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> working with friends and friends of friends

When I was younger I knew a couple of people who all but flat out refused to get into business with someone they did not know socially. Their rationale was, apart from having a wide social circle, that to be a friend or a friend of a friend you had to go through fairly sophisticated and long term filtering processes.

I used to reject this in favour of "professional" approach but I am really swinging back round - I think one can be more honest and open with (almost all) social acquaintances than with people who are essentially competitors only. And that openness and honesty is going to add an extra 30 IQ points to the teams collective intelligence

So again, great list and some real nuggets in there
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Finally someone writes an article about this! I've been thinking the exact same thing for some time now.
There are many companies that do reorgs regularly each year as kind of a habitual "churn" process. Do you think this is indicative of anything, or is it just case by case in this case?
> The constitution and the laws of your state outline your rights (if you live in the US).

It seems fairly uncontroversial that the constitution and laws are merely imperfect encodings of your rights. The encoding is necessary, since our legal system runs on it, but due to its imperfect nature it cannot be considered the master copy. Pre-1960s, many of our laws did not reflect what we expect of them and as a consequence of this the rights of countless were 'legally' trampled.

Lectures about the law are rarely of comfort to those that are a victim of it.
This was FUD when it was posted and now it is age-old FUD which there's no point in re-posting.

Jython and IronPython do not have a GIL. Multiprocessing avoids the GIL. Blocking on I/O gives up the GIL. There are all kinds of techniques used instead of throwing threads naively at every problem. And, conveniently, none of this is mentioned in the article. Either the author was not aware of these basic facts, or suppressed them.

It is blatantly false that "no single issue has caused more frustration or curiosity for Python novices and experts alike than the Global Interpreter Lock." The author may consider it important, but this does not mean that author is speaking for everyone else.

Novices would have good reason to avoid shared-everything threading, which introduces piles of race conditions and difficulty controlling runaway threads, and should try simpler tools first and see whether they can get good results instead of prematurely optimizing with techniques they don't know how to use.

Experts will know that the GIL is often not a primary concern, and where it actually is a concern they'll be conversant with other tools like multiprocessing and task queues.

The people with the most to say about the GIL are mediocre programmers who want to show off that they are so good Python is limiting them, and people not very familiar with Python (possibly with background in languages which try to make threads the answer to everything) who have an axe to grind.

Instead of asking how it is to do what they want to do, they just assume that the problem is the GIL and there is no solution, then expect to be praised for their technical acumen. People with technical acumen just solve the problem in any of the available ways instead of bitching in public about how it's the tool's fault they can't solve the problem because they have defined the problem incorrectly and insist on some arbitrary way of doing it.
I've written native C modules interacting with EVE online, probably one of the biggest Python systems in deployment, and they run on stackless python with a bazillion of threads for every little thing. While still needing to hit that 50fps window.

The GIL was not a problem.
The weird thing about this is that I've read excerpts from Trumans diary and I've read the result of the US Strategic Bombing Survey that was done at the time and both either say outright or strongly imply that the atomic bombing was not necessary to achieve the surrender of Japan.

This is stuff written either immediately before the bombing or shortly afterwards. It's only now that people have had years of believing a narrative that we're exactly in that situation where stating that the atomic bombs were necessary is a view that can go unchallenged.
There is only one definition of "legal": allowable under the law.

But there is more than one definition of "the law".

The constitution and the laws of your state outline your rights

Not really. The constitution is more properly thought of as a list of the restrictions on what the government can and can't do. My rights exist quite outside of that framework. Whether I can defend them or not is a separate issue, of course.

Part of the deal is that sometimes you can be arrested for crimes you didn't commit. But that's why we make sure that people who are arrested are guaranteed a speedy trial from a jury of their peers, etc.

Sounds good on paper. Probably works as intended most of the time. May be about as good a compromise as we can come up with. But by no means is this system totally just, especially if you're someone who is convicted of a crime you didn't commit, or a "crime" that is nothing of the sort (smoking marijuana, homosexual sex, etc.)
I don't think disingenuous means what you think it means :-) But that aside, if I understand what I think you mean the analogy of fingerprints doesn't work for you (and for me either btw).

Historically the court has held that your right to privacy diminishes as you get closer to being convicted of a crime. And that the state may set aside that right, using a warrant, when they have reason to believe a crime was committed.

There has been little debate about putting the DNA of convicted sex offenders into a national database for example.
> Lie detectors don't actually work, and take up people's time.

We are talking about a DNA "vacuum cleaner" that hasn't been invented yet and you have a problem with the accuracy of lie detector tests?
Server farm builds.

A keyboard macro system that doesn't suck (e.g., is available and /as fast/ as the one in Emacs).

A way to compare project configurations without involving either XML or a sea of random dialog-like boxes.

The TFS and workflow features they are adding make me weep.
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Author here.

Actually, the reason it hasn't been "solved" yet has much more to do with the cPython implementation rather than the fact that we can just use multiprocessing. There is a ton of globally shared data in the cPython implementation. Retrofitting a locking scheme granular enough to obviate the need for the GIL while at the same time not negatively impacting single-threaded performance is decidedly non-trivial.

The PyPy guys are making decent progress by attacking the problem from another angle: using software transactional memory to automatically resolve data conflicts that arise from multiple threads mutating data simultaneously.
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The reason you can't dislike things on Facebook is that what Facebook calls a "like" is not a rating, it is actually a connection.

They are building a network graph, and the opposite of a connection is not-a-connection, which is the default state.

There's nothing "lower" or "worse" than the absence of a connection. This is sort of like the old joke that the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
When I resigned from my last job, my last day coincided with a "reorg" that laid off maybe 3% of the workforce that very day (not a very big company though). I remember a coworker telling me, "Hey man, you should get in on that (so you can get severance)" :P

I appreciated his good natured humor :)
I disagree with the 'you must pick X of Y' absolutism. It appears to validate an oversimplified point, as do 'Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' and other clever one-liners.

Choices involving time allocation don't have to be binary; each one carries an opportunity cost, the granularity of which we control. Although I can relate to many negatives from the article, it strikes me as equivalent to complaining about a cushy-but-boring day job while not willing to incur the risks of self-employment.

The meat of the issue is to decide what the right balance is, to be aware of the trade-offs, and to not vilify 'startups' and blame them for our failure to make choices consistent with our values.

"You know where you got that shirt!"
- Charlie Murphy
>the Sun-Times might be more effective firing the writers, keeping the photographers, and teaching them actual journalism.

I think you joke, but you might have accidentally made an excellent point.

My girlfriend, to pay her bills, is a journalist. One of the things that she's talked about a lot (I'm paraphrasing here, these aren't her words) is that contemporary journalists don't have any balls anymore.

The joke is: a journalism professor, on the first day, stages a siren to play outside of the classroom. When it goes off, anybody who doesn't immediately run out with a pen and a pad in hand is dropped from the class.

Lately, a journalist can do their job without getting up from their desk. A photojournalist, however, can't. They're the ones running into "the action" necessarily. A words-journalist isn't anymore, so much.
Just because it's political for some people doesn't mean it's political for all. Discounting honest protests by some because others are politically motivated is one-dimensional thinking.
We had philosophy for the Baccaulauréat as well in Scientific section.

The article is about the Litterature section and of course I believe Philosophy is an important topic if you chose to study litterature. I was more talking about other majors (but I still think philosophy is important later on when you're already opened your mind a little bit by leaving highschool and entering university).
You managed it over a pretty small hop, compared to what you'd have to do to get anywhere from the US.

Anyway, it casts light on the apparent contradiction simply because life is made of trade-offs. The choice to prefer (say) Greyhound (or a personal vehicle) to Amtrak is a wholly different thing than the choice to visit or not visit (say) Indonesia. The same concern may merit the former but not the latter.
Looks to be more of a viral video ad, but still pretty cool.
My first page is actually quite relevant to me.

A friend of mine has just arrived from across the country to the city I'm in. He just moved here and now I know he's here and we can hang out.

Another friend is looking for help with some yardwork. Free beer or pizza is involved.

Other friends posted pictures of their children, or graduation photos from college.

Another person I know recently got out of the hospital.

All of these are at least somewhat relevant to me.

What else do I use facebook for?

I put an album of photos from a hike I went on the other day. Lots of friends had asked me about it, now they can all see it.

I play on a kickball team and we like to hang out with eachother outside of our normal thursday night games. Plans get made in our facebook group quite often.

Long ago I realized that some of my friends aren't worth keeping up with. I muted or unfriended them on Facebook. Facebook is what you make it, and I've made it in to something that I use every day.
That is true that I compared to only one plant, however caterpillar is a holding company of multiple heavy equipment mfgrs, so it seemed unfair to compare the EMD locomotive factory AND the bulldozer factory vs merely farmville.

On the other hand, there are many more types of caterpillar tractors than farmville tractors, which does even it up a bit.
Social review sites require a critical mass of users to be successful. Nobody will want to write reviews for a site that doesn't have a significant user base, and conversely no-one will visit a site that doesn't have many reviews. Be prepared to spend a lot on user acquisition. It's going to be cost-prohibitive.

Also, think about the following: What prevents Yelp from implementing some or all of the changes you outlined? Do you think your tweaks would sufficiently differentiate your service from Yelp?

Yelp is still losing money. The Premium Service you mentioned sounds like another attempt at monetizing the site. What would you do to be more profitable than Yelp?
> there should be a article in there, like "A Bitcoin service"

Newspaper headlines have evolved own special grammar rules, designed to save space. According to Wikipedia [1], "Articles are usually omitted."

Also, it's a little ironic that this comment, nitpicking the headline's choice of articles, itself uses articles incorrectly (it should say "there should be _an_ article in there.")

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese
>$60K were simply extorted from a person in pain.

Or more specifically from all of us. The author only paid $2400. The whole system is designed to be opaque and non-competitive so they can just bill insurance companies for whatever. I wonder what it would have cost if he said he was paying in cash (hint: a lot less).
Some of us are familiar with it. Contemporary Americans certainly were (obviously not Unit 731, but Nanking, various atrocities revealed by the liberation of the Philippines, etc.), and the fact that the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was by the end of the war killing something like 250,000 of the occupied peoples per month was one of the many inputs into the desire to finish the war quickly by any means necessary.
Yeah, but I think this is a bit worse than that.

If a faulty ethernet driver lets you compromise a laptop just by plugging it into a malicious network, that's a legitimate vulnerability, not really a case of "well, they had physical access".

USB may be customarily treated as more trusted than ethernet, but there are clearly still scenarios where untrusted people may be able to send you USB messages.
Messi isn't the best player according to data.
How you and I could become nodes in the Internet of things
Gameification doesn't need to be a competition, you could make it achievement based.

"Achievement unlocked: stayed in a hotel with a jacuzzi" or "Achievement unlocked: shared a desert"

We're (the wife and I) aren't to the point where we don't do a date night, but even we're starting to forget sometimes how to keep it new and fun like sharing a dessert or holding hands or sharing a kiss on a balcony or ...
Yes it is a must, or they are just a bunch or hypocrites ,like the "dont be evil" folks...
Are there better metrics for measuring a striker?
For maximum effectiveness users will purchase Projecteo slides of their Instagram photos, then Vine themselves doing shadow puppets over the projections.
For which you have separate remedy.

None of which will get me my time back.

It's an unpleasant irony, but resisting an unlawful arrest is, itself, not lawful.

Speaking only within the context of what passes for "the law" today (that is, the byzantine maze of statutes, regulations, codes, etc. pushed out by the US federal government, states, counties, cities, etc)... it may actually be, at least in some very specific cases. See: http://www.apbweb.com/cops-speak-out/1405-resisting-arrest-n... for example. Or: http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/resisting-an-u...

And that is all, of course, totally side-stepping the bigger issues of whether or not our entire system of "law" as we know it today is really valid.
That quote is always annoying, because it applies equally well to all criticisms of any programming language in active use, but not all criticisms are created equal. A useful heuristic would actually help distinguish between reasonable criticism and inevitable kvetching.
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True that. I've seen it happen before up close.
In this context, what is WF? (First thing to come to my mind was Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net)
It might not be the most ridiculous bullshit ever if it came from a different company. But Zynga's games are mostly exploitative asocial Skinner boxes that don't do anything to connect anyone in any meaningful way.
Depending on the stage of the company, many companies will be happy to oblige, since the greatest limited compensation resource of a startup from the mgmt side is equity (if the company is going anywhere, investor will fight tooth and nail against dilution to create more shares for hiring)
people care about "open web" but strangely dont care about human right violations. Strange priorities indeed.
if i had any money, i'm quite sure i'd consider investing into something drone related (commercial). almost positive these things will become a huge part of our everyday life/society in the future. (hopefully for the better)
True... and I understand that... but being able to, and knowing when and when not to apply them vs. not has far more business value.
Tersely, the USPTO is broken, that's how.
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They still have how many years left on that lease on that building? Six years still? Ruh-roh, Raggy.
I am the author of this post. I wanted to be upfront about that. But I'm very curious about what the HN community thinks about the concept of creating this kind of distributed mobile network where every device acts as a relay node carrying the community's traffic.
How does that work? The police can only arrest people after they are convicted? They have to arrest them first and then charge them.

Yeah, that's the rub, innit? I don't see any way to avoid a certain measure of injustice in this system. But it does argue that if the police arrest somebody, they better be pretty damn sure they are actually guilty of a crime. IOW, if we're going to accept this system of police, laws, arrests, courts, juries, etc., I think the bar for arresting someone needs to be pretty high.

But, I adhere to the basic premise that it's better for a guilty man to go free, than for an innocent man to be imprisoned.
I took a really shitty job so I could be close to someone in a country. I had it for almost two years. The job wasn't worth it. But the person in question was.. ten folds. Now, we're trying to settle down, but fixing the job/security situation.

That being said, I am always skeptical at things pointed out as job security.
It sure is! http://www.sendhub.com
Please stop speaking in generics. I assure you that, for the vast majority of iPhone users, insecure systems are not preferable.
I believe so strongly in this and the value of trust and relationships, that I would rather not do a startup at all if I can't put together a team of friends or friends of friends.

This is in stark contrast to the "where can I find a cofounder" and "startup dating" stuff I see these days. A company is about its people, and a startup even moreso.
That's not tautological. There are plenty of defensible business activities you can spend your time on (e.g. "reduce waste", "increase brand awareness") that don't bring you closer to making something people want.

Nor is it "tweet-wrapped" so much as concise. You said a better piece of advice was "develop a process..." but that's just a longer-winded way of giving the same advice. Is that better? Occam argues it's worse.

You're right that it's nontrivial to start out making something people want, but the value of the advice is to keep you focused when you're being pulled in different directions. If you're unsure how to proceed, default to the path that takes you closer to making something that people want.

It's a feature, not a defect, that translating this advice into a specific plan necessitates pondering how to get from your present position to that one.
Good point. There are so many benchmarks that can be performed. POMDP (Partial Observable Markov Decision Processes) literature has a lot of benchmarks (bandits, etc.). Reinforcement literature has many. There are many standard problems in nonlinear control theory solved, not only the inverted pendulum. It is common knowledge that an algorithm that performs well on task A, will be outperformed on task B. What are the tasks B in Hawkins book? In what do these specific type of recurrent networks excel, and in what do they sink as a brick?
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I agree fully with this sentiment - this is the very concept that was intended to be encapsulated by the phase "organic link building"...

It's valid and valuable to have these sorts of links and they are very relevant when factoring SEO weight.

If a developer writes a web application for a client, links to the client's application from his portfolio page and then the client, so happy with his product, links back to the developer.. Well, this is exactly how the world should operate... and a large part of how SEO should be factored, imho. This didn't just magically happen - the developer and the client both had a role in the creation of these links, which will factor into their ranking... And while people 'had their hand in this creation' and despite the fact that this 'benefits' both parties, I consider this 'organic link building'...

But then again, it would appear that I am clearly spammer as has been demonstrated by the indisputable evidence presented in this thread and so am likely not to be trusted...
Zynga's fatal flaw was depending on a platform that they don't control (Facebook) in order to make money. Twitter third-party developers got burned by this not that long ago in the past.
> insecure systems are preferable (as a user)

No they’re not. Religious issues should never come before security.
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Docker lets you run separate userspaces on the same kernel.

Vagrant provisions Virtualbox, which lets you run separate kernels, on various different virtualized CPU architectures.
This seems like a marketing stunt more than anything.

Drones would be cost effective if they were at least somehow semi-automated, otherwise there is an endless supply of teenagers and people willing to use scooters to do this at minimum wage. Drone pilots/operators are presumably more skilled and would have higher hourly wages.

It seems like 'self piloting drones' > 'self driving cars' in complexity. So we aren't quite there yet.

I would also imagine that once it becomes even remotely technologically viable it will be snuffed out by legislation. But perhaps one day.. :)
Because it's not about those parties, members of those parties don't participate with their political identities but only as a general public.

You wake up at 3am one day with people applauding and playing their cooking pots. You turn on TV but not a single channel has something to say about it. Later on you start crying in your house because of some pepper spray, still nothing but lolcatz in the news.

Next day it's not feasible to hide anything anymore as even the foreign media have it in the top news. Local media starts giving news days after without an excuse or explanation and the first thing they focus is some false news in social media, our only information source.

To top that, Mr. Erdogan is still acting as nothing happened, stating that they are not taking a step backward, going on his ""pre-scheduled"" foreign trips. He still talks about the election results with proud and refers electors as 'we' or 'them', needless to say, democracy I have in mind doesn't have politicians distinguishing their people.

I wish you were here my friend to see it for yourself..
Let us know what they say! :)
Or the dreaded meeting invite for "One-to-one". I remember the first time I had one of those, and hmm, it also included someone from HR. How is that one-to-one again?
Can you imagine if we had not dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Without the horrific evidence of those bombings, we would have inevitably dropped a warhead in the future. Except 7 years later, we would have dropped an H Bomb instead, with 1,000 times the power. The other side would probably have warheads by then, and would answer back. I think we were very lucky that history proceeded as it did.
Yes, Tim Westergren is now making $1.2 million (a month)...