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The proportion of technical degrees in members of every university mountaineering club I've ever been in/met has always been ridiculously high. The same seems to be also true for climbers/cavers/ski-mo people I've met outside of uni. I think you're right that there must be something in the mind set that encourages those sorts of pursuit. I've always put it down to a combination of preferring individual pursuits over team sports and a love of discovery.

Heaps of these people love their Subarus so it might be less of the case that hackers love the car and more that hackers love getting outdoors and therefore love the car. I know I love mine.
Link on reddit with original poster:

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4koypl/_/
Which is why `shadowsocks` has become popular to bypass the GFW: it has no such handshake phase and hence cannot be easily identified.
>You're right, customers don't care about what tool was used to build something, but they care that you can do your job well and good tools help you do that.

True, but I do my homework too. My code needs to be maintainable for the next guy. We can't invest inordinate amounts of time on V2 where it isn't necessary. I don't want unrelated parts of the program breaking because I fix a bug. The next set of features should be easy to implement from an architectural perspective. All of this is important to the customer and my business.

I care about my craft, but there's a line at which I stop investing my time in debating the toolset. If I'm spending ~10 hours / week writing blog and forum posts about why everyone should use X framework instead of Y I'm seriously wasting my time.
> their endorsement of something doesn't automatically make it a bad idea

True, but it does heavily cast a massive amount of doubt upon it. At least adds evidence that a lot of the Pro reasons may be based on... less than sensible ideas.
Will the recruiter actually take this seriously? From a recruiter standpoint, when someone applies - the applicant is required to understand, interpret and apply accordingly.
It is getting better, but adult education options are very poor and few considering careers and jobs change often now, and the skills you need do those jobs change as well. With that environment, you have to cheer anyone past student age that tries to better themselves no matter how they do it.

Learning lifelong should be the goal of everyone, constantly improving yourself and learning that you know nothing.
FWIW, my personal experience says differently. I recently got back from a few months in China, and while I was there I had a conversation with a young man who was 100% convinced Tiananmen Square was a rumor started by anti government 'bad guys'.
I think the point of the project is to arise the gender awareness by emphasizing the un-neutrality literally. Since there are gender issues especially in the field of technology, Silicon Valley as an example, female needs more attention.
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I've been using service objects / operations in my apps pretty consistently for half a decade, but that's a red herring. That statement is about using AR to query and manipulate data, which is orthogonal to a service layer. Service objects aren't going to fix the lack of optimistic/pessimistic locking in DataMapper.
I'm sure that those involved have very interesting rationalizations, but I don't think that it should be viewed from an ethics perspective. Expecting people to behave against their own self interest in the short term, for the good of strangers in the long term, will always end in disappointment. This is actually a pretty simple case of poorly stated objectives being cleverly met by people who are completely self interested. LOC metrics, rat tail bounties, click-through rates. I know this sounds kind of "well what did you expect wearing something like that", but if advertisers establish metrics that are more closely aligned with their objectives then we'd all be better off.

But yeah, Demand Media is terrible and their employees are not on my Christmas card list.
There will also be bigger storage :)
I think the problem is no one seriously reads Hawryszkiewycz anymore.

Seems everyone's trying to squeeze problems into fitting their solution/framework rather the other way around.
If you have that high of churn within your operational staff, your problem has expanded beyond what any tool can fix. (or in an enterprise environment you should be using something like Centrify anyway)
Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine
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Gah. It’s been 40 years everyone. Let’s agree to stop using the CIE 1931 (x, y) chromaticity diagram, which is horribly misleading, in favor of the CIE 1976 UCS (u', v') chromaticity diagram. [I would replace all the diagrams on Wikipedia myself, but it would take several days of effort, and probably a few weeks’ slog of talk page arguments.] The difference between these two color spaces is much less extreme than the xy chart makes it look.
Could you provide some data to back up your claims? I've seen quite a few comments like yours claiming that the cloud service providers are so expensive, and yet I've yet to see anyone proving it except for the few exceptions.
Those few players that are disregarding the industry self-regulation practices are some of its biggest players.
That's a very smart summary of a lot of data but it's not supporting its conclusions very well - all it seems to be able to say is that increased globalization has had a massive economic impact worldwide.

Well... yes. The rest of it is a bunch of "well, we'd likely have had a bunch of the good ideas we were forced into by EU membership anyway" which is shockingly optimistic when looking at 80s Thatcherite Britain, verging on naive.

Throw in a couple more rather unconnected points that pretend to show significance (while just showing that the less-developed world is growing faster than the developed one. Which is... yeah, obvious, but also expected)

The rest of it then swerves into dodgy anti-immigration territory. Which is odd for a "liberal" case.

I agree with it that the Brexit plan is optimistic - but I think the article demonstrates exactly why that's a bad thing: because it's stupidly optimistic and convinces itself that everything will be perfectly awesome because they want it to be.

Whereas the reality is that this is rarely the case.

It's massive risk for little upside vs no real risk for a slightly reduced short-to-medium upside.
A while back I had the thought that meditation for self-improvement is a non-starter. Meditation, supposedly done properly, is supposed to be non-judgemental observation. But if you're approaching the whole practice as a way to improve some aspect of yourself, the entire foundation is flawed. In that case, the whole reason you're doing it is based on a negative judgement.

I was wondering if someone more experienced with meditation can comment on this. Does this make any sense?
With a score of 4.81, the highest rated book is Bill Watterson’s The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, ahead of the ESV Study Bible.
You are correct that almost everybody is familiar with English, but that's not speaking it, let alone being fluent. To a degree, English already is part of the Japanese culture and language. But it's a different English. Some of it is compatible, but native speakers are the one's graciously degrading (to use a web programming term) to meet their level, and not them meeting you at a level you're accustomed to speaking.

Of course general familiarity is not a bad thing but is to be expected when they're taking classes everyday. The goal is for fluency, competency, and the capacity to be competitive at a global level. They're far from it, and that is why the system has yet to succeed.
Well.. yes, and if Boris is behind it then I'm quite happy to call it awful as well. The man is a tit.
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I agree with you. I work for Education company Accredible. We use Elasticsearch hosted on AWS for employment directory based on student data. It's working perfectly for us from last one year, very happy with it.
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. You can do all of this in Kx systems as well, and it runs a lot faster than spark.

I beat a databricks stack (hand tuned by one of the authors of big-DF) running on a large cluster using one jd node by factors of "a lot." And K is faster than J.
That Chinese example though..
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It's awful to work on, and wonderful to work with. Awful for machines, great for humans.
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We are all vulnerable to mental illness.

The question is if we can avoid it with the proper knowledge. Maybe avoiding meditation in some cases.

I'm speaking of memory, it has been a while since I read about those things, but in some of the classic texts of Zen and Chan there are warnings about this kind of thing. I think there are even advice in how to deal with it. Somebody should go to the sources instead of just forget about all that accumulated experience.
Based on the "decent" arguments provided it appears I've already seen them. They aren't very good and verge on irresponsibly optimistic at best. Most are just - as I said - very poor and misunderstood economics.

The "good" reasons so far have been basically shown to be mostly wishful thinking with very little actual upside and a LOT of risk.

Personally I'd not like to play roulette with a country, I'll take slightly slower growth and stability, thanks.
There would not be a hundred billion dollar ad industry if propaganda didn't work. We wouldn't run multi-million dollar presidential campaigns if propaganda didn't work. The whole field of social psychology and public relations would be a useless exercise if propaganda didn't work. This is the fundamental problem with democracy: people are easily influenced.

The antecedents of the current Chinese communist party, the Bolsheviks knew this and they decided that the inner party must be the vanguard of the proletariat in order to prevent the proletariat from being easily led astray by the faith of the masses in the monarchs. Of course, they were wrong, for different reasons, but objective truth is a hard thing and often a weak voice amid the bullhorns blasting propaganda.

Anyone interested in this topic should watch the great documentary "The Century Of The Self"[1] that goes into the history of the public relations industry and mass persuasion in general.

[1] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2d29tf_the-century-of-the-...
Great tool.
I had a similar idea a while back to build a frontend webapp to store my receipts on S3 or Backblaze.

It works like any receipt app, except the webapp is just a UI for S3/Backblaze.

As opposed to dropbox or google drive, you pay S3 directly for what you use and you own your own data. That way if the webapp goes defunct, you still are the owner to all your data in raw s3 bucket form.

I wanted it to replace my shoebox at home for sensitive data (warranties, gym memberships, utility bills) I don't feel comfortable putting on dropbox or google drive type app.

10 years from now, I don't know if dropbox or google drive will be around. I feel much more comfortable relying on a backend service like S3 than dropbox or google drive.
I wish people writing about new broad-gamut displays would at least include a brief mention of the downsides of extremely narrow-wavelength-band primary colors:

Such displays can create dramatic “observer metamerism” problems, where different people view the colors on screen significantly differently from each-other – even if they would see real-world objects relatively similarly – because slight differences in color vision are amplified by color sources with spiky spectra. Even worse, spiky spectra tend to cause a noticeable difference between foveal and peripheral color perception.

References: http://rit-mcsl.org/fairchild/PDFs/PRO30.pdf http://cias.rit.edu/media/uploads/faculty-f-projects/1304/do...

Just did a google search, and there’s also some discussion here http://www.avsforum.com/forum/139-display-calibration/190850...

Personally, I also feel like spiky-spectrum displays and light sources give me more eyestrain and seem less pleasant to look at. But I admit that such an effect might be entirely in my head.

I’m looking forward to the day when we have displays with 6+ primaries, or maybe even reflective displays (not backlit) with 6+ subtractive color primaries.
Well, you're quite lucky to be allowed to use CoreOS. In our case, only a minority of customers didn't want to dictate the distro to be used.

In one extreme case, we had to install on SLES 10 (in 2014), without root or sudo, and then hand over the machines, since we weren't allowed direct access to the production system. And maintenance involved sitting with one of their sysadmins and telling him what to do :)
I don't know when you taught here, so hard to say but a couple of things have changed in the last 10 years or so. First, they have introduced a "foreign language" class for elementary school children. I know some people who have taught it and they have a lot of praise for the program. It focusses on simply interacting with foreigners and includes many different languages. Personally, I've noticed a big difference in my rural town in Japan. Small children now often walk up to me and try to use their English. They always seem thrilled when their phrases work ("Hello. My name is Tarou. What is your name?", "I am fine. How are you?", etc)

Also the instruction of both junior high school and high school English has changed. It is now (officially, anyway) taught using only English in the classroom. I left the year before it entered high school, so I never officially participated, but I got some of the students who went through the junior high program. Even in my very low level school, the fluency improved dramatically.

Finally, they began demoting teachers with poor language skill a few years ago. It's actually a bit unfortunate because some good teachers got demoted whereas poor teachers with good language skill got promoted. I suppose you can't have everything.

Anyway, they are improving over time. The one thing I should point out is that teaching language fluency is actually very difficult. Things like grammar translation is still considered the best technique in many universities. Even though Pimsleur demonstrated the effectiveness of spaced repetition in the 60's, virtually nobody builds lessons that way. If you look at the ideas of Stephen Krashen and techniques like TPRS, even though they are very effective for fluency, only the lunatic fringe utilize them.

I actually gave a demonstration of TPRS (and related skills like circling) to the Shizuoka board of education once. They seemed very excited and even said, "This is the way English should be taught", so I have some hope that they are looking in the right direction. But again, nobody gets this right. Even the most effective techniques are still quite barbaric IMHO. It's one of the reasons I'm sad to be out of language education. Lot's of important discoveries to be made ;-)
It also reveals something that's not obvious, but is very clear to anyone who's tried (deliberately or accidentally): Teaching a neural network simply to count is surprisingly hard.
Good question! Lots of cities all over the world are trying to find an answer to that. And it is much more complicated than it looks at the first glance - there are many different problems that need to be solved for startups to grow.

Surely, funding is very important and existing startup ecosystem (meetups, incubators etc) is crucial as well. But since we at Teleport are helping smart people move, we are also hearing from them what are the most important issues for them. This is the top4 and it has some surprising elements:

1. Low pollution
2. Low living costs
3. Low crime
4. Tolerance

While low costs and crime are very understandable, pollution and tolerance could be a bit surprising. But that shows that startups want to grow in cities where their employees can live a good life - it's safe, it's green and the level of tolerance is high. So focus needs to be much wider than just the capital.

Different cities have very different challenges, here is the comparison of London and Berlin:
https://teleport.org/compare/berlin-and-london

While the level of startups and capital is surely higher in London (the best in Europe), the environment and living cost are better in Berlin - every city must find their own marketing story.
Can you please share links of evidence of this?
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I believe they are currently losing several hundred million dollars in this particular trade. But this kind of tactic works on companies where the problems pointed out by the short seller are both real and appreciable by the general investing public.
It's not just Japan. When I started here in .NL with an ICT study, it was the first year the school offered it, and History teachers were 'teaching' hardware and software design and more, just by reading from the book. I spent more time teaching people that year than a few of those teachers did...
These days it seems that Docker is everywhere. I am new to docker and I seem to find it as one more additional complicated system that the developer now needs to learn in order to deploy his or her application.

How useful do you find docker for application which can be deployed on Heroku or Beanstalk? I can understand using docker for a Language ecosystem which is not supported on Public PaaS. Or for people for whom public PaaS is not an option.

I would like to know about the experience of using Docker in day to day development from people who have used Docker in team environments. How was your experience of converting the team to use Docker instead of their regular development/deployment? For example, at our company, For LAMP or MEAN or Java Stacks, we have a defined a procedure of setting up the dev machines to include all these tools and developers know how to manage these on their own machine. Once the code is pushed to Jenkins, there are deploy scripts written by tech leads which take care of deployment to various servers or to Heroku.

In your Docker driven development process, did everybody started using docker on their development machine too? Or everybody just kept using their local setup, and only one/two people handled the task of creating final docker images? Or do you just use you CI server to handle the docker image creation and deployment from that point onwards?
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Tor doesn't work most of the time. Not sure about obfsproxy. Here is some reasons why I think Tor is not successful:

+ GFW is very aggressive at detecting these traffic and is okay with false positive.

+ A very very large portion of the population lacks basic skill to setup Tor or similar tools. CS education is almost non-exist or useless if you are not a college student with CS major.

+ Doesn't have good mobile support, especially on iOS.

+ Slow and not stable. Those who know how to set these up, like myself, would probably prefer a more reliable tunnel, e.g. shadowsocks/cisco anyconnect.
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Yup. We are taught ao thoroughly that our thoughts are distinct from reality, that we have trouble grasping thier power over our bodies. While you cannot move objects with your mind, in the domain of your body and mind, the mind itself is king.
What I draw from this is that you have a misguided notion of "self", "improvement", and "self-improvement".

Just do the non-judgmental observation stuff and see what happens and decide if you want more of it.
What did you use to build it?
I agree with that. The Pc is not the default choice when you want technology, but you need one to produce content quickly/with good productivity.

The problem with PCs is replacement times have increased and margins went down.
I meditate about 20 minutes a night before i go to bed. Nonjudgement is a big part of this. I just sit there and observe my thoughts, without trying to change them.

Why is this helpful?

Because trying to change your thoughts is itself a form of thinking. Trying to change a thought is reacting to that thought, and a lot of my problems come from reacting to thoughts uncritically.

When I sit there and just try to notice the thoughts, thoughts about disturbing thoughts bother me less and less. An unpleasant thought doesn't quickly lead to a progressive series of counter-thoughts or responses.

To give you an example of how this helps: on the way to the grocery store yesterday, I thought "I'm out of beer, I could buy some beer." Reacting to the thought, without being critical of it, would mean going to buy the beer.

But observing the thought allowed me to be aware of it and to _decide_ if that's what I actually wanted. I decided that no, I didn't really need the beer, and that I'd gain more utility from knowing I made a more responsible choice.

For me, practicing nonjudgement allows me to better exercise judgement at suitable times. I couldn't tell you how many times i've gotten carried away giving imaginary speeches when I think about running for office - a practice which has caused me no good. It's like that judgement was entirely wasted.

By meditating, I've become more aware of the background ebb and flow of thoughts, which has freed me up to be judgemental when it _matters_ - such as over the small part of the world I have control over, instead of wasting energy judging things I have no control over, because that's a conditioned response to unpleasant thoughts.

I hope that helps.

FWIW I did go through a 'dark night of the soul' period. It lasted a few years, and my life got noticeably worse, but eventually I stopped believing everything I thought, and focused on repairing my life, and now it's much better than it ever was.

If meditation brings up dark or horrible thoughts - for me those were there all along, but I was just not paying attention because I constantly thought about getting rich, or politics, or starting a company, or p vs np, or whatever other abstractions i was into that day.
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I had one radio into dispatch about it. Fortunately I wasn't in a hurry, so it was mostly amusing.

I miss being able to just jump out of the vehicle in Uber since they pulled out a couple months back. Hopefully they're back soon.
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Think of a person of median intelligence. Now realize that half the population is dumber than that guy. That's who propaganda is intended for, not the Hacker News crowd (apologies to anyone on Hacker News with below median intelligence, you're welcome here too :) ). Same thing in China. The people who are easily convinced of things is who the propaganda is intended for and who the government wants to protect from foreign opinion.
That's a catch-up mechanism, that's different than merely smoothing out outlier streaks.

Though I think that the reason this feels necessary, isn't that people are irrational and believe in streaks - it's that they used a poor random model in the first place. Maybe a spearman should simply never beat a battleship.
Training a neural network to solve fizzbuzz is over-engineering, fun over-engineering, but over-engineering none the less.
You're right. I didn't mean it as criticism, although it may have come out this way, only I decided to read a modern NN paper after not having touched NNs for almost 20 years, and was surprised to learn that there's little if any new theory.
Which is why I said if this was for real.
What you're not considering is that the tribal mother is almost certainly not raising the child in a nuclear family.