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The single greatest factor in being a billionaire is luck.

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel would probably be languishing in obscurity if Paypal had not been sold off right at the edge of the dotcom bubble and given them a financial base to propel their future.

It is being at the right place, at the right time, with the right skill, finding the right investors/employees, partners and much more. When all of that aligns, you get a billionaire. It is only slightly less lucky than playing lottery.

PS: This does not apply to being a millionaire. You can be a millionaire by working hard, taking an upper middle class job and investing prudently.
Not sure if it helps but you can always jump to the top with just the "Home" button press
Floating point numbers can be justified by two criteria:

1) The distribution of typical numbers

2) The desired precision across a distribution

1: Floating point numbers suggest an exponential distribution, which comes up very often in science, engineering, etc. Very rarely we have real data neatly packet in a small [-a,a] range.

2: Floating point satisfy the following error metric approximately uniformly: for any -max < x < max, Error = float(x)/x; that is, the relative error is small. This again agrees with real world requirements for data, where we tolerate larger errors for larger numbers.
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Every time I'm struck by how slow the big PHP frameworks are compared to raw PHP. Either nobody cares about making those tests perform better, or something is very wrong in the architecture of those frameworks.

I expect the cause is that too much code is being loaded for every request. PHP tears down and rebuilds the world for every request, and the popular frameworks load a lot of code and instantiate a lot of objects for every request.
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Imagine you have a company that does something not related to software. You have some important business tools that are implemented in Python. What is your incentive to spent money and take the risk of new bugs porting to Python 3? It doesn't make business sense.

That's why there is still lots of COBOL in the world and why Python 2.x is going to live for many years, far past the 5 year predicted end of life. It will be far cheaper to make new releases of Python 2.x than to port the millions of lines of existing code.

Python 3 is nice, take a look at it. It probably will be easier porting than you think. However, don't feel like you are forced into moving to it. Python 2.x will continue to be around.
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Thanks! I'd like to see this as well.
I agree with your argument, but we could debate about how this is one of those design concepts that "favours" bad implementations...

It's like how javascript doesn't mean dirtier code, but it can certainly favour it.
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Two great books on this topic you may have already read - Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" as well as Supercapitalism by Robert Reich. Reading these two works has really shifted my view on regulation and govenment in general from "something other people do" to something I think about in a more participatory way.

Putnam especially makes the point that an entire generation of Americans is growing up (I include myself here) treating government and politics as a spectator sport -- the province of party hacks -- rather than something ordinary people do during their off-hours. I'd highly recommend reading both in case you haven't.
The new `class` syntax is just sugar on the ordinary prototypal way in which JS developers have created "classes" for ages (functions which return themselves as objects.) It just makes the code you have to write a little prettier to look at.
How well HLS does highly depends on the source code (this is in general and not specific to Vivado HLS). If your code is a simple loop over an array and you add a vendor-specific #pragma directive (such as #pragma unroll) the tool will unroll your loop and extract the parallelism from there. This actually works quite well in practice for regular DSP code (like FIR and FFT) and floating point. Anything else is another story though.

The thing is that unless you're writing your code as the tool expects it, with the proper pragmas etc. there's no way it can be transformed to fast hardware. A way around that is for vendors to ship "customizable IP" kind of like Altera's Megafunctions... so much for portability and high-level.

I'm not sure which tool OP is referring to though, I remember Altera had a C2H tool that they discontinued in favor of their OpenCL SDK.
Anything special about Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop apps that prevents the use of companies whose full-time business model is payments processing? Or is the special thing about fxpay the ability to pay with your phone bill?
Keep in mind most of these benchmarks won't happen in production. Especially not the netty and lwan ones.
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It's easy to get your own code to run on 3.x. The challenge is making sure all your C library dependencies run on it. And Python is nothing without its vast library ecosystem.
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I think one of the problems in the world, and maybe this is contributing to the high income inequality, is that people want to be billionaires.

This is a "problem in the world" in the same way that sex out of wedlock is a "problem." It's just one of the many facets of human nature. Historically, institutions and policies that take human nature into account fare better than those railing against it. The United States is one of the biggest examples.
Good question! I set up a microservice hosted on a static IP that talks to my Heroku app. If you're trying to do the same and want some help let me know!
To complete my answer I also agree on the fact that you need to find Saas you can rely on and your business need to have solid foundations.

You definitely need to find out what is the essential part of your business (that makes you unique) and what's not, to let someone "better" do the job for you or do it yourself.

I'm curious to know what the threads were saying at the launch of AWS though :)
You can filter by DB, and most of the frameworks (including the Dart ones) are run against multiple DBs.
Im sure most people will start to use Python 3 for one of those large new features, but to me its all the small QoL changes for the standard library which I constantly see when searching for tricky problems and finding them in SO.
Infinite scrolling: fine. Really not that bad. Yes, you need to do some stuff to make sure it's usable, but you need to do a similar amount of stuff to make sure pagination is usable too.

Parallax scrolling: get out.
Is Firefox Desktop the web browser on pc etc and does that mean ordinary websites can bill to cell phones etc through this?
They appear to have badly misconfigured Apache so nothing IE related works and all the cipher suites are weak.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=techempower.c...
True, to ebay, a place where people go to sell their goods; a much needed source of income in a recession.
I think "infinite scroll" is best when implemented as scroll triggered pagination. An example of this hit hacker news awhile back:

http://scrollsample.appspot.com/items
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314965
It doesn't surprise me at all...

I'm an MD. I don't remember this specific piece of information being mentioned during my training. However, all the information need to reason about it was included...

What really blows my mind is how many people get it wrong, including my colleagues and especially dietitians ("they had one job").
> KeywhizFs is a FUSE-based file system, providing secrets as if they are files in a directory. Transparently, secrets are retrieved from a Keywhiz Server using mTLS with a client certificate.

I hope this doesn't bring their entire infrastructure tumbling down when a network problem causes processes to block while reading from the mount point.
Now you're changing your argument. I realize yesterday was a long time ago, but you were the one arguing that extremism was limited to small pockets of the Middle East. I didn't draw attention to M.E. specifically, you did.
You are not understanding the situation.

Let suposse that a mass murder kills 5000 babies, and mutilates other 5000. There will be a trial, right?, this is serious stuff. A complex trial with thousands of victims waiting for justice.

Will the lawyer of the victims, jump in this legal battlefield like going for a picnic, and show triumphant their one and only proof?("rabbits, didn't feel the need to investigate further because science is evil").

Will someone tell the police, "stop doing interviews, replicating the crime scene, looking for witness, asking the experts, we have one hint!. Dismiss the other proofs"?

Do you understand know, why a lot of work and experiments have to be done? Because there was dozens of trials in 46 countries and you need to know the truth without the slightest shadow of a doubt.
Infinite scroll makes me nauseous. Literally.
I'm getting the feeling they don't like something about etcd or raft or both. Is that accurate? I noticed certstrap was adapted from etcd-ca.
Indeed.. I am wondering the same.. I fear that at some point the baseline for performance will be some virtualized server and people will forget just how fast real hardware can be.. At some point people will think it's normal to host a simple blog on 5 virtual servers ;)

Also, by its nature EC2 should be terrible for serious benchmarking, since you have no control whatsoever about the infrastructure.
I don't think so especially since it still uses bytes to output to a webserver, even go is way better for this kind of tiny library.
For bigger projects i would still go the java route especially since there is karyon from netflix.
Lobsters are biologically immortal, I.e. their expected remaining lifetime does not decrease with age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality#Lobsters
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You will need a lot of luck to be a millionaire too, in fact for anything. If that wasn't the case bulk of the world population would be millionaires. Hunger and poverty would have been long eradicated.

Luck is the final ingredient, secret sauce of sorts that makes a hardworking person rich. A person isn't successful just out of hard work, its because they are lucky too.

And besides that you won't be rich if you are too nice, honest and sincere.
As a big fan (and user) of Twisted, I'd like to see a discussion of why I might want to use asyncio instead, besides the So-You-Can-Use-Py3 reason.
Nice ninja edit. Why don't you provide some sources for once. I'm getting sick of your poor argumentation and I'm not your research assistant.
Reading thru these tests they are measuring database performance as much as framework performance.

They are also single node which is great if you're entire system is only going to ever need one machine's worth of capacity (Eg: vertical scaling)
yep if you check my Google source there is the same link within the ZDnet article
> My house was artistically designed by an architect, if I don't like the kitchen, would I offend his artistic expression by remodeling?

Depends on the contract you signed. I'm not sure how this applies to private homes or the US, but I recall architects preventing functional modifications of public structures in several cases in Germany. Also, copyright also covers architecture (and also, look up the legal situation of taking pictures of the Eiffel tower at night for a laugh).

> do I really own it at all?

Again, depending on the legislature, no you don't. And because Americans value their freedom so much, you also have the freedom to cut down your basic rights by entering into a contract. In other countries the nanny state protects us from doing that, preventing the free enterprise from creating a situation where you might have to do so involuntarily (e.g. if you need a phone and all phone contracts are ridiculous).
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So we waited eight years for Flash to die to the point where it is today. Meanwhile sites are changing now for Google's new algorithm. I don't think it's comparable at all.
This is a big implicit FAQ for Octave (actually, frequent incorrect bug report), so this is our response mostly written by me:

http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#Why_is_this_floating_point_comput...

I think people just forget that when they see "0.1", that this can't be represented exactly in binary.

I also link to the following long-winded explanation of how floats work:

http://floating-point-gui.de/
I hear where you're coming from. And I generally agree. But I'm not 100% convinced that the terrible option always loses. In general it should. But it's not guaranteed by any means.
I'm waiting for the first class action suit against said manufacturer for selling products which don't meet expected standards of fit for usage. It seems to me that locking up products in this way artificially limits their usage lifetime and fitness for use which seems to run afoul of an implied contract that they are selling a product. If that product cannot be used past X years, and the consumer is locked out of changing/adapting said product, they should be given a refund when it's no longer fit for use.
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Yes, but when this article talks about the growing number of contract workers, that growing number is people doing regular jobs and being labelled contractors. I'm working right now, but feel free to google about this growing problem of workers being illegally mislabeled as contractors.
That would be a neat idea, but that wouldn't make the creator $1 million, so I wouldn't be too hopeful on that option.
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- You get mobile E-commerce websites with usability disasters during checkout.

To be fair, I think going through desktop-version checkout process on mobile is very much worse. If an e-commerce company can't get its checkout process right, then it deserves to lose customers.
There is so much wrong with this article I don't even know where to begin.

Talking about the rise of the 1% without a single mention of moving away from the gold standard and the finance industry is misguided at best.
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This is specifically about IEEE 754.

Arbitray-precision floating point arithmetic like e.g. GMP offers doesn't suffer these issues.
Infinite scrolling usually is usually time ordered data. If you could type a link with an arbitrary date and time and it took you to the right place, then that might help slightly and would not be that hard to set up. The problem with infinite scroll is it needs extra elements to make it nice, not that it is evil in and of itself.
If you mean "adoption of Python 3" in the sense of new Python programmers choosing 3 over 2, then yes, there has been progress towards learning Python 3. It's pushed in all of the online "beginning Python" guides I've looked at as well. From everything I've read about it, learning 3 is the way to go, since if you learn 3 you can always code in 2 if necessary. When the time comes that you'll need to know 3, you'll already know it.

If you mean adoption by businesses and entities using it in their infrastructure, then no, the author is correct: We're not seeing much progress there.
> It's arguable it's a good service for the user.

Does the user want to click on a link to a relevant site that their device cannot adequately access?
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And I'm not sure about the fine-grained accuracy here. For example, NetworkX is listed green, but its graphic subsystem, according to their documentation, does not support Python 3.

Also, Oath2 seems like a big one, and would exclude many other packages that might use it.
You're kidding but they aren't: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...

xdg-app is similar but with less btrfs: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps
No, only dogs and miniature horses are service animals under the ADA. FHA and Air Carrier Access Act include other animals but don't cover other forms of transit, which would include Uber. Also, "Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA."[1]

I'm not familiar with the standards by which a dog or any other animal is determined to be a reasonable accommodation for a disability. I know they're not limited to physical impairments.

[1] http://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm
Thanks! This solves some of the issues I mentioned above.
This was very recently published in BMJ. IMHO a better read than the blog post linked.

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257
Thanks!

I guess I'll work on the documentation :)

TLDR for now (pretty standard): npm install, bower install, update the .env file with creds/specific config, grunt run, foreman start.
It is patently false that 'risks and dangers children face have grown'. Even TFA states that crime rates are drastically down from a generation ago when it was normal for kids to go and play without supervision, especially kidnappings etc. It is entirely a cultural attitude of extreme risk aversion that Americans have in general nowadays.
> Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions

This is wrong enough to make me stop reading.
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They aren't inherently bad but they are inherently easy to misuse and implement poorly. Which actually does support restraint in deciding to use them.

One thing I see frequently which is preposterous is infinite scroll on pages that actually have a footer which is pretty much impossible to access.
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Agreed — I thought about this carefully and I'd have no problem with a rental-type agreement for a car of a piece of machinery, as long as we all agree that it's a rental (and the pricing reflects it).

Tesla is another example of a company walking a thin line. I'd be OK with their software updates to the car, and I'd actually rather take this further: I am not into car repair and I just want to use the vehicle for transportation, so a rental/lease agreement is fine with me.

The same problem exists with many other devices that we seemingly "own". Phones are a good example: they are rapidly becoming computing devices that we "buy", but don't really own, as we can't use them without the software, which is "licensed". Again, not a huge problem for me in the case of a phone, but let's be clear that I don't really "own" much more than a decorated doorstop/brick. I really pay an upfront rental fee with the expectation of using the device for about 2-3 years.
tl;dr - "The surprising answer to this question is that we breathe it out."

O₂ in, CO₂ and H₂O out
Biggest examples in what way?
Luck is relativistic, though. It's far easier to become a billionaire when you've already established your success and connections. The fact that you can easily become a millionaire by working hard means that becoming a billionaire is easier from there than starting from scratch.
That's the same real world where I routinely type "mkvirtualenv …", install a bunch of things and don't notice that I've been using Python 3 until the first time I toss a print statement in for debugging?
We absolutely do not need a digital rights tracking system to turn bits into de facto physical objects. The point being, if we needed it, it would be invented and widely adopted. Practically no consumer wants that system, or anything remotely close to it.

There is no magic in making everything digital free - its just the way the universe works. Those things which can be trivially produced (digital copies) are tantamount to an infinite supply. In the case of limitless supply, prices will approach zero. Eventually the law will catch up with the rest of society.

Creatives will make money in other ways; there will always be writers, artists, poets, and hackers. People are compelled to create and share. They will not always be paid per unit of work after the fact.
How would respiration be surprising to anyone with a high school level education?

> This analysis makes it clear why exercise is so powerful in the weight loss equation.

There are many reasons to exercise, but it's quite clear weight loss isn't one of them. I mean, you need to exercise to get your abs to pop, but not being a lard-ass is totally about avoiding excess calorie intake and exercise really doesn't enter into it. People don't realize what a trivial amount of calories working out burns.
Falcon is where the performance is at according to the benchmarks.
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the situation for greenfield projects is much better than it has been in past years. I would feel just fine about, for example, starting a new django web app in Python 3.

however, the vast overwhelming vast huge vast majority of software in the world is legacy systems. software lifecycles are long and the cost of migrating from Python 2 to Python 3 is very high for those systems.
He wouldn't have done it that way. You're not looking at him with a wide enough lens. People who are rich aren't rich by chance. They're rich because they observe the way things are, they take the opportunities that are presented to them as they are able to take them. Sure, he was in California in 1995, he was in the position to take a chance at a startup rather than have a 9-5 he jumped on the bandwagon. If he were 40 with 3 kids and he was just as shrewd as he was when he got his start, he'd have jumped on a different bandwagon - perhaps the realty bandwagon, become a realtor, flipped multibillion dollar houses on loans and still got rich, or he'd have become a stock broker, made himself money that way and turned that into a billion dollars - who knows, the opportunities are endless. You've just gotta look at things in the right way.

Self made billionaires are opportunists. They are smart. They are shrewd. They look at the big picture. For every reason they're told they can't do something, they find a solution, they don't see obstacles as deal breakers, they're just speed bumps, irritations that need to be resolved/removed, hoops to be jumped through to get where they're going. They look for the next possibility and insert themselves where they need to in order to leverage what they have to get where they need to go.

So you see it doesn't have as much to do with chance as you might think. What was chance was the bubble occurring. But Elon making use of that opportunity when it presented itself was anything but chance, that was all Elon. He spied an opportunity and rode it until he was shrewd enough to get off the elevator... which is what he's still doing. Finding opportunity and leveraging it to make his next billion dollars.
Just curious, how else can mass be converted to energy?

EDIT/replying:

I'm inclined to continue to believe that it can't in any other way.

1. Not through a chemical reaction; energy can be released in a chemical reaction, but the total mass/atoms involved remains the same.

2. Not through kinetics; energy can be produced, but mass remains the same as well.

cf. some interesting caveats here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass
I find infinite scrolling through search results works OK. You tend to only delve so deep and don't tend to return to the same search results page. If it's a page where you want to keep track of how far you got, yeah, it's annoying.