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That's really great! After reading the FAQ, I have contributed $100. Best of luck with the project!
And I experienced something like the reverse of this, while I was on FB. Seeing my friends being mealy-mouthed and trite continually, because they were on a public platform visible to everybody they ever met in their life, made me involuntarily lose so much respect for them. I had to close my account so I wouldn't see it anymore. I can understand the mentality, and the desire to be this way, because I can remember feeling that kind of pressure to be a certain way and work on my cachet, when I was in middle school. I just have a really hard time tolerating it now when I see it.
Hire pg back to work on HN's mobile interface. He'll still have time to write essays.
This is the exact same answer you used to get in the old days, back when real communists actually existed, and you'd ask one of them why there were no communist countries with anything like a functional economy. "Correlation does not equal causation, comrade! Just because those troubled countries are all communist does not mean that it is communism that is the cause of their troubles."

I'm just sayin', theory is nice and all, but examples from real practice are more interesting. Fractional reserve banking has been widely in use for hundreds of years in countries which have prospered far more than the general run of humanity has. Show me a capitalist economy that (1) outlawed fractional reserve banking and (2) functions better in some tangible way than the rest of the developed world, and you've got an argument more compelling than a chapter from a textbook of Austrian economics.
$10000 seems to me a great amount for having this!
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at 150k approximately half your income is going to go out to taxes through federal/state/sales/etc/etc.

so now with 75k you've got to pay for living expenses (taxes already removed) and lets be very generous and only take out 25k for that stuff. (~1k for rent, ~1k for food and everything else)

So even with saving 50k its going to take you 10 years to get to 500k and perhaps only 7 if you invest wisely.

Anyways sorry to be picky but 500k is not easily saved up on such a large salary.
Ask HN: How much disposable income should you have?
I'm curious, how much disposable income should you have, after things like rent/mortgage, car payment(s), groceries, etc.? I know it's subjective, but what are the general budgeting guidelines?
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I've been using both Gobble and Munchery for the past three weeks. Munchery by far has superior meals and service. The portions are consistent and large, the only catch is that it's more expensive than Gobble.

Gobble has a higher variance on arrival time and portion size, and once couldn't find my apartment. Gobble food is more like a well put together take out, and it's cheaper. So far it has tasted fine but a 2 hour window on arrival is kind of meh. The range in portion size means that sometimes I wish I had ordered a side or appetizer but there's no way to tell in advance whether I should.

Munchery meals are like restaurant meals at a nice place. They offer a cheese plate, and I think the meal quality is similar to that of good meals you'd get at a place that had a cheese plate :)

Gobble apparently has better vegetarian options according to my wife so that combined with the price will probably mean we keep Gobble.
By that time, Space X will be hired to fly parallel, take pictures and serve as a backup.

Couldn't resist
I live in Waterloo. Toronto dwarfs Waterloo. It's not really close.

Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of great stuff going on in Waterloo and I love living here, but Toronto is so much bigger and has so many more opportunities its not funny.

Waterloo has a population of 100K people. If you include Kitchener and Cambridge then you're up to 400K.

Toronto on the other hand is the 10th largest city in the Americas[1]. To put that into perspective for Americans, that means that if you live in a city in the states that isn't NYC or LA, then Toronto is bigger.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_Americas
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Up until now, I had assumed Americans realised their chocolate was crap, they just didn't sell much of the good stuff there. Certainly a few of them I have met in Europe seem to agree ours is better.
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It takes tremendous self-knowledge and insight to take a step like this. It's what makes Paul Graham, Paul Graham and it's incredibly inspiring.

Welcome to YC 2.0. Looking forward to following the original meta-startup under Sam's leadership.
You're mistaken if you think full reserve banking somehow doesn't "stretch" the money supply. Let's say I deposit $10K in a "full reserve" bank. The bank then loans it to someone who buys a car. The car dealer goes back to the bank and deposits the proceeds of the sale. Another fella comes in for a loan and the bank gives him dealer's $10K. He then goes to buy a car. Now there are 2 cars bought with "my" $10K. And this can go on ad infinitum. So there is nothing superior about full reserve banking. The only thing you're doing is preventing me from getting my money unless the guy who took the loan pays it back. That will surely incentivize people to keep their money in a bank.
Y Combinator’s PG steps back from day-to-day work
A basic understanding of math, mostly.
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How about this:

So, you're saying that aside from the numerical value, a set of people with an average testosterone level of ~500ng/dL are exactly the same as a set of people with an average testosterone level of ~20?

To deny that hormones exert a tremendous influence over our behaviors and motivations is absurd.
Congrats Sam. I hope other founders have taken notice recently that Sam's posts - especially about raising money - are some of the best playbooks you can get your eyes on in terms of starting and fundraising successfully as a startup today. Well done.
I've had numerous older relatives/friends accidentally sign-up for LinkedIn because of this and not even realize they have LinkedIn.
you didn't mention retirement. That should be about 10% of your income.
I imagine after a few times they would have a particular business or location in mind, and use google to search for that instead. For instance, if I googled "flowers" a few months ago and found "Joes Flower Shop in Seattle", if I wanted flowers again I would google "joes flowers seattle" instead of "flowers".
Is this the reason that so many of his recent posts were promoted on here? Was the intention to build the cachet of some widely read essays so he could credibly step in for PG?

HN stories for his blog start about a year ago, a little after this article says the idea originally was floated (mid-2012), and they have pretty consistently frontpaged: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/blog.sa...

It makes me wonder if it was a coordinated, planned effort.
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Thanks for trying to do what many of us secretly wished we could do but can't because of time/skill constraints. I will definitely move to NeoVim the second it's packaged (is it yet?), regardless if you've changed anything yet.

I hate the ideas many programmers have about backwards compatibility, that it's more important than development speed and modern concepts. There is nothing holy about Unix era software, chances are it's shit and a lot of it should be thrown out.

Look at SublimeText, it's got 1% of the features of Vim, yet it's converting Vim users left and right, by its sheer usability.

We as developers in the Open Source community should be ashamed people are still using Vim to write LaTeX in Bash running on terminal emulators. (Yes, it gives me shivers just thinking about how much each of those technologies sucks when you think about how good it all could be.)
Well, I'm sure people from Brescia will not appreciate american restaurant food, but that's not the point.

You specifically mention foodborne illnesses.

The most common are:
Botulism
Campylobacteriosis
E. coli
Hepatitis A
Norovirus Infection
Salmonellosis
Shigellosis

Normally this is because the food itself was contaminated at some point in the restaurant. That's not because the food itself causes illness, but the different bacteria, viruses, and parasites due to the environment. It's entirely possible that your regional friends are not used to the same pathogens as americans, so you had to suffer. Yet chances are if americans were to go to Brescia and eat out a lot, they would come down with the same foodborne illnesses because they also are not exposed to the same microflora as you have been exposed your whole life.
Congratulations. Succession is hard. Books in the pipeline?
Jim Weirich's condolences book
Which coffee shop, may I ask? Not Ford Food and Drink?
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Please don't go into management.
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> You're using logical fallacy wrong.

Actually it's a wonderful example of affirming the consequent.

Had the initial accusation been "LinkedIn possibly using ..." this might carry some wait, but it was all presented in declaration as proof.
Do check out my service AppBlade https://appblade.com, convenient timing that I was about to come out with some competitive pricing for ad-hoc developers.

We're also releasing an open-source tool that uses GitHub releases as a store, gonna release it soon https://github.com/AppBlade/TestHub
Perhaps the term "semantic" is overloaded, but there are good reasons why presentational classnames are bad, even though users don't care and machines don't care. Your fellow developers should care. When done well, semantic markup is much easier to maintain and reason about. There's far less duplicated template logic and design changes are much easier because it's easier to understand where your changes will have an effect. The generated CSS might be slightly heavier, but possibly not. Poorly architected CSS tends to get very bloated and heavy very quickly. And there are better preprocessors like Sass or Stylus give you more options for keeping you generated CSS to a minimum. Less is really the worst preprocessor out there.

Every non-semantic bootstrap site I've seen has far more templates than would be necessary the templates only spit out minimal markup with classes that say what each element is instead of what it looks like.

But now we have tons of developers whose primary skill is backend development that are able to mash together a reasonable looking site without understanding how to create maintainable front end code. When the design changes, they just keep piling on more markup and more classes. This works for a while, but as designs get iteratively tweaked and changed, and kludges pile on top of kludges, the markup and CSS become a huge tangled mess. Making changes can have unpredictable effects on other parts of the site.

And then the back end developers throw up their hands and say, "CSS is stupid." But users don't care if the code is a mess, right? Machines don't care either. But the front end dev -- the one who's tasked with getting the new design to work without breaking anything else on the site -- he cares. And he's gonna have a bad time.
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Congrats to Sam! I think

Looking forward to reading more thoughtful writing from PG. It has really changed my perspective on things over the years.
There isn't really 'a' correct frequentist or Bayesian answer to the problem; it's more two different ways of thinking about the problem, which could well get you the same numerical results (though they might not).

The frequentist way of thinking about it is to ask what you mean by "more correct", i.e. what properties do you want an optimal estimator to have? Another way of putting this is: if you were to set up a simulation where the real answer is known and data is sampled, and then you judge estimators by how close they get (according to some penalty function scoring closeness) when you run this simulation 10,000 times, which estimator would score the best? The estimator with the minimum variance of all unbiased estimators (the MVUE) will do optimally under some definitions of optimal; the MLE is another one that is optimal for other definitions. Note that they're both frequentist and give different answers.

The Bayesian analysis of the situation is that it basically comes down to your choice of prior: the observed information is not in itself sufficient to produce a single "best" estimate, but rather you combine it with your prior distribution to produce an estimate. The Bayesian could end up producing exactly the same estimate as the estimators this article labels "frequentist". The Bayesian argument would be that what these estimators are really doing under the language of MVUE/MLE/etc. is implicitly choosing priors, whereas the Bayesian would explicitly choose one. The Bayesian would also probably not really like the simulation-experiment idea (which is a pretty directly frequentist thought experiment).
Congratulations Sam! We only had an office hours or two during my YC batch but you instantly struck me as a remarkably bright and quick-witted mentor.
It doesn't matter if there's a bubble
I don't think it matters if it's convincing or not.

I was answering the question, and the linked resource affirms it was.
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Programming is one of the most exciting, flow-inducing, mentally stimulating, mathematically and logically enlightening, rewarding activities I do. Programming is one of the most mind-numbing, soul-sucking, procrastination-inducing, lonely, repetitive, mentally exhausting activities I do.
Is "disturbed system" intentional? Nice term for a bunch of processes which are expected to die occasionally.
The focus on scaling YC in this post is interesting:

> Because YC needs to grow

> we'll have to grow proportionally bigger

I'm excited to see how this plays out!
Generating CS maps from the university campus now becomes ridiculously simple :)
Going directly into second year is probably a bad idea from a socialisation point of view. When you turn up in college in year one, nobody knows anybody so people have to form peer groups from scratch, thus it's easy to make new friends.

If you go into second year these peer groups are already established and it becomes harder to slot yourself in.
Say you were a shady Bitcoin banker with 5000 BTC in deposits, and you wanted to steal 1000 while still looking like you're on the up-and-up by implementing this idea.

First, you announce that you only have 4000 BTC in deposits. Then you build this tree, and at the very bottom layer you add a node with a -1000 balance. You pair that node with your (or a conspirator's) real node holding more than 1000 so that any node above yours (read: everyone else) sees a positive balance at every point in the tree. Everyone can verify they're in the tree, the numbers add up to what you claimed publicly, but you're now successfully running a fractional reserve! And the only way to uncover such a scheme would be to publish all of the balances for every account.

Am I missing something?

Edit for clarity: the node you pair with is your own, so that no real user sees the negative sum.
Congrats, Sam!!! Your blog shows a ton of thought leadership and meshes really well with this.
:) my apologies -- I started reading your introduction and then moved on to the meat of the article...
Among other things, children. Sure, I might be able to get up earlier, work earlier and leave when it's still light, but I still wouldn't have much time to spend with my kid during daytime.

Another example: bus frequency. You know, small stuff that adds up ;)
There's still swapbox, growing fast.
The school people were idiots, but narcissism doesn't have anything to do with introversion and extroversion.
This looks really neat. Thanks!

I wish I could self-host this on my own server. I also wish it did not rely on Github as I also self-host my own repos.
I've always assumed they got it from my email account, and not from a real account. It's not a lie, they haven't even mis-represented.
Are you wondering percentage wise or an absolute dollar amount for living in one of the top 10 largest cities in the world or US?
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Tons of people mention Elixir in threads like these. Is anybody actually using it in production, or is it just something that Rubyists use as a foil to criticize Erlang's syntax?

I feel the algol-ization of (functional, prototypical)javascript is a confusing mess and a weakness that makes js harder to use. Making Erlang look object-oriented just seems awkward.

Syntax: comma means AND, semicolon means OR, period means "done." Is that so crazy? There's no comparison to how badly Perl does my head in.
Nice catch, thanks!

Fixed:
https://github.com/42technologies/landing/commit/a0a0b96f3c9...
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I am quite active in D forums, and also follow Rust closely, given my interest in the ML language family.

If you look at the history of systems languages, the only ones that won market share, had the sponsorship of an OS vendor as their official language. Specially because many people hate to write FFI bindings for their favourite language and it doesn't scale to map the full OS API.

So the question is which OS vendors would pick the wannabe replacements.
I have heard people say that scrypt is better than SHA256 as a basis for cryptocurrency because it doesn't put all the network power in specialist ASIC boxes, but then stuff like this happens.

Do you think Harvard would have paid for a custom-build scrypt-coin miner if someone wrote a real academic proposal for it?
Part of the problem is leaving funds laying around in exchanges, when it's trivial to transfer to your own wallet (though admittedly non-trivial to secure it, it's a tradeoff).

If you quickly transfer in, exchange, and transfer out you don't need quite as much trust.
Original

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/fe...
I'd love that too.
If anyone is looking for alternative to vim then check out Textadept which has a curses UI version and a graphical UI version.
Ask HN: Health insurance for remote teams in US?
Anyone have a company with employees all in different states? If so, I'd love to hear about possible health insurance solutions. Do you subsidize individual plans for your employees, or is there some way to make it work with a multi-state group plan?
I must suck at socializing a lot worse than I thought I did.
I don't know his family, but with Jim as their relative, I would pray they are wise enough to ignore a troll. Jim was a wonderful man and this little person doesn't matter, neither do his opinions.
Because your stereotypical computer geek doesn't have the social skills to meet women who aren't also computer geeks?

Because computer geeks don't push back hard enough against overtime requests (a social skills issue again), and so have a hard time meeting anyone they don't work with?

Because unlike many jobs, much of computer programming also makes for good hobbies, so we spend a greater fraction of our time associating with like-minded people (and would like for said group to include women)?

You don't see anything like this in female-dominated professions.

But only because we're too insular to notice (again, a social skills issue).
For the life of me, I cannot understand why Oracle hasn't bought Azul and made it available to all, for free.

Azul only works well on multi-processor machines with LOTS of RAM, but when it does, it beats everything else out there by a mile. You'd think Oracle would want that.
You don't need to integrate the framework if you just want to distribute beta builds. Check the Beta Deploy section on the site.
We are also working on adding cocopods.
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I agree with almost everything--except for backwards compatibility when it comes to throwing stuff out. There is definite value in it, especially when we're talking about something as old and widely used as vim!

The thing about compatibility is that it doesn't matter how great your new and shiny is if it can't talk to old things at all. Imagine the best new text editor in the world, but it's completely incompatible with every file format that's ever been written previously, even .txt! No one would use it, because the cost of switching is too high.

In some cases, it's definitely worthwhile to have some development pain to keep that around. Stuff like keeping vimscript (and therefore the entire ecosystem around vim) functioning means that neovim could be a drop-in for some people, and HAS to be preserved at least partially. Stuff like keeping ancient Amiga support or integration with Sun workshop? Definitely not worth it anymore.
I think it should be called Vimim, Vi Improved Improved
Android now has first party testing support via the Play Store. I'd imagine it's hard to compete with that.
"In my experience with Labview you still spend a lot of your time arranging cables and boxes."

"I'm sure practical visual programming will be a reality some day..."

I don't follow how you get from the first sentence to this conclusion. Seems to me spending a lot of time "arranging cables and boxes" is pretty inherent to the whole visual programming idea.
not sure I agree - a non-continuous projection such the Dymaxion / Fuller projection could indicate the same timezone errors without size distortion.

the Miller used here gives the impression that an utterly huge physical area - as with Greenland, appearing to be several thousands of miles from edge to edge - has just one timezone. this detracts from the point it's trying to make.

Antarctica would have been cool to see, yeah. I love the concept :)
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Congrats sam! Look forward to great things from you @ YC.

Does this mean you will have less time to write blogs ?
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I was looking forward to the FOSDEM talk about ART, but they cancelled it.

The only thing we can infer from the public source code is that it has been enabled by default for whatever might be the next release.

So no news if with ART, other languages could be better supported or not.
What will change about YC?
CS3 was self paced and saw a high rate of failure. CS10 has been the replacement since Fall 2010 and has a continuation rate of over 75 percent. It also opened the scope to instill a CS consciousness in even those who only ever take CS10.
No one is saying that more women in CS courses will eliminate sexism everywhere. There is intrinsic value to having gender diversity in any field, and CS is one with a notable lack of it.

This is a classic example of "moving the goalposts". By claiming that incremental progress doesn't matter (or is somehow detrimental[1]) because of sexism elsewhere, you inhibit progress everywhere. By relying on strawman arguments and a false comparison to the election of Barack Obama, you implicitly frame any incremental achievement for women in CS as a failure.

[1] Referring to your, frankly, bizarre comment about a misogynist saying "you can have a computer in the kitchen". No idea what this is supposed to imply, or who exactly is saying it.
Seconded. Motion carried.
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