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Yes, no test is perfect but I think its better than the alternative. The best part is that its fair in the sense that the person knows what to expect. A lot of people feel disillusioned about processes that have a subjective element, so much so that they don't participate. If I were told the precise steps that all but guarantee an outcome, that person would likely find that preferable to the alternative. It would build trust into the system, even though the objective methods may be too rigid at times.

Businesses have all the incentive to create tests that measure real performance. These kinds of problems are best solved in the highly competitive market place for talent. I don't think some politician would do a better job at determining what makes a good employee and how to hire that employee.

I've read somewhere that the push for "well-rounded" candidates in colleges was pushed partly to stop the flow of very strong asian candidates displacing others. That's why schools that rely primarily on tests, like the elite Stuyvesant high school, end up with disproportionately asian students (Stuyvesant is 72% Asian). They get criticized for some reason due to the outcome of their selection method. Perhaps going to a school with predominately Asians has downsides for the student, but that's really a judgement call that should be left up to the parents. And the rationales normally used to prove racial bias for a test doesn't really hold water since the groups doing well are usually first or second generation immigrants. I think rigging the system in favor of one group is pretty bad, but rigging it just so that its harder for another group may be even worse.
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Where is this "radicalism" you're seeing in Europe? You're also talking about maybe 1 or 2 out of 30 or 40 countries, while the US is just one country.

How about you compare it to countries like Germany or Sweden or Switzerland? Countries that not only have multiple parties and proportional representation systems, but also allow their citizens to create their own laws through referendums.

There is evidence, you just never looked for it. Here is some evidence for the multiple ways in which proportional representation is better than FPTP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cTk3X85he8

The two-party system is not "stable". Look what's happening with the gridlock in Washington right now. The country is also becoming incredibly partisan and divisive, which is very toxic for democracy. Proportional systems lead to consensus and "bridge building".

http://www.fairvote.org/proportional_representation

And if we take your logical conclusion to the extreme, then a Chinese-like one-party system would be the "best" as it would be the most "stable". People need democracy. Why do you think 43% of Americans are registered as Independents now, and only 29% as Democrats and 23% as Republicans? Because they feel so represented by the two-party system?

That more than anything shows a huge systemical problem in the US in how elections are done. Almost half of the country doesn't feel represented by Democrats and Republicans, but you're saying that's ok because it's "bring stability".

Also, just two recent examples of the extreme corruption in the two parties that only happens because they know people don't have any other choice but support them (Dem base supporting Dems, and Rep base supporting Reps, and Independents being forced by the FPTP to pick one of those two):

http://www.libertynewsnow.com/gop-will-forced-change-ron-pau...

https://www.salon.com/2016/02/13/un_democratic_party_dnc_cha...

Wake up Americans, you have no real choice within the two-party system. They're playing with you and giving you the theater of "democracy" in the primaries while they keep pulling the strings for who they want to win.
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I recommend getting a sauna, definitely helps if used before bed-time. I love sleep.

I was serious. Not getting enough sleep is a precursor for many ills. A sauna will definitely help.
That's really terrible. I hope they can get their domain back soon.
Most ad servers deliver static or hello-world-style content, doing no database lookups, but logging their results.

RTB systems have about 30-100msec for the entire transaction (and that includes network to the user), so you need better control of your latency anyway.
> Sleep is really important.

This cannot be overstated enough, I think, beyond just the effects of severe sleep deprivation. It's very true in my personal experience with major depression as well.

Also good to do: eat well, get exercise, get sunlight. Minds don't exist in isolation from the body, it's all the same sack of chemicals.
Did you have tight and consistent latency requirements?

GC pauses are a killer. They can be worked around, but it takes intensive tuning.

The RTB bidder I wrote many moons ago at a startup was fast as hell, but had problems in the 95th percentile of requests meeting the latency targets, due to GC.

The ad servers at the big ad tech heavy weights are in C++.
The article says 2016, March 10, any idea why?
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I think the vague answer is 'use mixins', but they are generally unsatisfying. One hopes that using ES6 classes to define react components this way would allow proper inheritance, but the whole ES6 thing is a mess that breaks a bunch of other things (notably autobinding this). Upshot is my code remains repetitive.

Where possible you can use composability, extracting common function into a subcomponent, but this doesn't always make for neater code.
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Again I'm confused because I've not heard of bipolar disorder allowing people to go weeks without sleep.

Just a wild guess but this sounds like something more and bipolar was an effect not the cause.
Uncontrolled mania brought on by sustained stress or lack of sleep can most definitely lead to psychotic episodes that include hallucinations. Not fun.

Source: diagnosed in 1987 as a type II.
I personally found out that coding before sleep is a horrible thing for you - your mind keeps working on problems long after you close your IDE.
How much of programming is actually typing code though? I think that less than 5% of my time is actually typing, the rest is thinking.

So if you go with mob programming and have one guy doing 50% typing whilst the other guys are thinking. In theory it could be just as efficient, with the added benefit that everyone understands the system and is onboard with the design. Plus the usual benefits of pair programming: you can train juniors, many eyes to catch the bugs, etc...
I think students need to get introduced to code review and working on a code base together. Students need to review each others code.

It's not academic - but it definitely improves coding ability.
No, but why is that a problem?
Ugh no. Please don't use mixins or inheritance. Composition is the way to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
I think that Fair Use can be outscored to robots if it's done right.

Doing it right means that they should think like economists. If mass sending sending false positive DCMA requests has very small cost to the sender, it's profitable to do so and let the receiving end pay the price.

Invalid takedown request should have a cost. It could be waiting period of X days before new takedown request can be send, or it could be money needed to lift the waiting period. Google has big enough volumes that they can afford to hire few people who review cases based on statistical sampling. It should be possible to find equilibrium that minimizes the harm caused by incorrect DCMA request.
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I am oddly disappointed. I thought the article would be about more "relatable" mental problems like depression or low self-esteem, rather than a full on psychotic break. Sometimes I wonder if programmers are afflicted with the above plus anxiety more than the average. It certainly has affected me as someone who grew up nerdy and bullied, but most of my coworkers seem pretty happy.
Maybe the mental health conditions are the cause of bad sleep?
If it's a class based component (ES6), it could inherit from the other.

But you could also extract the code logic in a product module, and reuse it in both components, which can even be pure functions.
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Seems like an awful lot of trouble for 3-6% net after COGS. From that, they have to pay their employees, rents, lawyers, etc. all with the threat that on any given day there could be wild fluctuations in their revenue. Good luck to them, but let's see how long they last. Amazon, unfortunately is a zero sum game.
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One NSA whistleblower claims they do indeed do blackmail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m1XbWOfVk). He even implicates them doing it to Obama. Granted there's no accompanying top secret powerpoint so I'm sure no one will believe it.
>but the whole ES6 thing is a mess that breaks a bunch of other things (notably autobinding this).

That's trivial to fix...
> Backbone's only hard dependency is Underscore.js ( >= 1.7.0). For RESTful persistence and DOM manipulation with Backbone.View, include jQuery ( >= 1.11.0), and json2.js for older Internet Explorer support. (Mimics of the Underscore and jQuery APIs, such as Lo-Dash and Zepto, will also tend to work, with varying degrees of compatibility.)

It's not a true dependency but it's a default companion and optional dependency (see Backbone.$).

Source: http://backbonejs.org
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I think this would fall under the 'Ancient Unix' license that Caldera set up many years back: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf
(unless you want to be picky about the definition of 'version 1' here).

Edit: I'm wrong, that specifically says pdp11, so the pdp7 code isn't covered.
It's interesting to me it has to be stated at all to be honest. When I don't sleep my productivity plummets, and it's pretty easy for me to make the link. Even the difference between 7 hours and 8 hours makes a noticeable impact.

I sometimes wonder if these kind of first hand experiences are something that should be a part of the education system, such as depriving yourself of sleep and recording the results, or exercising on and off for several weeks and recording your mood, etc. I find this kind of self experimentation highly informative, and these days I can easily 'feel' the effects of drinking/smoking/dieting/exercising/etc on my well-being and mood, which in turn gives me a lot more willpower to see things through when I can logically infer the cause of bad feelings/moods and know they are temporary.
In the long run, you can

a) control the production of the good (or service)

b) control the interface to the consumer

Everything else are middlemen and will disappear. These guys' suppliers do a) and Amazon does b). These guys are simple middlemen who add no real/critical value and will be crushed by Amazon. Just a matter of time.
I think you don't understand what co-generating heat is. It's a part of generating electricity. You use that heat to heat up the next batch of water, so you end up spending less fuel turning it into steam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration
Side note on the "mystic flavor" yoga (as oppose to plain "mindfullness meditation" and "yoga for back pains") and other "eastern" spirituality things: I think there's a reason why there are so many initiation ceremonies and tasks that one was/is traditionally put to do before going-off-the-deep-end, and why ancient hindus saw being a yogi as a path for one that was of a certain age and already had a family and proved itself capable of functioning in society - to weed out anyone with preexisting mental health conditions. You even see this pattern in the story of Buddha's life - he was a socially capable young prince born in a loving family and had no frustrations and most material needs fully satisfied. And also for the zen philosophy attitude of "but don't take these things too seriously" - to prevent people from actually "drowning" in these mystical visions and loosing any contact with reality.

Overall I think that a lot of people would benefit from the occasional mystical perspective on life. It's awesome for creative problem solving! And most people have become a bit too secular and boring. But if they go on and apply the "work hard on it and take it seriously" pattern to spirituality they'll just go and OD on it.

The "westernly refined eastern spirituality" seems as close to the original thing as purified cocaine is to chewed coca leaves: very different concentrations, very different use scenarios. How can it not go wrong for the more psychology sensitive individuals among us?

People should go and read/listen some of Allan Watts' book/recordings. You can try starting with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8130_-3d3PA . He had some good ideas on how to use an occasional mystical perspective to enrich one's life, without taking it too seriously and completely loosing it. Mind it, I don't agree with most of his ideas, but they are still better than what others are selling.
Skype still around, and office is a pretty sprawling ecosystem.
If you're ready to check out Clojurescript, I strongly recommend trying out Hoplon:

https://github.com/hoplon/hoplon

It requires a certain shift in thinking when coming from pretty much any other framework. However, it avoids all of the unnecessary complexities of React by exposing the DOM elements directly as functions. The mindshare behind it might be low compared to Om or Reagent, but the people that are using it are pretty active at Clojurians slack channel #hoplon and on IRC (freenode, #hoplon). It's also FRP-based and pretty efficient. Highly recommend!
Those costs (employees, rents, lawyers, etc) are already included. You're thinking of gross margin which is indeed based just on COGS. But the number in the infographic is net margin, and therefore covers all expenses of running the business.
Yes, the second option is the best however it is the one that scales the least. As the content creator will have to use their time to find comanies interested in sponsorship and with their line of work. Time spent not creating quality content.

This is where I think tracking went wrong. Advertisers were so happy they could track users that they (kind of) forgot to track the content. I think basing ads on the page content is, in the end way more safe and beneficial to everybody.
I thought this too, I won't deny it. I suppose two counterpoints would be:

1) If you really can work days and days on end without feeling tired or feeling the need for sleep (as someone who works very, very excessive hours, I can safely say I spend most of that time yearning for my bed), in all likelihood you are going to come crashing down at some point;

2) You can definitely start hallucinating purely from lack of sleep, after "only" a couple of days, without the assistance of any hallucinogenic drugs.
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Having a partner of either sex that also suffers mental illness (perhaps more severely than you do) can exacerbate un-healthy or unhelpful ways of thinking.

I don't think the writer was placing entire blame with the partner, but actually making a good point earlier about the psychological reinforcement from being around them
This link is invalid because the DOI is incorrect. Also, this is pointing to a proxy service and not the primary publisher URL.

This article ("First online: 01 February 2014") is at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-014-9521-4 . The abstract is:

> Not so long ago, a well institutionalized predatory journal exposed itself by publishing a hoax article that blew the whistle for its devastating influence on the academic affairs of a small country. This paper puts that experiment in context, gives all the important details and analyzes the results. The experiment was inspired by well-known cases of scientific activism and is in line with recent efforts against predatory publishers. The paper presents the evidence in detail and uses it to analyze the publishing practices of the offending journal, using established criteria for assessing predatory publications. That journal somehow acquired an impact factor and charged money to publish thousands of “scientific” papers without any peer review. Since the impact factor is the major official evaluation criteria for scientists in Serbia, these papers disturbed the whole academic evaluation process. Credentials acquired by those publications form a strong obstacle to institutionalized reasoned efforts against such practices. This case warns the whole community of the long lasting damage when journals with low publishing ethics are taken seriously.

Edit: Ahh, I see. It was posted because the article's author, dragandj, commented at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185577 and pointed to sci-hub.io. For the submission URL, rfreytag then copy/pasted the visible <a> text, which HN truncates, rather than the link URL.
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In general, I think it would be most optimal if technical decisions didn't hinge on legal restrictions. GPL makes this less likely because of its absolutionist stance.
I agree your mind doesn't stop, but sometimes I solve my problems in that moment before sleep, I think because I can direct all my energy to it (even eyes are closed, so no visual processing needed).

Though the tired mind is often very keen to simply recurse over thoughts you've already had opposed to think of new ones. If you find you can't stop yourself going over the day though, then 10-15 mins of meditation, where you force yourself to concentrate on clearing your mind, can stop these thoughts so you can sleep. Do this every night for a few weeks and it becomes second nature.
Teddy Roosevelt couldn't make a third party work, and that was in a pretty lack-luster field.
There's different severities of bipolar disorder and manic episodes can worsen to the point of hallucinations and psychosis when left untreated. I've read quite a few books on bipolar and lack of sleep for many days and hallucinations are more common than many people realize. Myself included until I read books on the subject.
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No, not obvious at all. If you took the trouble to confront the points he makes instead of hand waving you might have something to contribute to this discussion.

"<<Most>> of their attacks are off-base, but there is a <<grain of truth>> in their claims. Academics who believe in the mission of higher education—teaching, research, and public service—need to defend academic freedom, but <<some>> of our colleagues have to clean up their acts, because it is difficult to defend the indefensible."
FWIW HammerFS dedup doesn't require much RAM.
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Idiomatic React code would not mix views and business logic. (You shouldn't have business logic on your React component's; that belongs in a completely different part of that app.)

As for testing, you can do testing a lot of different ways, including BDD or DDD (I'm using a fair amount of DDD in the project I'm working on). But other than being a bit easier to test than many competing techs, there's nothing special about testing React code. And no, basically no one outside of Facebook is using Jest; it's a terrible testing tool. (I don't get the feeling you've spent much time writing or learning React? At any rate you seem to have some odd ideas about testing and React.)

Aurelia is great, but I think you're vastly overestimating the differences between an idiomatic Aurelia-based project and an idiomatic React-based project, and underestimating the flexibility which React enables.
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This is the first time this is happening to me and it is really scary. I have 200$ on my bank account and 0 income. The rent is due in 2 days. Either i will pay it and starve or i won't pay it and get kicked out. I have no idea what to do. I am a student in Germany.
Willoughby Britton has a good talk about treating psychotic breaks caused by meditation:

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2011/09/bg-231-the-dark-side-of...
> half of the problems

citation needed

> native code stuff

That is inaccurate. But if you said that it comes from C memory management issues, that sounds more plausible. We could talk about Rust, but I even think that C++ is usually written in a much safer style than C.
Why does the line "add_numbers 3 4 = 7" qualify as part of the interface for the haskell function, while the interface part for c/python is taken to include only the name/arity/type-signature of the function?
well he's fat and ugly. i'd go crazy too. try getting a girlfriend.
It must be due to the fact it is not the original hardware with the same controllers, etc. That's one thing that goes against the nostalgia feeling (other than bad games).

For example, when I see an original arcade machine (of an excellent game), I cannot not play it.
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When I was in school in the 70's, I was hit and canned by teachers, was socially acceptable then, of course knocking unconscious is going a bit too far.
I don't think he molested his pupils, more a reflection of his intensity about learning and frustration with students who didn't share this, many of his pupils loved him and performed exceptionally well under his tutelage.
Other than being C and not C++, how does it compare to CppCMS (not a CMS)? http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main
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A very amusing and at the same time horrifying read.
If you upgrade every house from copper wire that can pull 10 mb/s down to gigabit fiber, all of your backbone network needs to get boosted. That's not cheap.
Because culture does matter, even in tech.

Consider a company where social inclusion is important. That'd be a terrible culture fit for me. When debating a technical choice, I'll say "do we all agree to run X experiment, outcome Y => choice A, outcome Z => choice B? Then we can all STFU and stop arguing." In the happy/social/fun environment, this is terrible. The promoters of B might feel unhappy, harming team cohesion, and that could be more important than 10% lower latency.

On the flip side, consider the confrontational "put up or shut up" environment I tend to prefer (and create). In this environment, "you suck at SQL" is just a factual statement that you can choose to remedy or not. Some folks really don't like being told "experiment failed, your idea is wrong, be smarter next time". Even if they are technically competent, they need a form of social interaction at work that they don't get.

There are a variety of cultural dimensions like this that matter. Another is implicit vs explicit - whether you can navigate implicit job responsibilities or they need to be spelled out. Much as we'd like to act like we are just machines taking money as input and code as outputs, this stuff does matter.
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Please, go back and read the Snowden revelations. It seems you are not aware of the fact that the NSA has been collecting data on everyone for years. Dig deeper.
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I thing it's awesome instead. Just today the solution of a problem I was trying to solve for days came to me in a dream, in pseudocode.