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>First of all, there isn't even a remote threat to their retail empire.

How about Alibaba? They already have more revenue than Amazon and eBay combined.
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The more I read these the less I want to apply. There's just this "phony" feeling I get.
Thanks for the feedback, I’ve updated the fundraiser description, it was so obvious to me what RVM is, it should be now clear what RVM does.
You're either doing a very good job of trolling me or you have a serious reading comprehension problem.

They are not different scenarios at all. Just because I didn't use the exact same words to describe them doesn't mean I'm not describing the same concept.

Customizing your design to target the employers you want is the equivalent of customizing your design to weed out the employers you do not want. His design is meant to weed out employers that do not value the same things he does; this means his design is meant to attract the employers that do value the same things he does. These things are equivalent and they are the same concept described in both posts.
Nice, but it would be great if it was in native mobile form. Then it would be actionable data at the time I want to make the action. kinda like a bufferapp.com
I evaluated Rust a couple of months ago and had to reject it because it's pointy nature makes it difficult to write high order functions.
Cats and other animals can see different spectrum, which is useful to their hunting. Noting that raptors can see infrared so actually 'see' the thermals they are flying in makes a whole lot of sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

Apropos of nothing, I find this a fascinating way of enhancing the link authority of a coupon site. Given algorithm changes at Google which punish sites for little original content, adding a blog like this to your coupon site ups content that allows you to organically rank higher.
Data shows differently.

Google AD CLICKS increased by 22% and PPC went down 4%-8% so Googe made it up on volume. If showing more ads and/or making ads better than organic search is "optimizing for the 99% use case" then you aright.

But as shown on a few comments below Google in many cases shows only ads on the first browser screen. Terrible for users and terrible for Google long term. They should enjoy the steroid boost while it lasts.
It's a global economy. I take it you all agree on that.

I have a question for you: "With respect to importing and exporting, how important is it to be in balance, or to have trade surplus (versus a trade deficit)?"

China's strategy is aimed at ensuring it maintains a trade surplus. They have succeeded for centuries. China will export more than it imports.

And the US? Its strategy is to look for the cheapest labor and goods to "exploit", whereever those may be found.

What do you think? Which is the better strategy? Does trade balance matter?

As for this article, I have no idea what this guy is on about.

The US is primarily a buyer. China is primarily a seller.

If you accept that as true, then the US's "credit" is important. And who do you think decides whether a buyer's credit is good?

Would you keep shipping goods to a buyer who could not pay?
Sure, far be it from anyone not to conform to everyone else's expectations! Dreadful! :p
Not just nazi, but a communist nazi
I hate the new UI for gmail, (mobile and web) is the worst aberration in the history of google UIs. For example for web, now they hide the "from", "cc", "cco" fields, also they moved the reply, reply to all and forward to a drop down menu. The attach, and format buttons now are tiny and moved to the bottom. In the mobile they removed the check-boxes so when you want to select multiple mails you have to keep pressed a mail until it becomes blue and to select the other mails you have to tap where it used to be a check-box and if you mistakenly tap the title of the mail then your selection is lost and it opens that mail in a new view. They also hided the "from", "cc", "cco" fields in the mobile version. I seriously considering to use other clients.
It is a coincidence only. The MTA has been engaged in various labor-reduction initiatives and has been steadily reducing the size of its workforce for years. Beyond automated trains, the MTA has been building "master towers" (with a long term goal of having a single control center for the whole system), repeatedly trying to remove the need for conductors (and then being told by the fire department that one man is not enough to evacuate a train quickly enough), removing token booths, etc. The real pattern with the MTA is hiring incompetent engineers, particularly software engineers -- their payroll system is in a miserable state, they have yet to computerize their system for recording when trains arrive in stations, bus stops still lack information about when the next bus will arrive or even where that bus is, and the attempt to modernize their communications system went bust in just one day, leaving everyone running back to their older office (across the city) just to handle the radio traffic. You might say that there are financial interests in holding back some of these projects, but for the most part the MTA's M.O. is to hire contractors who fail to deliver, then pay them more to continue to fail to deliver, and then abandon the project and hire the same contractors to fail elsewhere.
They could've hit this years ago by doing a 10:1 stock consolidation. Fetishizing over share prices is meaningless. What if they had only six shares?

Market cap is what matters.
I don't think stock splits usually result in "X stock price plummets by 50%" headlines.
It would be a crisis so long as China remains an export-driven manufacturing-based economy. But, as China becomes wealthier, knowledge-based economy, it won't be as big a deal. With 1/6th of the world's population, I would think there would be plenty of domestic buyers.
Interestingly I (also UK) got the same, except missing the ad about mining. Isn't this tailoring (presumably with some basis in the users' behaviour) a substantial part of what is increasing their revenues (thus share price)?
A majority of our profits come from arbitrage. We don't do any quote stuffing or flickering. It is unethical and illegal.
How old is the bug? The url says 20 the link and header both say 30.
Kinda reminds me of the Squarespace editor.
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Now all I can think of is a guy named Jimbob wanting to get a set of four tahrs for his truck.
You do realize, that because of the increase of content publishers, getting ranking becomes harder anyway (independent to Google).
It's not that hard to remember individuals' names, when there aren't all that many of them in your society to begin with, and you've known them all your life.

After all, you remember your parents' names, and your grandparents' names, and probably your uncle and aunts' names.

If you went on vacation with them, would you count your family members at the start and end of the plane ride, or would you just look around, and think, "Marina, Richard, Victor and Mila, Irina and Alex - okay, everyone's here!"
I think you underestimate Romero, the book depicted him as a main game designer for the projects.
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Data straight from Google's mouth. Their Google properties ad clicks increased by 22%, an astounding number when Adsense stayed flat. All ads above fold is a great steroid shot but horrible long term strategy.
Great -- now the fragment of code I wrote for the kernel make s me potentially party to killing.

The long-term ethics of producing open source are fascinating -- you know we're all pretty gross if the NRA is wrong, don't you? About X not killing people, people killing people. 'Cause we brought a whole lot of X, and gave it away, puffed with pride, to people who can name something a 'dreadnought' without it being weird.
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Zuckerberg buys four new houses for, um, privacy
As I mentioned in the comment, those are the models and revisions that are checked for in the package. It may be the case that those are the models that are eligible to receive the firmware update, rather than that all of them are in the failing set.
Since I switched to rbenv I have never needed RVM
>> Austrian economics has been exposed for its various faults in the academia, a modern decent education will reliably inform one of that.

.. And this is why I didn't bother with any arguments. I don't have all day to waste on arguing with misguided people.

But here's an idea: an economy consists of people making trades and investments etc. Each trade is affected by each person's current circumstances, ends, means and preferences, or even the mood he's in.

Did his wife die yesterday? Will that affect his behaviour in the market?

Now, the question is: How could you possibly model the behaviour of hundreds of millions of people in their daily lives with any kind of mathematical formulas when everything they do is subjective, and subject to their whims and moods?

Think about that.. and then think about whether Austrian economics has been "exposed" for anything.
I get the same--but with ad blockers on
What the hell did they do to that cat! :-(
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Thanks for your suggestion! I will consider it.
The 'Oh shit' button is not something we can reasonably expect the driver of a 'partially' automated train to be able to press: humans just aren't good at maintaining attention for these sorts of tasks with half-second reaction times once every fifty years of service. They can occasionally make useful decisions about edge-cases that represent small chances of failure (like wet-rail operation), that it is possibly for the automated operators to fail to account for.

The human driver instead serves as a sort of last-ditch assurance that the transit company values human life sufficient that a jury wouldn't destroy them in the event of an accident. He performs a sacrificial function by being the first one to die in the event of a crash, at which point it becomes a tragedy for the operator company, milliseconds before the people behind him die, at which point it becomes a tragedy for the passengers. There is no point, therefore, at which a disaster can be seen as a tragedy for the passengers but not the operating company, a position which is fraught with political-legal consequences in the US corporate and municipal environment, ever obsessed with liability. The driver's failure to respond adequately is implied to be at least partially the fault of the late driver, sufficient to draw fire until the panic dies down.

Absent liability issues, we would all be riding perfectly safe labor-less cars and trains, which were perfectly safe because we insisted on using them once they were mature enough to be safer than individual automobile drivers, and learned from each crash that happened afterwards, and improved our algorithms iteratively. Instead, every time we have a crash we blame the algorithm's existence rather than tweak it, switch to using a more human-intensive mode, let the automated infrastructure rot, add weight to our trains, and decry the tragic no-fault coincidence of driver inattention and algorithm failure that doomed the driver and the passengers.

The DC Metro was designed for full automation. Rather than implement the automation and improve on it over time, the predictable initial failures resulted in scaling back the automation partially and later fully and now it's not even a realistic capability, the infrastructure has degraded.
Great reminder ( and stats ) that kickstarter is more than tech; my brother just raised $40K on kickstarter for a Texas Pecan Liqueur "pecano". When he said he was going to do it, I told him he was crazy. I was completely wrong.
That seems to be where the distinction between hói and hoí would come in.
What language did you choose in the end?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572124
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Targ would've been better, IMO. ;)
This is true but when Google's ad clicks increase by 20+% a quarter what you said is irrelevant, Google is keeping almost all the clicks for Adwords. So you're competing with Google's Youtube, Google Local, Google Images, and the whole shebang. Guess who's winning?
You're experiencing the effects of Douglas Adams' Total Perspective Vortex (from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

It was basically a torture chamber which inflicted the most horrific sort of torture imaginable upon its victims. How?

"For when you are put in the Vortex, you are given just one, momentary glimpse of the size of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation along with a tiny little marker saying, 'You are here'."

When the victim sees his complete and utter insignificance, his psyche is utterly destroyed beyond recovery.
Invoking a god for creation creates more problems than it solves, because now you have to ask, who created god? Since a god must be more complex than his creation, you created a bigger problem to solve.

I believe the current thinking for the "cause" of the big bang is that there was none. That's not unreasonable given how randomness is inherit to quantum mechanics. Also, before there was matter/space, there was also no time for a cause to occur in. While scientists may not fully understand the big bang yet, I'd feel much better betting on a natural, simple explanation than a "god of the gaps" belief, which has been shattered every time science advances.
Could you send us your resume as a Word file please?
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That's fair, and the commenters below pointed out that I was sort of conflating the short and long term yields on bonds, which dampens the enthusiasm for borrowing.

The thing is, right now, all of our borrowing is for things that don't pay much of an economic dividend, and meanwhile our infrastructure is going to absolute hell. If there was ever a time to borrow and spend some money on infrastructure, this is it. We can believe that while also believing the systemic budget problems need to be fixed.
The article seems to mention that they are running LynxOS, not Linux. Can anyone clarify?
> Have they been fixed in the latest version?

I don't know. I don't use Ruby or RVM anymore.

> Which user thinks, "oooh, modifying dotfiles is so evil, I'll just type in this command every single time I open a terminal"?

I did. And it's not "every single time I open a terminal", it's "the once in a blue moon that I need to work on a legacy Rails app".

> They found in a user survey that 80% of the users want auto-switching

Obviously people who choose to use RVM are going to be people who like the way that RVM operates.

> If these problems are fixable then why throw the baby out with the bath water?

The bath water is the specific bugs I ran into. As you say, those may fixed and aren't the point. The baby is the general practice of automatically injecting things into dotfiles and messing with shell builtins. We should throw that away because when it fails, it leads to "spooky action at a distance" bugs that are hard to understand and that break totally unrelated things (the user is in a shell session where they aren't doing anything related to Ruby).
There are many ways to do this, Google Voice being chief amongst them. Where things really get interesting if when you want calls to come in.

The best option I've found is to use Google Voice and link it to a Skype In account.

It may not be the best solution, but I can run my smartphone on wi-fi only and save a ton of battery this way.
I think you can even do that. What you can't do is build a $300 billion company that way.
I had mine replaced under warranty 3 weeks ago and looks like they replaced it with one of those being recalled. I can't reboot right now for the firmware update, but the system report tells me I have a TS128E TPVABBF0.

I'm surprised they didn't know 3 weeks ago that this was a defective disk. My local Apple store didn't have it in stock so they had to order it from Apple, it's not like it was an old disk they used to replace mine.
I double that. It's slow, clunky and unnecessarily heavy. That's why most of my contacts have already switched to other platforms.
Talk for Android 4, that added support for multiple accounts, was just good enough.
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It's a great book. I'm not a gamer and was only mildly familiar with the majority of the games mentioned in the book but I'd highly recommend it to anyone who finds HN interesting.
Good thinking; that is much simpler.
Chipotle hit $500 for the first time ever: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ACMG&ei=R15hUrCcG6i2i...

As we head towards a strong earnings season, I feel that we might see many companies hitting their highest ever stock price, especially now that the government shutdown has been resolved (sort of)
> That you can find some bits to append to a number such that it becomes prime is rather obvious, given that there are an infinite number of primes

That isn't obvious to me because I learned a long time ago about the strange nature of infinity. The infinite space of primes has infinite gaping holes that may very well swallow all numbers of a given form.

But I posted the question to the Math Stack Exchange, and it seems to be correct:

Proof: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/531043/can-you-make-...
Perhaps this is about how nobody here (in Poland) actually expects that school will teach you important things. Everyone who actually wanted to learn something did it on their own, sometimes with help of the teachers outside of educational system. The only positive experience I had was cooperation of my liceum with local university.
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>Er, an earlier version of this said the software bug was 20 years old. It's 30! Thanks, Sidhekin
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I'm using a poor internet connection (because of geography) and my experience is that the usability of Youtube has gone down dramatically.

They made a change a while back where the video will only buffer a few seconds beyond where you've paused it. Previously, you could go a few seconds into the video, pause it, and let it buffer 100% in whatever quality you needed, now I find myself having to constantly pause the video to let it load. One workaround I was forced to use is TaperMonkey Chrome addon with a script that adds a download link underneath the Youtube video in Chrome. I download the video and watch it offline in perfect quality.
Nice, ordered the gas cylinder replacement part. Looks super easy.

Thanks!
Agreed, current employer = very different scenario.

The original question seemed to refer to potential employers, so that's what I was addressing.
I have a question regarding this, does anyone know what happens if your data is already encrypted ?
will it encrypt the encrypted files?
It's strange you say it works because it happens that every case of hyperinflation in history has occurred under a fiat, paper system.

So what, we go back to the bartering system? It's difficult to trade my skills as a programmer for food directly.

Not sure what the rest of your statement is saying...
Well at least now I know how to manipulate JSPerf results in a non-obvious way :X
Modern runtimes use M:N, not N:1.
This. Slick might be the one true way that typesafe and other purveyors of Scala might believe we should be using to interacting with the database. But not all of us can start there. We'd like a simple ORM that can provide some abstractions and facilities (auto-generated findBy, relational mapping). Finally we went with scala-activerecord which seems to have hit the sweet spot between providing just enough functionality to be an ORM but not blowing up to be a complex beast with secret incantations (ala Hibernate).

All the derision that Rod Johnson got for his keynote where he mentioned the lack of ORM (among other things) as being intimidating to a beginner seems unfair.
I really don't think we should try to dumb down UX for the benefit of less experienced users. You run the risk of creating a false understanding of how a computer works which can cause harm down the line, as well as frustrating and confusing more advanced users who do know what happens when you save a word document. Besides, as the user population ages it's becoming less of a problem.
Lua at present has full lexical scoping. Lexical scope is not "weird"; it's correct. All mainstream languages with higher-order functionality that aren't Python use lexical scope, and for good reason. It can be difficult to implement, but it's intuitive.
> Whether the Caltrain schedule matches the highway 17 bus's schedule is not solely the fault of Caltrain -- it's either a 2 way street, or else they're both neglecting it, unless you have proof otherwise.

You're talking about a bus route with two stops. The only thing it does is travel between Diridon station and downtown Santa Cruz. I'm assigning responsibility for the station's scheduling to the station, which is Caltrain.
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When asked about calculus three centuries ago, Isaac Newton reportedly said that only two people in the world really understood it, but they disagreed with each other.
over the whole life cycle of a company, ok. Not on the exact mumbers but wether wether profits and cash flow are positive or negative. Chancea are that in the worst case the short term effects already killed the company in question, though.

Regarding Amazon, they are profitable enough. Cool thimg is they are building the fullfillment centers by the dozens, payed from free cash flow. And thats pretty amazing I think. But you are right, in the long run Amazon will most likly hit a growzh cieling. When they do they will have to changw strategy.
Ruby is dynamically typed, so doesn't have the power of a type system to encode invariants. It's very hard writing self-documenting code in a dynamically typed languaged.
If you prefer GUI and reload the browser for you, I think livereload does very well.

http://livereload.com
"At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party"

Ouch! Shuttleworth doesn't shy away from controversy. It's not a bad thing to be polarizing in a quickly-moving industry, but that comment seemed pretty harsh.
> Absolutely everything you mention is discussed in great detail in the bash man pages.

Great. If you would tell the entire human population about this so that they don't ask these questions anymore, then I would be very grateful.

Until then, I'm going to assume that people don't, and don't like to, read documentation, and adjust my software to that fact.
Or, they could just learn shell scripting. How much would that cost?

I do not understand why the[1] shell... which is a relatively small language... is so difficult for people to learn.

If you can find the time to learn Ruby, what stops you from learning a shell? What is the cost of ignoring it?

1. Preferably something resembling the proposed POSIX standard which might lend to portability. Bash is not necessarily the best choice unless every server you will ever use will be GNU userland/Linux kernel.
They could use other languages whose alphabets don't end at Z. Åksjuk Ångström, perhaps.
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

DH2. Responding to Tone.

The next level up we start to see responses to the writing, rather than the writer. The lowest form of these is to disagree with the author's tone.

Though better than attacking the author, this is still a weak form of disagreement. It matters much more whether the author is wrong or right than what his tone is. Especially since tone is so hard to judge. Someone who has a chip on their shoulder about some topic might be offended by a tone that to other readers seemed neutral.

So if the worst thing you can say about something is to criticize its tone, you're not saying much.