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Ironically, because the pay wasn't enough to compete with other offers in the SFBA. I do very much regret not taking the job, but the cost (actual bottom-line cost) was too high to absorb.
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For a minute I thought I was looking at the CD of Mogwai's "Come On Die Young"...
It depends, if you think 100% pure unadulterated capitalism is a good thing, then "pure" is "good". If you think capitalism needs some checks and bounds then "pure" is "bad".

In the former case, "extreme capitalism" and "pure capitalism" may be two different things. In the latter, they are synonymous.

Essentially... depends on your point of view.
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That's an interesting premise, do you think that the heads of e.g. the KGB were representative of the majority of Soviets? It was my impression that there was a large class distinction between the Soviet intelligence apparatus and the proverbial average Joe.

Note: I selected the USSR/KGB not for any particular resemblance to current Western intelligence agencies (much more human intelligence and shotgun mics back then) but rather because they seem to me to be the textbook case of the effects of mass, pervasive surveillance over a long time.
> And it's also true that most transactions, even for individuals, are not done in physical notes any more; they're done electronically (with debit cards or credit cards or wire transfers or whatever). So someone doesn't have to walk into the bank and withdraw their $100 in physical notes; they can do it any place, any time.

The difference between a credit card and a debit card is extremely relevant here. You can't run a bank with a credit card.
Hmm, can someone mention the advantages of conda? Right now I use virtualenv with autoswitching, and I don't know what conda provides that's better. You mention switching the Python version, but virtualenv does that seamlessly as well, so I never had a problem.
Only on forums with a Linux user population of over, say, 1%. Which is a very tiny number of forums.
> With deflation, you have to work harder to expand your share of the economy. Just holding doesn't contribute to the economy and thus means an already large held share is less likely to grow in value relative to the desired goods.

Deflation literally increases the value of already-held cash (when prices go down, cash becomes more valuable). Deflation literally encourages hoarding, this is probably the one single tenet of economics that no one disputes.

> And inflation doesn't, when new money primarily goes to the few closest to the mint?

Inflation decreases the value of cash, so it encourages spending.

New money is issued when the central bank buys securities on the open market - usually from the government, sometimes from banks and businesses. Theoretically they can lend to whomever, but because of arbitrage (if the centra bank offers debt at 0.25%, interbank lending rate will fall/rise to that level, because if banks offered worse rates, lenders/borrowers would just go to the central bank) it winds up not mattering who they lend to.

They don't just wheel piles of cash to the nearest bank for them to hoard and pay CEOs with...

Anyhow, wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank#Currency_issuance

And there's plenty of other material online.
It is even worse than copyrighted APIs. Such attitude will allow Microsoft to sue KDE for Windows look-and-feel and LibreOffice for Office look-and-feel, even without patents. Good features and ideas should be copied as widely as possible instead of reinventing the wheel for the sake of difference.
The answers to those question are not public. Quotes in the following articles provide a bit more insight than the posted link:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160325005076/en/Foun...

http://nypost.com/2016/03/16/tech-billionaire-peter-thiel-ra...

http://www.businessinsider.com/founders-fund-vc-scott-nolan-...
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I think you're tilting at windmills here. The type of people who think gambling should be legal and is entirely a personal decision are the type that would agree with you.

Only take it a step further. The state shouldn't move heaven and earth to get anything privately owned built. That it's a casino only makes something inherently bad even worse.
Read what Zuckerberg had to say when Facebook bought Oculus.[1]: "This is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures." He's talking about VR as a social medium, like Facebook.

Sort of like Second Life. Second Life has supported the Oculus Rift since late 2014. Nobody cares.[2]

I can see using one for FPS games, but beyond that, it's not that compelling. There's still no killer VR app.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971
[2] http://www.roadtovr.com/second-life-now-official-oculus-rift...
This is an example of just Facebook. I think all big time VCs have turned down mega companies that would have made them $$$$$.

Also, Zuck did have a crazy grind work ehtic which would have gotten him most likely 1 point. And he did have a good history of projects he had built before and shown competence, maybe not multi-million dollar ventures but a lot of good chops.
I'd say that roughly 90% of things VCs fund fail. A VC which could reduce that reliably to 60-70% YoY would be considered godlike. Think of VC investments as a portfolio where you expect most of the investments to fail, but the few that succeed give you 1000% gains. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this is consistent with Sturgeon's law (and other power laws).
My strategy with fruit in other countries is to only buy fruit with a peel, preferably a peel I can manually remove unless I have a knife with me.

Most travelers are diligent about avoiding direct contamination from local water or even ice. Fewer consider the indirect contamination that can occur from a glass washed in tap-water without detergent, or knives used to cut fruit that are washed off in the local water.

I brush my teeth with bottled water, as well.
C# could be better choice. Microsoft offered royalty free license and big part of CLR was already opensourced.
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The DK1 is just awful in comparison to the DK2, though. Positional tracking and reduced latency of the DK2 improve the nausea situation a whole lot. I haven't had a chance to try the CV1 yet, but it's supposed to be an equally big jump.
I find it really creepy too. I think it's now become a part of the culture of both the Atom and VS Code communities. If you bring it up everyine rushes to tell you about how to disable the metrics package while ignoring the other packages that sends data to bugsnag. In the case of VS Code there are instructions to disable it by editing the code which means that when you update, it'll be reverted. At the same time, automatic updates are enabled by default, so it effectively can't be disabled. There are also several popular plugins for both editors that come with analytics on by default with minimal to no mention of this in their descriptions.
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I am not a sailor, but I've done some offshore work for companies like Heerema and other offshore oil companies. I don't get sea sick, ever.

However, I get sick trying to play games with my google cardboard. Nasty, nasty feeling and it takes a good hour to feel normal again... Not a big fan of VR after a few sessions of sickness. I don't think I will play it more to "get over it" either.
Its because unfortunately politicians and the financial press cannot touch it. Its too easy for the public to draw comparisons between household budget constraints and currency issuer budget constraints (which need not exist). FUD sells.
I disagree. If that's what I'm after, I could just ask two or three people who own one to render an opinion. It would take me less then a minute to have that thread up on reddit.

The whole argument behind why websites like wsj are allegedly valuable and thus worth un-adblocking or paying 10c an article for or whatever is the trendy solution now is that they're supposed to be offering a higher standard of information than whatever reddit thinks.

If the guy writing the article knows so little about the topic he cannot even make factually correct comparisons between similar but distinct products, I might as well stick to reddits opinion, no?
Probably a lifetime of living in low-oxygen conditions has caused their lungs to compensate. That, and I would assume some effects on their brains.
This great! Any plans to bringing this to Android/PC?
> Overall economic growth.

Thank you very much! You have actually come out and said what even Nobel-Prize-winning economists are unwilling to say.

Here is the argument you are making, in a nutshell: if we limited ourselves to a "hard money" system with no fractional reserve banking, economic growth would be too slow. So in order to get faster economic growth, we allow fiat money and fractional-reserve banking; but we also have to accept the downside of that, which is occasional economic meltdowns and a general skew in the way wealth is distributed. This is a fair tradeoff because the benefits of faster economic growth outweigh the costs of economic instability and skewed wealth distribution.

Whether or not I agree with this argument is really beside the point (I don't think I do, on balance, but it's certainly not a slam dunk either way so I can understand that reasonable people could take either side). The point is that we, the taxpayers, were not sold the system we have on the basis of this argument. We were sold the system we have on the basis of "it will make sure no Great Depression ever happens again--trust us!" We have never had a real public debate on whether it really is a fair tradeoff to accept economic instability and skewed wealth distribution in exchange for faster economic growth. (I personally think that is because the parties that benefit from the existing system, mainly politicians and banks, are afraid that a real public debate would result in a majority of people rejecting the existing system and demanding a different one, one that would be harder for the existing players to game. But the only way to know for sure is to have the debate.)
BlueArc is just one example, and arguably they were crushed a lot of other factors.

In general, Moore's law works just as well for FPGAs as it does CPUs & ASICs. FPGA expertise is definitely in short supply, but, as an example, with HFT, you see a lot of FPGAs.
My biased opinion: VR is going to be huge, but it won't look that way for at least a few years while things mature (especially when 90% of the content is just improving games that could have existed on a 2D monitor).

Just off the top of my head, it has the potential to disrupt:

* Television and movies. Imagine an Imax theater in your house. VR is really the obvious solution here IMO. We just need to give it a few years while the screen resolution ramps up.

* The office. Obvious one - virtual desktops. Less obvious - remote working. This hasn't worked as promised yet, I suspect because remote interactions aren't immersive and interactive enough. Skype calls are ok, but I'd love to just stand up and "draw" something on a virtual board with other people. I can see VR making this much more possible.
Don't forget (0) install the right JVM. This has caused me much grief in the past, at least on Linux.
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Indeed - I found this bug to be totally relevant to the issues being discussed. The first was to point out the issue. The second (the parent comment) was to ask why Safari rendering bugs take so long to fix and I used that bug as context for my question. The third was to respond to the huge downvotes of this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11376114

Each of those are entirely relevant in their context. It's hardly spam.

If you want, I'll find more regressions, it won't be hard. Apple are utterly useless when it comes to Safari rendering regressions.

(were you the one downvoting, incidentally? And what do you mean by the "third at the bottom of the page"? The comments shift around in ordering you know)
>I wonder how the sherpas/local populace deal with that?

Evolution.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_...

From the wiki page:
"In fact, the adaptation account of the Tibetans has become the fastest case of human evolution in the scientific record, as it is estimated to have occurred in less than 3,000 years."
If I understand what you just said, the Fed prints the currency. The Treasury prints notes (bonds), which it sells, getting money for, but incurring a liability (the bond that it sold).

When the Fed prints currency (say a $100 bill), what happens? Does the Fed just suddenly have $100 more than it did? Or does the Fed owe the Treasury $100? Or something else?

I don't immediately see a way that somebody (anybody) can print a $100 bill and still have assets and liabilities net out to zero...
> Based on the above there is a 0.00% chance that you would fund Facebook at the seed stage, at any valuation. Out of 8 standards, you would have to give them a 0/8 on nearly all of them.
but hey, the fact that your investment thesis fails with perfect hindsight, doesn't mean it can't succeed when things are a lot more murky. go get 'em.

I don't know if the given strategy would work, but saying it would not have bought FB isn't really useful in any way.

After all, to be a successful investor you don't need to invest in every successful company; you only need your portfolio as a whole to be successful.
An internal Google memo was released of an engineer reviewing possibilities and ranking Java as the only viable one.
> unable to transition from grad school or postdoc to Professor

But were they all intending to do that in the first place?

Do you think most people who go to graduate school are intending to become academics? Lots of people say that, but it's not what I see in PhD students - many want to go into industry from the start.
The distinction between "a set of methods with privileged access to encapsulated internal state of a class" and "a set of functions whose first param is a particular type of struct, and operate on members of that struct that everyone can access" is pretty critical though.
Larger sums of money are easier to invest in ways that will provide meaningful returns, and doubling your money is inevitable over the long term. In comparison, that $5 will probably turn into a meal or other short-term benefit.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373253 and marked it off-topic.
> The point is that for someone who wants to dip their toes and had a recent Samsung phone the Gear is DRASTICALLY cheaper.

On the other hand, for those that have a recent gaming PC an Oculus Rift is both cheaper and technologically better. So what?
There is an old brawler's adage that you should never hit somebody in the head with your fist unless you can't find something harder to use.
> The point is that for someone who wants to dip their toes and had a recent Samsung phone the Gear is DRASTICALLY cheaper.

Why even compare with Gear VR if you're trying to illustrate how cheap this solution is? Why not simply talk about Cardboard -- which you can get literally for $1/free if you know the tricks, or the rest of the cheapo plastic VR sets you can buy for around $10-$20?
No clue why you are being downvoted as this is an important point: Android's Java forcefeed is negative in more ways than one. We need multiple alternatives (yes yes Kotlin I know but more). Many programmers dislike Java and will do anything to avoid having to use it.
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> And didn't I provide specific blog posts by the man in question w.r.t. his views on race relations?

I asked for a citation on the claim that he has called for the enslavement of black people. I specifically mentioned that I had seem him talk about how some groups were better slaves than others, and linked to a thread within his recent AMA.

You responded with a link to his blog where he said that slavery is a natural human relationship. I followed that link, searched for the places where he said slavery was a natural human relationship--and found nothing in those parts of the blog post where he called for enslavement or even said that it was a good thing.

Your second point was that he has said he is "amenable to white nationalist writings", and you cited a blog entry where he talked about this. There is no mention of slavery in that blog entry, and a bit of Googling has failed to turn up a connection between white nationalists and any advocacy for slavery.

You also brought up, without providing a cite, that he has discussed the suitability of different races for slavery. I had already noted that, since it was in the discussion from the AMA that I cited. In that discussion it was clear that he meant "suitability" in the sense that they work out better from the slaver's point of view. If one group of people tend to die when enslaved, and another tends to live, then the later are more suitable. Believing that doesn't imply that one believes that the second group should be slaves or that one supports slavery.
You're right, but Google released the first Android handsets.

Actually I forgot when the Sun/Oracle sale happened. Android 1.0 was released before Oracle bought Sun. Though I suppose there was always the possibility of legal action by Sun.
For any given period of time, the game is zero-sum.

For example, if there is one apple, either you can have it, or I can have it.

Where is the non-zero-sum game?
My rule of thumb - if it has an 'if' in it, use python.

Writing in shell is like dancing on a minefield and there are sane programming languages just laying around.
I watched half a dozen vive videos and I've never seen anyone complain about nausea. In my opinion the biggest obstacle is the lack of games or at the very least a killer app that justifies the pricetag.
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I'll stand by my position. BOTH Amazon and books.com were crazy initially. Books had never had been proven to be sellable in quantity to an audience that hadn't physically seen them. The web was so young, it was still called the World Wide Web in the media, and everything was expressed in strained superhighway analogies.

We can look back on it and say "Of _course_ people will want to do shopping online", but that's with the benefit of hindsight. While it was a _stupid_ idea, it wasn't a well-proven one.

Nowadays Amazon can spend quarter after quarter deliberately avoiding profitability, and no one strenuously questions it because it is known they can focus on profitability anytime. Back then it was a far more open question if they had something people would want, and something that wouldn't be easily copied by the established competitors.
Thanks, that's a pretty insightful article.

It has some good examples, for example the one about a journalist exposing corruption in high places but who has a secret (like drug abuse in the example). She could be attacked for this secret in order to discredit her exposé on a totally unrelated matter. I think everyone has secrets of some kind, but even if you are not a journalist, you want journalists like this to exist and be free to conduct their investigations. This is why the argument that "you shouldn't be afraid if you have nothing to hide" is bogus.
Many of your comments have been breaking the HN guidelines. Please stop being uncivil and calling names.

You clearly know enough to make substantive contributions, which is great for this forum, but it you keep being rude, we'll have to ban you. So please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373716 and marked it off-topic.
Imho it ultimately comes down to whether the clients will demand their money back. If they don't - I don't see why operators would even mind.

But if they do - the operators will have to pay costs (permits, sherpas, etc) while having no revenue.
You wouldn't give a shit either if you could get nearly 10bln dollars for it.

Most people would sell their mother for that amount, and it's a bit hard to come to your investors and say well guys we could've gotten 10bln which would give you a heck of a dividend but we cared about our reputation too much so we passed on it.
I strongly disagree. Yes, nausea is a big problem but there are a lot of scenarios/games where you don't need locomotion or can comfortably work around it (warping, a cockpit of some sorts etc.).

Also we might be closer to solving the eye vs. inner ear discrepancy completely rather sooner than later. Samsung is working on a headset that stimulates your vestibular system to make you sense motion & acceleration:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/14/11220836/samsung-etrim-4d-...
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Didn't Google think about changing languages several years ago but were already so invested in Java, they decided not to?
I may be remembering that incorrectly
Good design is obvious because you can reuse many existing ideas. What if you had to redesign tabs, search field, logos bringing you to homepage, scrollbars, buttons, focus, text cursor and all the other things from scratch?

If there is no objective way to set the bar you mentioned, we end up with double standard.
I still fail to see the difference. You seem to be suggesting that "extreme" is being used as a bad replacement for "against my moral views"? That is, that "pure" capitalism is "extreme" capitalism if and when "pure" capitalism is "bad"? What would qualify as "extreme" capitalism in the former?
I only had time to briefly skim the study, but I don't think there was any follow-up done. Although it might immediately affect minority opinions to be reminded of that, I would be much more interested to see if the group reminded of surveillance still kept their opinions to themselves a day, a week, a month later.
You could plant an apple tree. That's definitely not zero-sum. After that you could could invent better ways to ship apples so that more people can enjoy them. Or cross breed them to provide different types of apples for different uses and tastes. You could make cider from the leftover apples instead of throwing them away, so that less is wasted. In other words, there are tons of ways to make better use of what we have, or create new things. The economy is not zero-sum.

PG has a nice essay that explains this: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html - in particular "the pie fallacy".

You might be referring to the 'rivalry' of goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics) - but that's for one good at one time, not for the economy as a whole.
You'll have the same problem with dynamic linking. It's even worse when your user has to know which version of Python/Java/etc they need to run your software on. The best case for your user is a static native binary behind a package repository.
Warren Mosler once told a story about how he's presented MMT to politicians ( Joe Lieberman was one) who agreed with him, but felt MMT realities are to politically sensitive to do anything about now.
As long as you don't have to debug the output, yes :-)
There's a difference between exploratory programming and the final deliverable.

I don't think the GP is suggesting 100% of spec must be completed before the first line of program code is written. I think the implication is that there should still be a dividing line between the design portion (made up of think, code, rethink, recode) and the production development portion (also made up of think, code, rethink, recode). The dividing line does not need to be months, but design as a phase of a project should be considered differently (since it has different priorities) than delivery.
Properly tuned NFS should be extremely fast... I've managed NFS clusters for HPC that exceeded 800Mbit/s and 20k IOPS