skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." All these problems also impact non-market solutions. If fact many ARE non-market solutions to other problems.

The non-market solutions would be something like these:

1 - Price controls

2 - Government approval of business ideas

3 - Rationing non-essentials

4 - Licensing engineers
> That's absurd given that csv files by definition have no formulas

I have some scripts that generate CSV files with formulas and for the record they work fine in both Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
The simple notion is that you want long telomeres to resist aging. Cancer cells "want" long telomeres to maintain their "cellular immortality", their ability to divide indefinitely. From Wikipedia:

"Telomeres are critical for maintaining genomic integrity and studies show that telomere dysfunction or shortening is commonly acquired during the process of tumor development. Short telomeres can lead to genomic instability, chromosome loss and the formation of non-reciprocal translocations; and telomeres in tumor cells and their precursor lesions are significantly shorter than surrounding normal tissue."[0]

"Cancer cells require a mechanism to maintain their telomeric DNA in order to continue dividing indefinitely (immortalization). A mechanism for telomere elongation or maintenance is one of the key steps in cellular immortalization and can be used as a diagnostic marker in the clinic. Telomerase, the enzyme complex responsible for elongating telomeres through the addition of telomere repeats to the ends of chromosomes, is activated in approximately 80% of tumors."[0]

It's not as simple as long vs short.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere#Cancer
Have you tried the Blackberry Passport?: http://store.shopblackberry.com/store/bbrryus/en_CA/pd/produ...

As a former iPhone and Windows Lumia owner, the Passport is a huge upgrade. Great to read on. It's like using a Kindle or Kobo.
Or that there are just "more brown people about". That doesn't mean America is becoming more open as a society, there is still rampant discrimination against blacks at all levels of society. The last lynching/crow laws are within living memory for gods sake.
Not under linux, but it's coming. Alhough they have no way to include big dependancies like QT and the like.
I like the part where he's talking about the programming study he got to do at Microsoft with a one way mirror, where he observes that programmers who say they never use the mouse, use the mouse 50% of the time they are programming.

Use your awareness and ask yourself: Is this person primarily optimizing programming, or is she/he primarily optimizing their social status as a programmer? (Maybe doing the latter is more rational? Doing the latter likely results in higher pay and a more secure job.)

> The lesson from this was apparently, that just fixing the IDE wasn’t enough. Programming itself suffers from the problem that it is indirect and invisible, beleaguered with accidental complexity and unobservable.

These are the two deepest sentences about programming I've read in a while.

Here's the video in a nutshell:

1 - Chris Granger asks a deep question
2 - He observes people
3 - He tries some lateral paradigm
4 - It's interesting
5 - It's bootstrap implemented in only a few lines of code
6 - It's not the right answer, repeat from step 1

Iterate that about a half dozen times.
It's difficult for people like you specifically because of the H1B flooding.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h-...

"Many of the visas are given out through a lottery, and a small number of giant global outsourcing companies had flooded the system with applications, significantly increasing their chances of success. While he had one application in last year’s lottery and lost, one of the outsourcing companies applied for at least 14,000."

A quick fix would be to award H1B based on salary instead of lottery.
Can you install this without opening up your Chromebook and flashing new firmware? Last time I looked into running anything but ChromeOS it seems you have to desolder a hardware write protection.

And if this works without that, do other non-google OSes work as well? My device is a Asus C300 without the SeaBIOS legacy emulation or anything like that.
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> I'm guessing you think the geeks were too sadistic to pass up the opportunity, eh?

No, it just seems weird, that's all. I don't see how either interpretation would benefit HP.
It seems like you should update self-hostable for Parse. They did such a good job that one of our guys in Developer Relations put up https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s... with instructions in just a few hours (mostly writing it up).
"Less stuff to carry around."

You're still going to have to carry around a keyboard, mouse, cables, and probably a screen. It's going to be far, far easier to do that with a laptop/surface, or even a tablet, than with their setup.

"I mean why bother having a desktop or laptop if you can use your personal device, plug it into different things and get the full experience as if you had a laptop or desktop?"

A desktop is going to have more power, a laptop is going to have a form factor that's much more convenient to carry around, and more battery.
Quote: "... an ambitious program aiming to replace a long history of blunt trial-and-error treatment with what amounts to a training regiment [sic] for the body’s own immune system."

Please -- it's regimen, not regiment. One is a course of medical treatment, the other is a military unit.

I'm beginning to see this coinage more often, alongside the ever-popular reign where the writer means rein, as in reign (what a monarch does to a kingdom) instead of rein (what a cowboy does to a horse).

What happened to editing? While we're on the subject, what happened to literacy? I expect to walk into a bookstore and see a poster: "Buy 'The Tragedy of Illiteracy', now available as an audiobook."
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Free market? Last I heard the money supply was decided by a few people in New York.
No. Actually nuikta can take your core "as-is". It doesn't need any work of your part at all. And it embeds dependancies as well, without any change needed for them either. That's the game changer : take your Python program, call nuikta, get a standalone exe.
Thank you for doing this - it makes Chromebooks seem much more appealing as a hardware platform.

Do I understand correctly that this removes the need to hold down a special key combination every time you boot?
Whatever plans Parse developers had for new features are now canceled, as developers need to stop, choose another Mobile Back End as a Service (MBaaS), and start recoding. On the heels of this announcement, development teams everywhere are discussing alternatives today.

For sure Facebook's huge community of platform app developers and contributors to its many open source projects will be watching how the Parse shutdown is managed.
I have written code full-time for the past 7 years and been an engineer for the past 13, but have never maintained a "production app". There are large numbers of software engineers operating in fields where there is no such concept.
Yeah, I'm not sure how the folks in charge expect those being fired to do anything but the absolute bare minimum required by their contract.
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Same here but I don't care all deps HAVE TO be in the repo, period.

In fact I go further than that, anything that a project depends on HAVE TO be "saved" somehow somewhere: use a special commercial tool ? save it, use some particular OS ? save the ISO, need a particular version of a compiler / SDK ? have an installer ready, etc.

But nowadays it seems dev program temporary stuff meant to last just few months.
Thanks for the tips. I noticed Cordova already, but will consider it more closely.
> In Canada, you get sued if you call yourself an engineer when you're not part of an order of engineers.

Ehhhh. If you try to stamp and sign structural engineering documents as an engineer, and then a bridge collapses, you're open to litigation. I don't think anyone has been (successfully?) sued for declaring themeselves as Software Engineers in Canada. There are no damages.

Interestingly, you can call yourself an "SE," and its fine (according the professional engineering associations), but companies in YVR actively recruit "software engineers" (e.g. Electronic Arts)
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Great work on Starward Rogue, team Now you’re all laid off…?
There are many startups which exist to replace specific excel-oriented workflows. It's much easier to build and sell a full-featured, vertically-targeted app than to build and sell a better Excel.

I've seen this for CRM, accounting, liquidity, ad-purchasing, security vulnerability data. People were thrilled to be rid of Excel and use something that took development out of their hands. The software ends up being more useful, too, when a dedicated team is building a tested, version-controlled application for hundreds of customers.
At hearing the news yesterday, one of our folks in our Developer Programs group that works on Node put this together. More than anything, I think this speaks to how graceful of a shutdown this was by the guys at Parse.
"When people stop taking public transportation because it's fundamentally broken (ps - it's awful in SF) then it will force government organizations to re-think their planning."

The opposite, I think. I recently started taking public transportation MORE often, because traffic on the freeways has gotten so bad.
Here are the links, to save you from the digging:

- https://www.cesanta.com/developer/smartjs#_http
- https://www.cesanta.com/developer/smartjs#_websocket

MQTT API is on it's way, it's already implemented by the underlying networking library (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose)
> I wasn't saying it was lower.

Sorry, I didn't mean to refer to you; I should have been more clear. I was referring to NASA's or anyone's estimates for the shuttle.
My gf's first smartphone was a Lumia and it was terrible ... especially in comparison to my Android-power-user-setup. No way .. the UX of WP is utterly terrible - utterly. She's so happy now with an Android.
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Be careful when asking people sensitive questions in places without free speech. Peoples public vs. private descriptions of what's going on is often significantly different.
True of rent, for sure. The rest is fairly stable.
Don't be sad. It's not over. The article is a bit dramatic. But I think Microsoft really needs to change the project lead.
The problem for Net Neutrality advocates is that T-Mobile's customers don't care one bit. They love the fact that they don't have to pay for streaming video and that they pay less for video on non-supported services. It is even causing customers of other carriers to ask their carriers to not be net neutral so that they can save money. This is one case where net neutrality is not anti-consumer or anti-competitive and it is hurting the net neutrality case to make such a big deal about it.
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I think perhaps the writer is using some cognitive dissonance to unfairly dismiss the market leaders as being "shitty". Any time I have used OpenTable (as a user) it has been a really great experience. It does exactly what you expect it to do, and it's always a very smooth experience.

OpenTable has been around since 1998, so I imagine they are the market leader because they were the first to market and their product works well. You can never please everyone, but just because a product doesn't have your pet feature doesn't mean it is "shitty".
US is very lax with words, in general.
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Besides that, the parts will be stressed with a lot of force. I doubt whether plastics are strong enough. Look at it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRgdaknJCg (at about 2:30 it is just computational art :)
>So, countering this risk is apparently a manual thing if one uses off-the-shelf tooling for Git.

Not so much off-the-shelf tooling for Git, its more off-the-shelf tooling for Node/Ruby/Go/Rust/PHP.

Nothing about Node's npm really requires it to depend on a single GitHub, in fact I think you can use any Git repo. Its just that most tend to use a single Git repo, and there is no way to configure mirrors.
Who cares? If you're not part of the scene there, why does it matter to you? If those people weren't in "silly" startups, they'd probably end up in silly corporate roles. Or even worse, they'd be unemployed and be another strain on the current system.

There are a lot of ideas you may find silly but others find interesting enough to spend their working hours to make a success. If you only focus on finances, tons of them will fail. If you look at the experience they'll have doing it, I'm sure some of them will find it was a success.

I've worked at a couple startups and I've worked at some big corporations. There are bad coders everywhere. There are bad ideas everywhere. There are also a lot of jealous people who apparently get bent out of shape because people who are not the best engineer ever are making more money than them and getting to take time off arbitrarily.

Instead of focusing on how much you think their startup is stupid, or how they shouldn't get time off because they're not as good as you (based on who knows what), why not just focus on what you have, what you do, and what you like? Stop living against them and live for yourself.
"90% of the websites you read could not exist without the ecosystem that appnexus is a big player in."

That's ok. The internet would be better off without most junk websites, and the ones I like, I'm willing to pay for.
Competing services can apply to be included in the program based on technical specifications (limit your bitrate, clearly identify the traffic as video).
StitchFix started as an Excel sheet. https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/2rjqt2/stitch_fix...
So would you say that your description and expectation of how people use Word matches Microsoft's marketing materials for it?
Ahh, you're going for that anti-advertising market, that's a good market! Very smart. A lot of people are anti-advertising right now - it's a huge market.
Ok, as a perennial voice for free markets I agree with your observations, but not your point. Having lived through it I see the damage it is doing to individuals who will take years to recover.

Too many engineers today, perhaps like sports players, take a big salary, project it across 30 years and then say "Wow I've got millions headed my way, do I really need to bag my lunch?"

I've watched as they became both broke and depressed as the wave that was supporting those salaries and the technology that was supporting their employment have broken (as they always do) and they are suddenly "too old and too out of date."

Like the guy who was making $200K/year as a SOAP architect for some package that managed really expensive enterprise server and storage gear. When the wave passed and people moved to cheap white box servers in abundance using things like Docker or Chef to run and manage them, this guy walked into a world at 45 years of age with zero applicable experience to your distributed server cluster based company. And he is slowly burning what savings he had because the only entry level programmer job he could get is paying him $85K and his take home pay doesn't completely cover his burn rate (he optimistically expects to be promoted to a high paying job as soon as they see what he can do.)

If you are living the high life as an in demand engineer please don't be that guy. Start planning to provide funds for your kids education, or if you're not having kids ever then a fund to pay someone else's kids to take care of you when you're too old to work. Cut out recurring expenses in your life where ever you can and put excess money into savings or investment vehicles so that it can start working for you by earning more money. Understand that life is change until you die. Anticipate change to avoid having change drive your decisions.
Given that we are discussing it in the comments of the app who just misappropriated the algorithm, I unfortunately have to refuse your request for the moment, sorry. We love open research and open source but there is always some risk involved.
I agree, things are probably too good to be true right now. I really don't think it's fair to blame engineers though. My only advice to people working in this industry is to save your money -- be sure to be keeping your money in an emergency fund of some kind incase something happens. That's my best practical advice.
I have Ubuntu on my Acer C720 and it boots straight into it without any key combination - the Arch Wiki is where I found how to do that
Looks neat. It's a bummer that it's Mac-only
>I think, frankly, that many startups need a website with a google form + some excel sheets to get started and if the thing takes off they can hire someone who can use google to bang on stackoverflow.

I agree, but this is mostly true because there's so much low-hanging fruit out there. If you look at the current successful startups like Uber and Airbnb, they're really trivial applications. That doesn't mean they can't create huge amounts of value by "trivially" repackaging services and connecting people.

Once the low-hanging fruit is developed during the next 10 years or so we can finally start focusing on actual high-tech engineering startups.
> The argument about "if nobody rents out" is just wrong. Are they going to knock the place down if they don't rent?

They will construct a building that earns them money. So all those people who rented the apartments are now homeless and their former homes are now an office complex, a parking garage, or a CVS.

Net result: land owner makes money (still), but now people are homeless.

> this should be within a world where we have land value tax

We live in a country where property taxes exist. These people (usually) pay them and it's not cheap. In fact, high property taxes fuel higher property values in the US.

Also interesting, property taxes are also a form of rent. They are often used by the local governments to force people off of their land. This is usually the first step to gentrifying a neighborhood. Rising property taxes cause property values to rise, creating a property tax feedback loop that forces people from their homes. This exact thing happened in my home town where property taxes doubled, then housing values went from $40k to $120k in like five years, effectively increasing taxes 6-fold in the neighborhood.

> Yes they are horrible and yes they are exploiting people

People need food, clothing and shelter. Companies sell food and clothing and I'm sure you think that's okay, but a company selling shelter is exploitation?

You are telling me that I'm being exploited because I live in a rental property. I just don't see it. I gain more value from my place than I lose in rental fees. Being able to move cheaply and quickly has earned me tens of thousands of dollars in extra wages and saved me tens of thousands in real estate transaction fees and maintenance.

Plus, I get to sleep indoors.

> The USA was originally a land of opportunity. Why? Because you could get hold of land cheap.

There's cheap land all over the US. Throughout most of the midwest, you can buy acres and acres of productive, high quality land for <$10k acre. You won't have neighbors for miles and you'll have to construct your own roads, but it's out there and abundant, just like it was in the 19th century.
Depends upon sig figs and other statistical calculations. I was kinda expecting to see some statistics that showed that the 95% confidence interval had a minimum of 0 within it, which would have made far more sense to claim 'statistically 0 black women have received funding'.
It has been available on Mac OS since 1989 and there is a browser-based version that is freely usable with a Microsoft account. I think you should check your facts.
That's what I did in early summer of 2008. I moved away from Mountain View because everything felt over-priced and unsustainable. So I voted with my feet. Hello from Chicago. :-)
Thank you very much! As these are recent changes which we haven't tested live, your comments are very useful and we are actually implementing them now.
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I assume you're talking about these paragraphs:

> Leo Perrero, an IT worker at Disney who was laid off after training his foreign replacement, says non-disparagement agreements hinder the debate over the H-1B visa. Without such agreements, "you would have a lot more people speaking out - real human beings with real stories, not just anonymous persons speaking out," said Perrero.

> "Their freedom of speech is being taken away from them with the non-disparagement agreements," he said.

Stating a fact is probably not disparaging. (Not a lawyer; I dunno.) But that's not a debate, either. If you want to debate about it, you basically have to say that this act hurt you, which may count as disparaging or discrediting your former employer.
This is why the free market is so great.

Intractability issues of Nash equilibria aside, if that's your take on an article ostensibly about sustained market disequilibria, then I don't think you fully understand what a 'free market' is supposed to entail.
Wait, what are the problems?

"Everyone rides an Uber" is great for the Uber drivers. "People spend too much on organic produce" is great for the farmers. "Even bad engineers are in high demand" is great for the mediocre engineers.

Housing is a problem, but this post didn't mention it.

So before we start making changes, what are the problems in your opinion?

And, then, what changes are you proposing?
Me in the other hand, got tired of Android slowness, crashes, lack of updates and memory leaks, oh, and not forget the secuity flaws.
If only that were the case. Especially in the internet age, one would expect that you could work in some far off place where you can get a mansion on a huge piece of land and have a drive jusr for the amount you pay in rent in SF, yet for some reason (it's free money bubble, stupid) people, i.e., kids that drank the Tech Crunch Kool-Aid, all cram into tiny little apartments to do useless shit. Ultimately the missing element from the market is rational actors.
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Since NayuOS is still based on Chromium OS you should only need dev mode enabled to run it. It'll boot the same way that Chromium OS does. Legacy boot is only necessary for a traditional Linux distro that isn't using the Chrome OS format for kernel images.

For the record, the write protect is just a screw on Chrome OS devices and doesn't need to be desoldered.
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Your pay was based on how much value you provided plus a risk premium for working on something highly speculative that would cause you to work at 3 different places in a year and take a hit on your résumé.

You have to understand risk in order to understand that you were not overpaid.
Just so you know, jwz is not the original source of this quote, it's much older: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
Because 'economics'. Switching costs, network effects, etc...

Here's my favorite book on the subject: http://amzn.to/1JMtX0X

And yes, that's an affiliate link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982630

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_barriers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Your examples are why the market is seriously flawed here.

Why does it take so long for the market to correct and why does the market allow such huge variance from normal?

I think the answer is obvious, people get acclimated to their environment very quickly and lose the ability to see systemic problems.

Therefore it seems the market will tend towards local minimum. Similar to how evolution works. It doesn't handle gross changes without a lot of pain.