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>Attending an elite school like MIT is not even a 1%'er thing, it's a 0.1% thing.

No. If you're insanely hard working, passably smart and somehow lucky, you can get in. I knew someone like that - and she reported that she was one of the dumber people there. If 0.1% have their kids there, these are not slacking at all.

> test for getting in is so gameable and rigged that almost no one pretends it isn't anymore.

SAT tests are rigged?
> my father is a physician and nearly every physician I knew supported Reagan

Reminds me of a pretty interesting post by Yvain[0]. The relevant quote:

"There are certain theories of dark matter where it barely interacts with the regular world at all, such that we could have a dark matter planet exactly co-incident with Earth and never know. Maybe dark matter people are walking all around us and through us, maybe my house is in the Times Square of a great dark matter city, maybe a few meters away from me a dark matter blogger is writing on his dark matter computer about how weird it would be if there was a light matter person he couldn’t see right next to him.

This is sort of how I feel about conservatives.

(...)

What I mean is – well, take creationists. According to Gallup polls, about 46% of Americans are creationists. Not just in the sense of believing God helped guide evolution. I mean they think evolution is a vile atheist lie and God created humans exactly as they exist right now. That’s half the country.

And I don’t have a single one of those people in my social circle. (...)

I live in a Republican congressional district in a state with a Republican governor. The conservatives are definitely out there. They drive on the same roads as I do, live in the same neighborhoods. But they might as well be made of dark matter. I never meet them."

--

> Here's one thread. I can't spend more time on this, so if you guys still don't believe me, you win (for the moment). I'd rather you were right anyway.

Hah. An advertising-bashing thread I missed :<. I post a lot of negative comments about advertising too, and the reactions are... mixed. I have an impression that HN is a bit split on the issue, some believing that it's absolutely necessary and others (like me) who would say "good riddance" if all ad-supported web sites disappeared right now. But I don't feel like there's a HN consensus around ads.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
Medication has some pretty serious side effects, and while the upside can outweigh the downside it's absolutely reasonable to oppose forcing other people to take medication.
> Uh, It sounds like we're in violent agreement?

So we are! I -somehow- completely failed to understand the subtext in your statement. :(

Mea maxima culpa. Please disregard my stupidity.
maybe they should "mickey mouse"that shit

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In this Agreement, you grant us rights to display, use, modify and distribute Content on Amazon Studios. This Agreement does not grant us rights to create a television series, movie, or other work based on your Submission

They are saying you wont be compensated for your posting of your script, that's all.
Do you write everything cross operating system or cross database engine or cross language runtime or cross chipset architecture?
It's just my experience, and I've had the same experience through multiple machines.
> Your point about doctors taking ~50% of the provincial budget seems exaggerated (please provide a reference to support it).

It's actually 42% in my province: http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2015/04/programexpenseb...

The average doctor makes $350k and the medical association is suing the government because they think it's too little (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-medical...).
The actual diet, or at least some examples of dishes, something I think is very interesting for a broad audience, and the reason I clicked the link, is only mentioned in the comments.

And those examples would not had made the article something for PubMed.
similarly, there should be a law that prevents the legalese fonts from being microscopic - there should be some minimum font size for these, regardless of where they appear (tv, print, online whatever)
I agree with the point regarding C++'s spec, but don't fully buy the point about C's spec. C's spec is surprisingly succinct. C code written to spec is not harder to think about than any other language I have worked with. I have had as much trouble getting my Python/MATLAB/Julia code to dance the way I want it to as I have with C. What is different is that if you get it wrong, all hell breaks loose in terms of security issues.

Regarding the wrappers behind unsafe behavior, in addition to some of your ideas, a lot can be done even in C, see e.g netstrings http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt, and other safer interfaces. It requires thought, but such thought needs to be devoted in designing other languages. Unfortunately, the C/C++ standards committee rarely accepts such slower, safer extensions, forcing clients down the dark road of third party libraries and the endless choices available there, some of which are horrible and actually worse than the stdlib. I believe a lot of the problem is that there is heavy disagreement as to what interface is best, see e.g strlcpy and its adoption. Getting a large committee on board with solving something is a monumental problem, even if all acknowledge that the current situation is terrible :).

"Best results" is a very loaded term, and I tend to avoid it due to the large number of dimensions to it, the most common being the classic performance and security axes. Nevertheless, we mostly agree on the key points, with some differences in the details.

TL;DR: I have not found something representing a Pareto improvement over C. All improvements tradeoff some aspects, and it is thus sometimes not clear that there is a better alternative to C. My stronger claim is that the above is true even if one ignores legacy issues.
They can do whatever they want if it's in the contract. And the only recourse for an unfavorable ToS change is a boycott - which, as we've seen with YouTube Red, is near impossible even for a change that's gotten significant attention and opposition.
You're correct that "utility"-type depreciation isn't that fast when it comes to the day-to-day, but "business profits" don't typically (ever?) take that into account in the calculation. So it's really two different things. As an aside, here are the BEA's depreciation rates:

http://www.bea.gov/scb/account_articles/national/wlth2594/ta...

None of the above take into account the "utility goes to zero" fact for certain computer hardware: i.e., if a machine winds up too slow to run the latest software because of ever-increasing system requirements, the practical value of said hardware can go from "less than recently calculated resale value" to "possible resale value of raw parts" or even "zero."
And besides this, she's not even an unknown quantity herself. She's been on Google's board for 3 years! :)
It's disappointing to see a potentially valuable educational program frame its activities in terms of closing a diversity gap rather than simply helping people. Can you imagine a similar academy dedicated to closing the gap between whites and people of color? The latter are overrepresented in tech, and yet I know of no one concerned with that gap. (Yes, I said that people of color are overrepresented in tech. The only way to avoid this conclusion is to ignore people with recent ancestors from Asia.)
> How do you make it significantly more dense than it already is?

Better transportation in outer burroughs will expand the supply of housing within a reasonable commute distance.

Ideas:

* Invest more in expanding public transportation. More express buses, local buses that run more frequently and on time.

* Deregulate private transportation (taxis, private buses).

* Incentivize commutes during off-peak hours.

* Encourage working remotely or flexible work schedules.

* Find ways to get tractor-trailers out of dense areas.

* Actually start enforcing double-parking and jaywalking laws (this one even pays for itself).

* Encourage business development away from already-congested areas
It should be Iliad with one 'l', as the author spelled it in the post.
Encrypt everything between your computer and the server you're connecting to, ideally use a VPN. The ISP already owns the lines anyway, 0wning the modem doesn't really make much more of a difference. The reasoning behind being able to push new firmware to a modem from the ISP is automatic configuration and to stop abuse on the network although I'd rather configure things myself.
Grunt, Rebooted
Good points. A response:

1. Global state is easier to see on a high level, but harder to reason about. Local state is inherently easier to reason about: it's right there. Global state requires me now looking at actions/signals, global state structure, and then my component, and resolving the three.

2. They should definitely be synchronized, this problem is only specific to local state implementations today. If they aren't synchronized, thats simply at the lack of the system you're using. I'm not familiar with Om Next, but I'd guess it handles this for you (as could any system properly organized).

3. Not true. You could have state changing functions imported and used by multiple components. This is also easier to understand, in my opinion. I can see where the state is located, and still keep my shared state changing functions somewhere.

I do think local state is skewed negatively now because it's very poorly done. React, angular, all systems today make local state a total pain, opaque, and hard to work with. Om Next seems to be a step forward (I'm working on something somewhat related for JS that should make it better as well).
Unless things have changed drastically, they use internal tools to generate the code. I used to work on one of the SDK teams.
I will never stop being impressed at the breadth and depth of the HN audience. Thanks, you two, for your comments.
Majority of Renters Are Not Saving for Down Payment: Freddie
We obviously interpret the Cartoon Network case (which I have read) differently, including the section you quoted. I think you're seeing what you want to see.

> in some circumstances

Obviously. I was talking about the common case.

> your license

Again, no license is involved.

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I will observe that you are still dodging First Sale. I suppose this may be another example of what Upton Sinclair warned about ("It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it").
Brute-force dictionary creator from personal data
I don't understand, elm is for your browser based application, which can't communicate with postgres anyway except through a web server sitting in the middle.
Nothing in life is a choice. Free will is a social construct, or more precisely a moral one.

Poor people exist because of bad luck, whether in managing their money or the genetic lottery.

I'm all for abolishing both of these things. A society of genetically related clones would work great. A nation as a family. You'd meet a stranger and you'd know what they're like, even though you wouldn't know exactly who they are.
Your claim that it's a merry-go-round is seemingly based on a misunderstanding of how medicine works.

You're right, medication does not necessarily ever stop. But it also never stops for heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, HIV, ...

Some conditions can be cured, some conditions can be treated, some conditions require continual changes and adjustments to medications.

For example, some people with mental illness can take drugs for a finite amount of time, and eventually come off them and never have to return to them. Similarly some people who have asthma can eventually come off an inhaler and never need it again.

Even in those cases, some people in certain stressful situations can still end up needing to go back to the medication (e.g anti-depressant/inhaler) years/decades later.

Some people have to stay on their medication forever, either asthmatics and their inhaler, or people with mental illness and their specific meds.

For some people different meds are needed, but that applies to a huge array of drugs -- some people have to use specific brands of inhaler, even specific types of insulin, neurological drugs are no different.

And if we start looking at the merry-go-round of changing drug regimes, there are other diseases with similar cases, most obviously HIV, where the treatments have to be continually monitored and changed for each individual, and many have to be taken at fixed times.

Mental illness is not a unique disease, the challenges of treatment are not dramatically different from all other diseases.

It's just a disease, and like any other disease, living with it takes effort.
So basically you think it's ok to use local state, but only for DOM related stuff?
Its the same logic as with toy commercials aimed at children. Children influence their parents by nagging, and patients influence their doctors by nagging. Parents don't want unhappy kids, and doctors don't want unhappy patients.
That sounds nice to have, but isn't it not as useful without a formally verified crash-proof firmware running on the disk?
"Take Aviato. That's not a name that I found. That's a name that found me."
Many of the domestic flights have wifi, especially if you fly JetBlue or United.
In my experience the outlets are always on the back of the seat in front of mine, that floor socket seems like a bad design in a space-cramped setting.
They're in Hulu.

As a non-American, currently living in America, these ads are the strangest thing I've seen on TV.
Rebuilds, upzoning, microapartments, public housing. The list is long:

https://medium.com/@opirmusic/fixing-the-nyc-rent-crisis-or-...

Read Matt Yglesias' "Rent is Too Damn High" book if you want a more thorough treatment the topic.
You joke, but sometimes I wonder if the low fluid ounce limit was a conspiracy by Big Shampoo and the Toothpaste Trust.
One aspect that I haven't seen mentioned here is that these ads are also designed to improve patient adherence. So you have 30 million prescriptions of zoloft prescribed in the US every year (crazy right?) but there's a lot of money left on the table when folks don't refill. The ads are reminders to these people to go get that refill and get back on their meds. For people with asthma, diabetes and hypertension, non-adherence can be really unhealthy and leads to hundreds of billions in unnecessary cost to the healthcare system.
You can see this happening in London, which is in the middle of a useless government-supported property bubble.

Areas with prestige developments of > £20M houses and apartments are being left almost empty - because they're an investment, not a home.

What you're describing would essentially be a land and property tax. The idea is so shocking that proponents of both - like Henry George - literally tend to be written out of economic history.
FDA approves first GM food animal, Atlantic salmon
Offal not only was, but is cheaper than skeletal meat.

Hearts, for example, are good meat. You can get them for 1$ per pound. Tastes very similar to normal muscle, but it's darker.

Which is why they're always sold out after 11 am..
When I had U-Verse I would call every 3 months and say I was cancelling. Then they would give me whatever latest "new customer offers" were currently available.

After 3 months those offers expired, I'd get a high dollar bill in the mail, so I'd call again... Wash rinse, repeat. I know multiple other people who did the same thing.

Now I only have data with TWC and receive letters 2-3 times a month from to tell me all about the great TV plans they are offering.
Again, this is a tangential point about how upper socioeconomic classes can better prepare their children for college admissions. The obvious solution is to invest in the public education system, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon (in America anyway, due to it being within the purview of individual states).

The point I'm making is that inequality in colleges is due to better preparation by higher-earning families and not some conspiratorial old-boys club. The hypothetical "some poor person, who went to a shitty college, that's even smarter" the original commenter referred to would have had as fair a shot as any of their caliber to get into the top schools. It's the poor precocious 5 year old that doesn't get read to every night and falls behind because both parents are working late at minimum wage jobs that defines the difficulty of escaping poverty through education. Top schools get to the table wayyy too late to heap the blame on them.
Clearly there are some ethical challenges. My doctors office is littered with Crestor clocks, clipboards, pads, exam table stirrup covers and medical models.

You can't say that seeing that logo 500 times a day doesn't influence picking Crestor over, say generic Lipitor.
Market share difference must be something like 10x
I think they're just trying to point out an instance where the overhead of SSL connections is a burden.

It's interesting. It's something that many developers wouldn't think about, but it has a real world consequence for this user in this instance.

Yes, we aren't going to throw away SSL because they had a bad experience, but it IS interesting to note, and it may even lead a few developers to think about how their tools could impact the users in non-optimal conditions.

It doesn't have to be an argument to be interesting...
I'm not sure that's the tragedy of the commons.

Also, I imagine that the cost of making and running the commercial would be pretty trivial compared to the profits to be made from the sale of the product.
A lot of people can and do get better. I can't comment on whether traditional treatment works for that or not. Personally I think treating the person is more helpful in the long run.
You seem to be confusing graduate school with undergraduate school. None of the grad students I work with at MIT have rich families. Many come from very non-elite colleges. They're smart and hard-working, much like grad students elsewhere. We get paid below national average salaries to work 60 hour weeks on technically challenging projects.

That said, MIT has an unfair reputation of containing geniuses. Elite schools do have a greater impact, but only the true theories/discoveries stand the test of time.
This nicely gets at the single biggest pain point that I encountered writing Redis scripts. The workaround that I came to was to insert early returns and run them over and over again. But a real debugger is much better.

That said, the biggest remaining pain point is that it would be nice if a Redis script could refer to functions in a shared library. Yes, you can always just assign functions to variables and call them that way, but now you have to copy standard functions in every script that needs them. This is a PITA.
I can't help but think of a couple things:

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -Donald Knuth

And this bug:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...

EDIT: I should have elaborated further. I did not intend to sound like I'm dismissing this work, because it's a cool step forward. It's just that this reminded me of those things that happened before.
> In one view, things can look perfectly rational. In the other view, things can look stark raving mad. I don't think either point of view is distinguished as canonical.

I'd say that's not the point. The point is, individual selfish choices aimed at producing good outcome for the choicemaker start to produce bad outcomes for the choicemaker when everyone else makes the same choice too, but at this point it's too late to leave the ship.

A canonical toy example would be working overtime. Say everyone is working 8 hours, but you decide to stay one hour longer. The boss notices and gives you a bonus for your dedication to company. Your co-workers notice, some of them decide to stay an hour longer too. Since the bonus pool is limited, you all get somewhat smaller bonuses. Ultimately so many people stay the extra hour that it turns into a new normal; 8h/day workers become seen as slackers and are pushed to 9h/day mode to avoid angering the boss. And since it's a normal mode, nobody gets bonuses. End result: you work 9h/day and get paid the same as you used to be before.

The article I linked[0] has much better examples of this happening in real-life.

The point is, things can look "stark raving mad" pretty much objectively, because the end result is bad in the choicemaker's value system. It's easy to get into a coordination trap and incredibly hard to get out of it.

[0] - for convenience, http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I brought a 2015 macbook pro retina with a hard drive full of videos

Not clear which exact model you have. Some have a discrete AMD GPU which would take more power.

Also it's not clear what format your videos were in. If it's something like DVD rips, then it could have been MPEG-2. I don't think Intel GPUs have any hardware support for playing that back. Also VLC probably doesn't take advantage of any CPU support for playing back video.

You should do a little more research. Your reported performance seems disappointing. You should be able to do much better. For example the current model 13" claims:

Up to 12 hours iTunes movie playback

Notice they don't mention VLC there. :) So you might have to transcode your video into a format that iTunes supports.
Looking at the names being named, rudeness seems to come with being foreign. I guess Steve Jobs is a counterpoint in that he is at least second generation.
Metalearning
I don't dispute your inflation figures.

But I do find fault with your conclusion. Where is the proof that the children and grandchildren of WWII vets are living these upper class lives of private schools and expensive universities?
David Heinemeier Hansson: REWRITE
I have no personal knowledge of Diane, but I do know people who have worked closely with her and they have very good things to say. They are people who do not often have good things to say. So the bit would stay un-flipped for me.
The article is saying that if the money returned to shareholders had instead been invested in R&D then you probably would have seen an even greater increase in the progression of technology.

Who knows if that would or would not have been the case, but it's still an interesting thing to consider.
There'll be no 'space race', at least, outside of government propaganda stunts such as Apollo programme, or the new Russian moon mission.

There is nothing in space which can't be had more cheaply on Earth. Except freedom.
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The author partook in hyperbole (I thought it was obvious that it was hyperbole.. but heh), but was referencing stuff like this:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/ne...

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/bridges/
Medical advertisements aren't the problem. The problem is that consumers aren't spending their own money and don't know how much things cost because medical providers can't/won't tell them.

Let's fix that problem.
Lambdatron: Clojure(ish) interpreter in Swift
Financial coursework, not anything I can cite but this should work: http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~yaari/Articles-PDF/IPO-Hauser-Y.... Estimates that this IPO discount is around 18.4% in the US.

"The price discount varies over time and across initial public offering
(IPO) mechanisms but remains economically significant everywhere. Span-
ning 4 decades and 38 countries, Ritter’s (2003) survey of international
studies reports a mean first-day return (commonly equated with the offer
price discount, or underpricing) ranging from 5.4 percent (Denmark) to 257
percent (China), with a median return of 20.7 percent...[the] U.S. mean return [was] 18.4 percent [from] 1960–2001"