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I would unironically love a GitHub developer's conference where they get to do a keynote presenting all the awesome features they churn out at record pace.

I feel more people who aren't unrepentant nerds should get to see what these guys (and gals) are doing.

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EDIT: They could just do something simple at a local, informal event (say a bar) with a few dozens of people. it doesn't have to be something huge.

It'd also be a great way for everyone at GitHub to get some training in making and delivering presentations, and it's great to have on your resumé.

I'd definitely want to try something like that out as a CEO, and I imagine it'd make it even more fun to work at a playful place like GitHub.
They don't pay as much as in the US, but the overall quality of life is arguably better (less debt, shorter working hours, long holidays, free healthcare, etc.)

Teachers are particularly well payed and very respected. In order to become a teacher you need a Master's degree, and only about 1 out of 10 applicants succeeds in getting a position. So, all in all, I think your argument is not very strong.
I agree. I've also found that neither carries a lot of the brands and products that I want. Or alternatively, they are out of stock.
I think by "meatheads" GP means people who undervalue education on the basis of "I succeeded without much of it" (failing to understand the contribution of a particular social context to that success) and thereby promote a culture which undermines the context which allowed them to succeed. (The specifical example he gave was people with only a HS diploma, not people without one, but I think that example was, in any case, illustrative of the problem, not an exhaustive equivalence; nor do I think "blue collar workers" is the right generalization from the example.)

There's plenty of people (blue collar and otherwise) that succeeded with only (or even without) a HS diploma that don't undervalue education, and they don't meet GP's description of the meatheads he is talking about.
My edit that didn't go through for some reason:

We're not talking about total compensation, we're talking about salary.

Have you ever talked with a young teacher? Ask them how they're doing on paying back those student loans. Several people I went to highschool^ with are currently working as teachers (several more are still looking for teaching jobs. The surplus of people looking to get into education certainly doesn't help...). While I had my student loans paid off quite some time ago, they are still floundering. Although they love 'their kids', more than one has confided in me that they don't know what the hell they were thinking.

Salary, specifically how it will enable them to pay back their loans, is the sort of thing that young people in university consider when they are decided whether they want to go into industry or education. Total compensation doesn't really enter the equation at that stage.

When the best and the brightest can get starting offers with a salary two or three times as high as starting teacher salaries, that is going to take a toll in the grand scheme of things. You'll still have a few very bright chaps (such as my highschool friends) who swallow the bullet and go into education anyway, but you cannot expect that to be typical.

^ We still talk a few times a year, and they are all closer with each other than any of them are with me. Incidentally, nobody I know from my (rather over-priced) private university has gone into education...

End previous comment.

The point that you should get here is that total compensation does not pay student loans. Salary is the relevant number when you are trying to convince students straight out of school with student loans to come work for you. Starting teacher salary is undeniably remarkably low.

Or to answer your question directly and succinctly: My comment is not evidence of low total compensation, nor was it meant to be taken as such.
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you in any way!

First, I really don't like if somebody by default compares Hadoop with SQL and this is a widespread confusion - they are completely different beasts; in fact an extension called Hive gives Hadoop + HTable an SQL-like syntax.

However Hadoop is a parallel, batch-processing platform. Hadoop is slow-responding, you can't even talk about latency because a single task takes a lot of time even to setup/execute. It's completely inappropriate for real-time low-latency computations. For those, the in-memory, GPGPU, streams are much better. However, if you have a large dataset whose loading times onto a single machine may be very long - imagine loading 1TB to memory from a network drive if your computer can handle it - you might be better off by partitioning your data across thousands of smaller nodes (e.g. ARM microservers) and perform computations on each of them independently. This way you don't need to transfer a lot of data, each smaller local dataset is loaded very fast (= you preserver locality), you find balance between being CPU-bound and IO-bound and likely finish your computations much faster than on a single computer with huge memory but limited bus.

Hadoop's tragedy is that it is now an established platform that is supported by large companies which are mostly driven by technologically clueless people, trying to put it everywhere as it is "in vogue" to do so. Google abandoned MapReduce model a few years ago but industry didn't seem to notice.

Think about your case for chemical structures - is there any part of your algorithm that needs to be computed only occasionally but it's a lot of data to process? Why not offload it to Hadoop for preparing digest from these data which you can use in your real-time algorithm? That's actually pretty common usage scenario - Hadoop handles the rough mining, extracting the precious stuff from crude data, assembling it to a form that is refined and can be used by other parts of system that have completely different requirements, for example low-latency interactions.
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If you want to rely on some random website for your financial data, that is certainly your right, but I don't think we could have much of a conversation about it.
I had to reread your original comment a couple of times to get what you were saying. I think you might be getting down-voted because of writing style and confusion more than anything else.
Tesla should find this team:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...

Videos here:

http://rtml.ece.cmu.edu/Shuster/video.html
> If one thinks he is a savant and that everyone else is idiots, he should do the opposite strategy.

Yes, fair enough. You've suggested what's called the contrarian strategy -- find out what people are doing and do the opposite. Sometimes effective, sometimes not.

But the real players (and the people I can't stand) are those who take some kind of position in a stock, then either tout or disparage a company or stock without revealing that only they stand to benefit from the advice they're giving out, and the audience only stands to lose by following it. That's what makes me crazy about most people who offer stock or investment advice -- they're not usually obliged to reveal any conflict of interest that may exist.

> Only amateurs scrutinize individual stocks in this way.

Very true. My only advice is meta-advice -- invest in an index fund, not individual stocks, then sit on your investment. In other words, don't play the market at all, just ride the long-term pattern of equities growth. Avoid thinking you can outsmart all the day traders and insiders. More here: http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths
But the situation in the Soviet Union was so volatile that they couldn't anticipate their own immediate future.

I've never seen any reason to believe that. This was a planned economy, and yet no one was looking at production and consumption numbers? That strains credulity. I'm not talking about predicting something a decade out. I'm talking about seeing the numbers drop year after year, and realizing that there is a limit.

It is my understanding that this sort of observation was what convinced Gorbachev to start the whole glasnost/perestroika thing in 1985-86. I mean, that action killed the USSR, so it wasn't undertaken lightly. The nomenklatura knew they were backed up to the precipice, however, and it was the best they could come up with.
one dangerous thing is that most conventional cancer drugs cause immunosuppression (usually bone marrow suppression) so if you're taking these cancer vaccines you're going to be forgoing conventional treatments for the duration that you're on the vaccine. But if they have a higher success rate it would obviously be worth it; even if it has the same success rate since the vaccines would likely have less side effects.
You and me both. It's made even worse when you learn that the first-level trigger removes 90% of the input stream before passing it to 2,000 computers, which in turn select only 0.2% of that data for storage and further analysis.

https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/en/Data%20Collec...
I really wonder why people keep buying real estate in China.

Isn't it chiefly because most other forms of investment are banned or highly restricted?
Finland does have homework and it is a part of getting your grades (ie. don't do homework, you'll fail). I wonder what their source is.
I realize this means nothing, but I love coming to the comments here, and the top 3 comments are effectively:

1. Hate it.
2. Meh.
3. Love it.

Yes, I'm summarizing, but I just found it highly amusing.
From my experience SQLite is great when only one process with no parallelism needs to write to the DB and where no other process will frequently overlap reads with writes. However, for CPU-heavy computations that needs multiple cores to compute and write to the DB PostgreSQL has a much better fit for me even for fairly small data-sets. And the ease of use and setup of PostgreSQL is not that much more than SQLite.
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We're working on it, thanks!
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I'm a High School drop out with no college education. My family grew up in the inner city and was poor. I work for a large software company and have over 10 years experience in linux system administration. I still live in the inner city.

I know other people that are like me in many ways, having well paying jobs and still choosing to live in the city.

It's not everyone's plan.
Arg, no... please no float as the default(only) numeric type. That's one of the worst things about javascript.
that was a cancer-curing virus/gene therapy, not a nonreplicating molecule that stimulates your own immune system.
Generally it's a complicated area. Generally the only safe way to sneak out from under an existing license would be a black-box rewrite, done by people who hadn't looked at the source for the original version. Otherwise the original author could claim that it's a derivative work, and thus falls under the terms of the original license.

The CDDL in particular specifies that any modifications (changes, additions or deletions to the source code or their files) are also under the CDDL.

See http://web.archive.org/web/20090305064954/http://www.sun.com... 3.2,3.4 along with their definition of Modification.

However, even a black-box rewrite could still fall foul of any patents granted to the original creators.
Yep, it's unfortunate, we only track you because we love you!

/creepy
My roommate just signed up for Peapod and got our first delivery last week. I am looking forward to trying out Instacart and comparing the experience. It seems like I've been seeing an increasing number of Peapod trucks around the city the past six months (maybe it's just me), so I agree with the article's suggestion that there is demand for the service in Chicago.

Edit: In case the team is reading, I'm also curious: Does Instacart have anyone (like an Operations Manager) in Chicago, or are all the logistics being handled remotely from SF?
I meant that the card was giving advice and the card hadn't committed to a fiduciary standard.
me too. so whoes up for implementing a funky 3D tool for normal file diffs ;-)
Its never too late. Throw your self into learning everything you can about security and do a computer security certificate program (1 year). You could totally reinvent your self in just a few short years. Good luck hacking!
I did my junior high ("lukio") in one of these schools that also double as teacher graduate training ground. There's one thing in the article which I feel bares a mention.

"For one full year of her master's program, Stara got to train in one of the best public schools in the country. She had three teacher mentors there, and she watched their classes closely. When she taught her own classes, her mentors and fellow student teachers took notes."

There's one very important bit missing: the _students_ also give their own feedback. In writing.

I didn't understand how valuable this is while I was still in the school, but have begun to appreciate it in later age. These schools the teacher graduates are mentored in are among the elite in Finland. So not only are the mentoring teachers some of the best in country, the students are too.

And believe me, in the ripe age of 16-18, we're a cruel bunch. Feedback from that kind of target audience, on what works or doesn't, and why... That's valuable. Even to the current staff.

The best feedback we got in turn was that some of the other graduates had actually changed their teaching plans. And the mentoring teachers were proud of that!
So you was expecting to see Lisp that is inside your area of interests. Right? And title is saying Lisp, not "My Favorite Lisp". So now I'm assuming that you are pretending that only Lisp is your favorite flavor of lisp. Am I right?
iOS7 has a swipe from the left gesture that will trigger the back event, for apps that support it. Long overdue imo and it helps some with what you're describing.
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Awesome work guys!

contributors: https://github.com/nodeschool/nodeschool.github.io/graphs/co...
The Dockerfile provides caching. When you tweak a few things, you don't have to re-run the whole script, which is great if there are some expansive steps (e.g. downloading and installing Java, compiling a big library, etc.)

Of course, you can achieve something similar with shell scripts, e.g. "if Java is not installed, install it, otherwise go to the next step". But if you get it wrong, or if there is some side-effect, the end result (after running the script multiple times) won't be exactly the same. The Dockerfile (with snapshots at each step) ensures consistency.

It's not a big deal if you are a shell expert and write that kind of script for breakfast, but it's not the case for everyone :)
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brilliant idea. I work at an e-commmerce startup and we also took a similar approach where we have the store hosted as an API and a separate thin frontend.
Does this offer webhooks for 3PL or OMS integrations
Another difference between Finnish and American schools that make it difficult for both easy 1:1 comparisons and reproducing Finnish results is the fact that the US, unlike Finland, is not a homogeneous culture (BTW, I know there are Swede-speaking Finnish citizens, but that's an ethnolinguistic difference and not quite the same thing).

So making such comparisons isn't quite so simple. This has been discussed endlessly in previous HN threads. I encourage you to search for them and read them; there's some interesting discussion there about this, so I won't rehash it here.
No, not too late.

I actually started in security quite a bit older than 40.

It might take a bit of reading; http://amzn.to/cthr46 is a good start.

Ability to program is a huge plus. I would avoid the certificate route.

To get a feel of one aspect of security, take the Matasano Crypto challenge: http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ It is a lot of fun, and, particularly if you are interested in cryptography, will show you how to break stuff.
In what way? I mean to say that I could probably think of something, but do you have some specific danger in mind?
I wonder what percent of Github users store 3D files, to make this worth the effort. I imagine less than 0.5% if that?
Apple used to set the standard. It is sad to see them falling into derivative design, yet I do love the 1950's cosmonaut spaceship concept behind it.
Although you can do both, either 32-bit only or a combined, the preferred way to do it is as you say, a combined binary. I imagine that the differences will be fairly small because of the shared types and the resource sizes not changing. I'll have to experiment and see the results.

Just a note on how to build for 32 bit and still target IOS: You have to set the architecture for armv7, armv7s and then set your deployment target to 7. I have yet to deploy an app doing this so your mileage may vary.
Considering that this essay will be read for years, maybe you might like to fix this little typo: "If you're in a wizard at fundraising". Edited: "equity round valuation might me". PS By the way, thank you so much for all this incredibly valuable free advice!
What neighborhoods? Surely, not the whole city.
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"Last" means 25, 50, 100 years. Apple is the poster child, cause they only have "shiny"(well and customer service) and must continually be shinnyer, it's not sustainable. The new iPhones failed to achieve a sufficient shininess delta.
Why do you think that? I find JS's numeric rules (float, except when you use bitwise operators) quite convenient and safe. Some examples of things that are awkward with float-only numeric would be helpful.
Basically, this is a ZFS fork, forced by the stupidity of Oracle.

The whole issue is that Oracle has stopped publishing the source code of new ZFS versions for some years already: there are new ZFS "versions" (pool versions from version 29 to 34, which include some new backward-incompatible features) from Oracle, but no new open source code has been released. The opensource ZFS code has been almost stagnant/in mainteinance mode all this time.

OpenZFS is an attempt to keep ZFS open source alive. Since Oracle doesn't work with opensource anymore, the people who uses ZFS (BSDs, Nexenta, etc) have to do their own thing, and evolve the filesystem in their own way..
Back in the day, you could boot the entire BeOS kernel, filesystem, GUI, network stack, window & task manager, and web browser off of a 1.44mb floppy disk.

Ever since then, I've been unable to shake the feeling that something has gone catastrophically wrong with the way we architect software.
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Me too. But as I was clicking and lagging on getting to the page, I was trying to visualize what a 3D view of a file diff would look like. I can't even imagine it.
I met him once in person, but never heard him talk about the editorial process. We went through an office reno in my time there that eliminated cubicles and most offices and created a one-room "collaborative" workspace--for people who all worked with headphones on. I see what was intended, but without more editorial structure (i.e., distinct acquisition, development, and production levels with accompanying procedures and staff), the book-producing process--and accountability for missteps--was a blur. A distinct contrast was O'Reilly's contract with Microsoft Press: Those books received special handling as opposed to O'Reilly-branded titles, and MS provided massive amounts of documentation for editors to use, as opposed to the O'Reilly mantra of "preserve the author's voice." It was, at best, a confusing place to work for someone with a background in traditional book publishing.
Oh, that's an NSA-only feature, no need to worry about that.
My point is that these news and/or articles are bullshit propaganda and their sole purpose is reassign the blame of the decline of American or whatever education system elsewhere. Whatever the ulterior motive is.

And no, the system isn't the only thing to blame, if I would've gone to the summer long paid coaching courses, I'm sure I would've done a lot better.
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I don't like most of the "after" shots. It's now a lot harder to see what is a button/control and what is just decoration.
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Couldn't anyone who's ever designed a router also sell their algorithm to marketers?
Ever since I switched to operating my phone using my left hand, it makes the left corner really easy to navigate. I made the switch because my right wrist has some residual injuries on it from high school.
My understanding is that btrfs is limited to only the Linux platform today, whilst ZFS is not.

That alone seems, to me, sufficient motivation for this project.
In every state I have lived, school retirement and health plans were handled at the state level. Hoping districts isn't going to shield you from your state government. The school districts pay into state plans as directed by the state legislature. It's the state legislature that's on the hook for the unfunded liabilities, not the school districts. School districts only make the equivalent of social security payments.

And it's not like the employees aren't playing into the system the same way that private sector employees pay into Social Security. Many/most state employees are excluded from participating in Social Security--the States in their infinite wisdom decided long ago that they would rather roll their own rather than submit to the tyranny of federal control.
Hmm. Goldbely's funding round was a seed round.
I get your point of course, but indoor plumbing is orders of magnitude more complicated than a well and outhouses. Replacing wells with fountains and eliminating outhouses are driven by population density and public health concerns -- but once available they are preferable to the alternative, despite their complexity.
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You shouldn't see any issues until you hit the size limits of the data types and/or have related alignment issues. You'll notice these types here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
This is one of those things I'm betting that after a few years and some simplifications, every new high-end smartphone will have as a standard feature.
Some of these don't seem "iOS 7ish" at all. Content in shaded boxes (within yet more shaded boxes!) is very much not the iOS 7 way. And strong lines separating content are rarely a good fit with the new look.

The ones that seem like they "get" it look much better to my eye. Lighter, cleaner, simpler, more open.
Maybe it's just me but a lot of these apps look really shoddy and half assed. I can't believe these are real apps that people expect customers to pay for.
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Do investors read these essays? You've had some strong words for some of the types, e.g. "contemptible subspecies of investor". Would any of them email you and say, hey man, f u?