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One day in maybe 1987 I was working at a computer company that had a mainframe and was full of greenscreen microcomputers like the Apricot and Sirius 1.

One day, I walked into my work area and this new machine was set up and on the screen was this: http://amiga.lychesis.net/amiga/AvrilHarrison/AH_KingTut.png I was a pivotal moment.

My mind was blown and although I could not afford it I immediately ordered one.

In hindsight a more successful strategy for Amiga might have been to build it as a games console as its primary market position.
While I appreciate your encouragement, I really dislike the trend of everyone using HTTPS. It's wasteful, it's inconvenient, it's unnecessary, it's overly complex, and it doesn't even provide much real security. People still get hacked, corporations still leak data, the governments of the world continue to spy on our digital emissions. But HTTPS gives everyone a nice fuzzy comfy warm blanket of security to wrap themselves around and forget about the pale reality of life on the internet. (My apologies, I've been really into Russian literature lately)

I don't think anybody would want to implement the kinds of technology and solutions I would provide, because every time I bring them up (in forums like this one, and others), people either ignore them or argue against them, and I have no interest in pushing large boulders up hills.

But I would like to thank you for your work. I appreciate that you all are trying to make things better.
I take your point. But its also true that if you measure violent death over the last 100 years Europe is way, way, way ahead. Around 90 million Europeans have died violently over the last century -- guns, bombs, gas, starvation -- at the hands of its governments and people.

The US would have to have a Parkland style school shooting every hours on the hours for the next 600 years to catch up.
Possibly because they are huge fans of the studio and the games (why else would they put so much time into this project??) and they don't want to be at odds with the people who make the games they love so much?
I had to go through a bunch of SEC cases for an accounting project a while back. One thing stood out to me more than anything: the SEC goes after cases that are easy more than anything else. Multiple crimes committed with lots of evidence and easy-to-spot damages. It actually gave me the impression that avoiding the ire of the SEC is relatively easy if you set your mind to committing fraud without getting caught.
She lied, and doing so stole people's money, and maybe hurt some people's health. Who cares she got nothing from what she did. That's how it usually works for startups anyways, you risk having wasted your time. That's why we need making it worse, a stronger deterrent then her company dying, otherwise lying can be seen as acceptable to prevent a compagnie's death, as the only negative side effect is the company dying
I thought this was a great piece, and I too wish that more founders recorded themselves to watch later. I've definitely wanted to shake more than a few prospective founders and say "DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF?"

Some commenters here have suggested that founders self-destruct because to self-destruct is to be human. I think that's glib - founders seem to self-destruct more frequently than the norm, probably because founders are crazy people. That's not all bad, I think you have to be a bit crazy to want to change something significant about human behavior, but I think it's important to acknowledge one's own motivations.
So much this. A commerce company needs peak compute in December and tax companies in March, so why not share server farms? If you extend that idea to a business model, you make a normally internal cost center into an external facing revenue generator.
I agree, we're aiming to optimize for the most popular websites first. No plans for supporting ALL websites.
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I think it should be possible in principle... but I had a professor whose casual academic output basically consisted of publishing rebuttals to other academics who thought they had found an early warning sign (lightning phenomena is a common approach). A particularly amusing one he shared with us was just a case of bad data analysis in Matlab, the author had used 'filter' instead of 'filtfilt' to get their graph and so were trying to derive their results from the distorted phase...
My point is that the aircraft fly. An awful lot of designs fail to fly and these are deigned by aeronautical engineers.

My other point is that solving the problems at hand is the more important function, irrespective of what title is attributed to you.
This looks impressive on the first sight (kudos!). But on the other hand it's still a pretty fragile and unreadable macro, no? And it supports only a very limited form of list comprehensions. Can "destructuring-bind" support them fully?
Aggregated data is part of the problem. And even in that small data set, the average IQ trends up as the number of victims trends up. It comes a lot closer to average IQ than the overall number of 86, but it does trend up.

The piece you linked to seems to have an explicit political agenda of disproving the popular image of a serial killer as a young white male. And that makes the entire database questionable because if that is the goal, then you explicitly define things as broadly as possible so as to accomplish your political agenda.

I'm aware there are legitimately different profiles of serial killers. For example, your typical female serial killer has murdered multiple relatives by poisoning for the insurance money. This is very different from your typical male serial killer.

At this point I am tired and frustrated and I don't know how to sort out the answer to this question. I know we have IQ scores for a number of high profile cases that clearly fit my understanding of what a serial killer is and those IQs are on the high side, fitting my general understanding. I don't know where to look for data that doesn't have a political agenda of explicitly rebutting popular perception. For the moment, I feel stymied. And the reality is this is not important enough for me to keep digging into the question indefinitely. It's already eaten an excess of my time.
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Or even just redo it. I can't imagine it would be that onerous a task to crowdsource it out to like-minded enthusiasts - and some of the VA in FO3 was hilariously bad (I'm thinking of do-over lines, mispronunciations, monotonous delivery of some dialogue), so what's the worst that can happen? I'd happily sit there and crank out a few thousand lines of dialogue.
> One thing that continues to amaze me is that WebAssembly isn't being discussed more outside of the context of the web.

Probably because WASM is a runtime blackbox locked inside a web page running in a browser. There is a huge amount of overhead to that and the ability to interact with anything external to the blackbox is severely limited.

I get that you are excited that WASM is a compile target for many languages, but it comes with a heavy dose of isolation and performance costs.
Why is something that paints anyone who has legitimate concerns about financial censorship and mass surveillance a "paranoid dork", one of the best tweet storms ever? It's exactly this kind of crude tribalism that prevents constructive civil discourse and encourages ideological narrow-mindedness and conformity.
It is my understanding that at the epicenter the time between "start of earthquake" and "full force" is negligible. When the earth slips, it slips. The reason why there feels like there is a ramp-up and delay to full intensity is that some waves travel faster than others, and therefore at moderate distance from the epicenter you start getting one type of wave before the other.
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The irony of the "non_sequitur" user missing the logical clause sequences and saying it was incorrect is quite amusing.
* ANDF/TenDRA - Never really used except for research purposes, ie. no critical mass.

* JVM - Most heavily used implementation borked the sandboxing. It also forces a GC down your throat, which is great for 95% of use cases, but the other 5% are really important too.

* NaCl - Really cool, but ultimately reliant on weird CPU features for protection. PNaCl was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole with the whole trying to make LLVM IR platform independent thing. WebAsm took a lot of ideas from these projects (and asm.js).

* P-Code - Really cool, but ultimately probably a victim of it's time. A little simplistic for modern architectures as it has no real concept of a memory model or atomic primitives.

* TIMI - Unbelievably proprietary. Even if you were to document it well enough to build an implementation, IBM would almost certainly sue you into oblivion.
Not the best article to describe the benefits of blockchain for supply chain management, but the point does get across.

Now, I'm aware that many people dismiss blockchain technology as a usable medium to store information (instead of your typical SQL database), but one clear advantage is that it's decentralized, which prevents a central authority from tampering the data. For supply chain management, that's not a necessary property, but when you consider product certifications (e.g. biological produce, sustainable whatever, etc.) and authenticity, then decentralization (and immutability) clearly become benefits. While I don't think it's okay to use a blockchain because it's the cool thing to do nowadays, it certainly got me thinking.

In December 2017, there was an E. coli outbreak in Canadian romaine lettuce, killing some people in the eastern provinces. Health agencies tried to identify the cause of the contamination, but they abandoned the investigation after a few weeks [1].

I stumbled upon Provenance.org a few weeks ago, and as part of a student project, some colleagues and I decided to develop a Provenance.org clone, mostly as an excuse to learn Ethereum smart contract development and the Solidity programming language (DApps and all that jazz). One challenge we're currently running into is about the granularity of the the product tracking: should a single box of Ritz crackers have its own identifier? Should the entire pallet have a single identifier? How about raw materials that combine to form an entirely new product? Or a pig that's split up into multiple parts for markets to sell?

We're looking to open source the project at the end of the term (around May), so if you're interested, reach out to me.

As previously stated, blockchain technology might not be the solution to everything right now, but it's definitely interesting and fun to experiment with.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/public-healt...
It could mean that, but in Amazon's case it means they are reinvesting all of their earnings back into new internal investments, which leads to small annual profits.
> The countries are obviously connected in various ways, but they're definitely not yet united so I'm struggling to see what the reasoning here is

China doesn't see it this way. And the only thing keeping China from steamrolling both Taiwan and Hong Kong are the fact that it would decimate the economies and businesses there.

However, once you have a leader more worried about his power rather than being beholden to the working class, that is no longer an obstacle.
Not every string is allocated from the heap. There is no way to know if a string passed to a function, for example, came from the heap or not.
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Interesting insight here. It reminds me of a similar case in video games, namely traditional real-time strategy games like Starcraft. The UX design in these games is pronounced and inelegant, in part because it raises the skillcap of high level play. For professional RTS players, not only is your tactical decision making a differentiatior, but also your ability to manipulate the various UI menus as fast as possible.
Yes I should have said "on the order of 99%". I think generally figures like "99%", when used in this context, imply that this is an approximate value, but I agree that it's better to explicitly state that.
This New Age sect exercises a Scientology-like control over its victims: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federazione_di_Damanhur#Aspett...
Thanks for the explanation. However, it may be nowhere as useful, but still plenty useful. On the top of my head, 10s could be enough so:

* Trains may stop, preventing a literal train wreck.

* People doing delicate tasks (e.g., a surgeon, someone operating heavy machinery, even someone cooking) may lock to a safer position.

* Elevators may stop and open the doors safely, so no one will be stuck inside them.

* Air traffic control may hold take offs and maybe landings.

* All traffic lights going red may slightly reduce car incidents. Seems minor, I admit.

Also, people with little experience (me!) do NOT understand that an earthquake is happening until after the fact. Some blast alert even during the earthquake is very helpful for tourists and even immigrants.
>Honestly, I don’t know the full details, but I still hold that Forstall took the fall for the poor execution of Williamson in the Maps debacle.

Well that's not true because Eddy Cue fired Williamson [1]. Maps might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but Forstall was fired also because he couldn't work well with Bob Mansfield (who came back out of retirement after he was gone [2]) and Jony Ive.

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/203032/apple-svp-eddy-cue-fires-ri...

[2] http://allthingsd.com/20121101/behind-silicon-valleys-un-ret...
They don’t use a lot of coal in Norway. Actually, none for electricity; mostly hydro with some gas.
And this is where Uber/Waymo are going.

Welcome, you just reinvented the problem of rent-seeking.
Right, no one puts Basecamp on their resume.
In that case is the high value still justified speaking strictly in terms of revenue alone?
Found this to be an interesting read, although a bit superficial.
Having worked in the industry as a consultant, I detest these snake-oil practices, and it always bewildered me, why companies were so prone to throw their money at these kind of 'magic' black-box solutions. But I guess, it's just another CYA strategy.
> Larry and Sergey weren't well connected when they started, either, afaik, as most PhD students aren't.

That was 20 years ago. As much history as Larry Ellison's story in 1970s. Things have changed a lot, and the Silicon Valley today is a poster child for cronyism.

The VCs don't even bother opening "cold emails" (a ridiculous term for something that purports to be an open club). It's a herd of arrogant hipster bros who have no clue what they're doing and try to CYA by "warm introductions" (when their bet fails, they can shift the blame on a 3rd party).

The investment is not completely off-limits (my own story is a testament to that), but it's magnitudes harder to get if you're not connected, and oftentimes you have to pay through the nose to the "people who know people". I also know some rare cases when super-angels answer to complete strangers and subsequently invest, but these are exceptions rather than the rule.
TLDR from the preprint: The hypothesis was that if publishers did anything meaningful there would be a significant difference between the preprint and published versions of a paper.

There were not.
Plastic particles found in bottled water
same. i mean, it could be that perforce has great visual tools and people prefer complicated, esoteric cli tools. it has the perception of being more hardcore.

perforce's APIs are actually pretty good as well. they aren't documented that well, but they are easy enough to build some complicated tools with.
I want Wave to succeed but can't recommend their accounting product to anyone.

Ran into major issues with their accounting product (especially around reporting, and dealing with multiple currencies). Reached out to their team to explain the problem, they agreed it was a significant problem, but didn't really have a desire to fix it. Fast forward 12 months, core problem is still there. My only thought is when your product is free its not always easy to figure out how to prioritize what you work on.

I have found Xero to be the best intersection of function and price for SMB - Quickbooks online also had some significant quirkyness (i.e. one thing Intuit doesn't really highlight is Quickbooks online is not feature complete when compared to Quickbooks desktop - hence there are many desktop features and reports which just don't exist in the online product...)
Are you supposed to have an email server at your house?
I'm don't think that including a world war is a reasonable comparison.

Today, or even in the last decade, the risk of gun violence is far, far greater in the US is far greater than Europe.
Germany has a lot of coal in its grid. Mind you, It also uses half the electricity per capita vs the US.
The fanboys lack the foresight to see that different people have different needs... or they don't care about the 10%.

I want a jack because I hate earbuds and I don't want to carry two sets of headphones. I use AM radio sometimes. Many (most?) sports teams' home broadcasts are on AM, for example. If I have a headset radio that accepts line input (such as I'm wearing right now), I'm covered for either use. Or, if I have a mini portable radio with a jack, conventional headphones will do also (I have Bluetooth headphones that also accept line input).

So, until we see phones coming with AM radio chips (presumably never), a jack is an important feature for my needs.
Sounds like you just reinvented HTTPS with a null encryption cipher. I don't see how this makes anything easier or better.
What could have attracted all these senile old men to this young blonde woman’s company? It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
I hope cryptocurrencies are done. I need to buy a video card.
I'd be interested in that technique, he said, completely understanding the masochistic request.

I use git based deployments in a fair number of scenarios (where the .git directory is not web accessible). Git status is the perfect mechanism for detecting code changes, the primary of which being intrusion or developers working on production directly which should never happen.

Being able to detect the breadth of all the .gitignore files over the entire directory structure doesn't sound like a fun exercise but it would be a nice addition to be able to report on what ignored files exist. It's possible there's a command for this but I feel like you're confirming my assumption that such a thing doesn't exist.
That's a fair point and it's worth considering possible negative effects. I still maintain that the positive effects, insofar as we can anticipate effects of changes made to extremely complex and chaotic structures, are obviously more likely than not going to greatly outweigh the negatives. The biggest positive is that we won't have to experience impeding death and the death of our loved ones, which is the worst human experience.
In a similar vein to auto franchises restricting Tesla sales in certain states.
Its quite questionable indeed but the theory is that to run the game you need to create a copy in your computer memory, and you need permission from the copyright holder to make such a copy. That permission is in the form of a license which would be the EULA and which can limit what you are allowed to do with it, such as only use it in education etc.
Yeah, claiming that moving to Mesos was rebuilding Siri is stretching it a bit. The beauty of the Mesos transition was that most services needed only minor modifications to be moved to the new scheduler, and still get the benefits of better resource utilization.

Regarding building a speaker without Siri, the origin story I read from Bloomberg was that the idea of a great-sounding speaker that would adapt to room acoustics was dreamed up by Mac audio engineers, before Echo was even announced, so a speaker with a smart assistant built-in probably wasn't even on their radar at that point. I didn't necessarily interpret it as a lack of faith in the Siri team to deliver.
Oh you're good.
I miss `filenote <filename> <note>` on the filesystem level - AFFS :) I'm all emotional now
can you go to amazon headquarters and exchange an AMZ share for an office chair? as a physical asset? i have a feeling that security will escort you from the building before you finish the transaction. the only intrinsic value will be the bruises on your wrists.

edit: the value of the share (in the old good days) is the discounted cash flow. you invest in a business, then business pays you the share of the profits (hence - share) in the form of dividends. AMZ share does NOT pay any dividends, nor does grant you any voting rights. nothing. zero. this is your intrinsic value.
You can't take a self-driving Lyft to the airport or the self-driving bus terminal?
Who's implying that causal relationship when the contrary is just as likely?
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The specific ferry detailed in [1] has two 450kW motors, so any lack of 10kW cookers is not because it was difficult.

[1] https://www.siemens.com/innovation/en/home/pictures-of-the-f...
Apple's revenues, profits, and market cap have increased dramatically since 2011. How else do you measure effectiveness?
There's ways around outright bans. Like the London fees to get a car inside the city limits. I expect Uber, Lyft, and friends have lots of lobbying plans.

I fully expect individual ownership of cars to get much less attractive over the next 50 years or so. Thankfully, I'll be long dead. The big brother implications on freedom of movement are chilling.
We could discuss violent deaths over the last 100 years... But that would be incredibly off topic given that we're discussing how surgeons in different countries have different exposure to gun trauma today...
Yes, it is fragile (less than five minutes, man!) but hardly unreadable to the macro-accustomed eye.

A "real" implementation would do more processing of the forms in the list read by read-delimited-list and perform appropriate checks. This is more to just give you a sense of how trivial it is to extend the language.

I don't actually know python well enough (I had to look up "list comprehension") to say, but I would estimate that it would only take a page or so of code to give you something fully-featured and robust.

In practice, I would never abuse the reader like this when typical "loop" expressions are enough to do these kind of things (and more).
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Duh. Nobody is using cryptocurreny in any significant quantities except criminals on the dark web. The only thing sustaining value in cryptocurrencies is investment speculation.

If investors cannot sell shares then there is nothing left for it. Investors must be able to advertise interest, any way they can, to entice other people to buys their shares otherwise it is just a retail souvenir.

EDIT:

I can see this post is irritating people. Please respond with an example of people using cyptocurrecy to make legitimate purchases in any valid quantities.
Siri may have stalled now but it definitely wasn’t a botched launch. And Apple maps may not work great in all cases but it did succeed in forcing Google to provide decent maps on iOS. Before Apple Maps the vector maps were an Android exclusive.
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This is good........ for Bitcoin
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