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Right, even if my monthly outlay now seems high... in even 5 years I'm guessing it will seem reasonable.

The apartment I lived in Back Bay 5 years ago was $900 before, and now its $1350.
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Both of these have been fixed. Thanks for pointing out the off by one error and redundant session.add()
My pet theory is that people usually are shown all these things, they just happen to lack a piece or a few of the underlying concepts, so it floats on by.

(a decent set of textbooks should have lots of these didactic gizmos in it, but that doesn't solve the problem of getting the student ready to look at it or making sure they look at it after they are ready)
Online maintenance is huge, and it's somewhat easier to design for now than it was 10 years ago.

It's very nice to be able to schedule releases at a human/humane time and there's really only one point in our release process now where it's impossible to very obviously and fairly automatically revert and regroup. That one point is clearly called out, and the decision is easy to make when the site has been operating on live traffic for 60 minutes with zero perceptible technical and business metrics degradation.

I'd not consider online maint capability to be a necessary part of an MVP, since any time you spend on it is unlikely to help you understand whether you even HAVE a business, but I'd prioritize it pretty highly in the very next phase of company development.
So, I'm not entirely sure what you are saying. Relying on the work of others is not exploitation. Embracing a philosophy that essentially erases their existence is rather brash and betrays a sense of exploitation, though.

Essentially, don't presume that if you are in the upper stratosphere that your fortune to "do what you love" is some sort of directive that has made you successful. That, if all of those "lower and presumably unhappy" people would just "follow their love" they would be successful.

Instead, be grateful for what you are able to do. While it is certainly great to continue to pitch in when and where you can, I think it is more important to acknowledge the humanity and dignity of those still doing other jobs. Especially if there are jobs that you find so terrible as dishwashing. Be incredibly thankful there is someone that will still do it and do not demean them by saying if they would "only do what they love they would find success."
Didn't there use to be "clipping services" for executives that did just this? You'd pay them, they'd subscribe to a bunch of different print services, then they'd clip out what they thought might interest you, compile it, and send it as it's own custom publication?

If I gave my passwords to a poor person in a third-world country, might they not consume all of my digital content online for me, summarize it, and send me what's important, in plain text format?
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There are other costs to owning - maintenance, property taxes, closing costs, and your agents fee (when you eventually sell - unless you keep forever). I bought a condo at age 24 in LA in 2002. I hated that the HOA could do things like, we need to fix the roofs, so pay up. We voted on it. Ditto re-paving the parkinglot ever x years. Damn if my first year in the condo was somehow fix everything year. Ugh.
I would suggest Scala. It's a vast, vast language and has something to offer in both the OO and functional paradigms. It also has actors (borrowed from Erlang), lazy evaluation, and a beautiful collections library. There is also an experimental macro feature in the latest version. Scala's type system is less verbose when compared to C++ and Java.

Edit: Clarify about type system.
I think anyone will concede that depending on the location and interest rates, the math can be close. But 4% on a CD and 6% interest only loan? That is not realistic.
An interesting and apparently well executed effort. But, to be honest, your arguments reek of ignorance.

> This is an unfortunate outcome, since Yale’s copyright assertion muddles the argument that Yale’s actions violate Peter and Harry’s freedom of speech.

No it doesn't. Whatever Yale's responsibilities in the freedom-of-speech realm may be, they are entirely ethical in nature, as freedom of speech in the legal sense refers only to what governments may not suppress. Holding the copyright to something does not in any way affect ones responsibility to behave ethically.

> If Yale grants students access to data, the university does not have the right to specify exactly how students must view the data.

Under U.S. law they may very well have the right; I wouldn't know. What you may have demonstrated is that they do not have the ability.

May I suggest that you do not couch your arguments in terms of fallacious claims about freedom of speech. Rather, talk about academic freedom, a principle -- though not a legal one -- that Yale ostensibly seeks to uphold.
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That's right - the article is also saying that because there are many people who love doing it - that they would be willing to be paid less than someone who doesn't want.

It's competition between workers perhaps?
There's also this tongue-in-cheek leader from The Economist:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594257-our-wildest-f...
As much as everyone hates it, appearance matters, especially for first impressions.
I disagree. I would still have to wait for the API to return before I can proceed with the transaction and display the download page, so doing it synchronously makes more sense. And the overhead introducing Celery or python-rq would add versus the response time difference doing asynchronous email (which I'm using GMail for anyway, so I'm not too worried about it going down) makes the synchronous approach even more attractive.
Yale’s copyright assertion muddles the argument that Yale’s actions violate Peter and Harry’s freedom of speech

This misguided appeal to freedom of speech does not strengthen his argument.
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It is possible that, if you sell something to someone, they will ask to take delivery of it.

Giving them days of availability rather than hours minimizes the disruption. It also gives you a built-in mechanism for teaching your clients to batch their requests for optimal service.
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What is really being used out there for greenfield development in shops that already use python? What important libraries/frameworks really aren't moving to 3.3, or have completely abandoned 2.7, so are "Reasons to pick" that version?
Scraping involves storing somethjng on a server. I am not sure a user agent can be cited for copyright infringement. Perhaps caching in violation of a server's policy can be considered that, I am not sure. Is there any precdent for caching to be considered scraping and storing by the developer of the client software?

If not, I have an interesting idea for an offline travel app :)
Very nice. If you use the eraser tool to shave off a circle around the center pieces, you can watch them get desaturated. Works particularly well on the "yellow" one. Here's the result, but I recommend not opening it and doing it yourself to see the desaturation in progress: http://i.imgur.com/WqFwLVX.png
More to the point, your 30 year mortgage has an effective rate cap. If rates go down during the time you owe it, you can almost certainly refinance. But you never have to refinance at a higher rate. You can also lower the rate by reducing the term.

So far, my mortgage has been refinanced four times, each time reducing the interest rate (due to market conditions) and twice reducing the interest rate by reducing the term (20, 15, and now 10 years).

Being a landlord is a whole different proposition, and I would strongly recommend that you talk to current landlords before you go into that business. MA has excellent renter protection laws... which are not so great for landlords.
Male technologists tend to be pretty poor at empathising:

http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles/note1271-hudson.pdf

"because of low empathizing skills, male technologists will inherently find it difficult to see problems from a user’s perspective. Coupled with the fact that they are excellent
systemizers it is not surprising that they do not understand why a system might be confusing to users"
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/07/13/swearing-...

It could be making their life actively worse
What is the meaningful difference between a Yale degree and 7 semesters of a Yale education? If your answer is "some employers wouldn't consider you as an applicant without the proper degree" do you want to work for that sort of employer?
I did this in Somerville. I bought a two family in 2010. Rent from the bottom unit and one roommate back then covered the mortgage entirely. Of course, with Boston rents rising so much, and a few new carpets and appliances I've been able to raise my original rent close to 40% the last few years.

Now that I've moved on and fully rented it, it's generating close to 2k a month in profit. Not bad since I got a FHA loan and only put 5% down.

Dealing with tenants can be a pain, but I have no regrets. Home ownership has certainly been a path to wealth for me, though I suspect most people who buy single families or condos with no rental income won't get any real returns.
> Scraping involves storing somethjng on a server.

Not really sure I agree with your definition. Website scraping, in general, is taking specifically taking data from a webpage.
Companies like Google.
The central premise of this article appears to be that aiming to do what you love diminishes the efforts of those who feel they cannot.

Another way to look at it is that it's not the striving to do what you love that is the problem, but rather the mundanity of the work being done that is the problem. No matter where you are in the workforce, when your talents go to waste that is an issue. I've little doubt we can arrange our society so that more of us can fulfil our potential, so for me the mundane work is only a factor in our current setup, not a non-negotiable burden.
Yah, I got the same feeling too. Like, the author needs to step back and take a deep breath.

First off, I'm not an elite. Second, I don't think 'elites' (whomever they may be) are saying this so people become reality distortion-ified and just zombie off to devalue themselves making straw birdies because they love stick art the most. That's silly.

Instead, I look at some people like Elon Musk or Richard Branson or Jobs or Peter Diamandis as ones that have made their own way previously doing or currently doing what they love. For me it seems, once you clear away the FUD, that you are confident on your own self, realize you have little time on this planet, and therefore you see no value in wasting your time helping someone else pursue their dreams.

I must also add that this is not just captains of industry either. There are so many doctors, educators, and scientists around the world that I'm sure love what they do and actually do make an impact. I would encourage anyone to go on Youtube or Netflix, etc, and find a documentary about planning a mission to Mars or even launching a satellite. So many of these people think in terms of decades and it's unbelievable that they can create machines, put them into space, and collect data that expands the understanding of all humanity. Any time I watch one of these, I am just blown away by the people who do this. They are truly on another level and thinking in terms of mankind and not just 'me'. I don't see any elitism or devaluing of ones labor or mental faculties at all..

I look back on my life and see two passions that emerged: music and programming. Luckily for me, both of these things are still highly lucrative and highly expressive. I also love astronomy, philosophy, physics, construction, cooking, and more. I could probably pick any one of these and really love doing them (I actually did for construction for a while - building physical things with your hands and tools is awesome).

For me, it all comes down to being in love with life. I bet if you ask any person that's excelled in their industry (or like Branson and Musk) what they think about life, they will probably tell you it's beautiful and they love it. Perhaps it's because they're successful, but it doesn't matter. Your mind and your mindset are your greatest tools and channeling creativity and determination through a focused mind can lead to great things.

I wonder if the author loves writing? Critiques are fine, but does their story inspire anyone to do anything? Or is it just to help keep people in the same mindset of negativity and division? I've made some negative posts here on HN and I'll be the first one to say, yah, dumb. Whether it's a bad day or just getting wrapped up on others negativity, in the end it serves no purpose to actually bring about any change for good. It just joins the chorus of negativity and goes no where.

So, ultimately, I couldn't disagree more with the author. If anything I think people that do what they love (calling them elite's also just serves to simplify and brand as bad) and are successful doing it are some of the highest examples of what we could aspire to be or achieve.
It might be better to allow:

Content-Security-Policy: can-set-cookies-for-parent-domain: no!

There's no harm in letting haxx0r.blogspot.com set cookies for haxx0r.blogspot.com. It's only cookies for blogspot.com that should be restricted.
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I guess he doesn't call it scraping as the function retrieves a json document instead of retrieving some html and extracting data from it.
Maybe I'm unusual for an American, but generally speaking, I couldn't care what a politician does in his/her personal life. I do care what they do officially, as office-holders, and it's a problem when the press or public obsessing over the personal things detracts from government and policy.

When it's a case of personal conduct itself diverting the official from his/her job (Rob Ford, Marion Berry), the person should resolve it quickly or leave office. If it's something that would otherwise be irrelevant (Clinton, Hollande), then it is a fault of the media and they ought to be pressured to change their focus to real public issues.

As for why this differs from France to the Anglo-American world, I suspect that a historian or sociologist would trace it to catholic vs. protestant culture. Whatever the ultimate roots, the public's fascination with sex scandals (and sanctimony about "role models", etc.) provides a means for the press or political opposition to distract the public from real social problems (along with celebrities, idiotic TV shows, sports etc.), and for this reason it will continue being exploited as long as they can benefit from it.
> If we acknowledged all of our work as work, we could set appropriate limits for it, demanding fair compensation and humane schedules that allow for family and leisure time.

a true gem quote imho
zero precipitation is horrible for your skin

Despite the lack of rain, humidity right now in the Bay Area is still not horribly low by national standards. Looking at the local forecast I am seeing humidity in the range of roughly 40% - 60%.

Taking into account the effects of indoor heating and an outside temperature well above freezing, this is still pretty pleasant compared to what happens in cold climates indoors when you heat frigid outdoor air up to room temp. Cold air does not hold as much moisture, and when your furnace heats it up, the amount of moisture content stays the same but the carrying capacity for moisture increases, effectively making it very dry.

The upshot here is that even if it is a bit dry in the Bay Area right now, it's still nothing compared to the bone dry indoor air you would get somewhere where the winters are actually cold.
If you're buying in a typical American market (ie, homes selling for $200k) 2.6% annually on taxes/maintenance/renos/insurance does not seem absurd at all to me. I've heard others argue it's too low.
In Baltimore property taxes run close to 2% a year on appraisals that are usually 10% higher than what you actually purchased the property for. Those numbers are pessimistic so they don't mis lead people who don't bother to pay attention to the details.

The property taxes in CA are lower than they might otherwise be if the home values weren't all so high. The government is going to get it's money one way or another.
I didn't say "Work at 30-40% of their capacity". The job environment is obviously a very important factor when considering a position.. some developers preferred to have a smaller salary in exchange for a better work environment. This is what I think should be explained. Now, if a new manager comes in and remove that great environment, what in hell would you stay if you don't have the great environment AND you have lower salary than market standard?!
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It was basically what Matt Damon did in Elysium.
Very cool, I love this approach as it is very similar to how my (now defunct) unedditreddit app worked and how a clever app called socialfixer for facebook works. Two thoughts.

1. You are not unblockable. My app was removed from the chrome app store after reddit complained, no review process, no appeals, good luck even communicating with google. Installing an app not from the appstore is almost impossible for a non-savvy user. I suggest looking at a firefox app, their app story is much more democratic.

2. I think this fight is important because a lot of companies/organizations seem to be trying to establish the precedent that they own their website experience end to end, from database to the pixels on your screen. That idea taken to the extreme will lead to computers become opaque devices ala a TV, rather than the hackable playground they are now.

http://socialfixer.com/blog/2013/10/05/facebook-requires-soc...
I like New York a hell of a lot more than the strip mall called Silicon Valley, but New York is nowhere near SV as a startup hub.

First, the VC climate is different and employee option pools are just shitty (5 to 20%). You won't find good engineers willing to work for non-founder equity. The people who work for 0.1% of a mediocre startup are not good and you'll have to hire $200-400/hour freelancers to fix their work after you fire them. (One startup offered me $275/h to fix its Rails app and I've never even used Rails.)

Second, the quality of startups is just not there. Granted, 97% of the startups in the Valley are total garbage as well, because the VCs have no taste or insight, but at least SV has that other 3%. New York doesn't. Most of the founders are people who failed out of finance but managed to snag enough connections (as a consolation prize) to raise VC.

Third, there are startups that luck their way into a few good engineers for a little while, but in NYC, they never keep them. There's a lot of title inflation in NYC (Senior Engineer by 24, Managing Data Scientist by 26) but the people with any ambition leverage their inflated titles into better positions in finance (starting around $300k) or at companies like Google and Facebook.

New York is the place where you use startups to get better Wall Street or Google jobs.
As a renter, you can't do cool stuff like this

http://diy.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/building-a-brick-pizza-o...

conversely, over the last 4 years, we've completely gutted and rebuilt this early 1900s house from all new electrical to plumbing, to insulation and windows. It helps to be handy (which I am) but it can be a money pit...
Much clearer than the various Internet-Drafts; thanks!
I really wish some US americans value it more.

Living for 3 years in US, loved the country and its infrastructure/legal system, country, people all of it.

It is not perfect but still is one the best we have.

Do you think NSA and military are ''bad'' you did not know what the other countries counterpart do (hint... worse and mean)
Sure. But what happens if Stripe's charge API takes 30 seconds and then Gmail takes a few seconds? The users browser times out and they're left looking at a 500 error. With asynchronous processing you get a lot of flexibility with regards to the failure modes. (This is not idle talk. We experienced this at my day job which is specifically what drove me to write my book.)

For email you should probably not use Gmail. They have weird limits and you can easily run afoul of them. A better route is something like Mailgun or Mandrill. They're both free for a large number of outgoing sends and have nice logging and tracking options.
I don't know the full etymology, but I first heard the term "screen scraping" about 15 years ago in the context of writing a web application that interfaced with a mainframe application. The mainframe database was not directly accessible to the webapp platform, so instead a session was opened to the mainframe over telnet, and the web application itself issued commands over that telnet session, parsed the terminal output, and dynamically generated a web UI that displayed the data or form fields or what have you.

Scraping these days may more often be a means of extracting data to an offsite cache/database, but ad-hoc on-demand scraping is consistent with the definition.

Regardless, this doesn't really matter. I don't see how any restrictions on "scraping" can possibly be enforced. Screen reader programs that allow visually impaired individuals to browse the web are "scraping". Mobile browsers that reformat pages on the fly to optimize their display on a small screen are "scraping".

Ad-hoc user-initiated scraping of this sort is really no different than just browsing the web directly. So whether one wants to argue that "scraping" is or isn't happening here, it hardly matters to whether this is ethical, and should not matter to whether it is legal (although on that topic, I'm guessing different judges would see it differently).
> Who gets utilities for free with their rent.

Depends on what you mean by 'utilities', but in New York City, landlords are required to provide heat and hot water to all tenants. Technically they are allowed to itemize this as a recurring surcharge on top of the rent, but in practice I have never seen this done.

Electricity is not included in most modern buildings, though it sometimes is for older buildings which cannot separate the meters per unit easily.
Microcosmographia Academica http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/iau/cornford/cornford....

It's not quite a blog post, but it's as close as one might have come in 1908.

I also like a whole host of articles from Matt Might's blog. I think my favorites are

12 resolutions for grad students

http://matt.might.net/articles/grad-student-resolutions/

and Responding to peer review

http://matt.might.net/articles/peer-review-rebuttals/

One last essay that I have enjoyed, also too old to be a blog post, is W.M. Turski's "I was a computer". It's here on Elsevier but fortunately it looks to be open access.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167642395...
Every time I read something Paul Graham wrote before he became The Godfather I get sad. It may not show in the quality of moderation we see on HN, but he's clearly an extremely talented man.
Any idea why it does not allow me to set more than 30 years?
Calling thinkpads special is like calling the Soviet Union a country. It used to be true.
I really don't think the bay area is a good choice to make an argument for the average person against buying.... $3000 a month seems too small for a house in the valley, maybe a 1,300 sqft apartment? Also, how out of touch is this guy? Who the fuck has 250k in the bank? certainly someone who would probably own property... maybe even renting it out to this guy...
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