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Sorry, right out of high school, I spent 3 years digging ditches, pouring concrete, and putting up drywall before getting into tech.

For me at least, this has nothing to do with "meeting people who are not like me". I have found the tech community to be very diverse and much more tolerant than my colleagues in the construction industry.
I have an example of React with websockets and level-db if you want to check it out.

https://github.com/wookimiii/leveldb-with-react
How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff)
Let me rephrase. They aren't a growth stock anymore, so no one who wants growth stocks wants to buy it. Very recently, they have made some gains, but a lot of people remember the previous 10 years.
Indeed. Like the original author points out, NYC techies aren't the villain, Wall Street is!

And SF techies aren't the villain, real estate developers are!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/04/1004...
In my time volunteering, I've never found a charity that would accept volunteers for any skilled, technical, interesting, managerial or decision-making tasks. Anything important is only entrusted to paid employees. Volunteers are used for unskilled work that would be minimum wage if paid. I was also surprised at the high number of my fellow volunteers who were actually 'volunteering' only because it was part of their court ordered sentence.
All they're missing is a cool interaction mode like SLIME.
R is a software that I still need to check out.

I think enthought offers commercial tooling and support and also a IDE platform with tools for data story telling etc.. I usually use vim.
Completely agree with your point. It doesn't mean that we don't want/need dynamic user interface, of course. But the Web was designed to be static mostly. That's why the best experience we can enjoy is from the static web sites. Let's just recall what HTTP term means: Hypertext Transfer Protocol!
He is right. For years market insiders considered MS a flat stock and no one wanted to recommend it. That has changed in the past 6 months and all of the sudden it has popped up on everyone's buy radar. I always thought the market was crazy especially when MS was at $18 in 2008.
It was a bit more complex than that, but I can't find the billion number.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230391690...

In any case, they settled for a negative value a lawsuit alleging B&N violated Microsoft patents. If that doesn't send a message about what those patents are, I can't imagine what would.
"Change happens. It's life. I guess you just pick your poison."

What? No, it doesn't have to, or at least not at the pace of once a year. It's not because everybody else does it, it's OK all of a sudden. I like php exactly because it's relatively stable (I'm not talking about the frameworks here, let's not go there).

But fuck all those others - that wasn't my point. The win platform could have been so much better for pragmatic developers who just want their foundation to be stable to just get shit done. Why abandon C++ in the way they did? Why the 4-5 different paradigms for UI development? Not incremental changes, or libraries, but completely incompatible new ways of doing things, and if you don't follow the trend, you'll be left out. If the dev tools group had known their place, they would have served developers as customers, instead of the situation we have now.

Of course the vocal minority of chase-the-next-thing developers brought this on us as well, it's similar to the 'disregard everything from the past and reinvent everything because I'm so much much than everybody else' often displayed on sites like here and reddit programming - 6 years ago Python was the hot thing, 4 years ago Rails, 2 years ago Node and I'm not even sure what it is now. Anyway, my point is that it's innate in inexperienced software people to want to dive into tech for the sake of it and forgetting the business case behind it. And that is what holds back the industry as a whole, reinventing and re-implementing everything every few years under the guise of 'innovation' or 'we'll do it right this time', but it's really just NIHS. And that goes for the Windows ecosystem, the OS ecosystem, others as well I guess but I don't know them well enough, or they're not old enough yet for this pattern to unfold).
You're making it sound like they are entitled to stay there. Just move to somewhere within your price range.

Things change. Get over it.
All your hypothetical example people are male.
Since he has a vested interest in the public maintaining faith in high tech companies, his response is neither surprising nor objective.

Even the gods can be self serving.
How is this different from everything else put there? Every week, someone is charging money for a collection of blog posts.
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Crouton (Ubuntu on Chrome) so he can work at home not connected and use of College/Library wifi when he needs to sync and to find information?
Btw, Fortran arrays start at 1 by default, but the lower bound can be specified by the user, for example

real :: x(-10:10)

is a real vector of 21 elements from -10 to 10.
> This generation, the xbox one hardware is being sold for profit.

IHS estimates the Xbox One's BOM + manufacturing cost = $471. Add in the retailer's margin plus the cost of the retail supply chain, and Microsoft is probably selling the Xbox One at a small loss.

They'll make their real profit on the games. As will Sony.
That reminds me of the novel Resurrection Day, which is set 10 years after a global war over Cuba and has a damaged US run as a miltary dictatorship and pretty much an international pariah due to the extent of the US attack on the Soviets (e.g. surviving members of SAC are regarded as war criminals).

Not a bad book - my main nitpick with it being that its scenario has Western Europe coming off fairly untouched by the war which would have been extremely unlikely.

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

[Resurrection Day also features a "Lake Washington"]
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Yes, you can migrate to country with fewer rules and not operate on other markets. Like a brothel with underaged prostitutes that people from other countries travel to to buy services disallowed on their native markets.

In practice it doesn't work that great. Stronger countries with richer customers tend to use their leverage and have more rules. It definitely works for illegal products but I doubt it would work for goods that are legal but coming from manufacturer who's illegal. Goods would got cloned by legal manufacturers pretty quick if they were so good they'd be worth traveling for.
But it is also not infinitely cheaper. It involves time commitment. Large projects are thousands and thousands of man months, and you can download and build it by paying $0. People seems to be willing to spend a significant amount of time for something that is distributed for $0.

By the logic above, that should never happen.
That's not how the vast majority of the open-source software I use on a daily basis runs...
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SwiftKey is not Swype. I've tried SwiftKey, and whatever algorithm they use to figure out what word you were trying to swipe is terrible. With SwiftKey's swipe typing, certain words are simply impossible to type because there are other more common words along their path. In contrast, with Swype, I can consistently type any word I want to, and do so faster then with tapping each letter individually. Furthermore, since I just have to swipe my finger past each letter, swiping requires less precision than tapping, which requires me to hit the letter exactly.
That would be a strong argument if you would provide some sort of evidence.
I think he might mean "shaking things up" (which Node certainly has done) rather than "taking over the world" (which, as you point out, it has not).
False, here is the list of patents.

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/microsoft-barnes-noble/

Also, please stop repeating the same misconception.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6686611
The biggest strength of matlab is the libraries, but you can very easy use those in python using an integration library like mlabwrap, and still have all the benefits of python.

And there's a python IDE called spyder which is similar to the matlab IDE.
In my experience, Americans would rather choose to spread their wealth (ie. donate) than be forced to.
Gary McKinnon was not "looking at 70 years". If you are charged with 7 counts of the same offense, each carrying a possible 10 year sentence on the outside, you are absent other circumstances "looking at" 10 years. Like offenses often "group" under sentencing guidelines.† Under grouping rules, the damages for each charge might be summed to produce a single sentence.

But the 10 year claim is also suspect. These are federal CFAA charges. They have a base level for first-time offenders of 6 (0-6 months). The damage claims for each charge in the indictment were "more than $5,000", the lowest damage accelerator, which adds 2 points. (If all the charges were grouped for sentencing and the damages summed, they'd instead add 6 points) The fact that his targets were military adds another two; he's now somewhere between 10-14.

For a first-time offender, that's a possible probation-eligible sentence of 6-12 months, and no longer than 15-21 months, if his lawyers were able to do nothing else to secure leniency.

70 years is horseshit.

† Here's a slide deck on the grouping guidelines: http://www.ussc.gov/Education_and_Training/Annual_National_T...
I see a connoisseur of Samuel Beckett assigned me one downvote. My interpretation of 'EA' was likely close to the mark. And a further downvote by a namesake.
The article jokes about "the scientific principle 'correlation equals causation,'" but I feel like I see people make this mistake all the time, particularly with statistical concepts like expected value, and epidemiological risk factors.

Statistics is descriptive--it's not predictive. It tells you about the data you have. It doesn't tell you why the systems produced that data, and whether they might produce very different data under different conditions.
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I wanted transaction alerts on my wallet addresses without having to import the private keys to a web wallet service, so I made this: https://wallethq.com/ - the main idea was to get peace of mind my cold storage hadn't been hacked, rather than compulsively checking it every night.

But with all the speculation about what will happen to bitcoin values when the FBI offload 144K BTC from 1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN455paPH, I thought it would also be useful to share WalletHQ with you all, if you wanted to receive an alert as soon as it moves :)

Please let me know if you find it useful! Tim
There's a growing number of cheap 8-inch Windows 8 tablets like the Dell Venue Pro. Only 32-bit and 2GB of RAM but they work well as tablets and you can use them with Bluetooth keyboards. They run desktop software but screen elements are really small so you may want to add a couple of big monitors for more serious uses. The Asus Transformer T100 is also worth a look.
MAD was/is all a mental game to avoid a first strike. But once that happens, the calcuation is moot. In the event of a surprise attack by the USSR, the better result for the planet and humanity would have been for the US not to fire its own missiles.
I don't care if every time they pick up trash it is 100% for show. Because that is still more trash than a lot of people pick up.
Except in this case, the pretense is getting less convincing with each passing day.
The Joint Strike Fighter program is a prime example of the military not learning anything from its failures in the past (like the F-111). Hell, they're not even learning from the failures they've had in the history of the JSF.

If you've got 50 percent or less of the software capabilities in a system with 8 million lines of code, and it's supposed to be deployed in 18 months you're in deep shit. Yet, the program's backers blithely proclaim they're going to make their dates, ignoring the fact that the program is years overdue and 70% over budget.

Not only has an enormous amount of good money been thrown after bad, the military has staked the future of air power on this one aircraft so no one wants to admit that it should be cancelled.
Now that this is exposed and (presumably) not as present, has anyone done any work to see if salaries at Apple, Google, etc have since risen higher than salaries at companies who weren't involved with such activity?

This sort of shenanigans went on 100 years ago, but we couldn't study the consequences so tightly back then...it seems that Glassdoor's data, H1B data, etc provides a unique opportunity to study the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of such federal intervention.
Thanks! Hope you find it helpful. I'll watch the discussion if anyone has any comments/questions
People in the valley should get out of that echo chamber regularly and do something real in their community.

Isn't that echo chamber their community? This should be phrased as 'outside their community' or 'the wider community'.
Possibly. But I try to reconcile that idea with the far worse behavior of the financial and elite public sectors, which are far bigger in GDP terms and in total wealth terms, and which elicit nowhere near the same hand-wriging...

So my theory is that, at some level, people in the press and thought-leader elite have internalized that the bankers/politicos "look right" when it comes to obnoxious wealth and behavior.
Good solution. It's a wonderful solution if customers accept it. As long as your code doesn't leak outside.

I'm all for any solution that doesn't require giving a cop access to my computer to enforce it.
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Reminds me of a quote my dad used to say all the time, that I strangely don't hear from anyone else: Whether you rent, or whether you buy, you pay for the space you occupy!
Apparently not all of us did :)
Indeed, but the follow-up list and the subsequent quote seemed more in line with Microsoft has been doing (or trying to do) in the past decade:

> "We significantly outpaced enterprise IT spend as we continue to take share from our competitors by delivering the devices and services our customers need as they transition to the cloud,” said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft. “Our commercial cloud services revenue grew more than 100% year-over-year, as customers are embracing Office 365, Azure, and Dynamics CRM Online, and making long-term commitments to the Microsoft platform.”
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This is really interesting. Validating your idea is so important, and unless you know a bunch of people who have X problem or are in X industry and aren't going to just 'be nice' about your idea, then you do need to ring around.
I moved to Richmond. An engineer I'm friends with just moved to Pleasanton. Why should this well paid people be forced to move out of SF while we're creating low cost housing for artists? How does this make any sense?
And here is how he discredited the biggest charity of the world with a single sentende.
Hmm. I see an opportunity here for something that combines taxpayer pay-in with crowdfunding-style pay-out. Imagine if the NIH set some percentage of their budget aside for matching "donations" to crowdfunded science projects, at an extreme ratio, like 100:1 -- so $30k of demonstrated public interest would be matched with $3MM of NIH funding.

That seems, to me, to be within the spirit of representative democracy: for every 1 person who knows enough about X to put their money on the line, there's probably 100 people who would if they had X explained to them.
It is pretty standard for elementwise operations to use .

Matlab you have .* ./ .^ and probably more and for good reason.

I don't really see it as being awkward it actually very useful when needed, can be confusing if you're learning a language and think .* might be dot product though.
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Is it easier to switch from the LAMP stack or RoR to other platforms? Or Java to other languages? Switching costs are always high in technology, not sure what your point is. Not to mention there are no credible better alternatives to AD and Exchange except maybe hand over all and data to a third party with G apps.
Well, the point of the article is that prosecutors who prosecute 'hackers' are 'learning' from the drug war prosecutors and a culture of overpunishment is spreading. In that sense it is a 'new' war on drugs, but I wouldn't call it "the" new war on drugs; the only real problem with the article is the title.
"We have to make them need us!"
There's also a bubble effect if you live in California/US. I remember showing the Nokia N900 around SF a few years ago and nobody had heard of it, while in Europe it had received quite a bit of press. The old marketing and commercial infrastructure from Nokia is still in place in many countries over here.

I distinctly remember, in early 2013, a friend of mine telling me his partner had bought a Lumia "and it's quite good, really". A lot of people still buy phones for the looks and included minutes, so a good commercial network can still move quite a few units regardless of tech hype.
Intellectual property is about much more than patents. Are you seriously saying that if I copy your work directly (eg source code) and rebrand it, I'm not doing anything wrong? Just innovating?
You have the right to free speech. You don't have the right to freedom from consequence of free speech.
Just thought I'd share this for context:

> "It takes about 10-15 years to develop one new medicine from the time it is discovered to when it is available for treating patients. The average cost to research and develop each successful drug is estimated to be $800 million to $1 billion. This number includes the cost of the thousands of failures: For every 5,000-10,000 compounds that enter the research and development (R&D) pipeline, ultimately only one receives approval."

Source: http://www.innovation.org/drug_discovery/objects/pdf/RD_Broc...
looks great! Do you think it's a good replacement for meteor.js?
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Last time I went to the Microsoft store to get a replacement for my Surface keyboard, they were all sold out; so were all the Best Buy stores in South Florida except two far-flung ones. So people are definitely buying the Surface, at least the Pro one..

I highly recommend the Surface if you are curious about Windows 8.1 and want something with a highly portable 10" form factor. I think many coders would find 10" a bit annoying to work on, but I've managed to fill up every space I inhabit with monitors and stuff to make it a bit easier on the eyes.
I'm curious. Are the executives who make these illegal agreements to restrain trade ever personally held liable?

It seems that would be more effective than fining the companies, or the usual "We don't admit to doing anything wrong, but here's some money anyways."

Apologies for the green account, but I would prefer not to have my real name attached to such a discussion.
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If Bill Gates really thinks his phone is not being tapped I have a bridge to sell him.
> Americans are ranked as one of if not the most generous nation by numerous stats [0]. Americans donate more of their money as a percentage of their total income than any other citizens on earth.

I wonder if that's because the society they live in requires them to do so. For example, Australian's know that employed people have plenty of money from welfare to live on, so there really isn't any need to "give" money to them.

Americans know that the "have nots" are in serious trouble, so they give to them.
Ridiculous argument.

Marketing spend is based on the idea you spend $X and get $X + Y back. This doesn't always work, but it's the general premise.

This means without marketing dollars they'd be making less money.
But this isn't a "Python 3 sucks" post, or even a "Python 2 sucks" post. It's a "we don't really need a Python 2.8, just use 3 for those features" post.

Did you even read the post?
I will assume that you are honestly interested. Moreover I'll assume that you don't know enough of hard science, otherwise you wouldn't ask the question. So I'll have to use an analogy:

Imagine we're a colony of super-smart ants, living on the mountain slope, and as the product of our ant economy we pump through some smart pipes some water to some point some meters above our ant city, and there the water is released. That water produces the creek, sloshing around our city, like the water does, irregularly. The ant scientists are able to calculate that the increased sloshing practically didn't exist before the ants started to pump the water. They can estimate the proportion of the waves around the city and claim that if the increase of the pumping continues the water will in a span or two of ants lives reach the city. The ant deniers then claim: "you scientists can't predict a single wave from minute to minute, so we can be skeptical and continue what we're doing, it's good for our economy." The additional catch? The mechanism which the ants use doesn't respond immediately, it has a built-in delay and built-in amplifier. Even if the ants stop now the amount of water will raise, or maybe even blow the fuses of the mechanism, where the increase of the water will never stop.

That's where we are now. Asking for the height of the moment of the single wave doesn't invalidate the formula we know: more CO2 gives more heat on Earth. And we should be aware of the mechanism, which has both the delay and the amplifier.

The humanity released in the atmosphere around 10 billion tons of CO2 in 2012 alone. Around 150 years ago it was cca 50 million tonnes per year, that is two hundred times less than now.

The concentration of the CO2 in the atmosphere is measured in the ppm (parts per million). Even difference in such small concentrations provably increases the heat on the Earth, the basic formulas are indisputable.

In 2013 the atmosphere reached 400 ppm of CO2, that is 0.04% concentration indisputably produced by human activity:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/may/14/record-40...

If you're really interested, do read the article.
so, you mean the comparison is apt in all the points of contact where it's an issue of law. There are fewer hackers than there are drug users, so the impact of the trend is going to be limited; but the point is that the drug war culture is fueling an expansion of legal abuse by prosecutors in other domains. I think this is an important point; and the only problem with the article, is the title.
Well, the point really is -- Microsoft has to eat its own dogfood. If you're developing tools, use em to build Windows! The pain you feel will be the pain other devs feel, and you'll write tools to compensate for that. But the large teams are too big to fail, so they rarely experiment, leaving third-party devs or small projects at risk instead.