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> yuck, totally tasteless

Huh. Now that you mention it, I have a Windows _ (the _ is where the sticker is worn down -- 7, I think?) sticker on my Lenovo Thinkpad (which doesn't have Windows currently installed, mind you).

Never really noticed it. I'm usually too busy starting at the tastefully design webpages dancing on my screen.
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Investors are much more likely to lend you lots of money when the debt is secured. Airplanes are pretty good securities against default; they don't depreciate quickly. If you default on your payments, the airplanes will be repossessed and the creditors will get most of their money back.

Seat-back monitors, on the other hand, are nearly worthless after installation. They're tied to the planes they're in; the technology obsoletes quickly; and they can't easily be resold. So the risk to the creditor in percentage terms is much greater.

So, indeed, in absolute terms, there's more at stake for the creditors (10M vs 2.5B), but if I were a creditor, I know what I'd feel safer betting on.
Actually, I'm gonna try https://grr.la/ryo/
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Remember, two years ago James Wilcox and Doug Woos were formally proving Raft's linearizable semantics using Verdi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017549
I think the hard part of these algorithms was discovering them. If you know what you're making at some point it just boils down to how quickly you can type. Took Einstein forever to discover E=mc^2 but I can type the full equation out in no time.
Just when you think there might be a finite number of time/calendar pitfalls...
First picture of the first Production Tesla Model 3
That's a pretty misanthropic, and frankly, uninformed view. People know their interests.

The tradeoff is transportation versus land. You want to stop paying rent, but can't afford to buy your own place so you decide to buy farther out and spend more time traveling.

We got a middle class in this country due to the Automobile and the suburbs, which let people get out from under the thumb of the landlord and buy their own land. Cars -- and transportation more generally -- is a produced good. Land is not a produced good. For all the complaints about sprawl, an economy in which we substitute produced goods for non-produced goods that are inherited from wealthy families is a better economy.

Now you can argue that we should be using more electric vehicles, or fixed track vehicles, and all of that is worthy of discussion. But you cannot argue against sprawl. We continue to spread out as a society so that each person buys their own plot of land instead of paying endless rent to the landlords who monopolize the land in the city center. We continue to try to improve transportation and communication so that those who own key locations cannot extract the same rents from us as they used to. This is a virtuous feedback loop, and those wanting everyone to live as renters in large urban centers don't understand that this creates a permanent rentier class of landlords with unlimited power of taxation, and a permanent underclass of tenants who don't get to keep the gains of their increasing productivity. That's how you get serfs. That's why landlords have always opposed transportation innovation, whether it be opposition to the creation/subsidy of roads or of rail.

It is also why we have a history of diffusion. The built up areas of cities house fewer people per square meter of land than they did 100 years ago, and there it's also fewer than 100 years before that, etc. Sprawl has been happening since Roman Times, and landlords have been screaming against it for all of history.
If you need heavy job on the spot bare metal company won't be able to deliver what you need. Only those cloud services have enough servers.

10x more seems a lot but it really depends on how you use it, it's no secret that cloud is more expensive.
Do you have any recommendations for books regarding stoicism? I'd like to learn more.
You might find this interesting:

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/29/an-empirical-study-on-th...
Why are cars a problem? The US hit "peak car" a few years ago. The US population is leveling off. Millennials aren't buying cars in a big way. Electric cars are gaining market share and dropping in price. Self-driving cars are getting close. The US already has a mostly adequate highway system. What's broken?
https://medium.com/100-days-of-algorithms
These laws don't apply to Protonmail: https://protonmail.com/blog/swiss-surveillance-law/

> As a participant in these discussions, we can confirm unequivocally that upon implementation, the provisions regarding data retention introduced by the BÜPF will exempt companies like ProtonMail and ProtonVPN which are not major telecommunications operators.
If you don't know the system and the range of inputs you don't know what to model. If you can't measure the outputs, you can't validate your statistical model.

The predictions for the current solar cycle are a good example - the predictions were drastically off, the actual values outside the predicted error ranges from the statistical models. It was expected to be a more active solar cycle, based on our understanding of the system, its inputs, and the state from the previous cycle.

Because we didn't (don't) understand the system, our models were wrong.

If your model is not right, leaving out inputs, having the wrong range of variables, etc., it doesn't matter how good your math and statistics are, your model works...until it doesn't.

Then you get to do science and generate a new hypothesis, model that, and try again!

What you can't do is say in 2011, "Models show California will be drier because of global warming" then in 2017, "Models show California will be wetter because of global warming" and claim the models (both?!) have predictive power.

"This will not do. You never will be able to make both of them good for any thing. Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one. There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of [model]" --Elizabeth Bennett

(And no, there's not nearly enough "drier" area in the new model to be compatible with the older predictions.)
Hours?

Pretty sure the investors are already motivated in the OP's success. Unless they don't like money.

They sound like professional investors. You shouldn't give them free shit.
Yep! It's the cycle of auto dependency.

Shown in this diagram: http://imgur.com/a/beqcY

Tough to break out of without a serious investments in transportation alternatives such as bike lanes and public transit.
Everything is metric?!

Admittedly these are oldish examples, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter springs to mind, and my 2005 Jeep is a crazy hodgepodge of metric and imperial bolts.
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I've seen @joshu occasionally answer questions like this on twitter, so it may be worth pinging him for an uninterested angel's perspective.

From my pov, it sounds to me like the early angel is basically whining. Personally, I'd offer to let him or her buy up and preserve a pro-rata. My decision would depend on if this is an experienced angel with a good rep, or someone who isn't particularly experienced / not used to how investments go and the idea that you can lose. ie if you didn't raise that $150k, this angel's investment would be worth $0 so that's it's own reward.
If your program doesn't have a race condition, then you're fine. And if it does, then the list being monomorphic is not going to help (try your scenario with a C++ vector or Java ArrayList).
One pattern is a high tolerance for "good enough" results or even wrong results, as such errors don't particularly matter in a game.
> The attacker doesn't need any user interaction to exploit the feature. A victim only needs to walk into the attacker's Wi-Fi network range.

> In its security bulletin, Google rated Broadpwn as a "medium" severity issue, meaning the company doesn't view it as a dangerous vulnerability, such as Stagefright.

Wait, really?
re-frame still has v=f(s). It just has more than just a view layer.
Valve is a lot like a small version of Alphabet in that there are no adults around to make sure people are dilligently finishing and polishing products.

I say this as an developer myself. After a 20 year career of working on other people's businesses and struggling to put my own things together, the whole, "we'll make amazing things if we just get away from management" thing is a gigantic, unproductive trap of thinking. Few programmers have the necessary self-awareness of their own limitations to stick to a problem all the way through to the end.
Wrong word: Zoning
> That viewpoint simply baffles me...I just can't fathom how anyone could prefer cars over a well-run public transport system.

The obvious answer is that most cities in the US, maybe just most cities, don't have a "well-run" PTS. I don't think it's an ideological refusal to use the PTS just because it's a PTS.

Cars are a lot faster than the bus outside of rush hour, and I value my free time. Cars are a lot faster than the bus during rush hour if you have to transfer even just a single time. The bus comes extremely infrequently in the middle of the night. Plus, like your hauling personal freight example, there are things like hiking that you could do pretty frequently and for which Uber or a car rental aren't feasible. And the buses here are off schedule enough that you can't rely on getting anywhere on time, especially if it's raining.

If buses came twice as often, I would easily pay double the current 100$/month bus pass rate and ditch my car.
(I'm an early-stage angel, fwiw)

Quick counterpoint to the other advice telling you to give more equity out:

1) Your new investors might feel a bit slighted by this; especially if this additional equity is dilutive, which it probably is.

2) A good angel should understand that raising the additional money is in their best interest and will maximize the value of their equity if it helps the company succeed. I'm not sure what situation you're in; but if not being able to raise the extra capital would be a significant risk; then it's a no-brainer.

I would recommend against giving out additional equity. The beauty of convertible debt or safes is that you can take capital whenever you need it without affecting the cap table and it all gets resolved at your first equity round.
Pretty sure Indrema was just a money laundering scam.
Did Ken Segall work in Apple during the time of iMac ? According to his linkedin Profile he was a consultant for Apple between 2005 - 2008. iMac was introduced in 1998.
This. Intel does not make money from the CPU in the broader sense, they make money by running their production lines at full tilt and getting paid for what comes off them.
This particular discussion wasn't about ruling out data races (although, of course, that is important too). It was about ruling out trying to read a list of strings from a reference cell containing a list of ints.
Yeah but if you remove all of that except for the Intel Inside Core i7 and the NVIDIA GEFORCE stickers... well you've just maintained the resell value of your Lenovo.
Such a weird comment on a Hacker site (at the top too). Hackers used to care a lot less about status and appearances, and more about doing cool shit. It's unfortunate that changed.
Detailed explication, for any work, is also valuable to people who speak English as a second language.
Why I Wrote PGP (1991)
This is cool! I just tried this with a few svg vector icons here https://linearicons.com/free
That's what I mean, in that most if not all of these algorithms don't seem to be discovered novelly, but more that they are universally known now, and indeed it seems like the author typed them out and called it a day, literally. I'm saying that there is more pedagogical value in meditating and creating from scratch, algorithms for some purpose over the span of a month, rather than reading about known algorithms and typing them out. If these same algorithms were indeed realized from scratch by the author with no prior knowledge , then I commend them, but still, doing so in only a day each seems highly unlikely.
Guys... Bell Labs is designed to look like a football. Not a mystery, nor should it be part of this article as 'weird'.
It was the entirely part that I disagreed with. Management isn't set it and forget it.

Agree that your success is tied to your team's success.
The NFL organization should purchase Bell Labs to be their new HQ
I think the thing was built on a custom distro to accommodate all of the games, including Mac & Windows oriented releases.
Its downright delusional to believe that he in anyway is somehow responsible for a sea change in cs/programming education. I read that blog post eyes wide jaw slack. Moreover, I'm curious where he came up with the millions of users who "learned" via his books?
It's entirely possible to care about doing cool shit tastefully.
"Undertaking" might be a UK-specific term, I don't know; it means "overtaking but on an inside lane relative to you, rather than an outside lane".
"In 2015, for example, the amount of time San Franciscans spent commuting amounted to more than $5.3 million in lost productivity, a 55 percent increase over 2011."

Editing, even at the New York Times, is becoming a lost art. I'm sure there are many high net worth individual San Franciscans who personally lose $5.3 million in productivity commuting each year. Even $5.3 billion would seem low to me. Clicking on the link over the "more than $5.3 million" phrase does lead one to a very beautiful report that contains the above quote, but I would not say that makes it true. Maybe we are heading to a Wikipedia like world where quoting something published makes a fact a valid reference rather than if it is true or not.

Quick estimate:

400000 people * 50 weeks/year * 5 days/week * 1 hour/day * 25 dollars/hour = $2.5 billion/year
The wiki is a great resource: http://www.cliki.net/Development

Really for a good experience you just need something with Swank support and ability to highlight matching parens. Eclipse would even work, though I haven't tried any of the plugins for it. IDE features like introspecting values, breakpoints, tracing, profiling, stepping, recompiling are all part of the Common Lisp standard so you'll get them for free just by running the Lisp REPL in a terminal. What you use on top of that is really just making it more convenient to interact with the Lisp environment than typing everything in by hand. I like slimv with its auto-paren-infer stuff turned off (matching and rainbow parens are fine for me) but I've also just used a tool that uses two screen sessions to send data back and forth without using Swank (or even Lisp, I use it sometimes for Python but that's trickier because I can't just send a class to (re)define if I have newlines between methods and I can't casually change my namespace).
How to Spin a Planet (1993) [pdf]
iOS does a lot to treat the networking stack and its third-party firmware code as untrusted, and limit its exposure as much as possible. So it sounds like the exploit can get to the Broadcom chip on iPhones but can’t pivot to the OS from there. Hooray for defense in depth!
> The real problem was that Rockefeller was rich, and then (like today) a lot of people just can't stand the idea that others are rich.

dont you think its kind of upsetting when someone could improve someone's life drastically without any (practically speaking) detriment to their own. obscene wealth is upsetting to me, and i know lots of people who have it, and i dont hate them. so its not about the person, per se. i just find it extremely unfortunate, knowing first hand how things could be different, in an almost pareto improvement way.

right now there is someone who will die because they cannot afford proper medical care. the is almost certainly someone with a lot of money, doing nothing with it, that could fix that at no cost to themselves. thats a little upsetting right?
Alas, pdftk is mostly dead. It's written in the ersatz dialect of C that only GCJ could compile, and GCJ is officially gone.

The underlying library is just fine, but a decent front end is lacking.
Here's a link to an interesting audio summary:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/16/533272737/episo...

And here's a Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Qatar_diplomatic_crisis

In brief, Qatar has been squabbling with the other Arab states (UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain) over a variety of issues, primarily resentment of Al Jazeera, Qatar's state-sponsored news network, and concern over Qatar's close relationship with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Things came to a head recently, when the other Arab nations declared an embargo on Qatar, which is land-locked and relies nearly 100% on imported food.
> As a Developer Advocate, you’re spreading awareness and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn.

Can someone explain that some more how that position is supposed to work. Maybe an example where DA made an impact for them personally. Otherwise that description sounds a bit like a rename of the traditional HR department.
Education is struggle, not just knowing what to click
> BCM43xx family of Wi-Fi chips included in "an extraordinarily wide range of mobile devices" from vendors such as Google (Nexus), Samsung, HTC, and LG.

It would be great if there were a published list of exactly which devices are vulnerable, or a way to check your device for whether this part was present. Is there anything like 'adb shell lspci' I could run to find out whether my devices have the broadcom parts? I know my Nexus 5x has a QCOM SoC, so I assume it lacks broadcom WiFi. But the rest of the family's devices -- what of those?
I was curious about this myself, but it looks like they are the highest open source contributor on Github according to https://octoverse.github.com.
That's a completely fair reason. That happened to me on a lesser scale with American and US Airways (I also lost all of my miles from America West from when I would fly back/forth to visit my father lol thanks airlines).

Totally sucks, especially 250k miles. I'd be weary after that as well.
> If you want a pretty ide for scheme or write your own scheme use Racket.
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Apple was forced by local law to have the amount of parking the campus has. Steve did not want it and did not want the ugly above ground garage. Maybe if the cities involved approved high desntiy housing and more effect public transport then things would get better. I live 50km from my office and it can take 2+ hours. On the other hand last week I started my morning meeting in Tokyo, then had a meeting in Osaka, dinner with friends in Nagoya and back to my hotel in Tokyo for bed.
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This article is not quite correct about why Apple switched to Intel. IBM was unable to provide a G5 chip suitable for laptop use. That's the whole reason in a nutshell.
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>told me that about 80% leave Wi-Fi always on

which means 20% don't, which is suspiciously high considering how much of a hassle it is to turn wifi on/off. then again, they could have unlimited data on their phones.
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> a foot is the length of my forearm

Or the length of one's foot, even.

You're right about meters not being as good a "human scale" measurement as feet. The idea of average height being 1.8 m is pretty awkward on its face. Turns out, though, the metric world has settled on starting with centimeters, though. But it's not clear that this is better, because now you end up throwing around high magnitude numbers like "183 cm" rather than "6 ft".

Given that we're clearly comfortable going with a diminutive unit (viz. cm vs m), I've always thought it would be better for the world to settle on the decimeter as the reference unit instead. It's larger than a centimeter but smaller than a meter, which is what we're after, and it's about the width of one's hand, which is arguably a more natural choice for something "human scale" than the foot. The snag is that "foot" still rolls of the tongue a lot more easily that "decimeter". So we go ahead and say 1 dm = "1 hand". It's a great unit, because if we want, we can scale up or down to meters and centimeters with (base 10-derived) constant factors, which is so easy that anybody can do it in their head.

The only snag left is that "hand" is already in use as a unit. This turns out to be less problematic than it sounds, because the legacy hand is an obscure unit really only used in horse breeding. And we're in luck, because as its name suggests, the imperial "hand" is named after the span of one's hand (with fingers extended), so they're roughly the same—it's not as if you end up with one name for two wildly differing sizes. This is the same kind of "conversational equivalence" we get with a ton and a metric tonne. That is, in conversation you're basically never reduced to needing the speaker to clarify which it is that he or she means, because you just don't need that kind of precision—a ton and a tone are both two very large masses that are in the same ballpark as one another.

Perhaps most importantly, the transition from feet to hands is fairly straightforward in conversational use, because end up saying that "1 ft" equals "about 3 hands".

People make a big deal about pi versus tau, but getting widespread adoption of the "hand" as a unit seems to me to be a much more worthwhile cause, because it would have a much bigger practical impact on everyday life than tau ever would.
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My team has been using Clojure for about 6 years now, but we only started introducing ClojureScript last year. Figwheel and Reagent workflow was what sold us on it.
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>Mr. Smith—who asked me to conceal his real name

Thank goodness, since being identified is basically asking to be kidnapped depending on which countries he is visiting.
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Nothing. Tell them they can put in the extra 150K themselves if they want to keep the others out. They should have 1st rights if they did it correctly.
Actually if the music those crazy people were listening to was overcompressed, they'd be able to turn it up louder without distortion :)
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Labor is entitled to all it creates.
For research and experimentation what you need is your own DL box. It will pay for itself in a few months. You will feel better having your own reliable hardware that you don't share or have to pay by the minute, and that will impact the kind of ideas you are going to try.

Then you scale up to the cloud to do hyperparameter search.
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Your browser has a dedicated feature for that. It's called a bookmark. /s
You're the one who brought up threads as a reason runtime monomorphisation doesn't work. If access to the list is properly synchronized, then what I proposed works just fine (you get your runtime error in whatever thread accesses the list second). If it's not, then unless you're using a concurrent data structure you're already screwed. The type system will at most change exactly how you get screwed.
I don't care how much Microsoft says they've changed.
Much like I know Facebook will never change when its founder called users of his platform "dumb fucks".
I had a couple thousand Bitcoin once, but then I bought a lot of drugs :(

I calculate how much it would have been worth every once and a while -- obviously it's been 1+ million USD for a while now. Alas, I actually need to work to get money.