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>> it is blindingly obvious, IMO, that startups should focus on surviving

I don't think it is blindingly obvious. In fact I think the typical beginner entrepreneur really doesn't know where to focus. I've seen a number of people commence business and focus on logo, writing blog posts, legal setup, making a website, and then the whole thing goes kaput months down the track because they didn't have any revenue, when I think they were perfectly capable of earning money from my external viewpoint, but the beginning entrepreneur thinks they should, or is enjoying, playing "business theatre".

And strangely it seems that there's nothing you can do to advise people otherwise during this phase of their personal development.... they are full of confidence and optimism and not open to hearing that they are not doing the right things. People are more likely to listen once they have failed and it has all come crashing down, then they have good reason to start looking for answers.
>What happens if he wants to start a family?

I mean, that's not really something you're entitled to.
Doubtful. You don't just develop a new processor over night, and if they truly had all these aces up their sleeves, they would have dropped them already in response to Zen last year.

Intel's process advantage is shrinking. They're struggling like everybody else because the physics is getting harder and harder. Apart from the fact that it would have been nice to get easy process shrinking forever, this is good news for almost everybody: it means competition for them is getting tougher.
> This is not true. Cassandra is row level atomic

http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/faq/index.html#what-h...

"What happens if two updates are made with the same timestamp?
Updates must be commutative, since they may arrive in different orders on different replicas. As long as Cassandra has a deterministic way to pick the winner (in a timestamp tie), the one selected is as valid as any other, and the specifics should be treated as an implementation detail. That said, in the case of a timestamp tie, Cassandra follows two rules: first, deletes take precedence over inserts/updates. Second, if there are two updates, the one with the lexically larger value is selected."

Does this sound to you as atomic? My expectation of atomic is that 2 things changing the same value are ordered and both executed. "lexically larger value is selected" does not qualify for me as atomic.
Saving SoundCloud – A Product/Business Analysis
The solutions I use were already "built" before this one existed. I was using djbdns to block ads before there were adblockers.

I think its great that more users, through DNS-based ad blocking projects, may see how controlling their own DNS is useful, perhaps in ways they might not have imagined.

However the last time I looked at it, I recall this project was defaulting to using open resolvers run by third parties, e.g. Google. Maybe I am remembering incorrectly since so many projects like to use these third party resolvers.

In any event, that is not how my solutions work. A third party with such delegated (ultimate) authority from the user is not part of the solutions I designed for myself.

Also, I never used dnsmasq as part of any solution. I have a strong bias against it for a number of reasons. If I recall correctly, pi-hole relies on dnsmasq.
this isn't a problem that stores have or not, it's just a corporate policy: when a product sells out, do you fill the shelf with something or leave it empty?

People have different opinions on the pros and cons here. But it's not like Walmart always has every single product in stock 100% of the time, that would be super unlikely. If you never see empty shelves, then they just are using the "put something on the shelf" policy instead of the "leave it empty" policy.
I’m guessing SGX.
You're right that many businesses will operate in specific markets, but even then it's still not always clear which rate should apply, and different classifications might apply in different member states or even different areas within the same member state. E-books were a controversial ambiguity when the new rules came in, for example. We could get more into how many technicalities there are in this system, but I think I'm just going to mention that the document you linked there is 116 pages long, which probably says all that needs to be said on that point.

As for locations, there are plenty of potential gotchas there too. Would you like to guess the rule if the person who bought an e-book did so while on holiday on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean?

And as for not changing very often, I think the shortest notice so far was just over a week from legislating the change to the new rate coming into effect (Greece in summer 2016). To this day, I'm aware of no standardised mechanism for alerting merchants to future changes in the relevant rates, nor any authoritative list of current rates available in a machine-readable format for automation purposes.

So while I agree that we shouldn't pretend it's more complicated than it is, the current EU VAT situation is a complete mess full of traps and technicalities to catch out the unwary, and full compliance is effectively impossible. It's a bad system, made by people who don't understand how either digital markets or small businesses actually work.
True enough. I was thinking of the Second Industrial Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Industrial_Revolution). I just didn't phrase myself that well.
I actually find those I tried rather unfriendly. Every time I have to convert something I start by looking for a quick-and-easy GUI solution but end up using command line because it's more intuitive (!), more flexible and it actually works (GUI wrappers don't always do, it often happens that you click "start" or whatever and nothing happens or a nonsensical error pops up).

By the way it's always easier to teach a not particularly bright person to use a textual dialogue command line interface than a complex GUI: you just tell them (and let them write down) what do they have to type, what response they can expect and how are they to respond to it if it's this or that. I can remember how easy it was to teach my granny to use the UUPC e-mail system under DOS and how much harder it was to teach GUIs.
If it isn't available, that is scarcity.
Thanks for sharing, super interesting stuff. I'd be curious to hear more about the design around availability in the case of a zone outage :D
> I'm skeptical that Intel really has that much of a problem, and the investors in the stock market seem to agree.

It's way, way, way too soon to judge the long-term implications of Meltdown and Spectre on Intel. If their clients want to switch, it'll take months and years to do that. That doesn't mean they won't do it, but it means we won't really know the full extent for a while.

The stock price is a really crude metric. For judging the long-term implications of this, we can't look at how the stock has performed in the last two weeks alone and extract any meaningful information.

My prediction: nobody big is going to switch away from Intel entirely, but they will start to prioritize investments in technology built on its competitors, as a way to hedge their future risk. That's definitely bad for Intel, because over time, it'll reduce their lock-in.
My point primarily is that, the discussion about reparations, is almost universally isolated to how much the US Government should have to pay. It almost universally excludes the nations that dominated the slave trade, such as Britain. Various rich, powerful European nations benefited massively from the economic output of the vast slavery they initiated and maintained, while suffering essentially none of the consequences, leaving the young US nation (and obviously numerous other nations in the Americas like Brazil or Haiti) to deal with those consequences ever since.

There's no scenario where you can propose the Netherlands should compensate slave descendants in the Americas, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars or more, where you're going to convince them to even have that conversation. People of the Netherlands today will simply tell you they had nothing to do with it, and should not be held responsible for past sins, and that's the end of the conversation (unless you want a small token sum to wipe away the guilt and grievance).
Is it satire?
Money is power for stupid people.
Moxa’s Statement on Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability
Probably as a reference to Zed Shaw and the website https://learncodethehardway.org/
Note any such code would be covered by the GPL. This is why so many people use the cli - by using pipes or sockets your code ( as far as I can determine, you should get real legal advice) can be released under a different license
I don’t think this line of commenting is helpful or appropriate for the community of Hacker News.
The piece linked to here is my annotation on a very real post by Michael Moritz. Yes, my take is... a form of satire.
> Oh hey, you are still using Vultr? How have they been?

Pretty great. Infinitely better than anyone else I've ever used (especially InMotion Hosting that corrupted my SQL database, and misconfigured Apache to return my PHP source code to every visitor.) Not perfect, but very reliable uptimes.

If I had to nitpick:

The New Jersey instance lost the ability to reach it over IPv6. Their support staff wanted root access to my box to take a look. Nice that they were willing to do that, but I just moved to Chicago instead. IPv6 with the exact same configuration works fine there.

Their two-factor authentication does not allow SMS as a backup option. I don't like printing out codes.

Like everyone else, their bandwidth scaling is really poor. You have to scale up your entire server, even if you really don't need the CPU, memory or disk space. The price increases quadratitically while the bandwidth increases linearly.

You have to e-mail them your driver's license or something to enable SMTP. I think their fine print says they'll fine you $250 for every spam mail you send or something scary like that.
Bananacoin: World's first blockchain option for investing in organic bananas
Everyone is aware that the Crypto bubble is headed for a big crash, we have a derivatives bubble looming that dwarfs all others, the Dow is climbing to ludicrous heights at a rate of 1,000 points a week (which is definitely not ominous at all), society has grown hopelessly dependent on information systems that never cease to amaze with their fragility, and international politics has once again devolved into a game of Nuclear Chicken (only with more players this time). So yeah, let's worry about the economic dangers of space mining.
Friendly note: they modify the stock install to enable root SSH login via password. I'd strongly recommend disabling that. Go to RSA key login as user only.

In an absolute emergency, their GUI portal will let you log in as root via password.
Google policy says that all extensions must have a button: "Starting in this latest release, you’ll begin to see all extensions to the right of the URL bar, so you can easily remove anything you don’t recognize. Just right click the extension icon and select “Remove from Chrome.”"[0]

[0]: https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-year-new-chrome/
There's something pretty rich about asking the government to intervene in a project described as:

Tezos is a new decentralized blockchain that governs itself by establishing a true digital commonwealth.

Especially one that, according to your links at least, has been defrauded by its radical libertarian and Ayn Rand acolyte leader. Is this not the free market merely deciding that the people who donated have poor judgement?
Except life isn't being made more miserable. It's paradoxically the rising quality of life that makes it seem this way.

Take a thought experiment and imagine we have 1000 people living under a single king all in complete filth and disgust, except for our king. Our people might be a bit jealous of the king but in general everything seems reasonably equal. Now imagine our king himself starts to feel guilty about the state of affairs and decides to begin progressive expansion. So he takes 50 of the people and grants them land and businesses giving them very comfortable lives.

Well people are kind of happy, but now there's certainly quite a lot of jealousy. It's not just one king, but a whole 5% of the population living head and shoulders above the rest. So the king realizes this and decides to make an incredible expansion expending much of his wealth in the progress. He now grants those 5% substantial estates and then grants a whole 20% the privileges and property just the 5% had before.

Again we'd expect society to be absolutely thrilled at the massive progress. But what this actually does is emphasize how shit the now 75% are. Instead of people being thrilled at people overall become wealthier, the 75% are now incensed. What's so special about those 25%? We want that too. As we, dramatically, improved society - society itself became even more incensed that it wasn't happening all at once. As we reach the point where the majority slowly become very comfortable, it would somehow paradoxically seem ever and ever more unfair and unjust.
Energy is our most obvious problem. Mining in space requires much more energy then mining our sublunary world, just at a time when energy is about to become scarce. This simply doesn't add up.
Tweetstorm by David Heinemeier Hansson: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/954319522151976960
Tried to use MiniZinc to write a model checker [1] for c programs a while back [2]. Essentially checking the equivalence of c functions that use only bit operations. It basically translates the programs into minizinc, then attempts to derive a case where the same input results in differing output. Was a fun way to experiment using the constraint solver for a practical application, though unfortunately didn't work as well on larger more complicated functions.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking

2) https://github.com/dbunker/ArchStatMzn
Book of the Dead – Unity Realtime Teaser
Wow that’s a great summary and so true.

Totally agree that the short quippy phrases that people repeat are actually dangerous if that’s all you go by. There’s layers of meaning and they can be interpreted in so many ways as you show.

“If you ain’t first, you’re last.”
There actually is work going on in that direction. The Cretonne code generator is written in Rust, and designed to support WebAssembly. It would also work as a fast rustc backend for debug builds on the few platforms it supports.
Sequoia has been in China for more than a decade ...
> Its like our society is incapable of understanding nuance.

Nope, it's the side effect of having bodied cognition. We're optimized to make good-enough decisions in less than a second with three pounds of expensive to maintain rarefied material.

Short cuts within hacks within crufty work-arounds. It's amazing that it works so well, naturally. But it's not American, it's not Western, heck, it's not even human, it's the nature of thought and action in an ever changing world.

Thinking in binaries is a supremely powerful way to chop up the world and let's not discount it as a first approximation towards survival.
J-core Design Walkthrough – open source hardware [pdf]
I've never had any trouble debugging Nim, which compiles to C. The Nim compiler adds #line directives so you can just use gdb/lldb[1]. Can you elaborate on what debugging advantages LLVM brings?

1 - https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/10/02/documenting-profiling-a...
I work in an amazon FC (in the US), and not in any leadership roles. I recently moved to a new state, and I found amazon. I applied and within about 2 weeks I was working. I'm about 5 months in and it's actually decent.

> If I’ve learned anything from doing this job, it’s that money can’t replace time. I work four nights a week in an Amazon warehouse near my home

Is this a bad thing ? I'd rather do 4x 10 hour days, than 5x 8 hour days. I can work my ass off for 4 days and sleep for day 5, and still have 2 days off. My co-workers seem to like this as well.

> I have to put away each item in 15 seconds or less, and get through 250 in an hour, or I’ll be given a warning by a manager. Stepping away from my station to, say, get a drink of water can have a big impact on my performance.

Amazon has a lot of fulfillment centers. Customer obsession is #1. In order for customers to get their package on time, amazon needs metrics. A lot of associates work alone or in a small team, also their is minimal supervision. Metrics allow for managers and corporate to know many things, including whether employees are "on-task". The required rate changes in different departments. If his FC has robotics, then they deal with small items. 250 small items an hour isn't bad. I'm not too sure about his building but I have all day to make rate. At the end of the day your average rate per hour should be >= X.

> During my half-hour breaks I rush downstairs to have something to eat. It’s stressful – and it definitely affects my health, standing up for hours on end. I worry I may pass out if I don’t rest during my meal breaks. I’ve lost a lot of weight since I started.

You don't need to rush, at least where I work. It's actually a benefit if you take your time. You have 30 minutes from the time you clock out, and it's about a 45 second walk to break rooms. If you feel like your going to pass out, you should not be working in a warehouse. It can be a workout environment, depending on where you are placed. However, you will be standing anytime your not on break, and that can sometimes get annoying.

Amazon provides amazing time-off flexibility through an employee portal. If I ever feel too tired to work, and I have time-off available, I can just go tell my manager, HEY IM LEAVING. He says ok (or don't leave, I need you!), and the ball is in your court.

Amazon provides benefits from day 1, not usually found in warehouses. They also provide "Variable Pay Compensation". Every month you get a BONUS ! Provided you did not have unscheduled time off, you will get extra money based on your hours. Peak times just doubles how much you receive. I barely worked in December, and my vcp for that month is just under $300. You don't need to do anything special, its always just added to your payout.

One employee can never tell the whole story (including me). Different buildings with different people in all of them.
Android Flashlight Application with Tempereture Display
Application gives you the best and quality light and performance by using the LED beam. You can switch it on and off very easily.
At the same time, there is a screen showing the telephone temperature. You can also follow on the same screen the level of charge.
Application features :
- Available brightest flashlight
- Easy to use, switch it on and off just like a real
- Graphics that will not disturb your eyes
- It has the phone temperature display
- There is a screen showing phone level of charge.

Application link to download free : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.awoapp.bestflashlight
Rust is more than just safety though. We had a huge community discussion last year: https://brson.github.io/fireflowers/
At some point though money ends up being a means to obtain a standard of living / a world worth living in. There is no point earning money if you never spend it to get something you want.

Money also takes precious time and opportunity to earn. Know what you want and aim for it asap. All the money in the world won't buy you fond memories of an adventurous youth if you spent all of your teens, 20s and 30s slaving away for currency that can be inflated to nothingness over time. All the money in the world won't save you if you end up accepting a totalitarian world where you or your loved ones can be cast away by armed police or where making one-too-many Taiwanese friends endangers your social standing.
To be fair to joelrunyon, he wasn't saying that i was claiming that - he was using my feeble witticism as a jumping-off point to ask a question about «why people say we "can't" build it» (emphasis mine).

FWIW, i did indeed mean to imply that Trump's wall is absurd and will never be built. I assume that, like the Channel bridge, the Hyperloop, the Freedom Ship, etc, it could be built, given enough time and money. I just don't think that there are enough people who think it's worth the cost to pay for it.
The iDEA Architecture-Focused FPGA Soft Processor [pdf]
I think it's too late. People aren't going to stop calling wireless headsets "Bluetooths" either.
Space Mining..Unless they are mining Bitcoin in space with all that sun energy out there.
I've found that unbearably slow every time I've used it.
> Beyond the week-long breaks for Chinese new year and the October national holiday, most will just steal an additional handful of vacation days.

Wow.
It's also visibly worse quality than JS or WASM. It's not computing with the same resolution.
> compilers weren't ready for them yet

Yeah, compilers today are no better. We found the limits of statically scheduled parallelism pretty fast. On code that uses static scheduling, a modern OoO processor can easily duplicate what IA64 was capable of (and a pipelined loop using AVX will utterly smoke it), while being far better at all the stuff IA64 failed at.
Android Word Search Game
The analogy I would use is that investors may know something is going to happen, but there is a lag before it really happens (less market share), and the stock price decline lags that. In school they teach you that a stock tracks the future predictions but it doesn't quite work like that. For big, widely held things, the stock often lags at predicting future troubles until the last group of investors realize that the trouble exists. That also explains why when stocks fall they often fall quickly rather than gradually.
The counter argument is that increasing heavy metal load on the Earth's surface from space Mining could be very bad.
M-series cores and some R-series cores don't implement OOE or branch prediction, so they are proof against Spectre, but they are used in embedded systems and are largely slow. A-series cores are used in phones. All the ones in current use are vulnerable to Spectre.
Way to be pessimistic. Let us focus on the awesome things of our time, like complete eradication of some illnesses through vaccination, information systems connecting us with latencies and speeds never seen before, the availability of knowledge was never better, child mortality down and life expectancy up to levels never seen before. C'mon. I wanna see some enthusiasm for our time and human achievements!
I've made efforts in the past, but often I can't legally redistribute the problematic data. If the problem is obvious enough, I try and clean-room recreate it.
No need to read it - you know what it says
I can see why people hate on this POV, but one thing is very reasonable:

Imagine company A and company B are equal in all ways, except company B's workers work twice as much. If they come into competition, company A will be crushed.

All the SF tech companies will come into competition with Chinese companies in the next 20 years. And there's a chance they just get outworked.
I think a lot of people here didn't take econometrics courses.

If you see all regression problems under the foil of maximum likelihood estimation, you might not know that ordinary least squares regression has a closed form solution