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A momentum investor is one who wants to invest in companies that are doing well, not one who wants to invest in imitators of companies that are doing well.

Investors are herd animals, but they're not the reason mediocre founders copy existing ideas. Mediocre founders copy existing ideas for the same reason mediocre people in so many other fields do: they're insufficiently imaginative.
I've known a lot of people with mental illness. People with bipolar run the gamut. For some, mania involves a psychotic break. Others just stay up till 5:00 am writing poetry and hurt no one. I know a few who can't hold a job, and many who are indistinguishable from "normal" people.

These people (like you) have biological issues that aren't their fault. Should they be given guns or be working for the CIA? In general, probably not. But they shouldn't be stigmatized and shut out of normal employment, either. These diseases are (for most people) quite treatable.

Also, "sane" people do dangerous, stupid, and unethical shit all the time. I know someone who just lost his license for drag racing, drunk, at 110 miles per hour. Although somewhat of a psychopath, I don't think he has a diagnosed mental illness. He is more of a danger to society than the average bipolar person.

On dating and mating, I think two mentally ill people being together is bad news. If one is grounded and they have a healthy relationship, and the person with the illness is principled and mature in managing the condition, then it's not so bad.
Why is this on hacker news? This is not news, just mindless spam post on a forum.
Definitely my recollection as well, most people on usenet (ca. late 1980 -- early 1990s) used real names.
This is correct, and while I haven't and should never have the need to do that, I understand some people may require that functionality.

EDIT: It appears you can get a money order at Walmart for 70 cents, and $1.20-$1.60 at USPS. Cashier's check at a local bank would be ~$5-10, depending if you're a customer or not.
This move may be influenced by Gauck's background: His father spent years in a soviet gulag and he is a prominent anti-communist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauck
Ridiculous all around
Gannett has been trying an interesting concept on some of their web publications (Military Times, Army Times, Etc.). They have certain content that is marked "premium" that requires a subscription. You have three options to view the article: Subscribe on a monthly basis, subscribe for the day, or watch a 15 second advertisement. Watching the 15 second advertisement will give you 24 hours of access to any premium article. I'm sure this is done on other publications as well, but I thought it was pretty smart.
Dell has a software group?
Even worse is when motivational anhedonia develops into a full-blown existential crisis, where you fall into a Bartleby-esque† state of having no desire to do anything whatsoever. You know that you desire happiness in the abstract, but find yourself unsure how to achieve that desired state. You have no micro-desires, only this vague macro-desire, which can lead to an almost intolerable malaise. At that point you've basically crossed the line from "procrastination" to "mild clinical depression."

I'm not really sure why I typed all this out since I don't have much of a conclusion, but I'm going to leave it here in case someone finds this relevant to their own situation.

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener
Well, slideshare is 7 years old and is owned by LinkedIn, but I suspect that many of us here would consider it to be a startup.
Ally's another nice one. Not the prettiest website, and I haven't used the app, but they'll refund me ATM fees charged by the ATM owner as well as not charging any of their own.
How about "graphic novels". Perhaps pick some comic books young boys would read more than once. I've puzzled over some Dutch ones for years and heard of others using them to learn a language.
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One interesting sign(regarding commercial banking) is that amazon has started offering loans to some businesses who sell using it's platform , and is able to offer better terms using sales data they've got.
Could you elucidate this experience?
The communist party is still an active part of the Ukrainian government, last I check.
> Rusbridger is a journalist, not part of the 'political elite'

He's both a journalist and part of elite society (see his salary, events he attends, social circles/connections etc.) He risked nothing: His defence, as I stated in my comment, is the existence of other publishers whom he uses as actors who forced his hand and made the Guardian's publishing harmless in terms of disclosure.

> The Guardian has a renowned history of liberal investigative journalism

That's what every newspaper claims but it isn't true. See "Manufacturing Consent" by Herman and Chomsky.

> so I struggle to understand where you gain the insight to claim Rusbridger 'would have been loath to sign off' the Snowden leaks.

It is a straightforward application of common sense that is supported by critical media analysis and nearly tautological: Powerful organizations are powerful. The government has a great deal of influence on the Guardian and those who work there. Opposing the government in a serious way typically results in hardship while supporting them yields benefits. You still have to maintain the appearance of seriously challenging power so that people buy your paper but you can go far without actually having to do much of it.

The only reason they got away with it this time is they can claim that they were "forced" by the fact that other newspapers also published and that their publishing wouldn't have been a factor in whether the material was disclosed.

> which also partnered with Wikileaks around the time of 'Collateral Murder' etc.

Same situation with multiple publishers. Even in that case they redacted names of elite, public individuals, claiming it was to protect themselves from libel allegations.

> There are two false dichotomies...

I never made either claim. Surely Bernstein should praise Snowden and Greenwald to the extent he has praised Rusbridger and before he praises Rusbridger? And competition is not the only factor but when competition for a particularly story exists it both forces a publisher's hand and protects them: They look foolish if they don't publish because somebody else will and they can claim their publication made no difference because someone else is going to publish anyway. In fact this might be one of the few reliable ways to pressure publishers to actually publish sensitive material: Leakers should give material to several news organizations in different countries and tell them so without disclosing the names of those organizations.
Bookshelf is running on top of Knex.js, so I suppose you can use its migration features:

https://github.com/tgriesser/knex/blob/master/bin/readme.md

There is also a Grunt plugin:

https://npmjs.org/package/grunt-knex-migrate
Note: I am not the author of this pen, but it's one of a series of really cool pens using box-shadow extensively to create "pixely" illustrations.
Special relativity should've been tossed in the bin, then.
ADHD is a much larger threat than all other mental illnesses combined. For every schizo with a rifle in a clock tower, there are 10,000 people with poor impulse control crashing cars.

As usual, FedGov is oblivious to statistics.
There's another pretty similar Kickstarter project going on right now. It's wifi (802.11n) vs BLE - looks pretty sharp. It lacks beaconing but has a similar open API and also looks pretty well designed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plugaway/plugaway-your-s...

Both have online load/consumption monitoring (I wonder how exactly the Zuli stores/handles that when there's no app around?), which are probably the biggest thing separating them from existing remote power outlet products.

(For logging power, the only relatively cheap options I've found is hacking a Kill-A-Watt sensor chip (see: http://www.mikesmicromania.com/2013/04/moteino-kill-watt-har... ) or buying a Watts up? PRO - both are more much more expensive/involved solutions than either of these two new devices.)
Informative replies to this in another comment thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870036
If compounding pharmacies perform so poorly in this area, then it is certainly in the interest of the manufacturer to provide a better product for at least two reasons.

1) If they know ophthalmologists will prescribe the safer product, and since the demand for this drug is relatively price-inelastic, they are able to raise prices drastically (hence the $1950 discrepancy).

2) If compounding pharmacies are the ones who are under-regulated, perhaps the manufacturer actually faces sufficient regulation. In this case, they face greater liability for sterility issues, and they have a strong incentive to enforce sterile procedures.

The problem with the pharmacies is not so much that the worker is paid low wages or under-skilled, but rather, that the lack of regulatory burden limits the incentive to ensure safe procedures.
I think the parent meant differentiation in customer-side features or attitude. The cost of deposits is an internal cost and not something the customer sees/feels directly.
You also want to have a look at these guys:

http://workingnotworking.com/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle :-)
> How scalable is hosting on meteor.com?

Currently hosting on meteor.com is mainly meant for demoing and testing, not as a stable production enviroment. However, with the release of Meteor 1.0, the Meteor Development Group will launch Galaxy, which is a production ready hosting managed hosting platform.
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It doesn't seem worth it for Intel to measure MTBF. By the time they got good numbers for a specific chip, they'd be trying to sell its successor.
The implication is that quality control is better at the manufacturer as opposed to the compounding pharmacy. It doesn't matter who is paid what. What matters is the quality and reproducibility of the product.
The author mentions Pig as the open-source version of Go, which have nothing to do with each other.

Aside from that, this paper is excellent.
The minute I started reading the article, I knew something was up, and then I got to that part.

It's not a $50 drug that treats as well as a $2,000 drug. It's a drug sold in large doses to treat cancer apportioned to a small dose to treat blindness.

Complaining about Genentech's price structure in this case doesn't make any sense. It's like complaining that a restaurant won't sell you half-sized portions at half price. It totally ignores the underlying cost structure of the industry.
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Ooooh, you have a good point! "Pick two out of three" is a nicer soundbite, but that is an important motivation :) I shall include that from now on!
Most languages don't give you any guarantees if you do that, though. In C, for example, pointer arithmetic on a void*, or on a pointer cast to an integer, is not guaranteed to produce sensible results. The standard only provides guarantees for pointer arithmetic if it's performed on a non-void pointer that points within an array, and the results remain within the bounds of the same array (arithmetic that produces a pointer pointing outside the array of the base pointer is undefined, with the exception that pointing to one element past the end of the array is defined).
Nice post! It's very precise. I didn't have a hard time understanding it. Thanks for sharing!
Not to go too off topic, but is mapbox not a good alternative here? The design of their tiles seems preferable to gmaps. I've used them for smaller projects, but have also heard great things about the people running it.
I picked up on erlang during august this year after reading an article by Joe Armstrong on it. I was new to functional programming and there were two things that I found really interesting.

First was the use of atoms. I am not too proud to say it, but when I as a beginner I used lots of "magic strings" in my code. I found them a lot more easier to understand.Stuff like

if(a="run")
//some piece of code here

was common in my code. Of course the best practice was to use a bool run, but I had to train myself to stop using magic strings when I found out that it was bad practice.

In erlang however it is very common to use literal values which are known as atoms. So for instance an atom "blue" is blue. It does not have anything associated with it(well internally it is represented as an integer). You can't perform any operations on it, you can't change it etc. And it immediately clicked with me

The second thing was pattern matching

You have got to use pattern matching to see how awesome it is. It allows you to make your programes much more readable by dividing your function into a group of clauses. A clause will be executed only if a corresponding pattern matches to it. If you use it well you can grasp the flow of your program in a single reading.

There was other really cool stuff about erlang like otp, concurrency etc but when I started with it the only things that I cared for were atoms and pattern matching.They got me started with erlang. Now that I have used erlang a bit more I find things like gen_events and gen_fsm behaviors invaluable for the stuff that I am trying to do.
Legally, a manufacturer and a compounder are different.
You can read about the regulatory differences here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compounding#Regulation_in_the_U...
As of now I manually add polls to my DB and I have only 15 posts in DB. So to test "More" button, I have restricted to 5 links per page. Once I automate adding new polls I will increase it.
I've used node-db-migrate (https://github.com/kunklejr/node-db-migrate) on some toy projects in conjunction with Bookshelf, and it seemed to work fine. I haven't used it in production, though.
I've heard of that. PayPal also has Bill Me Later, and there are niche players like Kabbage. They're all still a ways off from full scale banking operations like JP Morgan Chase. The big banks are nearly as large as Google in Market cap individually and have trillions of dollars worth of assets on their balance sheets. My point being they are players with the resources to go up against a google in Washington, D.C. If anyone is a threat to banking, I would say it is PayPal. They have over 100M people signed up in the US alone to transfer money, but that only competes with a small aspect of bank business (service fees), the larger parts being investment banking and loan operations/net interest income
Are you at UW now?

edit: ah, WSU I see.
That's not forward secrecy. Usenet with encryption is not forward secret either.

> If you're worried by such an attacker [...]

Uh, shouldn't everyone be at this point?

> you can just create a new identity for each message

Key exchange and management is hard. That's why you try not to do it often. You could claim PGP e-mail was forward secret: All you need to do is use a new private key every time.
I don't get why there's so many negative comments here.

This game looks absolutely amazing.

If anything, efforts where previous attempts have been unsuccessful, should be lauded, and there's a lot of academic talk for a 2 minute video.

Let's wait and see but I have a good feeling about this one.
Guessing it's built in Lithium (http://lithify.me/docs/manual). The favicon is the default one from the sample application (https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/framework/blob/master/app/webr...)
Short answer: because they make money.
Long answer: because people share empty headed stuff via facebook which is trying to show that twitter isnt the only game in town.
An Iraq war veteran was gunned down in Indianapolis over an iPad
Two more possible categories:

1. Waiting until I know that I can work productively on something -- free of distractions or micro-management

2. Waiting until the task vanishes because it wasn't worth doing in the first place
The answer is both yes and no. In principle, longitudinal/panel data can be run through BayesDB, though BayesDB would have to infer the temporal structure. Also, we've toyed a little with forecasting by making a table where each row is a sliding window.

That said, BayesDB is really about the classic multivariate statistics setting: each row is a sample from some population. We think that a streaming Bayesian database, that models sequences of timestamped UPDATEs to a DB (and with FORECAST in addition to INFER) is an interesting, distinct project that we've done a little work on.

Contact us if you're interested in this kind of data and we'd be happy to talk more.
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In all of those details, I don't see any indication that VRBO continued a listing that it knew to be illegal. Sometimes the legal process just takes a long time. Short-circuiting the process doesn't serve the interests of justice.
>Actually in many cases the people laid off were doing work that didn't need to be done at all. Stuff that has to get done, stuff that's adding value... you keep the people who do that.

Unless the company is getting out of a certain business and laying off an entire department? yeah, you are going to cut off some working hands. The best you can hope for is to mostly hit people in the bottom third or bottom quarter of performance; better resolution than that is largely impossible, even for good management.

If you are 100% useless? you get fired before the layoffs. Layoffs take those perceived to be low performers, but people who aren't so bad that you want to outright fire them.

Everyone exists on a productivity continuum; few people are zeros.

That, and evaluating productivity is hard. Really, really hard, so mistakes will be made, and even good management is occasionally going to accidentally lay off someone who is very productive. And usually you get layoffs because management wasn't good. Bad management is going to make a lot of mistakes and get rid of a lot of good people.

I mean, I'm working from my experience on the ops team; going from 8 folks to 5 folks on the pager rotation is rough. Going from 2 to 1 is terrifying.
Long term failure rates are not usually measured in realtime but in deliberately heat elevated environments which simulate many years of stresses in a few months. This work is essential to ensure design decisions they've made don't accidentally cause their chips to fail after 2 years (which might be outside warranty lifetime but would still result in class action law suits and horrible publicity).
If we apply the "D people will be boss to A people" rules, then US can be relieve as they will still be the leader to asians.

I believe that the "not so good in exam" type is excellent in another thing aside academic, and that thing usually make them leader.
I can understand the desire to refocus as a streaming service, except that there's no way for DJs to consume streaming content in their DJ sets (no DJ software does this), and most DJs don't have internet connectivity when they're gigging.

My guess is that if they do pivot towards being a streaming company, they'll target EDM fans (consumers) instead of EDM DJs (prosumers).
1. Oh that looks totally cool!

2. Sign up...

3. As a freelancer...

4. Google account?!

5. Go back. Is there no other option?

6. Seems not. Fuck you. I'd much rather create an account than give you my gmail address, have you use my fake name that I set on my google account, and have a single point of failure for authentication availability and security. That is assuming you only request read access.
In terms of having HR supervise the office firings...perhaps it had something to do with the fact that SF was a satellite office and may have had younger/less-tenured employees, and that the engineers being fired were pretty much the whole team. It's a different mentality if you get fired and there's no one else at the office to pick up your slack, and, if you're like the stereotypical engineer in SF with plenty of other job opportunities.

Get a pack of such people with "little to lose" and otherwise reasonable people may be unreasonable in these circumstances.
I think it's a fair comparison for the following reasons:

1) Manufacturer techs get paid a hell of a lot better than compounding pharmacy techs. I knew guys in the pharma industry, nothing more than high school pulling down $100K/yr with overtime.

2) There has been a recent incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Compounding_Center_...) where 48 people died and over 700 got sick from poor compounding pharmacy controls.
He doesn't seem to be aware that computers are universal machines. So the circumnstances and ideologies of their creators do not determine computers' destiny.

The Clinton affair angle was also out of proportion.
> “Once they went public, they started looking at the finances"

Boy does that speak volumes about their IPO process.
I saw the 1984, 1991, 1995 games on youtube and I am blown away how ahead of the pack it was. Pushing the envelope of hardware in those times and the amount of gameplay depth seems absolutely incredible.

I have my reservations about the new game however because if anything, there's plenty of space shooters out there. No Man's Sky is appealing because of the procedural nature, but the new gameplay videos looked quite good.

I'd want a game to feel like it's new everytime I play it online. I hate seeing the same corridor or encountering same situations. I agree that gameplay here will be the final gamebreaker for me.

I don't buy that procedural = sandbox effect = bored in 10 minutes. If anything I could never play GTA series entirely, I'd get distracted, pick up hookers, shoot a rival gang member in a drive by shooting, and commit suicide by jumping off the building while firing RPG launchers. This also tends to get old.
Here's when setting a work-in-progress (WIP) limit is really useful. Don't allow you to have more than say 3 tasks on your plate. Can be painful at first — you can be stuck in all tasks, and not being able to do work at all — but helps so much getting shit done.
Russia will provide them with nice secure cells to ensure they do not become involved.
> I personally think it's a bad idea to mix sport and politics. We already had it in 1980 and 1984

As soon as there is big money involved (which is definitely the case with the Olympic Games), sports and politics are always mixed. Countries have to spend billions in order to make the games happen. This is not just a few people doing sports for just the sports.
I've been on the Internet since 1989 (second year of college) when practically everything on the Internet was public (even every computer---NAT wasn't done until the mid-90s) and that if you didn't want it known publically, you didn't put it on the Internet. And what you did put on the Internet you must accept responsibility for.

Even today, I treat everything I post to the Internet as public. Even on MyGoogleFaceSpacePlusBook, I don't bother with privacy settings, because of 1) the above, where I treat everything I put on the Internet as public, and 2) the people who run MyGoogleFaceSpacePlusBook really love mucking with the default privacy setttings.
> Apparently it even made an appearance in a soft-porn movie...

Not surprising, considering that the movie is most likely about penetration.
Wow, your description is pretty much how I have been feeling in that last year or so in a way I could never put into words. Thanks!