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In most investments (stocks, mutual funds, etc) winners in one period don't extend to another, and certainly not over the long term.

VCs are the exception. The best VCs do seem to outperform over time. (Most don't though) Some of it is self-fulfilling: they get the best deals, and are the least likely to get screwed over by short term thinkers. I believe that some of it is also to judgment.

Should you listen to someone just because they have capital? No.

Should you listen to someone because they've got an insanely high batting average guiding startups? Yes. If you have one of the All Stars, by all means take what they say seriously.
I'm saddened to see anyone's hard work disappear, but it's painfully obvious in retrospect that the "app store" model of software distribution that Apple popularized is not sustainable without long(er)-term financial support for the developer. For non-game apps, that means either subscriptions or paid upgrades. I don't think either would have saved Vesper.
Async I/O -

CON: I hate having to set up callbacks (even with promise syntactic sugar), whether I need them or not. But of course I do need them when I am coding a U/I.

PRO: the "promise-all" trick is pretty useful if you have several queries that all need to be completed before you can continue with their results. I have some Java code that might benefit from this since it does several queries to generate a PDF. (then again, caching might make this moot - YMMV)
“We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”

Unfortunately, we can't modify much of the environment without giving up a lot of what we have. And, that's the trade-off of rapid progress - evolution is no where near as fast. We probably should change the schools for many reasons. But, changing them so that they're somehow more natural is probably an impossible goal, at least until we invent more technology.

Humans have had to deal environmental diseases at every major milestone: choosing residential over nomadic; domesticating livestock; using grain as a primary food source; choosing urban over rural; inventing industry, the corporation, and desk jobs; inventing dangerous chemicals for products and fuel; inventing processed foods; inventing weapons of mass destruction. The diseases that have come with these have been trade-offs that we have accepted.

As a sufferer of several psychological diseases, I suspect that mine are all environmental in some way - stress, close-quarters living, giant social hierarchies, living by the calendar and clock, being exposed to all sorts of toxins, etc. My nature tells me that I should be out running through the forest and chasing game - not sitting at a desk and typing on a keyboard. But, am I going to live alone in the forest? Hell no; I enjoy what I have.

I take several psychological drugs, and they have awful side-effects. And, I self-medicate in other ways. But, those are the trade-offs that I've chosen to be able to do all the things that my mind conjures.
Thanks.

There is a plan to set up a fairly dynamic page where people could compare different technologies, and look at trends.
I see your point about social justice, but I think it isn't a great example. While there were and are some committed racist and misogynist individuals in the world, by and large people as well as organizations were indifferent. They didn't have any position to speak of, and so they were blindsided and easily swayed when the shaming and contempt came around. They said "hey, that's not us, we're not like that!" and fell in line with the social justice position. Programming language communities, on the other hand, have a real investment in their language of choice. It's not that they're indifferent to the issue of whether PHP is a terrible language; they actively choose PHP, so when they're attacked they move to defend.
Assuming that the appeal process is broken, or you're locked out of your account or something equally egregious: you post to one of the product-related Google Groups listed at the bottom of cloud.google.com/support. Support staff and engineers read those lists and will escalate issues.
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Why is it then, that there are now cruise ships going through the Northwest passage, roadways built on permafrost melting in Alaska, coral reefs dying worldwide? NASA invented the concept of global warming 40 years ago for political purposes, secretly recruited every other scientific agency-worldwide to collaborate AND coincidentally, unrelated to the billions of tons of greenhouse gasses we release, the world got warmer?
Not that this should be necessary, but it'd actually be pretty simple for a compiler to fix #2: transform `const i: int = 3;` into `var i = new Int32Array([3]);` and change future references from `i` to `i[0]`.

No clue what the performance implications would be for really heavy uses of this, but it'd at least be a workable solution if you absolutely required a true integer type at run-time.
> [type juggling is] Literally what this entire thread is all about.

No it isn't, that's just what you've been fixated on. Please re-read nostrademons' post, because you aren't actually addressing the issues they brought up, namely:

> It's dynamic typing with a prototype-based object model. This type system [...] tends to be pretty bad at communicating invariants to other programmers or nailing down APIs for other subsystems to build off.

While it's true that Python "fails nicer" than JS, it addresses neither of those two issues about preventing failures.
I'm far from an expert on this, but I've always thought that the symptoms (inattention and/or impulsivity and hyperactivity) are only maladaptive in modern culture, where young people are expected to spend long hours sitting quietly at attention in school.

Is that a disease, or a flaw in modern culture?
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That doesn't mean companies actually do it, or are able to recognize that situation until it's too late.
I'm not too sure what do you mean. Could you name them?
Why would you select against people with poor vision?
The point was, that with PE you are at a later stage of business (for startups usually pre IPO).

USV basically tries to do what MIT does with a fraction of the staff: Identify experiments worthwhile to pursue at earliest stages...judging by the quality of their "content marketing", I just doubt this ability. They are 1 generation VC with some lucky bets (prior to a market that matured) -- looking at their current portfolio, I wouldn´t be that bullish
I like HCMC. It feels very cosmopolitan and forward thinking. I think the corruption needs to be sorted out, but it's interesting that even with that there are so many western shops (apparently it was because of the previous president who opened up the country to foreign businesses?).

The canals/waters are still very polluted though but everywhere I go there is construction :).
You might like Dear Leader, which is a party card game about the awfulness of dictators. The kickstarter for it ends tomorrow.

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>none of them were able to get back on track

Not sure what qualifies as back on track, but all of those economies have been growing strongly since the crisis.

Average annual GDP growth from 1999-2015: [1]

- Malaysia: 5.2%

- Thailand: 4.1%

- Philippines: 5.0%

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/
I started taking these stimulants like vyvanse in college about five years ago. Although I can exhibit symptoms from time to time, I do not think at all that it is medically necessary for me. After trying them once, it made things a lot easier, and besides a few episodes, the good effects have been able to balance out the bad. I do get very worried occasionally though that I will have to suffer long term consequences. I am very much dependent though now this fear has not yet been strong enough to get me to stop.
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A lot of the younger generation are going back (those who didn't experience the war)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1322&v=YbwJ6F3sI...
That reminds me, because of the various negatives, of Hempel's paradox [1].

Suppose you wish to test the theory that all ravens are black.

The conventional approach would be to examine ravens. If you ever find a non-black raven, the theory is busted. If you keep finding only black ravens, that doesn't prove the theory but it does make it seem more likely.

But the conventional approach is inconvenient and annoying. You have to go out and find ravens, which are often in place that are hard to reach and you have to deal with the weather.

There is an easier approach. "all ravens are black" is logically equivalent to "all non-black things are not ravens". Proof of one proves the other. So why not test the second, equivalent formulation instead?

That is much more convenient. I can do that without even going outside. The keyboard I am typing this on is non-black, and it is not a raven, so without even finishing this post I've already found evidence to support the "all ravens are black theory"!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox
I get really skeptical whenever someone uses the term "Big Pharma". 99% of the time the person using it is selling something (hey, look, a $28 book).

How dare a pharmaceutical company sell a product? How dare doctors decide to prescribe medicine? While that was slightly melodramatic, here is a quote from the article:

Schwarz has no doubt that A.D.H.D. is a valid clinical entity that causes real suffering and deserves real treatment, as he makes clear in the first two sentences of the book: “Attention deficit hyperactivity is real. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.” But he believes that those who are disabled by the condition deserve a wider range of treatment options than an endless litany of stimulants with chirpy names like Vyvanse and Concerta.

... Great, so it all boils down to the pharma companies not creating enough drugs for ADHD? But it's their fault that there are too many drugs? I am not particularly impressed, and to me it feels like the author is just manufacturing conflict for the sake of selling a book.
The VC market overall is about 1% the size of the consumer credit market.

In consumer credit, those banks who compete to offer you car loan terms are relying on a big ecosystem.

There are credit bureaus to give you a FICO score. There are state laws about roads and traffic and licensure and insurance and repossession and collections to protect their downside. There is a governmental infrastructure of auto titles to prove your ownership claims. There is Kelly Blue Book or other sources to value your collateral, the nature of which changes slowly over the years. There is a dealer network (and e.g. Bankrate) to distribute your "product." There are millions of precedent transactions for use in modeling default rates, marking the collateral value over time, etc. And as a bank you are entirely passive, merely smoothing consumption of a depreciating asset over time.

In VC-land, the terms are almost the least of the problems. The ecosystem is absent (or radically less developed).

There is no "FICO score" or other agreed way to evaluate the entrepreneur.

There is no "Kelly Blue Book" to evaluate the collateral (underlying).

The collateral changes year by year, and (to stretch the car comparison) is often engineered to try and annihilate all of the prior collateral to which it was compared.

Nobody has a driver license. The roads aren't yet paved.

There are tens of thousands of precedent transactions, but the power-law distribution of outcomes means that they are basically incommensurable, since one out of 10,000 might end up being bigger returns than all the rest put together.

And most crucially, the VC cannot take a passive role: the default state of venture funded businesses is rapid change and need for continuous new and risky decisions about team, market, new financing, etc.

So. Maybe it would be better compared to lending money to demolition derby drivers who are expected to pay you back out of the prize money, which all goes to the winner of the derby.

(Source: 10 years in tech finance/investment roles. Self-serving biases acknowledged.)
I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. I applied to jobs in other states as well. But I just ended up with good option and better salary here. Housing is comparatively really cheap compared to California. Lot of outdoors activity, I think just got used to it now.
Database servers like influxdb or druid provide flexibility at the cost of performance. If you want 3 million inserts per second and 14 million reads per second you have to roll your own solution (like the one in the link). Though if you know a database that performs like that, I would appreciate enlightenment. :)

Any query language, network access, non-binary storage format will slow the data system down, so we had to create our own embedded timeseries system to get this speed.
Heaven forbid?

Many other VC firms want to invest in ex-Googlers and their startups, especially one with previous success. It seems reasonable that they'd continue to invest in people they have high confidence in.
Note that it's not so much the grey-on-black that's offensive, but the bright green and dark purple that produce eye strain. If you're going to use a black background, use light pastel colors for your fonts. That's usually a pretty good reading experience.
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My point is that with a very slight increase in the complexity of the process, you could have a _dramatic_ reduction in cost.

New York State is actually in the process of transitioning EMTs from EpiPens to vial/syringe kits.
> How so?

I was trying to communicate that the companies don't pay for the cost of the spectrum, the customers do.

Basically, politics have made the cost of cellular communications to customers higher than it should be in a competitive market.

Economist (and wealthy businessman) David Ricardo brought up the use of politics to artificially create higher prices using the "Corn Laws" in Britain. This was the case of putting restrictions and tariffs on imported grain which resulted in increased prices for land because of the politically increased scarcity of the grain by limiting imports made domestically grown grain have a higher price which basically means that more (marginal) land was brought into production raising the overall value of all land.

Raising the cost of spectrum to consumers creates a regressive tax and increases inequality.

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

"The Corn Laws enhanced the profits and political power associated with land ownership. Their abolition saw a significant increase of free trade."
Logs are very much not a time series so storing them in a time series database is not something that I would recommend. Time series are essentially a sequence of numeric data points in chronological order. Though events are usually in chronological order, they're not numeric data points (though they can contain that too).

As a consequence of being two different things, storing and analysing them efficiently need different solutions. I've seen people stuff everything in Elastic Search and it's certainly possible if you really want to.
What do you think a VM is?

It does not target your hardware architecture. Just because your code is in binary instead of text, it does not become less of an interpreter.
It also prevents people that are dying from getting drugs that they need.
> We've yet to see anything written in Rust used in production environment, just anything.

This is not true: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html
> Women had fewer votes than slaves.

Incorrect. When slavery was legal, women had zero votes in and slaves had zero votes.

Presumably, you are confusing the 3/5 compromise -- by which slaves contributed to the representation of the states in which they were held -- with giving "votes" to slaves, but that's not correct (it just gave more power in federal government to the states in which they were held.) But, not only is that not correct, but since women were constitutionally "free persons" despite not being granted voting rights, they were counted as full -- not 3/5 -- people for representation. So if you are counting their contribution to their states representation as "votes" (which is, again, wrong) they would have more than slaves, not less.
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You still haven't removed the obvious copyright violations I mentioned prior

http://python.w3clan.com/tutorial/14/introduction-to-python has content taken from http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_overview.htm

http://python.w3clan.com/tutorial/15/variables-and-types has content taken from http://www.learnpython.org/en/Variables_and_Types

And same attitude towards the PDO tutorial plagiarism (https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4ynd0e/php_data_object...)

- - -

Oh and the owner of the site partakes in the plagiarism as well?

http://rocky.w3clan.com/post/88/terms-and-condition

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xLyWQV...

and http://linux.w3clan.com/tutorial/164/deadly-commands which you can google almost any paragraph from to find where it was taken from

Really really sketchy
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This is not at all my area of expertise, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. That being said, Javascript Flow seems like a better solution than Typescript. Long term, a sandboxed low-level VM like WebAssembly will hopefully catch on and allow web devs to replace all of these not-quite-javascript languages.
I challenge someone to provide evidence enough to scare me into stopping. Go ahead, save my life
The article addresses this issues: One clinician quoted in the book more or less admits defeat: “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”
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This is a great point and I'll probably have to do some performance measurements and change parts of my code now. I should be more careful with sacrificing contiguous storage for O(1) insertions.

It is also worth noting that some manuals say that appending to an array list is O(1) amortized. Which is true, if you make an amortized analysis (which essentially distributes the workload of copying the array into a larger block over all the inserts). That's to keep in mind for systems that have to be realtime or at least produce stable framerates. The worst-case is important and amortized analysis generously glosses over it.

EDIT: Not inserting, appending
It would be interesting to know if length of school day correlates with diagnosis rate (controlling for confounding covariates), or if, e.g., Montessori schools have fewer diagnoses than public schools (again controlling for confounding covariates like family income, etc.).
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Well, true the title could have been better chosen, forgot there was a timeseriesDB in .NET

Though the original title still was true about the approach in the link being more than 30 times faster than a pure LevelDB solution (which is also often used for this sort of storage).
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I quit using Facebook around 4 years ago and have since then learned AWS pretty well. Last summer after my son turned 1, I realized I was at risk of losing all my photos because they were sitting around on random devices and hard drives. I set up my own 250GB EBS volume and went through everything I had and archived it in that volume chronologically.

/mnt/raw/photos/2014/06/IMG_5930.JPG

etc.

I've even built tooling around it to help sync my photos from my computer whenever I plug my phone in. I also wrote a custom web server in Go that makes it easy for me to arrange them into albums and email its URL to friends and family. I even hope to eventually learn Swift and just build an app like iCloud that will upload everything directly from the phone, with no laptop required.

It's all completely overkill, but I enjoy knowing that I have full control and ownership over it. It's a nice little "fuck you" to Facebook. It's also been a fun project to work on. It's the 2016 equivalent of my parents' bookshelf full of dusty photo albums from the 90's. At least there's a decent chance it will survive the next 20 years.
the same could be said of most forms of media. how many stupid tv commercials and made for TV movies are only preserved via a betamax cassette at a hoarder's house?
> Great, so it all boils down to the pharma companies not creating enough drugs for ADHD?

No, some people will benefit from parenting classes or therapy as well as meds.

The author is saying that meds alone are not enough for some people.
It's also very good specific advice.

Investor opinions are signals created by an active market.

Think of them as guesses about the number of jellybeans in the jar (by people trying to win a prize). The guesses in aggregate will be right, generally speaking.

Having professional jelly-bean-guessers doing it all day long makes their individual guesses a little bit more accurate but makes the aggregate guesses work pretty well.

(Source: raising angel and VC rounds, getting feedback some of which I didn't want to hear, and then watching it come true as I slogged through the issues that were not only foreseen but described to me ... albeit in aggregate from the investor market.)
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> And if we're not willing to change that environment--and I don't think we are--then we should medicate the kids so at least the experience is tolerable and they can have some success with it

And as a result traditional response has been amphetamine-salts for children as you say. But I completely disagree that this is something we should do.

For one I think we don't have good enough science to know how potentially dangerous or helpful ADHD drugs really are. Is it going to help them adjust later, or will it be harder? Are they going to be dependent on amphetamines their whole life? Evaluation of drugs which are primarily targeted at emotional and behavioral problems is difficult enough in neutral conditions, since it is hard to control/evaluate/quantify results. Yet the conditions we are dealing with are totally not-neutral.

Basically big pharmaceutical companies fund lots of research - if the research doesn't support their product they can shelve it and fund some other studies until they have research which does. It's an awful field with too much money and lots of dishonest science.

Secondly, using medications to treat ADHD (because that makes money for their producers) is as you pointed out making us avoid the cultural / environmental problems which cause this issue. But I disagree that this is inherently from the 7-hour school day as you point out. Kids went to school for 7-hours 50 years ago as well, but ADHD diagnosis and medication use has been constantly increasing. [0]

A large factor to this is the increasing amount of stimulation that kids today are actively exposed to that they weren't in the past (I can't remember references of the top of my head, I'll try and find one though). Basically if you grow-up with 4-6 hours of TV or video games per day, yeah it's hard to sit down and read a book. Obvious right? And your recommendation is really to give amphetamines to 7-year olds? Rather than limit consumption of mediums that are inappropriately over-stimulating for large durations?

[0] http://images.slideplayer.com/18/5690061/slides/slide_2.jpg