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The writers and commentators of today tend to fall into niche categories or just write fiction. There is Nicholas Carr's and Douglas Rushkoff. The latter even wrote a book called Present Shock.

Most people I can think of are also of the past such as Vinge, Marshall McLuhan or Freeman Dyson (who came up with the idea of the Dyson sphere, not the vacuum) who were also brilliant. McLuhan is a joy to read or listen to. He has several interviews on YouTube.

Esther Dyson (Freeman's daughter) and Nicholas Negroponte were others I read growing up along the lines of Toffler. I remember the latter's Being Digital as being profound at the time but passe in today's world since all of the marvels of the future he talks about came to fruition. Negroponte also came up with the One Laptop Per Child which lost it's relevance in a world of smartphones.

Others I thought of were Neal Stephenson (his non-fiction works are awesome, especially In the Beginning... was the Command Line and that book-long article he wrote for Wired about wiring Cambodia). Stephenson's fiction is great too and puts William Gibson to shame when it comes to cyberpunk, but Gibson wrote his prior to the PC era. Rudy Rucker was also quite good at the time but his best non-fiction works such as Infinity and the Mind (a must read for you math geeks) are out of print. I also liked The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra a lot growing up.

I looked on Goodreads for authors that are similar to Toffler and while I recognized a couple of them I didn't see anyone worth mentioning.

Toffler's works were mostly dated after the mid 2000's, but predicted the consumer as producer (pro-sumer) culture we live in today and Revolutionary Wealth described how we would make a living with services like Patreon and GoFundMe in such a society.

I recommend everyone read The Third Wave. It provides great historical context for the present machinations of society, the media, and the political machine controlling the masses. Powershift discuss the shift of power to the masses and is also good if you like the idea of the death of the establishment.

Other people that come to mind are Nicholas Carr, Douglas Rushkoff, and Ray Kurzweil.
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When does heart disease begin (and what this tells us about prevention)?
What doesn't "just work" to the same standard? What, among the things anyone uses, are you saying that PHP works better than?
Hmmm the only thing that prevents you from deleting system files are file permission which in windows 7 restrict it to "trusted installer".

I'd consider it a bug/limitation if running as root in the Linux subsystem, because root should be able to do that too.
Windows (at least NTFS) does allow you to delete files in use as long as it has been opened with a sharing mode of FILE_SHARE_DELETE. Unfortunately most regular programs don't do this.

An exception to this is memory mapped files as they are not allowed to be deleted that way. Executables are executed in Windows by memory-mapping them; so runnning programs are hard to delete.
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Is it helpful or noteworthy to write for the thousandth time that PHP "works"?
Aggregate false positive/false negative rates don't prove anything. They can be caused by composition differences, which the analysis demonstrates the existence of.

But I'm sure they look convincing to ProPublica's readers who are not statistically sophisticated.
I thought Amazon was pulling back on Kiva.

I thought I read somewhere that new warehouses were not using the Kiva systems.
I think the video and website are pretty obviously parody. But, if you are having a hard time discerning it as parody, don't you think that's the NRA's fault?
ok thank you for the kind words
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Man, you remember how do a TriForce?
>Both are facile.

Proof by assertion?
Pretty straightforward goal like others mentioned - de-prioritize publishers, get them pay more to promote their posts, prioritize them back. Nothing has changed, publishers pay more. So much for "focus on Friends and Family".
Housekeeping tends to be something only the woman cares about, though. Do I deserve sympathy for all the unpaid work I put in managing our fantasy football team?
>but money is not the only thing of value an internship can (or should) provide.

Of course not. But unpaid internship is always exploitation.
What downsides does it detail? It says Amazon isn’t responsible for the city's growing pains. If there's more to the complaints about sterility than a few provincial hippies' fondness for squalor, you wouldn't know it from the article. The rest is sour grapes from the owners of an "aging tourist attraction".
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The other $400m is in an early stage fund that will presumably focus on making more smaller investments.
Users do need to be protected from their own stupidity.

I think they definitely don't; instead, they need to learn from it. Mollycoddling them will only encourage such stupidity and help it proliferate. If taking a few seconds to search online for more information is beyond their ability, then they deserve everything that happens to them.
Yes, but as long as the file is openen by another process...

- You can't delete the parent directory

- You can't create a new file with the same name

... which makes that flag quite useless.
Genuinely curious about it: what are the reasons to start a new project on PHP?
Yes you are right. Of course that 2nd risk is there even with any other company. It's just the principal agent problem.

I don't know if options will be supported, but once they are, you could hedge the second counterparty risk with far out of the money put options.

This is not it, but you could theoretically have bitcoin futures that are cash settled only. Then you don't have the second counterparty risk at all.
A language with some consistency would be a start. Go, TypeScript, Elixir are all superior to PHP in that aspect.

PHP lacks consistency in naming conventions, function signatures (is that a string or bitmask I'm supposed to pass?) and tons of other things.

I could write a novel about it, but there's already multiple websites/articles dedicated to PHP's inherent design flaws:

http://phpsadness.com/

https://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-php-suck/

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Plus it's limited in capabilities compared to stuff like Node.js (or other libuv bindings), considering we get stuff like Hot Module Reloading, isomorphic/universal applications, simple websockets integration, all of which PHP is either incapable of providing or provides inferior solutions due to limitations of the PHP language or Zend Engine.
Thanks for the clarification about post exercise selling of shares (that you're taxed on the difference between exercise price and sale price).

I agree the argument that you make money on exercise doesn't make sense - especially since the company could easily crash afterwards and you can still get stuck with a huge tax bill for value you never actually realized (except on paper).

Agreed you won't get full value, but I think the existence of liquidity events like this one is an example of private companies "figuring out a way to make this work". They're letting employees realize some value from their equity.

Nothing can be done about the 2 million dollar shack in the valley though (unfortunately).

One other option sometimes available that I didn't mention is filing an 83b election with the IRS and exercising options early before they've vested and before there's a fair market spread. You can avoid taxes this way, but you're putting money at risk very early and often you're not able to do this anyway (there are rules about early exercise).
Ah, the referendum! The non-event?
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> pay a monthly royalty...

> if the Sponsor does not meet a minimum royalty payment of $300,000 during the prior 12-month period

I think you meant $300k/month, not per year.
"most brains are comprised of unique “mosaics” of features, some more common in females compared with males, some more common in males compared with females, and some common in both females and males"

Nothing in this view says it's not possible that, for example, an interest or a skill for engineering, while rare in both genders, might be n times more common in men than in women.
Is the poll locked to your organization's domain? I can't access it. Do you have enough karma for https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll ?
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Arithmetic coding is very expensive - zstd uses new entropy coding with compression ratio like arithmetic coding, but with Huffman-like speed:
https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd
https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy
http://encode.ru/threads/2078-List-of-Asymmetric-Numeral-Sys...
You honestly worry about how much extra coal your website will consume with an extra JS framework?

I tend to think of CPU time as an almost inexhaustible resource for a website. It needs to be responsive, but the difference between the user's machine being at 5% or 10% CPU doesn't matter.
Running a random shell command from the Internet without understanding it can do any number of terrible things; removing all your files and making your system unbootable is not the worst that could happen.

--no-preserve-root seems like a sufficient safeguard here.
Please fix that site to work on mobile.. The sidebar is in fron of the content.
That much I get. I was asking for your basis for disputing the logic; all I see so far is a reassertion of the original conclusion. If you don't understand what dynamic I was describing, please say so. As it stands, I don't see what the reason is that you're trying to give for why it is wrong.
The efforts of the companies mentioned in this article look promising and I wish them all the best in the coming years. I can't imagine what it takes to get something like that into testing on patients in the ICU. My grandmother is currently, or was, enduring dialysis but is now refusing treatment in part because of it's long term impact on mobility and general quality of life. I don't imagine that is a complete unique circumstance and if efforts in the near future help to improve that, even a just a little, it could mean a great deal with regard to sustaining human life in an all too common life-threatening health condition.
What happen if the company goes bankrupt? What happen to the prepaid taxes on the ISO spread?
Yeah, it was an internship with some friend of my parents. I don't believe there was a formal contract or that I read it if there was (but I was 16 and very naive).

The "managers are assholes" bit was meant as a joke, and I learned loads from that internship. It's just that when you're that young and self centered, you tend to see what you didn't get rather than what you did.
This seems extremely alarmist regardless of any new science here. That, along with the donation begging in the article makes me smell spam.
The first article isn't valid as it's paywalled and the abstract doesn't mention any studies; it could be someone's well-educated opinion.

The second article covers how bright light can be without being painful, and doesn't mention sleep or melatonin. Or at least the abstract does, again the article is paywalled, but at least it involves 500 participants.

The third study only covers 12 participants. I'll grant there may be thousands of these studies, each with a handful of subjects. Is there some statistical way to stitch the results together in any meaningful fashion - or would that just result in a low p-value?
Woosh. Missed the point entirely.
Any sources to studies done on the effects of light at different Kelvins? I'm really surprised as I would have expected LED light with more blue and looking natural to be preferable to orange Sodium Vapor lights. The sun which is our main light source puts out a wide spectrum. I'm surprised the lower wattage LED street lamps could cause actual health problems. I'm usually in bed during sleeping hours and not really exposed to the new blue LED street lights installed recently in my neighborhood though.

As someone who has always been interested in Astronomy I do worry about light pollution. Having worked at Observatories I do know that only red light is used due to it's low impact on light pollution.
I'd say so :) the picture of her in the fb article shows her with ginger hair.
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Why do you assume that? No one at YC touched that post or probably even saw it; I certainly didn't.

It's the #1 policy of Hacker News moderation not to censor stories because they happen to be negative about YC or YC startups. We moderate such posts less, not more, than we otherwise would. This is literally the first thing pg explained to me when I started working on HN, and I think he did it before I even had a chance to grab a chair.
More work to avoid more work?
If you give a color badge to each person in the world and you have 365 colors to choose from, how accurately would a specific color identify a person?
One would be that PHP is all you know, another might be "wordpress".
Sorry, I wasn't clear.

Very easy to be profitable in the mid-to-long-term. Things like Drip, WP Engine, And here, ConvertKit all prove this. In theory you don't need 10 years. I was talking more about the initial years.

I'm wondering though, how many of those software companies were profitable in the first year? Usually the fastest way to get to profitability is to be very unprofitable at first to build up your base, and then rely on (hate the word but) virality and scale to cross the threshhold.

But totally agree that it's very feasible to build a very profitable business in less than the 8 years or so it took FB.
I really like the draggable windows, and the shortcuts for hiding and showing things. And the omnibox is, like, perfect; that's all I want.

But browsing a little, I immediately had problems zooming the viewport or increasing font size. Zoom gestures don't work, and neither does ⌘+/-. I couldn't find anything in the menu for it. Double-click on text does a zoom, but not enough. And sometimes content is moved off the viewport when you zoom in.

Very cool project.

edit: I'm still playing with it... it's got nice little notifications at the top. When you click a link, it says "loading...", then "850ms", or whatever; the page load time. And then ⌘← to navigate back shows "Navigating back", "Loading...", page load. It's cool. Looks nice. Dev tools open in a new window, and I couldn't find a way to open them in a panel, but maybe that can be set in the preferences.json.
How does this compares to gRPC which has many languages supported already?
> The problem with automation is you cant ask the robot why X, Y or Z is going wrong and how to fix it. A master weaver on the other hand will do it over a 15 minute conversation.

That's a very romantic view of weaving which hides the real reason there are still many weavers, mostly in low-cost countries: They are cheaper than machines. There is no guarantee that this will still be true in face of increasing computing capabilities and machines which learn better than before.
What nobody talks about is the very good reason why employers give only 90 days after leaving a company to exercise options is that there is also a tax liability to the company for an employee exercising an option. Usually employer has to pay employment tax, now if you have a lot of options still unexercised from former employees and your stock has appreciated a lot the company can be on the hook for a lot of taxes. The company prefers only being on the hook for current employees.

The true solution is to give stock options that can be exercised early as long as the value of the stock is very low such that an employee's hiring bonus after tax could cover the cost. There is no tax owed by the employee since he purchased shares with no gain and then you vest outright stock. Once the stock value goes up it would be best to grant RSUs of convertible notes that convert into stock.
In particular, the underlying translation layer can't prevent this without completely breaking the ability to operate on Windows files from the Linux compatibility subsystem. "rm -rf" just recurses through the directory tree and calls unlink() on every file and rmdir() on every directory. Making rmdir() refuse to work on /mnt/c wouldn't help; by the time that syscall occurs, rm has removed every other file and directory. "find / -delete" would have the same effect.

And if you prevent unlink() or rmdir() from working on files within /mnt/c or other Windows drives, you would not only break the ability to do normal file management with rm or other Linux tools; you'd also break every application that creates and removes temporary files, or otherwise manages files programmatically. You couldn't, for instance, use "git checkout", because that unlinks files and rmdirs directories present in the current HEAD but not present in the new target to check out.

rm (without --no-preserve-root) specifically checks for an attempt to remove / before it starts recursing. You could potentially improve rm to preserve a few more directories by default; some tools exist to do exactly that, such as safe-rm.

rm's default --preserve-root behavior mostly exists to help catch cases like "rm -rf $VAR/$VAR2", which with VAR and VAR2 unset would turn into "rm -rf /".

(Personally, I'd like to have rm add and default to a --preserve-home option too, to catch things like "rm -rf $HOME/$VAR" or "rm -rf ~/$VAR" or "rm -rf ~ /foo".)
I'm not sure how these are legal, I'm in my twenties with 20/20 and only somewhat sensitive to light but even the normal ones are absolutely blinding to the point where I'm really not sure what I would do (other than have already crashed) without the "focus on the white line to the right" trick.
Hiring pool (especially if you're aiming for low cost remote contractors)
They've also done it with app developers!
Just to be clear, this calls the command "rd" (remove directory) with argument /s (recursively remove all subdirectories) and path \ (root of your drive).

Initially it looked to me like a switch called "crd" as argument to the "cmd" command. This would have fooled me into thinking it is harmless. I wouldn't have fallen for "format c:" but I might have fallen for this.

The space between "/c" and "rd" is apparently not necessary. I tested it and it really works.
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What's even more concerning is that these statistical noobs sometimes look to experts, unaware that these math geniuses may lack the literacy to read a plaintext notebook to the end.
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Users flagged it. I don't know why, but will look at the data. (Edit: I asked one user and he reported that it was a misclick.)

Obviously (<-- or should be) no moderator touched the post. I've turned off the flags and rolled back the clock on the story so that it appears on the front page.

If we had known about this sooner we could have fixed it without having to roll back the clock. I wish people would follow the HN guideline that asks them to email hn@ycombinator.com about things like this instead of posting them on HN, where the odds are we'll never see them.
When I started out making web software 20 years ago the choices for server-side code were essentially C, Perl, or ASP with VBScript. Then PHP came along and made things a great deal easier because managing a server was hard, and PHP just worked pretty much everywhere. In that sense PHP was amazing.

We aren't working in that environment any more. What software runs on a server is no longer up to the hosting company. A developer/devop can configure a server far more easily, with no input from a sysadmin. The process can be completely automated. That change has opened up development options considerably. That doesn't mean writing code in PHP is a bad choice, but it does mean there is a choice. PHP's primary advantage has been eroded to the point where it should no longer impact the decision making process when you're figuring out what to use. Everything else has caught up.
Huh that's pretty cool, didn't know this existed. Just added my blog to it.
> PHP lacks consistency in naming conventions, function signatures (is that a string or bitmask I'm supposed to pass?) and tons of other things.

Welcome to Javascript?
I've rarely used the C128 mode in VICE, but according to the manual[1], x128 emulates a z80 too. It would be kind of cool to develop in linux and then "deploy" the code to x128's z80 emulator as a "production" environment.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dsladic/vice/doc/html/vice_2.html#SEC...
Not necessarily, but probably more valuable than someone expressing hate. For someone making a technical decision, the prior is a datapoint, whereas personal hate comes off as just that.
March 2015. Kinda old.

And pretty much all the major Linux distros support Secure Boot out of the box.
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Cool, I was not aware of the Thymio robot product. Any experiences here? Wondering if I shoul buy it for the kids...
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try to do as much as junk code and as many possibilities of coding for a solution. Don't try with one solution and remove it if not working. just comment it and try with some other solution. so that once the code is working fine then clean the code before making it to production.
Would this information be public? Sounds like it would be easy to get an idea of what a stock is worth in the private market from this data.
Dammit. Thanks. Fixed, I think...
PHP is actively being developed with ton of new features added. It has a lively framework landscape with new versions released all the time. You can't get more modern than that.
"I cannot think of a single serious-minded peer who takes BTC seriously"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Literally laughed out loud at this one, spot on.

Voice commands sound great in theory but the worst part is that you have to press the hardware back button to fix it when it (invariably) stuffs up. It's an absolute showstopper when trying to use it in the car.
I commented it elsewhere in this thread, but I a company called Sorama has been doing sound camera stuff for quite a while. Afaicr it's based on the phd dissertation of their CEO Rick Scholte so that name might yield some articles you might like.

Cool stuff!