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deep thinking

That's not a thing.

is there a market for this?

nope. It's the classic "I'm an idea guy, I don't worry about the details" stereotype.

Execution beats ideas every time.

(no taxes, no problem, just pure thinking)

What?
This is cool. And the experience of gesture typing is so different from touch-typing on a physical keyboard that I think it might be easier to experiment with or learn new keyboard layouts in this environment.

Way back in the PalmPilot days I used the "Fitaly" keyboard layout (wow, their site is still up and hasn't changed in years: http://www.fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm) and it was fairly easy to learn (by point of comparison, I've never been able to make the transition from qwerty to dvorak on a real keyboard).
I think I can credibly defend an argument that what went wrong with SCTP was that it got an IP protocol number rather than a UDP port. That one decision meant that, on most operating systems, using the protocol would require a kernel change, and virtually no middlebox would pass SCTP frames unmolested. They saved eight bytes and some negligible amount of checksum processing, and got no other benefits from being a first-class protocol.
The problem is that income does not get you by. It's a totally abstract concept and cannot sustain a physical being. Maybe an income of potatoes and butter could sustain you.

An income of digital credits only gives you some accounting leverage to access goods in a public market (which may or may not exist).

If there are no doctors, your income won't ensure you receive treatment when you need it.
> didn't STS fail too

Ha. If you can look at the images from the Hubble space telescope and call the STS a failure, thats some pretty extreme cognitive dissonance.
Irrational exuberance created a $35B company. There's no way Tesla should be worth 60% of what Ford, GM, or Honda is.

That's not a dig against Tesla, but it's P/E is way off the charts for a car company.
Even if you include R&D into the COGS they make a profit on each car sold.

Here is Q4 2014 - http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/financials/financia...

$3.2B total revenue
$2.3B COGS
$0.4B R&D

$0.5B gross profit including R&D

Their net income for Q4 2014 was -$0.3B, so they're not nearly as far off from profitability as you make it sound.
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Maybe when it explicitly says "quarterly", as in the headline?
Because it's really well-written!
I posted a link to the article first, because the github page doesn't exactly explain the client vs server side rendering well. But you can find the github page here : https://github.com/taunus/taunus
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"Elon's insistence" (or Steve's insistence, for example) on particular features sometimes make great products. In the past he proved many times that he can deliver.
Yup. When performance matters, don't chase pointers (references) and don't ever do random memory accesses if you can avoid it. Ensure variables needed about same time are near each other, so that a single cache line fill will get all. Except when other threads/cores frequently update a variable, try to keep those separately to reduce false sharing.

Remember you typically have just 512 L1 data cache lines to work with. Up to 1024, some CPUs might have just 256. Wrong data access patterns will continuously invalidate those.

Imagine processing an image stored in row-major format and reading pixels vertically. If the image is taller than 512 pixels and wider than 64 bytes, you're pretty much guaranteed to have continuous L1D cache misses. So swizzle [1] or at least divide image in smaller blocks first to improve L1D cache hit rate.

On top of that using SIMD is pretty beneficial.

Small nitpick: pretty much all of the CPU cores I can think of (representing 99% of cases, I think) have 64 byte cache lines, not 16 like this article suggests. The remaining have 32 byte cache lines. While they might exist, I don't know any modern CPU with 16 byte cache lines.

[1]: One common swizzling curve/algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve
The output side of BI is naturally attractive. Everybody gets money. How could that not be attractive?

I'm just skeptical about how we would fund BI to a level that is meaningful while maintaining some modicum of equitability and equanimity. Just to lift everyone to the poverty line in the USA ($11,770) would require paying out more than $3 trillion in net benefits, or roughly the size of the entire federal budget today.
Oh the days of the Chesapeake shuffle, what many us used to call the lag spikes and rollbacks the afflicted the game early on. You could tell your servers cycle time with little effort and there were days when everything was just out of sync and even movement from certain areas was not a certain event.

This model apparently allowed for quite a few dupe bugs, one of which I published on an old fan site. It was quite involved, in fact I wrote it up so deliberately convoluted that what you were doing was obvious. Did it work, I wasn't quite sure but I did suffer both duplication of items and loss from their system through no effort on my part.

Its kind of funny to learn how they did it this late, reminds me of mechanisms we employed with some early multiplayer door games on BBSes. Supporting multiple players for some early titles was a bear, the least of which was the lack of stability of most connections just plain bad code that bit you in the butt more often than not.
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Ask HN: Are side projects allowed at IBM?
I am starting the process of interviewing for a position at IBM, and was wondering what corp policy is about side projects. I have a website I'm building on my own time, and I would not like to have to give that up completely. I don't have any reason to believe the site would be in competition with any IBM business unit. Is there a company-wide policy on this, or is it on a per-case basis? Thanks for any input.
Did you miss the fact that they are not only a car company any more?
Besides, if Elon didn't insist on those doors, I'd be stuck with a fucking car whose doors open like this: https://youtu.be/0oV4IVy8tvE?t=70
Has anyone tried using these?

- https://github.com/gustaebel/passext (Chrome)

or

- https://github.com/jvenant/passff (firefox)
Looking at the source code.. wow.. just wow
https://github.com/benjojo/APLPrimeCheck/blob/master/prime.a...
Tesla is more future proof compared to ford gm or Honda, if tomorrow the world decides to run on battery powered cars then form gm and Honda will have a lot to catch up.
I don't see how any of that supports your claim that "current evidence suggests that the 'baseline' normal human IQ without genetic defects would be test at near genius levels in ideal environment."
Which makes it the same as... every app, ever.
That is very disappointing. Decorators already exist in Babel and they work perfectly. I don't know what they're waiting for
Whose reality?
It's all part of the Docker/Container cash grab I'm afraid.
Well, sure it's all totally new to you and amazing. You're like, what, 900 years old canonically? We don't all get to escape to a parallel dimension where time moves more slowly but we continue to age in our original time line. /topical
> we've been careful to build this in a way that it's clearly an admin tool and not a replacement for legal advice

While the parent comment was a bit harsh, literally the first point on your landing page is "A modern legal assistant", which really does sound like you're managing parts of the legal process that a lawyer normally would.
Very nice, but it's a bit sad that names are overlapping (thus it's harder to read/identify them). Any hopes of an interactive version? (Shiny, Bokeh, D3js, or Plot.ly... - just anything I can zoom or lookup names.)

And thanks for sharing code as well!
+1 for selling as well . . . you can do/learn almost anything on AWS, Digital Ocean, etc . . .

Plus depending on the number of racks you have running it will cost more in electricity each month than the cost of a few VPS accounts.
You've mentioned a few things about your write side (but didn't specify the critically important what you want to store, and what resolution your time series needs? You hinted at it only needs minute resolution?)

Further, you didnt mention at all your read requirements. Without that any recommendation you could possibly get would be useless.
I don't suppose said fan site was DrTwisTer?
I actually donated money so I could get voting rights. I'm very happy to see that AGPL won, although just barely.
Or maybe people just downvote comments that contain the infamous "gratuitous negativity" and have no real substance to temper that with.
The community is pretty divided and es6 classes are fairly controversial. Don't be too surprised to see a lot of people avoid them. On purpose. And it's not because they aren't familiar with OOP.
A high-risk $500M loan from Uncle Sam (read: You and me, against our knowledge or direct choice) has created a $35B company, in which we the investor have no stake.
I tried floating point numbers. Also, at 28 decimal places, the test breaks; it's not arbitrary precision. So, technically, the answer isn't simply "any ascending sequence of numbers".
Relevant Operating System community news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797932

SCTP support has just been removed from DragonFly. The code had been present for 15 years (inherited from FreeBSD) and in these 15 years there wasn't even a single known user.

If there really are people using it it's effectively in a very very small niche and they will have to do everything themselves. There is no way generic operating system developers can work on this protocol.
So, am I supposed to feel bad if I assumed it was some tricky, hard to figure out function? It just reminded me of those questions on the ACT or whatever and I froze up and got frustrated.

Am I a dim bulb?
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I can see that being a problem but what about this solution (to be honest I don't see basic income becoming a thing in the United States in my life time)

Peg it to a CPI? GDP? Or maybe codify it in a constitutional amendment?
Suppose genetics and/or intelligence did have a large influence on success. In what observable ways would the world be different?
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/SEI+C...

Has a lot of rules of the form "Do Not ..."
In theory Birdi will be offering this as part of their smoke-and-everything-else-detector, but they haven't released anything yet so it's not something you can order today: http://getbirdi.com/

"Birdi helps you track the health of your home. Whether it's dust, VOCs, temperature & humidity or how stale the air is. Even external dangers such as pollution, pollen and particulates, Birdi is there to help you breathe a little easier."
The problem is the intractable dispute about what things should go into which category. Empirically, there has been a strong historical tendency to move things into the "NEED" category that were traditionally in the "WANT" category.

For example, indoor plumbing was considered a grossly extravagant luxury for almost all of human history. Within the last hundred years, the richer societies have made laws (building codes) that have switched it to a "NEED". The same thing happend with indoor heating systems.

As for food, most medieval European peasants considered themselves lucky if they got a bowl of thin gruel every day. Asian peasants thought they were lucky to get a bowl of rice. Many didn't get anything on many days. Now in the US the government is talking about "food deserts" and shifting many previously "luxury" fresh nutritious foods into the "NEED" category.
They alluded to it here: http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-be...

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Yep, this is a big deal, for me at least. It basically makes it almost cost-free to add indexes to tables that are write heavy.

I've always felt like Bitmap Indexes were a killer feature, and never understood why they weren't used more in databases. If you have a low cardinality column (anything suitable for an enum), your indexes become incredibly fast and cheap.
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The current app container model as it is takes the form of binary images managed by a de facto runtime that enforces namespace, cgroup and other boundaries by using kernel subsystems for logical partitioning.

Unlike system containers like LXC, appc means you now have an explosion of the state space whereby every container has their own independent copy of a host OS, yet relies on the semantics of its container manager to function, i.e. it is not easily introspectable with vanilla tools.

So you end up needing to build a small parallel userspace to handle things like service discovery, orchestration and provisioning, networking bridges, location transparency, resource scheduling and taken to its logical conclusion you start running a user-mode kernel (Mesos) on top of a base OS kernel (Linux) to provide further abstractions of OS resources and run extended versions of OS processes called frameworks.

I don't know if it's too early to tell, but I think people might have dug themselves into a ditch where in an attempt to escape the limitations of their kernel and userland, they've only expanded it with a concurrent layer and must maintain both.
Statistics have nothing to do with it. Either the incentive exists, or it doesn't. Ask for a citation/study/logical-argument on that, not statistics.

But bear in mind: Statistics could indicate the extent that the incentive is having on the incentivized population group, if at all.
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Elon's decision to keep the gull wing doors is awesome though. The concept had them and he believes that a company shouldn't show one concept with cool features, then deliver the actual car without those cool features. All the other auto companies do it and it's incredibly disappointing.
sell it to another startup that is starting up and take 1% Equity
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Hmm, we were actually going for the same point you're making by using that analogy. The thinking is that lawyers handle legal advice (and practice law), while legal assistants handle legal administrative work (and don't give legal advice or practice law). Maybe there's a better way to say that though. I'll think about it, thanks for bringing that up!
That's not how Soviet scientists felt about Lysenko. Just check his Wikipedia page.

In 1962 three of the most prominent Soviet physicists, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Pyotr Kapitsa, presented a case against Lysenko, proclaiming his work as false science. They also denounced Lysenko's application of political power to silence opposition and eliminate his opponents within the scientific community. These denunciations occurred during a period of structural upheaval in Soviet government, during which the major institutions were purged of the strictly ideological and political machinations which had controlled the work of the Soviet Union's scientific community for several decades under Stalin.

In 1964, physicist Andrei Sakharov spoke out against Lysenko in the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences:

He is responsible for the shameful backwardness of Soviet biology and of genetics in particular, for the dissemination of pseudo-scientific views, for adventurism, for the degradation of learning, and for the defamation, firing, arrest, even death, of many genuine scientists.
I'm not so shocked... I'm a web developer, not a game developer, but databases were avoided as part of production stacks in the 90s. Most people tried to stick to flat files. A database layer added complexity and decreased performance. Even most content management systems had an option to write everything to a flat file to serve via a web server. Those were the days that Apache servers and a huge pile of flat files was the norm.

Once web content began to be personalized, that was no longer realistic. Databases became a required part of the stack, web servers ran applications instead of just serving file, we gained massive amounts of functionality, and haven't really looked back.
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Money isn't a "thing". It's not something tangible that gets printed or mined. Money is a representation of what humans value, relative to each other. Having lots of money is like having lots of momentum.

When monetary systems break down, for reasons such as a lack of liquidity, people fall back to the barter system. I'll give you a sack of potatoes for your hours of legal services. We're still playing the same game, but the "Monopoly Bank" ran out of paper, so we're using IOUs and direct asset exchange.

Being poor is just a state where the person lacks liquidity. Bank bailouts were enacted to "rehydrate" banks. Basic income is the bailout idea extended to the individual level.

Currencies are only valuable to you for 2 reasons: there's a finite amount, and other people value it (because they can also trade it for stuff). There's no finite amount of currency that satisfies a person; people can sense the total quantity of currency and want a fraction of this; this is why "printing money" or otherwise increasing the total pool of a currency causes inflation.

If Basic Income has a tax or other system to remove equal amounts currency from the pool, then the system might work; you would be transferring value from Producers to Consumers, much like many social programs do today.

But if there is no tax or other mechanism to remove currency from the pool, Basic Income will just create massive inflation, as the total amount of currency gets bigger, each piece of currency just becomes less valuable.

Basic Income isn't a different game. This is still the same economics. We're just adding another input to the system, everything still flows in, around, and out the same. Many poor people lack liquidity, but why they lack liquidity is because they lack something that other humans value more than their own money or assets.
At which point they could go on basic income.
I thought you could do that now by making a view and setting security on the view. Oracle allows for that sort of thing.
What if it was per family-ish. Then it'd only be about military exp size
Are you planning on supporting more then just Dropbox?

I do nights/weekend IT support/systems design and setup for some small law practices and most of them are on Box. It's what has been recommended by the bar here in Massachusetts. Plus I've found it to fit a law office's workflow pretty well.

Before I could really evaluate this for a law office there would need to be a solid privacy policy in place as well as at least a blog post about data security.

I like that you're trying to move quick, but lawyers tend to move pretty slowly in adopting new technology. The concept is cool but as it stands now it'd be a hard sell.
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Across countries this is a very noisy cloud of points where, if you go out and calculate a regression it's pointing down. Like every other social variable.

Since population explosion has felt out of fashion, there's a long time that I didn't see such plot. But what I've seen has a much clearer tendency than most social correlations people use at real decisions. It's about as clear as most correlations of quality of life with GDP.
I am pretty sure everyone's office hours (to take it as an example) are still going to be fixed at, say, -4 hours back from their noon till +5 hours forward, so instead of saying "UTC+4" people are going to need to learn to say "my noon is at 16:13" (or "16:00" even, i'm pretty sure no one will want to live by any offset from the "global" noon other than those evenly divisible by 30 minutes). Probably abolishing timezones is much less of a profound change than it seems to be.
There's a selection bias - those of us who got it right are more likely to fill that out (:

As a result we can't really rely on overall accuracy, but we can break it out by yes/no to account for the selection bias to get a profile for how a HN correct and incorrect differ.
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For a log table or anything immutable and write heavy, definitely.

That being said it might be difficult to know when you won't get any benefit out of it unless you have control or knowledge of how rows are laid out in the table space. For example, deleting some rows based off of a fairly random criteria may make Postgres insert into those spaces on subsequent writes (after a vacuum), which could "pollute" the block ranges with non-ordinal data and make the block ranges less targeted.
Worked out pretty well for Costa Rica.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/15/opinion/la-oe-barash...
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Yeah Box is great, and I agree a lot of enterprises use it. It'd be cool to work with them as well (though obviously we don't do it now).

Good points on the privacy policy and data security - it's a priority but not reflected on the site right now. We'll do that.

Thanks for taking a look :)
My mathematical logic is rusty, but if I recall correctly, Gödel's incompleteness theorem basically states that it is impossible to solve this kind of question. No matter how many tests you run, there will always be an uncertainty.

An incredibly stupid example is that the rule could be "yes for strictly increasing, OR if one of the numbers is -18273192783127897981." You'll never know.

I understand this is contrived, especially when the test subject doesn't know. But if you do realize this while doing it, it makes the test a little frustrating..

EDIT: I see people are making a connection with unit testing, and the irony is poetic. This is precisely the problem Dijkstra was talking about when he said that "Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs."
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My experience has been that "grok" as used by coders is synonymous to "understand", with the caveat that it's used to indicate in-group membership in the hacker community.

It is rarely used in the original, Heinlein sense.

For example, http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev... is titled "Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding", but at best FizzBuzz can tell if someone had a basic understanding of coding.

At https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32241 you can read "Code completion does not grok implicit constructors". Here too it's used synonymously with 'understand'. Ditto with "The one where I grok jQuery" at http://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/the-one-where-i-grok-jquery/ .

I did find an example that is in line with the original Heinlein meaning; "How to Grok Web Standards" at http://alistapart.com/article/grokwebstandards uses it in the Heinlein way. My thesis is that 'grok' is often used to indicate in-group hacker membership. You'll notice that unlike the previous three, this explains the term 'grok'. This means it's not being used to indicate in-group membership.
> It's clear that Elon is going for the long haul on this.

Doesn't he always?