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F# undoubtedly helped them in this regard.
Interesting timing because I am working on a service that does exactly this. Essentially I will be your agent. Tell me the job you want and your salary and I still get it for you. Help you schedule, cleanup your resume etc... in return I get 10% of your paycheck for a year.

I am currently beta testing it with a handful of people but if interested email me at eibrahim@gmail.com
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I am not sure, you would have to research that. I think I recall articles about Yelp removing fake reviews. I definitely know, that suing over Ebay reviews is a thing. Ebay als has a formalized process.
The market sounds a little imbalanced. If they were competing with other restaurants then that would be an option. But they aren't competing with other restaurants. They are competing with companies that give the food away free to their employees. Those companies can afford to pay the chefs, and kitchen staff more because they don't make money selling the food. They make money on high margin digital goods. The market will only sustain so many $500 a meal restaurants. The casual dining restaurants, which sound like the hardest hit, can only increase their prices so much before they price themselves out of the market.
For sure. My point here is not that firebase is the end all be all, but that when you choose to rely on a technology/PaaS you need to do your own due diligence. Every person, project, company, etc has their own requirements and ability to make certain types of trade offs.

If one fails to do their proper due diligence, then they'll end up in a similar situation to OP. And that's okay, it happens to all of us every now and then. But when you screw up that decision despite there being ample documentation, blogs, and known limitations readily available to you with a few Google searches, then IMO it's inappropriate to write a slam piece against the technology/PaaS like OP did.
People have to learn sometime. Not everyone is a grizzled old veteran.
If you are going to quote me please sample the entire logical phrase.

> not everyone 'gifted' is rational, nor do they necessarily compartmentalize.

This was directly implied by the OP.

> but anyone rational, especially "gifted", compartmentalizes it and moves on.

OP's statement implicitly states 'rational' beings are a group and 'gifted' are a subgroup of 'rational' beings.

OP directly implies 'gifted' is rational.
Do you know what a hypothetical is? Can you even comprehend what this person is saying?

"Textbook example" indeed...
Why, craigslist.org of course!

Seriously, half the posts on Craigslist are recruiters scouring major metropolitan areas for leads. Reply to enough posts on Craigslist, and recruiters will find you.
There's nothing specific to tech about this. In any place where rents increase more than 60% in a few years, whether that increase is caused by tech or anything else, lots of restaurants aren't going to make it. The same is true for many other small businesses with small profit margins, such as indie bookstores, for example.

On the other hand, I pass through downtown Palo Alto every weekday, and I see plenty of open restaurants. Many are able to succeed. It's not like the area is a wasteland of tech offices with private cafeterias. There are more people in downtown Palo Alto eating and drinking now than at any time in the past.
He has a point though that exercise that makes you sweat is deeply more effective as therapy (and health benefits).
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by an improperly tuned instance of DB2.
Jekyll recently got a first-party admin plugin that might meet your needs[1]. You'd still need to use a terminal to set it up. I'm not quite sure what you mean by not wanting local files, but your files would be wherever you're hosting your site from.

[1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin
They come to you, and then you can't get rid of them.
Can e-bikes revolutionise long-distance commuting?
It seems once again that you're defining the qualia in terms of some input/output formula. But that's missing my point; I used "external" inputs/outputs merely as an example. At what point do those inputs and outputs, whether they be internal or external, become qualia? In other words, from where does the "ability to experience" the inputs and outputs come from? Does the mere fact that the brain receives input make it able to experience the inputs?
If this were some ancient 20+ year old proprietary system that no one wanted to touch, I might buy it.

But a system built in 2012 can't provide a report on total cash seized? Honestly?
What is negative operating reserve?
I would never want to open a brick and mortar shop of any type, but I have this weird desire to build an automated food truck. A tablet on the side with big plexiglass windows so you can see the simple process internally building your food (sandwiches or burgers). Maybe I've been spending too much time here in Japan :-)
https://phenomic.io is missing in the list
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> If consciousness is just matter, why isn't yours accessible to me.

Because my matter and your matter aren't in close enough physical proximity or the appropriate configuration to have any communication with one another. Same way that you and I both live in houses, but my front door doesn't open into your living room.
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The "app" in this case would be client-side logic (e.g. written in JS) which might then render the blog client-side by pulling down the text for the blog. Ultimately, everything on the server is unchanging until you do a rebuild with new content.

So long as the hosted content isn't dynamically generated server-side when you visit, it's static.
This is basically what should happen.

I'm also unsure what relation tech has to it.

Either restaraunts/etc pay enough to make it possible for people to live there (and in turn, people living there pay for those things), or they close, eventually causing people to stop deciding to live in those parts (eventually helping to bring prices back down)

It happens right now that tech is a major industry in the area can afford to pay those people enough to live there.

But it's also probably true that people would not like PA as much if every restaurant closes.

So, .....

This is the same as the cities having trouble attracting police/firemen/etc because they can't pay enough.

Either the people living there will pay more, or they'll be okay with no police/firemen, or they'll decide they don't want to live in a place with no police/firemen, which will help bring prices back down.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a `setDay` method on the Date prototype?
Recently, I was using a JavaScript shell and was playing around with a `Date` object. When looking at the various methods, I saw getters for various parts of the date (`getSeconds`, `getMinutes`, `getHours`, `getDay`, `getMonth`, `getYear`, etc.). However, when looking at the setter methods available, I noticed that while there are methods `setSeconds`, `setMinutes`, and analogues for most of the getters, there is no `setDay` analog for `getDay`. From looking at the Mozilla documentation (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date), it appears that this wasn't an oversight of the shell implementation but seemingly part of the spec. To make sure thi wasn't just a Mozilla thing, I tried checking for the method in Node and in the Chrome console; neither of them had a `setDay` method.

Does anyone know what the historical reason is for the lack of a `setDay` method? Was it a mistake in an early implementation of the language that just got propagated through until today? Was it even a mistake at all? I can't think of any reason why the method should be omitted, but maybe I'm missing something. From googling, I can only find a few references to the `setDay` method being missing, and none of them have any explanation for this.
I'd normalize on instantiation. It is both a performance win, smaller code, and much simplier. Chanel names don't change so you dont have to keep them in sync in any real sense, and if they do, the setter has a very trival job of setting both the real and normalized name.
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It's not that consciousness "isn't real" in the sense that flying unicorns aren't real - it's that "consciousness" is just a word that humans made to describe a phenomenon, just like "turbulence."
It still does - I'm in Australia.
I would use the original title instead of this click-bait-ified one.
yes, that's an example of when everything was discoverable. Now, not everything is discoverable. Only some things.

I don't think anyone who uses osx would be unaware that the trash can is in the dock.
> Representations which have low to zero mutual information with the current sensory input are simply not computed-with.

Who decides that a particular representation in the brain has zero mutual information with current sensory input? This requires a comparison of some sort (i.e. computation).
A number of these (Jekyll, Octopress and Hexo) are disappointingly similar. I wish they offered novel solutions rather than the same Liquid templates + YAML front matter + Markdown/ReStructuredText.
Well, it's restricted to educational uses, so I don't anticipate a lot of pressure from Indian textbook authors on this one. The specific case seems to stem from professors suggesting students read various sections of different texts and the copying service preparing collections of those reading assignments for various courses.

It's a broader interpretation than the US version of Fair Use, obviously, but it seems to me the High Court judge had a good point that copyright must serve the public's interests as well as the publisher's.
Perhaps I'm just not smart enough to understand what the hell this article is driving at. But I'm pretty confident in my personal understanding of "consciousness": it's a word that we use to describe our "experiencing" of the physical world, which is an emergent property of our incredibly complex neurological infrastructure.

Is this article agreeing with me, or disagreeing with me? I can't honestly tell.
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Since they didn't mention even an estimate of the server costs, it's safe to say that it's probably not large enough to cause a stir over, at least in comparison to the cost of what they'd charge for using their CSS and other front-end code.

They could've just denied access to the assets so that the AJ webdevs would have to recopy-refix them, while at the same time continuing the legal press. A couple of weeks is not a long time when going through the legal system.

I'm not saying that winning a lawsuit is the ideal situation. I'm saying it leaves open the possibility that someone with actual power at AJ notices the problem, gets things fixed, and says, "Hey, this is a cool product, can we talk about a long-term deal for future stories?".

Now they not have virtually no chance in getting AJ as a customer, which is too bad because AJ actually has money for these kinds of deals. But even if scrollytelling didn't want to work with AJ out of principle, they've now unnecessarily turned off other big media clients. Big media clients, i.e. traditional outlets with the morals, lawyers, and funds to pay for proper distribution contracts. These companies generally have lawyers who do not like dealing with vendors who litigate over Twitter.
Even better, doesn't look to be available in Australia at all.
I've thought it through and the outcome is the same: A mountain of reviews by people who are most likely unaffected... before facts are established... and guilt is proven.

A modern day witch hunt.

I've "thought it through" and came to a different conclusion than you.

I've concluded that modern day "warriors" decide that mistakes must be highlighted in any way possible before all the facts are known. BURN THE WITCH!!!

SJW's care more about the fight than about actual truth and real justice.

There are more than a few instances of BURN THE WITCH! followed by "Woops, the facts say something different". Rarely followed by an apology.
Set up a good LinkedIn profile with up-to-date resume and set your location as where you want to work, and the recruiters will come to you. Do the resume part first, so that when you set your location, you'll show up for any recruiters searching as new in that location and with a full resume ready to view.

Go to any meetups or conferences you can find for tech stuff. You'll probably find plenty of recruiters, or at least people who can introduce you to some. I've got pile of recruiters messaging me on LinkedIn, and they almost all explicitly ask if I can point them at any other candidates who are looking. Bring business cards with your email, phone, and website, even if you have to get them made yourself.

In my experience, doing any of this even half-heatedly is plenty to get you so many recruiters that you'll start wondering how to get them to leave you alone after you take a job.
I have been eyeing Lektor[1] for a little while, it seems to have good documentation, and an interesting, opinionated dev behind it.

1: https://www.getlektor.com/
I'm very surprised that Sphinx wasn't listed. It powers readthedocs.org and is generally very popular for software documentation.
The original is interesting and relevant even if you never intend to touch a tennis racket in your life.
Yes and no. Once a half dozen components take a common dependency, that dependency tends to grow large and complex. Where each component needed a simple string templating class (for example), the aggregate dependency ends up doing too much and is overengineered. It has multiple layers of abstraction to make the various string manipulation classes "look the same" and therefore justify DRY refactoring.

So yes, you can just "rehydrate" the dependency into each component, but you often end up needing a fair bit of work for each component to untangle the mess and create the minimal dependency that each component actually needs. If you just want to copy the dependency directly, then sure, that's typically pretty easy. But that's also typically a pretty terrible outcome as now you have tons of duplicated code and modifying the dependency implies duplicate work, and worse, duplicate pointless work as you must maintain the pieces your component doesn't even use.
What is the productivity threshold? How will workers hold anyone accountable for this?

These questions arise from the fact that profits and productivity have soared, while employment and most people's incomes have stagnated or dropped.
That's not what happens.

What happens is that the policemen, firemen, and restaurant workers commute from areas where it is cheaper to live. It's been that way in Palo Alto for a while, and it certainly has not caused any downward pressure on prices.
The single worst thing about itunes, in my opinion, is the way it handles duplicate songs. It has a "detect duplicates" feature, but all that does is show a list of groups of songs that it thinks are duplicates, and it has false positives! But the one thing it can't do, is detect when you've added multiple copies of the exact same file in the same directory.

My music collection needs to by synced across computers, and if it refused to add the exact same file twice, then the operation would be trivial. Add mp3s to your music directory, drag and drop all files to itunes, and let it detect new songs. Since it's not, I have to do a long series of "okay, the timestamp on this file is newer than the newest added-on date in itunes.... I think.... except this directory was untarred, so it retains old timestamps, and blah blah blah..."
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Im currently working on a project for a large refined products company that is run by IBM. Its totally plausible that they created a bad solution. The last 3-4 projects Ive worked on were run by Big 4 consulting companies, and with each I've become more convinced that they are a drain on the economy.
But why are we talking about this in terms of "mysteries"? We'll always be able to reduce things down to a level where we don't know how it works. Right now, sure, we don't know what makes matter matterial, but for the purposes of the consciousness conversation, is that relevant? Just because we don't understand why electrons are electrons, does that prevent us from understanding how electricity works? "Consciousness" is an emergent property of our incredibly complex neurological infrastructure; just because we don't understand why the atomic components of that infrastructure doesn't mean that the emergent property has some "mysterious" aspect any more than anything else does.
There is no proof of an external world, since nobody has ever experienced it. Everything you consider to be a part of that external world is mediated through your mind.

In short, you exist in virtual reality which is really manifested by your mental map which is layer upon layer of memories, personality traits, beliefs and thoughts.

That does not necessarily mean that "you" create _the_ world, only that your mind gives raise to the subjective reality you have access to, the only reality you have access to.

There may be an external, objective world out there, but we wouldn't be able to directly access it.
Maybe its just to avoid confusion with date handling? Seems that a call to setDay would really just be a call to setDate with +/- 6 days.
it is called setDate , i know, a bit confusing haha

var today = new Date() // today is 19/09/2016

console.log(today.getDate()) // will print 19

today.setDate(20)

console.log(today.getDate()) // will print 20
> I guess the whole thing will sort itself out when I switch to android in the next few months.

The stock android music app was, last time I punished myself by using it, terrible. This cloud integration stuff is so damn pushy. I wish there was something out there with only the features of winamp, but enough UI polish that it doesn't look like some college kid's hobby project.
I read "The Inner Game of Music" ages ago and found it helpful to my choral singing at the time. It's probably been revised since I read it, but more than one of the reviews on Goodreads suggest that reading the original one on Tennis might be preferable. (For one, "If you're looking for similar concepts I would highly recommend reading 'the Inner Game of Tennis'. It presents the same concepts but in a more concise manner that does not assume the reader is clueless. The tennis metaphors are not a hindrance and the book is considerably shorter!" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/848522.The_Inner_Game_of...)
(Whoops, I mean _second_ form.)
Try hired.com. My experience with them was nearly identical to working with a recruiter, but a lot less hassle IMO.
Red is one of those languages that I forget about until a story like this comes along, and then I'm reminded how much I want it to mature to 1.0. Looks like full I/O support will be probably be released in the next 12 months or so, which will really open up some interesting opportunities. (The Rx capabilities in the current version mean that the only thing holding me back from using it in a professional capacity is the lack of an OSX GUI backend.)
Baseball stadium effect is studied hugely still and in most complex calculations taken into account in some way (usually as an offset for specific traits or types of hits or plays).

Batting order is thought of to mostly be figured out mathematically at least now. In cricket, if you are talking about 20-20, I expect that to be the case too. If you are talking about match, then I'm not sure.

I'm curious what similarity there is in pitch / bowling selection. That is just starting to get looked at in baseball now.
Actually, I believe this helped Cisco on the balance, as it delayed many companies on their march to cloud. China's been favoring Huawei equipment for a long time.
> The system...was built on top of SAP's enterprise resource planning software platform and IBM's DB2 database by Capgemini in 2012, and was used as a flagship case study by the company.

That's just embarrassing.
Even that doesn't work.

Epiphenomenalism is [roughly] a conception of the mind as a non-physical entity that 'creates' conciousness, but interacts with the physical world in a read-only manner.

100% knowledge of all physical causes does not rule it out, and it does not rule out 100% physical causality.
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If you were to set the day, what would be the resulting date? Would you move forward or backward in time?
We have a 9/80 work week at my employer, and even then, they want people coming in on their days off. Never gonna happen in corporate America.
I agree wholeheartedly, but I wanted to provide an alternative choice of language that I think better describes what we must do:

Rather than:
"Let's use our extra wealth to give people some more leisure time."

We could say:
"Let's use our extra wealth to take more leisure time for ourselves."

My life goal is to help end the necessity of human work for our survival, and I think it's critically important that we understand that this will only happen if we take the time. John Maynard Keynes famously predicted in 1930 that as productivity rose, working hours would drop and at some point we would all be working 15 hour work weeks. That didn't happen though, and it seems in a huge part related to the fact that, as productivity rose business owners turned that in to profit for themselves rather than sharing the profits with workers.

So suggesting business owners "give" us that time seems unlikely, and I think we need to take it for ourselves. We can do that by becoming business owners ourselves, either by joining a cooperative[1] or by starting our own business, or we can do that by earning a high enough salary that working 4/5 as much would still pay the bills, and then negotiating hard with prospective employers until you find one that needs you enough to accept a 32 hour a week schedule.

Anyway, I'm completely agreeing with you, I've just spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about this and I think the language of suggesting we "give" this to workers critically misses out on the workers' agency and ability to take what they want for themselves.

Certainly, achieving this will not be easy and there are many problems, but I think it's a goal so worth achieving that we ought to work hard to figure that out.

[1] For more information on the benefits of a cooperative-business based economy, see the excellent book "Democracy at Work" By Richard Wolff:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13591849-democracy-at-wor...
There's also Haunt, written in Guile Scheme:

https://haunt.dthompson.us/
Do people actually want to do this? 10% of your pay for a year is a hell of a lot of money for some glorified secretarial work. The market is saturated with experienced, well-connected recruiters who can do all of that and get paid by the employer outside of the candidate's income. What do you offer over all of the other recruiters out there who, from the candidate's perspective, are $10,000+ cheaper to work with, and why is it worth that much money to me?
Please don't. HN threads are supposed to be conversations, and you wouldn't read an entire article into a conversation.
Ah. Not apparent to the uninitiated!
Yet. I wonder if there are plans to open an AWS DC in Texas.
> There's nothing specific to tech about this

Other users pointed this out as well, so we took the explicit reference to tech companies out of the title above.
I don't see how that would be any less hard to define than `setMonth` or `setHour`
But `getDate` is separate from `getDay`, so why isn't there a `setDay` as well as a `setDate`?
That was totally outweighed by the bullshit absolutist statement that everyone can cure depression with running.