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I'm completely unclear on what point you are trying to make here.

The parent was about what LLVM can and can't do.
I pointed out it does all the things the parent says it can't, and was made to do those things relatively quickly.
I gave a link showing it gives 5-250% better code than hotspot while doing so.

I'm not sure what relevance the existing execution platform would have to any of that.
As far as I can tell, it has "none".

Among other reasons, what the last tier compiler does has to be better than the other tiers, or it's a pointless waste of time. It's not like it can generate worse code and you can get away with it.

It also was not built in a way that requires their jvm execution platform, or anything like that.

You could take it and hook it into another JVM if you wanted, in roughly the same time frame.
The only difference is that instead of pretending it's hard or impossible, they just did the hard work to do it.

If the point you are trying to make is that you can't use it as a first tier or second tier jit, and that it would never work without some magical existing jvm technology, this would also be wrong.

"and have been building JVM execution environments for over a decade, you mean"

The folks involved had not.
Really.
I feel like you are just going off on a random tangent without a lot of data here, just because you don't want to say "yeah, i guess the parent was wrong".

I could also point out that LLVM is just about as old as Hotspot, for example (1999 vs 2000), and both are a decade older than Azul's compilers (2010).
Python/django library to have like buttons (not Facebook like buttons)
The Google group in Santa Barbara is building to a 49-qubit computer. If I understand correctly, it'll be interesting for understanding how you calibrate your quantum machine and validate that it is doing what it is supposed to. The algorithms they run on classical computers to validate that device will need a decent amount of supercomputer time.
And much bigger devices would be impossible to validate with a classical computer in the same way, so in some sense you hit "the limit" of classical computation and start to move beyond.

But for the computational problems that are useful for applications, which are not very much like the problem they use for validation, 49 qubits is still far far away from beating a classical computer.
I think was the most important lesson:
Get clear on WHO you’re making this for and how they can be reached.
This was one of my bigger f ups. Fast forward 8 months to when I had something ready to get my first users.. I knew it was for business owners (B2B) but didn’t realize that they are that much harder to reach (for me anyways) than consumers, and I also had the type of platform that I had to grow city by city (f’ing nightmare).
After a couple days of going door to door to businesses I could start to see how this was going to be a problem.. I didn’t account for the time/costs it will take to reach my ideal customers. It was a big smack in the mouth.
So figure out WHO you are making this for and how you’re going to reach them before you start. Just take that into account so you have the right expectations and you can plan/budget for it.

If you can't reach the customer you are screwed.
I didn't say Google, I said adtech.
> if they want to make any real $ need to move to those cities

This is the crux of the matter. The market always seeks equilibrium. If there is an income advantage in one location, people will move there, driving up costs in the process, until the point that there is no longer an advantage. Certain cities have held an advantage in earning ability for quite some time and the market is attempting to correct that disparity by increasing costs.

People complain about how expensive these homes are, but in reality they are the cheap ones! The low dollar value homes out in the middle of nowhere are truly the expensive ones. Like you mention, the profitability in a high cost city outpaces the profitability elsewhere, even after you consider that your costs are lower. If the lower paying job, but also the lower expenditures, provided a higher income there would be absolutely no hesitation to take a 'mcjob'.

The question is: At what point does the 'mcjob', where housing is low cost, actually provide – after accounting for costs – a higher income and become the more desirable type of work? That is when housing in the high-priced cities will stabilize, as there is no longer the financial advantage to live there. Until then, expect price to continue upward.
If you're boiling in some sort of still, sure, that will remove impurities, but those aren't common household items. Boiling a pot over a heat source will only kill bacteria; it won't remove impurities.
Using Declassified Test Films to Calculate the Energy of a Nuclear Weapon
You might be living in a bubble if you think only married couples have kids; in the US, a whopping 40% of births are to unmarried parents:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm
Solar furnace roasts chicken in 12 minutes
How expensive is an electric bike? How do you keep it from getting stolen?
Please, if you'd like to help the community, just share a good data source... I would never share my winning strategy with some "know it all" on a public forum :-)
In that case... Woof bark!
i agree with you and i think it is a good point but just one doubt i have that liquidity argument is correct assuming that this doesn't effect the fundamental pricing and cause bubbles (for ex.[oversimplified one] if lot of people followed trend following - it keeps driving bubbles in the long run - although i know counter argument is markets actually become efficient with more trading, but it is hard for me to buy into that 100% - i hope i'm wrong though). Also I think a decent gauge would be how much open-source has been contributed back and how much of it is valuable. Other things are hard to quantify like the example you gave, but I can't prove that you're wrong either.

Also when you develop something like physics, once proved - it always works with very good precision(reason we can launch satellites accurately). Or let's say a software or database that is supposed to work a certain way.
What's being done at quant funds - I can't think of something on those lines that could be useful. Lot of these things don't always work because you're still speculating with large inaccuracy but a slight edge statistically.

Some interesting links:

http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/warren-buffett-hedge-fund-bet/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-99-of-trading-is-pointl...
I wonder what the author means by batch inserts ? How would it have been achieved ? Is it a procedure or something ?
How would you beam an AI to mars?
What would give it physical usefulness on arrival? Saw Sam Altman say it here: https://youtu.be/1Mjnwl5TPXU?t=13m41s
I suggest addressing the leaving for a better job issue head on. One possible tactic is something like "Yes, I probably won't be around forever. But as long as I'm working for you, I'll show up when I'm scheduled to work, on time, sober, and ready to go. I have a car in good conditions / live a ten minute bike ride away / am on the X bus line. When I leave, I'll give you two weeks notice so you have time to pull me off the schedule."
I think it's more like a 6 bit number, and probably not very fast at all...
Would you mind explaining a bit more about the wild maggots part?

I wonder if this is something that could be used in a scarcity scenario, benefit vs risk of infection, etc..
As far as I know, that South Park is where the meme came from.
Facebook affirmed they could not cross information between their users and whatsapp users. Dual SIMs are irrelevant to this, a very very small minority of the users will be providing using this feature to have separate numbers of facebook and whatsapp.
> for skilled foreign workers

C.f. "Japan took in just 28 refugees in 2016, despite record applications" http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-asylum-idUSKBN15O0UV
I would wager everyone out there knows, either explicitly or implicitly, that boiling water is a great way to clean it. People are looking for something better that can scale to give everyone clean drinking water. Boiling water for the length of time needed to render it safe to drink is terribly energy-inefficient, which is why it's not done in water treatment plants anywhere in the developed world.
Wouldn't call centers for online retailers need compliant desktops? How do they deal with customers who prefer to call an agent and read their card number over the phone?
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link to letter: https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20...
For anyone who finds historical money markets interesting, the problems arising from a lack of efficient currency in the late 17th century are the recurring theme in Neal Stephenson's _The Baroque Cycle_, which is a great (if long!) read. I can't vouch for the accuracy, but one example is a 30-page dramatized story of a primary character learning why it was easier for France to buy baltic lumber than to ship it from its interior to its shipyards. There's similar dramatized stories of how to arbitrage letters of exchange from banks in different cities, having so much gold that it can't be spent, and what it means to ship specie across an ocean. Overall, a very economically cerebral trio action novels.
Maybe teach English in Asia or drive an Uber? Or go to trade school to become an electrician or mechanic?

Those are the escape routes I daydream about when I'm unhappy at work, anyways :)
I presume this will have the same faults as YouTube's Content ID:

- Can't identify when it is fair use.

- Can't identify when the user has licensed the content outside of the system for use.
That's been mentioned as one of her inspirations in a couple places, even though they're two very different mechanisms. This bracelet seems to actually interrupt the tremor somehow while the spoon just stabilized itself like an active camera gimbal.
How a 1997 New Times Feature on Homeless Kids' Folklore Exploded the Internet
Doesn't Dropbox already do this? IIRC they let you store anything, but block sharing a file if its hash is found in some blacklist.
I had no idea that happened. Now I'm sad. Chris Abrahams is great.
There are plenty of things that animals do that earn disapproval, even horror were they done by humans to other humans.

The praying mantis decapitating and devouring her mate, is one example. Infanticide and cannibalism are quite common in the animal kingdom. Many sex acts engaged at by animals and especially insects would be considered deviant if not simply insane were humans to carry them out. The list goes on and on.

That said, I'm completely against the War on Drugs. But saying animals use drugs is not a very convincing argument against it.
You appear to be confused about the difference between a refugee and an immigrant.
Burns need to be kept cool and moist. Applying anything thick and cool (within reason - lotions for example) to the burn will help. Cool the burn under cold running water if possible ('take the heat out'), then put something on it to keep it moist. Anything serious requires a trip to the ER of course.

Even if you forget to put sunscreen on and get sunburned, putting sunscreen on afterwards can help keep the skin moist and improve the outcome.
It's funny that the author writes about biking in Seattle and using transit to get around. I'm a little jealous.

I'd love to commute like this except that I live on the west side of Lake Washington and my job is on the east side of it[0]. And I work odd hours. There are exactly two bus route combinations that will get me across the lake: route 545 is a straight shot and route 550+RapidRide B is the one with the transfer. Except that, especially on days with nice weather like today, the bus is unusable when I leave work because all three slots on the bike rack may be filled and Sound Transit / King County Metro has an absolute rule against bringing a non-folding bike onto a bus[1].

I wish I could bike to work, and thus get used to biking more for general stuff. But I can't count on being able to bring my bike back home with me at night so it's walking+buses for me. I suppose I will just wait five years until East Link arrives at Northgate.

0 - Changing jobs or moving house are both non-starters since I've worked where I have for a very long time, almost two decades, and I'm lucky enough to have bought a small house.

1 - Sound Transit and King County both say that bikes are unsafe to carry on bus transit because the bus operates on a road and unexpected things might happen. My rebuttal has always been: OK, so why are bikes allowed on Link south of International District Station? Because, pardon my technicality, the train is also operating in the road. Or why are bikes allowed to be walked onto either streetcar (both of which are operated by King County Metro) since both very much operate in mixed traffic?
Scala vs. Kotlin
I'm not going to comment on the liquidity argument (it's a dead horse in my opinion), but another commenter and I mentioned a few examples of open source contributed by "quant" funds.
Well said, similar experiences myself. If someone is worth being a friend then I get their email or phone number. If it's at a professional level then LinkedIn is more than enough.

I think Facebook is sad, very sad, and the majority of people waste their lives away on it.
> Anything out of the ordinary will be shot down asap to protect the egos involved.

> Research, smesearch; fear is a product of ego. And so is crawling on your knees for authorities to tell you how the world works...

Your second comment seems like almost an illustration of the attitude you (seem to) decry in your first.
I'm in Bangalore. And it's unsafe af. The millions who do it in India are forced by poverty, otherwise they'd love to drive cars.
The problem is that most startup books tell you what not to do, not what to do. Actually finding an underserved market that can be serviced by something a founding team can build is a bit of a black art. Anyone who finds one is busy building that startup, because the financial returns of actually serving the niche are so much better than that of telling someone else about the niche.

Before anyone mentions Lean Startup or Startup Owner's Manual - I've read them, lent them to friends, actually put them into practice, and that startup (startups, actually) still failed. And I've got a half dozen or so friends and acquaintances who have done it too, and their startups all failed too. The advantage of that methodology is that you fail fast, oftentimes before you quit your day job, but if founding a startup is something you really want to do, knowing a few dozen ideas that aren't viable businesses is only marginally useful.
"We are never living, but hoping to live; and whilst we are always preparing to be happy, it is certain, we never shall be so, if we aspire to no other happiness than what can be enjoyed in this life."
Mine costs about $1,000: https://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/pas/lineup/city-c/

But I'm in Tokyo so I'm not worried about theft at all. It has an integrated lock on the back wheel and this blocks the handle too.
Are you actually interested in doing the things themselves, or is the thought of becoming a person that does those things the source of your motivation?
> Could you ditch them?

Yes, of course. All of them. I was alive before those companies existed, and life was more pleasant then in many ways. I already use Linux.

Google Search is a difficult one to replace in this line of work.

Google Maps is especially useful for people who tend to get lost, but I think it's also bad for people's brains, because it takes cognitive load off of the brain's navigation system, which is required for many cognitive tasks, including memory.* In any case, there would be other mapping companies to fill the space.

* It still needs more research, but this is interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/677048.stm
To be honest with you, I consider most examples of companies releasing open source software to be commoditizing their complements and streamlining recruiting, not altruism.

The result can be altruistic, I guess, but my point is that judging intentions with regards to open source on the part of large companies is a fool's errand in my opinion.
I wouldn't assume these sort of desktops would even run windows at all.

A large BestBuy-like place here in Argentina has their sales terminals boot over PXE into some form of *nix straight to the sales systems with no real internet.

A bank nearby boots the account executive's systems right into KDE, on some pretty locked machines.

Windows 10 in any of those scenarios would be a laugh, I can't even being to think why someone would pick it for anything that requires security audits.
You speak as though there's an enormous gulf in producing social value between working at Facebook and working at Renaissance.

Speaking as a physicist who left the field, the vast majority of research physicists are not going to make a significant impact on advancing human knowledge. They're all too busy teaching bored undergrads, competing for underfunded grants, and politicking to get their name onto more papers.

I'd rather do math and make lots of money. Wouldn't you?
Double ironic that some of these disused railway lines - with fantastic rights of way directly from town centre to town centre - have been turned into cycle tracks.
> I feel like you are just going off on a random tangent without a lot of data here, just because you don't want to say "yeah, i guess the parent was wrong".

Okay, but, uh... having never been involved in the conversation until that point, I could have just... not said anything about the parent? It just sounded like you were trivializing something which likely wasn't an easy thing to do.
I found the letter to his parents, in which he explains at great length how people should lead their lives, rather condescending. His parents probably have much more experience with life than he does, and have lived through difficulties that he can't even imagine (e.g., his stepfather grew up in the Soviet Union). Some of the points in his letter are things that he'll probably change his mind on later. For example:

"I would die absolutely happy if I died right now."

Clearly, he has no children or anyone else who depend on him for support. Someone who is responsible for the lives of others would probably not be happy to find out that they only had a short time to live. But hey, he's not even responsible for himself:

"Please don't disown me yet though. I really need a place to stay before my start ups get funded. I don't even have money for food right now."

So he's just informed his parents, via e-mail, that he's (1) flushed all the money they paid for his college expenses down the drain and (2) expects them to support him indefinitely (what if his startup doesn't get funded?). He's put them in the difficult position of having to choose between supporting him and letting him go homeless, without even the courtesy of asking them if they had the desire or resources to support him. (Presumably his parents are trying to save for their retirement and for his little sister's education, and would much rather he started paying his own way.) Those are the actions of an immature, entitled child.
I think PuTTY for Linux will show a menu where you can access settings if you press Alt-Space (and that key isn't bound by your WM). You can change the copy/paste behavior in the PuTTY settings before you open the initial connection and save it as the default configuration (also scrollback settings).

Use K3B to burn CDs and turn on Burnfree/whatever it's called.
> I think was the most important lesson: Get clear on WHO you’re making this for and how they can be reached. This was one of my bigger f ups.

Probably one of the most common f-ups: not having customers that actually want your product.
The other commenters are correct-ish about "quant" meaning something like, "computers and technology." But for the most part it's now a marketing term. Discretionary/fundamental hedge funds also use data pretty extensively, and they also use trading algorithms. It's largely about technology culture, not simply the way in which trades are chosen (or not, as it were).
Well, I'd argue that you should grin

I've had much the same experience that the Mr. Marshall describes with many aspects of Common Lisp: repeatedly, I'll discover that something which annoyed me (CLOS, packages, pathnames — whatever) is actually remarkably well-thought-out and pragmatically useful. It really is an amazing language.
the headline is still very applicable to other metro areas.
It's pretty easy. If your computer has enough ram to store a size 2^16 length complex vector (which is 2^20 bytes, or 1MB) than you can open up an ipython notebook and write code to apply quantum gates to it with no problem.

The problems start to set in if your RAM can't hold the wavefunction in memory (so around 28 qubits, which takes 2^32 bytes = 4GB of RAM.)

With specialized code and supercomputers you can get a little farther, but you will be fighting exponential growth, so not too much. The practical limit for classical computers is in the 40-50 qubit range.
With 16 qubits, the Hilbert space has 2^16 = 65536 elements. For numerical simulation, you need to store the wavefunction amplitude for each of these elements, usually using a double-precision complex number (16 bytes). Altogether the wavefunction can be stored as a vector with 1 MiB of data. AFAIK all quantum computing algorithms can be expressed as a sequence of 1- and 2-qubit operations, which would be implemented as sparse matrix-vector products. So the simulation part is almost trivial. ;) I'd say that for 16 qubits, designing the quantum circuit to perform an actually useful operation is the far more difficult part.

However, once you start adding more qubits the simulation part becomes hard to infeasible. I think I saw some paper which simulated around 40 qubits. Here the wavefunction already needs 16 TiB, so you need a big HPC cluster to run that.
Scott Gilbertson: 'Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web'
Housing is only cheap if you can make enough in the area the house is located to afforded it.

Not in relative terms.
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But before too long the roads are jam-packed again, the problem isn't solved, just have more cars clogging traffic.

Isn't that a good thing, indicating greater economic activity?
Whenever there is an earnout in the M&A context, the acquiring company will attempt to insert language in the transaction agreements relieving the acquiror from any liability if it does not help (or even hinders) the target (or the relevant employees from the target) in meeting the earnout thresholds.

If your company receives an acquisition offer and it includes an earnout, do not sign a term sheet that lacks protections in terms of your ability to meet earnout thresholds. Your leverage decreases once the term sheet is signed. So, if there's any chance to get protections, it's at the term sheet phase.
> fundamentally I wonder if the housing supply could even be increased enough to materially affect housing prices.

Yes, it can; SF built 5,000 units last year, a record, and rents and owner move-in evictions finally declined. At the very least, building more housing can prevent further large price rises.

> BTW this is what's happening here in Portland OR, where a building boom has been going on for years. The area population has increased, housing prices are still out of range for many people.

The question is what would happen if you didn't build the housing. I contend that the people moving in would outbid everyone for the existing housing stock, which would drive rent increases even more than rents are currently going up. It may be that the new housing is just keeping things at a base level.

Flipped on its head the logic here doesn't really make sense; destroying existing housing stock would be disastrous for rents and prices, it makes sense that building more would help prevent increases.