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For 300 miles? Or are you proposing spacing hubs out along the journey, in which case, wouldn't frequent reconnection be an issue?
I can't help but be fascinated by the web of lies that comprises so much of the social fabric: not only cultural notions like "God cares about your sex life" or "America is the greatest nation", but even fundamentally obvious ideas like "human life has value" or "the truth matters". :P

Beliefs, and the deceptions that maintain them, are more properly understood as self-fulfilling prophecies; prescriptive ideas, masquerading as descriptive ideas. I have a serious concern that if we magically evaporated every single lie, and therefore every belief, we would disintegrate back into "nature red in tooth and claw".

Our capacity for aspirational imagination and social climbing through deception is as every bit baked into the history of human evolution as our empathy for those like us, or our care for child-rearing. It is, in Stross's term, a wicked problem.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Vonnegut
Well, the excerpt corresponds to your view, but not the full article. I'd be curious to know what you make of the arguments Buffett presents against this view.
Fair point. Someone still has to put all the pieces together at the right time though.
If this weren't a YC company, "Magic does exist" would have been edited out of the title by now.
The async handlers looks great, specially parallel and series iterators. I'm not sold on

wait for friends from db.friends.find()
//vs
friends = await db.friends.find()

it's a bit hard to follow despite the natural language.

Is this a fork of the CoffeeScript compiler? Will it benefit from upstream changes/features?
Indeed, 50 may do worse than the market... but it's not because of a faulty appeal to "statistics."

haliax is pointing out that 100 fund managers may not be an unbiased sample. It's perfectly possible to find a biased sample of 100 individuals capable of beating the market (eg. a group of 100 insiders trading illegally).

EDIT: The "correct" thing to say is... "Based on evidence, fund managers do not outperform the market. Therefore, in a random sampling of 100 fund managers, we would expect 50 to underperform the market." This assumes (1) there is such evidence (likely?) and (2) that 100 is a sufficiently large sample to overcome the error bounds.
There is no need for hacks, just run node with the `--harmony` flag to get yield support today.

Q is a huge, monster library. It's 2x the size of caolan/async, which is already bloated. I personally think it's better to use https://github.com/mbostock/queue or another small, understandable library.
I love pineapple. dude your a genius!
The title is kinda funny to the russian ear because kal means feces in Russian :)
No. Would just pile up a bunch of garbage I would never go back and listen to and end up wasting money pointlessly.

I am sure for some out there, this might be something they want but personally I don't care
Your father has a lot of time for recovery, making all the perfect food and exercising in the first place that lets him beat the average chair sitting office worker.
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Listening to classical pieces with the score was one of my favourite things to do when I was at music school. One thing that would be cool would be an overlay of the clef, time signature and current (declared hah) key on the left hand side that updated as everything changed. Good for context as you're following along.

Super nice work though.
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I'm somewhat surprised there is no reference to scanrand[1][2], a fast stateless syn scanner by Dan Kaminsky in 2002. It wasn't directly geared towards scanning the entire Internet, but instead scanning large subnets (like for a pen test of a /16 network... takes a long time to scan).

It is a bit obscure, but it did do tricks like encoding encrypted data in extra mutable fields (just the sequence number for scanrand) for validation purposes. Actually, scanrand 2.0 can apparently measure latency (without state!) by encoding timing information in the source port field, which zmap doesn't currently do.

I think this research is great, but I just hate to see interesting old projects get forgotten.

[1] http://dankaminsky.com/2002/11/18/77/
[2] http://www.sans.org/security-resources/idfaq/scanrand.php
[3] http://s3.amazonaws.com/dmk/SBO_Hiver.ppt
It's not a fork of CoffeeScript (though there are a lot of similarities). I'd initially tried doing that but I really couldn't get things to work the way I wanted. Mostly, it's a pretty major rearchitecture to get coffee to parse a function block that way.

I think syntax highlighting helps a lot in this case, so try out the tmbundle in Sublime or TextMate (https://github.com/rzimmerman/kal.tmbundle) if you can.
The market is NOT a bunch of fund managers. Its a representation of the state of assets being debt/credit or company shareholding.

The market does not do better because there are fund managers, it does better if the underlying assets increase in value. All the other fluctuations are based on expectancies of those assets and arbitration.

It is entirely possible for 100% of fund managers to do below the market average, as fund managers dont own 100% of the market.
It is also likely they have a losing bet against a market, as active fund managers employ resources in their operations, by trading and actively managing a portfolio, usually in the form of fees, and potential downsides on extra taxation as well.

Tracking "the winners" is the most fallacious and common attempt at gauging how good a fund manager or a stock is doing.
Bernie Madoff was one of the winners for decades. Past results give no expectation to the future, which is so misleading given that the most common tool to show the value of a stock is a chart of how it did before, as opposed to how the company is doing (which require reading the statement).

I suggest reading "The Intelligent Investor". It is by far the best book on this topic out there , and it has enough layman terms and concepts that are very easy to understand once you expose yourself to them.
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I really like this comment, even though it calls me a liar. I agree with you, it's mechanically the same (imagining a reality that doesn't exist). The main difference being that laying out a "vision" (ugh) and taking bets on it we are now accountable to making it happen.
I still don't get how this can happen as described. If the client is using a blocking connect and checking for errors (as the author says it is), I don't see how that can succeed without the remote side at least seeing the connection. As you say, the receiver could be overloaded and ignore the connection, but the client should get a connect failure in that case.
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It doesn't mean nothing. There's a range of equity that will be given away during any round. I don't know how high the variance is but it's probably less than 30% and more than 10%.
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Q and ECMAScript 6 solve the callback issue, but I think people might like the built in async iterators and error handling.
WTF! So "ai" is a sub domain of nothing!?
> If you're going to simplify things, take out the numbers because the numbers are wrong.

The numbers are exactly right. The problem lies with your example in which businesses either grow without bound or go bankrupt. In the real world, and typically, half of investors do better, and half do worse, than the market average.

> The other thing that's wrong is that you use the term "statistics" where you mean "probability theory".

Since one forms the foundation of the other, that's a distinction without a difference, especially when conversing with people who think there are secrets of the winners. The ideas are very simple, and specifying which aspect of statistics gives the most detail is hardly worth specifying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_theory

Quote: "As a mathematical foundation for statistics, probability theory is essential to many human activities that involve quantitative analysis of large sets of data."
Yay, another JavaScript super-set language that solves one problem.
That is really unfortunate...

I chose it because it in Hebrew it roughly means something like easy/simple/BASIC.

edit: More importantly, does that make you more or less likely to use it?
Encryption is less secure than we hoped
I don't find it necessary for security. One way of safeguarding security across the board is to use reserved words like "intranet" for the intranet (duh) and "localhost" for the same machine.
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I think you're right, but TFA appears inconsistent: it says "no errors of any sort...All standard blocking calls." As you point out, it later says that the failed case optimistically sends data after the first SYN, before the SYN/ACK back, but that's not possible if connect() is being used in blocking mode. (Right?)
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This is a fantastic spare time project. At the very least, it will be a beautiful feather in your cap :)
The guy playing jobs seems like he's reading off cue-cards.
TL;DR Ultimately, it seems like EV's are awesome as long as where you're going has a charging station and that you can actually make it there.
DNS root domains have no names. That makes http://ai/ a fully qualified domain name. But apparently ICANN has now banned such things. Gods know why. My eyes glazed over after the 10th "whereas". That document reads like a legal document. Ugh
Assuming CoffeeScript is in your list of JS super-set languages, what do you consider to be the one problem it solves?
I switched to Debian (Wheezy specifically) after 8 or so years of using Fedora (initially Fedora Core) with a year or two of Gentoo in 2008-9 or so. It really is a breath of fresh air.

You don't realize it initially but Fedora/Ubuntu are suffocating.. rapid releases changing things that didn't need to be changed (I have zero objection to actual improvements, that is the reason I used Fedora for so long (and Gentoo during a time I wasn't satisfied with Fedora's ability to keep up)), focus on the "standard" experience causing unnecessary breakage, etc.

Now I just sit on Debian, look at the other distros, and scratch my head. It seems like they are expending so much effort just spinning their tires. A new Fedora graphical installer? You're only going to use that once, and the existing one wasn't broken! Ubuntu on phones? You haven't even figured out how to get "regular" people to use it on desktops yet where your competition is mostly windows... now you want to compete with iOS and android?

Maybe they are getting somewhere, but it sure as hell appears to be inefficient. Ease off the throttle and do things right.
1) "ZMap supports both blacklisting and whitelisting network prefixes. If ZMap is not provided with blacklist or whitelist parameters, ZMap will scan all IPv4 address (including local, reserved, and multicast addresses)."

What an absolutely stupid default setting. Thanks for giving a bunch of noobs a simple IPMC DOS application. If this thing gets popular it will soon be the bane of network admins everywhere.

2) There are at least 2 obvious omissions from their default blacklist file. There might be more but these are the obvious ones that come to mind.
class-E 240.0.0.0/4
CGN 100.64.0.0/10

3) Can someone explain to me why I wouldn't just want to use nmap to do this same thing? Why do we need a new tool for this?
These price changes make Mailgun much more expensive than Mandrill (especially for dedicated IPs).
Mandrill also has inbound now, so I don't see the point of choosing Mailgun over Mandrill.
Here the audience might think "create a startup" but I think this quote may resonate the strongest with those who forgot to have kids in time.
Psh, this solves at least two issues. Don't forget the Boolean "but" operator...
Your points are duly noted and your insights are much appreciated.
What's with this attitude? This is someone's personal project.
How do relationships with the sources referenced work? Is consent given? I can certainly imagine some valuable sources politely declining to be scraped.
It's interesting that you use Elon Musk as an example, since Max Levchin's interview in Founders at Work suggested that his only contribution to PayPal was to attempt to get them to switch all their servers over to Windows.

(Levchin, BTW, seems much more like someone who actually "gets his hands dirty" - which doesn't actually work out all that well sometimes, as evidenced by subsequent ventures like Slide that executed really well against a pointless market.)
Not trying to patronize you at all, and I apologize if it came off that way. I'd say that most people in the tech/hacker community aren't too well acquainted with consistent, dedicated exercise. It wouldn't be unreasonable for someone to have the belief that after 6 months of 7 minute circuits, their body should be well adapted to intense workouts. Since I don't know who you are or where you stand on the experience spectrum, I took an educated guess, and apparently was wrong.
Respectfully, is it possible you've confused Q with something else? I compressed and minified both caolan/async and kriskowal/q. Result: async is 3.4 KB, q is 4.1 KB.

I grant you that mbostock's queue is even smaller, but all are so tiny as to be a trivial download even on mobile.

The important issue here is IMHO not the size of the libraries, but how much they help you write maintainable code.
I'd love to know more about the plan, and the milestones you set for yourself. Without a product in market, how did you come up with feasible numbers to reach for?

Here are a bunch more questions just as fodder:

How much did you have to adapt your pitch based on the investor? Did you have multiple pitches, geared to things you knew about an investor going in? Or did you do more of your adaptation on the fly, based on the reaction of the investor?

How many nos did you get before a yes?

Where would you say you wasted the most time, and you would not pitch that type of angel, or not pursue that kind of introduction, etc, next time?

Thanks for the post, and looking forward to your follow up(s)!
http://news.ycombinator.com./
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LFS with the aide of NetBSD's pkgsrc. ;)

I've been tempted to go down that route before...
i really like the syntax - really close to english. is there a side-by-side comparison of kal and the generated javascript?
Do you mean like a wildcard certificate? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate
Oh man. OpenBSD's man pages. Whoever was the author. He was the best man page writer.
Cool that they're planning to support Racket so early!
if your internal systems where set up correctly that would not happen,. your local DNS should override any external records.

If I added an A record for google.com to bing.com's ip address on my internal dns no one would see google.com
The title is incorrect because Buffett doesn't say playing the market is futile. In fact, he clearly states he believes a few will outperform due to skill (but that you can't distinguish which outperformers did so on skill versus luck).

What he does say in the quoted part is that a large fund of say 20 billion likely can't outperform due to it's size. That is a big difference from saying that it's futile to play the market (since not everyone is trying to invest 20 billion). It's also similar to what other investors like Peter Lynch believed.. that smaller investors have an advantage over the large funds.

This isn't made clear at all in the linked page. As far as I know, Buffett has always felt efficient market theory is wrong and that a few could beat the market on skill. There's also nothing in the linked quote that contradicts this (just the title that suggests it).

So the title is clearly deceptive. It suggests that Buffett did not believe in investing skill at a younger age and only changed his stated beliefs after becoming a very successful investor.
Governments always have all of the money. They issue it, and they define it by only accepting their type of money in order to pay their taxes. They hold that value by being strong enough and/or well-connected enough to defend themselves from physical threats from inside and out, and enough to extract taxes and fees from individuals in order to pull that money back out of circulation. In order to do this, they have all the guns.

Government has all of the money and all of the guns. We're already screwed. What we need to focus on is making the government help us structure a better society - a kinder, safer, braver, smarter society. The further we get from that ideal, the closer we get to a world where we will again remember that money can't save you from the people with all the guns. Khodorkovsky thought money was worth something.
> I'd be curious to know what you make of the arguments Buffett presents against this view.

I read the entire article, and the problem is that it cannot distinguish between an effect and chance, and many have an incentive to call chance an effect. Also there's the announcement effect to consider -- once a player has a track record, people start reacting to his moves by buying the same stocks, after which the track record is no longer meaningful data.

The WSJ Dartboard Contest was a terrific test that could have shown a real effect, if there is one, and anyone who produced reliable returns would get a lot of free publicity. So there was a big incentive, but no one could show an effect. It was the closest thing to science I've seen, and it supported the null hypothesis.
A trailing period just represents the top of the domain hierarchy. http://reddit.com./ will work just fine.
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> That document reads like a legal document.

That's because it is.
Not quite - I think his point was that money managers with very large sums to invest cannot beat the market. He made that claim almost 40 years ago, and more recently his own record clearly contradicts it. So perhaps he no longer holds such a view...

Edit: It looks like Buffett had changed his view by 1984 [1]: "Size is the anchor of performance. There is no question about it. It doesn't mean you can't do better than average when you get larger, but the margin shrinks."

[1] http://www.tilsonfunds.com/superinvestors.html
Excellent work. Especially useful since it appears to throw exceptions. That means it's a step up from Iced Coffeescript.

The syntax is a little verbose and might be shortened to something like C#: `user = await db.users.findOne {name:userName}`. Would be a lot more clear to me.
Thanks for the suggestion. The closest to a side by side is here (http://rzimmerman.github.io/kal/#asynchronous-wait), and also the table of operators in the readme (https://github.com/rzimmerman/kal/blob/master/README.md#oper...). Also the examples directory on the github repo.

Apologies if you saw these already. I'll add something like what you suggested, though.
Maybe so, but every straight line is nearly on a geodesic (great circle) until it goes off an edge. Show me another flat map that does that.
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Thanks. I am commenting on this just so I can refer to the full text whenever someone claims that Warren Buffett believes in the Efficient Market Hypothesis (something which appears to be the case from this extract, and which numerous commenters on this story seem to vehemently argue ;) )
Epinions has definitely got it's place but we are going for a community rather than a paid long-form review destination. We feel like human beings talking conversationally about the things they love is more accessible and interesting.
Yeah, this shit's bogus man. It only solves one problem.
news.ycombinator.com is actually news.ycombinator.com. with a period at the end. http://ai./ is basically the same as http://com./, except that com doesn't have any IPs configured.
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Just for a moment I thought I was reading a plot for a gay porno. LOL
I also vote for 'await' here. The 'wait for friends from' construct looks too much like BASIC for my liking. It's not clear which terms are built into the language ('wait', 'for', 'from') and which are not ('friends'). Also, since the eventual result of that line is an assignment to 'friends', using the existing = operator makes the language more consistent.
The double standards certainly run deep here
Ruby system scripts assuredly do not work the same cross-platform, particularly if they have to call to C libraries. Expect to have to rejigger them just as you would bash.
Vatican City (http://www.va/) used to have MX records pointing at va directly (so, pope@va or whatever)
There is no evidence that mutual funds (or any other active managers) can outperform the stock market.[1] This can be explained by the strong form of the efficient markets hypothesis; "In strong-form efficiency, share prices reflect all information, public and private, and no one can earn excess returns." [2]

[1] http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.Cochrane/teaching/35150...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis#Str...
Replacing the cells isn't particularly hard if you are willing to take the time with a dremel -- if you're clever you can then close the battery without gluing it.

I still have a 4.1 macbook pro that I keep using specifically because it's the last one they made with a user-swappable battery.
If you're taking about node, what difference does it make how large the library is?
Wildcard certificates are only valid for the subdomain level directly under it. [1]
If I get a wildcard certificate for example.com (the common name is set to *.example.com), foo.bar.example.com will throw an error.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate#Limitatio...
In the `Asynchronous Wait` example did you mean: `function getUserFriends(userName, next) {` when you wrote: `var getUserFriends(userName, next) {`?
You haven't eaten there, have you? Their "cafeteria" is a bunch of kitchens worked by chefs. Good ones. Their food is the only reason I would consider working there.
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The colors would be both aesthetically pleasant (i'd go with pastels) and make it immediately obvious what you're looking at. You could also put the labels next to the note chart on the left.
Well, maybe. I've seen some commentators that aren't as sure, that the case is quite so clear cut.

Assuming that he is guilty of the charges against him, it would still be interesting to know if he became a target of investigation as a result of refusing to cooperate with the NSA. I'm not saying that is the case, but that it could be the case.
You're on the money in both this post and the grandparent. However, I'd urge you to examine your style. There's no need to condescend. In particular:
> I just proved it. If you didn't understand the above proof, read it again.

> I can't believe you aren't getting this.

Plenty of otherwise rationally minded people have a hard time reasoning about this stuff. If I had a dollar for every time someone suggested that you can beat the house by playing a Martingale... gosh! You'll have a much easier time persuading people if you don't insult them.
This is very cool! Also check out Soundslice (http://www.soundslice.com/), which does the same thing for YouTube videos and MP3s.

Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/demo/