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They theoretically could play this role, but others are much better at it. These companies are structured to exploit scientists and the public, not to enable them. Innovation is stifled both within and without. We're much better off turning to fresh approaches to peer review, for example any of the things on this list:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HD-BEaVeDdFjjCNFkb0j3pvw...
This is an awesome app! Really nice unknown (at least for me) music!

If I can give you some feedback, the UI need some tweaks. the whole screen bounces when you touch it. Would be nice to have more details about the songs. A progress bar would be nice.

Really nice app!
It's funny how brobdingnagian salaries have to get for people to feel shocked.

Would it be OK for only £1,000 a day? £200 a day? Seriously, where is the limit?
good share!
It really depends on the factors that define "best" for you.
Well, to be fair, it happened only once, but just at the wrong time.
the maintainer was busy with work for quite a while, so it might pick up now he's not. i don't care too much myself though, linux has become little more than a web browser platform for me, and i'm sure sta.li would struggle to provide that.
openwrt runs Lua, and runs on many of these boxes. It is pretty small and you can cut it down further - eLua runs happily on microcontrollers.
So what you describing is an FFA (free for all) game.

I would let the points the winner gets equal the points the losers lose and spread the lost points across the losers according to their ELO ranking.

To prevent inflation, you could decay player's points, when they have not played for a while and you could add a winning tax according to the inflation rate.
Probably depends on where you are. Here in Germany, there is lots of resistance against CCTV cameras.

In the UK, on the other hand, I'd be surprised if people cared about Glass in public spaces, since CCTV is ubiquitous there.
I don't really get what your on about here. You are talking about loving python and that python 3 is a problem without actually listing what your problems are with it (have you used python 3.3 (its good)).

Is it that adoption is slow?
Lets take PHP for example they have exactly the same problem PHP 5.3 is still massively used though 5.5 is out.

I am a python developer (currently using 2.7 but we are in the process of refactoring ready to port to python3). I have started porting personal projects as well.

The main reason python3 uptake has been slow is two main reasons. Existing projects are python 2 and until recently the default versions on operating systems have been python 2.7.

A large number of open source projects are more than happy to run on python 3 and 2.7.

So my question to you is what is really the issue you have with python 3?

So to answer you last question what can be done to save python?

Nothing it doesn't need saving it needs education and a community who don't go around python 3 == bad; because its really not.

People need to take a look at there projects and simply port them so they are python3 compatible.
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It would actually be more convincing if it wouldn't sound exactly like the last dozen "I never used Scala, let's just point out some things I read on the internet about it" people.

Why not just try Scala for a while, instead of making things up?
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I'm not sure I particularly care so long as it produces some output before the heat death of the universe.
Looking at the diagram (http://cdn.androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/a...) It looks like nothing more than beam forming antennae.

Which is what 802.11n does.

So this looks like some very sexy marketing, and little else.
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You'd be more than welcome to contribute any thoughts, comments or feedback!
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Who knows? But It´s easy to see how so much money is wasted...
There's a fairly active mailing list over at dev-identity@lists.mozilla.org. If you have a heavy investment in Persona, I'd recommend you ask there.
On top of that, if one really needs to use C, then:

- Enable all warnings as errors

- Sanitize all inputs via assertions, or similar

- Provide proper unit tests

- Have a static analyzer configured for the continuous build that breaks the build if issues are found

- Specially don't allow anything to go through the static analyzer that is labeled as undefined or compiler specific according to the ANSI/ISO C standard

- Read MISRA C
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Yep that's true. The main idea behind repl is to empower our bizdev to manipulate simple JSON data when Excel is not enough or whenever an API is required.

For now it's really at prototype stage of course and we still have to figure out if it's really useful and how we could make it more useful!
Sure, but just look at the numbers - let's firstly boost the number to 300 employees, not 100, I think that's closer to real, with an everage salary of around $60k. That puts salaries at about $180m. But, they sold 4 million copies at about $60 each, which makes $240m profit. Allowing for a decent ad spend, you're still looking at a back of the envelope break-even. OK, I get that investors might be bummed about that, but it's enough money to mean that they live to fight another day, have another crack at hitting it out of the park.

As others have noted, AAA games are hit-based propositions. You pretty much have a few (3-5) titles that make all of the money each year, another 10 or so that hold the line, and everyone else loses. It's the last group that are flops, the second group are the par result. I think we can safely say that Bioshock Infinite was in the second group...
I have exactly one that I think is good in 21 years in the field. He actually understands his candidates at a moderately deep level and I can get on the phone with him, describe what I'm looking for, answer his questions, and a week later get a handful of resumes with his notes attached after speaking with the candidates.

His "secret" is that process, which also allows him higher than average access to passive job seekers. Let's face it, many (not all, but many) of the "best" candidates already have a sweet gig and aren't pounding the pavement looking and mindlessly applying to every job posting. This recruiter calls them and they take the call, because he's not just matching asses and seats like it was a musical chairs problem.

Candidates like him (he placed me once 17 years ago) because he's not perceived to be a time-waster, and hiring managers like him because I get better candidates through him (albeit at a lower volume and I "can't afford" him for every role).

That's responsive to your first sentence; to your second sentence, I generally agree. I have the luxury of having a strong in-house recruiting team, who are willing to selectively and smartly use outside agencies when it makes sense. As a result, I get to direct the flow of nonsense from outside agencies at my in-house team. ;)
Altmetrics is a growing field - I think in the next couple of years we will have an ecosystem of tools (like impactstory.org, altmetric.com) much better and more rounded than impact factors. I also think impact factors are poisonous in their own right.
Thanks ! Hope French is on this roadmap !
http://www.ttlg.com/articles/lgsclosing.asp
But that's not what OP asked for :)
Taking on the local council over stupid historical-accident religon-based laws that actively damage a major local industry during difficult economic times is one thing. Taking on your national government, and directly challenging the authority and interests of the US at the same time, is quite another.

I'm not trying to be defeatist, but you'd need massive civil disobedience Ukraine-style before NZ decides to soften its stance on "piracy" (or more properly, copyright infringement).
According to the article, the recruitment was from the private sector and pays the market rate. If this was nepotism, then I would had agreed with the waste argument. But just because someone is being paid 10x the majority, doesn't make the decision to recruit them wrong.
Even a rookie would spot this mistake, but he would need to learn a lot before exploiting it. But with a nice target like this one... :)
For the top rack, which is this... short term contract, I am not outraged. Should I be?
That happens. For example, to be a low level 3d engine programmer is a quite specific skill, yet because of the nature of the games industry, such people don't get paid as much as your average full stack web developer.
[3] is https://www.google.com/patents/US8542763 , you pasted [2] twice.

These are quite readable; worth a look. Thank you, ashwinl.
This article is highly misleading. Shoddy reporting from the Guardian there.

She's not on a £2k/day salary, that's just the rate paid to Capita, a consulting company. For a senior person (e.g. partner-level), £2k is actually on the cheap end. I went for £400/day 10 years ago as a Junior Software Engineer fresh out of uni, and by the time I left my day rate was about £1k/day.

(My rate was from Accenture - somewhat more high profile than Capita, but shows that £2k/day of chargeout rate is not so extraordinary).

In case this was not obvious, neither myself not Ms Ferguson take home anything close to the day rate - back when I was being sold at £400/day my own salary was a whopping £22k p.a.
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He probably means Excel the industry standard program for data collection, management and analysis for everyone not working in IT.
"a pure software-defined radio C-RAN" http://artemis.com/pcell

"data centers connected to the antennas perform fast mathematical calculations to create a unique and coherent wireless signal for every person on the network" -OP
Could probably do with turning those screenshots into an animated GIF as it took me a while to work out the flow, and that presumably each stage is persistent (I'm guessing, from the Run 0>1>2 chevrons).
The $240m figure is not profit, it's gross income.
Taxes, marketing costs and distribution costs will dwarf that figure.
In some cases, AAA games can even spend more on marketing than wages.
We turn down candidates all the time. No doubt that many of those go on to find success elsewhere, especially the ones that we turn down for fit (cultural or candidate expectations).

It's an open question whether a negative for fit is a false negative or not. If someone wants to be a foo and the need that I have is for a bar, it's a true negative for us, but when that persons goes and finds success as a foo somewhere else, I'm not sure where to put them your data set.

Even for the false negative, how would I possibly know what career path they took after that? I certainly hope it turned out well for all of them, but I have no practical way, not to mention no incentive, to find out.
Am I missing something, but wouldn't that require pasting the 49mb file into your app through my clipboard? Just getting a file like that into the clipboard, let alone pasting into the browser, seems like a task in itself.
To be fair the OP never asked anything.
Thanks, so you propose that every player starts with a stack of points.

I do not really understand the way you propose to apportion the points among the players, could give an example ?

I do not want to check inflation, since I want to figure out who is the best player, not who is the most implicated.
Ask HN: How many times do you generally refactor a piece of code
Hi,

I have been working on the same project for 5 months now, I have built it from scratch with a new framework. I have refactored some classes and routing about 3 times now. I would say it is because I am understanding the project more and also learning more about the framework I am using and the features it has which I didn't find at first. I am also re-reading the pragmatic programmer and it talks about stone soup, broken windows etc so how I feel at the moment is that refactoring seems a pretty standard thing to do but in the past it has not been such a big thing for me.

I was wondering how many times do you refactor your code over a project lifetime and what typical things do you look for when refactoring.

Thanks
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> Compiling to a VM + JIT instead of AOT compilation

Sun tried this and the code actually got slower.

> Running a programming language VM with an OS agnostic runtime, on a OS VM running on a hypervisor, instead of running the said programming language VM on top of the hypervisor directly

Flexibility to run on a VM is a huge time saver.

> Use of data structures and algorithms that take much more memory and are slower, because many developers lack proper knowledge to use the right ones and use whatever first result comes on their IDE completion suggestions

Cheaper (less skilled) programmers means more code can get written (for better or worse).
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I don't think they appear to be, after numerous recalls affecting millions of Toyota cars. That there have been real cases on unintended acceleration related to Toyota is not really in dispute, unless you think Toyota did the recall mainly as a PR effort.

Some people might be unwilling to admit that they stepped on the wrong pedal, but the likelyhood that some random HNer would do that and then make a post about it?

ABS brakes work by relieving _or_ reinforcing brake pressure, so depending on the system you could end up with uneven, little or no braking action after a failure. Or you could end up with locked wheels.
Touch screen in cars... Nope
Obviously there are limitations on both how hard it is for "attackers" to reach you and how hart it is for "users".

SilkRoad - Was extremelly hard to "catch" but also hard for users (only Tor)

BTC-E - Still identities hidden, easily accessible by users.

Does anyone know how BTCE set it all up ?
for some reason this makes my aurora+bunch of extensions lock up and crash

edit: extension-free version of aurora also spikes cpu and starts eating all ram.
Must be somewhere within the 8tracks embed, if i block 8tracks with requestpolicy nothing happens.
The latest iteration is pretty much spot on. Everybody unfairly discredited the first version - the technology hadn't matured. Much like the iPhone 2G (dismissed by the majority of non-techies)! However, not everyone can afford a brand new BMW, whereas pretty much everyone I know has an iPhone/Android, so their opinion was never re-evaluated.

The latest iteration is virtually perfected. Rocker buttons on top, and with a known number of clicks I can control 80% of all the main functions without taking my eyes off of the road at all. For the other 20%, it takes a quick glance to see the state of the screen and then I know "okay, now just two clicks down and I'm there".

The upcoming version (currently on the only the latest model to be released) has a small circular touchpad on-top of the wheel so you can draw letters without having to twist the knob. Useful for entering Postcodes into Nav, for instance.

I recall that both Audi and Mercedes have since copied the iDrive paradigm.
One thing I notice as a Brit living in Barcelona, look at it on the map. The majority of Spain is west of Grenwich meridian. Yet the clock is set an hour forward of GMT. So if you are going to bed here at 1am, then in the UK it will be still be 12am, yet most of Spain will have more light.

At the end of the day its just a number, as most of you will probably have it shifted by an hour a couple of times a year.
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It does mention that the £2k is the charge paid by MoD further down the page, although I admit it could be clearer.

Good luck with the messaging on this one when the wider press get hold of it.
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Brilliant, look forward to it.
It's easy to get up in arms about consultants being paid a high rate. But who really knows how much time and money was wasted among the 50,000 staff that was laid off? This is a very difficult question to answer, since "performance" can't be measured accurately.
I hope I am not hijacking the thread, but I would be equally interested in any open source project out there to track sales leads/pipelines.
But the point of the article is that the MOD is trying to cut costs. The takehome wage of Ms Ferguson is irrelevant, she is still costing the MOD £2k/day.

IMO there is a reasonable story here: is the ministry really saving much money by laying off staff and then, as a result, being forced to bring in contractors at much higher costs?
Really? I'm in the Boston market, and we don't use contract to hire as a strategy, and to my knowledge, none of our primary direct competitors for engineering talent do either.

(We will occasionally hire an ex-contractor, but that's the exception and they were genuinely a contactor first. No one comes through the front do applying for a full-time position and gets offered a contract-to-hire.)
What does pls no coperino mean? I googled it and see it repeated often (pls no coperino pasterino and other variants).
Yes you're right. 49mb is slightly large for REPL. but I've been working successfully with 200k lines CSV of over 15mb without issue
That was pretty shocking to read in the indictment.

He obviously didn't think it was a serious issue at the time, but jesus, could you imagine how it felt to read about that one mistake years later? Makes you wonder what you have left online that might bit you in the ass years from now. I know i certainly couldn't run for office now!
That would be interesting. Are there already initiatives out there?
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I look at it this way, too. The brutal approach has been chosen, we can argue about it's effectiveness or individual choices, but the only way we could make it worse would be to start all over again, this long in the game.

There is nothing special about legacy software not functional under the most recent version. Ask the java folks in big enterprises. I highly prefer this approach with a strong focus on a clean API than the other way around.

We should stop arguing about wrong choices and start start losing graciously [0] and fix the missing pieces.

[0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
Normal difficulty is not much harder than easy.
Also, using and abusing of crew teleporters is crucial, because against normal ships you get more scrap if you kill their crew than if you destroy the ship, and against the final boss, you can easily destroy its weapons.
Thank you. I'm currently playing around with PipeDrive. Looks like a good solution, especially the icons indicating which actions we need to take today and later on.
A government court ruled in favor of the government? You don't say?
> This is not done by the publishers.

The work itself obviously is not[0], but you need somebody to synchronise that stuff, especially to ensure reviews remain anonymous (to paper authors). This must be handled by a third party.

[0] not entirely true for edition, publishers generally employ a number of editors although these editors usually have a solid science background for obvious reasons.
Looks like I am awesome according to this.
Though I am sure you could test the hell out of your code and still have a crap architecture.
> Yeah, almost all words for meat in English come from the word for the same animal in French.

That doesn't apply to doner kebabs.
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It doesn´t make the decision wrong. It´s a supply and demand game isn´t it? It´s hard not to second guess in this matter, but you have to presume that the cost to replace them is much greater.
Well, of course inflation is not the only thing they take into account, so it's no wonder that rates don't match up to it, but that wasn't my point.

So a steady rate of inflation is perfectly fair to both sides.

But it wasn't claimed that it was fair, it was claimed that it was good for debtors, which is what I find hard to believe.
The Guardian has an agenda, and they routinely misinterpret things to sell news.

They're the "daily mail" of the left.
Happily, judging by their circulation figures, they won't be around too much longer.
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I think the big gap with docker is logging. If you're going down the coreos route you'd probably want your logs centralising somewhere. That means that you need to configure your containers to run something like supervisord and rsyslog to log to a remote server which is a bit of a hassle, especially if you were making use of public images since you'll need to add all this boilerplate in yourself and rebuild the images.

Alternatively I guess you could log to the host if there are config options to log directly to syslog and you could then ship them from there.

I spent a couple of weeks writing a python app and the same again trying to sort out a flexible logging system. Ah well, I guess it's still under development, but it'd be great if they prioritised this since it's one of the major things stopping me using docker (and obviously I'm so important they should reprioritise around me!)

I really wish coreos was bundled with a package manager though. Not having telnet or the ability to apt-get install things easily makes any sort of debugging and real-world use infeasible for me... :-(
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And that's before dilution, so you're talking much less in reality.
> She's not on a £2k/day salary, that's just the rate paid to Capita, a consulting company.

The point is that the state foots a £2000/day bill to replace a civil servant who'd be paid what, 10% of that? For a total cost of 20% including charges and the like? Which is an odd move if the goal is to reduce costs.
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>> Web Pages

First of all I wouldn't classify a web page as a design element. Secondly they aren't going anywhere. There are valid reasons for lots of sites to switch to an app approach but web pages are still very useful and I don't see that changing.
Actually, Kim Dotcom is not a tool. He's very well spoken, intelligent and surprisingly compelling individual.

Here's the Campbell Live interview -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMcvYhQwAC8
At first I thought the article would be about sports, which in itself would make for an interesting discussion about using machines to judge rules adherence, not that I would want to take that human element out of sports.

However this is more along the lines of validating what is published. Of any group you would hope that scientist and their like would jump on technology like this so as to provide the most accurate representation of their work as possible. The same for publishers, why wouldn't they want to brag the use the most advanced interrogation methods for the papers they publish?

I guess they are people too, hyper sensitive that fault will be found
This incoherent rant as a response to a single sentence isn't really helping your case.

"All those portability claims and that there somehow good: you're just doing things for lowest common denominator. Requiring a huge amount of effort to change or develop low level bits across BSD and Linux."

I don't even know what you're trying to say here.
Looks like a perfectly fair consulting rate for someone with the skill to be CIO of a large organization.
I'm guessing it means copypasta (copy/paste)
Web Pages are going away?

Aside from the fact that we haven't figured out the SEO yet ( see https://sourcegraph.com/blog/switching-from-angularjs-to-ser... ), encouraging the unwashed masses to "appify" their content is tantamount to malpractice IMO.
For this kind of thing Stal.in is a better domain name.