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>your skills with money management won't tell you where to spend money when its discretionary, and what level to set your discretionary shares at.

Yes they will? That's an aspect of money management.

>There's no skill to say what is too much risk. That's a judgement call that everyone has to make for themselves.

By even framing the decision in these terms, you're already displaying far more experience in money management than many people have had opportunity to acquire.
Data denormalization is broken
"There is Something Deeper to this phenomenon where our notoriously unreliable memories play a spookier, more immediate trick on us than usual. How do I know? Well, it happens to me sometimes, and _my_ memory is accurate and unclouded."

I also have memories of deja vu experiences that would seem to eliminate false memory as a possible cause. Most of us do, which is why the phenomenon is at all remarkable and not just called "being mistaken".

It is impossible to know the future.
>That's why you don't start a business dummy, you work with a money manager and have him invest it

That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about people that built businesses.

>You claim a child in China has the same access to opportunities as the son of a hedge fund manager?

No one claimed that anywhere in this thread. Take your strawman fight elsewhere.
Microsoft REST API Guide
The webpage says it zeroes the key material when the battery runs low. So it'll fail "secure" in that case, presumably.
Except, it's plainly not.
Seriously.
It's been around since the 1600's and every supreme court that has ever existed in the US has found it constitutional.

You can claim they are all wrong, it's literally not unconstitutional, because in our system, that's what the supreme court decides.

Now, there are more reasonable arguments that some of the current approaches do not comport with due process, but that's not as blanket a statement as you are making here.
Civil forfeiture must end. But until it can be ended, the least we can do is to make certain that any forfeited funds do NOT go to the police departments which hold power over deciding these cases. The funds should go to the federal government so that there is no local incentive to unjustly seize assets from citizens. That much should be obvious, in a democracy, right?
I actually had an idea around that - neighborhood cooking. There is definitely some widow grandmother on my block who would love to make some extra money cooking her awesome meals for her neighbors. And I'd love to pay for that service. Unfortunately state regulations for what is defined as a kitchen and cooking for others has huge health code implications, and never took off.

This, what you're saying, is more of a logistics and resource allocation problem, all needing to be done in real time. Very smart, but would require quite a bit of up-front innovation. I'll ruminate on this idea for sure!
Curiosity finds evidence of Mars crust contributing to atmosphere
> Seriously, if you have the intelligence to program, you should be able to find a minimum wage job or what I did, work nights doing security.

Minimum wage work may be enough to sustain someone who has a high school diploma, but well does that work for someone who did go to school, sank tens of thousands in loans, and then had to leave before finishing, assuming they have no support network?
Having the fruits of our economy distributed equitably is a problem? Keep in mind, I was talking about a future where robots and machines have taken over doing virtually everything we pay people to do now.
Server-Side Swift, with IBM's Kitura Web Framework–Chris Bailey and Ian Partridge
Gmail Is Selling Me Russian Brides
This is a wise observation and I didn't really appreciate it until I was about 40. I came from the hybrid route (hacker who started learning biology early) and I think most people who come to bio from physics or CS have a lot of learning to do about how biology is "different" from those fields. The underlying systems tend to be complex- far more complex than people who work on distributed systems or HEP are comfortable working with. They are ambiguous, highly multidimensional, there are complex feedback mechanisms and redundancies, etc.
Correct, printing is done via DTG mostly through our own print factory (CanvusPrint.com).

Cheaper shirts print on Gilden, the premium shirts on Next Level or Bella Canvas.

Thanks for trying it out.
> money derives its value from 2 sources: 1) the actual goods and services (GDP) that it represents and 2) the fact that government demands taxes be paid in it.

This is historically and factually inaccurate. Currencies typically originated as highly marketable commodities that are naturally scarce and fungible - salt, gold, silver, cigarettes in jail, etc.
Thank you, Rust standard library maintainers, for making it very easy for me to contribute `BinaryHeap::peek_mut` to the stdlib, which landed in stable today!
While I agree that the U.S. and other criminal systems do not stress rehabilitation enough (or at all), the problem with all the things you mentioned aren't rehabilitation-centered.

Civil forfeiture is plain unconstitutional. The legal idea behind it, that property is charged with a crime, and so it doesn't matter if a person is guilty/inocnent or even charged is simply absurd. Plea bargains cause people to plead guilty even if they aren't because they fear the lengthy process of litigation that is many times stacked against them. In doing so they may, depending on juresdiction, lose access to wealfare and other forms of government help that is many times vital to these people. As to losing the abbility to vote after being convicted, it's blatantly undemocratic and absurd. A person convicted of a crime loses some rights but that is done for the benefit of society and the convict himself, to allow hime to rehabilitate and become a productive member of society. A convict shouldn't lose rights if they don't directly contribute to the societies well being or his own. A person voting doesn't constitute a danger to society.
I think it's not grammatically accurate to use "them" and "they" for a singular subject; if it's one person or thing, the pronoun should be he/she/it or some combination. For press releases, the safe option is to be grammatically correct than colloquially acceptable.

Nevertheless it could be one of those things that is in flux as part of the evolution of the English language.
I know! The special characters are limited by the fonts we selected. Amazing how many fonts only support a-z.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Was this Chicago, too?
> code that is not very elegant nor easy to understand

That was my impression when I started learning R while learning statistics - again, but this time with an actual interest in the subject and not just for the grade :)

On the other hand, the whole R-learning experience, which was aided by having to do practical "statistical" things in the language and working with actual data, gave me a new perspective on programming, a much more data-oriented perspective if I may call it that.

Before (learning R and statistics) I was interested in the code and what it could do, afterwards (but only for those kinds of applications) I was interested in the data and what I could do with it, the "how" was secondary. From that perspective I understood a lot of the (IMHO) "hacky" nature of R and some of its libraries.
This 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance
Ordering can get expensive no matter what just base on how many things you're actually sorting. Ideally, if you can find a way to limit the size of the data set before the ranking sort you'll see a big improvement.
>My reply is intrinsically in the domain of scientific code. It is not intended to make sense in the general context.

If I'm being honest with myself, I too have serious reservations about the extent to which Go is suited for scientific computation.

> I recommend jumping in the deep end and learning Haskell for what strong type systems can guarantee.

I'm superficially familiar with Haskell's typeclass system, but respectfully, this misses my point. What use is such a system in the context of scientific computing, or in the context of Go's mission?

I understand that there are type systems with stronger guarantees, but again, Go is not Haskell. Go is not Rust. Go is not solving these problems. My question is, in practice, what features of a type system are "these people" (the ones complaining about Go's type system -- I don't presume to label you, jerf, as one of them) pining for?

My (respectful) exasperation stems from the fact that these arguments usually compile down to something roughly equivalent to "Rust exists so why is Go not Rust? (Or Haskell)".

>I take the tradeoff because in the context I'm working, the simplicity of code tends to win out even so.

But this is exactly my point. At some point, adding features to the type-system is going to reduce the simplicity you enjoy in the context of problems for which Go was engineered. I appreciate that (to quote your linked comment) "the further away from a 'network server' you get, the less appealing Go gets", and that every success story you encounter with Go involves network servers. Moreover, I agree. Go nails this particular problem space, and I contend that this is in part because of the fast-and-loose design of its type system. We are in agreement with respect to Go's problem domain, and we are in agreement with respect to the fact that Go should not be viewed as a general-purpose concurrency language. These points, however, do not address the question of its type system.

So again: what more do you want this type system to do in the context of writing network servers? Which specific features from Haskell do you find yourself wanting, and what guarantee do we have that this would not undermine the simplicity and dynamic-i-ness that has made Go successful as a plumbing language?

>That said, I tend to consider scientific programming one of those, and a burgeoning community seems intent on proving me wrong, so shrug.

I'm inclined to agree with the caveat that certain disciplines (molecular bio and genetics for instance) increasingly rely on high-throughput streams of data. Perhaps Go is well-suited to the pipework, and perhaps it's advantageous to perform simple data transforms natively prior to doing the heavy lifting in Python or Julia ... I nevertheless remain unconvinced.
sama, a big picture question, what is your take on the Stagnation Hypothesis?

I know you know a bunch of people who are concerned about technological stagnation and I was curious about your personal take on it.

Thanks
This isn't even the normal situation, however. Modest houses, modest cars, and so on can get taken for relatively little amounts of drugs. Have some cash on you to buy a vehicle, and happen to have some pot in your car? Oops, goodbye car.

What you are talking about is unreasonable when you are talking smaller amounts and things.
That looks nice. CAN, SATA 3.1, GigE, Usb 3.0 on top of what you mentioned. I wonder what the power draw is on this.
Here is an example of a prepackage solution: http://exxactcorp.com/index.php/solution/solu_detail/225

seems expensive
This is one argument that many anarchists make; the truth is that (at the very least) an order of magnitude more people were killed by their own governments in the 20th century than were killed by their fellow citizens. Hobbes was wrong.
I recently started writing some R code and found it much more elegant than previous code. R has a bunch of functions for handling data and statistics related stuff, that really reduces complexity. But also it has a lot nice iteration functions that make it possible to do a lot of stuff with a single line. I only needed to use a for loop once. I never needed to do anything complex with data structures or nested loops or branching code, everything seemed to reduce to a few functions. It's a really elegant language, at least for its specialized domain.
So we both agree that the wealthy have massive advantages and thus their successes mean less. If you get a few hour head start at the marathon you don't get to brag about how you won.
> Why should two voters have so much more influence than 310 million others?

Our political funding system is broken, I agree. So is our general electoral system: elections are _way_ too long, which makes them more expensive, of course.

> I also think this the parent post presents an overly-moderated depiction of their views

By no means am I saying that everything, or most of, or a large part of, what the Koch brothers do or think is good. I'm just saying that the claim that all their political activity is guided by the basic principle "let's see how much we can screw poor people" is a caricature, and not a terribly accurate one, and providing one simple counterexample.

I'm not asking you, or anyone else, to like them personally, the sum total of their activities, or any particular activities. All I'm asking for is that we don't jump from "these people are doing a bunch of stuff I disagree with" to "these people are pure evil, so anything they do must be evil, hence anything they are involved in is evil by association and must be fought against". Unfortunately, this last bit of reasoning is far too common in politics recently, all across the political spectrum. Just like the related "This organization is good, so whatever it does must be good" line of reasoning that seems to be so common... and usually indicates that the organization should be terminated before it does some serious harm. :(
I can't be the only person who looked at that graph and burst out with a cackle that startled everyone around them. The deep and inescapable dread of that fire burning around you even as you make history must have been quite a feeling.

Or in the vernacular of youth: "This is fine. Everything is fine" as a scaling graph.
This is great, I'm sure Watsi would love it.
Another plausible reason why he used the USD amount instead of 0.15 mBits, is because the Hacker News readership has had years to associate an internal "feeling" for what $0.09 is worth.

The Swiss Franc is also very stable and has similar qualities to USD. Would you not have complained if he cited the figure in Swiss Francs?
Figma has constraint based layout though?
I agree with you on that point. An unfortunate artifact of drawing correlations along tribal lines.
One way it is used to day is to take the money before the trail so you cannot afford to defend yourself. Pretty effective, if you just want convictions.
Same here, I have bad experiences with UPS all the time. I have caught them twice manipulating the system and lying to Amazon (they said they attempted delivery although they didn't).

For me UPS has been the weakest link in the otherwise marvelous Prime program.
I cannot dive into too much more detail than is in the graph since it's still sensitive information. Y-axis is essentially traffic to Cloud Datastore (think: after layers of caching, etc), x-axis is date.

The 2 lines can be thought of as ceilings or upper bounds, hence why they are static - this are the numbers that traffic was expected to eventually reach at peak.So you can think of it as, "we thought we'd be looking at graphs that had this line as the top and traffic would be some curve underneath.

Obviously from the graph shown here, we/they needed a tall graph.
The Quick Guide to Intermittent Fasting
Senior = most senior dev in the building.
AKA Designated Survivor.
Right, kinda like what happens when you buy a Xeon or an Opteron. You can enable AMD SKINIT / Intel TXT & UEFI Secure Boot if you like. Intel didn't force this upon the consumers, the OEMs requested the processor features.
> If we as a society believe the person is still a danger, then we shouldn't let them out, ever.

We should recognize that we cannot always judge that correctly. So you either let people out who might still be a danger, or you keep people locked up who might not be a danger. (And, in fact, you do both - all you can do is adjust the proportions.)

But people scream really loudly if you keep people locked up who arguably are no longer a danger...
While true, it is quite different have to worry about lets say 10% of the code easy tracked down by unsafe blocks, or every time a string, array, memory allocation, numeric manipulation is performed.
I don't deny that quality of life improvements exist.

The proposition I make is that wage growth halted for the average (median average) American in the 70s. The same phenomenon spreads to other Westernized countries too later on, most dramatically evident in the island of Japan which has spent 30 years keeping up maintenance.

Alongside this I proposed (here or elsewhere on HN) that we were and are yet presently living in a stagnant period. The thesis is well laid out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3EBfS9IcB4

Stagnation is not a plateau or a halt to growth, but a slowdown in the rate of change. So there is some change, just not much relative to former periods. The economist Robert Gordon has written a life's work on the subject. He may be wrong, but it is not a stupid idea.

The items you mention are examples of incremental improvements in existing technology. This is not unimportant, it is at least half the battle since what is the point of high technology if nobody can access its utility.

However my worry, and that of Levchin, Page, Gordon, Musk and Thiel is that we are not seeing breakthrough technologies able to scale up and this is a very troubling sign for the future.

Energy production and storage, space travel (Musks's entire rationale is reasoned on the Stagnation Hypothesis), biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, central coordination, many important areas in our society are in some form of decay, diminishing returns are evident. Lots of PR and press releases but no impacts. Investors have gone bust in many of these areas, esp. in biotech, nanotech and cleantech. If everything is improving that shouldn't be happening.

Again, the benchmark is not no change. The benchmark is the past history of those areas. You can pick bright spots in each industry and high achievements but we do not see things like technologies to make heart attacks impossible or cheap aerogel insulation, the kinds of leaps we made in the past that really lifted all boats.

This can be difficult to believe if you live in a modern western city, but if you go to the peripheral of our world you can visibly see it rotting away. This is because it is not the center of the system that fails first, it is the peripheral.

In a period of rapid true growth you see whole new fields of development opening up from what used to be small niche fields (like computation used to be).

It is not about having faith in the future or technology, it is that we have to come up with business plans and ideas that make things happen or it is entirely plausible they never will happen. Believe me, I want a better future as well, I'm not trying to drag you down because I have a cynical personality or something like that.
The New York Fed says aging has caused a 33% decline in real wage growth
30 concurrent connections is a very low number, compared to uses of MySQL/InnoDB at real scale. What happens at higher numbers?

I am not arguing that "concurrent = fast". My point is real systems have a higher level of concurrency as a baseline.

InnoDB supports granular concurrent access because real workloads need this. Systems that have poor stories around concurrency -- MyISAM, Redis, pre-WiredTiger MongoDB -- definitely hit real scalability issues under high-volume workloads.
Until you ship a minimum viable and usable product in the hands of a user who depends on your software, you'll languish with crushing torpor. It happens to almost all of us.

Focus efforts now to release v1. Find your willing user first, commit to deadline with the user, deploy version 1 for user to start off with, then watch life take on new motivation as criticism, comments and compliments start coming in.

MVP or bust
The comment was pretty clearly not saying that, at all.
Netflix did that for video: http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/06/toward-practical-percept...
Every time I see one of those silly "Can you believe those wacky laws still on the books!?" articles I think, y'know, it being illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Hoboken (or whatever) is a hell of a lot less bizarre than the fact that inanimate objects can be held liable in a court of law for the actions of animate humans. The picture that goes with it should be something like a Toyota Corolla sitting behind the defense's table, with somber lawyers around it.
While not related to race, cops have been caught tracking the rich to seize whatever cash they had in their cars.
Civil commitment actually results in this.

Repeat sex offenders are effectively jailed for life.
Ledger Nano S: The Multi-Purpose Crypto Stick
"Much like how cryptocurrency is a high-speed re-enactment of how and why we developed modern financial institutions and regulations, Airbnb is a high-speed re-enactment of how and why we developed regulations on and protections for transient lodging establishments." (sorry, no attribution)

See also: taxis
"Vuls doesn't support SSH password authentication. So you have to use SSH key-based authentication.
And also, SUDO with password is not supported for security reasons. So you have to define NOPASSWORD in /etc/sudoers on target servers."

No thank you.
I was just curious how your insurance handled this? I would guess they would probe an investigation, but maybe not. At least the police would have all the records of the items stolen. Though the family items would be terrible to lose
They do. But separating those two roles and having two different people make those decisions tends to result in less-than-optimal decisions. It's the same kind of problem as "let's have the tech done by engineers and the business done by business people," and then your business gets bulldozed by a competitor whose CEO does understand engineering.
$19000 for one month's use of cellphones? Sounds like corruption to me.
Tales from a Tesla Model S at 200k miles
No offense, but your comments are somewhat outrageous to me. I've been on the receiving end of one of those graphs (different scale) because suddenly things happen (we were placed above the apple logo as a feature with no warning AS WE LAUNCHED).

And you're sitting there as the engineering lead or staff going, "How do I even feel about this? Fortunately I have no time to feel because I am off to fight fires." I didn't go home for 2 days, I worked 82 hours that week and >70 the next.

Complaining that the estimates are bad for a product that literally broke everything we know about how to build a successful mobile game and has scaled to a truly unprecedented level is meaningless. Obviously no one expected this. Obviously the engineers wouldn't have wanted it. Obviously the world will respond the way it will to our work.

Show some compassion. But also some humility. None of us are qualified to make projections in the face of phenomena like this.
Cooperating with prosecutors, to find evidence against bigger fish, shouldn't result in a more lenient sentence?
YADA 8.3 with Quickstart Installer released
It is competitive in fees. Sending $1M of bitcoin can be done for less than a dollar. Try doing that with USD.

Of course, fees for converting USD -> BTC -> USD are not that cheap, but neither are the fees for converting USD -> YEN -> USD.
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Setting Up and Running Your Startup's Stock Option Process