skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the students at the conservatory I went to were women, and essentially all of them had been spending hours a day for 1-3 decades honing their skills. I guess my point is my experiences around women does not mesh with your theory.
Exactly what I do. I've just started using IntelliJ change sets which are really useful.
I'm actually curious why you associate open borders with socialism/communism. That's usually considered an anarcho-capitalist position. Pro-worker policies like organized labor and immigration restriction are historically associated with the left.
...would put them on par with mafia.

A careful comparison of the two groups doesn't find much to distinguish them, in terms of what they actually do. The mafia kills people; the government kills people. The mafia regulates commerce; the government regulates commerce. The mafia provides services; the government provides services. The government limits some of the mafia's more outrageous behavior; the mafia limits some of the government's more outrageous behavior. (E.g. tariffs, taxes, and regulations on particular goods may only be effectively increased up to the point at which organized crime is providing the bulk of those goods.) The only differences are those of degree.

I'm not saying this as a criticism of either group.
Hmm, I'm not sure I'd call the scary levels of unemployment/underemployment in many places "functioning pretty well".
I see that Wunderlist uses EC2. So I speculate that they create a fresh machine image for each new revision of the application, and also use immutable machine images for bits of infrastructure such as the database.

But how do we put the idea of immutable infrastructure into practice on bare-metal servers? One option would be to set up one's own virtualization infrastructure, such as Xen or KVM. But that would undermine the I/O performance and resource consolidation advantages of running on bare metal. Docker looks promising; we just need to discover the best practices for running specific kinds of services (e.g. web applications) on top of it.
you're thinking of consultants, i'm thinking of contractors.
Really tired of all the different versions of IE. Why oh why can't it just be "Internet Explorer" without all these individual versions that pigeonhole themselves?
Is there any decent SSH daemon on Windows? And what shell does/would it run? cmd.exe?
True when you say that there can be data left out in public by mistake without public access authorization. However it is not the responsibility of the accessing entity to preserve this data private.

An analogy is if your bank left your money easily accessible on a table in front of the bank without security. We are used to the idea of ownership, but this issue is a matter of blame. Here AT&T is the one to blame for the lack of security, not someone who saw that AT&T lacks security.

Back to the bank analogy, it is not the public's duty to guard your money for the bank. Nor should someone else be jailed for money literally left outside on the table.
...and the author is using Laravel, which delivers stunningly terrible latency and throughput performance in the techempower benchmarks:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Would be nice to see similar benchmarks using a framework that doesn't resemble a honeypot's tarpit.
I think I've read this somewhere. In fact, I'm sure I have. However, I completely agree with the author as this is something that I've experienced myself.
That's my whole point here and this whole system for reviews is broken. Apple considers all reviews as part of their trending/featured/what's hot algorithms. So this stuff really matters. That plus the fact that some people really make decisions to download something or not solely based on how many stars does it have. Apple/Google should punish this kind of practices. Big time.
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That's a good point. I'm normally the sole developer on projects, so I am my own Gitolite administrator.
Interesting. I've never run across the term spike before. I was assuming mainframe refers to "big iron".

Thanks to you and unwind for the explanation.
That's a great idea. We're giving a first month free for the $60 plan but subsidizing it could get people hooked. Do you think we should offer a much larger plan (hypothetically would 100,000 texts for 4k/month be plausible?)
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This is the kind of agenda study that won't last a second under peerreview.

Hate those article press releases that don't even get close to explain the methodology and just jump to a sweet conclusion already analyzed.
Just because a property of the process isn't enforced in the code does not mean that the property doesn't exist in the process.

In C, it's possible to change a const. But const is still a very valuable construct, even if it is possible to cheat.
This makes the assumption that Google's goal with Google+ is just to syndicate content, something that clearly isn't the case. They want content created specifically for Google+ - if they wanted a firehose of data they certainly had the capability and time to allow third-parties to put data into the stream.

Whether or not Google's goal is to create a social network or get more users is up for debate, but this certainly wasn't simply overlooked.
You should try Python.
Whipping up a template or general theme in Photoshop now takes "infinite money". Enjoy your bootstrap, I'll just leave your site.
What you're describing is the MO for dishonest subscription services. But there's lots of subscription services that aren't dishonest and have very happy customers.

To your points:

1. While there are dishonest sites, I'm sure you also have numerous recurring subscriptions with a whole bunch of services where that's exactly what you agreed to, and what you want. Your internet provider, your mobile phone provider, your cable company, etc. I realize you may have had an issue with one company, but that doesn't mean the subscription model can't be used in an honest, customer-focused way. I have subscriptions with utilities, online content services (Spotify), and even a podcast network and for 90% of situations, it works fine and there's no trick or scam.

2. I totally agree that companies should make it easy to cancel, and it's despicable if they don't. It's also generally bad business practice because it hurts your relationship with them. But again, there's lots of companies with recurring subscription models that handle this right: just look at Netflix. Not only will they cancel easily, they'll also put your account on hold if you're going on vacation, etc.
Snowden is the red herring. It is more interesting for news cycles to talk about a person. What he does, what he likes. It is hard to talk about "the government". There is no one person to interview, we can't find out what food "the government" likes etc. We should be focusing on the leaks and the systems that allowed the surveillance to happen.
Ah, thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.

The heavier font weight didn't register and I completely missed the links in the body of the text. Maybe they need to be set off more, or maybe I just need more coffee :)
In all seriousness, I really do think that MSFT has an uphill battle when it comes to having non-enterprise web developers adopt IE as their primary platform for development. I'm sure that IE 11 is/will be a perfectly fine browser and comparable to Chrome/Firefox, but they still have the requirement that you must use Windows.

I have no problem targeting IE11 as an end-user platform for my apps, especially now since it appears that it's a very good , if not great, browser, but I have absolutely zero desire to use Windows as a day-to-day OS for development. A large portion of the tooling that I (and I suspect a vast majority of other engineers) require either doesn't exist on Windows, or if it does, it's crippled or hacky.

Essentially, moving to IE over Chrome/Firefox nets me little to no appreciable gain, and comes with a huge negative problem of drastically impacting my productivity.
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> someone always has root

same in programming... unsafePerformIO, dropping into native code or assembly, etc. In 2013 the hardware exposes a mutable interface.
Enjoy your strawman, I'll just leave this conversation.
There's some solid advice in the article.

However, childhood summers don't seem long primarily because you're doing new things, but rather because of relative perception of time. When you're two years old, one summer spans 1/8 of your life. Unless you live in the UK.
There will still be methods of determining whether the browser is IE or not; that's virtually impossible to hide. It will require a little more effort, but every browser is full of tell-tale bugs and other implementation nuances that can be used to uniquely identify it. It could even be as easy as detecting support for CSS vendor prefixes or similar.
Well, once you get past the tech savvy crowd which is like 1% of the browsing population, even if Firefox truly beats Chrome by a big margin, I don't think this is going to change things one bit for Firefox.
Chrome is bundled with Java, Acrobat and Flash updates, which ~98% of computers in the world have. Forget a checkbox in a hurry because you want to do something useful and Chrome is installed.

It is bundled with many PCs by the OEMs who get paid for it.

It is constantly advertised on TV and on Google properties like Google search engine and Youtube, especially to Opera and IE users.

Mozilla doesn't have the resources to do the above and,all this explains Chromes' growth among the nontech crowd more than just performance differences.

I have personally seen many folks who I installed Firefox back in the day end up using Chrome. When I ask them, most of the time they don't have no idea how they got it. Google's been sinking a lot of money into Chrome over the years(even paying websites $1 per download they drive) and it makes sense because one more Chrome install they don't have to pay money to Firefox and Opera for being the default search for another user.
For compatibility reasons. Many websites render differently based on browser support/quirks, and use strings of text within the UA as cues to determine which direction they should take when handling those quirks.

Removing those cruddy bits of the UA would make it so that those pages would render incorrectly.
(Warning, this will sound extremely elitist.)

I'd argue that the "smart" portion of the population is even less than you figure. It depends on what you interpret to be smart. With my own personal judgment, intelligence, true intelligence, is derived from skepticism, curiosity, and a thirst for knowledge, not by success financially.

If we use those criteria, I'd say that most people in that list would be about 1/8th down on the bell curve. People just don't care, I've seen it with my own family.
These prices are why people don't use texting/sms anymore.

Huh? I honestly don't know a single person (other than my parents) who don't use texting as their primary medium of communication between phones. It's easy, it's reliable, it removes the possibility of awkward or lengthy conversations.

What makes you think nobody texts anymore?
Well this is not my field, but as far as I can see the study (DOI helpfully at the bottom of the OP) was published in a journal called "Self and Identity" and according to http://www.issiweb.org/ this is peer reviewed.

The official journal of ISSI is Self and Identity, which is published by Psychology Press. Self and Identity is a peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on research and theory relevant to the aims of the society.

Could you clarify your remark further?
This is, literally, an argument that if you stumble across a text file full of credit card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV codes, it should be lawful for you to put it up on Pastebin.
While I agree it is an interesting idea as someone who uses Google+ a decent amount I would not have wanted non-user contexts mixed in anymore than what is already there (these are already present for a lot of brands etc). I am already starting to get annoyed with the "What's Hot" elements and such inside Google+ I would rather have more subscribed human content that algo picked or rss generated.

I think that moving that into its own interface _within_ Google+ would have been a great idea though.
Commenter above has very valid points.
I think that with busy people, they're happy to forego etiquette somewhat.

My last email went something like this

Subject: One line response needed only
Body: Hi X,

Could you please tell me what you consider a healthy user activation rate?

Thank you

Regards

---

That's it. Of course, that's not how I would email everyone.
In fairness to many of the commenters in here, I don't think some aspects of that article are very clear. eg the comparison of the improvement seen by women under the alias vs the men under the alias was summarised in one sentence that I'd missed.

Plus it doesn't help that the experiment comes across rather unscientific (there's no figures published with their write up aside the sample of people tested, and even there, the numbers of men and women tested were quite different.

I'm not trying to undermine this study though. I do believe the differences are just cultural. Just offering up a possible reason why this article hasn't been received well rather than arguing that the male ego is too big to accept that men and women are equal.
Much the same thought I have.

I've been doing various things toward the same goal for a long time, but Docker helps on every count (quick, redistributable etc).
My laptop's fan says that may not be advisable.

P.S. sometimes people overlook how a well-drawn illustration may be superior to photos or video; think anatomical drawings, for instance. In this case I feel the lack of two simple curves superimposed to illustrate the point about the variance.
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Making a sexist remark and asking for someone else to provide the evidence is not acceptable.
As others have said you need to make it much more clear what the product does. I understand immediately once I scroll down but the tag line "Texting for education, health, advertising, and much more. Start the conversation." tells me nothing.

>> "Texting is already seen as more personal than email"

This is true but I don't think it's a plus for your product. Personally I despise getting texts from companies asking me questions and replying back to me, precisely because it's personal and unexpected. I don't want that kind of interaction from a business. It's an invasion of my personal life (ok a bit dramatic, I know).

Have you done much research on this? I'd be interested to know what you discovered.
"accumulates wide viewership in America."

LOL wide viewership LOL!

google for CNN ratings and the first link I found is a press release from exactly one week ago "proudly" reporting that CNN's "New Day" program from 6 to 9 am (presumably EDT?) had a whopping 302,000 viewers.

google "united states population" claims 313.9 million, but thats not counting illegals so we'll call it a cool third of a billion.

WAY over 99% of the population is doing something other than watching CNN.

You're getting pretty far down in the weeds, getting comparable to if you asked a random person on the street, the odds of them having the same birthday as you, or they watched CNN this morning, are vaguely similar to more than a sig fig.

By comparison, the mighty GOOG combined with some basic arithmetic gives the result that "about" 125 times more people watched the superbowl than watched CNN this morning. Still only about 1/3 of the population, but getting closer to broadcasting and "wide viewership".

Its a great example of extreme narrowcasting, not broadcasting and certainly not "wide viewership". Nobody watches that stuff, they just don't culturally matter anymore. Only rare and unusual oddballs (nothing personal intended) watch TV news networks.
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You guys are asking some interesting questions in particular about whether people feel they charge too much or not enough. The best expose on that I've seen is in Gerald Weinberg's "Secrets of Consulting" http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0932633013/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=...

It's a question that's both externally determined, e.g. "What does the market bear?" and also based on someone's own perception of their worth. It's hard to disentangle the two but very important in order to maximize revenue. What's more the objective question of what the market will bear is often colored by my own perception, which is a recipe to leaving money on the table.

Weinberg's advice is to set your rate such that you'd feel emotionally neutral whether or not you get the gig. If you over price (by your own feeling, not by what the market says) and you get the gig, you'll be stressed to deliver at what you think that price level should be worth in labor. If you under price (by your own standard, perhaps because you think the market will not accept more) then you'll be resentful for working below what you're worth. Having been a consultant myself, I can only advise everybody to challenge the own perception of what the market will bear.
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It's always so cute how everyone thinks the way they use a browser is the only way anyone uses a browser.

Like folk who think that having hundreds of tabs open at once is the norm! :)
Another Microsoft's best kept secrets is using Javascript for shell script. It has been there forever since Javascript first came out. It's called JScript but it's just Javascript with Windows support like running ActiveX Objects, which let you access the file system, OS, network, etc. You can pretty much drive the Windows system with it through ActiveX Automation. Also you can do Office application integration like Excel Automation with it.
The differences in military vs. startup organizational friendship may have to do with what is on the line. In the military, the organization is a matter of life and death. In startups, the organization is simply a matter of profit and loss.

I've had similar experiences in the activist world... nothing builds camaraderie like being tear gassed and arrested together.
best kept secret? How did it end up in an article here then?
The difference between FF release and next Chrome release is 2 weeks at most. The different between the Chrome release and the next Firefox is 4 weeks. But whatever, I'm not too hung up on this. Good for Firefox, if they can maintain that lead.
This is true that they could push content. Though, there is a slight difference - a user subscribes or wants a given content. Obviously they want it to be created there, but it could help in transition of some users ... like me.
LINQ exists, to some degree, in the list comprehensions of Python and to a large degree in the for-comprehensions of Scala and many of the Monads of Haskell.

The monadic interfaces can get much more powerful, such as the Logic Monad in Haskell which embeds Prolog-like search.
I believe that is an over-simplification and slightly revisionist take on early Apple history. Jobs was more technical than he is given credit for these days: Atari had employed him as a technician.

However, next to Woz any of us would look like just a marketing guy. Nor would I sugest that anyone but Woz designed the Apple's circuitry.
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And also PhoenixServer: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html
We've been doing this for ages where I work. New EC2 AMIs are built inside a disk image. We can pretty easily use all of the standard tools through chroot, so installing packages is relatively simple and flexible.

Instances are ready for use immediately after booting, and deploying new code is as simple as rebuilding the image and booting it. We can also easily scale up most forms of servers by simply booting more and adding them to the proxy as they come up.

The only downside here is that firefighting still kind of remains a two step process. Even after investing a decent bit of time optimizing the process, it still takes 5-10 minutes to build and upload an image. From there it takes another 5-30 minutes to get EC2 to boot it, so there's a strong temptation to tweak things on the server. I've taken to patching, testing, and committing the fix on the tag for that release so I can simply apply a diff to get the server up to date. Not perfect, but it goes a long way to prevent regressions.
Why do you close it? I also use windows, never have more tabs than I can read their titles, and never close Firefox (except when some js crashes it, like browserstack.com)

Firefox is my browsing (err) browser (I like tag bookmarks too much).

I use chrome to develop with as I like their tools much better than firebug which, to me, is very slow in comparison. Chrome I close out relaunch semi-frequently (crtl-w spam, oops), but still keep it open, because why not?
I mean that people seem to be being paid roughly what they're worth, and at that level the median household ends up with $50K or so (the average household does even better because of the skew at high incomes). $50K isn't great, but it's not, IMHO, indicative of workers with no negotiating power. How do we get from there to rayiner's "future" of Rosa Ramirez?
That analogy falls over, because in it weev actually saw the money and went over and took it. That'd be a crime off the bat.
Yes, amazon is 'overpriced' if what you're looking at is CPU or disk speed (which is not a bad metric, really). Where amazon shines is the amount of programmatic interaction you can do with it - have build scripts kick off an EC2 instance to run tests, send reports, shut it down. Programmatically bring up more instances during peak times, spin them down at night, etc.

AFAICT, Linode doesn't offer that, and they probably won't. Amazon's been ahead in this arena for awhile, and will probably keep that lead for the forseeable future. EDIT: Apparently they do have an API which would cover a decent variety of use cases.

What's sad is the number of people that migrate over to Amazon because it's the done thing, without realizing what they're paying for (and that they're not utilizing the unique features of EC2).