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Agreed! Very nice and rare to see on HN! :)
What can I say? It's responsive.
So you also support restrictions on the sale of recreational drugs.
Sure, but you have your choice of museums. Apple aiming to curate the world's supply of music is a different issue.
It's a stimulant, very similar to caffeine.

With the amount of caffeine addicts in the world I'm surprised at the hostility towards nicotine.
This (or a Lilith), an Alto, a Symbolics 3600... I'd love to see little Raspberry Pi versions of them...

Oh... And, if possible, with matching keyboards and mice.
Thanks much, good tips!
I wonder if there'd be room for a true alternative to an elite college. I've always felt that the value of such institutions was that it is the premier place to meet and befriend other smart students, not in the facilities or instructors who make up the bulk of the cost.

Imagine: thousands of applicants from around the world vie for a spot in Nollege, a new kind of edtech startup. Admitted students are flown to the "campus", an exotic site, rotating yearly and chosen for its cheap room and board. Instruction that can be automated a la Khan Academy, is; more experienced students also tutor newcomers as needed. Students spend half their time on work-study/internship programs, which cover all costs of attendance. They're encouraged to leave whenever they feel ready, be it one semester or 10; no arbitrary rules about which courses to take. When they do, they emerge with the same bonds of friendship and learned knowledge as their college-attending peers, but are years ahead in working experience and also debt free.

Perhaps this would be most feasible for cs, where the only materials needed are a laptop and WiFi, but I could see it working for English, art, mathematics, and many other disciplines.
Thanks for the writeup! I have a book coming out shortly as well.

What are your plans for keeping up book revenue moving forward?
The public key operations during setup are clearly useful for authentication against a possibly untrusted peer. What mechanism is used for key distribution? Revocation? Is the main advantage over TLS in its use of a limited set of cryptographic primitives (as provided by NaCl), at the expense of flexibility? Any other advantages, such as decreased setup time? What about upgradeability -- does the protocol have the ability to roll in additional keys/exchange algos or ciphers as better ones become available?

Of course, the more of these features you add, the closer you get to TLS. That being said, without these features (eg, if you need to basically upgrade your whole fleet just to update to a newer NaCl or to add keys as opposed to using a signed certificate mechanism), the advantage starts shifting towards even simpler approaches, such as spiped, which omits all the public-key ceremony in favor of a shared secret key.
Congress passed fast-track authority for the TPP, and so its approval will be straight up-down vote; it can't be filibustered. The GOP overwhelmingly supports TPP and has majorities in both houses; the TPP also has Democratic support.

It's going to pass.
It's funny, you mention the statute of limitations, but wouldn't this act predate any laws that exist now to prevent it?
Nice! I'm a current student :)
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>Assuming that customer retention is cheaper than acquisition, it directly reaps the returns from not killing its customers.

Public goods problem -- you have to subtract off all the customers you lose to other companies that have extra money due to not cutting off the cigarette revenue stream.
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nacl says that for security each nonce/key pair must be unique for each message. If you send a "HELO" message, for example first, you've made it possible to build a pretty simple rainbow table if nonce just starts at 0 or 1. That said, it would seem that the first nonce being random and then incremented would likely work well.
what the...why is it up? this ETF is bonkers, it's actually been trending downwards for the past 3 years.

amen to that quote...this one is a little too hot for me, might stick to the other ETFs mentioned below.
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I'm not familiar with riemann.io but the main differences seem to be that Riemann is clojure-based and would require external storage of some sort. PipelineDB is SQL-based and has integrated storage. It really depends on what kind of event processing you're looking to do.

The main tradeoff with PipelineDB and other stream processing frameworks like Riemann, Storm, Spark Streaming, Samza, and others is mainly flexibility for simplicity. Not all streaming computation lends itself to SQL, but in scenarios where it does continuous SQL queries and a relational database can be simpler. But as with all data processing endeavors, you have to find the right tool for the job.
No, the 20+ basis points is considering how the index itself underperforms, because stock prices get bid up just before they get added to the index and then drop back down as the liquidity crisis settles. The index, not just the etfs, take a hit. Vanguard claims to soften this by trading more deliberately and not buying or selling it all at the opening auction on the day a stock gets added or removed, respectively. So you would expect them to be able to do better than the actual index (until you add in all the other management costs/trading costs).

To an extent the amount the ETFs are effective at this lowers the amount the index underperforms, because they (the etfs) are themselves the driver of the liquidity crisis the index is getting subject to. So you would expect some sort of equilibrium, and the claim is therefore to be taken that this equilibrium settles down at of 20+ basis points.
So a long series of blunders and mistakes results in perfection, because that was the only way that the final state could have been achieved? Regardless of how imperfect and undesirable the final state may be? I think this is a use of the word "perfect" that I'm not familiar with.
Congrats on your marketing on ycombinator? Did it work?
Project Oberon is a design for a complete computer system. Its simplicity and clarity enables a single person to know and implement the entire system, while still providing enough power to make it useful and usable in a production environment.

Yes! We need so much more of this.

If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs655/readings/smalltalk.html
I think we need to continue to be careful to not be so alarmed by published patent applications. Again, none of these are issued patents, but rather pending applications, which may never reach allowance from the PTO and, if they are allowed, will most likely be left with claims that have been narrowed significantly in scope in light of prior art and publicly known technologies.

There are certainly many issues with the U.S. patent system that need to be addressed, but I think it's counterproductive to not make the distinction between a mere application for a patent and an issued patent. If anything, in debating a broken patent system, our best examples to study should be broad, issued patents being used in litigation. In which case we can more productively debate either the patent's validity and/or what the scope of patentable subject matter under U.S. patent law should be.
To preface this, I'm a mid-20s guy who grew up with a keyboard in his hands. I type absurdly faster than I write, with handwriting harder to read than a doctor's, and the idea of carrying an honest to goodness piece of paper and pen around with me seemed archaic.

Then I started my most recent job, and was provided with a Surface Pro.

I'm already well embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem, and I used OneNote before, but the workflow was a minor assistance to me, and I didn't get what the big deal was. You stuck some notes in a notepad, and then you could look at them later. So what? How does this help me?

Now, though, I've got a pen. I take my surface with me to each and every meeting I go to, and it's made a world of difference to how meetings work for me. I can take notes that have more contextually appropriate information than just text, because I can scribble out a diagram of a process as it's being explained to me. If I'm leading a meeting, I'll project from my Surface and use it to whiteboard out ideas onto the projector (like a ghetto version of the Surface Hub). I'll note other people's contributions into the same document and then share out a fully editable version of that document into a team notebook.

All of these interactions feel more "natural" than the action I'm most accustomed to, which is typing, and the end result is somehow more human-friendly (despite how horrifying my handwriting is) than my previous "list of things discussed and some dot points" method of taking notes.

If the future of interaction is pen, it'll come less of a surprise to me now than it would have five years ago.
It's not like that at all. Smoking is effortless (unlike exercising) and leaves you far worse off (unlike exercising).
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So you're saying only some algorithms can be implemented this way? i.e., an algorithm whose output size isn't fixed beforehand can't be implemented this way, correct?
Cool, congrats, and thanks for the writeup! I just bought your book on Amazon though I'm a fellow Leanpub publisher...organizing non-Amazon documents on the Kindle is just a pain. I'm assuming publishing to Amazon was pretty straightforward since Leanpub generates a mobi version? The paperback fees/revenues don't seem too promising...I'm going to take that as another excuse to never publish on paper.

Another datapoint...a few years ago I published a draft manual on how to use regular expressions. I've never finished it, but to date, I've accumulated $1,200 from Leanpub revenues...even though I set the book's price to $0. Once I have more time I'll finish it up...I was pleased to see that Leanpub made the publishing workflow even easier by hooking into Github...I've been trying to set up a system that simultaneously publishes via Leanpub while publishing a free web version using the same files via Jekyll.

tldr: Leanpub is great...I haven't used other self-publishing platforms but I can't imagine how much better something could be than Leanpub for those who like hacking/writing in Markdown and in their own text editors.
Also I'm skeptical that these numbers account for the drinking smoker. If you're a bar goer you should be well acquainted with the archetype - the person who "doesn't smoke" but the moment they're inebriated they start hitting others up for a cigarette or four.
That's probably not true (nb: I'm a "social smoker" in the sense of, if I'm out drinking, I'll follow friends out for a smoke break; that makes me a "pack a year" smoker) --- the demographics on smoking have changed to the point where it's become useful to study "light" smoking and not just daily addicted smoking. In studies, young smokers smoke much less than older people. Addicted smokers smoke all the time. From this, I conclude that there are, like me, people who smoke non-addictively.

And, as the Surgeon General made clear:

http://www.theonion.com/video/surgeon-general-smoking-fine-a...
I agree, you would have to tie IPs->peer keys to make this work.
I thought it was "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb."
Did you read the blog post? Greenspun disagrees with the NYT columnist's interpretation of the Ton's study, saying that companies shelling out higher pay for more highly trained employees is not necessarily beneficial to labor. The final paragraph reads:

"It is worth looking at the reader comments on the NYT piece. By cutting labor costs as a fraction of sales, Costco and similar companies should be reducing the share of the economic pie enjoyed by labor and enlarging the slide of pie enjoyed by owners of capital (e.g., the Costco shareholders and/or the executives looting from them). But the liberal readers celebrate this move in the direction of less equality because they are dazzled by the headline dollars/hour number paid to the remaining handful of workers."
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I wonder if its the mystery editors birthdays.
Having not seen the "original" post, this didn't bother me at all :) I had no idea something like pykrete exists, or that it'd be used to build ships (of all things)
This would be a great link to submit to HN!
I'm glad they are making a high-tech comeback, but anyone else here also love (or prefer) using fountain pens?
> on-screen text that can serve as an entry point or continuation to perform all sorts of computations, things you'd normally write hacky scripts for.

The Acme editor famously works this way. So, in a rudimentary way, does the Emacs scratch buffer. It's a weird amalgam of text editor and REPL: you evaluate snippets of text and get the output in-place, and then edit the text to get what you want next. This live-text-as-code way of working is not how I'm used to interacting with a programming system and always slightly rewires my brain. But even in that simple form, you can grasp in it the beginnings of a whole computational paradigm, all the way up to UI. (Computational models don't usually imply a UI—this is an exception, as are spreadsheets.) Oberon must be the most systematic realization of this. I'd like to try it.
> In a democratic republic (and since the Greeks originated this concept, I think we can allow that they understand it) voters are responsible for the actions of the government they elect.

Don't be ridiculous. Sure, "democracy" is better than dictatorship, but choice between two (or three) bad options every 4 years isn't actual choice, and you can't hold the voters responsible for every mistake the governments commit after they're elected.

I'm not sure where you're from, but I'm sure that your government made plenty of mistakes that you don't want to be responsible for. US - destroyed Iraq. UK - helped establish ISIS. Slovenia - unconstitutionally ignored gay rights for a number of years. Off the top of my head.
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Congrats on the book sales! I did not know about your book beforehand and have been looking for something like this, so I think I will give yours a shot.
You're concluding too much, it could be just someone found it interesting and decided to share.
I had the chance to take a Oberon related lecture and its simplicity is really nice. Some things found in Oberon, like tiling window management, I use everyday. The book describes the whole system including the RISC CPU design.

As part of the Niklaus Wirth Birthday Symposium to celebrate his 80th birthday he also gave a talk titled "Reviving a computer system of 25 years ago" (Abstract[0], Slides[1], Video[2]).

There was also a demonstration on the original hardware, the system really seemed ahead of its time.

Project Oberon also inspired me to write a text editor[3] using a piece table data structure as described in Chapter 5.

[0] http://wirth-symposium.ethz.ch/speakers.html#Wirth

[1] http://wirth-symposium.ethz.ch/slides/wirth.pdf

[2] http://www.multimedia.ethz.ch/conferences/2014/wirth/?doi=10...

[3] https://github.com/martanne/vis#why-another-text-editor
Yes, for the mercury ones, but it doesn't mention satellite air gap, which I find kind of hackish, the goal of the submitted post.
If you do not understand why 3x inverse ETF trends down over years -- do NOT short anything, because you are going to loose (due to not sufficient acumen in trading).

Do NOT day trade either (for the same reason).
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It's not chemical nicotine that people abhor. It's nicotine specifically in conjunction with a bunch of awful toxins that we collectively call "tobacco."

Similarly, people are much more against caffeine in the form of sugary energy drinks than caffeine in the form of tea, because energy drinks are bad for you while tea is moderately good for you on the whole.
Thank you. This is exactly the kind of information i was looking for.
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I smoke about once every month or two. Sometimes a cigarette, sometimes a cigar and sometimes in the winter a pipe. If it is as addictive as they claim, it has yet to show. I have no feeling of "needing" to smoke. I do it because it is a very enjoyable experience.

I feel as though the addiction springs from the person and not the drug, just as some people are addicted to gambling or facebook or video games. Some people just get addicted to anything that once gave them a positive emotion.
Even if you don't care about the index fund "front-running" "scandal", the section starting at "The value of market-making is hard to see and easy to criticize" is critically important to understanding why the markets work the way they do.

As always, Levine is fucking fantastic.
Cigarettes kill people. I don't care.

As long as the public is well informed, I'm strongly in favor of allowing individuals to make their own choices. The cult of anti-smoking needs to come to an end. The second-hand smoke nuisance has been eliminated in public places, and nobody reasonable has any question about the overall health effects of cigarettes. It's time to let people make their own choices.
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The 2011 study was negative in its primary end-point. If you look at the results you'll see that the divergence between active and placebo groups only happened after the researchers unblinded the data at the 3 month point. Although they say that the patients were still blinded until the end, there are still some question marks about the study.
That lack of understanding also includes unwarranted use of FP when a simpler representation like fixed-point or BCD (or even integers) would work for the application, without introducing all the subtleties of FP math. Of course, this advice doesn't work in a language like JS where all numbers are FP, so in that case understanding them is the only choice.

One of the instantly recognisable symptoms of float-abuse is NaNs appearing in odd places:

https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/i-dont-look-forward-to-having...

http://i.imgur.com/viPztah.jpg
Second hand smoke has been debunked years ago. Watch the "Penn and Teller Bullshit" on it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-fi...
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Driving through south bay, namely San Jose, I think they probably have the best collection of Iranian restaurants, unfortunately I don't remember their names. Living in SF, the best place I goto regularly is Alborz on Van Ness. Note the only thing I ever get when I eat Persian food out are the different kabob's since they're hard to make at home without a grill/bbq. It's hard to find good stews ("khoresht") that aren't made by mom.
I don't understand why you are taking the advantage between the two options to be the difference between their probabilities, rather than the ratio. If I am 2% successful at X and you are only 1% successful, I am 0.02/0.01 = twice as successful as you, not 0.02-0.01 = 1% more successful.

As dlss has explained, it doesn't matter what constant you multiply by, the ratio is the same.
There are probably more efficient ways to build useful skills and learn material than paying for an elite education. Prestige is much harder to manufacture. YC is 10 years old (i think?) and has managed to do this, impressively.
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The issue of coerced hackers is an actual thing. They have been coerced by Gov, Mafia but also large corporations. But this article...

> One day, Okul said he wanted to obtain a pwnie for a client

oh kay?

> Building pwnies isn’t itself a crime; anyone can buy a version on the Internet.

hmm... that is false.
Ehh, not quite. The author is indeed correct about the market-makers providing liquidity to everyone who wants to purchase on the day a company is added to an index.

But saying "index funds free-ride on the work done by active investors" and then following with "no one thinks that active managers should be able to charge for their services, is a world that will spend too little time and effort on allocating capital to the right businesses" is FUD.

The value of the market represents the sum total opinion of everyone in it (plus noise), not just the managers of mutual funds losing business to index funds. Frankly, it sounds like the griping of someone telling fund managers that they deserve their fees, but the supposed loss from using index funds described in the original article (~.2%) is still dwarfed by the increased fees of actively managed funds.

Most index fund expenses are around .1-.2%, while most active funds come in at a whole 1-2%. To justify the cost of an actively managed fund, a manager has to not just beat the market, but trounce it. Very, very few can do so for any length of time, and they know it, which is why articles trying to convince people of the virtue of active fund management are constantly written. Unless your manager is as good as Buffett, buy an index fund.

The math is simple, but there's many fund managers out there trying to convince you otherwise.
It's quite clear to me that I'm addicted to caffeine. If it had carcinogenic effects even beginning to approach those of cigarettes, I would quit immediately. I'm pretty sure a lot of people have a similar relationship with caffeine.
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How do they lose though? In higher fund expenses or reduced NAV because the actions reduced the index?
Yup - Leanpub made Amazon publishing super simple. I'm not a fan of their PDF designs though so I still needed to do that on my own for the rest of my digital files on Gumroad. :)
Agreed. 4 years in the Army here. As my children get closer to recruiting age, I will be increasingly vocal in my opposition.

Edit: this strikes me as terrible headline considering (then Major) Patton plays only a small part in the article...commanding six tanks that demolished the illegally-constructed housing, not individuals. Douglas MacArthur was the bigger problem:

"The veterans fled across the Anacostia River, and [President] Hoover ordered the assault to stop. But MacArthur saw the protesters as communist agitators intent on overthrowing the U.S. government, and continued the operation."
Are you challenging the notion that cigarettes are addictive? I can't imagine this was your point. If you would like, I will provide evidence citing that cigarettes are, in fact, very addictive.

Edit: well you edited your comment twice since my reply, so I'll be right back with some information for you.

Overall synopsis: http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/cigarettes-o...

Mainstream overview: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/cigarettes-more-add...

> Nicotine is a drug found naturally in tobacco, which is as addictive as heroin or cocaine: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/ques...

Onset of addiction: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117976

Finally, understanding addiction of nicotine: https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/content/featured-study-understandin...
Yes, they obliterated them by about 15%!!! Boom!!!

http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp

Did Android obliterate Apple? That margin is about 60%.

Yes, Microsoft screwed up, but they can always turn it around and grab a quick 10% share. They've got tons of money and talent. I'd never count them out. In fact, they're still pretty dangerous.
There's also some evidence that smokers die earlier and are less of a burden on the health services than non smokers. I mean it's a terrible reason to support smoking, but I kind of support your viewpoint. I don't think there are any smokers out there anymore who don't know it's bad for you. Though I would never ask to go backwards in terms of where we arrived at now - packs with warnings and no indoor smoking is a great thing.