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Hi. I'm the PM at Google Cloud on the Second Generation runtimes.

This is based on gVisor (https://github.com/google/gvisor), but it does not use the ptrace sandboxing that is in the mainline open source project. Our First Generation runtimes (aka nacl) were based on ptrace. In our informal testing we have observed the Second Generation runtimes to be about 20% faster than the First Generation. I don't have benchmarks on how it compares to a raw VM.

These new runtimes are capable of multithreading, so long as the language is capable of it. And you will need to use an instance larger than the default (F1 / B1) to have access to more than one thread.
There is so much risk in hiring an early employee, it's totally reasonable to try and only hire from a personal network for the first three.

Managing great employees can be challenging; managing someone you don't know is great can be 10 times more difficult.
The Constitution explicitly permits slavery as a punishment for crime, to be fair.
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Self-Driving Cars Need to Learn How Humans Drive
Kids on farms are not systemic in the sense that it's not a blackbox that can be scaled. You can't bribe the police chief to give you more children, for example.
Ok, everyone sing along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBpUniD7VGE&feature=youtu.be

Solidarity over slavery!
There are a number of relevant indices, I've put a link to one below [1]. the short version is that they would probably be categorized as a multi-strategy event-driven manager, and as such would be compared against other similar managers investing in similar strategies (distressed debt, activist, etc). Most hedge fund managers are focused on risk-adjusted returns rather than relative returns and people often use either a sharpe ratio [2] or sortino ratio [3] as a rough proxy in addition to measuring pure absolute returns.

[1] https://www.hedgefundresearch.com/family-indices/hfri
[2] http://www.morningstar.com/InvGlossary/sharpe_ratio.aspx
[3] http://www.morningstar.com/InvGlossary/sortino_ratio_definit...
But they don't shut off your power because they do not like the type of business you run or you personally.
Apple to end support for Back to My Mac feature when macOS Mojave drops
Wouldn't be my first recommendation for a good Haskell book. I really enjoyed Haskell: first principles. I'm sure that will get mentioned a lot here.

Still, as a free resource it does cover some fun things. I just felt the book wasn't practical.
Well, under a very narrow definition of "compelled," maybe not.
How Indians are using social media to help flood-hit Kerala
Perhaps a difference with UBI would be the ubiquitousness of it. You'd know way before you even entered the job market what the score was.

Thanks for the links in your other post, I will take a look. I admit that I have Star Trek dreams of post-scarcity happiness, but I'm willing to change my mind if there is credible evidence to suggest my hopes are misplaced. I wasn't aware that there were any decent UBI experiments that had been done at scale, lately they all seem to be very limited and aborted early.

Maybe I'll just have to scale back and pin my hopes on Medicare For All. Would be nice to detach medical coverage from employment, IMO.
Those I know of are advertised as semi-autonomous and capable to move over any distance for days or weeks; the line provides both power and communications. Robots are put there in a traditional way, by line workers climbing the towers, then the operator controls them remotely if needed. Some models also appear to have a winch for the tools and spare parts if a problem is found.

I have no idea if they work as well as advertised though, hence the question.

I've seen those things crawling along a nearby power line a couple times, although these particular ones seemed too small to be able to do anything besides inspecting the line with a camera/sensors. I'm not in the US though, things are different here, we don't use aerial transport on every occasion.

EDIT: on a further inspection, the robots seem to have issues with crawling over more complex line sections, and are used mainly on very high voltage lines. Apparently, the tech is still in its infancy.
afaik all the chapters are written. the version you get on gumroad is final.
the system is broken when people care more about internet speed than voter fraud. This title should be twenty two states ask court to bring back paper voting ballot
U.S. Foreclosure Starts Rise for First Time in Three Years
> Well, the argument is that if you don't like eBay it's easy to just go make your own.

The argument isn't that it's easy, the argument is that it's possible. There is no guarantee of success but you can try. Why even start Facebook when we already have Myspace?

There are actual physical impediments to building your own ISP and natural monopolies involved. By comparison, just a lot of people using something doesn't make it monopoly.
China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
Well, given that this article seems like more of a rant that meanders from topic to topic in a somewhat related way, I may as well give feedback on each point as it comes up:

1. There are too many artists despite the limited market and many people's lack of talent

True, and it's not just limited to art too. Sports has much the same issue here; easy to get into, a dream career for millions (or billions) of people and an opportunity that most won't be able to achieve simply because they're not talented enough.

Journalism and media is another sort of example here, since it's got a very large audience of wannabes, is filled with people who don't have the talent to make it... and unlike sports and art pays like crap. This is especially true when it comes to tech, gaming, sports or celebrity journalism.

2. Schools pushing the 'everyone gets a prize' narrative was responsible for this.

Not sure I'd agree with this one. I'd say it's much like it always was, popular because:

A. It's trendy and you're 'cool' if you succeed
B. In many of these fields, the money for the very small percentage at the top is incredibly good
C. Many people enjoy these things (creating art, writing, playing sports) and wish they were what they did in their main career
D. For a growing percentage of the population, this stuff is going to be their only practical chance of making a decent living. Automation + globalisation and outsourcing + changing company structures means that at some point, I suspect it'll be either 'get a very specialist job with a high barrier to entry' or 'basically win the lottery' if you want a middle to upper class income.
E. People think the work is easy
F. It seemingly avoids many of the stresses of everyday life, like commuting, open offices, customers/clients, etc

3. Professional associations explain why some fields make more money

Kind of true, though as many Hacker News readers know, software engineers/web developers/programmers make pretty good money too, and that has no barrier to entry. Same with marketers to be honest.

4. Identity politics is used as a marketing/branding strategy

Maybe? If so however, it's not a very good one. A quick look at the various TV shows, films, comic books, games and other media trying to sell themselves on 'progressive' politics shows that the majority have bombed hard. By virtue of simple demographics, a company or publishing house that does this is probably on the road to irrelevance/bankruptcy.

Other than that, well it can seemingly be boiled down to 'people who spend their life complaining about things on social media and hoping to become an artist should probably get a normal job'. Which is a fair point I guess. Just seems like one that's buried under a bunch of potentially decent but disconnected other ones.
I know, my comment was completely rooted in sarcasm :)

I agree with you but I also think given the prominent role FB had in the last US election and the uncertainty of its potential role in the upcoming election its ensures that peoples's emotions on the subject tend to run hot. Cheers.
Is it really for the good of the society to have a class of people who does work for pennies on the dollar? It'd seem to me that that would have a negative effect on the labor market too.
>Note that we do this with another class of people who are wards of someone else: children. Nobody is arguing you should have to pay kids minimum wage for doing chores...

Eh, I could argue that, particularly if you're adopting child after child just to use them as free labor, like society does when "adopting" prisoners.
It probably won't be for you. I was picking up Rust in 2015 and my prior Haskell knowledge (just past beginner at the time), helped immensely. There's a good deal of crossover for the broad concepts.
America's rich are moving to the coasts as the poor go inland
1) Backpage were telling advertisers what language to use. Backpage were telling advertisers to use phrases like "amber alert".

2) Backpage claimed to be helping law enforcement.

If that were true when someone submits an ad for "15 year old lolita" the form would keep the details, ask the submitter to change the words, and then Backpage could either submit those details to law enforcement or wait for LE to turn up with a warrant.

What actually happened was Backpage said "Whoops, you can't use that word", and then allow the submitter to resubmit, and then the system would delete all trace of the orginal ad. So, when LE turned up with warrants asking for all the advertisers who'd tried to use the phrase "15 year old lolita" Backpage could say "we don't have that information".
>Regarding NATO expansion, of course it serves the interests of USA but it can be also good for other countries. For example, the presence of NATO troops in Baltic countries helps them to stay independent and avoid repeating the situation that has happened in 1939

Europe in 1939 was a completely different place than it is today. To say that we need NATO because of something that is extremely unlikely to happen today is a weak excuse. Honestly if such a situation was to be repeated today I think there would be a lot more problems in Europe than just the Baltic countries.

Not that I am against NATO in any way, in fact I strongly believe that we do need a way to bridge different nations and my country has greatly benefited from the stability that NATO has brought to the area( with the annual tax paid to the American military-industrial complex for new weapon systems of course).
I think they should pay rent and should be paid proper wages, to accelerate reintroduction to society. Don’t do any work? Get the worst cell, with rent written off. Work as a firefighter? Get $30/hour which you can use to get better living conditions and better food in prison.
A thought: We're at a point in time where Toyota employees and management (and many other manufacturers' employees and management) have that experience. This experience is not something that has to be learned with every new iteration of the car production line - it's something that can quite literally be bought.

The question that follows on: What internal process has prevented that experience from being bought? Instead Tesla seems to have opted to gain that experience from scratch at great cost to investors (and consumers).
>That and having longer meetings/workshops to really talk through all the details as opposed to 30 minutes catch up everyday that involves multiple context switches.

Thinking back on my experiences, this is a gem of an observation. Most people hate long meetings because they are just a lot of status updates with 2 or 3 people dominating the conversation.

>In both small and large organizations, I've found that the productivity killer is trying to do too much that ends being nothing gets done at all.

I'm curious about your thoughts on something I'm currently facing. When I was an IC at a medium sized organization, "trying to do too much" was typically manifested by over-committing/over-confidence in what could be delivered in the timeframe allotted. But for the most part everybody was generally aligned in the same way.

At the two large orgs where I've worked, I've seen a lot of extra work come from teams being motivated in completely different ways. One team is focused on blame-avoidance, another in gaming KPIs, one team wants to show off how awesome they are, one group is just tagging along for visibility reasons, etc. So there's an incredible amount of "too much work" that has very little to do with actual execution.

Have you seen the latter in medium or smaller organizations?
Why does social impact only concentrate on the tech sector for participation and avoids fraternity clubs and religious organizations? Top article about the lack of food banks, which typically have been ran by charities, really avoids that also. Most of the stories seem to exclude certain groups who routinely give aid.
Another entry in the not Haskell category, Functional Programming in Scala is outstanding.
The case of the farmers is not the same as UBI. The farmers are not being freed from the shackles of work, they're shackled to not working. UBI doesn't exclude the ability to do what you've trained and often lived for since, as in the case of many farmers, they were young.
> So let's throw out all the points in the indictment that aren't child-specific?

Are you missing the bits where children who were advertised on Backpage contacted backpage to get these ads removed, and backpage refused to do so?

We have testimony from children.
> it has become a business

It is, literally, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm.
Yep. I knock out 30-40 books a year through audiobooks. I rotate between NF, sci-fi, and fantasy, and literature.

Audiobooks are perfect while commuting, working out, and doing chores. During the times I'd have time to read a physical book, I read a technical one, a comic book, or a video game instead.
Interesting to switch away from a static generator due to reliability. We used Tumblr for our first start up since many non-technical folks were writing content (It was a consumer app). We had a bad experience with it being slow loading for users while being very constrained regarding the theming and clunky editor.

Our current startup is much more dev focused (API analytics) so we went with Jekyll and absolutely love it. Just code in Markdown and your favorite editor and host on GH pages. It's free and super fast. No need to worry about theme settings everything is version controlled. These days, even if you need dynamic content like search, you can use Algolia or Lunr if the index is small.

I guess once you hit a point where you have a large team writing and scheduling content to be posted, static generators may not scale well accordingly (and Ghost will prob be one of my first picks), but we love it for smallish dev focused teams.
50 feet of film is $29 for 2.5 minutes, plus development costs.
"..editable content for non-technical folks.."

WordPress. There is no better CMS when it comes to the ability to edit content by non-technical folks.
Agreed.
Now that I found I like org-mode plus org-babel-tangle I'm planning to re-read it solving the exercises.

LYAH however is a few days read. It lets you to get closer to start learning haskell, but not even in the same league.
before you hire an engineer, make sure you have your onboarding streamlined
More banks need to be foreclosed on:

http://business.time.com/2011/06/06/homeowner-forecloses-on-...
This is theoretically around the corner; Intel and Micron created a memory technology called 3D XPoint that is persistent and is supposed to have latency close to that of DRAM.

Intel just started shipping DIMM modules, though apparently CPU support still hasn't arrived yet:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12828/intel-launches-optane-d...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/10/optane_dimm_ceremon...
The book is functionally complete. We're not waiting on any new chapters or anything. If you want a printed edition I wouldn't wait. The digital version is very good though.
But thanks to Reaganomics, prisons turned to profits
Cause free labor is the cornerstone of US economics
Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison
You think I am bullshitting, then read the 13th Amendment
Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits
That's why they giving drug offenders time in double digits

Killer Mike, Reagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU
> why shouldn't they be forced to take on some of their own upkeep?

My humble opinion is that this creates a perverse incentive which undermines the pursuit of justice. If we as a society feel that imprisoning people is an sound, effective form of justice, then we as a society should accept the full costs associated with imprisonment. If we are unwilling to pay for such, then we should sit back and think of a more cost-appropriate solution.

The use of prison slave labor encourages more crime (via ambigiuously written laws), harsher sentencing(mandatory minimum sentencing), and recidivism because it is profitable for those in the justice system.

I can see why people would agree with your sentiment; I certainly use to. But now I think it is naive, short-sighted, and doesn't align well with what I feel is the purpose of prison (reformation).
> --why shouldn't they be forced to take on some of their own upkeep?

If keeping people in prison is an economic gain for society, you are going to send people to prison whatever they deserve it or not. And that is the case in the USA.

"He was found guilty in February of racketeering for taking a $1 million kickback from the builder of for-profit prisons for juveniles. Ciavarella who left the bench over two years ago after he and another judge, Michael Conahan, were accused of sentencing youngsters to prisons they had a hand in building." https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/08/12/pennsylv...

So over-incarceration cannot be set apart from economical profit for jailing citizens.

> Nobody is arguing you should have to pay kids minimum wage for doing chores...

Children labour is forbidden. And when they actually work, e.g. movie actors, they get paid.

Make society pay for sending people to prison and they are going to be more eager to rehabilitate than to punish. It is not the only factor, but it helps.
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they are not trying to beat the spx... they are trying to produce positive, low volatility, uncorrelated returns...
Yeah, it tries to be funny but it's just annoying and disorganized.
Forget about Lunar Water man, that's so 2002.

Let's distill moon stuff and make MOON BEER and MOON VODKA.

Oh yeah, <<Celebrate with a shot of "Yuri G." the world's first and finest Moon Vodka>>
Same here. I listen while driving, cleaning, and walking my dogs and am able to focus much better on the content of the book. I went from struggling to finish 3-5 paper books per year to completely finishing 20-30 audiobooks per year. I am often disappointed with the limited selection on Audible for things I am interested in, though.
"LYAH is full of incorrect definitions and broken analogies."

Well it's fine for beginners, because beginners want easy explanations and many examples to start with, instead of very precise definitions which requires a precise math vocabulary.
I mean, I get that this looks bad. But they were using a lot of data and they had to switch from a $39 plan to a $99 one. That's still not a lot of money for such a service.
"Comitted to building cool shit" is not a motivation that will persist through hard times.
> But who is going to give them money to shut down the production line again and retool everything to increase FPY?

I imagine that it's significantly cheaper to fix the problem (and identify a root cause) when the car is still in pieces than to disassemble the finished product to fix the problem.

As for re-tooling, that can be done down the line with a manual fix in place in the short term (after all, they're able to fix it manually after the assembly line is completed).

Much like how in software development it's cheaper and faster to fix a bug caught in development than it is in production.
So anyone already with a job (and agreement) is out-of-luck.
You're missing the principle of charity.
If you have a photograph of a child being raped, and that child contacts you to ask for that photograph to be taken down, you should probably do a bit more than say "no", you should probably try and see if you are hosting images of child sexual abuse and see if you can take down those images.

Backpage didn't dispute the identity of the children.

Please read the documents.
The pipelines where never actually going to happen( for anyone that was a realist). You give a country that is struggling anyway a strong card, you should expect them to use it. As an EU citizen that was a moronic move on our part.
I hope they aren't just using 13Fs to determine hedgefund holdings. I saw one being filed recently and I was amazed at how useless they are for determining a funds actual positions.

You don't need to report short positions. This resulted in many scenarios where we were short a company, but from our filings, it looked like we were long. 3 examples:

- Class A and B shares. If you are long one and short the other, only the long shows up.

- Own the stock, but sold calls? Don't need to report the calls. Plus, options that are reported are done so as if they are fully exercisable.

- Debt, Convertible debt, and types of warrants and other instruments are not reported.

So don't use them to determine a fund's thinking.
Of course touchbar customization is easy and cool, but still the major problems are not fixed:

1. HW - The keyboard became unusable. Less, not more external connectors. Less memory than comparable laptops for half the money.

2. SW - OS updates became unusable. I'm still on El Capitan, but wished I was still on Snow Leopard. It only got downhill after that.

The Mac as Nr 1 dev laptop IS dead.
Yeah but you don't have to learn Haskell to understand that
found this[1] to be a great introductory course. Might want to have dipped into functional concepts beforehand, though.

Fairly sure it was recommended in here in the past and that's how I came to know it, can't give credit because I sadly don't remember.

[1]https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html
> Terrible book.

While LYAH may not be ideal, isn't calling it "terrible" a tad too harsh?

FWIW I learned Haskell using LYAH and enjoyed it thoroughly. It was my first time learning a language with such a high focus on functional programming, but I think this book did a good job of teaching it.
LYAH was my first taste of functional programming. Before that I only had 2-3 years of experience using PHP and Ruby. I read this book and quickly fell in love with FP and category theory, for the first time really started to enjoy programming to the fullest. This book is also the reason I was able to land a job as an Erlang developer, and teach a little bit of Haskell to others. Now, 5 years later, I continue my studies with languages such as Emacs Lisp, Guile, Clojure, Elixir, Elm, Hy.

I know this book isn't really popular (reading these comments) but to me it holds a lot of emotional value and I felt obligated to share my experience. I'll always be grateful for what this book taught me, and thankful to Miran for writing it.
I beg to differ. In the long run your pay is driven by performance. Working 55 hours and commuting 5 hours a week is going to yield significantly better performance than working 40 hours and commuting 20 hours each week.

Or, it could free up 15 hours a week to do consulting.

The reality is this person makes a lot more than $30 an hour or they wouldn’t be commuting to San Francisco, $30 an hour jobs are available far closer. So if you are making well over $100,000, what is the point of giving up most of your free time to commuting? If you aren’t, what’s the point of commuting 4 hours a day when you can make nearly as much nearby?
My blog is hosted on a bare metal Scaleway toaster for 2.99 a month and runs great for a small personal blog. Might be nice to have more firepower for a small business that has a steady ingress of users, but for me, it's been great!