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People are always compatible, if they have to. That is why rampant marriage failure is a cultural problem, not an individual one. Therefore, if you just avoid to pick someone from the wrong (western) community, you should already be ok.
The point had to do with knives, not ladders. If you have a knife and you're well-trained in knife skills, and your adversaries are all armed only with ladders, you are easily going to win that fight. I think that's the point he was trying to make.
Free speech means the government cannot stop you from speaking, not that it needs to provide you with a printing press.
Yes, but fighting your whole life to get rich at stuff that sucks is not worth it. Yes, it sucks to have your cat die, it sucks more to have you die wishing you did something more interesting than sit in board meetings and think about gathering mo money most of your waking life. There is a balance and that balance is not as hard as 'getting rich'; you don't need to 'get rich' to make your life not suck and get your cat treated, drive a nice car, have a pool you never use, a sauna which has cobwebs etc; that's all very doable without getting rich. And your life might not suck very early on that way instead of when you made it. I'm not sure how old you are but on HN there is a kind of altered reality where people get rich when they are young; this is not normal; most rich people got rich > 50. If you have had 'a sucky life' because of that till then you have been very much wasting your life.
For immediate satisfaction you might search history map of the world on YouTube. There are plenty of videos. At the other extreme you might buy an historical atlas. In between there are sites like http://www.chronoatlas.com/
It took me a while to realise that this is a rant about IPv6.
Nice!

As an aid to extracting the right body content, have you considered comparing multiple pages from the same site, and giving greater weight to content that differs (the article) rather than content that stays the same (the navigation)?
The "Juliette" and "Romeo" suggested mnemonic imagery on 4:57 was hilarious and very revealing about other suggested "attitudes" of the time and context.
I always read that WTC was the kind of event that no one ever imagined it could possibly happen until after the incident.

There were two aspects to 9/11 which surprised people. First, that it was four planes which were hijacked: For security screeners to allow one armed hijacker onto a plane may be poor luck, but for armed hijackers to get onto four planes looks like carelessness. (With apologies to Oscar Wilde.)

Second, while the prospect of planes crashing into towers had been considered -- and in fact all modern skyscrapers are designed to survive such an impact -- the aftermath of 9/11 was the first time the prospect of aircraft fuel being used to bring down a skyscraper was ever widely contemplated. If the two planes which hit the WTC hadn't been carrying enough fuel to reach LAX, the fires would not have burned for long enough to bring the towers down.
My original point was that ignoring equity when evaluating a job offer isn't the best approach.

Most job offers don't include two options to choose from. Since I did have that choice, I evaluated my options exactly as you mention: whether to (effectively) invest the salary difference in exchange for more equity.

In most cases, job offers don't include that choice. If that had been my situation too, I would have evaluated whether the salary was worth doing the job. And then evaluated whether the equity was worth the risk of joining an insecure company.

But since this isn't an absolute rule, I might have tried to negotiate more equity if the salary wasn't quite high enough for me to make the jump. Or maybe asked for extra vacation time, or the option to work from home. (I've done all of those.) I know salary and equity cannot be kept totally separate, but I do start there when evaluating how I will respond to a given job offer.
A guy who is (outwardly) self confident will get women (or guys for that matter) no matter what. Ugly, poor, anti-social, doesn't matter. Sure, if you want to have a large amount of one-night-stands with 'just 18s' in clubs expensive clothes and a fat wallet help next to that confidence, but we were talking about love here.
Lessig's organization is also advocating to change the constitution to allow restrictions on speech.
Couldn't you just use Scala as a better Java in that case? Or do you just generally like wasting lots of vertical space on braces & monstrously verbose and sparsely distributed code chock full of boilerplate?

Also, this isn't about 'technology': both languages run on the JVM and are capable of utilizing it equally. Rather, this is about information density of source code; i.e., the signal:noise ratio. And, if you hire experienced programmers then no learning will be necessary and they can do what they want to do 'with technology' much more quickly with more powerful tools in their hands.
Take her around the world--nice and, not so nice places; then decide if you still want to get married.

I think that this is the wrong approach.

Anybody is suitable for marriage, on the condition that their culture says that there is no other realistic option than to stay married. That is the reason why both of you will do what it takes to make it work, and believe me that it will work.

In that respect, women from the wrong (western) communities are simply not suitable for marriage. Pick randomly a woman elsewhere and you should be ok.
People (including in this thread) always tell us that you cannot do that; you need to make it first and then you can pick what you like. Of course this is bullshit, but it's persistent bullshit, obviously told by people who had that experience themselves and want other people to have that too so they can feel better about themselves.
It strikes me that CSS is pretty good, but the mess of hacks that the OP complains of are the result of crappy browser implementations, not crappy CSS?
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Perhaps. I was younger then and didn't feel comfortable negotiating. I'm better at it now. He even had to explain to me how options worked.

But I learned a lot from working with him and met people that I still keep in contact with. I don't regret my choice to take the offer.
This is almost exactly how the "marshrutkas" (see Wikipedia entry) of the former Soviet bloc, which continue to operate in a most or all CIS countries, came to be.
Most clients will break it up into multiple messages no?
As a newly divorced mainstream western person, I might have an anecdotal perspective on this. You don't divorce because of how easy it is. You divorce despite how hard it is. And while the cultural boundaries are reasonable (not encouraging, mind you), it is the finances, the practical things, the emotions, the social consequences that hurt. And, if you have kids, rip their opportunity to live in the same house as both parents.

My divorce was a "good" one. We agreed, and make the best of it together, not just for the kids' sake but for each other's as well. Still, I never wanna do this again.

According to other people I've talked to, the books I've read, and the therapists I've been to, the idea that couples divorce too easily is simply false. I'm sure you can find examples to point to, but, at least around the Nordics, it simply is not the case.

If you marry a woman who would divorce you in a wink, the reason is you not getting to know her beforehand, not some divorce-culture.
Thanks for that one.

I have a similar one to yours that creates a new plain text document from text on the clipboard.

My most often used one is Open current safari tab in chrome. I prefer using safari as I seem to get the best battery life using it. I don't have flash installed so any page that may have a flash component just gets opened in chrome using that Alfred workflow.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262831/Revealed-Aar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_oil_spill

An air strike was conducted against the pipeline that was the most significant contributor of the spill, however there were some other sources as well. It ended up being several times larger than the Valdez spill, a lot of it ended up on the beaches of Saudi Arabia, and it was never cleaned up, so it's still causing a lot of ecological damage.

I don't think I'd heard about this until now.
Came here for this. Didn't leave disappointed.
That's an astute misreading of the article, but here's my take: the writer clearly must have been successful in his startup, otherwise he wouldn't feel qualified to speak on what counts for success in starting companies. Once you're successful, you have the best of all worlds: you can act as if you had no intellectual advantage, and had to get where you are solely through pluck and hard work. Then you can look down your nose at both groups: the intellectual guys with lousy jobs and the dim-witted stuffed shirts. No one will doubt that you are not both smarter than the geeks and better at decision-making than the decision guys, because the fact remains, you beat the odds and created a successful startup, and you're still rich. So, I think that's the lesson. You can be really smart, or really hard working, but odds are that you don't have your own company and you're not rich, so either way you don't know shit.
Regardless, at least it's attacking the problem at its roots.
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I started with the moom trial, but when it came time for me to make a purchase, I ended up going with BetterSnapTool. It might not be quite as flexible as Moom, but a) it fit my personal needs and b) it was less than half the price.
You're quibbling.
You post this misogynistic screed knowing full well--or you should, if you're any sort of functioning adult--that end case of what you describe so glowingly is quite often the female partner learning how to hide black eyes or worse. "Western" culture not jamming people together because reasons is a feature, not a bug.

Your baggage about women is not welcome here.
No, even IORef is stateless.

You will know if there's state in a language if you can build a function that returns different results given the same values over time; IORef does not allow you to do that.
Not only the key is number, the text "The key for XXX is YYYYYY" is also a number. So is the phrase "decode this from bas64 - XXXXXXXXXXX" which after decoding contains the key. Any information may be presented as number in infinitely many ways, even just counting the ways that are understandable without context.

All numbers long enough can be proved to be illegal if just one of them is illegal if you allow clever encodings.

You cannot invent a way to say which number is legal and which is not, because there's infinitely many ways to encode each information. And context can be included in the information itself.

Outlawing all numbers bigger than certain X is obviously stupid.

Therefore the whole concept of intelectual property is absurd and should be abandoned ASAP.

In the end intelectual property enforcement requires censorship. What's more important - free speech, or slightly better protection of margins of a few industries? It's not a hard question. The only reason the IP is there is because these industries had monopoly on massmedia for a few decades, which gave them leverage over politicians.
Scripting, applications, webservices can be met with Python. Especially once you start to look at the different implementations like PyPy. Not much out there can do the entire gamut though. Erlang and Rust look like great compliments for specific needs to a Python-centric company.
A couple years too late. With the two Supreme Court decisions there really are no reforms that can stop Super PACs in any meaningful way.
This part about the "mind games" is interesting. I think it always starts like that because that's how we learned to seduce. That's how "love" is documented. I remember reading in "Les liaisons dangeureuses" something along those lines : "Don't show her you like her, it will confuse her".

In my experience mind games stop when you fall in love. I remember being with one who at one point asked me "Can we stop playing games?" and I agreed.

further: I could have stayed with her if I had continued the mind games. I'm sure of that. But how long would that have lasted? Not forever. Better stop the mind game early and see how long it goes if you feel like it's the one. Maybe that's the true test.
I don't doubt that new quantum mechanics discoveries will eventually transform our daily lives, but this article is focused on historical advancements' impact on our current lives and not about the upcoming quantum revolution.
He doesn't imply it's a boolean. He suggests to pick a local maximum above certain threshold.
I saw the headline and thought the same. I'm a little disappointed now :/ On the bright side, maybe someone will use PANDAS for defeating DRM, and blog about that... :)
What does add to the conversation, apparently, is continual snide assertions that parent didn't add to the conversation.

(I actually don't have any problem with snide obnoxiousness. "I'm amazed you could [be so incredibly idiotic]" is upfront at least. What I do get tired of is a continual tree, like this one, of "You shouldn't have said that.")
I am also in the 'worked for a number of startups, been paid out non-life changing amounts more than once, and have never tried being a founder' category. What I meant to say is that founders take more risk and get more equity than early employees, and that is how it should be.

Once a company has enough revenue (or investment money) to hire employees, much of the risk has already been removed. A product is either prototyped and tested or partially built. Discussions with potential customers have already taken place. Initial marketing strategies and plans have been made. And founders often do that without getting paid or even a guarantee that they will ever get paid.

They also end up with 10x-20x more equity than an early employee who gets paid a normal salary.

So if equity in a company is highly motivating, and you don't mind working on an exciting idea knowing that you may never see any money, then founding a company might be a good fit.

Or you can make job decisions now that will help you learn to be a founder in the future.

Founding a company is a roller coaster of joy and despair, so it's not for everyone. I haven't tried it yet, but a side project of mine has felt like that roller coaster. I can only imagine that doing it full-time would be the same, except magnified.
File #10 has an Israeli IRC user checking in moments after a SCUD missile hits:

<Ran> Is there anybody there? I am fine.
Just got the damn gas mask off. Sorry

A minute later he/she reports that Tel Aviv was hit, source being "my ears".

IRC, beating the TV networks since at least 1991...
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"This also means that Android is finally able to compete with iOS in terms of application fluidity and performance, a big win for the consumer."

Does anyone actually have any real comparisons between Android and iOS? Was there an acknowledged 2x performance benefit for iOS on the same hardware? For games and Ui, for example, wouldn't the GPU be more important?
This article has a completely misleading title. Or maybe the author's arrow of time is reversed and he thinks the past is the future.
"Calling it a "waking dream" also kind of undermines how insane dreaming actually is and how little we know about it."

-- Absolutely true.
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I'm going to have to watch that movie. I've actually seen that happen and could never figure out why.
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For the 100x slowdowns, I am talking about Swift, though if you want to see a 20x slowdown in Objective-C, look here: http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/compiler-writers-gone-wil...

Yes, the optimizer can take care of it some times, most of the time, ..., but phew!

While C compilers also generate pretty bad code when optimizations are off, it's nothing near this staggeringly awful. Unless you manage to write a longish loop that it can figure out, which is unlikely outside of benchmarks, my experience is you get around 2x or so for straight-line code that's pretty rare these days. This is 20x to 100x and more.

The 2x roughly matches Probsting's Law[1], which says that advances in compiler optimizer tech. double performance every 18 years. That's not a lot, and does not justify trusting the compiler this much. In short, making the semantics slow and trusting the sufficiently smart compiler [2] to fix it has never worked in the past, and I don't see any evidence why this time should be different.

[1] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~techrep/CS-2001-12.pdf

[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler
I usually use V0, since that seems to be the best space-wise while still preserving awesome quality.
How do we know that incumbents are afraid of super PAC spending because it will create change and influence the population? Couldn't it just be that they are afraid of a super PAC dumping money into attack ads and an opponent's campaign if they go against the wishes of a special interest group?
>You can't regulate taking advantage of stupidity out of the market

While you are right that it cant be prevented, it can be made a lot harder using regulation (starting by having strict verifiable truth requirements in advertising and marketing).
Money <em>can't</em> by love, and if it could, it would not be the kind of love anyone wants. But money does provide greater opportunities for finding love; although it is saddle with the burden of also having to separate out the women who "love" instead of love.
It's a solution for a different time: a time when the code was distributed, where it could theoretically run anywhere, and be installed from anywhere. In that world, distributing one "intermediate-VM blob" which was then compiled to native on the client made a lot of sense.

Today, in the world of centralized app stores, there's an argument to be made for directly distributing compiled binaries as an optimization. It still makes sense to use an intermediate format as it allows the most compatibility (i.e. new hardware), but the app store itself could distribute binaries for known/supported handsets as an optimization (it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't already do this).
"Yes, there was a general breakdown in law and order during the transitional period in South Africa during the 1990's that wouldn't happen in other countries..."

Well, I don't know about that. I suggest you acquaint yourself with Russia in the nineties. :)
Baseless hype train, prepare for departure!

Headline engineer, confirm misleading title. (confirmed, sir!)

Conductor, ask all passengers to refrain from critical thinking (aye-aye!)

Marketing director, prepare ads and upsell links (done and done!)

Graphics, get some kind of circuitboard image up there. I don't care, something with wires and crap. Doesn't matter.

Blow the hype whistle!

WOOOOO
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Awesome, this will be very interesting reading. Can you provide the full url from which this pdf is referenced? I understand it is from the computer history museum site, but knowing from what specific article/page would be helpful to read about the context.
I think that's why it's best to know the percentage of the company you are being offered. Share count is meaningless without knowing total number of shares.

Once you know the percentage (say 0.1%), you can figure out some other stuff. Asking about the company's hopes to go public or be acquired, and at what valuations, can lead to a lot of good discussions.
Show HN: Memorising game written in famo.us for iOS/Android and the web.
538 branded itself on providing that level of rigor before getting the desired answers. This article feels really out of place for this particular source.
Thanks for the feedback. "Scam" was an attempt for a short word for "significantly more expensive than average". But it can be inaccurate in some cases.
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The keyword is "wrong" as in being married and happy for 10 years, then divorcing means the marriage was unsuccessful.

Perhaps we should rethink it as "we'll remain married as long as we are both happy in it."

Marriage may just not have to be forever.
You can plug a down converter into it so that the 2.4GHz is within range of the RTL-SDR device:

http://blog.cyberexplorer.me/2014/01/sniffing-and-decoding-n...
Operation Bojinka in the mid 1990s, involving Ramzi Yousef and KSM himself, was a similar plot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot

"The Path to 9/11" has a few historical inaccuracies but it provides a good dramatization of the key events in the 90s that led up to 9/11. It's well worth watching.
But what do you propose for that? Because in the world we live in, all attempts at some form of "wealth equality" led to either disaster or technological crippling.

Really? Progressive taxes and income tests for benefits have let to disaster and technological crippling?

More likely, the only attempts at "wealth equality" that you pay attention to are the ones that fail.
You're missing the negative externality: the person who couldn't get in because you're paying some scalping dick. And let's not forget the performers, who are interested in performing for their best fans, and who try to set ticket prices accordingly.
Why post stories behind a paywall?
With a 3-week incubation period as mentioned in the MSF letters, that doesn't sound so impossible...
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In Firefox, when I find a page that is beautifully inaccessible:

View/Page Style/No Style

which gives me beautiful, high contrast black on white, and text that flows fully within the borders of the browser without having to scroll sideways.
yup, from wikipedia:

> mIRC is part of the communication infrastructure of the US military,[15] which includes controlling unmanned airstrikes from the DGS-4 in Ramstein Air Base.[16][17]
> Why can't a compressor perfectly re-compress the decompressed audio?
> It's obviously possible since the compressed data exists producing that specific decompressed data.

It's not granted that a compressor c1, that given A produces Az that decompress with d1 to A', can easily find any Ax that compress to Az, or equivalently can easily find Az given A'.

Formulated like that it doesn't seem quite so obvious: finding Az from A' amounts[1] to finding A from Az -- ie: lossless compression.

> Although a lot of BluRay rips are re-encoded and seem quite usable. Even the YiFY stuff at 1GB/hour or so.

Usable at any given viewing/listening set-up != actually remotely "good enough". I always say people shouldn't buy more expensive hi-fi gear than what they can actually tell apart -- the one problem with that (apart from people not being honest with themselves, optioning for the more expensive stuff anyway) is that when you're used to listening to crappy audio, you stop being able to tell the difference.

It's like listening to an FM radio that's slightly off station -- after a few hours, you probably don't notice anything wrong, until a new person walks into the room and adjusts it to be better.

Another point -- while BluRay certainly isn't lossless -- when you're talking the kind of compression/quality differences you mention (not sure what regular bluray films are, but if they max out at 48mbit/s for AV, that's by my calculations about 20GB/h) -- 1:20 -- I think you'd be hard pressed to notice any "additional" artefacts. It would be like comparing a raw/flac audio file compressed first to 320 kbps vbr mp3, and then compressed down to 16 kbs mp3, versus just doing the compression to 16 kpbs mp3 (well order of magnitude is correct, obviously this is going to be mostly cutting into the video data, but still). Just something to keep in mind.

[1] Ok, "may almost amount to".