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Handling an Impossible Tech-Job Description
It's interesting that you hold this view. I listen to NPR every day and it's pretty often that their conservative panelists "win" the discussion. Unlike Fox, whose liberal panelists are pretty laughable, NPR airs people who know their shit, regardless of political persuasion.
You're arguing that they are substitute assets for each other that might move reciprocally, like stocks and bonds are. But equity at seed stage and public stage are the same asset class at different levels and move more in tandem.

My argument was more about the wealth effect though, which is that a crash in stocks makes Angels poorer and thus less likely to invest in risky startups.
Implements security theatre. If the OS is immutable then there's nowhere to persist an exploit.

A server could be killed and restarted at the first sign of compromise. If you aren't loading GBs worth of modules that'll never be uses, the OS will be able to boot up in a few seconds max.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm currently annoying myself by learning Elm. :)
Drone sets world record for lifting 134 pounds over 37 seconds
Uber was not a leader in SDCs, at least before acquiring CMUs robolab, and Uber doesnt actually own any fleet whatsoever. So I don't understand the common narrative that uber will own transportation with an SDC fleet. What I see is a company that excels at market expansion and contractor growth, pre-announcing a major pivot years in advance.

It is equally or more likely, given the history of innovation, that a brand new company will win that space instead.
> Just last month, at the age of thirty-three, I was officially diagnosed as autistic by the NHS. Could some things in my life have been easier if I had been diagnosed earlier? Certainly.

I'm glad your case is in the good side of the spectrum.

> On the other hand, out of all the diagnoses to have missed, autism was a lucky break. It's not degenerative.

Lucky you, but autism IS degenerative in many cases, early intervention is the best shot for those kids.

> I didn't get more autistic from thirty years of not taking my autism meds.

THERE ARE NO AUTISM MEDS AND SHOULD KNOW.

> I was never in any danger of dying of autism.

This. You don't die of autism, right. So you will have normal life expectancy, 70, 80 years. If you have a non-functional form of ASD, you will be a dead-weight for society for the rest of your life.

> I'm not saying that hoopism did anything wrong. That is one very lucky daughter to have such an involved patent. I'm merely saying that you're not going to ruin your child's life if you don't catch it right away. It seems like parents are under a lot of pressure and I just wanted to say, as someone who has been on the other side of it, that your kids aren't going to hate you if you accidentally miss this one.

I'm not afraid that my son will hate me, I'm afraid he wont be able to take care of himself and I will hate myself for not being here forever to take care of him.

Am I under a lot of pressure? YOU BET.

* please don't talk about this until you have kids of your own. You can't possibly know.

* please never say anything to stop a parent from looking for early intervention just because you did very well without it.

* a lot of people bullshit about being in the spectrum, please never do this.
They already have machines that take your order through a touchscreen in some McDonalds... that's half the jobs gone in one swoop!
I also advocate for Java, but mostly because I invested in companies that manufacture RAM.
One thing they do now is put the drive-in order-taker off-site at a call center.

I guess not so recent, considering this article is from 2006: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/11fast.html?pag...
One way around this is to have them followed by a private investigator when they are away from you.
Diesel locomotives are closer to electric cars than they are to diesel cars or trucks--the actual traction motors are electric, and the diesel itself is just a diesel generator for power. This means that the main disadvantages of diesel over electric are sourcing fuel, more moving parts to maintain, and some exhaust issues. However, the US railroad network was essentially built out in the steam era, and steam locomotives have much more severe requirements for all of these problems. Going to diesel from steam was already a win.

The problems with electric trains is needing to supply and maintain catenaries, needing to source enough power, and needing to cope with highly variable electric demand (trains use much more power when they hit a steep incline). In the early 20th century, when railroads were replacing their steam locomotives, the rural electrification projects in the US just didn't exist yet, which made electrification of mainline railroad track quite expensive. The few railroads that tried ended up bankrupting themselves in the process.

Another drawback of electrification that's only obvious in hindsight is that installing catenaries makes enlarging the load gauge that much more costly--if the US had mostly electrified its freight track, it likely would have never developed double-stacked container trains (absent in much of Europe since the electrical catenaries provide insufficient clearance), a development which did much to revitalize the railroad industry.
There has always been a boom market in messaging going back to ICQ (and maybe earlier). The big problem is: companies want money, so they don't want to make the mistake of IRC as being 100% free and open and decentralized.

The cycle will continue for the foreseeable future: people want to communicate, someone creates a new communication app for modern platforms (or a cheaper way of communicating than had come before), old communication apps fall out of fashion, new communication app stagnates, someone creates new communication app for more modern times, rinse, repeat.

One day we'll have a majority marketshare 3d telepresence app, a majority marketshare direct mindsharing app, a majority marketshare sensorium sharing app, etc. It's just things people want that we don't have the technical capability (or wider vision) to instantiate into reality yet.

As far as "value add" or "marketplaces" built around chat apps, just ask yourself how many AOL Channels are still profitable today. We're stuck living in the times we inhabit, so sometimes there's short term value to capture, but in the longer term, everything fades.
Front End Rails Issue 19
Their cloud pricing model is weird. It's cheaper per request for 250,000 requests than it is for 500,000. But it's cheaper for 2,000,000 than for 250k or 500k. Strange.
What? As designed and when they arrive they do not need drivers. When these cars arrive the allure of completely passive ridership will be so strong that no regulation will stand in the way.
Uh oh... I just signed up for A Small Orange a few months back, now I'm curious if I should move hosts yet again. Looking for a good SSD-based host with web hosting. I've moved between hosting companies way too much either with them going out of business, changing plan costs and not telling me, or other poor decisions/support.

Not sure where to go from here. All I need is relatively inexpensive-but-reliable web hosting (preferably where I can use Let's Encrypt).
Okay, caps lock. You are cool
And then: Enron.
I've heard this unsubstantiated claim for years now. It certainly depends on your metric. LLVM still lacks behind in generated code quality on most mainstream platforms [my own unpublished benchmarks]. LLVM appears to attract more mind-share from people leveraging the infrastructure, including writing new front- and back-ends; I'm guessing the code is easier to understand and better documented.

A few years ago I had expected LLVM to have caught up to GCC by now, but I hadn't anticipated the accelerated pace of GCC improvements. I don't know if the competition from LLVM had anything to do with this, but GCC is showing no signs of slowing down.
I think his warning is appropriate, not so much because medical ultrasounds are dangerous, but because your homemade device probably doesn't have the same level of testing and oversight that your doctor's does.

We know that ultrasound machines can cause warming and cavitation, and while these effects are minor when part of an ultrasound at the doctor's office, it's not hard to see how a homemade device that emits more radiation than necessary could exacerbate those effects.
Docker’s Unikernel Purchase and the Changing Role of the OS
At the start the only spots are on campus, but I'm hoping they will eventually offer true one way trips ala car2go, which I've found to be a fundamentally more useful service than zipcar. $6/hour if you only need one hour to say go from school to a store to home is awesome. If you need to return it to the original parking spot and then make your way home from there you're doubling the time and eliminating the convenience.
I wonder if this relies on ground-effect for lift?

Didn't someone make a drone that could carry a person?

And then there is the "hoverboard" that self-balance and carry a person, so it is practically a drone if someone just added a remote - though it doesn't do altitude.

Ha, check out the human-sized drone at the bottom of the article:

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/06/184-delivery-drone-for-pe...

Can it still be called a drone when there is a human onboard piloting it? I guess not.
Self-driving cars are not driving themselves, they are driven by algorithms. The problem is that cars then become prisons on wheels. Think about it - since you pay with a debit/credit card, your identity is known when you enter a car. You can then be driven directly to a police station and you can't escape, because the whole thing is controlled by centralized machines. Just look at what's happening to these people in China who are mysteriously disappearing. Vehicles driven by algorithms are the best tool for eliminating protesters, political enemies etc.
No, it's a tax on value addition. Hence the name...
Yeah, practically a McDonald's salary.

I am reminded of that lovely remark once made by Boris Johnson's, London's blond bombshell of a mayor, when asked about his £250,000 a year contract to write a column for The Daily Telegraph: "It's chicken feed."
Using Transducers with Core.async in ClojureScript
The "holy grail" architecture whereby the first request sends a fully formed HTML response which is then immediately hydrated with a JS frontend app that takes over routing and data gathering is now pretty technically feasible. It's the best of all worlds ... fast static content for the first load, and then fast frontend routing thereafter. If you ward your clients away from this path you're doing them a disservice. With this stack JS web apps no longer need to be app-like, they're well suited to content-heavy sites too. They even work with JS turned off :)
Indeed. The bubbles virus really confused me the first time I stepped through a self modifying section using dos's debug program.
As I page down the site, I see "What's Katha" about 2/3 down one page. On the next page text starts fading in at the top but I can only read the bottom part.

The first time I paged all the way to the bottom, I missed much of the content...and hence your message.

Good luck.
All for front end developers
The federal government doesn't own the entire country. What's the net worth of the federal government?
Totally concur. But date/time is a hard thing to get right!

However, getting it wrong the first time is different than getting wrong again, as you pointed out with the Calendar type. 0 == JANUARY, but most other things are indexed from 1...

Third time's the charm, I guess :)
Getting the input from Stephen Colebourne (of Joda-Time fame) was undoubtedly a key point in getting this done.
I believe that says a lot about the beliefs that go around -- that cops are somehow more honest, and noble (and so are the troops).

I can't help but think that the root of this phenomenon is the adversarial nature of policing in the U.S. It's assumed that the police are on one side and the people are on the other, and that the two sides are going to be at odds. And like most adversarial relationships, you assume that most critiques of "the other side" are noise.

There's probably some element of "police are honorable", but I think the adversarial setup has more to do with it.
I apologize for ignorantly misrepresenting it. That seemed like an accurate way of rephrasing your claim, "maybe Black Americans don't get that in their upbringing." But I guess I have lost some subtlety.

Anyway, I was under the impression that the lives of minorities in the US is much better today and the correlation between race and class is much weaker today than before the 1970s, no? ("Forcible integration," for instance, brings to mind the Little Rock Nine in the 1950s and the "segregation forever" speech in the 1960s, but maybe you're referring to something else.) How has this been discredited, and in what way did they not work? Sorry if this is a naïve question.
You have to make a killing on that 10% if you are going to make up all the losses on the 90%. That works for early state investing, but I can't imagine that works for late stage.

But the real problem with bubbles isn't that loser companies are pumped up, but real profitable companies are way overvalued too. During the dotcom crash Microsoft lost half its value. It was a winner. It had massive profit margins the whole time.

So Uber may be in the 10% success. But if you invest right now, it might be worth half as much in 5 years.
Thanks for your thoughtful, considered response. We need more people like you in the world and in tech.
Considering the way docker tends to feature-creep, they will eventually just be re-implementing a full kernel. :)
I'm not entirely sure you realize that no one wanted to grow up to be an Uber driver. Driving for Uber is a stopgap until guaranteed minimum income is a reality.
> Is it because they are already valued at $1B+ that this thesis should change?

One would assume that if it's valued so high they have a fair amount of funds in the bank from VCs in which case they could downsize considerably and still survive for quite some time. So I feel like if you're valued at $1B I wouldn't expect you to die even if you're in a decline for some considerable amount of time.
Agreed, all ads are bad.

And let's call the advertising business model what it is: a get rich quick scheme. Undercut the straight up competitors that charge for their product by fooling consumers into thinking you're offering what the other guy is offering, but for free. Come on, who could turn down that? Or make something "valuable" that no one is willing to pay for (WTF?), so again make it appear free.

Only the truth is it isn't free. We all pay in the end. The lunch is not only not free, it's costing us more and its loaded with toxic crap.

Admittedly I suck as a writer, but ever time I make my very strong case that advertising may be the primary evil of internet[1], I almost invariably receive a great number of silent downvotes. Upton Sinclair explains why:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237
The topic of race in america is a complex one. But our understanding of it evolves over time, just like in every other field of study. As a technical matter, the definition of racism is "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior". That last part is important. Things can be racially motivated and negative without being racist. So for example, Indian person denied an apartment by a white landlord because "they make smelly food". Racist. Indian person refuses to rent to whites because he prefers someone who speaks his language. Racist? Depends. On the one hand, as a landlord he has the power to effect discrimination in a way that can cause a problem to applicants. But on the other hand, the language thing is about trying to solve a specific problem that he has, not because he thinks those people are inferior somehow. Similar situations, but the second is less racist than the first. Especially when you take into account the effect, which is that the Indian family being denied might have to work very hard to overcome this stereotype whereas the white family might well just move on to the next listing and be accepted quickly.
> splintercell

> if labor prices fall drastically ... more production will happen. Prosperity will ensue.

> somehow the third point doesn't because most people are part of the labor force therefore emotions kick in. The simple logic you're demonstrating is a childish whining

Next time a bubble pops and I get a 30% pay cut I will take comfort in the fact that the prices of goods & services around me will soon fall by >30% to compensate (because of all the prosperity) thus preserving my quality of life and proving that my concerns were merely "emotions kicking in" and "childish whining" rather than predictions that the terms of my social contract were about to get dramatically worse.
IBM Bets on Video Streaming with $130M Ustream Buy
"Don't let Google crawl your site if it's not appropriate" is great advice, that's true, but it has nothing to do with whether you're serving up JS or HTML.
The Programming of a Perfect Match
Disease carrying mosquitos are a major force holding back logging operations in rainforest regions.

If this barrier were removed without a suitable alternative means of regulation, the consequences could be catastrophic.

I agree with you that we should be smart about how we alter evolution.
So first a couple caveats: (1) I'm sure AVR is a hell of a let better than PIC, (2) I come at this from a really weird place (exclusively emulators and compilers), and (3) I'm not talking about the AVR parts themselves, which might be more cost-effective for a given project.

That said:

* Harvard architecture (split I & D memory)

* 8 bit registers

* Not at all orthogonal, and particularly painful for pointer addressing

* The stack pointer is annoying to work with

* Address wrap at physical memory bounds, rather than the bounds of address space

I could pick a bunch more nits that would only really be relevant to someone writing an emulator (complicated instruction decode, IO addressing, &c) but those are my big complaints.

I find MSP430 much more pleasant to work in.
Switzerland has one of the lowest tax rates in the world (although it varies from canton to canton). Where do you draw the conclusion from?
I saw this posted on Twitter yesterday, and someone highlighted a specific slide from one of Patterson's presentations. I couldn't find the original tweet, so I took a screenshot of the slide instead: http://i.imgur.com/nE5aZ4g.png

In a time when there are a lot of people focused on the "individual win," I really like this suggested approach to life. There are probably many people -- especially in the startup and business worlds -- that disagree with this philosophy, but I think there are some serious keys to happiness here.
Not sure I agree with protecting the trees over preventing brain damage in babies, but that's just me.
It's not a damned if you do damned if you don't.

It's bring guests of comparable quality and abilities to present their ideas and don't prime one side or the other as good or bad.
Surgeon performs successful head transplant on a monkey
Time's Arrow Is Entangled in Quantum Entanglement
If you kill all the trees, we'll have worse problems than the current harm from mosquitos.

Humans depend on the biosphere for survival.

I agree that protecting babies from brain damage is very important, but certainly not at any cost.
i.e. pretty much the same as Zipcar short-term rentals (which seems to be $7.50-$8.50/hr). Zipcar at least also has a daily option that's about $70, so in the same ballpark as rentals. (Though people I know who use Zipcar often use car rental services like rent-a-wreck for daily rentals.) They typically use the short term rentals to run errands or otherwise go places for a few hours.
Trust? TRUST? I'm sorry, but are you saying that if I pay to have a claim that my product is best broadcast into everyone's eyeballs or ears, I'm establishing trust?

Allow me to repost a previous comment of mine[1]:

Whenever a debate about advertising pops up on HN, many people defend it as the necessary way for consumers to find out about good products. Healthy free markets depend on informed consumers, but to think that advertising results in informed consumers makes little sense. I find it strange that a community of logic and science oriented people can hold such a notion.

When communities were small, reputation was king. If your town had two bakers, everyone knew which one was good and which one sucked. No amount of advertising would fool the townsfolk into going to the sucky one.

But this doesn't scale to huge cities with tens, hundreds or thousands of choices. We can't know the reputation of such a wide array, and we can easily be fooled by advertising. Internet-based recommendation systems make the grapevine and reputation scalable. I hope we see more innovation. Yelp is a start, but it fails miserably because if I rate a place 5 because I love very authentic Thai food, and another person rates it a 1 because they are used to Americanized Thai, the restaurant gets a 3 (I'm simplifying for illustrative purposes). In other words, Yelp's rating is useless to both me and the other person.

I'm hoping for a future where recommendation systems and collaborative filtering get so good that they render marketing and advertising useless.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10398290
They may be the leaders, but they have to compete so fiercely because VC money is employing a lot of engineers and programmers. If that VC money stops, there will be an oversupply of labor. And prices will fall.
Maybe this is a good time to learn OCaml then? There's also this I saw, literally what you're talking about: https://stackhut.com/
In the way that unikernels are typically used, each unikernel instance runs as a VM, and security is implemented by the hypervisor. If the VM is just running one application, it doesn't need its own mechanism for allowing mutually distrusting users to run their own code.
Yes! More OCaml adoption.
This is a pretty handy idea, especially for the "X version 1.0.0 released!" with absolutely no description about what X is. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem up to date / accurate.
This was flagged previously as spam, since it is basically an ad for toptal.
So Docker will now have some OCaml openings? :)
It's worth noting that this is an old post. This crate is still used today, over at https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/regex
I'm pretty sure there are, even right now, plenty of decent developers who would take seemingly lower salaries in exchange for working in a much lower cost of living area, provided the company itself is still fairly modern and forward-thinking both technically and culturally.

You would think, right? The last two offers I made where to people in very low cost of living places. I offered them our "Bay Area, not Google $$ salary" and they both said they expected Google salaries and turned down the offer. Until that point, everything had been clicking perfectly.

EDIT: last three people.
Scary part is that this is just the beginning.
Stephen Hawking Warns Humanity: Leave Earth Before the Ruling Class Destroys It
unfortunately pyqt docs are far from perfect everytime i have to do something with pyqt i just go to qt docs and just "translate" the concepts and api calls to python. if you are able to understand c++ syntax and translate that in your head to python youll be ok. Aside from docs i used some links from this https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt but you have to be careful to avoid outdated resources (current version is 5 and many things differ between 4 & 5) and not all tutorials are high quality. I also wrote one tutorial myself BTW http://pawelmhm.github.io/python/pyqt/qt/webkit/2015/09/08/b...