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I liked his mistborn series, it had some novel ideas. The rest I have read are too long and generic fantasy.

I think the best modern fantasy I have read is Richard morgans 'a land fit for heroes' series.

I liked the first couple of books in the Malazan books of the fallen series but they got too long and slow.
eh, i don't know

this is like saying that "real-time" has clear, simple definition... except for all those times in which people writing medical software disagree with people writing videogames.

socialism is a word that doesn't let people communicate effectively. you say it meaning one thing, and people may understand in a multitude of ways. I think the advice to avoid using it is sound.
You sound like you think you're agreeing with me, but you're not.

I'm saying that socialism, as practiced in Scandanavia, is not collectivist. That means that, no, collectivism does not "subsume any definition of socialism you could ever reasonably give".
I understand that 51% of Wikipedians on the page for "Socialism" have come to this conclusion, but it may trouble you to know that 51% of Wikipedians on other pages about other aspects/flavors of socialism do not agree, let alone political scientists as a whole.

I'm sorry to be so snarky about this, but "socialism means command economy" is the Scholar's Checkmate of Internet political science debates, and I'm think we benefit by not dignifying it.
The short answer to your question is that Peter Thiel is an odd man out. He has some very bizarre and extreme political views by both mainstream and especially Bay Area standards.

When the election is concluded it is essentially a certainty that Trump will have lost San Francisco and Silicon Valley by huge double digit margins.
Yet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism
> most companies have and will just port it to different platforms, using the api that gives them the most performance

Yes, when they have a choice and resources. It's not even the case here. I.e. it's not like developers simply prefer lock-in when dealing with some of the walled garden platforms. They simply have no choice - the likes of MS, Sony and others don't leave them that choice. It's not a discussion on technical merits. You could use your logic if developers could actually choose.
Sure, there are lots of reasons beyond Homo Economicus thinking for why we work the way we do. Laws, cultural expectations, and so on. I just don't see results-based work displacing the current norms broadly enough to make a difference, and if it does in fact result in better productivity I expect that to be eaten by competition/profit rather than going to workers as free time, in the long (medium, even) run, absent some pretty massive shifts in culture, especially with international competition in the mix.
> Python ... read[s] from the bottom up

Depends on who is writing, of course.
"Saying the Turkish military is incompetent is really damning to the whole of NATO."

A determined invader could probably take Europe in 48 hours. The Cold War days of preparedness are gone; just witness the commitment of EU NATO members to ME conflicts; the lack of preparedness in Nice. The train has already begun derailing, one carriage at a time.
If you're using "socialism" as a bugaboo, probably not. It has a broad meaning, like "democracy", but it's not always a bad thing.
> they could have just as well not be

That's a weird logical leap.

Let's make the servers not be by unplugging them. How's the abstraction working now?
> "They're not sending their best... They're sending people that have lots of problems... they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, their rapists."

Is "Mexico is sending us their rapists" that much better? Instead of a plainly racist remark, it's a xenophobic conspiracy theory that plays on Americans' fears, with no evidence to back it up. Seems like you're really grasping at straws.
He was elected democratically, but then he behaved like a dictator. He was not aware of his ignorance in economics, and he had to support of the people. The results were disastrous.
No Venezuela's problem is corruption,populism and incompetence. How comes Norway is freaking rich from the little oil they have and Venezuela can't even achieve the same thing with way more natural resources ?
One of my most enjoyable experiences as a candidate was when a company shared login information with me for SSH-ing into a temporary virtual machine they had spun up at Amazon S3 solely for the interview. They asked me what editor I'd like present, and separately made sure any environment details were taken care ahead of time.

Then I was able to simply log in with my shell here at home, and the screen was shared with the interviewers. The whole interview took place in console Emacs, with the interviewer pasting in a question, me poking around and asking clarifying questions, then switching over to IPython, tinkering, and going back and writing code incrementally.

I think all of the modern front-end services that do this kind of thing are pretty terrible, like Coderpad, HackerRank, TripleByte, or more UI-focused screensharing tools. Heck, I'd even opt for just a Google Hangout if we had to do it by UI screen sharing.

I think the low tech route of SSH is vastly superior.
As we know today, Germans never had any manpower to make use of much lebensraum. They were at Peak German at that time, after which their birth rate declined dramatically. They won't have the men to settle any of those lands they were supposed to colonize.

Anyway, USSR lost the most lives fighting Germany and gained least benefits out of that. Just check:

https://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/RU/DE
I think this architecture is public transportation in that analogy.
This is cute! I hope she liked it and the effort you put into it.

How did you like using SpriteKit as a game framework? Would you recommend it for iOS development?
Maybe worry free if you don't need to look under the hood. If the manufacturer would lock the hood you would never know :)
We are trying to make insights gained by machine learning more accessible and actionable. We believe that analytics doesn't necessary have to be in form of dashboards. Instead, we are delivering insights right to our customer's mailbox. Besides regular reports, we also provide more advanced services that help to improve the order of content, adjust the difficulty of games, and similar. More details can also be found here: http://try.goedle.io/kurt/.

We are particular keen on getting to know how people nowadays make use of automatically generated segments or make use of prediction within their marketing.
Vivaldi is built on Chromium I believe
DNS Privacy
Sounds like communist Romania in the 80's. The main difference there was that the state had a near monopoly on violence, which they used constantly. Even people who were starving were mostly too scared of the government to contemplate violence.

Sounds like it's time for new elections or executions of the assholes in power.
In the future, somebody will develop an AI-based auto-hinter that's so good it makes Comic Sans look like Helvetica.
I think "capitalism" and "free trade" are similarly without clear definitions, given the amount of time people spend arguing about them.

This seems to be a consistent truth. Perhaps we should develop tools to be able to converse with people who don't use the same definitions that we do?
To some extent, that is true.

Take some Python lib that does heavy use of reflection and peek at it's source code.

Those features do make code harder to maintain. But with Lisp you not only have more powerful metaprogramming features, you also have a community that embraces and recommends their use, instead of weighting their usefulness against their maintenance cost.
People who have more rights than you.
I just found this: https://vivaldi.net/en-US/teamblog/121-snapshot-1-3-501-6-cu...! (dev version). It allows full customization with CSS! That's great!
I'm sorry to tell you that your Opera Link (not to be confused with Opera Sync, the syncing platform for the new products) has already been deleted. Opera stopped providing the Opera Link service December last year.

The servers has been decommissioned, and according to Norwegian law, the user data has been deleted.
Ok, cool. I will look into that product more closely. Have you used Compass already?
Turning my desk in an open office into tiny cubicle
I've been thinking about adding some wall-panels or something to my desk. Anybody done anything similar?

The other option would be to get more monitors to blot out my surroundings. I have co-workers who have done this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/technology/silicon-valley-... You can find this all over the web. Peter Thiel is not representative of just about everyone.
OP here -- I would also love to know why this post got flagged. I posted this because I was interested in the HN community's thoughts on the article as I try to decide what to think of it, and not because I was agreeing or disagreeing with it, or to push some agenda or other.
It's heavy crude, not light crude, but it's oil nonetheless.
That may be the case, but whatever the Clang frontend sends to C2 does produce better code than the Microsoft frontend. It probably already folds the stores at the frontend level, instead of leaving it to the backend to figure out.
That's entirely unnecessary and silly. Instead I'm going by the word of the very people that were instrumental in creating and spreading Socialism and its intellectual foundations to begin with: Marx, Engels, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Trotsky, etc. No need to rely on arbitrary speculation.

To argue that Socialism means something other than a command economy, you have to disagree with all the major players that were actually responsible for defining Socialism to begin with. I choose not to do that and I accept their elaborate, very well documented descriptions of what it is. And I'm not referring to associationism or the cooperative movements, I'm talking about Socialism.
Sometimes articles about programming languages do belong here. They have a large audience here and have since I've been around. This isn't "Startup News" and doesn't purport to be.

In fact, the guidelines for hacker news specifically state that "[On Topic]...includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Pooper: Your dog's poop in someone else's hands
>He was elected democratically, but then he behaved like a dictator.

He was elected democratically to behave like a dictator. Most dictatorships advertise quite clearly what they intend to do.
About Yeltsin:

"During a visit to the United States in 1989 he became more convinced than ever that Russia had been ruinously damaged by its centralized, state-run economic system, where people stood in long lines to buy the most basic needs of life and more often than not found the shelves bare. He was overwhelmed by what he saw at a Houston supermarket, by the kaleidoscopic variety of meats and vegetables available to ordinary Americans.

Leon Aron, quoting a Yeltsin associate, wrote in his biography, “Yeltsin, A Revolutionary Life” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000): “For a long time, on the plane to Miami, he sat motionless, his head in his hands. ‘What have they done to our poor people?’ he said after a long silence.” He added, “On his return to Moscow, Yeltsin would confess the pain he had felt after the Houston excursion: the ‘pain for all of us, for our country so rich, so talented and so exhausted by incessant experiments.’ ”"(1)

Capitalism has many evils - most notably the tendency to eat its own young - but it does do most things very very well.

(1)- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/world/europe/23cnd-yeltsin...
I completely disagree that it's DOA. In fact, I think it's clear that is the future of development.

Like any piece of the software stack, there are providers focusing on services that are proprietary, open source, and a mixture of the two. I am personally most excited about the hosted open source providers, because it gives dev teams immediate access to the technology, but the option to bring it in house when and how it makes sense.
Maybe this discussion wouldn't have come to pass in the first place.
Talk about productivity

"In four months Barnaby wrote 137,000 lines of bullet-proof assembly language code. Rubenstein later checked with some friends from IBM who calculated Barnaby’s output as 42-man years."
> the lack of preparedness in Nice

There is no way you can pin this on NATO unless you whole-heartly support a military police state.
All the rampant speculation in this discussion serves no good purpose and is more harmful than helpful.
The problem might be of lack of trust between a manager and his team.
He assumes that most would shirk work given the slightest chance.
US to curb Green Card via “extraordinary ability” route for Indians and Chinese
Has anyone noticed how everything of value out of India is only in English (the other lang link is blank) ? This sort of thing would be anathema in China; what with all the 'millenium of humiliation' and things. Odd, considering the general indignance showed towards @pmarca (from @a16z) some months back.

Edit: @a16z -> @pmarca
How Well.ca Grew Revenue per Email by 129%
Fair, but it's worth remembering how hard it is to convey sarcasm via text.
To me Undo is one of those features that make a lot of sense internally because it forces a certain structure to your data. Whether you're doing it by commands or snapshots, the end result is a heavy separation of concerns that makes a product's internal architecture easier to maintain in the long run.

Having a user-facing "undo" action at that point is almost a side effect of just good internal metaphors.
Several submissions of this item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116686 (nature.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116615 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116577 (sciencenewsline.com)

Which will win the race for votes?
Ask HN: Free VPN with good privacy
Which is a free VPN service with a good privacy reputation? I'm currently using VPNBook [1] but then I came across this [2]. I premise that I'm not going to use it for something critical: I just don't like the idea that my ISP can see anything I do online and being tracked by other companies for marketing purposes. So given this VPNBook is probably fine, but I wish to know your opinion about other services.
[1] www.vpnbook.com
[2] https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/7168/anonymous-accuses-vpnbook-of-being-a-honeypot/
Senior engineers with the foresight and savviness to execute on such a plan are also going to be savvy enough to not allow it to exact a toll on themselves. Especially with junior managers.

Pressure will be created and focused onto the non-technical problem creator and reliefs for that pressure will be similarly engineered in precisely the same manner. All the while, the engineers will keep a smug, knowing look on their faces while the manager flounders around a technical terrain that they can't begin to fathom and that has suddenly become utterly hostile.

The manager will eventually 'get it', realizing that he has to work with the engineering team and not against them. Then all problems magically evaporate and a new understanding is reached.
B61 bombs have command disable mechanism. It can be rendered permanently unusable just by entering 3-digit code and pulling a handle.

It's also possible to encode the required code physically into the explosives by mixing high and slow explosives randomly in each bomb. PAL code is then needed to adjust the timing of the detonators so that detonation front is symmetrical. Even if you bypass all the electronics, it's impossible to guess the timing without the code.
Several submissions of this item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116686 (nature.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116615 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116127 (wsj.com)

Which will win the race for votes?
Checkr (YC S14) is hiring back end engineers to build the future of online trust
Suffering from the disease of central government. We need a telethon to stamp this disease out. Look how many were killed in the 20th century because of it. Ideology infects a people then gets turned to government implementation, and when things go badly wrong, it can't be fixed until it collapses and the people finally start to learn their lesson.
Several submissions of this item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116686 (nature.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116577 (sciencenewsline.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116127 (wsj.com)

Which will win the race for votes?
There should be nothing controversial about the fact that illegal immigrants commit disproportionate amounts of crime and threaten American livelihood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...

> "in Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide are for illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens" and that "60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in Southern California" were illegal aliens, based on a "confidential California Department of Justice study."[194]

edit - and in case it's not clear, where do you think the vast majority of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles are coming from?
The Venezuela government set extremely low prices for essential goods and has devalued the currency to an extreme degree. So anything market priced is extremely expensive (the money isn't worth much) and many local producers went under because they couldn't make money at the prices they were required to charge.
Twilio, Stripe, etc. aren't what the article is referring to as FaaS (which, incidentally, I've never heard of outside this article but seems pretty descriptive). They're talking about things like Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Parse Cloud Code, where you write code that runs on a third-party service. The entry & exit points of the code are under the control of hosting provider, which distinguishes it from PaaS, where they normally take a well-known platform that'd work fine on your laptop and then perform hosting and administration.

Think of it as the API vs SPI distinction that we used to have back in Windows-land. API-only services like Twilio or Stripe are usually just called SaaS.
Several submissions of this item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116615 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116577 (sciencenewsline.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116127 (wsj.com)

Which will win the race for votes?
The biggest confusion I see is exactly this, people use "socialism" when they mean "welfare state".
My gripe with the "Senior Engineer" title is that I've NEVER met anyone with 5+ years experience who didn't view themselves as "senior". Usually 3+ years.

In a market where there are more job openings than employable candidates, and competition for talent leads to rampant ego-stroking and title-inflation... the term "senior" has become just another word for "competent". Someone who can work independently without hand-holding.

So how do we verbally distinguish that from, "No, I really DO mean 'senior'"? Most people get 40+ working years in a career. How do you encourage humility and self-awareness, so that people don't honestly believe they've reached the 90th percentile after the only first 10% of that journey?
Why did not they think of this while facilitating coup guys?
That isn't what DoA means. "DoA" doesn't care for whether an individual can use it, it cares for the collective.

I'm sure Stallman couldn't use the iphone when it came out because of constraints, that doesn't mean the iphone ever was DoA.
Curious to hear how you use this perspective to rationalize the government structure for providing public goods in the U.S., such as defense, roads, and the court system.

Is the U.S. not a free market economy in your view?
Alternate definition? A market is a place where you exchange currency for commodities. That is a definition of what a market is, not an "alternative definition".

There is no being coy at all, I can't even twist my head around how these similar places in the US and Russia are not the same. What is his "alternate definition" where such a place in Russia is stripped of the word market?
A mathematician on how math and science can help save the planet
Trump had 10% more votes than the next, but there has been a 9% jump in population since the last open election primary cycle. Using absolute numbers is pretty disingenuous.

Additionally, the record number of competitors all split the vote against him, leading to an early point where his competitors had -- mathematically -- a very difficult uphill battle.

I disagree with you that he has 'wide appeal'. I think he holds zealous appeal among the demagogic and ideological crowd, but I vehemently disagree that he has wide appeal.
I had to suffer through DisplayWrite at one job. What a horror. Word Perfect was .. nearly perfect. If only they had made the transition to Windows faster/better they'd still be a major force in the market.
Aha now that is an interesting question and I'm glad you asked. I know that I personally would feel responsible if I saw collectivism murdering yet another society and did not call it out for what it is. If I for example saw that people were dying of lead poisoning but instead blamed evil spirits then clearly I would be responsible for mass poisoning.
Forgetting the other most important role, coaching people on the team. And yet another one, shelter from outside unrest. Oh, and blame-absorber. And coordinating efforts, when yet again three engineers in three different places work on the same issue.

You know, this is starting to resemble the "what have the romans ever done for us" skit :)

I'm not disagreeing that many managers don't do this. Or that they do it badly. But managers, when they work properly, do a lot more than liaising.
I suppose what I'm asking for isn't really possible yet. Hopefully it ends up getting implemented at some point.

Still look forward to rolling out Prometheus for all of the other great features. Congrats on the release!
Perfect timing to coincide with the GOP convention. This is a hit piece.
Hackers are already targeting the GOP convention
Honestly, our industry has such a love affair with engineering at this point that at many companies you can easily have an impact in these areas if you're senior enough. And by "senior enough" I don't mean having a big enough title. These groups are willing to collaborate with people who show honest interest and appreciation for the problems they're trying to solve and the roadblocks they hit while doing so. It may sound a little chicken and egg, but I think part of how senior people demonstrate their seniority is to successfully work outside their silo. Unfortunately many engineers fall into one of two traps: waiting for permission to do this kind of work or -- the flip side -- barging in without having a clear way to contribute.
I don't know vim or Emacs — does the marked region stay in place, still marked, while you travel elsewhere to copy/move it?
Whichever rich and/or powerful people you don't like, as far as I can tell.
You did not start a store in the USSR, period.

That was one out a few countries where all business was tightly state-owned.

You could grow some radishes and sell them at farmer's market, but that's it.
This is what Amazon’s homepage looked like 21 years ago
You can't generalize. Certainly Hugo Chavez didn't.

Since Venezuela was a democracy you could also argue that democracies wreak havoc in the economy.
As much as I agree with that I'm still at a loss as to why butts in seats management is still so dominant today.

Because managers up a level have no other way of knowing if you're being productive or not. So they look and see if people are ferociously typing. This is not a joke.