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How to Fix a Stack Rank System: An Open Letter to the Next Microsoft CEO
They generally go hand-in-hand... those execs who treat game engineers poorly, think they can replace those same engineers in a day or so.

After 30 years of seeing this over and over, I left the game industry.
There may not have been a recent total outage of the kind that hits the news, but I would bet Moz are referring to degraded service (slow CPU/disk/network) that causes their application to fail (or their error rate to rise).

I'm not very familiar with Moz, but it looks like they have an analytics product, which is probably particularly sensitive to slowdowns.
[Note: Twitter has a similar tool with the same name — it's unclear if they're one and the same.]

Lots of 'what?' moments in tech reporting lately...
Perhaps you could restore the relationship around by forgiving the debt.

"Hey, I really regret loaning you that money. Hard lesson learned. Don't worry about paying me back. As far as I'm concerned we're back to square one; you don't owe me a penny. Our relationship is way more important than the money."

Easier said than done, but you'd probably get your friend back.
You seem very upset and are surely alone in feeling that way. Please refrain from posting before you start yelling people who oppose the opinion of the topic.
Of course he wants to get rid of the busses. Salesforce is located in San Francisco. If highly talented tech workers are forced to drive or take public transportation down to Mountain View, working at Salesforce starts to look like a very attractive option.
Public cloud is not for everyone. If you have a large number of machines that have to run all the time and are being taxed, then public cloud services do not make sense. If you are doing complex machine learning, large scale web crawling/scrapping, or generating large quantities of data (images/video/etc.) then services like AWS might not be a fit. They are incredibly awesome though for certain types of workload, but for others it is a very expensive option that isn't economical.

Personally I think the best is some mix of both public and private, so you have the scalability when you really spike but have cheaper more capable machines handling baseline and things like analysis or storage workloads.
World’s first carbon fiber 3D printer demonstrated
I don't understand why people target the shuttle buses. For decades I've been hearing all about those rotten suburban commuters who make money in the city and pay taxes somewhere else. Now we have a group of people doing exactly the opposite and somehow they're rotten too.
And the ensuing TV show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish:_The_TV_Show
An easy estimate to use when making back of the envelope staffing decisions (with the hopes of having a viable company) is assume each employee costs about $250k/yr to keep employed. This is all the insurance, plus various other costs that are direct to the employee.

But, you also have to add in all the staff costs of various overhead employees that support the money making employees, all the cleaning staff, HR, receptionist + senior management.
The integral of the secant function: A mid 17th century pickle
Are the buses really running every 5 minutes? If so, is that just during a couple hours? How full are they?
NULL != 0.
When I said "it's somewhat disturbing" I didn't mean that I desired forthwith to be somewhat disturbed.
It's so silly that people would have to avoid riding a shuttle bus to work, fearing for their safety because it makes them look too wealthy.
One note for wifi - if you have a home cable modem, find out if your carrier (and plan) are part of http://www.cablewifi.com/. In Comcast territory, it seems like these days most business connections going in also come with a wifi hotspot completely separate from the business service - the only common item is they're on the same coaxial cable and they plug an adapter in. I believe Comcast is putting these in a bunch of their outside equipment cabinets as well, so you'll find coverage in the oddest places.

The connections are fast, and at least in the Chicago area they've been spreading like the plague (they use red blobs to show areas of coverage/infection on a map).
time stamp and shoe on head
So I also came in here expecting to see something like that at the top position, but I don't think this is completely unconstructive criticism (for example, I also was personally surprised that they would make a move like this, especially in light of ridiculous layoffs they have done in the past, nevermind being surprised they had the kind of money to make this deal), especially to people who have read articles about questionable practices they allegedly employ.

Regional filter == segregation. Segregation does not help communities. Especially communities that are so similar. What if Python programmers never talked to Ruby programmers and Ruby programmers never talked to Lisp programmers? If they stayed in their own regions just because of a PERCEIVED lack of depth of knowledge of the goings-on, a lot of things wouldn't get built.

Geographic community may mean something, but in a world with data that is freely available (nevermind the fact that just because he is in Australia does NOT preclude him from knowing more about the SV scene than you do -- you may be able to name buildings on streets, but may not know the players that he does), geographic community means less and less, and it should be that way. Knowledge (of non-geographic things) is not bound by geography.

It looks like you're asking for slashdot -- maybe you should check it out if you haven't already. Up/down voting IS vague, and at best, any attempts to characterize upvotes/downvotes (as you've suggested) is largely ineffective in absolute terms. Only people who have researched a subject well have the right to put something like "well-researched", if you think everyone does that, you're going to have a hard time on the internet. People like to think they are rational, but we are highly irrational.

Not trying to flame you, but maybe you shouldn't be so quick to go to righteous indignation.
Yep, I was a huge fan of Mootools back in the day. Took me a long time to switch over to jQuery, and even then it was because I had no other choice.
I may not need jquery for compatibility, I need it because it makes code in a language I find unesthetic and unconsitent more readable.
Yes I can do vanilla JS, but my productivity and readability in jquery is better.
And this site proves my claim: all their vanillaJS exemple are less expressive and more error prone.
In other words, jQuery is the Rails of JavaScript?
(Honestly, I have a difficult time taking any person seriously who enjoys the sound of his/her own voice so much.)
I thought we were taking download time out of this
you just described slashdot!

also, you are crazy if you only take developers in the Bay Area seriously. I live here now, but that attitude completely blinds you to the vast majority of programming knowledge that exists on the planet.
How do you benchmark content?
Because wealth is clearly a zero-sum game. If I'm poor, it's because you're wealthy, and that's your fault! Right?
Having money makes you a target. Period.
That never stopped JavaScript, Python and friends from giving them equal truthiness.
I don't understand either but it's a habit I've had a hard time breaking out of "full stack" developers.
Most of the big companies have routes every 30-60 minutes. Every 5 minutes probably isn't much of an exaggeration overall.
Related:

Uncoring the Native DOM API
http://blog.ponyfoo.com/2013/06/10/uncovering-the-native-dom...

Getting Over jQuery
http://blog.ponyfoo.com/2013/07/09/getting-over-jquery
No way. Try once an hour at each stop, only during commute hours.

Edit: I'm only talking about one company. I don't know about the others.
Box said to secretly file for an IPO
After Disclosing Employee Salaries, Buffer Was Inundated With Resumes
Equity Split Questions
Let's say you're looking at a 70/30 or 65/35 equity split with your co-founder.

1. If you go into an accelerator program that gives you 6% for $25,000, could you explain how our equity would both be diluted in either circumstance.

2. The majority shareholder wants to retain as much equity as possible, even after dilution occurs from follow-on rounds of funding. So on demo day, let's say we raise $100,000 at 10% (after accepting the initial 6% at $25,000), how would both of us be in either equity split circumstance then?

What we're trying to do is identify which type of equity split allows the majoring shareholder to retain as much equity as possible (and less dilution), or if there's any other type of equity split that allows for even better retainment of equity when dilution occurs please mention it after explaining the aforementioned questions.

Thanks!
> Probably itself a "fake documentary": "why the filmmakers would begin obsessively documenting Nev's online relationship so early on."

That's actually a common theme in a lot of documentaries, including critically acclaimed ones.
Many people see the busses as a distraction issue, but they're a lot more important than they seem at face value. They're basically a microcosm of how the social fabric of a city is structured. New York City can be justly criticized for its wealth inequality, but you have to give it one thing: it's a place where a managing director at JPM and a guy who works at the Starbucks in the building ride the same midtown subway or bus to work in the morning. And that's a start. Public infrastructure works best when everyone has a stake in it. It's bad to have the rich ride around in their own private shuttles, but it's also bad for the rich to bankroll public busses they never use. Neither is a path to building a sustainable, functioning city.
Why don't they do that then? Why do I keep seeing news of waste languishing in temporary storage, being "secretly" moved to different temporary storage, drifting in dust form over entire communities, leaking out into groundwater, etc.?

Maybe DOE should hire some HN experts so they'll learn how the job ought to be done? As much money as the nuclear industry has stolen from taxpayers, I think they can afford you.
On topic:
I do not think this guy (or any CEO) of Microsoft is going to be able drive Microsoft in any true sense of the word. Gates is not going anywhere.

Off topic:
I might be the only one who came in here excitedly expecting to see a Female CEO of Microsoft. Kind of disappointed when I saw the picture and it's just another balding dude.

No I'm not female or a feminist, just kind of excited for drastic progressive change that I personally favor (I think more girls should be in tech, especially in leadership)
Report: Microsoft has found its new CEO
I don't understand how this board only "uses 2 pins". The schematic shows the ezLCD component still uses 7 pins for I/O. Using the SPI bus requires 4 pins and the other 3 are presumably for the touchscreen sensing. The board still has the full Uno footprint, so you could connect other stuff to those pins at the same time, but you couldn't do anything with them while driving the LCD.
40-Pound Calculators, the Birth of Ethernet, and a $100B Mistake
The release notes on the Bootstrap Blog are better: http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2014/01/30/bootstrap-3-1-0-rele.... That page gives an overview of the biggest changes, with screenshots, before listing every change individually. It also mentions a change missing from GitHub changelog: the release of an official Sass port (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass).
>Honestly, I have a difficult time taking any developer who doesn't live here seriously

Really? So no serious devs at Amazon? None working for MS or MSR? Or any company anywhere else in the world? It seems a laughable proposition that everyone "serious" in programming must must live in a small, overpriced area? It's okay but not fantastic.
Our startup's killer app – free monthly housekeeping
My name is Doug Ludlow, co-founder of "The Happy Home Company". Previously, I founded Hipster, a company that was acquired by AOL in March 2012.

Our new company is pretty stealth right now, but we're trying to see if there is interest in what we're considering our "killer app", which is free housekeeping.

If you're interested in getting on the waiting list, follow the link.

If you want to know what the hell we're doing, or ask me any questions about it, message me at DouglasLudlow@gmail.com.
PGP is essentially useless for verifying the identities of people you've never met who are not well-known.
Wild prediction: Box goes public, Dropbox follows, Dropbox buys Box and kills it, Dropbox hires Sean Parker who tells them to "drop the 'Drop' - it's cleaner" and becomes Box: Microsoft 2.0
Is Pinterest With GIFs A Recipe For Tackiness?
My gym runs shuttle busses, Levi's runs shuttle busses, UCSF runs shuttle busses, and on and on...

You want real disruption? Start with homemade wifi jammers.
Cool. A few comments:

* You're loading the unminified version.

* You're factoring the network request time into the benchmark. I was interested in pure parse time. Which was 27ms according to Chrome Developer Tools: http://i.imgur.com/hgFiGTu.png (the score on the page was 110ms).

I'm curious what people who complain about "parse time" consider to be an acceptable score.

Edit: Ah, I didn't realize you were discarding the network time. I was fixated on the number spat out by the page.
this guy is right. even an overpriced oem replacement for mobiles, with all the extra stuff attached to the board, runs under the $100 range.

just paid $98 for a noteII screen and digitizer combo. its full hd i think.

so, stop sugar coating. lcd and digitizers are cheap. this is either low volume hobbyist market or pure greedy.

and looking at how other things are priced in those sites, like a small roll of wire for $20, id bet it is greedy.
Or a bit cleaner using lift-json: https://gist.github.com/mwylde/8724700.
The world would be a better place with more guys like Tom Perkins in it. The envious should have no place in politics or power.
Having read up more on this, it looks like there are 2 active uranium mines in AZ, and one in each of NE, UT, WY. Industry people seem to think leaching is the cleanest way to mine uranium. Older techniques created radioactive dust.
The story that wasn't told until now is the role that Steve Jobs had in the success of the ethernet.

I wonder how many untold stories of Jobs being crucial to the success of a company are still out there waiting to be revealed?
What an asshole. I'd take Tom Perkins over Benioff any day of the week.
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Porsche 'P1': Electric car from 1898 with 3hp and a range of 80km
> That never stopped JavaScript, Python and friends from giving them equal truthiness.

Implicit casts -- including to booleans -- are dangerous, but if you try to write APIs to try to avoid every bad thing that might happen with naive use of implicit casting in every language that might be used to consume your API, you won't be able to do anything at all.
It could also be that they are working it like drops. People backorder and then if the registrar wins it, it goes to auction where people who backordered it at that registrar now bid. Highest bidder wins.
Interesting possibility in white-box model is ability to take something invertible (eg. block cipher) and instantiate it in a way that cannot be inverted. That would allow for building fixed key signature mechanism with essentially arbitrary signature size equal to security level.

Another question is whether usable (ie. reasonable code and data sizes) and secure (with "hard" in the cryptographic sense, not in the sense of non-obvious) white-box cryptography is actually possible.
Sounds like they are more at a size that makes sense to have an on site setup vs. a cloud based one.

The cloud market is maturing now and a hybrid private/public model I think is going to become more of the norm, for companies that are large enough that this makes sense.

It is cheaper to run your own hardware when you are big enough, and then use AWS for failover / load spikes / cool tech, etc.
I'm starting to think Box will win in the end. They've always been focused on the $$$. Maybe Dropbox is a more fun and friendly company, but investors don't give a sh about that.

(note: i like both companies alot, but this is my gut feeling)
It is zero-sum thinking. If it makes your neighbour poorer you feel richer. Pointless internecine conflict.
I don't mean to be snarky, but how was your data structures knowledge then?

He asked "Is there some requirement that ML _must_ be an advanced topic" and I listed a few prerequisite pieces of knowledge that make it fairly advanced. You may learn those prerequisites in a different order but they are required before you properly tackle machine learning without cargoculting through it.
This sort of thing always makes me think of the classical class warfare context of charity from business.

People know that the business they're conducting is damaging society at large, so they build charity in so that they can feel like they're absolved.

1% is pretty trivial, particularly since it's of profit, not revenue. Sure, it's a lot of money, but by comparison with the possible impact of a larger commitment of time and resources it looks cheap. Makes you sad to think most companies don't even do that much.
Was going to make a product similar to this exclusively for Japanese language -- interested to see how you guys do - I think the premise might be largely flawed though, you do not want more than one person translating a large document. Context is important in a lot of languages, and incoherent writing style (as translation is almost never an idempotent function, there is always more than one way to say something) often seems unprofessional.

(nvm, I think my idea is differentiated enough that I still might make it some day)
Yep, as much as those "best viewed in chrome" are.
I disagree. Technology people tend to focus on the shiny, which really isn't what Microsoft needs at this point. They're just too big and they play in too many fields where they end up competing with themselves in half of the markets they play in.

After ten years of Ballmer, what Microsoft needs now is a professional manager to sort out the mess he left. They have no shortage of great technology people; what they need is someone to bring the organization to heel behind a universal vision.

Microsoft is not on the verge of great growth or in the position anymore to build "the next big thing." That ship has sailed for them, as all the people capable of building the next big thing have been run off by the ineffective management (or never hired in the first place) and work at Google or Facebook now. Microsoft is, however, at risk of losing a significant portion of their revenue should the PC industry continue its slide and start being displaced in the enterprise.

Nadella is the best choice that is available. I still hold that the best candidate out there for the job is Mark Hurd, but he apparently wasn't interested for the same reason a lot of other outside candidates weren't interested: Microsoft has an infamously poisonous corporate culture, and everyone who worked for an outside CEO would be trying to undermine him and take his job.
While I agree just finding something isn't hacking per-se, "did what it was programmed to do" is a terrible excuse. By that definition, no exploit was hacking because it "did what it was programmed to do". Even saying "yeah it's like that by design" doesn't really excuse it.
I'm pretty sure most managing directors at downtown banks aren't taking the subway or the bus too often. They get driven around, just not in shuttle buses.
That's fair. I was just wondering why the MBA was specifically mentioned in the comments.
Mass hack attack on Yahoo Mail accounts prompts password reset
Oil pirates somehow steal 4 million gallons of diesel fuel off tanker
I just want to make sure that its clear that I think you are hitting that goal and your posts look great. There is nothing worse than posting something on the internet to have some snarky neckbeard from the peanut gallery put it down for some tangential reason.
> Public infrastructure works best when everyone has a stake in it.

These are private busses. Not public ones. That's not public transportation.
Obviously Africa was just used as an example...

Who said that this story is "important" anyway? It's a story for sure, and it's interesting that someone would be offered 50k for a twitter handle and then have it stolen, but you're the one propping up a straw man. No one ever said this is an "important story".
The "subsequent load" time should be pretty close to this. I'm getting about 20-30ms of "Evaluate script" time when I run a profile in Chrome's Timeline tool.
Terser code, faster build times [1]. May make some non-build tasks harder.

[1]:https://twitter.com/andytjoslin/statuses/416424985662468097
On the flip side, I tend to declare types mostly at the top level. It's nice to be able to change just a few types and have everything else work itself out. There are times it doesn't work and I don't hesitate to add more type annotations then, and when I get weird type errors my first response is go through and decorate it piece by piece.
Print full exception in PowerShell try/catch block using "format-list"