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If my manager read English (language book) I would'n try to explain why Git and unit tests are needed and how good it would be if we sell the app to foreign companies.

The second book would be Turkish. so that he wouldn.t wrte like ths in his Emails
I think it should be parsed as 'historic values of the "numbers every programmer should know (the current values of)"'.

It's interesting to see the development, maybe it helps to understand past decisions, but outside the current set nothing to memorize.
Can you expand on this at all?
It's interesting that you point that out; Since the Sedition Act was passed by a Federalist dominated party it only further supports my premise of the U.S. Constitution having a purpose not a meaning for interpretation, which is what the Federalists were doing. . .they wanted to expand the Federal Government (Nationalize), Central Banking System and relationships with the British Monarchy (empire) for which was the complete antithesis of the purpose for the constitution. We are getting into the follies of going against the constitution *past and present (as Thomas Jefferson always argued); we are digging deep; and that is good.
Now, why is the U.S.A a Democratic Republic and not a Democracy? Why is the power to coin money a job exclusive to the Federal Government? (article 1 section 8) (as opposed to the FIAT system of today? I ask you
>> logic doesn't scale

You have to try and remember that our current computer circuits are (boolean) logic, implemented in hardware.

In fact, there's a very good reason why that is so. Turing, and the logicians of Russle's and Goedel's generation before him, conceived of computers as logic machines that reasoned like humans. In Turing's time, computers with logic circuits were even proposed as artificial intelligence. And you know what? For their time, they certainly were.

Yet, somehow, a couple of generations later we're ready to do without logic. Except, that's what our computers run on. But who knows, maybe quantum computers will run not on logic circuits but on hardware neural net implementations.

It will take petabytes to train a "helo world" program and you'll have to wait for a couple of hours for it to learn, but it will be worth the pain, just to get rid of that blasted old logic that "doesn't scale".
"you can still take other modes of transportation without a passport" - for now. Just the nose of the camel here...
Ask HN: How to create VCS-friendly resumes?
I have to get my resume ready in few days. I was lurking around for some VCS friendly tools and found HackMyResume and JsonResume. I like the JSON way of making a resume but the themes available discarded some fields that I want to be visible. I am no good in CSS so I don't want to edit the themes.
So what other options are available for me ?
Seems counterintuitive to tax something that you are subsidizing.

Start by getting rid of the subsidies and that will naturally raise the price. Effectively it is the same thing but it is fairer and less administrative hassle for the government.
A long post from a startup CEO on the edge of existence
The two most striking points to me were a company where the employer can call the employee an asshole in front of HR. And a company where one employee hugs other employees, including those who just fired him.
It sounds like a very difficult place to set or maintain boundaries.
Yes, because even though the founders are "successful" you won't see any money beyond your salary.

It underlines the fact that as soon as you take VC funding, you're effectively working for someone else - even if you're the CEO.
Yeah, I will probably make it possible to choose the list of services instead of singling out Tor specifically. I have heard from some users who only want to run Shadowsocks, for example. The diversity of services really helps keep things flowing in restrictive environments. Not everyone falls into that category though.

Good news! Your Ubuntu dreams are already a reality. The playbooks are currently designed for Ubuntu 14.04. I was using Debian 7 at launch (which might be what you saw previously) but I switched the base distribution late last year. Ubuntu 16.04 is the frontrunner for the next upgrade. The playbooks and roles are complicated enough that it's not terribly practical to target multiple distros, especially given the wide support that Ubuntu enjoys.
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this effectively privatises our schools and means that the local education authority has no oversight - as far as i am concerned that's bloody insane. being "beholden" to local authorities means we can see how finances are being spent and have public accountability. you will not get that when there's no obligation of the provider to do so.

if it were some product falling through that cracks, who the hell would care, but that's some kids future.
CryEngine V: Crytek Launches New Video Game Development Engine
Go does seem to have the best bindings of the platforms I listed, but the reason I put Go on the list is that go-qml hasn't been a commit to the repository in over a year, the mailing list traffic has significantly decreased, and seems to support rather old versions of Qt(though this may be wrong, the docs should be update or made more clear that it means the older version and later).
It was all good until this bit:

"In addition, Pepper plugins (PPAPI), such as Flash, are now supported."

Ugh. :(
Synchronize JavaScript variables between Node.js and clients
Actually, we've made some explicit choices along the way to avoid this cruft.

For example, we haven't introduced different "generations" of machine types, and instead have stuck with "n1-standard-1" even across different architectures (we then document which underlying processor architectures are available on a zone-by-zone basis at https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/zones#available for people that care).

Similarly, instead of introducing "Local SSD instances", we let you attach Local SSD partitions to any VM arbitrarily. And Preemptible VMs are just a boolean option on any VM.

So you don't see a machine-type matrix explosion on GCE, and that's on purpose.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
Actually, there's often no cost at all to allocating a zeroed buffer. FreeBSD zeroes out free memory in its idle time and uses that for calloc(). Linux hands out a pointer to a shared read-only page of zero memory and then gives you "real" memory when you write to it. I suspect NT does something like Linux, but I don't think its precise [mc]alloc() implementation is documented.
Indeed. The curvature of my humor might have been too subtle. Easily mistakable for a troll. Luckily I'm often too late to threads--as you can see--to be subject to getting mobbed with down votes ;-)
It might be. Most of the time, however, it is just a single person getting a longer quote.
And yet it is illegal to require government issued identification to vote...
Who says they didn't perform the kind of cost/benefit analysis you mention and estimated that it wasn't worth the effort? And if that was their estimation, despite our (NH denizens) collective annoyance, maybe they were right. Maybe providing free access made prospective paying customers less likely to pay for firehose access, or a slew of not-for-profit organisations requesting free firehose access citing emojitracker as a precedent. There's a myriad of hypotheticals and whomever made this decision is not necessarily irrational... it just depends on what constitutes their utility function.
I have to be honest and wonder exactly how much a sugar tax would actually affect here. I mean, as someone actually living in the UK, the issue (if there is one) is that the prices for sugary drinks are literally at rock bottom; you can get a cheap litre or so of lemonade for about 15 pence. Doubling that price is pretty much going to be completely useless at actually making a difference.

As for whether it's class focused... well, the other BBC article on the matter says that only milk and pure fruit juices are exempt, along with the smallest companies/producers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35824071

So it probably will hit the likes of Starbucks and Costa as much as the likes of Coca Cola and Pepsi. Whether it makes a difference there... probably not. It's like the bag charge, fairly useless to a lot of people.

As for the other taxes... some seem decent enough, though the tax cuts aimed at higher earners is as ridiculous as ever.
I was thinking the same thing. For the just-out-of-college, it might be a nice thing. For a short while. Save up for a house while you're there and have the benefits of the high density of young people.
Microsoft is launching Windows 10 Mobile on March 17
> The brain is already wired to have certain types of perceptions, so by the time a baby is born [...]

A structure that evolved over time, amusingly, essentially by exactly the kind of "trying stuff at random" algorithm the grandparent is complaining about.
My experience with Purescript/pulp was rather negative. Basic commands were throwing errors (pulp init IIRC) so I decided to not even consider it for anything serious.
120hz means smooth playback at 24, 30, 60 fps (3 most common formats), because you can simply show each image for 2, 4, 5 frames. 60hz would mean potentially stuttery video at a native 24fps (some movies).
I remember the government making the same arguments when PGP came around.

All this has been ignored before and all this will be ignored again.
so what you're saying is that our vote indeed does not count? We are so screwed.
> The only part I disagreed with was the section on being truthful in internal corporate communications. When it comes to firings, being discreet beats being truthful.

Yes, but honesty doesn't mean telling everyone everything. You can be honest and say nothing.

Honesty means not making up a narrative in which you had a nice chat and they left voluntarily. Just tell people "Zach no longer works for GitHub". It's honest, only presents the needed facts, and as a bonus doesn't make people who know that Zach got fired wonder what else management lie about in their internal emails.
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C++ is certainly difficult, but if your expectations are mainly based on Reddit's opinion of C++, probably the language is not as bad as you think.
Ads are usually filtered by the serving URL, so ads such as yours shouldn't be blocked. I just tested the site in your profile as well, and the ads were there, even with uBlock enabled. There weren't any visual differences loading the page with/without it.
Zach mentions his being fired as one of the top stories on Hacker News; Julie Ann Horvath is probably somewhere on that list too.

http://www.inc.com/abigail-tracy/github-julie-ann-horvath-hr...
> At first, the service took off not because it did a lot, but because it did so little. "Nobody really wants to put images up on the Internet," he explains. "What you actually want to do is share it with somebody. So I stripped out everything that other image hosts even had, because when you just get to the point of sharing, what's really important is speed."

> "I had this insight—that ended up being wrong, by the way—which was, 'This content's so good, let's just have it stand on its own,'" he remembers. "'I'm not even going to put titles or descriptions or anything on this stuff.' Turns out that's actually a dumb idea, because people need context."

Whats funny to me, is that I stopped liking imgur when when added the community/context stuff. I liked it when it was small and simple. It's gotten so bloated that it's become a pain to use.

It seems like nobody can have a "community-less" image sharing site.
+1

I ran my own email server for probably 20 years, starting with UUCP over USR Couriers. It got more and more difficult to keep things running, and I had better things to do with my time.
I would say you need a normal salary no matter what after accelerator and if they want pay less it needs to be replaced with more equity. and since you came in earlier than the accelerator it's needs to be at that valuation.
So you got denied for a loan by the bank, told the lady at the bank how to do her job, then posted a sob story with no description of your actual business problems on hackernews?

Boring. Hits Gong NEXT
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>> One of the primary reasons is that logical reasoning you make is based on it's premise.

Yes, that's called the closed-world assumption. Something is true if you can prove it from the things you know.

You know how else we call the "things you know"? Data.

You know what else we do with data? Train machine learning algorithms.

You know where machine learning algorithms would be if they abandoned their (implicit) closed-world assumption?
Probably because the comments would make them look bad. That seems the general reason for a Guardian article having/not having comments. If they think the userbase are likely to agree with the writer they'll be on, and if they think the userbase is likely to eviscorate them (or in cases like this, talk about adblockers and stuff), then they'll turn them off.
As all the FTC standard warnings say, past performance is not a guarantee of future performance.

A wealthy founder has already past the point of "fuck you money" and financial independence. Adding another $10 million to his current $10 million isn't going to have a very meaningful effect on their life. Another $+100 million will, which why they go big or die trying, because cashing out with a $10 million payoff is the same thing in their lives as failing. Also running your own company is fun in itself.

You as an employee do not have financial independence most likely, and independence will be a huge change to your life. It's the incentive conflict of interest that is the fundamental issue here. Non-wealthy founders will probably have a cash out point in their heads and will take bird in the hand offers that would give them financial independence.

Also I say wealthy founders, not successful founders. A founder can become wealthy via many means. He could of been an early employee of a successful company (like BeOS and Jean Louis Gasse). Had a relatively minor success after a decade of struggle and made it super big (uber). Cashed out halfway through and is now wealthy (evernote, twitter and many others), etc.

Wealthy founders will do things like reject $400m offers when a company has existed for a year and only has $10m in series A funding because they want to be the next superstar / 'unicorn'.
"How Complex Systems Fail" http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sys...

A no-cash system, beside all the other downsides, reduces and sometimes outright removes the ability for humans to alter and/or workaround the system when systematic failure modes are discovered. And that's just unintended consequences, forget about perverse incentives.

This is the same reason I think augments that posit privacy is unnecessary because enough downstream controls will somehow account for all "bad" things that could happen. It's a scam, pushed by unscrupulous hucksters for their advantage at the cost of everyone else.
Interesting read. Thanks.
This? [0]

It seems like there is some namedropping here [1] too though I don't see anything explicitly tying them together. It may be hard to definitively know since it's an HR issue and generally separation agreements require both sides to keep quiet. (Non-disparagement clauses)

Per the article:

I’m still not fully certain why I got the axe; it was never made explicit to me. I asked other managers and those on the highest level of leadership, and everyone seemed be as confused as I was.

My best guess is that it’s Tall Poppy Syndrome, a phrase I was unfamiliar with until an Aussie told me about it. (Everything worthwhile in life I’ve learned from an Australian, basically.) The tallest poppy gets cut first.

[0] http://readwrite.com/2014/03/15/github-julia-ann-horvath-har...

[1] http://www.dailydot.com/business/julie-ann-horvath-names-git...
I think you are correct, but there is a case where saturating the cluster is maybe not the ideal situation.

I think there's a latency trade-off there. So imagine you have a job where latency matters, like a user wants to run a bigquery-style interactive query across 1TB of data, and ideally it should complete within 1 minute. Lets say it takes 10 instance hours (600 instance minutes) to complete this query.

With per-minute billing you could launch 600 instances and complete it in a minute. You could also do the same with per-hour billing, but you would overpay by a factor of 60x or you would launch 10 instances and wait an hour for the query to complete.

Assuming you have a bunch of these queries coming in, you could queue them up, but then the latency will suffer, because you'll have to delay starting a job until you get to that position in the queue.

If you wish to trade some wait time for some cluster efficiency, yes, you can just queue them up and then slowly scale the cluster up and down to keep 100% utilization.

However, it would be nice if you really could scale up and down at per-minute increments and let Google figure out how to get their cluster utilized efficiently and let them take advantage of their different customers with different workloads and preemptible instances.
It didn't have anything to do with my departure, nor is it my story to tell.
Ask HN: Going down from Lead to Senior developer?
I've been working as a lead developer for a large company for the last 4 years (200+ people in total / managing about 15 developers) and have come to the conclusion that for the next 5-6 years I want to be doing more development and less management etc. So I thought of looking for another job but this time as a senior developer.

My question is, will this look bad on my CV if in the future I decide to look for a lead role again? What are the cons to doing something like this from your experience?
Yes, that is what I am saying. Welcome to Amerika.
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GremlinBin is a new tool for working with the Gremlin graph traversal language from Apache TinkerPop. "Here you will be able to test and share your gremlin queries with the world."
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Yep, specifically Bitbucket allows you to create tasks from comments. Bitbucket Server also (optionally) prevents the pull request from being merged until all tasks have been resolved.
I think most people with your opinion would change their mind if they listened to honest answers as to why people voted for who they did. Most people don't have a reason other than gut instinct, or perhaps one or two big social issues like abortion or (previously) gay marriage. No amount factual evidence to show these people that they're actually voting against their interests would change their mind.

One of the most common ones I've encountered is asking someone why they feel they can trust a particular candidate, when here's a giant list of things implicating them in corruption, lies, and indisputably voting opposite of how they campaigned. The response is always "All politicians are corrupt, it's just part of the system". Or "anyone running for President isn't the type of person who should actually be a President". Anything counter to these people's gut beliefs is dismissed as "everyone has that same problem", ignoring the extent to which their choice has it.
I think that you're failing to see the context of these things. You're looking at them as isolated incidents when they are not.

As I understand it from friends and acquaintances, being asked again and again, "So where are you from?" becomes exceptionally irritating over time and can feel isolating. It might be a question that anyone can get asked, but it gets asked much more frequently of people who appear to be "foreign" in some way. It's not a big deal once or twice, but those incidents pile up over time and it can get disheartening, especially when asked of people who are from the US. When they answer, they often get the follow up question, "No, no, where are you really from?" It's a good way to unintentionally make a person feel unwelcome or like an "other" in a group, because after many repetitions, it hammers home the point, "You don't fit in, and I can plainly see it."

And the problem with the math question is that when asked of a woman or a girl, it generally does come loaded with "because usually women suck at math". Math isn't juggling, which is an uncommon talent; math is a basic, fundamental skill in STEM fields. Acting surprised or questioning how a female coworker "got so good at math" is just one more way that people accidentally perpetuate outdated, outmoded stereotypes about women in STEM fields. It's a question that almost nobody would think to ask of a male coworker. Because math skills are taken as a given in these sorts of fields.

These things don't seem like a big deal until you're on the receiving end of them again and again and again, day after day, month after month, year after year. Just like a little trickle of stream will eventually erode a valley where there wasn't one previously, over time all the little slights and knocks can wear people down.

Nobody is saying, "Don't be nice to your coworkers, and don't be social." They are saying, "Be mindful of the things you say, because they can hurt people unintentionally." Maybe you don't see the problem, personally, but if it's something that bothers a lot of people and they ask you to please cut it out, is it really that big a deal to try to cut it out? It's not like it's some kind of major encumbrance upon you.
>the Verified by Twitter program is a very good thing

When the program is used to delegitimize public figures who dissent from the left wing hegemony on the site[0], then it has lost all legitimacy. Verifying accounts now implies tacit approval of their message, which is not something Twitter should enter into lightly.

[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannopoulos-nero-unveri...
Ah, I quite liked SimCopter. I would love to see a modern SimEarth, too, especially given how the threat of climate change which seemed abstract when the first came out has gotten a lot more tangible.
Tech investment barely exists outside of Silicon Valley, and when it does, the terms are horrible. In my former city, many companies still ended up flying out and courting investors in San Francisco because the local scene was so bad for it (even though we had several local "startup accelerator" and incubation programs).

I also just think VC terms are bad in general, and I think their intentionally exploitative nature prevents a lot of good things from happening.
That would actually be a very awful future. I like a linked web full of text. Flashy this and flashy that and app for this and app for that is all blah. Most things don't actually need to be apps.
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For those interested in how the sugar tax might affect things going forward, the NBER did an early study on the effects of the sugar tax on Mexico [0].

[0] http://www.nber.org/papers/w21197.pdf
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