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I should really have written the code to be Python 2/3 compatible.

I've not really worked with Python 3 yet, and I've regretted not basing a recent project, http://cloze.it , on it. I was getting unicode problems that Python 3 addresses pretty well.
On the other hand.. in computer science, there is no difference between men and women, everything runs on brain power. So I find it very weird that there is very few women in computer science.

It's sexism. People are being judged and losing opertunities based on their gender, which as you point out, is irrelevant.

Here's a mind blowing factoid: The lack of women in tech is strong evidence that tech is not a meritocracy.
The distinction is important because it means that there probably won't be an ecological imbalance if we exterminate the mosquitoes, since there are no species that exclusively depend on them, or which they are responsible for keeping in check.
When you eliminate a native species, the unintended consequences can be wide.
Then next week it'll be another bug, and another, and another. When exactly does it end?
How can URX lock in customers?

It seems like their deep linking method could be replicated easily (i.e. someone could build a site which generates deep links on demand, in the same way as URX does, even using the existing designed-for-URX tags in the HTML of the source page).

Is omnilink just part of their strategy?
Unfortunately IE is still required for a great many corporate intranets, and users will tend to keep using it for external sites as well.

edit: If they even can install other browsers. If they're lucky they will have a LTS release of Firefox available.
One thing that complicates the construction of a new compatible virtual machine is that the beam files are actually pre-processed at load time into another internal format that is then executed by the vm. Nevertheless see for example http://erlangonxen.org/ they have build a new vm running on top of xen.
Big Data the ‘reactive’ way
Long term thinking needed to support entrepreneurs (Richard Branson)
Removing an unfair advantage might make it harder/less easier for men. But that's OK.
Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL
Something like that yes :)

Automated transactions are also in development, similar to what Ethereum is trying to do.
"Most of the server's activity is spent on waiting for IO and managing concurrent socket based connections."

That sounds like a story I've heard a hundred times before. For the cases where it's true, good engineers have already been using one of the many other languages that fills that niche. For cases where that's not the primary problem, Go doesn't help.

That doesn't mean Go isn't a better option for some use cases. Great. I just don't understand why it's worth reinventing the universe to get something a little better for some use cases. Fine with me -- I'm not the one doing the work. I am just saying that I don't get it.

Especially for Google, a company which could have really made a difference in the way we write software.
My rank of unpleasantness:
1. Being conversed to badly.
2. Being around people who ignore you.
3. Being conversed to pleasantly.
4. Not being around people that might potentially converse to you badly.

The trouble with this research is that it compared being around people who ignore you with being around people with positive interaction (that turned out almost always ok).

It didn't compare being around people who ignore you and being around people that converse with you pleasantly with not being around people.

Also it failed to take into account how slightly pleasant interactions tend to fade away, but unpleasant interaction tends to burn a scar in ones memory that can hurt for years.
The reason why huge exits are so important is that they are what the venture capital industry relies on. It appears that New York(ers?) is/are attempting to develop a VC funded entrepreneurship sector, which requires the existence of big exits.
Oh, I thought I recognized the site, you were one of the guests on Hanselminutes. Kudos on the project, and you can write me down as another who would like to see an RSS/Atom feed :)
Almost. I think you're confusing "heart failure" with "myocardial infarction." They are two different diseases. Collapse during exertion can happen in either one, but in Seth's case myocardial infarction is more likely, because people with heart failure generally don't go hiking (their exercise tolerance is too limited).
Every "technical" person. I most times find myself using team-viewer to get G+ to work whenever I have a group chat with my school pals. G+ is great, but unfortunately I have found many non technical people I know have a hard time using it.
Why does the link point to localhost:4000 is this some sort of attack?
> You owe it to your readers to say that Seth's death is a warning to those who would flaunt conventional medical wisdom, as he clearly did.

Your comments in this thread are inappropriate and untimely. We do not yet know what caused Seth's collapse, and to jump to blame his experiments because you disagree with his methods is shortsighted.
"Angular VS Knockout VS Ember VS React VS Mithril" JsPerf
IMHO, RHEL kernels should never be considered stable or production-ready. Sadly, support contracts sometimes require their use.
I think being genuinely talented at something usually comes with an inability to sell oneself. The super talented types enjoy solving problems and learning complex things much more than they care about making money, and probably doubt their own ability.
Yelp can now show if a business accepts Bitcoin
But they masked the headlights in the treatment process. Which also raises the issue, you'll still need to wash your headlights and number plate.
I noticed edge tile problems. How the tile hits the end and pushes it back when it shouldn't.
I run a small company so might be a different perspective than you're looking for. But in general my motivations are:

1. Working with people that challenge me, make me laugh, and who do great work. And who I can have a beer with :) That goes for the team here and our customers.

2. Doing projects or products that are challenging and somehow "meaningful" to me. I like to enter unchartered territory in my projects where possible.

3. Earning enough money to be happy day to day (I don't need much), but having the slightest opportunity to earn LOADS of money :)

It did change my career. I started out earning good money contracting ($200K) and got bored after 4 years. Then started a business working with good people but bad clients and non-meaningful project, the business failed after 4 years. Now I'm building products and projects with great clients earning reasonable money, and working with a fun team.
I'm referring to using Cabs direct. I realise Hailo is via card.
I'm the CEO of a small remote-working startup with 5 employees. I pay $20/mo for Skype since some of people I meet with only use that and I need the group screen sharing feature. Whenever I have a Skype meeting, I'm nervous, because 50% of the time video or screen sharing won't work. Once I get them to switch to Hangouts there's no problems, ever.

Are you telling me that you experience the opposite? If so, that's very odd.
G+'s video quality was miles ahead of Skype's. Heck, even FaceTime's video quality was better.
People will have a lot of trouble accepting that they drive worse than the self-driving car, but less that others do. After all, we all think we're better than average drivers.

What I think we'll see initially is that people won't think they need self-driving for themselves but will be all for it for others. Think parents buying a car for their teenager: they'll want that car to have every safety feature under the sun. Likewise, the younger generation helping their aging Baby Boomer parents buy a new car.

Once you've started to get some mindshare that way, I think usage will spread pretty quickly. Then I think we'll hit a cultural tipping point.

When there are a lot of self-driving cars on the road and people have seen the evidence of their safety, not driving one will clearly become a selfish act: you're choosing to endanger others because you want to be in control of your car.

In the same way that we scorn people who don't wear seatbelts (even though it only puts them at risk) and despise people who don't make their children buckle up, I expect eventually we'll feel the same way about self-driving cars. It will be considered a public safety issue where you are a bad person if you don't drive one.
3a doesn't make sense because the male to female ratio in the industry is not 1:1.

Because 3a doesn't make sense, 4a doesn't make sense.
I got the impression that he steered them away from their stated need of 50ms, and determined their actual need, which he was able to meet.
Some guy put this on his 4x4 over a year ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRlQAhlwb2E
The breaks from A+ are pretty serious, both the treatment of undefined and releasing zalgo (http://blog.izs.me/post/59142742143/designing-apis-for-async...) and calling it a feature. Not on the hunt for a client side micro-framework but since I use a lot of modules that supply promises there's no way I'd use this.
I don't know if you're a Londoner, but for what it's worth, I think Uber's promotion (poorly conceived and worded as it is) won't be read that way in London. The tube workers are split between a number of unions, the TSSA, ASLEF and the RMT, of which only the RMT is participating in this latest strike (previous strikes this year have been cross-union). Also important to note is that the RMT had been led by Bob Crow for the past 12 years until he died suddenly in March. Under his leadership, the RMT was very aggressive with its strike action in comparison to the other unions, but that policy successfully boosted its tube driver members to an average salary of £52,000/pa ($87,400/pa). And even though he was a hate figure for much of the right-wing press during his lifetime, on his passing there was a consensus of sorts that he had been exceptionally good at his job and was actually well-regarded by his opposite numbers at Transport for London (who run the tube) as tough but a pragmatist.

This latest strike takes place in the shadow of the battle to succeed Bob Crow at the RMT. Tactically, it could undermine the union, as TfL will be able to keep a significant part of the network operational. However, none of the candidates for the leadership of the Union can oppose it for fear of being tarred as a management stooge by their rivals. Of course, that's not to say that both the TfL and even the other unions won't benefit if this strike proceeds and ends up being a damp squib.

All of which is to say, as working class demonstrations go, this one's something of an edge case. I'm pro organised labour but I think this particular strike is going to damage the cause more than it helps -- if the RMT is painted as reckless users of their strike power, the (right-of-centre) government will have an easier time either making it harder to strike (in terms of forcing minimum participation thresholds) or even the nuclear option of making the Tube an essential service, which would put its workers in the same position as the Police, Army and prison officers, who are legally barred from striking.
> "Roughly 1 in 4 drivers have a statistically significant amount of alcohol in their blood system"

You're going to need to provide a citation here.
I've always assumed that this is how government agencies would try and interpret the situation, but I also assume that this will go all the way to the top to be properly decided.

Edit: Not to mention that other countries may disagree with this interpretation and sue the local branch of the company if they send the data outside the region. Then the issue will become a matter of international law.
From his last column, linked to above:

"It was nice to know all that but I did wonder: Was I killing myself? Fortunately I could find out. A few months before my butter discovery, I had gotten a “heart scan” – a tomographic x-ray of my circulatory system. These scans are summarized by an Agatston score, a measure of calcification. Your Agatston score is the best predictor of whether you will have a heart attack in the next few years. After a year of eating a half stick of butter every day, I got a second heart scan. Remarkably, my Agatston score had improved (= less calcification), which is rare. Apparently my risk of a heart attack had gone down."
Are there any studies that back up your claims that small cars would reduce the death toll? I follow the intuition, but China has over twice as many deaths per car on the road as the United States: (36 per 100k vs 15) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...

There are of course other factors going on than just the weight of the cars, e.g. traffic laws, enforcement, community norms around driving, ratio of scooters and motorcycles, car safety ratings, etc etc etc. but there are difficult tradeoffs here too. An egg-car will cause less damage in a low velocity impact with a pedestrian, but at highway speeds it will also do less to protect its passengers.
Google's Driverless Cars Now Mastering City Streets
Thanks! Was wondering who would make this first.
On the bright side, it opens opportunities for off-shore (in relation to the U. S.) Dropbox clone startups.

I fully expect MSFT to drag this all of the way to the Supreme Court. I'm curious to see how it shakes out from there.
Ask HN: Why was this story killed
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I'm not redefining the word, you are. "Fast follower" is defined very narrowly. (Go ahead and look it up.) Here is how we use it https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/fast%20foll... and https://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/fast%20fo...

and see Google.

Just like if you were to accuse them of "trademark infringement" or "copyright infringement".

It's just not a very broad word, it's quite specific, and you shouldn't use it. You can call them derivative or unoriginal, for example, or describe what you think they're doing. But you can't call Google+ a "trademark infringement" of Facebook, for example, because they don't use the word Facebook, and you can't call it a "fast following" either, because it's not close enough.

Google Search wasn't "fast following" Yahoo web search, and Gmail wasn't "fast following" Yahoo Mail (another web mail), and Google maps weren't "fast following" mapquest or whatever people were using, and Google+ isn't "fast following" Facebook.

Not because they aren't in the same space, or taking cues. But because of the meaning of fast following, which is extremely specific. (Almost like feature and layout matching.)

You see how it works? Look up trademark, copyright, and fast following - then you will see that you really can't use these particular words of Google. You can use other words of course.

I will give you an exception. I think shortly after the iPhone came out, Samsung literally had a strategy of fast following it. (Immorally.)
http://bgr.com/2012/08/08/apple-samsung-patent-lawsuit-inter...

This is the meaning of "fast follow". You can look it up. Other companies that had a close follow strategy have been Zynga:

http://nibletz.com/2012/01/31/fast-follow-the-game-zynga-lik...

You see? This is how the whole word is defined. Nobody, but nobody, accuses Google of using this strategy. They're just not doing it, just like they're not committing trademark infringement.

it's a very real strategy that is very shitty. I'm not redefining the word to refer to it - you are if you want it to be broader :).

You can use any other word you want, but the "fast follow", for better or for worse, has a specific meaning that does not apply.

By the way I am a huge opponent of the fast follow strategy! I think it amounts to theft. The only legal protection companies have is design and utility patents, but that opens its own can of worms.

It is better if companies simply don't use this strategy to steal other companies' work.

I hope in reading the above link you will come to the same conclusion, and use different words to describe what you mean. Thanks.
Google Hangouts work on PCs, laptops, and phones. When I get a hangout call, it rings on all devices where I'm currently logged into hangouts.

TV is the only place Xbox wins today. Though google does have some TV toys right now (Google TV and Chromecast). They could probably look into adding a webcam to that with hangouts.
So... Anybody have a list of cool companies that don't have any business in the US?

Lack of ties with the US is becoming more and more valuable every day.

Edit: I love how the reason the judge ruled like that is because it's too much of a hassle for law enforcement. Guess security is not the only thing that gets sacrificed just because we're too lazy.
This could absolutely destroy the US cloud-based services industry if this gets reaffirmed. It actually doesn't make any sense though, but it continues to chip away at global confidence in US-based companies.
This is my concern. If we treat cyclists as the sacred cow of the roads, they'll more or less have the root password to my car and be able to dictate where it stops and for how long.

I find cyclists to be much more disingenuous and reckless than any driver, at least here in Chicago where they'll put up next to your car on the right, on the shoulder to make a dangerous and illegal right, and pound on the side of your car with their fists to let you know they're there.

I don't see how empowering that group and its "cars suck, rules don't apply to me" attitudes can help.
Ironically compared to debuggers for Common Lisp or Smalltalk, the Javascript debuggers are not all that good.
You should have taken care of it without even contacting him. He would have never known it was you.
Skrót 0.1
Nuclear rockets would be awesome. They aren't required for a Mars mission, and if we keep on talking about how much they would help, pretty soon they would implicitly end up on the "Required To Get To Mars" list. Then, any problems that nuclear rockets run into (say political opposition, reasonable or not) derails a Mars mission.
Yes, and this is Ultra Ever Dry, so not some secret new Nissan technology.

I got excited about ultrahydrophobic sprays for a day or two, but the indications for use are a reality check. Avoid prolonged exposure to UV light (i.e. the outdoors). Avoid prolonged exposure to water(! e.g. can't coat the toilet bowl). Avoid scratching (don't touch it). And so on.
Thanks. Always good to hear a first hand account.
I had similar reasons, but on my case the language was still at pre-1.0.
They are completely appropriate and very timely. "Collapsed while hiking." The only way that can happen is with an interruption in blood flow, which means a clot or a bleed. If you want, I can go into details, but with his butter and his omega habits, he was putting himself at risk for both, contradictory as that may sound.
You're the developer I want to be someday.

I realize that may sound weird. I'm ok with it.
That makes some sense to me, if you are a U.S. company you should have to comply with US law regardless of where you store the data.

Whether or not this particular warrant is valid is another matter.
It's not quite possible yet, but that's a frequently requested feature, and we're most of the way there. The wysiwyg component we're using, http://hallojs.org/, supports defining extra buttons via plugins, and Wagtail provides a hook mechanism for passing in custom JS/CSS to the editor - we're just missing a bit of glue to connect the two.

I'm cautious about overloading the rich text editor with too many features - things like tables, say, would be better handled as an explicit part of the page model / template rather than kept in an opaque blob of HTML - but I can appreciate the need for more formatting options.
According to this[1] New York Times graphic the following household incomes place you in these percentiles.

Top 1%: $383,000
Top 5%: $188,000
Top 10%: $140,000
Top 25%: $89,125
Top 50%: $50,742
Top 75%: $25,411
Top 90%: $12,154

Give that those incomes are so low[2] it isn't surprising that the top percentiles have so many people that have at least one year in them. As an example, My mother, who reached $60k for 2 years at the end of her 45 year career had to take a 401(k) withdrawal[3], which is counted as income, which boosted her, barely, into the top 20 percent, for one year. It's pretty easy to see how people can be boosted into higher brackets for short periods of time. Picketty is talking about wealth, not income, so it's hard to see how you could build wealth consistently with short term boosts. Remember, 54% of people experienced poverty or near poverty as well...potentially wiping out any wealth they had accrued.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-p...

2: I think we see incomes like $188k as low or middle class when they are anything but. Median household income is only ~$50k.

3: Please try to avoid doing this!
The Netherlands: land of data centers
> I’ve been using Go since November and I’ve decided that it’s time to give it up for my hobby projects. I’d still be happy to use it professionally, but I find that programming in Go isn’t “fun” in the same way that Python, Haskell, or Lisp is.

I can't leave go, but indeed I think absolutely the same. The thing is that GO was designed to replace c++ thing that absolutely failed. So we have a python/ruby replacement with very old patterns (I think manual checking errors ie.).

Indeed I think go is an awesome language but sometimes I really feel like a monkey repeating myself over and over again.
On what basis is your opinion founded? Most of the top websites in the world use RHEL or one of its brethren (aside from Google).
> "Since when do we need multi tons machine to move a being that is usually below 100kg from a to b"

You don't always need them. Short intra-city drives don't require a large vehicle. But most public transportation in the US is rather poor, so people buy a car that will cover their worst case usage: driving multiple people and their luggage between cities, possibly hundreds of miles. An electric egg car isn't safe or efficient for that.

There is a car lobby in the U.S. and it does have influence, but you have ignored Occam's Razor here. People buy large cars in the U.S. simply because they are useful. Creating competing services so large, individually owned cars are less useful is what projects like this and Uber are working on.
I like how they're showing lag in real life and then advertising a bandwidth number.
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