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Unfortunately the guy suing the FAA in this case has a pretty bad rep in the hobby, he's the same guy that was flying a delta-wing (same Ritewing platform discussed in the article) in a super busy helicopter corridor in NYC a couple years ago, while claiming that he had "notified the authorities". However, the only agency he failed to notify was in fact the only one with jurisdiction, the FAA. He seems hell-bent on being allowed to do whatever he wants to do, however reckless, which is going to cause long term harm to this industry and hobby.

I have a commercial-grade (several $k) multirotor designed for large cameras as well as two couple gopro-scale helis and fixed wing platforms, and I have to admit that based on some hardware failures (not pilot error, I can admit those) that I've experienced, I've gotten pretty leery of flying in some of the situations that people seem to want to use these most: sporting events, parades, concerts, weddings, etc. They simply aren't that reliable yet, and beyond that pilot skill is highly variable. Just because you can scrape together $1k to buy or build a multirotor doesn't mean you're fit to fly one anywhere near another human.

I've also flown full-scale aircraft, and while I tend to be suspicious of regulation, I do believe that some degree of oversight is necessary to do this safely, and that has been demonstrated in commercial aviation. Some type of demonstrated proficiency and equipment standards would go a long way towards making sure that this can be done safely. If we don't do something like that, I'm afraid that a few bad incidents are going to make this something that could become entirely illegal at any kind of small scale (i.e. nothing smaller than a Predator fielded by a well-connected corporation), which would be a terrible loss.

Privacy is a whole different issue, and something that I think has been blown out of proportion in comparison to the safety aspects, which are my main concern...
Damnit. Well, thanks for saving me the trouble.
Losing the ability to identify or losing the desire?

When you get down to it, if you have a $50m fund, you might want to invest in ~10 A-rounds at ~$5m each. If you have a $1.5bn fund however, do you really want to invest in 300 A-rounds?

Nope. The best way to spend your time is looking at the bigger, later investments. You probably still only want to have roughly the same number of total investments to oversee. So if an A-round company is gonna take the same amount of attention as a B-round or later, you shouldn't waste even a second of your time considering them.

It's nothing to do with ability to identify, just correctly prioritising the time the VC's have available to them.
Basically blogspam for the 2006 Scientific American story.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fic...
>>> A poor person has to buy insurance for his house and car,

We're doing pretty good here if a poor person is implied to have a house worth insuring (implying either ownership or rental of sufficient value, containing sufficient assets) and a car, and is eligible for bank loans for both. In some countries, a person rich enough to have a house, a car and to qualify for bank loans for both is considered pretty well-to-do.

>>> A rich person can buy things in cash, and then self-insure using his assets to cover accidental losses.

I'm pretty sure most people, not only poor people, use car insurance. It's more convenient and usually (unless you drive exotic or super-expensive cars) cheaper than surety bonds that are usually required, and same with cash deposits (since cash deposited at DMV can't be used for anything else). For businesses having massive fleets, OTOH, it may make sense to self-insure since they get the same risk distribution as insurers, but without the middleman.

>>> overall, being poor is a very bad business policy

It's bad business, but you may have a lot of incentives for it, given that welfare subsidies and services you may get in many US localities pay more than minimum wage job and in some localities more than average wage job.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-get-welfare
http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/work-versus-wel...

>>> rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is backed up by simple economics.

It may be but it definitely is not backed up but what you said. The thing is that statistics that talk about "rich getting richer" makes you assume that same people that were rich 20 years ago got even richer now, and same people that were poor 20 years ago are even poorer now. In fact, nothing in this statistics point to it - what statistics can tell you is that some people were rich 20 years ago, and some different people are rich now, but it usually says nothing about how many of people rich today were rich or poor 20 years ago. It is completely normal for a person to be piss-poor while being a young student and become quite well established when retiring. Usually it comes from working hard and making a number of right choices on the way. Including, yes, saving diligently and having long-term view, which leverages the power of compound interest - but for this you need the right behavior.
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> "I don't have the answers..." Well, evidence is but a google away. We might discover commonsense answers, like from the founder of MenTeach: "If you started paying teachers $150,000 per year, you'd see a lot of guys going into the field". (http://www.edutopia.org/male-teacher-shortage)

And who knows where he got that number from, based on that article. High school teachers are payed more than elementary teachers? Fine, but is that the only difference between teaching in elementary school and high school? Of course not.

> I know many closeminded software devs who turn out bad product. Why would they turn down their cushy programming job, to be a deunionized elementary schoolteacher? And if we know that males dominate well-paying jobs like software dev... is it surprising that females get a higher proportion of lower-status jobs?

Whether being a software developer is higher status than being a teacher is debatable. Teachers are seen as the people that mold the up and coming generations, by some. Programmers? More like the unseen maintenance workers of a subway station: as long as everything works as expected, no one cares. Well, they might appreciate some flashy mobile app these days, though.

Women don't seem to have any problems pursuing careers as doctors and lawyers, professions with both good pay and status. While the those money-hungry men seem to be falling a little behind compared to them, either falling behind academically or quitting the academic route entirely, going into a more hands-on profession (that might be lucrative, or might 'break your back' prematurely, or both).
> When doing full table scan, InnoDB scans pages and rows by primary key order.

What the fuck?
> See brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which will be elevated after many exercise, be them of mental origin or just walking.

Just because they share some biological commonalties (of course they do! How could it be otherwise?) doesn't make them meaningfully the same thing, any more than them both having lots of mitochondria does.
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Excellent point. I guess when SQL was designed not many autocompleting IDEs were around though...
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> I feel most of what you said simply contradicts me.

I feel I provided clear argument and at least as many citations, combined with less sloppy research and supercilious arrogance. And I note that you aren't bothering to address a single one of my points, such as pointing out that your confident claims about choline supplementation seem to be totally false.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligence

I am sure you will be glad to explain to me, beyond a bare URL.

> If something doesn't serve the primary drivers of the evolution of intelligence --which by no means must select for general intelligence as measured by the Raven Progressive Matrices Test, then it need not be selected for!

I never said evolution optimizes performance on a RAPM and most of the essay was about this.
Brooklyn Heights, 6th floor of pre-war apartment w/ 3 dots LTE:

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Do you have any sources for this outside of that Pastebin post?
I'm not super comfortable with breaking message syntax like that. Also, very wary of using a #define with a short oft used keyword in a library that will be imported in majority of headers.
Ah. My bad. I guess I was thinking of his second marriage and didn't remember he had a daughter. But I see she only has 2 kids, so maybe it will still be true soon that von Neumann was without any surviving descendants...
People's behavior is modeled after their peer group. A person needs to be careful, but total isolation is counter productive.
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Speaking as a practicing fruit fly geneticist, the metaphor of a "fruit fly experiment" is lost on me... anyone care to enlighten me?
Have I said anywhere that using metaphors is wrong? What is wrong is when a UI uses the button metaphor but avoids making buttons look like ones just to seem more "digital".
It is interesting that a16z is making a public announcement following the angelist syndicates announcement a few days back. The initial sentiment with the angellist event was that it will drive down VC fees, angels and founders will be king and take more control etc. However, a16z and by proxy (I suppose) silicon valley VC community is making a public announcement that they will not be funding series A anymore. It could be lead to some interesting outcomes.

1.	Via Angellist syndicates it will be easier to raise up to $1 Million (maybe half). So you will have a bunch of companies that get funded via this super series/seed/angel model.

2.	Then they will hit a roadblock, they will not get any $10-$20 Million to fund growth or get a true product/market fit.

3.	The vast majority of the companies from step 1. will be wiped out because even if they have a hint of product/market fit, they will not get funding.

4.	The tiny minority from step 1. that can get funding for Series B. in the range of $50Million or more will wipe out all other startup in the category and capture all the gains. This in turn means a16z and the likes will be able to extract a lot more stake out of the angels and the founders.

Net net, won’t be surprising if angellist and other crowd funders end up losers in the process and returns go to a16z and their compatriot VC’s.

Love VC double speak in the article. You know how politicians talk, when they have to pass some unpopular law they invoke the common man and the small business owner. Scott Weiss from a16z is a standup guy. Always fighting for the engineer founder. Fucking those MBA types since the beginning. Please elect him to be your VC. If AirBnB showed up at a16z do you think he would turn them down (non-engineering, MBA type company). Yeah, didn’t think so :-)
I understand that statistics are an important tool in 'proving' things scientifically. The problem is, you're making a philosophical argument against religion not a scientific one. Probabilistic solutions don't sense for philosophical questions. For example, what is the probability that P=NP?

The lesswrong article you linked to does not disprove religion. You certainly can disprove dogmatic ideas that have surrounded various religions, but that is not the same thing as disproving religion.

For example, what if I said I believed that the universe was created by a conscious creator? This is clearly a religious statement, but as far as I can tell there is no way this statement can be addressed scientifically.
You really can. In my experience, people respect your choices. They may pity you (if they're the type that generally pity anyone different than themselves), they may find it funny, they may actually lean toward feeling the same way, but just not feel as strongly. People still respect your wishes.

Sometimes I feel that people have reached a point where a vast majority couldn't understand why a person would want to write a novel under a pen name, or donate anonymously, or work quietly. They can understand wanting to make up a name, but just to have a cooler name, not as a misdirection.
“to keep it a 100% made-in-the-USA product”

Yay, nationalism.
What do you mean by "don't work?" I don't like fglrx because it isn't open source, but I use it for gaming without issue. The times I run into problems are when the kernel is updated before the kernel module.
not interesting at all.
The usual story of a huge online corporate organization. The only interesting fact is that the median employee tenure is a 1 year, 4 years at Microsoft and 6.4 at IBM
Resources section of that webpage needs to have more. Until I look at the source code, I can't figure out what exactly is different from linux and how said differences matter/help.
Doesn't that make sense if data is clustered by the primary key, as InnoDB does?
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I have heard this myth repeated this week, in a business setting, in complete seriousness.
I don't know the ins and outs of InnoDB, but some databases match the physical order to the primary key order. Therefore this would probably make sense in that case.
> Why are modern humans the point where this stops being true? The whole thing smells like sour grapes.

Humans are the exception that proves the rule, just like efficient markets hypothesis does not mean that no one makes money on Wall Street - but the vanishing few people with the skills and knowledge make money. It is an observation that the base rate of successful improvement must be extremely tiny.

> All the people who lived before MDMA will never have that much fun. Evolution just didn't hit the lucky path where humans are constantly tripping balls. Life isn't fair.

To give the example I already gave in my essay, evolution may or may not have hit the lucky path, but if it did, because it disables perception of danger, the goofy lucky people would be quickly eliminated by Inspector Darwin.

> So what doesn't it predict?

It predicts that if we discover a genuine improvement in intelligence, it will be complex, fitness-reducing, or tiny. This is a very strong and specific prediction which seems to be doing well.

> Is there some reason why you think that using drug therapies to drastically increase human general intelligence is an impossibility akin to water flowing uphill?

Water flowing uphill is not an impossibility: it is extremely unlikely. I chose my examples to be unlikely but not impossible - just like it is not impossible that someone will discover a way to majorly increase intelligence which is simple and without reproductive fitness penalties, it's just incredibly unlikely.
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Nice icon! I thought the iTunes app screenshots are a bit dull, they could do a better job of "selling" the app.
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Fruit flies grow very quickly and don't live very long.
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Is anyone down voting me who doesn't work for Amazon? I really don't see how this offer is anything to get excited about. What am I missing?
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I mostly agree with you, but I think you're going a bit too far: Someone living on the street, having no income, would have 0 assets and might have 0 debt (until they need medical attention...).

For someone with a family, struggling to keep the house is certainly better than living on the street. Still, being in a credit crunch could of course lead to that family being evicted, so yes, negative net worth isn't great.
InnoDB uses clustered index. PK order is how rows are ordered "naturally".
He agrees with you. The quote in the article cites vacuum as the reason.
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I guess I'm either making significantly more than people in my area who are my age or I must spend a lot more, but there's no way I could afford a $1122/mo house payment with my student loan bills and a small car payment. I mean, I could afford it, but I would be incredibly uncomfortable every month knowing that one missed week of pay meant a bill that wasn't going to be met that month.

I did at one point rent a room from someone who was making $35k/yr who had just bought a $90k house and couldn't make the payment. It wasn't much cheaper than an apartment and the person made it clear almost every day that I was only welcome in the house because I paid more than half of his mortgage every month. He was an ass and I had no rental contract with him, so I left. His house got foreclosed upon a couple months later; I was going to buy it from the bank but he had trashed the entire inside and ripped out chunks of the exterior wall. Anyway, this was just a long winded story to say yeah, I can see what you're saying about renting a room to pay the mortgage. It would still make more financial sense to just buy a house you know you can afford.
I would guess that InnoDB is trying to preserve some behavior of MySQL where full table scans are expected to proceed by primary key order.

The solution sounds fragile; I guess you can't query by extent?
Basically, they can't compete at the A level now against Angelist. If you're a fundable startup, would you take $5M from any VC (even someone as stand-up as AH) with control strings attached or would you rather raise on Angelist and stay in control?

So the real funding opportunity for AH is at the B round, where as Scott says, they will go in hard.

Makes total sense.
Self-signed certs work for internal infrastructure because you control the full chain of trust. One server issues the "diploma" and the other checks it, but they're both your servers, so the trust is predetermined.

Internal CA is more about expediency than anything else. It's just easier to manage trust between a lot of servers that way than by manually exchanging self-signed certs across all the permutations.
Let's take a step back. This article is about notifying rejected candidates. You made some sort of claim that you felt unimportant, and you were an 'applicant' - not even an intern, but someone who wanted an internship and didn't get it.

Are interns important? Sure, they can contribute. Are intern 'applicants' important to Red Hat as a company?

I'm not condoning the sending of generic rejections. But again, if you expect your rejection as an internship applicant to be the same as the person who interviewed for the CTO position, it's a naive thought. I'm not saying it's correct or just, but it is naive.

There would be hundreds or thousands of applicants for internships, and in a perfect world the HR of a company will spend 1 hour reading each résumé, speaking to every candidate, and then writing a very personalized and sympathetic letter to each rejected candidate.

You are comparing the importance of interns with employees. The discussion, as it started, was about rejected intern applicants. We got way off track here.
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>I also hate how our smalltalk starts with "What do you do for a living?"

In my experience this usually takes the form of "what do you do?" The question irks me because I know that what's implied is the "for work" part, and that in turn implies that somehow, the way I make money is the signature aspect of my being. The assumption is built in to our [American] society of course. My response to this query is always either "do for what?" or a list of things that I do that I consider important (walk, ride my bike, work out, travel, listen to jazz, read ...).
Whoops you're right. I misread! Sorry.
> Your example isn't remotely close to being analogous to the argument that was made. If you stick a thermometer in hot water, it is measuring the water's temperature accurately. If an individual studies for a specific type of IQ test, that particular IQ test fails to accurately measure his general intelligence.

Yes, it is. IQ tests are designed to reliably measure intelligence under certain reasonable, but not adversarial or universal, conditions. Just like a reading off a thermometer is a reliable way of measuring body temperatures under certain reasonable, non-adversarial, non-universal conditions. Memorizing the answers or training by taking the test repeatedly is akin to a kid pretending to be sick and dunking the thermometer in his hot chocolate to get out of school. It's still reporting something, but not what you think it is.

> The IQ test is generally accepted because there aren't any practical applications where a near-perfect measurement of a person's intelligence is going to be a matter of life and death,

Indeed. Your standard IQ test like a RAPM is not used in adversarial contexts (sadly, 'publish or perish' increasingly means that research is an adversarial context as well), and failure to understand this seems to be leading to a lot of confusion in these comments. If you want to handle even adversarial contexts, you need a procedure way more complex & costly than a 10 minute pen and paper RAPM - you need something like a proctored SAT or GRE.

> The entire field of psychology is in its infancy, it is one of the least developed of all sciences. We are making quite a bit of progress, but there's still a long way to go.

Intelligence and measuring it via IQ tests is some of the oldest and most conceptually & statistically deep and commonly-used parts of psychology, going back a century at this point, which is something few parts of psychology can claim. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for psychology to abandon it because it's in 'its infancy' and 'is one of the least developed of all sciences'. At this point, it's roughly like expecting the spacing effect to go away.
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If you haven't found market fit on $5M, which you can raise on AL, you need to fold, not try to raise $10-$20M. No one will give you that kind of money without mega traction.
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Are you serious? When's the last time you used ActionScript, 2004? Modern AS3 compiled using the FlexSDK is a proper development environment with compile-time errors for types and all. Combined with a debug player, you get both compile-time and runtime errors.

It certainly has a hell of a lot more error checking going on than something like JavaScript by the virtue of being a statically typed language first with dynamic stuff second.

That's not to say that obscure bugs don't exist in the runtime as with every other runtime ever, but don't misrepresent something you don't seem to be well versed in.
Derp, yes. It's not an auxiliary index. However, it still seems weird for a full table scan to be implemented this way instead of whatever's convenient given the page layout. Why does it guarantee that the results will be in PK order?
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That's not why the vulnerability was known as "zero-day".