skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That may be, but his opinion of his wife's "ability" isn't exactly unbiased.... And I'm sure he has access to vast more amounts of evidence about founders than I do, but that doesn't mean he knows how to correctly analyze the evidence or won't look at the evidence with partisan eyes.

And if you're going to come into the thread and question that based on a handful of examples of people you've never met personally but have only heard about through the media, whose side am I supposed to take, exactly? As little basis as pg might have to make general statements about the character of most startup founders (and programmers, and professors), you have even less, because you're just going off what you hear in the media, and "<<founder of massively successful startup>> is a nice guy" is not a story that gets many clicks.

Are most successful startup founders nice people? Are mean people less likely to be successful in startups? Maybe. Paul Graham says so, you say no, and from where I'm sitting Paul Graham has the more educated opinion. But from the perspective of someone reading the essay, I'm willing to say: I don't have any evidence to disagree with you, and it's kind of interesting to see where you go exploring why that might be the case whether than making a futile attempt to prove a point that almost nobody has the evidence to argue for or against either way. Which isn't to say I believe your premise on blind faith, but I'm willing to accept it for the sake of argument and let you get to your real point.
I've sort of been assuming that Julia is capable of inlining the vectorized notation into a single traversal over the array, at least for simple types. Is that not true?

EDIT: Not yet, I guess. http://pastebin.com/Tw5PuCcJ
Psychedelics have a tendency to amplify whatever is already going on in your mind. If you're already feeling depressed or anxious you can be in for a bad time. Sometimes they can help you work through things like this. But I've had more than a few friends with predispositions to depression or mental illness take a bad turn after experimenting with mind-altering drugs.

I strongly advise caution to anyone trying to self-medicate like this.
> This is the dbus post I'm referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648437

Oh right, somebody looked at the spec for 15 minutes, mis-read it completely (confusing the authentication protocol with the actual IPC protocol) and wrote a blog rant about their failure in reading comprehension. Very compelling.

> The fact that you even NEED a (crappy) doc is a sign it doesn't use the Unix design philosophy.

So HTTP is against the UNIX philosophy too? Or did you also happen to implement that without ever looking at the specification?

> In contrast, look at the Debian Control File format, which apt metadata is stored in.

In other words, apples make better apple juice than oranges.

> That reason being: you simply end up with less code when your systems are modular and composable.

You seem to be under the mis-apprehension that monolithic is somehow an antonym of modular. systemd is both modular and monolithic (in your meaning of that term).
This is easily one of the best contributions I've read in HN in the last month regarding Uber. Nothing beats someone who has actual experience (for better or worse).
Robinson is a fantastic author at conveying "a sense of place" - particularly Mars, of course. I fell in love with Mars because of Robinson, unrequited love of course - Blues for the Red Planet indeed....

Also, I also loved his book Antarctica which is effectively "White Mars" - at least there is a chance of visiting incredible places like the Airdevronsix icefall - arguably the largest waterfall on this planet (5km wide and 400m high):

http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/An/Antarctica/Antarctic...
For those down voting, there are about 1500 new cases a week currently of which say 1000 will die. If you delay using the vaccine for a couple of years while doing normal phase 2 and 3 trials then even with linear growth that would be approx 100,000 nasty deaths. In comparison about the worst that has happened using vaccines too early was about 20 people killed in by the early polio vaccines and accidental deaths now would probably be about zero given better science. Would it be worth having 100,000 extra deaths so conventional procedures can be respected? Why not proceed in
a way calculated to minimise overall deaths and suffering?
So how is your compiler business today? Was it ever even remotely competitive with Microsoft strategy? no ? Thought so.

In fact you might call yourself lucky for not going into business with MS, or you would end up like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendo
I'm afraid everyone giving robber barons and their ilk as counter-examples is misreading the essay. PG states that he works on the premise that a new non-zero-sum game of wealth creation is afoot, as exemplified by tech startups. In this specific context, being non-mean significantly improves success odds.

Everyone focuses on the last statement but misses the premise, which is a recurring theme in Graham's essays.
Regarding ETA times - They were really, really good on the Peninsula in the bay area - over 50 or so rides, and ETA of 5-15 minutes would usually be within 2 minutes of the correct time.

Here in Dubai - they are ludicrously incorrect. I'll see a "8 minute ETA" that turns out to be 35 minutes, more often than not.

This seems to be a very solvable problem. During certain hours, traffic is very slow. I've only been here a month, but I can tell you at 3:30 - 4:30, you need to add about 15-20 minutes if you are going near the interchange at Wafi Mall - That's without even taking into account the various traffic flow indicators that I'm sure Uber has access to.
Right, so i said the idea was decent, but the anecdotal evidence of long term effectiveness as an overall strategy, with n=1, was irrelevant.

I only say "the corporations" as those entities who attempt to participate in the gift economy laid out in Lessig's "Republic Lost." I do not think a meta trade group reminiscent of ALEC or the Chamber of Commerce would be very unlikely if there was evidence that this strategy was effective.

While i agree with your point about swaying voters, as well as what i've read about Levitt's work on the subject, with the assent of self-selective media, Fox News and other various media outlets of questionable independence, it seems that there is much influence in coordinating talking points than there is in ads alone. Maybe i'm a bit paranoid about that, but with the deterioration of a diversity of media firms, i really don't think so.

The issue about billions of good money available amounts seems to lack the reason there is so much spending. The opportunity cost of a coal firm fighting potential crippling regulations would be essentially zero. If they stand to loose significantly in certain elections, then they can clearly spend exactly an equal amount to stop it.

On the side of good, there are no hard and fast numbers to budget, thus an coordination problem arises on who ought to spend what.

Like i said before though, i think lack of knowledge of the effectiveness of such an organization is it's greatest asset. If politicians are suddenly hit with a big stick, they may be out for the count. If they know what they are up against, they can probably raise money to counter-counter accordingly.
My DNS queries are being intercepted and altered in-flight
This a good read. I like the railway analogy.

"Functional Programming in Scala" is also well worth a read as well if you're trying to learn FP... I've found it to be excellent, especially since it has lots of exercises to use for practice.
Not that I'm recommending it, but this strategy is radically different from the norm, so it will require you to be abnormal. Mortgage @ 35% of net income is the norm.

Unless you earn 3X the median in your area, living on 35% of your salary means living with below average expenses. Whatever your salary, you will probably think normal is normal for your peer group which usually is closer to whatever you earn than median so even if you earn much more than median you will probably be required to be abnormal. Being abnormal is hard to decide.

However you achieve this, it will probably require you to make lifestyle changes that most people like you consider unacceptable. Move someplace cheap. Start a commune in an old mansion with 6 other families/couples. Live in a cabin. Squat. :) Live with your parents. Don't own a car.

Whatever the specific setup, spending 25-35% of your salary is unlikely to be a moderately different from the norm in your peer group. But, also not impossible.

Consider:

(a) Students, broke artists, unemployed and lots of other people do live on very low incomes. It's possible. If you earn the median, then 10-20% of people in your area live on 35% of what you do. Matt mentioned 14k p/a as a grad student.

(b) This is the "find a way" scenario like a startup. Startups may require you to deal with ungodly stress work, 100 hour weeks and do "impossible" things. If retiring within 10 years is valuable to you, it might be worth it.
I'm 41 and lived through this era and totally disagree with the idea that Microsoft killed Netscape (I don't disagree that Microsoft wanted Netscape dead, I just firmly believe Netscape was doomed anyway).

But if anyone killed Netscape by giving away free software it was the Apache project since for a while selling web server software was a viable business, while OTOH there's really no historical data to support the fact that selling web browser licenses was ever going to be an economically successful strategy outside of niche markets like Opera.

And whether or not Microsoft directly killed Netscape or not, I'd argue that the web would not be nearly the ubiquitous technology it is today if web browser software typically cost money, which means that by standardizing web browser software as free Microsoft did the entire web industry (if not netscape) a great service, really.
I was one of those burned by Pulseaudio and the way Lenart basically dumped the project as soon as it got enough traction and before it was stable or truly functional. The design was, as you point out, very reminiscent of systemd - one giant, poorly documented and not very well tested audio system was supposed to replace all other parts of the Linux audio stack (above the kernel drivers) and give us near-realtime performance and a lot of fancy device management and dynamic control. Short form: it didn't until he had already moved on.

He still trots that disaster out as proof of his fitness to lead, so it's hard for me to trust that systemd is both well-designed and likely to not be abandoned by him for his next shiny pursuit of Windows. The involvement of other devs helps, but not enough to convince me systemd is worth getting near. Two years of audio fail made a good object lesson for me about Lenart's professionalism and dedication.
> But you consider yourself agnostic probably? Or atheist... And of course you don't see any contradiction here.

Buddhism is nontheistic, so no contradiction...

> You probably would be better off omitting this spiritual junk food of new age instead altogether.

In favour of what?
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> As long as the answer is no, they mays well be one big blob.

So to you there is no difference between sendmail and postfix, they are both equally monolithic?
There are other costs besides gas, there's wear and tear on your car, maintenance, interest (if you financed your vehicle, say through one of Uber's subprime lenders), insurance (does your insurance company know that you are using your car for commercial transport?). Do you spend time washing/cleaning the outside and interior of the car? I would at least double the gas cost, so say $300/wk. Do you pay self employment tax? It seems like you are at closer to maybe ~$13/hr or so, with no benefits. A regular (non-exempt) employee would also get overtime if they worked 50hrs.

San Francisco also might have more competition from other drivers.
It should be noted, I forgot to include in the paste, that the address beginning with 62 (returned over IPv4) belongs to my ISP, not Google.
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> general ignorance of the population at large decreases

I like sci-fi, but this is the real world we're talking about here.
I'm surprised he doesn't mention real estate or investing in friend/family businesses as an option.

This isn't as safe as index funds, but it is an option where you can increase your success rate by being competent. It probably has a risk profile similar to working for equity at a startup, an option only available to people who work in or around startups.
An Expert’s Guide to Celebrity Faces: The way we process faces
Ah yeah. You kind of have to read philosophy straight to get anything out of it. Skimming isn't really an option.
Everyone I know with a PhD has a 10-page journal article they recommend you read instead of the thesis. For whatever reason, this is the way PhD theses tend to work these days.
I thank the lord every day that the language I work in (Javascript) supports functions! I try to write pure functions as often as possible, so it's easy to refactor the code when I come back three months later.

But is there, except for Clojurescript, any true (like Haskell) FP language for browsers? Something that has the tools, and community to back it, so it's viable to actually make projects in it?
Garbage-Collector-Friendly Code (2012) [JavaScript]
I wonder how much that paper influenced guile delimited continuations support.
I don't see any evidence that India's pharmacetical industry is finding more drug than the US one. According to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15115225 , "most new drugs [in the Indian pharmaceutical] are not major therapeutic advances", so I don't see that the patent law makes much of a difference.

This link says "FDA's own data says 76% of drug patents in the US are for new forms of existing drugs. I pointed out to them that they were giving the same number of years under patent for an original new molecule as for new forms of an existing molecule. Companies make the same amount of money by tweaking existing molecules. So what's their incentive to discover new molecules?"

I wonder if this is in reference to the FDA study from 1989 to 2000, which is mentioned in http://pcij.org/blog/wp-docs/Changing_Patterns_of_Pharmaceut...:

> From 1989 to 2000, the FDA gave a priority review to 24% of NDAs, which appeared to provide clinical improvement over the products available at the time of application. It assigned the remaining 76% to the standard review track, indicating that these drugs did not appear to provide significant clinical improvement over marketed products in one of the four recognized ways mentioned above.

It goes on to observe reasons for variations in the formulation "Although such medicines do not make important clinical advances, they increase physicians’ prescribing choices, thus enabling them to match the drug to the needs of the patient. In some cases, modified drugs enhance patients’ convenience.", and generally agrees that there is inventive to meet Wall St. demands for growth by developing more variations.

Still, it doesn't seem that Indian patent law leads to more drug discovery, in the sense of drugs that are new drug entities.
My friend sent me a pirated CD in the post from Thailand. Sue the post office! Sue the ship charter company that enabled the boat to sail it here. Sue the printer that made the stamps. Sue the envelope maker. Sue the postman, god damn it!
I think the amplification and come-down cycle is probably the most reliable lesson of psychedelics. Once you've experienced the caricature of yourself, you begin to look differently on the composition of thoughts and feelings that is your ordinary mental life.
Yes, it gets them to bankrupcy, from what I've read in the article.
If you diversify enough, you can ensure a 0% return and a 0% loss. The argument for "diversification" is a recipe for safety, but not real wealth creation. Real wealth creation isn't "sticking your money in an index fund." It's a very middle class approach but as with anything, there's no such thing as a free lunch. If it takes 30 years of index funds to be able to retire, then you're doing it wrong. Investing in actual cash-flow producing assets is how you create wealth. Capital appreciation is only one part, the other part is creating cash flow. That means owning businesses, real estate and other passive income generators (IP, for example.)
Elm is worth checking out: http://elm-lang.org/
This is too bad, because I live in Bergen, Norway, where according to statistics 65% of all days have rain. So I'd have to resort to walking two thirds of the year => No longboard for me, electric or otherwise.
The most Haskell-like and popular are:

- http://www.purescript.org/

- https://github.com/faylang/fay

- https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs

- http://elm-lang.org/

Each has it's own focus and strengths and weaknesses.

There is a long page on the Haskell wiki on the subject: https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_JavaScript_Problem

Michael Snoyman gave a really good talk recently which covers GHCJS and Fay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfINRj5OzGw
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Only if Rust provides something comparable with Qt, SDL, Cocos-2D, openFrameworks....

Otherwise having platform FFI pain, C and C++ interop pain is just too much.
Have you tried hitting an alternative DNS resolver than Google's? You might find Google are tailoring results for VM which other providers aren't willing to do.

I get the same results on a BT Infinity connection, querying 208.67.222.222 or 8.8.8.8 return a 31.55.167.180 address or similar and querying my local router which uses BT's DNS returns a Google IP 74.125.230.238
If our history is anything to go by, then lack of resources and competition for what remains wont lead to "co-operation" but will lead to war.
I just wish the article had been clear about that. Instead it just rambled for several paragraph, and replaced the threat with a vague statement about how you'd "hold them accountable", which could mean a dozen things.

Also, I concur with the GP except that I agree this is a use of game theory, but only in the trivial sense that any offer of reward to those you like (as used by other PACs) is game theory.
I once wrote an implementation of the classic Redcode "Imp" program in x86 assembly. It does not satisfy the requirements of this contest, but it does act as the Imp program, perpetually copying itself through RAM. :-)

I just uploaded it to https://github.com/mct/assembly-toys/tree/master/imp
>But, since you can't please everyone, it's better to have choice than to have someone's (Microsoft's/Apple's/Ubuntu's) idea of "good" forced down everyone's throat.

Sometimes it's more about not wanting to spend another 5h on config files for some deamon on every new system you have. Using Ubuntu's or Apple's defaults is nice when you want something that works and let's you start getting shit done now.
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I don't know much about django and websocket how they scale have not tested them anytime. I have used Wheezy.Wheezy is loosely coupled which is similar to flask. I have used it with websocket. Scales amazing. https://bitbucket.org/akorn/wheezy.web/

https://github.com/ninjaas/wheezy-sockets
Also on VM here.

'dig @8.8.8.8 +short A google.com' gives addresses in the 213.104.143.84-123 range. (actually appears in the 67-123 range)

This isn't indicative of VM fiddling with DNS, just that there's some Google servers in VM's infrastructure. It's a common. In fact the addresses google spits out for google.com varies on your location, ISP etc. This is to redirect you to their closest endpoints, content delivery networks work in a similar way.

Why does your IPV6 based query show differently? It's because of where your IPV6 tunnel is located.

Looking from elsewhere in the uk I get 74.125.230.128-137,142
Indexed Link Gilt's or TIPS (in the USA) can do that
Should insurance be higher or lower for commercial transport, and if so, why?
A good read, I especially like the parts about error handling and maps/applicatives. They are well-illustrated and tackle some difficult common problems I had shortly after I started using functional languages.

The part about functors/monads/monoids is also nice, although I feel like it would be better with the accompanying talk to bind it together a bit more.
I can't tell if you're serious but...I can get it for free if I just wait to be in the office tomorrow (we subscribe to springer). If I remember that is.

However, many people here are not going to pay the money or have access through their employer, and will miss out. Free Knuth!
You are hitting Virgin's GGC (Google Global Cache) servers, which return a different IP than the Google or GGC servers where your IPv6 tunnel is located. Google is messing with your DNS, not Virgin Media (and they are doing it to improve your performance).
you should not unless your close to retirement have much of your pension fund in cash or cash equivelent's.

And re 5% I have several IT (investment companies) with returns of over 10% pa for the last decade
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It could just be that they are hosting their local mirror on Virgin Media?

Does this happen to other sites?

I know here various ISPs have local caching setup for Google / Facebook / etc.
Einstein, "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies"

https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www

It's remarkably accessible and clear (at least Part I is).
Arguably yes. The vehicle is in-use for a greater percentage of the average day increasing the likelihood of being involved in an accident. Also, the vehicle is expected to be carrying more than the owner leading to additional injury claims in court.
I would suggest running your tests against a non-geobalanced and/or non-cdn enabled hostname (you can use the same resolvers, it doesn't matter here).

Google most likely has a cache cluster within VM's core and their DNS send you there when you're resolving from VM's network (ipv4 case).
When attempting to resolve over ipv6, you're not using VM's ip space but that of your tunnel provider. In this case, google's geo dns are likely to send you to another cluster closer to that provider.
the trouble with index funds is you participate fully in any crash/dogs eg index funds had to hold enron to the bitter end.

some of my active funds saw the problems with the banks and got out before the crash now no index fund is ever likely to make up the difference - the active fund is now always ahead of the index
Toomre and Toomre, 1972, "Galactic Bridges and Tails". http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJ...178..623T

This paper addressed the question of how galaxies with bridges and tails were formed. It used a series of simulations with gravitationally interacting point masses and associated test particles to represent the disks of two galaxies. It was one of the first papers to convincingly demonstrate that gravitational tidal interactions can create the narrow "tails" seen extending from some galaxies (others had argued that gravity could not make such narrow tails and argued for magetic fields).

This paper also speculated that gravitational interactions between galaxies could result in an increase in the amount of gas at the centers of galaxies and possibly explain the enhanced rate of star formation and supermassive black hole growth seen in some galaxies galaxies.
I have no idea what you're talking about. My point is more pragmatic the regex /A/ will match the string "QQQQ" and this tool doesn't take that into account. E.g., I type this into my javascript console:

/A*/.test('QQQQ');
> true

Showing that yes, /A/ does match 'QQQQ'