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That comment was (a) not substantive, and (b) inflammatory. It was appropriate to downvote it. I'd guess it got more downvotes for being a (very) minority view than it otherwise would have, but that doesn't mean it didn't deserve them.

By "not substantive" I do not mean false, but rather that the signal-to-noise ratio of a comment containing many grand, unsupported claims is low.

Since you don't want to provide us with dozens of examples, how about picking, say, three that have the highest signal-noise ratio of the lot, and weren't uncivil? I'd like to see those. I know such comments exist, because I see them, yet the people charging HN with groupthink never seem to cite any clear examples.
I posted this article because so much of what I have deployed in the last year of two has been Clojure, container less, with some Meteor.js, also container less.

I liked the Neal Ford quote "Yesterday's best practices become tomorrow's anti-patterns".
15:44 - I love the irony of watching Willy say that on YouTube.
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Also, apparently internet banking and ecommerce in South Korea relies heavily on ActiveX

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/due-to-secu...
I don't see how paperwork is ever an issue for something as far-reaching as Google.

What licensing is involved? How is the day-to-day management even a thing? Didn't Shuttleworth make his money this way?

I would think a graph-backed cert would be an ideal way to authenticate service providers.
That was my expectation too.
On HN, humour is almost only ever desired if it's in combination with other content. If someone injecting a bit of humour is not quickly downvoted, then others start throwing out their "witticisms" and things degrade rather quickly. Better to nip it in the bud and potentially upset someone making an innocent comment than to have things overrun.
I think it's a great approach, and I plan to whole-heartedly enjoy watching more and more of those chunks get whittled away as time goes on. I'd love to see a pure-rust spidermonkey replacement at some point!
It is so strange that people can have such varied responses to language. By the time my eyes alighted on the period/full-stop after "kilo" I was experiencing a significant amount of anxiety. Which is not to say that I did not enjoy the prose, because once I reached the period I did enjoy the writing. But I do not know if I could enjoy reading a book that contained a lot of marathon sentences.
A full text of the article can be found here:

http://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/cee421/citicorp1.htm

This is much more comprehensive and interesting than the source linked in OP and elsewhere.

I discovered this a few years back while doing some reading for an ethics class, and was fascinated by it.
The article explains that the whole is less than the sum of its parts because the businesses can potentially leech off each other when they are packaged together as a conglomerate ("the conglomerate discount").
If I were running a startup or even a moderately-sized company, implementing and managing a bug bounty program internally sounds like a headache, and probably would be put off indefinitely. A managed solution like BugCrowd could definitely fill this void.
I think that that's the OP's point; he's saying that bad CEOs may be both men and women.

I still don't like his comment because it's bringing gender into something that really has nothing to do with gender, but a literal, factual reading of his comment makes exactly the point you do.

Edit: relevant https://xkcd.com/385/
Some original guidelines suggest it was ok to down vote for disagreement but I'm not sure "perfectly acceptable" would be the best way to put it. And more recently I believe he was even less encouraging of the practice. My own view is that down voting should never be used for simple disagreement (as long as argument is decent and good faith).
Well, the lexical scope, certainly, but I don't recall him disparaging the syntax.

I don't recall any burning of Dragon Books. Nor was Vaughan Pratt tarred and feathered for releasing CGOL, which allowed one to write Lisp in infix syntax. People were aware of it, and a few people used it, but it didn't catch on in a big way. I don't think this was for ideological reasons; I think it was simply that most people writing Lisp (myself included) found that with proper editor support, editing fully parenthesized code is easy and pleasant -- more so, in many cases, than editing infix code. That is the fact that many non-Lispers cannot believe could possibly be true. And yet over and over again, people who learn Lisp report that it is.
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you would need to go long yahoo and go short Yahoo Japan and Alibaba (when it is available). Sort of a reverse merger arbitrage.
or that the market is stooooopid
You've touched on an important point. Namely, that bootcamps actually can't very feasibly split or extend their curriculum. It's not a coincidence that most of these schools offer 10-12 week sessions. Moving past that and the logistics of relocation, tuition, expenses & health care become much more difficult to manage.
I don't watch TV (at all) and I game maybe 4 hours a week, usually in 2 sittings.

(I will occasionally watch a DVD, but maybe 2 hours a month, max.)

When people give me grief that I play the games, I tell them I'm a software developer: it's like a writer reading books.
Apple's income taxes in the US were $13.1 billion on $50.2 billion in earnings, for an effective income tax rate of 26.2% [1].

I don't know why so many people think Apple pays little or no tax. They are in fact the 3rd largest income tax payer in the US.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-paying-most-taxes-17...
Under normal situations (he's employed) the stock is largely useless. There is a bunch of paperwork to fill out if you want to sell any of it, you have to pre-set the sale date and follow through almost regardless of what is happening, so its "compensation" but it isn't "cash in your pocket you can spend."

But what it does do, is give the holder the sense of wealth which is directly tied to the value of the stock. Make the stock go up and you certainly "feel" a lot wealthier even if you can't actually take action based on that feeling[1]. But you're very motivated to get that feeling and make the stock worth more. (at least that is the theory).

At the C level and even at the EVP level, you're asked to make some pretty big decisions, decisions that could turn out to make you unemployable if they look really stupid in hindsight. Sometimes the only way to get someone to take that job is to give them some assurances that even if they become unemployable they won't become homeless. (Yes, your argument is still valid, 250K shares would probably do that _at the current valuation_, the question then is risk mitigation)

I'm not saying that I agree with the decision but I am familiar with some of the reasoning that the executive compensation committee goes through when coming up with these numbers.
[1] One huge loophole used to be (and may still exist) is that you can sell stock to pay off a mortgage.
Interesting that this comes up again with Ubuntu Trusty continuing to retain Xorg. Is anyone familiar enough with Mir and Wayland to comment on how those packages approach this kind of thing?
I didn't want to go into this level of detail in the talk, but... I think you still want the MMU enabled, just not used for process isolation. With virtual memory totally disabled, a 1 GB malloc takes 1 GB physical memory even if it's not touched, you can't have swap at all, memory fragmentation kills you dead, etc. It still has a lot of utility outside of isolation.

I don't have a good sense of how the performance cost of hardware isolation breaks down into {virtual memory enabled,TLB thrashing,protection ring switching}. That's one of the reasons that I reduced the speed-up from "25-33%" in the MSR paper down to 20% in METAL. Maybe the speed-up would be less than that if virtual memory were still enabled.

Unfortunately, that distinction may have been blurred in the talk. That is, I may have implied that METAL would turn the MMU off entirely. If so, it was an oversight. I've done the talk end-to-end at least fifty times, which is how I smooth my execution out. Occasionally it can "smooth" the ideas out a bit too, leading to small inaccuracies. It's sort of like playing the telephone game with yourself (which is a very strange experience).

The MSR paper that I quote came from the Singularity team, so your reference is right on. Reading "Deconstructing Process Isolation" in fall of 2012 was probably the germ of the core narrative of the talk.
Charge money for it?
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I don't think there is anything to play. What do you think is the mispricing?
By "this problem" do you mean "the this problem"?

And by "this is just stupid" do you mean "this === just stupid"?

If you think that's bad, you should see this!
The original comment wasn't implying that the Apollo missions were designed for military use, but that they would not have happened without years of groundwork paid for and performed by the military.

Because ICBM's don't need 5 Rocketdyne J-2's

The J-2's were on the 2nd stage, the first stage used F-1's. The F-1 engines were originally built for the US Air Force. Read up on the Silverstein Committee to see the full picture of DOD and NASA relations during the Apollo era;

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

All of the early research was performed by the military (US or German), all of the early rockets were commissioned by the military, and all of the scientists were trained by the military.

I'm honestly having a hard time believing you think the moon launch happened in a vacuum of higher purpose and not as a direct result of decades of DOD work on ICBMs.
Dodgeball is very fun.

I'm not a fan of the hard rubber balls or volleyballs that are used sometimes, foam balls won't give you a bloody nose if you are hit in the face with one.

Would it be an issue to separate children and let parents choose which sports they play in gym class? I remember we had to play with scarves in elementary school because dodgeball was too "dangerous". SCARVES. THROWING SCARVES UP IN THE AIR, WTF.

If fun activities are taken out of gym class then kids will not want to be active, and that's much more dangerous than the occasional bloody nose or busted lip.
When numbers start getting up into that territory, I tend to look at the discount dedicated servers.

WholeSaleInternet for example, currently has a Quad-Core Xeon E3 1230 for sale at $49/month with 5 IP Addresses. 1GBPS connection with 10TB bandwidth with 8GB of RAM / 250GB of Hard Drive.

If that 2TB Hard Drive is really needed, you can compromise on the CPU and go for a consumer-grade AMD Fx-4100 (Quad-Core AMD) from Datashack for $55 / month, with 5 IP Addresses, 8GB RAM / 2TB of Hard Drive space, 10TB of Bandwidth on 1Gbps

Most web applications seem to be Disk heavy or RAM Heavy... I rarely see CPU-heavy applications. So the AMD Fx-4100 can be good enough (its far far better than an Atom, although it isn't as good as a modern E3 Xeon).

I've never had the need for it, but since Dedicated Servers often come with 5 or 13 IP Addresses, and they can be as cheap as ~$60/month realistically... I think its better to just install Proxmox on a single dedicated box and spin up your own private VMs if you are honestly going to need multiple VMs.
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You just provided the best translation :-)

Now I'm wondering if the translators were intentionally trying to avoid multiple words, or if they didn't realize how much meaning they were losing.
7,figures,000 We agree to disagree.

The car example, is miss-using an analogy in an attempt to prove a point. That's a logical fallacy. Also you use a lot of personal insults to drive a point that you do not drive. But you seem to be a logical person in the other HN posts's comments, so it must be the anger that is causing more of an emotional response than a logical one. I'm really sorry to cause you anger.

and I know I'm going to get a -1 point for this comment, since I'm commenting on the person and not the comment itself. But since you keep making emotional responses, the issue is not the argument anymore but the source.

Unfortunately I rather spend my time in other ways that will benefit the world than to argue in comments in circles and accumulate HN points that way. So this will be my last comment to you. Feel free to reach out to me so we can talk without hidden faces and names.

I wish you happiness. And a life where you can maximize your value-add to the world, rather than just commenting on others' value-add.

Sasha

p.s. English is not my first language (hence the grammatical mistakes)
Juggling these interactions is exactly what makes good language design so difficult and time consuming. In the talk, I mention JS' ten-day design time several times for exactly this reason. Language design is hard and ten days just isn't enough time to carefully consider how everything will fit together. Try to imagine a programmer, even a brilliant one, noticing the map/parseInt interaction ten days after starting to learn JS, especially in 1995 when these high level languages were far less common. Seems unlikely!
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Yes, because nothing will make you less interesting to law enforcement than running a Tor node.
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I downvote when I think it might make HN better, or at least keep it from getting worse. Sometimes this means I downvote just because it can substitute for some stupid reaction I might post in response.

In other contexts, I often have a much higher threshold both for what I think is appropriate and how much civility plays a role in filtering what I post. But that's because elsewhere on the internet incivility often provides a substantial portion of the entertainment value. On HN, the entertainment value is largely in thoughtful discourse.
To me this idea conflicts with the fact that they are minority shareholders in the two international components. I'm not sure exactly what the management structure is, but if Alibaba really thought it might be run into the ground by Yahoo it seems that they could do something to kick Yahoo out.
> you really have to be hopeless to flunk out.

Are you assuming that you can get into the camp as a hopeless flunky? That may be true for some bootcamp environments but is certainly not the case for all of them.
I'm VERY impressed, even more impressed by the fact that it speaks DNS. I do with however that it came with a "driver" option rather running a consul client (or even just SkyDNS-like http option, although I'm unsure how you would manage membership). That way you could just "include" consul in your python/ruby/go application, and not have to worry about adding another service to your chef/pupper config and running yet another service.
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I don't think I've heard anyone argue that homiconicity makes Lisp easier to learn. I would characterize that as an advanced concept— it only becomes relevant once you start learning about macros.

As far as Lisp's syntax itself, the lack of special cases means there's less to learn. Myself, I like some of the sugar you get in Clojure for hashes, vectors, sets, etc.

As for macros themselves, ostensibly you don't need to know the implementation details of every macro any more than you need to understand what executing a Java method does in terms of JVM bytecode. In practice sometimes you'll goof up and try to map a macro over a list. Depending on your Lisp implementation, the mistake should be obvious. And depending on your editor, it may even highlight some or all macros differently.

Also, Racket also has a different approach than some of the Lisp reader manipulation you see in Common Lisp. We're getting outside my familiarity here though.
The idea that market cap (current marginal stock price × total outstanding shares) is valuation is, well, convenient to get an easy way to calculate a number and call it the overall valuation, but doesn't really hold up.

All this article does is point out that if you use that (flawed) method to value Yahoo, and then use the same method to value Yahoo Japan, and then use even less-reliable means to value the non-public Alibaba, and then subtract the last two from the first, you get an unexpected number.

And even if the assumptions underlying the "negative" valuation of the core business were inassailable, its quite easy to have a business to have a negative $10 billion value. Suppose a business has $11 billion in total liabilities, and $1 billion is total assets. Voila, Owner's Equity is -$10 billion.

And this can still be a profitable company. Obviously, making profits means that profit stream has a value (the current value of the stream of future income), but that doesn't mean that you don't have liabilities that exceed that (and the valuation of that stream is not just based on current profit, but expectation of its future continuation. A company can be profitable but the market can lack confidence that it will continue to be profitable.)
Some additional reasons:

Yahoo's different parts cannot be traded and thus have no liquidity. There's a huge liquidity discount associated with that.

If Yahoo were to sell the pieces of Y!Japan, Alibaba, etc. on the open market, it would have to do it a structured and delayed process or else it would flood the market, dropping the respective stocks. More discount.
For context, this entry just won Google's DevArt competition:
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/04/devart-winner-a...
As others have pointed out, you desperately need a designer. This site comes across as amateurish. Either go much simpler, like nothing but text on a page, or get a pro or use a professionally created template. Right now you are on the downslope of the uncanny valley of web design.
It's news because this is based on NEW analysis. It is irrelevant that someone years ago through different analysis came to the same conclusion.

The article also does mention that earlier analysis and Szabo's denial.
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It sounds like you might be falling into hindsight bias, to be honest.

Stock traders building high speed data links are actually a perfect example of the limitations of private sector innovation. It was a $300 million project, they started seeing profits after one year when the project was completed, and they were able to calculate the speed increase well in advance and estimate how much more profitable their trades could be. So it was a short term project with very little risk and nowhere near the scale of government investment.

Mazzucato does talk about VCs in biotech and she thinks they have largely been harmful to innovation.
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FWIW, you're learning two major paradigms at once: the immutable/functional paradigm and a Lisp, and Clojure itself has very strong opinions about the former. You'll get a very different feel from, say, Racket.

Is there something in particular you're having a hard time with, out of curiosity? I don't consider myself particularly brilliant but I didn't have a year's worth of trouble with Clojure.
Incorporate an LLC ($500 or less). Consider getting liability insurance, depending on what your site does. It will cost below $2k per year. Lightly adapt the ToS of Wordpress (which is OSSed) or similar for your purposes (free as in beer).

Then sleep easy.

I would advise involving a lawyer if you're in a particularly risky space. If you are, you probably know it.
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Ya, good call. It is a super interesting fallacy that people interested in disassembling dysfunctional status quo models should be good at calling-out. Something like a "post hoc rationalization".

For me, another use case is 'all the fantastic things that have been invented because of war'.
On the not so unrelated topic: does anyone know where you could learn 'basic business'? Something like programming languages first-steps tutorials to be able to understand what they actually are talking about.
That hardly makes it useless, it just mean you have to be cognizant of both meanings and who your audience is.
That was a blast for from the past - I spent 1986-91 designing serial cards and writing drivers for Xenix systems at Specialix. We had 32 terminals running on 386 Xenix systems, tell that to the kids of today with their Ghz CPU's and fancy VM's and they won't believe you.
The difference is that you end up with (e.g.) https://cs50.harvard.edu/resources/cppreference.com/operator... versus the AST being integral to the language itself.
Yikes! Yet another reason to use paper bitcoin wallets.
From watching a few of Marissa's interviews, it seems Yahoo is (or trying to become) a network providing services that people use daily, with a focus on mobile moving forward.

Weather, news, sports, stocks, email, social networking (Tumblr/Flickr). They are also appear to be trying to get into video and search.
i've been saying for awhile now (to anyone bored enough to listen) that qubes style isolation is the only safe idea on offer these days. i just wish qubes were usable.

i'm fairly sure that 10 years from now people are going to be citing joanna rutkowska articles with regularity. her flatfooted denial that security is possible without isolation is the only sane perspective.

the point is that starting from full isolation and straining to get things to talk to each other in the hope of achieving productivity makes sense. starting from full interactivity and straining to isolate but just when it's necessary "for security" is a battle we will all eventually lose, and we should know it already.
SELinux has xorg hooks [1] to isolate the gui, actually... yes that means with SELinux you can control which window can talk to which, what clipboard can be used where, by what window, etc.

not that it makes the xorg code better in any way, but, when you're going to say the world is ignorant and you know it all, at least get your stuff right.

Thats why people "hate" you as you describe in this post. Having an aggressive style doesn't make you more accurate. It just makes you annoying.

[1] http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/selinux/papers/xorg07-pap...