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This is the most fascinating part of mental illness. And it's a bittersweet thought that as horrible as mental illness is, it might be what allows us to really understand the human mind.

However, making evolutionary arguments for psychological traits is tricky business and while I'm not a professional evolutionary psychologist myself, I think the explanation you gave violates a fundamental principle of evolutionary arguments.

Imagine gene A confers a fitness advantage because it allows a person to better cope with a selection pressure X, and gene B confers an additional fitness advantage against X, but only if gene A is present, and does nothing otherwise. In this (common) case, gene B will not be selected for unless gene A is already universal in the population. Following the same rules, imagine we then get gene C which is dependent on B, then a variant of gene A called A* which is dependent on B and C, and so on. Eventually, if even one gene is removed (either by sexual reproduction with someone who doesn't have it or by mutation), the whole tower falls down and the entire piece of complex biological machinery is broken.

Basically, there's no way for selection pressure X on a significant chunk but not all of the population to produce a piece of complex machinery (read: involving 2+ interdependent genes) in the first place, and it would be broken beyond all repair in all offspring who didn't have both parents with the full genetic instructions. So the idea that "many humans were abused, enslaved, etc." only works if the selection pressure was on everyone and the adaptation is universal in the human population, unless it's attributed to a single mutation.

The rarity of this condition isn't consistent with it being a feature. Seems like a bug to me.

Hope this was helpful!
I never understood this desire to "back up" the internet.

It's an impossible endeavour and will only become more incomplete as the net grows. And 99,999% of the data "backed up" will never be looked at.

What's the point?
I played it on a slow 3g connection in Bangladesh, and it mostly worked. What really killed it for me was the feeling that the feedback you got from the game wasn't consistent with the internal state of the simulation leading you to take counterproductive actions.
I can understand how this can relieve nerves in an interview, but the answer doesn't tell you much IMO. The questions are the only opportunity to assess the company or the position directly from an engineers standpoint. Yes, the power dynamic is skewed but only for the course of the interview, and what will equalizing it help you achieve?

If you want to have a technical discussion, why not ask them about what they do, and maybe the algorithms involved there? That will tell you something about the company while also giving you a chance to get a taste of working with them.
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That is its own necessity. They are at a place, in terms of their environment, character, moral mindset, and predilections, that torturing and raping for fun is preferable (controlling for other factors).

This kind of behavior has had a strong appeal throughout history to many of those with the strength to carry it out without any real risk to themselves. See Jack London's "The Sea Wolf" for a great portrayal of the conflict between this mindset and our own. It's player-killing in video games in the real world and the only effective way to respond is with greater force.
Pure evil. Which companies have done that?
FYI, my Hopac library (https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac) is also a full-featured monadic concurrency library, inspired by Concurrent ML, for F# that is optimized for parallel programming.
This is a misunderstanding. Lack of liquidity can cause both. You forget that prices are valuations and are very different from prices actually paid.

Simply put:

1) valuation = price of last share sold * number of shares

2) value = price at least one buyer is prepared to pay for the entire company

Lack of liquidity in private companies generally comes from the fact that you can't buy or sell shares without agreement from the board. So "price of last share sold" is quite simply directly set by the board, people who have a vested interest in this number being as high as possible.

It is normal for valuation to be larger than value (for public companies), but not by much. You could actually buy (very nearly) all of Microsoft for 360 billion dollars (it's market cap). A bubble can probably be best defined as valuation >> value.
I've been giving this some thought and have some ideas on a few directions we can go in. For example, cognitive biomimicry/AI can be trained to predict certain things like answering "What is the capitol of Austria?"

With statistical inference and probability, a system can provide a number of answers to questions. A crowdsourcing component can be used to rate the answers the system provides thereby allowing the system to learn via feedback loops.

Apply this to Life Sciences, molecular biology, genomics/proteomics and we may have a system intelligent enough to produce new hypothesis in the area of life extension research or a system intelligent enough to combine two pieces of knowledge to come up with something new, a discovery or series of discoveries.

I have some other ideas too, look me up at biomimic@gmail.com if you want to collaborate on these.
"You can't outrun your fork."

I can.

People who can't outrun their forks aren't running hard enough.

Hunting down a lot of calories and eating them is part of being a mammal. I bicycled across North America one fall on a mostly mountain route. Four times a day I ate full meals and added as many Dove bars as I could without being sick in between. I biked up and down hills with 30kg of gear all day. And I lost a lot of weight.

Sure it hurts to work that hard, but it's supposed to hurt a little. Being comfortable all the time isn't part of being a mammal.
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A platform smelling bad is not a boolean flag. Almost every platform smells less than the web as far as actually using it goes; the web is just ubiquitous and frictionless as far as deployment.
Perhaps it should be, but it isn't - rather it's the norm of how we do things. It'll be obsolete when you have a passport and nobody cares about it or the country that issued it other than nostalgic hipsters and antiquarians.
I'm sorry but that is complete bullshit.
Granted each drug has a subjective and unique experience due to the nature of your biochemistry, but by and large the experience of MDMA is relatively harmless. [0]

The serotonergic effects are a completely different matter.

[0] https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109...
It's more about hitting internal services, where there may not be adequate protections in place. There's some earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7139176
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> Algol is higher level than C.

Sure, but it is also safer and already had helped implementing a few operating systems before C's authors could imagine coming up with C.
Ricardo Semler - Maverick is a good one for non heirarchal approaches.
The AES case study of holarchy is v interesting.
Swombat's blog (easily findable!) is a trove of material on startups and moving from corporate to startup, as are the Granttree and Escape The City blogs.
Generally he means addressing the problems "heavy car usage, not enough walking, and no safety for humans". Optimizing city design for people, and not for vehicles. This is generally done by increasing density, and requiring mixed-use buildings with commerce on ground level, and more public spaces and wider side walks, and dedicated lanes for bikes and public transportation.

Cars aren't going anywhere anytime soon in the US because sadly you can't function without one in the vast majority of places. It's far easier to implement this design philosophy for a growing city[1], but really hard to change the layout of a mature one, though it can be done thoughtfully [2].

[1]https://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represe...
[2]https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_burden_how_public_spaces_ma...
Yep. And what people don't understand here is that EA isn't killing Maxis, they're shutting down the Emeryville studio. Half of Maxis was already at the Ears studio on the Sims and other work. Sim City will be maintained and probably be a slow but steady seller for the next 7 years. All the best developers from that studio will simply be moved to jobs in other studios.
This is probably my favorite comment in a while. Most engineers don't understand this stuff, as you know, so it's important to make this broadly known. I don't know of a good way to do that, maybe one of those hot new blog startups like medium.
This is an excellent and inspiring post, but I'm worried people might try to use it as a model.

Neurotypical people think they can tell all sorts of things about someone's character from a short face-to-face meeting, but it turns out this is all noise; people's impressions of character obtained this way are not significantly more accurate than random chance.

Having said that, for all I know, Jessica may well be in the 0.1% of people who have extraordinary skill in this area, who really can accurately read character; if so, fair play to her, she has certainly made an immensely valuable contribution to Y Combinator.

The problem arises when other people try to emulate her and filter job applicants, business partners etc. by intuitive reading of character from a face-to-face meeting, because there is a 99.9% probability that you are not in that 0.1%. So you end up turning away good people because their hair was messy while simultaneously falling prey to glib sociopaths who know what buttons to press.

So by all means appreciate the post, and certainly appreciate Jessica herself if you have dealings with Y Combinator, but I would strongly advise against trying to copy the strategy of filtering people by intuitive reading.
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Aristotle created some messes in logic that weren't untangled until the 19th century. This is one of them.

This concept has some practical applications in computing. When are two objects equal? If they are immutable, and there is no way to distinguish them via their public interfaces, are they equal? Should they be considered the same object? If so, copies can be shared, or single objects can be duplicated without harm.

In logic, this is a statement in the theory of uninterpreted functions:

(forall f, x, y f(x) = f(y)) => x = y

Here, if any function f applied to x and y produces the same answer, x=y.
x and y are indistinguishable, and in mathematics, that implies they are identical. This has applications in constructive mathematics, where all the functions already in existence can be enumerated and tried. Any new function must be a composition of existing functions, so if that property holds for the existing functions, it must hold for all new functions. (I figured this out ten years after I had a paper rejected by JACM, where I did bulky machine proofs of the theory of arrays without using set theory. There's a better way that's fully constructive using the argument above.)

The medievalists apparently didn't pick up on the immutable angle. That led them into circular reasoning: "Maintaining that an object is singular or individual because it results from or is endowed with a proper principle of individuation which is itself singular, amounts to nothing more than duplicating what should be explained."
That's so fucked up on so many levels, I wouldn't know where to start. But it does explain the current job market and ridiculous office politics.

Treat your employees like enemies and they will do their best to act like ones.
They may have specific reasons to use disposable plates (no staff to wash them). So, the counter argument could be that at least they're using biodegradable ones.
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Spinco gets Yahoo Store? Aw.

Yahoo Store was originally Viamall, which had the first application where you could build a web site on line. It was written in LISP. How else would you represent an editable HTML tree?
The modern version of what Maxis used to be is Minecraft. Developing those games is risky though. For every minecraft there are ten failures.
Uh... major red flag imo. I recommend your friend stays put and finds a way to slowly tiptoe into startuplandia. The job offer he got sounds like it isn't a good fit in a lot of ways.

Some companies are crazier than others... a lot crazier.
Well, this is an open question in evolutionary biology :)

One important thing to keep in mind is that species are hypotheses that can be tested, and the interpretations can vary from person to person and field to field. For example, many molecular geneticists will often discover new cryptic species on the basis of their DNA sequences, that a morphologist might not consider to be a true species. For fossils, of course, there almost always only morphological evidence for species.

The relative roles of anagenesis (change within a species) and cladogenesis (splitting event that creates two new species) in evolution is still being investigated, especially by paleontologists. One of many problems is that the fossil record is extremely incomplete, and so it's difficult to determine whether anagenesis or cladogenesis dominates. For me (as a non-paleontologist) my simplifying assumption about evolution is that anagenetic change doesn't occur, but again this is still an area of active research.
I've been looking for an entrepreneur book list for a long time too. I'm not nearly as experienced as your friend, so my books may be too basic.

- Start here: http://www.ycombinator.com/resources/ There are many wonderful articles written by Graham himself.

- The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank.

- The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki.

- The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company, Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.

- Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel.

- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

- I haven't read the Founders at work series yet, but everyone seems to find it very valuable.
Depends on what you mean by microcode. Pretty much any CPU that implements division or transcendental functions does so via microcode, for instance.
http://www.mosaicscience.com

http://www.nature.com

http://www.popsci.com

http://www.eurekalerts.com
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"And yet…your company is worth less than zero."

I don't understand how this keeps getting repeated. It's one of the more financially ignorant things I see, repeated like a common myth.

It's the Alibaba stake that is discounted, as assets / cash on a balance sheet always are.

Yahoo, the stand-alone business, is not worth less than zero. It was not worth zero before Alibaba became valuable, it won't be worth less than zero after the Alibaba assets are discharged or spent.

If Yahoo has $X in earnings, and they remove the Alibaba stake completely from the company (say it all goes to shareholders in a one-time dividend), those $X earnings will be not receive a zero multiplier when it comes to a valuation for the publicly traded YHOO. If Yahoo can generate $500m in net income off of $4 billion in sales, they will be worth $10 to $15 billion roughly speaking. Even without net income, Yahoo will still receive a sizable valuation on Wall-Street. See: AOL, which is presently worth $3.3 billion (while struggling the last few years to generate much net income from their actual business), and there is no question Yahoo is worth a few times what AOL is. The claim that Yahoo's core is worth less than zero, does not hold up under any actual real scenario.
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Ah! Ok, I got it. Feels like the right way to handle this is the allow a blacklist to be defined via config file, then applied as request, something like "X-Templar-Blacklist: internal". The list would be a set of ip ranges and thus you'd have to construct the list so that the EC2 => EC2 problem doesn't crop up, but it's doable!
A bit of a plug but we once made a CSS only tic-tac-toe using the same technique: http://html5advent2011.digitpaint.nl/23/index.html
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Can we just agree these kind of titles are horrible? Random (I know it's not) capitalization, weird structure. It's just hard to parse.
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No one does this ever.
The 5% Epic takes is from of the gross product revenue rather than the net. In an age where some AAA games can sell a few million copies and still not turn a profit, Epic is smart enough to pick the model that avoids losing out to Hollywood accounting.

I don't know enough about the games industry to know whether 5% of the gross is an overly large chunk to spend on the engine developer. It does sound reasonable to me, but if not, the onus would be on the dev, not Epic, to find some leverage to renegotiate a better deal.
That's very few actually, given that people eat on average 365 times a day, and said plates last for decades. They only get replaced when someone drops them or when their owners decide they're too worn and ugly.
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Reusable porcelain plates. I don't know the environmental impact of (for example) washing machine detergents though.

Most workplaces I've worked at use regular porcelain plates, produces far less waste - not to mention they're much nicer to eat off of than, for example, paper plates.
This is cheap considering the amount of work if a company build/operates on their own.
This mess is an example of a much larger problem: We are being governed by a bunch of attorneys who do not hesitate to lie, cheat and steal and play all of us for the fools that we are. Recent examples include a President telling lies (keep your insurance and doctor, save $2,500 a year, etc.) without consequences. This is not limited to a single party. It travels equally well on both rails and spans from mayors and governors to senators and, yes, Presidents.

Not sure what the solution to this might be. This is the stuff of so-called third world countries. I have long held that we are not far from "them", we just do it differently and don't take to the streets en-masse when we are lied to and royally screwed.

Maybe one day we will and things will start to change. A lot of these people belong to jail for what they've done to this country. My guess is that if you are under, say, 30, you are going to have to suffer the consequences of what these people have been doing to the country for, say, 50 years. And your children. Well, there's a school of thought that is of the opinion that your children migt just get to experiencethe US as a near third world country in about 50 years.

Our politicians must be accountable for their actions and must have consequences for misleading and manipulating the people. Not sure how that happens. Not sure what laws would deal with this. If there aren't any, there ought to be.
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"How Google Works" by Eric Schmidt is a good place to start.

A bigger question is why was he brought in? Does he need to do a turnaround? Has something gone badly wrong?

What stage are they at? Is there a user base? Do they pay, or is this ad based? Who's the competition? What do you have that they don't? First look at the business from a user perspective, then the technology used to service it. If they're not doing something technically hard, the technology end is about keeping the users happy, scaling and not screwing up.
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I completely agree on this. We are so deprived of touch and human connection. I wanted to make a video on this actually. I brush my friends hair and hug them and hold their hands all the time. We need that.
There isn't much to outline or explain, because the original comment (creating an analogy between EA and a virus?) simply doesn't make any sense...
About culture:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
http://blog.codinghorror.com/
And reading random comments on:
https://news.ycombinator.com/best and https://news.ycombinator.com/news .
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Legal? If they get permission from the international wotsit that is responsible for the ISS, then yes. Technology? Well if they get permission, they will get access to the required knowledge about docking and procedures and stuff. The ISS isn't nearly as secretive as the cold war era space race, and there are as of yet no commercial interests in there.
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The Senate doesn't vote for the military's acquisition process.
Culture shock is really bad news for a new position or a new hire. It's very difficult to change culture. Your friend needs to be a leader, not someone who is catching up. It's probably not the right place for him to be.
It certainly wasn't ideal and a legitimate issue for a lot of people. But at the same time there was a group of huge loudmouths who went on the warpath because piracy/paranoia/EA hatred/whatever.

The whole SC incident bothers me because there was so much screaming about the online stuff. Yet it took two weeks before you started seeing gameplay reviews which finally started admitting "Hey, this just isn't very fun..."

EA brought this on themselves, so they deserve it. But I think a good game would have survived the furor. SimCity4 was a very long-tail title. (And it was pretty broken out-of-the-box, and only really playable with mods.)
CCO in this case means Chief Creative Officer. Since he's not listed in the S-1, isn't a member of the board, and hasn't been quoted as speaking on behalf of Etsy in any articles I could find post-2011, I presume that his LinkedIn profile is just rotting away.

I get the impression that he sees himself in the elder statesman phase of his career, given how he is always listed as "the founder of Etsy".
Only in life-threatening situations, like idk, rescue missions or critical supply missions. In all other cases: delay is preferable over a botched launch.
A grand debate: is data science just a 'rebranding' of statistics?
I'm hosting a debate at the Royal Statistical Society in London on the 11th of May. The subject is 'Data Science and its Relationship to Statistics'. It's the response by the Society to the phenomenon of data science. (It took a while but hey, its a 200-year-old learned institution.)

I'd love to get some opinion here on this. Is data science a new field or just a 'rebrand'? This is more than just navel gazing: the nurturing of new scientific fields has led to immense gains in human knowledge (eg the recognition of molecular biology as a distinct field in the 1940s).

Open to any thoughts.
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A recent post, was about "How to Build Your Distributed Database" (1).
The word 'monoid' is not used (and the word 'commutative' is even misused for 'associative')
but this post shows well why monoids matter and how they can be used.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9101971
Too bad there isn't a Creo demo, screenshots, or walkthrough, where you could show off your platform. You must have many potential customers on your site with this influx of HN traffic -- hint hint.
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That would be like saying it's surprising torture by the Obama Administration is such a big issue, because the Bush Administration did it too (and I'm not implying there is or has been torture under Obama, that's not the point).

These things should always be a big deal.
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I agree that people on average use their plates way more often than 50 times, but 365 times a "day" might be a bit much, even for the USA^^ SCNR
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