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> My hypothesis is that having more information cannot result in a worse average outcome, given a rational response to the information

Rational response to shadows on the lung in a CT scan is more scanning and more testing. The results of the further tests carry a risk. The benefits are zero for anyone without a disease, and low for anyone with a disease. That's a worse than average outcome for almost everyone taking those extra un-needed tests.

> No, early intervention is not always better.

There are many men who've had traumatic treatment for prostate cancer because of the results of early intervention style treatments. Many of those men would have died with, not of, prostate cancer. Thus, their lives have suffered because of a rational response to an early intervention.
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Serious question to those of you with networked TVs: why is your TV even on the network in the first place?
Hmm, I've tried the Surface Pro 2 (HDPI display) in a multi-monitor setup along with a standard display which is not HDPI. I didn't have any issues with it. Microsoft apparently did quite a bit of work in this area for Windows 8.1: http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/20...

Also, I very much have to agree with you on the touchpad. While the Type Cover 2 keyboard is fairly good in my opinion, the touchpad is horrendous. It is too small. There's too much friction (it feels like a microfiber cloth rather than being smooth as glass). The left/right click buttons have no tactile feedback when you click, not to mention it's hard to tell where they are located.
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And if only a few people die, then no big deal, right?
I wish the tech scene on Long Island, NY was a tenth of what it is in NYC. It's amazing how the culture dies within a few miles of NYC. Is this the same on the west coast?
Who does he think he is, patio11?
You are correct but I think everyone understands that they mean the RIAA / MPAA in this context.
On another note, any current ranking for spam filter quality between gmail, outlook, yahoo and perhaps fastmail or rackspace?
That assumes the services you're moving between are based on any kind of standard. Try moving your Facebook data to Google+ and see how far you get.
Yes, but there is so much competition between ASIC manufacturers that eventually (in the next 6-12 months), the profit margin of mining hardware vendors will drop to typical high-volume electronics industry levels: 5-10% or so.

When this happens, all a large scale miner can hope to accomplish by manufacturing his own ASICs is to save that 5-10% which is going to be insignificant compared to the free power/cooling from small scale miners.
It’s a very generic question. Why are you asking it???

Let’s try to give some information. First read Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number

> Why are large prime numbers important?

Pehaps I’m biased, but IMHO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Fundamental_theore...

> What is the largest one found?

List at the bottom of the section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Special-purpose_al...
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Mike Elgan (https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan) blogs about this exact type of arrangement quite often.
I'm having some bad times seeking for a job after my startup failed. But I can talk only about my experience and the brazillian startup ecossystem.

I worked on Engarte for the last 2 years. In this 2 years, I learned a lot about startup management and growth, but on the other hand, my technical skills stuck in time.

But I don't feel like this is the main reason for the troubles in finding a job. Headhunters seems to get a little scared when they realize that as soon as I can, I'll start another project. And so, they think that I'll not be in the company in the next 1 or 2 years. Perhaps we don't have a lot of successful startups in Brazil, the failure is threatened in a very bad way here, very different from the US and SV concept.
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I think you underestimate how many people use OWA (which, unexpectedly, is actually pretty great).
I guess my comment is more directed at the following:

1. If you're going to promote design-thinking in a company (which I believe Yahoo needs to do in order to grow) than making comments like this is a disservice. This creates a culture of "well if it's old and looks like shit then it must be shit" that should instead be "listen to your audience".

2. This is also talking about the sentiment from outside of Yahoo (and possibly in the echo chamber of HN). I get why Yahoo internally would say it, which I would then revert back to my point #1.
I'm sure that the vast majority of doctors, even in profit-making systems, are just trying to do the right thing.

This 2009 article looks at what happens when doctors invest in medical facilities. It doesn't even have to be overt, it's just an incentive that can warp the perspectives of even the most patient-focused doctors. McAllen Texas has the 2nd highest medicare costs in the country, but the next town down the road is much closer to the norm. Guess what the difference is...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_...
Mr. Bright, you're my hero. Really. Not only because you have made a C++ compiler using recusive descent parser and it's was the first ever to generate native code and the first comercial too and you don't even do generate assembly on dmd. You still made the D language and dmd compiler. A world saving tool from C and C++. It will rock the world. Could you imagine one of the next world's famous software like Windows or *BSD written in D? Also, I'm on the way on compiler business too (joke :-)). (sorry english, not my native language)
You are taking this completely out of context, and it is a dishonest slander of the lowest kind.

As evidence (to anyone else reading---no point in dealing with dishonesty), I present Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Objectivism.

Ayn Rand is the only modern philosopher who can even present a reality-oriented reason not to partake in a life of crime. i.e., a reason not based on religion or appleal to emotion or simple common sense (though common sense is also correct on this issue and worth having).
Oh, I thought you said 2PC (two-phased commit).

Yes, InfiniSQL uses two phase locking. The Achilles' Heel is deadlock management. By necessity, the deadlock management will need to be single-threaded (at least as far as I can figure). No arguments there, so deadlock-prone usage patterns may definitely be problematic.

I don't think there's a perfect concurrency management protocol. MVCC is limited by transactionid generation. Predictive locking can't get rolled back once it starts, or limits practical throughput to single partitions.

2PL works. It's not ground-breaking (though incorporating it in the context of inter-thread messaging might be unique). And it will scale fine other than for a type of workload that tends to bring about a lot of deadlocks.
Being hit by a glove with fists wrapped like rocks, and simply bare fists, is a very different experience. Fists hurt and can break your skin, but with gloves it's like your whole head is being rocked and is very disorientating.
Just because OPs game floundered does not mean that startups must be lucky to succeed.

OP was quite proud of his game, is confident is was great because there were 15 talented people working on it... but ultimately the idea didn't resonate with the public in the way they implemented it.

Notch on the other hand resonated with the public incredibly well. By giving away completely free versions and listening to, even literally interacting with game players: He now heads a very successful software company where most of the original code was written by one man.

I don't think a successful company necessarily involves luck at all.
That's a logical fallacy. Lack of knowledge regarding the VC process says absolutely nothing about security, app development, etc.
>This fairly unique combination of properties quite possibly make Bitcoin the ideal target for thieves

Or someone who runs an online wallet service with a privacy policy, who can pretend to have their hands tied when people ask where the money went.
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Is there a company that creates a reviews app that I can plug into my site, something like Disqus. I believe a heard about a company like this that got funded while back. I tried google and angels list and came up empty. So does this exist? If not is there a company that I refer my customers to that has a review system similar to amazon? If not is there a company that I refer my customers to that has a review system similar to amazon? Thanks
In fairness I'm speculating about the damage. For all I know I am overestimating the severity of the collisions I see; I just have a strong intuition motivated teens play hard and that repeated impacts add up to eventual damage.
The problem is most start-up founders like to hire in their own image...

If you're not in your 20's, don't drink alcohol everyday, don't have a degree from Stanford/MIT/UC Berkley, and want to get home to see your wife/children by 7PM then you're "not a cultural fit"
The funniest thing about Outlook being an anachronism from their perspective is this paragraph: "Please note, on the mobile side, corp mail is not yet supported in our Mail app for Android or iOS, but that will change (PB&J!)."

Desktop only in this day and age is pretty anachronistic too.
Good idea; I'd incorporate your changes but I'm trying to keep it dependency-free, for now.

I could support '#id' without any dependencies pretty easily, though...
Your mistake in your argument is in assuming that making the choice to abdicate making decisions to lessen risk actually lessens the risk.

There is also the very solid argument to be made that by choosing to lessen risk, you stifle innovation and produce an overall much worse system in terms of beneficial outcomes.
It's money. For people.

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I agree with most of your comment, except for the opt-in part. If I send you a picture of my vacation, I'm not giving you unlimited license to profit from it as you please.

In the case in question the picture wasn't even published or sent to another individual, so various computer breaking-and-entering laws would also apply to the perp that did that, but for people that get stuff from them and re-publish... I guess we could have a digital equivalent of a handling stolen goods charge, but copyright seems as good a law as any - there is no permission to copy.
Office 365 is killing it because Microsoft is entrenched in enterprise. They aren't leaving any time soon, no matter what Apple, Google, Yahoo!, or any Random Startup X does.

It has less to do with the quality of the service, its ease of use, or whether or not people actually like using it than the above note about entrenchment.
You can picture west coast internet tech as a heat map. SF has a big solid color blob. About 20 miles south, Palo Alto is smaller and half as dark. About 10 miles south, Mountain View is a little larger and darker than Palo Alto.

There are little blobs of heat map down by San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo. There's a little dollop of color up at Portland. There's a half-SF color sized blob in Seattle for Amazon. There's a small, but solid color around Bellevue and a faint twinkle over at Redmond for the fading empire.
I agree and I think that this is what Go gets right. The thing that's valuable about objects are the interfaces (Alan Kay said it was the messages). Microsoft's COM is similar in this regard.
Apple did make a machine comparable to the Amiga 500, the Apple IIGS: http://oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html. Similar in graphics and sound ability along with GUI OS and full Apple IIe emulation. It was certainly capable of playing great games: I spent many fun hours playing Dungeon Master on my IIGS.

It was pretty much a cheaper color Mac that gave Apple II users a straight-forward upgrade path and was great at games to boot. But I guess Apple didn't think any of that was important to selling computers.
There is no logical chain of facts, starting with concrete perception of reality, that leads to the conclusion that society gets to coerce me. So, no, you do not have the right to coerce me.

However, there is a logical chain of facts, starting with concrete perception of reality, that leads to the conclusion that we should establish government for protection from coersion.

Society can pass a law to coerce people---at its own peril.
The world isn't an ethical/moral dilemma, stuff happens and people rationalize it as to not disturb their worldview.

If you can convince most people that your reasons about why stuff happened are valid then you win.

It's like Remembrance Day, no one died for all the horrible shit that happened, only the good stuff.
I built the Steam integration API for a semi-popular MMO using Go. It's type system, marshaling/serialization and concurrency features made it ideal. The compile & load times are faster than even just loading a Rails app.

As mentioned in another comment, yes, most Go database drivers do not reconnect for you. It's an easy enough pattern to code for yourself. Some PHP & JDBC adapters don't either.

Memory usage was under 10MB and Valve eventually called us asking to throttle our calls, as their servers couldn't keep up and exhibited race conditions. Delays needed to be added to our job queues.
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As I said, I've used Sails.js. Their ORM is subpar, doesn't even support associations yet.
By wrong I meant that where Node.js shines most is in its unified approach to client/server relationships. Since you're building an API (as in server-side logic with world-facing endpoints) you may want to stick to Rails, since it's great at that out-of-the-box, for tried-and-true.
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"The adder example demonstrates how a network of perceptrons can be used to simulate a circuit containing many NAND gates. And because NAND gates are universal for computation, it follows that perceptrons are also universal for computation."

I think this comment from the article needs caveats. Of course, a neural network would not qualify as Turing Complete just because it's finite. Keep in mind also that neural network, lacking anything like counters, tape, or recursion, couldn't approximate a Turing in the way that a finite Von Neuman architecture machine does. (A NN can represent any given function over a domain if it get large enough, kind of the universality of a finite automaton).

I know this a reference to this generation of NN having overcome an earlier problem of not being able to represent a NAND gate but still, it's worthing keeping mind that an ordinary computer can simulate an NN with just a program but this doesn't work vice-versa, so that NN's in that sense are far from universal.
To be pedantic on stats 101, the chance of having at least one false positive is actually (1 - (.95^20)) ~= 64%, because it's 1 - the probability of every test not having a false positive.
HN autokills comments made by new accounts if they're using Tor.
Netflix without a device like a roku attached.
"There is literally no way a white male could win the argument."

Where to begin?

"win the argument" -- in what other way could anyone "win" the argument? Who's the referee? This is such a backward and binary way of looking at this topic.

And that's as if the only way for this to move forward is to win or lose, and as if a white male must naturally adopt a dissenting opinion.

As for the rest, who knows? You can of course find the least articulate, most extreme examples of a heterogenous group of people and argue with that, and maybe you'll "win" the argument. But you haven't really contributed anything to the dialog except criticize something most people already disagree with. It's kind of a waste.
Discounting the sleeping giant works great, until they eat your lunch.

Microsoft has an enormous capacity to innovate, mostly thru brute force of the billions of dollars they have sitting around, but still, innovation is innovation.
Unless being a part of YC adds value which I suspect it does. Impossible to really test this unless YC would provide the same level of support and resources to other companies.
Ahh yes, the "I didn't know this stereo i got for free was stolen execuse"
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But maybe I like pissing people off. Is that so rare?
I'm just about to start a 100% remote work job for a company with no real office to work from. I'm renting a full-time desk at a co-working space just so I can have some casual social interaction that doesn't involve me ordering an espresso beverage.
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"My father did 23 and me, without giving any family medical history and it concluded that my father was at a much higher risk factor for things that his mother was ultimately afflicted with. So, it works to some extent."

Whaat?
Pssh try a Galaxy S4 flashed with the GE ROM. Still has google bloatware though.
Meanwhile Silicon Beach soldiers on and the weather is looking mighty fine this time of year . . .
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True... thank you for the correction. I think the most precise real cause indicated was "abnormal data from stage 1" which doesn't mean much.
> It protects original works of creation

Disney.
Thanks. I have an Apple TV; I hadn't even considered the possibility for the TV itself to support services like Netflix.
Both intel agencies and Google have been known to use unusual puzzles in their recruiting process.
Yes, but not without addressing what should happen when split brain occurs.
This is what Clustrix (YC company) claims to do.
This is the new West Coast corporate speak, and it's wearing thing.

Please, tell me what's on your mind with simple, straight-forward language, and let me get back to my work.

This email has the tone I'd expect a kindergarden teacher to use when they want their class to eat their vegetables at snack time.
You piqued my curiosity, so I went looking. According to Know Your Meme, that most prestigious and reliable of sources, "derp" originated from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. First it was in a movie (where they were sniffing underwear), and then in South Park. Now, having not seen the episode, I can't really comment on its contents, but I assume that the character that first used the term in South Park was either simply stupid, or suffered from some form of disability. Either way, the term has since devolved into making fun of stupid people - which I believe the grandparent was also doing.
Non-government regulatory agencies aren't a cure all for complex products. For instance, check out the 2008 financial crisis. Sub-prime mortgage derivatives were rated AAA by private ratings agencies.

In fact, I would venture they are worse because they have to be paid somehow, and if they are paid by industry, you are ripe for regulatory capture. It can be difficult to get consumers to pay for it unless you include some kind of tax in the product they buy in which case you've arrived at a pseudo-government agency.
There is no "what it is", just what people understand the term to be. It is, quite frankly, stupid to use a term as loaded as "Eugenics" and then get upset when people don't manage to realize that you're using it to mean something completely different from what it's commonly understood to mean.
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I think in this case the article is trying to shift the burden of proof. Why should it be on someone who's asking whether it's a meritocracy rather than on the folks who're repeating this claim? And if the answer is in the affirmative, let's have that discussion.

This isn't directed at you as such. Just that a lot of folks assume the burden of proof ought to be on the questioner(s) of this proposition rather than the proponent(s).
This was very helpful. I plan on visiting SF sometime very soon. I want to be sure to hit Palo Alto, and Mountain View while I'm there!
They do? I haven't seen it.
Consider that you are just practicing cargo-cult security though. You just piled a bunch of password security recommendations parroted all over the Internet to the detriment of your users.

If you are using scrypt with a reasonable difficulty and a per-user salt, there is no reason to put the entropy restrictions, weak password restrictions, etc on your end-users. It is painful to interact with sites that enforce ridiculous password requirements.

You can get away with a 4 character password on Netflix. There is a reason for that. Security is much more subtle that password complexity.
Networks of perceptrons are universal in the standard sense used when talking about circuits --- they can compute any finite Boolean function.

I agree that the relationship between circuit complexity and Turing machines is somewhat subtle, for the reasons you mention. The relationship is greatly clarified by the notion of uniform circuit complexity, which makes it possible to prove an equivalence between a (carefully defined notion of) circuit complexity and Turing machine complexity. Unfortunately, I don't know of a good online treatment of uniform circuit complexity. I learnt it through a 1993 paper by Andy Yao, but that's definitely not a good introductory reference!

In any case, in my book I'm using the term universal in the same way as people usually use it for circuits, i.e., it means the same thing as when people say that the NAND gate is universal for computation. Hope that clarifies things.
Sorry, not an expert and I have never been an entrepreneur so forgive me if I am misunderstanding, but doesn't YC give them money? In order for this statement to be true either (1) having startup seed money has no bearing on success or (2) YC gives the same money to people it rejects as to people it accepts.
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Redundancy, quorum protocol, proactive testing, rigorous QA.

And actual 24x7 environments with important data are ludicrously expensive. I expect InfiniSQL to be less expensive since it's based on x86_64, Linux, is open source. But yeah, hardware and environment need to be right.

I'm not sure what I said wrong, but I'm nowhere claiming that split brain (or any failure scenario) can be ruled out entirely in all circumstances--but in practice, split brain is avoided 24x7 for years on end in many different architectures.

It's not magic.

Just like you can't have "enough" storage redundancy. You can have a 100-way mirror of hard drives that will still lose data if you lose 100 disks in less time than somebody replaces one of them.
While I agree the tone is extremely off putting, I think that's what it's getting at. By using what's being made, they'll be able to get the feedback you're talking about.
> This hardware will only become obsolete when Bitcoin's proof-of-work is changed from SHA-256(SHA-256(x)) to something else (which might happen in a few years/decades)

Once they announce whatever comes after SHA-256, would it not be possible to immediately start building ASIC's for whatever that is, and put them to work as soon as the new proof-of-work is used?
You're pretty bad at this.

My comments aren't authoritative statements, they're analytical. They're a priori deductions/inductions/abductions and as such are self-supporting.

His comments, on the other hand, use a posteriori justification. A posteriori truth claims generally require citation of an authoritative person or authoritative empirical evidence to have value.

If all he's going to do is tell people to go buy some expert's amazon book, might as well just put the affiliate link right in the HN headline and skip the blogspam.

Worthless content is worthless and no amount of startup culture bullshit will change that.