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Have the films ever been violent?

I don't recall ever thinking they were, characters frequently get limbs cut off with no blood, Obi-Wan 'dies' by disappearing and not even getting cut down, even Qui-Gon in the first one isn't even a violent death.

I just don't think it's a part of the franchise in general.
It can't, hence why it's gambling when you get down to brass tacks.
Fun fact about large shifts being undefined.

With a 32 bit x, the expression x << b | x >> (32 - b) can be translated to a single "roll x b bits to the left" instruction. But it is only possible if >32 shifts are treated as undefined.
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Well, or they are spectacularly incompetent. We don't know which.
> Isn’t the whole basis of venture investment being able to identify business that will return above the risk-adjusted return?

No, it's to generate proprietary deal flow by building a brand for your firm. YC has done this with HN and pg's essays, while a16z has done this with Marc Andreessen's incessant tweeting and all the blogging by Chris Dixon, Ben Evans, et al.

At this point, YC's/a16z's success has become self-perpetuating - the best founders/companies will apply to YC and pick a16z over other VCs, the best employees will join companies backed by YC/a16z, etc. It's no different from institutions like McKinsey or Harvard.
It doesn't really seem like this solves the problem of optimizers introducing bugs and vulnerabilities.

Take the canonical optimizer-created security hole: the hardware optimizer replaces a constant-time compare (which doesn't leak timing information) with a variable-time compare (which does).

I don't think this solves the problem we're setting out to solve, ie. the optimizer introducing bugs.
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From the other side, having read the book first, the movie was weird and boring, which was disappointing especially given the hype around it.

I switched it off around halfway into it and never got back to giving it another try, so this is not really meant as a fair assessment of its quality, just sharing a very different experience from yours.
While I don't agree with all the points, the best advice in here is:

"But for all that is good and holy, don’t join a startup for the fucking money."

If you're joining or starting a company because you think you're going to buy a yacht and a small island, stop it! Recently I've seen some Founders tweeting things that make me shake my head every day. You're not going to be rich unless you have that once in a lifetime solution no one else is building. That's why it's called, "winning the startup lottery." It's still a fucking lottery. :)
The "tech industry" is incredibly diverse to make such a broad generalization. I know for a fact that many players in, say, the telecommunications, chip design and semiconductor industries regularly read their competitors' patents. This helps them not only keep pace with the state of the art, it also helps gather competitive intelligence and guess at their competitors' future directions.

In software, sure, few people read patents. Primarily I'd say it's because a) 99.9% of software development is producing infinite variations of simple CRUD apps, not solving hard problems that require looking up any sort of references, and b) NIH is a like a congenital defect in developers.
No you may not (you can look at my profile here). Once again what is the long tail risk? Up thread there is lots of discussion about all of this.
Pretty sure that's not true. Buddhism meets chinese cultural values namely Daoism, and later Confucianism, and out pops Chan Buddhism, which travels to Japan and becomes Zen.

There is a clear link. How much influence is probably a thesis topic.
It's possible that the quality of service you get from USPS correlates to the city it's operating from. I prefer USPS in my area. Their delivery schedule is consistent. In contrast, UPS will sometimes show up in the morning or as late in the evening as 9 PM and rescheduled deliveries are too commom.
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This would imply the market for startups is perfectly efficient which I find hard to believe based on my experience.
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voluptuous is simple and useful
Neural net can see some subtle pattern invisible to human eye, decide it is very representative, and make a guess based on that.

Pre-processing seems to be an answer, normalize the image, blank out areas obviously uninteresting to human eye, add dithering.
Sure, but they still have to pick the above average companies. Even if they don’t pick them and just them picking them means the company has a better chance of success then average then you should be picking companies that YC/a16z will like.
> The only requirement is that if F is the number of unreachable nodes you wish to be able to tolerate, then your minimum cluster size is 2*F + 1.
> Currently no other data store that I'm aware of offers this flexibility.

It isn't true. There're plenty of storages with same strong consistency model (tolerates F failures of 2F+1 nodes), among them are Cassandra with lightweight transactions, Riak with consistent buckets, CockroachDB and ZooKeeper.

> However, GoshawkDB has a radically different architecture to most databases and its object-store design means that contention on objects can be dramatically reduced, allowing the performance impact of strong-serializability to be minimised.

Can you please describe the algorithm that you use for implementing distributed transactions?

> just three network delays occur (and one fsync) before the outcome of the transaction is known to that node

3 round trips for per transaction is the result which is very similar to the Yabandeh-style transaction, see the Cockroach's blog for details - http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-cockroachdb-distribute...

Do you use the same approach?
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> The bookshop-keeper here, is eking out every single edge he can out of books to operate his shop.

It could be, but it could also be the case that he's trying to be 'quirky' and happened to implement this particular idea, picked more-or-less randomly from a set of other quirky ideas. Walking around Tokyo it is not hard to find shops where you really struggle to figure out how they are making money, and often it's the case that they actually aren't and they close their doors after a few months or a couple years.

I guess it's just really easy to get a loan in Japan even if your business plan is utter shit?
Writing the app is the easy part. Finding the private funds to pay for police overtime is the hard part.

This would work so well in Detroit but people would quickly get discouraged with the app if the police never show.
How would you make this work on iOS/android?
Do you read the claims and the arguments made to differentiate over any prior art the examiner finds? Trying to guess at the "implications" of the language is a futile endeavor unless you have a ton of context, because a ton of things need to be considered to understand the scope of a claim. In patent lawsuits, in fact, a Markman hearing is one of the most critical phases, as this is where it gets determined what terms in the claims actually mean, and hence what claims actually cover.
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Will this not lead to even harder hits, just like the advent of helmets did?
I hope we can find a better solution, but if not: sorry birds, DDT works.
Isn’t the whole basis of venture investment being able to identify business that will return above the risk-adjusted return?

Yes, but as a VC you can offset that risk by investing in a range of startups - 9 out of 10 will fail, but the 1 that succeeds will pay for the rest plus a profit. Plus VCs have teams of researchers and analysts to inform them, and they expect the startups themselves to offer some evidence that they can win despite the risk.

You can't really offset the risk in your career because you can only work for one company at a time, and won't have access to the same information about markets and competition as a VC. For you the chance of the startup you choose to work in succeeding is basically the same as any other, although you do get to directly affect it's chances by working hard.
The difficulty isn't in identifying the above average companies, it's in getting them to take your money. Given how little money it takes to get to an MVP these days, most companies backed by the top VC firms already have significant traction, or the founders have a prior success, pedigree, connections, etc.

> you should be picking companies that YC/a16z will like.

Just look up any of the articles on YC's demo days - you've got dumb money coming out of the woodwork from all over the world, trying to get a piece of the action.
Well I wouldn't say they are violent films. Compared to an action movie for example. But as you mentioned limbs get cut off (and you see it happen). And when Qui-Gon was killed you see the light saber go through him.

So it's not that I wish there was more blood/gore or anything. It's just that for a relatively un-violent movie series, it seems like they went out of their way to shield people from the violence in this movie, as if it is a children's movie like Narnia. And that pissed me off.
I also enjoyed it immensely, but I couldn't help but feel exasperated that they recreated Darth Vader and the Death Star.
No, but it does mean that at an individual level the difference is not consequential.

a16z and Sequoia might be able to pick the winners at a higher rate than other investors, but that advantage only bears itself out with a large N of companies.

At the individual case, with a single individual looking for a single job in a single company, the difference between being to pick winners 5% better than the baseline is not consequential, since the expected outcome is still "not a winner".

Some people may be able to pick winners better than others - but the effect is not strong enough to be useful in the micro scale because the odds of success are still very, very low.
Early in your career, startups can offer flexibility and growth opportunities which you wouldn't have otherwise.

One of the best jobs I've ever had was at a startup. I was still in college at the time, but they recognized the value I delivered and:

* Paid me a great full time salary even though I was staying in classes

* Let me run a full team, giving early management experience (great for my resume)

* Meaningful equity

No "established" company would have done this. It was a little crazy to do (who lets a college student run a tech team?), but I had a great experience and so did the team. Even if my equity is ultimately worthless, I will still have gained from taking that job.

Moreover, not all startup jobs offer poor equity terms. I've never worked at a startup for less than 1% (often much more than that) and always value my stake at less than half the VC valuation.

Even if I never make any money on a startup, I'll still endorse doing a startup early in your career. Later on, the calculus definitely shifts as mature companies are both more formulaic in their compensation and also offer benefits which become more important with age.
I mean race conditions on actual hardware, not the way the standard abandons all hope yet again.

Stale reads don't require total chaos.
The cost wouldn't be 3X, as USCIS refunds the application fees entirely if you're not picked in the lottery. However the lawyer's fees are still a cost. Source: http://www.murthy.com/2015/06/25/uscis-returning-h1b-cap-pet...
Supporting bad dictators is not specially Chinese thing.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea is probably worse and he is supported by US.
> Thanks for the comment, but 'investing' 100k, a sum FAR more than almost anyone reading the comment will ever see in their own bank accounts

Assuming that the majority of HN readers are software developers, I actually don't think that's true.

While I agree that investing $100k into a company is a big gamble, it's important to realize that's precisely what you're doing if you give up a BigCo job for a startup one with a $25k pay gap and vesting over 4 years.
The thinking that you are going to get rich via a startup is a very concrete sign that you are in a bubble. Create a startup because you want to do something that can’t be done in a big company, or because you think it will be fun, but don’t do it for the money.
What OP means is that this person is following a long term plan which will eventually turn out to make them miserable since they don't really have a passion for software engineering. Hence, it is analogous to following a plan for the board games instead of adjusting to the random element. The random element here is how your talents and interests develop.
Gambling does not mean that poker is not a game of skill.
It is what listeners, customers, etc want to hear. Welcome to the minority. I am from the Southern US, so I know exactly what you feel since I do not like country, gospel, or Bible sermons.

You won't hear me bitching though, because I know I am in the minority.
The problem here is, as you point out, the conversion of double to unsigned byte.

More specifically, the problem is that processing this operation is not producing error; it instead propagates the problem and produces invalid code. That's a situation where nobody wins.

I think we'd be better off if many undefined behaviours were instead implementation defined. If, instead, LLVM had converted the double to some integer and then chosen the lowest 8 bits from that integer, we'd have gotten some random value - but at least the comparison wouldn't have been ignored. The comparison should only be ignored if the compiler can prove that the value definitely lies within the range; if it isn't sure, it can't remove the comparison. The programmer wrote it for a reason; ignoring the intent of the programmer is a bug.

On strict aliasing, I'm against it without explicit opt-in over a delimited subset of source code. I understand that using & is going to harm the performance of my code; I think that's an acceptable tradeoff for more predictable behaviour. If it harms the performance of C++ vector iterators, for example, I don't care: strict aliasing rules are a worse cure than the disease of C++'s poorly thought out abstraction tools. Let a subset of the program follow Fortran rules if it's required.
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Human population decline would solve a lot of our environmental problems and is not necessarily tied to technological regression. In many developed countries it happens by itself and it could rather easily be helped along with some financial incentives, say, a tax on children.
I agree it would be an interesting exercise to write a compiler optimized for assembly readability. But I don't think there is enough demand for such a thing so that it will get written.

It also would be interesting if those who think there is enough demand start a crowdfunding campaign to prove that there is enough demand.
Virtualenv is pretty good for isolation.
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This is how AIM works, basically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_of_Mathemat...
It could instead mean that they are being careful with burn rate, and capital is hard to get, and their calculations include employees being part-paid with equity - for everyone's benefit - because companies die by the current account!
While it's true that founders won't take money from just anyone, I actually think a software engineer with experience in the industry would be a great investor.

They can give you insight on tech problems/scaling, help with hiring, offer connections, etc. (Basically, most of the things you're looking for from investors besides money.)

A software engineer investing in your company is pretty different than your real estate mogul uncle trying to get in.
Fortran, but Fortran is also quite low-level. It can do some optimizations that C can't because it disallows pointer aliasing.
There is something not right about this argument. Do you really say to yourself: “Here are two companies A & B with the same valuation. I think A has the best chance of success based on its technology, but I don’t care which one I join since they have the same chance of success.”
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they do get a benefit from the performance gained by assuming away undefined behavior as dead cases

I think this is a highly suspicious assumption. Programmers don't write code for no reason; they have a mental model of the current state of parameters and variables, and establish invariants as they write loops and conditionals. If you're going to start throwing out chunks of code the programmer wrote, you need to be certain - not merely unsure, but certain - that the code is dead. Infectious undefined values that propagate through data flow to break code flow isn't a sane programming environment.
Club systems vary wildly. I usually provide my own gear, and it's quite high end (JBL SRX700 series subs, and PRX 625 mains), and is more accurate than most home stereos, while also being dangerously loud. But, I can't hear the difference between a ~200kbps mp3 and a FLAC through that system. I probably couldn't consistently hear the difference on my headphones (also high end) or my studio monitors (again, quite high end), either.

That said, a 128kbps mp3 through a really loud system tends to sound harsh. It is definitely audible, even to untrained ears. But, anything above 192kbps, or so, is fine and any flaws that might be audible in an ideal listening environment are lost in the general noise of the club environment.
Sure you only get to work at one company at a time, but over a career you are effectively investing in multiple startups and are in the same boat as a good VC. Pick wisely and you are much more likely to retire with money than choosing unwisely.
That is true also for MTG and any game in which you have randomness that does not originate from any of the players.

But the question is ratio between luck/skill
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There used to be a group of people who cared about bitrate. They wanted 64kbps Audio that sounded better then MP3 128Kbps, which till today still isn't possible. Be it AAC, HE-AAC, Vobris, or the new Opus. Despite the hype every time a new codec arrived.

There used to be a group of people who wanted codec that is the same quality as Lossless at 256Kbps to 320Kbps. Personally I think MPC ( Musepack ) accomplished it. And it is patentless as well since it is based on MP2. But the codec never caught on in Hardware world. Meanwhile AAC does about just as well @256kbps despite being more complex.

That was in the Naspter -> iTunes download era, Then time flies, both group of people lost interest. Mainly for the same reason. Both group wanted to store as many music downloads as possible. 1st group dont mind a little quality loss, 2nd group wanted near perfect quality @256Kbps, however HDD prices dropped to a point where 1st group dont mind storing them in ~256kbps and 2nd group will simply store them as lossless FLAC.

Then we come to the age of Streaming, that doesn't necessarily means only Apple Music or Spotify and the like, the largest music streaming is properly Youtube. People dont download anymore, They just click and play on Youtube.

It tuns out, I think we have reached the stage of "good enough". Whether it is audio, or video. With Video, we can get huge improvement if we smooth out the noise / grain details.
Our broadband speeds continues to improve, we will have G.Fast & VDSL2, the next generation of DSL broadband tech. Most kids or youngster of this generation dont care about Audio / Video quality as much, they would rather want instant and ease of access.
Solution: light-up accelerometer helmets, and a new rule that if the helmet lights up it's a penalty (one designed so as to disinentivize both teams).

Football coaches and teams will very quickly determine the best way to tackle without rapid skull acceleration.
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Completely agree with this. The difference in resources used by Firefox 30 compared to Firefox 40 is just staggering. A netbook that used to run versions of Firefox 30 and below just fine now bogs down so much in newer versions of Firefox that the netbook is regularly left unusable for minutes at a time. It’s gotten so bad that I try to avoid opening Firefox as much as possible now and just use qutebrowser¹ instead. It’s extremely liberating to be able to open a browser and not have to wait a minute before being able to type anything in the address bar.

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¹ — http://qutebrowser.org/
I just bought "Understanding Power". Why do you think it's BS?
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You are correct on all points concerning the quality of code of Alpine Linux. I do not doubt it. But it is irrelevant to the discussion. The Linux kernel is not part of the containers that are based off of Alpine. That is the whole point of this level of virtualization: sharing the kernel.

Furthermore, the problem I have with Alpine-based containers is that using those as the basis of tooling used for building your own product, your own product will have a hard time becoming maintainable, sustainable an secure.

I've had developers doing make; make install in Dockerfiles just because Alpine doesn't have some library or version packaged.

Containerization brings all manner of sweetness to the table, but the current way it is used is a throwback to 1998.

Not having desktop software inside a small container does reduce the attack surface. Debian, Ubuntu, Centos can handle that requirement just fine. What is your point?
If you think his abstractions are bad, you should see object oriented programming.
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Not a specific list of papers, but I find Sigcomm to generally have very good papers in the field of networking and communications. Here's the link for this year's conference:

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Bluetooth, Spotify, Tasker to automatically choose playlists based on a few parameters, Google/Moto Now to add some manual control. I actually replaced my (busted) tape deck recently with a new head unit, and the improvement is thousandfold. Everything is automatic now.
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- 100.000 EUR invested in indexfunds should net me on average around 6% a year after taxes, i.e. 6000 EUR a year or 500 EUR a month (7% historic average minus ~1% tax).

- With no monthly rent to pay, I'm should be able to live a bit more comfortably compared to my Russian co-workers here :)

How are you going to pay the rent when the market inevitably doesn't return?
Why would you want to frack it ( Let it stays in the ground and frack when you like ), when the option of buying from others is much cheaper?

And to prevent fracking ever continues in large volume again, the only way is oil price becomes unsustainable for frackers.

Which is why I said Oil may never reach their 50s again.
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