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This is OT but how come submissions which have less than 12 points appear on the first page? Has anyone figured out the HN algo? There are many other posts with far greater points yet this appears. Maybe techcrunch has higher ratings?
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But what is the reward of content creation?

This is actually one of the reasons I like it- it is deliberately counter to a lot of social media. There is no like button, no retweet count, no permanent record- just ephemeral little moments you share with friends, and occasionally they'll mention that they liked one of your snaps to you.

To me, it feels like social media in a way it can actually enhance our lives- it encourages you to share moments but once they are over, it's gone, and there are no statistics that you can use to obsess over whether you are fulfilling your social media potential.
Looking at the graph the Chinese market traded around 2000 to 2500 from until late 2014 so that's probably what its companies are worth. Since then it doubled with speculators buying because things were going up but now that's stopped and the companies are still worth what they are worth and so back it goes. That's how markets are supposed to work - people but and sell stuff for roughly what it's worth.

The current Chinese government seems to have some other bright ideas though like trying to boost prices when there is a parade on (http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/08/31/china_s_stock...). Not sure that works long term.
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> these experiences -- which have an internal consistency -- seem to be inexplicably independent of culture, background or time

You've repeated this point in your other comments. Why would these experiences not simply be a result of the interactions between this chemical and typical human physiology? Alcohol has predictable effects when consumed -- I'm sure ancient Egyptians had equally impaired motor control as 21st century Australians. Why would DMT be any different?
Yeah, use Pages.app, or something.
Fascinating read - long, but worth it. It's always interesting to see how far people are willing to go for financial gain.
false dichotomy - "locking someone away" is not the only way modern society deals with the mentally ill.
"His creepy "we're just trying to help everyone and make the world a better place" stuff is not fooling anyone."

So do you think that his twitter cheering squad are just sock puppets?

I think he is actually fooling people - far too many people. And now, because of this scumbag CEO, there are people who previously didn't know of the EFF who are now tweeting their dislike/opposition to the EFF.
Neither T-Mobile nor EFF nor net neutrality come out looking good on this one. As others have pointed out in this discussion, net neutrality is a thing for broadband wired Internet where there is rarely competition, not for wireless internet where there is plenty of competition and one way to compete is to offer compelling services. But the T-Mobile CEO is a jerk and that rarely works out well for anyone.
Depends on what people your talking about. People working wage jobs might retire early if they work really hard and save the extra. Salaried workers really don't make that much more for working themselves to death. Bonuses might be higher, promotions might be a little quicker. Or they might not. Certainly working 80 hours will not result in twice the pay for most salaried employees, not even close. Working more efficiently (and politically) is a better route for most if not all salaried employees.
Hi Mark, how are you going to pull this off while going to school full time? Or are you taking some leave as well?
Once someone accrues enough money, they start to think about their personal legacy - case in point, Bill Gates. Horowitz could be thinking along similar lines if he is willing to be the patron of the blockchain in order to change the future of decentralized markets/fintech forever.

I've got my own estimates of the size of the market, was hoping to compare, but you're right - that's pretty sensitive info that the company probably paid for in order to pitch investors.
Those PE's made sense (to some/most) when the economy was growing 8-9% and revenue was following that growth, but now that it is down to ~3% with revenue following (or shrinking for a lot of the larger companies) those prices really need to come down and might even be discounted to reflect regulatory risk.

The hedge funds who saw this coming are doing very well at the moment [0] [1]

[0] http://www.barrons.com/articles/hedge-fund-posts-strong-gain...

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-17/hedge-fund...
I have worked in manufacturing plants. One thing I've observed is that a unit will be tested after assembly. If it passes, it gets shipped. If it fails, it's tested again, perhaps with some token adjustment or swapping of components with other units.
Out of the article, I was most impressed by the tenacity of the lawyer in question, Bilott, and his law firm, Taft, for their willingness to keep him as a partner.

Thank you. A few good men, indeed.
Yep.

Check out 4:06 from this scene from "The Aviator": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1pPyarKhA

Lady: "We don't care about money here, Mr. Hughes"

Howard Hughes: "That's because you have it"
$271MM in investment and a $250MM purchase price. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gilt-groupe#/entity

Does that mean that the investors got all the money and anyone holding common stock was basically screwed?
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It's not happiness. It's being trapped between two emotions - the joy of having and caring for kids, and the despair caused by constant drudgery without perspective. Some people manage to focus so hard on the former that they forget about the latter, at least for a moment. But others can't.
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On a side note, it's interesting to me that emerging memory technologies currently seem to be mainly focused on addressing the "from-DRAM-to-disk" part of the memory hierarchy.

That is, as you mentioned, not directly competing with DRAM, and consistently on the same side of the 1 microsecond dividing line between memory and storage; as in:

http://www.rambusblog.com/2015/10/15/mid-when-memory-and-sto... (note SCM placed between DRAM and SSD)

http://semiengineering.com/the-memory-and-storage-hierarchy/

As far as the other side of the line is concerned, I think I've only seen proposals for hybrid-cache architectures (HCA) -- other than http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-9551-3... -- with a hybrid approach (e.g., combining SRAM/eDRAM/STT-RAM/PCRAM) probably making sense due to latency/endurance/bandwidth trade-offs.

If anything, there seems to be more development on the DRAM interface itself -- with multiple candidates for the (or a) DDR4's successor, so far involving Wide I/O (Samsung), Hybrid Memory Cube (Intel, Micron), High Bandwidth Memory (SK Hynix, AMD, Nvidia): http://www.extremetech.com/computing/197720-beyond-ddr4-unde...

(Latency and bandwidth improvements seem promising, http://semiengineering.com/which-memory-type-should-you-use/)

One interesting development I've seen involves reducing SRAM's footprint, by moving from 6T (6-transistors) cell to a 1T (one-transistor) one:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328453

It's fairly recent development, though, and it remains to be seen how is it going to fare.

Other than the above, there doesn't really seem to be much progress around competing with/improving SRAM. However, this may become increasingly important, since some of the technological process scaling issues apply to SRAM, too.
What they do for enterprise customers is a moot point to me, an individual, when I can't buy an enterprise-edition license from Microsoft.

I've seen hand-wavy explanations, in general terms, of the data collected. I don't want that. I want to see the actual data collected from my specific machine. Even a bullet-point list including items like "total time executing binaries tagged as 'game'" would be preferable.
>Yes. Photoshop and Lightroom.

I'm always surprised how Photoshop is the first thing that comes up when naming software not available for Linux.

Truth is, unless you're in the business, regular people don't need more than what Gimp offers. Never speak of CAD software etc...

They make terrible examples as to why not use Linux. Additionally, as a Linux user I can't think of working with Windows because all the things that it lacks: freedom, software quality (no one sane would trust software from an appstore as you can trust a distro repository), the shell, the efficient use of memory/cpu, the simple software that does the job, all the tools at hand for anything, the fact that 99% of the times the solution to your issues is in stack overflow already, the fact that you're not a customer, but a user. Linux has KDE/Gnome for those that prefer shiny heavy desktop, xfce/lxde for those that like it simple. So many things that Windows just can't offer because it tries to monetize you, regardless of it's countless teams of well paid devs. So I personally can't switch to Windows because it lacks basic functionality that I'd expect from an OS.
Interesting. I didn't think about doing that. 9.2 makes that much easier to do http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/97095/set-session-cus...
Notably, the user that posted the article has 47,000+ karma. I imagine that's a factor
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For a TLDR see the conclusion on page 63:

"[...] Then the armed Maidan groups, in particular the same ones, massacred the unsuspecting Maidan protestors from concealed positions.

The analysis of circumstances, timing, and locations of specific killings of 49 protestors presents evidence that almost all of them were killed from the Maidan-controlled buildings and locations, in particular the Hotel Ukraine and Zhovtnevyi Palace.

This study presents direct evidence, such as videos, photos, and witness testimonies, concerning groups of the Maidan
snipers in these buildings and their shooting from these positions in the directions of the protesters at the same time when the protesters were killed and wounded from these directions from the same caliber and types of weapons"
I can't link to it, but I've heard it cited in at least two training sessions that I've been in. The first was when I was hired to be an adjunct teacher at a Big Ten university. One of the presentations was about the different styles of learning.

Another was in some kind of corporate management training that I took, where we were also told about the Kubler-Ross stages.

These ideas take on a life of their own outside of the research community. From what I can tell, the effect is a fragmented and disorganized approach to teaching, for example, that's evident in the typical elementary school curriculum.

On an amusing note, there's an inside joke in my family, that "children have different ways of learning" is a euphemism for when somebody just did something really dumb.
This is a double-edged sword. For our (reasonably savvy) users, being able to duplicate and easily modify individual datasets/files is a feature, not a bug: people can symlink the contents of an entire folder but modify a single array and easily run their analysis on this slightly different dataset, for example.

While it's true that you lose atomicity with this, it can both burn you and help you: you can track specific parts of your dataset in revision control, email subsets of it back and forth, combine datasets easily, or even store it across several servers and manage it with symlinks, for example.

Our users are aware of this and it isn't really a problem for our use-case. But if you're worried, there's always the option of having your whole dataset as a ZIP/TAR file (like all of Microsoft Office file formats are - XML files within a .ZIP); tools for modifying folders within ZIP are much more well-established than HDFView, and most modern programming languages provide libraries to read and modify files within archives without unzipping them; you could make your program agnostic to the files being within an archive (high portability, lower performance) or directly within the FS (loss of atomicity, easier/faster to use).
Ugh :/

That is a disturbing thought.
I was on Tmobile for 3 years and I would say it is a budget carrier through and through. You don't go to it because it has good signal, good customer service, will work on road trips, etc. You get it because its cheaper than the rest.

I honestly thought my tmobile service wasnt bad. They gave me a free router (well lent me) and "signal booster"

The bad? On both of those things, when I went to tmobile store to return them, after about a 30 minute wait they said "You can't return it here, it came from corporate. You have to mail it"

Corporate said "No they should return it to the store."

Went back to the store and the store manager wouldnt accept it because he said when he would send them to corporate they would mark them as unreturned and charge the customer.

Went to another store. Same thing. Said corporate messed up returns.

There seems to be a very big disconnect between Tmobile stores and corporate. So much so that I canceled my service.
I think it's pretty genuine on his part. I was walking through Central Park back in November and some dude dressed in top to toe Pink, sporting T-Mobile logos galore ran past me. It was Legere.
Given this is on the level the speculative, one thing to consider is that the initial condition of the schizophrenic might be delusion, hallucination and the disintegration of one's sense of reality - and when that happens, the result in a modern society with no support for the phenomena could be massive stress, stress being a factor which many are today blaming for much mental illness.

That is to say that shamanic rituals and such might be a way to prevent those on the cusp of the classical symptoms of schizophrenia from progressing to full-blown schizophrenia.
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I have seen it claimed that null-terminated strings were encouraged by the instruction sets of the time -- that some instruction sets make null-terminated sequences easier to handle than length-prefixed ones. The article's error-message-printing code snippet is a good example. Does anyone think there is any truth to this?
XMPP does not inherently support end-to-end encryption. He was probably referring to the transport security, from client to server. This is achieved by securing the connection with SSL/TLS. Most often, IRC does not even support that, although some IRC networks also allow clients to connect with SSL/TLS.

This transport security from your client to the server only secures the first hop. It does not prevent eavesdropping on server-to-server connections, or on the connection of the receiving user if they do not also use SSL/TLS.
Not at all.

The EFF cares about free speech. Is that a liberal position? Too many liberals that I know do not care enough about free speech.

The EFF cares about privacy. Is that a liberal issue? I know people all across the political spectrum who care about privacy.
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Relevant:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2088
Do you aspire to the be the boss of of unpaid employees?
Yes--relevant for China, but it had basically nothing to do with Korea.
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Still n >> 1. An individual is able to exercise judgment to avoid becoming a victim of crime, and in fact most crime prevention is distributed in this manner. But if the government arbitrarily decides to make you its victim, it's basically impossible to avoid. Furthermore when the government is the assailant, there's little chance of post-hoc justice.
Yeah. This is a big problem, because your average psychology student is a very particular kind of person - young, middle class woman that is bad at maths and simply wants to get a degree from something.

Before I get called out as -ist, let me explain. Psychology is one of the few "default" subjects - i.e. something you pick when you don't know what do you want to major in. It's also a stereotypical feminine subject, hence huge gender gap. The other popular "default" choice is economics, which tend to draw those proficient at maths.

The point being, psychology students are a very particular subset of the population, and thus it's difficult to generalize results from them to everyone.
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Had to post this, because of the IRONY -- UC School of Law linking to illegal Pirated Movies.
Disappointed that this was upvoted and not The Intercept's longform articles? They're more detailed and a better read.

In fact, it's kind of tacky how soon this was written after The Intercept.
Mir can mean numerous things. And how is it not how Google Translate works? Do you have inside information? Because the only information we have is that it scours the web, makes connections, and forms a graph. Can feed it some "corrective" data as well.
Sure go for it. You don't quite know what you want, so take the challenge and learn. Just negotiate fair compensation. Despite what all the commenters are saying, zero salary can be fine if you can make it work...

But it means absolutely that you become a cofounder (> 10% equity). Anything less and you're getting played.
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But we have constructed our economy in such a way that school is required in order to be successful. So, for many of us, the very fact that education is required to be one of the "winners" is coercive.
REST just mean exposing your business object via HTTP verbs. In addition to the normal Get and Post http verbs used by your browser, there's also Delete and Put. Put is effectively equivalent to an Upset command, so with Get, Put, and Delete you've got all the operations to manage an object (create/read/update/delete), with Post for special procedures.

Those also obviously correspond to the Insert/update/select/delete SQL operations.

So hooking a RESTful interface direct to your db lets JavaScript on the client talk directly to the database via an http server with no business layer in between. It's obviously a nifty workflow for the "JavaScript all the things" developer.

That said, I think restfulness is a bit of a fad tied to the popularity of javascript-everything. But it has created a limited, simple standard for http services, so that's nice.
Alright, one accords the mentally ill special, positive status, and the other assigns them negative stigmas
There's a trick one can pull if you decide to engage with literal thinkers head-on, and that is to give them bait by inserting a "great error" somewhere in the text, for example:

> ...this method is justified, because we know the earth is flat.

This is one of the core techniques in esoteric writing. What the great error does is intentionally push the dynamic of the conversation away from agreeability on the surface towards "picking apart and puzzling". People who aren't inclined to think about things will miss the great error entirely and go on without feeling the need to remark(since the essay's surface will usually be framed towards an audience's status quo), but once the error is discovered, the rest suddenly falls into doubt, and then literal thinkers are suddenly confronted with an essay that is far more challenging, because your error was not just an error, but a trap to force them to think about the other statements carefully in order to "prove you more wrong". It is their thinking, and not yours, that becomes warped. To pull this off the essay has to hold a tension between truth and falsity where some statements hold true even under inspection, while others don't.

This also makes the resulting comment threads much more lively since they will consist of smart people falling over themselves to show how wrong and stupid you are, only to find their minds are changed by the end.
Udo, this is an honest, sincere question because I really didn't expect this strict of a response to my words from the community. It was meant from the get go to be a discussion, not an argument for or against the reality of this thing or that. So I'm trying to learn. How should one approach highly speculative questions like this, scientifically? The reason why I originally posted was simply to put forth a possibility based upon the fact that we don't yet understand what consciousness is. I'm simply trying to understand -- from your perspective, is it possible to even posit this possibility of a non-local consciousness, or some kind of "external" relationship that exists entirely within the interior of the mind that may be influenced by the ingestion of certain types of drugs? If you have a wide variety of informal testimony that claims that something strange is going on, should one investigate? Isn't that the role of science? We've already learned so much from research into psychedelics from the 50's and the 60's; don't you think there is quite a bit more we could still discover? We obviously don't have the experimental evidence yet to say things are this way or that, so where does one begin? Or is the sort of strict responses that I've received due to my delivery?
Rate limiting per-IP assumes an attack from a single IP, or a very small range of them (so, only defends against a trivial DoS, not DDos... which are sadly easy to set up these days).

Per-IP per-account as well doesn't work if the attacker has a large list of usernames. Even brute-force "dictionary" attacks can dodge simple limiters by submitting one password with 2 million diff usernames, then a second password with 2 million usernames, etc..

I'm not saying these are bad (though if someone can trivially stop your real users from signing in by hitting the limit on their accounts, that's just a DoS in another shape). But we're agreed already... these are non-simple problems, really.
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I think there's an implied "marginal" before both time and money in that statement.

You have a steady income of time, you can choose to spend some of that on money, but past a certain point of wealth, the money ceases to be the most valuable use of your incoming time.
they'll have reinforced the habit of denying themselves happiness for 30 years.
Funny enough, we started out with a file-based system like the one you described, and moved to an HDF5-based system.

Are you not concerned about i-node consumption with the file-system based approach?
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As someone who has dealt with some mental health stuff ("crap in my head" /technical term), I can testify firsthand that a) how it gets framed and b) how others around me respond to it make a really huge difference in how it impacts me -- anywhere from "weird, but functional" to "odd source of useful insight" to "losing my shit and I think I shall go play in traffic now."
It doesn't seem that ocamlscript and js_of_ocaml are using the same memory representation for OCaml values, so that's a first issue.

At least for the integration between the js world and the ocaml world, I do believe it is possible. yes.
For readability of the js produced, I really can't tell. It's probably pretty easy to improve js_of_ocaml on that though, given the current state. :)
But why should interaction disappear if it doesn't have to? Snapchat is no more like talking with someone than Facebook Messenger is, with the exception that you get to keep your interaction with Facebook Messenger.

While I "get" your point, I think it's a stretch in terms of what Snapchat offers that I can't get elsewhere with a better experience.

But then, I'm well over 20 and from the comments on this post, definitely not snapchat's market.