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Neat! Want to email me at dturnbull AT o19s.com

We store models as a custom scripting language which takes care of distributing the model around the cluster, caching and basic CRUD operations. This was the hard thing to figure out, at first we looked at a REST plugin but it seemed cumbersome and hard to integrate with the query DSL. But I'm curious how you guys got around those pain points:)
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I'm neither a Bach musicologist or a logician (although I've had multiple logic courses). But that might be the reason why I enjoy the book very much. Hofstadter explains complex stuff in a style that makes it very accessible without needing almost any preexisting knowledge in the discussed fields.
On my throttled 2G connection, it’s ~2½ minutes, and because I rarely visit pages with AMP, it’s never cached.
sort of OT of the post, but on topic of all the cool discussions about physics we've had here, I want to share one my favorite channels on youtube[1]. Eugene Khutoryansky has put together an amazing collection of very intuitive explanations of all kinds of physics, including cosmology. I also recommend his series on math and electromagnetics.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky
They didn't really NEED cars to move people around because Los Angeles area already had a GREAT light rail system called the Red Line. The current walkway on Venice Beach was what's left of that line. Can you imagine? An above ground light rail system running parallel to a beach in LA?

They RIPPED it out thanks to lobbying by car companies and tire companies. Yay to lobbyists.

Now, it takes a billion to build a few miles of a subway/lightrail system that practically goes no where...
There is also an incredible keynote from PyCon 2016 by K lars Lohn about the book (and more )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s
I'm curious how much does it cost to rent for 3 months near YC campus for 3 months?
By giving it a special term, additional commentary/analysis can coalesce around it, such as that "governments and environmentalists generally assume that efficiency gains will lower resource consumption, ignoring the possibility of the paradox arising".
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SuperPACs must report their donors, actually. But there is a lag between the donation and reporting, so that's temporary anonymity.

And since SuperPACs can accept donations from organizations, listing donors might not be that enlightening. It's not hard to set up a corporation and pass the donation though it, and then the corporate name gets listed as the donor instead of the person.
Yes. I know two functional junkies. One was born into a lot of wealth, the other isn't insanely rich, but is comfortable and no longer has to work.

Your last sentence is exactly right. Neither of them will ever face legal action. But this is no different than most other things in the US (and elsewhere, usually to a lesser extent): law-enforcement-related outcomes react strongly to the presence of wealth.
They dont meen the emotion of fear. They mean the logic of avoiding something to promote your interests. Psychopaths might not feel fear, but they tend to jump out of the way of busses anyway. Fearing death is separate from not wanting to die. But a third party would say that the psycopath does fear the bus in that he still avoids it, an identical behavior to those who are truly afraid.
Similarly, tobacco is another extremely harmful drug which is legal. I think tobacco is even more problematic than most other recreational drugs because of second hand smoking.
Even at the highest level, they put their pants on one leg at a time.
Something about this must be broken on my Windows 10 partition, because it keeps trying to overwrite my updated Intel Graphics card driver via Windows Update. I ended up having to blacklist the update to stop it from bugging me.
If you're running a city, you should be part of the community to a degree that there are no parts were you're just operating on the level of some sort of 19th century explorer living with indigenous tribes.

In fact, I think your allusion to some caricature of a (probably black) inner city and its problems is part of the problem more than the solution.

Unless you're talking about a mayor from the projects who outlaws coke after hearing of its rampant use among investment bankers, and their propensity to fight each other over territory. In that case, I'd love to see the movie.
Isn't that just the survivorship bias of "interestingly close" predictions? How many other predictions for the speed of light from 2000+ years ago do we still know about?
That's a pretty common HSL-style color picker. It's great for artists and designers who think in those terms. Curious, do you have much experience in graphic design, or no?
> Non-lethal munitions used include: impact sponge rounds, drag stabilizer bean bag rounds,

That's an interesting definition of "non-lethal". "Non-lethal" in this case apparently does not mean "cannot kill the target", because bean bag rounds absolutely can be lethal when shot at someone. They're shot fast enough that they can easily damage internal organs or even fracture your skull.
I reckon the optimizations will come soon (at least that's what I gathered from reading the Perl 6 documentation's "Performance" section); now that Perl 6.c is out in the wild, there's less of a moving target, so the implementations can (and apparently are) starting to focus more on squeezing out more performance.

And yeah, proto regexes are pretty sweet, and they seem to be a natural fit for what you're doing. I'm always surprised by how popular Perl seems to be in biology / life sciences, and projects like BioInfo (and BioPerl, of course) are a great reminder as to why that happens to be.
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Well, if you'd follow the link you'd see that Jevons identified this phenomenon in the mid 1800's with respect to coal usage. It probably wasn't so obvious then.
Earplugs don't work. They cut out the lower volume background noise which ends up enhancing the piercing voices that get through.
Why are accounts a problem? Because kids are always forgetting their passwords? My understanding is that chromebooks are pretty popular in schools now, they require passwords.
None of that directly impacts Vulkan driver implementation quality (which is not open source at all).
Lisp I of 1960 had SET and SETQ. It wasn't pure.
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Well, I have seen exactly that sentiment.

I've seen it too but as a bunch of other people pointed out, the C++ in this library is not the C++ that sort of sentiment is about. This seems like the criticism you should be responding to.
I would love YC to open satellite offices in Seattle and Vancouver. Both have great talent pools. YC should at least do an experiment. Same time zones and not too far from SF.
Great news for fans of rail and Africans alike. Also: environment is happier.

I'm just amazed at how China is moving forward where other countries (looking at you, USA) simply cannot. What's their secret?
I might need a reality check here because this is feeling weird.

I'm currently building a web-based application to store JVM threaddumps. This includes a JS-based frontend to efficiently sort and filter sets of JVM threads (for example based on thread names, or classes included in thread traces). Or the ability to visualize locking structures with d3, so you can see that a specific class is a bottle neck because it has many locks and many threads are waiting for it.

I'm doing that in a Ruby/Vue application because those choices make the app easy. You can upload a threaddump via curl, and share it with everyone via links. You can share sorted and filtered thread sets, you can share visualizations with a mostly readable link. This is good because it's easy to - automatically - collect and upload thread ddumps, and it's easy to collaborate with a problematic locking situation.

So, I'd call that a fairly heavy web-based application. I'm relying on JS, because JS makes my user experience better. JS can fetch a threaddump, cache it in the browser, and execute filters based on the cached data pretty much as fast as a native application would. Except you can share and link it easily, so it's better than visualvm or TDA.

But with all that heavywheight, fast moving web bollocks... Isn't it natural to think about web latency? To me it's the only sensible thing to webpack/gulp-concat/whatever my entire app so all that heavy JS is one big GET. It's the only sensible thing to fetch all information about a threaddump in on GET just to cache it and have it available. It's the only right thing to do or else network latency eats you alive.

Am I that estranged by now by having worked on one low-latency, high-throughput application by now? To avoid confusion, the threaddump storage is neither low-latency, nor high-throughput. Talking java with 100k+ events/s and < 1ms in-server latency there.
"Very few" can still be hundreds of devices that people still have to use.
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I think shockwave.com hosted Flash animated videos. Also, I remember downloading Troops from TheForce.net, seems like they had several other fan made videos. I also remember watching the Star Wars Episode I trailer on StarWars.com (I beleive it required the QuickTime plugin); so anyway, those are some sites hosting video content in the 90s.
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A lot of people naively assume that if you can use a resource more efficiently, then total use will go down, "because you don't need as much, right?"

See: the entire popular support for efficiency mandates.

(Edit: Also, this very example -- I certainly didn't expect that a faster site would allow that many more users: my model was more "either they want to see your site, or they don't", i.e. inelastic demand.)

The (common) error is to neglect the additional uses people will put a resource to when its cost of use goes down. ("Great news! We get free water now! Wha ... hey, why are you putting in an ultra-thirsty lawn??! You don't need that!")

Also, I wouldn't call it basic supply and demand; depending on the specifics (inelasticiy of demand, mainly), total usage may not actually go up with efficiency.
I used a Pentium at 133 MHz at the time, and it struggled to play MP3. The tracks would stutter.
I can't find any reports claiming that any buffalo died during the stampede which reportedly involved a cut fence enclosing a herd of livestock buffalo. I read about a horse death that appears to have been a protester's horse that was shot by a bullet -- seems like the protesters involved with the stampede were on horseback and the police who chased them were on ATVs.

The accounts of buffalo/bison death I find are claims by ranchers that buffalo have been stolen/slaughtered by out of state protesters and that buffalo near the protest areas have been killed after being spooked within their enclosure by loud noises that resulted from clashes between protesters and law enforcement.

I'm not finding the media bias you claim from any reputable sources.
If they wanted to use a geosynchronous satellite from the ISS, it would be occluded by the earth half of the time and the other half of the time they'd have to track it with a satellite dish over the course of the 45 minutes (out of every 1.5 hours) they have access to it.

of course the same is true of ground stations... I'm not actually sure how they do it but they probably don't need as high-gain of an antenna to reach them.
All UK newspapers are pretty bad, especially the tabloids. But the Daily Fucking Mail is really bad.

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/12/man-who-hates-libe...

> In the files of the Press Complaints Commission, you will find records of 687 complaints against the Mail which led either to a PCC adjudication or to a resolution negotiated, at least partially, after the PCC’s intervention. The number far exceeds that for any other British newspaper: the files show 394 complaints against the Sun, 221 against the Daily Telegraph, 115 against the Guardian. The complaints will serve as a charge sheet against the Mail and its editor.

> This year, the Mail reported that disabled people are exempt from the bedroom tax; that asylum-seekers had “targeted” Scotland; that disabled babies were being euthanised under the Liverpool Care Pathway; that a Kenyan asylum-seeker had committed murders in his home country; that 878,000 recipients of Employment Support Allowance had stopped claiming “rather than face a fresh medical”; that a Portsmouth primary school had denied pupils water on the hottest day of the year because it was Ramadan; that wolves would soon return to Britain; that nearly half the electricity produced by windfarms was discarded. All these reports were false.

Also, Why the Daily Mail is Evil (about the "all grown up" creepy as fck stuff the DM does): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9dqNTTdYKY
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Sounds like a take on the future of programming yc request for startups item. Cool thought.
Or that stupid dancing baby CGI that blew up in the late nineties for some reason.
Well, that's just the default way interactivity in websites works - submitting forms.
Sometimes the Windows driver is actually better than the vendor driver. I've seen several chipset/SATA drivers (such as Marvell, and AMD) that break TRIM support on SSDs. To get TRIM working I had to revert to the regular Windows driver.
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That's the FreeBSD line, but I don't think it's so simple. The lawsuit ended in 1994. That was before RedHat, and one year into Debian.

At that time, the majority of Unixen were proprietary, so if you wanted your programsto run, you couldn't assume GNUisms or Linuxisms.
UnixWorld asked on it's April 1993 cover: "Does Steve Jobs have a future in software?"

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One of my prized possessions is my NeXT Cube[1], finally acquired in 2014. I'd wanted one ever since I saw the "Actual Size" marketing brochure that came out in '89 or '90.

I owned a series of slabs (mono, color, turbo color) throughout the years, but never managed to get my hands on a Cube. A friend took pity on me in '14 and sent me one, and then I got the bits (special cable) needed to hook up a VGA flat panel though the non-ADB soundbox.

NeXT steps: finding enough 4M 30pin parity SIMMs to max out the memory, then replacing the internal 18G SCSI disk (a SCA drive with an adapter) with a SCSI2SD board and MicroSD card in order to reduce the number of moving pats.

I chuckle when I realize that I spend most of my day in front of a MBP at work and a Mac Mini at home - both running what is basically the descendant of NeXTstep.

[1] https://www.mrbill.net/next/
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This would be useful... if universities know how to actually help people who they thought were in danger of failing. As it stands "help" is usually "creating a paper trail to prove to the feds that we tried", it's basically like getting fired in the real world with the main difference being that in college you at least have a sliver of hope even after the paper trail exists.
Debian doesn't always just work, because a lot of packages are very old. I think Ubuntu is (or is supposed to be) more "just works." But I think this is a personal point of view thing.

Also I think the FreeBSD handbook is awesome, even for newcomers. Is there something like that for Debian?
I work at a company whose revenue primarily comes from advertisements; it feels unethical to run an adblocker while ads are paying my salary. (And also would blind me to the experience that most users have; even ignoring the nice connectivity and ram that I have)
Issue 203 indicates that the fuzzing was done, but doesn't link to the issues that were uncovered by fuzzing. The PR at https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/pull/262 does: one infinite loop, four panics, and one instance of the NFA reporting the wrong position of a match.
Well there was also the roughly 100000 who lost visas. This came out when the state of Virginia sued the administration. Nonpartisan news doesn't just mean facts that you agree with, but not facts you don't agree with.
> Cruise is at 181 disengages in 9,776 miles

> Waymo is 2 orders of magnitude more advanced than Cruise

Not to say that Waymo isn't ahead, but if you look at a graph of Cruise's disengagements vs miles over time, they experienced a rapid improvement. By November of 2016 they were at about 2.6/1000 miles. Better than the total would show, but still an order worse than Waymo though.
I have zero experience in graphic design, but I do not think the simulation is made for designers.
Lazy loading really sucks when you're left with a blurry image because it timed out while serving the full image (can happen even with an acceptable connection).

Unless it's really clever I'd prefer if they just let the browser do it's thing with an img tag, because that worked fine in the 56K times.
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The technologies that Docker was based on had also been part of linux for a long time beforehand. Docker was simply a new management tool for handling them.
When these people talk about 'Lisp', they mean Lisp 1, Lisp 1.5, Maclisp, Standard Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, Common Lisp, ISLisp, Autolisp, ...

All these languages are somewhat compatible with the original Lisp 1.

Then there is the wider Lisp family which includes Scheme, Dylan, Clojure, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop, Logo, ...
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I think one of the more depressing things is that (potentially) many driver-less cars will be gas powered. Does anyone know if Waymo is going to be used on any electric cars?

There doesn't seem to be any reason driver-less cars have to be electric, but if big companies pushed the tech onto electric cars it'd be a nice way to speed up their adoption and infrastructure for them.
I thought the most popular book no-one ever read was Knuth's "The Art of Programming".
>> networking, including support for, you know, the Internet -- Windows 95 was way, way, way better than Mac OS.

I don't know about that - Macs with Mosaic and then Netscape were the internet surfing tools of choice in the Windows 3.x and 95 days.

Anyone remember winnuke?
It seems like there is a much larger group of mentors too, so the mentor time per team is probably constant. Also, there's a network effect of YC companies helping others. It's kind of like McKinsey getting added benefit from being the largest strategy consulting firm. More partners to reach out to.

(I have no horse in this race - no affiliation with YC or YC funded companies)
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> keeping in mind you are not allowed to touch the vendor driver's binaries in any way
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I don't think that argument holds up to reality. In fact the saying "opioid for the masses" seems to indicate that drugs could potentially be an effective tool to control "the masses".

There's a lot to criticise in the war on drugs. But I don't think it involves a conspiracy to stun some imagined society of free-thinkers. If I had to name the worst mechanism at play here, it's the tendency of people to buy into law-and-order rhetoric and the lack of empathy for anybody who is seen as (even potentially) transgress.
Thank you all for the wide range of thoughtful responses.

I don't want to leave the impression that this company with a private owner is a bad company. The employer did look out for me when I had difficult family issues and at one point, being way over-burdened with the workload, I told him to either fire me and get a support person at half my salary or give me more resources.

Being laid off there was quite good for me. I felt indebted to keep the product afloat but it was burning me out constantly so after I left, I got a higher paid, much more reasonable hours job with peers that also have passion for coding.

But I still remembered him looking out for me so I want to do the right thing and help him get some closure on this business. To that end, I think getting a IP lawyer to put any of my worries to rest at a small expense to him or the purchasing company is the most reasonable option as someone else had said below.
Those who switched from ST to VS Code, did you stick with VS Code? Do you have any advice for making the transition easier - key bindings, packages etc.?
10 years in my case. And it isn't the size that intimidates, its the fact that yo have to be fully awake mentally to process the ideas. Never made it past chapter 3.

Does anybody know of an annotated version?
Would you say the Dept of Ed is effective in its current role, whatever that is? I can't think of any impact it had in my education.
Well, I meant in the general context of database connectivity. The underlying database connectivity plumbing is almost always a JDBC or ODBC interface when you're talking a regular DBMS [1].

Historically, ODBC was not always as popular on Linux (being a Microsoft standard originally), although that has changed a lot by today. JDBC was usually more associated to open source/Linux BI/database tools (Java being open source in origin itself), which is why for a while, you could connect to more data sources with JDBC drivers/interfaces than ODBC. Writing a JDBC driver is also many times less complicated than writing an ODBC driver. The ODBC spec is old and complicated.. JDBC is still difficult but much less complicated.

Most programming languages can get to either a JDBC or ODBC driver via some mechanism, on pretty much any platform. So today I guess it's hard to say that it matters (ideally it shouldn't), I was just giving my personal take on the historical context that lead to the comment you made - "why doesn't this run in the Microsoft stack?".

All of the tools mentioned (redash, superset, blazer) are relying on the underlying interfaces in ODBC / JDBC for regular databases. If the system is running on Unix and accessing ODBC, it is almost guaranteed to be using UnixODBC to be doing so. Any tool like this (I don't know the internal-specifics of these tools) would probably have built a layer in to abstract away the low-level interface into some mechanism that hopefully makes the use of JDBC or ODBC (or any interface) irrelevant. That's a lot harder than it seems on the face of it. I used to work for a company that made a product that connected / federated data from "any" platform - which is partly what influences my opinion of how difficult it is to wrangle all these interfaces at lower-levels.

EDIT: I think the crux of what I'm saying is, the reason you don't have a tool that pops up when you ask that question is, because of OS platform differences, with Linux/open source usually being the first priority over Windows historically.

[1] Some DBMS provide native web services connectivity which obviates the need for JDBC/ODBC completely.. which is kind of nice.
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I believe they're actually called less-lethal.
So, I ask you kindly, where is the tradeoff? 7 hours/day? And what if most decided that that was the norm, and maybe and as competitive forces corrected your wage would rise to match current (or oppositely prices fall to meet less free income)?