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I think I'm one of the "them"--now that I know about it, it seems like a pretty important thing to know. I can't help but wonder, how many other gems like this out there that the "them" don't know about?
I totally agree client engagement is a good learning. It teaches you a lot - to be a team player, people manager, understand requirements, good listener and above helps you deliver in different environment.

All these traits are important and many early entrepreneurs think they know everything and what they doing is right. They forget to "listen" , understand exact problem and deliver what is required. This teaches all those things and matures you to be what you want
I don't think you'd actually want to do that. There have been throughout history lots of people who on account of their birth or religion have wanted to be treated as superior to some other group. Would you just want to go along with that?

In fact it would be impossible to do what you suggest, because the ways in which people want to be respected could be (and often have been) incompatible. For example, what if two people with different religions both want to be treated as believers in the one true religion?

There are also plenty of individual cases we'd both find hard to swallow. Murderers who wanted to be regarded as upstanding people, and so on.

(And "who" in this case is much stronger. "Whom" introduces a jarringly pedantic note.)
Yes at the least to understand the values of such high level programming's productivity boost that you will miss. I always tell to my peers to learn different languages to understand what you miss in one or another. You can write well performing code if your design is right.
A heart in the middle of the state doesn't seem like it was her "creation". Now stealing the copy and the name...
The difference being that we have to accept things like a terms of service or a EULA to use google's services, the NSA provides me nothing, does it surreptitiously, and I cant sue the NSA for misusing my data because there are no regulations, and according to the courts I cant prove I am being spied upon so there is no proof they are spying on me.

What a crock.
It was a pretty easy problem, parsing logs for performance statistics. But moving the data is the easy part and that's why I was incredulous of the OP's statement.

I'm starting to wonder if this is really "Hacker News" or if it's "we want free advice and comments from engineers on our startups so lets start a forum with technical articles"
Facebook's game is to show that they can act on the grand old online media promise: that they first get loads of users, then later they can turn on the revenue streams and the cash comes pouring in.

Facebook is living up to this promise with the way they turned on mobile ads and they are now bringing in over a billion dollars annually. I think they want to maximize on that opportunity first, then turn on another revenue stream after mobile ad growth starts to slow. If they pull this off, they will be Wall Street darlings
Yes, people in sciences write distributed code (e.g., using MPI) and employ job queueing systems. I think they work well for embarrassingly parallel tasks. But what if you need to do a group-by operation? MapReduce makes these operations easy. Also the Hadoop system takes care of failing nodes, data partitioning, communication, etc.

I do hope physics people consider MR systems in addition to the existing ones they use.
At least on the experimental LHC side, we process/analyse each event independently from every other event, so it's an embarrassingly parallel workload. All we do is split our input dataset up into N files, run N jobs, combine the N outputs.

Because we have so much data (of the order of 25+ PB of raw data per year; it actually balloons to much more than this due to copies in many slightly different formats) and so many users (several thousand physicists on LHC experiments) that's why we have hundreds of GRID sites across the world. The scheduler sends your jobs to sites where the data is located. The output can then be transferred back via various academic/research internet networks.

HEP also tends to invent many of its own 'large-scale computing' solutions. For example most sites tend to use Condor[1] as the batch system, dcache[2] as the distributed storage system, XRootD[3] as the file access protocol, GridFTP[4] as the file transfer protocol. I know there are some sites that use Lustre but it's pretty uncommon.

[1] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/
[2] http://www.dcache.org/
[3] http://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/
[4] http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/latest-stable/gridftp/
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About blocking the Youtube notification for account merge: add this custom filter in Adblock ||s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-linkgplusdialog* and it stops the pop-ups. Someone posted this a while back on Reddit, and it actually works really well.
As far as I can remember you can choose what updates you receive from different persons and you can also prioritize this by creating groups like "close friends",but as you said they can do better than this.
> Scala has very little syntactic rules

There are a lot of counter examples to this claim but just to keep this short, I'll go along with your claim.

A downside of this is heavy overload of keywords/symbols. For example, last time I checked, the underscore (_) has six different meanings depending on where it's used.

The number of syntactic rules is not a good way to judge whether a language is difficult to read, otherwise, Brainfuck would be the most readable language on the planet.
> (Machiavelli's teachings) are not fit to be quoted in a discussion of how to conduct a democracy.

Sorry, I should have qualified that, because I wasn't endorsing Machiavelli, only acknowledging his influence on our current context.

You're right about the violent times of The Prince. You're wrong about two things: the notion that it is removed at all from our contemporary environment (such brutality has not been surpassed in extremis in the last century alone? Please...), and the idea that the fundamental turn from the idealism of Plato and the ancients to the pragmatism of the moderns was not prefigured and in fact architected by Machiavelli. The philosophies of Real Politic and Neo-Conservatism (at least) are fundamentally Straussian/Machiavellian in origin.

All I can say about the rest of your points regarding the mentally ill is, I wish mental health was the world's biggest problem as you seem to think it is. But in this discussion it's a complete non sequitur.
Hey all. I'm the author. I don't really have much to add here except that I was afraid the article, which I dashed off as all that stuff was happening, would come off as whiny. Hope that isn't the case. Thanks for reading and linking.
Sample size N = 1.

If login is via FB, Google, etc. I delete the app and do not use it.

On the other hand I may be too grumpy for my own good. A couple of days ago I came across an iOS app that seemed like a useful idea. Health, exercise etc. related. I downloaded it. It needed a username/password. I nuked the app com my phone. I decided I am not sharing health details (weight etc) at random. And I thought "Oh no, not another fucking username/password pair to go into 1Password." I am happily living without the app.

This puts you in a tough spot. If your app requires username/password to work I'm not likely to use it, no matter what system you use -- if there is personal information involved.

As I said, sample size n = 1.
To be fair, it is the Wall Street Journal :P .

Using real names does not fix the problem completely, I agree - you easily see the effect on articles on politics on news sites, with the mass shill accounts.

However, I argue that it is a lot greater of a deterrent.
Good perspective, (i) how would you manage usernames then and (ii) you do not need people to connect their FB/twitter account to discover friends on your app?
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I'm pretty sure Snapchat notifies you if the other party takes a screenshot of your photo, though.
I think you are right lost_marbles. The difference between a PhD with an excellent pedigree and a rubber-stamped PhD should be their publication records. The problem would still exist if these rubber-stamped PhDs weren't there, I think. As a postdoc, you're going to get paid zilch, period.
Then perhaps they shouldn't have taken the design into use until it was... usable. And it's really more than merely design in any case, it's at least a pretty core piece of underlying philosophy - connect everything to G+.

It's one thing to do this if you're a new service, with users that don't have all kinds of baggage with you - if your UI isn't great they can choose to accept it for the value you offer or reject it. But existing users it's almost a kind of fraud - you convince em to join under a false pretense but then change the rules half way.
Some of the new 3d objects that have been rendered in the last few years are some of the most beautiful mathematical objects I've ever seen. Almost a Technological Baroque Architecture. I think it will be a grand day when Architects start being inspired by this and actual spaces start to take on this look...something that may only be possible with additive manufacturing.

http://www.gizmag.com/swiss-architects-3dprint-a-room/29299/

edit: the demoscene has been experimenting with objects like this for the last few years in terms of real-time navigable demonstrations with some stunning results in 4Kb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgRGDhgehA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkD0AzYcJIQ
As someone who grew up without Super Soakers, and saw them hit the market, yes, it was a very novel product. Fundamentally, individual elements existed in other products already, but the actual product was most definitely a leap in squirt gun tech (e.g. pneumatic water/air rockets).

The biggest innovation I recall in squirt guns was using a battery-powered pump to create a fairly pathetic, but "automatic" stream. And how long were squirt guns around before then?
mentally differently abled, please.
Yes it is easy fish to catch if you want to experience VM land, especially on any JVM langs.
I agree, and I don't think it has to. Part of the problem is the strong growth expectation that comes with being a $0 dividend stock.

They should start paying dividend. It's the third largest company in the world by market cap, behind Apple and Exxon, and the only company of its size that pays no dividend.
What a bullshit article. Many altcoins already succeeded:

http://coinmarketcap.com/
Find out why the other programmer left. He left knowing full well that it'd leave the company in the lurch, and that's a pretty bad sign because it means that they've upset him enough that he doesn't care about hurting them.

Giving some basic armchair analysis, I'd assume that the mathematician gets a lot of kudos for his 'genius' inventions, and the programmer is treated like a second-rate code monkey who's just there the aid the oh-so-godly mathematician. If this is the case, then it's obviously not worth joining, but make sure to find out why the other programmer left.
The person sending the spam.

You have the right to expose people to communications with no Congressional control whatever. Congress shall make no law. You may shout on a street corner, you may set up a PA system until your neighbors are driven to madness, you may place pornography on a billboard, etc. Congress can do nothing to stop it.
Code Bubbles were invented one floor above me (by another team in computer science at Brown University).

I wrote a significant fraction of a Smalltalk class browser.

IDEs should enhance the language but not be the only means of working with it, because programmers are really attached to their editors, and a language predicated on tearing people away from their editors will struggle.

So, basically you made the pragmatic decision. What you say is true, but I suspect this tendency is ultimately holding us back.
The last company I worked at had one. How bad of a sign this is depends on when it was developed and why. Theirs was developed in the early days of VCS, when none of the off-the-shelf systems had the feature set that they needed. Probably they kept using it longer than they should have, I suppose out of inertia, but they were in the process of moving away when I left. In that situation, it isn't too bad of a sign.

On the other hand, if you ever find a company that wrote their own VCS 3 years ago that has half the features of Git, then run far and run fast!
Given that you're actually needing offline availability, the easiest way (as long as you've already got a mobile-friendly design) would probably be to deploy special wrappers for your DAOs (API classes, whatever), that perform the necessary caching to allow for it.

PhoneGap seems only interesting if you wish to commit the cached changes (or is offline = read-only?) upon regaining of connectivity.
No. Lately I've been feeling as if I live in a bubble, that I must be missing something. People seem to be losing their minds over this and other Google(+) business, while I think it's all quite fine.
Vaccinations are a young enough technology that we may find that we have to go through a few 'cycles' similar to how the atrocities of war seem to get forgotten after a couple of generations. Right now the anti-vaccination crowd has the luxury of living in a world where many of the horrible maladies of yester-year are all but gone due to the herd immunities granted to us via vaccines. When they look at the risks of vaccination, they get to weigh the risk of side effects of the vaccine vs. the risk of getting sick in a world where you get to 'leech' off of everyone else's vaccination-induced immunity.

Polio is rare enough in the first world, that it seems a 'solved problem' much like small pox.
Nobody wants to share their personal account information to any non-trusted site or application. So, according to me, if your app has a sign up form to use , then you can install Social login for user easiness but if not, then you are making a big mistake...
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I'd have to agree. Facebook is becoming the same trash that Myspace used to be a few years back. They seem to struggle even with ads. I don't know how many times I've logged into my Facebook account to see a Software Developer ad with a picture of a big ass/boobs next to the description. Their suggested posts are nothing but advertisement spam which has nothing to do with my likes and interests.
Enter Google+. An entirely different experience. If anything, G+ feels more personal. Suggested posts are from users like me posting something worthwhile and interesting. My newsfeed consists of great content every single day. It seems like Facebook is already losing teens. If they don't realize that the chase for money has gone too far, they'll start dropping everyone else as well.
It's the second time I read about LeadGenius on HN and I'm still not clear what they do. A simple example would've gone a long way here.

"Here's this company, Abc, and we helped their sales process by furnishing/prequalifying/cold-calling N leads, of which M has been closed as sales". Something like this.
Are you talking about match stastics or player stats? Dota 2 has a logging system that records various events? during a match.
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Facebook has messed with the privacy settings enough that people who are watching what they are doing don't trust them. For people who aren't paying attention, the privacy settings are too confusing to trust.

Snapchat? Recipient views picture once, and if they try to save it you know.
Huh. All the discussion on HN that I saw on it seemed to revolve entirely around big data. Nevermind, I guess.
How do I put this: teens aren't stupid, they know fb and others farm their data for profit with little consideration for privacy.

So what they do? the same I would: leave and move to a better solution. I did that all the time back in the day, but its not so easy today, why? because now professional life demands you be part of whatever is work-trendy right now, and that includes having an up-to-date profile on every damn social network out there that isn't considered lame (cough myspace)

It's bikeshedding to the max: did you build something truly innovative and significative? sorry brah it's not on my feed! and your klout score is really low, how can you be "in the know" if you barely tweet?
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I had to make a very similar decision about a year ago. I came to the same conclusion: they could count on me just as much as a freelancer than as an employee, and I'd rather keep my options open rather than get tied to a single company, because I have my own, unrelated plans in the works.

I suppose one could make the argument that I'm going to miss out on a huge pay-day if I'm not that sort of committed. I am balancing the likelihood of that occurring + the likelihood they'd expect unreasonable overtime from me versus the likelihood that I'd find that my own way and the likelihood I'd be fine working overtime for myself. Freelancing is the only way I know how to maintain my work-life balance.
The other possibility is that the other programmer discovered some kind of technical hurdle that was high enough to sink the whole project, and he figured there was no point in hanging around any longer. If he communicated it to the math guy and the CEO, they could have very likely brushed off his concerns in their overconfidence. Anyway, the programmer abruptly leaving is a sign of potential trouble.
The title of this submission is misleading, as it's only talking about mobile cameras.

With mobile cameras, it's not just the issue of how many pixels our sensor's got, but also the size of those on the wafer itself. The bigger, the better (better illumination etc.).

Given the bad lens characteristics of mobile phones, sure, the bigger the better. (As downer98 said: easier to crop and still have a good picture).
But when talking about proper cameras (DSLRs or similar), having more megapixels is not just about being able to crop and still have a great image...

EDIT: it'd also have been great to have a DSLR version of sample picture. Just by contrasting the various mobile photos, we don't know what the original image "really" looks like.
I think research in big companies is an interesting activity, both for the companies themselves and for the research world that can receive input from "real" world problems.

I was in research before (IT security) and I often found interesting results from companies such as IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Google.

What I think is kind of strange here, is that there's not a section on security/privacy in the page... well, but perhaps I'm biased ;)
Its exactly how computers are built: by the people who intend to use them.

For example, my current rPi hotness is a repurposed Motorola Lapdock, which cost me $50. Although it required some cable hacking, I can now switch out the rPi or a HDMI-stick running Android, Debian, and so on. It was a $50 solution to the problem of not having a handy HDMI monitor, USB hub, keyboard, mouse, screen, battery, power-supply set up. But, since I'm a user, I sorted it out, and the machine is indeed, an upgradable laptop.

I wish Motorola hadn't been borked on this. The Lapdock is a superb bit of kit; my rig competes strongly against the Macbook Air, for example, in terms of pure aesthetics, lightness, and utter freedom. Alas not many other laptops do so as a user, building such a thing as a cable bundle and a couple of 3d harness/cases to align with the Lapdock pinouts, for me, was quite handy..
Yes, all this is the reason I said "if it's no trouble to you." Certainly the desire for politeness can go too far, but avoiding a handful of loaded words is not very far. I don't think it's quite fair to compare a black man not wanting to be called boy with a murderer wanting to be called innocent.
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I don't know about you, but I personally assume that everything I'm posting online is publicly available, including to my parents, and regardless of whether or not they are users of the service that I am posting to. I have very little faith in Google, Facebook, Twitter et al. to not decide to publish all of my private information. As the saying goes, information wants to be free.
The OP makes a good point. But I can't be the only one who wants to watch that bunny video now. Since you're using their work to make your blog post more visually compelling, why not actually link to it?

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_J0AMPPD34
And with Airbnb and EBay, the name just becomes a symbol at a certain point and any literal meaning recedes. The fact that "bnb" stands for bed-and-breakfast, for example, is something I completely forgot until you mentioned it. Similar to how a floppy disk means "save" even though an entire generation has now grown-up sans optical media. It's just a symbol.
What I would want to know about any purported nootropic is whether or not there is independent research about its safety, first of all, and about its effectiveness as measured objectively and not just by subjective reports from users. That's a low bar, but I have not heard of most nootropics even clearing that bar. The question I always ask about "smart drugs" is, "What smart things have people done who use these drugs?"
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Maybe it depends where you live (UK here). I see multiple cars jump multiple different red lights everyday, when the lights are very definitely red.

Often the cars accelerate into the lights to get through.

I also see bikes jump through lights, but I don't usually find them as objectionable as they are i) going much slower, ii) weigh about 10% of the car, iii) have a massive interest in navigating the junction safely because of the mortal risk to themselves.

I get annoyed when I see either cars or bikes jumping lights that are for pedestrians.
IIRC, he was the one that changed Warren Buffet's mind on things like whether or not the rich should be taxed more.
Funny, I finally took the plunge too just the other day and I'm not a teen. Deleted everything, my whole account, every post, every photo, every tag, every poke, after I downloaded a copy of my stuff of course. But it was not easy task, oh no! They deliberately make it difficult to delete things! The only way is manually one by one, but its worth it. Finally FB free.

My reasons? Well it got really annoying how it turned into a Womans Magazine! Maybe I'm getting to that age when my friends are getting married and having kids, but I'm really not interested in posts of babies, Miley Cyrus BS, Royal Wedding nonsense etc... The list goes on and I only subscribed to reputable news sources like the Times, Guardian.
Big Data should be on the Peta+ level. Even with 10G Ethernet it takes a lot of bandwidth and time to move things around (and it's very hard to keep 10G ethernet full at a constant rate from storage). This is hard even for telcos. Note Terabyte+ level today fits on SSD.
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sure "hourly rate" is correct.

I think such an "aquihire" ist not currently possible. They would certainly need to either sell a couple of systems or get VC.
But hey, didn't i just write that i should stop thinking for them, too? I may take this into account talk it through.