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That is the part of the story that sounded made up. A few months later he founded another company the right way and sold in it in 9 months.

Judging by the comment that he would never pay by the hour instead using a flat salary he would simply assign expected tasks and deadlines. Not sure that strategy attracts the type of developer who could build the next facebook.

The problem with trying to figure out what your product is by actually developing it is usually solved by designing what you want with pen and paper first.

Most successful businesses start with a product idea and the difficult part is getting funding to built it. It sounds like the author started with money but no vision.
As much as people make fun of him for caring so much about a seemingly minor point, I've come around to understanding RMS's frustration about people calling all of the GNU project "Linux". This sort of title drives home why: neither Linus nor anyone else on the Linux project had anything to do with any of this.
How did you get the youtube video from his profile? I looked through and couldn't find a way to correlate the two as we don't know what year he won.
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There's a difference between "testing things on a reasonable reproduction of real-world systems" and "claiming Windows doesn't work correctly because you don't read the documentation."
i is for sqrt(-1), d is for decimal, n is for "not not a bigint".
This interests me, who would I contact to sell that slave coal? Do they use external recruiters? Any pointers would be appreciated
Thanks.
For some, its about the lyrics. But for me, it is the music.
>The drug lords were using AS/400 mainframes decades ago to ferret out traitors.

do you have any reading on this?
Ask HN: What are some interesting applications of ML in biomedical imaging?
I want to apply ML to do neuroscience research. I may get a chance to do that in a brain imaging lab next year. Are there any particularly exciting research areas under the neuroimaging/ML umbrella?
No, athletes don't train "30 hours a week". With proper intensity, anything over 2-3 hours a day is detrimental. This time includes stretching and warmup.
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To save others from having to google it, the >2.0 rate (cited various places as a range, roughly 2.07-2.1) is due to two things:

1. The birth rate for males is usually (always?) slightly higher than for females, roughly 105:100, and the fertility rate for a stable population is the average number of children a woman has to have to replace herself, so the ratio disparity makes the needed replacement fertility rate slightly more than two.

2. Not all females survive and remain fertile through their child-bearing years.

There are various environmental factors thought to cause variations in sex ratios by way of slight hormone variations, so one shouldn't expect the male:female ratio to be constant from region to region. Medical care and disease and mortality rates vary, too. So there's no single exact fertility rate for a stable population, but it's roughly 2.07-2.10 for developed countries.
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please chill out dude
and on the contrary: aside from the title, is anything in this article specific to Linux?
> pretty shoddy security researcher that doesn't read the documentation

What an unnecessary insult. If you can read the incredibly confusing Microsoft documentation better than him (or any of us), then please post the definitive step-by-step instructions for turning off all telemetry and privacy-invasive connections in Windows 10.

Then we'll see if your insult was warranted.
I mean... for what it's worth, I'd never seen it before, I would never have seen it without the manual intervention, and I loved it and think it's perfect for HN. I don't think we really need a 'fundamental fix' for anything, seems to be Working As Intended (tm) ;)
Lately I've come to the realisation that growing up means you simply can't maintain all your hobbies.

It's just not possible to play video games, and read novels, and read comic books, and garden, and cook, and blog, and play an instrument, and code, and paint, and sketch, and do photography, and do pottery, and watch TV, and ballroom-dance, and ski, and practice archery, and go to the gym, etc.

For the majority of people, apart from whatever you do for work, I think you can only really maintain 1-3 hobbies. People like those described in the article have chosen books/reading as their big time-sink. And that's okay, but I bet they're not spending a lot of time painting, or watching TV, or downhill-skiing (unless it's their job). Because there are only so many hours in a day, and eventually you have to specialise.
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There is also another command 'paste'.

Example: Created two files (1.txt and 2.txt)

[efg@fedori ~]$ cat 1.txt

file1: line1

file1: line2

[efg@fedori ~]$ cat 2.txt

file2: line1

file2: line2

In order to merge the lines of these two files we can use paste:

[efg@fedori ~]$ paste 1.txt 2.txt

file1: line1	file2: line1

file1: line2	file2: line2

Also check out 'man fold'
Why not use Google Docs if you want Google notes with more features? I do and it works great except for my general NSA paranoia.

It's great being able to simultaneously edit a document from the PC and on your phone.
If someone wrote an article titled "Windows utils that you might not know," I would not expect it's content to be solely applications written by Microsoft.
but, they all use official sdk ;-D
That's true, but:

* The CPUs that have better-than-ARX (like, fast constant time multiplication) can do better than ARX

* Fast ARX ciphers are still slower than Intel AES hardware.

I like Salsa/ChaCha more than AES, but there's a reason AES is so popular, and it's not incompetence or a conspiracy.
>It was still there choice to deploy using iframes knowing that that was the way it felt.

So you're blaming Google for not writing around an edge case bug that exists only on one platform?
Correct. If you have an ad blocker installed, you get the paywall. I simply ignore theatlantic.com links and go on with my life.
I didn't know that. TIL
It's super unclear why this is downvoted, seems to me like he has an entirely valid point about strong dependence on the time resolution of data.
I think a better title would probably be "Common Unix utils that you might not know" or "GNU Coreutils that you might not know" (as some of the things that he is using seem to be coreutils-only?)
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Teaching is a difficult job, but I really enjoyed it. If you are from an English speaking country, have a university degree and are under 40 then the JET programme (Japan Teaching Exchange) is a pretty soft landing if you get in. Reputable government job, visa sorted out, travel expenses sorted out, accommodation sorted out and higher than normal wages (which... is not saying much -- it's still pretty low). The problem is that it takes a good year from applying to going and in some countries the competition is fairly stiff. Still, I recommend it. I intended to go for 1 year, but stayed for 5 (maximum length of the contract). I never really intended to get out of the software industry but I would happily have continued teaching English if circumstances hadn't led me back to high tech. I still entertain notions of teaching again...
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where i can find supercomputer with more than 100 GPUs online?Give me some link please
Pony generates also much tighter, better, faster code. Code which I would use in a driver. Not managed C#.
I know no other language which generates faster code. I mean faster than C++ with OpenMP, while being memory and concurrency safe.

P has fantastic proof and test generating libraries and IDE's though. In pony you'll have to write perfect code to pass the type checker. P does much better handholding to get there.
I think the term "consumer base" is not heartless but in fact pretty accurate.

Why not spending the probably huge amount of money in a cure instead of monitoring devices ?

Well, because why kill the Golden Egg Goose ? Millions of people who have to take pills every day are good recurent money. If you cure them, no more cash.

(Well it's the middle of the night, I can't sleep and fill a little bit bitter...)

One more thing. I'm a bit scared with all the private companies collecting personal medical datas. But maybe I've read too much science fiction.
..."Music Video of the Year" at the Oxford International Film Festival...
I wonder if Kotlin could compile to Dalvik bytecode in the future? It might be pointless with Java, because Oracle owns Java compiler and maintaining separate fork might prove hard to do. But with Kotlin it should be somewhat easier. I've heard that the whole Android development is very slow because of those intermediate steps.

Also it might help to develop or improve live update features. If I'm developing server applications, I'm usually using JRebel which allows live reloads of bytecode and that's tremendous productivity gain. Same with React Native. I'm not sure about pure Android development.
I remember once calculating that I could read 1-2 metres of books per year, or roughly 100m over my lifetime.

Then the internet happened.
* 'comm -3' is a quick way to do a set difference from the command line.

* Newer versions of sort have an option for running sorts in parallel. If you're using an older sort, you can split the files, sort them individually with GNU parallel, and use --merge to combine them.

* If you have scripts that read data files, process them, and output more files, consider using a Makefile.

* tmux is a good way to leave a development session on a server that you come back to at the start of the day, or that you run long-running processes in.

* Setting a soft ulimit system-wide is a good way to avoid accidentally running the machine out of memory, causing your C libraries to be paged out to disk, and usually requiring a reboot. Since it's soft, you can override it at any time.

* strace and gdb can be run on just about anything to see what it's doing. If it's an interpreted language, you can often attach to a live process, call a function to invoke some interpreted code, and not have to kill & restart the process to fix a bug or oversight. Or you can attach to a Postgres worker process to get a stack trace, which often tells you why your query is slow if it runs so long you can't get an explain analyze.

* Look in /proc to find tons of useful information about running processes and settings. For example, you can tell how many filehandles a process has open, and sometimes what file it corresponds to. Just yesterday, a grub update caused a server to boot the kernel with the command line replaced with 2 random characters and a newline, which would be harder to debug without /proc/cmdline.

* pushd and popd are useful in shell scripts to temporarily change directories without forgetting where you were.
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XEX, unfortunately. That's a mistake. Unauthenticated tweakable wide-block cipher modes are designed for simulated hardware disk encryption. That's not what an encrypted filesystem is: a filesystem knows where files begin and end, and has space for metadata. Filesystem encryption should use authenticated encryption.
My intuition is that the worst case scenario would be a fractal-like curve with multiple solutions (imagine a snake-like polygon following a Hilbert pattern). In that case the algorithm would need to explore all of the smallest squares, that gives us a higher bound on the number of iterations. It will be far less in most cases.

Would the delaunay-based algorithm be faster in the worst case?
They understand when a car or a microwave or a fridge is useful, and why you wouldn't want to use one in place of another.
Research labs have been trying this for years with every spectroscopy known to man - the signal is just too weak. I don't see any reason to think Apple has figured something out that labs of optics experts can't do on the benchtop.
This thread is starting to sound absurd in a very Reggie Watts sort of way:

https://genius.com/Reggie-watts-if-youre-fcking-youre-fcking...
To paraphrase Orhan Pamuk - "They don't buy clothes, they buy dreams (about themselves)". This is as old as humanity.
Specialization is for insects.
1) Fair use is incredibly hard to identify, especially as the intent in the center of all of it.

2) This is easy once you go multi-site. We [0] are actually doing that across many sites.

[0] https://pex.com
That would be a benefit to your CV for a number of positions. Entry-level undergrad science internships tend to be extremely competitive, I was never able to land one. One of the best things you can do is, assuming you're at a university and not a college, become a research assistant at one of the labs on your campus. There's typically no pay, but you can often get credits, and it can sometimes lead to a publication.
I think that, in terms of social value, the point of diminishing returns for market making and liquidity has long since passed, especially wrt social value for Avg. Joes & Janes.

I def. don't hold Facebook etc in a much higher regard here, but if we're talking about brain drain from socially useful fields, I don't think anyone can credibly argue that finance (esp. HFT et al) provides any meaningful social value.

In fact I'll go one further: by sucking up the best and brightest, high finance is doing a net harm to more socially useful sectors.

I'm not being prescriptive wrt what choices people should make, btw, just speaking in terms of social good.
What you described could be symptoms of undiagnosed ADHD. The brain fog, only 5-10 days of random great/motivated days.

Contrary to popular belief, people with ADHD can be very smart and successful without even realizing they have it. Check out the ADHD subreddit and TotallyADD.com.
Meaningless for telling us the distribution of returns across all hedge funds.(It is very likely a Pareto distribution with, or even more skewed, with a small percentage of funds making the majority of returns.)

Interestingly, what these averages do tell us is that the average hedge fund return is not much, if at all, better than the average index fund return, with the index fund return graph being much more uniform in variance.
I bet you still wouldn't be happy if someone violated CC BY-SA or Expat/MIT licensing, and didn't even attribute to you. Thus, copyright still serves a purpose to you, and even for the minimal set of actions you want, it needs to be enforceable.

I agree that copyright law, as it currently stands is usually mostly about screwing the little guy, in favour of some big corporation in perpetuity, but that's a separate argument to enforcement which should apply equally to all works, including yours.
Or to be held responsible for wasting company's time or resources. At work, I always have this fear of "what if I waste two days on this idea, nothing comes out of it, and then my boss will ask me why feature X is taking so long to implement?".
Take for example Lambdas. Android has no invokedynamic, so every lambda has to be compiled to a class with a method. Android only allows 65k methods overall per linked unit, so that quickly becomes an issue.

Kotlin, on the other hand, can do much more intelligent transformations (look at its inline functions).
The correlation is very strong. The single biggest predictive input into a child's income is their parent's income.
I respect Alan Kay as much as the next guy, but I don't really know what the take-away is here.

Alan Kay having 4-6 hours a day to read books is certainly out of the ordinary and I can't emulate that. That's not "work day" - that seems more like "I don't have to go to work"-day. I suppose we can acknowledge that Alan Kay is making use of his time wisely.

Also, what kind of books are we talking about here? I guarantee you Alan Kay is not reading a technical book like Compilers by Aho in a day. Sure, he might be physically able to read the letters on all the pages in the book, but he's not LEARNING that much information in a day. That book is 2 semesters worth of new information, not to mention that it requires practice to solidify.

Even the author acknowledges this is a case of quantity over quality. How much actual learning is Alan Kay doing? Now that would be a useful point of reference. That would tell me if I have to up my learning game or if I'm doing just fine.

If every week I learn one new technology like RxJava, React Native, P, etc, am I beating Alan Kay at learning, even though I might be reading fewer pages?
Because vast majority of these creative ideas belongs to category of a naive popular bullshit like "chakras", "tantric sex", "veganism" or a border wall with Mexico?
Thanks for the kudos. The team works very hard to make the offline first capabilities best in class.

I'm not sure who at Couchbase is "strongly" recommending against the Community Edition. Of course we'd like to have people on the Enterprise Edition, but I think the information is out there to make an informed decision. You should only be getting a hard push away from CE if they really believe you'll need the support. Anyway, this is good feedback.
Sorry, I should have clarified my question. Why aren't the exchanges themselves publishing the data onto torrents?

My layman's understanding is the more actors that participate on the exchanges, the more volume, the more the exchanges profit. If this is true, then making the historical trading data would encourage more entrants onto the exchanges, and the exchanges would earn far more than selling the data to a few large institutions.
OMG! so true! I have been going with popularity as sorting parameter and screening low rated products myself
There's a The Necks gig at The Opera House as part of Vivid on (checks calendar) June 4th... He's also playing Camelot Lounge in July with Melanie Oxley.
I think machine learning coupled with increase in sensitivity of the signals could make a difference.
Agreed about private companies and collecting of data, but in the case of Apple, none of your HealthKit data is transmitted (it's all stored on your iPhone and/or Apple Watch).

Any app that reads/writes HealthKit data is required to provide a privacy policy before it passes App Store approval.

Additionally, apps can only access that data after a full-screen permissions screen is displayed, and the user manually toggles on the categories of Health data that the app can access.

In my experience, the bar for getting apps that use HealthKit is at least slightly higher than for non-HealthKit apps.
for extra fun try watch -t -n 1 "factor \$(date +%s)"
People say they want creativity but they only really want it when they themselves are the source of the creativity. People want creativity for themselves but then want to shoot down everyone else's ideas so theirs can be the only one standing. I think the Silicon Valley has not been able to rid itself of this aspect of traditional corporate settings.

It feels like people are constantly in competition with others on their team and creativity suffers as a result. Lately, I have found myself giving people room to collaborate on (or do) things I would typically do myself. They can get satisfaction out of being a contributing part of the creative process. I also don't feel as though them being creative or succeeding is a failure on my part or a negative reflection on me.
I just assumed it was this year, and then I noticed he linked to (presumably) his SoundCloud account in another HN comment[1], which I used as (good enough) confirmation that I had found the right video.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422365
Personally, I find going into real estate borderline immoral. Competing with people who want to own homes raises prices and makes people spend less on more interesting and intrinsically valuable pieces of the economy. There is some place for it, but right now there is far far too much money and too many people vying to get maximum profit out of a basic human need.
No, this is just wrong, not metonymy. It stood out to me too.
Slides are below the video. Click on "show more" to see them.

https://github.com/PyCon/2017-slides
Hits too close to home. It's fun to have an i3wm as a dual boot because it makes me feel "1337". But all my CAD, FEA, CFD, modelling software, they all run better on Windows, if they even run on Linux at all.
As a type 1 diabetic I'm super excited to see apple working in this space, even if they're focusing it on type 2 to start (a logical move, considering there is something like 30x more type 2 diabetics in the US). I think making it easier to track glucose levels in real time is the number one thing that can be done to improve quality of life for both types of diabetics.

The "CGM" (continuous glucose monitor) has really come into it's own over the last 10 or so years, and I would encourage all diabetics (but especially type 1) to use one. Currently the only 2 real options on the market are:

- http://www.dexcom.com/ - Connects directly to your phone using bluetooth and will send glucose warnings etc as notifications.

- https://www.medtronicdiabetes.com/products/enlite-sensor - Designed to work with Medtronic (who is a market leader) insulin pumps.

Both these options are expensive (even with insurance for many), invasive, and not really tailored towards "casual" glucose monitoring. I think if Apple enters the space with a non-invasive tool it'll be a huge boon for causal glucose monitoring. I also think it could be a more accessible option for people who are interested using a CGM to treat their diabetes but can't/won't use one of the existing options due to cost or inconvenience.

This seems like a win win and I'm excited to see where it goes.
Do you seriously not have better things to do than police comment section for silly typos?
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This doesn't surprise me at all. I'm a BA/Dev. and if it's a team of two, I am going to be much more productive working with a sysadmin/ops guy than I am with another dev.
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I was thinking the same thing. I kinda dislike that the called it "HIS external brain". They gathered cells and created a new organism using it a a base. It's not "him" any more.

If it had been an embryo, and they let it grow 10 years (eg: into a child), would they still call it part of him?

My example scenario is quite absurd, I know, I'm merely attempting to show that where we draw the line [if at all] is extremely fuzzy.

More on point; can this organism feel pain? The amount of neurons seems to be in the same order of magnitude as flies.
Yeah, not if you have to balance all of that with a full-time job and a family. But if you can somehow manage to retire early [1], and you either don't have kids or you don't home-school them, then I think you could find time for all of those things you mentioned in your second paragraph. Of course, not all in the same day.

And you don't really need to specialize, unless you have the drive to become a world-class musician or painter. I have a lot of hobbies where I just have fun and don't really want to get famous or turn them into a career.

[1] http://reddit.com/r/financialindependence
Why is life not perfectly fair for everyone?

If the margin trading limit was lower then the news would be full of sob stories about how greedy brokerages let unsophisticated people get in over their heads and then took their life's savings on a margin call. Sometimes stocks go down.