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The stakes are high, so I'm going to be blunt: This is terrible advice. [1]

The amount you're trying to save with "option 4" can be estimated fairly accurately; it's about 0.09% per year. [2] Over forty years, this savings will compound and you'll make 3% more money, if you never screw up the rebalancing, and if you're at least as talented as a Vanguard analyst, and if you remain so even as you grow older.

But the US market has gained more than 5% per year on average, so you could make the same money by just investing for six extra months. Or, looking at it the other way: If it costs you six additional months to get started with option 4, you've just thrown away all your potential gains from option 4.

And option 4 has a much harder conversion funnel. You have to:

1. surf to Amazon
2. get the free Kindle version of William Bernstein's *If You Can* [3]
3. read it
4. Contemplate the inevitability of your own death.
5. build a spreadsheet
6. Make some strategic decisions
7. open a Vanguard account before noon tomorrow
8. Carry out at least four trades.
9. Set up an automatic investment plan.
10. Repeat steps 4 and 7 every year without fail for the rest of your career.

DON'T DO THIS. You are going to put this off for months. And every year you put it off will cost you in the end.

patio11's advice converts better:

1. Open a Vanguard account before noon tomorrow.
2. Visit this page:

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...

... and pick the fund that matches your age.

3. Buy some of that fund.
4. Set up an automatic investment plan to buy more of that fund.

DO THIS TODAY, I BEG YOU, YOUR KIDS WILL THANK ME ONE DAY.

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[1] I should know; I have followed this terrible advice for years. Writing this essay may be the best investment I've ever made.

[2] Vanguard's Target Retirement Fund for 2055 (VFFVX) has an expense ratio of 0.18% and would be managed for me.

Or I can follow Vanguard's strategy on my own. At the moment, Vanguard's VFFVX consists of:

54% VG Total Stock Market index (expense ratio 0.05%)
36% VG Total International Stock index (expenses 0.14%)
7% VG Total Bond Market II index (expenses 0.07%)
3% VG Total International Bond index (expenses 0.19%)

Weighting all those expense ratios by their fraction of the portfolio, I compute that I can achieve an overall expense ratio of 0.09%. So I'm saving 0.09% compared to letting Vanguard do the work.

[3] Technically the book I read back in the day was Bernstein's Four Pillars of Investing, but I'm assuming that Bernstein has diligently refined his teaching over the years and I can safely recommend his latest.
"Blinding should be pretty easy and cheap - have an assistant cover up the head with a sheet as the measurement is made."

But you would need to move the body, or have an experimenter who doesn't know whether he is in Japan (using Japanese living abroad or westerners living in Japan for the experiment is for the follow-up study)

Also, but that's relatively minor, covering the head is insufficient. There are lots of other cues, such as skin color, tattoos, missing little fingers, body size, etc. that correlate well with being Japanese as opposed to being a westerner. I would have the assistant cut out everything from the stomach down (even though there is a sphincter, if the size difference is small, specifying where the intestines start will be a challenge) and empty it before handing it over to the experimenter (indirectly, to prevent communication between assistant and experimenters)
This is awfully petty behavior on the part of a CEO, digging up a comment buried ten layers down on a two week old Reddit post and then promising to destroy its anonymous poster. At best, it makes out Beard to be some kind of paranoid control freak. At worst, it makes it seem like that Brendan Eich thing wasn't a one-off.
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This new YouTuber (a young teen) has recently made a video on "Fitnah", also meaning (trial and temptation) in multiple languages. Definitely a great watch! Comedic value and great message all in one! Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdK6WtlHBw
Sounds like you might be mixing two bits of advice. There are many materials you never cut with a laser cutter, such as PVC or vinyl (makes chlorine gas) or ABS plastic (makes cyanide and melts). Thick Lexan shouldn't be cut with an infrared laser, not necessarily because it produces harmful materials but because it will scorch and burn rather than cut. You might be able to cut it with a different type of laser cutter. And some other forms of polycarbonate may cut better (materials informally called "Lexan" sometimes aren't). You would need some detailed knowledge of the exact material and laser cutter, and thus some expertise.

See http://atxhackerspace.org/wiki/Laser_Cutter_Materials for some details.
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Slightly off-topic but is there any book or resource that a software engineer like me can read to understand the basics of how VC operate, what each round of funding mean, what one needs to know when one approaches a VC, difference between VC/LP?
Yes in my haste I forgot that Taiwan is the perfect A/B test control group, because of the postwar history. It had a lot of the same issues to overcome.

I am biased towards Hong Kong having visited and loved the place, so it's always the first one I think of.
Why not just deny the transaction if it can't be paid in full?

The bank isn't doing you any favors by letting you pay with money you don't have, they know they'll be getting that money back and then some.
Usually recommended:

http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...
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Of course we don't think that. Some people found it interesting, and it's good for HN to have a wide range of stories.

Most times when someone has a fixed idea of what this site is supposed to be about, they get it wrong. HN is supposed to be about literally anything, as long as it's intellectually interesting. We don't mean that in a highbrow sense—topics not traditionally thought of as intellectual are welcome. This story is perhaps borderline by HN's criteria, but at worst it's not far off, and the thread is substantive, so we decided not to call it off-topic.

Story diversity is super important here. No one would call Rust off-topic, yet we don't want a front page of all Rust stories. At least most of us don't!
"If the only course of action is to say "Oh no! They used a throwaway account, so there's nothing we can do about the toxic environment posts like this create for members of our community!" that doesn't bode well for having a non-toxic environment."

How on Earth was that comment "creating a toxic environment"? It was added a week and a half after the original post went up. By that time nobody but the most obsessive are still reading the same Reddit post.

Calling it "toxic" and having the CEO himself declaim from the pulpit about how this random throwaway account on Reddit with all of six posts to its name over the span of three months must be destroyed seems like using a nuclear weapon to kill a fly.
Notch started as totally solo developer for MineCraft.
Back before the crash, I was working at home writing webapps in Python, JavaScript, and SQL. These days, I am still working at home....writing webapps in Python, JavaScript and SQL, just on different projects. One of my friends worked at an ad agency and got a paycut. Another worked at a large corporation and absolutely nothing happened, business as usual. There is a lot of money-generating code that needs to be written and maintained independent of the stock market. Probably less VCs risking capital/less speculation for a few years though. I do remember more people being just happy to have a job vs. now where people spend most of their time talking about their stock/bonuses and whether they should quit out of boredom etc.
I'm literally going to print that page and hang it over the cutter. Thanks.

Note: That page does say in the second paragraph: "It is not always obvious which materials will work - for example: Polycarbonate/Lexan produces flames and lethal chlorine gas which will rapidly corrode this $40,000 machine into uselessness and which is extremely hazardous to the health of people nearby." That sounds like its in shouting distance of the Epilog guy's warning.
Sure, and the crank driven fans have been replaced by much quieter variable speed electric fans as you noted. These are also more efficient as they can be switched off during highway driving. There are also the thermo-couple engine fans where the amount of fan-clutch engagement is driven by engine heat. My other car has one of these and sounds horrendous when driving in heavy traffic on hot days, but is mostly silent all the other times.

But the big difference between a Porsche air-cooling fan and a crank-driven engine fan is that a Porsche fan is overdriven and much larger (diameter and blades) than a typical water cooling fan which is typically under driven and has fewer blades.
>Sixteen-year-olds are dangerous drivers. Their rate of fatal crashes per mile is three times as high as the rate for drivers age twenty and over, and nearly twice as high as the rate for drivers eighteen and nineteen.

The article suggests not letting teenagers drive. If this were to be done, would accidents as a whole be reduced, or would the accidents just move up an age cohort? If it's inexperienced drivers in general that are dangerous, then not letting teenagers drive won't help.

>He found that teens took more risks when their friends were around

Steinberg attributes this to peer pressure and teenagers calling each other chicken. Yet I wonder if this isn't just a special case of the bystander effect. When there are many teenagers together, everyone expects somebody else will be the voice of reason and caution. If none of my friends complain when I steer my car with my feet, it can't be that dangerous. Surely someone would stop me if it was actually a stupid idea...

If that were true, supervising teenagers all the time might actually make them more reckless, not less.

I think it's very risky to just take your prejudices at face value and looking for scientific evidence afterwards.
Yeah unless you're Eric Spoto the bench press contributes by far the least to your total. Powerlifters and olympic lifters also typically have deep respect for each other, as there is a broad intersection between the two sports.
Why automated trading stop losses are not always ideal
> I think I'd be hard pressed to do that from a gui. for one, I don't think there's a gui history. And how do you chain gui commands together? And then alter them with parameters?

Some automation tool like (osx) Keyboard Maestro is pretty good for these kinds of things. Just started playing with it the last couple of weeks but it is very powerful.

I use CLI automation as well quite a lot.
This is impressive!

Did you manually retrieve the play count for each track or is there an automated way of doing it?
Venture Deals by Brad Feld is great for how to fundraise and he does go over most of the basics and how things work.

Mark Suster, from Upfront Ventures, has a really great list of blog articles you can read about raising VC: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/pitching-a-vc/

This should give you a general idea of how VC's operate: http://founderequity.com/the-new-reality-of-venture-capital/
This testimonial on erowid paints a terrifying picture: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=104449

(Take with a grain of salt, as it were)
Both of those titles are rather baity, so we changed it to language from the subtitle. Happy to change it again if someone suggests something better.
Completely different plant. The bitterness is caused by momordicin, which is fine to consume.
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Implementing a lock-free work stealing queue isn't difficult, especially with C/C++ atomics. I can't think of an implementation where ABA would be a problem.
Mario Skate uses Boosted boards to bring Mario Kart to life at 60fps
Since there's so much accounting in these metrics, anybody has a recommendation for good accounting software, or knowledgebase? Especially for hardware startups (e.g. building physical stuff, inventory, keeping track of component and parts)...
The key feature of democracy is not necessarily having people choose their own rules, but instead enabling peaceful power transitions.

Any place where people can still legitimately change the government through democracy is likely to have a reasonable cap on the corruption levels, but that still assumes other functioning parts of society, like an independent judiciary, free press, freedom of speech and association, etc.

Most of those things aren't the case in China, so, absent evidence, you'd have to assume China is more corrupt.
You read reviews of suppliers. Lots of reviews. And you look up images of the genuine packaging from reputable manufacturers like Sun Pharma, and compare.
Something I've always thought about with IoT is the fact that everything is hackable. There are very few things that the best hackers can't get to. With more and more things being automated (often times with more important info), there are more vulnerabilities that appear. I think a self-driving car is an example. The security on things like cars and anything in the home need to be extremely high to ensure the safety of the users. As the home becomes more and more smart, need to make sure it's not just a buffet for hackers.
CrossFit has done more than USAW ever has and ever will do to get barbells in the hands of Americans. Too bad that it comes with serious side effects...
"Missing little fingers"? I've never been to Japan, but as far as I know, most folks aren't in the Yakuza.

Also, I wouldn't be super worried about blinding in this case - a length measurement is not particularly subjective. I cannot see how unconscious bias would reasonably add 20-50% (postulated effect size) to intestine length. I'd personally consider the results valid even without blinding, provided a rigid procedure was chosen for measuring intestine length.
There is no doubt that free(er) markets in China have not only helped the Chinese people to a better life, but through the magic of free(ish) trade, have made the lives of people throughout the world better.

The one thing China does better than places like the US is in the savings rate. Everyone could learn from that.
Generally "efficient" means maximizing social utility, which in practice for economists means GDP [0].

I agree that there are benefits to an educated population (in spite of disagreeing with the progressive bias in university education). But you are wrong that "efficiency" is meaningless or means "making us all incrementally more efficient at doing whatever it is precisely that we're already doing". Efficiency means increasing the size of the "pie" so that however we choose to divide it up, there is more pie to go around. We could divide the GDP from the year 1800 as evenly as we liked and not reach the standard of living of 2015.

[0] and no, the broken windows fallacy does not apply here, no one is trying to literally maximize GDP, but GDP represents the kind of thing that economists care about.
> Saw lots of guys who weren't "perfect" have a great time and find success in relationships

That's not the point. The point is the relative difference in effort. And it's not just that men tend to pursue, but that the starting point on dating sites is so extremely uneven - the threshold to message someone is so low that men approach at a far higher rate than they dare to in real life, and approach women well outside of the "range" they'd normally do.
They don't do it particularly well, unless you think "time since lunch at time of parole hearing" is a strong predictor of criminal recidivism.

http://www.economist.com/node/18557594
Mozilla CEO Chris Beard is saying that hyper-sensitive permanently offended types are welcome within Mozilla. This creates a terrible working environment for those who want to have a job without the politics. I can't see Mozilla as an organization continuing to exist for very long with this kind of leadership. If I were a current employee at Mozilla, it would be time to shop my resume around to saner workplaces.
That is a very big drop in price! No wonder the iron ore price has dropped through the floor.

I wonder if the innovation needed, then, is a mobile recycling plant rather than having to haul the raw goods to the scrapyard. I'm sure such a thing is pie in the sky, but I've seen the mobile sawmills in action, they're quite a sight to behold.
The one child policy was always madness for future demographics. The numbers generated and the sex imbalance are crazy to look at.
When I tried it years ago I was put off by the UI, this might be shallow, but if I ha been able to use Gtk and Qt apps ai might have used it looks my enough to appreciate the underlying aspects.

The UX is just quite odd and looks old - making it themeable would certainly have made it more appealing to my younger self.
Very nice work.
Row rumbles on over figures in Oracle CSO’s anti-security rant
Funny how bearish news gets decimated when markets are in turmoil.
Judges and juries don't understand logic, science, or technology and instead rely solely on show-and-tell presentations from paid 'experts'[1].

It scares the shit out of me that my life would ever be in the hands of a bunch of glorified arts students in conjunction with random members of the population.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark
Sorry, I did misunderstand. I see. I was under the impression they were entirely doing away with the hardware necessary for virtual memory.
Whoooosh
I think there are issues having to do with the ambiguity of language that just aren't solvable, period.

This, absolutely. Once you've used a programming language enough, you'll find that natural languages are disturbingly ambiguous; it only works (most of the time, at least) for communicating with other humans because of implied context.
Racket is pretty cool!

Sincerely, a Haskell developer.
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'Savings' is not a worthwhile goal in and of itself.

If all you do with your savings is stuff it under the mattress or lend it to banks who in turn lend it to homebuyers to perpetuate the greatest property bubble in history... you're going to have a bad time.
more: http://www.grapheine.com/typographie/logo-de-la-nasa
Working through this and other sampling algorithms was a real eye-opening experience for me, and really helped me develop an intuition for statistics in general. It was definitely worthwhile. I'm still rather proud of some code I wrote back in 2009 to implement the Ziggurat algorithm in an unusually general way[1]. It's in Haskell so I apologize in advance for the limited audience, but it's rather well documented (to my surprise... I don't always find that to be the case in my old code, or even my not-so-old stuff).

I always especially liked the fact that it constructed its table lazily and could do so given nothing but a handful of functions and a constant (the PDF itself, its inverse, its definite integral from 0, and the limit of that integral at infinity). From those pieces, it builds the tables and an algorithm to sample, and optionally also recursively transforms those inputs as necessary to lazily construct another ziggurat representation of the tail, ad infinitum. Basically, you can throw any monotone PDF you want at it and not have to worry about solving or approximating the tail analytically.

[1]https://github.com/mokus0/random-fu/blob/master/random-fu/sr...
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That's awesome. It feels like this alone could, at least theoretically, make rust faster than C on average. Most C programmers are not even aware that the restrict keyword exists and don't use it in places where they could greatly benefit from it.
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I wish more people would understand this.
If you are have one or two developers,
you can not act like google.
Management does not understand this.
What political factors are you referring to? I think Linux took off because it was easily accessible and widely available, and Linus made a lot of pragmatic choices.

I remember in the 90s how awesome it seemed to get a *nix system for free with a book.
This is a very interesting idea, and I have been finding inspiration in it. New machine architectures by way of #include files! Or cat! I've been thinking that maybe the right compile-time programming model is something like term-rewriting (more or less like C++ templates or Prolog or Aardappel) rather than textual substitution. I wrote some more thoughts on the matter at https://lobste.rs/s/kfpsou/what_is_everyone_working_on_this_... but I still haven't gotten very far on it.
That actually is a very close analogue, isn't it.

Nearly exact I think. Only difference being the thing being created is a government system instead of an AI, and the torture is done physically, instead of to a simulation.

And really, if one accepts the idea of a simulation of oneself as being oneself, then the govt/ai distinction is, I think, mainly decoration at that point.

Hm.
We need to Prune dupes away, by matching on key feature of their abstract syntax tree, rather than the naive URL text. That's The Dream anyway. Happy Pruning!
>1. Design with your factory. Finding a good supplier is important but the real work starts once you've shaken hands. Your factory is your greatest resource as a presumably inexperienced hardware designer. It's like having an expert-level consultant work on your project for free, so take advantage of it.

Your first lesson applies not only to small teams launching on Kickstarter, but also to the best and biggest manufacturing companies in the world. The feedback loop between the production team and the design team was the most important step in the design process at Denso.
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I once used symbolic regression (Eureqa) to generate an approximation to the cumulative distribution. From there you can just draw samples from a uniform distribution, and map them onto a Gaussian distribution. Some software uses an approximated CDF, using polynomials I think.
Yet the way I see it there is more OS research going on with unikernels and at Microsoft Research labs than with Linux.

Which appears just to be the same old idea of UNIX and mainframes revamped in new package, stuck in C and in a kernel model that has hardly changed.

EDIT: To clarify.

Many use GNU/Linux in the same way as they would be using UNIX SYSTEM V, there is hardly any change.

Add to it that besides new filesystems, adoption of mainframe virtualization and sandboxes concepts, there is hardly anything new happening in OS research in regards to Linux.

What I currently care about is OS research that tries to mimick the Xerox PARC experiences, use of micro-kernels, use of safe systems programming languages and so forth.
This would only be arbitraging if you were buying something on one card and returning it on another card. It's not arbitrage if you're not making a profit, it's just saving.

Nice cost-comparison tool though :)
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Ah! That constant realization. It is hard, but the "what now" feeling I get after polishing a small stupid sideproject of mine until there is really nothing left to do but adding features I don't need or want. I like to think it is teaching me good habits, but that is really not very comforting.

This week I revisited my scheme automounter I have running on my raspberry pi that I wrote when I first learned scheme. I made the code half as long and made it not suck and now I am struggling with not starting an ever-growing project of replacing systemd with it...
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