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This seems to be a common misunderstanding. Admins and moderators have no different powers than anyone else. I (not an admin and not a moderator) can collapse answers with "improvements needed" any day of the week. So can most anyone else. It takes a special kind of person and insults being flung to become edit-blocked, something that happened to my knowledge and according to Bodnick less than ten times in the history of Quora. The author of the linked piece was one of those people because, alas, she could not be asked to act like a reasonable human among reasonable humans, that is treat everyone as an equal and debate on the merits, not the perception of standing.

Promotion of views is the same. Spend six months on Quora and establish yourself as a knowledgeable person in one area (see: Michelin chef Jonas M Luster in food or former police officer Justin Freeman in law enforcement) and you will have credits to promote content, including your own. Your standing in answers is based on votes, your power to elicit answers or promote questions is also based on it. Nothing that does not happen anywhere else. No one on Quora becomes a "superuser" over night, those who spent months giving insightful answers all have.
I caveat the list in the beginning with "If it’s not on the list then I’ve either read it already..."

In the cases that you mention this holds true.
Totally agree. Shawshank is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

Was the GP sarcastic or something, for using IMDB?
OK, total noob question here. Could we achieve the same thing with something like pgrphack from daemontools?

pgrphack sh -c "processes"

Kill the pid for the sh ("agent") and you thereby kill all the processes?

Again, sorry for the noob question. I'm still learning and making mistakes.
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Or they could have required you to dial in via 300bps modem.
Not only that, but more generally it seems to me that this "trust" system would cause a "bandwagon" effect on all posts. Other users would be afraid to downvote anything that was taking off, since they would knowingly be causing their own "trust" score to drop.
... Or not progressed. What can you do now that you couldn't do in 1990? All the extra power, and more, has been soaked up in deeper and deeper layers of abstraction. A desktop from then, like GEM or Workbench or Arthur is recognisably modern. Windows or OSX or KDE are just tweaks.

If computing in 25 years is more of the same, we'll have failed.
Maybe so, but from the perspective of a single writer or publication that's just a why.
Would Patio11 be able to charge the same rate as a developer as he does as a "I will help you sell more software" consultant?

I charge the same rate for software development as I do for making graphite etchings on paper in aesthetically pleasing patterns. Consulting clients buy both of these things from me, in isolation or combination, on a regular basis. So if that's the way you're asking the question, "Yes, I could."

If the question is "If you brought nothing to the table other than the ability to write Ruby code, would you be able to charge $YOUR_RATE for writing Ruby code?", I think I'll go with "I can guarantee you that someone gets that much for writing Ruby, and probably more besides, but it probably wouldn't be me" and "Wait wait wait, you seem to want to sell yourself as a commodity coder, don't sell yourself as a commodity coder, down that path lines madness."
Yes, mainly on IMDb. The Shawshank Redemption tops the IMDb, and The Avengers have a very high score 4.6/5 on Rotten Tomatoes.
I doubt you or I are actually qualified to comment on whether the net externalities of HFT are positive or negative. You are incorrect that there are no positive externalities. You might not care about your trades happening quickly, but that liquidity is what allows them to execute at a good price and also a part of what makes indexing possible.

I totally agree on the wisdom of unsophisticated investors who think they can back test some "strategy" based on trends and support levels and so on and then actually go and make money. It's unlikely to work, they probably have no understanding of what their actual risks are (I'm talking probabilities, not just value at risk at any given time), and they are losing money on trading fees unless they can actually point to some competitive advantage they have over other traders.
The point is, he brought his 'prior knowledge', which is expressly forbidden in the jury instructions. The parent basically proposed that every jury be made up of people like this.
>> We have a universe of discourse that has a bunch
>> of atomic things. A "set" is then a collection of things

> In set theory, they define numbers (and addition)
> starting from a set and element-of operator. I cannot
> imagine a bunch of atomic things without imagining
> numbers/counting first.

The point is that you can start with nothing, and define the set that has nothing in it. That's {}. Now we have one thing. We can define a set containing that, so we have { {} }. Now we have two things, and we can definea set containing both of them, and so on.

This is what happens when people want to construct a model of numbers and arithmetic using set theory as the basis. It proves that we can useset theory as the foundation. It doesn't mean it's a sensible thing to do in real life- it's a lot like programming in machine code.

> So it seems to me that unless set and element-of are left
> undefined (as others here have suggested), natural numbers
> are more fundamental than sets.

What are numbers? What is your model for numbers? What is "723"?

>> 0,9999... = 1

> What I am getting is that the "limit" is implicit in the
> statement above even though often unstated. The
> ellipsis is what signifies the limit there, being otherwise
> not mathematically defined.

So what is your question? You seem to be saying that when you write down "0.99999..." that is intended to represent the limit of the sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ... Define what you mean by limit. Once you make a careful definition of "limit" wou find that the limit of the above sequence is 1.

>> Call that collection A

> I get the precise definition of sack B. I am missing it for sack A.

Sack A has a cube with the number 1 written on it. And it has a cube with the number 2 written on it. And it has a cube with the number 3 written on it. And it has a cube with the number 4 written on it. And it has a cube with the number 5 written on it. And so on.

> I understand what happens on a given cube,

I assume you mean a cube in sack B.

> ... and that cubes in sack A are numbered 1 though infinity.

You can't say that with precision, because it is infinity you are struggling with. What you can say is that for every number n there is a cube with n on it, and that every cube has exactly one number written on it.

This level of detail matters.

> Is there anything to say about the numbers written on
> two different cubes in sack A?

Yes - they're different.

> Basically what you are saying is that sac A cannot have
> all possible combinations like sack B is defined to have.

No. I'm saying I have two collections of objects. I have very carefully defined what these objects are. And I'm saying that you cannot pair them off, one-to-one, without having things from sack B left over.

> I am not sure why that is.

I haven't proved it yet, so I haven't explained why this is so. I have merely claimed it is true to see where your understanding fails so far.
He explained it all in his comment.

(1) Being "already set up for testing" for an older OS version

and

(2) continuing to use the testing setup for that version in addition to ever increasing new test setups (for 10.6, 10.7. 10.8 etc) and codepaths

is not the same thing.

As you get newer OSs to support, maintaining older testing setups means more work, and more IFDEFS and such in the code.
My thoughts exactly-- if we don't understand how organic consciousness works, how can we hope to replicate it artificially?
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That doesn't look like OAuth to me, it looks like application level passwords.

Looks like a great addition though, limiting scope is always a benefit
> The issue with them using a static key for encrypting the local password is another thing

Actually, it is the thing that I was referring to. Doing things with the key names is another thing -- wily and probably benefits them a little, but it isn't real security.
Understanding a mathematical concept doesn't mean being able to perform computations using it. It means having an intuitive understanding for what it can represent and how to use it, and how to interpret concepts that use it.

Defining complex numbers as a bunch of arbitrary arithmetic operations on tuples lends nearly zero understanding, no matter how good you get at performing that arithmetic. Understanding complex numbers as rotations is much more useful in being able to understand, say, electromagnetism. In fact, I'll go so far as to say it makes the physics easier even if it makes the math more cumbersome.

Teaching mathematics as simple rules for manipulation of symbols is basically like telling only the punchline to a joke. Not even saying the punchline early, but just saying it on its own and providing no context. The fact that math can be (not is) just a bunch of mechanical rules is amazing when those rules can be mapped to complex and abstract phenomenon, and used to provide deeper understanding of them. The mechanical rules, in themselves, are boring. Their boringness is actually what makes them a good punchline, when contrasted with the intricacy of the systems they describe, but without that set-up, they're just boring.
This was my first question too and I wouldn't necessarily consider myself incredibly technical.

I think the first question most people have when they see a "top _____" list, is "according to who?" Having a short description of the way the rankings are done along with a link to a more detailed description, would be great.

Nice job on shipping it!
Is their documentation page made with Sphinx? If so, does anybody know that theme? It looks really nice.
Who has the most movies in the top 5000? Does anybody have more than Marlon Brando's 19?
You are being needlessly modest. Your posts are always insightful and often valuable. I personally would not mind if you built a bot to spam the front page with your old articles.
Entering markets with big existing players, high barrier to entry
I think about what I like building and doing, and what markets I might be able enter, and they all seem to be ones where big players exist because there is a high barrier to entry (expensive infrastructure investments needed, manufacturing connections needed, heavy government regulation, etc). Not exactly something you can tackle on your own with a macbook in a starbucks, at least I don't think.

What course of action should one take to break into this kind of scene? Right now for the time being I'm working at one of these big existing players and trying to learn their processes as best I can. But when I think of branching out and starting something on my own... I guess my resourcefulness isn't yet at the level it needs to be.

I know I didn't mention any specific industries. As a successful example of this, I think of a company like Stripe. Handling credit cards? How the hell? Good job.

As an example where I don't know of any small new players trying out, how about telecommunications. Letting people call each other. Or providing internet to people. Best I know of for those two are smaller companies buying whatever bandwidth they can from bigger players and then trying to manage it on their own and do better.

Thoughts and advice?
Funny you mentioned VB6 days, that was the first thing that came up at work when we saw it.

I haven't downloaded it yet, so perhaps I'm missing something. But our thought was that it mimicked the VB6 "Place Code Here" mentality.
You didn't read it very well.

A) he's not a journalist. B) He's saying that however much the convention coverage is a problem, tech journalism is a bigger mess. C) His point is pretty clear: journalism purports to be reporters working for readers, but that is no longer the case.
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That doesn't seem like a sensible solution. You're basically hurting performance on all other platforms just to work around one of Apple's bugs.
Thats my point though-- it seems like there are too many unknown unknowns here to make any sort of predictions. We're still several massive leaps removed from where we would need to be in order to really get started.
> > There's already a similar mechanism in the URL handlers, but Apple don't let you choose which application to use if multiple ones are registered.
> It also doesn't let you override core applications

Hence "Apple don't let you choose which application to use" - it all happens at Apple's whim, and currently that excludes replacing system apps.
This kind of gets covered in the later part of the podcast we're commenting on, under "Price for Dear or Price for Free but Never Price For Cheap".
I hate to say it but the guy who wrote this article is nothing more than an opportunist himself.

If someone ever came to me looking for a job who had an agent, I wouldn't even bother. Just like I don't bother with 3rd party recruiters.
This is why we need curated lists like the AFI's top 100. I'm not saying they are the answer rather what I'm saying is truly reflective lists require critical thinking and evaluation.
If you try to go down this list, your head will explode.
Half of top movies are highly bogus comices (sorry guys, they are), the other half are highly epic dramas.
You just should not mix them on a single page. This is so wrong.

As the whole idea of an universal list is.
I like the idea of an agent, mostly because I recently went through the finding jobs thing and its not fun. Its worth pointing out that you could probably convince a new employer to tack on to your signing bonus a significant percentage of what a recruiter would have cost to them. That would keep the cost of an agent fairly negligible.

On the other hand, what's an employer to think when they see that you have an agent? I would see it as a sign of flakiness. If you need an agent, you must be jumping around jobs a lot. That is not a good impression to make.
What do you have against TODO-lists? IMHO the world needs more varieties of task management tools.

Actually, the example apps don't really do the platform justice. We (at deployd) use it in consulting projects for building big APIs with complex roles and business requirements. The design of deployd is driven more from lessons learned designing those APIs than from our experiments in TODO-lists.
Assuming that in the future most trading will be done by computers, this means that in a large part the market will be deterministic, or at least predictable, but not rational or contributing to a better economy. The whole idea of stock markets is to have people apply their sensibility so that the economy moves towards what will be "a better future". Since only people know what is good for them, and 'good' is not possible to define as a specific set of optimization problems, i don't see what is the value of an automatically-trading market.
Two of the best parts of clojure (over other lisps).
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Earth Class Mail
http://www.earthclassmail.com/

I don't know who else saw it, but there was a show called Startup Junkies that profiled this company for 8 episodes.
http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/about.jsf
This just makes me smile.

As an 8th grader in 1979-80, it never occurred to me to save any of this sort of stuff. Too bad... I would have liked to contribute material to this project.
>Apple's incessant need to obsolete their old operating systems is surprising to me. I would think this would hurt their overall adoption rates (especially long term) as people get sick of constantly upgrading their OS and dealing with any fallout that results.

No, it helps getting technology ahead. Instead of, you know, having hundreds of millions of people still using Windows XP, as they do.

Plus, what "fallout"? Each release has some issues for some people in some use cases, but that is irrespective of some 5 year older release getting deprecated or not. And the issues --which don't affect all, usually just a small minority, e.g the Vagrant users as of late-- get ironed out eventually with point releases.
Yes, you listed (some of) the components. Building a working scalable system is something else though.
> Oh, so when it suits your argument it's an MVP, when it doesn't, it's half baked. Got it.

Nice straw man and shoving words into another's mouth.

When the product suits one's purpose, it's viable. When it doesn't, it's half baked. When the original iPhone was released, the bar for viable was much lower. Other smartphones were a mess, UX-wise. Just fixing the UX with a smaller feature set won over a mainstream audience.

Now, the bar for viable is much higher, and it carries the expectations of a Maps application that works at least as well as Google Maps for iOS.

Customer expectations change over time. Pretending that they don't for the sake of argument is either foolish or dishonest.
I am not too bothered about them needing to do more work given that they produce a premium product, in fact putting more care in is their entire shtick! Car makers don't stop making spare parts a couple of years after a new model comes out. If they did no one would buy them.
We had this discussion in the IRC channel a few weeks ago. It's largely unsustainable for the agents.

Agents work in Hollywood because if you're doing smaller work (commercials, etc) you might get 3, 4, 5 jobs a month. If you're doing movies, you might still do 2 or 3 or even 4 movies a year.

The average developer is at 1 job a year (or longer), or maybe 2 over the course of a year.

Additionally, all the Possible Solutions to Problems identified in this post are already being solved by GOOD recruiters. And many of the solutions proposed that are "opt in" are what GOOD recruiters already do... the problem with the industry isn't recruiters. It's BAD recruiters.
Can you add a column that shows if it's available on Netflix/Amazon/etc?

I'm always looking for a new way to find movies/series to watch and this list seems like a good one (I seem to agree with most of the ones I've seen near the top).
I like this! I'm looking forward to the book section.
Ok, that is some epic PR right there. Nice job. I really like a creative campaign like that.

I was sort of wondering why one of the live flight tracking services didn't jump on the Shuttle fly by in the Bay Area today to provide live tracking of its location.
I am right now contracting, and I am learning a variant on this lesson that I have reason to believe will prove very valuable to me and hopefully others.

1. If the value of what you contribute can be measured, people are happy to pay you ridiculously more on a pay for performance model than they are with hourly consulting rates.

2. A/B testing can provide a way for them to measure the value of your contribution.

Why is this? Well in pay for performance, the company takes no risk. Furthermore it lines the incentives up correctly from everyone's perspective. Suppose that compensation model inspired you to spend 2x the effort that you otherwise would for 1/3 better performance. Odds are that they've just covered the amount they have agreed to pay you and are laughing all of the way to the bank. But if you are compensated hourly, and they are not sure it will work, there is no way that they want you to spend 2x the effort up front, even if there might be a slightly better return.

I am not at liberty to share specific numbers. But keep this fact in mind in the future. It may prove valuable to you.

(I should think about writing this up in a blog post, along with lesson #3. That lawyers systemically fail to place a value on your opportunity cost...)
You're mistaken, there are people in the industry who are engineers. In some lines of work (architecture, law) membership in a professional organization is required. But if you went to school in an accredited program (most university Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, etc.), you can become a professional engineer. It's required to join the IEEE, in fact. The point of the professional organization is to hold it's members to a high standard; part of this is not offering 'bargain basement' services. The reason you don't see a lot of discount medical practitioners and lawyers is arguably because their organization would disbar them. Likewise, hiring a consulting software engineer who is a P. Eng. brings the benefit that if they act unethically, they can lose their certification.
This is my first ever endeavor into some sort of programming.

I use evernote or textedit to write a lot posts or guest post and there's not always a quick way to check word count before I send them off. In addition, a lot of wordcount sites out there were ugly, hard to use or filled with ads.

I know it fills a really, really small niche need, but I was pretty happy I could put it together in a few hours, solve a small problem and learn something about programming at the same time.

Now, to move on to bigger projects!
Good for the company. Bad for people who think news hasn't been corrupted in the manner he describes.

In my case, the hate for things like this is that news has a purpose beyond enriching Apple's shareholders. In particular, an informed citizenry is vital to a healthy democracy. The constitution guarantees freedom of the press for a reason.
Counted 23 for Spielberg and 30 for Hitchcock.

Almost all of Kubrick's films are in the top 5000 except for one or two.
Ask HN: Should we filter out "Um, What?" from comments?
Whenever I see a comment that begins with "Um, What?", usually only snark follows.

It would be nice to have that replaced with the empty string or grayed out or something.

What do you all think? Perhaps this might be better as a browser extension.
>If for the only reason that, if it were a sucker's bet, then most people wouldn't take it.

The market can remain irrational for longer you can remain solvent.
I wouldn't have said "entitled", but instead, "lacking perspective".

The launch is described as a religious experience, as if the AT&T sales rep violated someone's most sacred ceremonies, when instead he should have been celebrating alongside. I have a hard time taking seriously the suggestion that opening a phone deserves to be spoken of in the same way as pesach, epiphany, Eid al-Adha, or your wedding night.

Now, I certainly agree that the tech didn't treat the phone appropriately. There's room for improvement here; stricter requirements from Apple or stricter training for this particular sales rep might be in order. But ultimately, it's just a phone; the sales rep's behavior is closer to "the grocery clerk put my tomatoes at the bottom of the cart" than "this guy violated my religious experience".
Divine Inspiration Fallacy
>Well, the last time I used OSX for daily use, it was constantly pestering me to upgrade to various point releases. Those were usually massive downloads that required a reboot. Maybe things have changed?

Constantly as in once every 3-4 months? Because that's the usual rate of point updates.

The alternative is what? Not having the latest stability and security fixes?
This sounds suspiciously similar to the LM (of NTLM) password limits, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM#cite_ref-v1_13-0
Is there somewhere in the article where he said that Max Harris doesn't want to read about Apple products? Otherwise, I'm not sure how your particular interest proves the article wrong.
How many?!
Upvoted for importance, but I note that you are actually only granting them a perpetual worldwide fully paid-up irrevocable license to them.
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