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The "pain and annoyance" of learning Ruby? Just what language were you trying to learn exactly? We all have different experiences when learning new languages but this is the first time I've heard learning Ruby described as painful and annoying.

I agree with most of the points in the article and the ultimate conclusion. I'll take a Rails app running in one process and EventMachine (for asynchronous Real-time features) app running in a separate process over my API and Real time elements running in one Node.js process that will most likely be leaking memory.

Dang it, I fell for the bait. I replied to a Node.js vs Ruby article :(
I think that Uber is an improvement for relatively well-off people, a direct no-op for poorer people, and a potential indirect harm to poorer people if Uber harms taxicab service by competing unfairly.

I have no problem at all with Uber's black car service, but I think the taxi service is sketchy.
That's interesting. What are the work use cases you're seeing value in? (I haven't been in a formal office for so long, I may be missing the opportunity there entirely)
[Reads title] "Medium? Pandodaily? Techcrunch? Check."
my phone also won't make me look like a dork. seriously, this is Google's number one hurdle to getting people to use this.
Certainly a politician. You still evade the question, but that's all the time we have for now.

We'll be back next Sunday, because if it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.
Patent trolls must prove they have a 'significant presence' in the US: ITC
I don't quite understand how the work can be interesting when you start out but lose interest after a year or two, unless the project itself ends or goes into maintenance mode. To me, either something is interesting or is not, from day one.

Just to give a different perspective: personally I've only had one employer since I started working 9 years ago, so I'm nearly at that 10 year stretch. I've changed technology several times while there, usually by proposing the change myself. I've also changed what sort of product I've worked on many times. Whenever the work becomes boring because a project goes into maintenance mode, I decide I want to work on something fresh and make it happen.
Ask HN: Has there been any research on Advertising and Information Systems?
Just wondering if there has been any work done (academic or otherwise) on the impact of injecting bid-prioritized results (e.g. ads) into relevance-ranked searches of information systems for the purpose of monetization (such as Google Search). I think it would be a pretty interesting topic, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything terribly relevant.
> an NYC cop immediately stopped and ticketed him.

Did she have to alert the cop to what happened, or is there a system in place that notifies police when this happens?
Can someone post a mirror? I'm being prompted to sign in with Twitter to view the article, something which I have no intent of doing.
Why bother? If they don't want to give you a real email address they'll find some way not to.
Lopsided Map of the Cosmos Offers New Clues to the Universe's Origins
Wait a second...

A wine's price indicates three things:

1. Its cost of production. An ice wine, for example, costs more to produce because the cold climate in which it is produced leads to poor harvests. A more expensive production may take prune their trees more, giving a particular quality to their (eventual) grape juice. Some technology allows for more efficient processing of grapes. Cork is more expensive than screw top.

2. The supply and quantity demanded of said wine.

The cost matters in that it sets the amount of supply. Knowing that most people are going to be unwilling to pay 35 bucks for a bottle of ice wine, not much is produced.

There are plenty of good, inexpensive wines. This isn't 1949 where an inexpensive bottle of wine is going to be little different than vinegar.
plenty of discussion going on here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939498
Yes there are whites and reds that blur that boundary a lot. A light red beaujolais (often served chilled) could easily be white, just to pick one. You should try some more kinds of wine!
If you look at the source, you can see why it is slow. Tons of js linked in there, right in the <head>, no minification. They even embed jQuery twice on there (1.3.2 then later on 1.6.2). Also, lots of inline styles on the page. Looks like they are using a CMS, not sure which one though.

Nevertheless, that 3D rollover effect and infinite scroll in all directions is pretty fun.
Whatever you think of this article, it's interesting to do your own blind tasting of kinds of wine, tea, peanut butter, or whatever. If you personally can't tell the difference, it's both educational ("I thought I liked the expensive one better!") and lets you happily save money.
This is a great idea (assuming that the budget exist), because it takes care of retention, not just recruiting.

I'd split the bonus between the two employees, and have it stop if either leave the company. This way both employees (who might have some influence on one another) have an incentive to keep each other happy at that company. This can boost the retention effect of this strategy.
Well, is Joe Blow a Google employee? It might not break any laws at all in that case.

If he's not a Google employee it would probably violate ECPA, but ECPA explicitly allows foreign intelligence surveillance to occur (even over the Internet), so that wouldn't help against government surveillance being done in accordance with FISA.
This is the most recent question I was thinking of:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62222/centos-or-debian-as...

But looking through my history, I was slightly incorrect-- at least one was closed as "not constructive" rather than "off-topic." (I remembered incorrectly because it's true the question is not about programming specifically)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3630506/benefits-of-ebs-v...

The question resulted in answers based on facts and expertise that I found extremely helpful. It was almost exactly what I was looking for when I put the search into google. The question got 161 upvotes and the best answer got 150. The most upvoted answer included 6 factual statements, 1 assertive opinion, and 1 testimonial.

Here's an example of a question closed as off-topic from serverfault. I honestly have no idea why, or where such a question should be asked:

http://serverfault.com/questions/5111/how-to-test-real-netwo...

Once again, I found it on a google search and the first answer had exactly what I was looking for. Minutes later I had downloaded iperf and had used it to run the tests I wanted to run. Yet the question is locked with a disclaimer about how it's only preserved for legacy reasons and it's not on-topic for the site.

To be clear, I don't have a strong preference for where these questions get asked and answered so long as the answers are high-quality and an itinerant surfer like me can find them and active+fruitful discussions don't get permanently squashed because the question caused a red-flag in some moderators pruning algorithm.
There are many great bargain wines out there, true. But, I would not call all wine bullshit.

Those $300-$400 bottles are, IMO, complete bullshit compared to most $100 bottles, which are in turn bullshit compared to many $50 bottles (I've been a Williams-Selyem subscriber for a decade now)... which are in turn bullshit to a ton of great cheap wine from S. America.

I also like two (err, $3?) buck chuck.

And vodka.
I use vagrant on my mac that has Ubuntu loaded on my VM.
"Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone."

Right now.

And yet, isn't one of your points that it's not a micro improvement? You're saying here it's a micro improvement on your phone... but that's a bad thing in your blog.

It's not hard to imagine Glass having a phone built in (in fact I'd welcome it, the apps I really need on my phone could easily be in Glass, and I could do without the distraction of the others), so I really am having trouble following your arguments based on a very very beta product that has plenty of years of runway to develop.
Ode to a Windows Partition
"Google Glass is a new gadget. Other popular devices reduced the number of gadgets I needed to carry and made life better, but Glass is an extra gadget plus it's stupid because it doesn't do anything and what it does do it does badly".
That's really annoying. Sorry about that. Cross posted here:
http://philco.squarespace.com/philcosblog/2013/6/25/why-goog...
This headline shows why I like 'sentence case' better than 'title case' :)

Is wine bullshit? <- the drink
Is Wine bullshit? <- the not-emulator
Out of curiosity, what was the name of your company?
> Problem is…people who wear glasses can’t wear Google Glass.

Uhh, what? I was under the assumption, at least from all their marketing material and everything that I've heard about Glass from other people on the internet, that there are models that fit over your existing prescription glasses. No?
You're focusing way too much on treason. There's probably 5 other felonies besides that Snowden would be guilty of without even having to think about treason charges.
I tend to think the price of wine has much more to do with _prior_ vintages than the current one in the bottle.

A winery is a brand, they build a strong brand by consistently producing good tasting wine (also: advertising, PR, etc). So, when you pay top dollar you should have an increased likelihood of enjoying the wine just bought. It doesn't mean you will though.

On the flip side, cheap wines may actually taste great. They just haven't built up a reputation for that yet, maybe if they do things right their price per bottle will triple over the next 3 years. You never know.

I think this explains most of the price disparity within a certain range... let's say between $0-$150 / bottle. Anything priced above that range, is probably more driven by something else. Could be more advertising, "collectors" bidding the price up, limited production, etc. - for the most part it's "irrational" (for lack of a better word) and has nothing to do with taste.
To me, it comes across as trying to seduce the desperate.
Have there been experiments with implanting numerous electrodes in a sort of shotgun pattern, but only activating the center ones at first so that when they "wear out" the outer electrodes can take over?

That might mitigate the need to up the current or perform another surgery, but on the other hand I suppose you want to keep the number of electrodes in there to a minimum.
Knowing that the liquid in front of you is wine, and seeing that it looks red, what is your probability that it is really red wine?

Unless you have specific reasons to suspect foul play, your probability would be very very near 1 (certainty). Now, overcoming this near-certainty with our poorest senses of all, taste and smell, is quite difficult.
I created this free WP theme with small startups in mind, if anyone wants it.
Here is my heuristic:

- Look for a screw-cap bottle of wine priced about $14-18. This price point gets you a bottle that is likely worth the extra few bucks over the bottom-tier pricing ($2-$12 range) and which is able to avoid having to use a cork to appear sophisticated. Screw-tops are associated with cheap wine, so any wine that has one and still commands a market price above bargain basement ($2-$10) is likely decent.

- Also, European countries heavily subsidize the wine industry, so it's possible to get great wine for around €8. In America those might end up costing $15-$20 but they are still a better value than most $30-$40 American wine (which is overpriced b/c of the super expensive real estate it is grown on and lack of subsidy).
All bluetooth headsets make people look like dorks, but that hasn't stopped their proliferation.

FWIW, when I was an intern at Google, Sergey wore them 24/7. He looked a bit weird the first couple of times, but after that he just looks like Sergey. It's like people wearing glasses when they previously didn't. Weird for a bit, then perfectly normal afterwards.
I may be wrong! Thanks for correcting me. That having been said, it should REPLACE glasses, not be in addition to. Still doesn't solve a problem for their prime target demo.
Seems super vulnerable to frequency analysis though. However, if this is a path you might want to go down, you might want to look at CryptDB, a research project that looks at keeping a server side encrypted database and allows for queries in a principled way: http://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/
Neither. The cop just noticed her getting out and immediately trying to flag another cab.
You've quoted me egregiously out of context. "silly little game" (not even verbatim) came from this sentence:
>I'm saying that this is important and meaningful and needs to be treated as such rather than another opportunity to win points in some silly political game.

You left out the "important and meaningful" part and the "treated as such" part. What I refer to as a silly game is the attempt to wrack up points for one side or the other rather than taking the debate seriously and analyzing it in a sober manner.

As I've said before. I'm very critical of these programs. But rather than contorting my mind through anger into assuming the NSA is the Third Reich, I try to take a step back.

To your point on the 4th Amendment. I agree that there is probably a violation there. I hope that there will come a time when the conversation about these programs is honest and sober enough to analyze these programs with the appropriate care.

Like several others, you've mistaken my reluctance to jump on your angry bandwagon as opposition. Far from it. At a gut level, I agree with most everything you've said here. Still, it's harmful to the public debate because it is hasty and hyperbolic.
Yeah. Google is working on this right now. The problem point from what I understand is making the frames compatible with the IR sensor that does wink detection.

We whipped up a quick adapter in a few minutes using OpenSCAD and found that the IR sensor was the pain point. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:88426
This reads like an advertisement straight from a spam bot. I guess I'm jaded.
Is it really? Or maybe the bullshit is the fundamental assumption of economics that you can understand human behavior by equating them to a set of agents maximizing some mythical utility function, and the temptation to see the world through those reductionist lenses.

No, buying $2000 bottles of wine probably is not worth it in terms of maximizing any utility function, but i would argue it is precisely the point.
Insofar as national policy is overdetermined, who the president happens to be for a given term is irrelevant. So the question becomes, is the surveillance state overdetermined? There's certainly a strong collation behind it--the money alone makes it so. I suspect the president has very little freedom in these matters.

Yet I wonder who's on the other side. Have all the major players just said, "sure, that works for me?" Surely someone powerful feels the risk.

Remember that it wasn't the Washington Post that drove Nixon's disgrace, it was the FBI using the Post as an instrument. It was government feuding, and I wonder if this latest episode is another instance of feuding. Maybe I hope it is.
I just got this email. I'd sure like to know what this is in reference to. We had significant enough issues with Rackspace that we decided to move our whole system over to AWS.
What's there to be good or bad about wine, apart from people liking it?
The was upgraded in 2009 to 4096-bit RSA. In fact I believe hearing of the vuln in DSA-based digital signatures was what led me to do the replacement.
Stack Overflow moderator here. I love Slant for so many reasons! I'm glad there's a place where people can ask subjective questions. It sucked when people used to ask where they could ask their question and we basically had to respond "not here, try reddit." I also think the design of Slant reinforces the argument that Stack Overflow just isn't built for that kind of question. Well done!
$99 Ouya (Open Source Game Console) Retailed Today ... Sold Out Today
Seriously... I guess I'm done clicking medium links from now on.
Price does indicate quality, however. In Europe, there's a big difference between EUR 3 wine and EUR 8 wine. Usually.

And only if neither wine has a reputation. A EUR 8 Bourgogne is pretty much guaranteed to be crap: you're paying for the word "Bourgogne" on the label. A EUR 8 Cotes du Rhone, however, is pretty much guaranteed to be very drinkable (a EUR 3 Cotes du Rhone: not so much. EUR 3 Bourgogne doesn't exist).

Once you go above the EUR 10 price point, it becomes hit and miss. None of these wines will be bad, but price will no longer correlate exclusively or at least predominantly with quality. In that sense the article is right.

But at the lower end of the market, where, I'd assume, most mere mortals operate, yes, price indicates quality.
I have the same problem too on Linux. I've found it is fixed by removing the padding-right on the logo and I've tried telling them that on the mailing list. No one will believe me though even if though I have multiple pictures documenting the fact. =/
like wise!
> For an apt example, could I sit you down at a computer and have you tell me the price of a video game?

You can usually tell pretty easily the difference in (art/etc) resources spent on a big budget title (e.g. Call of Duty) and those spent on a smaller title, like Darwinia or Little Inferno or Angry Birds. You can't tell me that it's a $1 vs $3 game, but you can pretty well tell the difference in the games that expect you to buy them for $60 versus those that expect to be bought for $15-$20.
Flipping throough it...

From using chrome on the desktop it seems like the nav part is responsive but the list isn't (the columns don't shrink accordingly nor the fonts reduce.)

I'd code it so on page 1/landing page you have the text "Viral Sports Articles" on a line below nav and remove that bit from the nav bar, on subsequent pages it doesn't need to be there. Loose the text on the logo if it doesn't have to be there so you can make the logo bigger at such a small scale.

Viral rank doesn't make much sense to me (thinking as Joe Sixpack here)... numbers don't have much meaning maybe a call it "buzz rank" or something and use color bar graphic, long and green for top, and the varying length/color according to whatever the rank metric is.

So description is your categories... Maybe logo/sport symbols to have a quick id?

Seems a little stuffy - all two colors... oh... bee colors... would have noticed that if the logo was bigger.

Maybe a bit more sporty? One of the funnest pictures I've ever saw for a team of programmers was for pro-line software http://www.pcmuseum.ca/icons/ProLineteam.jpg though it wasn't sports software, it was definitely a memorable picture. Kick up your about with "the SwarmSports Team" along with some sports analogies might add to the retention factor.

The blog header is really really nice compared - smiled when I saw it - Id replicate it on the about and possibly on the first page of results. same with the social icons. Blog has no back to content menu...

Space is expensive on phones shorten the date to mm/dd or mm/dd/yy or something like "last Wed." then mm/dd after one week before...

I can't comment on how good the quality of CSS is and stuff, I'm still getting a hang of it myself. My project has some similarities to what you are doing - might check it out to give you some ideas: http://www.doplaces.com

Hope that helps.
Traffic growth should be a marathon, not a sprint
There is a link to http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06...

"But that didn’t stop the experts from describing the “red” wine in language typically used to describe red wines. One expert said that it was “jammy,” while another enjoyed its “crushed red fruit."
Note that I am not complaining or demanding anything. You are right in assuming that I do not miss dtrace and zfs enough on my linux boxes to contribute individually to the porting effort.

I am simply observing that porting these tools to Linux doesn't seem to be a priority for either the Linux community (which is already incubating multiple "home-made" alternatives such as btrfs, lxc userland tools etc.) or the SmartOS community (which can understandably be tempted to keep these tools as proprietary "killer apps").

I believe that, if there had been a more concerted and serious effort to get these tools into linux early on, by people knowledgeable and influential enough to get it done (ie. not me), setting aside platform rivalries and NiH, a lot of sysadmins and developers would be having way more fun at their job right now.
Lessons from (Dead) Geek Entrepreneurs
Young's Double Chocolate Stout is both incredibly tasty and not particularly expensive (relative to other "craft" beers).
To those who don't remember that thing:

For any headline which asks a yes/no question, the correct answer is always "no."
The Architecture of Verification in Whiley
The problem is doing this (ending regulation, allowing uber and any other company to operate in any way they decide) may work in the short term with uber in its current form but long term the effects COULD be disastrous, uber is going to evolve and may evolve into something that does not work as well as it does now, which could cripple a lot of American cities. I visited an American city and wanted to get a burger, we had to take a cab just to get a burger! If you were a city that had a dependence on cabs would you be willing to risk it all? The current system might not be perfect but is it worth sacrificing for something that nobody knows how it will work in the long term? That might work for a startup... but does it work for local government?
Yes. Practically, that means that you should try the cheaper wines from your markets / supermarkets, they can be perfectly satisfying. It's actually harder to find wine that's total "bullshit" nowadays!
This is very nice! GG!
>> So much of so many things is subjective.

Yes, but even subjective judgements are invalid if they're not based on objective differences.

If you reliably prefer white wines in blind tastings and I reliably prefer reds, that's valid. But if we both claim a preference but can't actually identify which is which, our preferences themselves are invalid.

Or at least, we've learned that our true preference is "I like the experience of tasting a wine that I have seen is X color."

Perhaps the truth is sometimes "I enjoy consuming something that I have been told is expensive." It would at least be enlightening to know that about ourselves.
If there is sufficient demand for a competing service that puts taxis at a disadvantage, doesn't that indicate a government failure (i.e. the flip side of a market failure)? I would think that indicates that the constraints on taxis are too tight and/or their prices are too high.
Well, yes, the issue of what words mean is by definition purely semantic.
Yep. Solid TL;DR. Should've just blogged that instead.
There's a vast gulf between sane monitoring of items coming into the country and the vast surveillance state we are currently discussing.
> I'll flat-out disagree with you about the opinion-based questions.

There's nothing stopping you from setting up your own opinion-only SE clone.
People who feel insulted tend to object thereto.
You know that Walmart aggressively optimizes to reduce the amount it pays its workers: keeping everyone at 39.5 hours to avoid paying benefits and using social norms as an excuse to consistently pay women less than men? And you think it is a bummer that people are resistant to those changes?

They are small business owners and you are asking them to trade in their autonomy for someone else's profits. Sounds like a decision they are capable of making on their own.
We must have been blessed with an asshole rep or two!
Hi there! This is the first we've heard of this issue, but it could be something going wrong on our side.

Could you visit http://supportdetails.com/ and email me the results? I'm omar@priceonomics.com.

Thanks and sorry for the redirects. Completely unintentional.