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Poor Delphi? More likely to be the other way around - rich Delphi, and rich Delphi users, due to the speed and productivity it gives. Not to mention rich (original) Delphi developer, Anders, see previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543

If Delphi is poor, I'd like to be Delphi :)

How many people have and use Maseratis and Porsche's vs. run-of-the-mill sedans?
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As usual with acquisitions, they have stripped any information about what their product actually is (was?) from their site.
Fox News is considered main stream and I wouldn't exactly call it real news.
The reason why enrollment is so high is because of the shortage Or because they hear politicians on TV without the slightest clue telling people there is a shortage. Or because they enjoy building things. Not so black and white, is it?
No. That's the answer if your goal is to spend a bunch of time helping some random dude who just insulted you. And that's only your goal if you 1) are extremely charitable and 2) have the time to burn.

The article's point is that, while the author does technically have the time, he has places he'd rather spend it than on some random internet dude who just insulted him.
>every H1-B is taking a job from a US citizen

There is no evidence to support this assertion.
Did anyone here work under him at Apple? I'm curious whether it was the same situation back then, or was better balanced by the rest of the management team, or if this is new thing.
Chrysler too.
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Go to /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and delete what you don't want to run at launch. (At your own risk of course.)
wow, thank you. Will shoot you an email if I happen to be in Germany!
How about being able to assign a value to certain attributes, and then recommend the highest "scoring" doctors?

For instance, accepting my insurance is incredibly important (100 points), being the same gender as me is a somewhat important (25 points), having a doctor under 45 is important to me (35 points), speaking a language other than English isn't important at all (0 points), etc, etc.

I am effectively applying this sort of algorithm now when choosing a doctor, but it would be nice to have it explicit and faster than looking up all the information on each doctors page.
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If you're willing to pay someone to take a test for you, you are probably also willing to pay for a fake ID for them. Or you could find someone who looks close enough to you and hope that no one looks too closely.
I personally gravitate towards odd ducks like Alan, so I might have struck up a weekly email correspondence, if only to gain a sense for what makes him tick. I would have challenged him on a few points of his Shakespearean criticism and humored him so he didn't have to feel so lonely.

After some back and forth on that I would have started asking him more about his life. I'd gently guide him towards courses of action that would naturally guide towards better health and success, like exercising, talking to real people, anything but whatever it is he does for 100+ hours every week.

I'd keep it to 30 minutes a week to put a cap on it so he doesn't start running my life. But you'd be amazed at what you can do for someone just with that small amount of time.
> Unless there is another language that beats Python in terms of simplicity of toolchain, deployment and syntax

Actually those 3 things are much simpler in Go.
The wreck was a 16th-century warship, not a Norse ship from the Viking era.
The highest-voted comments are all critical of the article and/or supportive of the H1B program?

Hmmm.
No, it's the opposite. The Go compiler generates medium quality code but compiles fast.
Meanwhile they buy a house and charge you the next 700 car payments in rent every month.
To all those badmouthing Palantir. I think they are just a hogwash. They are just pretending to be something that Fox Maulder would investigate I dont think they are. They are just helping the government spend more money on problems that are not worth solving and create new problems for citizens.

The place is likely to be very shitty to work for but by suggesting that they might be doing something that is James Bond equivalent in software world might make it sound too cool for some developers.
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I'd also point out that Jobs was know to have become less of an asshole by the time he returned to Apple. Some people think it was reconnecting to his family that helped but who knows.

You can demand greatness without being an asshole.

You can tell someone the work they did isn't good enough without being an asshole.

You can also truthfully review someone's bad code without being an asshole, for what it's worth.

Being an asshole != "telling it like it is" though most people confuse the two.
Not a good fit. Too imperative/oo to fit into Erlang's functional world.

A subset may be.
Feel terrible reading this. Is rest of the Alphabet upper management completely oblivious to what is happening inside Nest? Don't they care? Isn't leadership about doing the right thing. If people are getting abused, Alphabet/Google better do something about it. I thought Alphabet took pride in the kind of leadership traits they support and want their leaders to embody. I am pretty sure a ton of current/ex-Googlers will be shell-shocked to hear stories like these. I think Nest employees should simply join core Google teams(search/ads/apps/chrome/new efforts) and put an end to their personal abuse.

Larry and the rest of the leadership should really look into how Nest is run internally and fix things. This cannot be the norm and status-quo. This is anti-thesis to being Googley, and I personally know a ton of current and Ex Googlers who will be ashamed and hurt to hear this kind of abuse at Alphabet/Google. I am sorry you had to endure this. I am happy you are in a much better place. I am happy for your family now.

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>"Fuck being Googley" (direct quote).

I'd probably get fired for bursting out laughing.
This only makes sense if you believe all Homebrew packages are written in JavaScript... which they aren't. Also I've been using Homebrew for about 4x as long as NPM and I have about 1/10th of the issues, so I'll just stick to the package manager that works.
Wow thx for the reminder, I have forgotten about it already. I remember the promise of Truffle + Graal + Substrate VM.

My god can't believe it was 3 years ago i read about it on HN.
It's almost as if the tech industry was seeded early on with a reflexive, self-destructive libertarianism that prevents them from thinking of themselves as part of a group. If you were trying to inoculate an entire industry from unionizing early on, you couldn't have done a better job.
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I'm curious where the HN crowd in particular would want to live if cost or job opportunities were no obstacle. You wouldn't have to live there forever — just a few years perhaps. My top 3: Singapore, San Francisco, and Lyon, France.
Are you kidding? This is absolutely part of the story. I'm very happy to know who it was.
That sounds interesting. Out of curiosity, what sites do you use to gather info on docs?
Europe, actually, just like you :)
The startup chat is very good http://thestartupchat.com

Megamaker by justin jackson is a new one that is interesting http://megamaker.co

Zen founder is a third one i love listening to http://zenfounder.com
It's ironic that social justice warriors have driven one of the most progressive celebrities off Twitter.
"You just need a certain level of knowledge (e.g., linear algebra) already and not every paper can include a full introduction into representation theory."

Then why is paper still the overwhelmingly preferred medium?

Using hypertext it would be trivial to link to an external source describing the specific concept used from linear algebra.

Not providing supporting links is only good for an audience that holds the entirety of mathematical knowledge in their heads (ie mathematicians in academia).

The rest of the world, incl those who have since moved on like the author, don't fit into that category.

Therefore, the work can only be accurately read and understood by the tiny minority of specialists capable of decoding the intent of the work.

Limited reach = limited value to society.

Is the intent of a PHD really to advance the field of mathematics? Or is it just another 'measuring stick' for individuals to prove to others how 'smart' they are?
That's surprising, as they're known for being incredibly shady and have a pretty bad rep. They might pay a lot, but it's because it's less desirable to work for the Evil Empire.
There is the problem that our ability to recognize and differentiate faces is quite lazy. It basically uses the simplest set of characteristics it can get by with. This creates a problem when someone interacts with very few people sharing some give phenotypes as their heuristic is far less likely to pick up on differences between the generic phenotype. Basically, the less familiar you are with members of a certain group, the more those members look alike.

Basically, the stereotype that all <insert group> look alike does happen, NOT because they do look alike, but because to someone who does not know members of that group, their facial recognition system (mental schema) are not developed enough to tell people apart.

Think of it like if you trained a neural network to do facial identification by only giving it white people. Compared to a near identical network where the only difference was that it was trained on a cross section of all of earth's people, which would you expect to do a better job?
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> However, this fails Karl Popper's criteria, don't tolerate the intolerant.

It's worth pointing out what he meant by ‘intolerant’:

| they are not prepared to meet us on the level
| of rational argument, but begin by denouncing
| all argument; they may forbid their followers
| to listen to rational argument, because it is
| deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments
| by the use of their fists or pistols.

‘Intolerance’ here does not mean holding disagreeable opinions; it means intending to suppress rational argument. This is not a call to shout down opponents by calling them ‘intolerant’; it's a call to stop people shouting down opponents.
Interesting that FP started from as long back as the time of John Backus (of Backus-Naur fame):

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

Not taking any sides in this beef, though, just an interested bystander.
Maybe because there is more to creating a usable interface that can have multiple points of operation from a user perspective than the underlying data storage or API interfaces. Developers that concentrate heavily on backend data interfaces think their worlds are so important and have spent so much time looking down on the front end that now, when better front ends are demanded, they fall apart trying to create them... The same does happen in reverse, designers tend to want certain types of interfaces and workflows that are simply hard to manage in any practical way.

The difference is that now, more people on both sides of the spectrum are starting to gain insight into the rest, and starting to realize that good "full stack" development is hard. There are also nearly infinite options, and even more opinions.
Before seeing a doc, how do you figure out "Are they not terrible at their job" and "Are they remotely personable"?
More expressive than a less imaginative subset of C. More expressive than assembler. Much less expressive than any decent high-level language.

Javascript is low level, primitive and clumsy. There is absolutely no excuse for it being so crappy.

If you still think it is "expressive", you never seen an expressive language.
Why couldn't online news operate like HN, people submit and the news get's upvoted?

Here's an example of member written and submitted news.

http://www.opednews.com/

Woa !! Google search for member submitted news comes up with 246 million results !!

http://bit.ly/1WnYOBW

Disclaimer: I have no idea of the quality of any of these member submitted news pages. They could all be wack jobs. Opednews does have some good writers.
> it won't go public since that would make running their business "very difficult" (hm, because you're doing reprehensible work perhaps?)

Well, more generally, anyone who has a nonstandard set of ethical beliefs, and is basing their company around that set of beliefs, can't really go public without their belief-set being thrown under the bus of their shareholders' belief-set.

For example, I've often considered starting a company in the game industry that actually hires experienced adults and treats them well, rather than hiring fresh college students and burning them out. I imagine, though, that if my hypothetical company became publicly-traded, I'd be forced to relinquish this policy in the name of short-sighted market competitiveness.
only other option is close all immigration except family based immigration down.
I have invested time and energy but not money. (I don't have that kind of money)

IMO, being a mother is a bonus but no, I don't think that they should take it into account. I think that they should look at the idea and ability to execute.

I think that all the data shows that women led companies are more successful, so if they do take it into account it would only be to the benefit of the mother.
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but it messes up you position in green card queue in many cases.
The other possibility is fields which would have attracted bright people are no longer looking as green. Like, for example, law.
I'll be on Codfish Island volunteering in about a month. Looking forward to do my part to help this amazing parrot.
What would you consider a "high quality" engineer?
... if?
On one hand, Palantir have (at best) questionable connections and I wouldn't be a rush to work for them. On the other, with the level of pay/benefits they provide, I'm not surprised they can find people without similar qualms (or people who overlook or aren't aware of them).

I won't share specifics (as they aren't mine to share), but I have a friend working for Palantir overseas. Once essential benefits (e.g. accommodation) are factored in, his salary is north of six figures (GBP). For someone only a few years past university, I imagine that sort of offer is difficult to refuse.
The distinction isn't as big as proponents like to make it seem.

FastCGI still acts like CGI, the app has to boot itself up every page -- just not the process handling the request (the interpreter, etc.) Thus opcode caches to be able to skip compiler steps.

If Wordpress or Drupal, for instance, could boot up to the point just before they start doing anything dependent on values pulled from the request, then prefork and wait for incoming requests in that warm ready state, that would be more on par with modern application runtimes.
Secretly and relentlessly put googly eyes on everything he owns.
I just added the warning.. and found several bugs in my mu code. Thanks! I've credited you in this commit: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/commit/8fd27372b6
>Abandon the puritan work ethic and its liberal forms such as the labor theory of value.

Even if we abandon it in the financial sense, there is it's currently unnamed cousin that applies to more personal human interactions that might not be left behind (unless we get androids that are able to meet all human needs, including those related to socialization and touch).
Considering there are now 1Billion Active iOS devices, that 5% saving is huge!

I wonder if this will make in time for iOS10.
Luckily, Twitter is a private company and does not have to offer a platform for anyone to say anything. They are free to limit speech as they see fit. That includes people from the so-called SJW community. Its not even PC vs non-PC, because that itself assumes there is an obvious 'correctness' in the language one must use. The whole "that's offensive/that's X-ist" crowd is annoying as hell.
Apart from we are 100% focused on looking out for the renters. We do not make money from agents or landlords therefore are here to innovate for the renters. So of the key product feature are...
- Renters helping renters to provide real time property availability via sharing data in the app.
- Booking and schedule viewings via the app.
- Rating agents/properties to help other renters get better experience.
- Shortly you will be able to rent the property via the app.
Oh i hear you. That makes sense. I wanted all of them to do incremental compilation or interactive development for build then AOT for deploy. We're on same page there.
<sarcastic_mode> Oh yes, please, more AOL !! </sarcastic_mode> I used to look forward to what I called the AOL blank floppy of the month (after I formatted them).
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If you're thinking along these lines, you'll enjoy reading this post[1] by Venkatesh Rao. Stephen Fry leaving is the exact scenario of "evaporative cooling" expressed there, and you are exactly describing the process of "warrenization" that is required for large-scale online communities to survive and thrive. Obviously Twitter has failed in including these insights into their social architecture, to their detriment[2].

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/12/07/socratic-fishing-in-lak...
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/trying-to-fly-with-broken-w...
They have one of the worst work/balances in the valley, fratty/kool aid culture, claim to be "making a difference" but really what they actually work on would be a major downside for most normal people. For example, they make targeting software and are very likely responsible for assassinations by the US and when we disappear people. They're also working on big brother tech if that's your thing.
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You just mentioned something very important: minimizing dependencies. Open source frameworks are sold as a way to minimize development complexity, but they add the big pain of depending on external packages that frequently change without notice. If you develop you own code, at least you know what and how things changed.
I'd go so far as to say that attacking someone else's tribe and poison their territory is one of the stronger ways to signal tribal membership.
Nest always sounded weird me. How can it predict my schedule? Some days I work from home, or take the day off, and so on those days need heat; some days I come home early, or leave late. All of those instances happen constantly, but they aren't predictable. Who really has a schedule that is predictable enough that a thermostat can learn and predict it?
There's tons of crap in real reservoirs. But we filter and chlorinate.
Well, it simply makes people favour capital gain/growth over other sources of income.

So, for example, CEO's would prefer their compensation in stocks rather than getting a salary.

It contributes to skew in terms of buying property or capital that'll "appreciate" or get speculated on. Rather than investing in creating a business that'll pay dividends.

Most investment these days is speculation, or the expectation of "increase" in the capital value of the investment. Dividends are practically non-existent, and are a tiny fraction of the "return" you get simple from increased capital value. This, I would argue, gives companies/organizations/corporations the wrong signal. It tells them to optimize for "capital growth" of the stock, because that's what investors want/expect. So that means pumping profits back into the company itself (which requires reducing dividends to token amounts) and aiming for "growth".

To be honest, it'd be difficult to quantify exactly how much the different tax-rates skew the markets. And you have to take it along with the rest of the market distortions. E.g. Retirement annuity tax benefits, or property-ownership tax benefits.
This is just an acquihire.
Wikipedia already curates links to some extent on every page under "External Links". So there is a seed there.

And even the page text is not immune from the problem you describe. Grading and prioritizing sources is a fundamental part of producing a "reasonably neutral version of the truth." It's what determines what gets cited and how prominently it influences the article.

So while I wouldn't equate text and links in terms of the difficulty of managing POV-neutrality, I would say they sit on a spectrum.
I went back and looked through the conversation. The entirety of the discussion only makes him look worse.

It starts by me asking if they have invested in any women, him saying No and then I say "Isn't that weird" and then the screenshots start.

Then we continue to chat and it turns into an argument.
In my experience, your point 1 is quite true, but not totally. I have seen that VC's are very open to companies which will eventually die without funding. But in that case, they are most interested in an elite team (this need not be previous experience - just some metric which makes you 'top 10' - whatever you define and justify that to be). So its either; make it sound like you have an elite team, or not need the money. or...

One of the best things I have seen to convince investors, assuming this is your first raise or seed round, is showing them 'interviews' with customers or potential customers - we have made that a central theme at Rinocloud - to do as much 20 minute Skype calls with current and potentials users - showing these to investors has been a massive success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_universals
We, as programmers, are called in to solve the "complex use-cases." So we tend to divide the world into "things that need a novel program written for them" and "trivial problems."

You know what else has a visual interface? Excel. It works great! For "trivial problems." It gets stretched all the time into places where programming would have been faster, but for the "trivial problems", just being able to have a domain-expert non-programmer use Excel to implement the solution directly, is a lot faster and simpler than calling in a programmer and attempting to fully specify the problem to them.
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> every H1-B is taking a job from a US citizen

Do US Citizens deserve a job more than a non-citizen? Get off your high horse and see you are no more different than other people around the world!
From the article: "The Chinese are currently transferring money out of the country at a rate of around four hundred and fifty billion dollars a year. Most of that money has gone into real estate." It's not just looking for an economic safe haven. There's fear of having too much money in China. As the article points out, within a few years of appearing on Forbes' list of the richest people in China, the Government of China tends to do something negative to those people.

Much of the buying is in a small number of places: London, New York, San Francisco. The impact there is huge.

The US built 965,700 housing units (this includes apartment units) in 2015.