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So glad we got that healthcare problem all buttoned up in America over the past six years.

Would anyone have to have a fundraiser in any other "1st world" country for medical problems?

But hey let's go spend billions on more wars, bomb the billions in equipment we bought for Iraq and then buy more equipment to replace it for Iraq.

ps. it is funny how people forget Steve Jobs started out committing felonies without ever getting prosecuted

pps. apparently what he really needs is a fundraiser to publish a book he has been working on, including a chapter on Woz
Interesting - the main value of school is signalling and networking. The actual (expensive) education isn't really needed.

If Thiel recognized this, he might try to give people a way to get the signal/network without college, thereby saving lots of money and cutting out the middleman. If he wanted to be arrogant, he might name it the Thiel Fellowship.
This is not procrastination, this is late-binding ;)
Been hearing a lot about Zero to One. Time for my kindle to wake up and get me Zero to one.
Expect this to happen on more services, too. Rackspace customer are reporting uncontrollable downtimes (because the physical hardware is down) ranging from "a few minutes" to "six hours." Search twitter for [rackspace reboot].

Also, since Rackspace didn't communicate it that effectively: if you're on their first-gen infrastructure (your servers have an asterix next to them in the list), you won't get rebooted. I had to hear this from a fellow customer who heard it from support, as I was searching my inbox frantically wondering why they hadn't given me a heads-up about an incoming-any-minute-now reboot yet.
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> I have serious doubts they would ever block certain sites for business reasons.

Comcast and other ISPs have blocked (by massively reducing the data rate) entire PROTOCOLS, in this case BitTorrent. Irrespective if you downloaded a Linux ISO or the latest fetish porn movie.
> I'm the editor of one of the parts of it

Any thoughts about or contributions to http://stepcode.org/ by any chance?
I dont know - I read them both - I thought both books were pretty interesting ... although I thought that Average is Over focused too much on the Chess examples. Zero to One was good because it was short - I thought the only real "new" big idea was software monopolies can be "positive"
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I found my operating system class very enlightening, although doing virtual memory was not fun... Implementing FAT 12 was an enjoyable challenge.

Though ultimately I have no plans to get into the kernel space for development.
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Their competition Neato has, in my opinion, a more interesting platform to hack on, mostly due to the fact that the device has a LIDAR sensor on top.

http://www.neatorobotics.com/resources/programmersmanual_201...
http://xv11hacking.wikispaces.com/
You're missing some big ones, I think. In the last few years protest movements have effected regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Ukraine. Those transitions have been at all smooth, but it's hard to claim the protests in each of those cases weren't hugely influential.

The protests in Ferguson, MO are still playing out so it's hard to say what exactly the effects will be, but I suspect not nothing.

In Hong Kong protests in 2003 helped stop the passage of a security law restricting activity that the mainland Chinese government doesn't like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1_July_marches). More recently protests helped prevent a "moral education" bill from being passed here also.

In general I think it's a bit shortsighted to look at protest movements and think they're ineffective because many of them do not produce change. Protests are (generally) a way for people without a lot of political power to have their voices heard. They're going to fail a lot of the time, because protest movements start when people don't have other kinds of leverage or power.

Also, I think it's important to remember that at least part of the goal of a protest movement is getting attention. The Occupy Wall Street protests didn't directly change much, but they did create a national (and international) conversation about equality that didn't really exist before. It's a lot harder to evaluate that kind of indirect result, but I think it would be a mistake to discount it. (The OWS protests also spurred the creation of Occupy Central, one of the organizations that's leading these protests in Hong Kong.)
I learned about the Beale ciphers in the 80s and wrote a simple program to try deciphering ciphers one and three using a given key text. I think it's probably a hoax, but the codes are fun to play around with.
" Draper himself doesn't even know who started the fundraiser, but the money is intended to help with his medical bills"

If he doesn't know who started it, how do we know the money will actually get to him?
I for one am waiting for the looting of LV and Gucci bags.

It's going to be epic.
I think he believes, like most successful people, that he had inherent skill and talent and those qualities pre-destined him for success.
I understand you may be frustrated but would you mind emailing me at suhail@mixpanel.com? I'd like to look into why we missed picking up your email so we can fix a bigger issue we might have. We are really serious about our customer support so this really surprises me and likely surprises my support team.

I am really sorry that we messed up here.
Ha, BeOS, whenever I watch one of these https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beos+demo I feel as amazed as sad.
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Well, it's actually well within their right to do that as a business. It's also well within your right, as a customer not to do business with them. However, this whole situation would be solved if we just focused on what was important, like I said: fixing the monopoly problem rather than the "net neturality" problem, if it even is one.
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The real deal is much harder on the eyes than the emulator, the interlacing flashes are a headache. With the right emulator settings it's actually gorgeous and looks pixel perfect. You can actually play 10 players with the emulator, but I haven't tried it yet. I literally just discovered this yesterday, so I'm going to figure out what controllers to buy soon. 10 wired Saturn controllers was a mess, I'm hoping Bluetooth will work.
Two thing come to mind as a starting point: Negotiation and focusing on building Hong Kong's economy.

Negotiation: The truth is, HK politics is very much like American politics. It consists of people blocking any progress on anything because the two sides are so deeply divided. Instead, I suggest making an honest effort to negotiate and take things step by step. For example, the central issue to the protests - the universal suffrage framework described in the Basic Law is strictly better than the current system. Accepting it while signaling that something even better is desired and will continue to be brought up would have been more productive. (Note that the whitepaper came out after the threat to occupy central).

Economy - One of the subtexts of the whole issue is Hong Kong's decreasing relevance in relation to China and indeed on the world stage. The stronger HK is, the more leverage HK has. Instead, real wages are barely increasing, rent continues to skyrocket, and there is basically no economy besides finance - and in that HK's competitive advantage shrinks every year. Instead of saying things like "we are willing to sacrifice the economy if it gives us true democracy", I think it should be accepted that destroying the economy is not likely going to get democrats what they want, and that a better economy would a) free up more people to be able to worry about politics rather than just putting food on the table, and b) make China think harder about killing the golden goose.

Occupy Wallstreet was a game of brinksmanship, but unfortunately that only works when both sides have something to lose. China has nothing to lose today.
Pretty crazy, all the things the WC3 scene produced. Like, multimillion dollar gaming sub-genres (tower defense, MOBAs, etc). Glad to see you're still making games!
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To add one more point to the discussion... after reading Zero to One, I found that I had a renewed interest it thinking about "big idea stuff" / futurology, etc. I had a realization that I've been pretty negligent about reading up on stuff which purports to talk about "the future to come" and ideas about the kinds of things that Thiel's "definite optimists" might want to work on.

Now futurology is clearly not without it's own issues, and we all know that it is damn hard to make predictions (well, accurate ones anyway) about the future. But I think if nothing else I've been reminded that it's a good idea to at least make some effort to keep up with what the "futurist" crowd are talking about, and also to pull my head up from time to time and look around in domains other than my particular current niche. Materials science? Yay! Energy? Yay! Artificial biology? Yay!

Of course it may be the case that nothing comes from any of this, but it strikes me that it's probably important for an entrepreneur (or would be entrepreneur) to make some effort to stay abreast of this stuff. So I finally finished The Singularity is Near and started looking for good futurist blogs to subscribe to. I feel like I should probably also start reading those "general purpose" science magazines (Sci Am, Discover, Popular Science, New Scientist, etc.) again as well.

What do you guys think? Do you make it a point to keep up with forward looking "stuff" outside of your own domain, or read any "futurist" writing?
Same content sans absurd paywall.

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/headlines/2014...
Interesting, I'm gonna watch this just for him. As a Maya user, I think the people at AW were as high end as a team can possibly be. They were doing magic to my poor pentiumII.
There are important signals that come out of academic success, like the ability to do something hard over a long period of time, that are difficult to easily replicate without doing something that is essentially school-like.
I was wondering why they're using the Occupy brand. Is it now just used for everything remotely related to protests?
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I should probably have laid the sarcasm on a bit thicker.
His answer to "Are you wealthy?" is sobering, as I would not naively have expected destitution for someone with his technical ability or status as an early Apple employee.

We're presently in the best market of the history of ever, but I think young engineers should be prudent about recognizing that we too will eventually be old some day. Make sure you've got a plan for it.
I wish someone would attempt an accurate clone of this game. I don't know of a 10 player version that would work on the Pi, certainly not the Saturn version.
How the hell did Vizio make a $999 4K TV?
I don't get it. If a server restarts, don't you just get a different one? Why is that disruptive?

At work every machine reboots at least every month. Everything is designed to cope with that reality.
At the climate change protest in NYC (over 300k in attendance), there seemed to be consensus & understanding of the necessary systemic change.

A complaint about Occupy Wall Street is there was not much unity. There seems to be unity & respect among the groups now.
There's value in having someone else do something for you. Eating at a restaurant is a basic example.

When there's risk involved, you're willing to pay even more. Hiring an electrician or plumber. And the value goes up the more risk there is, just like an insurance premium.

But value can go through the roof when there's a potential for gain on the line. Especially coming from a credible source with a proven track record of success. How much would you pay for a machine that spit out $2 for every $1 you put into it? Even if the total cost of that machine's parts was only $40?

A good consultant can analyze a business, figure out what needs to change, write some decent content, bring it all together in a theme forest template, set up so e traffic sources, and add 5, 6, or 7 figures to a business's bottom line.

Plus, if you're too cheap, they might not even consider you. Would you buy a $20 car? You'd be very skeptical and ask a lot of questions. There's even the weird pricing trough where you just assume it's a scam and move on.

All that to say that charging $500 is more than reasonable. I usually charge 6x-10x more for a superficially similar service (consulting plus template setup and customization). It's all about how you position your service, and what benefit you can guarantee your client.
> So glad we got that healthcare problem all buttoned up in America over the past six years.

"Politics is the art of the possible." — Otto von Bismarck (attributed)

When one side is opposing a plan it originated, how can anyone make progress?

> But hey let's go spend billions on more wars, bomb the billions in equipment we bought for Iraq and then buy more equipment to replace it for Iraq.

This is only relevant if you have to placate deficit hawks who don't put a priority on medical spending.
Well they're literally occupying Central, the financial district, aka Hong Kong's Wall Street.
Same problem here. I recommend having a far higher limit on free users. Maybe you can also charge less if the growth rate of active users is less than x% per month. They won't have money to pay anyway without traction.
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Did you bother to read either of the other comments in this thread before posting? Not only are the reboots of every system happening simultaneously and taking up to hours to complete, the specific issue the post links to is affected by networking issues.
Replace "environment variables" by "command line arguments", and the issue is essentially the same
While your opinion is a fair and valid one, you're extremely mean person on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nbevans
Thanks. Url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/28/amid-crackdowns-protestors-....
This is a little different from the usual "virtual server goes down" scenario. This is presumably to patch the new undisclosed Xen bug so the actual physical machines running the virtual servers need to go down.
I'm from Chinese mainland, a student at Shanghai.there is not even a piece of information about this leaked to the mainstream media. many of my classmates managed to get information from multiple sources but more have no idea what happened.

it's quite strange that the blocking turns a political event into a technical one.

I'm not a 100% supporter for the protest, but I extremely dislike the government's passion of blocking everying. it makes me feel hopeless in the country knowing more and more interesting things are becoming far away from us.
The Hard Thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz seemed to me to be a more focused book, especially if you are reading it to find more about business and startups, Thiel's book is very good, but he tends to deviate from the main subject too much for me.
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> The benefit of using a language that, at _worst_, is as productive as Java, and at best miles better?

I completely disagree with this. If "productive" means fewer lines of code -- then yes. But for a large-scale project, productive usually means code that another developer can understand quickly, and by that metric I think Scala loses big-time.

> I have trouble finding any non-deployment-related argument against Scala in the Scala vs. Java comparison.

Then either you haven't had enough experience with Scala (not on your own, but in a large team[1]) or you haven't looked. I and many others can list plenty, but I've said much of that before, and you can find a lot of other people's experiences online. In the end, it all comes down to tradeoffs, and you can find many valid arguments for both preferences.

[1]: It can be argued that almost no one had (and neither have I) because Scala hasn't been around long enough, but overseeing development of (non-Scala) software that needs to last for at least a decade, as well as the later evolution of similar projects, it quickly became clear (to me, at least) that Scala isn't a great fit for such projects (at least not for many developers). People had a harder time understanding Scala code that was written by another team member a week earlier than Java code written 7 years earlier. While you certainly can be too clever in Java if you put in enough effort, it's waaay to easy in Scala. You can immediately see how the programmer became too bored of the actual problem they had to solve and decided to amuse themselves by playing with the language. This is something I've seen happen in C++ projects too, but to a lesser extent. I can guess that part of the reason is that when almost everyone was using C++, the internet, and certainly blogs, weren't so widespread and influential, so the really clever tricks couldn't spread so quickly. Also, when C++'s harm became apparent, discipline was quickly enforces in many organizations, and it was much easier to enforce discipline over C++ developers back then, than over Scala developers today, because many of those are cowboys to begin with. Still, maintaining long-lived C projects is easier than maintaining C++ projects, so much so that many wish they had chosen C over C++ when they first began development.
There have been various oss clones, surely one must have ARM support. If you've a cheap X86 device, atomic bomberman supports 10 players.
I used to use the swi-prolog semantic web tools heavily. Very good stuff.

The cleopatria semantic web server is interesting, but I have just played with it. The core RDF storage and inference get libraries were solid and nice to use.
You really think big projects didn't branch or merge before git was developed?
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I'd appreciate such a blog post.

I've used the geometric route for drawing Julia sets, but I don't know how you would do that for the Mandelbrot set, what with a different constant being added for each point and all.
You can do a prototype, and try to convince like that. Or just do your own thing and don't mention any paradigm labels.

Or you can look for a more enlightened employer. Mine is hiring, for example.
Very unclear; it says "The device" -- speaking of the catalyst/electrode system that does the electrolysis -- "uses novel, relatively high-voltage solar cells to generate the needed electricity." Why? If you need a higher voltage, you connect more cells in series. Or, for experimental purposes, you connect to a transformer plugged into the wall.

I do not see why the special and apparently short-lived perovskite solar cells are a necessary part of a new type of electrolysis system.
That's fine, but if (and I have no idea if this is the case here) their reason for not wanting to switch to a new source control system is mere stubbornness, they might find that switching to a more efficient source control system frees them up to write even more good code, fix more bugs, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_and_the_Occupy_...

...in case people forget about the clean up needed in their own backyard first.
i used to read tyler cowens blog a long time ago and visit it sometimes. started out impressed but soon realized he is good as an aggregator of interesting bits.

if even the sentences happen to be the same, i prefer to listen to someone who has real world experience building companies vs just economists whose being wrong has no direct impact on themselves. skin in the game and all that.
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every startup/mid-size company I worked/contracted for went through the same thing: Flurry sucks -> MixPanel too expensive -> Back to Flurry or GA.
Yes I read both of those rather uninformative posts and the OP. What fraction of servers are going down at once? What fraction of VMs are not scheduled?
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> “Privacy comes at a cost,”

Uhh, no it doesn't. Not in today's world of backlash against Facebook, iCloud leaks, and NSA spying. Privacy is now paramount, and must be built into the bedrock of any system to be trusted by the public.

The masses are not quick to move, but I'm pretty sure they understand the need for privacy and security, now that some of their favourite celebs have been so thoroughly violated on the web.

That's actually quite an offensive, bald-faced comment that they fully intend to ransom your personal info unless you pay.
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All next-gen (i.e. created within the last 20 months) servers are being rebooted at an undeterminable time within a 3-4 hour window, the window specific to the datacenter they're in. No next-gen servers are not being rebooted.
It's not mentioned by name on this page but the HDTV standard in question bears little resemblance to any in use today. Hi-Vision (hence the Hi-) was an analog 1125-line HD standard. There were MUSE high definition LaserDiscs full a decade before anyone was buying Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, and this game was a public method to promote the standard.

More reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sub-Nyquist_sampling_e...

http://ura.caldc.com/stannum/hivision.html

http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/muse_hig...

http://www.lddb.com/list.php?format=laserdisc&list=muse
Verizon FIOS effectively blocks Netflix RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

There is no question about it, they setup their network specifically to reduce completion between Netflix and their own video services. Perhaps if we had completion that might not happen, and perhaps in that same magical la la land if I could see the future I would win the lottery.

Shooting your self in the face on principle might make you feel better. But, please don't pretend it's a reasonable response to the situation at hand.

PS: Yada, Yada. If you really want to troll people on this man up and use your actual account.
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