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The false narrative told in Silicon Valley is that VCs are in a constant search to fund new innovative technology products. That they consider it their job to actively seek out great new products to fund.

In reality, they sit around waiting for winners to emerge and then try to pounce (traction). Or they back people that have such prestigious credentials no one will blame them if it fails (reputation).

Palmer Luckey could have gone door-to-door with the Oculus Rift prototype and not a single investor in Silicon Valley would've been interested (product). Without reputation or traction, he had nothing they valued.

It's actually a very exciting situation because it means there's huge untapped potential waiting to be unlocked. YC has tapped into this just a little bit.
> Om’s creator, David Nolen, likes to show off how easy this makes it to implement undo: just remember a of list old states, and you can reset! the state atom to any of them at any time.

How does that work if multiple users are collaborating on the same state simultaneously?
Leadership Election with Cassandra
A Brief History of Null Island
To be fair: EVs (or other high-demand storage-recharge uses) will most likley operate when supply is abundant.

Presently with inflexible base-load power generation (coal and nuclear), that's at night.

Given nondispatchable opportunistic generation, that's likely to be during daylight hours.

Storage is the electrical demand of last resort, along with other very-high-energy uses (e.g., thermal banking, aluminium smelting, etc.).
First thing on loading that link was "yuck, the contrast is fucked", and sure enough, item #2 is "less contrast is good".

About the only good point on the list in that link is line width. But all the items about formatting text combine to make it so that there is so much less information on the screen. I'd much prefer to read the other website.
> My takeaway has been that, as long as you don't have high blood pressure or some specific condition, the typical amount of salt in modern diets is fine.

But, salt is exactly what raises blood pressure in the first place. Take a look at this - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-evidence-that-salt-raise...
Even before the point where you look for reviews. Like the moment where you learn a product even exists, and you decide you might want to get it. That's the role advertising fills.

I agree with you on the second part. I block all ads on all computers I use, so they're pretty useless to me, but I still understand why they exist and the job they do.
Except the car was under manual control, and it is unclear what the cause of the accident was.
One is an engineer, the other a journalist. Maybe they or their "friends" have the skill and the motivation to hack the system, generate false positivrs to get published.
Maybe this is someone trolling them, like swatting.
> How does that work if multiple users are collaborating on the same state simultaneously?

The state they're talking about here is local to the client--it's stored in memory on the browser. One one user can use it at a time.
There will always be old people and their numbers (as a percentage of the population) are only set to increase.

At least until we start hosting Carousel.
So Facebook generates no revenue as well since it's just their ads that do? In both cases the platform (Android/Facebook) is the vehicle, whose sole purpose is to generate revenue, so I think it is safe to say that that vehicle is directly responsible for the revenue.
Chess forbidden in Islam, rules Saudi grand mufti (with strings attached)
If we go by the required salary alone, I cant live anywhere on this list... worst of all I reside in CA right now.
How Michigan's Flint River is poisoning the city's residents
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Hi Everyone I was wondering What is the best website to get working legidimate hack programs from. If you wouldnt mind pointing me in the right direction i would appreciate it very much.

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Keeping our Promises (and Callbacks)
I am working on a project that combines DNS, WWW and WebDav servers to simplify blogs self-hosting, so your blog can always sit connected on a mapped network drive and to add new website, you can just create a directory with new domain name. https://github.com/parkomat/parkomat
Yup, it sucks. And it's become par for the course. My biggest fear is that a downturn in VC will only cause more of it.
You're thinking about one of the ways extrasolar planets can be detected, when they cross in front of their parent star (transit photometry) or when they're imaged using light magnified or redirected by a massive foreground object (gravitational microlensing). I don't think we have the capability to detect something in this solar system eclipsing a background object (whether that's a star or a galaxy or whatever else is out there).
Taming Superconductors with String Theory
This: "Better design does not mean more design. Often, the most obvious designs are invisible." This also reminds me of the Steve Jobs approach of being proud of all the times that they said "no".
Said no one who has to maintain others' software.
So, Java guys, what do you recommend if someone wants to have a Rails-like experience where programmer time is more valuable than 'web scale' performance? Say, also that I don't want to have to pay oodles of money for some server with a terabyte of memory to hold the application. Honest question - I haven't kept up with what's happening in Java land, and am curious what you'd recommend for that kind of side-project thing.
Thanks. For an alternative, see my other comment on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10946879.

And please also see this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10949265
interesting that based on his numbers the extra $15k in SF is not enough to make up for the rent.

and the guy in portland has a house!
The Facebook social media desktop and web applications don't directly make money (unless there is some enterprise hosted version of Facebook). So, sure, it's the Facebook Ads product that makes the money.
My game is now open source
Tax changes that are retroactive are extremely rare, mostly because they are seen as unfair - changing the rules after the game. And if you tax the offshore cash generated starting now, then corps will change their behavior to minimize tax paid.
OK, I've now tested. For this test code:

#define FOO
#define BAR defined(FOO)
#if BAR
#error "true"
#else
#error "false"
#endif

Clang, GCC, and ICC evaluate the "true" branch, while MSVC evaluates the "false" branch.

For the same test code with first line changed to "undef":

#undef FOO
#define BAR defined(FOO)
#if BAR
#error "true"
#else
#error "false"
#endif

MSVC, Clang, GCC, and ICC all agree on "false".

Importantly, though, when used with "/Wall", MSVC gives this error message in both cases:

main.cpp(3): warning C4668: 'definedFOO' is not defined as
a preprocessor macro, replacing with '0' for '#if/#elif'

None of the other three compilers give any warnings even with '-Wall -Wextra -pedantic". So there definitely is a difference in behavior, but I don't think it's actually the one that's presumed in that bug.

For further experimentation, Clang, GCC, and ICC can be tested online here: http://gcc.godbolt.org/

And MSVC can be tested online here: http://webcompiler.cloudapp.net/
I think there is a difference between "just good enough" and "has reached maximum efficiency". I think a lot of people want to settle at the first one, yet I see the second one nowhere in sight.
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But most people either have that code cached or blocked.
You have to pay Oracle to develop Java apps? That is news to me. I thought the idea was to offer the JDK for free to spur adoption. Is that only the JRE? Does the same "no-commerce without paying Oracle" apply to JavaScript or Node.js?
I don't understand why this isn't "the market". It's a fund by private individuals and institutions (granted with enough clout to get gov'ts to fund as well) that will be investing in new technologies. From the website[0]:

>Together we will focus on early stage companies that have the potential of an energy future that produces near zero carbon emissions and provides everyone with affordable, reliable energy. We will invest based on a few core investment principles...

Which then goes on to list what they are looking for when they invest in companies.

Maybe you're thinking that 'the market' should/would/does exist such that when you get electricity to your house, you can either purchase it from the clean energy plant or the dirty energy plant? The problem is that this market doesn't really exist yet, because the technology and infrastructure need more development.

[0]: http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/index.html
Dark 'noodles' may lurk in the Milky Way
Yes, of all the new-style AOT languages, Nim and D are by far and above my favorites.

Go and Rust just never appealed to me. Actually, I never liked Go for the same reasons as you...
There isn't a strong consensus among the worlds people that global warming is 1) real 2) bad, and 3) preventable.

I myself doubt whether there will be strong action until major changes already start.

And unless the whole world agrees to act in unison, it doesn't make sense for America to act unilaterally. China and India will just eat our lunches and do the polluting for us.
could you expand further on this? I actually believe Kotlin to be much simpler than Scala
> in order to achieve concurrency they must scale with processes and that consumes an absorbent amount of RAM

While the trolling you responded to about Java and RAM is untrue, this also is not really true (I assume you meant exorbitant, not absorbent). Concurrency happens just fine in MRI in many cases because the blocker is the global interpreter lock; if you're doing I/O, threads operate concurrently in MRI. In addition, the overhead of a process in Ruby isn't all that much, and in the rare case where it is (typically a web application) you've got tools such as Unicorn that will prefork and allow you to share/COW that overhead.
I'd guess it's an autocorrectism for "ultra sound".
Is Javascript the worst language ever designed? No, not by a long shot. It's a little hyperbole for humor. I think the majority of the article went over peoples heads. Maybe because developers are more analytical in nature, or the fact that it's text and is interpreted differently by each person.

The goal was to make a few points, but more to get people thinking. Web developers are taken too much by trends without understanding them.

I wrote the original article.
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Moving Forth, Part 1: Design Decisions in the Forth Kernel (1993)
Betteridge's law still applies. Most headlines with a question are really trying to convince you that the answer to that question is yes, when it often isn't. Besides, rhetorical questions in headlines are tacky and shouldn't be used.
Any idea if there is a similar app for sound files?
Isomorphic ClojureScript with Reagent and Node.js
The short answer is that everyone can see the current system is not sustainable, and that any change will be potentially catastrophic. Holding cash is going long on fear, and being prepared to deal with a massive crunch when it comes.

The solution is to just force them to bring the money back into the US and invest. And not let the fear foment inaction.
I'm assuming Pelican is a generator. I don't understand why there aren't better, simple solutions to do this and just host the site in a bucket on S3. Most people will fit in the free tier of usage and you stay in complete control of your domain and content.
> A single location is storing 4,200 gigawatt-hours per year

That seems like a lot, but for comparison purposes, China uses 5,400,000 GWh/yr. I don't know how many sites China has available to build storage plants of this capacity; the terrain there looks kinda special --- Wikipedia claims the lower dam is over 400m high...
You needn't be limited to using Pelican themes. Pelican uses Jinja2 for templating, so it's very simple to migrate templates over to the platform with an hour or so (if that!) of tweaking.
Photo: David Bowie Visits the Oval Office in 1995
One big issue is feasibility: It's much easier to track, meter, and tax income as it changes hands than it is to track/meter/tax accumulated wealth.
The incompatibility of shift work with a homeless shelter was very surprising. Wouldn't 'hot racking' like on a submarine increase the capacity of the shelter and the homeless could get shift jobs that might be easier to find.
You cannot interpret a media type. They have a definite meaning.JSON does not have a linking ability. To make it, you've created a new mime type.

REST is an interesting architecture. It can inform your decision. If you don't follow its prescriptions, you are not following REST. You are merely informed by it. That is fine. Don't confuse the two.
There are a number of penalties[1] that when applied to a certain demographic (read: working-poor), disproportionately and unfairly hurt those people--either intentional or otherwise. Penalties that include suspended drivers licenses, municipal fines, asset forfeiture, and even required medical screening, overly penalize poor workers.

These folks are so dependent on both the income from their jobs, and the precarious balance they maintain of income to expenses, that anything that threatens either can quickly lead to cascading and compounding problem that become insurmountable.

It's very much possible to get ahead in America[2], that's why I love this country. It's also very important to recognize that it's very much possible to create a house of cards that can come crashing down, and that to also recognize that if that has happened to someone, it's not because their unwillingness to work hard, or some other perceived flaw of their character.

As an aside, this is one of my favorite moments in US politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iGmY...

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/04/09/398576196/...

[2] I'm aware of the international readership of HN. However as an American, I can only speak to the opportunities I've experienced.
Larry Ellison is a joke. Oracle is slowly fading into mediocrity. He thought ERP was just a bunch of tables and UI that corporate america would be suckered into paying millions of dollars for.
CA assembly member introduces encryption ban disguised as human trafficking bill
Wordpress auto-updates. Most exploits are in plugins.
I made an irc bot, not an irc client.

An IRC bot is a great way to learn a new programming language. You have to learn how to use threading or asynchronous operations to get multiple connections, you have to learn how to use TLS for secure connections, you have to learn how to manipulate strings, how to read configuration files. It's a super good project for learning.
There is a beta release (https://www.rust-lang.org/downloads.html), but I don't think it includes unstable features.
... or a more or less rational response demonstrating that the challenge by the previous commenter "nothing good to say" can be met by a sufficiently twisted mind.
Our latest distributed database uses a mono kernel too. We use Pure64[0] to boot the system and then the "kernel" is derived from QK[1], but it's also just our database software.

Other than reducing complexity, our distributed database use the virtual memory hardware in a unique way, so a mono kernel was essential.

Having said that, the easiest way to develop such a system is not on the bare metal, it's by running Linux in such a way that in only uses the first 1 or 2 cores, and then running your "custom kernel" on any other cores in the system. Then you can use a normal debugger and utilities during development. It's only when you actually want to put it into production that you can consider not using Linux at all.

[0] https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/Pure64

[1] http://www.state-machine.com/qpcpp/struct.html#comp_qk
Which aircraft are most mission ready
It's definitively much better now, though it still has a weird behavior when pressing a letter to jump in the countries list: if I press P repeatedly to get to Portugal, only 1 in 5 presses actually register, the others are ignored. It seems there's some "cool-off period" after a keypress.

Still, on a larger point, it's not just important that one can configure the software to behave "well"; programmers are lazy, so the defaults are crucial, and as bad as browsers can be, the basis are pretty much solid nowadays, so it's hard for me to be confident that these will be well handled by new frameworks.

By the way, how is the software on acessibility? Can a blind user understand that there's a dropdown and how to select an option?
AGPS isnt similar to GPS... it is GPS.

Like you say the almanac (and ephemeris) data is preloaded over an IP network to provide for a better TTFF (Time-To-First-Fix).

Also since the locations of the currently associated mobile tower is known, that is used as a seed for the GPS fix (or even a crude triangulation based on the signal strength from multiple towers).
UK trains with WIFI causes similar issues confusing e.g. London and Manchester stations.
Thanks, I will probably give it a try.
I would heartily disagree, as a guy that runs the code.

One of the benefits of these statically compiled binaries is that they are not coupled to each other. Everything doesn't have to be upgraded at the very same time.
Again, this is not that hard: if someone self-identifies as an SJW, you can use that term to refer to them. If they don't, avoid it. In both cases, it's better to specify the precise classification you have in mind rather than confuse everyone who doesn't know how _you_ define that term.

For example, you defined SJW as a subset of feminism but the term is also often directed against people who are protesting what they consider racism; gun violence; discrimination against people who are handicapped, practice non-mainstream religions, etc. I know of at least two conservative Republicans who were dismissed as SJWs because they disagreed with things said under the gamergate banner, and they certainly wouldn't label themselves as feminist or progressive.
There's a typo in your datascript url (s/k are switched). Here's the corrected one: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
Now that I stopped laughing, I can give you a reasonable answer.

Yes, they are. But, then, handing someone a couple million dollars in the hope that it will turn into 50 or 100 million is an irrational act, too. So, it's hard to get too upset over them being purely irrational.

There are two problems:

1) VCs/Investors are sheep.

This is the infuriating one as it makes most of the VCs/investors you deal with effectively useless. To the point that when pitching to them the goal is to trigger that behavior (the term is FOMO-"Fear of Missing Out" aka: acting like sheep). So, if everybody is investing in something, everybody will invest in something. Until it blows apart. If you just want funding, try to pitch something which runs downwind of this tendency.

2) It's really all after the fact rationalization of "I don't like/trust you."

This doesn't make me mad--I just would rather a VC/investor just say this. But they won't turn you down definitively for lots of social reasons (mostly hoping they don't turn down the next AirBnB/Uber/etc. and get laughed at at the country club). I would actually respect someone more who simply said "My astrologer says the signs aren't right. KTHXBYE." Or, even, flat out "I don't like you." I'm cool with that--my personality is straightforward--most people like it, a few call it tactless and arrogant. If you're one of those I rub the wrong way, fine, we need to find different dance partners.

The problem is that too many investors want you to jump through hoops when they're looking for reasons to turn you down. Generally, you should simply read this as "No" and move on. It's like trying to date a pretty girl--when she gives you some excuse multiple times, she's probably telling you "No" but trying to keep you in her list of options just in case.

Upshot: raising money is hard work. If you want to sit in the big chair, you had better be prepared for the slog.
Yes, but that was because French as a language/culture didn't exist. The historical Franks (including Charlemagne) despite living where France is now, actually spoke Frankish, a language related to German.
Tokyo requires that car owners prove they have a reserved parking stall before allowing them to register a vehicle. That takes care of sidewalk parking.

But the easiest way to eliminate sidewalk parking is to install meters on the street spaces. Then the local authorities will promptly tow sidewalk parkers for meter evasion. The problem only crops up where parking is mandated and free.
Also not all rich people are druggies.
C# the language is fine, but C# the ecosystem is kind of a mess. There are multiple approaches that attempt to solve the same problem (PCLs versus shared libraries; both have their place but they overlap uncomfortably) and cross-platform development is an abject disaster (CoreCLR may eventually get to a good place but I wouldn't use Mono in production for long-running services). NuGet--itself a problem in many ways, it's very poor the second you get off the happy path--exists but in my experience its usage is spotty, whereas even the jankiest Ant projects I've ever worked with at least used Ivy. Libraries in NuGet are also, I think, a lot more hit-or-miss than I'm used to either in Ruby or on the JVM. Some stuff is real good (JSON.NET!). Some stuff is real, real bad (the bajillion competing and differently defective YAML tools), and there isn't the same sort of cultural focus on pushing the good to the forefront.

This isn't a strong defense of Java, because I think the JVM and its ecosystem isn't super great either. I really like C# and I pay for ReSharper despite not doing C# professionally (I've been using it for about a decade but never taken a job in it). But while C#-the-language has greatly improved, the ecosystem still feels five-plus years behind.
Just take a look at any OS/graphics/machine learning/etc. codebase.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. Different purpose than what I'm talking about though. Perhaps mine would be more appropriately named "1.6 with alpha features".
The op said that Brandi was a name for low class white people I think you misunderstood what he said.
My takeaway from this is that homeless shelters don't do enough to support employment of the homeless, and that a minimum wage job is not sufficient to get you off the street. Conversations I've had with homeless people seem to corroborate this.
There is [Grails](https://grails.org/) which I honestly did not use so I can't comment on it but people seem to like it. It is Groovy based though. The most common framework nowadays is Spring and its ilk (including Spring MVC and its friends). BUT there is Spring Boot which is basically a meta framework which takes an opinionated "sensible defaults for all the stuff" approach and you can get a project working with 5 clicks basically. Try out the [Spring Boot initializr](https://start.spring.io/). The biggest problem with these frameworks is the magic. While you are fine with the defaults it works. You can check the config files and tinker with them but there are a lot of layers to peel away if you are presented with some exotic Exception which will happen sooner or later. I'm also interested in what other options I have in Javaland currently because I'm steering away from it to Clojure islands and even the Node archipelago...
For mine, participation entails a yearly health screening.
The screening measures blood pressure, BMI, nicotine usage, and cholesterol (via a blood draw).

Depending on the findings, you fall into 1 of 3 tiers, which results in a penalty on every pay check if you don't fall into the numbers.