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Wikipedia has a good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating

More seriously, I'm a foreigner and I live in a college town so I get many opportunities to meet foreigners. Indians also tend to view me more as a source of novelty sex rather than as a real relationship [1]. US/Africa culture gaps are also a LOT smaller than US/India or Africa/India culture gaps which sometimes makes things easier.

[1] I'm not moralizing or criticizing nor am I particularly averse. One night stands are great. I'm merely at a place where companionship is as important to me as sex.

[edit: I should clarify that I'm an American, I currently live in India, and "foreigner" = "not Indian".]
The world doesn't owe you property rights either. It takes force and coersion to enforce whatever guarantees and protections you feel you are entitled to under "your" system of property.

And if you claim it does, why can't I claim that the government should also, say, help ensure my right to life through emergency medical care in a hospital? After all it's a really barbaric society by 21st century standards that lets a man die if it means that no other man doesn't have to give up 2% of his fiat currency.

Taxes are the cost of doing business in a jurisdiction. It would be the same if you got rid of states and had some ther kind of organizations. In an ancap utopia, you'd iust pay rents instead of taxes. You'd still pay the mall, and the "city" or its equivalent and stillabide by the rules. If the city land was privately owned and administered by a top-down corporation that wouldnt get rid of force. Corporations would hire security firms and mercenaries just like they donow to "restrict your freedom" in their buildings.

In short there's nothing magical about states or property rights. If you had other organizatonal structures they'd still have to enFORCE their policies / laws and still have a management team / government. Corporations, co-ops, neighborhoods etc all have these things. They all have to be run somehow and enforce the policies.

And finally, once we gotoff the gold standard we got an elasti fiat currency that could ecpand with the increase in goods and services produced. That means less deflation and less hoarding (how often did you spend your bitcoins when they were going up in value?) And on top of this we have M2 money issued by banks, and then we have consumer credit etc. This means that good ideas such as by entrepreneurs like yourself can get funded. Then we also have limited liability and bankruptcy protections which helps startups form (less of that in Europe).

Finally the govt can just print fiat money to pay for this which doesnt "force" anyone.
This is totally normal. Don't worry about it. Embrace the diversity of humanity and redeeming qualities of this person. Trust that the others in this situation recognize the same things you do, but that out of etiquette and pragmatism, it's not something they want/need to address. Tech draws eccentric people.
This is based on feelings and not fact, just the response to what I've read in this post, and these comments.

Your insights make me feel that a deflationary economy might be better, we're always running, rushing, we can't stop, we have to work harder all the time. To not move forward is to make less money, to be able to not afford this year what you could last year because the peg is always moving. A deflationary environment still rewards workers, because the dollars are worth more, but doesn't punish you for not constantly struggling. If you've gotten a house and you're happy where you are you won't have to worry about not being able to afford it in the future. Without being able to get into debt we would be forced to learn good saving habits.

In this inflationary environment, with a limited savings and limited ability to invest my value is constantly going down no matter how hard I work or how much I learn I am worth less every day than I was the day before. My minutes are worth less, my hours, my free time is worthless now. If you don't job hop, stay in one spot, if you made $100k as a software dev in the 90s, which wasn't out of the question, and you still make $100k now, you're making a whole lot less money.
This is something that I've wrestled with when working with meteor, how do you execute privileged queries from the client? You can do a 'Meteor.call' to execute code on the server, but there is no way to shield the user from accessing the parameters used in the query.

Traditionally, you would use a cookie on the client to authenticate and trigger the 'privileged' query during the http request cycle. As far as I can tell there is no way to do this with Meteor. Another way to phrase it is there is no authenticated server-side state modeling the client.
I was using the word "parts" very loosely. In large systems, a problem might not be the fault of any specific part(s), but the result of complex interaction among parts. If so, that interaction as a whole, rather than its individual components, would be the "part" that is evil or buggy or (insert appropriately negative expression here).

Systems based on faulty architectures tend to be the most difficult to fix, since changing the basic architecture will affect nearly everything else. But even in such cases, it's not helpful to claim that the system as a whole is evil. If the architecture is bad, the architecture is bad. Anything more or less than that is hyperbole.
You're dead on. We started work on Batman some time ago now - options then were quite limited.
Yeah, permaculture is interesting, but heavily biased towards agriculture. I'm also not sure if it takes a civilization-level view. Are current permaculture techniques a viable method for replacing industrial agriculture? Can they produce enough calories per acre to feed the projected world population on the projected amount of arable land? Can it function with the available manpower in our hypothetical civilization? Modern agriculture directly employees something like 1-3% of the population; do you need 10-20% engaged in permaculture growing food, or 80-150%?
Considering a lot of the audience is Linux admins here what are you referring to?
Talks being presented by one person is key. Large panels almost always lack narrative. Single person, or well rehearsed dual-speaker presentations usually have key takeaways that make the talk memorable.

SXSW is particularly bad when it comes to panel discussions. Typically one organizer has a few half-baked talking points while the other participants haven't prepared whatsoever.
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Ask HN: How do you (or your parents) organize family photos?
Juts had this problem:

My mom: "I want to go through all our family photos and select few photos to print and make a physical album."

Currently, our family photos are scattered across our phones, digital cameras, and old backup dropbox account I made few years back.

Is there a good way for her to somehow go through all those photos and somehow sort them?

(my mom is not tech savvy. she doesn't know how to close a tab on a browser. that concept just goes over her head. so does the concept of filesystem, or file/directory for that matter.)
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I think many people who have been seriously involved in medicine will tell you that there's many low hanging fruit in medicine that are being missed because misaligned incentive structures in the health care sector- This project sounds like a possible example of this.

We can only hope that a few well-capitalized companies like Google can have the vision to see these low hanging fruit, and will be able to bear the near-term risks and costs and take some difficult steps to reap some significant profits over a longer term.
Someone at work told me Windows 10 is also going to have virtual desktops.
Haven't verified.

I did play with a release preview of 10. It was actually OK in a brief 5 minute survey. I won't ever use it for day to day stuff, (I'm a Linux user), but its nice to see them at least appearing to make an effort. I think most of us in the field are at some level negatively impacted when Microsoft engages in evil/stupid behavior, so it's nice when they come out with something good which they do from time to time.
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cf. John Boyd and the OODA Loop : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
WSUS maybe?
"The theory being that no matter what the issues are, the most hysterical side is probably incorrect" Fedor laughed.

What a great observation. I'm going to try to pay more attention to this in the future.
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Disk speed had a lot of relevance in the day when RAM was constantly being swapped out. I honestly can't remember if this timeframe would qualify.
Wondering the same thing. In addition to incidents like this, every once in a while, a story pops up that describes how programming error was the cause of rocket crash that happened TWENTY years ago... How? Just how can people be sure that it was programming error? It's not like you can debug a burnt piece of a microcontroller, can you?

Guess we've come a long way from a magnifying glass investigations :)
I certainly agree about the value of online conference videos. I've paid for them in the past and often turn to them on the web when I'm looking for info or solutions. And yea +1 for watching at double speed, 3x... that's pushing it. ;)

That said, it's easier for me to motivate myself to actually consume talks if I attend a conference. Which is to say, I seldom make time to watch talks on my own. My problem, for sure, but I think of conferences as retreats for catching up on tech. So that, in addition to the the human interactions and the experiential zeitgeist that comes with attendance make conferences still seem worthwhile for me.
"A deflationary environment still rewards workers, because the dollars are worth more, but doesn't punish you for not constantly struggling."

It's true you get a small raise each year. But from the business owner's perspective, their costs go up each year. The salary stays the same number but you're paying them more. As you can charge less for your products (deflation means prices fall), you get less money to pay your employee with. So how do you stay in business?

And your employees find it hard to leave because other companies can't match their salary. So it hurts the flexibility of labor to move to more suitable jobs. The result is a stifling and suffocating business environment. Many companies go out of business during deflation.
is talking about the Quantum key distribution. I think trying to explain it in a easy way. The phrase has more sense if you paste the second part of the text.

> Qlink.it is inspired in Quantum Encryption, but it is a classical object. qlink gets self-destructed after being clicked, as an electron wave function collapses after being measured, and this feature allows the recipient to be certain that the message has not been intercepted.
Thanks for the answers.

I will say that I do really like the syntax of coffeescript as is though,

div className: 'container',
span className: 'foo'
CustomClass classname: 'bar'

It reminds me a lot of slim and reads nicely.
Ouch. A lot of rocket fuel burning all at once. I would be less concerned if this was the first or second flight but as the fifth flight one has to wonder what part of the process didn't work. This was apparently the first flight with the Castor 30XL which is the second stage, I suppose if it started its burn prematurely that would certainly be an issue.

As a testing problem, rockets have always fascinated me. At some level you have to trust in first principles but being so thorough so that you know will either fly or fail safe. That has got to keep folks up at night.
I would put it in the context of effective altruism: take the time you spend each week neatly sorting your cardboard and bottles instead of throwing them in the trash, and instead spend that time participating in a PAC to lobby your local shipping company to use reclaimed materials in their boxes.
I don't understand why you are getting downvoted. There was some obvious snark in your comment, but I am also not clear on how else Google could monetize this product unless it is through the use of the collected data?
Money quote from the article:

The new admin would make a return to more classic architecture with some modernizations. Our approach would be ERB views and server-side rendering, with the use of Turbolinks, and a lightweight custom JavaScript binding system. This allowed us to tackle problems of code duplication and developer productivity in a single blow.

As always, the devil is in the details and I'm looking forward to seeing what their JS binding system looks like, but the pendulum appears to be swinging back towards server-side rendering and models, even amongst the cool kids.

I have been working on a small library for doing HTML partial AJAX programming, using fairly straight-forward HTML attributes and traditional server side rendering (plus some goodies like custom HTTP header support, timers, etc.):

http://intercoolerjs.org

I'm using it successfully in a few projects and very much enjoy the simplicity of the whole approach when contrasted with full MVC systems.
I had something I'd wanted to say but it got lost in the above post. I'm just now remembering what that was so I'll try again to explain it.

You don't actually need any information or experience to pass through to the next generation for behavior today to affect long-term evolution. Even if the only thing that's going on is that a population is using social learning to bring individuals closer to their genetic potential in one way, that way will be selected for in future generations. The genome itself could acquire adaptations during life, and those adaptations will then pass to their offspring. One would expect these 'mutations' to be really small, but add up quickly over successive generations.
Looking forward to seeing it. Lots of room for innovation in the entertainment industry.

I have a small web app for low budget filmmakers that a hesitate to call a startup (I think rocket growth might be particularly hard to achieve in the production side of the industry). More of a business in its infancy.

Best of luck to you.
> it doesn't define you, it defines them.

Brilliant observation.
If I forgot everything then it probably would be easier to learn new programming technologies. On the other hand I might have also forgotten why programming is cool.

Computers still amaze me; I'd jump right back in.
> the reason mildly inflationary economies are commonly preferred by most governments is that, on the balance, it optimizes incentives to maximize real investment

(Yes, the economy runs "hotter" with more risky investments, and more activity in general. Is this actually what we want while simultaneously talking about conserving energy? Also, inflation allows the government to implement a huge hidden tax, fund activities without a fiscal check, and directly distribute that money to government-connected private entities. I couldn't let this perverse incentive become obscured by a faulty implicit assumption that governments optimize for the interests of their citizens - I realize it was not your main point.)

When talking about economic affects on individuals, the problem with investing is it is only an option available to the upper class. Investing requires time and applied intelligence, otherwise it's called gambling. Furthermore, investments have a large overhead to deposit/withdraw.

The poor don't care about inflation, since incoming==outgoing. And the rich don't care much since managing investment is worthwhile, and their inflating liquid assets are a smaller fraction of their wealth.

These problems hit the middle class - they do not have enough savings to make it worthwhile to manage the investment (blindly throwing money at the Wall Street Casino is not investing), so they lose out. In order to have economic bargaining power, they need to keep a relatively larger chunk in liquid cash, which gets eaten away at a disproportionate rate.

So they're forced to choose between the two suboptimal strategies - act poor, spend all of their income, and enjoy their life in the present (while never gaining economic bargaining power to negotiate more favorably with their employer). Or to save, pretending to invest while giving their gains away to professional managers, and feeling poor the entire time as any wealth is illiquid.
Thanks for your perspective David.

On re-reading maybe I personalised those comments a bit too much or it comes out as litany of excuses which was not what I intended. Just wanted to let Kevin know what makes the Indian/Asian mkt different since he specifically asked for it.

1) Yep, that occurred to me & I started that process before YC results. (got rejected by YC btw)

2) Talent yes. Bottom ranking in start/ease of doing biz more than overcompensates for the talent part IMO.

3) Not necessarily. Our RBI/customs/payments by design at govt policy itself is screwed - much of it I don't understand. So yeah if you are a veteran in finance/payment domain with ministries in your rolodex and money to plough in for years - maybe. High risk, decade-long timeline, but ultrahigh payoff kind of bet if one can pull it off.

4) Working visa & HackerRank. This is exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks. PG has said multiple times that they insist on entire team to be physically there. And I can understand why from YC's pov.

5) Agreed. I overshot on that remark.

7) Yes, read her story. Very inspiring. That's what keeps us going.

Thanks again for your response and hope you got in for the interviews? Don't see email in your profile. Can you ping on mine?
Should Kim Kardashian even be onstage at a tech conference?
Yea, I am a fan of the dual-speaker "ideas person + implementation person" format of talk. That often works well. As in:

"And now I'm going to hand off to my partner who can explain what's going on under the hood..."
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The town of Chincoteague is a few miles away from the pad. I'm guessing the worst impact there was some windows got rattled by the shockwave from the destruction of the 2nd stage.
As someone inside academic science, I think the only good thing it does is give people a place to think for a few years with relatively few distractions before they can go into industry or form a startup and actually get things done.

If you want to consider a problem in great depth before launching a startup to attack it, definitely go to grad school and do science for 4-5 years. If you think you have a good idea forget about grad school and just launch. (Obviously doesn't apply to things like bio where you need a lot of equipment, but as DIY science becomes more tractable this will go away.)
If you are not a White or Asian male, don't even bother. Someone needs to start a fund for African Americans.
This is great news and I applaud the work. The state of open source for geospatial geometry has frequently been fragmented and dodgy at best so this effort to unify it are a step forward. PostGIS is the crown jewel of open source for GIS processing but a broader set of tools is much needed.

The only caveat looking at this is that the geometry computation is not suitable for some types of geospatial analytics. This has been a persistent gap in open source geospatial tools. The challenge is that closing this gap is a pretty esoteric topic in applied mathematics that only a handful of people are really qualified to address and few of them seem to be contributing to open source. Still, any progress is good.
Nice read! I'll keep that link as a digestable intro to population dynamics. I now think our misunderstanding is merely semantic.

I'm talking about physical growth (the growth of measurable quantities in a system through time, e.g. population counts). This would of course be net growth, as an individual dying off would reduce the count.

You seem to using "growth" as "replacement rate". Of course the replacement rate must be non-zero, but that says nothing about the net growth rate.

>It does NOT mean that the individual members of the species aren't growing exponentially

Wait… individuals grow exponentially? https://what-if.xkcd.com/77/ :)

>There are many examples of species that stopped growing exponentially, or lost the ability to do so. They're all extinct.

That's true. It's also true that any element that never stops growing exponentially (again, net growth) is bound for the same fate.
So let's say you are an entrepreneur and you want to open a small business. You need a small loan to cover your startup costs which you can repay with your proceeds.

And flip the coin, you are a bank with cash in your vault which is basically the depositors money.

Now as the bank your deposits become more valuable by doing nothing, than they do by lending them out to the entrepreneur to start his business. So you go with the 'safe' choice, you sit on the money.

The Entrepreneur either can't get a loan, or has to pay an extortionate interest rate because the bank doesn't care, if they don't lend they win.

People stop buying large purchases like dryers or refrigerators because if they just wait long enough the price will come down and they can get a much better refrigerator for their money. So large appliances and other large investments (cars for example) sit unsold, that idles factory workers since there is plenty of stock in the market place. So they get laid off.

Deflation has the effect of contracting the economy, modest inflation tends to expand it.