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These "be afraid of the outside world" articles are getting less and less subtle.

> It’s a story that’s common across Mexico. People vanish

Statements like that are so misleading.

More people are killed in NYC and Chicago than Mexico city, but you never see headlines about that.
How awful. My condolences to his family and friends. It's always awful when we lose such great minds in such senseless, preventable ways.

I'm a firm believer that anyone who gets caught driving under the influence should lose their license permanently. You drink and drive? You don't get to drive. Period.
There is logic to this, and the logic is "the more ruthless we appear, the lower the odds that we will be opposed."
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like hackers which hunt unwanted trace output or unexpected errors (:
> Mayer returned half of the after-tax money to shareholders in the form of a dividend.

Nitpicking but Yahoo never paid a single dividend in its history. Mayer vowed to return the proceeds of the first Alibaba stake sale by doing share buybacks. That generally implies that the company estimates it's undervalued. They already brought down the the number of outstanding shares from 1B+ to <940M.
I don't see how his reply is sexist. I suppose we could really reach for something to justify the use of the term "mansplanation", but I think it detracts from the point you're trying to make.

Now, I'm not saying that this is the case in this story, but having gone through school in the late 90s and early 2000s I saw plenty of what the parent comment described. It was cool to have "mental issues" in some crowds, mainly the "goth" kids(I put goth in quotes there because there's a distinct difference between the goth subculture and the typically white, middle class kids who shop at hot topic). In searching for their identity, they found a great way to provoke responses from people, particularly adults, by appearing to be disturbed in some fashion. Claiming to hear voices, drawing violent images, etc. Some would take it this far and have arbitrary "episodes", but it really was all just a show. Knowing several personally, they were just like anyone else when you got to know them, but they wanted to appear different from the larger school population. They had loving families, comfortable homes, pretty bright kids. Today they've essentially become they railed against in their younger years, jocks, preps, "conformists". I guess the "real world" has a habit of mellowing people out.
There's an easier way to do this by the way:

Fold an arbitrary length perpendicular to the axis you want, then fold that length again... To X folds. Fold diagonally from top corner to the last fold then fold at the the intersections.

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Yep, somehow I assumed that the perpetrators haven't been caught and commented without reading the article.
Ah, now that is what I was looking for but didn't know how to ask. A few starting points I might trust would go a long way.
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That's pretty complicated; you could just do:

//usr/bin/env swift $0 "$@"; exit $?
println("helloo")
> If they were focused on the core mission of delivering and only killing people as needed.

What? The mission statement is a smoke-screen. As with so many hyper-violent people and groups, unrepentant savagery is the main objective, not a by-product.
I wonder how many good people never apply because of reading posts like this.

I am not saying any of this weeding out is a problem. It's not. But publicizing it will likely not scare off the competent BSers but will eliminate many good folks who are a little insecure. (I don't buy that being confident and secure is a requirement for success.)
This is basically what I did for myself. I realized pretty early on that grades weren't a very good measure for what I was getting out of a subject and excess homework/busywork wasn't a good way for me to spend my time.

Anectdote time: In my junior year AP history class my teacher insisted that for the first month of class everyone had to read the textbook and write extensive notes that he would review in class the next day.

I did it for two days before I realized it was a complete waste of my time, and on the third day when he asked me where my notes were I told him, in front of the whole class, that it wasn't helpful and I wouldn't be doing it again. He said ok and continued around the room looking at everyone's notes.

Out of a class of ~15 students I was the only one who stopped taking notes. Either everyone else got something from it or they were too afraid to stop. I bet the later. I was never an amazing student, but did end up with an A in the class and a 4 on the AP exam.

So, yeah, I'd say that if you are "designing" a homework policy it should be based around a students understanding, not the number of problems they completed on a particular assignment.
Originally came across it [here](http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/04/not-content-with-enormou...), more click-baity but pretty disturbing nonetheless.
I'm not sure "accepting immigrants" is the solution.

Okay, so you accept 5% of population, it doesn't help much the rest 95% of it.
And then you struggle to assimilate them and may become a warzone yourself.
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Pretty much anywhere that is an establish business.

An obvious example is Microsoft. But really take any software or technology company that is more than a few years old and you don't find people acting this way. It is just brand new startups or those who wish to pretend like they were brand new startups that do.
Telling whether someone is a good person is not only hard, it's ill-defined. Good with respect to what ethical standard? Good by which morality? At most, a hypothetical perfect empath could tell you if the person is self-consistent, list which values it shares with you, or maybe predict their actions given an input situation. Even those things seem more within the purview of yet to be proposed ASI than humans.

That said, this part (for example) sounds both realistic and useful: "They'd get excited talking to the applicants about all the things they could do, and afterward think the interview went well, when sometimes all the applicants did was reflect their own ideas back at them. But it was second nature to me to notice these things." and I imagine there are many other insights someone trained to observe people (say a psychologist or anthropologist or someone self-trained in doing just that job) could gather that most engineers would miss by miles.

Edit: Humans also overestimate their understanding of say, software systems (ask anyone who has ever tried to formally verify anything). Yet an experienced programmer can still tell a bad architecture from a good one with far more success than an untrained/novice one. Aesthetics are as hard to define as Ethics, if not more, yet designers do know what they are doing to a far greater extent than your average person. Isn't it likely to be the same for reading people?
Their concerns are seemingly exactly why we have invented hash functions. They have managed to keep BitTorrent (swarms certainly) free of bad actors even when there is considerable monetary interest in their existence.
For years I've dreamed about if New York had a pneumatic tube system working. Forget about transmitting data/documents -- use it to replace small deliveries!

For Chinese takeout or some tacos, for a book delivered from Barnes & Noble, for some lemons from the supermarket when you realize you've run out, for a bottle of shampoo from the corner pharmacy. Heck, try on different sizes of shirts and sneakers and jeans from different stores, and pack them back in the tube when they don't fit. Use it for mail too. Individual tubes that run straight into each apartment.

The convenience would be incredible. And now that we have software to intelligently and automatically route all the canisters, I often wonder why you never see it proposed more often.
>Cars are pretty safe, but I'm always a little shocked that we don't have governors built into cars with sane limits. How is it even possible to do 100mph and why should that speed be allowed? Cars should top off at 75.

Why is it even possible? Because a car that can't do 100mph is going to have terrible performance 0-75

There's long stretches of highways in rural areas with speed limits higher than 75

>Not to mention, why are cars dumb machines? If someone is going crazy fast in an area where there is no safe way to decelerate, then the car should not allow that speed to be reached.

There are sometimes legitimate reasons to be going quickly. I have, at times, needed to have bursts of speed into the 90s to safely get around a drunk driver going 70.

You're now asking for cars to behave unpredictably based on their determination of the road conditions.

And you set the limiter to 75. Now someone is driving 75 in a 25.

Most highway deaths are rural[1] and involve a single car - they veer off of narrow lanes into a ditch or trees, or hit a large animal. The difference in reaction time needed to avoid said animals or other obstructions is not that different from 75mph to 90mph - low visibility is the underlying problem there, not speed.

The idea that we're suddenly safer on roads if we limit speeds is also not necessarily true.

In 2013, German autobahns accounted for 31% of the countries traffic, yet only 13% of the deaths. They had a rate of 1.9 deaths per billion kilometers travelled, while urban roads had 4.7, and rural roads 6.6.

I don't think there's really evidence to support the idea that limiting our cars to lower speeds will be beneficial.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2009/11/29/120716625/the-deadliest-roads-...
What you said is true, but it doesn't make what I said untrue.

It could be that 99% of the statements are executed by shell builtins. But for essentially any shell script I've seen, speeding those up by 10x won't make any difference, because the real work is invoking compilers, linkers, invoking curl, tar, gzip, etc. As well as simple process creation overhead.
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Shipping rockets is enormously risky and expensive.
I'm using SV as shorthand for the tech industry generally -- and Redmond is very much to Seattle what Silicon Valley is to San Francisco. Car-dependent suburbia that threatens the health, safety, and quality-of-life of everyone forced to be there. San Francisco is as walkable as the West Coast gets, which alone testifies to the disgrace of American urban planning.

Ey would have been killed long ago if he dared to ride a bike to work. If Redmond had been planned after Copenhagen's model, he would still be alive to make the world a better place.
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At a first pass, I'd try to implement such a thing with a Distributed Hash Table-like situation. Generate chunks in some fashion (either one chunk per file, or glob files together up to N megabytes), take a hash of the chunk, and then let people fetch it. All the Internet Archive needs to do is then keep redundant copies of the hashes.
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I think the easier way to go about this is have a pub/sub system, where notifications are created to consumers of the torrent link when the Archive generates the metadata for new archived items, and those consumers then join the swarm for that item.

Can torrent clients properly handle being part of hundreds of thousands of item swarms at once?
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Super cool hack for adding infix operators in C++
Excuse me, Git gets me riled up.
LMDB does ACID MVCC using copy-on-write with no garbage collection or compaction needed. It delivers consistent, deterministic write performance with no pauses. It is actually now in use in a number of soft realtime systems.
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If you are good at this, over the years, you collect evidence, often of a sort that you cannot in good conscience share.

As one example I can share:

When I worked at a Fortune 500 company, I once got myself moved to a different team very, very quietly because the individual taking it over was going to be trouble for me. He had not yet done anything worthy of bringing it to the attention of HR, but I wanted nothing to do with him as my new boss. A bit over 2 years later, he was quietly fired. The rumor mill had it that he was either having an illicit affair or was engaging in sexual harassment. I believe either or both as plausible stories. A former team member (a woman) and I then talked about how terribly he had treated her, something she had been unable to effectively address while she worked for him. I felt terrible for not telling her sooner why I had been quietly moved.

If you earnestly want a more in-depth write up, I would be willing to put one on my blog sometime.

Edit: Maybe "quietly fired" isn't a good descriptor. More like "disappeared" overnight. One day, he was his usual jovial self. The next, we came in see a manager cleaning out his desk. The many people who bought his smarmy bullshit and adored him were in shock. I spent the week trying to hide my desire to pass out kazoos and party hats amidst a funerary atmosphere at work. Lots of people were completely taken in by this creep.
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In your experience, are Dart apps primarily ones that compile to Javascript and run in the browser, or server-side apps?
They haven't got the choice of borders. They could only use colonial borders, and those were counterproductive for a healthy nation.

Sure they wanted nation states, but they got crappy ones. And it could not go much better. Their failure is rooted in past outside their political control.
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How accurate it is with foreigners?

The way to communicate from a country to another is really different, same for the culture, ... How do you integrate the 'foreigner' factor in the evaluation?
Which occurred over roughly two months. Literally millions of soldiers died over the same time span in the world wars, nevermind civilians. That's just in the last century, and it's not even in the same ballpark.
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The situation today is that the Air Force has a $2B satellite to launch soon that they ordered a decade ago.

You're right that tomorrow, a different one could be built with the new launch cost in mind. The entire "new space" movement revolves around lowering launch costs and building much cheaper satellites to take advantage of lower launch costs.
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It's difficult and unpleasant to acknowledge what happened. By doing so they would have to acknowledge and deal with what happened in the past (that caused DID in the first place). Part of therapy is to take them on this road. They're able to cope with reality because they're able to compartmentalize their history. Hearing about it, while necessary, weakens the coping mechanism that helped them survive. So you can imagine why they wouldn't want to hear about it.
If keeping the family aspect is an important goal, why not stay on a smaller scale? Why feel the need to go to 100+ per batch? With your metaphor of being Mom, can you know the names of 2000+ children?
I could deduce that much from your homepage. I was more interested in the sort of environment (university, enterprise, Starbucks, etc.) you're basing this off.
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Sure--the one I share half my genes with.
Not understanding details of certain questions ≠ not understanding what people are talking about.

Knowledge of subject matter ≠ quality of personal character.

Not privy to details, but I imagine the YC partners have observed a high # of her perceptions map out accurately.

If you look, you'll find a lot of studies around character perception and related elements like body language.
I'm a sys admin and security researcher and I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the word. Nor do I have a CS related college degree. I'm an anomaly in the tech world. ;)
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random inspiration http://unhappyhipsters.com/image/846139544

I came to the feeling that I want a place for my family and my work. I am looking a lot at unhappyhipsters.com, nowness.com - in residence series, and come to the conclusion that people manage to do that. How did you find, acquire your awesome place to live and work in? and what is it?
I wonder if HN would benefit from adding an autoflag to "'murica." I've very rarely seen it used for anything other than particularly ignorant insults or otherwise negative value comments.
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Remember -- this is an on-disk compactor, so it's not quite the same as collecting garbage in memory. There are other differences -- database dependencies are typically trees (or in the worst case DAGs, as there aren't any circular references). So our compactor can be much simpler (in fact, it's closer to a purely functional collector like Haskell's).

But overall it's very similar to a programming language GC. The devil, as usual, is in the details.
Ahh yeah ok, fair enough. Will put that on the list.
When they were starting out with Falcon 1 launch attempts, they were using Kwajalein Atoll. They had tons of problems with corrosion from sea-water in the air though. I imagine that might be a concern in Hawaii as well, depending on which islands were available.

They'll still be near sea-water in Texas of course, but perhaps the wind tends to blow west to east, with the jetstream? I'm not sure.
First of all: Excellent piece. Every time I read about Jessica Livingston I inexplicably feel totally inadequate (in an inspiring way, don't worry :D).

Secondly, about Culture. The problem with talking about culture is that it's too high-level of a model to have a conversation about and come out with useful, applicable results. Several commenters here expressed a belief that "culture = ping pong tables", or office naps, or not wearing suits or something. They're not wrong -- the word "culture" can feasibly refer to those things, but (I think) that's typically not what we talk about when we talk about how important Culture is to startups.

I would like to read and hear about lower-level models of "Culture" that really drive success. Here are some really bad examples of what I mean: Clarity in speech, clear division of responsibility, product delivery / QA process norms, onboarding processes, personal respect, etc.

You might not mean any of these things when you say "culture". I realize this is an incredibly hard if not impossible task -- the whole reason we defer to Culture is because its importance is matched only by its complexity. However, given that it seems like such a ubiquitous and important factor for startup success, I feel that progress in producing better startups can only be made by tackling this problem on the low-level.
I have to wonder, if Elon Musk is alive on earth today, what's the use of me?

He's done pretty much everything I wanted to do in life, only a little less efficiently, and much faster.

What's the point?
>There are sometimes legitimate reasons to be going quickly. I have, at times, needed to have bursts of speed into the 90s to safely get around a drunk driver going 70.

Not convinced by this one. Surely reducing the kinetic energy in this scenario is the safest course of action?
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5 is IMO nothing else than nitpicking. 2 and 4 (and maybe 6) might have some importance in real life, while others are easy and kinda expected (although comma operator in 8 might not be known to less experienced programmers). I can't really see the point of this article other than "hey, do you remember that there is a concept called undefined behavior in C?".
I should confess to goading you a little bit, since I'm working on a piece about this topic right now, and can use all the input and alternate perspective I can get. This is really helpful, thanks!

(I'm hoping to post it Friday, but since you've already called this one of the few arguments I have you don't agree with, I'd be really happy if you were willing to take a peek at it tomorrow).
I agree with it being expensive. I don't see how it would be risky, you wouldn't fuel the rockets before you shipped them, that would be bonkers.
This article is being flooded with weird anti-car hate. Yet, my car is perfectly safe and can only kill someone in a hit and run at 100 MPH if, and only if, I get drunk first.

Given that I don't drink very much and then only at home (a sixer lasts me about a season, sometimes half a year) that means my car is incredibly safe and will almost certainly never kill anyone. Odd how there's no anti-alcohol hate here on HN, yet its the alcohol doing the actual killing.

If you subtract out deaths due to drunkenness, cars kill less people than bathtubs. Perhaps we need a war on bathtubs. Because nothing is ever a drunk's fault.
I assure you I do, and if I didn't you would be able to elaborate.