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>but describing them as the "christian taliban" is not accurate.

> It's certainly true that the Puritans didn't come seeking religious freedom, but the ability to combine their religion and government.

> They are both cultures with deep religious drives, but those drives are different and expressed very differently.

My comparison to the Taliban was more about the harsh way they ran their communities than their specific religious belief and social structure The puritan settled areas were highly superstitious and authoritarian communities where there is perceived (religious) justification for very harsh punishment on anyone who violates the community norms. The strictness with which the puritans ran their communities was far in excess of the norm for the time (which is why the witch trials were a big deal). In that way they're like the Taliban.

It's hard to make comparisons to the current US social/political landscape without pissing everyone off. The puritans pretty much planted the seed of authoritarianism in the US and we're still fighting off that legacy today.

>They were a strongly egalitarian and highly educated culture, featuring near-universal literacy both among men and women. They had a strong dedication to economic equality -- one town distributed equal-sized plots of land to it's settlers.

It's a shame that 400yr later those aren't the traits that stuck around in our culture.
That looks cool.

What I'm describing is for implementing MMOs, though.
Source study minus the regurgitation:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/consumer-c...

And a better summary, if you'd prefer an article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/high-stud...
This was such as nice read. Being the same age, I also feel the same way about arcade games, and more than that, the physical arcade machines. I can't, however, seem to get the same satisfaction from watching or even playing the games on emulators or in their console versions. It's about all the environment in which the Arcades were involved in that we can't replicate now in any other way.
Because they chose to follow Postel’s Law, not the spec, and thus it is not a bug to them.
> Casper’s sales topped $200 million last year, though it declines to say whether it is profitable. Fortune has estimated Casper’s annual marketing budget to be $80 million.

If true, that's absolutely insane---spending ~40% of your revenue on marketing.
> Where I get downvotes is the concept/hypothesis (not mine) that the explaination rests with the microbiome (which we have and something like wheat doesn’t).

You seem to have taken something interesting and then leapt to a conclusion.

It could be that. Or it could be that not all of the protein coding genes in wheat are active, it could be that ours overlap and interact in more information-dense ways. It could be that the internal processes of wheat are very (perhaps needlessly) complex to come to simpler outcomes. It could be a lot of different reasons, without evidence for something in particular, all we really have there is speculation.
My guess, <1%. I would be happy to be refuted with real data. Creating and maintaining a global scale high quality search engine requires a huge team with billion dollar level resources. They have neither, for now.
Maybe that is the biggest reason for some/many VCs, but given how Y-combinator started, the fact it was only investing in the Angel round, and many other facts of its history, I tend to doubt it. It could be true now, but when they started and formed this idea of Y-combinator, Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston and the others were running it a startup themselves basically as an experiment on how to get more startups to exist. I think Y-Combinator even followed this pattern with Paul recruiting the others to start the company. VCs were not in the small Angel level investment scene and Y-combinator was only investing $7000? grand in the early days. Rent for 3 months basically (oh, how rents have exploded since then).

As in all complex behavior, there is not "one reason" for anything and I could have better stated it as: "I think 60% of the reason Y-combinator liked to see two or more founders is that at least those two people are willing to work with/for each other. Other people saw Y-Combinator's success and followed their example (including Y-Combinator)."

It would be pretty cool if people started giving percentages to causal factors when discussing complex events. It would be a concise way to get a much more useful understanding of their opinions.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising that a list of SaaS companies are mostly in the surveillance economy, but it is a little depressing that only a few aren't in the business of collecting consumer data.
A classic essay on collectibles is relevant to several comments here: https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogr...
As an ADHD researcher, I've found many commenters on HN to be ignorant and still highly opinionated about ADHD diagnosis and medication, which was my thesis topic. Even highly educated, very smart individuals are growing up with inherent biases against these mental illnesses which they do not know anything about except heresay and pseudo-scientific nonsense.

A recent thread on ADHD brought these people out of the woodwork, and I received many downvotes for spreading my belief that the ADHD research community is not convinced of the over-diagnosis of ADHD, which many arm-chair experts seem to take as a given. It's simply good scientific behavior to not take this for granted, to do more studying, and yet numerous STEM experts have spouted their certainty that ADHD is overdiagnosed and we're drugging our poorly parented/educated kids into submission.

I don't know much about the other mental health disorders, but I'd be willing to bet HN at large is not well-equipped to constructively discuss hoarding, OCD, or even depression/anxiety. Though, I will say I believe depression/anxiety get less stigmatized than OCD and ADHD, perhaps due to their increased prevalence and incidence in today's world.
You took my word "selling" replaced with "customer acquisition" then argued I was wrong.

You're right, that the majority of the work of a 10 million dollar house is customer acquisition. And this isn't true of a 100k condo.

But this was my point, 3% of a 100k home is close to the competitive market price. But 3% of a 10 million dollar home is pretty far away from the competitive market price.
I strongly disagree with this somewhat defeatist view. Every privacy violation can and should be fought vigorously. It's not set in stone that we will ourselves in total surveillance in a few years time.

> People will ultimately want it

With every big data breach coming to light, more and more people get sensitized about the issues of privacy and needless data collection. People come to see privacy as a quality-of-life issue, and cities that are seen as acting too intrusive could actually be avoided.

Just having more raw data does not guarantee that a city will run better in any fashion. The task in the article about clearing the road for firefighters is a good example. The ability to set traffic lights and having a feedback through the GPS from the fire trucks is enough to achieve this task. There's nothing gained by putting a camera on the corner of every street that also watches the fire truck go by.
tunneling in Switzerland is actually reasonable compared internationally. Take a look at the NEAT project. Roughly 100km of tunnels built for 22bn or so, in highly difficult terrain. NYC built like a couple of km and a station for almost the same cost.
For-profit prison systems and perverse incentives.
> I don't see any material change in circumstances that would justify redoing the referendum.

Other than, as noted elsewhere:

1. It was an advisory vote, not constitutionally binding
2. The leave campaign broke the law
3. To quote the parent post "Brexit was an entirely empty vessel into which voters’ fantasies were poured. The outcome in no way resembles any of the ideas that were articulated before the referendum".

If that's not 'material'...
But that's not really a competitive market either.
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Both the UK and EU will survive, but I think that’s an awful metric.

I have a startup in the UK. We employ EU citizens, sell products and services to EU customers, buy products and services from EU suppliers, and receive EU grant funding. A disorderly Brexit will affect us in unknown, possibly terminal ways.

Aside from that personal issue, I t’s possible in the worst case that hundreds of people may die due to lack of medication. The economy will be affected to the time of 10% of GDP over 15 years, by the government’s own prediction.

I think that counts as catastrophic.
One thing that jumped out to me is you've been trying to find another job for 4 years. That suggests to me you may be doing something wrong (I'd say you're certainly doing something wrong if you were on the US West coast, but I don't know what the sector is like in the Cotswolds, so I don't want to speak too strongly).
DDG is great; particularly for tech related topics, as it doesn't get skewed by whatever I was last talking about in corporate (gmail) email. One of the things I have noticed in recent years is how bad google is getting. It is definitely dropping the ball in many ways. Every behemouth looks unstoppable right before it gets stopped; remember when MS bailed out Apple? Bet they never expected trillion dollar apple.

FWIIW qwant and yandex (in english) are both excellent as well.
Someone gave me one of those. They aren’t as high fedlity as you think. They don’t stick as well because they don’t have the same precision.
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how is posting a picture of the team with a small description of the company showing off different "personalities"?
May not be allowed to use cloud today but that will likely change in the near future. FWIW, I can imagine your post in my head as an argument in favor of horses over automobiles.

What you’ve seen in 10 years was reality during that time. That speake nothing little to the future.
Given that a 1 square meter solar panel produces 200W, and the energy efficiency of an Ebit E10 ASIC miner is 11100 * 10^6 hash per J, you can compute 200 * 11100 * 10^6 hash per second so no, in an apocalyptic event, the hash rate will hardly be 0.
The one thing let's not neglect is that these actually are really nice mattresses.

I just spent a week at a 5-star Hawaiian resort where they (I saw and asked them) change out the mattresses monthly ... My mattress at home that I ordered online was far nicer.
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> there are a lot of us who will pay a reasonable premium to not have to go to the store and deal with salespeople in person

Indeed. I really hate talking to salespeople, and tend to avoid going to stores where that's mandatory.
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Free, easy money for low-return degrees wrecks more than just the ability to buy a house.
Well one can't prove a negative, that is that your password _hasn't_ been leaked.

Knowing that - for sure - a password has appeared in a breach is very useful.
I can't write BFS off the top of my head, but I can probably do it after reading the Wikipedia page on it. The last time I interviewed (for the company I'm working for now), I faced a similar question, and said up-front, "It's been a decade since I've had to implement that, so let me Google for a quick sec." I proceeded to do so, skimmed the Wikipedia article, and wrote the code in the shared editor we were using. I got the job, so the interviewer must have seen my candor and quick comprehension as positives. But I know (based on the parent comment here, as well as discussion with colleagues) that this sentiment is not universal.

If I had claimed a lot of algorithm-heavy experience on my resume, I would have expected my response to be met much more harshly. But, as my experience was focused more on API design and interactions with business stakeholders, it wasn't a useful question to gauge my competence. However, it was useful for gauging my personality. Like everything, context is vital.
>But it's hardly the best and fullest exercise of human creativity and imagination, intelligence and enlightment, expansion and self-development, love and desire, etc

No, but it's probably better than watching TV or using social media which are likely the most common substitutes for games.
I think you're looking at that from the wrong perspective. It's definitely generating revenue for someone but I think you're picking the wrong someone.
Not really.... mattress stores probably spent similar percentage on real estate + sales people + ads.
If you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to explain to a relative or acquaintance why FB is bad and they just don't get it, point to this article, it'll save a bunch of time. Great articulation that sums up their issues and potential solutions. Sometimes things bear repeating they are so important.
You can go test it for yourself: it definitely no longer works!
Lots of people, but the people that matter in the negotiation are the Republic of Ireland who will not accept it, full stop. And that means the EU is not going to negotiate a deal that doesn't include the backstop. The EU throwing Ireland under the bus would severely damage its credibility with its smaller member nations. The EU does a lot of things by consensus and voluntarily throwing RoI into economic and political turmoil to appease a country that is trying to leave the EU is a nonstarter.

There's also the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland. A hard border would easily be seen as a betrayal of it and could plausibly cause it to collapse.

The whole thing is just an impossible trilemma. Can't have a border on the island, because RoI will not let the EU sign that deal. Can't have one in the ocean, because the Tories need the DUP votes in Parliament (they don't have a majority, and the government will fall if the DUP pulls out). Can't have a backstop because it could mean a permanent half-in half-out twilight where the UK stays in the customs union forever and hard Brexit parliamentarians can't swallow that. Three totally incompatible red lines.

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

The default, if no deal is signed, is a hard border on the island. Which is bad, but not obviously that much worse for the RoI than a deal with a hard border. So the RoI won't settle for a deal without a backstop.
It’s not “toxic” masculinity. It’s something else
How many of them are real? If most followers are fake then the impact was really minuscule if any.
They're still beholden by their VC's, who most likely forced them to purge a lot of their !bangs not too long ago.
> Gut flora is the new frontier of neurology. It’s worth studying the phenomenon.

Certainly agree on that in a very broad sense, far exceeding this topic. But in terms of obesity, any change to the microbiome is in response to the intake and food abuse, it's another effect rather than a cause.
And yet there are places online where you can buy cheap legos by the pound (or kilo).

So I guess the real value is in keeping the sets together? I suppose you could make some money buying legos by the pound and then sorting them into sets and reselling them. In fact I’m pretty sure I’ve seen people who do that.
USA should have Saddaam 2.0 ready to take over.

All top military and tribal people should have been bribed to go along. Democracy is hard and USA can't do it everywhere. Not that democracy yields great results everywhere. In a lot of countries it's two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
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The crazy cost of real estate is far more hindering IMO. Average student around here is 25k. Average house (detached) price is over 1.3 million. Toronto area, for reference.
A lot of people think you can overcome sleep deprivation and stress by being 'healthy'. They overestimate the effects of diet and drinking and underestimate the effects of stress.
The problem extends outside IT field, as you mentioned factory workers. I think the main problem is that there's no coordinated effort to control inevitable shifts. Workers unions tried protecting workers rights but capitalism clearly won and if there's no profit, you have no securities. IMHO pieces of advice in this article are very good: do not put all eggs in one basket. Don't be afraid to let go of outdated knowledge. And prepare for the change that is going to happen. I'll just add that this is as much a political issue since unemployment is and will be a huge problem, I can only hope our public sector will become productive instead of reactive.
If a pedestrian steps out onto a crosswalk and you cannot stop without behaving erratically, you were going too fast for road conditions or you weren't paying attention and you're at fault.

If your quick stop causes problems for any vehicles behind you, they were going too fast or weren't paying attention and they're at fault.

edit: jrockway said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18932676
It does make the reply look more brash, though. Good that [s]he made it less inflammatory, but it would have been courteous to add "edit: made the tone a bit nicer" or something.
But now your comparing an entry level developer to someone who works at Saison, or the top 1% of waiters against the average developer.

I'm not arguing that a restaurant worker shouldn't make a professional income, I'm arguing why they don't.

Do you think it's a conspiracy by restaurant owners to keep down wages?
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Disingenuous to claim the problems started in "the past few months", IMO.
You actually think you are contributing to the demise of the entire human race. You are so lost in apocalyptic despair that you are not thinking rationally.

So much technology, the pace of development accelerating exponentially, so much having happened in just the last 100 years compared to the past thousands of human history, and all you can see is death and destruction looming.

The real problems facing humanity are the ones that have always been, and always will be, with us.

Get a grip. Go outside, take a deep breath of some fresh air, and try to enjoy the few years you have on this beautiful planet. Try to make a difference where you are, when you are. The rest isn't up to you or anyone else.
and lots of them are just parrots of bigger saas companies that have become bloated so there is room for a smaller, lighter competitor.
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I like buying my kids weird old collectible toys from ebay, usually for about 50% of their original MSRP. I recently snagged a set of early 90s Star Wars action figures for damn near nothing in their original boxes. My kids had a blast opening them.
On the other hand, the notorious degenerate Philip K Dick had this to say about him:

> "Several years ago, when I was ill, Heinlein offered his help, anything he could do, and we had never met; he would phone me to cheer me up and see how I was doing. He wanted to buy me an electric typewriter, God bless him—one of the few true gentlemen in this world. I don't agree with any ideas he puts forth in his writing, but that is neither here nor there. One time when I owed the IRS a lot of money and couldn't raise it, Heinlein loaned the money to me. I think a great deal of him and his wife; I dedicated a book to them in appreciation. Robert Heinlein is a fine-looking man, very impressive and very military in stance; you can tell he has a military background, even to the haircut. He knows I'm a flipped-out freak and still he helped me and my wife when we were in trouble. That is the best in humanity, there; that is who and what I love."
I think you should have disclosed that you are part of Peekmap's team: https://angel.co/peekmap/jobs

This post looks almost like an ad. I hope, then, you are putting effort into "enforcing user security".
The same thing is happening in data science, just at an earlier stage. There are software/service providers like H2O and RapidMiner that automate the whole model selection/optimization/productionization process.

It will take some time, but I think these providers will basically displace advanced ML knowledge workers, especially at large fortune 500 companies. IMO to stay ahead of the curve, data scientists need to pick up more business knowledge and move into a business/financial analyst role.
That all depends on the intention. If the intention is to make my response look more hostile, than I would say it goes against the conduct of HN. They could have replied or added a remark in the edit. The poster could have said "editing, sorry for getting too heated" or something if the intention was to deescalate, but this was a ninja edit.
There was a slim chance for a no-confidence vote, then a re-election, a regime change, and then a cancelling of Article 50.

A slim chance.

Voting for that would have been a political vote though.
Those aren't working class, they're tradesmen. At least IMO.

Working class to me means Walmart, Mcdonalds, and Jack Generic Construction LLC.
McNamee was an early investor in Facebook. I don't doubt the relationship.

He's an interesting guy. http://www.elevation.com/EP_IT.asp?id=102
Wheat has a microbiome too. Academia hasn’t mined it as extensively as the human one, but Industry has and VCs have been very generous.
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What Authorisation checks is up to the issuer. For most accounts the bank does NOT promise to prevent you from spending beyond the limit. That limit is for their benefit not yours. A regular EMV card has some limits programmed into it by the issuer like "I'm not allowed to say yes to more than $500 of spending without going online to my issuer" but the issuer chooses what those are, not you.

Whether the bank has to take your side will depend on law where you are more than any technical facts. That signed contract is going to be a factor, and you giving Avis the card (even though months before and without expecting to pay this) would probably matter too, I'd be surprised if the issuer or the law was OK with something like "We found this card number on an unrelated payment from years ago so we charged it".

I mostly think this should be "fixed" to be stricter, but let me briefly take the merchant's side. Suppose I check out from a hotel one morning. $120 for one night sir, thanks for staying with us. Two hours later cleaners find the room is trashed. I've ripped up the carpet, a chair is in pieces, the wall TV has been attacked with a knife. Why the hell shouldn't they be able to try putting it on my card? Should my bank really refuse if I have the money, and force them to take me to court to try to get their money just because I didn't authorise the charge? Realistically it's not in anyone's interest to insist on that except bad actors.
I find it not that problematic because one tends to paint in broad strokes when talking about epidemiology.

If you have a sample of 1000 8-year olds, then you have at least 995 8-year olds that are doing something other than reading an academic journal.

As far as individual kids, judgement calls do have to be made, but it's very challenging to tell what your kids are doing on a screen, particularly if you have multiple kids.
I took two passes, and only spotted 2 black women on the teams. Which is unsettling because:

1. These are the people building the tools that'll be a part of _everyone's_ lives.

2. If these companies continue to be successful, these are the people who'll have the capital to continue to shape the future

3. They're often already at the point where it's really awkward (and uncomfortable) for a person of colour to join and be the first and only one there.