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It's a can of worms - there's this notion of freedom of religion for instance.

Anybody can think and believe any crazy idea as long as it's a fairly mainstream religion. That's our current state of affairs - we take any ideas seriously as long as many people take them seriously.

There's not much other criteria at play.

So people live with crazy incompatible ideas that keep causing internal conflict and what vague solution can you propose that'll sell? (Capitalism is the new religion, so things MUST sell :)) Right, 'mindfulness' - in other words, just don't pay attention to the internal conflicts you are continually having - they'll go away on their own.

They don't really, but we can't say ok, we have to use logic and sense to approach these things - because then archaic ideas like freedom of religion are going to fall apart.

So we are where we are, mindfulness, 'positive thinking' and other sterile methods that don't talk about the real problem - your mind is a big mess and it'll take a while to sort through it.

We as a society haven't even started - we're too busy coping with never-ending fuck-ups that stem from people in power not losing their heads for being incompetent. Of course they love it that way, they're at the top of the heap and beyond scrutiny, how convenient. Just don't get caught with hookers and blow.
> On a Thinkpad T500, you do need Lenovos special power management tools. Otherwise, the cpu fan will never spin up and your processor will overheat.

I am replying to this guy. Never spin up? Overheat? He's completely wrong.

I know full well how it works, I don't have it backwards.
I was going to say something trite like "Money is the number boring people use to keep score."

But the piece near the end on other measurements reminded me of a key piece of advice I learnt from my amazing sister Millie (founder of www.iamlovable.com):

"Don't place your happiness in other people or other things. If you need them to make you happy, then they can also make you sad."
1) That 8M of equity in your example is theoretical value, not cash you can spend. The 1.6M is real money. There are a lot of people that would trade the former for the latter. You're right about there being other ways to deal with this, but preferences are one of the cleanest.

2) If you have different classes of stock that pay out the same in a liquidation event you aren't going to be able to get a significant difference in their value.

3) Who's to say what's fair? We're talking about capitalism not an ethics textbook. Fair is whatever you can negotiate. And providing downside protection to the people putting in the cash enables you to enhance your upside reward. If you're raising 2M on 8M pre and you're more concerned about what happens if the company liquidates at 5M than what happens if you get to 50M or 100M then I do honestly wonder why you're starting a company in the first place.
That's a nice gesture and sentiment. But this kind of thinking would be a ridiculous way to live. A smile towards someone can be interpreted as you laughing at them, which wouldn't help someone who felt bad about themselves. Yes, you've got to consider this possibility if you accept that train of thought. There are simply too many variables and the state of people's mind is too complex to ever hope to save people from going over the edge by such small gestures and actions, or to avoid sending them over the edge by some totally innocuous and well-meant action.
Link to original paper: http://rdcu.be/cJ0x
I remember the thrill of getting the 1.0b5 floppies in the mail - amazing stuff, indeed.
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You're describing fiat money: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Yes, it would impact reality. Beliefs such as comparing life with computers DO have an impact on reality.
I used to use my Nexus 7 about 75% of the time, with my (very small) Droid Mini and (very dated, barely usable) Lenovo splitting the remaining 25%.

I recently got a new MBP, and my usage patterns for all for the devices have changed. Now I'm about 33%, all the way around.
Why A False Statement Can Imply Anything
Fun.
Good. They should also get rid of the fake USPS mail forwarding ads.
Not all mechanical keyboards are loud or clicky. I use one with Cherry Browns and mostly type without bottoming out the keys, and it's no louder than cheap keyboards.
Get ready to wait in line for more IPv4 addresses
They're doing an incredibly shitty job of it then.

It would be more accurate to say the rich are voting just enough to the poor to prevent widespread active looting.
I've never done much Python stuff at all (It's a great language, I just never used it on a major project). I just spent the last hour catching up on the chronicles of Python 2 -> Python 3 (not just at Google, but everywhere).

Sorry, but here's my answer: http://i.imgur.com/tZOS8.gif
This is said Siddarth Chandrasekaran. :) I proposed the first Stripe CTF, inspired by SmashTheStack (http://smashthestack.org/), but the resulting Stripe CTFs are the result of many, many hours of several folks' work (Andy Brody, Carl Jackson, Christian Anderson, gdb, Jonas Schneider, Jorge Ortiz, Ludwig Petterson, Nelson Elhage, Philipp Antoni, Steve Woodrow, and myself).

And yes, it's certainly a tradition that we hope to keep up!
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Congrats and good luck.

Their api is truly a piece of art and one of my favorite software projects to look at. I always find myself taking example from it when building an api.

Reading the preceding post to the one mentioned here, his decision suddenly seems not so surprising. Like his role in the sprint of building a company is done now and not all people make the transition once the company grows up to the next level
Agreed, I didn't want to sugar coat things either. I think there is a bit of time given over to the downsides, but finding the right balance is tricky, and perhaps I erred by focusing too strongly on the "this is awesome!" side of things.

I want to explore the design decisions around the chassis in a follow-up, and we have one interview in the can already with the industrial designer. Hopefully that article will be a little faster to get out; this one was written about 3 months ago.

The other angle that I'd love to explore in a more in-depth article is how we actually do this stuff in production, and what we've learned about it. This would delve more into the ugly OS X stuff that we painted over to get things nice and pretty in production.
Here is a direct link

https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/docker/CIS_Docker_1...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfsnlbd-4xQ

Great, great talk linked to in the article, about using Clojure to abstract and live-code music.

It actually helped me to more appreciate a funny episode in Star Trek: Next Generation where the hologram doctor becomes an esteemed musician among a species that previously didn't have music, because they saw it as an amazing mathematical feat.
Everyone here has got the wrong idea about what Watson is doing here.

It maybe doing sequence analysis, but I've never seen anything about that before.

The real strength is the journal article reading mentioned in passing. What it does is read studies on new treatment options as they are released, and then when a person presents symptoms it will do a diagnosis and suggest treatment options along with supporting evidence.

The natural language understanding needed to do the journal understanding is the real unique offering here.

There are videos on YouTube showing the system. I'm on mobile so I'm not looking them up now.
(I'm a Google developer on API Platform)
A few of the follow ups mentioned that Service Accounts are more appropriate for this API and closer to the AWS experience. There have been some challenges using service accounts that have been addressed with a relatively new feature set called "Application Default Credentials":
https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application...
For most cloud APIs, you simply run "gcloud auth login" to enable auth on the development machine, and when you deploy to GCE or GAE it will use the more secure built-in service accounts there. And there is no token expiration in either case.
People really do not understand blockchain.

Since each member gets regular basic income and are verified with KYC (to prevent fake identities) this is just how money is handled among friends. Alice owes Bob a dollar and Bob owes Carol a dollar and Carol owes Alice so it all eventually settles. Just the friends in this 'group' keep a record of it.

Why do they need mining then? They don't. They just need a ledger of all the loans.

If a ledger can serve as a currency system then why do we even need mining? Because users could fake multiple identities, to receive the basic income. Mining is required to solve this 'money generation' problem.

In bitcoin, not everyone gets basic income but only the ones who do some work to maintain the ledger.

What group currency is, is called hawala.
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Right, but that's leaps and bounds better than "free" McAfee, no matter which way you skin it.

This also isn't exactly universally true. HTC was pretty responsive in getting Lollipop out to my One M8, for example, even with its whole "Sense UI" shebang.
> We simply cannot risk our business on saving some money at the expense of violating Apple's EULA.

I believe people are questioning that Apple hardware/software is a requirement of your business (and that it's not "some money", but a lot of money you'd be saving).

It's difficult to fathom Apple hardware/software being a hard requirement to operate any business (as-in you can't operate without it). Both Windows and Linux have a plethora of image utilities, audio, etc...

Sure, OSX might have some optimized image processing stuff, but couldn't the massive savings be used to scale wider with more generic hardware and still come out ahead?
Well at least you're honest, I'll give you that :)
We added another wider shot of the chassis, but here are two others that didn't go in to hopefully give you a better sense of how the chassis actually looks:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6jwqwxsu50zvhrw/_1090440.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7rej2uusmg2a3w/_1110402.jpg?dl=0
You could just as easily do 'curl someurl | less' before you run it, too.
new Date () returns creates a JavaScript date object.

When coerced to a number, it's the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970.

If you wanted to know the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, you could divide by 1000. Since JavaScript will do the coercion for you automatically you can pretty much treat a date object as if it were a number.

This is basically a utility routine that I use for debugging messages to say how long an operation took.

Here's an example of its use:

https://github.com/scripting/myWordEditor/blob/master/script...

It's especially nice because JavaScript automatically does real arithmetic on the division, so you get fractions of seconds displayed in the console.

I use this routine a lot. Helps me spot performance problems. Nice to have, not a crucial routine.

Hope this helps! ;-)
replaceState would be quite welcome! It's good to allow specific themes to be linkable, but it's bad to pollute the history when you click radio buttons, IMO.

Other than that, though, good work. :)
I haven't really thought about the idea of pegging crypto-currencies to something. I'm trying to think how this works and keep running into some walls. In the case of this article, my presumption is that basically this company is selling their gold to you and the cryptocurrency part serves like the contract. In general though, pegging a currency by any group other than a government seems to require that the "peggers" actually possess the asset.

Maybe another way to pose the question would be, if I were to want to create a cryptocurrency pegged to the CPI in the US, how might I achieve that. How would the first units be issued, to whom and for how much?

I've done some quick searching/reading about this topic but I figured I'd drop a line here before the discussion got too stale.
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Nervana open-sources its deep-learning software, outperforms Facebook, Nvidia
A lot of the complexity comes down to not just doing the operation, but doing it correctly and quickly. ImageMagick does multiple passes, for instance; this is sub-optimal for both quality and speed.
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Adding example issue would be a good idea imo. Also, I tried to subscribe, but never get confirmation email.
"Even on a 30 nm process, it would be possible to place 25 million cells in a square centimeter, with 10,000 synapses on each cell. And all that would dissipate about a Watt."

Wow - seems like a lot.

Human brain by comparison (sourced by google):
- 12 watts
- 100 billion neurons
- 1000 trillion connections

Computing with memsisters is going to be very interesting.
That one looks extremely close to the imagemagick one, slightly less aliasing and slighly more blur - it's down to a matter of preference.

Most importantly, it doesn't have the horrible box window that the imgix resampler has.
>It should help to know that reaching the state of being one smile away from suicide implies a profoundly severe illness

That's a pretty harsh and unrealistic generalization. Not everyone who commits or wants to commit suicide is "profoundly mentally ill". If you woke up tomorrow and your bank account were empty and your family were gone, would you consider suicide? Alot of people would, and it's not because they formed a mental defect overnight. Terrible things happen every day that can make otherwise rational people believe suicide is their most viable option.
Most mechanical keyboards have N-Key Rollover or Anti-Ghosting to handle the situation of multiple simultaneous key-presses. USB supports up to ten keys, while only PS/2 has full N-Key Rollover support.

Here's a good explanation of the issue with an interactive typing test showing the issue: http://blog.controlspace.org/2010/08/n-key-rollover-what-it-...
One of the goals we had when we designed Onboarded was for it to be unobtrusive yet flexible. It can be used to accomplish just what you are saying. The styling as overlay/modal is just a default to get you going. It can be made into a fullscreen flow or inline, or however you want. Onboarded makes it easier to do all those things stylistically, as well as bind event handlers, post data, etc.
As much as I agree with the author's point, it's misleading to refer to "the market" when you're really talking about a very small subgroup of people. Much of the distortion and irreality in startup world stems from the fact that companies are not selling to a broad market, but trying to tell persuasive stories to a small group of wealthy investors. Using "the market" to refer to that small group creates confusion that I worry is intentional.
I couldn't locate the line where it provides people with food.
I'm sorry that I can't say this any more clearly: suicidal depression, or intrusive and/or detailed suicidal planning or impulse, is a life-threatening medical emergency. People experiencing it require medical assistance. Please do not attempt to judge for yourself whether or how much assistance is needed.

The national suicide hotline in the US is:

1 (800) 273-8255

Given no other modes of helping someone that will result in them obtaining medical help, and assuming that suicidal thoughts have reached a point where they are intrusive and there is evidence of planning or intent, a 911 call is not unreasonable (you can also drive someone to the hospital).
Warning: clicking on the 3rd link in your comment repeatably crashes Chrome (the entire browser, not just the tab) for me.
Apple doesn't even make standalone desktops anymore. The Mac Mini 2014 is twice as slow as the Mac Mini 2012!
That matches what I found, looking at this a while ago. Not perfect for every application, of course.
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Correction: Ahh I see what you're saying and agree. I wouldn't think about using a service that carried with it so much inherent uncertainty.

Pricing is linked to in the footer: https://www.getonboarded.com/pricing
>"And the markets can move on you and one day you are worth $2bn and the next day your are worth $500mm. Did you just mess up by 75%? No. The market moved on you.

>But please don’t measure yourself on valuation. It might make you feel good today. But it won’t make you feel good every day."

I wish we could give this perspective to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies as well.
Ask HN: Someone is signing my email up to dating and sex sites
I have a Gmail address with my first and last name @ gmail.com a name that is shared by at least 200+ men in the USA. I signed up for Gmail in 2005 doing a beta test and got my first and last name as my gmail account. If someone else of the same name signs up they have to use a letter or number combination at gmail.com. I get emails for the wrong person all of the time. Recently I have been signed up to several sex and dating websites that don't even require an email confirmation. I was able to unsubscribe from their lists, but I can't help feel scared that men are using my gmail address to look for women and it makes me look bad. What if the women try to contact them via email and it goes to me? I tried emailing abuse @ domain.com for each one but no response.

I'm too scared to log onto the website and reset the password for each account and then have the account deleted. I once had to do that before, only to have them recreate the account. I can't tell if this is an accident or if it is being done on purpose?

But none of these web sites confirm the email, and anyone can type any email they want and create an account. Then I start getting email from their websites that I don't want and I had to explain to my wife that I was not me signing up for these accounts.
Consideration of suicide is not the same thing as intrusive or deliberate and systemic suicidal planning. If it's a friend, ask: are you thinking about suicide? Do you have any plans? What are you thinking of doing? If there are plans, and they are credible, seek immediate medical attention.
IMO that is still a market (if you have 1 buyer and 1 seller, you have a market), albeit a small and illiquid one.

I think what you are getting at is that because the market for private companies is illiquid, rife with information asymmetry, and is opaque, it is difficult to gauge true market price.
> There is a big difference between using gold and silver for currency--which people did for thousands of years--and a gold- or silver-backed paper currency, which only existed for a couple hundred years at most. I know gold standard fans like to equate them, but they are not the same thing at all.

That's a very interesting point! I think I "knew" that they were different without ever putting it together like that. It's obviously true though, there were a number of years here in the US when you could own dollars but not the gold that the dollars supposedly represented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

> Gold and silver used as money were actually a form of barter.

I'm not sure I agree with that but it's probably semantics. Is gold "money" or "commodity" and why? There's no obviously right answer. If people did bookkeeping in ounces of gold and paid their taxes in ounces of gold, doesn't that make it "money" in the sense that we would use today?

> Fiat currency is resistant to such manipulation because no one can ever control enough of it to manipulate the economy. The government can create or destroy as much as it needs to.

So it's not clear to me that granting the government (technically the Federal Reserve which is privately owned and truly only answers to its owners) control over the economy the way we have is actually a good thing. You still have an entity that can manipulate prices and the economy, it's just most people accept this as a good thing without any thought at all. Most people probably still believe that the gold inside Fort Knox or the Federal Reserve banks are somehow meaningful and in some way related to our money; but they aren't. You've traded the possibility of someone manipulating the economy in a harmful way for the certainty that someone will manipulate the economy but with the outcome unknown at any time.

The Fed still does price fixing, by the way. They fix the price of money, or as most people call it, the interest rate. Because their balance sheet knows no limits they can buy or sell as much of anything as they want until the interest rate is the "right" one as decided by a bunch of people who don't have a lot of connection to the real economy anymore.

You might argue that the Supreme Court is similar (unelected and generally unaccountable) but there's a difference. The people on the Supreme Court can make decisions based on existing law and precedent and legal arguments brought before them. And it's fairly easy for the Congress to override their decisions if they're particularly egregious since they publish opinions that explain their reasoning.

As it stands there's really no feedback mechanism for the Federal Reserve short of writing new laws that change the entire system. None is built in. Sure they have to go before Congress twice a year, but they can't be fired for policy opinions. It's a sweet gig if you can get it, but it's kind of insane just how much power these folks wield and how little accountability they face for their actions.
What the fuck would a camera man know about any of this, one way or the other? Why would his opinion be interesting at all?
> Have you ever personally run a Hackintosh, full-time for a prolonged period of time?

I did. But now I'm running Yosemite under KVM, VT-d motherboard, dedicated videocard and USB3 hub.

You can get to a point where "it just works".
It uses git-style addressable blob storage, so you don't have to worry about deltas, because there aren't any.

It's also got more efficient deduplication, because it doesn't use rsync's naïve algorithm.

The downsides: it requires the agent to be remotely installed (a la rsync: no "dumb" backends), and supports less storage backends to boot.

YMMV :-)
That's a bummer on my end. I'll have to look into why later.
Yes, value is subjective. I basically agree, just wondering why you wrote your comment.

Taxes make value in the same way as someone putting a gun to my head and saying they will shoot me unless I give them a rusty nail. In that moment, a rusty nail has more value to me than nearly anything. I'd trade a 1,000 ounces of gold for that rusty nail.
It seems telling that this article leaves out the fact that he became morbidly obese, which seems like something that often accompanies workaholism.
I have been using a Hackintosh as my primary rig going on 4+ years now. It can be frustrating if you are trying to use the very latest hardware but I find the small issues a decent tradeoff.

It's not a matter of cheaper for me, but a matter of fitting my needs. I don't want to run AMD graphics cards, I need PCI-E, I want lots of internal storage, I want really high single threaded CPU performance.

I can't buy that from Apple in a desktop form-factor. So I have my Hackintosh.

That being said, I don't disagree that Apple hardware is nice. I have a rMBP 13 and intend on replacing it with a newer model Apple notebook soon.