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One major thing I learned from 360 reviews is how bad developers are at judging each other or their manager.

I've had employees on probation for lack of productivity judged as excellent by their peers because of their ability to socialize their "abilities". I had the best developer on my team (a 10x developer if ever there was one) get slammed on technical ability rankings because of his prickly personality.

My VP and I used have quite the chuckle at all my "strengths" identified by my team and peers ... because they liked me and I was effective they attributed positive characteristics to me that I did not have.
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And if His old man weren't interested in roasting people, He'd have used industry-wide best practices such as two-factor authentication and salted password hashes on the root server, to keep Satan from hacking into the source repository.
I would like to know about this as well..
"First of all, it's tempting to cash in on goodwill earned."

The way I see it what you have done is way better.

And this strategy is really what people should be doing as opposed to simply cashing in goodwill:

"Take Ruby on Rails. More than 3,000 people have committed man-decades, maybe even man-centuries, of work for free. Buying all that effort at market rates would have been hundreds of millions of dollars. Who would have been able to afford funding that?"

Work for free that has benefited many people including you. Can't put a price on that.

You created Ruby on Rails and it was like well enough that all those people "more than 3000 ... man-decades ..." have put their time into the project and you have benefited greatly because you are the person that most people associate with Rails. Not any of the 3000 contributors. And that notoriety is what pays off in droves. Even if you passed up a few dollars (debatable by your argument?) you've gotten something way more valuable.
Good to know. I JUST bought a green WD drive (still in transit from Amazon) so my future thanks you.
Disciple[1], and I believe "Mu" Haskell ( the Standard Chartered dialect ) though I don't know for sure because it's not open source.

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> Even if he's really thinking "let's save 10 million children from dying of malaria so some of them will buy Windows phones"

It's more like "let's donate 10% of the money needed to save 10 million children so others can donate the 90% needed to finish developing my vaccine and test it on the kids".

Or something like it.

> What matters are outcomes, not motives.

We have to be careful about that. The most obvious are not necessarily the only outcomes, nor the most relevant and lasting.
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I think the point about most other languages having package systems that exist independent of the compiler is a great analogy. It really is a bit funky when you consider how tied to Node/V8 all npm modules are. And as the OP said, Node has a been a tremendously powerful, positive force in the world, but if JS really is the cat's meow, perhaps it's time for a real, framework-agnostic library manager.
Why does everybody want to lower birthrates? We need to settle the solar system, not wait until the next ice age or meteor mass extinction in an "environmentally friendly" mode of existance...
I guess end to end encryption with Redphone or Ostel would defeat stingray/imsi catchers but no idea with type0 sms spam tracking. Use a faraday pocket :/

Chaos Computer Club reverse engineered some Qualcomm basebands to find them running in ARM supervisor mode with no NX bit. NSA must love that
Nice to see people organizing and doing charitable things of their own accord.
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Sure. I don't think we actually disagree about this. I just wanted to point out that the status quo has this problem of incentivizing idleness to a greater degree than the proposed Basic Income.

edit: Additionally, I think it would be harder to implement a Basic Job program well. Compared to Basic Income, we'll lose some amount of physical mobility and some amount of value from enterprises that take a long time to bear fruit. The Basic Job program will have to be pretty well managed to provide enough value to compensate.
Or it could be Chrome asking to switch to installing in Program Files instead of User profile.
What kind of price can you put on vision?

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I think the point of the argument about functional programming is that you can't defend a stance of absolute rejection of all things non-functional, because that kind of world could not exist. Similarly, an all-object world does not make sense, either.

His other point about OOP, though, that it doesn't have first-class functions -- that's equivalent to complaining that it isn't functional enough, which is not supposed to be the point of OOP, anyway. There's a lot you could criticize about OOP, but he doesn't make that strong of a case here. He's sort of treating it as a mirror image of fp, but it came from a different world with different values and it's not on the same footing.
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Hmm. It's a lovely idea but I find the results uninspiring. (Which isn't surprising; it's a very difficult problem. But I was hoping to be amazed.) Here are the examples I tried (all of them, no cherrypicking):

daughter + male - female -> { The Eldest (book), Songwriter, Granddaughter }

(Hopeless; should have had "son" in there)

pc - microsoft + apple -> { Olynssis The Silver Color (Japanese book), Burger Time (arcade game), Phantasy Star (series of games) }

(Hopeless; should have had "Mac" in there)

violin - string + woodwind -> { clarinet, oboe, flute }

(OK)

mccartney - beatles + stones -> { Rolling Stone (magazine), carvedilol (pharmaceutical), stone (geological term) }

(Poor; should have had Jagger or Richards or something of the kind in the top few results)

sofa - large + small -> { relaxing, asleep, cupboard }

(Poor; I'd have hoped for "armchair" or something of the kind)
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This is a beautiful idea. Replacing the means-tested transfers, such as housing assistance, food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc.etc. with a simple check to everyone would provide dignity to all citizens, save on administration costs, remove the major disincentives to work that the current programs create, and even encourage entrepreneurship and creativity, since people would be less worried about their ideas not working out. It would even destroy the rationale behind minimal wage. I would gladly pay more in taxes for all that, although I suspect a lot of the program will pay for itself -- through elimination of all the above, and through the economic benefit of spending.

I do worry a bit though: with the system in place, given how simple and transparent it is, what would prevent politicians from continuously raising the basic income level, until productive work becomes completely unattractive, and the economy collapses? How can that be prevented?

Even though the current welfare systems are horrible in comparison on efficiency grounds, the fact that they tend to target specific small groups, makes it easier to keep them from blowing up.
Fertilizer actually has pretty decent margins, especially lately what with cheap natural gas. In any case, I suspect it would behoove whichever company had the necessary access to capital to invest in such tech.
Seems like a good idea...

How can I purchase my own debt? Rather than have someone else buy my debt at a reduced rate and abolish it, how about I buy my own?
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If you'd read my posting, you would know that I was talking about citizens of a country. I asked, rhetorically, what the Swiss would do about the migrant workers, who, by the way, constitute 25% of the work force in today's Switzerland; excluding them would render the policy almost pointless.
Centuries or a single century (20th)? I have no access to the book and I would be interested to see the numbers. It's hard to outdo the 20th century with the jump in the military technologies (starting with the machine gun, the first weapon of mass destruction), and two massive world wars. How, for example, do we compare to the 19th century?
I'm trying to figure out where something like this fits into the python data ecosystem.

For datasets that fit in memory, Pandas seems like the best bet. Good I/O functions (JSON, CSV), easy slicing (numpy array-like syntax), and some sql-like operations (groupby, join).

For large datasets, you'd need a proper db.

So is Dataset then useful for datasets that cannot fit in memory but aren't too large?
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You can just tell it to remind you at a later time. Only on Mavericks I think.
It's not a guaranteed floor. Everyone gets it. For some people, the actual marginal after-tax value will be less because the basic income is income subject to income tax, and Switzerland does have a progressive federal income tax system, as well as canton and local income taxes which may or not be progressive (seems to vary).
from the article, "Due to the nature of the debt market, the group is unable to specify whose debt it purchases..."
If we really want to get into benchmarks LuaJIT with multithreading is almost 2x faster then both, it took 21 seconds to complete on my computer. And I'm willing to bet that multithreaded C would be even faster.

However you want to know what this benchmark proves? Absolutely nothing as it has to query a website. So the response time of the website matters more then this test.
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Frameri looks really interesting. As someone with an abnormally wide nose, my biggest trouble isn't the lack of variety of frames, but that few standard frames actually fit my face. Do you see yourself as moving into the highly customized frames space at all (like protos eyewear, who recently crowdfunded their first batch of 3D printed glasses a few months ago): https://crowdfunding.protoseyewear.com/3d-printed-eyewear-ta...
Apparently the CEO of Shutterstock is NYC's first tech billionaire:
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His comment was of course tongue in cheek. He wouldn't spend 25 years of his life working on it if he thought it was useless.
One of the arguments for wealth redistribution is that rich people tend more to spend money internationally on luxuries, while poor people tend to spend money in their local communities on essentials.

It's possible that under this system the Swiss will gain more employment because their people will be spending more on goods that proportionately employ other Swiss people in the value chain.

It's the reverse argument to the Trickle-down idea, I think.
You need both to add value. How would a technology that is not used by anyone add value ? Note that, marketing is not just advertising.
I did exactly the same thing with CF. We had a default config that would operate read-only and leave the machine in a reachable state no matter what. Once we got that far, we'd mount some spinning rust or NFS and pivotroot and run a secondary init.

It was a huge win for uptime.
You could "buy" your debt by going to the person that owns it and making them an offer.
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This seems like more of a ChromeOS move to me, so that you can run native code on Atom and X86 machines. The knock on ChromeOS is always that it's "just a browser". I seriously doubt anyone is going to write their Etsy storefront in NaCl. The benefit here, of course, is that if someone does write the next Photoshop for ChromeOS machines, it should also run fine in OS X, Windows and Linux. Seems like a win for portability to me.
So you admit that you would change your behavior in response to such a policy. That's my point: People change their behaviors in response to changed incentives.

Now, since society is a very dynamic, it is extremely difficult to predict the consequences of such changes in dynamics, or even to ascribe causation afterwards. That, however is not an argument to throw caution to the wind.

> I'm asking you to trust other people to make decisions as good as you would make, rather than making assumptions on their behalf.

I find that very hard to do, as I have multiple, hard examples of people making poorer decisions than me. Mostly they consist of people asking my advice, then not following it, then failing.

By the way, by the same measure, I am guilty of making poorer choices than other people as well, it's not a linear ranking.
Very good news! A lot of developers don't like JavaScript and HTML. Google started to listen. I really hope the rest of big players will follow the suite.
Debt is priced based on the debtor's expected ability to repay. If you have the means to purchase your own debt, it's probably selling at very close to its face value.
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I am in my career where I would like to learn and architect software projects

I would also like to write better and cleaner code as I grow old

In the same spirit, this year I started with Clean Code and learnt a lot. That actually made a lot of difference in how I write code these days

Next, I picked up Refactoring(Martin Fowler) and learnt a lot again. That was so helpful that I go back in the code base of my current project and make confident and better changes.(Disclaimer: My architect for the project thinks that way)

I would now like to learn more about how to design and architect projects (doesn't matter consumer or enterprise) and would like to gather feedback from the HN community.

Please shower your blessings in form of advices

I am hearing them all

P.S. Technology/Languages are not a constraint as far as I understand
Most of the time, when your debt has been sold off to a collection agency, you can negotiate with agency to pay a reduced amount, since it's the easiest outcome for them.
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Gates used "Africa" as a shorthand next to "safari" and "wild animals", which unfortunately is what many people think when they think of "Africa". I have no problem with the word Africa, but I do have a problem when people use it and reinforce those stereotypes.

All I'm trying to do is point out that those notions are part of the problem.
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This is manipulative language if there ever was. What matters is the scope and degree of the problem/benefit created by politics not its existence.
Well, yeah, because clearly (sarcasm) anyone that owns chemical glassware will be using it to cook up meth.
So why bother? They collect my money, then send it back to me in the form of a government check? Only, minus a few dollars for overhead and for redistributing to some other guy who doesn't pay any taxes? Why not allow a tax credit for donation to charity, which allows people to (1) feel good by helping fellow human beings, and (2) help those causes they really believe in?

Note that currently the U.S. allows a tax deduction but not credit for charitable giving.
Web apps that won't run in anything but chrome? There are already plenty. Picasa/Google+ photo editing for a start.
After my behavioral economics lecture this morning this is where my mind immediately went: http://ase.tufts.edu/econ/papers/separability.pdf

As much as people would like this to refute capitalism and standard economic models, it really just confirms that the models are incomplete and can be updated with continuing research in to human behavior.
It's not perfect; the real limiting factor is the volume of text. For the research paper behind word2vec, to get accurate associations for common words (King, man, woman, etc.) required a news sources training text of order a billion words. This is roughly the size of all of Wikipedia, but the text in Wikipedia has many more rare words, which spreads the number of training examples per word rather thin. To address that, I'm thinking of expanding the project to use Common Crawl data (http://commoncrawl.org/) to dramatically expand the available supply of data.
Someone on a gaming forum wrote a lovely bit of fiction in which "the Matrix" is layer one, "the desert of the Real" is layer two, and you're reading a brief overview of the system written by someone on layer six. He and his colleagues are pretty sure that they're in the final, real world, but they're not making any assumptions, and research is ongoing...
Funny you mentioned that. There is a wiki on this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_between_democracie...

My favourite example is Finland v. Allies in WW2.
The actual technical announcement is the https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=84e6e3e3b059c15456bc67101c... (PDF)
I'm in a similar situation (live in NJ instead of NYC) but I do wonder: $6000 / year = $500 / month. I could save at least that much (more like $500-$1000 / month) living in Long Island or NJ instead of Manhattan.

Having said that, I do hate long commutes. I would love to live in Manhattan, but it is just prohibitively expensive.
I wasn't aware that US companies ranked employees and used rankings when purging the workforce (when I think about it it's a pretty obvious idea). In countries with stronger labour laws "underperformance" basically isn't a reason to fire someone. The employer is responsible for the employees performance (training etc.). This can be frustrating in the software business when just a few really poor performers can really sink a team. Obviously forming a really elite team in the US is easy, since you can purge from the bottom, provided you don't affect morale too negatively. But how do you do it in countries where firing for underperformance isn't an option? It's really hard to get away from a bell-curve team.
Perhaps create somekind of call to action that's more like this: 'Connect your Basecamp account', they end up by creating a normal account and then after that the first step is to connect their Basecamp account. This gives you a way to learn what webservice people would connect first. But hey, enough ideas. It's all about execution. Good luck!
I basically mean people with an interest in privacy and implications of information technology on society. If someone doesn't have that interest, I wouldn't expect them to assume the NSA is collecting all the info it can. With a basic background I would expect other people to recognize how powerful vacuuming up everything is. This expectation is strengthened by personal experience (moderate n, but selection bias). Certainly having the leaks makes people actually talk about it -- partially because assumed isn't the same as proved when you are an activist. Furthermore the extent to which the NSA hands this information over to eg the FBI was unknown. IMHO the real danger of spying on everyone is 3 felonies a day style selective enforcement. If the NSA keeps everything well barricaded from political and personal motivations and only pursues genuine threats to national security I frankly think that might be best for everyone. That possibility is seeming less likely because of information the leaks have provided.
One of the things I really respect about Bill Gates is that he actually goes and talks to poor people. I know so many people who will go on and on about what poverty is and how to solve it, whether it's funding education or creating a culture of responsibility or whatever. But unless you're chatting with actual poor people, saying "hey how's it going?" at least every couple months, I just don't think you can really have a workable understanding of the problems.
I played SPAZ a bit shortly after it came out. But then I found myself having to grind only a few hours in to make progress, and I just don't have time for that. Have I missed the point?
Interesting. I've played around with words as vectors (with values) and the cosign similarity algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity). This is very cool stuff. I wonder how they're doing it in real-time, it is heavy number crunching
Totally unexpected, looks freaky amazing.
> If you have the means to purchase your own debt, it's probably selling at very close to its face value.

If you have the means to purchase your own debt at its face value, its probably selling at very close to its face value.

But the market value of your debt should be approximately (the amount the pricing algorithms expect you to be able to pay) minus (the amount the pricing algorithms expect to be expended in extracting payment from you).

So, IOW, for the average debtor (assuming that the algorithms involved are correct on average), the market price of their debt should be significantly less than they are able to pay.
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I doubt Google wants to keep this Chrome-only. Just like SPDY, there isn't initially support on all platforms/browsers so you have to have a fallback. But if it catches on then you will see broader support over time.
Do note that PNaCl uses Native Client as a base. Native Client is a very secure sandbox that's been out in the wild for some time, had security contests run against it and has in general proven itself to be very secure. The PNaCl translator (backend of the compiler) runs within a NaCl sandbox itself, so nothing in the Native Client security model is compromised.
Has blackblaze budgeted for the cliff failure rate that is coming?
What I'm really looking forward to with this is not PNaCl on the web, but PNaCl as a way of writing high performance portable native apps by using a Chromium wrapper.

I'm very excited by the idea of being able to write an app that "just works" across a ton of platforms using JS and HTML5, with compiled code sprinkled in for performance-critical portions. Projects like AppJS have been working toward this already, but with PNaCl, a big missing piece can finally be filled in.
Makes sense. I'm curious though, do you mean that even with the same number of categories for each it's too difficult? ie. instead of using hierarchical groupings and all categories no matter how small, use only the top ~10 and bucket the rest into "Other" similarly to a pie chart or bar.
> Ad hominem much?

It is an analogy used to illustrate a point. I think it is funny, short, and explains the sentiment pretty well.

The point is how I perceive what is happening. No, I didn't collect statistical data on anyone confessing their true feelings.

> You don't need hipsterism to explain some degree of antipathy towards this move.

I disagree, one does need something like that explain the _level_ of vitriol.

Read cletus' comment in that thread. He perhaps explains it better than me and he uses less colorful metaphors (I can see you don't like those much, but that's fine).
I was mostly asking about big publishers. For me it looks like big equals to having no common or even business sense in this case. Which is weird.
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Resolution. I've been buying 1920x1200 15" laptops for along time. My latest laptop is a retina MBP, which I have only because of the resolution (it's fine otherwise too, but nothing special). I just wish the screen wasn't glossy.

Other requirements: SSD, discrete Nvidia graphics card (which do great under Linux), lots of RAM.

I probably wouldn't work anywhere that wouldn't let me run Linux on my machine without virtualization.
It's unfortunate for Soylent to end up in such a situation given how easily it could have been prevented.

For me however it does not discount the product in the least, and I would expect a rethinking of the production process to be posted soon in response.