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I found it interesting that New Hampshire, Vermont and New Jersey seem to be pegged at the far low end of engagement for every paragraph. Bug or lack of interest in twitter/STU in those states?
I'm disappointed that he addressed energy and specifically mentioned natural gas, but did not address the controversial "fracking" method for extracting it.

Considering the high engagement from certain areas of the US at that point in the speech, I'm willing to bet a lot of other folks felt the same way.
Patch was, at one point, heralded as the future of local journalism. AOL's CEO was an early investor in Patch and (presumably) played a key role in AOL acquiring it. Then it all fell apart.
Lurker turned member to post this.

Second web related job at an insurance company, I was 20 years old at the time. We were heavy into online advertising, mostly banners at the time (this was right around when adwords started to get big). The company just bought out all of the MSN finance section of their site for the day-- it was a pretty big campaign ($100,000). We drove all the traffic to a landing page I had created with a short form to "Get a quote".

IT had given me permissions to push things live for quick fixes and such, I made a last minute design tweak and, you guessed it, broke something. I was checking click traffic and inbound leads and realized traffic was through the roof but leads were non-existent. This was about 45 minutes after the campaign was turned on. I jumped on the page and tested it out and got an error on submit. FUCK. I literally started to perspiration INSTANTLY.

Jumped into my form and quickly found the bug, can't recall what it was but something small and stupid, then pushed it live without telling a soul. Tested, worked, re-tested, worked. Ran some quick numbers to get a ballpark estimate on the damage I caused... several thousand.

Stood up and walked over to the two IT guys, mentioned I borked things and that I had fixed it... what should I do? I can still see the look on their faces. Shock, then smiles. Walked back to my desk and about 10 minutes later my two bosses show up (I worked for both dev & marketing managers).

They said thanks for catching the problem, not to worry. I did good for finding it myself, fixing it, and pushing it live. I was still sweating and shaking. They walk off and later that day marketing manager informs me MSN will refund us for the 45 minutes of clicks.

It took about a month before I felt competent enough to touch our forms again.
I hear this all the time but have never actually seen evidence for it. Can someone actually back this up?
You're welcome. If you want to deploy and maintain many machines, then maybe FAI[1] might be worth a look. It allows you to maintain a consistent state over an arbitrary number of machines running a Debian-based distribution, with _and without_ virtualization. We used it to run about 40 user-facing desktop machines and about the same number of cluster nodes. You basically have a central server that contains configuration, configuration-modifying scripts and package configurations. It is possible to define classes of machines, and one machine can belong to multiple classes, so you can have a part of the configuration identical on all machines and then other parts only on some of them.

[1] http://fai-project.org
Ironically, HN itself so happens to do it right - it permits you to have only a user/password. Reddit is the same, so is github, stackoverflow. I've never heard of pervasive problems on either of these sites. I don't submit my email to these sites, and they work fine.

Please continue to call common fucking sense idealism. Look how shit any other site besides the 4 (and others like them) I mentioned are with their fancy policies. How can anyone not rage when such stupidity is forced upon us?
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Yay, Islamophobia. Forced prayer should be stamped out from public schools. Period. Let's just agree on that without going to extremes like "we'll all be living under Shari'a law!!!!111"

EDIT: In other words, neither myself nor the courts give a flying f* what is popular, the law against religious establishment exists for a reason, and even if every teacher and every student except that ONE GUY supported it, that ONE GUY has a legal right that should be easily defended in court. If it isn't then we should consider that a failure of America and strive to overturn it and commit to doing better in the future.
Except it wasn't delivered face to face, which in my mind is worth 'poopooing'... and my goodness, the monotone voice...
I've never heard of Patch. It's unfortunate that I had to learn of them this way, because the premise seems useful. I don't think I would participate now based on these bad vibes.
The fact that it was over the phone is a legitimate insult.

The fact that it was 100 seconds long is a mercy.
I remember going to the cinema in the UK once in December, and being shocked by the ads. For a brief moment, I thought that I had been a victim of the tale.
I'm just annoyed github doesn't support ecdsa keys, so I need to generate a spare pkey set and it's piss annoying
Android has been using mainlined for a few kernel revisions now.
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> Most traditional organized crime groups were focused more on vice than drugs. Vice being gambling, prostitution/human trafficking, and loan sharking.

I find it interesting that all the areas that you mention are sources of revenue for organized crime are either illegal or restricted activities.

* Gambling: illegal many places.

* Prostitution: illegal many places.

* Human trafficking: heavy regulation on immigration (if the trafficked women were to go to the authorities to report it, they'd be transported back to their country of origin)

* Loan sharking: illegal many places (a ceiling is put on the interest rate one can legally charge)

Imagine if we didn't criminalize the above, and allowed free immigration: would there be anything left for organized crime to make money on?
"Your experiences of the world will cease to exist. Therefore, the only rational investment would be in life extension technologies (SENS, advanced prosthesis, etc.)."

No. You make a false assumption that everyone's main goal in to live as long as possible.
Different people have different goals, and Gates clearly cares about making a major impact on other people.
Ask Google to choose your next domain
I don't think so. As I understand it, they wished things had worked out better for him because he was a founder/exec and a bunch of layoffs means it's already going down the drain.
Sorry it took so long- I'm hand-verifying transactions to be safe. Very much a human error I plan to remedy.
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Cisco application visiblity and control. What's in it for me?
That doesn't apply here, the context is very different.
( codependent ( target demographic ) wealthy )
( narcissistic ( target demographic ) wealthy )

I don't infer predatory intent by the creators, but the above seem far and away the largest groups of likely customers.

What I imagine would prove more successful due to viral potential while also being more socially constructive is if the same technology were used to simulate famous historical figures. Tweet the most poignant quote from your conversation with Frida Kahlo. Or Dostoyevsky... though that would probably need to be an FB or blog post.
Once again, Max Headroom proves to be the most prophetic show of the 80s. "Deities" has a church using exactly this sort of technology to offer "immortality".
I was intending to show you how New Zealand was shutting down its geothermal programmes, however I think I was wrong and it looks like it's growing.
An interesting PDF (but 24mb!) http://www.geothermalnewzealand.com/NZTE_Geothermal_Booklet_...
And
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_New_Zealand
What could possibly go wrong :)
Not the complete transcript, but at least the beginning (I couldn't understand it):

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/01/29/hale-global-lays-off-patc...
I'm assuming this was a call with all the remote staff that edit the individual sites and live in the communities that the sites cover.

I don't think they were going to fly them all into a central location to fire them.
This is default Rails form functionality.
^-- This is the most important thing said on this whole topic.
Retweet patterns would be quite interesting. Especially since retweets happen one of two ways. You retweet someone you follow or you retweet something happening in a trend. I wonder if you could separate those two.
I never click on them either. Come to think of it I never click on a typical archive either. I'm interested in the content, not that you have 17 posts back in October 2008.
What is wrong with libraries?

Or VFW halls, Shriners/ELKs/etc halls, rotary clubs, bingo halls, the food court of a shopping mall. I'm not a religious person either but like you pointed out many churches provide space to solve this sort of problem. There actually are a lot of options, for those willing to compromise at least a little.
From the original post, emphasis mine

"The major part of my book... was devoted to descriptions of the economic and social institutions that enable some countries to operate near the technological frontier. The failure to establish such institutions, or to operate them effectively, condemns most of the world to levels of productivity and living standards far below what is possible with existing knowledge and techniques. That subject should interest you"

There's nothing about funds and foundations being insufficient because their founders remain wealthy. He's explicitly saying the opposite: that in many countries with plenty of foreign cash flowing in most people will remain poor and very limited in their opportunities to change that due to inadequate institutions, even if they have access to the mobile telephones and antibiotics their parents didn't and shinier public buildings in the capital city. Gates points to oil-rich Gabon's per capita incomes being "nearly" where the US was in the 1960s, but in 1960 the average American had access to running water and had a life expectancy significantly higher than 55... Gabon might have the income of a "middle-income" country but a large proportion of the population lives in exactly the same way as people in a nearby very poor countries. The problem here is that even though there's enough oil money going into Gabon to ensure the average person has an adequate standard of living, that money is so badly distributed there's a fair chance that Bill will have to chip in for people in Gabon to have malaria nets and HIV tests.

In reality, I think they're talking past each other and would probably end up on agreeing on most points that actually matter: I don't think Gates brought up book titles to ridicule the idea that reforms are necessary for poor countries to prosper, and I doubt Kay objects to Gates' current level of spending on malaria nets.
A good rule of thumb was add 40% for paying an employees benfits. Now, you have a starting point for an hourly rate.
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If nothing else, 2001 - A space odyssey very clearly has information devices with almost exactly the same shape of the iPad.

The Star Trek PADD is not too far off either.

The patent is bogus to any sane and honest individual.
your comparison to Tor completely glosses over Hidden Services, which are less complimentary to Avatar.
"Google has apps for pretty much all the most important functions on a phone or tablet — email, messaging, maps, storage, browsing, reading the news, finding and consuming media — and they are interlocked so that tasks flow naturally from one app to the next."

Interlocked?

Wouldn't it be great if there were tech journalists that knew the first thing about Android?
What would you do if you were moderately rich (apart from partying, traveling etc.)? I would still code, maybe hire a team to help me.
There is, however, access in a number of regions where geothermal can be quite useful.

Iceland doesn't have a large population (332,000), but it's relatively close to Europe (or at least Ireland), and there have been proposals to link it via undersea transmission cables to the European grid.

Other significant resources exist around much of the Pacific Rim, including in Hawaii (limited population and a long way from nowhere), Japan (high population and critical energy resource ocnstraints), the Philippines, New Zealand, and the Pacific coast of the US. One of the largest present geothermal installations is The Geysers in California, with just under 1 GW of installed capacity. The largest geothermal resource within the US would be the Yellowstone supercaldera, and though this is presently protected from development, it represents a vast energy potential, as much as 20% of present US electric generating potential under some estimates. The National Park Status means that research is highly limited, so take with a very strong dose of salt.

Other significant resources exist in Kenya (another rift zone, as is New Zealand). Given Africa's status as a developing region, this is potentially hugely useful.

Geothermal has been significantly developed in many of these areas. I did some digging and apparently the Philippines has developed as much as 50% of its potential, where it provides 16% of the nation's electricity needs. Japan and the US have also done considerable development, as, of course, has Iceland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_the_Philip...

Geothermal offers a number of very useful characteristics in a renewable / sustainable energy mix, including:

⚫ Base-load potential. Geothermal runs 24/7, is dispatchable (that is, you can throttle it up or down), and balances the nondispatchable nature of wind and solar energy.

⚫ Proven. Geothermal has been in active commercial production for decades. This is proven technology.

⚫ Relatively low local impacts. Plant footprints are small and local environmental disturbance fairly limited. Water needs and the possibility of locally-induced earthquakes (most minor) are possible concerns.

But it is still limited to specific locations for high yields. And if you're drawing sufficient amounts of thermal energy from even high-yield caldera, it can take a considerable period of time (decades) for a geothermal zone to recover. This is particularly a concern with "EGS" (enhanced geothermal systems) in which boreholes are drilled into otherwise only marginal zones. Often a single borehole's useful life is limited to a decade or two.
I'm curious what caused the pivot; was it a shortage on supply of trainers, lack of people coming in, or retention/engagement?

Photo sharing seems a lot more "lightweight", so easier to get people in, but doesn't seem as "sticky", so not as good for retention.
I've found that working like this is making it much easier to provide the best solution for my clients. I can identify risks faster and change on a dime. It's been a breath of fresh air so far, but I'm curious to hear what others think. (disclosure: I work at the company that published the post).
I don't see anything wrong with this. It conveyed all the information you'd probably need to know right away. It was direct.

From my experience the worst thing you can do is empathize and apologize. Just break the news, and move forward.

It's a business.
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I definitely see your address in the logs- let me know if you have any problems and I can check with Coinbase. For everyone else, it's definitely faster to supply an email and use a Coinbase account, and then transfer from there at your leisure.
Here, have +5 upvotes from me to aid you in your quest for "seat at the table". Also, welcome to Hacker News!
my back button!?
I'm now up to 22 names owned thanks to this site. :P
Well, admittedly my phone isn't bleeding-edge, being a nexus 4, but it runs the latest version of Android and removal of Hangouts does make Messaging the SMS app.
I wonder if any of the stuff developed for Gamma will trickle down (/up?) to ipython. Frankly it is bit surprising that they seem to have developed a new web-interactive system for (augmented) python instead of leveraging the ipython framework.
Citation would be needed since I've never seen court insist that the ability to feel sorry (or just saying it to placate others) means guilt for an accused act.

Edit: Wouldn't that be something though? It would enable someone to argue innocence due to lying wholesale to someone's face saying you were sorry.

Sure you'd have to admit to being a liar in court but whatever. After winning slam dunk since this venue is apparently void of evidence, say sorry to the court for the problems (leave the judge wondering) and call it a day.
I'd love to see some rules in the future where a domain has to be used. Something needs to be done about domain squatters. It's getting out of hand.
I'll bite.

> there is this thing called "diminishing returns" that somehow does not apply to being rich

Once you hit a certain amount of money, investments begin to drive your income. Unlike salary which is additive, investments tend to be multiplicative in their wins and losses. So you stand to make (or lose, if you are bad at it) money faster.

> Also, wouldn't "spend" be a more appropriate description than "give away" here?

Semantics. Credit and debits are all i am referring to.

The author is literally arguing that poor places are not getting richer fast enough. Money alone does not make for better living conditions. There are environmental constraints, infrastructure additions, and countless logistical issues. The author provides no solutions that i saw, and instead spends his time ranting about comparison between developed vs developing countries.
* spams the shit out of everybody
* fans and likes albianhackers and a few others

--

display += "Please Wait for some minutes " + page_name + ".</br>";

This is when it slowly spams the shit out of everyone because fb does internal throttling.

Also, this is probably obvious:
Like("519635031382564"); Like("1376914272548042"); Like("398426433613100"); Like("311829048954329"); Like("597273926980523"); Like("188718981270707"); Like("419938661485985");
Cigarette smuggling happens because there is a tax on cigarettes.

In any situation where you prevent consenting adults from voluntarily entering into an agreement, you will create a black market.
Your comment reminded me of a very interesting observation I had when I was looking at Wolfram Alpha analytics - for some reason, the number of queries drops dramatically around mid-December, and only returns to the original volume around mid-January. I was puzzled by how this phenomenon repeated itself every year.

It took me a minute to realize that during that time, every college student is on vacation.
There was a New Jersey Devils game on TV at the same time as the SotU Address, so that may explain NJ.
... aren't they already a more than halfway-popular account?
What language does WA use? Is the natural language interpretation run completely by Mathematica? Also, would you recommend someone interested in making a natural language project look into using Mathematica for that?
Also: publishing a blog that doesn't let you zoom.
It will be a mess. [A lot of] brazilian programmers can't write our own [portuguese] language correctly. Every technical forum in portuguese is filled with teenage language and internetic/chatic abbreviations. I'll stay away from that.

But I understand the initiative. If brazilians can't write in portuguese, imagine their english.
This is about https://dictanote.co
I changed the login flow to use a different package. After pulling the latest changes in server, I restarted apache, opened the website to notice everything working smoothly and went to sleep.

9 hours later I wake up to check my inbox has 800+ emails. Django by default sends out email when an error occurs and a tiny mistake of not installing a package led to a lot of frustrated customers and well a huge pile of email in my inbox !

Moral of the story: Put that pip freeze > requirements.txt and pip install -r requirements.txt into your deployment flow.
My first real summer job was working for a computer store that also did tech support contracts with local businesses. I'll preface that the boss should never have given me the responsibilities he gave me, or should have gotten me to job shadow more experienced people, but the shop was tiny and I was actually the only full-time employee.

We had the tech support contract for the city's Mexican consulate. One of the things we were doing was patching and updating their server and installing a tape drive backup system. Server was NT4.

I'm in there doing work after 5pm, and wrongly assume that everyone's gone home for the day. Install some patches and the server asks me if I want to reboot. I say yes. Few moments later, a guy sticks his head into the server room and asks if I'd shut down or rebooted the server. Oh, whoops, someone's here. Yeah, I just installed some patches. Oh, OK, see ya.

Next day? Turns out he had been doing some work in their database where they track and manage visa applications. That database got corrupted when I did the server reboot while he was doing his work. That night, the backup process then overwrote the previous good copy database on the tape drive with the newly corrupted database. We had not yet started rolling over multiple tapes to prevent backups of corrupt data, though we were going to purchase some tapes for that purpose shortly.

Summer was ending, and I quit a week later to return to school. Horrible timing in terms of quitting! No idea what happened after that, as I was spending the summer in a city that was not my own. I do know that the original database developer contractor was on vacation at the time and so they couldn't reach him. I think the consulate was SOL. I regret rebooting that server without checking if anyone was working to this day.

Lesson learned? Don't assume anything when doing anything. Carried that lesson with me for the rest of my life. And find a boss who knows how to guide you if you don't have much experience in your area. I guess for founding startups, at least get an advisor.

edit: spelling
As an aside, I once met this German guy who spoke English pretty well, but tended to raise the pitch of his voice throughout the phrase (I think he may have done this in German too, but it was a long time ago and I don't really recall). But I guess he didn't know English quite well enough to get his timing 100% right, and sometimes on long sentences, he'd start running out of high notes to hit, which was kind of funny. Nice guy though, and he'd smile through it.
Agreed and it's often really hard to get someone to criticise and tell you what could be improved - everyone just dishes out the usual "yeah, looks nice".
This would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating. I tried to listen to it but I cringe too easily so I'm waiting for a transcript. Based on the first few sentences of the call, here's how I expect the rest of the speech to go:

"...you no longer have a role in the company. And by role I meant job. You no longer have a job. Unless you had another job, in which case you still have at least one. Point is, you're fired. From this company. It's Patch calling by the way."
Look, I apologize for the curseword, but you have to admit, in suicide as in all other actions, there are a million things that come between people's real intentions and their realized actions.
Amazon customer service folks should ask a caller to name some of items he/she has purchased last few weeks or so.
That whole recording reads like:

Yeah, so, like, we're firing you? But you can check your email until 5:30? Today? And we'll let you use your computer until the end of this week? Starting today? Best of luck?
The reason people are sold into prostitution in Western countries is because of restricted immigration. If they go to the police, they get escorted back to where they came from - so they don't.