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Re: your first line, yes: the existence of https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/pricing/ -- and we know how the US Gov feels about computers.
Quote: "That said, both Pollack and Olen say a good, reasonably priced financial adviser can sometimes be helpful — especially when life gets too complicated to fit on an index card."

But the long-running WSJ dartboard contest proved repeatedly that financial advisers cost more than their advice's value. Maybe that fact should be on the metaphorical index card.

Here's my index card:

1. Don't borrow money.

2. Don't be in debt to anyone for anything.

3. Learn about compound interest, then either burn your credit cards or learn how to use them.

4. Invest only in no-fee or small-fee market index funds -- in the long term they outperform the majority of fee-based mutual funds.

5. Never engage the services of a financial adviser.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths/index.html
Please stop posting purely political stories to Hacker News. They're not on-topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Exactly so, on the coerced labor...
Great article here:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/05/the-hunt-for-el...
If you've got a strong track record and connections then you can raise money with just an idea, but in reality most founders don't have that so the only way they can prove their ability is via their actions and these days that tends to mean at least building something to prove what you're capable of.

BTW. Andy Bechtolsheim invested in Google three years after they'd started working on it (as part of their Phd), they'd already launched a public version (google.stanford.edu) with real users by the time he invested. Justin Kan had been working on Kiko for a year before YC invested. Alexis & Steve had been working on MyMobileMenu for a year before they pitched it to YC and PG convinced them to pivot.

It's easy to romanticizes away the slog of work that goes in before a startup raises money, but many successful founders had years of work before they raised seed funding.
There's evidence on both sides, many conflicting studies and findings and so on. The Greger guy cherry-picks - he's a propaganda leader, not a scientist!
Cache servers don't help reduce bandwidth at the tower.

The way to properly implement this is for Netflix to cache popular content on your phone encrypted, updated when you're on wifi. That's not going to happen.

TL;DR RF spectrum is a scarce.
Not just silly - it's criminal! It's pushed by cliques that benefit from increasing aggression!
Correctness is always relative to a specification. More precisely, it's the program's specification, which must exist prior to the program itself, which defines what it constitutes for the program to be correct. So a program that “validates itself” simply doesn't make sense.

Also, it seems you misunderstand Gödel/Turing/etc.'s result. What a consistent and sufficiently powerful formal system can't do is prove its own consistency as a theorem. Obviously, it isn't sustainable to spend all our time inventing ever more powerful formal systems just to prove the preceding ones consistent. At some point you need to assume something. This is precisely the rôle of the foundations of mathematics (or perhaps I should say a foundation, because there exist many competing ones): to provide a system whose consistency need not be questioned, and on top of which the rest of mathematics can be built.

In any case, we have gone too far away from original point, which is that, if arbitrary programs are too unwieldy to be analyzed, the only way we can hope to ever understand our programs is to limit the class of programs we can write. And this is precisely what (sound) type systems, as well as other program analyses, do. Undoubtedly, some dynamically safe programs will be excluded, e.g., most type systems will reject `if 2 + 2 == 4 then "hello" else 5` as an expression of type `String`. But, in exchange, accepted programs are free by construction of any misbehaviors the type system's type safety theorem rules out. The real question is: how do we design type systems that have useful type safety theorems...?
Debt Market's China Syndrome
You can always try I guess. Whether or not it works is another story :-p

I started using tor for this type of thing. It's very handy in that it generates a new circuit every 10 minutes or so and hence you get a new exit node.
> so maybe it'll backfire against Legere.

Probably not. Best case, EFF comes out unscathed. Worst case is they have less goodwill then before.

There is no way this works out poorly for T-Mobile, only the EFF.
The problem with government is that the bar to fire people is too high for it to work the way you describe. And it's that way for a reason.

The system used to be that, when a party won an election, they'd fire the existing government employees, and replace them with members of their party. "To the victor go the spoils", and this was called the "spoils system". But that meant that the knowledge of how the day-to-day government functioned got lost after every election, which was non-optimal. So laws were passed to eliminate that practice, but at the price of making it hard to fire government employees. (Add in public sector unions, and it gets even harder.)
Spotify down
In my experience using the "&" has lead to many mistakes and a difficulty to mantain things.
Mastering RabbitMQ
How rapid is interesting? This depends, but a rate of 10% per week for several weeks is impressive.

I wish this was a bit more specific -- how long exactly is "several weeks"? 3 weeks (total growth of 33%)? 7 weeks (total growth of 95%)? 13 weeks (total growth of x3.45)? 52 weeks (total growth of x142)?
True, but it shows the way the wind is blowing.
Lily, the Camera Drone That Acts as a Robot Videographer – APPlite
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5797014/why-do-browsers-m...

tl;dr browsers read css property right-to-left. the more specificity a selector has, the more DOM lookup the browser needs to do.
Thanks, I'll take a look at what you've mentioned. Much appreciated.
I haven't handed it over to anyone yet. Email me at hello@bram.gg :)
Exactly that. The government of the country where I currently live constantly fiddles with taxation rules retroactively. I'm quite sure it's the same most everywhere.

I'd rather put my money in places where I am in control to the max. No special tax advantaged retirement funds for me, thank you. They are not that lucrative anyway around here, and the conditions under which one can use them (retirement age, taxation, ...) change all the time, for worse.

The last creative change by the government was it taking an advance on future taxation from my current retirement fund savings, in exchange for "not taxing it anymore in the future". Hah, /me does not believe a single word of that!

I'd rather invest my puny savings into my own little maker company. With the proceeds, I rather buy productive assets that I 100% understand. Things that are as close to physically under my control as possible. Anything but government incentivised savings. Those will bite one sometime sooner or later anyway!
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Yeah, it does, but tell that to the 99.99% of people who don't even know what a "terminal" is. I feel this kind of argument is the worst unintentional straw man: "we don't need to fix this problem, because there's a perfectly fine, super obscure solution".

We need to fix this problem for the accountants, not the IT guys.
Unfortunately, it's an innate human instinct to admire strong, powerful, and clever leaders and figures, no matter their ethical record. Look at how Genghis Khan is viewed today, for example. Some are even starting to view Stalin favorably as more time passes.

Alexander the Great and Napoleon weren't quite as evil as those two, but they invaded and forcibly took other people's lands for selfish reasons, killed and enslaved countless innocents, and committed many atrocities. Napoleon is even alleged to have tried to implement Hitler-style eugenics, and may have used poison gas to kill civilians. [1] Yet they're seen as historical heroes and are deeply admired by millions, or perhaps billions, of people.

Many people view Guzman in the same light. It's a form of cognitive dissonance, in a way, since those same people may still have deep moral objections to the acts they know the person has committed, and yet still can't help but sympathize with them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Ribbe#Career
I clicked "play $100" 4 times and lost. So I clicked "bet paycheck" and entered $10,000 (no I don't really make that much).

And boom, I won $1,000,000. So I guess I should start playing the lottery?

(I suspect there's a bug).
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No, I think alloca was considered evil before Elias wrote "Smashing The Stack". I bet if you go track down the 'alloca' man page from FreeBSD 2.0, you'll find that it's use was "discouraged" even back then.
I just think we need a new term besides "seed" to differentiate it from the true seed investments.

I agree. I have been thinking about what to call an investment at the concept stage. The obvious one is “seed bed” (you need a seed bed before you can plant a seed). The other is something combining founder and investor as any investor at the concept stage is really more a founder than an investor - festor doesn’t have quite the ring I would like though :)
Unfortunately, Slack is not truly developer-friendly and cannot have the terminal in its full glory!
Which very high quality crafts are you referring to? Every pre-agriculture artifact I've seen looks to have been made by a modern three year old. The only impressive thing I've seen come from pre-agriculture society is agriculture.

Have you ever done long-distance backpacking or similar outdoorsmanship? Even with modern outdoors tech, conditions are often really rough. Pre-agriculture people were even worse off. It was very much brutal. They also had to contend with unchecked disease, malnutrition, and lethal weather.

Does a life of "just chilling" sound tolerable to you? These people had no intellectual pursuits, nothing to strive for. If certain parts of humanity hadn't developed agriculture and eventually industry, humans would just keep rolling around in the dirt and dying at 50 until an asteroid took us out of our misery.
OK, but Europe was at war starting in 1939, and was trying to buy all kinds of stuff from the US. That's still WWII kickstarting the US economy, even though the US wasn't in the war yet.
I don't think so, there's an element of projective indentification involved. Being fearful is bad in any environment.
Well, at least they did not ship it to "rebels" in Syria.
Latin America's Magic Realism.
80% is not over the top. The top marginal tax rate in the USA was over 60% for half of the last century, topping out at 94% in 1944. The tax rates imposed on the top incomes have only recently (Reagan era) come down to such ridiculously low levels as we have today.
Those parties might have more credibility if their act of protest wasn't wholesale environmental destruction. You can imagine that, were the state to take over, these people would settle for nothing less than the state withdrawing the protected status for this land. It's not about states' rights and never was.
Even if you follow all that advice, it isn't necessarily sufficient. Probably not even close. If you figure you need roughly $1.5 million to retire without drawing down principle, then that means you're by definition in the top 5% of the United States by wealth.

And in order to get $1.5 million from $0 by age 65, well there are a lot of ways to get there assuming unrealistic stock market returns. But over twenty years, the S&P 500's returns vary wildly [1].

If you start at age 25 and aim for retirement at 65 then that's 40 years. If median return after inflation is 4%, you still have to save over $1000 / month, and that's banking you'd hit median returns. If you figure 3%, then that's around $1500 / month. If it dips into negative returns like it did for a few 20-year periods in the S&P-500 history, then good luck, you'd need to save over $4000 / month.

(Rough numbers based off of monthly interest)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
The problem is that the situation is bad, but not so bad that it can't be made much worse. It's not enough to "try something" - you have to try something that at least will not hurt. If you don't know which way your thing will go, at an absolute minimum be willing and ready to bail on it very quickly if it works out badly.
What kind of financial model do I need to raise seed?
Over years of development, this wrapper can save tens of seconds of time!
I don't think we will see a .com bubble style 'crash' but it seems increasingly certain that the screws are going to get turned on startups that can't sustain themselves without constant injections of cash from investors.

There is a knock on effect too in where the risks aren't entirely understood. For example think about mobile/web analytics companies. Tons of their revenue comes from other unprofitable companies that are propped up by VC cash. Even if the web analytics company is doing well in their own right there is a huge hidden risk with the business model of such companies since a big chunk of their revenue comes startups propped up elsewhere with VC cash and that cash is about about to start drying up really quickly. In other words a lot of companies that think they are doing well are in reality just also propped up with VC cash indirectly.

In short, the tide is going out and we're about to see who's been swimming naked.
To fund roads use tolls. That's fair for all.

The money collected from the punishments can be used wherever is needed. Maybe to partially fund the roads, thus benefiting users of roads with lower tolls. Maybe to support free health and education, thus benefiting everyone.
This will be added to my toolbox after some excersicing... If I'm able to do it correctly would be nice.

Buuuuut, I have a question: imagine this is a call, and you go by the rule with extreme optimism to an angry customer on the phone, don't you risk in the case of a recording to sound kind of crazy? it should be incredibly natural and well thought and executed... if not you risk being exposed.

With that said... isn't this a way of making your employees being nice no mater what?
I don’t think anyone is disagreeing that a lot of work needs to go into a concept before it can be funded, but Andy still took a lot more risk than the average VC or angel in backing Larry and Sergey when he did.
That's a bit unfair. The standard is from '99, but the implementation happened differently than c11 (which already had many bits implemented in clang before it was released).

In practice a lot of c99 got into gcc after 3.0 (2001) and it still took a bit of time for any distribution to include it as stable. If I remember correctly, lots of distributions held on to 2.9x for as long as possible. I'd say realistic c99 support has ~10 years now, rather than 17.
It turns out that it is hard to be specific, other than the longer you have that sort of growth, the better. Also, it is, perhaps, obvious that large percentage growth beginning from very small numbers is not as impressive as sustained growth even as the numbers get larger. Impressive / interesting growth is very much in the eye of the beholder, and most investors will just say they know impressive when they see it. This being said, I take the point that more discussion around this point would be helpful (unfortunately, this is true about much of the guide and I was trying to keep it reasonably short).
while I agree that stage (and I feel I've only recently obtained it) is a milestone, I'm not sure it is the delineation of adulthood. I don't know what you call it, but it absolutely is significant. I think I liked things before I crossed that bridge.
There is a substantial voting bloc who would rather this not be the case. Why have self-responsibility when the government can do it for us?
But post 1945, Europe had been bombed nearly to destruction, as had Japan. Even Russia had been devastated. The US was exporting to the whole world as everybody else tried to rebuild. You can't take 1945-1970 US economic growth as a measure of the quality of FDR's economic policies.
> Consider the author's idea of levying an 80% tax on people who earn $1 billion a year. Chances are that anyone who is smart enough to earn $1 billion a year is smart enough to hire a small army of accountants/tax attorneys to reduce her tax load. The relevant tax authority thus has to counter by hiring their own army of auditors/tax accountants to enforce these sorts of tax laws.

If there was ever political will to tax the wealthy at such a rate, there would also be the political will to end the loopholes allowing people to avoid that rate, otherwise it would be pointless.
While I don't really care much either way - why is this on HN news ? Its not really technology related.... even tangentially (it seems).
Lots of assumptions there.
Which is fine. I mean, eventually the market itself will punish you for it, because the other people refusing to give up their data will constitute a higher-risk pool of drivers, but if you want to do that then you'll still be free to.
I don't see why it shouldn't work? The SDL2_net docs state that you need to set up SDL2 before using the library, but from the chatd example it doesn't seem to depend on any of the SDL subsystems - so you'd just include SDL2 and call SDL_Init(0) before using the library.
> If the behavior is not predictively relate increased claims activity, then it wouldn't be penalized. They won't just say "driving 5 mph over the speed limit on the highways raises rates" for no reason.

You're assuming the insurance company has perfect information.

That's the problem with all of this. The insurance company isn't in the car. They don't know why you're doing what you're doing.

And the problem is you get what you measure. Changing lanes without signalling will make an accident more likely 85% of the time but make it less likely 15% of the time. If you're penalized 100% of the time then all the people who were doing the right thing in every case will now, in order to keep their insurance rates low, start doing the wrong thing 15% of the time.
Yet: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker
How many users actually find this "smooth scrolling" welcome? Perhaps I'm just used to always setting my mouse and trackpad scroll speeds to my exact preference, while other people tend not to, but I've always found every form of scroll hijacking to be extremely irritating.
What do you mean, get info? Do you think successful people just do stuff in the dark without any idea of what they're doing?
How High Rent Burdens Impact Savings Rates
X isn't dead and wont be for years
Do you own your phone or does it own you?
It can help but it doesn't even begin to cover it.

I didn't realise how big the gap was until my sister (liberal arts major) asked me (finance) for guidance on her personal finances.

Now she is bright & got a high end education - probably more so than me in both regards but dear god entirely ignorant about personal finances (budgeting, investments, retirement etc).

Its a pretty basic failing in the schooling system globally as far as I'm concerned. This is a make or break skillset for +- all people out there yet people walk into life having zero clue what their doing. Predictably a decent chunk get caught in debt traps etc.
No. They haven't been redefined. They are used that way by people who are ignorant of the definitions, careless, or trying to mislead.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/09/ije.d...

Conclusions: Sitting time was not associated with all-cause mortality risk. The results of this study suggest that policy makers and clinicians should be cautious about placing emphasis on sitting behaviour as a risk factor for mortality that is distinct from the effect of physical activity.
Not if what you want to build requires more than 0.5 to 1 developer years of work. There are a large family of problems that can only be tackled with 10+ developer years worth of work to get to a MVP.
You can't register a single-letter .org anymore.
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I think that an independent person is someone who could pick themselves back up if everything were taken away from them. Someone can be independently wealthy but be a dependent person.

My wife certainly has a more independent personality than I do. I put more faith in her ability to recover if I got hit by a bus than I put in my own ability, were the situation reversed. People like her make me believe that there's a difference between "dependent by circumstance" and "dependent by nature", and experience tells me that neither of those are static qualities. Circumstances shift, and someone may grow or regress according to their environment and personality.
I definitely relate to this. Thought not needing to hit "rock bottom" sometime after I graduated I understood that my parents economic situation was very fragile, that I was setting myself up for a life of mediocrity and that I couldn't depend on them much longer. I immigrated at the age of 19 and have lived on my own since then
As the creator of Sequiturs, it is really exciting to see the steps of an argument being enumerated like this organically in a comment thread.

I've written up the argument you're attributing to PG here: https://sequiturs.com/arguments/therefore-more-startups-mean...

This is the argument I interpret you to be making in the second half of your comment: https://sequiturs.com/arguments/so-more-startups-has-also-br...
Yes, all it needs to say is this:

Step 1. Take 5-10% of your liquid networth

Step 2. Buy Ethereum now

Step 3. Try to understand it (optional step)

Step 4. Wait 3 years

Step 5. Sell & retire

You can thank me in 2019.
But still too high unemployment. That's why people feel like it's still a recession.
we're dealing with big numbers so an order of magnitude or two doesn't matter much.
Probably every drop of water you've drank contained molecules that were present in the body of Julius Caesar at the time of his death. (etc.)
There are even languages with deterministic destruction which solves nearly all resource leak problems, and at least one of them is directly compatible with C and has nice metaprogramming facilities. C++ it is.
Maybe they should try calling the admin contact? His firm's phone number is easily findable. Interestingly, his website is unresolvable, possibly due to some hero trying to snipe his email?
Bluescope Steel stung by alleged corporate espionage
> boots at least twice as fast as

Honestly, why is this important? I want a system that is fast once booted, not a system that boots quickly.
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I've been hearing pre-seed rounds (where seed today is what was an A 5 years ago), called "Angel rounds"