skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm another person cured of RSI by the same approach. Initially, when learning of TMS, the RSI got worse (progressing from just constant pain to feelings of numbness and nerve damage).

Certainly worth a look if you have RSI--clearly if people can be cured more or less overnight by just reading, there's SOME mental component, whether or not Dr. Sarno's explanations of the mechanisms of TMS are correct.
Thank you for sharing. It's always great to learn about effective strategies to deal with/cure RSI; especially when so many said cures are failing. Already ordered the book, and I hope I won't be disappointed :)
I understand how the AOF can be considered similar to a postgres WAL file but what makes you say its even more durable?
I've got a library called Falcon.js (https://github.com/stoodder/falconjs) that essentially provides a Model, Collection, View framework on top of Knockout that I've been using for over a year now on internal and client projects. It works really well for single page and mobile web hybrid apps, it's completely unit tested, and I'm currently in the works of getting the documentation finished up. It's only dependency is jQuery and it comes bundled with Knockout 2.2.1 built in. Feel free to take a look at what I have so far, I'd love your feedback. Again, I apologize for the incomplete state of documentation at the moment but I promise everything'll be wrapped up sooner than later!
I'm the creator of this website. I used to play mapelstory, too. And I used to read the sleepywood forums. I knew the GMs, stoveboy and all of them.
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Well, best of luck with Scala, then. I am aware that there are people out there who like Scala, some of them even like it for the reasons you mention, and some of those even seem to find it elegant (BTW, I watched a talk[1] by Marting Odersky in which he tries to explain why he thinks all those Scala features should be crammed into a single language; even he didn't seem half as convinced as you are :)). It's good to have choices in the JVM ecosystem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPitDNUNyR0
I bought at ~21 blended; I'm feeling good right now, but see this as a real long term bet. FB's position is so stratospheric that the opportunities to monetize are nearly endless; the rub is going to be in picking the right paths, not the lack of paths.
That's like saying that all 8MP sensors are better than all 5MP sensors just because they stuff more pixels on the sensor. Of course, that's not true.
This is very exciting news!!!! What an awesome combination.
Why you should think twice before shaming anyone on Social Media
To expand on that a bit: when redis is in AOF mode, all write commands are appended to a journal file. When fsync is set to 'always', this journal file is fsynced on every write.

Redis has a reputation as an "ephemeral database", because it's usually used as one, but there's nothing inherently ephemeral about it. This isn't magic; it's just file I/O.
I seem to remember you could just Brew Install this and in fact that's what prompted Apple to provide an official standalone gcc de-bundled from XCode.
Start with going with 50/50 on business he brings to the table. This way you can work with 10 guys like him and evolve accordingly.

If he insists on 50/50 legal contract upfront (which is not unreasonable if he's the star), add the minimal yearly dollar amount clause of the business he brings in.
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." - John Keynes

That's especially true with shorting positions.
You need root, because there are apps you want to run, that need root permissions. The use cases for these apps are very wide, from ad blocking to repairing OEM fuckups (I'm looking at you, Asus).

Anyway, it is easy to "root" Windows or Mac OSX. It is just logging in as administrator in Windows or using sudo in OSX. The paranoia and preventing the user to really control the device they bought is a new thing, that came with mobile OSes. It wasn't so widespread before.
Better than nothing and that's what we had before...nothing.
A new study has pinpointed some possible causes of bee deaths
Two words: music physiotherapists. Musicians get RSI-type problems a lot, and when it's career-ending for a concert pianist, people really pay attention. Plus there's several hundred years of accumulated experience dealing with these problems.

I still have fluid around my tendons 20 years later, my RSI was so bad - visible roundness in my forearms - and I haven't had a day of pain in a decade. It took six sessions, and they only worked on my neck.

Highly recommended.
Yeah, before I closed my Paypal account a few years ago, I remember this being the case as well. So I'm not sure how the other commenters are getting away with:

1. Not having to open an account to make > $500 purchases via Paypal.

2. Not having to get your account verified.
On my macbook:

1	90 18% cd
2	86 17.2% rails
3	64 12.8% ls
4	44 8.8% ssh
5	37 7.4% rake
6	34 6.8% ping
7	24 4.8% git
8	21 4.2% dig
9	11 2.2% cat
10	9 1.8% whois
Republican: 94 yea 134 Nay
Democratic: 111 yea 83 Nay

Pretty close and party lines didn't seem all that important.
Wow this must really time consuming. Really great work. Inspirational
Personally, I'm still really annoyed that Espresso - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ugmCuNxDU - hasn't been released!
Right, the ones we cannot criticize...
I think this is the end of the cloud. For me (as european) it is now unacceptable to use american webservices and remote apps. We had a good run.
A majority of House Democrats voted for it. That is a significant rebuke of the Obama administration.
What caught my attention was where Twilio said the redis-slaves were timing out to the redis-master:

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/07/billing-incident-post-mor...

I think timeouts should be abolished for the vast majority of software today.

The usual reasoning goes something like this: for a TCP connection, if you don't hear from the server for some period of time, you can assume that something is "wrong" and drop the connection. The fallacy is, the TCP connection is not really important to the shared state of two devices. From the very beginning (I'm talking 1970s!), devices should have been using tokens to identify one another, regardless of communication status. The tokens could be saved in nonvolatile memory on servers so that jobs could always continue where they left off.

Instead we have a whole slew of nondeterministic pathological cases -exactly- like the one that hit Twilio. If you take on the burden of timeouts, you end up with dozens of places in your code (even more, potentially) where you just don't know what to do if you lose communication.

If you don't take on the burden of timeouts, then you can just track each connection and all it costs you is storage space, which is practically free today and getting cheaper every year. With credentials from the client, you don't even have to worry about duplicate connections. You can write your client-server code deterministically and stick to the logic, and easily stress test failure modes.
ok fine. Gabriel Giffords shooter posted pictures and details on his MySpace profile prior to the assassination attempt.

And for people like Colleen LaRose or the Underwear bomber, just a web browser and plain-old internet led to the apprehension. With Michael Reynolds, traditional "law enforcement officers posing as honeypots" style did the trick.

These classical methods seem to be working quite alright.

What is the use-case here? Some dastardly secret terrorist conspiracy where they collaboratively make detailed plans, over the internet, in clear text, like this:

-----

From: evilbomber@yahoo.com

Subject: Re: RE: re: re: Re: Secret plans

To: confidant@not-the-fbi.com

CC: coconspirator@gmail.com, evildoer2213@excite.com, bombmaker@msn.com

Attachments: annotated-map.pdf

----

Hey all,

After reviewing the bombing plans of the terrorist attack next Tuesday, set for Washington DC, when the Secretary of State, Jon Carey, is set to arrive by motorcade at 4:15 PM, I've decided that our assassination attempt (where we plan to Kill Jon Carey) would be best suited for a different intersection.

As you can see here, there is a better place to bomb the motorcade.

Also, I've gotten all the parts for the IED. This includes the incendiary, a timer, and all the wiring necessary. I carefully asked a bunch of questions on various open forums and posted pictures to confirm I made everything right. I also disclosed my intended use of the bombs along with my radical political leanings.

Anyway, Down with the USA, and I hope to meet all of you to make this death of a US diplomat a reality, next Tuesday, at 4:15 PM.

Patiently Awaiting Martyrdom,

evilbomber.

P.S.: What's encryption?
As others have said, Redis is resilient in this configuration and by no mean ephemeral.

It's worth nothing from the original Twilio post "This cluster is configured with a single master and multiple slaves distributed across data-centers for resiliency in the event of a host or data-center failure". Ironically it may well be that not having the slaves at all could have prevented the outage.

I've seen other scenarios in the past where having a (mysql) master-slave arrangement has caused an outage. Root cause was bad configuration and a bug in the app code but had there been no slaves, there wouldn't have been an outage.

Just goes to show that it always pays to think carefully about the complexity you introduce into systems.
"I'm okay with it if he truly does bring in work and isn't just dicking around all day"

I think if that is the attitude you're taking going into this, partnering is a bad idea. You will constantly be judging & nit picking his every action.
Yes, I can think of a lot of uses if it was integrated with the accounting application I work for :)
Good point on the location of H1B hires. I wish we had more info too, it almost feels like nobody is genuinely trying to measure the right things and instead retro-fitting data to fit their conclusions :/
> Your 'logic' is ridicoulus, GPL is no more 'enforcing' sharing than proprietary software is 'enforcing' non-sharing.

You call my logic ridiculous, and then you reiterate my entire point. The GPL is enforcing sharing in the same way proprietary software is enforcing non-sharing.

Whereas the MIT and BSD licenses provide just as many freedoms as the GPL, without enforcing anything. They are, defacto, more free, both for end users and end developers. End users are free to only use open-source products, if they so desire, and developers are free to use liberally licensed open source however they wish to, too.

> Overall your entire line of thought is clearly that developers should not be allowed to share open source unless they allow it to be used in proprietary code, because if they don't they cause 'immeasurable harm' to the software industry.

This is a strawman argument that has no basis in what I actually said.

I think people should be allowed to use the GPL, just like I think people should be allowed to advocate communism. I also think that we should do our best to demonstrate the fallaciousness of their arguments, because they have the capacity to cause significant harm to our industry.

> Whenever I come across someone like you I'm really glad the GPL exists as an alternative.

And whenever I come across someone like you, it is made apparent that the GPL is more of a religion and an a political statement, rather than a reasoned decision made from an understanding of the economic and human realities of industry and our society.
The finance companies pay considerably more than Silicon Valley companies thus don't have the same problem with filling positions as SV does. Do you disagree with that?

Search 'finance companies lobby h1b visa'. Nothing
Then search 'bay area companies lobby h1b visa'. Tons of results.
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In the first half of 2013 http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a52b7dd7b77cb8deb3ee5520e&id=92fd2af598&e=7b8412ef81
Breaking Open Gridlocked Rails Applications
Yes, the numbers were:

Republicans: 94 yea, 134 nay (41% in favor)
Democrats: 111 yea, 83 nay (57% in favor)

Not too surprising, since traditionally "strong on national security" is a core GOP position, and the party establishment tends to see civil-liberties challenges to national security policy as misguided. That might overrule any partisan instinct to vote against Obama.
you could really help a lot of people out by writing a basic curriculum!
Unfortunately, it seems to be the future.

Just like everything, the price of having an all knowing central authority must be paid somewhere sometime.
I've been seeing this book pop up all over the place for the past year or so. It seems to be the go-to recommendation from friends to other friends who are frustrated at not finding relief from chronic pain after trying many other treatments.

I haven't read the book. All I can say is that the results, from my perspective, have been mixed. Some people who have tried it and not seen their pain alleviated blame themselves for not getting to the root of their stress. I haven't heard of anyone's pain disappearing in 2 weeks. I've heard people recommend it for all kinds of pain, not just muscle and back pain. Claims about its efficacy seem to have broadened over time.

The book is set at a very good "it can't hurt to try" price point, and the word of mouth marketing makes it very appealing to people who feel desperate.

I am a random person. My experiences are anecdotal.
Wow I have been seeing this and assumed its a bug. This started more than a month back and is really annoying. I think the boost they are seeing is temporary if these shady notifications is driving it primarily.
That makes sense. I was thinking maybe "Incident Response" :-)
You seem to be ignoring tha tech companies give employees equity (RSUs) as well as salary.
Of course Jay Carney's statement was pretty ironic... Can't have an informed discussion on something that everyone lies about.
I'm a pluralsight subscriber and an occasional peepcode purchaser. Both are well worth the cost. I'll be looking forward to possibly having access to all the peepcode productions that look interesting but I could never justify purchasing a la carte. Congrats to both parties.
I understand that the comment you are replying to here says "nobody in the US is even attempting to train effective programmers, let alone 'star' ones." However, a few comments up, you say "The fundamental issue you mentioned above is that companies want stars, and you can't train stars."

Can you elaborate on how you envision things like hacker school to solve the problem of stars, if those can't be trained? I am not trying to be semantically nit-picky - I don't think I understand how star programmers come about, and maybe you have better insight.

The only thing I can think of is that you might imply that being a star programmer is an innate talent that needs to be developed, and things like hacker school would allow for this talent to be discovered. Is that about right?
Who says they weren't?
Whether or not you like arial is totally on you. In many cases, especially onscreen, arial looks perfectly fine. Many of the norms around 'good' and 'inappopriate' type are the same around fashion/clothes. You can wear whatever you want and it's on you whether or not 'you wear it well.'

As an aside, when i was in grad school, the style coming out of yale and the werkplaats typografie was this severely default design aesthetic. Times new roman massively overlaid atop a xeroxed image at times abandoning legibility. It was like high-art zine culture blended with dutch sensibility, i.e. http://ffffound.com/image/d6f63117fcf5ea64c59c66b8af85e2389d...

But to the point about what makes arial "good" or "bad" is the same thing that makes Didot a bit tough as a text face (it just wasn't designed to be used that way). And same with arial, it was designed as a screen font that prints ok. I don't think the whole "lesser helveltica" claim is entirely fair to arial, but you have to accept it for what it's for: a generic screen font. If that is the look you are hoping to rock, use it wherever you want.

And to the larger point: all prescriptive advice should be treated like training wheels. if you already have the sense to know what you're doing, you can safely avoid the advice. if you don't know how to critique your own work, then it helps to think about what the prescriptive advice is getting you to avoid.

If you are at the point where you are making intentional decisions about what your design should look like, then keep on keeping on. But it helps to be aware of the cultural baggage that those choices bring along with them. I critted somebody's poster once and made the offhand comment: "oh, that looks computery" and i was basically trying to say "that has that homemade camcorder feel that home movies have, but if it were a poster that had been made with a computer." and it turned out after some period of time that i was actually reacting, subconsciously, to the fact that it was set with arial. How weird is that? But it was because i was so familiar with that look as something that tasted digital that is seemed weird in print. It wasn't wrong, it was just giving off that vibe.

Likewise, butterick is trying to make his own mark, setting his own tone. That's his right, he's alluding to certain traditions and aesthetics. It's fashion, yes, but it's also all the choices and feelings that those fashion choices bring along with them.
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Yes. And Redis provides an interesting model with very specific performance characteristics depending on how you choose to store your data in each case. If you haven't worked with Redis it might be hard to appreciate how it's a bit more than just a key-value store and how it's a different tool from a relational db.
The broader effect that 9/11 had is precisely the unnecessary overreaction to (or deliberate overplay of) what happened.

This "impact on society" is exactly what terrorist have in mind. Instead of keeping a cool head (like the Norwegians did after their 2011 attacks) we're playing right along with what a terrorist would want to achieve.

Grandparent's argument is perfectly valid.

Edit: Spelling
Funny, this is more or less my trajectory over the last ~4 years after changing majors from CS 2 years in and graduating with an Econ degree.

Got an entry level job at a bank in ATM support in Pittsburgh and spent the time in-between calls writing excel macros and command line programs to make the job even simpler while also working on my own rails projects at night. This led to a junior dev job at a php shop after a year and a half, which after another year and a half and launching a startup of my own, I finally made it to New York City as the second engineering hire at a startup.
Never read the book, but psychology changes helped my RSI issues tremendously.

> if you are unconsciously worried about something (including worried about your wrists hurting while you type), then this can cause your wrists to hurt while you type.

This. If you're scared of RSI and scared of typing, that can itself cause problems.
Chrome appears to be becoming a full fledged operating system.
He left out the fact that most of the world thinks the US is insanely puritanical, or at least schizophrenic (make it forbidden, so that we can make money off it), about sex.
Me too. I spent about a year after college in constant pain from carpal tunnel and sciatica. Even basic actions like opening a door were extremely painful.

I blew a lot of money on ergonomic equipment, PT, steroidal treatments, and was strongly considering surgery until I treated my chronic pain as TMS. My desk setup has not changed at all but I've been completely pain free for about a year now. It was eye-opening to realize that such severe pain, which inhibited simple daily activities, could be entirely psychosomatic.

The nocebo effect[1] is a well-documented phenomenon that is closely related. When you expect an autonomic symptom, you are much more likely to experience it.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/beware-the-...
Basically, work a lot. Make sure there's always a chunk of work that's new and challenging, a form of deliberate practice. Also make sure there's a chunk of work that's reinforcing what you already know until it becomes second nature. Rinse and repeat. Kaizen.
IronMQ Fan-out Support
You agreed to this...

You know there's a well known and simple solution...

YOu could always...

You know what, I know you know better, but perhaps you'd be interested in forfeiting your rights for a bit of convenience? Great!
this is an argument at least sixty years old, if not older: http://gmunch.home.pipeline.com/typo-L/misc/ward.htm

it has people on both sides of the aisle and people often switch back and forth (see jan tschichold for the canonical example of this)
Isn't that because of the nature of the beast, since the consulting firms serve many other companies? Wipro, Infosys, etc. each have how many clients? Hundreds? Thousands?
what about real wages?
During the twentieth century, US economists promoting the values of those controlling production talked about how production was fundamentally controlled by laws of supply and demand, and economic theories thinking otherwise were silly.

Yet flying in the face of that is this idea of a "high tech worker shortage". If there really could be a shortage of high tech workers for longer than a short period, than the bedrock idea of supply and demand are bogus. Even miniscule hurdles like visas would mean nothing - if there is a mass of talent in India and a worldwide demand for that talent, then if visas were a problem, multinationals and trans-continental consulting firms would just set up there.

There is no high-tech worker shortage. There's a bunch of "idea guys" sitting around who think how much money they could make if they could hire a bunch of rock-star programmers on the cheap.
Don't change my title !
These are 7 alternatives [ not SparkleShare alone ]
I'm pretty sure the starting salary for the types of people PG is describing here is "whatever I want".
It really should be noted that no company with Facebook's P/E ratio has maintained that level for a long term. Facebook is still so overvalued that it will certainly come down from where it is now. If it doesn't, it would be the first company to do so. Even if it were to increase it's earnings, just a quick glance at Google Finance shows it's P/E 2,231. Regardless of other financials, that ratio is so off the wall that it could not be justified without an unprecedented amount of earnings growth. Making the claim that Facebook is the greatest company in the history of public companies is a stretch.

[1] Cliff Asness of AQR's "Bubble Logic": http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=240371