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Look at how easy heroku makes your first few steps[1]. I'd advise doing something similar but with, for example, instructions for setting up a quick shipbuilder server on amazon ec2 or the like. Bonus: it will show you where the pain points are for shipbuilder at the moment, because you'll have to write too many small gotchas&workarounds into the tutorial!

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git
One useful reason to define states as such is because it's a definition that draws on the natural world. If states are only natural, and inevitable, then we don't have to argue about whether they are fundamentally good or bad.

What is your definition of a state?
I'm surprised it wasn't the lede.
Hard to really evaluate the info without the time factor. KickStarter is massively popular, but I wonder how much of total haul is attributable to activity before IndieGoGo came along (I believe KS started first). It would have also been interesting to compare historical figures to activity in the past calendar year, overall trends (eg timeline to when KS got to 6X IGG) vs per categories, etc.
> they're not sharing wins from stellar candidates but they take blame for bad ones.

It often seems like hiring stellar candidates involves circumventing HR policy. HR responds, instead of asking how they can help be part of the solution in the future, by incorporating new policy. Hiring stellar candidates, therefore, creates a situation where it makes it harder to hire stellar candidates in the future. There is no "win" in that game.
Looks like there was a timezone mixup and the article was briefly posted on the wrong day. Submitted link should be working again now, sorry for the confusion!
Owner of America's 'dirtiest' hotel loses TripAdvisor lawsuit
a. What's wrong with a fashion magazine? Vogue adds a metric ton more value to civil discourse than most business magazines combined.

b. Given the borderline-soft-porn treatment Elon Musk gets around here, I think we should collectively hold off on criticizing anyone for going overboard on such matters.
I used to work in a supermarket and in a department store.

Those people you see shooting the shit and slacking off are necessary. The reason why they're there is because if the store suddenly gets packed, they will be split up and given tasks. They're insurance. You can't not have them there, or you'll get customer complaints when they can't find someone to help them, there's too few lanes, etc.

And that's just during the day in front-end customer facing situations. They're constantly called back to inventory to do warehouse-type jobs, even if they're cashiers.
> I think you can make those reasons clear in your docs without causing the sort of confusion I had. ... The hand-waving "I couldn't configure it" doesn't work in your favor.

Excellent suggestion. I'm still full of emotion after writing that rant, but when I calm down, I'll try and craft a section on "Why Not Sphinx" in my README. It's quite literally the only criticism I've received so far. I'll keep your interpretation of pdoc's advantages in mind.

> and I work with it a lot to write the docs for this project: http://mrjob.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

You have my compliments. That is really beautiful (in every sense) documentation---you are clearly not among those who aren't conscious of putting links in obvious places. :-)
People who control the atoms side will win, provided that they have the latest atom gadgets. Or will the pace of technological innovation slow?
I live abroad and my soon is not even a year old. I look forward to this, and the idea of having a grandson who will speaks multiple languages natively (I am English-speaking, my SO speaks Arabic natively) is very exiciting to my parents. I am waiting until he is older, but I look forward to even getting him into a language school so he will natively speak 3 or more languages.

Only if they had Chinese schools where I am . . .
No offense, but I'd rather hear from a noted security expert than an adman.
True. But it goes to a broader social issue. Should a family of 4 where one parent is employed full time by a large organization be earning below the poverty line. Was it like that 10/20/40 years ago. Where will it be in another 10 years? What's the impact on our social fabric.

At the micro level as a rationale economic player you in theory should make that determination. At the macro level it's our job to decide whether we want one income families to be below the poverty line and what are the broader implications of that.
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Yeah, I don't mean to bash on them. And goodness knows I'm sure Walmart knows what it's doing with it's staffing levels. That's why I just added it as a random anecdotal PS.
That would be an interesting one to read, any chance it's public?
Nothing you have to do. Its all automatic
... the other 45% are currently lost.

(I'll be here all week)
>Some stores cannot thrive unless they are within SHORT drives of many customers. Some of those stores have to extract a lot of productivity out of each worker to pay the workers even minimum wage.

Many, now. Logistics is (and has been) a massively growing field when it comes to deployment of franchises of restaurants as well as groceries and general goods stores. There is hugely growing sentiment against unnecessary driving, partly due to rising fuel costs but I also hypothesize that media pressure of said fuel costs as well as innovation from Netflix etc. drive this signal as well. "Why leave the house when you don't have to" has farther reaching effects than simple DVD rentals.

Great post, BTW - and a very interesting subject indeed.
Official MIT Report on Aaron Swartz is out - details involvement in prosecution
Reif says, "The review panel's careful account provides something we have not had until now: an independent description of the actual events at MIT and of MIT's decisions in the context of what MIT knew as the events unfolded. The report also sets the record straight by dispelling widely circulated myths. For example, it makes clear that MIT did not 'target' Aaron Swartz, we did not seek federal prosecution, punishment or jail time, and we did not oppose a plea bargain.”
Xiaomi phones blatantly rip off design of other manufactures, especially Apple. They are not even coy about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/business/global/in-china-a... .

That's NOT what the linked article says at all. It says the the founder, Lei Jun, is is positioning himself and his company as figurative heirs of Mr. Jobs by carefully cultivating a Jobsian image here, right down to his jeans and dark shirts.

It does say He is also selling millions of mobile phones that look a lot like iPhones, but they only look like iPhones in the sense they have rounded corners. If you look at a pic of a phone (eg http://p.www.xiaomi.com/zt/130718/images/m2s_26.jpg?130809) you'll see they are a lot less similar than many phones sold today - specifically the two-color shell makes it immediately obvious they aren't a complete iPhone clone.
Trade secrets you share with other companies are fragile rights. Do you want to invest a ton of money into a company built on a property right that could evaporate at any moment? Re: meaningful advancements, I think MPEG is a decent example, as well as some wireless companies (it's really hard to draw a clean line when it comes to wireless, because a lot of techniques could easily be implemented on a general purpose computer or in an ASIC).

As for RAMBUS, the memory industry is an interesting example. They all work on developing memory technologies, then pool the patents. The patents function to prevent free-riding on the collective effort by any particular company. The wireless industry works similarly (LTE, etc).

I don't mean to argue that the law should protect particular business models. But I think in the abstract, it's useful to be able to bundle up the fruits of some R&D into something that can be the subject of market transactions. I think it's worked amazingly for the semiconductor industry in the model of ARM, for example. The law can provide a mechanism for doing that. I don't think trade secrets are quite it, and I think we're really seeing the limitations of patents for that in the software realm, but I think there needs to be something. Otherwise, it'll be a race to see who can outsource most effectively to China because that's what matters when ideas can't be protected.
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Which areas do you think benefit most from close mentorship?
I find out about 90% of these things from the kickstarter website or emails saying my friends invested. So I would say for the projects I funded, I would have never given them money if they weren't on kickstarter.
I can definitely back this up. Though, I've been living in Nanjing and I can say that I would not want to be a technical worker here. Overpaid and underworked seems to be the norm, at least out of the ones I'd met.

Would have liked to get the chance to meet your father, sadly I'm leaving Nanjing on Saturday.
Given that labor costs are the single largest expense for these types of business it's not unreasonable to reach the conclusion of those she's rebutting with this article.

Whaaaa? The largest expense, by far, is most certainly cost of goods sold.
>This may be my own pessimistic take, but something about the simplicity and obvious-correctness of that advice makes me think it'll never be as blogworthy as a less realistic goal that you'd have to buy something new to try.

And maybe I am a pessimist as well, but I see your statement as simply a realistic one. :)

Plenty of very experienced and intelligent PTs have repeated the statement I simply regurgitated as well.
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Some reason, if someone comes up with a highly valuable proprietary algorithm, I don't seem them issuing an RFC on it.
I'm not so sure. My fiancee owns a Mi Two and I've used it pretty extensively. There are some parts that really copy iOS, but most parts of the MIUI don't look or feel like iOS at all. It's a great OS and has a lot of polish to it.
What is patented is a method of compressing data using algorithm X. If you can thing of something else which wouldn't be considered compressing data using algorithm X, then you're free to use algorithm X for this new and inventive purpose.
I once got a couple SPARCClassic-sized disk packs. Their paperwork said they belonged to an investment bank that didn't survive one of the many meltdowns of the late 20th century. All of them had piles of data that should have been erased before the sale.

The SPARCClassic and its stack of disks is still quite impressive.
To provide an alternative view, in e.g. Haskell the redundancy would be solved the other way round:

(stringBuilder :: StringBuilder) <- construct

(Assuming that there was a type class that had construct as a method and StringBuilder was an instance of that class.)
What they fail to mention is how they figured out stuff tastes like that... I can imagine there is some guy out there who tastes stuff just to see what it tastes like. "Hmmm, that is a strange looking bug, I wonder what it tastes like?" "What is that stuff on that beaver's butt? I wonder what it tastes like?"
you do realize that you can commit(or be a) fraud without it being criminal, right? In fact the definition I posted was 100% copied and pasted.

https://www.google.com/#q=%22non+criminal+fraud%22
The problem with your suggested strategy is that societies that follow it are headed for evolution's recycle bin, to be replaced by societies that don't.
Does game programming require C++? Ocaml can be just as performant, and Clojure might also be a good candidate (high-level functional programming, potential to get strong performance).

I admit that, for Java, the gain in language expressiveness isn't worth taking the performance hit, because the former is so minimal. On the other hand, moving to a truly high-level language with half-decent performance (e.g. Ocaml, Clojure) might ameliorate the schedule slippages for which that industry is known.
(Assuming this is not sarcastic, though I suspect it is)

I have no idea what sort of company hires only people who answer, "I would be perfectly happy if my boss took advantage of me, but it sounds like an extremely insipid place full of yes-men that I would not want to work at.
What about building nice things, or making the world a better place? (Although that's probably truer of the hacker profession than some others)
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I will add one more difference between Docker vs. traditional package managers: Docker is a tool developers enjoy using. I have yet to meet a developer who enjoys building his application as an rpm or deb. The shorter the development/deployment cycle, the worse it gets.
That's incorrect.

It assumes that the task is best served by non-humanoid forms.

While that might be true for a laser cutter or a washing machine, there are lots of tasks that in order to be "refined and improved" for them, it should absolutely look like a human.

An obvious example would be a sex-partner robot. Generally any kind of robot that serves humans and we want them to have better empathy towards it (e.g a robot to keep companion to the sick and the elderly). The same holds for robots that are to be used as spies, e.g to infiltrate some human community.

Robots that could be used to play competitive sports for spectators. Robots that do stunt-doubling of actors or perform themselves.

Also, if we want a robot to serve as a "personal assistant" (e.g a butler) the human form is very flexible (and it's flexibility and performance would be increased by the robot's extra capabilities, like more "muscle" power and speed, finer vision, etc).

Such a form will be able to cook, restock the fridge, massage our back, play tennis, take the dog for a walk, clean the house, play poker, help us move, throw out the garbage etc. If you can have something like that, why use a specialized machine for each (for some of those actions, a dedicated machine would provide a luck-luster experience anyway).
Can you spot the person who interviews well, but is a skilled sociopath who will destroy the morale of your team, causing other skilled talent to leave?

That's the value of these tests (when properly applied): They allow an evaluator to make statistically accurate predictions of specific types of behavior. The key is the two words: statistically and specific. A single composite score will not tell you anything, but the idea that there's a 68% chance that the person you're about to hire is a schizophrenic kleptomaniac should give you pause.
It would be interesting to try this again, but instead a simple button to click to extend the timer, which a script can fake, require a brief reverse Turing Test, like a captcha or something. Would people continue keeping her alive at the cost of more effort?
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The article you cite is not a peer-reviewed journal paper.

Apple's head lawyer alone made $68 million last year, not to mention other executives. No outrage?
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The intellectual property laws are protections around concepts that existed previously. IP refers to trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and copyright.

Trademarks protect brands and go back a very long way; primitives would use them to distinguish themselves from each other, farmers would mark sheep, etc.

Patents are really protections on inventions. Inventions also go back a long way, although they were previously treated as trade secrets rather than open descriptions. Reverse engineering and a desire for openness instead of secrecy created the need for patents (I'm not saying the governments are doing a good job.) A chef's secret sauce is his intellectual property.

The idea of copyright stems from a desire to protect the older concept of authorship and goes back to antiquity as well; drawings in caves were certainly made by cavemen; the Greek philosophers certainly originated their words; narration in the bible is attributed to certain authors (although there is sometimes dispute here); Mozart (barely) survived on the patronage of his compositions.

That's all I mean by it's not a complete fiction: it's a set of protections around things that we already valued but that were started to get degraded by modern society.
In general, the point of something like castle doctrine is to maintain defense of life, not property. If I went down to the edge of my property and someone came onto my property and was not threatening me you can't then shoot them. The argument for castle doctrine is you can consider the act of home invasion itself to represent deadly force and can respond freely.

Castle doctrine is a states-only policy and the feds have no position on it. The second amendment states only that people's right to bear arms shall not be infringed, it doesn't state anything about the application of force.

I don't want to get into this debate on HN but there's not that much evidence that the 2nd Amendment was meant to be a check on the army. It's related to the long-standing English principle of the right to self-defense and the English Bill of Rights of 1689. The English always thought you had the right to defend yourself with deadly force and a long standing tradition of a natural right to bear arms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
If you have $10k and are stopped in a car, there is a high likelihood that the government thugs (police) will attempt to relieve you of the money, or you will have to prove where you earned it. Doubly so if you are a minority in the south.

Just don't give them any probable cause (visible drugs/paraphernalia, alcohol, weapons) and don't consent to any searches. People who get bullied by the police are those who don't know their rights.
There's a whole bunch of factors that affect it. It's actually Eastern cultures that tend towards external factors (relative to us North Americans). But, in general, everyone focuses more on the individual factors than they should: it's called the Fundamental Attribution Error.

I've learned a bit about this recently in a Coursera class on social psychology. I tried to attach the lecture video but you need to be in the class to watch it. I recommend joining though - it's fascinating (and free).

https://class.coursera.org/socialpsychology-001/class
>We do not use them because "Nuclear is bad, m'kay?"

The irony is nice but misplaced. We already have a huge problem disposing the toxic waste of regular batteries.

Not to mention what other misuses those could have if accessed by the random lunatic....
"I am struck by just how many people there are working there on the floor. There seem to be too many whenever I'm there."

Maybe that's more more of a load problem? They are probably there for the peak rush periods, and I would imagine forecasting those accurately is almost impossible, so you operate with a buffer. Lower wages enable them to be more flexible in handling these peak loads.

In terms of your point about the financial impact, a quick look at the SG&A of Walmart (20%) shows a big difference vs. Costco's (~9%). I don't have the breakout of employee wages, but it does seem like it's definitely a more labor intensive model. Then again, they probably could afford to pay higher wages, but the problem is that customers haven't given them a financial incentive to do so. I feel like the point the author was trying to make was a good one...many people that write about these issues should acknowledge the different business models instead of just quickly pointing at Costco and saying the model works with higher wages.
If you're working as an executive for the millions you're doing it wrong. The millions you get paid as an executive are what enable you to work crazy hours; you can afford a maid and a cook and a nanny so that your ability to work isn't impeded. There are some perks like a nice car and a big house or whatever. But fundamentally that pay is because you bring a lot of value to the company and it needs your hours desperately. It will pay to make most/all distractions disappear.
Well, actually if all poor people followed this logic, then all children would grow up in more affluent households. Then the next generation could afford college, and all of the nice things that come with having parents that have money.

But of course, it seems that only the poor people want to reproduce anyway.
The parent poster links to a story that alleges licensing violations with regards to the Linux kernel. Hardly sounds like a joke to me.
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>One interesting interpretation is the ratio of people with desk jobs consisting of 50% (or higher) fooling around vs sweaty manual labor jobs has led to the average American perhaps only working 20 hours a week right now.

For actual work, maybe even less.

But not having pocession of your body for 8-12 hours every day in exchage for a pay-check, is work too. Even if you just sit there and "do nothing".
Links to another AllThingsD article, x2 the ad revenue from the reader.
I have looked at clojure for doing this somewhat recently (about 8-10 months ago) and the main issue I ran into was lack of bindings to some of the more necessary APIs for doing it these days (SDL, OpenGL, etc.). Some of them existed but were very badly documented/maintained which put me off of it a bit, but I do think that there are some definite things that could be gained with using Clojure at least (Of course you can use the JVM bindings directly, but that was starting to look very ugly as I played with doing so).
No, it can certainly be gamed. It's just so hard without prior knowledge and preparation as to be statistically negligent. This is also why I said you should avoid giving the same test twice. But a single, cold test administration should be very difficult to game.

You should also read upthread, what the actual psychologist said. It clarified my comment really well.
Reminds me of this core memory shield that was developed for the Arduino: http://www.corememoryshield.com/
> we decided to test BSON and MessagePack due to their closeness to JSON

Then I'm surprised you overlooked Thrift so quickly given that it has several binary and a JSON encoding. There's also an official Go implementation in tree, and you get the comfort of a protobuf-like schema format (which with code-gen means you don't have to rewrite a bunch of code if you want to use it across languages).

Other nice options: Apache Avro (no code gen, json schemas, very dense encoding) and Cap'n Proto
DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit
Or actually goes down in actual bying value (as it has since the 70s).
surely! thank you for your time :)
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> Is your point that they are doing interpolation on something that is already interpolated?

Yes.

> but I think it's a decent visualization of likely real time temperature across a region.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but to me this is a 2D visualization of a simulation. But it is not a map.
Tunneling traffic over DNS is breaking up files (data) into chunks (packets) and exfiltrating off of a network through DNS.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see a simple example like yours, but projects like http://code.kryo.se/iodine/ do essentially (from an abstract perspective) the same thing.
For comparison purposes, Apple and Google make 6-7 times higher net margins than Walmart.
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Yeah that kind of sucks. MIUI copied more CM than AOSP.

However, every Xiaomi phone can be rooted freely and you can switch to CM or whatever you want. That's one of its advertised selling point in the M1Plus phone.
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> the idea that there's a 68% chance that the person you're about to hire is a schizophrenic kleptomaniac should give you pause.

I don't believe in employment discrimination on the basis of mental illness. After all, John Nash was schizophrenic.