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I'm assuming you didn't specify it intentionally and so don't wish to answer but it can't hurt to ask: which country are you referring to?
Well, some people believe in charity, some in socialism.

I'm more for a democratic guided way to spend money beneficial, than one rich person deciding what needs to be done with it.
i'm not commenting on the validity of what you say, just that it reminds me of the story of max plank and his photon 'hack' for getting round the ultraviolet catastrophe - he thought it was a mathematical tick/curiosity too. then Einstein said 'hang on hang on hang on, maybe not...'. wouldn't be the first time in history a hack turned out to be the real deal.
:) right so every public company can just double sales/marketing spending and it would double their revenue :)?
Yes the butterfly is egregious. At least the breaststroke is a rational refinement of the largely instinctive (even for humans) dog-paddle, and had a long history as a modern racing stroke before Native Americans taught everyone that the crawl was faster. Even fairly poor swimmers can breaststroke for long distances. The butterfly seems like a bizarro version of the breaststroke, slightly faster but much more difficult and exhausting. They could add any additional arbitrary requirement to the butterfly, and the result wouldn't really be more arbitrary than it already is.

Perhaps swimming should take weightlifting as an example. This discipline requires lifters to perform two lifting techniques, the "snatch" and the "clean and jerk", and combines those to get the final result. This is similar to "medley" swim races, which may be a reasonable compromise between the current four-stroke insanity and eliminating stroke requirements altogether.

Walking is at least a natural gait. Triple jump is a single event, so it doesn't have the multiplicative effects that swimming strokes have.
>the explanations we make up for things that happen in our lives

I guess that's how religions are born.
Discord will likely grow to the value of Twitch was at (when it was acquired by Amazon) in the next couple years, it's a really big space.
I don't think it is at all same. You can clone a Gradle-based project anywhere (e.g. /projects), cd into that directory and run `gradle build` and it will work. There is no `GRADLE_PATH` or similar environment variable determining where all your Gradle-based projects must live.

The `src` folder you are talking about is a sub-directory inside a Gradle based project. This is entirely configurable within the Gradle build script, you can use multiple sub-directories for your source code or even the same directory as the build script if you wish. The reason Gradle uses a single `src` sub-directory by default is that it follows the Maven Standard Directory Layout.
People tend to think that constant evolution is the natural state of the world becoming "more advanced". But really, evolution will only happen when there's a reason. This species is related to a bunch of other species that did evolve, but apparently it represents a group that managed to stay in conditions that it was already adequately adapted for. Or there was no beneficial direction available in which it could evolve.
Even accepting your personal definition of "democracy" to mean "pure majority rule", constitutions typically have provisions for modifications by majority vote. So a being "bound by a constitution" does not eliminate majority rule.
> semifinalists are guaranteed at least a bronze

Huh. How does that work? Are the semi-finals a three person round robin, rather than a four-person bracket? Do they give out two bronze medals?

edit: yes, two bronzes in fighting sports, because the minimum rest period between matches makes a "bronze medal match" difficult to schedule. source: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-2-bronze-medals-awarded-...
One of the things they talk about in the article is building structures that can be moved and used elsewhere after the event, which seems like a pretty good solution.
This is a good reason.

I hear similar questions about Cloud Foundry: "why did you write Diego instead of using Kubernetes?" -- because Kubernetes didn't exist. "Why BOSH instead of Terraform?" -- Terraform didn't exist (and has different opinions, anyhow). "Why Garden instead of Docker?" -- Docker just didn't exist. And so on.

I call it NIYS: Not Invented Yet Syndrome.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, which donates the majority of engineering on Cloud Foundry.
He actually commented on the Nervana systems thread[1].

He says he is more interested in basic research than pure hardware optimization. I understand, but he's pretty good at that!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257668
Exactly. Slightly tongue in cheek, The Boston Tea party would probably be viewed as a terrorist attack if it happened today.
The last mile is a huge problem. Every city I've lived in use to have trams (street cars). There were tons of them. Then GM convinced everyone they should have their own personal cars. US cities ditches trams. Hell Australian cities ditched trams (except for Melbourne who had city planners who weren't short sighted morons -- now they have the largest trams network in the world).

The use needs really good city rail. If you had that, intercity rail would be a non-brainer.

In Germany, the city of Jena has ~100k people. It has three intercity trains stations (one that has an ICE - high speed line), and .. I think three of four trams lines. That's for 100k people.

America is spread out, but that's hardly an excuse. The auto industry has a lot of blame in this.
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Sucks if you're from the city and want to visit your friend/loved one in prison, though.
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Cinderblocks. I went to Home Depot, spent $5, and jacked my desk up 18". I figured I'd take a flier on the standing desk idea, but it's working out so well that I don't think I'll bother with anything fancier.

Some kind of an anti-fatigue mat is kind of a must if you're standing on a hard surface. You don't have to go big on that necessarily, either - mine came from the home goods aisle at Wal-Mart.
I'm finding the in-content markup and heavy in-stream visuals tremendously distracting.

A straight-text extract would be a far more useful presentation online. Following an @idlewords-type presentation, with images to the side of the main text would also help.

I have modest interest in reading this, but not so much that I'm willing to put up with entirely self-inflicted idiosyncracies to do so.
Indeed it is, thanks for posting. It always surprises me how when you get down to the nitty gritty of how financial markets work there is a lot of hidden complexity to the mechanics that could have a significant affect on how you should trade.
Fake-Edit: I wrote all this, and then realized, I could just ask: Can someone very familiar with recommendation algorithms comment on the content of Reginald's presentation?

TL;DR, references to Pandora's recommendation algorithm:

Describe GOOD things broadly, permanently, and personally.
Describe BAD things specifically, temporally, and impersonally.

Now let's think about Pandora. Specifically, Pandora's recommendation that you thumbs up (upvote) a few things, and thumbs down (downvote) many more things. Why?

Let's think about Pandora's recommendation algorithm, or, recommendation algorithms in general (pandora's is good because you can give input every ~5 minutes, as opposed to Netflix, where it's ~1hr). Note: Not an expert! I just read stuff on the internet a lot.

Pandora takes your upvote, and it promotes an entire region of music-space. Pandora takes you downvote, and it demotes a very narrow region of music-space. In other words, it broadly interacts with GOOD things, and specifically interacts with BAD things. Pandora isn't passing judgement on you, but it is a personal thing (or, really, per-channel), and you can un-vote anything; so it at first glance it doesn't apply on the other axis but I wouldn't put it past them if my upvotes carried across channels (so they're more personal, while the downvotes stay "impersonal" to each channel), and it might be better if downvotes decayed in some way over time.

In any event, you can imagine what this looks like in state-space: You start with a broadly defined region, and you start taking holes out of it.
Silicon Valley Bank is a bank that happens to be in Silicon Valley. It's a "Valleyesque" outlier in terms of bank policy — they are terrific at working with startups in unusual situations. (Your average bank equates "unusual situation" to "just hang up the phone".) But their technology isn't like the Tesla of banking or anything. Though they did buy Standard Treasury, so perhaps that'll be an interesting direction.
My brief skim over the Swarm announcement was that, while it focuses on the orchestration problem, it's not a fully-fledged PaaS. It's somewhere closer to where Kubernetes is working.

Essentially, you turn on a swarm and then ... oh, I still need routing. And service injection. And I need something to build the app. Something to hold the images. I guess I need standard debugging interfaces. Standard performance measurement. And ... and ... and ...

PaaSes require a lot of engineering.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal on the fringes of one such PaaS, Cloud Foundry.
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He probably shouldn't have said it.

Or, perhaps, this whole thread is bullshit.
Have you looked at the similarities between this advice (broad, permanent, personal for good; narrow, temporary, impersonal for bad) and how recommendation algorithms (netflix, pandora, etc) work?
Johnson gave a talk at my department about the J-TEC. He really was quite polished and answered some tough questions we had.
I believe the assertion is that in order to maintain the bee population at the level necessary to meet demands on agriculture given the extraordinary rise in the death rate of both individual bees and entire colonies, the beekeeping industry has had to import far more colonies per year.
Gradle + Kotlin should be renamed to Kradle, shouldn't it? =)

Massive fan of Gradle and Kotlin here. Can't wait to give this a whirl.
You do not need to be extremely lucky to "make the world a better place". If that is truly your goal, you can definitely do that without building a startup, without getting extremely lucky, without spending 80 hours a week working on ideas.

I'm very much convinced that nearly everybody on this site who claims to want to make the world "a better place" just want to start their startup, earn their money and financial freedom, and tell themselves "they made the world a better place".

Snarky as fuck, yes indeed. I'm just beyond tired hearing all this bullshit, at least be honest with yourselves. If this does not apply to you, then it doesn't. If it does, please rethink your goals in life.
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Right, that was kind of my point as the parent seemed to be implying you could perform an arbitrary amount of trades at the closing price and would be somehow magically guaranteed to fill the orders. Or at least that's how I read it. Interesting discussion nonetheless.
Does Knock Knock offer the same possibilities as chat roulette?
Even an existing wormhole could still cause problems. Consider for example a wormhole between two points with different gravitational potential — say one end is close to the Earth and the other end is further away.

Then if you could let yourself fall from the higher to the lower point, and took the wormhole to complete a loop, you would end the loop with more energy than you started with, which is a big no-no!
I'm on the same boat, the only complaint being the lack of history search. And I like Discord so much that I switched our office from Hipchat to Discord, despite it being exclusively marketed towards gamers.

We have been completely happy with the switch, in special the ability to hop into voice chat with remote coworkers with one mouse click.
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The laws of physics are the mathematical description, and the wormhole concept arises as a curious edge case of those laws. If wormholes are actually impossible, the laws of physics already need to be rewritten, not the other way around.
> The iPhone was a small battery powered box you can hold in your hand and it could play music, just like the iPod, but at the time the iPhone debuted, that's about where the similarities ended.

iPods had just become colour when the iPhone came out, so the main differences were interaction (touchscreen vs "touch wheel"), screen size and connectivity. It wasn't long before the iPod touch came out, with a big touchscreen and apps; basically a non-phone iPhone, giving that different audience a clear transition path.
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> I remember it was almost impossible to explain the issue to the support staff on either side

Yeah, is there some kind of standard escape sequence to use in these circumstances? Like "I must speak to the manager" or some analog without sounding mean? I know these folks are incentivized to not escalate, but...
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Given that pesticides have greatly increased agricultural efficiency, does that response not make sense?
Well, the headline says it all, doesn't it?
If you're only targetting 2-3 systems for redundancy (each the same apps), you could configure them exactly the sime behind a load balancer, then have each deploy just run to all 2-3. Did this as a POC early last year.
Today people get an order of magnitude bigger rounds with 0 users :)
Just quoted the benchmark numbers, that were observed there is no fixed cost ofcourse! Here is the deal, it's not something to impress people (specially THAT guy), but proof of concept that if you know how to implement something a RPi is enough. I also know IRC and XMPP has already done this, and these are the system that inspire modern systems like Slack (for which you will be happy to pay). This project started of for me to put my RPi to use, and you know what it's quite useful so far. So ya nobody needs to be impressed, I am just an engineer building toys to increase my experience.
This response is precisely what has made insecticides so incredibly dangerous for world agriculture. Documentaries like "The Vanishing of the Bees" and "More than Honey" do a great job highlighting just how criminally negligent the agriculture industry as a whole has been to bees. What I haven't seen is an analysis of how devastating the large-scale destruction of insect populations is to the world's ecosystem. We are essentially decimating the most productive food-producing species in the world and expecting not to have to pay for it in spades down the road.
The same math that describes the creation of an ERB, also makes them unsuitable for transit of even a single particle. There's also probably some question as to whether it would even connect to a distant part of our universe, since the math describes two different, asymptotically flat universes.
The keyboard hook thing is safe - turns out the low-level keyboard hook is special, and it runs in the installing thread's context.

Having nothing better to do this evening I wrote my own version, which should run fine on Windows 10: https://github.com/tom-seddon/GfyKeys

It's very possible this isn't quite the same as the original, which I've still yet to actually experience - however you do get a click each time you press and release a key, so it's presumably not a million miles off.
Carbon fiber is a pretty weird choice for a reusable rocket. Unlike aluminum, it has basically zero tolerance to heat since the fibers are embedded in a matrix made of a polymer glue compound. That's why they call it fiber reinforced plastic.
My favorite part is that the transactions are printed single-column. Look at all that white space.
Simple seems great, but its daily/monthly transfer limits are really scary. I'm not in the habit of wanting to exceed them, but I can think of some one-off events where you might want to (restructure your investments, do something with your bonus, buy a car, buy a house, etc) and the idea that you straight-up can't should give anyone pause.
absolutely. First Republic and SVB are the only two banks that know how to work with startups. The more mainstream banks really don't understand the challenges of being a startup. They'll ask for things like your businesses tax return from the previous year when you try to open an account... and then get confused at what to do when you explain to them that you have only existed for 2 weeks.
How about just having your company use a non-SVB credit card (or debit card) and just pay off the bill via the SVB account? Have you tried calling up SVB and resolving it with them directly?
but then I wouldn't get my monthly laughs in!
The [Beluga language](http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/beluga/) is a variant of Twelf which aims to make such transformations much easier.

Full disclosure: Brigitte Pientka was my supervisor. I did not work on the compiler, but I did make the language's logo.
You should check out LINE. Same business model, absolutely huge.
That's a fair question and, not being hugely familiar with the legal system, I'm not sure what that would fall under. I'm thinking something along the lines of intentional deceit or unfair/manipulative representation of facts, but I'll admit to not knowing nearly enough about the law to point to anything in particular.
He has it backwards. Our current physics allow for wormholes. They probably don't exist but if they were literally impossible, then we would need to rewrite our current physics.

Wormholes are more than likely impossible because to hold one open for travel, you would need some sort of negative matter/negative energy. That isn't forbidden by physics, but it's unlikely that it exists since we haven't seen any. Without negative energy/matter to hold a wormhole open, even if you could create one, just a single proton or electron would cause the wormhole to become unstable and collapse in on itself, and doing so faster than the proton could travel through.
Paperless billing isn't really high technology. They're already sending an e-statement, so I'm not sure what would be keeping them offering to have that be the only option.
spend the money while it lasts!
I guess I don't know what you mean by functional business. For me they have built an incredibly valuable asset that has grown enormously and will probably continue to do so.

Amazon is another company with opportunities to make profit, but they traditionally haven't done much of that, eschewing that for just growing value.

In the years when Amazon was not turning profit, would you consider it a non-functional business?
> Othertimes, you have to recognize that you aren't an expert, and that the real "why" is beyond your reach. If you're in this situation, you're probably better going with the herd.

Yep. And as a society we are great at this, which makes it almost impossible to improve any part of our culture basic enough to be taken for granted.

That’s how we end up with a base ten number system, a weird irregular calendar, really silly spelling rules, suboptimal mathematical abstractions, inflexible shoes, office furniture and computer input devices which cause serious injuries, roughly the same computer architecture since the 60s, or the marvelous absurdity that is the modern web software stack, not to mention bloody centuries-old feuds between neighboring tribes.

Also the main reason advertising and propaganda work so well. “Everyone else does it, so you should too” is an incredibly effective way to shortcut reasoning.
I am not judging Zuck at all. I am just saying it is a pretty bad way to showing a leader.
They have to do this to get a return on their fabs. You basically have to run them near capacity and x86 is being used in fewer and fewer devices.
I wonder if we will see a repeat of this story in the Dropbox IPO:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-17/big-ipo-ti...
I use it for development stuff, mainly because Linux is a better overall environment for developers compared to windows.

I use windows for games or if I'm not doing dev stuff
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I like it!

Many of the USA influencers aren't in the USA.
> Does CISC have any technical merit at all?

Object code, in some cases, can be smaller. That's why modern RISC ISAs like RISC-V include a "compressed" instruction set option, to combat the object code size disparity with CISC ISAs.
They funny thing it is not that they dont have e-statements it is that they dont allow you to opt out of the paper statement. Any other bank would force you to paperless only the first time they saw the bill for shipping you an giant box with a thousand page statement
Founders of successful companies don't spend their time reading about how other founders became successful. When Zuckerberg was 19 do you think he spent all his time reading interviews about billionaire startup founders? Thinking that copying their traits, following their do's and don'ts and imitating them will lead to success? No, he spent his time working on the product. That and being lucky. Some of these people lucked out more than others, and because of that they get famous, get interviewed and spiel out some B.S. about how to be successful as if everyone could do it (and that they 'made it' because of intelligence, skill, and hard work).
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Social Security and healthcare payments from the federal government are mainly insurance programs.
His... violent racism? I do not think you will see Yarvin saying all "Bleks r dumb."
I am not entirely disagreeing, but there are some interesting things one can do with a CISC processor.

Arguably code density can be higher on a CISC device. You'll note that ARM has implemented basically code compression in their ISA with thumb.

As for microcode on x86, most of the actual instructions running on the processor are pulled from L1 already translated. This used to be the trace cache, but after P4 that was dropped and now comes back as a u-op cache, meaning mostly that the instructions are stored in decoded format and so don't get run through translation again. (In P4's trace cache, branches were smashed and whole trace sequences up to three branches long were cached and then speculatively retrieved and executed.)

Interestingly, there's research that shows you can spend plenty of time and gates to optimize the instructions as they come out of translation and go into the trace or u-op cache without negatively affecting performance, which allows some optimization basically for free. No one would do this these days because it's extra power and heat, but it was seriously considered back in the gigahertz wars.

In addition, it should be noted that the translation between x86_64 and u-op is not super larger or challenging and is much much less challenging than most things we'd think about as a compiler pass.

Decoupling internal architecture from externally exposed ISA is not an unreasonable choice, but x86 is certainly no longer a highly desirable external interface these days either.

In a world where single thread performance isn't a significant differentiator, there's fewer reasons to use x86.
Already posted here:
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Business-to-business relationships often include account managers and/or dedicated "partner" support lines.

These channels are less scripted, more inclined to believe that the caller is a professional in the field who knows what they're talking about, and will actually admit something is defective / mediate interaction between the customer and actual engineers to work on a fix.

You don't get that as a consumer, though. You get it as an "account" with significant LTV, an authorized reseller, etc.
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