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Thank you very much. I totally agree that these kinds of jobs are needed. I knew I could develop professionally, I just needed someone to let me.

Thankfully, I've grown to feel that I'm actually pretty good at this stuff, but as someone who came into the field through the side door, knew it might be hard to convince someone I could be.

While for the past year and a half the compensation has been a bit low, the experiences have been worth their weight in gold.
Tried to create an account on the wiki, got error 919 and a message to contact the debian-www mailing list. Just hoping the list isn't members only now.

If anyone wants to collaborate on fixing that apt page then my email is in my profile. It should only take about an hour to clean up.
Don't send that email – saves me a few hours per week
After co-founding Mathbreakers I would sometimes get into long, complicated email chains with my cofounder, arguing about which path to take or what was the best decision at this point. Often I will find myself having received an email from my co-founder, friend, or family member that is asking me to "weigh in" on a future decision as if it's time critical and will matter tomorrow.

Before hitting reply I now ask myself -- what if I don't?

Nine times out of ten I'm able to say, "I don't need to even have this conversation. It's not time critical, and when it IS time critical we can discuss it then, but chances are good it will never even get to that point."

So I delete my draft and move on with my life, all the time that email chain would have sucked up now freed up for playing Go or doing more development work.

I wish someone had told me not to send those emails years ago, I could have saved many hours of headaches talking about problems that weren't even relevant.

Has anyone else experienced this evolution of how you reply to (or don't) to emails?
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof)

I've always thought this part was, by far, the most likely. It would be unethical to create a simulation in which the simulated beings were sophisticated enough to be self-aware and capable of significant suffering. It's the same thing that's caused me to shift from "I don't believe in god" to "I believe there probably isn't a god". For example, infants have been raped in Africa due to the virgin cleansing myth, and every year thousands of people kill themselves due to unmanageable misery. Not to mention the way that so many people die of "natural" causes, e.g. drowning in their own phlegm only to be revived by hospital staff for another go-around.
I'm not sure you know how HN works. Just posting isn't enough, you need your colleagues to upvote it if you want the front page. Unless it's super interesting.

It's not difficult to get on the front page but it has massive PR implications however. My previous startup is living proof of that.

And this isn't the first time Docker announce something on HN and CoreOS follow straight up with something else. That's why I was wondering.
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Making sure "gpg" with no options does something sane and references the key you want it to reference.
Although the article talks down the use of AI at face value, my gut reaction to this is; Right, that would be the vehicle's responsibility.

In regards to risk specifically, I would like to believe risk/route evaluation at the least is considered as part of a profit algo for the vehicle itself. Yes, this is a assuming a more abundance of data points available to the vehicles itself — but I'd like to assume infrastructure to streets and safety are being enhanced along side of the vehicle(s) themselves.
From jegutman elsewhere in the thread, batteries cost $12000, so even buying two would cut that to 6 years and I bet the batteries usefulness would last longer than that so it would definitely add value to a home and probably be a reasonable investment.
Durability has steadily decreased as flash density has increased. 10000, then 5000, then 2000 for standard MLC parts over the last few years as densities have increased. I'm not sure what Samsung's new 3D process is. At the same time, the voltage regulation and comparators used on-chip has gotten a lot better, making it easier to detect leaky cells so reliability has significantly improved for the erase cycles the flash does have.

The original Intel 40G SSDs could handle an average of 10000 erase cycles (for each block of course), giving the 40G SSD around a 200TB minimum life if you divide it out and then divide by 2 for safety. (Intel spec'd 20TB or 40TB or something like that, 400TB @ 10000 erase cycles, divide by 2 gives you ~200TB or so).

A modern 512G Crucial SSD sits somewhere around a 2000 erase cycle durability, or around 512TB of relatively reliable wear (1PB / 2 for safety).

I would not necessarily trust an SSD all the way to the point where it says it is completely worn out, I would likely replace it well before that point or when the Hardware_ECC_Recovered counter starts to look scary. But I would certainly trust it at least through the 50% mark on the wear status. Remember that shelf life degrades as wear increases. I don't know what that curve looks like but we can at least assume somewhere in the ballpark of ~10 years new, and ~5 years at 50% wear. Below ~5 years and I would start to worry (but that's still better than a shelved HDD which can go bad in 6 months and is unlikely to last more than a year or two shelved).

-Matt
It should exist, and it should be the one you want to use to sign the archive. If not, make another keypair and ... figure out how the GPG command line works. :)
>It would be unethical to create a simulation in which the simulated beings were sophisticated enough to be self-aware and capable of significant suffering

Well .. is it though?

What if everything is so blissful and boring in the future that people intentionally torture themselves for decades at a time by experiencing "Earth-sim" so that they can build character / enjoy the utopia they've created? Or maybe this simulation is the rehabilitation track for criminals? There are a number of reasons to "suffer" and suffering shouldn't be cast out as unethical because we don't like it in the current context.
So caching. Doesn't the db do that? And as much as I hate to say it, are the added complexities (webserver caches) better than the even more traditional approach - throw hardware at it? Always lots to think about. Thanks!
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You'll have to put more substance into the question than that if you want any meaningful answers.
HFT firms can only access on-the-run trading currently. That doesn't mean the bank is responsible for all the liquidity in off-the-runs. It's just highly inefficient that intermediation has to occur via the swapbox, which isn't accessible to electronic market makers. There are plenty of relative value hedge funds that would take the other side of buy-side flows, if they had access to a market where they could show their trading intentions anonymously.
You can definitely disprove negative statements - any positive statement can be expressed as its negation (and vice versa), so to the extent that you can prove positive statements, you can disprove their negations.
For any X, getting rooted is still often a matter of someone with 1000 botnet nodes to burn running a for loop against an IP range. At which point, your odds of getting rooted are the product of how desirable that target is to write for loops against and how long it has been since you last applied security updates.

The reason WordPress tends to be root city is that there are a great many installs out there, of which many have never had step one done to harden it, and were last given security updates ~ when they were installed.

I would still outsource WordPress, but that's mostly in the vein of "the cost of outsourcing is less than the cost of me having to think about it one hour a month, while 1 hr/mo is a reasonable floor for the time cost function, but the actual value will probably exceed that at least once in a given year."

A WPEngine subscription costs $30 to "I don't care, why are you wasting my time with numbers this small." Developer time costs between $75/hr and "everything is on fire and you can only put out one fire at a time." Ergo it makes economic sense to configure nginx / DNS once, then outsource further complications to paid external support.
Why Battery cost $50K?
More like $10K + patent fees at most.

You can see how batteries are made on some videos and most expensive part will be technology behind assembly.
The high cost of Tesla cars is caused now because it is a new, unique product that needs huge amounts of live cash to fund the development etc. Its like with Apple where their phones could be priced 50% of what it is now, but there is a lot of money spent on marketing, future development and to build up cash reserves in case of market turmoil.
I don't remember who authored the following, but I thought it was amusing enough years ago to toss it into my interesting-quotes.txt:

I recall reading a science fiction story that involved the first human spaceship to reach the edge of the universe. When they tried to go through they bounced off, it was impenatrable.

Then we cut to 2 higher dimensional beings, and one says, "On that run it took life only 14.7 gigayears to reach the edge."

The other one says, "Great! Let's do another run. Sterilize the medium."
Why the scheme in case-study 2 can be bad:

User 1 registers username "alice".
User 2 registers username "alice".
User 1 verifies account.
User 2 tries to verify the account. If the programmer didn't forget to check twice if an account name exists there's some error.

This might not happen often, but you still need to write a good error handling for that case.
>>How can I prove I'm not just yet another post-academia liability if no one will look past my resume?

Apply to whom ever sponsored your research. Indeed, you are probably overqualified to write CSS for a living.
There's a Greg Egan novel where one character is invited to work to help build such a simulation. The character is shocked that the simulation creator was aware of the issue of suffering, and had plans to minimize suffering in the simulation. They found this more shocking then if the creator hadn't thought of the issue
By this same argument, wouldn't having children be unethical? (I believe it is by the way)
What I like :
Feels like pinterest for videos

What I dislike:
1. For adding a video, I had to
2. Fetch the url by visiting youtube.
3. Add a title
4. Had to enter start time and end time
You are asking a lot from the user ;)

What I would recommend:
1. Get the user interests.
2. Show videos related to their interests.
3. Let them play the videos and select their ‘cuts’.
4. Create jump cut add-ons for browsers.
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>The Matrix is an implausible just-so story with quasi-religious undertones, and it's a concept that exhibits quite a few glaring holes the closer you look at its practical implications

I agree the Matrix argument has significant plot holes, but given that there are an infinite set of conditions in which something analogous to The Matrix could exist that are probably outside the scope of current human understanding, it's not disprovable. (Although you can also say "God isn't disprovable".. but my point is you can't discredit Matrix arguments on implausibility grounds because we don't have the scope to make that judgement.)

>what difference it makes at all whether the fabric of reality is running on an artificial or "natural" substrate if there is no hope of ever finding out.

There is always hope of figuring it out given enough time. I see no reason to assume we couldn't "escape" the simulation and enter the next-level-up (which is probably also a simulation, but that's a discussion for a post-simulation-broken-hacker-news thread.)
How do I shoot? [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_2
Thanks! I've done this, but my latest post is a rant and I wonder if that comes off as abrasive. I don't want the idea that a potential employer might turn me away for strong opinions to influence me. What do you think?
Short answer is no. I really doubt how it will benefit if you try to learn 4 years of course in an year. Mostly you will be skimming things most of the time. Learning things take time. It's not easy process. If you want to do it to learn CS, but don't worry about completing in an year, then do it. However it will take 2-3 years easily (assuming you have a day job).

Is it worth it? Yes, totally. But it may not be useful if you just want to hurry up the whole thing. Your goal should be to learn, not to finish it in an year.

I saw same discussion on /r/learnprogramming [0], the top answer reflects my exact same opinion:

Given that the MIT challenge was never actually completed with integrity in the first place, it's going to be impossible.

Scott Young is a publicist - his goal is to sell, sell, sell. Completing a world-renowned 4-year curriculum in 1 years time is impossible.

Young marked his own tests (meaning no independent verification), gave himself a pass threshold of 50% (when the reality for MIT is more like 70%), didn't do his Psets, erased the original correct answers from the tests he found (meaning that he already knew what the answers would be), and his only form of progress comes in his one-man Youtube videos. There's no external validation of his success, other than what we take his word to be.

He's a marketer, plain and simple.

[0] - http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2vxt6r/the...
Just don't mention your PhD in your resume.
It's great to see seams thought of at the language design level.
The 'Click to expand' below each feature could be changed to 'Read more'.
Because they all use the same system, the same software.

This is the Monsanto problem: lack of genetic diversity.
Come now. He's giving up his iPhone to use it, despite some glaring flaws it has. Is that not love?
:)
Of course. The trick is knowing about how these things work so that they can be encoded.
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I respect your opinion and clearly the person asking the question is trying to learn how to secure the server. I do not feel like they need to hire someone to handle the security for them. However there most certainly is a difference between storing some web analytics and personal finance information.
Diversification. Also, even if investors don't buy bonds, prices in the bond market still affect them. Treasuries represent the price of 'cash in the future' since they are risk-free assets. Everything from mortgage rates to the cost of credit for companies is fundamentally dependent on price discovery in the Treasuries market.
:D That's a very funny story!

When I imagine an intelligent life form simulating the universe, it might as well be a simple creature just pushing little stones from cell to cell across a coordinate system drawn into the sand of an impossibly huge plain, using a few very simple rules about where stones move on every single cell. And when the creature gets to the last stone in the grid, it starts the same thing again from the top.

This is also not my idea, I don't remember where I heard it first. But it's appealing for several reasons. It illustrates that no intelligence is necessary to run the universe. More fundamentally, however, it shows how a higher-dimensional being might very well have no real concept of what goes on in here. ;)
Driving around Mountain View again gave me a big nostalgia trip. I miss that place.
And they need to be. You can turn around ten people at a pump in the time it takes to charge an electric car from a supercharger.

The part I don't understand is how these vehicles are supposed to be run by people who don't have a garage. The usual idea is that you can recharge your commuting vehicle overnight in the garage - but what happens for the many people who park on the street?
One of my favorite books, Idlewilde, is about a simulation that we created for just 9 people because the rest died of an incurable disease, and these 9 would need to repopulate the human race. A very good reason to have a simulation in my opinion. The book handles the wakeup in a pretty interesting way.

The best part is nested simulations -- if you're toying around with simulations like Oculus Rift and then you wake up from Earth-sim, it starts to become a game of "where the actual f_k am I really?"
I spent a few hours with a firm active in this space the other week. I think this is going to be a difficult battle. There are already over a dozen electronic venues for bond trading, some of which are pretty successful and allied with major liquidity providers.

The core problem they are trying to solve is an example of something being broken by design:

>>> "the bond market doesn’t have a centralized system where traders can plainly see the fees involved in the trade. This means traders have to ask each bank, one by one, either by phone or electronically, what they are willing to sell a Treasury bond for."

This isn't exactly true - there are plenty of electronic quotes for small size. When you want to trade a lot of bonds - that's another story. The dealers don't want their prices out there electronically for any taker, because fixed income markets are relatively illiquid and the transparency can hurt them.

Not exactly sure how this will be overcome, but my general assumption is to borrow from the dark pool model for equities.
How about an ownerless house that keeps its own rent money? An ownerless McDonald's franchise? Ownership is not just about money. Driverless cars don't really change anything about the concept of ownership.

If you think driverless taxis are such a great idea and you want them to be operated in a non-greedy way, start a non-profit, or start a corporation and make it public so that anyone who wants can invest and share in the profits, and pay dividends. If you insist "nobody" owns and operates the fleet of cars, it will probably end up being the government, who already programs the fare boxes in taxis.
Ethically if it is truly nothing more than a cost saving measure, you'll do the $0 option and release a completely unsupported server disk image for people to self-host on their LAN. Think of how much money you can save on CPU and network ingress.

On a purely technical side, I have a strong suspicion that "cost saving" is a smokescreen. A camera would be useful for quality assurance, A/B testing new routing equations and at most calibrating the origin point of the bed. But maybe I am a little jaded from SimCity 5.
Yes, but the cardinality of the multiverse is hard to grasp. There are uncountably infinite universes, just as there are uncountably many points in time. Every breath streams endless bifurcation.
Next step. Make it 3D using Street View. Theoretically, you have enough 3D information in there to detect building collisions. Also, Oculus ;).
iTunes for Windows is the WORST! I moved away from iPhones (a while ago) because of this crapware (they would not sync over the air then)
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I had a fun time flying down the runway at Groom Lake going 150mph
And I think for the sake of the thought exercise you have to consider what happens to related markets — specifically in this scenario, risk. If vehicles are no longer being sold to people, neither is auto insurance (at least in today's form).
> There is always hope of figuring it out given enough time.

Well, there could be a message embedded into some basic universal structure, left there in case any intelligent life forms might come across it. But other than that, I don't see how any arbitrary phenomenon happening in the universe could possibly tip the scale of plausibility in either direction. Discoveries of computation-like processes have indeed been (ab-)used for that purpose in the past, but people forget that there is no reason to believe this couldn't happen in a natural universe.

> I see no reason to assume we couldn't "escape" the simulation and enter the next-level-up

There would be absolutely no difference in "escaping" an artificial universe or a real universe. In both cases, the exact same problems apply. Artificiality in this context doesn't really mean anything.
any vector into a target is a good vector ...
One common example is the case of employees who have left and a company that is acquired. The acquiring company often has an incentive to take part of the bucket of cash and stock allocated to the purchase and shift it to retention bonuses, screwing former employees who exercised their options.
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I'm a growth marketer working at my third startup. At times, I've felt like a kid with my hands under my legs. For the last 12 weeks, I've been spending 9 hours on Saturdays learning to code. Instead of feeling limited, I now feel like I'm able to stand up & sprint. Here are a couple of the projects I've been coding up at work. I hope this is just the beginning because I love the feeling of taking an idea to completion within a day & testing it fast.

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My biggest lesson is that there's always time, no excuses. And honestly, I'm having tons of fun.
May I suggest trying Slack?

People behave very differently depending on the UX of the communication tool involved. Moving to a tool which reframes the implicit social contract of the conversation can do a lot to relieve problem points.

Email supports large asynchronous messages with no global threading. Which means people are free to shoot off as many as they feel like, as often as they feel like, and each of those drops an anvil on your todo list.

Refactoring that as a chat room with distinct threads only for distinct topics means that you can only talk for so long without realizing that you're tossing a big rambling mess in someone else's lap without digesting it first. It's also an "asynchronous realtime" conversation that you can pick up, step back from as needed (concentrating on code, phone call, support tickets, etc.) and search later if you need to. Seems simple, but very different UX, and tends to be more civilized as a result.

Then use Trello or whatever on the side, for a communal view of persistent tasks & their progress. And email, but only when you actually NEED it, not for every damn intra-office conversation.

Being more restrained about email helps, and is necessary anyway, but you can only get so far with that approach. The tool itself is feeding the problem, and while you can do a lot to train your team to have better email etiquette, it works better in the long run to meet the need with something that doesn't have the same structural issues.
You are assuming that because the poster asked this question that they can't figure out how to keep their sever secure. The person is clearly making an effort to learn how to secure a server and they came to a good place to start learning. I still do not feel they should hire someone because you came up with an example where trusted binaries were being hosted got hacked. It depends on the data. If you follow best practices that can be learned in a afternoon, you can keep a server secure without hiring someone. You have to weigh what the worst case scenario hack would cost based on your data and decide if it is worth the money saved by doing it yourself. In my opinion, for many new SaaS bootstrap products, it is totally worth doing the security yourself.

At least now the poster has multiple perspectives on the matter.
Tesla sells cars internationally, not just in the US. According to a June 2014 report[0], the US then accounted for half of Tesla's sales. Also note that production capacity is not equal to projected sales.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2014/07/31/analysis-o...