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We are actually working on a project like this with Tygs (https://github.com/Tygs/tygs, which will use crossbar.io), and right now it's taking ages just to get the app life cycle right.

Indeed, we want to make it very easy to use, especially a clean/discoverable API, simple debugging, clear errors, etc. Which is the stuff async frameworks are not good at, and an incredible added value.

It's a lot more work we initially thought. When you are doing async, you now think, not with a sequence of actions ordered in time, but with events. So for your framework to be usable, you must provide hooks to:

- do something at init
- register a component
- do something when a component is registered
- do something once it's ready
- do something when there is an error
- do something when it shuts down

With minimum boiler plate, and maximum clear error handling when the user try to do it at the wrong time or in the wrong way.

But, we learned while coding the project that, with asyncio, exceptions in coroutine don't break the event look (except KeyboardInterrupt which is a weird hybrid) while exceptions from the loop do break it.

Plus you have to make a nice setup, which auto starts the event loop with good default so that people don't have to think about it for simple apps. But it must be overridable, and handle the case where your framework is embeded inside an already started event loop, and make it easy to do so.

It's one of the strong point of gevent: you don't have to think about it. With asycio/twisted, you have the benefit a explicit process switch and parallelism, but you need to pay the price with verbosity and complexity. We try to create a balance, and it's turns out to be harder than expected.

Then you have to make clear error reporting, especially iron the implementation mixing Task, Futures, coroutine functions and coroutines. Provide helpers so that common scheduling is done easily...

And you haven't even talked about HTTP yet. This is just proper asyncio management. This is why nobody made a killer framework yet : it's a looooooot of work, it's hard, and it's very easy to get it wrong. Doing like <sync framework> but async doesn't cut it.
I agree that Google's model is a bit of a bubble, but red flags appeared in the first paragraph:

>Google's clients have no clue their ads are being displayed on worsening quality websites.

Well, actually most of Google's money comes from search advertising, not Adsense. And most smart PPC manager very rarely, if ever, advertise on Google's extended network. Google also makes most of its money from PPC, not CPM.

The adblocking is a problem though.
Everytime I see a commercial for a content provider about how they amazing provide the ability to play back content on multiple devices timeshifted, I die a little inside. I think some of them actually refer to themselves as superheros for providing this capability.
> I wish I could find a study of similarly smart and motivated people who decided themselves to go or not to college. As a choice.

I don't think that's actually the ideal study design you want. Any measure of intelligence/motivation is going to be imperfect, so any time you try to control for it but still allow a "free choice", that free choice will be correlated with variables that plausibly impact future success (e.g., maybe "cool, rational thought" is distinct from intelligence and motivation, and influences both the choice to go to college and long-term success).

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/04/02/co...

That said, if you're just asking whether anyone has studied the impact of attending college on lifetime earnings after controlling for several sensible variables that correlate with intelligence, the answer is "yes".

> Students who go to more selective colleges make more money later in life...This partially reflects students who go to more selective colleges being more able and ambitious, as opposed to attending a more selective college boosting one's income. How much does attending boost income? The famous paper Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data (2011) by Dale and Krueger raises the possibility that on average, attending a more selective college doesn't raise earnings at all. Specifically, controlling for

> * Student high school GPA

> * Student SAT score

> * The average SAT score of the colleges that a student applied for

> * The number of applications that the student submitted

> * Various demographic factors (race, sex, parental education)

> they found that as a group, there was no statistically significant difference in income later in life between students who went to more selective colleges and students who went to less selective colleges. Their finding is somewhat robust: it's based on a large (~10k) sample size, it's true both of the class of 1976 and the class of 1989, it's true of the class of 1976 from age 25 through age 50 and it's true both of men and of women.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k0w/how_much_does_where_you_go_to_co...

Some things to note:

(1) This sort of study is obviously the very first thing you would do if you were investigating this topic seriously, yet extremely few of the popular articles on this topic mention this study. So 99% of popular discussion on this topic is hopeless uninformed, and no one cares.

(2) In the absence of a controlled randomized trial, you can still hope for high-quality pseudo experiments using techniques like differences in differences, or the effect of arbitrary numerical cutoffs, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_in_differences
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When sane restrictions are implemented properly as part of a product or service, and the resulting scarcity generates value that is perceived fair to all parties, then these sorts of debates do not naturally arise.

It's the fact that it's often done so poorly and clumsily that creates the problem.
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Yes, no kidding. But why are those happening?
I agree, but lets be fair, pirates are less "winners" in this equation than simply "Unfazed by" the situation in general.
When the market takes a dive is the best time to invest in index funds. The problem comes when people panic and pull out their money in a recession, realizing the loss. If the market rebounds you come out ahead and if it doesn't, you've got much bigger problems.

The best policy is to put money in the market every month, through the best and worst of it, especially if you're young.
What choice did he have? He probably went through the classic 7 stages of grief. In the end, his death was inevitable (as is all of ours), he just was faced with it as a reality as most of us think it is many years off.
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Also we saw a huge drop in interest rates that won't happen again over the next 40 years.
Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot?
I'm just curious if anyone here has created a useful Facebook Bot for your organization or business? Right now, I am making one for my church to send out automated notifications for what is happening in the week. We have an app, but it turns out nobody really looks at it so hopefully the Facebook Bot would have greater engagement. Just curious how others are faring out there.
People should follow their aptitudes.

Only to an extent. I am, for example, a better skier than I am programmer. Yet it would be financial folly for me to follow that aptitude. Pretty good skier make on avg. $0 a year while pretty good programmers make a very comfortable living.
You're right, and I should have been clear that I meant the legislative branch in particular.
To kill a frozen OpenSSH session, type “⏎ ~ .” – aka Enter, Tilde, Period
Design errors are bugs. They're some of the deepest and most difficult to fix, in no small part because someone meant for it to be that way.

A site that's falling over or won't load is obviously broken. One whose design subtly invites bad behavior may not be immediately evidently broken. But it's broken all the same.
I can't tell if this is a joke? Apple couldn't use it's own cash to purchase itself from it's shareholders because the value of the company will always be greater than it's cash.
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guru.com - but not if you look for cheap slave labor. I believe it costs to post there as a freelancer. So entry barrier.

There is also freelancer.com but the pricing for both parties is VERY shady and complicated. I have tried to hire from there, but I have very bad experience.

There is definitely room for another big and trusted player in this market.
A 7' tall simpleton with enormous strength is dangerous, and powerful. It would be unwise to underestimate them, but it would be always unwise to misinterpret the source and nature of that power.
Meanwhile, would CloudFlare care to address its nonfuntional Tor captchas?
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> the ability to play back content on multiple devices timeshifted

I don't think I've seen these commercials, because I'm not sure what this means.
Maintenance too. Faulty maintenance routines can break stuff, anybody who's got a car knows that very well.
I think if Spotify as radio; I don't buy albums on it, and I don't expect any of the music to stick around.

For things I want to own forever, I buy them in mp3 format, or on Google Play and download the resulting mp3s.
You've been able to do this sort of thing for some time, at least simulated, which provides the same results:

http://www.quantumplayground.net
Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc show that DRM can work properly when users are given the easy access to the media/content, and they've been a boon to content creators as well.

And, no, none of those sites using DRM are "a danger to our rights and our security" as the article breathlessly claims.

I'm sure it's not a popular opinion around here, but I used to be a donor to the EFF and no longer am. I feel they've gone off the deep end on too many issues and they're increasingly using hyperbole and hysteria to make arguments against relatively small issues. I mean, come on:

> "That proposition ranges from unpalatable on a gaming console, to repulsive on laptops and phones loaded with sensors and personal info"

Repulsive? With those scary "sensors" sensing things and you know what happens when DRM and sensors get together!?! Oh, that's right, nothing.
I'm not sure why I'd prefer this over Microsoft's LIQUi|>.

Edit: Okay I'm ridiculous, it has a real nice graphical interface.
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> the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority, the utility for the Persian Gulf emirate

Curious that Bloomberg opted for the Persian, over Arabian, Gulf when referring to the United Arab Emirates.
More info for people curious about this. The best time to launch is during "Earth Mars opposition" and the next window is in Jul 2018. After that there is a 26 month wait before the next optimal (from a fuel perspective) time.
You're being downvoted, but you're right. This article was somewhat silly.
Memento mori, everyone.

Are you living like you're going to die?
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Not only Medium, there are lots of websites like this. BTW It seems there's lots of us compulsive clickers here on HN :)
Hoolie's search API hasn't been returning any articles critical of Gavin Belson any more, but it sure is faster now that they're using that new ranking system!
> Pumped hydro is probably the best bet, but is very geography dependent.

You could build surface level reservoirs as two tank hydroelectric dams, and then use the water as an energy reserve as well as freshwater reserve.
...Or in British English, "Full-Stop."

Type "⏎ ~ ?" for a tiny options menu!

Credit where credit is most definitely due: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4hlsmn/til_how_to_pr...

As one of the commenters in that thread noted, "Open command line" in the aforementioned options menu lets you manipulate the port forwarding table in an open session; type 'h' for further help.

And as another commenter said, I guess I should have properly gone through the manpage for SSH at some point (along with many other manpages)...

I'm very interested to know where this feature does/does not work on the various variants of UNIX and BSD that are out there. I expect this is a standard OpenSSH feature, but when was it introduced, and how widely is it supported?

---

Also, as a semi-rant aside: the usage of the Enter key is an incredibly, incredibly poor choice - what about the scenario where the connection has died badly enough that update packets are being dropped, but your keystrokes are getting through, and the remote system gets into a state where you would NOT want to send a carriage return?

I've had VNC freeze up on me once or twice where I reconnect and find that my typing input got through, but that the display updates just couldn't make it back. Granted, VNC is a bit heftier than SSH, but if in certain situations I don't think I'd feel too bad about chickening out and resorting to `kill` (or ^B X, as the author writes).

Also, I don't think I need to add "(2012)" to the end of this.
Why should breadth of distribution affect rights status? You don't even need to publish something to gain copyright protection.

Yeah, yeah, can't use it in a library in 100 years, blah blah. Hasn't proved to be an issue.

You could argue that a work in the public domain with its DRM still attached provides an interesting historical perspective. Sometimes the DRM is more interesting than the content -- and could provide it's own lesson/warning to future generations.
The guy is David Tall: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IV1rmyEAAAAJ&hl=en...
Mathematical concepts like nothing, straight lines, circles, are also abstractions that have no complete reference in nature - is it just infinity that you consider needs self-awareness? I'm not quite sure what you're hinting at?
If we are comparing them to MSDN quality, it is.

MSDN documents everything that Microsoft delivers to Windows developers, OS, programming languages, frameworks, IDEs, system administration,knowledge base, magazines and books.
If you think writing like an orc is "audience appropriate", you're mistaken.

Here's a preliminary release on the original study: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanonc/PIIS1470-2045(...

They picked a 95% confidence level, which means they accept that 1/20 of their positives will be false positives.

They did this when conducting a study on "more than 15 types of cancer".

These people are about as smart as you are.
The Wikipedia article may be primarily written about legal cases, but leading questions appear in many other contexts. In psychology and interviews they're often advised against, as they induce a precise answer and thus make it hard to learn about the subject of study, instead reinforcing the interviewer preconceptions; in user interface design they can produce the wrong conclusions about how easy an interface is to use.

Leading questions have their use in education, but as the other commentator below points out, the child might be giving the answer that the questioner wants to hear, rather than showing a true understanding of the topic. Having a stated problem to solve may prevent that, as the child can instead answer the question in a way that solves the problem.
If the author is here, there's a typo: "catastrophy" should be "catastrophe."
Here again is another place where we need a lot more government regulation. People who don't work should not be getting $100/month or whatever for internet access. Instead, they should be able to afford a $15/month plan. Over in Europe, they have stuff like that, because they have real regulation, so internet service is much, much cheaper (of course, their internet and telecom companies aren't as profitable as ours; boo hoo). We need to do the same thing here.
Obviously not, otherwise they'd be able to tailor a segment directly to you and sell your eyeballs for way more money than 'mere' retargeting.
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In these days when STEM is so promoted, I think sometimes there is too much tendency to dismiss the arts and humanities as complete lightweight fluff compared to STEM. Perhaps there are some subjects which fall in this category. But I know, for instance, with music theory and composition, the heavy stuff can get fairly complicated and technical very fast. Certainly few people would be dismissive of the technical training required to be a virtuoso player.

I think this is the same for other "liberal arts" subjects too. Take linguistics -- from what I know about some of the linguistics concepts that pioneer translation software, speech synthesis, natural language processing, etc., linguistics is hardly "fluff" and requires some years of deep study to be an expert at.

The Economist's monetary chart is solely based on supply vs. demand.

In many subjects, I think extremely gifted autodidacts are pretty rare. No matter whether its the STEM subjects or the arts or anything else, I think most people benefit from an environment where like minded peers can bounce ideas off of each other.

When I look at Wikipedia's list of autodidacts:

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

I know this is just a sample, but at first glance, the list of autodidact scientists and engineers certainly seem to be of comparable size with artists / musicians / etc.

EDIT: I will add that I agree with other above posts, that one of the biggest barriers for the modern autodidact scientist / engineer is that it is really hard to home-tinker with certain concepts. You can program at home very easily. You can make circuits and robotics at home. You can even "group buy" small order electronic bare boards from contract manufacturers with all the difficult-to-hand-solder parts already taken care of.

It is nearly impossible, however, for a home tinkerer to get access to $100K scopes, electron microscopes, GCMS / NMR machines, or any other "big equipment" of this nature that you can think of. Heck, depending on what you are doing, you probably even risk a run in with "the law" these days from tinkering in certain sectors of hobbies like home chemistry or home biology.

To me, that's pretty much the barrier for non-college STEM in a nutshell.
I think he is naively talking about the display part of googles business - author forgot about adwords, adsense: which makes most of google's cash...
I think it makes sense given the overarching mission of SpaceX. Their primary long-term goal is to get a self-sustaining colony set up on Mars. Getting that done will require a lot of people willing to uproot their lives and move to another planet, so making the entire process as cool and glamorous as possible is going to do a lot to help push that forward.

This kind of thinking mirrors Musk's strategy at Tesla: it's much easier to get people to step outside the box if doing so seems novel and exciting. Thus, we have cars with motorized door handles that extend and retract on command, and space capsules with big shiny touch screens.
I went to a very elite high school in the US and my final exams included questions similar to that (the IB). Some of my teachers literally wrote the textbooks on their subjects.

That doesn't mean my high school classes were anywhere near the depth or intensity of my college classes. While high school provided me with a solid foundation in all the disciplines, it's not set up to go in depth on specific areas.

As a computer science major in college, I have had the opportunity to do in-depth, semester-long investigations of the Armenian genocide, the evolution of interactive media, laughter in theater, the 2008 financial crisis, Arab history in China, the philosophy of consciousness and dozens of other interesting subjects. These are not at all equivalent to what's offered at even the best high schools in the world and I wouldn't give it up to have a slightly cheaper or more efficient college career.
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Or they got an associate's degree, which is a 2-year degree which typically requires some lower-division coursework.
>Knowledge, understanding, wisdom

You can get the first two for free on a library.

You are making a mistake when you compare the knowledge, understanding and wisdom you would get in College against nothing and then decide that College is better than nothing. You should compare it against all the other things people could be doing with that time and money. The opportunity cost.
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I do think they accepted it in a dogmatic way. Incidentally, I am raising our children Catholic so it's an idea that fits pretty well with the idea of God, the Holy Trinity, and all that. Three in One, yet one is the Father and the other is the Son? Yes, dear. Oh, ok. <grin>
Sorry, "You can watch your favorite show anytime you want on a number of different devices."
> Yes, solar can help meet peak load during the summer, but not the rest of the year and it causes stress on the system by requiring a lot of power to spin up to meet demand and solar decreases.

Note that Solar isn't "hurting". Because such demand right now is being covered by Natural Gas Peaker Plants anyway.

Natural Gas Peaker plants are expensive, so if we can replace some of their usage with other energy sources, that'd be great. Eventually, we might be able to transition off of them with sufficiently advanced energy storage technologies.
That's one possible solution, with a major challenge being that Amazon regularly cuts AWS prices (51 times as of January). Competing with Amazon is rarely a winning strategy, although Salesforce has similarly razor thin margins despite having been publicly traded for more than a decade.
No, my hypothesis is correct. West coast liberals are nothing like east coast liberals. East coast liberals are authoritarians; west coast liberals are not. There's a reason all the states which have legalized marijuana are west coast states, and not northeast ones. This also happens to correlate with toll roads, and it's not a coincidence.

BTW, the population density of metro areas in California is higher than most places in the northeast.
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