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Many years ago, one of my Russian professors said, "All languages are about 85% logical and 15% illogical. That's how you know humans made them."

P.S. Russian is much easier to spell than English, but its verbs of motion are a real clusterfuck.

P.P.S. I have met more than one Russian who said, "Only foreigners decline numbers correctly."
The Hundred-Year Language by Paul Graham. Essay in Hackers & Painters.
It’s my fault everyone around me is an idiot. Lol
> and how general they are to other serialization interfaces?

This class of problems was very common when that serialization appeared in Java. It was possible to inject code into pretty much anything, e-mails (1), office documents (2), web pages. Since that time, most developers / managers have learned their lesson and started to pay attention / allocate resources so modern software/protocols/formats tend to be more secure, at least on average.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus)
Using java serialization for sessions is terrible idea. It’s mildy convenient to start but bites you as soon as you want anything non-java to be able to read your session store.
Hadoop expects your keys and values to implement Writable and serialize themselves (a lot of these are actually hand-written expecting the instance to get reused for each input tuple). There's optional and fairly clumsy glue that makes Avro work in a key or value.
Right but I had in mind your other point that a lot of the compensation is in the form of the benefits of having the business card, although I guess that wouldn’t have any value in terms of a promotion while staying at the same workplace.
I wish my new desktops looked as cool as the ones SGI made back in the day.
"Even a small town with population less than 15000 has at least half dozen shops which sells only Patanjali products."

Is Patanjali some kind of pyramid scheme / multi-level marketing scam? The situation described above sounds like what happens when a bunch of women in a small US town start trying to sell Lularoe clothing or some other scam.
> No population has gone through more stress than post-war Jewish immigrants yet their children were the most successful cohort in America.

That's really ignorant. How can you defend this viewpoint? Jewish immigrants were many levels better off than black Americans.
I feel like everyone's attacking a straw man version of Jordan Peterson in a case of mass virtue signaling.
With JS you can push things into the history. Handy for somethings in a single page application, but misused in this application.
Given the relative weighting of the sections of the product development lifecycle, I would expect Intercom to have approximately equal numbers of engineers and product managers. But based on a brief search of LinkedIn the number looks to be in a much more traditional range (I counted 16 product managers and stopped counting engineers at ~60).
There was one in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
The 6502 is a much simpler CPU (3.5k transistors vs. 8.5k for the Z80), but the Z80 is easier to use and less limiting --- more registers and addressing modes, a stack not limited to 256 bytes and fixed location, and a more regular octal-format instruction encoding[1].

[1] http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm
I think you’re missing their point. People of all races are hard working. That should go without saying. To say a whole race of people are not hard working is nothing more than a form of racism.
> The first mainframe was created by the well-known IBM in 1964

Were the IBM 700/7000 series (1953-1964) not mainframes? I would say they were.

And what about other vendors pre-1964 machines, e.g. UNIVACs. Were they not mainframes too?

> you need to determine what the super-computer differs from the mainframe and which is faster

I'm not convinced that "mainframe" and "supercomputer" are necessarily mutually exclusive categories. What about the IBM 7030 Stretch? Doesn't it belong to both?

There have been supercomputers with an S/360-descended architecture. For example, the Fujitsu FACOM VP and VP2200 series, the Hitachi HITAC S-810. Such machines were both supercomputers and IBM-compatible mainframes, and could run variants of MVS.
The book "Non-violent Communication" changed my life.

After I read it, I had some of the best communication with romantic partners I ever had. I also had fights with friends transform into heartfelt conversations when I was practicing NVC, even though my friends weren't practicing it.
I think you're reaching too far there
If any system that retains memory of downsampled inputs has consciousness, then consciousness must be caused by calculation plus memory. This makes a lot of sense.
No, don't tell me...
> Most of what I read in the comments here is not exactly true nor relies on statistics (sound like my story is...).

Neither does your comment...
It's always hard to give advice to someone - and even harder giving advice to someone you don't even know. That said, I think if you came here is because, deep down, you already know the answer and you're just looking for "validation" to do it. ;)

If you're feeling you'd be happier doing something else (and have the financial means to support yourself), just do it. Of course, it's harder when you also have a family to support but just have an honest talk to them and tell them how you're feeling. They'll probably support your decision.

It's a cliché but it's so true: life's too short to waste time doing something when our mind tells us we should be doing something else. That doesn't have to be something definitive either. Just try out something for a year or two and, if things don't work out, you can always find a new job (or maybe even go back to yours). ;)

I think many people here would like as fortunate as you are to have enough savings to quit their jobs and do something they're truly passionate about. You've worked hard to reach this point. Enjoy it! :)
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Yep. If this guy had anything legit to pin on JP, this long-ass drawn-out story would have been much shorter.
Give him a break, it's obvious that English is not his first language. The article is about mistake and learning about his startup, but you have moved the topic to his style of writing. Seriously, you do realize HN is worldwide right and many of us don't speak English as first languages?
It's a lot of fun to assume. /s

How do you know I haven't formed this view based on data? You're assuming I don't have any data.
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The speed of light is easy to measure. What's hard is measuring the change in mass when something gains or loses energy. A large nuclear reactor running for a year only loses a few grams of mass-energy -- you can't measure it accurately enough or be sure that the mass didn't go somewhere else like into the cooling water.
What does the start-up scene in France look like in comparison, in regards to requiring the right university background? Do investors react similarly or do they care less about that?
Bad partnership will kill any business. Don't partner/cofound with strangers and be ready to lose friends if you do.
My recent peeve is Americans who use 'bespoke' instead of 'custom.'

And 'in agreeance' instead of 'in agreement.'
They moved away from that. Many newer parts of the .NET framework (e.g. SOAP 1.2 implementation in WCF) use data contract serializers by default. With them, a complete list of known types must be provided to deserializer, it's typically done with [KnownType] attribute.
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Thank you for those links.

I have read some pieces about Iran, including the memoirs Reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis. From what I gather, when women leave an Islamic country and are free to wear western clothes in public, this is a big deal and the whole feel of the sun on my skin is a thing they comment on to each other as some significant detail.

I can actually feel some sympathy for women objecting to the removal of the veil being forced upon them, but I'm not sure I can say anything constructive about that which has any hope of being appreciated by a mostly western audience.
As I recall, it was widely believed that there was an economy of scale for mainframe computers, so you were better off serving all of your users with a single timesharing machine if possible. If most of your programs ran in batch mode, then you might need 64k, but only for a couple seconds a day, so you shared those 64k with 1000 other people.
JCL isn't scary. Think environment variables plus shell scripting.

I wager you didn't see it abused. I actually hold ignoble honor of reverse engineering and implementing a complete JCL parser, validated on a million line batch system. The most egregious thing I saw there was; there were a set of jobs that essentially processed tree data structures as flatfiles, by building flat files of sub trees and resubmitting themselves. I really lol'd when I saw that.
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So well put. People you could have roomed with, drink with, hung out with, even been trapepd on a desert island with, all successfully, can turn into monsters under the pressure of running out of money and associated startup events. And you can find yourself echoing that behaviour.
> How does this handle people changing their emails?

It can, as long as the email change request can be synced as well. It may have some security problem need to be resolved, but I think it can be worked out.

> Can you do the same thing with a cryptographic signing key or something, instead?

It's actually an better idea. If I can implement something like PGP (With maybe WebAuth), then user only needs to submit their public key. When authentication is needed, server will sends challenge (Message encrypted by user's public key), then user decrypts it with their private key, send the decrypted message back to server for verification.

However, I'm still figuring out the whole WebAuth thing, so no decision is made yet.

> This may or may not apply to your site, but, in general I don't want other users of a website to be able to PM/email me unless I specifically authorize them to.

I actually like to encouraging user to make contact by themselves with their emails, because service email is decentralized and controlled by users (At least they have better control of it than a website). Also, user may left a website but still using their email.

However, I know in real world, people don't like to be bothered, so make their email public could be a problem. I guess I need to rethink it a little.
If you connect A and B as the input to a linear neural net, and train against C, it'll very quickly arrive at weights of [-1, +1] and be able to correctly predict C given A and B. Whether or not it represents it in notation humans are familiar with, it has learned it for the practical purpose of being able to compute the function.
Ask HN: Are there autonomous organizations that integrate with the legal system?
I've been learning about [decentralized autonomous organizations](https://www.coindesk.com/information/what-is-a-dao-ethereum/) but they still seem a ways off.

Are there any examples of organizations that have tied software decision making to the existing legal system?
He does.

1. He's more of a preacher than a teacher, even in the classroom.

2. He uses the language of fear, a lot.

3. His follower tend to be outright dismissive of opposing views.
Yeah, some founder conflicts right when things were getting good. I've been able to leverage the experience to keep doing cool things though :-)
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> The risk of going to Poland is that the government of Poland is currently expressing views that are extremely hostile to the EU

Are they? Or are they simply not bowing to the will of Germany?

I think the political risk to the EU is coming from Italy and Germany at the moment.
I see less risk of political problems in Poland than with
Also may explain why they can be damaging to younger people. Like disturbing plants before their root system (filtration system) takes root tends to kill or damage the plants entire lifespan.
Ps. I'm also a fan. He helped me clean my room.
In other words, the body acted as a massive heatsink to prevent the internals from getting too hot.

Interesting related fact: GoPros and various other action cameras use their metal body as a passive heatsink, but also rely on thermal mass and limited battery life --- they cannot run 24/7 without overheating.
That article you posted uses a set of maps as its source, but if you go to the maps they refer to, a lot of cities have changed drastically where there was redlining. Atlanta may not have changed much from the redlined map, but Los Angeles and San Francisco definitely have, and those were the only ones I looked at. Many of the areas that were redlined are full of multimillion dollar SFRs and lots of great shops and commercial properties.
Ask HN: What side project can I start for $700 for residual income?
I have $700 in an UpWork account and looking for ideas for a side project that will give me a little income?
How else would you find it later.
I asked myself the same question a little while back, and landed here:

https://blog.docker.com/2017/08/what-is-containerd-runtime/

Although I ended up coming out of it with more acronyms in hand, and perhaps only slightly less confusion than when I went into it.
There are two pieces of advice I never forgot:

The first one isn't actually an advice but a friend once told me this: "We start dying when we stop being a child."

There are many things behind that advice. When we're kids we're always curious, we ask questions, we seek answers, we don't care about making mistakes, we're spontaneous, etc. I could list dozens of things. At some point in life, we stop doing those things. We stop being a kid. We stop having all those dreams we once had. That's when we begin to slowly die. In this world of grow ups fighting each other because of stupid things, I'm always trying to remind me myself to never stop being a child.

The second one is related to the Nonviolent Communication approach by Marshall Rosenberg. There's always a big difference between what someone tells us and what we understand. Most of the time we implicitly make a judgment about others' actions and that judgment is just something from our mind. Many times we get offended (or upset) by something we don't realize the other person had no intentions whatsoever to offend or upset us. In the end, it's actually an exercise of empathy: if something is upsetting or offending you, figure out why before engaging in a useless fight with someone else.
Not sure if it was on HN but it was a short story about an old retired sys admin in an age where everything runs on the cloud. One day, something went wrong in a data center and he was called to fix it because robots manage everything now and nobody knows how to fix things anymore. He was accompanied by a younger sysadmin IT person as he fixed a server or something. By the end of it, the younger IT person wanted to learn about how computer works and be a sysadmin.
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I wouldn't be fussy about the rebate mechanism but funding a government based on energy prices can also be a tricky business - but even a poorly managed local government subsidised by energy exports is far better than local energy consumption subsidised by energy exports.
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And "dai hard 4".
Never use this in the real world please.
i'm guessing your name is timvdalen?
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Just to be clear, there is no statement from Apple or Google that Apple has blocked Google Maps or any other third party mapping from CarPlay. It could very well be Google just hasn't prioritized support.

I'm aware (and I'm sure Apple is aware) that Google Maps has more features. AFAIK Apple has never in their history thought that having the most features makes their product the best.

I'm also unsure Apple wants Maps to "beat" Google. My understanding is that based on a requirement for data from users as part of the licensing of Google Maps, Apple felt they're had to create and ship their own default maps app to preserve customer's privacy and default experience. That doesn't mean they're are against customers opting into a Google product.
again the problem is that swatting is easy.

or should I be able to swat you easily and without consequences if I happen to know a public tidbit about you, for example where you live?
Use a VPN that you pay for with BTC that has been mixed/tumbled.
> The Affordable Care Act kept profit margins in check by requiring companies to use at least 80 percent of the premiums for medical care. That’s good in theory but it actually contributes to rising health care costs.

How did this little gem sneak into the ACA? It seems like it was put in by somebody who doesn't understand game theory.
You sound like an expert! How long would code take, for 32 bit floating point multiply, on Z80 vs 6502?

I'm curious, as a way to compare progress with todays 500 GFLOPS phone GPUs, and 10 TFLOPS PC GPU cards.

But neither Z80 nor 6502 have native 32 bit, nor fp, nor multiply, so a program is needed... this must have been done, for some applications.
Haven't read the book, but it doesn't matter. One man's trash is another man's treasure. The book might have been just what OP needed at the time they read the book. There are tons of books that I've read that were instrumental to me at some point, but today they are complete trash to me. From fiction to non-fiction.
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It is interesting to think about what happens when a third vendor enters the market. This person will not be incentivized to located at the center of the beach. Instead, they will want to be a little bit to one side so they will get most of the business form one side of the beach, leaving the other two to split the customers on the other side. I've not worked out what happens after that, but it feels like it would be complicated.

On the other hand, there's a simple symmetry argument that no matter what happens, once you reach steady state (if you reach steady state) everyone has to be in the same location because everyone is reasoning the same way. To end up in different locations something has to break the symmetry.
This isn’t just a clickbait headline, but an entire attention-bait article with blatant lies.

Google does not track history in Incognito Mode, nor does Chrome retain cache files.

There are things many people might misunderstand about private browsing and informing the public is a nice intent, so why resort to flagrant lies and overloaded language like, “With the right letter from law enforcement, your browsing history could be handed out like free samples at Walmart.”
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But you are materially supporting their bottom line.
A large majority of Dutch as well as German legislation is dictated from the EU, to which all member-states have outsourced great swathes of national sovereignty.

So it migth at least be argued that their common ruler is Jean-Claude Juncker or some similar unelected bureaucrat or sinecurean.
What was he doing from end of 2015 to middle of 2016? If I lost access to my bank accounts I’d be contacting the bank, calling emergency board meetings and filing legal motions the next day.
Sometimes the friendship is worth preserving in favor of going into business with someone else that if you lose, no big deal.
We use the spelling datum/data. We pronounce it 'dar-ta' not 'day-taa'. I want to say we pronounce it 'day-tum' not 'dar-tum' but both sound fine to me, possibly thanks to all of the exported American English we consume or possibly just because we're weird.

I appreciate the apparent strangeness of this, but it's certainly not unique within the language.

That's English! :)
I am surprised to see this article on HN. I don't think anyone on HN thinks IC-mode is a viable way to deter people who have access to the network logs. IC-mode is for preventing history pollution, or for preventing a room-mate/partner from easily finding browsing history on a computer you forgot to lock.
Not a browser wizard, but I've been compiling a list of the things you'd need to turn off to make the browser more private:

https://eggplant.pro/blog/proposal-safeweb/

If anyone has an addition or a correction, please drop me a line in the comments.

Granted, none of this does you any good if you're looking at porno sites, so the only real porn aspect to my comment would be how hard mainstream browsers f* everyone's privacy.
For me, the easiest type of self-criticism to slip into is comparing myself to others. What I eventually came to realize though is that I was comparing my individual skills/achievements in a given field against the most accomplished people in that field. Like: I do computers and business but I have not pulled a Steve Jobs so I clearly must suck. And: I do photography but I must be a terrible failure because my work isn't in the Guggenheim.

Although those are comically extreme examples, media and society makes is easy to do this sort of thing on smaller scales. I also realized that even when I did come out on top of any mental comparisons, it did not make me feel any better. So now I try to catch winner think early and instead remember: there will only ever be one me, I should strive to be the best, most complete version of myself I can be. This mindset has been a far more productive
> ...how is that supposed to apply to "for i in l"? What is the conditional?

Presumably there is a conditional in the loop body that decides whether or not to break:

for i in l:
if ...:
break

Think of the else clause as being what to do if nothing takes the if in the body.

Same for while...else. You'd only be using an else on a while if there was something in the while that could break, so it is whether or not the conditional that controls that decision happens or not that determines whether the else path is taken.
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I'm not anti-union per se, but I am familiar with the economics literature, and the 40-hour work week, minimum wage, and lack of child labor are artifacts of economic development. People don't want their kids to have to work, so when societies become wealthy enough that they don't have to, they stop sending their kids to work, and around that time manage to also ban child labor (which has little effect at this point in the development of societies, and some of the effect it has is negative). Same with the 40-hour work week (and again, some of the effects of enshrining this in law are negative). Similar with the minimum wage, with some variation by country (and yet again, to the extent the minimum wage is above the market clearing wage, you end up with negative effects, as locales that have drastically increased theirs have seen).
I see your other atrocity, and raise you the complete and utter annihilation of the native people in Tasmania:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War