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Where is the evidence that SpaceX rockets are cheapest? Just because SpaceX says so?
Privacy concerns are very valid. You do have the option, however, of disabling those features in preferences, so you never have to use them (or the cloud platform) if you don't want to.

(I work at Nylas)
Too bad you have to do it yourself, we can't have a service doing that in the cloud.
wealthy != independent.

Financial independence to me is not needing to work ever again, even if I'm living quite frugally.
To a sufficiently advanced civilization matter and energy are just flip sides of the same coin. Why make the distinction?
This implementation is yours to maintain, that's why it's simple enough to make that possible. There is plenty of room for simple. They allow building networks of cooperating threads, which is the purpose. Erlang isolates, Go doesn't, in the end I like the choice.
Anecdotally, I was aware of both Content Security Policy and Communicating Sequencial Processes, and first thought of the latter.

I figured it out by the end of the first paragraph though.
They're interesting and often-overlooked techniques, but are not novel. You can read a more about these sorts of attacks and other similar ones in 2011 writeup "Postcards from the post-XSS world"[0]

[0] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/postxss/
This is great, fascinating to know that Flask was inspired by Armin Ronacher's April Fools joke!

Still got to appreciate his resolve to bring out better microframework than the existing alternatives at the time.
I disagree about it being "too powerful for its own good". If it was, we would have a magnificently efficient and useful library come out of this that brings Go- or Erlang-style programming to Lisp. But alas, this code does not.

A lot of hardcore Lisp aficionados do the equivalent of a mathematician writing a "sketch of a proof" and saying "left as an exercise", without ever writing the details of the proof. It's occasionally aggravating when you pull in a library and discover that this is the case.

To be clear, there are many Lisp folks do not do this. Some go the full mile and implement something completely and robustly. Edi Weitz has been the canonical example in the community.
Except that if you buy the Berkshire Hathaway machine you'll put in $20 and get back a dollar.
I think, first an for most, do you enjoy what you are doing?

A lot of the other stuff can be worked out. You can move closer to work or better yet negotiate a remote working environment ( if possible ) You can find a hobby , granted that's not so easy to do. And increases in salary are inevitable and can be negotiated.

What i would suggest is talking directly with HR and not your manager. These are trained professionals who sometimes have really good insight into the peripheral aspects of the work environment. If you do stay and they see you have potential for a management role, or you push yourself into that direction i.e MBA night school etc, the more time you have with company the greater chance of that happening, as well as being fully prepared to move into the position when it presents itself.

In the end though go with what feels right for you ( i know that sounds cliche, but in the end it is your life) I just quit my job, but not for salary reasons so it was a lot easy to decide. $130k with equity does not sound bad, but i guess it all depends on your previous experience and qualifications.

There is some pretty good scuba diving around Seattle ... just for a hobby suggestion. I found scuba diving to be super peaceful and relaxing.
Copy-pastable blog post code is the antithesis of good software engineering practices. DRY, encapsulation, reusability, broadly applicable abstractions, and so on should ideally be heralded as the thing to strive for.
Also Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds for a more sinister solution to the Fermi problem.
Very good question.

If we presume the cost of good drops to near zero if robots are creating everything, and maintaining themselves, then there will be a race to the bottom for cost. For example, if a T-shirt costs US$0.001 to make (including raw materials), then anything above that is pure profit for the seller. Suddenly people need less money to buy things that were very expensive.

I think you need to look at the portion of cost that is associated with labour and defects, and assume this will be the cost of the good until raw materials are reduced in cost as well.

Personally, no. I don't think capitalism in it current form can survive robot revolution.
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If it works for you, keep it up.

Caloric restriction seems to fail large groups of people to the point where short-term weight loss that is followed by respective gain (and more) has its own Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo_effect

Many people who try caloric restriction suffer from pangs of hunger, general weakness, brain fog, lack of energy, daytime sleepiness, loss of mental clarity and focus, etc. Diets based strictly on calorie restrictions are not sustainable for their specific age+gender+body type combo, but might be effective for yours.
Odd. I reported this very same form of vulnerability to the Ansible team in the 1.5.4 series in 2014, where the code basically eval'd the "facts" discovered from a system under management.

There was this "safe_eval" function which filtered input in a way quite inconsistent with its name. The Ansible team was responsive and pleasant to work with.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/MUQx...

But I suspect lots of remote control and monitoring software products might have security bugs like this where they assume that the returned information from systems under management are trustworthy.

Edit to add: Here's the patch made to safe_eval. I had suggested using literal_eval instead but I think they didn't want to require Python 2.6+.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/998793fd0ab55705d5...
> even without American meddling

But there has been American meddling, so not sure what hypothetical scenario you are trying to play with...? The countries that are furthest from America's destructive reach / the least "meddled" with are Chile and Argentina, and surprise surprise, those are the most economically and socially stable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_countri...

Regardless, the spillage of violence and the far-reaching effects of our drug war have had a lasting effect on the entire region.
Yes and no. I'll agree that simulating a universe isn't the same as making a stupid video...

But I stand by my assertion that people waste a LOT of time doing stupid stuff.

There are projects that do AMAZING things and are spectacular. Then there is the other 95% of Youtube.

I'm sure there will be some AMAZING simulations... and then there will be the majority of them...

The real question in my mind... is which of those simulations are we in... an Amazing one... or a subpar one used for comparisons.
> Google doesn't do anything well but search.

I beg to differ. Google also provides great products for - Maps, Email, Browser, Mobile OS, Video, Photo management. If you think neither of those are great and you can think of a better alternative, you have a lot of market share to capture.

Having said that, I concur with the rest of your sentiment and would like to see services like TripAdvisor, Kayak etc flourish.

Disclaimer: hold a lot of GOOG
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436676
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My calendar agrees with you ... we apparently had lunch in December, 2007. Sadly, I don't remember it off-hand.

On the other hand, one reason is that I invited a lot of students to come visit (and a number to intern with us).
> pint ice cream in an end cap next to the florist to nab women

My wife never buys me flowers :-(

But I am a sucker for a pint of ice cream :-)
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As a female studying Software Engineering at the moment I find articles like http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-08/study-women-l... and https://hbr.org/2016/08/why-do-so-many-women-who-study-engin... resonate more with the issues I'm seeing. Although luckily I have not experienced sexual harassment or felt like I was given unequal opportunities on internships I do regularly feel out of place.

I don't think that bringing back the 1/4 of women who left to have families can be a solution in itself but if those 1/4 encourage the other 3/4 to stay through mentorship and improving the current culture then this could be a start to improvement.
> So should they explain the pricing schedule while you're still unconcious

A lot of hospital care is non-emergency, but they don't explain pricing schedules for _that_ either, now do they? I think everyone understands the impossibility of comparison-shopping on emergency care.

> I mean, it's not exactly heart surgery we're talking about here

No, it's hip replacement surgery. And people _already_ do comparison shopping on things like that as much as they can, including comparing to and shopping in other countries. See medical tourism.

More to the point, people do comparison shop just like that for oral surgery. Yes, they may not have all the data they might like. Yes, they don't always make the right decisions. But by and large, dentistry works OK.

Again, the "stuff that must be done RIGHT NOW" thing is a strawman: there's plenty of hospital care that is not that sort.

> The invisible hand has been after all such a huge success in setting health care prices

The invisible hand has absolutely nothing to do with most health care prices today (at least in the US). There are some exceptions: plastic surgery, laser eye surgery, dentistry, some forms of occupational therapy, and maybe family medicine.

> and has proven to be the model every modern industrial country has taken because it's so intuitive

Various industrial countries have price transparency for their medical care. If want to know how much my hip replacement will cost in the UK not via the NHS, I go to http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/conditions-and-treatments/hip... and I get all the data I could want, including prices and the hospitals charging those prices. Importantly, those hospitals publish their prices. If I did go via the NHS, I suspect there is no real difference in the pricing, but would welcome data on how it really works.

Anyway, knowing how much medical procedures will cost you is not an uncommon situation. Except in the US, of course, where hospitals will never tell you ahead of time how much a procedure will cost.

Note that price transparency is necessary, but not sufficient, for some sort of sanity in the discretionary medical care market.
What do American developers get wrong about internationalization?
I'm not the downvoter but I'm pretty sure the original poster meant that a financially independent person no longer has to exchange their time for money, ie they can choose whatever they want to do with their time and no longer have to work just for food/shelter/etc.
"Unambiguous" is not the same as "trivial". C code generally reads left to right, so a trivial syntax for declaring, say, an array of const pointers to functions that take a const pointer to a char and return a const pointer to a char, would have tokens for those things in that order.
My primary objective is to never normalize racism, no matter the context. I see it all the time here, and the subtle stuff constantly slips by and is given a pass. I don't care the community or context, this is never okay. All spaces are politicized whether it is convenient to you or not. By aggressively downvoting anti-racism or simply ignoring the racists the members of the community send an implicit message that racism is acceptable here as long as you look respectable and follow the group conversation rules.
>A good goal, I think, is to ensure that merit is the chief qualification for employment

I agree with you

>It's clear that institutional biases and societal biases exist, and that some of these biases may act as steering currents for certain people to go into certain careers.

We agree on that, too

>If someone can do the job well, they should do it if they are good at it. I do know someone, for instance, who's a female welder. Apparently, only 5% of welders are women. Well, she's one of them and from all indications she's good at it. Luckily, the place she works at doesn't have a "welding is a MAN's job" sort of attitude.

That's good. I would never want to work somewhere that had an attitude that "this is a man's job, only men can do it"

>Now, whether or not government enforced action (eg, to what degree, and what tools, governments should use to challenge the bias) is a good thing or not, I think that's more of an open question.

I agree with you there as well. Even though I wouldn't want to work for a company that refused to hire women due to some illogical bigotry, I don't think it's government's role to force results on to who companies can hire.

Look, we agree on almost everything, but I think you and others are missing my point because this is an emotionally sensitive topic for some people, and one that the media has also blown out of proportion. The idea that there are no differences between people is totally fraudulent. When are we going to sue the NBA for discriminating against Asians? What's the point if we don't? There are huge differences even between men and women. Serena and Venus Williams claimed they could beat any man in Tennis, and so they ended up playing a 203'rd ranked player "after he had a case of beer and a smoke," and neither could barely score a single point against him. There are differences between people and that's the way it is.

If any of these people arguing against this actually cared about human rights or civil liberties they'd have said so by now. What they really care about are their feelings. That's what this is about - that, and lawyers cashing in on new diversity laws.
If we're suggesting fiction that deals with the aftereffects, Alyssa Cole has a short series of short novels called Off the Grid that explore the situation. They're in the romance genre, so perhaps a bit different than the usual HN fiction. Of course the political leanings of the author influence these books, as well.
P-values are just the wrong metric here. With good sequential testing, you would stop

a) when the challenger strategy is much worse than the best alternative with reasonable probability,

or

b) when it is clear that some strategy is very close to the best with high probability (remember, you may still not know how good the best is)

Note that waiting for significance kind of handles the first case, but in the case of ties, it completely fails on the second case. That is, when there are nearly tied options, you will wait nearly forever. It is better to pick one of the tied options and say that it is very likely as good as the best.
Where you are affects the latency of your communications, and less crowded areas may have more computing power available.
I agree. I've even done similar things a few years back:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/time_varying_convers...

However, with an A/B test you don't need to change the math or eliminate the stability assumption from it. You just need to choose a good test duration.

As I pointed out to pauldraper in the other thread, when you start fixing bandits by only changing the split every season, suddenly bandits start to look a lot like A/B testing.
Maybe there can be profit to be made from this business too with a bit of _delay_ in between receiving and giving. I'm trying here just to imagine this company.
I think it will work because of the scale.
I'm thinking:
I take dolar bills from one person, I keep them 10 days and then I give them to another one. And I repeat this for 1 trillion dollar value.
Even if the profit in 10 days is 0.1% then you will have 1 million dollar remaining to you. What I am trying to say is that it seems to be a value in being so big, because of how big numbers math works but also because people are impressed by it (think going to a bank asking for money)
I've been seeing you around HN a lot recently and I've gotta say with your -5 points and all you are winning my heart
Again, this limitation doesn't apply to good bandit approaches. You see big effects quickly and smaller effects more slowly and don't need to do any pre-computation about power at all.

You can even get an economic estimate of the expected amount of value you are leaving on the table by stopping at any point.
My bet is that we'll just transition to an economy where the vast majority of jobs are service jobs.

(There will be bumps on the road, and, as technologists with increasing economic power, we should vote for politicians who support smoothing out those bumps.)
I am very jealous. May I ask what you're doing to earn $500k? I'm guessing Finance industry.
Until some people for whom theoretical physics is more than just a hobby start to take seriously Wolfram's crazy theories, you and I would be well served to ignore them.
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A majority of software companies can operate on RDS (and DynamoDB for that matter) and utilize their built-in scaling functions. CockroachDB adds no value to those customers, which will presumably make up the bulk of them hypothetically becoming a profitable company.

Contrast CockroachDB with some of the other nascent open-source-to-successful-businesses:

Influx - Solves timeseries applications challenges. (biz problem)

Citus - Solves a scale out technology problem with an already established DB platform. (tech problem)

Confluent - Solves scaling issues with an already established data streaming database. (tech problem)

Cloudera - Solves scaling issues with an already established big data platform. (tech problem)

Elastic - Solves search application challenges. (biz problem)

Cockroach - Solves scaling issues with SQL databases by offering an alternative DB. (??)

Unless Cockroach can position itself as either solving a technology challenge with an already adopted DB solution, or solves a business problem, it's going to be very difficult to achieve profitability.
> A more-robust system would require multiple malicious agents in various organizational silos (security, compliance, management) to fail.

Yes, and at that point the name for it is "policy". These are our own keys after all- nobody would blink an eye if they were supposed to be collected.

They're not.
The major distribution sub stations already have remote controlled disconnects that isolate them from the power grid it's a basic requirement for maintenance.

They can have some pretty powerful arcs too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5YxdRfAe14
Your intuition about effects bigger than you expected is just on target.

But it applies at all scales of effect. Stop when you have a big enough effect or have high confidence that you won't care.
I don't agree. As long as you understand the code and it solves your problem, owning is an advantage. Why is it so important to you that no one steps out of line and tries to use their brain as more than an answering machine?
Do you prefer Angelist over LinkedIn for hiring?
300 rides x average of approx. $15 per ride = $4500.

Cars here require a certificate of entitlement that cost around $100k and only last for 10 years if im not mistaken. So if he continued taking 300 rides every year for 10 years it would still be half as expensive.
I should add. One of the reason I thought that RethinkDB might actually survive was that (as far as I could tell) their database not only solve scaling issues, but also helped solve real-time push to mobile apps. I'm surprised they didn't position more to mobile app devs for adoption.
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1. America has figured out how to listen to Merkel's phone calls.

2. Merkel finds out we listen to her phone calls.

3. Merkel stop using her phone for communications.

4. America bugs Merkel's house.

Or

1. US listens in on embassy.

2. Embassy finds out US is listening.

3. Embassy searches for and finds the bug.

4. US plants a new bug.

No one was shocked about the US spying except the most willfully naive. Any party capable of consistently detecting and thwarting US attempts at spying was doing so already and any party not capable of doing so is still not. It's not as if after the Snowden leaks the rest of the world suddenly realized the US engages in espionage. I'm sure that the US lost the ability to use a few bugs/taps/whatever. I'm also sure they had more and have planted more.

The core thrust of your argument is that awareness of the US successfully spying is sufficient to allow those being spied on to block future spying. I don't buy it because if they had the capability, those being spied on would have already blocked the previous spying.
As the article explains, that $89 is heavily subsidized. If you had to pay $200 for that same monthly pass you would probably reconsider.
You are right, I forgot about that (the example was not great anyway). Thanks
The Three Body Problem trilogy (Cixin Liu) also proposes a fascinating (dark) explanation
I am sympathetic to your point - and would be inclined to agree.

BUT - Of course you know Korea was decimated during a war, and it was pretty messy before. From 1950-2000 it makes sense that 'responsible leaders' were orchestrating the nations rise from the rubble.

Clearly - that model is not sustainable, but it's maybe a better solution than 'hyper fragmented society' after something so decimating wherein institutions, governance, sense of identity, schools etc. are all missing.

A 'somewhat authoritarian but nevertheless benevolent' society made up of responsible managers, and 'reasonably loyal workers who have the spirit to believe in what they are doing' ... is probably a good way to build a civilization, instantly, out of nothing.

I guess the challenge would be reform: how to get these neo-feudal entities to loosen their grip and allow for more liberalism once the roots have been well planted.

Given the high profile nature of this case, maybe that is happening on some level.

I'd suggest there's probably some deep cultural factors as well, though I wouldn't suggest to know enough to go there.

If you wrote a blog article about it, I'd be the first to read it :)
The X52 is a lightweight one. I'd like to see that same solution with a HOTAS Warthog ( 6kg / 13.2 lbs).
Check this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433319

Neither 18F or USDS existed when healthcare.gov launched.
I've always taken for granted that I'm only ever about a 15-30 minute drive from a Walmart Supercenter (which has a grocery store in it) that's open 24 hours a day.
Hopefully native squashing will allow some people to avoid writing Dockerfiles that look like

RUN this && that && thistoo && thattoo && rm this && rm that

in order to avoid generating extraneous layers.

There have been some third party tools and registries that implement this feature, but it's nice to finally have it upstream.
For most people mental strength is a product of their personal convictions and supporting facts. Tobacco and alcohol are also addictive, also easily obtainable by most adults, and yet have not spun out of control.

At certain point taxpayers en masse will have to make a decision between taxing sugary foods to control the rise of type 2 diabetes (removing the corn subsidies might also help) or reallocating an ever-increasing share of public funds to treating type 2 diabetes, foregoing other public spending priorities.

> even knowing the evidence

USDA food pyramid still treats fat as humber one enemy, stores still carry a wide variety of low-fat products, a Subway commercial as of two years ago still advised the hapless obese character to "eat less fat", and a caring daughter in the morning commercials still pours her father a bowl full of sugar-laden Cheerios because those "can lower your cholesterol".

I think you're overestimating the level of nutritional prowess the average American has. Even if the evidence is out there, few people aside from Gary Taubes are reading nutritional journals.