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> But some friends have said that a one page concise resume came across as ballsy and too confident.

I strongly doubt that any serious employer is going to decide to interview or not based on subjective things such as ballsiness. It seems likely to me that they read your number of years of experience and maybe projects, and it's in the interview that they might listen to "gut feelings" such as that.
Trading is definitely a good thing. I find that when placing settlements at the beginning it's crazy to try to get exposure to all 5 elements, but if you get really strong exposure to 3 of them you can trade for what you lack. Then you don't have to spread yourself too thin. Plus you know what people will do with what you trade them ... don't give up wood if you don't want people building roads.
You're missing his argument completely, which is that targeted advertising has upsides for both the advertiser and the consumer. While I prefer no ads over ads, given the choice I'd prefer relevant ads vs random ads.

That being said targeted advertising infringes on your privacy. Rail against it for that reason. Don't make false assertions that people would prefer random advertising than advertising that they may actually be able to use.
"or not requiring an auction when passing on purchasing a property"

This is the key one.
That's what partial unique indexes allow you to put in the database. take this example which would work in PostgreSQL:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX profile_username_valid_idx_u
ON profile(username)
WHERE invalidated_at IS NULL;

The problem with enforcing this in app-space is it doesn't get around the isolation problem. In both cases, you are assuming that the same profile won't get concurrently updated twice by two different transactions. Since only the database can referee this issue, you must enforce the uniqueness there. I.e. this check must happen on transaction commit and your application has no way of knowing if it did.
Probably because they use coinbase or others that change the money immediately (or guarantee the current price which usually amounts to the same.)
Should we not make more effort to self-govern then? And not think it a gift when someone does a breach post-mortem?
Think low-cost drones [1,2], not satellites. I can imagine a constellation of drones, linked by modulated laser/led/radio beams beamed though the air. If using light/IR, a challenge would be keeping the beam pointing at the photo-diode (optical phased array?). The drones could link to the ground using either optical or radio. An awful lot of this work is already underway in the context of satellites.

[1] http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Solar-Powe...
[2] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/08/new-9-hour-solar-pow...
Great post. I noticed I read very little about usability and only about design. I'm assuming that the OP, Braden, assumes that we understand that usability is integral to design. The reason I say this is that I've heard and seen designers spend lots of time on something that most of the techs/devs said WTF to after they were done- one carousel, crappy menu, and pointless site after the next. That was an in-house design team working for a large university, btw, so the main problem was that the administration was the customer, not the primary users, which were students, university employees, prospective students, and parents of prospective students. And their attempt at usability studies involved a small number of students passing in the student union that got snickers bars in exchange for telling them what they thought. And no AB testing ever done.
I refined a version of mine with the Hemingway app. The result seems alright, but I've yet to test it out.
When I hire people, I get like 60+ resumes for 1 position. So I create a bozo pile, good pile and awesome pile.

Usually we have a couple of people involved. We look for consensus and let people veto folks they feel strongly about. The goal is to talk to about 10 people. Interview 3-5.

Long resume doesn't really factor in. The really long ones are usually bozo-ed, because they are insane. The fact that you were a summer lifeguard in 1992 is fascinating, but really weird to be telling people in 2014.

You should be telling a story with a resume. A 2-3 page resume can tell a good one.
Even in non-tech industries, a 1-page resume is strongly, strongly recommended over a 2-page resume if possible.
Why Mt. Gox' slow death is not a problem for Bitcoin.
Given that the number of posts dips over time, that's a difference of approx 8-10 posts in that 85 day period after the relationship begins. Seems pretty negligible.
Meshnet has been doing this for some time: https://projectmeshnet.org/. There are also other groups of people fighting for the same thing in Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk
"3. get a number of emails from prospective customers"
Can you elaborate on this step? How are getting these emails?
If you are vaccinated as most people in the US should be then why should you care that you were exposed?
No at all - you just need to be careful what conclusions we draw.

We can safely report the statistic that "more people self report caffeine having an impact than ginseng."

The author goes as far as noting how many people are reporting an impact where there appears to be no known mechanism that impact could be occurring. That's a defensible statistic too.

Data from self-reported surveys isn't entirely useless, and is in medical research often enough for there to be studies on the kinds of error that arise from them: http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=self+reporting+survey...
The problem though is that the corner cases of concurrency etc. with upserts need to be hammered out and agreed on at the beginning. Otherwise you will have "well, we improved concurrency handling in upserts and sorry, that broke your application."

Once you have a public API you have a contract, and that contract really shouldn't be broken without good reason. If PostgreSQL offered an upsert syntax with the same limitations as writeable CTE's, and promised to solve the concurrency issues in future releases, I wouldn't use it. I would rather have a hand-written implementation which is guaranteed to work in the future with the same caveats than an implementation I have no control over that may pose backwards-compatibility handling issues if I am supporting multiple Pg versions with my app.

Stability in API's is important. The idea that we will just throw something together now, and then fix it later will result in PostgreSQL getting a bad reputation.
He understood his argument just fine.
Also, https://github.com/howaboutwe/HAWTiltedImageView
Here is the study: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/03/05/tobac...

Here is a (rather editorialised) summary: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/new-study-of-...

The study found variations up to 20x in levels of formaldehyde contained in the vapour produced by some top e-cigarette products. At the low range, the levels are of little concern and barely above background. At the high range, they are of some concern. Unfortunately brands, etc are not broken down.

I have a strong suspicion that formaldehyde levels correlate with country of origin and/or quality of the liquids involved. If you stick to using PG sourced from countries with reliable certification systems I think it is OK.
This paper misstates the proper behavior of volatile to start

In particular, it says "For every read from or write to a volatile variable that would be performed by a straightforward interpreter for C, exactly one load from or store to the memory location(s) allocated to the variable must be performed."

This is wrong. It later kind of gets it right for C, explaining about sequence points, but it entirely misses that implementations are free to combine and eliminate multiple volatile accesses within the same sequence point.

Now certainly, most of what was reported were genuine bugs (and John reports a lot of correctness issues).
But it does/did nobody favors to start with an incorrect definition.
That would be rule #35 in action.

Obligatory reference:
https://xkcd.com/305/
The effect of most vaccines wanes with time; however, because most people receive them, even those with waning or no resistance gain benefit (herd immunity). In this circumstance, though, once you're directly exposed, you're at risk.
I see. Sorry. I saw your release year and thought about name conflicts, but still missed it.

Actually, my first thought was that Melancholia might have been 450 minutes long. Because it felt that long when I watched it.
If you're utilizing your designers 120% time, you've got a business problem and aren't paying enough.
Think about the children!

But seriously, children don't usually get vaccinated for measles until they are 1yo.
Ask HN: Has any company ever paid developers like they pay sales people?
Howdy!

I work in the B2B space and our sales people are paid a commission on the clients/projects that they sign up. We have a base platform, but the clients/projects that we being in typically require a fair amount of custom integration. So, I am curious if any company has paid developers a commission based off of which projects/clients that they develop against?

I don't know if this is a good idea or how it would work out, which is why I am curious if any company has ever tried this?
Wait, which missiles aren't dangerous?
If you'd like to see more analyses, I gave a short talk about analyzing IMDB data with R and Perl a few years ago. Here are the slides:

http://community.moertel.com/~thor/talks/pgh-pm-perl-and-r.p...

A blog post on the topic:

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-01-17-mining-gold-from-th...
Nope, just speculating.
How the heck can a democratic state government have secret documents from its own people?
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Being vaccinated does not ALWAYS mean that you are individually immune, even if it is a lot better than not getting any vaccinations.

Many vaccines build "herd immunity" and will not work as well if people decide to opt out for some frivolous reason.

Also of course some people cannot receive a specific vaccine because they are pregnant or immunocompromised. Others should be vaccinated to prevent spread to those vulnerable populations, not just to protect themselves.
There may be hope for me yet according to this, but at the moment, I really have no fucking clue what to do.

My early thirties were filled with great ideas for startups. My early fourties are filled with depression that I'm past my prime, don't have the energy, risk tolerance, or money to do a startup, and don't have money to go back to school, so it really doesn't matter what my passion is. Somehow I still need to find a passion and change, though, because my death is impending. Maybe my fifties will be the realization that I am who I am and I'm fine just being bad at everything.
Universities require all standard vaccinations. How was this student admitted to Berkeley?
From the National Health Service (UK):

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/measles-outb...

"Can you still get measles after the MMR vaccination?

It’s extremely unlikely, but you need two doses of MMR to be fully protected. The first dose of the MMR jab protects 90% of those who receive it, and the second dose tops this up to 99% protection. Almost all of the children in the Welsh outbreak who caught measles were either completely unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated."

Assuming everyone was vaccinated then:

2000 people exposed, with 99% effectiveness of vaccine, yields about 20 people who will contract measles despite being vaccinated.
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I strongly agree with this point and wrote something about it a while back http://blog.oxplot.com/transient-ideas-and-learning/
I chuckled when I read that line. I assume they put in as a little joke.
Yes Armodafinil is in Schedule 4 and it is a stereoisomer of Modafinil. You're thinking of the prodrug Adrafinil.

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

There's a few reasons why Adrafinil isn't scheduled. It wasn't ever approved by the FDA or marketed in the US and never used heavily in the US, thus the DEA never bothered to regulate it. When Modafinil got FDA approval, the DEA felt the need to evaluate it.

Adrafinil was used in France and other parts of Europe, however Cephalon is no longer allowed to market the drug in France, and they have discontinued it.
The Batman protocol doesn't scale well.

Meshnet doesn't have the incentive (the actual only thing we're contributing to mesh networking)

If we could apply our payment strategy to any of the existing protocols we would have done it. Also, the fact that we have incentive means we could add special nodes; which means we can solve some of the issues that other protocols suffer from more easily. Instead of relying on distributed hash tables for example (a layer of complexity), why not dedicate a special node for lookup queries (PLN). That and we don't mind adopting a completely different approach for the routing protocol. This is why we're asking for the help of the community.

Please read the paper.
Because the vaccine doesn't work in everyone.

Because young children can not be vaccinated, so he should stay away from them for a time (don't know how long).
Paypal is another company, based on existing platforms. Their success was directly tied to their ability to predict fraud and take real-time decisions to block or, at times allow, a high risk transaction to process (assuming their algorithm determined the cost of blocking the transaction was greater than allowing it to go through and issuing a refund). People believe their differentiator was payment processing, but its this very belief that allowed them to kill off their competition.

If you view Bitcoin as similar to PayPal, then that is at the heart of why we view this issue differently. I would compare Bitcoin much more closely to HTTP, or other protocols -- and PayPal as being akin to BitPay. When Bitcoin is compared to companies built on top of existing protocols and platforms, then I believe the premise is misguided. M-Pesa's success is directly tied to cheap mobile airtime. In Malawi, I purchased a new cellphone with minutes for $12 USD, and I was paying the airport rate. The same principal goes for Kenya -- there were M-Pesa booths everywhere I went in Nairobi, but only because of the amazing uptake of basic cell phones mostly used for SMS. Without that mature platform, the business could never survive.

Bitcoin could ultimately fail, but not due to the adoption curve as outlined in the article.
There probably is no FOIA guide there or in many parts of government. It isn't a big enough priority to spend time coming up with a process.
I can attest that it does drag on. There is an unfinished game from the weekend sitting on my desk, and we were playing with the accelerated rules.
I knew a women who felt it was her moral duty to fight vaccinations. She had no issue forging documentation saying her kids had gotten vaccinated when they hadn't.

I've heard this is common among the anti-vax crowd. Not saying it is what happened in this case, just giving a personal anecdote.
Not every thing an elected official does becomes a public document. Democracy does not mean that every little thing is subjected to a public vote.
To top it all it is frustrating that there is mostly no way to contact Google directly to get an answer or make a feature request like this. If you go to their product support forums, some support people (who are nothing but other actual users) write canned responses which make no sense. Many times they don't understand our issue.
Note local hidden variables is impossible. The pilot wave theory is the theory of "hidden variables" that led Bell to his theorem. Basically, EPR shows that either nature is nonlocal or there were hidden variables. Bell showed that hidden variables had to have something nonlocal about them. So Einstein created relativity and helped to highlight how nature has an aspect that seems incompatible with it (basically, there is a "now" which, however, may be undetectable and is not our "now").

For those curious, the nonlocal hidden variables are the positions of the particles. Very hidden. So hidden, they are the only thing we see in experiments!

The particles are guided by the wave function. This resolves all the weird paradoxes such as Schrodinger's cat. It provides a great way to understand and investigate nonlocality, spin, identical particles, etc. in a very precise theory that even has broadly applying existence and uniqueness of solution theorems, unlike classical mechanics.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/
That sounds good on the surface, but has problems in the details.

Do you want a country that prohibits people from leaving when they want? So you can't require it on exit.

And the most basic right of citizenship is the ability to enter the country, so you can't require it on entry either.

All you can do is convince other countries to prohibit entry without vaccination,
There are definite "winning" strategies - like acquiring a monopoly on "jail row" and mortgaging all other properties to build it up as soon as possible. But does altering a game so that a child doesn't have to see the optimal moves from someone else do anything positive for anyone playing the game?
Equivalently, "time-constrained professionals apply 90-10 rule to increase throughput by discarding time-consuming edge cases."
Why is this news? This has been common wisdom for ages. The only difference is that, before, there was no web.

Keep it 2-3 pages tops and just in PDF, unless you're a designer or site dev. And provide your github if you're a dev doing JS or Ruby.

Did I miss anything? I have no idea what Java, etc. devs and IT geeks need to have anymore.
I would probably naively think that sarcasm/irony goes both way, and that it's most likely to cancel out or represent a negligible portion of emotion.
I've never heard that the gum is bad for gum health (heh). Do you know where I could find more information?
This is really useful and very well implemented gabemart, congrats. The "humans" is a big no-no for me but I see why some people might use it. That would be amazing if you had more stuff.. Maybe some relaxing instruments such as piano or acoustic guitar. Wind could be great too.
And, for that matter, why should a government agency be protected by "attorney client privilege"? If an employee of the NYPD were to retain an attorney with his own money, then their communications should be privileged. But if a government agency that's funded by taxpayers does something it might need a lawyer to protect it from, it should be public knowledge.
That's the subtle part: they aren't two versions of the same record. They're two entirely different records, so all bets are off. (In your example, they don't even have the same primary key because no primary key is declared. PostgresSQL doesn't know that k is supposed to be a key; it's just another column.)
I post things to the walls of close friends fairly often, because I know them well enough to know what they'll find interesting. Also, this completely breaks down if you include private messages.
I can't believe some PhD is being paid to write this sort of trivial stuff
We're not talking about a "little thing" here. We're talking about a document that defines the official policies of the NYPD being kept secret.
> It only takes a few days of use for signs of addiction to show.

Eh... not for me. I can use caffeine for days and then not use it for days no problems at all. Of course probably because caffeine does absolutely nothing to me. I just like the hot beverage.
I doubt the vaccine is 100% effective.
I'm 34 years into my career and I still maintain a one-page résumé.

I think keeping it to one page shows respect for a reader's time. Instead of dumping everything I can think of onto the page and letting them pick through it for what's important, I do that work for them. In many cases I've customized the résumé to some extent for the employer.

I've never had anyone tell me it was too short.
I just got contacted by one of the cybercoder recruiters..my profiles and resume show strong android development but this brain dead recruiter wants me doing RoR and big data..say WTF
Their response implies indicates that it does exist:

"This request is denied because the records you requested were prepared by an NYPD attorney..."
because that'd make people less willing to take BitCoin seriously

Speaking as someone who's heavily involved in (as a hobby) running professional and semiprofessional Magic events, I'd like to point out that professional Magic players seem, on average, much more likely to end up working in finance and doing quite well there.

So maybe the implied sneers at the game's lack of seriousness or lack of financial seriousness (that's way off as well, for the record) are... more telling of the average Bitcoin aficionado's mis-grasp of economics and reality than anything else.
I always remind people:

CV/Résumés get you interviews.

Interviews get you jobs.

Focus specifically on those things and you'll get a job.
A one page resume is very traditional. It doesn't come across as too confident at all.
The internet may not WANT to kill you, but just like nature, if you don’t respect it, it will.
Did it work out (or not)?
Yes, as a US citizen, your right to enter the United States is "absolute, unconditional, and irrevocable." That said, we do reserve the right to arrest or fine you immediately upon entry.
As I pointed out in another comment: maybe this could also be a lesson in how little you actually know -- if you're using involvement in Magic as grounds for criticism (when the various marketplaces for Magic are many times more reliable than for Bitcoin, and when hedge funds are a common career destination for pro-level players), you may be far more ignorant than you realize.
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I had to install Adblock on my mother's laptop after she visited a webpage with a malicious advertisement. I went ahead and installed HTTPS Everywhere and Ghostery while I was at it. Non-technical users are completely up the creek without a paddle.
> People have never accused him to his face of being a flying spaghetti monster, though.

Simply not denying some claim is not evidence that the claim is true, regardless of whether the claim has been presented to you face to face.
I would think that most developers wouldn't want to be paid that way. I heard of bonuses if things go successfully, but not straight commission. Most people want steady pay. If not they go into sales or freelance.
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Doesn't have to be a vote but there has to be an accounting.

We're talking about sunshine vs stasi mentality.

It's like having secret laws we can't know about but are subject to penalty, democracy is not supposed to work like that.
His response is spot on, but he missed another point:

Part of this rejection completely misstates what is attorney work product privileged, and claims that this is somehow attorney work product, and thus exempt.

Attorney work product privilege only covers things prepared during or in anticipation of discovery or litigation.
One would hope their FOIA handbook was not prepared under these circumstances.

On the attorney-client privilege claim, unless it actually made for the purpose of securing legal advice (rather than policy advice), it wouldn't be privileged.
It also wouldn't be privileged if it was disclosed, ever, to anyone other than the client.

I have trouble believing this document would meet these requirements.
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