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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey- Particularly for Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood chapter
You skipped entirely over trusts. Property managers are regularly not named members of an LLC. To wit, I'm a manager of an apartment building that I (quite unfortunately) don't have any ownership interest in. Building a state-by-state, or county-by-county lookup system; verifying person X is authorized to make decisions for a property; then detecting updates is decidedly non-trivial. You can skip googling since I already know the answer: there's very limited information available in many states on corporations. See eg Delaware. Other states don't require updates, or require updates only on very long periods. Many small LLCs simply skip even required annual updates. There's also complications such as the address used by the building and even the postal service is quite possibly not the recorded address. In 2015, [1] claims there were 550k property listings in the US alone. None of this can't be done, but trivial it isn't. I happen to know much of this because I used to work on address information.

[1] http://blog.airdna.co/2015-in-review-airbnb-data-for-the-usa...
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Trump is the ultimate stress test of childproofing.
If Google's doing something they don't want anyone to regulate, maybe they shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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Original article is "Forceful Chief of Staff Grates on Trump, and the Feeling Is Mutual"

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This requires a vehicle to be right in front of the (police) car. Not very practical as most of the license plates you get to scan will be in other locations of the video - you know, since the car in front of you may be there the next 10 minutes whereas cars drive past you and are parked to the side all the time.
Meanwhile Wall Street is building its own block chain.

Should be an interesting transition off Brenton Woods.
ok, so we're just arguing about terminology and expectation. maybe that reenforces Feo's point.

it is worth noting that the El Dorado started out as a general purpose computer, then a general purpose scientific computer, and then later as a "graph processor" in an XT frame because the MTA on its own was market-dead. and that Feo has been a big supporter since at least stage 2.

maybe is exactly this 'parallelism means GPU' which he's trying to argue against. I agree the overall arch of that point didn't really follow through in his talk, or someone's summary of that talk.

'mpp' was certainly a label adopted by TMC's cms 1-2, which were pretty damn simd. its was also used by the cray T3e, which was markedly not. the mta had 128 threads per cpu. a large enough instantiation could have had a few thousand hardware threads. later unbuilt designs backed the thread state in dram and could have gotten pretty damn fat. arguably 'massive' should be squishily about concurrency width.
Using government power to forcefully break up a publicly owned company is such a barbaric way of doing things.

Here are some better suggestions:
1. Force government institutions to use alternative search engines
2. Have government institutions nominate a "search engine of the month" and all their employees must use that
3. Subsidize search engine research in the public domain
4. Determine if any search engine patents are blocking innovation, and invalidate those patents
5. Subsidize research into decentralized search engines
I really don't understand why Google should fund this research. It's really not in their best interests.

Why can't the Open Markets team just find new funders? With this type of publicity, I'm sure many corporations and even individuals would step up.

I think the bigger problem is that the Open Market's team miscalculated that the New America foundation would have the flexibility and/or courage to stand behind this project vs stand up to Google.

It just seems a bit entitled to ask Google to fund research that can hurt them as a company.
There are a boatload of assumptions in that statement that are pretty unwarrented. The vast majority of why chrome is popular is because google.com and youtube.com push it nonstop, not any other imagined reasons.
Same here. Even to understand the theory, the only maths tools you really need are differentiation of composite functions (derivatives of f(g(x)), taught in high school ), what a gradient is (taught in 5 minutes if not taught in high school), basic matrix operations (and I mean really basic ones like transposition, nothing fancy like finding kernels) and then you can undertand stochastic gradient descent.

The hardest may be thinking in terms of higher dimension tensors (matrices that have 3 or more dimensions) but that is not even mathematics, just an intellectual effort.
I indeed looked for alternatives and they're just not there yet.

The more I read, the more APIs turn out to be missing or buggy, making it impossible for add-ons to be made (if the developer is active in the first place). I just don't understand this. Firefox was built on the extendible principle and they're now going back to "v0.2 beta" in that regard.

This process should have taken years to mature the new APIs before dropping support for the old method.
Unrelated to this discussion, but my favorite piece of unexpected good news was discovering that the girl in the picture healed and has gone on to live what appears to be a happily normal life! I'd always seen that photo and figured that she was yet another person lost to war...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
I'm a coder. I have only the vaguest claim to knowing any physics thanks to graduation requirements. It's just a fun book. Maybe having had a job where you're asked to do something crazy helps, but I have no problems recommending this to anyone who might be interested.

If you're a reader who can tolerate a memoir, and are looking for something a little different, I have no hesitation recommending ignition.
Tangentially, I've had a similar experience when teaching myself some areas of pure mathematics via books. The first time around I had a hard time figuring out which theorems were significant and worth more attention than others. The second time around the most important ones were a lot more obvious.
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Follow up: are you satisfied with where you're at? I thought about prepending that question with "if so," but it may also be nice to hear from those who aren't millionaires that feel content with their life.
Criminal trespass doesn't work that way. For the most part, you have to have clear knowledge that you are on someone else's property without permission - for example, climbing over a fence, or walking past a "No Tresspassing" sign. If someone invites you into the Y Combinator offices and gives you the door code, you're not trespassing.
By millionaire, do we mean liquid assets or net worth? And do we only count individuals, or does household wealth qualify? Because if we take the latter in both cases, a couple with decent white collar jobs, conservative spending, and maximized tax advantaged investments should make the cut inside a decade. It's boring but not difficult.
I think it's more of an argument against such an understanding of a component, similar to the view that too much was packed into jQuery add-ons.
Organizations should not accept funding from donors with incongruent philosophies, as this leads to conflicts of interest.
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The main objective function in nature is very simple though: maximize the number of copies of your genes. Such an objective enforced in a resource-constrained multi-agent world (as suggested in the slides) could really lead to quite complex sub-objectives which may as well lead to general intelligence. For example, if each agent can process information and perform work,
it follows that individuals that have better cooperative abilities also have a larger reproductive success. Cooperation is, however, extremely complex: It requires communication, identification of other individuals, establishment of trust, early detection of betrayal etc. The necessity for modeling the actions of other agents alone provides plenty of correction signals toward general intelligence because modelling other agents is such a difficult task.
Ask HN: Any todolist sidebar as Googledesktop one?
Do you know any todolist that can be locked as Desktop sidebar and not browser sidebar. Full time visual persistent. Just stay there on right side. With android synchronisation. ?
Postlight is a NYC based agency that do "initial digital MVPs" or similar - taking companies to a starting point for some new venture - do a good ish podcast - search iTunes
I think this is a good case for why all government software should be open source.

How many police departments around the world are spending absurd amounts of money for this technology? It would make much more sense both cost and productivity wise to have one big project that anyone can improve on instead of multiple inferior projects.

Not to mention that all of this is paid for with taxpayer money, so it is reasonable for those same taxpayers to have access to the code.
So...it's evil for Google to not want to fund a group that has people actively working towards hurting Google's business interests?

Meh.

Find a hand to feed you that's not the one you're currently trying to bite. There are plenty out there, you'll be fine.
It isn't barbaric to break up a company - at all.

Companies operate in our society, and they impact the citizens of our society. It is reasonable to directly stop a company when it is working against the shared values of our society.

Really, I would argue that it is barbaric to force a society to live with a company which ignores the wider interests of society.
A few of those suggestions seem a lot more "barbaric" than the government enforcing anti-monopoly laws. Imagine administrators, researchers, or whomever else works for the government having to change up their entire work routines and use a search engine they may ethically oppose because the government is trying to force fairmindedness. And the government should pick and choose patents to invalidate because the inventions described are too popular?
I made > $1M more than once. For me it's always been building projects/startups and eventually exiting. I repeated the cycle and got lucky enough a few times.

Interestingly, I always managed to get some kind of liquidity event for each of my projects. This is important IMO. ALWAYS try to get paid. Don't just "shut it down".

Each liquidity event added at least a digit to the price. For example, I sold my first business when I was a teenager for 4 figures. Then sold a side project for 5 figures, then sold a business for 6, and then 7 figures.

I always became more ambitious with my goals and I find that the learnings of each venture helped me move up the ladder to the next one.

So don't get discouraged if you make just $500 or $5000 with your current project. Just use it as a stepping stone to the next one and try to figure out what you could have done differently for a 10x or 100x outcome.

For example, for my 6 figure exit business, one of my biggest mistakes was that I focused on a market that was way too small with little room for growth (product was entirely in French, and it wasn't as easy as translating it to grow the market size). I made sure to never make this mistake again. I made other ones instead :)
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Select is a kernel level interface. I don't know how it's implemented at the kernel, but there is no technical reason why it can't follow from an interruption to an array index and a file descriptor without ever passing through a list.

Besides, how do you block in user space when there is nothing to read?
To protect myself I created a new account. The answer is cryptocurrencies, bitcoin early and then ethereum. Also high salaries from startups even though all of their stock became worthless. I only work because I like to. Once kids are born probably will go into academia.
Won't cryptocurrency allow them to circumvent the dollar ?
Here are some things that help:

* Frugality: deeply understanding the things that bring you satisfaction and skipping the rest

* Aggressively saving and investing money

* Building a mastery in personal finance

But becoming a millionaire isn't a math problem. Most people on here are capable of doing so many times over without any great career home run.

However, achieving such a milestone will require you to (on an ongoing basis) look deeply inwards, answer fundamental questions about yourself, and change your life.

At the risk of getting too preachy, most people haven't even figured out what they want and so they default to mainstream consumerism. Such people have little chance of becoming a millionaire (which requires sustained, long-term behavior changes) until they first sort themselves out.
Also primary residence value.

(I think that's relevant since HNW definitions exclude the value of their primary residence. [1])

[1]High-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a term used by some segments of the financial services industry to designate persons whose investible assets (such as stocks and bonds) exceed a given amount. Typically, these individuals are defined as holding financial assets (excluding their primary residence) with a value greater than US$1 million.[1][2][3]) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-net-worth_individual
>I really don't care which browser is #1 in speed tests.

You're in the minority then. The majority of users care, a lot, about speed, and Firefox is visibly slower than Chrome, probably one of the main reasons it has lost so much share.

Personally I care about both, that's why I am so conflicted about this update. But it's disingenuous to assume this is an unwarrented regression. You cannot get better in terms performance while keeping the extension system as it is. This reworking is necessary for Firefox to even compete wit Chrome. I understand the dillema but this is far from clear-cut one way or the other.
A little digging seems to indicate that the author makes a living as an engineer whose livelihood relies on customers paying for solutions provided by the company he works for, so naturally it is offensive that someone would criticize inflated costs associated with a third-party, closed source solution to a problem.
>135 euros

nope, looks exactly like some other versions i've seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlqJaUi5jE

I guess people will buy it, but I'd rather it be cheaper
Not that i'm opposed to modernization of classics, I love worrydream for example

http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt...

but that is free!
I used to work on a yachts. I've worked for billionaires and people worth hundreds of millions. The pattern seems to be they hire people who know what they are doing. They provide those people with resources to accomplish what they were hired to do. And, they stay out of the way.

When I tell people I was a yacht chef, people often ask if the owners or guests tell me what they want to eat all day. In fact, people never tell me what they want to eat. If it is a charter I will speak with the guests to make sure I satisfy dietary concerns and know about certain preferences like whole milk vs. 2% milk. The people I work for make decisions concerning large amounts of money all day. The last thing in the world they want to think about is what is for dinner. That is why they hired me to make those decisions. Of course, I'm always right because guests and crew on my yacht eat the same thing so the owners and guests always eat what I want to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The pattern I see is that truly wealthy people, not New Yorkers spending more than they really have, don't micromanage.
Ask HN: What is according to you the best vizualisation tool for today?
If i still need 3 monitors connected to my lapotop it s because there is no good vizualisation tool so far to handle complex data correlation.
What is according to you the best vizualisation tool available today?
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Obviously it is possible to write threaded C++ programs. And there are experienced people like you who can do it well, with enough discipline, good design, and so on. But I think the point of the article is that for most programmers it is very easy to make mistakes and shoot themselves in the foot with threads and shared memory. It could be even something like using a 3rd party library where it's initialization context can't be shared but a mistake was made and it did end up being shared by accident, say passed to some workers threads.

> What leads to problems in threaded C++ programs is unprotected, shared state.

That's one of the main problem, but I don't think people start with saying "we'll just have this unprotected shared state and hope for the best", that shared state ends up being shared by accident or as a bug. I've seen enough of those and they not fun to debug (hardware environment is slightly different, say cache sizes are bit off, to make it more likely to happen at customer's site for example, on Wednesday evening at 9pm but never during QA testing).

Other things I've seen bugs in is mixing non-blocking (select / epoll / etc) based callbacks with threads. Pretty easy to get tangled there. Throw signal handlers in and now it is very easy to end up with a spaghetti mess.

Even worse, there is a difference between "we'll start with a clean, sane threaded design from the start" vs "we'll add a bit of threading here in this corner for extra performance". That second case is much worse and can result in subtle and tricky bugs. Sometimes it is not easy to determine if the code is re-entrant in a large code-base.

Interestingly and kind of tongue in cheek someone (I think Joe Armstrong, but I maybe wrong) said to try and think about your programming environment as an operating system. It is 2017, most sane operating systems have processes with isolated heaps, startup supervision (so services can be started / stopped as groups), preemption based concurrency (processes don't have to explicitly yield) and so on. So everyone agrees that's sane and normal and say putting their latest production release on a Windows 3.1 would not be a good idea. Why do we then do it with our programming environment? A bunch of C++ threads sharing memory are bit like that Windows 3.1 environment where the word processor crashes because the calculator or a game overwrote its memory.
Mobile games, iOS in 2010, later on Android.

Spent it on expensive RE though, so no longer in chequeing account.
Eh, I don't buy it :). Every company has sales, accounting, marketing. The thing that makes a software company special is their technology.
I don't know that "maximize descendants of self" is necessarily right though. It seems like a better statement might be "maximize the development of complexity in the universe". Just as an example, lots of people choose to forgo having children to focus on contributing to the universe in other ways (myself included). This isn't just a self-centered drive for fame/wealth/etc either, as many people pursue their quests in poverty/obscurity, and some even choose anonymity.
Look the ICO space is way too young for all the judgment people are passing on here. The SEC clearly wants to let this play out. No one has gone to jail yet.

The government has already started to relax the ability for non accredited investors to invest in startups and that was under the last administration. These rules are recent but they are there, they are very limited though and ICOs blow the top off of those rules.

ICOs are forcing the SECs hand and I think it show cases the interest that exist in the public to get into these early stage startups. I won't be surprised if the rules are relaxed even further to legalize these types of coins even if they are considered securities, especially under this administration.

Everyone is saying that you are limiting yourself by offering an ICO. You are giving away zero equity for the promise that your product and service will offer these people something in most cases, that is just like a kickstarter. Furthermore, nothing stops you from raising money after the ICO.

Anyway, this is a fantastic new vehicle for startups and I believe it will absolutely change the game. The VCs are a little mad because they are being shut out of the best rounds, where they would normally get the most equity.

At the end of the day what matters most is if startups can start get funding and hire people and add value to the economy. That is what the SEC has to balance with the public interest on the other end.
Funding research into search is good but the other options are impractical.

If 4 is doable, it would take many years and involve many lawyers and potentially wind up achieving nothing.

1 and 2 involve directly interfering in the operations of other organisations in order to erode 0.000001% of Google's business. How would you enforce this anyway?
Maybe it'd be like Elm where you can subscribe to external events, as if you were to do something like this:

requestAnimationFrame(() => dispatch('TICK', Date.now() - prevTick))

Then you can feed the offset into view functions which forces a re-render and steps the animation.
You've got to compare solar powered apples to solar powered apples.

The article reads as though the $60 million is fully installed and commissioned.

Sounds like your $1/watt is for the panels only?
Identity vs Equality isn’t unique to JS. It’s particular syntax isn’t even unique either (though less common).

Protypical inheritance goes back to the damn Actor pattern and modern versions (like JS) derive from Smalltalk.

The particular implementation of this in JS is idiosyncratic to JS but not conceptually unique. They improved it a LOT with strict mode too.

I swear, most JS criticism on HN seems to sound like developers who only know C++/Java/Ruby/Python critiquing stuff that comes from the Lisp/ALGOL/Smalltalk idioms and not understanding that the way they are used to isn’t the One True way.
Just wanted to say that, annecdotally, I switched from chrome to firefox not because of speed, but stability, four years ago. Chrome would reliably crash on my laptop after opening three tabs, while firefox would let me open dozens without trouble. I guess it was an OOM issue, but I never really cared. Firefox worked, chrome didn't.

The added extensibility, while nice, was mostly an afterthought. The only extension I'll miss is cliget, and hopefully it can be added back eventually.
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30 years of maxing out my 401Ks, not living in SV, and building my own avocado toast.