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(I'm not gitmothrow.) I did that back during the Scwartz debates on HN, right after he died, using my primary account, which had thousands of karma at the time. Within a week after the incident, most of HN had calmed down and was saying the same things I had been saying.

But by that point my account had been super-ultra-hellbanned. I couldn't even post. It wasn't until another user's complaint about being hellbanned made the front page that my primary account was promoted to merely being dead.

The point is: people use throwaway accounts because the HN community has demonstrated that it is simply not safe to use your primary account to say something controversial unless you have tens of thousands of karma.
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Yet another sign that the social gaming bubble has well and truly burst
"It's time for the government to start hiring the long-term unemployed."

What the fuck? If you measure something you do not like, the immediate response should not be to grab a hammer and try to kill it. It probably exists for a reason. Understand the reason. Then take action. It may be that there is nothing you can do -- directly. Only a small few percentage points of the problems in the world go away through direct action.

Prima facie, this argument seems to be that if employers don't like an attribute in a job applicant's resume, we should either make it illegal for them to discriminate based on that attribute or "fake out" that attribute in some other way.

It seems like anything I'm going to say is blindingly obvious, but I'l say it anyway: we cannot provide "recent experience" in X simply by hiring somebody and giving them a nametag that says "I do X!". It doesn't work that way. Employers want experience, not simply words on a resume. You can't create lots of experience for a job position in a market that simply might not have that many job positions of that type available. In addition, sometimes (not always by any means) companies let go the people who are deadweight first.

I could go on. There's a plethora of various speculations I can make about why this measured observation is true. More research, most likely by job seekers themselves, is required to fix this. Politics by correlation, just like management by correlation, is a terrible way of running a ship.
I disagree with this assertion that corporations are a "terrible way of turning human labor into work product." In industries like software? Sure. In industries like coal mining? Explain to me how a decentralized structure would be a more efficient way of marshaling the capital resources and labor necessary to blow the top off a mountain and extract a bunch of rocks from the carcass.
What happens if the workforce walks away?

If you have the idea of "I must work on games, no matter what," you will be rewarded commensurately.

If you have the idea of "I want to work, and games would be cool, but not worth more than an extra 5 hours of work per week and losing $5,000 of salary per year," then the industry would have to pay the talent more.
>If all you've done is watch TV and send out resumes, nobody's going to hire you. You have to be able to say that you've done something.

WHY??!?!? Seriously, WHY?!?!

So, I'm thinking that maybe there's some skew in these findings, and then you come in and say "Yea, I wouldn't hire you unless you show me you did more than just look for work".

Looking for work is time consuming. Furthermore, as the spouse who's currently jobless you may be pulling double duty taking care of the kids, or fixing up the house, or helping out the household in some other way (maybe working at McDonald's), things that you don't put on your resume. Little does such a person realize, that there are people like you, who look at his or her resume and dismiss them as lazy.
I was going to agree with you but the execution of this article is quite awful. The worst part of it is how there was no reason for this to be subdivided into pages.

An average page in the Microsoft story has fewer than 700 words.

In the NYT's Snowfall, the average chapter is 3,000+ words.

The NYT has an incentive to increase pageviews with pagination. Microsoft is paginating their press releases.
1. Resume blasts are infamously ineffective. Not only that, but gap since last job is a screening criteria so basic that even HR can filter from it; if you're bad on that metric you're unlikely even to hit a hiring manager. So it may be less true that 6 months of unemployment is intractable than that 6 months of unemployment forecloses on the tactic of just blasting resumes.

2. Women routinely incur 6-12 month gaps of unemployment because they have kids. When Erin went back to the workforce, the resume gap was by far the biggest obstacle she faced; it was raised specifically in (I think? She'll comment and correct me.) every job interview she had. Point being: if you're disadvantaged as a cohort that early in the process, the impact to your career long term is likely to be far-reaching even after you find employment.
To some extent they try, but it's rather hard. As is Javascript, though JS is slightly better than Flash. I think JS will eventually become much better than Flash, but not very soon.
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FYI: This isn't an HFT bot but is a decent, recent Python + ncurses trading client framework for Bitcoin on MtGox. http://prof7bit.github.io/goxtool/

Even if you aren't interested in Bitcoin, it might be useful as a real-ish and cheap place to test with low barriers to entry. I've found that backtesting on historical data is usually not realistic enough since most people fail to consider liquidity.

I'm interested because I like to trade, would like to learn more, and I have had some small success. But I have trouble sticking to my plan. I let emotion get the best of me and wind up losing my gains.
If you use iCloud backup on your iPhone/iPad then you can set up a new iPhone/iPad quickly with all your personal data and settings without connecting to a computer or the old device. So you can already drop your hardware in a lake and not mind, as long as it's been backed up recently. (Which it probably hasn't been if you're vacationing at a lake.)

You can also remote-wipe lost hardware to prevent others from getting your personal data off of a discarded device.
As a blogger of 10+ years, I agree. A few more benefits:

* "Serializing" your thoughts. You (2013) can explain an idea that you (2014 onward) won't remember. I try to explain "gotcha" moments to myself, in language that works for me, so I won't have difficulties later on. This began in college, and developed into the blog I run today.

* Putting in your hours. I don't believe in 10k hours exactly, but practice helps. In the past decade I've written 100+ essays of 1-2k words that I wouldn't have otherwise. I can visibly see my writing improving. Take a look at the first Garfield strip: http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/garfield.h... or Calvin and Hobbes: http://calvinethobbes.free.fr/english/c_prem.html

* You're writing anyway. Most tech people are writing at least 1-2k words a week in email, forums, etc. anyway. You might was well capture some of that in an archived, searchable format that can benefit you with contacts and new opportunities.
Only without parsing all pages through a (rather slow) third party service, but yes parsing all outgoing HN links through Readability by default was another idea that never made it.
At the bottom of the page, "Thanks also to Ray Bradbury."

It appears they deliberately chose 451 in homage to the great Fahrenheit 451 (or more specifically, to the dystopian future presented in the book).[1]

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120725/06093819827/truth-...
It's probably easier to justify a 6 month gap with "I decided to have a kid" than "I was unemployed because nobody wanted me".
I want to believe you're right. But I fear game industry is sufficiently large and long lived that if you were right, someone would have tried it, come out ahead, and created a new cargo cult cuture. I think that a more likely explanation is that working long hours has huge diminishing returns, but for game development tasks the teams come out a bit ahead. This may have to do with the fact that many of the mainstream games in question have fairly established practices and structure, and a lot of the work is building a huge pile of uninspiring content. Literally modeling rocks and dirt, for example.
24 hours is just enough
never saw pistachio. link?

I just signed up to test. It looks awesome. Sorta itches the easymode+lazymode button for me wrt to blogging.

Wonder how many people (like me) love the idea of simple documents as the backbone of a blog?
Yes, they do. They're not even just the largest employer bracket; they literally employ a majority of the employed in America.
As your complexity curve increases, your latency expectations must go down. That is what I meant when I said there is no single trading system that can be the "best".

If what you are interested in is complex decision making then it may make sense to use a different sort of messaging technology than LMAX, but you won't be getting into anything remotely "low latency". Nothing wrong with that, just needs to be a known expectation.
Hardly the "majority". White males are less than 40% of the US population. I don't think we're going out on much of a limb to say that they are overrepresented in the game industry.
Interestingly I had this exact conversation last week with a guy from an HFT firm that was asking about how do you write fast code in haskell. Haskell won't be as fast as C, but we are not a high frequency shop so it doesn't matter. Much time in engineering at an HFT firm is spent doing things like turning an L2 cache miss into an L1 cache miss. Haskell makes it hard to do things like that.

Our platform is fast and could be used for some slower strategies. If we replaced pieces of it with C we could be competitive but probably never less then 10 microseconds wire to wire.
McCarthy himself said of his pre-Lisp research:

"To use functions as arguments, one needs a notation for functions, and it seemed natural to use the -notation of Church (1941). I didn't understand the rest of his book, so I wasn't tempted to try to implement his more general mechanism for defining functions. Church used higher order functionals instead of using conditional expressions. Conditional expressions are much more readily implemented on computers."
- History of Lisp: http://goo.gl/EDuhl

I've always liked the fact the he did so much with a book he didn't understand the whole of. :-)
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You make very good points. It's obviously very difficult to quantify the differences between programming languages. And yes, I agree, it leads to imprecision which in turn leads to biased results.

I still think it shouldn't stop us from doing the exercise anyway. We might draw "whatever conclusion we like about" it, but it's still a way to move forward. The wiki page in the original link is not trying to convince the reader of anything (or at least the first few posts). It's a user sharing his or her insight on his experience with Lisp. It resonated with mine. Reading this helps me put words on something I've been feeling for a while. We might both be wrong, but at least it helps me in some way.

What I'm trying to say is that languages may be equivalent (Turing!), they're not exactly equal. Our inability to measure the differences with precision should not prevent us from comparing experiences. I am not interested in adopting the manager's point of view of "which language should be best for my project/team?"; I'd rather take the young pupil's point of view of "let's discover how these guys do it". After all, I'm a younger (in programming years) than many people around here.

Your original comment seemed to imply that a language's worth is tied to the popularity of the platform running it. I personally find this aspect the least interesting in programming languages. Maybe because I'm not an entrepreneur and I don't necessarily feel like one.
Thanks for the tips! I didn't realize that online programs existed for grad school.
That's what I meant. I'll edit for clarity, thanks :)
Being a founder is a lot different than being an employee. Many in leadership don't live the life they hope their employees have. I know my CEO travels a lot, puts off a lot of family time, and works insane hours. He still gives us plentiful vacation time, great benefits, and even paternity leave. He doesn't do it because he likes the lifestyle, he does it because it's what he feels needs to be done to give his company a shot at changing the industry.

Liken it to a family. When I was a child, my mom was awake before us kids to make breakfast, got us to school and then went to work, picked us up from school and made dinner, and was in bed after us while she was cleaning the house. She did this to ensure that us kids led a good life and had the things we needed. Her kids and her home were her priority, like a CEO's employees and company are their priority.
I've been living and working in NYC for several years now and my expereince with this has varied. It depends on what industry you're looking at. Making websites or apps for marketing and advertising firms will always demand more of your time per week. Startups expect a developer to act like a founder by living and breathing their work. Doing the same work for a financial firm will not so much (although the full timers at my last job were expected to work 10 hr days). I'm currently at a big bank and my hours are regular and with reasonable deadlines.
Yes, but I feel like python became the scripting language of the apps you mentioned because it was already popular, not the other way around.
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Hi Jeff. I hope you read this.

Why don't you just look at this experience as something that had to happen to set you on the path where you're really needed...

You took on an unpaid overworked responsibility to help 15 people and it didn't work out.

Why not use that same energy and love of journalism to help a lot more people on-line. For example, can you engineer a way to help us hackers write better? Believe me, we need it.

Perhaps you can come to Hacker News and help us in some fashion. You can reach hundreds of thousands of us, we'll double your pay, and you won't have to drive and hour and a half to pick up the paper. I imagine someone here can figure out how to push those bits anywhere you want while you sleep.

Don't let this speedbump become a roadblock. 86 that anger and find a better outlet for that love.
I already did, but electromagnetic spectrum is not scarce. You can cheaply, easily create radio waves, the radio might have scarcity, but the waves it produces are infinitely reproducible by a recipient, easily copied, and easily reproduced. They can be encoded as information, and conveyed as such, without losing any information, and reconstructed cheaply elsewhere.

You can not "take" someones radio wave and rob them of its possession, because when they broad cast it anyone could receive it, and if you are taking enough action to "block" its transmission you are violating many other scarce goods rights like invading their property.

All the other things you listed are scarce, not easily replicated, and taking of them means the other party loses because they are inherently scarce goods. Almost anything made of atoms is scarce, and anything made of electrons or photons is not, because as a property of the universe that made of the latter can be easily replicated for almost no effort but the former takes significant effort to reproduce from modern resources.

In the same vein, if you steal the radio, I no longer have it. If I broadcast on a frequency, I am not robbing you of your ability to use it, but it generates interference. If both parties have benevolent intentions (and in the absence of such, one can prosecute the other for sabotage and extortion for using hostile interference in the same vein that a company "owning" spectrum can sue someone for using it at all) then it is in their best interests to collaborate and mitigate the interference they impose on one another.

If they have no other option, it is not fit for a state to violently prevent one from using an infinitely reproducible resource while the other gets exclusive control over its usage.

Would you be ok with the sale of the visual light spectrum? Both radio and visible light are electromagnetic radiation. Doesn't it sound absurd to have the luminance of purple light the exclusive property of some corporate entity?

Here is another thing - the consumer electronics used in the US that are under these byzantine laws about spectrum usage are not operating in a global vacuum. They are bootlegged across India, China, and other nations that don't necessarily have rigorous spectrum laws in place that are enforced. These places self organize (with bumps and issues) into using radios without the need for control of what frequencies of electromagnetic radiation you can generate.
Probably not. Something like "I've been volunteering down at the hospital" would be much better in those professions. Regardless of your profession, surely you can find something productive to do for 6 months, even if its part-time or without pay. Taking that sort of initiative will probably also get you the connections and referrals you need to get a job. Doing nothing but submitting applications for months on end is about the worst thing you can do. If you aren't getting hired, do something to make yourself more hirable.
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This, pretty much. It's so distracting that the article is unreadable.
Eh, there is something to what he's saying. The idea that the labor market behaves rationally is a childish fantasy. Employers are not rational. They do all sorts of irrational things, and discriminating against the long-term unemployed (and also women returning to the work force from motherhood) is one of those irrational things.

It's almost a dating mentality. They jump to the conclusion: "well if nobody else wants him, why should I?" In reality, people can be long-term unemployed for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with them being a bad potential employee. Maybe they have really specialized skills or want a really specific kind of job--the nature of such situations is that there is going to be gaps in how long it takes to find the next employer looking for those very specific skills.
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The buildings in the foreground are the Microsoft campus. They show a model of some of the same buildings in the article. So it appears to be related.
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My organization is hiring for ops and java engineers right now. We pay well. We're having a hard time finding anyone who wants to work full time. Most people we're talking with would rather work on project basis or work part time.

After working in IT for 12 years, I can't blame them. If you can, why sit at a desk for at least 5 days a week, at least 8-10 hours a day each day.
It is easy in the tech world (and HN is mostly tech) to confidently say 6 months is a long time for unemployment. At the moment, I'm fairly certain I could have interviews in a single digit number of hours, but that isn't true for people who have to compete for "general skills" jobs (i.e. those that require a resume, but no particular special skills, such as receptionists, admin and the like). Also there are a lot of perfectly valid reasons to have a 6 mo gap (the biggest is maternity leave).

Resume blasts are often the only realistic option some people have for getting their candidacy out there. If they had a friend at a firm that was hiring they'd probably have used that before 6 months of unemployment. Unemployment generally means that hanging out with employed friends has to be cut back (because going out for drinks gets expensive). If you network fails you for a few months you might not have much of a network to lean on after that.

Discrimination against 6 Months+ of unemployment certainly has some objective basis. Discrimination isn't always a bad thing. Still there are undoubtedly people swept up into this bias who should not be.
So Go has embedding not inheritance because SubClass is not an instance of SuperClass, there is no hierarchy, only composition.

BUT what you might not realize is that any method defined on SuperClass (and only defined on SuperClass) can be called on SubClass, but it operates on SuperClass data. This allows SubClass to use SuperClass to help it fulfil an interface for example.

See it in action: http://play.golang.org/p/8kiwu1PlW_
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People are not absolutely predictable, for one, so no one can say what would happen with certainty. I can say what I think would happen. And that is because without the violence to protect them, they are nigh powerless to control the entire electromagnetic spectrum emissions range that can safely transmit signals.

In the meantime, right now 300 million plus people are suffering under an artificially controlled market for a resource that has no inherent scarcity. They are crushed by the very rent seekers this article speaks of on goods they can't truly possess without the violence of law to protect their interests, and they are given artificial advantage to abuse the regulations giving them the power to extort others.
Extrapolating back to when the genome size was 1 probably doesn't make sense, but what this approach might be able to do is suggest the smallest functional genome size, about 10,000bp based on my reading of the graph.

It's also worth pointing out that we don't, in general, have a way to know what portions of the genome are truly functional, nor even a really great definition of functional (the ENCODE consortium caught a lot of flak for theirs as overly broad). Also, almost all the genome sizes we know are from the modern day: bacteria as a class may be 3 billion years old, but they've been evolving over those 3 billion years too!
This is an artfully written comment, the way it peppers paragraphs of opinion with factoids that make it look authoritative but don't in fact back any of the points up. "From 1945 to 2008..." perks up "people believed in corporations" groan.

It's a hall of mirrors. You look closely and suddenly "the right wing" is "The Tea Party", and "The Tea Party" is "anti-corporate", or "In 1999, if you said the world was run by evil people [...] you'd be seen as a bitter loser". But worse than the occasional verifiably false premise is the fact that the whole comment is slippery, written deliberately to avoid being pinned down and interrogated.
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Tell me about it. Been there, done that.
But to be fair, if you have good management, they'll do a good job of hiring in the right type of people as well. So it works both ways.
One flaw with AWS-like businesses is lack of lock-in because of customer churn.

Web site popularity on the Internet obeys a power law distribution--the top sites take the lion's share of traffic and money from the Internet.

AWS will never see revenue from the post popular sites, because once a site grows past a certain size, it's cheaper to build redudancy and host themselves (Netflix, Facebook, etc.). AWS is actually fairly expensive for handling a large stream of traffic--it's only for intermittent use or cash-poor sites that the economics makes sense.

So AWS is full of very small to medium size operations, which are constantly popping in and out of existence. And when a small site pops into existence, it has no legacy cloud APIs to support, and can go with whatever cloud provider has the best offering at that time.