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elevensies··on Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
I think they should allow each account to be increased to 280 for $280/year.
elevensies··on Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]
There was a lawsuit a little while back [August], Retrophin, Inc. v. Shkreli, and reading the complaint it seems to be basically a litany of fraud, so wouldn't be surprised if these charges had a bunch of overlap with the earlier lawsuit -- although I haven't yet read the indictment.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-17/retrophin-...

PDF of complaint: http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=214847399&... from: http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/2mxis2kze/new-york-southern...

Edit:

The Retrophin complaint also contains more detail about what happend with Merril Lynch:

24. Shkreli also had to contend with Merrill Lynch, which had sued him and MSMB Capital in connection with the Orex Trade (the “Merrill Lynch Arbitration”). Shkreli and MSMB Capital had entered into a settlement agreement with Merrill Lynch that required Shkreli and MSMB Capital to execute confessions of judgment in favor of Merrill Lynch. The confessions of judgment would not be filed if Shkreli and MSMB Capital timely paid the agreedupon settlement amount. Shkreli funded the Merrill Lynch settlement – and avoided the filing of the confessions of judgment – by causing a $900,000 investment in Retrophin equity securities made by MSMB Healthcare to be recharacterized as a “loan,” causing the “loan” to be repaid with interest, and using the “loan” proceeds together with other money taken from Retrophin to pay Merrill Lynch. See generally ¶¶47-58, infra.

elevensies··on Diagnosing Yahoo’s Ills: Ugly Math in Marissa Mayer’s Reign
In the meantime, at SpaceX, Musk and top executives had spent most of December in a state of fear, but on Dec. 23, 2008, SpaceX received a wonderful shock. The company won a $1.6 billion contract for 12 NASA resupply flights to the space station. Then the Tesla deal ended up closing successfully, on Christmas Eve, hours before Tesla would have gone bankrupt. Musk had just a few hundred thousand dollars left and could not have made payroll the next day.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/

elevensies··on Python List Comprehensions Explained Visually
To qualify my statement:

- If found a boilerplate HTML layout and wanted to insert some stuff into it, I would use copy-paste.

- If I were editing a function to enqueue data, and I wanted to send it to two queues, I would re-type the 2nd enqueue command to avoid blindly copying over an inappropriate parameter, which is the kind of thing a tired mind might gloss over.

elevensies··on Python List Comprehensions Explained Visually
Not OP but I prefer to re-type rather than copy-paste because too often when I copy paste I discover that I forgot to change something.
elevensies··on Pfizer’s Big Breakthrough: Global Tax Avoidance
How much opportunity comes from government spending versus private investment?

Money going to the U.S. Federal government goes to: 24% Social Security (i.e. the dole), 24% to the least efficient healthcare system in the world, 17% to the military to drop bombs on poor people.

If the majority, or even 25%, of government spending was creating economic growth and opportunity, I don't think anyone would have a problem with it. This is a country that was begun by a tax war, so if there is an obligation to the past, an aggressive response to tax policy is certainly part of it.

elevensies··on A sociologist on the international wealth-management profession
It seems to me that in the long run, organizations that don't pay tax will dominate organizations that pay it. On long time horizons, the difference is massive.
elevensies··on Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
Starts at 19:30 on the player.
elevensies··on Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition
Netflix says [EDIT: "recommends"] 25mbps: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Supporting 4k would also be a lot more demanding on the graphics "card" as well.

elevensies··on Ask HN: Do you struggle to sleep after coding all day?
I often struggled to sleep, I would sometimes lie in bed from 2AM to 6AM, only to fall asleep after sunrise, get a couple hours and then limp into work around 10.

Now I just take Melatonin in the evening ( http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin ) and sleep somewhat normally.

EDIT: I also use the flux app, and I reduced my coffee consumption significantly, now down to zero, but melatonin had the quickest and most observable effect.

elevensies··on SpaceX CRS-7 Failure Investigation Teleconference Thread
It should go back as long as the test stays below the yield point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(engineering) ... but there is also fatigue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material) . This is just for raw material though, I'm not sure how it works on the connectors.
elevensies··on Dear Google Mail Team
It might not be related, but I've been seeing some spam in my gmail inbox in the past month. It seems that something has upset the balance. For example, this went to my inbox:

From: [...] Baby <[...]baby@gmail.com>

Subject: HELLO HANDSOME

Body: HOW ARE YOU DOING

elevensies··on A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving
This is a good idea. I submitted the survey but here are my tests: http://imgur.com/hYKudyl

FWIW, I've seen this kind of game before and I was expecting it to be something simple.

elevensies··on Uber CEO Says He’d Buy 500k Self-Driving Cars From Tesla Motors
I'm not sure what the key characteristics of a great automated car network will be, but I think there will some differentiation in a way where the difference can't be made up by spending, even on the scale of which tech giants are capable. Probably some combination of price, availability, and infrastructure. Maybe a similar customer relationship to what the telcos have right now.

For example, what if Uber "builds" (finances and badges) their own car, and you really like it (no reason it can't still have a steering wheel). What if they are willing to enter a one year agreement where it is cleaned and parked in your driveway at 4AM every Mon-Fri morning to take you to work when you're ready. Or if they have a parking lot near your office with 100 cars where you can just walk up to any car, open the door, and go. Or if they have an automated electric vehicle charging network over the whole country. It will take a while to discover what really matters for a AI-car network.

elevensies··on Uber CEO Says He’d Buy 500k Self-Driving Cars From Tesla Motors
I'm not sure that a financial and operational network of automated transportation would be less defensible, or less of monopolistic opportunity than a social network.

EDIT: now to mention the unavoidable legal issues, which to a certain extent are similar to what Uber is already dealing with and "resolving" quickly according to reports.

elevensies··on Why ‘Buy’ Buttons Will Pose Challenges for Google, Facebook, Pinterest
I think http://liketoknow.it is pretty smart and is sitting at roughly the right level of coupling to the underlying platforms. When you like the photo on instagram, it emails you about the product, which was set up by the user that posted the photo. Easy and non-invasive.
elevensies··on Singapore Rising: The Plot to Be the Next Big Tech Hub
All I remember about that is this music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksw2UqTyhhc
elevensies··on How to receive a million packets per second

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elevensies··on Java: Real or Not?
Are the generated names verified to be non-real? There could be some overlap.
elevensies··on Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development
Sort of off topic, but it's Friday afternoon so maybe someone has an opinion. Do people who got burned by Microsoft think its different this time? I see a warm embrace of a variety of non Microsofty things, so naturally I'm worried about what comes after (Embrace Extend Extinguish).
elevensies··on Jump – Experiences like you're actually there
Has anyone though through doing this with binocular vision in all directions? just thinking about the geometry, I can't thing of a way to do it without a truly egregious amount of sensors.
elevensies··on Two problems I had to solve in my Oxford interview (2013)
Instruction 6 is a nop? if mem. 1 not-equals mem. 3, jump to 7, or else fall thru to 7?

I don't think you can depend on jumping in instruction 3, because you don't control the value of mem. 1, it's input. So if mem. 3 = 0, instructions 2 and 3 will always lead to instruction four.

elevensies··on Two problems I had to solve in my Oxford interview (2013)
Couple corrections I think: - Register 4 should be set to zero before incrementing in instruction 2.

- inst. 4 should compare 0,4 , register 1 is unknown at this pt.

- inst. 3 should jump to 5

elevensies··on Two problems I had to solve in my Oxford interview (2013)
oops! I changed it but I'm not sure if this is the right way to do it
elevensies··on Two problems I had to solve in my Oxford interview (2013)
Well, here is my non-zero-handling answer to the first

  Z2
  I2  <-+
  J0,2 -+
  Z3
  I2  <-+
  I3    |
  J1,3 -+
And with zero handling (maybe)

    Z4
    I4
    Z2
    J0,2 -+
  +-J0,4  |
  | I2  <=+ 
  | J0,2 -+ 
  +>Z3    
    J1,3 -+
  +-J1,4  |
  | I2  <=+
  | I3    |
  | J1,3 -+ 
  +>exit 
Edit * 2nd try
elevensies··on Ask HN: How do you read your programming books?
Usually I read more normally, or just look up things that I'm interested in, but I have a different style when I want to "force-read" something unfamiliar. For each chapter:

1. Read chapter subtitles subsubtitles, etc, and the summary if there is one at the beginning or end.

2. Go thru the chapter reading the first sentence of each subsection

3. Again, reading the first sentece of each paragraph

4. Again, reading everything

And for bookmarking and hilighting I have 4 categories: important, interesting, unanswered question, reference.

And if I have goals for reading, I write them on the back few pages and fill in information as I find it.

I usually do this on paper, I still find it kind of awkward to do in the Preview app or whatever, and it is not possible for me on a phone.

elevensies··on I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it
The doc. is published by a staffing agency, so they are on the sell side rather than the buy side, which means the numbers are higher, which is one of the reasons I like it as a reference!
elevensies··on I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it
Thanks.
elevensies··on I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it
This is a document that shows salary ranges for lots of IT positions and has geographical adjustment as well : http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHT_2015_salar...

(anyone with other documentation that could easily be referenced in a salary negotiation?)

Another thing: I have an easy copy-paste response to recruiter cold contacts on linkedin where I say basically: I'm committed to my current company, but I'm always interested in real salary information, if you have something you can share I'd be happy to keep you in mind in the future. ... sometimes that gets me a number.

Having accurate information that you trust is half the battle IMO.

elevensies··on Kerbal Space Program Launches Version 1.0
here is another statement, more like release notes: http://steamcommunity.com/games/220200/announcements/detail/...
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