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So the germ of a good idea in the article is that there's a distinction between Computer Science and the techniques used in the actual production of software (call it Software Engineering, but obviously that's an overused term).

I think you can make a very solid argument that universities would do well to offer a Software Engineering track alongside CS, one that focuses less on formal mathematical analyses of algorithms and reticulating splines, and more on practical concerns of software teams -- different approaches to the SDLC, ways to work in a team, how to evolve existing code without breaking things.

But the argument he actually makes -- that universities should be teaching "iPhone or Android development" and spend multiple semesters on that... yeah, no. If you want a trade school that's narrowly focused on teaching people a job skill that's in demand this very second, I'd argue you're misguided, but whatever; either way, it's not what universities do and shouldn't be. The point of a university is to teach you things that won't be worthless a few years after you graduate.
I've put them in a few ISP's over the years, they do support multiple ASN's to be served from a single cluster so don't see any technology limitation there.

The traffic requirements were around 2Gbps of peak Google traffic last time I checked with them, so you might actually qualify already, certainly not as restrictive as the Netflix caching servers where they want 10Gbps of peak traffic.

Think your main problem is that Chicago is so close...
It's just a dummy missile. It doesn't contain explosives or propellant. It's basically just a weight of the same size, shape, and appearance as a Hellfire missile. It's used during training to give the helicopter the same weight load and distribution and same aerodynamics that it would have if it were actually armed. Ground crews also use them to practice loading and unloading missiles.

Some of these do contain real seeker heads so that they can be hooked up to the aircraft and the crew can practice locking onto a target.
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It's really irritating that a multi-billionaire thinks airing his mental problems on Twitter is somehow going to be a rewarding experience for anyone.
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Virtually every person who uses any modern Linux or OS X system expects bash to be installed and in the modern vernacular it can be completely and safely considered, in informal discussion, to be part of relevant Unixes. You knew exactly what he meant, but for some reason (and I won't speculate but it isn't a good look on you) you decided to be pedantic for the sake of being pedantic. You're not being helpful to anyone or anything and should stop, and you know it.
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Ease-up folks. It sure sounds like these folks were taken for a ride and have the scars to prove it. I have no clue what kind of responses you get from posting for web devs on Craigs List. I can only imagine an absolute barrage of emails from devs all over the world offering to name the tune for $300.

These people sound like they've been burned, they've seen the light and now want to create a high quality position, probably paying reasonably well, with benefits, etc. I would not knock someone with that as an objective.

It's a real company with real engineering (for their own products) who have probably come to the realization that proper web development isn't something to be handed over to a 15 year old in China. What's wrong with that?
I've never found it easy to diet. Unless you can precisely and easily measure your caloric intake, it seems too difficult, especially if you don't cook.

When I was younger I could just start running 3-4 days a week and lose 20lbs over several months. Now that I'm older, and more out of shape, I've resorted to a lot of walking, plus I'm adding a spinning bike. The Apple Watch's ability to monitor my activity got me started getting me moving enough to see results.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/apple-watch-8-weeks-...

I'm hoping to lose another 20lbs this year.
They actually do, but only if you also download the entire language packs for them.
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Computer Science teaches useful stuff that helps with problem solving. It's not useful APIs or revision control. Those things you can learn on your first job.
Well, the big exception is Chicago. ThoughtWorks is not held to be a great employer and requires a lot of travel; other jobs are often very corporate, working on enterprise software in drab low-rise office parks in the north suburbs. The only thing that really resembles the SF office culture (AFAIK) is in quant trading firms. I guess I'm discounting those out of personal distaste for HFT.
What bothers me about WebRTC is that it can be used to penetrate privacy measures. More specifically, for IP address discovery. Other than that, full speed ahead!
Yet this is exactly what babel-runtime will do for you: include all the polyfills. If you're not targetting IE8 and you don't care about Intl won't actually be that much code.

If you're using webpack you can use the code splitting feature to make sure the browser doesn't download that extra few KBs (which is presumable a trade-off between (an) extra roundtrip(s), so maybe you should just swallow those KBs).
Car dealership and "house for sale" videos for me out in the suburbs of North Texas ;)
> It uses the same underlying API

I don't think so. For whatever reason Caffeine doesn't take a power assertion, as show by `pmset -g assertions`, whereas caffeinate does.

This is what prompted me to write Theine (https://github.com/lvillani/theine) to use the proper API for this task, since Caffeine would behave erratically with the lock screen active.
I wonder why they are bothering with gallium-arsenide panels when using a solar thermal setup would be a lot more cost efficient and probably more energy efficient as well. You simply run some kind of coolant through the collector, exchange the heat into water, and run a steam turbine from the resulting steam. You can even collect the water afterwords and condense it to get distilled water. There are many power plants that run on that principle, but it would be cool to see something that can be mounted in the back yard. And the materials necessary are very common and cheep, so the entire product could be much cheeper as well.
It would be interesting to try. There's a sequence number in the CTL which could prevent this type of attack, but I don't know if it's actually checked against that which is currently stored.
Personally, if I were to choose the Midwest, it'd be Chicago.

Glassdoor has an average software engineer in Chicago making $75k. Bankrate says the equivalent income in SF would be $113k, and Glassdoor has median salary in SF as $103k.

$10k is a lot of money to be sure, and you are paying a premium for SF, but it's not always so dramatic.

Employers seem to be pretty good at adjusting salaries by geography according to cost of living. You can't really "win" unless you can convince someone to pay you a Bay Area salary to live in the Midwest. And maybe you can, but if they're smart and the market is efficient, it won't last long.
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> The writing that Sacks produced over the last year have been some of the most poignant, chilling, and inspiring essays that he produced. It's sad that he's gone, but I'm grateful that he shared so much of his work, and his life (and ultimately death) with all of us.

I'd like to read it. Which pieces are you referring to (besides the Sabbath piece, which I've read)?
If you can't trust your coworkers not to go snooping on your machine while you're not there, then you should find a better job. Threat models balloon in complexity when you can't use tools like zones of trust and choke points.
Nothing, that is also a great name.
I consider an idea everything pre-execution. I have had the odd goodish idea in a flash of brilliance, but the truely good ideas all took a lot of thinking and improvement over time. For example, the idea I am working on right now as my next venture I had 15 years ago, but I could not think of any way to monetarize it. Three months ago I finally worked out a way of doing this and have since been spending around 20% of my time filling knowledge gaps and planning what I need to do to begin execution. Right now I have nothing but an idea, but it is a well thought out and considered idea that I think has a reasonable chance of success.
No, it's not the same. It seems they do it differently now, compared to the previous versions, user kstrauser is here on HN to tell:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10111271

"weird experience I had after upgrading my son's laptop from Windows 8.1 to 10"

"By default, unless you log in and explicitly disable it, Windows 10 collects kids' usage activity and uploads it to Microsoft's servers. Presumably the same mechanism is disabled for adults. Presumably.

I definitely didn't enable it, and I'm sure my son didn't check any "narc me out to my parents" checkbox."
No that's mischaracterizing what I think the parent intended.

It's not "I can't focus on anything" but "I often have problems focusing on things I _want_ and try to focus on".
The article implies that some parents were surprised, and didn't ask for it or didn't know they asked for it.
One very important thing: your relative and people immediately affected should find a counselor and probably a physician that can provide medical intervention for the extreme stress and anxiety.

I was diagnosed with stage iv colon cancer a little over a year ago. I was in shock and emotionally completely numb, or so I thought. I started having anxiety attacks, but I didn't know what was going on - I thought I was dieing right then.

Eventually I wound up at the hospital where, after vitals and an interview about what I was feeling, they suggested what was really going on for me mentally and emotionally.

I now have anti anxiety medicines (Xanax) and I can tell when they're needed. I'm grateful for getting the psych support.

Ok, long winded, but basically a lot of what we deal with is made in our minds, and there is help available to mitigate the worst effects of this.

Good luck, and thanks to anyone here that works in the medical field, battling these diseases.
It's slated for October 10th and will be Watch the Skies. I don't think it's been announced yet, though.
And yet another:

say --voice='?' | perl -lane 'my $v = $F[0]; system("say -v $v \"Hi $ENV{'USER'}\"")'
I don't think it's fair to say it had nothing to do with the original concept. It's just a couple of steps removed:

Idea 1: Allow strangers to sleep in your house on an air mattress.

Idea 1b: Allow strangers to sleep in your house.

Idea 1c: Allow strangers to sleep in your house and take great photos to promote it well.

Two steps from a dumb idea to a multi-billion-dollar idea.
I'm working on adding a few more components (form, dropdown, and a generic shape component) but I'm not sure how far I want to take it yet.

Pull requests are welcome :)
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What gene and gene variant are you referring to?

Also, AFAIK the number of fat cells you have is pretty much constant through adulthood. When you lose or gain weight is just those fat cells becoming smaller or bigger.
I'm all for taking a deep breath and looking at things objectively, but look me in the virtual eyes and tell me you honestly believe they pay reasonably well for that position..

Furthermore I see too much hypocrisy in them wanting a professional employee and posting an unprofessional ad..
Did you find the one at kamusnias.info? That's an exact copy of the WSJ article.

I'm not sure why you couldn't get it through Google, since searching for the title works OK for me - it shows up as the featured "In the news" link at the very top of the results page. You can also try searching via news.google.com; that should also get you through the paywall.
Do you know what sources oncologists used to keep themselves up to date?
I think you misunderstood me, because I used "lazy". It has nothing to do with Haskell lazyness.

In Java static fields are initialized when a class is loaded by the class loader. A class is only loaded when used. If anything (IO,scheduler,etc) changes the order in which classes are used, then initializers are called in a different order and their side effects as well. This semantic is mandatory by language definition.

In a Java AOT compiler this means every access to a static field must be prefixed with a (synchronized) check if the class is already initialized and optimizing it away is rarely possible. A JIT compiler does not even care, because it knows the class is already loaded.

For contrast, in C++ static fields are all initialized before main is called.
Hope he uses his frustration (and brainpower + money) to do something that improves the world.
gRPC is probably worth mentioning in this thread (new since the article), though I haven't used it yet and have no idea if it can satisfy his asynchronous requirement.

He considers using message queues and dismisses the idea because "you're still on your own in implementing an RPC mechanism on top of that. And for the purpose of building a simple RPC mechanism, I'm convinced that plain old UNIX sockets or TCP will do just fine.".

In my experience, getting an arbitrary sized message from A to B over a potentially unreliable network is the difficult bit and implementing a basic RPC mechanism is pretty easy. I did a project that required a lot of IPC and ended up using nanomsg (also not mentioned in the article.. it's very similar to zeromq) for [fast] reliable message delivery and wrote my own basic RPC layer on top of this (NanomsgRPC - currently C# only ..). This worked pretty well for me.

A note on nanomsg though: I wouldn't consider it stable enough for production use, but that said, it didn't give me any problems for what I used it for.
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A kid might focus for hours on video games, while telling himself he really needs to write that paper for class tomorrow. Maybe you could say his id is in control of focus, not his ego.
I would expect that a significant percentage of unix packages would throw a fit if they had to live in their own subtree.
Well delete your tumblr account, because "white male" is not a useful concept in Japan. They might assume what country you're from, but if you're not too blonde, loud and fat they'll charitably assume you're French or Russian. And it won't get you further than being black, African, Chinese or anything.

Japanese landlords are openly racist, though, and will ban whole categories of people at will. They might have a problem with one tenant and just stop accepting any Chinese person or sailor or whatever for a year.
There's a whole class of legitimate bad feelings that it's socially impossible to complain about without coming off as an entitled jerk. I'm sure what notch is feeling is real, but complaining about it in public is just going to make matters worse.
We have already read this on multiple sources...I'd suggest letting him be instead of showcasing his despair. (even if billionaire despair)
Your statement "other evidence to meet balance of probabilities" is concise but so abstract it's useless. Like most legal questions, there is no abstract way to reason about this. The answer is always "it depends on the context."
Not to mention, have you ever listened to jury instructions? They are so incredibly boring and convoluted that most peoples eyes just glaze over. It's not the juries don't follow the instructions, it's that many of them don't listen and don't understand the instructions in the first place.
That's what happens when you get everything you think you want - money, fame, things - they end up not bringing you happiness. It's one of the great paradoxes of the human condition. It can feel terrible, that everything you thought you wanted brought nothing but despair. I hope Notch finds his way. I can only feel empathy for the kind of person who uses his new-found wealth to construct a candy wall.
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It seems like a sad life, and he has also lost out forever on meeting a woman he knows without a doubt isn't marrying him for his success.

His mansion and parties seem like desperate attempts to fill the emotional void inside himself. But it's hollow, as he's now seen.

The way to fill it is by dedicating himself to something that has no financial upside--doing good, in the vein of Clinton, Carter, and Gates. That will give him the kind of fulfillment that a candy wall never will.

In the course of doing so, he may even meet someone similarly like minded.

Less altruistically, he could also create games and release them pseudonymously through a shell company, so he knows any success is because it's a good game, and not because it's from the creator of Minecraft.
Ah, I misinterpreted your comment.
In YouTube if you right-click on video you get 'Stats for nerds'. Does anyone know how to translate the stream hostname to actual IP / geolocation?
Multiple displays for my desktop.
There's thrift, but they have a custom specification with types. It shouldn't be too hard to go from JSON to thrift though.

https://thrift.apache.org/
Most people, if they could actually choose what they're able to sustain focus on, would not choose video games or other forms of idle entertainment. Wouldn't you rather do something that brings some lasting value to your life?

Since video games are designed to capture attention at the expense of all other qualities, they're like a last refuge for people who want to have the experience of really getting into something, but don't have the focus control for something more substantial.
Gabe Newell has a similar net worth to Notch, maybe as one self made gaming billionaire to another he could give him some tips on handling it.
So build something.
He seems to be lonely because he has a lonely life. There are plenty of happy people both wealthy and poor. They have found out what keeps them going and work hard to do it. Now he has the wealth to get support and attempt to determine what an help him keep going and working hard.

I'm neither wealthy nor surrounded by wealth. Some of my friends are driven to obtain great wealth for various reasons such as improving the education in their hometown or preserving more of the planet. These days I'm happy with the riches of holding my wife's hand and solving problems. Just last night I helped my friend's kid solve how to fix the wooden blocks most efficiently in a wooden box. Soon after they were dumped out in a pile on the floor. Success and failure are transient.
Yeah, I probably take the Boston scene for granted, but at the same time I'm not looking to join the next future unicorn, I'm just looking for a steady job at a good company that I'll enjoy.
Notch has always struck me as a genuinely good character. Going back to the earliest days of Mojang when they were in that "holy shit guys we're making too much money" phase where their logistics just couldn't handle the revenue Minecraft was generating yet.. and then hearing him talk about the emotion when he saw his bank account pass the million mark. He just seemed different in the best kind of way.

It's a shame that article was fairly unsubstantiated and basically just showed a few bare tweets Notch himself made a little while ago. Wherever Notch really is right now at a personal level I wish him nothing but the best, and if he is in a hole that he finds himself quickly out of it. Because I would be shocked if he hasn't already done some amazing philanthropic work, he's just seems like the type who enjoys making other people's lives better..
The previous discussions about this in the past 2 days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10144018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141224

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141538
This. I lost about a hundred pounds by strictly adhering to keto then IIFYM + lifting. While there are differences in efficacy between various plans, the most important thing in dieting is strict adherence to a plan driven by a strong internal motivation. "I want to lose weight" / "I want to hit my health cholesterol metrics" does not motivate positive change over time; you need to seek out the underlying motivation which is driving you to change: "I want to get healthy so I can live to see my child get married", "I want to lose weight so I can enjoy life my spouse", "I want to lose weight so I can get a girlfriend / boyfriend", "I want to look good so I can tell everyone who hated on me to go fuck themselves", "I want to lose weight so I can achieve my dream of ____". These are the types of internal goals which guarantee adherence over time.
No this is a common argument against anything involving infinite universe/ universe being infinite. If the universe has always been here how many events does it take for us to exist? Infinte. Saying beings always exist therefore beings exists is not a proof.
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It's highly relevant to the discussion (interestingly titled: "P-value not as reliable as many scientists assume"), which is entirely about p-value, as I am describing to you the limits of p-value analysis.

That some perform calculations that are not p-value and call them p-value is not exactly my problem to solve. That others perform meta-analyses with numbers that others call p-values, but which aren't actually p-values isn't really my problem either.

I'll say it again. If you correctly measure (exercise left to reader) a p-value of 0.05, that measurement explicitly means that you expect that 95% of your future observations to be consistent with the hypothesis which you used to determine that p-value of 0.05.

Making future observations that are consistent with a known hypothesis is exactly what reproducibility refers to within the context of science.

If you expect 95% of observations (p = 0.05) to be consistent with previous findings, but only 36% are...you did not calculate a valid p-value (or are now testing something other than your hypothesis).
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Let he who has not reached out to people for attention via social networking cast the first stone..

Most of us have done it, its very human to seek help from other people while having emotional distress. In modern times that often means social media (even if it isn't the most logical approach, emotional distress doesn't often follow logic)..
Agreed. This is so frustrating. Stop trying to reinvent the UI with ridiculous restrictions like this.
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He should talk to Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the likes. He obviously hasn't adjusted to the person he has become. He doesn't seem to realize that the money he made from the Minecraft sale has changed him. He still thinks he's the same person he was before, but he's not.

With the wealth he has got he can expand his abilities and capabilities. He's not a game dev guy any more, same as Bill Gates is not a software guy any more.

In my opinion, the best thing he can do is to find a cause he cares deeply about and try to change the world for the better for the people who are deeply affected by it.

Fuck $70 million dollar mansions and parties at Ibiza, this guy can change the world for the better, maybe even if it just a little. Stop feeling sorry for yourself Notch, get your shit together and make a difference while you can.
"Even more mysteriously, it is covered in what experts describe as ‘encrypted code’ - a message from a lost civilisation."

Why should we believe that it's an "encrypted code" rather than just a long-forgotten language that we don't understand?
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You can find links to all of them within the NYT obituary (which is the originally linked article for this thread).
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-le...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table....