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Being a part of the Orthodox Jewish community, I'm not so sure this is true. I live in NY, and while my experience is largely anecdotal, it is very rare for me to meet an Ex-Soviet, and I'm pretty confident I can say that I've come in contact with a significant percentage of the other Orthodox kids my age when I was in High School (three years ago.)

The truth is the Orthodox Jewish community pushes education a very much. In the Modern Orthodox community this translates into both Academic and Torah learning. While in the Ultra Orthodox communities, this often times (not always) translates into learning Torah for most if not all of the day.

It is also very expensive to live an Orthodox Jewish life. Kosher food is more expensive, living in an Orthodox community is more expensive, and Jewish private school tuition is a minimum of $19,000 a year per kid for high school. It is pretty much a prerequesite to make over a hundred thousand in order to live in the Orthodox community.
No. Apt works and does not enforce what versions you use and what you call them. Debian policies are another thing. But I wouldn't call stuff fundamentally broken that quickly. Once you actually get into packaging - versioning and dependencies stop being that simple thing really. Especially if you want more than one person to use your package in a stable environment.

Also "In the name of this package, `1.9.1' indicates the Ruby library compatibility version. This package currently provides the `1.9.2' branch of Ruby, which is compatible with the `1.9.1' branch." (http://packages.debian.org/sid/ruby1.9.1)
Some people are going to say intelligence (pshaw), but...

The only acceptable professions to Jewish mothers are doctor, lawyer and maybe investment banker. On top of that, there are extreme social pressures to succeed. Add a tight knit community and blamo, generations of high paid Jews.

Seriously, culture has a far greater impact on success than intelligence.
I remember this from Hackers and Painters.

Money is a zero-sum game, wealth is not. So yes, I can't have the same dollar that you have.
But someone with $10k here and someone with the equivalent of $10k in Africa have vastly different buying power.
I think I am agreeing with you, based on your comment on imbalanced access to healthcare and screening programs. I’m saying the same thing in that data collection for ct scans is really only happening in countries that are predominantly white, not that it isn’t possible for other countries to implement programs and collect that data for training purposes.

Edit: unless of course you have found large databases that suggest my intuition is wrong?
I taught myself sometime around age 13, because I was playing second flute in a youth orchestra, which meant I had to count out long rests, sometimes over 100 measures. Just counting in my head, I kept getting distracted and losing track.

(I already knew binary, because I was programming on an 8-bit box.)
Is this what we are calling an article? Five sentences plus a warning that the video is offensive. If this was posted on any no name blog, there would be a lot more pressure to link to the original video only. I call double standard.
Good one. Randall Munroe trained himself to turn off his computer whenever he switched tasks, so that the handful of seconds worth of power down, and then boot up, would break his habitual distraction. http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/18/distraction-affliction-corre...
This idea kind of reminds me of the notion that ideas are cheap, and that execution and hard work are what it really takes to create a valuable company.

It seems to me that the hard part of developing language features is developing the documentation and the tools, and it's this work that will drive language popularity much more than the features themselves.
I can't help being reminded of this hacker koan:

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."

Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
"Cheaper than cost of being down."
This is very insightful. Many of us look at the cost of multi zone deployments and cringe, but its a mathematics exercise.
(.05 * hours in a year)*(cost of being down per hour) = (expected cost of single zone availability).
Now just compare to 2-3x your single zone deployment cost. Don't forget the cost of being down per hour should include lost customers as well.
Standard definition video is the new black and white. At this point when I see sub-HD video it looks like an old artifact of history.
Very relevant excerpt from the pdf

All Government Organizations, while implementing e-Governance
applications and systems must include a specific requirement in Request
for Proposal (RFP) for all suppliers to consider OSS along with CSS
while responding. Suppliers shall provide justification for exclusion of
OSS in their response, as the case may be. Government Organizations
shall ensure compliance with this requirement and decide by comparing
both OSS and CSS options with respect to capability, strategic control,
scalability, security, life-time costs and support requirements.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profi... : everything that can be replicated and can't be walled off will converge on 0 profitability.
Here is what the backscatter scans look like:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20022861-10391704.htm...
A post on how to be a successful software engineer from someone who left school two years ago... Isn't a bit preposterous to write such patronizing articles so early? :)

(Of course this criticism comes from someone still in school, so you should take it with a grain of salt. Or appreciate the irony.)
I think you're pointing out Dave Glass' technique over at yahoo, right? This one http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/04/09/node-js-yui-3-dom-man... ?

The ideas there are definitely very powerful... and just plain sensible. I'd like to find a way to work this in, but it will take time. Do you see any fundamental reason a lisp equivalent of this technique couldn't be reproduced, using something like parenscript?
Indeed. Under the section of the YCom application for "Who do you fear most" the Dropbox founder wrote, "Google's coming out with GDrive at some point. "
I guess I should have addressed that idea specifically. If you transfer total control to a subprogram that directly looks for halting, you've just moved the problem, you haven't really abstracted it.

Apply indirection to anything with unspecified runtime. When you need a result, put a reasonable waiting time on it, and if it doesn't happen assume the source has died and handle it as an error code.
The way to tell is that you can kick the hardware.
I wondered the same thing. My first thought was "some gay clubs are like that", but I do not wish to make any unwelcome assumptions about anyone's sexuality :-)
"We help accelerate company accelerators, so they can help accelerate their companies faster."
1.That's inconsistent and just blows up the page size.

2. It would be deadly easy to have inline markup. Say: %p La la %strong la % la la.

3. The whole point of using HAML is to get rid of using the annoying HTML syntax. (Remember the tagline 'Markup haiku'?
Yes, your link edit caused app error when clicked the older one. This is not very SEO friendly but hey, just launched! Congrats.

By the way, it's evidently that the linked word is "here" :) (they should solve that too).
Consider a tool like http://prose.io
On the other hand, I'm still (on 10.10.2) experiencing severe window server bug where desktop just slows down to a crawl (all animations, window switching, missing control etc. run with less than 1fps) after some time of using the machine. Rebooting the system helps for awhile... and then it slows down again.

The issue seems to be limited to only nVidia equipped rMBPs, but honestly, I did not expect a brand new laptop (I have mid-2014) for 3kEUR to stutter just running desktop animations you know?
See also: obesity

EDIT : if the downvoter can explain to me why, I would appreciate it.

Selfish, impulse driven, has massive impact on others while denying same, is a choice.
The conversation would go something like, I am ready to take the next step in my career, take on more responsibility, company B have offered me a role doing X, Y, and Z, but I'm happy here and would like to stay, is there anything you can do for me?

The trick is, make them think you are not looking, but that others are looking at you.

But you have to have the offer in-hand, and you have to be willing to pull the trigger.
* they can simply connect their car to a wi-fi connection and get firmware updates.*

Scary thought. What could possibly go wrong?

Automotive software should not have frequent updates.
Fraise is a continuation of the now abandoned Smultron.
Not only is Zhuge a surname, but also, my (Chinese) parents once told me that it's taboo to name a child after someone; not sure if that's true in all parts though.
I can't speak for other communities, but all of the developers I who work with Ruby use TextMate. It may not be the majority, but the Ruby (and Rails) audience is certainly not "extremely small."

A clean, extensible editor like TextMate that gets out of your way is all you really need when you're working with tools that don't require an IDE. I think the main reason we haven't seen a major update yet is that so many people are happy with the current TextMate and are still willing to pay for it. I don't think we'll see a major upgrade until people start voting with their (lack of) dollars, rather than just complaining on forums.
I use TextMate as a scratch pad for small pieces of code / temporary clipboard storage quite often - and occasionally lose them when my computer crashes. Auto-save of untitled new documents would make life more pleasant.
I personally learned C from that very book, and still own a well-worn copy of it.
> A simple measure: if you remove all the capital value CAN still be generated. If you remove all the workers value CANNOT be generated any longer. (Regardless of incentive schemes)

I’m aware that if you remove all the workers, value cannot be generated anymore. This includes the worker whose work is allocating capital. Hence all workers are entitled to the pay that they can negotiate with other market participants, including the capitalist who negotiates a rent (or other arrangement) for his capital.

However the level of productivity of workers without any sort of tools is very likely to be below survival.
My apologies. Yes that was perhaps a little weird from me.
(But I am a socially awkward person anyway. :))

My intention was to inquire why person X came to that conclusion. Many people have different experiences throughout their lives. Some rich people wouldn't be perhaps able to empathize with poor people (making less than 10k a year). Some of them don't know (most of the time) what it is like to live with 10k a year and trying to make ends meet.

Louis CK expressed that sentiment in a clever manner: https://youtu.be/P3jLufZx3IM

So why did I come up with the "rich people example"? Well, I am trying to illustrate that we all have our blind spots somewhere. Different people, different experiences (and with that different levels of empathy/understanding).

Anyway, thanks for your input, paulcole & ploika! I think, I can see your point/sentiment better now.
> Remote work floods the supply with lots more available workers than they can find in any one city, so salaries for those roles go down.

You’re correct, but that’s not what’s happening here. Facebook isn’t paying remote workers uniformly less than in person workers. It is paying different amounts for different remote workers depending on where they live. That makes no sense given that, as you observe, there is a single national market for remote workers. The fact that Facebook can do that is an indicator that it either has market power in the employment market for programmers, or that we’re in an odd situation where the market hasn’t reached equilibrium.
I'm not saying that bitcoin is doomed to fail for this reason. I'm saying that "key escrow already exists" is a bad argument.
> They are uneducated, so they don't know what they deserve. They are uneducated, so they don't know what they deserve.

You don’t need a formal education to know whether you are being taken advantage of. Only people with formal education believe such lies.
That’s how bad housing is. If you grew up on the dream of a nice house with a garage and a big yard, $250k still doesn’t get you there in SV.

This type of housing setup that would cost $300k in, say Dallas, will cost $2.5 million on the peninsula. Between property taxes, mortgage insurance, interest, and principal payments and a jaw dropping $140k down payment, that is a monthly payment of $14k or so.

Your take-home after taxes on 250k in the bay is probably around 160k, or 13.3k a month. Whoops, no “American dream” home for you.
I see. How long should we wait?
Correccíon #2: If you manage to start both the server and client at the same moment, it is indeed 200 ms.
> Why aren't Apple's apps themselves also having to ask for permission?

They are. This question is based on a false premise.

I see it repeatedly. It’s starting to sound a lot like “have you stopped beating your wife yet.
I have to admit I'm not super involved with the system in question, and it's possible the team is underfunded or just not that great.

But we definitely ended up in a situation where it was hard to get to some important data, since the team couldn't SLT it to BW because "it's too many transactions" and trying to get it from Sidecar was blowing up, because it's too much data. And that was already with S/4.

But again, I don't know why it was the case. It would have been great and saved us a lot of work if it worked out and we could've done stuff in HANA directly, instead of copying data to different OLAP system daily. Especially now, when everyone is trying to get on the realtime-train.
Like most tasks start by teaching yourself to trade on news/price info. Then automate yourself step by step. For instance News articles pop up, what are you trying to glean from them, its usually sentiment and and critical alerts. You can automate that with an NLP. Kind of just goes from there back into higher level decision making processes.
i think nokia maps is supposed to be pretty good for what it is.
What's so ugly/trash about that?

It looks quite simple/elegant. Plus what they're added is meant to be used by static analysis tools and IDEs, not actually for validating things at runtime.
An Android app I made in a few hours makes $500/m from ads, and has 1M+ downloads on Google Play. It claims to be a radar detector for your phone, but that's not even possible (it's actually just completely random).

The description says that it is for novelty purposes, but the reviews show people believe it works and it has a placebo effect. Most reviews say things like "I drove past a police station and it went off! 5/5".

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vox.radard...

It's funny to see it up in the top 20 of the Transportation category on Play, alongside companies that are heavily VC funded. https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/TRANSPORTATION/c...
My wording was crappy there. I meant I'm surprised he didn't wait just a few months. As in, I'm surprised he didn't get impatient and do this earlier.
Oh yeah! That jukebox had Whitesnake, man! :D

And yeah, the arcade at the Anchor was way better but the Sportsman was much more chill about me taking up one of their pool tables, if I recall. Sportsman also had Goonies, I think. Not that I was any good at it.

I remember being super fascinated with collecting old railroad spikes from the trainyards as well. That and putting pennies on the tracks when we were waiting for the train to Portage. And I remember those old drive-on cars. When I had to pee my dad would make me wait until we were in a tunnel and then I'd open the car door and pee over the side of the train.

I live in NY now. That seems like another world entirely.
I don't think the product of the numbers solution is linear. Multiplication gets harder as numbers get bigger.
I don't doubt the strength of the US economy or its military power, but in relative terms the US is slowly getting less important. The article doesn't dispute that. It just says that it will take a long time until anyone will surpass the US. Also, the article works on the assumption of linear development, which is kind of questionable, but that's a different story.

The US used to be the biggest user of commodities, so it was pretty logical that the dollar should be the currency in which commodities are priced. Today China is the biggest user of commodities and it is only logical that countries like Brazil are going to take a little more RMB in exchange for their iron ore than they used to. And considering they import a lot of stuff from China as well, why should they sell their RMB for USD immediately? They won't.

Exchange rates are not based on absolutes but on relative strength. So the question is not wether the USD will or will not lose its reserve currency status. The question is how fast. My totally scientific characterization of that pace was "slowly slowly".
That is exactly what he claimed -- that the situation with high heels is in a stable equilibrium. Barring some kind of outside influence, stable equilibria remain in their state indefinitely.
Actually, the reason that I very much remember this is that my mom has never let me live it down! (It was my brother's toy computer, which cost a fair amount, for our family.)

Edit: And I never said that I was successful, but simply that my goal was understanding. It was most certainly my goal (it was something that repeated through childhood, many, many times), but it was equally certainly a failure.
This article did almost nothing to aleviate the real concerns.
No. The elevator's tether is a continuous object of length at least 36 000 km, from atmosphere to geostationary orbit. Practically all satellites are flying within that range of heights.
"It's got to be the world portals, right? That's a fairly huge feature specific to that version of the engine."

The keys are adjacent...
The US can enforce it laws on anybody it can get its hands on. For example Joaquin Guzman, the drug kingpin recently captured in Mexico faces charges in a variety of US states, even if he never set foot there. [1]

Mexico has to agree to hand him over, but once the US has him, they can happily convict him of crimes committed while he wasn't physically present in the US.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282359473/arrest-of-el-chapo-n...
It sounds like a lot of fun.

I'm not sure MMA would be where it would come out but maybe.

The one thing is I think you can concentrate an lot more force by stabbing directly forward with a stick, putting your weight behind the blow, rather than the sideways swing the demonstrator did. I'd like to see what the armor would do against a blow strong enough to knock someone over.
Is it possible for RunwayFinder to be hosted outside of the US? For example, if RunwayFinder is not premium (and not sold to the US), why can't the service be hosted in the UK or Europe where the patent is not valid?
I'm learning Emacs too (after 10 years of vi/Vim), and one of the first things that most people suggest are: hiding the menu and toolbars.

See more here:
http://charsequence.blogspot.com/2010/07/setup-emacs-for-dev...
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003511 - universetoday.com - 29 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003546 - bbc.co.uk - 6 comments
Worth noting that this article is pro-patents, and goes on to encourage the establishment of a body to fund patent disputes in court. It isn't clear where that money will come from, but I don't see how it will help out anyone but IP lawyers.
This is a terrible policy which rather encourages cheating.

Let's say that two students need help from one another on parts of an assignment. If they cheat their chance of getting caught is 50%. If they don't get caught their grade is (it doesn't matter for purposes of discussion) a 100 each. If they don't cheat they get a 0 each because they just can't complete the assignment.

So the expected payoff from NOT cheating is 0.

And the expected payoff from cheating is 0.5 * 100 + 0.5 * (100 / 2) = 75.

Who wouldn't cheat? Even if the probability of getting caught was 100%, you'd expect to get a 50. Holy cow! What university IS THIS?

The only way to discourage cheating is to make the net utility of cheating negative, and so negative that every student realizes it.
By your token we are constantly fasting, except in the couple of seconds where food is moving through our throat.
> the human body is primarily a FAT-BURNING MACHINE.

How would our metabolism have to be different for you to come to a different conclusion?

(I just want to know, how strong your statement is.)
Google "$ARTICLE_TITLE site:news.ycombinator.com." If that's omnipotence (omniscience?), wait until you see what my telephone does nowadays.
They used off-the-shelf studio flashes. There really isn't a whole lot of "calibration" nor chance for "miscalibration".

The nature of these units prevents them from outputting a bright light for more than a few milliseconds. Any catastrophic failure would have most likely resulted in the flash bulbs exploding with sparks and flying glass shielded by the projection screen. Had that happened it would have only enhanced the effect.
Perhaps I should clarify, one of the outstanding issues with the group environment in modern prisons is the highly unsupervised nature of it all. Prisoners form prison gangs, establish strict social rules, violence becomes the norm, gang rape is used as a control mechanism,...etc. A shocking number of first time prisoners end up deep in bizarre race segregated gangs, or if they aren't strong enough, used as sexual barter pieces for stronger prisoners. The list goes on and on.

Guards are there to keep them in the facility, and more or less from killing each other, but that's about it (and the guards are often as much the ones causing the problems as the prisoners).

Most people don't realize the prisons these days are largely like this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sgtdopushups/cop-killer-updates-face...

So what I mean is that it's not clear, from a correctional standpoint, that the modern group environment is a safer or more sane environment than the original isolation concept. To my understanding, the main reason prisons have largely moved to a social environment had more to do with cost than perceived harm from extended isolation.

I won't dispute that extended solitary is also mentally damaging...but your idea of more solitary than today for the typical prisoner, and a few hours of contact, is pretty sound to me.
Winning the war is obviously the biggest factor in terms of who goes to the gallows.

But there's a difference between loss of life in combat versus deliberate murder of noncombatants outside of a combat situation or of prisoners who are in your care. It's not about who has the highest scorecard of death and depravity.

Ask the same question about incendiary bombing, which happened throughout the war. The B-29s dropping incendiaries on Tokyo killed more people than the atomic attacks. Are those pilots war criminals? Are the artillerymen who leveled towns and villages full of people war criminals? Based on the "total war" approach embraced in WW2, they were not.