That is how most millionaires/billionaires are made. The start up riches are an exception to the million dollar club. Everybody else goes through a pretty difficult grind until they make it.
I don't know too much about these things, but isn't it possible to have some sort of hardware filter on the antenna to block illegal channels?
I've been using Emacs for about 20 years now. Sorry, can't change that. :)

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"talk-transcripts : Rich Hickey "

- Inside Transducers (11/2014)

- Transducers (09/2014)

- Implementation details of core.async Channels (06/2014)

- Design, Composition and Performance (11/2013)

- Clojure core.async Channels (09/2013)

- The Language of the System (11/2012)

- The Value of Values (07/2012)

- Reducers (06/2012)

- Simple Made Easy (9/2011)

- Hammock Driven Development (10/2010)

- Are we there yet? (09/2009)

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/tree/master/Hi...
It's been a couple of years but the last time I tried Fedora in VMWare the video only had 3 resolutions and the audio didn't work without a lot of googling and tweaking. Without installing guest tools an Ubuntu would have 6 or more resolutions to use with xrandr and audio worked out of the box.
This also isn't an artificial pancreas because you still have to wear an insulin pump and insulin pumps aren't artificial pancreases. To me, an artificial pancreas acts like the pancreas I already have - it monitors and excretes insulin so I never have to think about what my blood sugar is or think about it dropping low or spiking.
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That's the power of public sector unions! Minimum-wage employees getting compensation well into the six-figures and they don't even have to work!
I don't know, I took it to be a more simpler commentary which made sense to me.

It's possible to be basically nice (firm, strong in your dealings, smart, deal-making, but nice all the same). Instead of being an archetypal asshole.

p.s. I recoil at the term "culture-fit", shivers down the spine. You make some valid points.
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I don't understand your/his reasoning here.

* People don't enable DFS and they mess up radar for Airports.

* ~20 reported incidents, people are fined ~$25k and stop.

* Therefore we must make it illegal to change the firmware on wireless devices.

Only 20 cases? $25k fines!? Why can't we continue to solve this problem like this? The hobbyists flashing their devices with OpenWRT and then making a conscious decision to override defaults (upon which OpenWRT will warn you about legality) are a rare breed. Those that foolishly do this are being fined heavily.

I just don't understand the jump.
Offer to sell them to one of the owners ex-wives for really cheap.
> Say if I'm a Canadian citizen and I go to visit somewhere like Russia or North Korea, and get jailed for something that they just didn't like (not for a valid reason), then my country would use international legal means to get me free.

"International legal means" -- especially in those scenarios -- is just a thin layer of formalities wrapped around the threat that your country, perhaps with assistance from its allies, will impose consequences like trade sanctions, and, if necessary, ultimately wage war if their requests are not adhered to.

Sure, they could ultimately do nation-vs-nation legal action in the ICJ, but even if your nation wins, its not like the ICJ has marshals it can send in to enforce its orders. Enforcement is basically self-service.

> They would not just go and start a war.

No, but they would be threatening one, if only implicitly.

> This is what I mean by the world being different now where most regular citizens aren't scared of being jailed in a foreign country.

Lots of them, I would bet, are, they just choose not to travel to the countries they are afraid of being jailed in.
Should there be concern using Phoenix given the low performance rank of it on the Web Framework benchmark? [1]

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/previews/round11/
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Do they even have enough memory for OpenWRT? Maybe DD-WRT.

At the low end, I'd think the chipset manufacturer would do most of the software work, then the device manufacturer just cosmetically tweaks the reference.
They release physical hardware which is capable of operating in many regions and firmware which is specific to a region.

It's straightforward to create hardware which is physically incapable of violating licensure, but it is also expensive.

That's not the point though, it's becoming a serious problem with technology enabling restrictions which weren't possible in the past and which now threaten free society through a well intentioned but misguided bureaucracy.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

There's a certain unalienable right which is being encroached more and more – the right of ownership, the freedom to tinker.

That is more specifically, everyone should be capable of learning and executing complete control over the things they own. DRM, locked firmwares, license agreements – all of these things are a serious and existing threat to your freedom.
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John Locke obviously! ;-)
Except that that is self-evidently false, and we're not talking about some meaningless argument in a vacuum, but one between humans who have experience of the world.
That's for explaining the joke so laboriously and with so little wit
To me it comes down to what my intent with the code is.

I could write a few simple routines in Go that certain get the job done without much code, but when I read the code I have to perform more mental translation from how the code is written to what my intent was.

In contrast, pmap or other constructs such as PLINQ get the same work done with less code that expresses my intent more clearly.
Serious question: are D and Rust trying to be the same thing?

I'm not asking whether or not their approaches are different, but whether or not they're trying to solve the same problem(s). I get the sense that this is the case; they're both trying to be a "safe C(++)".
It's unfortunate that you got downvoted, because while people may not agree with this there is definitely something to this.

My approaches to Clojure have been seriously hampered by the fact that some of the abstractions above those that are "simple" are remarkably complex, and that the tools that surround the ecosystem are still pretty frail.

Macro bugs are certainly something that have scared me away for a while.
Thanks Jay, just sent you an email. And yeah, I see your point, guess I'm just not ready to make a decision yet.

I was definitely planning on Ruby initially, but after my experience with the job market and available local resources I'm now leaning towards PHP.
Why not just increase patrols for people breaking the law? Or change the radar to use a different frequency?

Honestly, if I had to decide between the ability to choose free software, and having all flights grounded indefinitely I would go with the software. I know my opinion is not the majority though.
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More the one disk -> LVM

And no, only /tmp has reached capacity for me when building large packages with Archs makepkg.
Feels like the same problem that a lot of Android handsets have had. "Look! We added value by making the product worse!"
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Great interview & overview of Red, Nenad! (if you're reading this)

I had a rare opportunity to speak with Nenad a while back in Beijing. Great dude all around, I wish him all the best with the development of Red - hope to see its success!
There doesn't even have to be intent.

Take 1000 different cultures with a random selection of moral values, unique to each. The moral values they hold dear, especially in early development, will have a very real effect on the survival of it's followers. Culture evolves right along with genetic code. The culture you're born into has very real effects to your survival fitness.

Certain traits of religions survive better.
Thanks for your response, this was exactly what I wanted.

With the discussion/debate here I've refined the idea a bit more, and instead of saying a "government" I'm more pushing towards something like a non-state actor or an NGO combined with a citizen run lobbyist group.

I believe that if governments tried to "prosecute and punish...its members, associates, and collaborators" that would have the opposite effect of strengthening the group and getting more support. From my perspective that's exactly what the Arab Spring was all about.

I'm not sure how the regulation part would go, since AFAIK there isn't anything like this already that has forced the creation of rules. Laws usually only come up as a reactive measure, which is something I would actually hope for and want to help shape.
I see. What I was intending with that comment was to point out that despite being a child who was exposed to radiation in Chernobyl, that child (children, Vitali was there too) went on to be one of the most physically accomplished humans currently alive.
Could you please elaborate on why D is not a good backend language? Knowing the little I know about it, I assumed that would be a good start for it.
Probably something like better matching their societies' standard fitness functions

e: what i probably meant to say was "more likely to pass on their memes"
It depends, really. In terms of which system calls the program needs, that's certainly true.

However, in terms of things like "which files will this program need to access", the system administrator is in a much better position, because these kinds of questions often depend on how the program is used in a particular environment.

The approaches are complementary.
--- bin/echo/echo.c	14 Dec 2014 16:55:59 -0000	1.8
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* SUCH DAMAGE.
*/

+#include <sys/tame.h>

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I guess they just don't want to make it too easy to do this, given the serious consequences.
Okay, so "being nice" equates to "offer good value at a fair price", eg don't suck your customers dry. That makes perfect sense.

I do think a little bit of ruthlessness is called for, especially when your most important metric (growth) is coming at the expense of your competitors. Examples abound of this -- and I think that it can be enormously beneficial to study companies that have operated in moral "gray areas", both in how it helped them establish their position in the market, and how it hurt them. (More often than not, the "damage" is a rather superficial PR dent...) Look at Microsoft crushing Netscape, Apple playing hardball with everybody (including their supply chain), AirBNB with Craigslist, then skirting hotel regs, Uber in everything they do. For all these companies, from a consumer perspective, it's hard to argue they don't provide "good value for a fair price," even though their business practices often lead to nerd outrage here on HN.

That being said, a singular strategy of "being nice" (eg, offering good value at a fair price) could be enough for winning customers. Often this seems to happen if your product is so far superior that customers (or users) naturally gravitate towards you. That is how Google got big, and seems to be the modus operandi for social businesses (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

In fact, I think the only place where you can get away with not "being nice" is in extremely bureaucratic customer environments where success is dictated by the skill of your sales team -- the realm of Oracle, government contractors, etc. Those are also very interesting to study, but for different reasons.
Maybe it's not that you don't get the book; maybe you just disagree with it to such an extent that it infuriates you, just as its author disagreed with Plato.
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I read quite a bit about leadership and have even graduated from a couple leadership programs. During this time I have learned many lessons including, "When you're green you're growing, when you're ripe you rot". Thank you for this article because in order to be great one must never stop learning and relearning truths. Even the greatest team can fail without proper leadership and vision.
> And as much as I appreciate spectrum partitioning, we really need to get the major wifi chipsets completely reverse engineered so we can blow away this ambiguous spectre of "unauthorized" modifications and turn them into something normal. Randos stomping on ch12-15 isn't an actual problem - but that widespread rulebreaking coupled with the unknown of what further mods could do is scary to regulators. Destroy that unknown.

There was a lot of resistance to allowing unlicensed use of 5.25-5.35 GHz and 5.47-5.725 GHz precisely because some were afraid that unauthorized modifications would be commonplace, and devices could not be relied upon to sense and avoid the RADAR systems that also operate in those bands. So bear in mind that the more you insist on modifying, the harder it will be to persuade the FCC to open up new unlicensed bands.
Not so much. I really appreciate the ease of use for e.g. Charles. Especially that it is smart about responses like parsing json/showing images etc. I am aware of and know how to use tools like mitmproxy, wireshark tcpdump and the likes but find it to difficult to use them when the networking part is not your primary focus. Would really love an fast and easy gui tool for these matters. Especially since our QA has the same problem and they are usually non-technical so it would not really work for them.
Someone may have been harmed, but

Until YOU can prove that YOU have been harmed, YOU don't have standing.
I love the idea of doing an "interview" over Google Docs. That way you can ask one question and have multiple people respond at the same time.

Great read. Thanks again @pgbovine!
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There are some more details on their kickstarter page, but not much: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1152958674/the-sensel-m...

I'm curious about the durability.. for example, do the sensors become permanently deformed? I suppose you could compensate for this to some degree in software.

I'm wondering if you can convert a capacitive sensor into a pressure sensor by putting a conductive array on a springy material.

When is the transparent version coming so that it can be used for a touch screen?
No, but there is some overlap. Generally speaking, Rust puts safety above anything else. D is more pragmatic, expressive, and generally has better performance (e.g. bounds checking is optional). I think D is a better choice anywhere memory safety and deterministic memory management are not the primary concern.
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It would have been a lot easier for the FCC to have just not allowed unlicensed use on these channels than move all the weather RADAR. Instead, they put a lot of effort into rules that would make unlicensed use possible alongside it. Please remember this before firing off your letters to the FCC, and think about the alternative if the Commission can't count of reliable DFS.
> The extent of Vatican City is miniscule, but they have a huge governing hierarchy physically distributed across the world.

I think you are confusing the governing hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church with the governing hierarchy of the State of Vatican City. While those hierarchies have the same head, the latter is strict (and small) subset of the former.
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Because one case can (potentially) cause the radar to miss a wind-shear threat, which is precisely what the radar is there to detect. Missing that can cause a plane crash and kill anywhere from one to a few hundred people.

Given that level of potential downside (even if things would have to happen exactly wrong for it to occur), I'm not sure that "we fine them $25K and they stop" is the right trade-off. I'm not sure that "only 20 reported incidents" is a level that you should expect people to be comfortable with. I'm not sure "we'll continue to not be horribly unlucky" is a valid approach.
Is there a HN for Financial News / Info?
Im looking for an awesome newsletter that emails me once a week with the best/most spoken about topics in finance. Like I heard the Fed is getting together this week to discuss raising interest rates. WHY DONT I KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS?! I WANT MORE!
According to Ghostery, you can disable this "messaging system".

Still, it's a bit concerning. Ghostery has long walked a fine line, serving both end users' privacy and advertisers' needs. Their most important asset might be user trust; nobody has the time a skill to learn what Ghostery's add-on is really doing. This move seems to suggest they are willing to risk that trust, as they appear to have no problem converting their privacy add-on into a private ad network. Users may wonder what's next, and what else is happening that they don't know about.

Also, does this change violate any Mozilla add-on rules? Users installed this add-on to limit the effects of advertising (i.e., tracking); using the add-on to send ads, even if only Ghostery promotions, is a major change.
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What webserver are you using? Running puma in threaded mode, even on MRI, should allow your external API calls to run in parallel - this might simplify things a bit :)
You're still not reading my comments, try reading the other ones in this post as well. If something like your example happened what would a regular government do? I've said before this isn't a replacement for your geographical/local government (at least not for a while).

I've revised the term to not mean "government", that's just what term I first used. Think more of like a world citizenship, or NGO, or union fighting for collective rights.
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The moralizing god is a policeman installed in your brain, so you obey the rules when the corporeal police aren't around. It is a social hack to minimize cheaters.
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It's much more akin to convergent evolution than any "natural state" of markets. People design comparable instruments to solve comparable problems. It does not mean there is no design. Just like dolphins and sharks having evolved fins separately does not mean that there is a "natural law of fins", it means fins are pretty good at solving the problem they solve.
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But why does the link to log in have to be so small and hidden away in that corner?

Just sayin'...
Sounds like github/gitlab would be a close to what you are describing. Hosted quickbooks. Hosted turbotax for accountants. Payment processing like square for small businesses.
>the real problems which are the prohibitive cost basis of hiring full time employees in today's economy in the U.S.

[citation needed]. What's the above-salary overhead on hiring someone in the USA vs other countries vs the USA at other times when the labor market was tighter?
What I'm suggesting is entirely compatible with tame. It doesn't change anything about the implementation, but prevents you from accidentally calling functions that would error out.

The only thing that my suggestion optionally changes is that using, eg, socket() would be a compile time error AND a runtime error, instead of only a runtime error, if you tell the system that you want it. Don't define the macros to disable functions that you are trying to make uncallable? Your code is 100% unaffected.
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But it's true. And if you can understand reactions such as yours, you are really at the bleeding edge... It's not about right or wrong, but rather, knowing what is up. It's about knowing why people say the things they say. With an open mind, comments such as this can be just as enlightening.

Back in the day, I remember seeing the Japanese ./ site and being disappointed by the quality of submissions and comments compared to the English site. Now I look at HN and feel the same about /. And if anything comes along that makes me feel that way about HN, that is where I'll be... But until then!
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> I don't think that's true.

I think it's largely a matter of interpretation. To me, transactions imply atomicity, isolation and consistency, but not durability (e.g. in-memory datastores can still support transactions). I can see your point, though.

> One could benchmark a non-ACID datastore against SQLite but only if each ran in an in-memory database mode.

Yep, or you can just turn fsync off. This is an option in most databases, to trade performance off for durability.

> the results from SQLite and Vedis in particular appear to be meaningful to compare.

Yep, Vedis seems to fsync after every commit, so I think you're right.

> requires that you ship the code to "any accompanying software that uses the DB software".

Ah, damnit, that's prohibitive. I didn't notice that, thanks, I thought they only required the source for modifying Vedis itself. rlite looks better, I think.