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> What worries me more is something like Nvidia's Denver architecture because that's actually a full abstraction above machine code.

What relieves me is that RISC-V is demonstrating that opensource hardware can be a reality. This will provide people with a concrete alternative to Intel and ARM chips that does away with (closed) microcode and shadowy marketing/security procedures.

Yes, we are far away from FPGA-ing our CPUs, but I see the years 2010 as the years 1980 for FLOSS code. In the '80s a bunch of people sent around tapes with copies of EMACS, cp and mkdir; 20 years later multibillion dollars infrastructures rely on open source.

Today we use Intel microprocessors fearing that their ME components will spy on us and that secure boot will lock us in. In some years we will just install our Debian-for-HW and be done with it. It is a liberating thought.
A locked front door provides basic protection for a private domicile. Twitter is not private. A more apropos analogy to Twitter's block functionality would be holding a meeting in the park and yelling at certain people to stop listening because you don't like them being around. You can yell all you want but you can't actually stop them from hearing you or listening if they're interested, and it's unreasonable to expect to be able to do so.
Ok, that is a bit creepy but also intellectually fascinating. Presumably most people who wish to be preserved don't need their damaged / tired out old body but if they were installed in some future "fresh" body, well that might be interesting.

Of course it could also lead to a dystopic form of slavery in the future where brains are recovered out of cryostorage by some bidder/corporation and installed in tools to work in service for the rest of their days. That could be an interesting (if scary) sci-fi book/movie.
I stand corrected. However I could still argue that the concept has only recently become popularized.
Seriously...what a poorly written article. 2 paragraphs of content surrounded by fluff.
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What? No Jeff Bezos robot?!
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2247.html
Any plan to open source Hoxton One? I got so excited by the demo that it made me check out your careers page.
Intriguing! That makes complete and utter sense, which is part of the reason why we included Sam's Club in this scraping project. Wasn't actually aware of the higher per-unit costs.
This is especially so in US culture. The "eveyone's responsible for their own fate" meme is still very strong there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026155

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021665
To be fair, the % of GDP argument is really hard to quantify along the axes being used here.

If India wasn't a colony, wealth would not have concentrated in GB, likely slowing Down their development and Maybe even making them more open to local conflicts.

Provided the French or Dutch didn't conquer more of India, and, it's hard to argue that wealth remaining in India would have not have resulted in more trade and local development.

We can definitely say that having someone come to your country, and clearly stop you from building the best product you can build, sell or pruchase, impoverishes your country.
Well, You can have 2 beers, not be drunk, and still get a DUI (even though you aren't too drunk to drive)

Everyone that wants weed legalized doesn't seem to want the responsibilities that come along with it. The world just doesn't work that way.
Yes, it is the answer I would give to a 12 year old girl.

First off, why does your 12 year old have to be a girl? You are spouting off about diversity but you basically just used the stereotype that teenage girls are going to cry if you give them the hard truth. Why do we have to treat single mothers with kid gloves? Guess what, diving through some docs is a lot easier than anything a parent has to put up with.

3 of the 4 interns at the company I work for were women last summer, and they kicked ass. While they weren't 12 years old, they were young, and I had no issue telling them to start at the documentation.

There is a massive difference between "read the fucking manual" and suggesting "even if it takes longer, you will be better served starting with the documentation and working through that than googling or using stack overflow". One is bullying, one is teaching.

I always teach my interns to start with the docs. Give the docs 30 minutes before you Google or Stack Overflow. Give that 30 minutes before you ask a senior engineer. Struggling through it is part of the process of learning. The things you learn by going through the docs will help you later.

Or the shorter version, I want to hire someone that can answer Stack Overflow posts not find them.
Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9698858
Renaming things isn't something you as a programmer should have to do; that should be handled behind the scenes by the desugaring system / macro expander. So yeah, I'd say that's a fine piece of sugar.
> Tribes fragment to smaller tribes, small tribes merge to large tribes etc.

When boundaries can change slowly enough we don't even notice. That's organic growth, that's ok.

> that aren't location-based, but thanks to telecommunications, global.

Thankfully I only have to close the browser tab to forget about someone Who is Wrong On The Internet. But I can't do that in meatspace.
Yup, that's what I used in my first attempt. Didn't work for me. (Actually: a later part of my first attempt, I think I initially tried with the straight API. Good luck with that).
Firstly, note that these are negative deposit rates. As a bank you have to keep your spare money somewhere, and that is usually in an account at the local central bank which also serves as part of the interbank clearing system. Central banks are now proposing charging for keeping excessive reserves in this account.

The bigger picture is that wealth accumulation cannot outstrip economic growth long-term or even medium-term without causing serious strain somewhere. Pushing the rate of return on capital negative is the gentlest possible way to do this. But the real problem is real estate and its endless appreciation in value.
According to the link to the opinion https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/9733 found in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070928 , the gun summary appears to be the following:

"[Count #1:] ... observed Mr. Angelos' Glock pistol by the center console of his car. [Count #2:] .... Mr. Angelos lifted his pant leg to show him the Glock in an ankle holster.... [Count #3:] The search revealed a briefcase which contained ... a handgun .... also recovered two other guns in a locked safe, one of which was confirmed as stolen. .... two more guns ..."

In short, five guns were found under Angelos's control. The two possessed during transactions are perhaps the same, but may or may not be one of the three found in his home. I believe the sentence "Officers later searched his home and found a gun." from the original article is misleading; officers found three.

In any case, the government charged Angelos with five §924(c) counts: two counts for the one during transactions, one count for the three guns found at his home, and two more counts for the two guns found at his girlfriend's. The jury found him not guilty of the last two counts.
I think the idea is that what we are really trying to measure is something unobservable like the underlying nature of the character or the writers' tendencies to give characters certain ways of speaking. We can say that Stan uses a word at a rate certain rate corrected for that words base rate in the corpus, and compare this with the rate for another character. If that difference in rate is very small, it's true that we still know for certain that the difference is absolutely true for this corpus, but it may not reflect any substantive difference between the characters.

If this is the view taken, then the population is all of the text that might have been generated by the data-generating process of the scripts -- things like the writers' mental models of the characters. In this view the actual scripts are just a sample from all of the scripts that could have been written while keeping the variable of interest (the characters' character) constant.
The networking features introduced in Docker are one "standard"; CNI is another "standard" [1].

Weave Net as a product ships with support for the former; the blog post describes work towards support for the latter.

No they do not interoperate; there is a detailed argument at http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/01/why-Kubernetes-doesnt-use-...

[1] Scare-quotes because all of these things are only a few months old.
Then how different containers get isolated from each other?
For clarity, 500 generations is easily enough for some things to shift frequency, but I agree it would be fast for a mutation to go global. However, thrown weapons are on the order of ~20,000+ generations which is plenty of time for mutation and adaptation.

As to testing, I suspect we are going to get good at decoding and editing human DNA fairly soon which is going to have a lot to say about these debates. This stuff is either there or not, when and how it showed up (or not) is a separate issue.

EX: Domestic cattle are also around 500 generations old and lactose tolerance has been spreading. http://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactos... lactose tolerance: 96% in Sweden, 10% in China.
Yes, taxes are still an issue! Look at how the Mayor of London just had to pay capital gains taxes to the US because he was born there. He sold his primary residence, which is cap gains tax exempt in the UK, and the profit exceeded the threshold in the US, so he had to fork over money to the IRS. It's a complete joke and scam.
Re: your shorter version... Answering questions tends to be a pretty solid way to learn about a topic. I've talked to quite a few people whose experience on Stack Overflow was that they learned more about the topic they were working in by trying to answer others' questions than by asking questions themselves.
see also this wonderful image: https://twitter.com/Linde136/status/696286289474228225/photo...
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I think it's interesting, too, the tail end "If I did it again I might have used OpenStack" and the fact that OpenStack has some early roots in NASA's open source efforts.

Also, I find the 18F Open Source Policy [1], which I saw in a recent HN topic elsewhere, seems like a good "default stance" for government use of open source and reiterates some of the same points in the article, and maybe we'll see some of that attitude prevail in the end.

[1] https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy/blob/master/policy...
I consider myself a fairly seasoned programmer. I have written countless lines of code, work on a few projects with friends, and automated most of my computer-related tasks. I've been doing this since I was 12, and I am 19 at the time of writing this.

I can say with confidence, I have never been able to successfully ask a question on stack overflow. I think I have been banned at least once, or they deleted my account.

I've asked questions ranging from implementation of 3D matrix manipulation to avoid gimbal lock to writing a python client-side application that needs to be able to edit a google docs file.

Everything has been closed, locked, or down voted. Each time I followed standard procedures that we are all familiar with for reporting bugs.

- Include output
- Sample code
- Explanation of what the current code does and what I want it to do
- Pictures/Diagrams if helpful

I have NEVER gotten a single useful response. Granted it's a great resource for programming information. I use it as a library: I can go there and look at all the books frozen in time, all with good information on a wide variety of topics. But I know, if I attempted to write one of these books or jot down my feelings on the side of a page I'd just get yelled at by the librarians.

There are two things that I have noticed about stack overflow: it's one of a few sites that for some reason prides your identity over your work. Your 'karma' is displayed just as big as your name, and it seems to be implied that the bigger that number is, the more right you are. I have also noticed that most of the resources that are indeed helpful are either locked, closed for 'read only', or every reply is down voted even though the responses and questions are still valid.

I jokingly tell people who are going into CS at my college that "you are not a programmer until you have gotten banned from stack overflow for asking perfectly reasonable questions". Whenever I say that, I can almost hear a sub-audible sigh of relief from everyone in the room including some professors from other departments attempting to learn CS.

Stack overflow is presented as a site for the end user learning how to program. It is not.
Armstrong was a true champion. It's the public that wasn't made aware of what the real game was. All the cyclists knew it as did the organization and everyone professionally close to pro cycling. It was a doping game. And out of all that doped, Armstrong won 7 years in a row. He was a true champion.

The more accurate statement here is "cheaters become winners" and not the other way around. Cheating implies rules, and most rules are stupid, especially in sports. Doping of course changes the "sport" in many ways, and is illegal for good reason, but in a true competition of life and death, of success and failure, of rags to riches, of maintaining a family legacy, or of simply "winning" in today's "winner's society", the upside of cheating easily surpasses the downside. And for those who figure out how to cheat, it becomes easy, and part of the game. Then as they see everyone else cheat, the moral and ethical burden is easily nullified.

Rules in society are also pretty stupid. Drug dealers know this. Wall Street for sure knows this. And the smartest people who win, most often than not, do so by cheating, because it's all just a game. And it's okay to cheat in a game as long as you don't get caught. "Play dirty" is the western mantra that embodies this sentiment nicely, and it's a positive sentiment. It's antiestablishmentarianism, it's rock n' roll, it's Bruce Willis in Die Hard.

Regardless of what anyone thinks of Lance Armstrong, you have to hand it to the guy. He certainly made the most out of his cheating win streak through one of the greatest charities of all time. Cheating in sports is one thing. His true legacy was doing whatever he could to help others cheat death as he did.

Devils don't save lives (people do).
He was also chosen to tour and report on post-Second World War Germany due to his experience from similar humanitarian missions he undertook in Europe in the aftermath of the First World War.

Does anyone think that it's possible that there will be another career engineer as POTUS? I've heard that there remains a sort of stigma to such a thing, perhaps in part due to the Hoover administration.
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Like many other Amazon products, it's likely to get people into the Amazon ecosystem. You need to install the Amazon app to read prices and they can upsell their Fire devices in-store. Considering how they went for a high-end Barnes and Noble/Apple Store mix vibe, their primary goal is likely not to sell books but to get a foothold into physical retail like Apple.
That was my first thought. The way he describes vector networks sounds exactly like how creating models in something like Sketchup works.
Very little at the moment. Remember this is only negative short term deposit rates at a few central banks. There's quite a bit at zero or near-zero rate though.

More governments should take the opportunity to borrow money at zero rates and invest in socially useful things.
When I worked for a game development studio a couple guys brought nerf guns and shot people at work for awhile.

It got too distracting so management put the kibosh on it after about a month, though.
If you have union contracts dictating that your costs go up by X% a year to roll over personnel, then a budget increase of less than that is indeed a cut as you'll be laying off personnel to meet the budget.

See also: Every departmental budget ever, public or private (non-unioned employees expect a small annual raise as well)
According to the article, there are no prices posted in the store and the only way to get them is to install the app, so apparently yes you WILL install the app if you actually want to buy something.

And just in case you are not aware of the security issues with the Amazon app[1]

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2489480/security0/amazo...
For me, the convenience of Amazon outweighs any "deals". I don't consider $10 off of a $50 item a deal. It needs to be 40%+ for the price reduction to really make a difference in my calculus.

Amazon has my sister's address information already saved, I can just click it from the list when I'm buying presents for my nephews.

Brands still have value when properly managed, don't let anyone tell you they don't.
> Similarly, the Correlates of War [3] data is every militarized international dispute between 1816-2007 that fits certain criteria—it too is not a sample but the entire population.

Its the entire population of wars meeting a certain criteria in that time frame. If that is the topic of interest, then it is also the whole population. OTOH, datasets like that are often used in analysis that is intended to apply to, for instance, "what-if" scenarios about hypothetical wars that could have happened in that time frame, in which case the studied population is clearly not the population of interest, but is taken to be -- while there may be specific reasons to criticize this in specific cases for reasons other than "its the whole population, not a sample" -- a representative sample of a broader population.
uh... you don't know ALL the words... you only know the words spoken by someone that made the final cut of a show included in the study.

FYI, you're an idiot.
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What in the world is this about, I wonder.
> would this be the answer you give to a 12 year old girl who's taken an early interest in programming? Or a single mother who's trying to switch careers to improve her lot in life? Or your own mother, for that matter?

Yes, yes, and yes. The best thing you can do for someone is show them their questions already have been answered because they have access to a massive, growing body of human knowledge.

> Is it really constructive to be so abrasive?

It's amazing that telling someone their questions have already been answered is abrasive.

Now, I am going to be abrasive, because I'm not talking to a beginner.

> Try to remember what it was like when you were first starting out with programming.

Ya, someone was going to to bring that up, like there is some sob story everyone has not being able to read documentation.

I'm not a programmer. I have to look up all sorts of beginner stuff all the time. Always have because I don't spend a lot of time getting better at it. I don't ever have to ask questions, and I haven't from before StackOverflow or where ever programmers asked questions before, because any question or issue I had had already been asked and answered (over and over). My problems have been encountered by everyone else at the same level of experience as I am. And because I do search for answers, I don't have to wait for someone to come along to answer.

Answering the same questions over and over without telling them they could have found the answer themselves is giving a man a fish. Your not learning simply being told answers.

> Ever been to a foreign country and have someone berate you for ... not knowing how to speak their language well enough?

No I speak English so I expect everyone else to as well. This is apparently appropriate behavior since it is appropriate to expect everyone else around me to answer ever question I will ever have without ever having to do any work or research of my own.
My understanding is that support for the ktrace back-end is (/was/will be) upcoming for python-ptrace. Unfortunately I don't have the skills for that, but what I meant is that I hope someone will; then tools like `maybe` can presumably use python-ptrace in just the same way as other Unices?
I dont think we're disagreeing. I don't suggest speaking practice to the exclusion of literary practice. In this comment you acknowledge the importance of speaking practice. That's what was missing from my reading of your first comment. I responded largely because I understood your comment to suggest (explicitly and through analogy) that new programmers study books before attempting to write code and interact with the community.

Cheers, sorry for the confusion.
It would be interesting to do a parallel study so with the follow-up game being more winnable by extra effort instead of by cheating.

My hypotheses is that winning begets a desire to continue winning -- if the only way to win is cheating, the winners are more likely to cheat; however, if the only way to win is to try harder, perhaps winners would do that too.

That would be an interesting outcome because it would suggest a model where the likelihood of cheating by winners is primarily governed by whether the only way to win is to cheat (i.e. the dice game used in the study)
There's Powell's Books. http://www.powells.com
it's way beyond plausible. the proven willingness to sacrifice souls in ww2 basically proves it. the space race wasn't very long after the war. it was the same people running the show.
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Well, the Toys category had non-electronic items and it was the category that was the most examples of inflated pricing (not such a shocker). However, all of the stores offered discounts on electronics at one point. You just had to be lucky in going to the right store on the right day.
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Seems like a superset of graphs. On a graph, you only care about what's connected to what. This takes the empty space between into account, as well (fills). I would say it's a separate concept that happens to build on graph theory.
There is a very interesting interview with Lance where he talks about the whole cheating thing and living with a lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEfSdPz1WtA
As someone who went through IK12 a few cohorts ago, I'd say it was an amazing experience.
The team there blended the depth of general startup knowledge from YC with a huge amount of education-specific coaching/learning/networking.

Although we were part of the 20% (from that article) that didnt make it, we learnt a huge amount, and it helped inspire me to continue to work in the ed-tech space till today.

I do hope that after the merge they can continue to offer the same deep-dive education specific talks/mentors/networks/etc that were so valuable, as it is a space with very different challenges than your typical B2B/consumer app plays.

As a benefit, I suspect the YC "brand" will be a big help to future edtech graduates when it comes to raise money; as typically they've struggled much more to attract investor attention than startups in other verticals.
Heinlein is pretty sure such an event happened while he was traveling in the Soviet Union, which he relates in a chapter in Expanded Universe.
I think it would make sense at some point to do this for financial services / fintech. I think there is infrastructure that is very specific to fintech that some accelerator out there will nail at some point and it will help them become the default go-to for aspiring fintech companies.

Making commercial relationships with banks (money transfer, payments, account opening, lending balance sheet, etc), institutional compliance knowledge, etc would actually "accelerate" an aspiring fintech company in a way nobody really has. I think YC has the pull to actually do it.