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A true Existentialist marvels at the thought of having the option of choosing the time, place and method of erasing oneself.

But the instance suicide is committed, he is no longer an existentialist.

It's better to be an existentialist as long as possible. Even if it becomes absurd. To maintain life is to maintain my philosophy. Suicide is forfeiture of the very thing existentialists cling on to-their ego created as a defence mechanism against all man created banalities.

p.s. I am talking out of my ass.
Do Expressive Programming Languages Always Have Undefined Behavior?
Overdosing on heroin comes from inconsistent purity in black market heroin. Addicts have no reliable way to determine how much they are injecting.

Heroin addicts get their start from prescription drugs. When the doctors cut them off, or it gets too expensive, they turn to heroin.
I did have a call some 3 months ago with your support rep and a sales person and provided extensive feedback - which was acknowledged and ignored. Which is precisely why I welcome new competitors that could wake you up from your comfy slumber ;)
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Right, your average American don't "know" a monopoly is bad. In general they won't "know" anything about the subject. But, from their grade school American history class, they probably have some vague recollection of the anti-trust laws passed in the early 1900's to break up the "Robber Barons" or "Titans of Industry", and the corresponding "even rich people aren't above the law" sentiment. So if you say "copyright monopoly" they won't dismiss the need for legislative reform out of hand. Whereas if you use terminology like "legalize piracy" they probably will.

A natural monopoly would be associated with a public utility; probably the various libraries. An electronic library might become a public utility, but so far Spotify, Netflix, etc. have had incomplete catalogs and there's not much support for the compulsory licensing scheme they'd need to make it work (which would be its own public service...)
MCO?
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
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Could you talk more about your phone screens? What criteria are you filtering on? What sorts of questions have you found to be effective at stratifying candidates?
> If the value of the shares is worth more then you pay, the difference is income.

This turns out to be true, but I think it overlooks hidden complexity.

1) You'll find a bunch of stuff online that says you don't have to pay tax on that difference if you're getting ISOs. Options newbies who believe that ISOs have no tax burden, newbies who don't know that AMT is a thing, are going to have a bad time.

2) Since AMT is a thing, it's difficult ("complex") to use options safely, if only in the sense that it requires making a prediction about the future. Exercise early and you could lose your investment if the company fails. Exercise late but pre-IPO and you can find yourself in huge trouble, on the hook for hundreds of thousands in taxes with no way to sell your stock to pay your taxes. If you exercise post-IPO and sell on day one and you'll more tax than you would if you hold for a year. Making the right choice here can be difficult.
Apparently people with iPhones. This feels like forcing an album release on tidal. I get it, you're promoting your product, at the expense of your other product.
I think the idea here is that the docker level caching isn't well suited for this. Eg for us we install all relevant gems with `bundle install`. If you update one gem, that the whole layer is rebuilt. Since the whole `bundle install` layer is rebuilt, every gem is fetched again from rubygems.

Yarn works the same.
Wonder why the northern great plains are so resistant to this problem?
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So is Snap going to be the next Facebook, or ... Twitter?
That's not how I expect CI to work. I might be wrong though.
Once I found out Evan Spiegel is banging Miranda Kerr, I became determined to ruin Snapchat by purchasing far out of the money put options with my measly tax free savings account barely amounting to 1 ten-thousandth of his post-IPO net worth.
With TOFU, "priming" equates to blind trust in practice. This is an important point even when you don't nuke on browser-quit. You can have TOFU (e.g., SSH), WoT (e.g., PGP), or PKI (e.g., TLS)... each with it's pros and cons. I can only hope that someday we have something without the "priming" hole of TOFU, the UX hurdles of WoT, and the fact that HTTPS doesn't really stop people from being phished.

I think opting in to the server side checking (which is a bit like the domain-based blacklists that modern browsers have, I think) is the best thing we've got at the moment, so long as that channel isn't compromised.
1. Assuming you keep it in a company, and actually are smart about releasing it when you need it, so you don't have to pay all the tax upfront.
Some century the industry will discover the NixOS model...
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Here is how it works:

1. start with moderate regulations in the USA

2. switch to tough regulations in the USA

3. industry moves to a place with lax regulations

4. pollution blows across the ocean

5. the USA gets smog

It seems we went wrong at step 2, unless you'd like to stop international trade. By being extra strict, we actually got more pollution. We'd have better air and water if we partially gutted the EPA.

We have failed at keeping our water and air clean, and we also lost our jobs.
I'm just using the article's term, and thinking in terms of what the problem is, and what the likely solutions are.
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Opt out links I found -

Acxiom - https://isapps.acxiom.com/optout/optout.aspx

Experian - http://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/credit-education/...

DataLogix Holdings, Inc.	https://www.datalogix.com/privacy/#opt-out-landing

Epsilon Data Management, LLC	http://www.epsilon.com/consumer-preference-center

Equifax, Inc - https://help.equifax.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2/noInterce...

Fair Isaac Corporation http://www.myfico.com/policy/privacypolicy.aspx

Intelius, Inc.	https://www.intelius.com/optout.php

LexisNexis Group	http://www.lexisnexis.com/privacy/for-consumers/opt-out-of-
lexisnexis.aspx

TransUnion Corp.	http://www.transunion.com/corporate/business/datareporting/s...
Even in the US heroin use was massively down, because it had moved on from the edgy rock and roll era to realising how dangerous it was. The list of dead celebrities rather took the edge off heroin chic.

The US resurgence is tied to massive over-prescription of opiates who abusers turn to heroin if their supply is disrupted / their tolerance increases. The demographics of users is very different. There's an entire chapter in Narconomics covered to this. Supervised injections etc works in Denmark because its healthcare sector is set up to support it - the US healthcare sector is still actively poisoning the populace.
Agree that is entirely hypothetical and Elon Musk is an interesting example. I know he is sometimes risking a very large proportion of his private capital on his new ventures, but I would never have called that "bootstrapping".

(Once again, let me re-iterate that I have understood that "my" definition of boostrapping is not correct)

To me, a billionaire going all out on a new project is in a better financial, business & social position. "hey look, Elon Musk has launched a new thing, took his own billion to build it, must be awesome like his past ventures" compared to "hey, here is that John Doe we never heard of with his project he built in his home. To me, with financial capital comes social capital. When you invest all your money in a project, if it's 1B$ your social status "highly affluent guy with connections up to the white house and every Fortune 500 companies" does not change and is immensely useful. If it's your 5k€ your social capital is low and will get from "successful salaried software developer" to "the noodles-eating guy who didn't have a shower in 4 days". Guess which one is most likely to win deals?
Margaret M. Fleck at UIUC has one for their Discrete Math course:

http://mfleck.cs.illinois.edu/building-blocks/
>Are you really using it for professional work or have seen anyone use it?

Checking in. My side-gig and paid hobby is live production, and Reaper has more than earned it's place in my toolbelt. I've recorded shows produced for sxsw showcases (not to mention two years touring as a FOH guy, and producing for a major political event on the east coast-guess what? I used Reaper for all of them) and made master mixes that ended up on CD's sold by national, headlining bands with Reaper.

I think you are horrendously mischaracterizing and underestimating the tool-and from reading your other comments to people providing you with substantial and verifiable feedback as to the capabilities of the software, extensibility, platform support, feature sets compared to more expensive DAWs, it appears you're doing so deliberately.
If you collext/store certain kinds of personal information, privacy policies are required by law in many jurisdictions, including California.

Also, if you make any privacy-related claims, the FTC can come down on you for misrepresentations. A clear, visible Privacy Policy provides an opportunity to clarify what might otherwise be taken as unqualified privacy claims provided elsewhere.
> US is so concerned about privacy

This is not true, at all. HN may provide that appearance, but the vast majority of people who live in the US do not care about their privacy, based on their actions.
My sister is a heroin addict. To say this has devastated her life is an understatement. Her body is wrecked. She looks way older than she is, she has a pacemaker / defibrillator installed in her chest. And doctors keep saying she will die soon if she doesn't stop.

Here is the most frustrating part. She has wanted to go to rehab a few times, but since she is poor and unemployed, she has no health insurance for rehab. What are her options? My parents have no money to help her.

I'll never understand the bull-shit US policy towards drugs. Let's spend billions upon billions to "fight" drugs coming into the country, but let's turn a blind eye to the companies pumping out hundreds of millions of pills.

Why the hell don't we spend those hundreds of billions on actually treating the disease? If there was no demand, there would be no drug war to fight. Why don't we try a new way?
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Ask HN: What do you eat for breakfast everyday?
Seth Godin eats the same breakfast everyday: a frozen banana, almond milk, hemp powder, dried plumb and walnuts in a blender.

Based on the dynamics of breakfast, it seems like the easiest meal to fix constant a routine for everyday. Based on this, I am interested in learning about potential breakfast setups.

Factors to optimize for:
- nutrition
- cost
- time to buy ingredients/how long they last
- time to prepare breakfast/clean it
- taste

Given these factors, Seth's breakfast seems pretty ideal. Please share your typical breakfast dishes, and/or any other thoughts you have on this subject.
I'd give this a look: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-builders/tree/m... (unfortunately key links to Bazel docs are 404'ing.)

Bazel is a general purpose build system that focuses on reproducibility (same build inputs -> same build outputs) and strict dependency specification (at various levels: file, subsystem, external package fetching etc.) enforced by sandboxing which allows for fast incremental builds. Bazel is the open-source version of Google's internal build-system.

More info here: https://bazel.build/

How external resources are handled: https://bazel.build/versions/master/docs/external.html

Obviously Bazel requires some buy-in which may be unappealing (at least for existing projects:
migration/supporting multiple build systems.) There are, however, serious benefits (and a larger, but nascent, ecosystem of related open-source tooling.) The biggest gap at the moment is supported languages/etc.

(I don't work for Google, I just like Bazel.)
That's great. I will fly to SF just to get the quality time.
Mars Climate Orbiter http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/MCO_report.pdf
What I never understand in these studies is why they always want to go for single base resolution immediately. Sequencing and writing is so expensive because any error you make is a real problem. If instead, every bit was encoded by a default oligomer of 5 times the same base, you could live with much higher error rates. You would loose density but still achieve multiple orders of magnitude over current storage solutions.
'Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years'
I'm not sure if you're referencing the paper or not, but its conclusion lead me to a similar idea. The author points out that previously, higher education was mostly reserved for the elites of society and that its increasing prevalence among developed countries happened around the same time greater education began to gradually change from being correlated with greater trust in government to being correlated with less.

The obvious idea I had was that a greater amount of people were coming into contact with more information about the various failures their government (and every government) has. People are getting a "reverse civics" class now -- and in a way, ignorance was bliss.
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The Quay build system has implemented caching. The builder preemptively calculates the hashes of Dockerfile commands and then sends them to an API endpoint that finds the tag for the most similar tree of command hashes in a given repository. This tag is pulled before ever attempting to build the Dockerfile.

Google's solution seems far more general than just building Dockerfiles. I'm glad they're pushing for more innovation in this space.
Positivism's actually quite interesting from a game design point of view --- because you can only see in front of you, you can't tell where your snake is or how big it is; so you're playing blindly, waiting for that moment when you get long enough that you start glimpsing parts of your own tail coming out of the darkness... it genuinely adds new interest to a really tired old game.

(Although, UI-wise, I'd like the play area to distinguish between spaces which you can see but don't contain anything and spaces which you can't see.)
> Had the drug companies been regulated in the first place, we might be OK.

What are you talking about? Everything in medicine is highly regulated. Introducing a new drug is a very expensive process, run in the US by the FDA. It takes all sorts of expensive tests and trials to be allowed to sell a new medicine in the US.

Maybe the process messed up in this case. Sure. Many things are possible. But this was regulated start to finish.
The people in question do in fact use internet browsers on a daily basis.
>> Snap has both yet to solve

Huh? Snap is mobile only. Facebook was way behind in mobile, particularly in advertising (I don't think they even did mobile ads at that point). On the growth point, unless they do something really cool, I think they're screwed. Instagram has them covered and Snapchat growth slowed significantly since Insta Stories launched.
Facebook had $1B in profit in 2011(1), the IPO was mid 2012. Maybe it wasn't enough to justify the $100B+ valuation at IPO but at least they had their business figured out; which is not the case for Snap, yet..

(1): https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebook-1-billion-profit/
These two goals are not mutually exclusive. The Co-dfns compiler is a compiler that is designed to self-host on the GPU, but it is a compiler for the Co-dfns language, which is a lexically scoped syntax in Dyalog APL. The compiler compiles dfns programs and supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, targeting CUDA, OpenCL, and Intel CPUs. The compiler itself is written as a dfns program, hence the idea of self-hosting on the GPU.

Target applications for the compiler include document processors, cryptographic libraries, neural networks programming, data analytics, high-performance web applications, vector databases, financial algorithms, bioinformatics, and HPC/Scientific computing tasks.

So, in short, yes, it compiles apps to run on the GPU, or the CPU, whichever you prefer. And yes, it is meant to compile itself on the GPU (so, you compile a GPU program on the GPU).
The fundamental thing to know is the confusion matrix. There are about a dozen terms for various descriptors of the matrix, but they all can be calculated if you know the confusion matrix. The Wikipedia page has a great table to describe them all:

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

You can see from that that sensitivity and recall are the same thing, but specificity and precision are not.
[0] does not mean "no plans to make a profit" it just means what it actually says.

Other than that getting IPO price correct is very complex for companies without a history of profits. However, any price greater than zero is still useful.
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I definitely think (1) is in need of reform.

Could you elaborate on (2) on what you mean by "given a similar deal to investors"?
I wonder how many "narcissistic" email did he received..
Is the source for this somewhere?
...I'll pass, thanks. It sounds like sub-lingual would be an effective route. That said, if you're in a lot of pain... bombs away.
pretty sure justin is chinese-american!
So, basically, somebody who never uses a web browser? 404 and 500 should be familiar just from browsing the web for more than a few weeks.
Yep, it's screwed out there. The bubble has burst.
Yeah, It was an experiment I started running when I focused on ConvertKit. So far it's increased revenue, but it obviously has the side effect of fewer purchases.
Displacing might not be the actual word. You could, for example, say that the digital ad market will double in 5 years, and Snapchat will capture all of that additional revenue, becoming bigger than FB and Google combined.

It wouldn't be displacing them per se, they'd still sell the same $ to the same companies.

Will that happen? My guess would be on no. I don't think there's room for a 3rd large player in the digital ads world, Twitter tried to be it, but failed. But hey, maybe Snap is able to do it (but I doubt it).
> too many people are non-functional opioid addicts

Experience here in Switzerland would suggest that if the state takes dirty needles, expensive supply, and highly variable purity out of the equation, opioid addicts can lead a life that is, while far from ideal, considerably more functional than before.

My impression is that drugs like Heroin, taken in correct dosage, do not inherently cause massive health damage. It's not clear how deregulation would work with drugs like meth, which DOES seem to inherently cause health damage.
Comments like these are so depressing. Someone does a bunch of work to improve the Go compiler and writes a presentation to share their approach (primarily so that other people working on Go can understand and extend it), and gives it all away for free. This is textbook open source citizenry, which should be applauded.

But instead, you come along and criticize them for being too specific with their terms (!!) and also accuse them of being deceptive. This is not a marketing exercise. There is no conspiracy here.
If we believe that some addicts can be helped to deal more productively with their addiction (personally I think that's true), and we observe that prohibition tactics don't help addicts get that help (see TFA and basically every other serious examination of this), then ending prohibition will certainly help some addicts. One might argue that more people would start using without prohibition, but that would be pretty lame in the context of the Pill Doctor Pipeline described here.
> [0] this is not my opinion; this is a direct quotation from their S-1: "We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability."

> [1] Again, directly from their S-1: "We do not intend to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future."

FWIW this is a negative spin on the statements. The first [0] statement sounds like a standard warning, and the second [1] specifically calls out cash dividends, not profits. FB has not paid any cash dividends, neither has Google, but both have large profits. It's uncommon for tech companies to pay cash dividends. Apple and Microsoft do it (both very old companies), but few others do.
I wasn't, which I stated.

Its not however, off topic or baseless. I think it is a great example of the medical industry (with pharmaceutical companies being a subset of that as well) being self serving even if it is dangerous to others (which this donation scheme isn't per say, however it is very suspicious and at the very least I would say not the way we want to business in a polite society)
What is "Snap"?
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I see your point but don't really agree with your argument -- in my experience engineers who consciously know what a good or a bad engineering decision for the future is will make the good decisions regardless -- it's the terrible engineers who don't know any better you need to worry about.

In either case, given an extended exercise window both are sitting around collecting value indefinitely after leaving. They don't need to contribute anything to the next "generation" of work but they still collect the rewards. I'd expect that in most high-growth companies the impact of individual contributors quickly gets washed away after they leave.
Yes, that would be the one.
Please just make your point, and make it substantial
Snap, Inc., the company that produces Snapchat and Spectacles.
This isn't new, this has been the law for decades.

In fact I just wasted five minutes trying to figure out when that section of the act was last amended and it looks sub-sec f was added in 1996 so sub-sec e has been around since before then.

Most permanent residents either ignore it or carry a photocopy since replacing the actual green card if your wallet gets stolen is both a pain and expensive.
I want to, but I have never done so. Maybe later in my life.

I have 2 ideas.

the first comes from the difficulty of using make. I think the make system lacks debuggability, it's not easy to log, break, step through and watch locals.

I feel that building should be handled by a domain specific language, instead of make.

I haven't researched enough though, there may be something similar, only it is not popular yet.

the second ideas comes from the difficulty of documentation.

I'm thinking of a programming language that allows you to describe the block diagram (modules) of your program easily. You need to specify what the interfaces are, how many threads ....

then a diagram can be automatically generated as a document. you then fill the internals of your module, with classes. The idea is always forcing programmers to describe design first, then implement. code and document are mixed, so the document is always up-to-date.
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Reminds me a bit of this story from a few years back: https://www.wired.com/2010/04/cloud-warrant/
You have to understand the context of what you call "the never-allow-pain mantra". The drug warriors had gotten us to the point where you couldn't get treatment for pain. Doctors were harassed out of prescribing opiates and would give you Tylenol for back surgery. People in hospice were allowed to spend their final days in terrible pain.

And now we're heading back in that direction. For some reason we can't seem to stop in the middle somewhere.