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It would be a real shame if the next Larry Page or Bill Gates decided to live in a barrel instead of founding a company because of this sentiment. A happy home and middle-class parents aren't a bad thing. In fact, they're so good that everyone should have them. You should apply your advantages strategically in order to affect change[0] in the world, and while doing so may not be courageous, squandering the effort spent on raising you is a waste of time and resources that helps nobody.

I live with a gardener who makes just above minimum wage[1] who is planning to start his own business. For him not to do so would be a gigantic waste of his skills, as he's far and away the most competent employee of his current boss. He's courageous because he's going to take a carefully managed risk in order to fully use his skills, even though his life is reasonably comfortable as is, and by doing so will fractionally lower the cost of living for all the residents of the apartment blocks he plans to service[2].

When people say "pursue your passion", what they really mean is "you are too good for your current job, and staying there is a waste of your good fortune". It's a goad to prod the elite into working and climbing long after they've passed the point where they can live for the rest of their lives on savings and investments, and to push the comfy middle class to go through the extremely uncomfortable process of starting a business.

Having the audacity and wealth to single-handedly eradicate polio is also a privilege, but Gates is currently trying to do it, because society taught him that he'd be a good person if he did good things. Turning around and denouncing entrepreneurs as privileged will make for fewer entrepreneurs, even if it's true, in the same way as calling Gates a privileged do-gooder sufficiently loudly might stop his charitable work in Africa.

[0] hopefully positive change, and hopefully change that uplifts others

[1] minimum wage here is quite a bit higher than in the US

[2] by raising supply; I'm not an economist, correct me if I'm wrong here
Don't wait until you finally feel motivated or get focused. Remove distractions until all that's left is the work that needs to be done.
http://www.pgc.com/pgc/home-stuff/papers-archive/think-w-dia...
To add, its not like napster because none of the "artists" (scientists) will go after scihub, if anything almost everyone cheers them.
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Both Atheists and Theists sometimes act in accordance with various suggested Norms and sometimes do not. However, the observation is that if Atheism is true this has implications for morality, namely moral facts do not actually exist.

I explain more of what the debate is and has been in this comment from a few weeks ago that might clarify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646701
They won't be split, bit one thing to watch out for is that they can be coalesced.
Is this limited to Windows? The source does not seem to define system requirements, or I am missing it.
Read Deep Work. It's not a long book.
IBM 7094 running IBSYS operating system. In those days a PC meant punch card. I used an IBM 026 card punch to enter my Fortran IV program one line per card followed by the data cards. With a rubber band around it, I placed my card deck into a cardboard box for the next batch run. They were read onto reel-to-reel tape by an IBM 1400 series system and the tape transferred to the 7094. The 1400 series system printed out the results of compilation and execution from the output tape of the 7094. This was mid-year 1967.
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It's related to the parent's points by a misunderstanding.
Elsevier does not control the product (because they are not making it). They leech off the rents that they gained decades ago. There is no future for them.
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Damn. That knocks out quite a bit of the baseline cost for an alternative.
What option does that? All I've seen is about changing the key used.
That is of course correct. I did not even consider the possibility that someone would do this.
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This could do with a short summary of the book and why Alan Kay thought it was relevant, for each, on-page, before the link to Amazon.
You mean Betrayus, who gave away secrets for sex (and in part so that he would look better in his "biography," and most likely turn that into a permanent political career) and received a slap on the wrist.
Acquiring somatic mutations is not "rewriting its own DNA", it's just acquiring mutations. You can't replicate a piece of DNA without the chance of a mutation happening. The error rate in humans is about 1e-9 mutations/base, so by the time you've grown a brain you're likely to have a whole bunch of somatic mutations just by chance.
I think people use an ORM so that they can "switch data stores". Personally i never used one since SQL is very easy to write and its actually a Standard. Even when i did switch databases, having a standard guarantees there will be fewer changes needed, than if switching orms. Also, what people "imagine" is of zero concern.
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My last day is in just over two weeks! Starting my PhD in type theory at CMU.
If this is the case, then we have an intersting problem. Epigenetics change, DNA - due to mutations can differ from cell to cell, people get injected with completely different DNA in the case of organ transplant. New neural pathways are created. Cells in the body are changed constantly. Memories are changed. Things like height, weight, personality traits, name, disorders, spatial location etc. can all be changed as well.

So, this raises the question of whether someone can seriously say: "I did something 15 years ago" - when many of the things that make up the human have been changed plus the person saying it is most likely making up a story about past(confabulation). What do you think?
> The headline is seriously misleading

I think it's more a difference between technical vocabulary and colloquial vocabulary. I think a lot of people use the word "energy" to to refer to something more like "fuel." That's how you get terms like "energy production" which include activities like drilling for oil.
Hm. I had forgotten about sports games. Sports, murder, and cars.

I think I'm just not a very manly man, so I don't like games.

Either way, you convinced me. I spoke too broadly and too casually. I won't bring up the murder thing again unless I can think of a more specific thesis.
You seem to reason that only theism holds a monopoly on morality in that it links to a higher order but atheism just as well can be linked to a moral higher order. I get what you're saying, I've been there also but I also realized the error of my ways. I'll give my own link as well that vaguely covers this. I will admit I'm not very well versed in theology, but not for lack of interest but I've never come across any argument that could successfully refute atheism's moral or philosophical validity. 0134340.blogspot.com/2016/05/machiavellian-musings.html
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> The business logic of your web application should resolve around database calls

Might, not should. All web apps are not just front ends to a single database where transactions are useful and once you leave the realm of a single database into a more distributed type system then transactions are no longer an option.
What are you even talking about? I said she's an enemy of the U.S. military. That encompasses many things she can do to disrupt U.S. military. One is leak its classified secrets about operational capabilities in use against legit opponents. All of them were fine with doing that. Over and over. Definitely an enemy combatant on cyber side or Espionage Act contender otherwise. I don't mean technical interpretations of it either: straight-up describing targets, tools, and techniques to our enemies. That's exactly the kind of thing it was conceived for.

Yeah, she's an enemy of the U.S. military for sure. If you need balance, she's not the person to trust for review and reveal. On other hand, if it's domestic stuff... the actual whistleblowing... she's one of best people to handle it because she won't shut up. Just got to do some redactions before turning it over to reduce damage. She and Greenwald did the one's I'd have been concerned about on domestic leaks, mainly protecting the workers. So, that wasn't a problem.
Despite the headline, I don't think the article is deriding quitting your job for your passion. It is primarily about pointing out that it is from a place of privilege usually that one takes the "leaps of faith" that are culturally revered and respected, and is trying to recognize that.

I (and I would imagine the author) am all for people quitting their jobs for passion, and being able to do so thanks to their privilege. But I do think it's very important for them to recognize those privileges, not wax too poetic about the bravery and challenges involved (be strong and hustle non-stop) as if people in other jobs don't have to do that, and not tout the act as something anyone and everyone can/should do to lead a "fulfilling life."
Ah, I can understand the concern on OSX (or other Linux distros). Earlier in the chain, you wrote "Linux desktop" -- which, to me, implied using NixOS :).
>I think we can easily rule out that all corporate news organizations (npr, washington post) are propaganda services (I for one, have a relative who worked at one of those).

NPR and the Washington Post are certainly propaganda services.

> (I for one, have a relative who worked at one of those)

I'm not suggesting that everyone who works for a corporate news organization is engaged in some sort of grand conspiracy, taking money to consciously do the bidding of the evil oligarchs (though some are). It seems clear that most of them are just as oblivious to their complicity in the degradation of society as the factory worker who collects a paycheck assembling bombs and missiles. Awareness and critical thinking are not attributes that are nurtured and encouraged in modern society. From the time you can crawl, you are conditioned to shuffle around at the signaling of a bell and efficiently absorb and regurgitate the Washington/Wall Street narrative (in public schools and elsewhere). Failure to do so as a child results in, at best, disciplinary action and bad grades. The less fortunate are subjected to the forced ingestion of psychotropic drugs that permanently alter the brain chemistry of developing children.

> Perhaps you should try to come up with a theory on why well-intentioned reporters would not see the situation you do (e.g. group think).

Reporters are not hired by corporate media outlets because of their zeal for truth and their refusal to stop turning over rocks to discover inconvenient truths - quite the opposite. Reporters are hired for their ability and willingness to absorb and regurgitate conventional corporate wisdom. They are hired for their penchant not to turn over any rock that they aren't supposed to turn over.

A reporter that doesn't parrot the Washington/Wall Street narrative soon finds himself without a job. Why do you think Seymour Hersch, an investigative reporter with an incredibly impressive resume stretching back 50 years, has to publish in the London Review of Books? Why do you think establishment reporters from every corporate outlet came out of the woodwork to attack him when he started publishing well-sourced, investigative articles that clashed with the Washington/Wall Street narrative?

To quote Upton Sinclar: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
This is a bit silly, eh. Every cell in your body does this kind of epigenetic modification, there are a whole host of factors whose only job is to methylate DNA. Furthermore, this is not really "altering DNA", the sequence doesn't change, this is just a way to mask gene expression - if you methylate cytosines near the promoter region of a gene, RNA polymerase has a harder time sitting down and transcribing the gene, reducing its expression.

Neurons do this, germ cells do this, immune cells do this, every cell in the body does this.

What's interesting here is the specific factor (Tet3), not the occurrence of epigenetic modification. The perils of science journalism, as usual.
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> Also, if you ever wanted to move your infrastructure to the cloud you'd need to move to Linux anyway.

Not true, there are several Mac based hosting companies, offering a mix of physical and virtual servers.
Typically it's referred to as an Algebraic Data Type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type. Any Type System that can express this type will be able to do the above.

It's not necessarily new since the ML family of languages has had it for a while now. It's also not limited to FP languages but it best known from ML the ML family. Rust has it though as well as Swift i think.
> Before the separation of the American colonies from Britain to form the United States, there was already a defense of truth to libel claims. Say what is true, and libel is not much of a worry to you.

I had never heard this before. Consider this summary of the Zenger trial of 1735 here ( http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengera... ):

> The trial opened on August 4 on the main floor of New York's City Hall with Attorney General Bradley's reading of the information filed against Zenger. Bradley told jurors that Zenger, "being a seditious person and a frequent printer and publisher of false news and seditious libels" had "wickedly and maliciously" devised to "traduce, scandalize, and vilify" Governor Cosby and his ministers. Bradley said that "Libeling has always been discouraged as a thing that tends to create differences among men, ill blood among the people, and oftentimes great bloodshed between the party libeling and the party libeled."

> After a brief statement from John Chambers, Zenger's court-appointed attorney, Andrew Hamilton rose to announce that his client--sitting in an enclosed box in the courtroom--would not contest having printed and published the allegedly libelous materials contained in the Weekly Journal and that "therefore I shall save Mr. Attorney the trouble of examining his witnesses to that point."

> Following Hamilton's surprise announcement, the prosecution's three witnesses (Zenger's journeyman associate and two of his sons) were sent home, and there was a long silence. Finally, Bradley spoke: "As Mr. Hamilton has confessed the printing and publishing of these libels, I think the Jury must find a verdict for the king. For supposing they were true, the law says that [sic] are not the less libelous for that. Nay, indeed the law says their being true is an aggravation of the crime." Bradley proceeded to offer a detailed and generally accurate account of the state of law on seditious libel of the time, supporting his conclusion that the truth of a libel is no defense.

> Hamilton argued that the libel law of England ought not to be the libel law of New York

> His arguments might have been well-received by jurors, but Hamilton had almost no law to support his position that the truth should be a defense to the charge of libel. Not surprisingly, Chief Justice Delancey ruled that Hamilton could not present evidence of the truth of the statements contained in Zenger's Journal. "The law is clear that you cannot justify a libel," Delancey announced. "The jury may find that Zenger printed and published those papers, and leave to the Court to judge whether they are libelous."

(all emphasis is mine)

There's not much common ground between your position that "there was already a defense of truth to libel claims. Say what is true, and libel is not much of a worry to you" and the more conventional position that under English law of the time "a libelous statement's being true is an aggravation of the crime".
Similar effort, but you'll learn a lot more making 50 games.

Each game will have different mechanics, require different data structures and have to be designed separately. Each game will be fun for different reasons (or fall flat for different reasons). With 50 examples your intuition for what works and what doesn't work will be better.

Paul Graham could have invested a similar amount of effort over the past decade by working at one company. But by advising hundreds of startups his skillset & knowledge is much more broad and useful.

And if I had a game studio, I'd hire someone who'd finished 50 games last year in a heartbeat.
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> Remove distractions until all that's left is the work that needs to be done.

While this may be easier said than done, in my experience this is the only way I can focus for extended periods (i.e., a week) of time. Had to lock myself in a room to finish my dissertation.
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"digital nomad" is my dream lifestyle. But one of the major drawbacks longterm is rent vs mortgage. Most societies are structured in a way that wants you to settle down. While monthly rent v. monthly mortgage payments might be similar in cost, and both fix the "where do I sleep" problem, after 30 years one leaves you with equity and the other does not. I wish there was something similar to a co-op where owning part of a company entitled me to a room just not any particular room. E.g owning type A stock lets me use a type A room in any city I happen to be in.
Agree. Any database design over two tables should include review of NF.
The issue with moral absolutes is the fact that these absolutes can only be derived for a given context (e.g. human, american, mother, christian, etc). There is no objective means to state the primacy of a given context over any others.

That being said, since you have to define what "good" means, and what the role/fundamental characteristic of various contexts is, I think any attempt at a completely rational morality is quite doomed.
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All cells do this. It's much closer to RAM than ROM. Also, memory's are structural and much larger features than this stuff.
> Of course autonomous vehicles are going to render fixed-rail systems irrelevant...

I'm not sure everyone is willing to take that as a statement of fact. I'm sure not.

Can you point to a single transportation expert who believes that centrally orchestrated single-occupancy vehicles are a solution for transportation capacity problems?

The difference in lane throughput between single occupancy vehicles and mass transit is staggering. Part of the benefit of rail is that it can use dedicated facilities that are deconflicted. Autonomous vehicles still need to deal with red lights, pedestrians, cyclists, and limits on safe acceleration/deceleration.

Here in Seattle our light rail system is hobbled because of non-grade-separated parts of the line - which despite having signal priority is restricted in its operation (station dwell times, # of trains in operation, train separation) because of conflicting cross streets. A central authority is NOT a panacea.

With human drivers, lane density tops out at somewhere around ~900 vehicles per hour. Let's say automatic cars can somehow double that - to 1800 vehicles per hour. Even dedicated bus lanes can move 6000 people per hour.

Forget Manhattan which is a beast of its own scale - look at Chicago mass transit which moves over a million people a day. You're sure you could replace the capacity of rush-hour Red Line trains at crush capacity with the surface streets? Really? Where would you park these cars? Where would everyone get in and out of the cars? (On/off boarding is the scaling limit for bus lanes - that alone is enough to sink your plan.)

You do realize the irony in having faith that centralized coordination between autonomous vehicles will lead to these improvements?
I've had the most luck with a pomodoro timer. You basically commit to working for 15-30 minutes, then you take a short break. Take the breaks: they make your focus periods better. Meditating for a few minutes during breaks helps me. Try to shift your mindset from always drinking from the dopamine fountain, and tell yourself that it's a reward when you browse for a little bit during a break. Just make sure you start working again when the break is over.

Nothing is foolproof. Good luck.

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That's pretty tricky to do at the moment sadly, JS isn't quite there yet.

As you can see with the HTML5 games in this collection, raw JS is quite unpolished.

If you ask me, I think handling all the little things manually is probably best at this point; JavaScript is actually quite a slow language, so frameworks do introduce noteworthy overhead. For example my old computers do NOT like Unity's HTML5 export at all, and current smartphones can be easily bogged down by bad code too. So hand-optimizing it is the way to go at this exact moment.

I think this is why people are investing so heavily in WebAssembly: it'll allow the actual language primitives to be abstracted out in different directions, and provide higher performance to boot. At least if they get the implementation right :P
Discussion also links to several previous/related items https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160456

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No, the benefit of columnar organization is locality for query evaluation which remains valid regardless of the storage media. However, they do impact the type of columnar representation which is optimal -- "columnar-oriented" includes very diverse types of organizational structures.

The classical "turn every column into an index" columnar-oriented model has some serious drawbacks for many workloads. If you are using SSDs, you have the ability to do random access, sub-page reads, et al very efficiently. This allows you to use a different family of columnar-oriented database designs, particularly the various vector-structured storage models, which retain almost all of the benefits of traditional columnar-oriented databases without most of the drawbacks (given that you are using SSDs). So SSDs really just allow you to use a better columnar model with fewer constraints.

In-memory is not a database architecture per se, but the benefits of locality (e.g. reducing cache line misses) still apply. Most database engines operate almost entirely in-memory for many workloads in any case.
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For what it's worth, I didn't know it was sped up, and I have taken calculus and advanced physics. I had no frame of reference for how high the rocket was when the video started. It wasn't that I thought it was realtime, I just didn't know if it was sped up or if the rocket was just way faster than I would've imagined. I was quite glad that someone pointed out it was sped up, and I think as a matter of journalistic integrity folks should generally mark when things are sped up or slowed down.

I am mentally handicapped though, so you got that right.
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> "Hillary Clinton Caught With Lesbian Lovers".

Isn't that just like her? And of course she didn't come out for gay marriage until 2013. What a hypocrite.
This would make sense if selling such bugs was explicitly illegal, but it isn't.
I'm not sure how you got there from where I was.
Maybe, but if an Atheist is to propose/claim an Objective "moral higher order" they do so with an acceptance of a standard just as outside of Empiricism as the Theist's.
This is also not as easy as it sounds though when you go distributed. Databases already handle the non distributed case pretty well. It's when you need the performance/latency benefits of distribution that you begin to run into problems that an append only schema doesn't help with.
If only Aaron Swartz was alive to see this.
A bunch of these are on the list that Google's AI was aimed at. Makes me wonder if they read it or there's a similar list they were drawing on.
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