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quality can translate into two slightly different words in Chinese 品质 (grade) vs 质量 (quality)

I think the author only refers to the former, but the latter means exactly the same as American English.
I found the one click action for selecting an entire column of values as well as the UI/UX on the top column of the page to be very impressive. We were thinking of a nice clean way to represent that particular UI/UX flow in this browser extension we built as well. Will incorporate that in our next release.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/krakeio/ofncgcgajh...

Would love to meetup and exchange some ideas if you are based in Bay area.
Hey thanks for the feedback!

Right now if a user is registered and logged in when they post it shows "username's reflections" rather than "anonymous' reflections", but I suppose that's there's no signal just noise with that word, so I should probably remove it. Good call!

I change my mind every other day whether I should give up on trying to have a super bold design and just strip it down or if I should stick with the polarizing stuff haha. It's my first web design that I've tried to give a more unique look rather than a Google-esque function before form type treatment.
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I'd certainly be interested!
But monopolies can really only exist through regulation, which is low economic freedom.

You will have most economic freedom where the existence of monopolies are the lowest.

Existence of monopolies is one of the strongest arguments for limiting the size of government, which limits the size of regulations.
That's awesome! A testament to the timeless power and stability of Unix :)
These "optimizations", assuming they are correct and will work, would give some 5% "improvement" as so many optimizations do.)

Another thing is all linked to this very meaningless term "creativity", and, perhaps, caffeine could somehow boost it, but in context of real craftsmanship we probably should talk about artistic sense and inspirations, insights, "flow" and "aha-moments" which, it seems, follow much more complex and subtle patterns than just sleep, routine, glucose and caffeine. This will definitely work for sports, but programming is not a sport, it is an art. And for an artist a Muse is required, not a military routine.

Of course, routines and rituals has tremendous power - entire religions are still standing on nothing but them, but this quite another subject.
I won't be able to watch this until the weekend but I'm curious why

> ... all the merchandise on display is for display only.

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A hardware company I used to work for had a sister company in Japan. We'd send over our product and they'd run it through another set of production tests before sending it on to customers. If something wasn't right, no matter how trivial, they'd troubleshoot the issue (including pulling the thing apart) leave big stickers pointing to the issue, and send it back with a report.

How trivial can they get? One item came back with 'dirt on screen', with an arrow-sticker pointing at it. The tech here picked it up and touched the dirt with his finger... and it fell off. Nothing else was wrong with the unit. For this, the unit had a return-trip journey across an ocean...
I think the reason so many languages compile to JS, is that you essentially get to play with and learn a new language, and it's guilt free. Usually you need to choose between technologies - JVM or .NET, Python or Ruby, HTML5/Canvas or Flash, etc... With compile to JS languages, you're never forced to make that choice, if you ever get bored of a language you just compile it into JS and continue with your life.

Right now I'm having a lot of fun playing with Haxe and OpenFL/Lime (formerly NME). Being able to create an app with the Flash-like API and compile it, without modifications for HTML5/Flash/Windows/Linux/Mac/Android/iOS/Tizen natively (!!) feels like some sort of unholy hack. Not to mention it's other abilities (compile to everything from JS to Java, C# and C++).
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They certainly wouldn't be legal in Australia, we have a pile of protections for renters that by the sounds of things these places don't fulfil. No hot water, no power?
The products on the shelves can't be bought, they're literally just there for show, as opposed to a normal store where you buy things...
At some point, in order for change to actually occur, things would have to move "off-line" and people would be forced to meet in public, wouldn't they?

Assuming the group had been infiltrated (or monitored), it seems like that might very well be the end of the group.
Exactly. I have never had anyone show me an example of a monopoly that didn't have a supporting government framework. Even in a patent-filled world, nobody is getting to a monopoly state, because nimble entrepreneurs will find a way around.

I also find it very odd that people develop a government-monopoly blindspot- Microsoft monopoly = bad and evil, Government monopoly =benign and good. Both are just groups of people, and subject to the same capture by good or bad intentions.
In college I worked nights as a security guard for a year or so. I was often assigned to empty buildings, which apparently made the insurance cheaper.

The weirdest place I worked was for a couple weeks in an refrigerated food warehouse. It was soon to open, but hadn't yet. It was HUGE and one big chunk was kept at 40 F and another big chunk at -10 F. All I had to do was sit in an office all night and walk around the place 3 times during the night. Perfect job for studying, really. But I had to have a thick jacket and a hat for my patrols!
Individual unions seem more like companies than like cartels to me. Say there are a few thousand different candlemakers who currently ply their trade individually. Some subset of them decide to join together and incorporate in a company that will negotiate prices and contracts as a group, instead of individually. So they form Candlemakers, Inc., a Delaware corporation and your provider of enterprise candle solutions. This is not illegal, even though formerly competing candlemakers have joined forces and now collude in their provision of candles. They can even negotiate exclusive deals: maybe you get a discount on candles or otherwise more favorable terms if your restaurant/bar/church agrees to make Candlemakers Inc. your exclusive supplier of candles, i.e. for a period of N years you agree not to buy candles made by candlemakers who didn't join Candlemakers Inc. This is still not illegal or considered collusion.

Now if instead of it being contractors who joined together by incorporating, the candlemakers were employees who joined together by unionizing, why is this much different? And why do exclusivity deals legal in the incorporated case become illegal in the union case (the "closed shop", i.e. an agreement to only hire the union's members as candlemakers for some period of time)? They seem pretty analogous to me. The Candlemaker's Local 382 and Candlemaker's Inc. are doing pretty similar things: taking formerly individual candlemakers and joining them into a larger entity that markets its members' services jointly. They differ only in the precise arrangement by which the joined workers provide services to the purchaser: one is a union of employees who've joined together to sell their pooled candlemaking labor to the company, and the other a union of contractors who've joined together to sell their pooled candlemaking services to the company.

The place where the analogy to cartels works better for me is in large umbrella union organizations, like the AFL-CIO, if they coordinate their exercise of market power. But some of that is already illegal, e.g. secondary boycotts are illegal under U.S. law.
Do you get negative points so that the font color is light grey?

Is that because your words are a little bit challenging?

I'm with you. Distributed Computing is not new, especially it's not only about a couple of algorithms. But looks like folks here are only familiar with the algorithms, such as the algorithms used by Google.

Actually Distributed Computing means a lot more than that. I'm going to write some blog about that, but not quite ready yet.
FYI, a magnet link has been posted (here in the thread) since you left this comment.
So you do agree that people keep changing and at any point cannot be generalized
Hmm. I'd like to say I'm excited but I really don't see how they will capture that story effectively in film.
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There is no contradiction, but I may make different simplifying assumptions in different contexts. At first, I was replying to a person who claimed that even the free market wage for programmers was excessive. In that context I was ignoring market power on both sides, and assuming a perfect free market.

When you brought up unions, I pointed out that since tech workers have less market power than doctors and lawyers, they are actually underpaid relative to these groups.

To clarify: I think that doctors and lawyers would still be highly paid if they had no market power, because their skills/abilities are valuable.

So my point of view is that market wages are in accordance to the value that people produce, but people can sometimes obtain more by having market power (or less, if the employers have market power). It seems that you think higher wages only come from market power.

On a union for Googlers, what would stop someone else from joining Google and not joining the union, in exchange for better pay/conditions in the short term.
It's probably more the slant that the WSJ put on the ranking and what makes up the ranking.

I think making a link between economic freedom and economic growth is a tough enough sell without giving individual policy prescriptions. Ideally people should be informed enough to know what tradeoffs they are making when they vote for policy choices. It's OK to vote yourself a bit less economic growth for other things you want, but for many they aren't aware of those tradeoffs.
Sadly we're not informed what happens if you program a robot to press the button at fixed intervals unless it observes a flash.
You can see a temperature sensor in the linked 90sec video.
Here's a simple example that most of us can probably relate to. I often read the Danish news outlets for coverage on "big" international stories. I read them a lot during the last Iraq war.

The example: when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, and US media were saying that the "alleged photos might not be possible to obtain" I saw them a full 3 days early on Danish media before I could find them anywhere on US news.

[EDIT: My UCSC roots will really show here - check out "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky for one perspective. And yes, it's Chomsky, so YMMV.]
The term security engineer is a wide generalisation.

Start participating in CTF (capture-the-flag).

Go to conferences: defcon, blackhat, shmoocon, derbycon. Talk to people.

Read phrak.org.

Learn about the old-school hacker culture.

Hack stuff.
> So... what do you think about the salaries of teachers in public schools?

Well, it varies by region. There are some areas where teachers get $1,000/day compensation packages. But they don't really earn that money, they just use state violence to take it from people who earned it.
1) Secrecy. Both individuals and companies are allowed to openly band together for the purposes of bargaining power. It happens all the time with standards bodies, lobbying organizations, industry consortia, patent-sharing arrangements, etc. Doing so in secret is usually seen as market manipulation. One of the requirements for a market to be 'free' is equal access to information, which secret agreements prohibit.

2) Power imbalance. Others have addressed this already, so I'll let it lie.

3) This agreement in particular was an attempt to create and abuse a monopsony position, which is in itself illegal. Many markets are regulated in order to ensure competition, by e.g. blocking mergers. Secret negotiations are often an attempt to bypass pro-competition regulations, by having two entities act in concert while pretending to be independent. In short, ends matter. Collusion to commit a crime is viewed differently than collusion to ask for a raise or collusion to not by a product.
I once tried to track down the original source of NeXTStep when I was working on adding NeXT black hardware support to QEMU, but had no real idea who to ask/where to look. I know it was sold at a hefty price back in the day, but I have no idea if anyone actually purchased a copy.
Uhh, that's hardcore. On the one hand I admire that kind of energy and your results, on the other I'm old enough to see the risks. I hope that was only over a small period of time. Let me generalize without knowing you :-): You need to sleep more at night. It's all about waves. If you overstress during productivity periods your brain will go to a forced shut down afterwards. That can trigger serious issues (burnout a.ka.a. depression).
Can you please show me the page where the "distributed systems" is about? What I found is the "distributed search" page which restricted to a certain type of document indexing algorithm. If this is all the competition about, please don't mislead users that it is about "distributed systems".
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One of my first managers confided in me that there were no bad employees, there were just bad fits. And over the years I have really come to appreciate the wisdom of that. I've watched folks who were useless in one environment become superstars in another, and superstars, recruited with much fanfare, who just couldn't get it together when their environment changed. What I haven't found is some magical factor which allows me to predict if someone will do well or not in some environment.

Given the short time between announcement and departure date, I'd be curious to know how that worked. At Sun one of the VP's was told it find a new job and he basically walked out that afternoon and did not return. Other situations have had transition periods. I recognize its a sort of morbid curiosity, wondering if it is something I would do in a similar situation.

I believe it's the curiosity factor that drives interest in these stories, not any intrinsic news value.
The software engineers salaries are way to low and artificially so, due to lack of free working market.

Compare to how much you pay for a lawyer per hour.
And lawyer do not have to train on the this years tech over and over. And they don't have to think hard for full day.
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The way I see it, if Ireland hadn't pinned the taxpayer with the losses, their economic freedom would be higher, and their economic growth would probably be better. Certainly Iceland has fared better than Ireland in terms of economic growth since the 2008 crash - though Iceland appears further down the list of Economic Freedom. If Ireland had acted differently, it would likely have had better growth, and would be higher in the list as in the past. I think this case is fine in terms of the methodology.
Totally. Reminds me of Apple. Man, those fools were perfectionists. And they were bureaucrats too. Same thing happened. Dirt on screen? Just send it back. Let them deal with the clean up. Bureaucracy at its finest.
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Unless this third world country is the south side of Chicago you're very wrong. Over the summer I worked with a non-profit who's only mission was to get computers into the houses of people. we were working with <2gb of ram and hard drives that topped out at 50gb, I don't even want to think about the processor.
Very cool! How small of a cache can you work in?
I would say how you're scraping differs from say how Google, a search engine, scrapes. I'm not sure there is a way in robots.txt to define for each use? Knowing the data in a structured way, but then allowing it to be displayed in full off-site is quite different than using the scraped data for linking into a website.
I don't think it's a generalization if someone did the research and everyone in Japan says that perfection = quality.

Then that would be a fact, not a generalization.
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What is hilarious is that I have been scratching my head over the exact opposite phenomenon!

I actually love Taleb's books (Black Swan, Antifragile). And I work with "data scientists", most with Ph.D.s, many in statistics.

I always talk about his book, but I cannot for the life of me find a single person who's even read it. I think: these are some the ONLY book about stats on the NY Times best seller lists (up until Nate Silver). And yet all these professionals have not only not read it, but barely even heard of it?

My hypothesis was that it is more popular on the East Coast than the West Coast (of the US). Are you from either of those places? I am originally from the east coast but work on the west coast. To hand wave a bit, I feel like west coast people are less into "ideas" and more into actions and experiences. Taleb's ideas do have somewhat of a nytimes-ish new yorker-ish east coast culture flavor. And a lot of people working in Silicon Valley are not really that interested in philosophy.

On the subject of his writing, I can totally see that people can be turned off by his writing. He can be arrogant and insulting. I find it kind of funny, but that's a matter of taste.

A few things I remember from his books that I really liked:

- The story of Nobel prize winner Myron Scholes, and namesake of the Black-Scholes equation, which I learned about in computational finance in college. He started a company "Long Term Capital Management", to monetize this ideas, and promptly lost billions of dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Scholes

That's not interesting? I think the difference between theory and practice is intensely interesting, and Taleb has a lot to say about it.

- I largely agree with his philosophy that people who claim to know things cause more harm than good. The downfall of Alan Greenspan and Bernanke is their arrogance. They think they can control the economy. But they can't and caused millions of people real harm.

- Respect for the old. For all its virtues, Silicon Valley does have a severe case of "neomania". Taleb's ideas about things that last apply to software too. Unix and C are going to be around a lot longer than say Hadoop or Puppet/Chef.

- The philosophy of fragility also applies to software in a straightforward way. Most people know this now, but you should continually expose your software to users and the market, not build up grand ideas in your head.

- actions over knowledge, i.e. people who know how to do things but not explain them

I could list a half a dozen more important ideas but I'll stop there.

I did write in my comments about this book that he overreached on his "trilogy" idea for the Antifragile. But I do like how he draws together a lot of seemingly disparate ideas that are philosophically related.
Yes, they do.

The UK-based YC startup Tuxebo used property guardianship to reduce their costs.
And as ward has pointed out, it is so easy to convert between them.

On the other hand I don't understand for examples why in the US they still use measures like "cup", "oz" "pint" in cooking. Should I buy a specifically sized "cup" to cook a us recipe? :)

By watching UK television it seems that even they are using kilograms, liters and also Celsius for oven temperature, and some weeks ago there was a UK famous baker talking with some US guest and saying almost the same thing.

disclaimer: I'm Italian
Do you know his usage patterns? it's possible the only thing he uses it for now is to skype with you/his grandkids...
The Verifone MX800 series, at least, can have Customer-supplied binaries installed. There's code-signing on the MX800-series devices, but I am aware of at least one version of the firmware that allows an attacker to get root access on the device pretty easily via the touchscreen UI and Ethernet port, assuming that default passwords aren't changed on the device.
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Almost everyone predicted it yet almost nobody was ready when it came, and I still remember the panic and cries about "this is the end of western civilization" and "we have to abandon capitalism now because it failed completely". Maybe "almost everyone" was not as everyone as it seems.

>>> There was absolutely nothing of worth predicted in that,

I think it was quite worthy for those who was on the right side of the market. From what it looks like, though, a lot of people were on the wrong side. So presenting it as "everybody knew" is a bit misleading, it seems.
Or, for that matter, a human.
Word is BBC wanted to offer streaming here, but the cable companies would drop BBC America en mass if they did.
Thanks for the links! Very interesting read!
N Korea has been sending leaflets to S Korea, well back when N Korea really was the better Korea (in terms of economy).

Up until around 1970's N Korea had better economy than S Korea. Shocking, I know.
agreed. they'd ask you to leave because it's private residence and not a business for people that buy only 1 coffee or small french fries.

I do admit i go to a cafe and sit with a laptop for several hours. But these guys don't even speak English.
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In fact, most of Taleb's ideas are about how to not rely on predictions of events that are unpredictable - so faulting him for predicting or not predicting this and that means one does not really understands what Taleb is talking about.
Sadly, I think the only one who's going to benefit here are credit card companies. I can almost picture the "Theives are getting more sophisticated, we're getting more sophisticated than them with the new nano-carbon unobtanium mastercard" commercials.

I've had my card number fraudulently used twice via what I thought were reasonably safe websites with large volumes, SSL, etc. I've also had my card company call me a dozen times when I've bought large gifts or spent a few hundred dollars at a few stores in a row running errands a mile from home on a saturday morning. Perhaps some effort should be made towards better detecting true fraud at scale (i.e, "get rich quick" dvd's being purchased by a few hundred of your consumers in a short time) rather than what would be a typical IT dork's every so often spending spree before a holiday.
You should write a blog post about your usage of elasticsearch/kibana/logstash
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Ask HN: Can/Should the Internet Association go on strike vs. Verizon?
In the wake of the Netflix ruling today, I'm wondering if it's possible for the companies that make up the Internet Association (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) to solve the problem on their own by refusing requests from ISPs that don't abide by the basic rules of net neutrality until they agree to change their policies.

Redirecting all requests for a day worked well to raise awareness about SOPA. If there are enough companies willing to sign on, each responding to hits from the offending ISP with "You can't use our site, and it's your provider's fault," I think they'd have the upper hand.

The equivalent has been done by individual cable channels when feuding with providers like Comcast and DirecTV, so it's not without precedent, and it seems like it would work.

Or am I crazy?
Well. Think about spreadsheets. Think about live spreadsheets powered directly by APIs. Bingo!

I'm doing a couple of data mining projects right now and simply being able to query and look into the API outputs, as well as my local database, without building a custom frontend would've saved me a bunch of time. But I'm thinking more of the knowledge worker, or even the power user who wants to view their Fitbit, Up and Lark data all in the same dashboard. Can't help but thinking this already exists somewhere though.
IO virtualization (IOMMU) prevents this. Intel calls it VT-d.