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Regarding the interstellar space colonization question -- ultimately it's a question of whether we want our species to survive. In a billion years, the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun's expanding size, and certainly will be obliterated when the Sun goes Super Nova. It's nice to think this won't obliterate the human species!

However, you ask a good question -- and one related to the 5 Whys: why do we want the human species to survive permanently? And are we just extending the timeline of an inevitable demise? This leads me to think about the heat death of the universe and then I get depressed. :)

In terms of social inequality and immobility, here we go:

Why #1: extreme social immobility and inequality often destabilizes a society. This is why I'd consider it a problem/threat. At the very least, many economists argue that social inequality slow down the rate of innovation and economic growth.

Why #2: when you look at Western capitalist societies there appears to be a strong correlation between social mobility and access to opportunities (e.g., education, health care, etc.) and a society's ability to innovate. Note that "innovation" here refers to the society being able to solve other problems affecting said society. In a sense, social inequality and immobility stifle innovation and thus, it is "meta-problem" -- it makes it difficult to solve other problems the society is facing.

Why #3: a lot of literature (in management theory, education theory, etc.) argues that giving people the ability to grow, develop, learn, etc. makes them more productive, creative, and better able to solve problems. Social immobility and inequality is a form of oppression, in this regard.

Why #4: this sort of mobility ultimately aligns incentives -- you are encouraged to be creative, solve important problems, etc. that are valuable for society because doing so will enable you to enrich yourself.

Why #5: because humans need incentives to succeed, and human ingenuity is something that need to be cultivated.

TL,DR: social inequality and immobility is a meta-problem because (a) it makes society unstable and leads to the other issues we are worried about, and (b) reduces humanity's ability to innovate and thus solve other problems.
If you'd ever personally faced the wrath of the social justice left, you would probably agree that "succumb" is a highly appropriate word for it.
> perhaps this isn't an appropriate tool for this purpose

Isn't the sole reason this is on HN, on the frontpage, exactly the fact that git and it's graphs aren't appropriate at all for drawing metrolines and yet somebody though of it and then did it as well?
You've got a change under "// should not be touched"

http://imgur.com/CSHnOuP
Maybe super indirectly heart disease, as tooth decay and gum disease are linked to heart disease... but that's a stretch.
90% of US credit card readers are secured using the same password (since 1990)
The low level tooling can do that. When creating a commit you can pass arbitrary parents to the command. But as you said you'd need to break sha1.

> git commit-tree <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
High schools are already educating their students about taking out loans. In fact, they're being paid really well by the loan providers to teach their students that they should take out loans for college. The problem here is that the incentives aren't aligned - their ex-students getting mired in student debt a few years down the line doesn't cost them anything, but replacing the mandatory sales pitches for student loan programs with proper financial education would.
It also encourages the outraged to try to silence their ideological opponents.
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Why does a degree have to be financially wise? Do people become social workers for the money? Do teachers get into teaching for the money?

Where would you be if everyone in existence chose a degree simply for being financially wise?
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> I should be able to buy it on a website that was not made with Frontpage 97

Would you boycott a useful product because of the aesthetics of its website (which is actually relatively accessible and functional)?
If you just want to segment larger blocks of text into tokens you can try the segment library (it implements the word boundary portion of unicode annex 29):

https://github.com/blevesearch/segment

If you need more manipulation of tokens after segmentation/tokenization, you could look at the analysis sub-package of bleve. Its intended to be able to be used indepenently of the rest of the library.

https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
> I didn’t really want to write any graphics code, so here’s a way to cheat:

I wanted to try out Rust maybe a year ago, was thinking of writing a simple terminal app and found out that there was no way to do simple 2D graphics in Rust. Has the situation changed?
A lot of commenters are zero'ing in on the author's experience, and I think they're missing the broader point. It isn't about what the author should have done, it's about a system of financial aid and rising educational costs that is broken, and that irreparably punishes people like the author for making mistakes while letting others off the hook. Depending on how you look at it, he was meant to fail all along (principal + ballooning interest = more profit, right?), and that is the point.
There are probably lots of people who need to hear this, and given the people who'll be attending and made it clear how much of a fuss they would make, it was obviously the right call to disinvite him.

I think it's still worth briefly lamenting that our culture is heading in this direction. I see more and more echoes of the worldview and tactics that ultimately killed just shy of a hundred million people or so last century, and yes, it scares me.

Do you have any thoughts you'd be disinvited via public pressure from the best conferences for having? Will you in the culture of twenty or thirty years from now? Grist for the mill.
But a designer could still do all the value-add that they currently practice, and make the text reflow. Not everyone uses the same screen that the designer uses.

I consider a site that does not reflow text to exhibit a similar attitude that "Best viewed in Internet Explorer" used to imply.
Yes, and the rejected author can't very well complain because, whether or not his views are "racist", he clearly imagines a society where many people are excluded because of their views.

Any group almost by definition has the right to define policies and police its membership, for any cause (including irrational). No group owes you the right of membership.
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If a business founder is looking for a CTO to double staff from one to two, it's already a bit of a lost cause. The title doesn't add value and suggests a mindset that isn't focused on whatever it takes to get things done. Instead it emphasizes a tendency toward bureaucratic partitioning.

If I were a technical person, the primary trait I'd want in a co-founder is a willingness to do whatever needs to be done, and an aversion to structures that allow "it's your job, not mine" discussions. There's a difference between complementary skills and specialization. At 30 people specialization becomes hard to avoid, at two people both need to own everything.

Good luck.
Interesting point on heritability. I wonder though if poor populations are full of genetically assisted high IQs that are being suppressed through the effects of poverty.

Improving nutrition among poor kids will do a lot to improve cognitive functioning. I'm not sure you can claim that "our's is a well fed nation" in a discussion of the effects of poverty. I've been involved in breakfast programs in high schools and the number of kids coming to school unfed is significant. There are poor kids in developed nations suffering the effects of malnutrition and it is impairing their development. Low energy, susceptibility to illness, infection and even physical growth delays.

Low SES is a multifaceted attack on a kid's start in life and poor nutrition is just the jab to the gut.
One option with C# Windows Store apps is that they can generate native code using something called ".NET Native". https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx
The NSA has two jobs - defensive and offensive/surveillance. Not only have they neglected their defensive work they and the FBI have been actively and successfully weakening US information defenses.
this appears to be somewhere between timecube and bronner soap
I did a MSc in computer science, got burned out. Learned where my limits were. I learned a bunch of academic things, sure, but also was filled with doubts about what I should do next...
When you tried to imply that I had "sat on the sidelines" that was ad hominem. It suggests that I'm unqualified to have an opinion, which is not only inherently fallacious but also absurd in light of how closely my own experience actually does match that of the author. Next time, instead of making assumptions and then using them to undermine the source of a statement, try addressing the statement itself.
from the look of the website, GnuWin is terribly out of date and packages like OpenSSL (I don't seen OpenSSH listed) will have lots of known security vulnerabilities..
Debt, particularly student debt, is a loaded issue. So at the risk of karma, I am posting.

In the history of the US there has never been a time where it is easier to take on debt. There has been so much tampering with the natural order of the financial system that many natural checks and balances have been altered, levitated, and in some cases nearly removed.

Please bear with me here, this is not an anti-government screed.

In 2007, per Federal Reserve Flow of Funds; Household Debt to Disposable Income reached 138%. There are also many other data points that show that since around 2006 we reached economic outlier territory. For comparison, in 1964 this number was just over 65%, and in 1991 was just over 80%. So it kind of went up like a rocket.

Their information shows some normalization since 2009, but there is grey area there as they began adjusting their methods of measurement when they varied so far out of norm (in their defense this is what any good statistician would do).

Even if you have no doubt in those measurements though there is a solid area of outlier in almost every financial measurement of activity since ~2006.

This was actually the Fed Reserve goal, so they were successful in what they set out to do.

The issue is that money is inextricably tied to national and individual personality. There will be knock-on effects there, and those aren't or can't be measured.

In summary, and reaching my point, I would say that this person was one of many victims that the Fed knows will occur on the way, while making things overall better for the many. His personal response to that event is also IMHO normal. I would do it myself if I could (I have over 80k in student debt).

That said, in all economic measurements, there is no account for changes in attitudes towards bankruptcy. In fact, bankruptcies are considered a static number in financial equations, X per year, with some variance as the availability of borrowed funds increases.

Therein lies the rub. It is really not possible, or at least extremely difficult, to account for knock on effects that may be deleterious to attitudes. I would suppose this is why they don't include those; they are either considered side cases and too small to account for or like in the case of attitudes towards bankruptcy, not possible to measure.

It is perfectly reasonable to fix things that seem broken. It is not realistic though to make changes in vital things like money with measurements taken in a vacuum. Particularly in things so deeply tied to attitudes and personality.

Final words, if you can't measure it but you still know it's there, you must make sure you do not affect it. We are too far in human history now and know too much to continue to pretend that changes in critical things don't make a difference except in measurable and temporary ways.
> It's really two separate discussions though: what is s good input/output format for Unix-like tools, and what makes a good format for a config file.

I don't see where these are not one single problem. Everything is a file.

> A good standardized relational model format would be cool, and I'm sure such formats exist. Feels like we could do better than spitting out randomly (I.e per- tool) formatted data with so-so encoding support!

I'm actually currently trying to realize such a thing in Haskell, for usage in low traffic websites. There are obvious advantages in text DBs compared to binary DBs, for example versioning.

But I doubt we can do better than current Unix text files if we don't want to lock in to some very specific technology.
As a user I wouldn't understand why each article costs money, therefore I would feel ripped off.
React actually doesn't address that concern. With that being said, React is often used with Flux, which does seek to separate business logic from presentation logic.
Sigh... How is this even remotely relevant to HN? It seems inevitable that all upvote-base forums will eventually converge on /r/mildlyinteresting
I’m loathe to personalize this discussion with a comparison of your anecdotal experiences and mine. And to be honest, once we start bandying about hot-button phrases like “the social justice left,” I have a feeling that we’re on a slippery slope towards ayn rand and men’s rights.

So I’ll just step off here.
It's time to be transparent about this. Hell, our "adversaries" apparently have detailed knowledge of the circumstances. It's time we did, so that we can push for things to be fixed.

At the same time, pushing back against this "lock down the Internet" mentality. It's not about choking the medium to some autocratic death. It's about smartening up one's presence on and use of it.

I'm not talking about some Congressional dog and pony show. Nor about reports that sit in some pol or bureaucrat's locked desk drawer forever. I'm talking about full on sunlight. Leave the wankers no shadows to hide in.
I don't know about acidity, but fluoride has been implicated in many health problems. Here's a list of peer reviewed studies: http://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/?effect=&type=reviews&...
I'm not talking about the mainstream. I'm talking about hiring and funding within our industry. If you haven't noticed a chilling effect over the last few years, maybe you don't have any nonconforming opinions.
Mailgun can do this :-) (http://mailgun.com)
No way. For one there is no such thing as a true air gap in an organization past a certain size that probably has multiple office locations. The worse thing about this word though is idiots use an 'air gap' as a crutch to justify their lazy and inept IT practices.
I wish someone would start a no-added-sugar movement. I have a sweet tooth, but the amount of sugar added to even fruit products disgusts me. Dried mango without sugar costs 2x. Raisin bran does not need more sugar. That's the point of the raisins! I like creamer in my coffee, but I cut it with milk.
Top tier education at places like Stanford and Harvard actually entails $0 tuition for students from lower middle-class families
Maybe you're looking for me?

If you're interested in becoming co-founder of a growing, cash-flow positive business in a giant market, please reach out.

In short, Forkable is "Pandora for Lunch". AngelList profile: https://angel.co/forkable

My email can be guessed from my first name, "Joe"
A topic specific forum, stackoverflow or google-groups is a better place for Q/A troubleshooting.

We try to keep this thread relevant to the article.
The Muse (YC W12) hiring a Data Scientist to dig into data on our 4M users/month
If you're technical looking for a cofounder, you should have a prototype built already in order to attract good business / operations people and you should understand that you must own everything and toil for endless hours to get that product built.

If you're business / operations looking for a cofounder, you should have some money raised already and you should understand that you must always be raising. It doesn't stop. Ever. Just as building the product doesn't stop. Ever.

Operations focused people should be really fucking good at sieving hires. Heart, skill, engagement, and team coordination are critical in an early stage startup and hiring one grumpy butt or that intern you think is smart but cheap could really screw you badly.

(just a few thoughts on my numerous lessons learned over building four startups)
Oh. Crap. Joke's on me.
Yes, although this was not the case prior to 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_and...
I am very much not a mathematician. I took physics at university, but that was 20 years ago. The mathematics here is beyond me.

So, I realise I'm probably confusing theoretical mathematics with a practical science. But, still. If this was a real, true result, couldn't someone simply take a sphere of, say, gold, and recut it to be two spheres of gold? Then keep doing it until they're richer than Croesus?

Or, to be more serious, what value are results like this if they are obviously false in the real world?

Also, if they plainly don't apply to the real world, isn't that a really good sign that the mathematics is actually incorrect?

Or, have I completely misunderstood the article?
There's some nice bindings for SDL that's rather well-maintained: https://github.com/AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2
Today, that could be because devs tend to confuse how to measure success

Devs/VCs. Or, rather, a VC is looking for a big sale down the road, not a company that makes steady income with low priced transactions.
Excellent point. I'd also add that it's important to look at this from the giver's (i.e. government's) perspective. It's beneficial for society if everyone is educated. Yes, there will be some who take the opportunity and do nothing with it to benefit either themselves or others. There will also be some who use it not only to enrich themselves but also to enrich society and even improve the economy. If the "hits" outweigh the "misses" then it's a good investment overall. Much like VC, in fact. Most startups fail, but a few succeed to a degree (heh) that makes up for it. Sometimes it's worth taking a risk on people.
As a disclaimer: I don't have any context outside of the linked article. I don't know the candidate, what viewpoints they hold, or how those viewpoints have been previously expressed.

> "support a policy of allowing full debate on ideas and zero tolerance on attacking the person holding the idea."

If I had infinite time on this planet, I'd agree with you. However, my time is extremely limited. It's the most precious resource I have, so I have to aggressively consider the opportunity cost of listening to every person.

It's more valuable to me to have a debate with someone I disagree with rather than someone I agree with. However, if someone has reached a conclusion that I find to be shockingly suspect ("all foreigners are terrible people"; "protest the funerals of homosexual service-members"), I am not going to spend time listening to any aspects of that person's reasoning.

So, due to my limited time, I'm now punishing this person for expressing their ideas on a specific topic. How does the game-theory deal with the trade-offs of finite time and the opportunity cost of listening to specific speakers?
As of 12:30pm EDT, this has been flagged down to #111. Some people really don't want to discuss this.
In response to your siblings, I think this use of git is delightful, and I don't want to take away from that. I love that people play with these tools.

As to Mercurial being better, I don't know but I doubt it.

My comment isn't even really directed at the appropriateness of DVCS specifically. It's just a general observation of using an acyclic tool to describe a network with cycles. We do that a lot, sometimes for play, sometimes for practicality, and sometimes because we just flip the fuckit bit. http://thechive.com/2009/11/11/there-i-fixed-it-23-photos/
It is worth distinguishing between first world poverty and third world poverty with statements like this. They're different things.

I can easily believe third world poverty causes permanent IQ deficiencies. First world poverty, I'm sure there are cases, but I'd expect much less significantly. I'd like to hear more details.

Especially with first world poverty, it is not enough to point to a bad outcome associated with poor people and call it an effect of poverty. If it is financially possible to give your kids proper nutrition, but you don't know how to do it, or you just don't care about doing it, it isn't poverty that is causing your kids to suffer. But you would still expect to see this more in poor families than well off ones.
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I think posts with a high ratio of comments to up-votes automatically get buried. So I'm not sure that this was deliberately moderated, or it was just the automated flame-war detection being set off.
FWIW I only saw two twitter comments complaining before the disinvitation, and one of those was proud communist Steve Klabnik.
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> But I hope that other conference organizers do not follow suit, and I hope that true technologists in turn shun StrangeLoop for conferences that care about technology first, and instead attend conferences that refuse to ban innovators who haven't violated the code of conduct.

This is precisely my point: other conferences already have followed suit, and they are not going to be shunned by the larger tech audience any time soon. A lot of important conferences would have done precisely the same thing. PyCon and xoxo to name two I know for certain.

In fact, to be honest, I'd go much further. If you polled the organizers of these conference, I think they would probably mostly say that if you are the sort of person who thinks that the moldbug affair is a great piece of injustice, you probably won't fit in at the conference they are trying to create. Fundamentally these measures are made to exclude people like you from the bunch, and shunning the conferences won't make that go away -- I actually think this is the goal.
You would need to cut the spheres in very strange pieces and since spheres of gold are made of atoms you can't do that in the real world.
Things are moving fast. I'm not sure what you need specifically, but piston[1,2] is probably what to look at and maybe more specifically image[3] or conrod[4]

[1]:http://www.piston.rs
[2]:http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/28srso/piston_game_eng...
[3]:https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/image
[4]:http://blog.piston.rs/2014/08/30/conrod-update/
The explanation for why there's no good answer is because the people who most want a co-founder are the people who least deserve a co-founder. People who are easily able to find a co-founder just do it instead of asking questions on the Internet. This is intensely frustrating to the people asking because they feel like life owes them a co-founder somehow and if they only found the right hacks, one would magically appear. Instead, the answer is simply to be more impressive and tell more people how impressive you are and things by and largely fall into place.

I'm also highly skeptical of any marketplace solution like Founder Dating. The median outcome of a startups failure so a median quality co-founder will almost certainly result in failure. You need to find people on the extreme end of the bell curve for success to be likely. Those people are highly unlikely to frequent marketplaces since they have more demand than supply. To the extent that any successful startups get formed from Founder Dating, I wager it's more accident than engineered.
It's preferable to just ignore the question; or to ask in comments if alternative solutions are wanted.