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There are many who believe that Jobs made a mistake by choosing Issacson for his biography:

John Siracusa : http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42

Gruber : http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs
No, that's different. This light is normally green, and only goes red, briefly, if you speed on the way to it. The rest on red stays red, and goes green after you slow down a bunch for it.
My high school did not allow running programs off of a USB drive in 2000. Would be surprised if security is lower now.
An avocado fan here. How do I return the avocados if they are bad when delivered? Is there a charge for returns? How much are the prices of the avocados? You should put that on the site.
I hope Lauren Jobs knows that Steve Jobs will continue to inspire generations of entrepreneurs. He showed Silicon Valley how to change the world in an exciting and delightful way. Every founder is trying their best to follow his example of excellence, whether they acknowledge it or not. Most fall far short.

Anyone trying to create things should study Jobs, and anyone who does study him (with an open mind) will come away with a profound respect for him as a creator and as a person.

As Elon Musk said, "there was a certain magic about Steve Jobs that was really inspiring"

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things...
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Be surprised, then. Google's cars have it. In fact, it would be unsafe not to have it, and the history of attempting to force people with technology in their cars to limit their speed is a history of that never happening.
Took me about 5 minutes and no hassle to cancel Comcast. I simply took the equipment into the local Comcast office and turned it in, no dealing with phone representatives or anything. When asked why, I simply refused to answer and that was that.
I wasn't addressing security; I addressed your comment about what do you do if SSHD crashes.

For grins, I wonder how many root AWS creds are tied to Gmail (read: Google) accounts.
As I've already pointed out, there's a lot of "no one in their right mind" on HN and it is not usually considered an insult.
> because the most expensive part (the human) is eliminated.

I think the fuel (6 mpg!) and capital costs of the truck are considerably larger than the wages of the man driving it.
I've got those ideas first-handedly. Should have been pretty obvious by now.
Nice post! What about the following (untested) version of the sentence function:

(defn sentence [mapping]
(->> :start
(iterate #(pick-next-word mapping %))
next
(take-until #(= (last %) \.))
(clojure.string/join " ")))

There is no loop, and it almost reads like English: "Using :start as a departure point, iteratively pick the next words until you find one that ends with a dot. Join all the words generated so far with spaces."

Small catch: take-until is not yet in clojure.core, however it's easy to add to your utility toolbelt and there's already an issue open for it http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1451
> Please. Even for an advanced VPC configuration, you're looking at 1-2 hours tops for setup.

We use DynamoDB. A lot of it. It is a non-trivial setup to get a dynamic, scaling solution to route traffic efficiently to the DynamoDB endpoints. Our SQS traffic sometimes also experienced extreme latency when we would send large groups of messages.

So forgive me if I greet your derisive tone and silverbacking with skepticism; I've got a product in the market already. I have correspondence from the AWS support explaining that it is in fact very difficult to operate at the scale we want to with some AWS Services that aren't supported, and the S3 connection was also not trivial. This is especially so if you're managing multiple discrete apps that don't coordinate usage or bandwidth spikes, as is common in large enterprise settings. Which is, ultimately, what we're doing.

> Complex tools are always going to have a learning curve.

There is no justification for the current mess that is Amazon's documentation for the VPC feature set. The only reason they get away with it is that AWSClassic is a giant band-aid which will be grandfathered onto customers with scaled products.

Arguing that things like Heroku or Digital Ocean or managed Kubernetes are bad and EC2 is good simply because it uses a hypervisor model instead of a container model is grandstanding and nonsensical, plain and simple.

The startup world has 0 use for this kind of thinking. What matters is how quickly you can deploy, and how efficiently and inexpensively you can scale if you get a hit. Everything else is ego, and useless in this environment.

There are systems that need AWS's model, but they're for specialist products. The vast majority of products can and do deploy in DO or Heroku just fine. And if they're sustaining people and serving customers, who are we to judge?
commenting on this quote from the article: "‘I’m 29. This is what you do when you’re 29"

I don't know what the fuck is it with this wall street culture. I find SV culture banal and disgusting but no where close to the shit show that is the wall street glamorized by movies and tv shows.

I would've done the same and I have done the same when I was 25. Working like crazy. You realize one day, this is bullshit. Everyone in this shitty place is fucking bullshit. A check at the end of the fucking month that translates into a measely minimum wage if you count the long hours and the office male bravado bullshit. High school never ends.

It's only after I was chewed and spit out, I realized, no amount of glamor or prestige is worth chasing if there's no chance at MY happiness and MY health.

This make it till you are 30 mentality bullshit has got to go. The anxiety it gives a person in early to mid 20s to feel like you need to keep moving to feel like you are moving closer to success.

Lot of young men like ourselves are conditioned to believe that giving up a decade of our youth to live like kings and gods the rest of our lives is a pretty seductive thought, no matter how unlikely the chances, society almost expects young men to behave and perform like robots, showing no emotion, just take it and bring home the bacon.

These days, I'm a bit older and beginning to think, good things, like all other things, take time. This kamikaze rags to riches type of mentality we see in movies, doesn't seem to work very well (you burn out quickly).

This quote from Frank Lopez in Scarface rings true here.

"Hey, Tony. Remember when I told you when you first started working for me, the guys that last in this business, are the guys who fly straight. Low-key, quiet. But the guys who want it all, chicas, champagne, flash... they don't last. "

Don't think I want to be part of any work culture where shitty cocaine mixed in some shithole in colombia and commiting adultery with overpriced hookers with plastic boobs .
You're describing concern trolling. Aka FUD.

Now that we're all recycle happy, I'd love to iterate.

Perhaps simplify, to reduce the kinds of plastics used, to simplify sorting and separating.

Packaging and shipping could be greatly reduced. I regularly receive a box within another box. Why not just send me the original box?

Why are products shipped to me (vs bought retail) still using theft (shop lifting) deterring plastics cases?

Why are over the counter drugs still triple sealed? There are no children in my house, why are bottles still childproof? Why are 30 tiny pills sold in a big glass jar? Why not just use ziplock baggies for everything?

Etc.

Edit: Good grief. Climate change "skeptic". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tierney_(journalist) Lesson relearned: google the author first.
I agree with you about grocery shopping being horrible. My local store offers an online service where I can pick what I want and just swing by and pick it up on the way home for a $5 fee. That has saved tons of time, but having to always think of things to cook can be annoying. I may give Blue Apron a shot and see how it works. It's just so easy to eat a frozen pizza or get take out instead of dealing the mental work of planning a meal after working all day.
This has always been weird for me. After a few days, the vegetables are not as fresh. Why would you buy Friday's vegetables on Sunday?

Then again, I'd say 40% of our grocery budget is vegetables, if not more. Perhaps we're not the average case.
Seriously. CLEAN AS YOU COOK. It drives me insane that people don't get this. When I'm done with a meal I have a few plates to clean and maybe one pot. That's it though. Everything goes away when I'm cooking. Scraps constantly thrown in the compost. It makes you much more mentally organized.

It's an obvious source of fluster and stress for my friends who don't. They never seem to figure it out either. Even when I do it for them.

Plus. Stop determining what you want to eat first. Look at what you have in your fridge and learn to work with it. Have a few proteins and a few cheeses and kitchen basics and you can improvise many things.
It is great if you're not experiencing the problems we are.

If you use AWS services besides S3 it can get very tricky to not overwhelm your egress and not suffer performance issues. Scaling this configuration in an elastic way is certainly not turnkey in the current VPC environment, and probably won't be until Amazon finishes something like the S3 gateway for them.

And the documentation is in a sorry state.
My (limited) understanding is that sensitivity due to CO2 changes is a well-understood and non-disputed fact while the sensitivity due to feedbacks in the climate system is unknown and effectively an "input" into climate models. It is the feedback sensitivity parameter that is the source of dispute between supporters of 'catastrophic global warming' theory and 'skeptics' who believe the feedback is much smaller than the values used in the models.

It isn't clear from the article if the new claim is challenging the understanding of CO2 sensitivity, or the choice of feedback sensitivity.
Well that's the theory. What ends up happening is always up in the air.

I did read somewhere that the average "commute" has stayed constant throughout history - about 45 min - be it walking, omnibus, trolley or car. So you're probably right, things will shift to fill up the free time
In China, Your Credit Score Is Affected by Your Political Opinions
The guy you replied to doesn't have an email address in his profile. How did you "send him a free week to try it out"? Does Hacker News have some sort of user-to-user communication that I'm not aware of?
You can't think of any other motivation besides greed or addiction to power?

Consider 1st generation college graduates from immigrant families who have the chance to singlehandedly lift their families out of poverty by accepting these jobs. That's not greed.
I agree with Eddie Cue, Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine, was a hatchet job.
The NAT instances are so easy to overwhelm. You have to scale them along with the services you're using if you have significant use of other Amazon services.

Also, it's not clear to me why I should have to do that part on my own. The fact I need to engineer a solution for high volume access to AWS Services (besides S3) in a VPC is stupid. Especially when I can just keep using EC2C and honestly have an easier time of it, while also not having to migrate and rewrite existing infrastructure to become VPC-aware.
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I can't abide by rich white male entertainers telling their audience that their vote doesn't matter. As if disenfranchising oneself is an act of rebellion.

The epitome of amusing ourselves to death.
There's nothing wrong with making a quick stop in the middle of the week to pick up leafy greens and other perishables. But quick is the key.

I also really like frozen vegetables - green beans, broccoli and cauliflower florets, etc. I don't understand the stigma against them, particularly if they're organic.
I googled his username and found his github which has his email.
Here's another typography generation tool I wrote. Highly configurable. http://kyleamathews.github.io/typography.js/#/

You can see a number of pre-built configurations in this issue https://github.com/KyleAMathews/typography.js/issues/10
How do you use the 3d touch? Any example?
Interesting enough, novelist E.M. Forster anticipated the Internet as well as other trends in his 1907 story "The Machine Stops"[1]. Note the Forster describes qualities of modern internet discussion with eerie precision as well as predicting a world wide network with poor-quality video resolution.

[1] http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
Sure, https://vimeo.com/140590713
Wheaton+R-III+School+District+-+Mrs.+Henry's+Second+Grade+Classroom
>don't be a lemming. Don't sacrifice rationality for idealism. There are severe consequences.

this should be wrapped in <h1> and displayed on every page on YC.

like: DISCLAIMER: MAY BE FATAL TO STARTUP FOUNDERS WHEN FORGETTING TO BE A HUMAN.
We actually have several licenses of Sublime kicking around at work because everybody moved over to Vim. I know several people who are really fond of Sublime, but lack of a text mode put it at a bit of an evolutionary disadvantage in our shop since we do a lot of remote pair programming over SSH. It's a bit of a shame since we are almost a monoculture now (one guy still uses Emacs and 2 are vim/sublime bilingual -- every one else is on vim pretty much exclusively). I think it's nice to have some diversity to keep people thinking of the possibilities. I'm in the process of moving over to Evil mode in Emacs pretty much for that reason.

Probably my example was a bit poor. I wasn't trying necessarily make the argument that Vim is more keystroke efficient than other editors. I used Emacs for 20 years before I switched to Vim and I was quite efficient with it. I was more trying to convey the idea that the way of thinking was different. Instead of concentrating on the immediate motion of the cursor, I'm concentrating on the structure of the document.

Lately I've been thinking it would be nice if someone were to think a bit more about extending the state of the art in modal editors. Vim was a nice extension of vi, but the grammar is still pretty crufty in a lot of places. It would be cool to rethink it from scratch, I think.
> Germany, for example.

40c per kWh is outrageous. This certainly goes a long way in explaining the dismal failure of Tesla in Germany so far.
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Even with your edit, I'm still confused as to what point you're trying to make. You seem to be calling out the parent comments on behavior, but your ending sentence makes it seem like you agree. The kicker is that you appear to do both in a fairly negative way, so proponents of either side of the argument might find something to disagree with in both tone and message, which is probably netting you some down votes.
Wow, I wonder how they pulled that off. It's certainly a good start, but since it will be shipping with non-Free (though replaceable) BIOS binaries it would still fall short of the Respects Your Freedom hardware certification requirements. I did some digging since I have little knowledge of the Purism project. The Purism project offers an estimate of one year for replacing the non-Free blobs in the firmware. The Libreboot FAQ says that it could take years to replace the Intel FSP or Video BIOS, much less both. Given that a Coreboot developer has expressed doubts [0, 1] about the bold claims the Purism project has made in the past I'm inclined to take the word of the folks working on Libreboot. If by the time, if ever, a truly Libre product ships from Purism will it be any less dated than the X200 we have now?

[0] http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/08/09/the-truth-about-pu...

[1] http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/02/23/the-truth-about-pu...
They are making big cash FOR those above them. The attitude of those above is "fuck the slaves"- even if these "slaves" make far more than the average American...

So these firms don't care.

Wall Street is cancer.
With all of the advances in self-driving cars, I wonder why we don't have research into self-driving trains.
As you can see there's no place for Russia:
People who can live in Russia culturally also can live in Europe/USA, and it's just better. Thus only thing preventing Russia from becoming hollow place is laziness.

Quality of life is tricky. Russia combines African life expectancy with Japanese birth rate. If you are aged 5 and onwards (skipped child mortality) you perhaps have longer life expectancy in India than in Russia, and that's been true for decades. Quality of life should get a heavy discount for surviving Russian winter.

Yes, compared to hundred million of Indians, you sometimes lay your hands on some money. Which also fuels emigration.
That requires having 7 times the number of plates your need for a meal....
This is one of the things I love about the Erlang ecosystem (Erlang, Elixir, Lisp-flavored Erlang).

Since the whole thing was designed to be an OS unto itself, it has the concept of "Applications" and "Releases" that come from OTP.

It's trivially easy to make things properly decoupled by dividing logical functionality into "Applications" and making a game-time call about whether or not they should be bundled in the release and consumed sorta like a library or run on a completely different VM/node and consumed like a service. You're architecturally incentivized to make "microservices", but fully able to couple or decouple them at will while maintaining the same semantics in how you consume them.
Iterate was what I was looking for! That version is definitely better, even if you have to DIY take-until.

I, er, may have spent a while clicking around the related docs for loop and recur searching for a better function. I remembered there was something like this out there, but I never did find it.
I second everything you're saying, but I recognize that cleaning as you cook, composting, stocking your kitchen smartly, and improvising menus are very difficult skills for many people to attain.
Sounds like a great opportunity to mass produce and sell to other countries.

If you employ solar and use readily available components, they must come out cheaper than doing roadwork.

Sending photos to centralized database might be more expensive part, but then, perhaps those could be relayed for free via WiFi around (more social pressure).
My rule is that unless yours or a loved one's basic well-being is at stake (e.g. you have family to support and no savings), you should not be putting up with a job that's causing you physical or psychological distress. Obviously situations can be complicated, but you should aim for that most of the time.
It stopped around the same time, someone created the Used Thinkpad Guide: http://ktgee.net/post/49423737148/thinkpad-guide
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Yes, and Sony produces games, and also entices developers to create exclusives. Those possibly use Havok and Sony may ask exclusives developers not to license it.
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They have self-fueling gasoline cars in New Jersey.
> Stop determining what you want to eat first. Look at what you have in your fridge and learn to work with it.

Yes, this.

Always have the essentials stocked for your repertoire.

I grew up Italian-American, so we always had: onions, garlic, lemon, parsley, green peppers, sausage, tomato paste, anchovies, pasta, a few types of beans, grated cheese, olive oil, balsamic, etc.

Add some random meats or fresh vegetables, and you've got like, a hundred different recipes right there.

> Seriously. CLEAN AS YOU COOK. It drives me insane that people don't get this.

So many, many people don't understand this. My mom DRILLED this into my head as a kid. When I'm cooking with a friend who doesn't clean as they cook, I usually just hand them a glass of wine and kick them out of the kitchen.
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paywall :/
I think the statistics used in a lot of actual science are too primitive. Not that the methods are simple or old by any means. Or that making them more complicated is desirable in itself. Just that there are better ways of inferring structure from data.

Just correlating two variables will often be misleading. E.g. the coffee drinkers that live longer. But if you collect a ton of other information, you will find many other relevant variables. And once you build a model from all that information, you find that coffee no longer predicts mortality.

Of course there is a limit to the amount of causal structure you can infer from data. But that limit is well above what we are currently doing. And the more relevant data you collect, the higher that limit is.

This is basically what the field of machine learning is. Where we want computers to automatically model our data and make the most accurate predictions for us. Tons of methods are invented and tested against each other on different datasets. There are websites like kaggle where users compete to find the best model for a dataset. But somehow none of this innovation goes back to mainstream statistics or used in scientific studies to get better models.

And machine learning sucks too. A lot of methods use maximum likelihood with some tricks to keep it from overfitting. Rather than ideal bayesian methods. And the models are kind of simple. Like simple decision trees or linear models.

I think in the future we will use something like bayesian neural networks. Which can model very complicated structures with little data. And we won't arbitrarily select some of the variables to be inputs and some to be outputs. All of the observed variables are outputs of some unobserved function with unobserved inputs. We need to model that.

Then you have a fully general statistics algorithm that you can plug any dataset into. You can then ask it questions like "if I observed that this person drank coffee, but everything else I know about them is the same, what is their mortality?" And then it will give you the most accurate possible answer.

Is that proof of causation? No. But it's far more likely that coffee causes cancer if it can accurately predict it, even when you control for all other variables. Than if you just see that it happens to correlate with cancer.
Explicit function signatures are a feature that favors correctness over ergonomics. This isn't the first place that Rust makes this tradeoff: immutability itself is entirely useless in Rust except as a means to to aid programmer correctness (to wit: as a result of tracking ownership, Rust could trivially infer immutability based on usage patterns, but when the devs hinted at the idea of removing immutability the community rallied in opposition (the legendary "mutpocalypse")).

Furthermore, the forthcoming work on incremental recompilation intends to leverage the fact that function signatures are infallible in order to enable drastically improved incrementalism (no need to even consider recompiling code that calls a function if only the body of the called function changes), and the same fact will be leveraged to enable huge parallelism in incrementally compiled units.

Furtherfurthermore, Rust deliberately doesn't employ Hindley-Milner and so I'm not even 100% certain that whole-program type inference is feasible.
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I think it's likely that the recent faddishness of Go, which upon actual use turns out to be difficult to use for anything /except/ microservices, itself is causing microservice adoption.
Or washing one set of plates immediately before needing them, because you're waiting on the roast to finish roasting.
I am curious to see how that is calculated and what percentage it is of the 950 score. An absurd decision if you ask me.
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