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People have been singing this song for quite some time now, the question is still: can they do it?

I'm yet to see this mythical Uber Logistics play, and their ancillary products, RUSH, EATS, CARGO etc all seem poorly thought through and bolted on, not deeply integrated into their car driver base.

I should also note that this is probably partially a regulatory problem. I'm not sure NYC (and other cities) will allow livery cars to simultaeously be delivery cars. Of course Uber has demonstrated an ability to bend the law to their will, so we will see.
Customers matter more than investors. Some people forget business is about creating things that create value for customers, and not about trying to raise capital from investors.

1. There is a ton of capital in Europe. It's just harder to access for the average 20 year old, and investors tend to be a bit more conservative. It's all about building relationships and about your network. Europe has many family offices that invest directly into the top US venture funds (i.e. Sequoia)

2. If you're doing something in FinTech, go to London or NYC. If you're doing something in fashion, London/Paris/NYC/Milan. Oil & Gas? The UAE, Texas, etc. Anyway, you get the point. Go where the customer is.

Flipping an app however, is harder. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
I wonder if the walking naked "as long as possible" is about the seasons? That is, subjecting yourself to colder temperatures -- which is also a modern recommendation (cold showers) in some of the same circles as recommend a high-fat diet with intermittent fasting ("eat only once a day", "hard work before food").

If so, the hard bed's the only part that been dropped.
Most people use Gmail, which doesn't have auto-forward capabilities. (intentionally, I think)
I do a similar thing, but I have a fairly aggressive portfolio on Betterment that I store my eventual philanthropy in. I fund it out of my credit card's cash back, and unexpected extra income. It's very frustrating to not be able to take advantage of tax deductible gifts seemingly just because I don't own a home!
Funny thing, I've had the opposite experience with Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu.

Printing to my 6 year old Ricoh color laser proved a difficult task, tangling with driver hell. It seemed unnecessary given the printer is equipped with PCL and Postscript emulations, but Windows didn't care about those standards. The only way it would work is with the crappy Ricoh driver forcing the sacrifice of some basic functions.

OTOH under Linux, gutenprint drivers worked even without altering the default settings. Maybe it was easier because I was more familiar with the CUPS setup, nonetheless the difference was noticeable.

I'd concede that newer printers might be easier to configure for Windows vs. Linux or other OS, but it's troublesome that perfectly good equipment becomes "obsolete" when a few years old. In that respect Windows can be a disadvantage.
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I said start a company. That's different than investing in someone else's company. You can't be much of an investor with $20k, that's about what Y Combinator gives a team for an initial seed. That money is quickly followed by VC money.
Obviously deeply immoral and unethical, but illegal? No... Not unless there is a warning that what you are doing is wrong. Maybe they are test VNC servers? Scanning is definitely not illegal, nor immoral IMHO. Studying the Internet is a valid exercise when done responsibly.
My sister will read a novel in about 4 hours, and I'll take 14 hours for the same. Afterward, I'll remember just about everything, and she will remember major plot points but few details. I don't know if the hours and retention rates are related, but I will say that reading and retention rates are not universal between people and should be separate as concepts from remembering and memory in general.

The artistic understanding aspects of the article are far more interesting to me, though I have little to add there.
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Possibly because the optimal diet is a highly individual thing that depends on someone's activity level, body fat, genetics and gut bacteria? Paleo/keto diets tend to work very well for people who are overweight and sedentary, that doesn't mean everyone should be on that type of diet.

Just as a simple example, I'm extremely lean/muscular, and I typically get ~2 hours a day of exercise. I kick ass and take names on a high carb low fat diet, while I get flat and lose strength when I switch to a high fat low carb diet.
You've got some of the daemontools details incorrect.

> resource limits

Daemontools includes the softlimit [1] helper.

> namespaces

It's not clear to me why this need be built in to a supervisor instead of being applied through generic helper programs such as unshare(1).

> daemontools will just keep restarting your process as fast as possible, taking 100% CPU if possible

supervise [2]: "It restarts ./run if ./run exits. It pauses for a second after starting ./run, so that it does not loop too quickly if ./run exits immediately." Simple and not configurable, sure, but should not hammer the CPU.

> support for syslog/journal rather than just local files

Daemontools svscan [3] "optionally starts a pair of supervise processes, one for a subdirectory s, one for s/log, with a pipe between them". The "s/log" script can do anything you wish, reading logs on stdin. If you use the included "multilog" program, then it's certainly geared toward writing local files, though it does include the ability to run arbitrary post-processor during rotation (which might, for example, fire off a job to copy the logs to an aggregator). Or you can not run multilog and just send the logs to syslog or whatever.

What I do myself is send save the logs locally using s6's multilog analog, s6-log, and also pipe them to a local syslog that forwards them to an aggregator outside my control.

And, in spite of newer supervisors adding more and more features beyond what daemontools provides, daemontools is still an awesome system that was 14 years ahead of its time.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/softlimit.html

[2] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/supervise.html

[3] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html
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I use FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD, but for your next revision, I'd recommend symlinks for your mount problems with build directories. Before I switched over to ZFS, I would always just create a /home/ports and symlink /usr/ports over to it, same with /usr/src and /usr/obj. Bit ugly, but it works.
I want a tour of your dorms and factories. Can you post pics of a bunch of the buffet meals, please?
Yes, but you would need to remember to empty the default whitelist before you start using the extension and start whitelisting the sites you trust.
Sorry - replied to wrong comment - should have been the top-level comment by ams6110. Absolutely not aimed at you.
> You are misinterpreting him; he's not saying that there are no more replications needed, he's saying that this method is not necessary.

I am not misinterpreting him at all. Look at the disjunctive argument he offers; both forks imply a lack of appreciation for sampling error and heterogeneity. (If the experiment is replicated, then far from being useless, the specifics will add substantial precision in the effect size and/or existence and also help estimating heterogeneity across labs attempting the procedure; and if not, then it 'may' be due to incompetence, but may also not be, in which case one has learned even more...)

> if they do get it going, fine, and if they don't replicate, then it's not evidence of anything.

I disagree, it is evidence. If the lab has an 80% chance of replicating correctly yadda yadda bayes theorem yadda yadda. Unless the contract lab is so incompetent that all things it does are purely random, their success or failure is evidence.

> Isn't it better to use that same time and money to build a new experiment that has a higher upside rather than one that has a very limited upside?

No. I don't know why you would think all experiments are of equal value and that replication is worthless. The more important an experiment is, the more important it is that it be replicated. The less important an experiment, the less important that anyone spend the resources replicating it. It can very easily be much better to replicate an experiment to gain additional confidence and/or precision. (See Bayesian search & optimization, decision theory, value of information, etc.) Imagine a medical clinical trial for a cancer treatment, would you really argue 'well, the first experiment turned in p<0.05, let's roll this sucker out to all the patients in the world! We could run more trials to make sure it works in more than one place and is worth the money and side-effects, but after all, isn't it better to use that same time and money to study new drugs, which have higher upsides rather than one with a very limited upside?'
I like to blaze through fiction. But I'm reading for the effects and emotions it stirs up inside of me, not the actual content. (I will note this is an issue for long running series if I ever have to take time off inbetween books.)

If I try the same with nonfiction/technical books, the retention is abysmal.
This is a great introduction to procedural planet generation.

There's only so far you can go with this tactic. Instead of a high-res LOD height-map built with the same old functions, I'd really love to see a low-res off-line calculated world with overhangs, erosion effects, impact crater, and other crazy structures.
> I suspect with something like s6-fdholder-daemon [1] could be used to orchestrate a similar process,

systemd has the ability to hold fds for you. You need to enable it for each service with http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.serv... and the service needs to know hot to actually do it.
This is extremely valid.
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Charged at $200/hr, $20k = 100 hours.

Keep the money for yourself, and spend 100 hours of your time talking to a poor person. Help them find a better job, or make a better financial plan, or eat healthier, or just listen to what they have to say and tell them they can call you if they need someone.

This is by far the biggest impact a person like Paul Buchheit could make on the world. Even if his $20k could go 100% to a better water bottle in Africa, or a more efficient hybrid, or whatever, it will pale in comparison to how he could personally change someone's life if he walked up to them and took the time to try.

So go blow $20k at the club or on a cool car, after you've earned it by hitting the streets and solving your neighbor's problems for 100 hours. Someday your neighbors might do the same ;)
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I haven't ever tried that, but I'll certainly consider it if I ever feel strongly enough! For early-stage ventures especially, the quality of the people seems to matter a lot. Therefore, there's a high probability I'd know the founders (or at least some employees) before I put in any money, and therefore, cold emailing wouldn't be necessary.
UDF. It was made for optical media, but works just as well on hard drives. About the only caveat I've found is that you have to be pretty particular regarding what format you choose, but I've found that Windows' format for UDF tends to make the most compatible disks.
<quote>It's not a particularly interesting question. It's almost the definition of a wrong question.</quote>

Is it possible you are thinking superficially and not considering the longer term ramifications of actions?

<quote>By definition, any assessment of the common good depends on all common actions</quote>

That isn't a definition. That's a sales speak type obfuscated platitude. What exactly is "the common good"?
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You can auto-forward if you can confirm ownership (or at least control, by clicking a link) of the address.
He's talking about college undergrads.
My approach was to start by combining SomeoneWhoCares' and MVPS' hosts files with `uniq`, which rendered such browser addons largely, though not entirely, unnecessary. The down side is you can only do that on machines where you have root access.
Hmm, oh yeah, I think you're right.

(Personally I was reading by the time I was four without my parents doing anything more than reading to me on a regular basis, and maybe setting a good model by reading a lot themselves.)
Source?

I am honestly curious. I know for example that the US was very dirty in the early 1900s, but we had 100 million people. If China was dirty in the 2000s with 1.3 billion people, it stands to reason that China was more dirty, no?
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Instead, setup a forwarding email address were people can just forward receipts to you. With some care people can create rules to do it automatically.
Is there enough political stability though? Outsider investors want some degree of stability to invest in large manufacturing plants. I am not a scholar in sub-saharan Africa, but I am not yet of the opinion that it is a stable place to set up shop.
For the love of brackets...
The FAT32 long file name patents are expired. That's a big part of why exFAT exists.
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You're only helping a few by doing that. Tell me why is that efficient?
I would be willing to put some money on you being very, very wrong about it being legal to tinker with passwordless VNC server simply because there was no explicit warning.
In a lot of big tech companies, stock is a big part of compensation. This is usually in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [0], which are just stock which you receive at various vesting dates. I don't know why companies choose to pay compensation in this way (instead of cash). Maybe because it's easier to write the contract that way (an RSU grant is a contract) than to write the equivalent contract for cash compensation. I suspect there is no good reason at all for this.

But the important thing is that during salary negotiation, asking for everything in cash is not an option. So actually turning down equity based compensation (at least in this case, I'm not commenting on pre-IPO situations) is extremely bad advice. Equity should be discounted because of the risk, but RSUs are worth real money and should be treated as such.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140918211244-22433455-your-...
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I've never seen that. If you have, was there some list? It can be pretty hard to even define competitors, especially if your own businesses are far-reaching or fluid. I mean, if you work for GE, does that just mean you can't own stocks? Or a company like Google whose actual business is narrow but whose ambitions are unbounded? That would be pretty hard to defend.
The real problem with diet and obesity research is that they are trying to identify "universal truths". Unfortunately, an individual's response to nutrient intake is highly specific, and depends on genetics, activity level, adiposity and gut flora. This is why controlled studies don't show a significant difference between low carb and high carb diets. Researchers tend to view the intra-group differences are just random variation, when in actuality different diets are better for different people.
e^i * tau -1 = 0

To my eye as a mathematician, the tau version I provided looks better.

e^i * tau = 1, has a much nicer geometric interperatation, of e^i * tau representing a full rotation (which is just the identity), whereas e^i * pi = -1 represents half a rotation, and it is not quite as immediately obvious that -1 is a 1/2 rotation (although this is not particularly opaque).

While I am on the subject, surely the equation you want to discuss is e^i * pi * x, = cos(pi * x)+isin(pi * x), which clearly represents a rotation of x/2 of a complete circle. Of course, viewing it this way, it seems even clearer why one would want to use tau.
> Is it possible you are thinking superficially and not considering the longer term ramifications of actions?

No.

> That isn't a definition. That's a sales speak type platitude. What exactly is "the common good"?

Seems like you're misunderstanding my connection of "common" to "every single human" here. There is no way to meaningfully divide twenty grand amongst eight billion people. When we discuss "human rights" we are usually conflating positive government action and negative government action. Providing a minimum set of non-controversial services from the government (like "food" for example) is never the right answer in these debates.

To wit: If you have $20,000 sitting around, and you don't know what to do with it? Fuck you. As a general analysis of the impact any given $20k has in isolation, this post is interesting.
Why do you (and everyone else) get to tinker with passwordless HTTP servers?
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Yeah, but mostly because these applications do not work properly on mobile devices (smaller screen size, too slow, etc.) and a native (in the sense of NOT browser-based) application makes sense. However my hypothesis is just, that the LOOK does not have to fit into the OS.
One thing that has given me pause in Africa though is the comparatively high price of food -- and energy, more obvious.
Technology has helped curb the absurd pollution that was the product of older processes. We don't have data from industrialization in the US, because we didn't have the tools to measure precisely the pollution at that time. But based on verbal descriptions of the pollution, China today might be similar to the US when it was industrializing. Specifically, historians note the frequency of days where pollution is so bad you can't see across the street, which used to happen in the US regularly yet infrequently, which is the same narrative description you'd see in China today.
IANAL but I'd have to agree. It reminds me of the time I got money deposited in to my bank account that I knew wasn't mine. I asked my girlfriend's dad - a lawyer - if I could keep it. Of course not, he said. It's like someone parking their car in your driveway, he said, and leaving the keys in the ignition. Are they trespassing on your driveway? Sure. Does that mean this car belongs to you now and you can do with it whatever you please? Of course not.
I've seen this repeatedly. In specific instance, at my last company I was specifically prohibited against any hedging activities, even when I already owned the underlying position. This is quite common. The logic should be obvious: a hedge is at least partially a bet against the company's success.
This doesn't do much for the common good though. Let's dive into Bentham and see how good this is. Obviously the hedonistic calculus is not completely numeric, but we can do some work here. Let's compare malaria nets with getting a poor person a job.

Intensity: How strong is the pleasure? -- Well, many "common good" philanthropic causes deal with terrible diseases. That said, getting a job probably is better than not getting malaria. Passive vs active.

Duration: How long will the pleasure last? -- Here, not getting malaria is obviously longer lasting than a job. Jobs go away. Malaria nets when properly utilized are pretty solid for the long term.

Certainty or uncertainty: How likely or unlikely is it that the pleasure will occur? -- Probably equal here.

Propinquity or remoteness: How soon will the pleasure occur? -- Probably equal here.

Fecundity: The probability that the action will be followed by sensations of the same kind. -- This one is hardest to quantify. There's obviously a ratchet quality to someone experiencing success.

Purity: The probability that it will not be followed by sensations of the opposite kind. --- Malaria nets DEFINITELY can win out here. See above notes re: firing.

Extent: How many people will be affected? -- And here malaria nets take the cake and win the entire calculus. 20k invested in malaria nets will affect MANY more people than your hundred hours.
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> While I'm not saying a Linux port of Office would be just as fast as on Win8

Why would it not be as fast on Linux?
Would definitely be preferable for Disney to pay to keep just Mickey and friends, instead of having them lobbying to extend all copyrights. You'd probably still want the first 10-20 years to be free, though.
What are examples that you can just do with a native toolkit?
It's not a given that the best use of "$20k worth of time/effort" is in the kinds of labor that you, personally, can produce. Nor is it a given that, even if you make $200 an hour, that you'd be worth $200 an hour on the talking-to-a-poor-person market. For that much you could likely pay for five times as many person-hours from trained social workers! (Which is a fairly good use of the money, come to think of it- a very practical form of education.) Likewise, if you consider you're taking the role of a social worker yourself (and likely without even a degree in said work,) it's only fair to "pay" yourself what real social workers make.

But I mean, if you really want to talk yourself into buying that car, go for it I guess. :)
There is a real server at example.com - check out http://example.com/ - or, if you want to be secure, it's also on https :)

example.com is the standard FQDN to use for examples, though. http://example.com/ links to the documentation...
In Rust, move semantics are assumed by default, and it's up to the caller to make a copy using .clone() if they want to keep ownership of the value (unless they know Copy is implemented and it's unnecessary, for example for integer types).
The overall position is not short, though I don't know how much that matters in practice. Overall this is not about taking a bet against the company so I don't see an ethical problem with it, though again it could be in violation of agreements.
Yup. Now, logistically, how hard is this? It seems promising.

Let’s assume to do this we’d want to dedicate at least one person full-time to this. There’s the sourcing of the iodized salt, determining how one ships such a thing (presumably overseas), and to what specific place it should go. I assume there’s customs to get the shipment across. Then, once it’s there, how it should be distributed.

Phew, that’s sounds like more than one person’s worth of work, and that’s just the first shipment. We need to repeat the process – including raising more funds.

I assume this person that’s hired is desirable for their logistical skills. Let’s imagine they already have money in the bank, and so will work for less than the market would otherwise pay them. How about $60K/year? Add supplies, taxes and benefits to that, I can see $100K per year for this rare value of an employee.

How far did our $20K go? Not very. Everyone is skilled and honest and working hard, but we find that $20K doesn’t supply $20K of iodized salt to people in need.

In fact, it mostly went to the salary of the skilled Westerner who is our organization. Now we see why people create charities, but also why it’s hard for charities to meet their mission even when things like malaria netting are cheap.

To be clear, this is not cynicism. It’s just that if it were a simply problem of multiplying dollars times cheap-but-effective product, it would already be solved.
I agree, I've been looking for something as good as Django in languages like Java, Go, and even Rust but I haven't stumbled across anything equivalent yet.
My credentials involve being there when everyone hated SCO. I commented on the only other thread in this post because it's a legitimately good question: Who is Paul Vixie trying to convince here, and of what?

It seems that RRL can be applied simply to other stateless non-DNS protocols. My interpretation of Vixie's argument is that adding RRL to the majority of stateless protocols is marginally less impossible to implement than global SAV.

The question of pluralities versus majorities really matters when examining techniques. Bringing game theory into it really seems to help. e.g. Why bother figuring out a better method than reverse path filtering, if you require 2/3 of the global network to adopt the technique before the benefit kicks in?