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This is the first I've heard of Meteor APM, looks awesome!

This line confused me:

> Using simpler queries will usually mean there’s less work for Meteor to do to decide if a change affects it.

Is this right? Previous Meteor optimization articles I've read have stated the opposite, and all my years of database development have told me to avoid 'SELECT *' and other simple DB calls like the plague. But maybe I missed something in the article that explains this.

Thanks Tom and Sacha for your great contributions to the Meteor community!
I hate TWC with a great and fiery passion. I literally shake when I think about the company. And from my understanding, most Comcast subscribers feel the same way about their service. This sort of thing makes me angry, not because I think the monopoly will be worse than it currently is. But because these mega-companies have so much power and influence that they can make their own laws. A free and open internet simply doesn't stand a chance against that much money. Because all of the protests will happen online. And if I'm ComWarner and I see a site protesting me what am I going to do? I'm going to ban hammer them. And if the public complains about it the I'll slip some judges a few mil each to get them to interpret the law in my favor. And that's the simple fact: America is one of the most corrupt countries. If not the most corrupt. Because our law makers at every level are in the pockets of billionaires.
I think "burning out" and "depression" (or "depressive episode" etc.) are essentially the same thing. "Burning out" sounds a lot better and has less negative connotations, but the symptoms and effects, in my experience, are no different.
Would you appreciate it if one supermarket bought all the food and then price gouged you 100 dollars for meat?

I don't see how a monopoly helps anyone but the corporation, and even then just in dollars today. Strangling the entire market doesn't help anyone in the long run.
The person you replied to wasn't specifying that he valued Ian Bicking's humility in that specific blog post, but his general demeanour within the Python community.
Yup. It's also 13A in UK. I'm using 10A as a rough guide - mainly to illustrate the power differences between AU and US. The post has now been updated to reflect your comment. Thanks
Comcast is relying on last mile monopoly. Samsung/Apple have alternatives.
I don't mean to trigger a bout of programming depression[1], but I don't see the value in this.

Is the idea that you can have nontechnical people write the templates, and your app... gets a list of the templates they've made and sends them out?

What's the benefit of using this over just, you know, writing an erb template? Or is the value for environment that don't have ActiveMail?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7228491
I don't get what sendwithus does. Ok, you do A/B testing, ok, you also do drip campaigns, but what's the end-goal for this? I know if I want to send newsletters I use mailchimp. If I'm a developer and I want to send bulk emails, I will use Mailgun. What does SendWithUs do?
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What you describe is "innovation" only in a very restricted, local sense. The developments we see within the JavaScript community today are just them catching up with where Python, Perl, C, C++, Java and other languages were years or decades ago.

Non-blocking IO is nothing new. Event-driven network app development frameworks are nothing new. Even using the same language server-side and client-side is nothing new. We were doing that in the 1980s when we wrote our clients and servers in C, and in the 1990s when we used C++, and in the 2000s when we used Java.

When it comes to JavaScript, what's seen as "innovation" is usually just the language and ecosystem desperately trying to catch up with where everybody else was many years in the past.
> Edit to add: chc, we have run out of thread reply. What is HN etiquette on that?

FYI, this is not a thing. HN discourages immediate replies by hiding the reply button for a few minutes after the comment goes up. If you do want to reply immediately, you can click on "link" at the top of the comment, which will still provide you with the text box.
FIFY: I find LinkedIn to be super-aggressive on growth hacking.

Maybe their aggressiveness shows that they've reached market saturation?
Attitude is proven to have an effect on cancer remission rates. Yet we still call it a disease and say that it killed you, not that you selfishly killed yourself due to not getting better.

You have some control. Far less than the "suicide is selfish" idiocy assumes.
If I see a company engaging in any discriminatory activity, I have a reason to suspect that sort of discriminatory attitude runs rampant throughout the company right through the executive offices.
Yeah, I can't get the article to load, but my reaction was pretty much the same.
Almost nobody wants that. Even liberals who speak on behalf of the poor generally don't want their kids to attend the same schools as "the poor", nor do they want to live in the same neighborhoods as "the poor".

Generally, a poor neighborhood is a good place to be from, to contrast with present circumstances and look at how far you've come. It's not a good place to be.
They can certainly try to impact policy, but are they able to? Immigration reform is stymied, net neutrality is lost. In California, major issues include Prop 13 limiting property tax increases, resistance to development in SF, and arguably rent control in SF. See no evidence that FB or Goog would be able to make any difference to these - big blocks of voters like things how they are.
Citation?

There is no use for Google to participate in long-haul wholesale. There is a lot of supply there. The real issue is last mile, where consumers have no choice.
If you believe individuals have the right not to be discriminated against based on gender (I'm ambivalent), then this event violates individuals rights. What do you believe?

Your first sentence suggests some value system based on group rights, individuals are irrelevant. Could you state your values more carefully? (Im especially curious how you determine which groups to give rights to.) As I said, I suspect you will recognize the points of disagreement when you do.
I'm going to be ridiculously blunt:

Assuming the following:

- the amount of women in tech is a fraction of the amount of men

- the intelligence/experience/skills of all of these men and women is about even

- percentage-wise there are just about as many men as women that are crap at public speaking

- the intent is to put more women in front of crowds

Assuming these, teaching none but women how to speak (or, none but men, for that matter) only serves to make the level of these events lower. You want the best, not the /best of this or that minority/.

This goes both ways, and that's what the OP pointed out, with an unhealthy dose of sarcasm.

That said, I think having some women up there might actually help. It gives the youth a better impression, perhaps even inspiring some women to have a go at IT.
Cheaper and faster urban mobile networks will take over before that reality is allowed for an extended period of time in some protracted way.
No, it's not a argument for individual rights: individual rights would say Github could do what ever they want and it would say nothing about what Github should do.

The argument is purportedly one of fairness: it's unfair to discriminate against men. Which is true. And we should make things fair.

But it seems very difficult to, with a straight and honest face, say whatever set of circumstances has led to the massively skewed gender ration] in cs/tech is fair either.

So, there is a value question: is it ok to make things slightly unfair locally to improve global fairness. There's also a practical question, does this actually cause that.
> Dropbox raised $350 million in a financing round that valued the six-year-old startup at $10 billion.

This is interesting. DB still rely on funding instead of revenue? I am sure they are working hard on enterprise-level plan. Were DB the one asking for the funding or someone proposed to DB to take the $$.

The other thing is that he's going from a CEO to a COO. From a business outsider, I see this as a downgrade.
I am guessing the ID's here are just for testing or maybe changed to numbers as a matter of privacy?
Cathode, an old-timey terminal for OSX.
> 1. Mental illness, to the extent it exists, is objective and quantifiable.

> 2. Social context is irrelevant to mental health.

> 3. Therefore mental health is an individual issue.

None of those are positions Szasz holds. The first two are just kind or ridiculous – he said contrary things, a lot. They are pretty opposite to his actual positions. For the third, he is pro-individualist but the "therefore" is wrong, and also the topic "mental health" includes things like the insanity defense which aren't just an individual issue.

Your supposed anti-libertarian insights are basically correct – but Szasz already knew them and wrote about them.

Of course what is labelled "mentally ill" depends on the social context, rather than being objective. That was a major point Szasz made. Have you read his books?

> Obviously there are times when this is needed.

Here, where you advocate coercion, you have an actual disagreement with me and Szasz. This, not your points 1-3, is your basic disagreement with Szasz. It's the standard disagreement most people have: they favor coercion, he and I do not.
> I would argue that it is not as flexible as Ruby or Clojure for building DSLs.

I've never met a DSL that was better than a well designed API. They all start leaking at some point.
Yes and I don't doubt it, but that still doesn't change the situation in America one bit. I didn't mean to imply that America is more or less racist than any other country, only that it is a defining factor of Americans, something that's hardly news to anyone living here, I should hope.
The problem is that it's a lot easier for a musician to find an audience than a programmer to find an audience. Music is nearly universal but programming is quite obscure for people who don't know how. Everybody has seen a guitar or even plucked the string but not many people have seen a source code or written a few lines. Just because one can find an audience in theory doesn't mean it is easy. People are more likely to complain about his app's functionality than show appreciation. Now, if he really solves an annoying problem for the users, there will be genuine appreciation but those problem as rarer and harder.
They are selling advertising. If they didn't care about money, they wouldn't be doing that. Logical enough for you?
...this is sarcastic, yes?
Have you ever noticed the prices on the TWC site for new subscribers? How they say something like "down from." What does that mean to you? To me, it means the regular price is one thing but that new subscribers get a deal.

As it turns out that is incorrect. The higher price is an arbitrary number, not the retail value of the package.

I asked a TWC representative once where on their website I can find the retail price of their plans and his response was "You won't find them anywhere."
> I suppose it is the platform that I am drawn to now before language

I found this to be true about my experience too. I wanted to write GUI apps for Mac OS X so I embraced Objective-C. Now I want to write GUI apps for Windows, so I'm embracing C#. I guess it's just a really nice bonus that C# is awesome. Same thing when I have to do front-end work, I just use JavaScript (or ClojureScript if it's a big enough project).
Just because the specific gene hasn't been identified doesn't mean it isn't known to have genetic factors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder#Cause...

"In addition, a Swedish study estimated the heritability of depression—the degree to which individual differences in occurrence are associated with genetic differences—to be around 40% for women and 30% for men...."

You seem to think that we must either know the exact cause, or we know nothing about the cause. That is simply not true.
The "Great Banks of the World" story is remarkably close to that of NPR Planet Money's "The Island of Stone Money" concerning the Island of Yap:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-isla...
I know we like to practice substance over style around here, but this app has both, and I can seriously see myself using it for real work just for the fun, immersive factor.

Also, I just noticed that the demo slowly degrades the terminal until you register!
Well, I once got email from a recruiter named Ponzi. I think that wins.
I would agree.

One can read Perl code and say "this was written by a C programmer" for example, or "this was written by someone who knew Python better than Perl."

Switching between languages for me usually means at least one failed project which nobody ever sees.

Also I would not call myself superproductive, though I have been called that by others. A big reason some people think I am superproductive is they don't see where I spend most of my time.
It’s a very important milestone achieved by a clever invention to harness the brute force better.
In a word, shareholders. Many won't benefit but there is money in this sort of deal and it is likely going to the business owners.
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The best actors in the world are the depressed. No one who knows me knows how many times I have almost died. I say this in the hopes that it helps with the hurt a bit, though losing your brother never goes away. I lost mine to a motorcycle accident when a driver got impatient with traffic.
I think this post is really addressed at the Python community, and I would be surprised if anyone in that category that has interacted with Ian over the years would interpret any of this as an ego trip and fake downplaying of achievements.
The Obama Administration had better prod some serious anti-trust consideration on this -- not to mention Congress.

The NBC deal a couple of years ago, and now this?

Meantime, my Crapcast service contains consistently more crap (as opposed to quality), for consistently more money.

Step by step, this country is flushing itself down the tubes. Ha... bit of an unintended pun, there. Fitting.
That's odd, I reject Apple for the same reason.

I joke of course, but Apple builds monopolies they have tight control over, sue for anything and basically tell everyone who doesn't like it to screw off (and they can because they have the monopoly). As much as I like their design and hardware, as far as corporate entities go, they're kind of a jerk.
First of all, that sounds like a really cool idea for an app. I want it.

But secondly, of all the app rejection stories I've ever heard... this one is the easiest to fix. Just add some more features, who cares, and resubmit it.

Ideas: annotate/categorize the things that are making you happy/unhappy. Maybe have categories/icons for them. (Friends, party, loneliness, exercise, ate well, ate bad, had sex, no sex, fought, made up, my team won, etc. -- there really aren't that many fundamental things.) Then also produce charts showing how your happiness correlates with those items.

Heck, you might even be able to produce an amazing academic paper or two with the dataset you produce. Or at least some really cool and fascinating blog entries from the data.

(Personally, I'd rather rate my happiness on a 1-10 scale rather than compare with yesterday, and also maybe be asked 3-4 times a day. Maybe features let you pick those.)
> Then within a century or so, we'd be producing an amount of power equivalent to 20% of what the earth receives from the sun. It would give a whole new meaning to "global warming".

Assuming we don't use the new energy in significant part to colonize other planets, with the colonies representing a significant part of the growth in human energy consumption.
Yes, and when you're a child your caloric intake and your yearly increase in height are very tightly correlated too. Lots of society is built around this growth, such as the expectation of having to buy bigger clothes every year. But even a child can understand that one day they will stop growing and eat approximately the same amount of food for the rest of their life.

It would be "strange" to argue that, as a teenager, you were doomed to a life of misery because in order to keep up with this so-far exponential growth rate you'd have to eat entire planets by the time you were 1000 years old. It is similarly bizarre to argue that human society is in some sort of trouble because we can only double our energy consumption a few dozen more times.

This isn't even bringing up economic concepts like diminishing returns to utility: a person who makes 100k per year does not spend twice as much energy as someone who makes 50k per year. There are plenty of other things to buy that make us happy, and that can only get even more true when we're living in some hypothetical future with hundreds of times the economic productivity of today.
Check his other comment to understand what he is emphasizing
You might have to install dd-wrt on a router beefy enough to run a VPN client. That way your ATV doesn't need to understand VPN.
I can't speak for what the grandparent commenter meant by his problems with the company, but I think that was one of their 'biggest contributions' and needed to be mentioned.

An iPhone developer and a founder of a company passionately argued with me once saying "what if they have found out the 'perfect radius' for their corners where their phone looks the best (say 5.6 mm), which no one else could find before? It definitely deserves to be patented".

I was facepalm. Many people just don't think it's a problem, and don't realize how it is ultimately bad for them and their children.
> Anyway, that’s where I am now. No longer a language partisan, unclear of what community I am even participating in, I am less sure how to identify and self-identify myself. How do I describe myself now?

Actually I'm really glad for this conclusion. I've always thought it kind of counterproductive and useless to label ourselves as "Rubyists" or "Pythonistas" etc. Yes, we may use that language, we may even prefer that language over another, but it's not for the sake of the language itself, but because of what it allows us to do. So when a better replacement comes along, that kind of attachment to a language is only going to delay our adoption of it because of basically nothing but sentimentality. So yes, I prefer Clojure. But I also prefer C# and Objective-C and JavaScript. I'm not in any of these communities, I'm just a problem solver.
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Yes and no. Writing test cases can be rather different by language.

Also documentation frameworks may seem identical if you only program in C, C++, and Java. However when you start doing a lot in SQL, Perl, or Python, they start looking very different (and in fact these languages, assuming an SQL that supports COMMENT ON syntax) are more similar than any of them are to C or Java in this regard).

Move from there to TeX or LaTeX and you are in for another big shock.

In short, there are idioms for both test cases and documentation and those are remarkably language-specific.
Comcast should not be allowed to own NBC

If this deal goes through, both companies should have to sell off all content companies and become strictly utility access providers.
Most of the objections here and in the article are not inherent problems with frequentist p-values.

First, the reported p-value might be wrong. E.g. basing it on assumptions of normality when the data is non-normal. However modern non-parametric approaches like the bootstrap can avoid this issue.

Second, testing multiple hypotheses. If you test 10 hypotheses then you cannot reject the null (that all 10 null hypotheses hold) simply because one single hypothesis is rejected in isolation. But this is well known, and failing to account for it is an issue with the researcher, not with frequentist statistics. I actually think that the main practical difference between Bayesian and Frequentist statistics is whether accounting for the issue of multiple hypotheses is done formally or informally.
It renders fine (the phone fits in the pocket comfortably) for me in Firefox and Safari, even if I make the window really skinny.
There seems to be a lot of buzz around that technical solutions won't dig us out of this hole; and while I agree that we definitely need some dramatic power shift to happen, I feel like there are technical solutions on the horizon. There are a lot of compelling mesh network/darknet projects going on, fast forward wireless tech a few years, it may be more feasible than ever. Use your anger as motivation.
Some people refer to it as "internalized racism".

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

It's a bit different from having prejudice against a "different" group, but related.
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he was CEO of a division of Google worth $3B to COO at a $10B company. Seems natural to me

it's the equivalent of a Sheryl-Zuck type of relation. He'll lead all business and Drew will lead product. Dropbox is basically ran by ex-Googlers now: Marc Leibowitz, Ramsey H., Woodside, etc.
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It seems awkward that p-value does not account for the setting in which the test is performed.

That is, if I test 1000 people at a high school football game in Peoria, Illinois, and one of them comes out positive (p=0.01), there is a very different likelihood that I have found the true president than if I test 1000 people at a official dinner in the White House and find a match (also p=0.01). In fact, I think I'd be willing to wager more on the chance that the individual tested in the White House is actually the president than the random football fan in Peoria, even if only a single person in Peoria was tested (p=0.00001).

Of course, this is only an issue if p-value is being used to express relative confidence in a conclusion, which it shouldn't (?) be. Still, how does a frequentist account for a choice of venue like this?
"Apple sucks" and "use Android" aren't really productive responses to an article like this. Consider taking your quips to a site like Reddit.
> It lacks the flexibility of Ruby

In this case, I would argue that's a feature, not a bug.
LinkedIn is at the very bottom of the list when it comes to stuff like this. If you don't expect the worst from them you've not been paying attention.
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I remember a period when I was transitioning from my development role to a hitherto unknown role within the company. Granted my development role involved basically 50% business analyst work + 50% development (which mainly consisted of a Shell/Perl/SQL etc). During that period all could do basically surf news sites until someone needed help in some large volume data processing. Just the opportunity to write some scripts again was such an uplifting feeling - at the end of the day, I felt that I got something done (and that was independent of the resulting appreciation).