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>Lesson: don't join a startup unless you get preferred stock.

Who gives out preferred stock to employees? I don't even know that founders get preferred stock, generally. If any employee asked for preferred stock at any company I've ever worked for, you'd immediately end the conversation, whether you were an engineer or C-level.

All stock grants have to be approved by the board, and I don't know of any board that's going to bend on "hey, we really wanted this engineer, we had to give her preferred shares".
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Capitalism is an extension of evolution. They have both created great things through competition. They have even created altruism where it is mutually beneficial.

I don't think that running a chain of businesses makes you evil. Changing government policy to make it impossible for others to compete is evil though, since it ruins the game.

It's a shame that we have such an impact on the environment. It is a tragedy of the commons. If a person could be made to feel their environmental impact more strongly on a personal financial level maybe things would be better.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ib/parapsychology_the_control_group...
The article isn't blaming them, it's trying to be cognizant of what's going on and starting a discussion about what can be done.
Babai declined to be interviewed about the work, saying it must first stand up to the scrutiny of peer review. “I understand that in the internet age, even a simple seminar announcement can trigger an explosion in the blogosphere, but this is no reason to compromise the process,” he says. “The reaction of colleagues at this point is not celebration but anticipation. The results need to be verified by the research community.

I say, bravo.
This is the first thing I thought of what I heard about 'Notify', a re-implementation of RSS with restrictions and depending on the RSS service or reader you use, considerably less functionality.
And many subsistence fishermen were able to feed their kids a healthy diet, until commercial fishing came along.

Capitalism is pulling people out of poverty, but it is also destroying natural ecosystems. Is the reduction in poverty sustainable, or will it come back when the resources are gone?
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Where's the GPU support?
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If you're suggesting that the member banks of the twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks have banded together to manipulate Fed policy so they can stick it to retail banking customers, please do yourself a favor and research how the Federal Reserve System operates. The policy decisions we're discussing are made by the Federal Open Market Committee and Federal Reserve Board. If you educate yourself as to their composition, you will quickly see that member banks, let alone a handful of large member banks, are not calling the shots.
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NO GPU, not for production use.
maybe in the last few decades, but increasingly unemployment is rising in Europe.
The parent I think is clearly going down the wrong road. Almost by definition, if you've heard of the person to cite then they have an outsized impact on wealth circulation.

The people to look at are, say, Peter Oppenheimer, former CFO of Apple (picked at random). I'm sure his net worth is in the hundreds of millions and he has a few very nice houses -- but what's the likelihood that a significant portion of his wealth is reintroduced into the economy? I really know nothing about him, so maybe I'm being unfair and he spends lavishly on yachts and mansions, or is an angel investor in 100s of startups, but I think the prototypical Fortune 500 C-level is probably someone who lives very well, but not lavishly and not up to their very generous means.

I should also note I'm excluding passive investment in mutual or hedge funds for the sake of argument, but I'm not sure whether they produce sufficient results to count as "reintroducing" money into the market.
Are you claiming that unless we erase all security problems, it was all for nothing?
Right now I'm just testing out conversions. Seems to be going ok. I'm kind of a just good enough type. so, I'm focused on marketing to desktop users first. I have a response site but it's pretty simple. 1. bought responsive landing page for $13 with a button to click and google ads/analytics to test whether there is some demand. plus a wufoo form as the second page to collect leads.
Note that bufferbloat is a problem regardless of there being many or few TCP connections.
Use an iPhone...
I was impressed by the number of pull requests from iOS developers, almost as many as from the Linux community. I had no idea iOS developers were so community oriented. Nice.
I consider "learning new things" to be part of the employment terms. When solving problems, go a few levels deeper than you might actually "need" to. You usually end up with a more informed, elegant and robust solution.

You also enhance your overall knowledge and stay interested. That's a benefit for the employer too! Otherwise you'd just go elsewhere because you're bored.
Hardly "pedantic" to point out imprecise language in a post about parsing source code. It's hilariously wrong when you consider the author's focus on Clojure, which introduces all sorts of wonky syntax.

Indeed the article begs for potshots from smug lisp weenies:

1) It's clearly talking about Clojure, yet leads with "Let's simplify the way we write Lisp". Them's fighting words in the Lisp corral.

2) Paredit clone, but only acknowledges that for animations.

3) No emacs version! (Understandable given #2 however)
How it is different:

Microsoft used to issue press releases about how they were going to build a product in category X, killing all venture capital in category X. In many cases they never built a product in category X or if they did it sucked. But they were able to cut off the air supply.

Apple and Google don't do that.

This may sound trivial, but it is huge- it means you have a couple years to build traction and a chance of getting acquired by Apple or Google (as say, SIRI was).
> and this benchmark seems to back his claims.

These benchmarks evaluate single-node performance. LeCun's remarks were concerning distributed training (specifically that bandwidth between machines is a limiting factor to scalability) -- which we can't test yet since the current version of TF is single-node only.

Dean's response in the video "it depends on your [computer] network" is an interesting response :).
I wonder if game development work culture is different at the engine companies vs the game studios. My hypothesis is that less/no crunch leads to better productivity...
I've deployed SoftEther and I can confirm that the software does work incredibly well and is jam packed with features.

I to was concerned with the legitimacy of the software. But it is open source now, which should aid discovery.

I don't use it anymore at the moment. But my gut feeling is it is legit software, but sometimes there is just no way to know...
Do you get that when you're reading through online tutorials?
Agreed, that can be truly challenging.
It's important to store the timestamp of when the page source was downloaded, together with the timezone if available.
I can never understand this mentality. Can I keep you in terrible living conditions "because it's better than 30BC"?

Judgement on inequality has to be relative to the here and now.
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There's a lot of overlap in the iOS and Rails communities.
You make this sound like a bad thing. I would rather have the flashlight option built into the OS than having to download some random app.
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If you're paralyzed by the idea that someone will compete with you, startups are not where you should be.
I don't know what's more impressive: The work itself or the beautiful documentation which accompanies it. Very impressed!
The presenter's blog at the Valhalla DSP site contains some fascinating reads as well:

https://valhalladsp.com/category/archaeo-acoustics/

https://valhalladsp.com/category/dsp-heros/
Saying genes contribute to intelligence is not eugenics. Here's the first link I saw: http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v20/n1/full/mp2014105a.html

From the abstract: "Intelligence is one of the most heritable behavioural traits."
"Excuse me, boss, there's a very robotic voice on the line. It seems to be attempting to negotiate running new fiber to a data center"
Doesn't this just mean that Apple, Google, etc., are rent seeking? If there's a creek behind my house where the community comes to get fish, that's value for those people. If I see them doing it and build a giant fence and start charging money for creek access and fishing permits, that's pure rent seeking. I didn't create the value or extract value from something where others couldn't extract value. I artificially prevented people from extracting value they otherwise easily could have, and then charged them for access.

It's mostly the same with apps that are copied into OS features. What entitles Apple, Google, etc., to the value of that idea beyond some kind of might makes right argument? They're big and they spend money on regulatory capture and legal battles, so that alone entitles them?

I mean, it does entitle them, at least currently, if we take only a very narrow understanding of "entitled" to mean "that which does actually happen and isn't prevented." But that's not really the spirit of the laws, public sentiment, or how this stuff relates to overall human welfare.
Its the same everywhere.

Programmers underestimating the value/knowledge of accountants/lawyers.

Businessman assuming tech work is simple.

People by default assume what looks simple for someone to do must be simple - even if they spent 10,000+ hours practicing it.
>Mobile web is getting better, but i'd still rather use facebook's app and airbnb's app vs their adequate mobile web experiences.

I've uninstalled the facebook android app and switched to a chrome shortcut. Works just as well and even gets notifications. Not to mention the better battery life.
Databases are dead, long live the immutable state atom
That service sounds awesome! Definitely a better option in the UK :)
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It's highly unlikely that Oppenheimer is sitting on large piles of cash. Most likely his wealth is again in productive assets - e.g. shares of SPY.

As an owner of shares of SPY, he then owns small percentages of factories, airplanes, hotels, logistics and similar things. Virtually no one is actually sitting on money because that's a really dumb thing to do. Investing in productive capacity just provides a lot more money.
The title of the article is awful, the article is about porting Tetris to a Pebble smartwatch, the fact the code is formally proven isn't important.
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You'll have to objectively define "terrible living conditions" on an international level. But sure. Go ahead. Issue your judgement. I'm curious.
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Also worth noting that this can't explain a lot of the parapsychology findings even if true: these pulses don't go back in time like eg Bem's findings, there's no obvious way that they would modulate a radioactive number generator's choices of binary bits (the most credible experimental setup), and they can't physically go far which eliminates all experiments in which subjects are separated by more than a few hundred feet.

(That is: even if parapsychology was 'right' in the sense that something like these electromagnetic waves did occasionally affect cognition and could be used to transmit information in limited circumstances, it was still wrong overall, falling for all sorts of things like Geller's spoon bending, successfully managed to produce many false positives despite the most stringent measures, and can be considered a control group for the scientific method.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction FTW

i guess with the W = warrant
Indeed that's a tricky one. My guess is that the average person lacks sufficient self-awareness to be able to answer a question such as that, especially if there are strong insecurities or other fears. At the same time, I believe that many people could attain a better skill at answering such questions if they practised meditation more regularly.

It seems that the nervous system pretty reliably adjusts its sensitivities to the recent norms, so maybe the answer to this predicament involves not only (a) asking participants such questions, but also (b) establishing for each person the current systemic bias. Similar to pain-threshold testing, perhaps the person could be exposed to social scenarios, such as in videos, while being monitored with an EEG or related device. The pre-screening done on the experiment participants in the 2001 film "The Experiment" could be seen as similar since it tests emotional reactions. Even persons from different worldly cultures and religions would presumably have different biases, so finding this bias for each individual would probably be very important if accurate analysis were sought. To give an analogy, asking people questions on feelings is like asking a multi-meter for a reading. The problem is that each person has a large set of calibration knobs, so the real-world measurements can not be known without first checking the knobs.
The problem is that some of the stories of great success are actually quite close to the ones that are outright scams.

It's harder to tell the difference than it probably should be. Around the 2000's there were a number of acquisitions of companies that were mostly hot air. It's a game of hot potato (don't pick it up!), if the investors make bank on your BS company then nobody will complain (except for the acquiring party, but hey, that's their problem...).

It is also hard to tell which companies are actually contributing and creating value and which companies are simply pumping money around. See: groupon for instance.
Humanity is useless; it can't be manipulated or traded to increase profit.

And as such, we arrive at the present.
Can someone explain to a non-network person the significance of being able to tunnel IP traffic over ICMP?
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...widening inequality is a very long-term trend, one that has been decades in the making...the effects of monetary policy on inequality are almost certainly modest and transient.

This is totally self-serving historical revisionism. The Federal Reserve played a significant role in the Dot Com bubble, in the Housing Bubble, and in bailing out Too Big To Fail banks when there was a genuine chance for a much-needed reckoning. To think such a powerful "monetary policy" figure such as Greenspan or Bernanke would deny that their actions had anything but positive outcomes is utterly preposterous. Both did extensive damage to the middle-class, and Yellen is simply continuing the abhorrent tradition set by her predecessors.
That's great! Will be interesting to follow its support for multi-threading [1].

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13410
But how does he know "their null hypotheses are always true"? He seems to take it as a given. Why?

Edit: is it just me or did they boot this off the front page manually?
The public will be filling the coffers: Retail investors are suckers. They'll buy almost anything, just like in the dotbomb days.
This is about the time I chose not to die
Pick your poison, big dependencies or big repo + duplication. But the author is correct, the node way is to put deps in package.json and `npm i`.
I'm disputing the "culture" claim. The vast majority of people don't behave this way. Most people have a day job and live life on the weekend. Inflation forces people to invest (usually in the stock market) to avoid losing the value of their money in the future. Whomever manages their money is going to try to get the best return. This cycle makes available vast amounts of capital to be invested in something.

This is a market reaction to inflation, with very little to do with culture.
I love the Christopher Hitchens quote: "... the two great achievements of Austria was to convince the world that Hitler was German, and that Beethoven was Viennese."
> Doesn't this just mean that Apple, Google, etc., are rent seeking?

I don't think so. Its subjective, of course, but they are consistently adding value to their platforms and services.

> It's mostly the same with apps that are copied into OS features. What entitles Apple, Google, etc., to the value of that idea beyond some kind of might makes right argument?

A patent is a license from the government to extract value from your idea for a period of time. If your idea meets the criteria for a patent, I encourage you to patent it. If your idea doesn't meet the criteria, tough. Apple and Google are then entitled to the value for execution, whereas you're entitled to nothing.

> They're big and they spend money on regulatory capture and legal battles, so that alone entitles them?

While a small amount of regulatory capture and legal battles have contributed to the development of Apple and Google's ecosystems, what entitles them to their value is the moat they've created through effort (engineers * time).
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I was curious too, so I took a walk through the documentation. I found this:

https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens/wiki/Paredit-and-smartp...

I think I might try it out. It seems by default it's less strict than paredit, though, so I'll have to tweak it a bit.
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A few years back, I was assigned to work at a BigCorp's premises. They had really tight network security: all outward connections were blocked except through a dedicated HTTP proxy. This was bad news, since stuff like SSH are absolutely essential in my job.

After few days of mobile tethering, I realized I could ask their HTTP proxy to open an HTTPS connection to a server outside the network, but instead of sending HTTPS traffic through the proxy, I could send any traffic - like SSH. With this, I was ultimately able to open an SSH-tunnel to my own shell server running OpenVPN outside their network, which then allowed a (surprisingly stable and fast) access to the internet at wide – via an OpenVPN-tunnel wrapped in an SSH-tunnel pretending to be an HTTPS-tunnel.

I don't recall whether ICMP was allowed out at the BigCorp., but I am pretty sure someone will one day find a tool like this quite useful in a similar situation.. :)
Windows didn't release every year, for one. (And people didn't upgrade when it did release, and they still don't.)

MS did do some of what you describe but it seems much more prevalent with mobile OSes.
My company runs about ~1M/yr revenue on Square and this morning I got an email from them: "Own a part of Square". It seems to be some opportunity to buy IPO stock through a company parterning with them called "LOYAL3". Anyone have insight into the bigger picture here?

Full text here: http://pastebin.com/X4EYq610
I specifically excluded SPY in the last paragraph as a "productive" investment, but only for the sake of argument -- I admit I'm inclined to agree with you that even passive investment of this type is productive.

I think the problem pointed out by the original article is that they don't like this because it tends to produce oligopolies (i.e., "chains"). Unfortunately, I think that's just because non-colluding oligopolies are efficient.

So the market is "working," some just don't like the outcome.
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> "Then again, this is hindsight. YMMV."

I swear I remember people calling for the same thing around the time of the bailouts. If the bank bailouts weren't rushed through unnecessarily then a "people's bailout" could've definitely happened.
>That's a lot of paragraphs. Got a tl;dr on how it improves on Paredit?

The readme is not "a lot" in the slightest, the first paragraph of is a perfect summary. I'm sorry for being rude, but if you can't even bother to read one measly paragraph, I'm probably wasting my time writing this comment for you. The first paragraph is barely even longer than your original comment (10 words longer)!

The readme also links to a list of features and an article with gifs. Additionally, I gave you an even shorter and simpler tl;dr in my original comment: "basically paredit on steroids".
> cmix has surpassed the winning entry of the Hutter Prize (but exceeds the memory limits of the contest)...cmix uses a similar neural network architecture to paq8l. cmix uses a four layer feedforward network with 414,273 neurons (paq8l uses a three layer network with 3,633 neurons).

This is something I've suspected for a while: the Hutter Prize has become obsolete. I agree with the 'prediction is intelligence' paradigm, but the Hutter Prize cannot show any meaningful progress in AI for the simple reason that the corpus is too small and the resource limits are too stringent. 4 layers with 414k neurons is nowhere near what deep learning researchers use to create intelligent systems. You couldn't fit char-rnn into the Hutter Prize constraints! At this point, all the prize incentivizes is finding an algorithm which fits into the allotted resources, no matter how dumb and inferior that algorithm is to the state of the art which requires more resources to run. Bit-twiddling to optimize the current approaches may be fun for a certain kind of people, but it's hard to see how the contest has contributed at all to progress in AI in the past decade, which was the original purpose.

Perhaps what is necessary is a Hutter Prize 2: expand the corpus to the modern English Wikipedia (not one from a decade ago), perhaps add in other language corpuses to increase it further to get a multi-gigabyte corpus, and then increase the resource limits drastically (32GB RAM for starters so cmix can get in), and shut down the old one for diminishing returns. A desktop machine these days can certainly support a decent amount of RAM and computation (on Newegg, you can get a desktop tower refurb with 32GB Ram for <$1000), so there's no cost excuse if one can afford to offer thousands of euros as a prize...
Buying someone else's shares of a public company isn't super productive. You're buying a stake in future cash flows at companies, not investing in growth. Especially the way buybacks have been going lately,
https://github.com/orthecreedence/highlight-lisp provides paren matching on mouse hover, I find it annoying but I can see how it can be useful to some.
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Better than Scandinavian social democracy? Better than German social market economy? Better than East Asian Tiger hypergrowth-capitalism-but-with-strong-government-intervention?
Far right by european standards. Austria's most rightwing party would still not be any more right than the GOP.
I was not aware of that. Sorry. I just meant that if we want to send a document that should look exactly as we send it, perhaps we should consider sending a PDF document or something.

Something I found interesting in the Wikipedia MIME article is:

> Text in character sets other than ASCII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

If I so much as write க in Tamil, I rely on MIME. (Sorry if this is obvious to readers. I am not an email expert.) For others like me, the Wikipedia article on email spells it out:

> Originally an ASCII text-only communications medium, Internet email was extended by Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) to carry text in other character sets and multi-media content attachments. International email, with internationalized email addresses using UTF-8, has been standardized, but not yet widely adopted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

Sorry for going off on a tangent. I appreciate your reply as I learned something new today. (: