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I would downvote this comment if I could.
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Yes it is. The people are not complaining about income inequality directly. They are complaining about jobs and wages. Increase those two and suddenly income inequality becomes less of an issues because people have enough to live on.
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"Space Ball" is brilliant, bright game that put you into the beautiful scenery of open space. Astounding 3 -d effects, many traps and obstacles will keep you busy for hours of playing. You want to know how to play?! Just jump from platform to platform avoiding any mysterious obstacles straight ahead to the finish line. Changing world and flash situations will improve your speed and reflexes. Use your brain and make new strategies to get to the end of the level but keep in mind that with new level the heat will be raising. So control the Power Ball^^ and jump to new heights. In the future, will create new worlds where you can test your skills.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SpaceBa11

https://www.amazon.com/Tritico-Space-Ball/dp/B01HU60XIA/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1467450767&sr=1-1

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Then that means there are people whose work merits higher levels/pay/promotions/fancier desks who aren't getting them, but instead get to be advisors to people with fancy desks?

Still toxic.
Go to namepros.com and search for this. Plenty of free content in those forums.
Holy FUCK TechCrunch's mobile site is frustrating to use.

Tap on "read full article" - NOPE, you just clicked on an ad instead.

('cause it relayouts at some point after the page loads and right around the time you want to tap on that)
Because it's not reasonable for a company to fire people who unionize. They could have just said "again, no, you have to follow the dress code".
Palantir Unleashes Its Lawyers Over US Army's Intelligence Software
From my personal experience I've only gotten consistently good support from Cloudera and Jetbrains, out of some 20-odd companies that I've contacted for paid support. So, for me the figure is more like 10% instead of 1%.
That is made on purpose. Welcome to clickjacking.
Interested in federated clusters. How is federation being scoped and who's doing most of the work on it?
Many of your critiques apply to many countries considered democracies. Excessive gerrymandering is an issue in many democracies including the US. Not to mention that in the US minorities are specifically targeted for exclusion. A lot of countries don't have term limits for heads of state (for most of its history the US didn't). Press freedoms aren't what defines what a dictatorship is either. Would Saudi Arabia be a democracy if suddenly all censorship laws are purged from the books?

> Except for the time he lost, and within two days a military coup of the democratically elected body put him back in power

LOL. The coup was done against him after being democratically elected in 2000 but it failed disastrously, making him some kind of a folk hero in most of Latin America. If you don't know this basic fact you really have no business talking about Venezuela, let along calling Chavez a dictator just because you didn't like the guy. Venezuela had many chances of getting rid of him democratically and they decided not to, we all can disagree about how wise a decision it was but that is different matter.
Yup. It's likely the "fellow" or "principal" position. The technical impact crosses teams and organizations, and can reach outside of VPs as well. Especially if you are writing software "the entire company depends on."
> The underlying theory, QCD, predicts that free particles (hadrons)^1 are bound states of quarks, and in this case bound states of two quarks and two anti-quarks.

Even though we presume to know the dynamical equations of QCD exactly, I am pretty sure it was never shown rigorously that tetraquarks are possible under those equations.
Yeah I'm not sure why people think consensus is a good strategy. The consensus established by a group should be about who you trust to make a decision, not the content of the decision itself.

i.e. when it comes down to the icon, your group should agree to trust the designer, and then trust the designer. The benefits are numerous: 1) People get to make the decisions within their realm of expertise, 2) No aimless debate, products are built faster, 3) If there was a bad decision, there is one person who made the decision, but the whole team should share accountability since they all agreed to trust the person who made that decision.

The process by which that decision is made is the process by which you select a person to make that decision. Ideally, that happens at the hiring level, so once, for example, a designer is assigned to your team, you already know that s/he is good enough to pick the right color. You don't have to engage in office politics to discover whether or not you can trust him/her, and you don't have to engage in office politics to allocate praise/blame in the event of particularly good/bad decisions.
Try disabling JavaScript. Without that, other than some iframe code up top, everything seems to display correctly on mobile Chrome.
I think that's a little optimistic and to be honest, unrealistic.

A problem shared is a problem halved. In this case every web developer needs to have a network of people to collaborate with in order to diagnose the problem.
There are windows sysadmins who schedule nightly server reboots "to keep the machines healthy". I've seen them in action. It is scary. The scariest part? It helps.
It is much more of a parallel track there, in the sense that it's a completely different job from that of a software engineer. Notice that they don't say anything about the length of each of the tracks. If it's money and power you care about, by all means, become a manager. Just don't expect that your job will be easy, or that you'll be able to do a ton of coding.
There are strongly substantiated rumors that the diphoton excess was a statistical fluctuation that has disappeared in the latest data. So, still no surprises out of the LHC overall.
http://www.gballard.net/firefox/

Edge & Firefox support color management; though for best results in firefox you'll want to toggle http://kb.mozillazine.org/Gfx.color_management.mode to 1 - the default is 2, which is Not Good. Edge works out of the box.
If any one here is doing serious DB based business logic with PostgreSQL (which I do recommend), I'd implore them to investigate and start using LATERAL JOIN.

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/postgresqls-powerful-new-join-...

This is no doubt a game changer in the way you organize (modularise for reuse) your views, functions and stored procedures.

In the MS SQL world it's CROSS APPLY.
Follow-up: Looks like I'm heading onward towards 21 months, and counting.
It's a bit dense, but I found the first few chapters to be the worst. Once you get past the dull beginning, the rest is really interesting. I think it's a GREAT book! (We used it in all of my algorithms classes.)
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So 51% of people in the UK are chavs?
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One of the top reviewer comments on Amazon from 2014 before the kertuffle. If this is the case, she's written something which is more like a memoir than investigative journalism and her work was not mislabeled:

"The first is Kim herself. The first 30% of the book is heavily autobiographical, for no apparent reason. She "loves" her students before even two weeks have passed, which devalues the unnamed "lover" in New York she refers to consistently but rather pointlessly. She has passages of overly flowery language that seem to have been taken from a novel not written; strangely, but thankfully, they disappear by the 2nd half of the book.

Those sections would have been better served by giving us information on things like how many students were at the school, and how many teachers there were, and whether this was meant to replace a normal college education or merely supplement it. She frequently mentions that things are "forbidden", but never conveys how this information is conveyed to the teachers. Various things are "approved", but again there is no description of how this happens. Are written submissions made? Do teachers ask their minders face to face? Does the (foreign) college president play any role in the decisions?"

And another:

"This book is divided into two parts. In the first part of the book we are taken on a small journey as you learn about the life of the author. I was moved to think what culture shock she must have experienced when she explains having to move to the United States during her early teenage years and having to adapt to a new language and society. I love how Kim uses these experiences in order to relate them to the subject of the book which in turn would be her stay as a teacher at the PUST School in North Korea. The first half of the book speaks concerning her first visit years before to North Korea and the impact it had on her life."
I'm surprised the .net executable wasn't obfuscated (as they usually are)
Website that we were running was under DDOS couple of years ago, what we did is we took ips of servers that made ddos. Then we scanned the ports, found vulnerability in the application that was running on it then get into the server using this vulnerability. We checked open connections and found one used for command and control server (irc server) then we listened to irc channel. DDOSers were talking private things on that channel... Then we entered their channel and disabled all their bots using their own software that we got source from link pasted on their channel. Then we confronted them, period of silence after they have read what we wrote was priceless. They never ddosed us again.
I just hope someday the general public realize what a poor job Microsoft has done regarding security on Windows operating systems and embrace other (and more promising) alternatives
My bad - I meant a^(n-3) many different cubes of side a plus b^(n-3) many different cubes of side b needing to cover the total volume occupied by c^(n-3) many different cubes of side c. In other words it is a way to try and find a proof by thinking in terms of shapes and using some kind of tesselation method.You could do the same in squares too I suppose.
This course is cringeworthily shallow. Short videos that don't go into details 'why' stuff happens. and people screaming 'WOW this is sooo useful' all the time without explainin why it's useful.
Did you mean to refer to I2P in that last sentence?
This bookmarklet was well received last time I mentioned it, so I'll link it again: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

Finds anything with position:fixed and deletes it. Reload the page to get the elements back if needed.
Are there any ideas for new technologies that give a more meaningful signal than BOLD with reasonable spacial accuracy?
Yeah you're right, it gets weird with close calls.

pro A: 51%
pro B: 49%

If B miners move to attack A, it means B will be successfully double-spent sooner. I'm not sure how best to coordinate the attack vs defense, but pretty sure ultimately the majority would win out. And yes, there is mutual destruction in play.

This is less of an issue with say, 67% and 33%.

Anyways, I also argue that there's only room for 1 secure PoW blockchain, and that's basically Bitcoin.
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Missing from this article entirely is AWS's shrewd marketing and ability to define and grow a market.

As other commenters and the article noted, when AWS was launched, it just provided simple, primitive building blocks like compute (EC2) and object storage (S3). At the time, AWS's value proposition was entirely around elasticity of infrastructure and its archenemy was data centers. In the process, they created a new market that came to be called Infrastructure as a Service.

Since then, AWS has gone up the stack steadily, adding infrastructure application services like RDS, ELB, etc. These infrastructure applications have made it easier and faster to deploy applications on AWS, but unlike pure infrastructure, they come with a degree of vendor lock-in. But developers didn't blink at all because it was so much more convenient than upgrading your own MySQL or setting up an HAProxy.

And now, AWS is squarely in the applications business. Last year, they announced Quicksight, signaling to the world that they are going to squeeze out business intelligence vendors. Few know that Amazon has Microsoft Outlook/Gmail for Work competitor called WorkMail. Slowly but surely, AWS is trying to swallow the entire enterprise software stack. I noticed that most people no longer describe AWS as "IaaS" but as "cloud infrastructure." I.e., their scope and market is expanding.

Key to this success is their strategic prescience and marketing execution, both for the developers and the suits. They knew what made developers happy (free/cheap to start, great API and documentation, scales well) and took the time to build solid infrastructure. For the suits, they created a clear vision of "old v. new" and used customers like Netflix to convey how the new world is going to run on AWS.

As a keen observer and practitioner of enterprise software marketing, AWS's rise to dominance is a textbook example.
broadly speaking, how would you design things? All I can think of doing is putting explicit permission grants on everything, requiring everyone to click a million times as was done with the first version of Vista's UAC, IIRC, which is no solution IMO.
Agree that for most situations, especially public internet facing, this is the right advice.

However, in addition to big companies using internally, it can also work when the environment is otherwise controlled. For example scylladb is built on top of seastar and has it's own userspace networking stack based on dpdk that it can use, and it works just fine since only other database instances and well-behaved clients will be interacting with those servers. No dedicated team required, just realistic isolation on the scope of this "custom" protocol.
PS: I know, I know, *everybody's doing it". That doesn't necessarily equate to being just, only that it is within our technological means. Some more relics from the past...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-...

https://www.aclu.org/cell-phone-location-tracking-request-re...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2986988/privacy/the-price-of-...
Same here. Spanish dev working from the US. Sad to see many people like us here. Most of my fellow graduate students are in the same boat, really few stayed in Spain.

It is not competitive at all compared to the US of other european countries. That along with the "special" office politics and extreme inefficiency that plague Spanish companies, makes it extremely uninviting to come back to Spain.
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I love this comment.

I'm self-taught too, and I really enjoy reading about other self-taught people doing great things. There are a lot of barriers for us (not all of them justified), and I empathize with the struggle.

Really sad to hear that you haven't gotten a software job yet. Usually I recommend that folks do enough open source work so that they can unquestionably prove that they can program; more solid proof than the average CS student can provide. Of course, this isn't always an option; as not everyone has that kind of time :( In your case you have written Lily, so this shouldn't be necessary either.

What were your interviews like? Were they all "frob a linked list"-type? I've noticed that most self taught people (incl me) don't bother with these things. They know how to frob a linked list, but are not experts at it. Which makes sense because there are a lot of more fun things out there to get better at :)

If this is the case for you, see if you can avoid such interviews; look for companies that ask more development-y questions. One such company I have had good experience with interviewing with Microsoft, and of course my current employer (Mozilla) asked good questions at my interviews. Of course, small sample space of interviews, ymmv :) If you need I can probably dig up more such companies from the experiences of friends in similar situations. Asking HN directly might also turn up some interesting opportunities.

Keep up the good work! :D
This is brilliant. Hack the hackers! Heheh.
And a comment on the article mentions someone in the area who has one!
Hi! Sorry, what was your email? (Feel free to ping me again with it.)
Is there anything similar available online?
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a few questions I'm wondering about, if anyone can help:

- how do those PW stealers work? are they similar to the Steam one, where it'd delete existing creds and then sniff newly entered ones?

- can this thing detect certain apps like FileZilla and then say "user entered <FTP site creds>" and send individual fields, and is that what is meant by supporting say FTP and FileZilla?

- what does PHP support mean? maybe looks for common stuff like php.ini, various other conf files like FPM, and tries to find DB/cache connection creds?

there's one other thing I'm wondering about, which is the light/easily crackable encryption of the keylogger's internals, and I vaguely remember reading about Google's encryption on the new recaptcha and people talking about all this stuff like complicated encryption routines baked into the client side JS that I really didn't understand except at a handwavy level, and wonder if that's the kind of thing some, say, intelligence/espionage outfit could use.

very interesting/engaging (fun) article, all in all, for me. and I appreciated the understatement of the (well-deserved) plug at the end.
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Window functions... ORMs will probably never support them
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Obviously no matter how you slice it I was in a good position. I don't deny that and never meant to.
So, from the stories I hear; S3 came into being when an engineer in the Retail Org in Seattle ran out of disk storage and couldn't provision a server fast enough. He wrote a '6 pager' and pitched the idea to the S-team (SVPs reporting to Bezos back in the day) who then decided to pursue the business [0].

EC2 was, in some capacity, a tech borrowed from the Alexa (analytics) acquisition, which teams in Cape Town built upon.

SimpleDB (worked upon since 2005, and managed by people acquihired from Junglee.com), morphed into DynamoDB (started 2009-11) pretty immediately as they realised that it was going to be no where near enough.

Bezos personally pursued Werner Vogels to lead the web services initiative sometime in 2003. A lot of folks from the Retail Org, who solved problems of enormous complexities for Amazon.com, the website, got together to create AWS.

[0] Side note: Amazon's top hierarchy meets once every year and decides to invest in two new buinesses Amazon has never been involved in, or markets it can transform due to its involvement in multiple sectors... that's why there's so much happening at any given point in time at Amazon. It's really an incredible place if innovation is what drives you.
Im brazilian and I just laughed out loud on this one. Indeed, be careful with that one.
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My personal laptop is a Thinkpad, when comparing it to a MacBook Pro it's a joke. Build quality is mediocre, the screen is garbage, trackpad is only OK etc. The keyboard is miles better though. I still prefer to own it over a MacBook as I run Arch on my personal machines, but from personal experience Apple hardware has always been of superior build quality than PC alternatives.
These do not fall under "selection bias" when you take this article into context. According to the definition of "selection bias": "Selection bias is the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed."

> The first form of selection bias is inside your country. If you don't already have status and wealth, then you won't even be able to overcome the cognitive/emotional load that's required to leave your country.

But what you said doesn't reflect reality. Many of those who migrate to the US (or equivalent developed country) are either through scholarships/grants or already have a job offer. They do not have any sort of cognitive/emotional load. I'm sure every country allows a greater portion of immigration for competent people (irrespective of their social standing or economic stability) as opposed to those who have wealth/status and not contribute back to their society.

> The second form of selection bias is when the Immigration Officer says yes or no.

How is this "selection bias" and how does it apply to the context of the article we are discussing?

> The first form of selection bias is far more effective at weeding out the "low" earners and ensuring the top earners are pre-selected for immigration.

Why would a "top earner" want to go to the US if he is already a "top earner"? This makes no sense.

> There is a third form of selection bias but that may not help with this conversation, and that's geographical. Crossing an ocean has historically been seen as riskier then crossing land, so that weeds out the risk averse.

I think you are confusing the term "selection bias" as applied to this article with issues faced during immigration.

My question has nothing to do with the problems one faces during immigration. It has more to do with those who have already immigrated and earning substantially more than the natives (according to the article about 117% more). My question is why this gap between the immigrated vs the natives with respect to median income.
I use Slick to access Postgres and it does support postgres window functions: https://github.com/tminglei/slick-pg#details