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No, Beverley Hills is desirable specifically for its prestige.

San Francisco is desirable as location convenient to jobs and transportation.

Not having more housing in Beverley Hills has no real impact on the rest of LA. Not having more housing in San Francisco means the extra demand spills over into a variety of other places.

Higher Density housing does not necessarily result in a location being less-nice. Vancouver BC has made a point of choosing trading density over suburban sprawl with supposedly nice results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver#Cityscape
Technically there's no plural in the "X Window System", X or X11 for short. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System)

Windows is a Microsoft product.
"Every entrepreneur should..." = bogus advice.

Every entrepreneur is different, and has different goals. Fortunately, there are lots of different things you can do with your business, so lots of people can be happy.

This is just a ridiculous attention ploy.
As long as the rules are reasonably stable, it's not "pinned on landlords", because they presumably already took those considerations into account when purchasing their property, so everything is priced in already, and it's a wash from their perspective. The only people really injured would be those who purchased property under one regulatory regime, and then unexpectedly had it changed out from under them to a different regulatory regime.
A combination of deep learning (as in the recent google brain) and reinforcement learning can create AGI according to Professor Itamar Arel. (singularity summit 2009 video)
HE in Fremont is a very special place. I have about 10 racks there. They're cheap and bandwidth is free, the support is awesome, but it's a ghetto, to put it simply. Or a hippie camp.
The racks are telecom, not computer ones (which means that they're shallow and narrow, 30" long server prevents the back door from closing). The power is not redundant and only 15A per rack tops (extra amps are ridiculously expensive).

But for a frugal startup it's perfect - cheap, good connectivity, awesome support, easy access. Not very reliable, right, but you don't have many users, don't ya?
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An east-west Geary subway line has been proposed since the 1930s, but it's really expensive to build in an earthquake zone, and the city / taxpayers just haven't been willing to pay what it'd cost.

That hasn't stopped the MUNI subway expansion north under 4th Street and Stockton.

http://centralsubwaysf.com/
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>I think humans have learned not to cheat - for the most part - because at the most basic level cheating reduces the group's overall survival rate.

I'm pretty sure that our anti-cheating behaviors are mostly instinctive responses, rather than something humans learned. We have an emotional concept of "fairness" that causes us to punish cheaters. There's also no need to invoke group selection to explain this (which is good, because group selection has been pretty thoroughly falsified). Game theory gives us perfectly adequate explanations in terms of individual self-interest for why cheater-punishment is an advantageous behavior.
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Define "most". It's not suitable for any app I've written in the last 25 years. But I don't do server work, I do client work. Native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and consoles.

It might be useful for some command line tools I've written but since nearly every command line tool I've written in the last 25 years has been to make data for my C++ client side apps there's a benefit to being able to share code.

Of course I know that's just one anecdote, mine. If it fits most of your use cases awesome.

For me, one thing that might go a long way to use Go is are cross platform client side libraries like WinForms. Once of the things that makes C# so popular with my crowd is how easy it is to make tools with GUIs. Of course C# also interfaces with native data pretty well. No idea how well Go handles that case
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Because it looks better in the pricelist? 20A for $500 is better than 15A for $500.
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Here is Cuban's blog entry in which he states that HFT-ers are (the bad type of) hackers: http://blogmaverick.com/2010/05/09/what-business-is-wall-str...
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And code editors are quite obviously going to be used to create spyware, virus and Trojans. What is exactly your point?
The internet is harnessed for piracy. I guess we'd better turn it off then.
Definition of prop shop, for those unfamiliar with the term: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/prop_shop.asp
I wish there was a job search website where to actually advertise a position there were mandatory requirements like the company name and salary being displayed as part of the ad.

Whats the reasoning behind posting completely vague job descriptions (sometimes the location isn't even provided!).

I Would say 90% of the job postings I see online don't even give me enough information to want to contact them.
There's no way to make everyone happy, but pretty much all the options suck. Setting up yet another account sucks. OpenID sucks because nobody intuitively understands it. My login is a URL?? WTF? Facebook/Google/whatever login sucks because some people don't have it and some people who have it don't trust it.

I don't have any answers.
Hey, you spelled prgmr.com wrong. (You got it right in the <a> tag though.)
The irony is that the parallel you made with chefs just proves my point. E.g.: chefs care about delicious dishes, great presentations, evoking emotions, not keeping customers waiting, etc. On the other hand, go ask a chef if he loves chopping vegetables ;) In fact, they couldn't care less about this kind of minutae and develop techniques to do it fast and not waste time. Analogously, coding is the chopping of software development.
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I for one don't agree with HFT. Why should our best hackers and mathematical minds be wasted on something so shallow as gaming the market?

Would a small randomised delay introduced by the exchange into each stock trade (or price datum) reduce the incentive for HFT?
It's really cool that Maciej is so open about his setup. This is especially true given how opinionated people are about these sorts of operations. For example:

I'm hoping the Hurricane Electric facility he mentions is Fremont 2. The Fremont 1 facility has been plagued with power and packet loss issues over the last year (ask your friends with Linodes in Fremont all about it ;)

It also seems a shame to put both of the deployments so close together. Proximity to your machines is a non-issue with a decent colo provider: his example of driving to Vegas every time a drive fails assumes that the provider would be unable or unwilling to sell him 20 minutes of remote hands. Spend a little extra money up front for out-of-band access to your infrastructure and leverage the provider for the physical stuff!
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DataTables is the best single purpose javascript library I have ever used, and I used a ton. I love it.
Not only good programmers hate programming, they also try to make it suck less. That's when they come up with new languages, frameworks and abstractions ;)
@Nitramp: Fortunately for all of us this world is full of unsolved problems many of which exist outside of consumer web.

There are use cases where 50ms is way too long, and where jitter associated with disk I/O is not acceptable. Capital markets for example. You are looking for sub-millisecond latency to be in the intraday post-trade game, and single digit milliseconds for quote-to-trade. The number of instructions in the hot code path (and cycles per instruction) actually starts to matter. Lock-free sturcutres utilized for storage are also important. This combination gives MemSQL some rather unique low-latency properties that certain folks can exploit to their delight.

To your other point, random reads and key-value lookups is where MemSQL shines. Since you never wait on I/O and don't take locks, optimizing execution makes a lot of sense actually. All that's left is execution and network.
Hi, I'm the first person quoted on the testimonials page. I've gotten a few emails related Bridge and my job, and I'd like to clarify: The email that quote came from was personal, and not at all related to my employment at Facebook (specifically, it is not an endorsement by Facebook). I use Bridge for personal projects, and that's what my email was referencing. I've asked that my quote be made clearer, and I'm sorry if you were confused or misled by the ambiguity.
I can corroborate this for Tripplite switched PDUs, but their dumb metered PDUs always held up for me.
Here's what I got here:

You and this LinkedIn user don’t know anyone in common
You can only view the profiles of users within your network.
there's only so much you can do. That's not really true, per the linked article above.

As far as I'm concerned the lack of cheap housing in San Francisco is no more of a problem than the lack of cheap housing in Beverley Hills.

See Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City for more about why this is a problem. For example, he cites an array of research that comes to this conclusion:

"Cities enable collaboration, especially the joint production of knowledge that is mankind's most important creation. Ideas flow readily from person to person in the dense corridors of Bangalore and London, and people are willing to put up with high urban prices just to be around talented people, some of whose knowledge will rub off.

Rousseau famously wrote, 'Cities are the abyss of the human species,' but he had things completely backward. Cities enable the collaboration that makes humanity shine most brightly. Because humans learn so much from other humans, we learn more when there are more people around us. Urban density creates a constant flow of new information that comes from observing others' successes and failures" {Glaeser "Triumph"@247}.

In other words, having a large concentration of smart people leads to new ideas and "the joint production of knowledge." Preventing people from moving to cities through price restrictions means less knowledge and has an array of negative environmental consequences.
the most idiotic move a recruiter does is sending emails to work email address. That's a big no no. It's easy to guess a work email address, but sending a job offer to it? that's stupid. Also same with calling the company switchboard and asking for my name and leaving job offer info in voice mail. crap!
So what happens when two of these play each other? At least one of them has to not win, thus decreasing the track record from 100%.
Last I heard, they were not quite ready to take on more clients at the moment so they closed signup until they could scale their services better.
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Naturally, I use a text editor almost all the time. That doesn't make this licensing model any better though: it's still annoying, and there are still superior alternatives that are free in both senses of the word. For me, that alternative happens to be Emacs, but there are other options that are almost as good :P.

Of course, it is much harder to learn how to use Emacs properly (navigating with the keyboard, using more obscure commands, writing your own elisp... and so on). However, as everybody has pointed out, your text editor is probably your most important tool; it seems odd to be willing to put down some money on one but not willing to sit down with a tutorial and learn how to use something like Emacs well. Sure it might slow you down for a bit (it took me about a week to get as proficient with Emacs as I was before), but it's completely worth it in the long run. I've been using Emacs for almost three years now, and it's helped me do all sorts of things more efficiently than I would have with another editor.
Thanks for the shout-out, Hang!

Altay from 10x Management here. Yup, we're doing this, and ramping up quickly. Feel free to get in touch (email in profile) if you want to learn more.
Is Maciej still hellbanned from HN?
> There are huge numbers of claims, but who among the multitudes has the evidence?

And here you are making all kinds of claims, without presenting a shred of evidence. Ponder on that.
How would job board enforce that?
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I had to hire a writer previously. Not being a writer, and never having done this before I was wondering what I could ask them. But it seems more relevant just to ask them to write something than to quiz them or ask them to repeat tongue twisters (I don't understand the benefit of that). So I did 2 rounds where I asked candidates to write a short article on a topic with some loose instructions. I figured, whatever they answer in interview questions the real candidate I wanted will be found based on what article they chose to write and the actual quality of their writing.

For the more typical Q&A interview process all I wanted to find out was would they be a good cultural fit.

Perhaps I oversimplified it but it worked out quite well.
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Have you watched the video? Have studied the subject?
The terms are fuzzy, but tuple spaces aren't solving the same problem RPC. That is, you can _use_ RPC to implement tuple spaces. But not the other way around!

Message queues are basically the modern tuple spaces, and I'll bet all the companies listed above use message queues too.

RPC has its place but it's overused. It's a low level primitive, not a distributed systems architecture. Some people's architecture is basically just RPC spaghetti, with a naive handling of errors.

The argument is confused by the fact that you can use an RPC with messaging semantics (async, a single argument data payload), and you can use a messaging system with RPC semantics (i.e. tunneling RPC over HTTP, using HTTP as transport).

I think we basically have to stop using the word RPC as a catch-all for so many systems, and identify which choices are good and which ones lead to design mistakes.
Exactly my thought - I guessed that MC was praising us. Sigh, you'd think we HFT practitioners were, I dunno, Goldman Sachs or something like that. ;) (jk, GS, you know we love you ...)

Good list, also. I work with some really smart programmers and tech people and HFT is a great laboratory to work on tough technical problems in the real-world, with real results.
If people can't find the Pirate Bay, maybe this is possible too. But they'd have to charge a lot and I don't know how many Silk Roads there are in the world.

(If we get lucky maybe rdl will stop by.)
Because it's a slippery slope from there to eliminating property rights entirely. If you require companies to declare all instances under which they will terminate service they'll just amend their ToS or add insanely broad clauses that let them disconnect anyone at any time.

This is the fundamental problem with SaaS and web APIs more generally (a SaaS application is just a web API for humans in some sense): you don't control it.

It isn't installed on your hard drive. If the vendor says "you can't use this any more" you can't give them the middle finger and keep using your copy while you find a good lawyer. You're done. That's it.

Does that mean I think everyone should stop using SaaS and APIs? Absolutely not. I would cry if I had to give up Google Docs, Gmail, etc. But I'm not under any illusions about who is in charge, and I make decisions accordingly.
I find common lisp to be plenty practical, its libraries mostly satisfactory(restas/cl-redis/cl-closure-template make a good combo for playing with web development), and its community's frankness and no bullshit attitude are rather refreshing after spending some time in the land of the cool kids. Also these lists of success stories contain some impressive shit:

http://www.franz.com/success/
http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/
http://wiki.alu.org/Industry%20Application

PS Land of lisp is an awesome book.
Really? I thought the Oxford Comma question was the only useful one there. You might have to define the term but it's good at showing basic knowledge of grammar conventions.

Anyway this article has a point that this process isn't effective for finding good writers, but I'll be damned if asking people to write one or two sentences doesn't filter out the illiterate people that wander in your door (think FizzBuzz).
I was very interested in HFT when I was in uni. Then I discovered the minimum sunk costs of running a HFT startup and my balls shrank.

So now I create my own matching markets which is still based on high speed trading theories, but without the pressure.

But if ever you're interested, my email is my username here at gmail
A perfect example of the time-wasting that he says you should avoid.
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I have no problem with HFT, but only because it is turning machines into things that are doing what humans did before, only at a speed that we can't keep up with as humans with our inherently physical interfaces.

How is HFT different than traditional arbitrage except for the fact that it is faster and potentially at a scale that normal traders would never be able to keep up with? How is buying something one second and selling the next inherently different than buying one day and selling the next? Speed?

Does computers being faster make it any more unfair than when one trader has access to millions or billions of dollars when I only have access to hundreds or thousands? I don't think so.

Now, one could argue that HFT disrupts the way that Wall Street has worked for decades, but really, it is shifting the profit from traders, bankers, and fund managers to HFT firms. Sure, Wall Street probably doesn't like it, but does anyone like it when someone disrupts their market and takes their profit?

You could also argue that HFT doesn't add value because HFT firms inherently don't do anything other than trade millions of stocks only for the sake of trading them, but how is this worse than day trading or running any other fund other than the turnover rate?

Perhaps I'm blind to the real issues, but I just don't see a huge difference between HFT and traditional Wall St. trading, except maybe that it magnifies the problems inherent in the system due to speed and scale.
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> every app is totally different in the kinds of queries it needs

There is more to SQL than queries. Every app need insert, updat, and delete, and a basic select 1 and select many matching a predicate. Those can all be automated; that's what ORM's do, they automate the repetitive simple stuff.

More complex queries that strain the ORM's abilities can be done in SQL in a view, and then mapped in by querying the view with the ORM. Or you can just drop into raw SQL when necessary. Every app is not different, they are largely all very similar.
Should be Titled: "Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase MY Happiness".

For me it does but I practice a very different and rare form of meditation. I can only call it "Sleeping Awake". Which took a while to achieve.

Basically, when you go to sleep at night your body slows its breathing & heart rate and you loose feeling of your limbs, while your mind looses consciousness and you black out. Your body and mind shut down at the same time. With meditation, particularly deep meditation (out of body experience / trance / hypnosis) you "sleep awake". Your body shuts down and goes to sleep but you are completely conscious the entire time. You can't feel your limbs, heart beat, or lungs breathing. You completely loose track of time and gravity and feel like you're floating around in a massive black, empty, nothingness.

If feels like you're floating around in the universe before it was made. Completely empty and quiet. No gravity. No direction. No time. No space. No memories. No emotions. No body. No flesh. It's the most peace you'll ever experience in your life apart from sleep and death. There's absolutely nothing on your mind. The only thing you're aware of, is your existence. That's all. And when you wake up, you feel amazingly refreshed. Not just physically but mentally. For me personally, I feel content and happy the rest of the day.

It makes me happy because the experience reminds me that, honestly, I don't matter. None of us do. We might matter to each other, but to the universe (which is mostly empty) our existence is worthless, useless, meaningless, purposeless. No matter what happens in your life, good or bad. Existence goes on, even after life is gone. And this concept, that nothing really matters, just takes a huge load off your shoulders. I don't know why "Sleeping Awake" evokes these feelings but it just does. It's a very calming and neutral experience.

So meditation for me did the opposite of what it did to the author of the article. It allowed me to control my emotions much more and see things from a neutral point of view. It allowed me to think, and observe an event or thought BEFORE reacting to it with an opinion or emotion.
IIRC from earlier blog posts, Maciej built at least a few of his servers by hand. I imagine he got sucked into the "beautiful details" he mentions needing to resist in this one. (I think he's also mentioned he's having them built for him, now, but I believe they're still not from major vendors.)
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First, let's just ignore the straw man of:

>Honestly, is this any different from a company ninety years ago denying service to non-whites because it "could be perceived as encouraging the races to intermarry?"

I think we can both agree that it's a hyperbolic statement. Moving beyond that, as a company, I should have every right to decide who can and cannot use my service. Just because I provide a public-facing API doesn't mean I have to allow you do to what you want with it. You're building off of my brand and my infrastructure. If I don't want Initech Inc. to be associated with file sharing, fire arms, or even the Irish, that's entirely within my rights. I'd be far more aghast if companies were forced to take any comers.

On this specific issue, scan the headlines:

"Pirate’s dream come true: Boxopus pushes torrents to your Dropbox account"
"Boxopus Is A Pirate Friend, Drops Torrents Directly Into Dropbox‎"
"New App Makes Pirating Movies A One-Click Process"

The articles also point out that Boxopus was quickly integrated with a number of torrent sites that host bootleg downloads.

The absolute last thing Dropbox wants to be associated with is piracy. The company is in much more danger of going out of business due to piracy issues than to any competitor.