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America is the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. It's not because we're situated on a mountain of rubies, or that we are intellectually superior to other countries.

It's because of our system of government. This talk about the government being the problem, causing harm to the economy, really irritates me - the American economy owes its very existence to the American government and the private property protections it offers in the forms of regulations, legal system, social welfare programs, public education, military, etc etc etc.

If you can't stomach the sausage making in the US without losing respect for all the greatness it permits, just stop paying attention and vote for whoever says what feels right, that's the American way.

Your italicized real recovery sounds like another adrenaline boost in the arm, rather than the robust, sustainable recovery that is actually occurring.
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"Mix X T of coffee with Y cups of hot water" is a recipe, and measures something in 6 oz cups.
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>The market doesn't distinguish the root cause of safe-havenism.

Of course. The market only cares for the bottom end.

I'm saying it though for those pretending the market is some victimless activity, that's not about power at all, etc, and "hard working people" (and countries) prevail.
why not? I've got a spare monitor to run as a realtime Trans-Siberian window view ;)
It's just a rubber belt hooked onto some stepper motors. No gears. The drivers are doing the micro stepping for me.
A good NLP interface for files would look as different from a command-line as it would from a graphical file manager. You'd want something context-sensitive, with the ability to use pronouns and iterative refinement, some of which would take the place of simple scripting. You'd need to replace many commands with phrases, and many variations on phrases.

Whether you'd get any users is another question.

You might also consider what a command-line interface based on Dasher would look like. Probably not just a simple typing interface. You could extract a great deal of useful information from completion mechanisms, for instance.
You need to pick your sources a little more carefully.

I'm always annoyed at the invocation of the logical fallacy that the source of an argument renders it inadmissible. Not only is it a fallacy, but it's typically (but not in your case, especially since you're offering a specific criticism!) invoked by someone simply assuming that their own source is sacrosanct. That said...

You may have a point, but it's not fatal to my argument. It maybe renders mine less strong.

Why would you think that women entering the workforce must be treated exogenously? I think it's proper to consider this part of the overall improvement.

For the years shown in my chart, the shift of women into the workforce was well underway. Even in 1950, women accounted for about 30% of the workforce [1]. So by my thumbnail estimation, the increase from ~1965 (when my original chart began) on is nowhere near large enough to account for the effect I showed.

Further, women entering the workforce is central to my second point about it finding oneself in the lower income tiers is significantly a personal choice. If the rest of the world has passed you by, it's still your own choices that are holding your back.

Without making any moral claims at all, purely based on mathematics, the two-income family has advantages beyond simply having double the income. As I alluded to, by sharing tasks and specializing within the family (e.g., I cook while my wife does the laundry), we're able to lower total expenses because we save enough time between us that more can be done without outsourcing work. It also offers better risk management. One partner can pursue a riskier but potentially more lucrative job, without fearing losing the family's only income. I have several friends doing this kind of thing, with one spouse running a small business while the other has a corporate job (including the medical care it implies). And if one spouse does lose their income, the consequences are much less dire, as there's some semblance of a buffer protecting them.

Thus, even aside from the simple doubling of family income as women entered the workplace, they shifted the picture so that more wealth could be created in total by protecting against greater risks.

But this is all endogenous to the question. Through their own means (in many cases, that being the decision of a woman to enter the workforce), Americans have transformed their demographics such that incomes have shifted strongly toward the higher end of the scale.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/05/art2full.pdf page 2 (PDF warning)

EDIT: I'd stupidly left the parens in para 4 empty; went back to fill them in.
not necessarily
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
it's almost as if the market rewards entropy
What is a "long runway" for a startup? We are super transparent at my current startup and have what I'd say is "solid" runway but I'd love some perspective.
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> Dropping a newbie into Eclipse or MonoDevelop makes them feel like they are walking around in a byzantine museum

I tried really hard to use and like free/open source IDEs like Eclipse, Aptana, and Netbeans. They all felt clunky, didn't work, or worse took away features in later versions. I finally forked out the money for PHPStorm, PyCharm, and IntelliJ and it's been the best money I've ever spent. Trying to learn the internals of indefero using vi was a challenge (with file_put_contents as a debugging mechanism...) - but once I figured out how to use xdebug in PHPStorm it's just been amazing. It has the feel of Visual Studio without the extra bloat.
I believe the whole goal around Robinhood is feeless purchase of stocks for beginners. Once you get past a certain threshold of dollars traded, Robinhood isn't the most effective solution. Other apps such as Edge, Fidelity, etc. give you more information as well as more purchasing options.
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Yes, as a DBA I would say this is one of the many reasons stores procedures are useful.
Most of the better recruiters will at least tell me the position is on hold or it got pulled. Some just completely ignore me. I guess they get a huge volume of email too but it doesn't leave a great customer service feeling.
One of the most interesting things about this, to me at least, is while the median was on the lower end, the upper echelon of respondents were high enough to significantly skew the mean upwards significantly.
Curious as to your advice against algo trading. Could you be more specific?
Sorry to be pedantic, but all bodies in bound orbits do so around each other. Perhaps you meant that the center of mass of the Pluto-Charon system is outside Pluto's surface, so from afar they appear to be rotating around a point in space between the two bodies.
was that limited to ToS though? Wasn't much liquidity out there
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I assumed it _was_ docker? I don't know much about it, so I'm genuine when I ask what about "virtualized [sic ;)] Linux server" means "not Docker"?
Comments like this are myopic. This is reflective of your experience. For some people, eating enough to "gain fat" is easy -- in fact, it's effortless. For some people, outputting the energy to make CalsOut > CalsIn true is easy, also almost effortless. Both types of people exist in fitness-ignorant circles, eating the same foods their counterparts eat, usually in similar portions.

I believe it is sufficiently proven that it's not that people don't want to be at healthy weights (barring a handful of online extremists), it's that "the slope", as you refer to it here, is prohibitively difficult for the vast majority of people to overcome. That difficulty has to be broken down (and I personally believe fixing the issues in our food supply is a very important part of that -- it's almost impossible to buy healthy food in the US without going to a specialty grocer, no matter how hard you try). There are many ways to approach the problem, but right now the primary effort seems to be on just yelling at people to try harder. That works in some cases, but not nearly enough to be the only solution we have.

The discord on this topic originates from perspectives like this, where someone takes their personal experience and extrapolates it onto the rest of the population. It's great that you got fit, and it's great to encourage others to get fit too. It's not great to trivialize the complexity of the realities that contribute to the obesity epidemic. "Everyone else is a just a fat, lazy glutton", the crux of the fitness camp's argument, is popular because it's self-flattering and an effective marketing technique, but it's an extremely naive and superficial perspective on a global health epidemic, and it isn't going to motivate a great deal of progress on the issue.
The usual solution is a proportional-integral-differential (PDI) controller driven by position measurements.

The system has a resonant frequency that depends on the damping, mass of the motor, and brush friction. Those set a hard limit on the maximum possible speed.

PDI will get you close to that speed, but there's always going to be a trade-off between speed and accuracy.

From the test, you're still quite a way out from perfect repeatability. (I prefer the automated version, because the smoother strokes look slightly better.)

I suspect you'll find that PDI with a thicker medium like oils/acrylics will be harder because the brush friction will be less consistent. And in fact real paintings are often created with a range of brush sizes and perhaps a range of palette knives - so building a robot to handle all of that isn't going to be trivial.
If you only care about EOD market data, you can take a look at TagniFi's free markets API - https://www.tagnifi.com.

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"Great Leap Forward"?

Improvements only came when they abandoned communism, and came up with a fig leaf of 'mao was 80% correct'

It is hard to rewrite history with a different set of rules, but I think it's fair to say that given the experience of Hong Kong, China would have been better off without 30-40 years of communist rule.
Hey, this is cool. Nice work.
"I think many of the misconceptions I see on HN about PowerShell (and much of the Windows hate in general, actually) are because the typical use case on HN is quite a bit different than that of an internal IT department of a non-tech company, which is more Microsoft’s focus."

This, and vice versa that you see in other online communities. Debating your religious position is almost becoming safer than stating your technology choices, which like religion are quite often not your choices to start with.
One could say that the high level source code is elegant, but overall its use of log and sqrt invoke a lot of complex machinations (inside the CPU).
Sumo wrestlers, hello? That's so easy man!
I think that, by claiming "it is mostly wrong to judge, except for this particular case, in which you can judge as much as you can", he's doing exactly that which he criticizes.

If he's going to out those that "hypocritically crusade for legally enforced morality", fair enough. But then I'm going to have a field day criticizing those that "hypocritically crusade against legally enforced morality" while actually expecting to live under the umbrella of such a system.

He adds: "It’s worth remembering that the reality is often far more complex than the smug moralizers suggest", which is true. But I also find worth remembering that the reality is often far more complex than the smug anti-moralizers suggest too.
The creator and submitter is female. This could well be a problem she's familiar with and trying to solve rather than exploit.
The tab completion in powershell is frustrating to me. I never want to cycle through every available option (especially when many PSH commands have literally hundreds of switches). I want the tab-completion to only show options for which I've started typing the prefix. I want double-tab to print a listing of said options so that I can see them all at once. Is this possible? Right now it feels like there's a major lack of discoverability in PSH.
I'm not at all sure that the best answer is "source code". For x86 CPUs the compatible layer has been the ISA and that has turned out pretty damn well, suggesting that source compatibility is not the only and may not be the most effective choice.

I disagree, though I see your point.

If the x86 instruction set had been designed to be implemented in various ways depending on the available semiconductor technology, then that would be a much better situation. However, the basics of x86 were designed in the 1980s to be directly implemented in the hardware of the time.

If you were designing an ISA expressly to insulate software from the hardware, I'm sure there are dozens of design choices that would be made differently. Ditto for amd-64.
i don't know much about stocks but agree with your last line in general, encapsulated by patio11's tweet

I occasionally get asked for advice by students. Biggest one: resist following scripts which evolved to serve a world which no longer exists
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Much of the time that PowerShell is mentioned here is in the context of a discussion about how nun-punchingly awful the Unix shell is, and what could possibly replace it. I have never used PowerShell, so I have nothing to add to those discussions, but the fish-out-of-water nature of much of the commentary about it, particularly the negative commentary, is because of this.

Sadly for those of us who detest the shell, nobody seems to have a good replacement at hand.

EDIT: superfluous "I" removed
It is one massive "panorama" of the entire trip. Processing them to look clean is tricky though/requires additional sensors.
Anybody can eat anything (allergies aside). Stupid people can't just learn the same things as smart people.
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That's relative, but in the context of this conversation it probably means "runway longer than the miserable fundraising market is expected to last".

So, longer than 1-2 years, which seems disturbingly typical for a lot of startups I've talked to.

In contrast I once interviewed at a startup that had a net burn rate low enough to keep running for 7-8 years without needing additional funding, even assuming no revenue growth. Presumably they'd be in a better position to weather a tech downturn (though one has to be careful about what a downturn would also do to said revenue - companies building products and services for other tech companies are especially susceptible).
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I am a solo dev at a university and a couple advantages I enjoy is that I choose my own technologies, and I am learning all about other aspects of web dev including sys/server admin. I can legitimately say that I am a full-stack engineer, albeit because I was semi forced to learn everything...
If this proves to be a correction that eliminates some startups that don't have a business model then so be it. Startups shouldn't be owned as some sort of novelty items by investors or acquirers, they should be revenue producing. VC money won't go away for good businesses, and you shouldn't be scared if you are producing value for the economy. And you know what, in the end, it might even stabilize the Bay Area real estate market, which isn't all that bad in my opinion.
Stanley Kubrick used a slitscan technique for the famous star sequence at the end of "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Here's the 2001 sequence reversed into normal pictures/patterns:
http://seriss.com/people/erco/2001/
Ah, ok.

In that case, wouldn't the floors actually be a good real-world example to students? It's a case where the index vs. offset convention seems to be split roughly 50%/50% around the world.

If people can't agree about which way is better for numbering floors, it's no surprise that number-crazy programmers can't agree about numbering a whole lot of other things :)
someone's never used Higan before. I've made Stunt Race FX and Yoshi's Island peg a Core i7. Running Tekken 4 on MAME is just as intensive.

Running either in wine is a fine benchmark on performance.
This looks very good, in fact it looks more promising than anything I've seen. The one thing that seems to be missing still is extensive documentation, or is that somewhere to be found already?
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Long enough to fund all costs and necessary growth activities until either:

A) The business generates enough profit to be self-sustaining, or

B) The business is bought and thus this is all someone else's problem now

C) The business manages to convenience investors that all it needs to get A or B is throwing more money into the pot to keep things going a bit longer

When the market tightens A is king and B/C become a lot harder hence why everyone stops caring about 'soft' metrics like fluff and user growth and starts caring a lot more about hard facts... like is this great idea actually making any money!
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The usual PowerShell guru's response to your complaint is 'This is what PowerShell ISE is for'.

Personally I don't think this is elegant, but that's what I usually encounter in the wild.
There's a guy on the 'butter-bot' Bitcoin Forum who might be able to help you get started. I don't remember the name, but I imagine if you subscribe to the thread, maybe with a greeting explaining what you want to do, might help considerably.
> I’m willing to admit that PowerShell isn’t obviously better as a shell than something like bash, but it’s unquestionably a better language to use for scripting.

There's a missing "on Windows" here. Sure, PowerShell is clearly a tool designed for the Windows environment. And if you're a Windows system administrator, it has more tools and glue for that environment. You could use PowerShell to replace things that you'd otherwise have to write in Python or similar, not shell.

But that doesn't make it "unquestionably a better language to use for scripting" overall; it makes it a better fit for its target platform, which is certainly true.

And an earlier part of the document made exactly that point: PowerShell on Linux would be as uncomfortable as Cygwin is on Windows. There's an impedance mismatch there.
I work primarily in a Microsoft environment, although I have Linux shell experience as well, and I totally don't get Powershell. What is a cmdlet? Why does it need a stupid made-up name like that? Why are all the commands incredibly verbose and hard to remember? I avoid using it at every opportunity.
Yes indeed. But I completely fail to see how that is relevant to my point. Im not saying anything about posting code that belongs to other people, even if you wrote it, and I'm mainly talking about those without a commercial track record. Although even then, having some spare time projects on GitHub never seems to have hurt my prospects in interviews.
Pretty great article. It really blows my mind how different the food we eat today is, as compared to 500, 100 or even 50 years ago.

For a long time, salt was precious and highly sought after. Sugar, at least the granulated form, has been "non-exotic" for only a few hundred years -- the article talks about sugar beet milling, and refers to the massive plantations of slaves used to harvest sugarcane. Even tomatoes are a New World crop -- imagine Italian food without tomato sauce.

Heck, I remember when some fruits or vegetables were strictly seasonal -- now, we can get everything year-round, for basically the same price.

Sure, there is a lot of chemically laden, industrially processed crap on supermarket shelves. But it is also easier to eat better now than ever before, not to mention the sheer variety of foods we have available.
I'm going to quote the grandparent here:

> People aren't fat because they eat too much. People (and mammals) eat too much because their fat cells are being metabolically triggered by environmental and/or genetic factors to store fat at a higher than normal rate, diverting calories from operational needs, thus stimulating hunger.

Is hunger really the primary cause of overeating for those who suffer from obesity? This seems unlikely to me.

It's true that calin/calout is a simplification, but there are many who outright deny it. They may not be credible to you, but they are still powerful voices across all media and their gospel is happily accepted by many.

> What the people arguing against CICO are saying is that it's fucking stupid pointless advice to give to a population because while true it's not helpful. We know it's not helpful because we've been saying loud and clear it for many years and obesity rates have risen in almost every country every year.

Posts like yours that deride calin/calout as a useless oversimplification miss the mark; of course it's a very basic fact, not a treatment plan. It's crucial that people understand that this is the mechanism at play if they want to succeed at regulating their weight, and despite your assertion that "nobody credible denies it" there are a lot of big names who will sell you all kinds of solutions that ignore it, and focus on specific distractions rather than looking at obesity as a complex disease with many causes that lead to calorie surplus.
I would assume that a longer intestine would be better at absorbing nutrition from your food. So this explanation is actually the opposite of what I would expect.

It really seems like they've switched cause and effect around, they eat a less energy dense/harder to absorb diet, and their intestines get longer to compensate, also they don't buff up as much, because they have to work harder for their nutrition.
A long runway would be long enough to meet a huge milestone with your current funding. Given a standard milestone (reaching profitability, reach profitability in some markets, user growth to XYZ threshold), 1.5 years is probably solid and 2.5-3 years is "long".

Practically speaking, there is little difference between 3 years and 10 years of runway, because a company that stagnates for 3 years is likely to lose key employees and momentum whether or not there is money left in the bank. The goal of a startup isn't necessarily to survive at all costs, it is to make sure to survive long enough to see if the concept works.

That is where there is no exact answer, because it depends. If you are a startup where increasing revenue isn't on the near-term road map, you might want to be more conservative because you will eventually be depending on investors in the future. If you are a startup with really strong unit economics and a path to profitability, you can be more aggressive because in the worst case scenario you can probably reach profitability via the backdoor (layoffs, cutting expenses, etc).
How the U.S. is Neglecting its Smartest Kids
Not only Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore too. It's an experiment with control groups.
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