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Certainly film students do this.

But as I pointed out in another comment, Shakespeare's plays are primarily verses, as opposed to stage direction, props, or scene description. They can be looked at as poetry, as we do his sonnets.

It's quite a different thing from modern films, which combine acting, cinematography, scenes, and music into a single art, cinema, that defines its own category distinct from those that came before it. The point of cinema is to "Show, don't tell" whereas plays in the tradition of Shakespeare are completely dialog-driven. In cinema, ideas are presented as a /moving image/, where in Shakespeare, they are presented in words.
Nothing says racism like a country where Asians earn more than whites or blacks. 5% of the US is Asian.

Is 5% of China or Japan of European or African decent? No.

This is not to say there is no racism but lets not go overboard.

Saying what you posted doesn't make your case isn't discrediting whatever you or your family has been through.
The implications of your identity being copied into a new, improved body and what that means when the original you is dead, or what happens when you get copied more than once, etc are explored in depth in Jasper Scott's excellent Dark Space series: http://www.jaspertscott.com/p/dark-space-v-avilon.html
At the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm a tool was developed called KATTIS (https://kth.kattis.com/) that not only check submitted code for plagiarism but also verifies it with test input/output as well as measuring execution time/memory usage.

There is a paper with more details "Five Years with Kattis - Using an Automated Assessment System in Teaching", https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/kattis-fie11/

The system is still developed and there is now an open version of it with a huge problem archive (competitive programming style) used by several universities: https://open.kattis.com/

Trivia: KATTIS was originally very much developed by KTH's successful competitive programming team "Three-headed monkey", consisting of some PhD students (https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/) that did their thesis on stuff like streaming and encryption which in turn resulted in the company... Spotify.
Its really hard to say how anything relates to that, since you've presented neither evidence nor argument supporting that point, just a bare assertion accompanied by the false statement of fact about the nature of "fraud".

It certainly seems to me to be worse for kickstarter and that model of crowdfunding in general if backers are denied recourse that is otherwise available both through direct action on government action on behalf of impacted parties through the civil justice system and restricted only to public prosecution through the criminal justice system for wrongs inflicted by firms seeking funding through crowdfunding mechanisms.

Having both civil and criminal remedies available in the same manner as they are for other commercial transactions avoids crowdfunding becoming a specially-protected haven for fraudsters, which would drive out backers, which would be bad for legitimate projects seeking to use the mechanism to fund themselves.
I admit, I don't use CF.

I looked at the Wikipedia entry for it and I see its heavy on server side programming. Envelope replaces server side programming.

CF uses server side programming to make components whereas Envelope uses Javascript web components on the client side.

Their seems to be a lot of overlap in expected use cases. Internal apps, data-driven apps.

I apologize, I can't really assert much else do to lack of experience with CF.
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This happened with a few companies selling bitcoin mining rigs - they stopped selling rigs and started just mining bitcoins themselves.
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We received the applications yesterday after submitting on Hn and other places like Google groups. The ideas to work on till October are finalized. The ones received yesterday aren't. So while we would like to receive as many applications as we can, they are not necessary.
Once self-driving taxis are cheaper than car ownership, that all-or-nothing dynamic goes away. Start out using the taxis, switch to cheaper public transport wherever it's available.
> Neither are you, you you from yesterday or the day before - conscious continuity is illusory. How do you know that your body isn't replaced with a new copy each night (thought experiment)?

Conscious continuity "might be" illusory. (Unless you have a proof or evidence; unlikely).

And favoring mind uploading over bio-longevity based on a "might be" is a very unsafe bet.
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They aren't playing by their own rules - there are laws and regulations. Our government (which is meant to serve the people) is the proper channel to set boundaries for people and companies. If you want change, then start there and be the change you want to be.

Markets are imperfect and monopolies are naturally bound to happen as they give the corporation efficiencies of scale and allow them to provide more value that's demanded by consumers at lower cost. This is the good part, with the bad being the anticompetitive issues. It's something we'll deal with either with new companies who can do better or with government regulation to keep things in check.

And again, you seem to be missing the part of how you are not required to use Google. It seems like you are able to get all your needs met through other services so what exactly are you worried about? That other people choose to use Google vs. follow your path? Is it not up to them to decide this?
Hey,

I will talk to the owner and get some demo snapshots online soon. Will comment back on Monday!

(Thanks for feedback!)
I love Islay scotches, and so it was remarkable to learn that "out of Islay’s thirty-five hundred residents, about fifty of them work for Bruichladdich." 3,500 people making a world wide impact by their lifestyle and craft.
I couldn't imagine wanting to use sql to make a site.
The copy process isn't perfect. There is a bit of corruption each time, that limits most people to less than 100 years of copies.
It's fascinating that this is so close to reality, at least in terms of preserving the information that encodes our memories and identities.

Of course there is the issue of reviving the person, either biologically or digitally. As computing power grows, I don't see any barrier to simulating an entire human brain. Sure it will take time: according to this[0] and applying Moore's law, it will take about 60 years before we can simulate a brain in real time with a single machine.

This whole field makes me very uncomfortable. I'm not saying it's wrong, but the potential for harm (particularly to those being simulated) is very great. There's a Greg Egan story where reanimated humans live as "AI" characters a game simulation, waiting for when society will wake up and grant them rights.

[0] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163051-simulating-1-secon...
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PPP in hardware is for IP over SONET at 2.5 - 40 Gbps, good luck doing it in software...

In hardware there is no malloc- instead there is a pool of pages and the string would be stored as a linked list of such pages. Linux socket buffers do the same thing.
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I used to agree with this strategy before I got an MBA. Then I studied the markets. Actually the MBA put me at a disadvantage, but regardless. The markets are so incredible corrupt.

It's nice in theory, however this ETF strategy is extremely overcrowded, hence the 2008 meltdown. Hence, the August meltdown. Anything that works will eventually, come to an end... Let's not forget the people that make the guaranteed money in the ETF are the one's selling you them. (Might want to check your ETF fees as well)

In the meantime... I created this http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/
Yes, racism is much, much worse in other countries. We are probably the best at handling race issues, but we still have a long ways to go.

What about the Jews? They earn even more therefore anti-semitism must be a myth. Furthermore, a large percent of 1st and 2nd generation Asian Americans benefit from class privilege. Ironically class privilege is the first thing ignorant people turn to when trying to discredit white privilege.

Racism impacts my family, my friends, and me directly. This is not going overboard. This is another case of ignorant people refusing to believe people of color. Business as usual.
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I often wonder where Randall Munroe gets all his wisdom.
> You don't miss anything because you don't exist anymore.

But I can miss things while I do exist. I miss 'doing things as a healthful immortal' already! And I'll miss them more and more as my health declines and I age.

Also pekk is correct. You would totally "miss out" on doing things if you're dead. Because you were alive at some point and could make it far into the future to enjoy commercial space travel or something more, but instead you died.

Only a universally non-existent human would not miss out. By 'universally' I mean one who never existed in the past and never will in the future (like an imaginary human). But you and I are not imaginary. We've already had 'the taste of existence', and we can never be the same again!
Ask HN: I have a crazy idea. How do I approach VCs?
Hi,

I have a crazy idea for a product. Well, the product itself is more of an 'experience', if that makes any sense. Now, the product would need a HW component + embedded sw + mobile app + backend apps + IT infrastructure.

When I approach VCs, do I build prototypes for all these and then take it to them ? The product as a whole, would need all these components to deliver the experience. Which one do I build first? I mean, I could buy an RPi/ arduino and prototype the hw component, but it would be incomplete without the other parts. Or do I just have architectural diagrams(ie, how all the components work together) on the presentation?

Thanks!
> If you look in the past of anyone, you will find things they regret and things that may draw censure from the pro-diversity and intersectional feminist mindset. That's natural. That's to be expected.

Serious question: is it also "expected" that people will lose their jobs because of those things, like Brendan Eich?
> But if your company actually is a meritocracy (i.e., it hires and promotes solely based on objective measures of suitability for the job) in a tech field and it is reasonably large, then it will in fact be mostly white and asian.

Choosing objective measures of merit first requires choosing a subjective choice of how to define merit -- what the mission is and what things are needed to fulfill it.

And, in point of fact, many "objective measures of merit" are objective measures that have a tenuously presumed connection to merit in the specific job that are adopted because of what amounts to cultural traditions in the profession.
The occasional stuttering is actually due to GC pauses.
Means JScheme, which, yes, isn't one of his better-known works. The whole article is like that.
The history section in this man page is correct. Relevant commits in chronological order:

usr/include/fstab.h: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/fd4f9...

usr/skel/etc/fstab: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/fd4f9...

usr/man/man5/fstab.5: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/8591f...
If my understanding is correct, other nations with single payer systems have lower health care costs and frequently better outcomes than in the US.

Econ101 is good for teaching concepts about how to think about economic interactions, but when the data doesn't match the theory, you can't stick with the theory.
Some of Greg Egan's books explore this as well. I recommend Diaspora and Permutation City.
What I always found infuriating was the unbridled reverence for Shakespeare as this avatar of literary godhood. Shakespeare was a hack. A very good hack, but he was writing plays to pay his rent, not as some otherworldly font of the muse with a mainline connection to the soul of literature. He's got much more in common with Stephen King or Dan Brown, as a writer of popular, mainstream entertainment, than he does with critically acclaimed, popularly ignored capital L Literature.

MacBeth and Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet are great, timeless works, but Shakespeare turned out a lot of historical plays and comedies that are kind of meh. Particularly the comedies are pretty formulaic, if you read two or three of them in succession, and there's nearly as many thinly-veiled (save the archaic language) dick jokes and scatological humor as in a Judd Apatow film. Not to mention the slapstick elements, and foolery that doesn't necessarily show up in the printed stage directions, but undoubtedly played well to the groundlings at the Globe.

Reducing Shakespeare's dramatic productions to just the dusty words on the page does a disservice to the reality.

It's alternate-history fiction, but I enjoyed Harry Turtledove's Ruled Brittania for putting a more human face on Shakespeare http://www.amazon.com/Ruled-Britannia-Harry-Turtledove/dp/04...
The only people not afraid of death are delusional or suicidal.
Which Greg Egan story is that?
For GlusterFS, new storage space is immediately available to new directories and files, and can be quickly made available for new files in existing directories by fixing the layout. You can then run a rebalance in the background if you want to evenly distribute the files, but that's of course a slow operation in a large cluster.
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Glusterfs will just always be slower due to the userspace -> kernelspace -> userspace switching fuse has to do. I don't understand why facebook hasn't jumped on ceph yet.
Also see Greg Egan's short story, "The Extra" (http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra) and others, e.g. "Closer" (http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer)
Very informative, is there some sort of 2015 updated version of this to show how far we've come in regards to the Kaplan-Meier curve?
> How is using Postgres DB users as website users working for you?

Fricken awesome. Very easy to sleep at night. We can do a complete security audit in fifteen minutes.

> Is having thousands or millions of users practical, or is this intended more for a limited-use in house application?

Envelope is a very small C binary. You'll find it scales way better than PostgreSQL itself and as such you should be able to apply similar strategies. You'll find your database design is way more important than the Envelope overhead. If you were going to open a site to millions of users I would consider pooling users into groups so you could pool PostgreSQL connections. Again, the bottleneck isn't Envelope, but PostgreSQL.

> Is it practical to allow new users to register on the site and have a site admin manage their roles and permissions through a web interface, or do DBAs need to manage that stuff manually in psql?

We don't use psql. Envelope includes Postage, a sort of web based PGAdmin. Developers can use that to administrate the database. We've also written a 'User Admin' app for non-developers that we've installed into some of our client Envelope instances. This allows the customer to administrate their own users.

> ...management wanted to try and authorize access to the webapp through access permissions to the backend MSSQL database, with the Windows Domain user getting picked up automatically through IE...we were never able to get it all the way working.

Sorry to hear that. Our app was originally written in just a couple of hours but I didn't even know you could get the Domain User in IE. I'll have to try that.
>> Anything that works will eventually, come to an end... Let's not forget the people that make the guaranteed money in the ETF are the one's selling you them.

>> In the meantime... I created this http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/

Sorry if this sounds rude, but this comment comes across as disingenuous to me.
May be Buddhism got it right a few thousand years ago: the notion of self (ie your conscious) is just an illusion ;-)
That takes me back to Max Headroom!
> Medical records also show that over the course of her eight-day stay, personnel at the hospital repeatedly tried to get Brock to deny three things before she could be released: that she owned the BMW, that she was a professional banker, and that President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter.

What the hell? Anyone who did this to her should, at a minimum, be fired and blacklisted from the medical profession. How long would it take to verify these things? Sure as hell not eight days.
I know this is such a cliche question but if you've found the recipe for generating 9% returns, why are you selling it for $50 dollars a user rather than just starting your small/mid-cap fund? Capital is so cheap right now, people literally don't know what to do with the money they're sitting on. Even if the fed hikes in Sept (which it will), you charge .5% maintenance and 20% performance and you'll have absolutely no trouble raising money.

(This is a genuine question, not a snarky one. I've always wondered would write a "how to get rich quick" book in my early teenage years, only to realize their methodology to get rich was to write that get rich book.)
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There's so much wrong with this comment...

ETFs are just a way of buying equity, not a market that can be overcrowded.

The 2008 meltdown happened because of subprime mortgages, the approximate opposite of conservative index fund investments.

ETFs are (in this context) just a convenient way of buying modest amounts of an index fund.

Index fund companies like Vanguard charge a very low, extremely reasonable commission for both direct purchases and ETFs.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208792
Nonsense. The GP specifically recommended Vanguard ETFs, which are structured in a way that keeps the fees low and prevents anybody from becoming rich off the investors.
This site isn't very mobile friendly. The text follows off the screen and I had to scroll back and forth to read it.
You can do better if you add bonds and perhaps international stocks and rebalance your portfolio yearly. Maybe 50% US market ETF, 20% world, 30% bonds. Bonds aren't very appealing right now though but as a general rule.

If you're only in a US market ETF there's some non-neglible chance you'll be flat or down in 10 years esp. if you're unlucky enough to buy close to a bubble top. So long term in this context should read as > ~20 years.
You write HTML documents to make the apps. Those are then stored to the file system like normal. When you load the app in the browser, the components (just custom HTML tags) connect through Envelope to your database.

Also, it's not for static web sites, it's for web applications. For example accounting, wiki, calendar, address book etc.

You'd never write any of the site in SQL. You do write your VIEWs, queries and any functions you need in SQL. Then you connect to those things with some of your components.
The article is paywalled for me, is there an alternative link?
I had the same question at first, but I loved it anyway.
Fair enough. I'm reminded of Hickey's talk on the difference between "simple" and "easy". I just did a CLOC on the latest golang github repo: its now at 1,000,000 LOC. The Clojure repo (which is considerably older)? 40,000. Talk to me in a few years when you tire of this.
"Climate change gets billions in funding" is a totally meaningless statement. Do you mean funding for basic research into the systems that cause climate change? Do you mean funding for lobbying efforts? Or are we talking about funding for people working on practical solutions?

If you believe, like I do, that every dollar spent lobbying governments to "do something" about climate change is a dollar wasted, then the funding picture looks pretty bleak.
BOINC should work more on the personal reward in order to get more participants. for example

- include some crypto mining into their client

- be included in a free version of windows (microsoft will distribute lite version of windows in exchange for contributing your pc power)

- be a default "screensaver" in ubuntu
Cryonics is one of those things that's hard to evaluate.

On the face of it, it seems insane. You're essentially making a bet that someone will find something useful to do with a frozen brain -- and that your estate will be able to afford the procedure -- before the company you've entrusted your brain to either makes a mistake or collapses. Given the near-total lack of progress on the former front (there's been considerable progress in the freezing part, but almost none in finding a useful thing to do with a frozen brain), the odds seem phenomenally bad.

On the other hand, it does offer something to those who are still alive: the hope that your exstence could continue indefinitely, and that you might get to be with lost loved ones again. This is a valuable hope, so much so that it's built into most religions in some form or other. It's possible that the benefit of this hope makes the costs worth bearing.

For now, I've left cryonics in my "not for me, but I won't try to discourage anyone else" bucket.
The economy is emergent in ways that art and music are not.
"What about the Jews? They earn even more therefore anti-semitism must be a myth."

Why would that be? When did I say there is no racism? Is there anti-semitism in the US? Sure. But little and inconsequential in the everyday lives of Jews.
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Javascript libraries are to programming what Marxism was to economics in the 1970s: there's a lot of noise about it and a lot of innovation taking place in the field... But to make any sense of the "progress", you must have spent some serious time getting indoctrinated.
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Every other country on the planet have lower health care costs than the US by a large margin.

US public healthcare spending alone, excluding private payments and insurance, places the US in the top 20, possibly top 10, in government spending on healthcare.

In other words, Americans pay more than citizens of most developed countries over their taxes, and then pay about the same again to private insurers...
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That is a toy. Hydrothermal vents are at 2000m - 5000m. Meaning that this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces_V
Just barely reaches the shallowest of those vents.

Since pressure increases at 14.5psi per 10m.. your toy can only handle about 145psi. To reach the vents, it would need to handle 2900psi - 7250psi.

Edit: here's an MROV that can reach 3000m to give you an idea of the difference. It's a Triton XLX 150HP:
http://www.fertoing.com/uploads/gallery/438/962/d0dec0e81bce...

It's used on an oil platform to monitor drilling operations.
Thanks. I think I must mention in the site that, there are no holidays in those 40 days and average working hours are 10-12 hours everyday. So for 9k you get 400-450 hours of working hours. That's less than 25 dollars per hour.
So, I'm totally ok with "Baconator". "Chlamydia" is kinda poor taste. Not OK with "Rape my X". So, yeah, tasteless.
I briefly worked with K and Q while doing research on high-level numerical computing. I found their claimed efficiency to be severely exaggerated. K is a very naively implemented array-oriented language and I found it to be slower than Matlab or NumPy for many tasks.
So this isn't managing news feed data or anything like that, it's helping them aggregate server performance and error data for quick look up?
I've lost count of the times I thought of some "revolutionary" concept and it was just a super annoying and pretentious way to say money. blah