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Node [...] now occupies prime real estate as a (if not the) de facto choice of server-side infrastructure for the modern web stack.

With hyperbole like this a lot of people won't bother to read the rest of the article.
It's Stallman's birthday
Two of the biggest factors in our happiness are a) the quality of your job b) the duration/stress of your commute. America faces a shortage of plots of residential real estate that are within a reasonable commute of quality of jobs. And you need to be in commuting distance of an abundance of good jobs, because job conditions at any one company can change fast, leaving you stuck. Suburban sprawl worked for a while, but in many metros the cheap land is so far out that the commuting times are horrendous.
People have a habit of assigning altruism to things to they like that they don't pay for -- and without connecting those things to the costs.

SV and the greater Startup ecosystem has taken this to heart and turned it around, trying to "change the world" with photo sharing apps or weather reporting toasters or whatever. The fact of the matter is, this messaging is a hack to get people to feel good about using the service or buying the device. It's psychological slight of hand because people don't like it when a nameless gray haired white man in a suit says he's looking to maximize revenue growth the next 3 quarters.

Why is Google in search? To deliver ads. They can deliver better ads by having better search, no? They can deliver better ads by providing locational service. They can deliver better ads by getting your face stick to a mobile screen playing matching games that serve up ads. They can deliver better ads by...<insert method>.

Let's say google develops and licenses technology for self driving cars to all the automakers in the world. What do you think people are going to be doing in those vehicles? Surfing the internet and probably looking at ads.

Do you think Sergey Brin, when he's travelling to his private vacation island, bought with ad revenue, in his private jet, paid for with ad revenue, going over the quarterly report, about ad revenue, is thinking to himself, "I'm really satisfied with how many people found trivial information about pop stars with our technology" or is he thinking, "how can I get even more people to click the top-most served ads?"

It's great that I can get global turn by turn directions on my phone, it's improved my life, but google hasn't provided that to me because they think I'm a nice person and want to make my life better. I could have just kept buying Garmins after all. They want me to search for "restaurant" and have a top paid advertisement for "Bob's Pancake House" show up in the list and have me click that so Bob transfers a little money to Google's bank account.

Helping humanity is simply a fortunate side effect of Google's work. But it's not the focus.
Criminy, haven't your so called leftist "elitists" been friends of the feminist movement??
Why under-grads should start freelancing?
Foursquare is down
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Guru Meditation:

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Varnish cache server
The unindented, unreadable shell script listing at the end of the linked blog entry shows why the absence of program-list indentation capability destroys its meaning more quickly than "rm ~".
I've never heard that Microsoft pays OEMs but they certainly do give them a discounted price. Also it is my understanding that they do have some contract terms that either forbid sale of the same hardware with other OSes preinstalled or forbid sale at a lower price with other OS or no OS.

This is all from years ago, I don't know what terms are these days. Obviously Dell, HP, etc. do have a few preinstalled Linux systems in their catalogs now.
How I optimize conversations
He says there are no alternatives, but I can think of one -- buffering the price themselves, by charging slightly more during the off-peak demand periods to be able to pay more during the peak. While this probably can't be as economically efficient as dynamic pricing in the short run, in the long run, it could be better for their branding. Unavailable cars is bad for brand perception for the individual users who experience it, but surge pricing has damaged their brand for people who haven't even installed the Uber app yet.
I recently launched a startup that came out of a hackathon. It was and idea I had for for several months and used the hackathon to get it started. The team meshed well over the weekend but I could see the holes if we stuck together long term. Also, they wanted to do it as a side project whereas I was going to do it full-time.

My advise would be to let everyone think about what they want to do with it and then have a meeting a week or two after the hackathon. Everyone needs to be honest on how much they can contribute, what skills they bring to the team, and how serious/passionate they are about the idea. You'll probably find out that most were really excited that weekend and couple days following but then the excitement begins to fade away.
"Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a “structureless” group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. "

This assertion is not quite true.

When I think of "structure", I am thinking of deliberate, conscious, and rational attempts to create a sort of rigid ... structure. What he is describing is better termed as "dynamic".

I make this distinction because I've typically found (as a man), men tends to think and work with structures more often than with the dynamics... the natural ebb and flow of a group without a "structure".

When you start thinking about accomplishing a goal (whether a man or a woman) as a group, you start talking about structure, or "process" or any number of those words. That's when you use a particular part of the consciousness to drive and coordinate efforts. So when you start trying to look at what the group can do, accomplish, or its utility, you naturally start looking at structure, and perhaps even imposing structure.

Dynamics, or flow will happen regardless of whether we consciously attempt to structure the group or not. When you're not aiming for a particular goal, you can simply just be with the group, to feel and experience the way the group comes together and disperses. There is great wisdom in this, something that has been obscured because it doesn't produce anything that can be easily quantified.

I know programmers have talked about "flow" or "zone", about teams that have "gelled". These are all related to the wisdom of being, rather than that of doing. "Flow state", or "zone" is that sweet spot where your effort becomes effortless because you've relaxed into the flow while ... flowing to the goal. Flow states are one of the experiences we can have with consciousness, and you get there by first relaxing and getting more in touch with being ... and dropping some of your fixation on structure.

In truth, you see this play between structure and dynamic, between effort and flow. It's just that, most of us are so fixated on the doing and the structure, we are no longer aware of the natural dynamic. This is something I've noticed many (not all) women naturally understand this, and generally, men are pretty clueless about. When men typically encounter this, men will argue about it until we are blue in the face; usually, the women will agree, thus reinforcing this fixation. Women's liberation, in my opinion, is less about liberating women, and more about whacking men with a clue-by-four.
This is a sports car, it is a different product and caters to a different demographic than the model s.
There are a whole host of problems introduced by price-fixing which go way beyond running out of supply. We definitely need DNS on a blockchain, but Namecoin won't do it.
View->Page Style->No Style (in Firefox) turns it into a rather readable and certainly responsive page.

Less is more. Ain't HTML great?
Forcing shopping activity and gathering into indoor brutalist buildings is dying, shopping centers are not. Look at union sq, 4th st, walnut creek, and many others in the sf bay. All are stronger than ever by offering very high end retail mixed with high quality independent offerings and unique chef-driven eateries.

What people have abandoned is indoor, stale, sunlight less, copycat malls with the same awful pizza and Chinese chains and the same terrible jewelry stores.

People want shopping centers to reflect regional and local character, be in town centers, and offer high quality unique options with a few staples. Get rid of the huge parking lots and add a grocer.

However tacitly this article is pointing to a possible larger problem in the Midwest where cold weather, and permanently depressed economy and a talent drain is leaving them without the tools to build interesting gathering places. This is a far larger and sadder issue.
I seriously hope you consider rethinking this position. There are a tremendous number of incredible women in the world, and most of them are not looking for a sugar daddy. Many women also work hard for their careers, passions, or some combination of both, and understand that both success and failure happen.

I will also say that in many instances, if you have this opinion about women (or any group of persons), it's probably somewhat evident in your interactions with them, and you may not be treated quite as well as you would be otherwise. This can be self-reinforcing, but unfortunately the responsibility lies with you to pull yourself out of it and get some perspective.

If you don't, well, get a strong pre-nup, I guess, or stay single forever.
As I understand it, merged mining an altcoin is essentially free money, therefore as mining margins narrow miners will have to merge mine major alts in order to stay competitive.
Plenty of people were using AirBnb before they had an insurance policy.
> Another great PR from the illustrious ktt3ja, the compiler will now give suggestions on how to fix lifetime woes. This is an awesome usability improvement.

I'm really glad to see improvements like this. I know how I felt when I was learning C and trying to understand gcc's error messages. Rust is relatively new to everyone though, so having these features from the start is quite valuable.
I ran into some odd problems with the DisplayLink drivers after a couple years of success in Win 7 so I recently made the jump to Win 8.1. Most of my real work happens in my VM's so I don't mind it. My laptop has two 500 GB SSD's and has room for two more drives via mSATA cards. When I run out of room for VMs I'll go ahead and start populating the mSATA slots. I recently picked up a USB 3.0 256GB thumb drive and use it for VM portability between machines so I can leave my big laptop docked at work & take a lighter one on business trips.

And yeah - you are right about very little downtime when reinstalling stuff. While my peers will be out for a week because of an OS or hardware failure I can be up and running again in no time at all.
That's not necessarily true if you want to minimize your exposure to an employment discrimination suit - often, you would want to have evidence that you gave the employee in question ample opportunity to improve. E.g. it helps the employer's position if they have regular performance reviews and those reviews reflect inadequate performance.
The Atlanta metro area has 17 malls. A third are struggling and a third are thriving.
Fluid/Water simulation is JavaScript
To quote Nelson Muntz: "Haw haw!". Hey, I've got an idea, let's treat our home like a hotel room and rent it out to strangers... what could possibly go wrong?
Thanks. I guess the increased applications will probably pollute the data enough to make it impossible to find evidence (if it exists) of seasonal effect.

I had hoped one could perhaps see the effect of something like Subsyndromal Seasonal Affective Disorder (affects ±14% of population) or Seasonal Affective Disorder (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002499/).
That is largely the stand out of the article for me. I know this story will be forgotten and buried in no more than a week, but until they address this, I'm going to use BitBucket instead.
You've got it all wrong, hacker news is very consistent. Whatever the topic, everyone must argue against the OP.
How does the profit hierarchy work in a mall? Do the owners of the real estate see a larger margin than they would if owning an aggregate of locations outside of the mall?
It's important to be mindful that the successful examples of flat / bossless organisations often discussed on HN are massively profitable.

What's missing from this picture? Statistics and case studies of flat/bossless organisations where money is very tight.

There is severe survivor bias at play. Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything.

People think that the market rewards virtue or merit; that profit is the reward for this or that method, strategy or culture. Not really. Market systems are agnostic to how a company is run. If you stumble on a gold mine, the market doesn't reward you because you flog your miners. It likewise doesn't reward you because you pamper your miners. It rewards you for having gold.

For every Valve and Github, there is a Microsoft or an Oracle.
Valid question, so I'll elaborate a little: Imagine a trainee project manager without formal CS education that is immune to professional criticism by other managers, because she gets told by the boss (and lover) that she's doing perfectly fine and all other are just jealous for the de-facto promotion. This, flanked by threats to everybody that would voice criticism towards her makes for a very bad situation. She received responsibility for a team with a task that would be enough for a seasoned manager and she failed hard - not because she was stupid, but because she never had a chance. All blame for any failure was directed to the developers, so at some point they revolted.
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OP here.

Here's a clickable link: http://www.interestin.co/about
NYTimes had an article a few days ago[1] about Sbarro's bankruptcy that touched on this topic - basically, Sbarro bet big on shopping mall food courts, and that bet has not paid off.

But the more interesting part is at the end - as shopping malls become less desirable, rents will go down. This could lead to a radical reinvention of what a mall looks and feels like. So malls as we know them might be dead, but "the mall" isn't done yet.

[1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/this-is-the-rea...
People frequently confuse class and race. We should really be thinking about the former (though obviously the two are related to a degree).

Full disclosure: my grandfather was an uneducated Ukrainian immigrant (:
Not in Australia. We've probably had over $2 billion in re-development and upgrades integer biggest six shopping centres around the city I live in over the last three years... The one a ten minute drive from my house is wrapping up a two year, $450 million upgrade this half of the year. Pretty crazy, but they are doing pretty well making them places where you might actually want to be, which is important now online shopping has meant they are no longer places you need to go.
Well, who's Google's customers? People who buy ads, or free search users?

(an aside) One of the startups I worked for years ago, rented a huge office near San Jose, but decided to change directions and hire out of cheaper locales for a while. So we sublet the space out. For a good 2 years this space generated more revenue than the rest of the company and we joked that perhaps we should get into the real estate business. We even had two employees with real estate licenses in 3 states.
1. Not everyone lives in or near a city.

2. Parking

3. Convenience. It's much easier to walk around a mall in winter than it is a city centre.
Somehow I'd hope puting homosexuality more in the spotlight, with more realistic depiction in fiction would indirectly aleviate this problem. Even if it would still be statisticly low, making it that two men closely working together face the same gray zoning problem would move the problem from a gender problem to a generic human relation problem involving the majority of workers, and we could see effective solutions to it.
I live in Southern California suburbia. The nearest true city center is an hour metro train ride away, while the nearest mall is a ten minute drive. For me (and millions of others here) the malls are more convenient.
> any other good alternatives dudes?

Come try Fog Creek Software's Kiln!
> This is one of the few fields left in tech where men outnumber / outperform women

Outnumber, yes, but outperform? You seem to be implying that female developers are worse at their jobs than their male counterparts, which is terribly unfair.

> How are we supposed to respond to this sort of problem?

We shouldn't respond by assuming she made it all up. Yes, we need to give GitHub an opportunity to respond to these allegations, but Julie Ann Horvath is a well-respected member of the tech community, and we need to take her complaints seriously.
The amount of time you spend writing code on a whiteboard outweighs 'coding time'?

Really?

Let's be clear: whiteboards are a fine tool for design, problem analysis, architecture, etc. etc. People take issue with "write me bubble sort up here on this whiteboard."
And then you call Microsoft on the phone and they issue a reactivation, or whatever they call it, and everything is fine. Unless this works differently with OEM versions of Windows (different, more obtuse support people?) than it does with retail, I can't imagine it's actually a problem.
Definitely useful. I posted my project a few weeks back and am currently in discussions with four potential buyers.

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/652/storage-b...
Eric Schmidt on Critics Who Say College Isn’t Worth It
The main job of HR is prevent the company from entering lawsuits with (former) employees. Anything else is just window dressing. Most HR organizations like to act like they are an impartial judge in conflict situations, but they're on the company payroll after all.

So while for a single employee HR might seem like a waste of air, it's elementary for any business with a reasonable number of employees.
Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Scala, C#, C, C++ (!) and many others. This really doesn't set Lisp apart any more.
I'm curious about the "hula hoop" issue that Julie is referring to. As a male nerd, I will admit that my social skills are a bit lacking. However: I don't see the problem with staring at women who are putting on a show which is clearly unrelated to their work.

If 2 women started making out in the break room, I'm ashamed to say that I might just linger longer than usual.
I had a similar idea where you'd use some blockchain (Bitcoin, Namecoin, whatever) to keep track of your important assets in a decentralized virtual world, as well as your location.

Bitcoin solves the double spend problem, and you could think of your presence at a particular point in a virtual world as "spending" your time. You could use Bitcoin to ensure no user is in two places at once.
Whether a suit fits you and you like how it feels are two different things.
Hyper-V user here. It's fine - I run 12-15 VMs (4 of which are Linux) at a time (full production environment with virtual networking) on a 4 year old Dell T3500 Quad Xeon with 32Gb of RAM. Sounds like your hardware is broken/crap.
> this left the typesetter an unwelcome choice between moving the letters further apart (creating an awkward space in the lower half) or keeping them close together (creating a dense area or even touching/overlapping symbols in the upper half).

i just want to clarify that when it came to classic printing, the problem was much more pragmatic than aesthetic. The top of the f actually extended beyond the horizontal bounds of its sort[1]. If you didn't use a ligature, you risked damaging either your /f or your /i, but almost certainly you'd notice it when the line didn't pack flush. The the ligature was partly aesthetic, but it existed historically to make the act of printing work easily.

Now that kerning is better supported, 'historical ligatures' are something of a luxury, which is why they're still an opt-in feature in opentype fonts (you can see this distinction, btw, in the `rlig`, `dlig`, `liga`, `clig` and `hlig` opentype features[2]), except for brick, which is opinionated about these things.

[1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_type_kerning.sv...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typographic_features
Reject MBA culture.
What is a Skin Peel Treatment?
The peel skin treatment, is a beauty treatment that has been used since the 1930's for acne and wrinkle care and general improvement of the face. It's helped many people reduce the damage caused to their skin as a result of scarring caused by acne as well as the effects of aging.
That only more reason to be extremely professional - noone can blame anything on you. Or maybe it's just my viewpoint of the world, but I would take the most defensive route possible, and use the experience to my advantage (learn as much as possible, gain relevant & valuable experience, eject into another company as high as possible).
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I've been contacted several times by Google recruiters and the interactions have always left a bad taste in my mouth (and I've never even agreed to go forward with the interview process). They won't tell me what projects / products I'd be working on at Google if hired, which right off the bat is a non-starter for me. They want me to spend weeks studying puzzle coding problems for the interviews, which is also a non-starter. It seems like the entire process is centered around me proving to them that I am willing to go along with whatever they say. It's not a two way street at all.

As an experienced engineer who is happy in his current job, what is my motivation to jump ship? Google recruiters act like the chance of working at Google is by itself sufficient incentive. Google's entire process seems to geared towards selecting people who really want to work for Google and who will jump through whatever hoops Google sets up. Long-term, it is probably dangerous for Google to be so chock full of corporate confirmation bias.
No... this is the kind of response I find silly. That's not sexual harassment, it's being immature.
Hey everyone, why aren't you doing what I think's important...
That's awesome, but how much does Europe cost? "Buy our continent, receive a complimentary electric supercar."

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(Ref: original title was "Europe comes with the fastest electric car")
The map I directed to you was apparantly an enhanced one from the NYT; here's one with many more details figured in: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/malaysia-airlin... although I wouldn't treat those boundaries as gospel, there's likely more slop in the real estimates derived from the satellite.
Its not 1995 anymore. "Partner" is a perfectly correct term for any couple in a long-term relationship. I use the term "partner" quite frequently to refer to my relationship—and whether I'm gay or not, or whether Ms Horvath is so, is none of your business. You have no need, nor any inherent right, to "know what is going on."
"and that"

What is?
Girlfriends laptop is an HP pavilion g7 and no number of tutorials can get grub to load up on boot. She wants to boot to Ubuntu? Gotta remember to F12 into the bios and manually select it...

But it seems like this is less of a UEFI issue and more of an HP shitty UEFI issue, since plenty of other manufacturers don't cause any problems.
A reputation whose life is significantly longer and larger than air bnb.