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From IsaacSchlueter's HN profile:

>I don't look at this site much, because it turns people into jerks. Contact me somewhere else.

It's like he's throwing stones in a glass house and then complaining of all the vandals...
"I like the idea of encouraging people in the office to, "work as if you're not here." The advantages will add up over time and not just for remote people: you'll have databases and logs of everything! Throw search engines on it, watch trends evolve and use it to be more productive!"

I've been working remotely since 2006. Probably 90% of the decisions I'm involved in happen over the phone, either one on one or in group conversations via Webex. So there are no logs.
> I guess binary might be an example of that. 2 values is not something that applies to everything, at least not naturally in the way the human mind works, but it is much more efficient for machines to process information, that makes sense.

For day-to-day use, it makes sense to use a system where you can express your age (in years) in one or two digits rather than five to seven. Hence, a hexadecimal system might be preferable as a representation.
good to know. I guess the best thing is to NOT store password at all in the the code? Rather in encrypted databases?
When everyone is your ideal customer, no one is your ideal customer
I thought it was funny, considering the top comments, that if I cntrl+F for "zimmerman" it takes me all the way to halfway down the page
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SQLAlchemy and Race Conditions: Implementing `get_one_or_create()`
From one of the reviews:

"The difference is that cables are forever. They get better with age while components will always need to be replaced do to wear or upgraded because of improvements in technology."
Apparently a lot of people have trouble locking down their server, then blame others when it becomes a problem.
Gotcha. Didn't intend for my question to come across as critical (if it did). Think I first read about you guys from Inc. Seems like you're positioned to accomplish really great things. Thanks for your response, and congratulations on the new funding.
This look cool. What are the main use cases for this - mobile, embedded? would love to hear.
There's this - http://machinadynamica.com/
Verizon Wins "Net-Neutrality" Case
This is actually how yesgraph works. You invite your team to make recommendations. You can invite domain experts, investors, advisors too. Each looks at their own network. It's hiring as a team sport.
Interesting. I use two plugins to handle adsense and sitemaps for Google. This will handle the adsense and maybe sitemap generation.

Why would Google do this?
Don't leave your MVP at that
Accenture takes over healthcare.gov
>> The notion of standard deviation has confused hordes of scientists

> What an assertion! It also proved to be very useful for hordes of scientists... what about some examples of confused scientists ?

He is exaggerating, for sure. But the point is valid: the mean average deviation (MAD) is often very different than the standard deviation (STD), and the MAD is more intuitive, it has a natural geometrical interpretation - STD's usage of squaring the distance makes it more complex.

And yes, this confuses people in some cases, including scientists. Many scientists are not statistical experts, they use tools as they were taught, and they often assume MAD is approximately the STD, because it usually is, except in rare cases when it is not. I've seen examples of those people in grad school, he is not making this up.

The STD is far more easy to analyze in a mathematical way. That is the huge value it brings - squaring is an operation you can take the derivative of, but absolute value you cannot. STD gives us nice properties like easily provable sum of variances is the variance of the sum, for independent variables.

MAD, however is nicer for reporting data since it is more intuitive. I think he makes a valid point that STD is used more frequently than it should be.

> Ok so he asserted that people should just use mean deviation instead of mean of squares. Guess what though, taking the squares have a purpose: it penalizes big deviations so two situations which have the same mean deviation but one is more stable have different standard deviations.

His point is that many people are not aware of that property and do not want it.
Yes. Joyent directed public wrath at an individual, over a political issue, who was a key employee of a competitor. This employee then left the community. Then, a day or two after, Joyent launched a competing offering IIRC. The Node project blog then essentially told the Node community to stop talking about the issue out of "respect", with no plea for the exiled individual to return to the community. Isaac was a key individual involved in this drama, defending the purge by claiming he'd received an abusive email from the exiled employee.
It seems like that would be extremely easy to brute force.
An amazon reviewer reviewed this cable on his blog:

http://donaldscarinci.com/digital-cables-make-little-differe...

He says the difference is "subtle".
They exist only to be acquired, like Youtube.
I'm seriously questioning some people's reading comprehension - he NEVER said STD is not useful! He's only saying the name "Standard Deviation" is badly chosen.
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I hope ry can bring us more surprise for node for he invented node and libuv.On the contrary, I didn't see any new techs from Isaac or TJ Fontaine to compare with both of two yet.
ech, creepy.
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Is there an API for making changes? That's the single biggest annoyance with my current solution in that space, pfSense. Automating changes is terrible.

I didn't see it in the feature list, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Great idea, Hope you are successful!
Chrome Mobile Gets Data Compression Feature
>It might not be interesting to you and I am sure you know how to apply them.

I am saying that pointing out that some people misuse some tools is not interesting without specific examples and problems it causes.

>It is however important if large groups of disciplines are not able to apply it properly.

Of course it is, let's try to identify such situations... o just let's try to find one problematic example.

>It might not be interesting to you and I am sure you know how to apply them.
It is however important if large groups of disciplines are not able to apply it properly.
Instead of calling him a vile idiot and refusing to even look at what he is trying to say you could see this statement as a cry for help, a provocation to start a debate and so on.

I've read his 3 books and listened to many talks. He just doesn't have anything specific to say. If he is crying for help as you said why not describe some situations where using standard deviation instead of MAD causes problems ?
I am not refusing to listen to him. The fact that he writes about those problem is the reason I invested a lot of time reading his books despite terrible writing and lack of editing. I was willing to go through just to see what he has to say. It turns out there is nothing, not one example of systematic error people make which could be corrected. It's just hate for anything and everything often paired with failure to understand the most basic statistical concept.

>The deeper issues here, I think is that he is probably not death wrong nor death right and so it's really impossible to prove anything objectively but rather different experiences yield different opinions.

He is dead wrong about standard deviation not being useful for "real life". He is probably right about "some people misuses it some of the time thing" but it's really not interesting unless you give something specific which he never does.

>I personally believe that sometimes you have to simplify in order to get a fundamental discussion started.

I agree. The problem is not simplifying he just doesn't have anything to say. It's not one article without examples or arguments. His whole book is like that and then his talks.

> In fact i find the aftermath of those provocations to be the most enlightening.

And I see danger in it. The guy has some serious following. It can't be good if people read his stuff and start believing that those risk managers are just morons, that scientists misuse standard deviation because of misunderstanding in 1893 and all other ridiculous things he claims. You can really gain an impression that everybody is a moron, academia is a waste and math doesn't apply if you don't know better and take his writing seriously.
This thing needs to get on Kickstarter pronto! I'd back. Can't not love clothing that comes with source code.
I've used xpra for about a year now, and I do recommend it if it seems like it would fill a need in your workflow.

For me, I'm using it primarily as a way to run Pidgin (for Jabber and AIM, primarily) on my server that I can connect to from the various machines I use around the house; analogous to how I use irssi in screen for IRC.

I also configured my screen instance to have a DISPLAY environment variable that corresponds to my Xpra instance, so if I run anything within screen that connects to an X server, I can be sure it's connecting to the X server I'm currently connected to anyway, and I'm mostly safe from sudden disconnection problems.
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The most important trait of an aspiring entrepreneur - be there or be square
Parking Space Detection with OpenCV and a Raspberry Pi
Network neutrality rules prevent the network providers from cutting preferential deals with content providers. The pipe providers must remain neutral regarding the data flowing through their pipes.

If you want to know what the world looks like without network neutrality just go back to the days of Compuserve, Prodigy, Genie, AOL, et al. Dismal does't even begin to describe the situation.
I don't think it makes the standard definition of "type system" meaningless. Maybe what I am referring to above is a "type space".

I agree with some of what you said in the medium link. Python does have a type system, structural and dynamic strong. The way the plus operator works was a mistake, Lua is superior in this regard.

Take a look at the type inferencing that Shedskin and RPython in PyPy can do. If there wasn't a type system, how are those 'static strong' programs created?

The programer and the program has a type system where the language may not.
Things Hacker News cares about:

- Keeping women out of tech.
- 9/11.
One more.

" If the average wage of your applicants is between $5 and $25 and hour "

s/and/an
W.r.t the Celsius scale, a comment from Celsius' country of origin in response to:

> Nobody lives their life around freezing and boiling temperatures. I live my life around 50 to 90 degrees and if you live yours around 10 to 40, I don’t see the advantage.

The natural response is of course we live close to freezing! 0 °C is the temperature that differentiates frozen lakes from open lakes, snow from rain, slippery dangerous roads from regular.
After being assigned to a currency desk, he was sitting on a lot of Eurodollar options when black Monday happened in October, 1987.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)

That unpredicted event made him and his organization loads of money, and made him a sudden seer of markets. Which is humorous because his book Fooled By Randomness is primarily a bit of a bitter tirade about how we declare people savants because they happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Since then he gets the classic seer type treatment, for instance the other post notes that he "predicted" the financial collapse of 2008 (weird that someone would register just to post that). Yet almost everyone predicted 2008. No, seriously, the house bubble and crisis, and the probable impact on the market, was absolutely common knowledge by the time Taleb made his pronouncements, and was the endless material of virtually every financial discussion. There was absolutely nothing of worth predicted in that, but that's what you get when you got lucky once.
Nice, I'll take a look at those. The cables I'm using right now have to break at some point.
With composition, this would be easily done (ie: upscale the target window). A plugin for compiz would be very easy to do and control from the user perspective, but that actually would be half resolution.
Hmm, at what point does a wire become a hose?

Also, I am in love with that superconducting cable idea. You could make a fortune with the razor-blade model selling audiophiles "special" LN2 on a subscription basis.
Yup. Sorry.
Tons of cool stuff on that blog! http://blog.kaistale.com/
I've only been doing it for a few years. Video chats still happen and phone-in meetings but a lot of things are captured somewhere: email, wikis, commit logs, trackers and the like.
I'm into it. Want to start a business?
I agree, the speeds you can achieve with JavaScript are astounding. They are far superior to Python, it's a shame JS doesn't have that well of a support for scientific calculations.
I did, thanks very much for asking. Originally however he called it "trivial" which gives a bad impression. Furthermore I think generally you shouldn't say that any contribution is "more trouble than it's worse" because that stops a tonne of people being part of the open source community.

> I think people went unforgivably ape-shit

I'm not sure people went "ape-shit". There was a lot of discussion but it was generally polite, a lot more so than the normal internet discussion.

>they stopped contributing to an important project

That's a shame
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OK thanks - you've set me on a big research path here, and hopefully saved me some money (and a few bits).
Make it heavy too. Heavy things seem like they are higher quality. You might be able to get away with weighting the connector ends with lead or something.

You'd have to justify it, so... maybe say the lead shields the cable from cosmic ray strikes?
> For example, if the data is approximately normally distributed, then there is approximately a 99.99% probability that the next data observation will be <= 4 * sigma.

Could you sketch out why similar statements couldn't be made about MAD? My (possibly flawed) intuition is that the expected proportion of observations within n\*MAD should be similarly independent of the parameters of the normal distribution.
You have an interesting point. But it's hard to say:

Fair voters always greater greater than bought voters. When you buy backlinks from the SEO consulting service, they gave you hundreds or thousands everyday, just like some people complained in the comments.

"Google's actual decision seems to be the most democratic: Forcing RG to decrease the number of bought voters while not dictating over the voice of the valid voters."

The problem is: how can they tell which is which?

I doubt this type of criteria is reliable. I collected some information from the user comments along with other research and wrote a blog post here:

http://bingobo.info/blog/bingobo/what-are-the-current-seo-pr...

Maybe you will also take a look at the possible solutions here:

http://bingobo.info/blog/bingobo/how-bingobo-can-help-busine...
> How much hand holding do we need to do, here?

A lot more than is currently the standard.

Security is a horribly complex subject, and the people that need it most often don't have the time or knowledge to judge tools and sort out implementation details.
Nice insights. Thank you for sharing.

This is simple. If you are hiring an engineer you should be one too. This way you can hire faster and fire faster. No bullshit.

Outsourcing work overseas is 5x cheaper than local try-and-see-how-it-goes. Not a long term solution but a short term one to get stuff done. Hire fast, fire fast. So if you make a mistake move fast to get another one on the job. You wont bleed as much money from a mistake of outsourcing to the wrong candidate.

I have been through this a number of times over the years and documented my learnings on outsourcing pros & cons here:
http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/technology/outsourcing...
And the beauty is that you are still able to easily convert it to the type you are used to. I, as a Belgian, might blink once when you use hectogram, but it is trivial to convert it to what I am more used to (say kg or g).
Yeah, whole different level of sadness I hope though.

Again, no need to be agressive, it's not that idiotic to ping the past when we talk about the futur.
You wish: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/enklein-orion-relea...

> The overall result is an extremely musical, vinyl like sound, even from CD resolutions. You don’t know what you are missing until you audition the Orion.

This is a "review" for a $5000m/m cable for digital (AES or SPDIF) interconnect.
Observation. I've worked with hundreds of kids aged 8-16 from all different backgrounds, all part of the "digital native" generation, yet hardly any can tell the difference between a web browser and the internet. The more technically inclined ones know how to rip mp3s from youtube videos, but none have heard of bit torrent or file-locker sites. Most of them are surprised to learn that webpages are made up of computer code, and more surprised to learn that anyone can learn this code and make their own websites.

Yet the parents all watch in awe as their kid swipes their tablet to play Angry Birds or Candy Crush. And then they remark "Man, kids these days. Just give them a tablet, and they're already figuring out how to use them. Guess the younger generation's just better at computers. Better than I'll ever hope to be!"
As far as I can tell, nobody who has actually taken their process seriously says they are "doing Agile". When you ask them what they do, they give a pretty specific answer. E.g., "Well, we started out with Scrum, but added a number of the XP technical practices and are experimenting with getting rid of iterations for a flow-based approach." Literally every time I have asked follow-up questions of somebody "doing Agile" it has been some variety of horseshit with Agile words thrown in to make it sound trendy.

As an aside, I don't know any serious Agile person who thinks that doing 100% anything by the book is a good idea. I think it was Ron Jeffries, one of XP's inventors, who said something like : "By the book XP is a good place to start, but it probably isn't where you'll end up." Agile processes all have an inspect-and-adapt component. E.g., the weekly retrospectives and continuous tinkering of XP.
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Use an ssh tunnel?
The panels I'm specifically looking at are < $400/per on Monoprice, so yeah.
It's impossible to satirize audiophiles because the real thing is already so extreme that there's no room for fake humor on top of it.
No. Still works.
>>" It's why major roads aren't owned by private companies"

In the US, many major roads are owned by private companies like Cintra [1] to give one example, and they charge tolls [2] on those roads.

It's become common practice in many US states that any new highway construction must have a toll on it and then the state sells the road to a private company.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintra
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_road
It's funny but looking at it, there's a lot of truth to this. I've seen this a few times where some of the best entrepreneur or investors I met were almost always right on time, but were also very efficient with theirs - you can get a lot done with those guys / gals in an hour, so even if they didn't have a lot of time for you they really made very good use of it.
I believe you to have a much narrower interpretation of interstate commerce than Uncle Sam does, but be that as it may, there are (at least) four parties to the transaction: you, your counterparty, your bank, and Coinbase. Do you think it is likely that all of them are in California and only California?

You're also picking at one thread of a regulatory tapestry. Even if you are successful, there are a lot more threads.
If you were asking seriously, the best analogy I can think of for audiophile / consumer electronics is the car biz, its merely the traditional conflict between marketing and engineering.

I recently bought a really nicely engineered car, I researched the history of the engine development and last decade of its production, its awesome, long term reliability, the power train is awesome but the rest of the car is pretty good too. But marketing advertisements claimed it came with not one but two attractively dressed hot young women, donuts, and a park pass. Trying to analyze how they thought those three items will excite every member of the general public is amusing. Anyway I think one department may have been lying to me / ripped me off.
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Yes I mean with donor sperm.
There are no "cons" to net neutrality. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous at best and duplicitous at worst.

The idea that we won't get enough bandwidth in the future unless the telecos et. el. are allowed to play gatekeeper makes no sense to me.
Pandering to audiophiles, conspiracy theorists, homeopathy users, and similar is a constant temptation that I ward off by thinking about how I'd probably feel bad about doing it after a while.
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Re: Monster. I haven't bought any of their stuff in years, but IME their interconnects were fine, but speaker cables not so much. I ended up terminating the speaker cables myself after the connectors on the originals and on the replaced (by Monster) cables fell off.
It makes sense if there was an audible difference with speaker cables, particularly if the amps were high power and the cables represented a range of gauges. Trying to power a line array with 22 gauge speaker wire isn't going to work very well.

The stuff in that article makes monster cable look like a bargain.
> However, the minute you take institutional investment, hand out shares to employees, take on debt financing, etc., you are now bound by a fiduciary duty to do right by those other parties. You still can focus on other things, but only if they don't conflict with turning a profit.

This is not true. The shareholder value myth has been debunked by law professors.

"...shareholder primacy theory was first advanced by economists, not lawyers. This may explain why the idea that corporations should be managed to maximize shareholder value is based on factually mistaken claims about the law."

http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=6482

"Contrary to myth, the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever wasn’t legally required."

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_truth_about_ben_...
Yeah, that is the code-n-fix flavor of "doing Agile". Sigh. As Dilbert has it: http://fivetechsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/agile...
It should basically be no "Internet discrimination" for service providers and that all bits are equal.
I meant the "Why Are There So Many Pythons" blog post that is the topic of this conversation.
Have YOU read any of the rest of the thread?

The initial request was entirely reasonable. The maintainer in question himself indicates later that the request should have been honored....but he does so only after his erroneous judgment and reasoning (if you can call it that) has to be repeatedly pointed out to him. Then his "response" smacks of nothing more than after-the-fact attempted rationalization for his behavior, followed by just...petulance.

If he worked for me, he'd have been fired. He's the only one who went "ape-shit".
A lot of folks are speculating that it's a mistake by investors, but I think it's a new stock buying algorithm that took the news feed and tried to match it with a stock name.
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Frameworks
Thoughts on frameworks.
YMMV. The rails codebase I work on is over 5 years old, and is pretty ram intensive. Upgrading to 8 gb made everything ridiculously snappier.
Histograms can be misleading too, especially when the breaks are not set well.