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> avoid code sharing wherever possible

Err, wut? It sounds like you are saying that pretty much the one reliable guideline in the history of software has become a bad idea.

(I have come across places in my career where code sharing was not worthwhile, but they have been rare. And I frequently regretted the decision later.)
Why would I input my email? What am I getting? This is incredibly unclear.

health care!
medical science!
digital health!
etc!

Sign me up!

Sorry for being a hater, but this is nooooot good.
Being disinvited from a conference after a writing career that left you most notable for your politics is not the same as being removed from your job over a political position that people had to do research to discover.
I.. don't know what you're doing. That's cool, the girl has a rash. Sure, I love [generic google search terms]! Sign up? Sign up for what?
I'm curious..

Is it possible to use VIsual C++'s STL inside of Linux?
Thanks for the link – an enlightening read.
Would you run a stock-picker algorithm that never did backtesting? Real data-science is much more complex than just applying "this should work" reasoning and jumping to a really controversial conclusion with zero data to back it up.

This is a good hypothesis as it stands, and may be valuable as a predictor of fraud. However the conclusion is meaningless without sufficient evidence of predictivity to back it up.

Take historical examples of elections with known fraud and run this analysis to see if it can correctly label the fraud/no-fraud categories. _Then_ after we can agree that it works well, only then will I care about the results of any specific analysis.
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97% environmentalist -- the same way he called himself 97% feminist: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664
The amount of the change that's due to human activity and the amount of effect viable changes in human activity could have are, at best, very loosely related.
I assure you that the racism of, for example, Yitzhak Herzog (who heads Israel's main centre-left party), is as obvious to the ideological opponents of Zionism as Yarvin's is to you. If you doubt me, ask them.

It should be clear from my other comments that I am concerned with the principle of excluding people from apolitical fora on the grounds of racism alone. How justified or controversial it is to call someone a racist fails to engage the argument that it's a social evil to apply that test.

As to the technical value of Urbit itself, having passed a process explicitly designed to support neutral evaluation (blind review and ranking) it's unfair to start picking holes. (One thing I saw was a bit of point-and-laugh at the style of the C code used to implement it, which frankly is no worse or different than I've seen used in some more obscure languages like False, for example.)
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674606 (67 points, 11 hours ago, 172 comments)
Younger companies spawn more startups because they have many employees who just experienced the hypergrowth phase of going from startup to known company. These employees have not only the right experience to start a company, they want to recreate the experience.
I did mention that "complete" privacy is rather costly, but I think it's silly to Ignore low cost countermeasures that have a high impact. Hell you can even defend against fingerprinting, which is basically a medium cost very high impact fix.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/self-defense.php

I also disagree that the stated countermeasures don't have much of an impact. The universe of entities that get any sort of picture of your behavior narrows VERY sharply, and the remaining holdouts (the govt, those who control the pipes) quite obviously require policy solutions
That doesn't change any fact.
Yes, that's an acceptable reason to flag such things, and many HN users do.
lol you created a new account for that.
I would remove the 'etc' and expand the copy. Maybe add some bullet points and images. As it stands, it looks a bit unprofessional, so I would be wary of providing my email. HTH.
Look for a "Papers We Love" meetup in your city and ask questions in that group. the Github repo is also very useful. Details are here: http://paperswelove.org/

Zookeeper was actually inspired by Google's Chubby Lock Service paper, which is a great paper to check out.
If I Google your name, am I going to find a very well known blog in which you repeatedly and at length argue about the inferiority of Palestinians as a race? No? Then, again, not sure what your Zionism point has to do with anything.

Strange Loop has a blind review system?
You have to convince me to input my email on your site and there I was skimming to that short content trying to find about what on earth this site is about.

And to be honest... I don't get it. Ok the girl has hash and there's a poll on her condition.

Is this about medical training?

Or maybe it's some sort of social health diagnostics? (which sounds like a terrible idea, a how it works in this case would be invaluable to undo this first reaction)
This is only perpetual motion in the same sense as a rock in space. We've known about Newton's First Law for a while before this.
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I haven't heard this theory of superconductivity before. Is it new?
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a lot of this sounds like three comma club problems, however, I'm' trying to connect the dots between the discounts offered to late stage investors and how that affects my one comma club friends and family ..help?
Your uber idea is exactly how the decades -old traditional consulting shop works (Accenture/Anderson, McKinsey, etc).

The "partners" are well-reputed deal-makig salespeople, and they farm out work to associates .
Allowing some to have a more pleasant experience by excluding others...

Once upon a time, liberals argued against that.
I will be the guy bringing Erlang (or more precisely BEAM -the Erlang VM- and the various languages that run on top of it) into this thread... But it's amazing how much Erlang got right so long ago. Erlang applications are effectively fine-grained, Service Oriented, with a very low overhead.

There is, of course, one drawback: you loose the low overhead advantage as soon as you step outside of the Erlang world. That's a major drawback given that a non-negligible part of the Service Oriented Architectures appeal is the possibility to use the best possible tool for a given job, no matter what language/VM/hardware that tool is built with...
I like to see Dribbble or Behance for "front end" work. But I'll expect to also see HTML/CSS in Github (or similar). I need a small amount of Canvas work, likely with fabric.js. its a short but paid gig for a real SaaS app.
I literally don't know what you're doing or why I should care.

Otherwise I enjoyed the design and look of the site. The logo was well done.

I really enjoyed the little animation on the radio buttons. So much so that I made heat rash have the most votes (Don't allow me to manipulate your poll so easily!!)
Do you also feel the intense sense of extremely partisan, political divide in the US is desirable? Because that is what results from holing up in ideologically segregated communities where everyone agrees about nine-tenths of everything, and where one only encounters their political other in the form of a media caricature.
People want some social proof that your community is worth joining. In other words, people like to follow the herd. The fact that you haven't launched tells me there really isn't a substantial community yet. Focus on a private launch of your closest friends or people you know are passionate about your topic. Then, allow those members to invite the next group through an invite system before opening it up to the public. This is how I built fotoblur.com to 60K members.
I don't think you really believe, were the shoe on the other foot and you were the one organizing Strange Loop, that there's nobody you'd consider excluding.
I'm almost concerned to have this become a popular post. We have too many people already telling everyone to use hand sanitizer and all this nonsense.

Great picture though.
Is that guy still a thing?
There are two actions that a visitor could take upon visiting that page and entering their e-mail is not even the most compelling one.

Like other said, you need to state very clearly what you're promoting and give no other option than signing up without distractions.
What is your product? What will I get from putting in my e-mail?

What's the purpose of the survey? How does it relate to your product?

Unfortunately, it looks a little like a spammy SEO/survey page.
> I'm guessing it's either:

> (a) all human beings are born with identical talents and inclinations.

> (b) human beings may be born with different talents and inclinations, but these talents and inclinations are distributed identically across all living populations.

Or: (c) The inter-group variation in the talents and inclinations of human beings is completely dominated by the intra-group variation.

In other words, "living populations" (= ethnic groups) don't matter. You'll have (e.g.) smart and dumb people in every group, and everything else is noise.

I'm not sure how a reasonable person could choose hypothesis (b) over (c), given the long history of hypothesis (b) proponents trying (and failing) to make the math work out for them.
Isn't that more an issue of multiple databases than an SOA issue?
To plagiarize from my comment on his blog about this:

Regarding Al Gore types, I don’t think it’s fair to use them as an argument agains the science or need for action. But it is majestically fair to use their actions to argue against the inefficient "blacklist" approach, where they presume to tell me which goods have a negative net utility, rather than giving me a price and letting me decide whether I still want the incandescent light bulbs. If you don’t like legislation that would mandate a smaller home size or max flights per year (knowing you can pay for the externality), then don’t propose legislation that would mandate what kind of artificial light you can have!
I didn't mean to convey that I thought they were the same. Related, though.
"From a structural perspective, an ACS may be seen as an instance of a Model-View-Controller (MVC) design[7]. An ACS maintains a ``reactive'' model of the world that is controlled via updates in response to new data sources"

What's old is new again!
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Had more, earlier.
Your product seems to not be a general fun/social "thing" (which is mostly where you find these mysterious splash pages), but a community aimed towards a very specific demographic. In other words, most people won't be interested in trying your product. For this reason, it's a good idea to be much more explicit about what you're offering.
I think we can build it however closed or open we would like it to be. The sharing of source code I suspect is more social than technical, therefore I don't expect much change.

Java Applets, Flash, SilverLight always was at a disadvantage, not being native to the browser runtime. Startup time and the need for a "plugin" hurt them. And they all kinda sucked in their own way. I hoped for a long time that Dart / native DartVM to Chrome could make a stride, but sadly they were fighting uphill battle against the sheer volume of JS developers resisting change. I'm convinced that it's never about the language[1], but the VM and it's abstraction layer. We need a layer that we can compile JavaScript(/HTML/CSS), Scala, Haskell, C#, F# etc. down to, not more languages.

I wonder how many man-years has been wasted on vertically aligning div's inside a div. :)

[1] Guy Steele, amazing talk on "Growing a Language", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
You're gwern, so if you said you'd read enough to say you understand his writing, I'd believe you.

But someone reading the Baffler article will not have the same understanding you do---and worse, they'll think they do.
> Wellzly is a community where medical students and professionals can get updated on the latest medical news, curiosities, developments and discussions.

> Are you a medical student or professional that can't get enough of all things health care, medical science, digital health and related? Neither can we! Come geek out with us and join our community of passionate and enthusiastic health care investigators. The plan is to be up and running Q4 of 2015, and you can enter your email below to get alerted when we finally launch. We promise we won't use your email for anything else!

Just assuming what is happening based on your website, and assuming you will not be farming their emails for targeted spam.

There are a few things that I didn't like with the intro that I attempted to address:

1. No real introduction to what your website actually is.

2. Obscure dates ("Fall").

3. No real assurance that it's not a scam.
What is this website? It wants my email address and asks me to have opinions on an 18-year-old girl's rash?
If you'd asked me before seeing this thread whether Romney did better in the primaries in areas with high turnout or lower turnout, I'd have strongly guessed "higher", because it is widely believed that dogmatic conservatives -- and also dogmatic libertarians -- are more passionate about elections than typical Romney supporters.

Similarly, when Democrats benefit from higher turnout in general elections, the reason may not be that evil ward captains are stuffing the ballot boxes.
And it's for those exact reasons that I have no problem with Windows Server, or Windows 7, or Visual Studio when doing native development. Oh, and the apps I care about? Modeling, gaming, watching dumb videos on the internet, enjoying Netflix? Those just work.

That's the real reason I use Windows when I'm not screwing around in server land.

For certain things, sure, the shell and OS model beat Windows hand down--but it's hardly a broken thing.

OSX can go eat a duck, though.
I'm glad to see more people writing about functional programming for JavaScript web applications. I liked a lot of the ideas here, but I don't really see the need for the "component" data type. Why not just regular functions? Also, I don't think that letting each component determine whether or not it needs to redraw is a good idea. I'd rather just let the rendering system handle it by diffing the tree. With immutable data, it's trivial to see if a node has changed and redraw the subtree.

I've been doing experiments with Mithril (provides virtual DOM) and various functional reactive programming libraries (such as Kefir), and I think something like that is the right way to go.
Your view on gambling is predicated on the assumption that people gamble under the assumption they can make money in the long run. Many people enjoy gambling knowing fully that the expected value of the process is negative.

Once you understand that people choose to gamble knowing that it causes losses, your entire argument against it falls apart unless you are willing to take it to its full conclusion and blast every entertainment industry in existence.
The page layout is kind of all over the place. Simplify it.

1. Put everything into on column.

2. Get rid of the poll ... all it's going to do right now is distract from your primary objective of capturing email addresses.

3. Make the text bigger.

4. Make your company logo bigger with a stronger stroke weight on the company name.

5. Make the social links smaller. They're fighting for attention with your site logo.

6. Consider structuring your page as follows (top to bottom):

[Logo]

[Short text describing what you're going to do for your potential users]

[Input field for an email address and submit button]

[Social links for Facebook and Twitter]

I'd run an A/B test to see whether the Facebook/Twitter is a distraction and remove that if you find it takes away from your conversion rate.

You could also A/B test the text you include describing your service till it converts well.
To add a bit of context: Apple is 39 years old. Google is 17 years old.
The words "spend[ing]", "budget", "get-out-the-vote", "precinct walk[ing]", "phone", and "direct mail" appear nowhere in this analysis – which indicate a pretty big blind spot for the researchers.

What if the candidate with an overwhelming fundraising/spending advantage (Romney) focused his resources in larger precincts?

The authors appear to have a pet theory ("larger margin-of-victory in larger precincts suggests fraud") and desired result ("fraud for Romney") and deploy all their reasoning powers towards that end.

Rather than just running lots of Romney share-vs-precinct-size slopes, what are the slopes for other candidates (of both parties), in other elections (including non-Presidential)?

Do Romney's slopes still stick out? Or do all "well-funded compromise frontrunners" show the same slope, where insurgents and protest candidates overperform in small precincts, farther from the influence of professional campaign/media operations?

Notable, also, is that Romney has the 'suspicious' slope even in states where he came in 3rd (Oklahoma, Alabama), or a distant 2nd (Louisiana). The slope doesn't even serve to improve his rank-order in the final results. What's the plausible mechanism, or rational risk/reward calculation, for engaging in fraud in places where your supporters are ~25% or less of the local party, and the fraud has a negligible impact on your count of nomination delegates?
This statistical anomaly was also noted by former NSA analyst Michael Duniho: http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-is-mitt-romney-so-confident...

I am personally shocked by this. Why didn't this make more noise in 2012? Why am I only hearing about this now?

Since voting fraud seems to take place in larger precincts, why not split them into smaller precincts that are never bigger than a certain size? This would make the life of fraudsters harder since they would have to commit fraud in more precincts instead of a few big ones.
Ask HN: I'm starting a new job as a PHP developer tomorrow
I have to admit I haven't touched a single line of PHP code in more than 8 years.

I've been working with Rails remotely since 2008 (~7 years in total). However, remote work has died out and decreased dramatically.

Is there anything you guys could recommend? I haven't worked with PHP in years so I'm worried about my performance with PHP on the new job.

I know how to program but I'm not familiar with PHP anymore, in fact I don't recall anything about it.

The reason I'm going back to PHP? Sorry, it's not my decision, and there aren't many local jobs in my area, so I'm taking what I can, and that's work with PHP at the moment.

Hopefully I'll find other jobs with saner languages in the future.

One other thing I want to mention is that I'm a Linux person, I can't use anything else. However, I've noticed that the company that wants to hire me is a Windows shop, they use Windows mostly (Windows desktops, Sublime Text, and so on).

Do you guys think it's acceptable if I use Arch Linux on a VM (VirtualBox) and I fullscreen the VM? I use things like i3-wm and vim and I'm really used to tiling WM these days, so using Windows would be very painful.

I asked if I could install Arch Linux on bare metal but they said no. They said I have to use a VM. They also mentioned I can't bring my own hardware.

I've been using Linux for 15 years and I currently use Arch Linux at home and on my laptop.

Suggestions welcome.
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I'm going to start repeating myself if I get into your first paragraph, and no offence but I'd rather hear what Klabnik has to say. If that's unfair then let it be unfair.

Strange Loop has a two/three phase system, in which applications are blind-ranked, a panel takes the top ranked applications and further filters them based on 'softer' criteria (which may include demographic ones) and the final say is Alex Miller's. That at least is what I gathered from reading the blog about how talks are selected, and also from reading people on twitter discussing how Urbit got by them in the blind review stage.

In any case, it is way past my bed-time after this HN outage.
Actually, it's not even really easy for us to conceptualize basic physics. Even an electron is difficult; we have no direct experience to compare a reality smaller than the photons we use to construct a visual representation of it.

In some ways, I feel like physics is starting to become a little more like religion though, and honestly some theories seem like they're stretching to find explanations that fit within our concept of beauty or symmetry or simplicity. Not that I'm a detractor of String Theory, but arguably we are getting into territory where it's likely we can neither prove nor disprove further possible explanations. I guess the biggest thing that bothers me though, is that most people would seem to prefer existence be somehow dependent on the phenomena of life rather than vice-versa.
There aren't "races" in the sense of Darwin's finches because there is interbreeding between population groups, that's all.
Thank you, you've given me a lot of good questions to ask and things to investigate.
Suppose an investor pays $100M at a valuation of $1B with a 1x liquidation preference.

Then the REAL valuation of the business is not $1B. It's whatever the investor would have paid for COMMON shares.
Sorry about that. It annoys me when people do that to me too.
I've never refused to work with anyone because of their political beliefs.
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I'll append this with a link to https://www.hioscar.com/ as a great exaple of how simple it can be.
Some of these concerns are addressed on pages 19-21.
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> Maybe I'm missing something, but unless this somehow eases the distance between password based authentication and other methods

Spot on.

PKI would be a good endpoint, but adoption is slow, probably because it's a weird leap for a lot of people. So I see this as a transitional step, a methadone for our addiction to passwords, because it could get people used to passwordless logins. It could help people adapt to a service or dongle that handles all their authentication. After that, it's a short hop to have PMs just become "authentication providers," and have them and websites figure out the best backend.

Thanks though, it's a fair point to keep in mind, PKI might even be worth holding up as the ideal in the protocol.
It seems intentional in a "it would cost resources to extend this past what we benefit" way. In other words, a business made a cost-benefit analysis.

I fail to see where your frustration is coming from, or why it's targeted at Apple. It's most likely just a calculated cost savings measure.
Looks like a scam website to me.
Except one of the motivations for making unsecured loans available to everyone is the idea that kids should go to the best (most expensive) school independent of their parents' ability to pay.

Chicken or the egg.
When a late-stage investor gets to invest with a liquidation preference, that can ruin the value of the common shareholders (i.e., early employees) if the startup is not eventually sold for an even bigger valuation.

I.e., the early employees do a great job. The business has a value of $100M and their non-liquid shares are worth $0.5M. The business raises $100M with a 1x liquidation preference. The startup fails, and eventually sells for $50M. Instead of getting $0.1M-$0.25M, those early employees get nothing.