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I cannot speak for other industries but in mine, video games, this practice seems to be formed by the 3d party recruiters in order to collect fees.

Applying to any company's ad for an engineering position rarely produces any response while in the same time every engineer is hounded by recruiters even while not looking for a job. You can apply, wait for weeks with no response then call an agency recruiter of your choice and have a phone interview scheduled in 2 days tops.

Looking at recruiters in my Linkedin network I can see how most of them move between 3d party agencies and contract/staff HR positions at the studios so I imagine there are many connections between internal and external HR.
With the recruiting fees being 10s of thousand dollars and HR people paid peanuts it is statistically unlikely that most of them stay honest.
I agree with you on the paywall. I can't see this tool, other than it promises to help make bootstrap look nicer.

This may be one of the cases where forcing you to pay before you download or save might be the preferred method of payment. That way I can play with my design, and I'm very much inclined to hand over my money now.

Is monthly billing the best option for this or is single payment? Monthly is OK if I'm going to keep coming back to this tool, though single payment up front may be better (e.g. $15-$20 per site, and my design is saved). Who knows how long bootstrap is going to remain popular.
This isn't viable if it's a performance critical portion of your code.

Idiomatic Go (currently) is to use a for loop for map and reduce/fold operations.
The frequentist p-value is about H0, not (directly) the hypothesis you are testing. More specifically, it denotes the probability of rejecting H0, even though it's true.
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In fact I would like to know if it is not clearly impossible since there appears to be no way to prevent coercion.

edit: The article does mention coercion as being a problem.
> The language itself is pretty cool, but most of our work is still web application development (broadly defined). Go isn't particularly suited for that, and even if it were, it doesn't have a mature framework for doing webdev yet.

Really? Web development is one of Go's strengths IMO, and the standard library was clearly designed with web development in mind. i.e., the HTML template library, the net/http library, etc.

There are also a few third party frameworks out there. They may or may not be mature depending upon your definition, but gorilla looks promising.
One thing he doesn't mention with his "Zetas are the future" assertion is that this level of violence can be disruptive to overall national productivity and harm other business interests.

This is could be why the US gov has allegedly worked out deals with the Sinaloa (as Zeta presence in the US could be disruptive and needlessly violent people can be a nuisance to work with):

http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-ca...

And why the head of the Zetas was recently killed by the military:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/world/americas/mexico-zetas-ca...

And why a fairly complimentary piece about the Sinaloa's business practices appeared this summer in the New York Times (revealing they use age-old methods of achieving internal stability such as intermarriage between families of senior cartel members):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-dru...
“We reached our $15,000 goal in 3 days, and once you launch a project you can’t cap it. You can only keep it or cancel it. It became a little overwhelming.”

Is there a conflict of interest at work here?

For projects delivering physical goods, the more backers there are the more revenue Kickstarter generates, but the greater the risk of the project not meeting its targets (or goals).

While more orders may mean production discounts and economies of scale, it also means more administrative, support, and other overhead costs that were not factored into the original financial plan.
Hi Jonnie,

This is a very valid comment, we always recommend having your Redis server as close as possible to your application server. We're following the lead from Heroku, which offered this Alpha feature for Postgress in US-WEST https://status.heroku.com/incidents/460 .

We've been offering custom HA (master, slave setups) for a while. This is the first step towards giving our customers more choice for their availability zones.

Redis 2.6 Sentinel is exciting development and something that we're experimenting with now it's in the latest Redis release.

Feel free to send me any questions to ben@redistogo.com
This is a bit off topic, but a related question: I have been looking for a "bad" text to speech library that produces Stephen Hawking-style audio, similar to what's found in old 1970/80s electronics. Examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0fBwiE4cE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvYvCaAN3Jg

Anyone?
I feel uncomfortable in the Apple Store because of the crowds and the noise and maybe a bit because of the sterility of the design, however, I feel the same way in most indoor shopping malls. In malls there's an added problem which is that the layout is confusing - there are often a lot of turns and intersections that all look similar. However, I'm not sure how much I can trust my own feelings here as a basis for the quality of a retail experience - lots of people CHOOSE to hang out at the mall. I think I might analogize this to the difference between introverts and extroverts. Extroverts gain energy from social situations while introverts expend energy. I suspect that there are a lot of people who find who find these crowded shopping experiences exhilarating and a lot of people who just find them exhausting.
How many people are interested in breaking into the Estonian elections, versus how many are interested in gaining power over the US elections?

You think there is no corruption or organised gangs or corrupt politicians in Estonia (or any other country)? Anywhere there is political office, someone'll want to scam their way in.

Yes a small country can be less of a target, but they also need less votes to swing it, and have less money to protect against it.
My main problem is the lack of task bar:
- I need to see what windows I have open, it gives me context
- Without a taskbar, I'm not able to switch windows quickly
Kickstarter has always used "success" and "failure" to refer to the fundraising effort, not the deliverables. So the title was at least consistent with that usage.
Give, and you shall receive.
A simple way to calculate the day of the week for any day of a given year
Branding trumps moviemaking now in entertainment business
i loved gnome2 but i dont like the gnome-shell!
gtk3 is really really cool and thanks to gnometk3 we have mate and Cinemone

but the best thing is elementary os Luna this is an amazing distro and the best desktop for me.

i also like crunchbang linux on slower boxes.
IIRC, you can clone the repo (leaving behind uncommitted changes) and run tests from that folder. Which also lets you run multiple tests in parallel if they're long, and continue to develop on your other branch, and ensures you have no absolute paths :) Cloning only takes a few seconds for even pretty large repos since it hardlinks everything.
Just use multi-step authentication, one of which is sometime during the year showing up somewhere in person.

Let one of the required authentication methods be designating a close friend or relative that is also a voter who can confirm that you actually voted. So they would get an electronic message with a url they would have to click after speaking with you and confirming that you did vote on the day in question.

Make it so people have to be home to vote.

And if we required the same process to confirm changes in address, we could cut down on identity fraud in general.

Using multiple methods will make it harder to game the process. Its very hard to steal someone's password AND steal their phone AND kidnap a relative AND camp out at their house.

Those that can't manage all of the required steps can keep voting the way they do now. They'll have much shorter lines to deal without everyone else there.
This keeps getting reposted,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3419671
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117035
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651882
My thought process looking at this went like this:

if you look at the possibilities you can take one approach of dividing the square into four quadrants (like a window) and from that you can see that any point located in a diagnola opposing will make a hit on the circle. So from that we know that to pick a spot in one of the four quadrants is 1 in 4 and to pick the disagonal would be another 1 in 4 chance. As the first picks location is only relevant for the second pick then it is really just working out the odd's for the sencond being diagonal.

But there's more. It would be possible for two locations on the same level dependant upon there location to also make a circle that encompased the centre fo the square. So what about those permutations, well is you divide those squares again into four and look at it then you start thinking, this could get into some recuring details and have an urge to push square pegs into round holes phsyicaly as well as mentaly :).

That all said anything with a circle has to involve PI, even if you end up eating a entire pie just to work it out. So as the square has four sides I'm going to say the answear is 4 multiplied by PI and accept I'm probably wrong but it is what we call a educated guess.

Though you can imagine after being asked that and finding the right answear to only be asked; "Now using 3d points, what are the chances of you forming a sphere that would encompass the centre of a cube", you just know it. Also would show how adaptable there solution is.
You understand a usage of monads well, ie. using them to handle failing error states. However, in practice they are also used to deal with other side-effecting functionality such as state, IO, etc. If I was you, I'd look up the Monad instances for State, List, and a few others to get a grip on how you can model your own problem solutions using monads.
I really thought about getting into Windows 8, sadly Microsoft disappointed me several times. The biggest one was the Windows Phone 8 launch, which made my development device (a HTC Titan) stuck in WP 7.5.

I've been successful on Android, but I really hate the fragmentation.

I've tried BlackBerry development (got a PlayBook to develop on) and after 2 months working on a app using their HTML5 library bbUI.js my app started to misbehave because of a bug on that library. After 2 more weeks trying to correct this problem I couldn't correct the bug and my problem just became bigger. So I rage quit.

I've been trying a bit of iOS development, but Objective-C is giving me a hard time.
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why not just use google chrome inspector as a 'template designer' ?
And here is one such system (http://www.wombat-voting.com/) compatible with paper-based voting too. With the added feature that the voter can verify their vote was recorded correctly, making election fraud incredibly hard.
I agree in with this analysis. The cartoon is, of course, a caricature but highlights the nature of the essential problem you point out, which is that unraveling the line of reasoning carved out by a frequentist is not a straightforward matter, even if the argument is correct. From the Bayesian perspective all arguments are deductive once you have all the information. A typical reply to this observation is that in most cases it will be clear how the steps of a calculation translate into the various assumptions needed to clarify the argument. Of course, what counts as "typical" depends on the kinds of questions one asks. If there are only a few kinds of problems in your field, then maybe you can get away with heuristic lines of reasoning, patching up problem in special cases as needed. But if you are, say, trying to write a general purpose software for statistical analysis it will not be possible to rely on inductive lines of reasoning particular to a certain field. This might partially explain the popularity of the Bayesian approach in machine learning circles.
Too bad our beautiful West Coast is also prone to earthquakes :(
Because then you're administering your stack components again.
Hey tech community! Remember the time before the eye of Sauron gazed here, demanding a superficial veneer of progress to demonstrate "its" society's advancement? Remember when one informed and well-reasoned opinion was worth more than twenty idiotic and entitled ones? (kind of the opposite of democracy. oops, that wasn't meant to last!) Remember when we dreamed of engineering actual solutions, rather than shoehorning all problems into what can be solved using html+http+database, resultant deficiencies be damned? Well I guess only about a tenth of you do, and of those only a tenth care. sigh.
Are you sure these are all the same? I can't check from here (on my mobile, poor reception) but the URLs look significantly different. This one is a slide deck, one of the ones you quote is a video.

Added in edit:

It does look like this one - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651882 - really is a duplicate, but it got no votes and no comments, so perhaps a repost is in order.
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Architecture is not like software or consumer hardware -- you can't remove big ugly "things" (like a roof) and simply design and engineer around them. You can only take minimalism so far.

Visually displeasing roofs serve a core purpose -- sound absorption, ventilation, heating, air conditioning, security, smoke detection, and fire prevention. With an all glass roof and glass walls, that store must be like a giant echo chamber, not to mention really smelly and stuffy after a full day of foot traffic. Really surprising oversight by everyone involved, or a classic case of "launchpad chicken" like mentioned in the article.

I think Apple's "design-first" philosophy works great in some circumstances. They spend millions of dollars [1] on lasers to poke holes in aluminum so light will shine through, all for the beauty of a seamless surface. Unfortunately their building design needs some check and balances

[1] - http://gizmodo.com/5856402/how-apples-supply-chain-dominance...
> We do things similar to online voting all the time.

Name one.

The huge difference between voting and all the other transactions online is that the ballot is supposed to be secret. A lot of security online relies on review. That's largely how credit card fraud is being dealt with.

The other reason, why voting online or in any sort of electronic way is less secure and difficult to be made secure, is that electronic exploits scale well. Anyone can write a fake ballot but it's very difficult to do in numbers that can actually sway the elections. Once you break the electronic voting scheme, you can change thousands of votes at a time.
Farming it is, then?
We had a slider at one point, we thought it wasn't as good as this method. Ill look back into the options soon.
The US didn't make a dime from invading Iraq, it was a huge net loss.
I like the visual context too, some of the dock extensions did a fine job last time I played with it.
Unity is probably slightly better, but Gnome Shell's is a little quicker in my experience. Aside from that, Unity's search is getting Amazon ads and I can't imagine that's going to be positive for the user experience.
Unfortunately I don't know python, I'm ruby-rails-mysql for my day job.

If you're interested in going down ruby (and even mysql or i can probably get up to speed on postgres, as it's a bit rusty), I can get involved.
For those of you who will participate in a future platform with a day 1 launch... consider card games. There's a massive audience for them, which is a great reason why he's seeing such exceptional performance. Of course, being free also helps (as there's no friction).

If someone is looking at an app store on Day 1, for games, there's a chance that they just want to play Solitaire, Freecell, or another card game. I give this guy credit for recognizing that. Over time he'll likely see much more than 100,000 downloads.
I am not sure why you insist on not stashing the rest of your working directory ? This is a nice and non-permanent solution.

There's a difference between `stash -p` and `add -p + stash`, though. If you want to split your changes into more than two commits, you have to use add/commit/add/commit because stash will just make a commit with "what's left" (it's subtractive operation).
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Wow, this is cool. Kenneth has started to identify and call out other libraries that are "barriers to entry" in Python. If this is a call to arms to scale the Requests experience, it could grow into something really powerful - a movement to systematically reinvent and rejuvenate the Python standard library.
On the contrary, I hope you [RethinkDb] don't spend time on an SQL adapter. I'd rather see time spent on improvements to the database itself.
Like many others I also gave Gnome Shell a chance to impress, I recently tried 3.6 for a few days... but

1. It is an unacceptable UX to go "I wish I had feature X, but I don't, so lets go google search for a shell extension that provides it" then use the extension affiliation for Chrome / FF to install it. I got way too frustrated after looking for a way to make the super key not take over the whole screen (like Win7 / Unity don't)

2. There is a dire lack of a unsettings / Ubuntu Tweak style configuration editor for Gnome Shell. I don't want to read a book to figure out what my desktop can or can't do in the form of the shell manpages or help pages. I don't want to be forced into having the panel only show up in superkey mode, or to have to scrounge for a setting to enable that behavior, etc

3. I just plain don't like the usage of web technologies as a way to alter the desktop. In general, scripting languages inherently waste memory and cycles in favor of getting something done fast. But when you want a fast responsive desktop maybe the overhead of jaggermonkey (I think that is the JS backend they are using) is just insane.
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Just out of curiosity, how is Kotlin's approach less practical than Option? (I'm new to this style of programming) Is it because you can use Option types in maps and filters and the like?
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Thanks for posting! Micro-frameworks are great for learning things that higher-level frameworks such as e.g. jQuery and Backbone hide from you.

Frameworks with the most features and the best (loudest?) marketing are usually the most popular (e.g. Rails and jQuery), but they might not the best tools for the job.
> And here is one such system (http://www.wombat-voting.com/)

Yeah, but the very first step in it is "voter suppression":

> 1.Identification

> The voter enters the polling station and identifies himself/herself using an id card. The voting committee checks the voter appears in the registered voters list and has not voted yet. The committee tells the voter to proceed to the voting booth.

And, on a more serious note, it is quite complicated compared to just dropping a piece of paper marked with a pen into a box.
Slightly off topic: in an effort to become a better programmer, and to improve the Python ecosystem, I've tried to write a "for Humans" style logging library. Would anyone mind giving me feedback?

http://peterdowns.com/lggr/
An additional resource is The Kickback Machine [0], which tracks successful and unsuccessful projects, and CanHeKickIt [1], which graphs funding progress.

[0]: http://www.thekickbackmachine.com/

[1]: http://canhekick.it/
While income inequality is a popular trope to blame things on, I don't think it really applies here.

In the US, the poor live quite comfortably. Even people with income of zero have consumption of about $20k/year.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

For comparison, Hungary has a GDP per capita of $21k, the Czech Republic of $26k, France and the UK of $35k.

Further, inequality in the US is higher mainly because the rich earn more. That doesn't cause the life of the poor to suck, unless they get jealous or something.
For typos, `commit --fixup` is an invaluable tool.

It creates commits with a special name that will be recognized `git rebase -i --autosquash`. It will merge commits with their fixups (+ whatever you want to do with `rebase -i`).
I see that you are using pyquery to scrape the content. I was using BeautifulSoup for my previous projects, but it seems pyquery is a better choice due to its compatibility with jQuery, so I am planning to switch too. Are there any downsides to pyquery, though?
Warning, above link breaks the back button to an infinite redirection loop. Longclick it to skip more than one page backwards (at least in Opera).
and AWS Dublin... is prone to lighting and rainbow attacks. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/07/light...
First thing I do when I get a new computer is format the damn thing and put a base copy of Windows only on it.
I have a Prime, and I remember going through all the available apps ~6 months ago and uninstalling them all.

They were either bad apps in general or were potentially nice phone-sized apps with no optimisation done for tablets. When I say optimisation I'm referring to both the UI layout and the general rendering performance. For some reason (I'm not an android dev) certain apps have performance issues that scale with your pixel count (I guess they are hand-rendering things themselves and simply Doing It Wrong) and make them unusable.

I can't remember which though, so I'll install your top two when I get home (~8-10hrs) and report back.
That's funny, coming from Objective-C I find programming for Android difficult. Xcode is so friendly. The tools for making programming for Android easy don't seem to be there (from my limited experience). What's giving you trouble with ObjC?
I feel strongly about this. As a relatively recent college graduate who has has applied to dozens of jobs over many months, I can confirm that non-response has definitely been the status quo in my experience. Until I got numb to rejection and because accustomed to the status quo, I would feel compelled to seek out hiring managers or HR and ask, "Why don't you have the decency to even acknowledge my application status?" Instead, of course, I would simply inquire about "following up" on my application in the event that this was even possible to do.

"Go to our website" is the new mantra for hiring employers. And that's fine, but I'm stunned that many can't be the least bit bothered to set up some sort of response system. "Overwhelming number of applicants" is no excuse in the day of email...even an automated message, if phrased thoughtfully, would suffice perfectly fine.
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Serviio is my current favorite.

Was a breeze to setup on my file server (running Solaris for ZFS support; installing software is often unreasonably painful), actively updates its database as new files are added, and allows me to administer it remotely using the Serviio-Console GUI (e.g. to change the folders it scans, update profiles for clients, the directory structure it presents to clients)

For a barebones implementation, minidlna is a fantastic piece of software. I see MediaTomb recommended a lot, and I'm sure it's fantastic, but I've never managed to get it setup properly.
Links - not really, all work I've done lately is pretty much secret unfortunately.. one of the main reason why I'm offering this (but not the main one - I just love coding cool things).
Awesome work, thank you