skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this in general leads to an even worse practice: creating one huge standalone app instead of several specialized web apps. when you develop a service with an embedded server, your endpoint will have an unique port (as each app will have to allocate its own unique port number) and all the idea of restful URI gets broken.
Not only the mathematical content gets hard,
but the book is full of puns, metalinguistics, crossreferences, good enough to make you laugh out loud and subtle enough to not become saturated.
So, he's a journalist? Isn't that what journalists do?
Goldman Sachs 2011 net income was $162,913 per employee. Average pay was $367,057. It's harder to get data on Google, but it looks like the mid-career median salary is $141,000. Google's Gross Profit (Total Revenue less Cost of Revenue) was $24.7B in 2011, and GS's was $24.5B. At the same time, Google had 32,467 employees to GS's 35,700. Yet, the Google net income was $9.7B compared to $4.4B on the GS side. The difference seems to be made up entirely by the difference in employee compensation.

It's the money, stupid.
There is a similar plugin for GIMP, though it is less refined.
That's mostly the fault of the author and our marketing budget. We've been getting a steady stream of awesome new games including Duck Game, which I'm sure would have been a hit at this guy's party: https://www.ouya.tv/game/DUCK-GAME/
It's like so obvious, if you've spent any time at all working for one of these places. Or heck, even interviewing with them.

Here's what it all boils down to: aside the quants, the genuinely alpha traders, and few other wonky actuarial types, most of the grunts (you know: the "analysts"... and the vast majority of the IT types) don't seem to be there, or to have any other propelling motive in life, other than: (1) the above-average salary, and (2) once you're in, you're pretty much guaranteed to do alright -- as long as you're willing to fit in, never even think of rocking the boat, and be ready and willing to continually supplicate your superiors at all times.

Hence the ridiculously subdued style of dress (the dainty dress shoes, the blue and bland off-white shirts), and the curiously submissive demeanor of about 80% of the people you'll meet working there.

Oh, and that drug test, that everyone snickers about below their breath? Including your hiring manager? As everybody knows, it certainly isn't there out of any concern that you'd be abusing intoxicants (after all, you're more than welcome to get shitfaced on alcohol every night of the week -- which most nights you'll find yourself more or less needing to, to drown out the pain, and there sheer inanity of what you're asked to do).

It's there as a gesture of supplication and obedience -- nothing more. Getting you to drop your trousers, whip our your gear, and provide a "specimen" upon demand -- just because your superiors told you to! -- isn't an unfortunate side aspect of drug screening; it's the true purpose of the ritual -- the very end goal, in itself.
I fear it might prove to be premature. Take for instance Japan Power Plus. If their battery tech proves to be true, then in a few years lithium batteries will be on the decline, and Elon will be caught holding the proverbial bag. Even if Japan Power Plus proves to be a bust, there is so much research going on in the field that it seems all too likely that some major new battery tech is around the corner. If Elon can't convert his Gigafactory to that new tech, he'll be hard pressed to recoup his $5 billion.
> Worse, suppose in that glorious cloud future a person might end up in a situation where they can't make those substantial payments to their cloud providers for a time. All their stuff will be gone, as well.

There should be some sort of process for this, akin to safety deposit boxes. Image the machines to tape, store for a year or two. You may need to work in something to ensure you don't turn into long-term data storage (maybe only offer the download once, or add in a 30 day "thaw from storage" buffer, or maybe a fixed fee to retrieve that data).
Anyone know what that domain cost? More than one pretty penny - though worth penny if execution is done well, which it seems is likely with the founders' history.
This is not applicable to WebSockets.
Sorry for the expression. English isn't my primary language. I meant it in a different meaning : "because you think a greek political party has the power to endanger..."

As for your other point. I believe that it's all a matter of power relationship. Moral isn't really effective.
Your trading activities ignored the fact that a country like greece has all kinds of binds and ties to other eurozone countries, and thus aren't completely free to do whatever they want ( at least not without dealing with a lot of hostile behaviors).
....not sure if troll or not....
Battery & battery replacement cost is a big piece of ammo for people who fight non-combustible automotive energy sources, so fantastic as always.

I'm interested to know what sort of contributions Musk & Co have been able to make with regard to battery efficiency and longevity in their time with the Tesla line. That, to me, is the big missing piece to take things from "sure, it could work" to "ok I'm ready to switch" for many.
This seems to imply that the factory would be unable to switch its operations to new battery types, which I find somewhat unlikely.
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It is not new at all, that's exactly why I wrote the blog post, since it is an actual use case. But it is a good idea to formalize a canonical model to do it with Redis in a safe way, and to show what are the failure modes when we resort to simpler designs (like failover to slaves).
A good counter proposal to the "typical" server-side web architecture is seaside (www.seaside.st).

Its tutorial (A walk on the seaside on http://seaside.st/documentation/tutorials) is rather basic, but shows the concepts well. (edit: longer article http://book.seaside.st)

Of course it has a different set of quirks to get used to, so it's not a cure-all - but it gives a different perspective on web-things.
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It makes a lot of sense iff those businesses lose less money on cloud+ISP downtime than they would spend on IT staff or on-site support from a retail store.
I find it amazing the attitude that the 2002 Gujarat riots should be brushed under the rug. There is still plenty of controversy about what happened there and Modi's and the states role in those riots, regardless of what any Supreme Court ruling has said. But I guess we should just let bygones be bygones and forget the 1000+ deaths and 100,000s of displaced lives due to riots that are widely believed to have been encouraged, if not caused, by the state.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-17200961
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You can't proselytize a rational worldview to irrational people.

The likely reality is that the U.S. has a lesser desire than most other governments to suppress liberty, privacy, and free expression, but their capability is so much greater in magnitude than the others that they end up being the worst offender in the world anyway.

So you can't just say that "every government is bad." Some have worse motives than others, and some are more competent than others. As a result, citizens of governments who are only in it for the bribes and mistresses and are otherwise somewhat bumbling incompetents (and I'm not naming names here), are likely safer than citizens of governments who believe they have a mission from God to be the sword and shield of the righteous, and hire thousands of the smartest people in the world to carry that mission out.

The point being that yes, all governments are a nonzero threat to all people, but severity equals risk multiplied by impact. You really have to address the shit that the U.S., Russia, and China are doing to the global network first.
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Agreed. MVC is vastly, vastly superior to what people, especially inexperienced programmers, "naturally" seem to do - which is to dump their models into their views.
Looks like they removed this requirement recently. We have JetBlue in our presence :O
Like it or not Pro-business is probably why Modi was elected. Every economic indicator in India went downhill since the BJP has been out of power for the last decade[1][2] - IMO the single biggest contributing factor to get Modi elected.
Indians have a short memory, the 2002 riots and other religious issues are not as relevant to the people as they used to be.

[1]http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/1448580
[2] http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/time-for-trans...
Almost every economic indicator has turned adverse. In the 10-year period, growth nearly halved from 8.1 per cent to 4.9 per cent, inflation more than doubled from 3.8 per cent to 9.5 per cent, and food inflation rose nearly 10 times from 1.3 per cent to 12.8 per cent.
> Most likely Mr. Modi doesn't care about US visa

I would slightly disagree. To maintain relations, move forward discussion, a US visa would be helpful. And US has already been changing their stance since the last few months as they were aware of the possible Modi victory.
But I totally agree that its not a benchmark of character.
It's a portmanteau of electric + execution.

It's been misused so often that the non-fatal meaning is becoming a separate line item in the definition, but the parent comment is correct.
Link to slide deck is broken. Mirror: http://www.slideshare.net/tymekpavel/asynchronous-javascript...
Because there's a significant difference in influence I can assert to MY governmnet and a FOREIGN (which includes US) government.

Consider just a lot of US surveillance laws: we non-US citizens might as well be animals for the rights we have. Significantly different than what our own local/EU privacy laws award us.

Also it is significantly easier to take legal action againsy my own government agencies than US ones.
Am I the only one who thinks that the IRS should not be able to make someone who is mentally fragile homeless, just because he hasn't filed his taxes? It seems very inhumane to me.
Yes, he can. Some people don't know about that yet.
Add me to the chorus. I first read it in high school and it fascinated me from the first page. Living in an isolated small town, I instantly knew this was the sort of thing I'd been yearning for. I've read it a few times since.

Thomas Pynchon's "V." had the same effect.
Everyone knows the hours are bullshit, and actually impair productivity and judgement.

But they're there to serve a Higher Purpose: to engender classic, Stockholm Syndrome endearment -- and unquestioned obedience.
I don't understand any of the words used to describe Bach's music, and I don't know any of the pieces. Is there an accompanying audio track I could listen to that shows the examples the book is referencing, and explains the words used to describe them?
It's not patronizing, it's honest. Read the book, and you'll agree with me. (And it's hardly the only book that gets this credit - something like Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", or Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy, or any number of other books will fundamentally change how you think.)
"if [the] audience thinks you are trolling, you are"

Really? I thought the entire definition of trolling was based on intent. Trolling is trying to provoke a reaction from people.

By your definition a significant percentage of the world is trolling the anti-vax and truther communities for example. And many mentally ill people who comment online are trolls instead of just being mistaken for them?

This definition seems a lot less useful to me than the intent based one.
> Is having corporate experience really that much better though?

Yes, a thousand times yes. At a minimum it gives you insight into some product/set of products that are commercially viable and people use. You get experience with at least one build system, and code architecture someone took to market. It also gives you a paycheck that frees up worries about food and housing. In the least demanding of these jobs you can use the down time to learn other technologies by building a MVP of the current product in another technology or contributing to open source projects your corporate job uses. The insight gained from one "real job" is a million times more helpful than trolling github and trying to figure out what a given project is used for in the real world.
He could do with some help in the near term, but in the long term he should be fine.

He needs to socialize more in an environment that will get him a job that allows him to pursue his passion and get out some more.

Perhaps some unobtrusive ads on his website geared to stuff which fits in with the leisure interests and hobbies of Lisp hackers and relate geeks should serve him well.

It will require a notice to Adblock & Noscript users that they should unblock ads and Javascript from his page as they are unobtrusive
Rocket Internet (startup cloning factory) launches carpooling clone in Brazil
Eh. I started reading his book "I am a Strange Loop", and it became obvious that the author is an enormous blowhard. Is it really worth reading despite the pretentiousness?
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Here[0] is another example of extreme abuse of the condition system in order to construct "dynamic data pipelines" in Lisp. Roughly, it provides the ability of sending data to different parts of the call stack, and then returning back to continue processing. It can do all of this without any explicit use of variables, or without passing state around.

[0] PDF: https://bitbucket.org/tarballs_are_good/dynamic-collect/src/...
How to increase traffic on nytimes.com:

Reasoning - Businessinsider.com, buzzfeed.com & huffingtonpost.com are loaded with aggregated content. Not all of it is great, often it is old news or a meme from 3 months ago.

But, every piece of content is carefully designed and crafted to produce as many clicks as possible. It's laughable at times how headlines are rewritten and sexed up to get you to click.

As soon as you realized that it's the same article you read 2 weeks ago on nytimes.com but with better images, a nice interactive chart and a youtube video you might feel bad for a second or two but the damage is done - product sold.

=== 7 NYTIMES Homepage Ideas ===

1) DESIGN:

Simpler - less noise - scannable (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-users-read-on-the-web/)

Too much noise on the homepage - yes we know you produce 25,000 articles everyday but we can't read all of it in 2 minutes - Make it easier to scan - my eyes should
not be going left - right and up - down constantly.

2) HEADLINES -

Please make them more interesting - more to the point - shorter - Tell us what the article is really about - A/B test them live.

3) VIDEOS

More videos - not one-offs but branded segments with style and character and good production value - with an actual point of view or focus not some bland summary like "Ok this is what happened today in Washington ..." - we can get that anywhere.

The folks at theverge.com do a good job of that - please copy, adapt & iterate.

4) SECTIONS: Books,Music,TV,Restaurants

You can read a great book review on nytimes.com but you can't download a sample or add it to "Book to read later" list, or take any meaningful action on that book - fix it.

Same deal for movies, restaurants or TV shows. I'd suggest some integration with Netflix/Amazon/iTunes/Google/Spotify.

5) TRAVEL -

Again, great read but all you can do is save a link to that article for your next vacation -- not good enough.

Suggestion - mobile service/app/map integration that keeps track of those favorite reviews and notifies you, the next time you walk into that restaurant so you'll know
what not order.

6) What do I want to read next ?

Articles read + (Netflix info + Amazon info + Spotify info + Other services/purchases) = ???

If you can data-mined at least some of that you could have a good enough answer most of the time.

7) KILL THE PAYWALL

For the overwhelming majority of users this is a big NO. As an added bonus to a Netflix or Amazon Prime subscription ... maybe.

BONUS: Better search & filtering -
You should totally read it! It's a good read.
It made me realise a math book could be written in that way and actually be "rigorous".

For me, at 17 when I read it, math was just a bunch of symbols and exercises. It introduced me to logic and reasoning, made me think about the world differently.

It's like the real red pill in the matrix that's not just something you swallow. You think about it, and you start wondering what else you think you knew about math and the world can be challenged.

It made me a braver man. In that sense, it did change my life.
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Plotting the Rise of The Internet of Things
BUT that was 6+ years AFTER Amiga launched!
This guy has a fairly good understanding of entry-level finance culture but no clue about the Valley.

You get the sex appeal and allure of the tech industry

Lolwut. Sex appeal? Maybe Mad Men's Michael Ginsburg was on to something.

Now it's people who are well adjusted, good looking graduates of elite institutions. It's gone from weirdos in pocket protectors to the guys who used to go to Wall Street.

Carpet-baggers. And they aren't any better (or worse) looking. Same with bankers. On average, they're average looking. What they are is more assertive, while engineers tend to be meek doormats. True-blue engineers don't get driven out because business people are better looking, but because they're more assertive. Blaming it on "pretty people" is refusing to take responsibility. Gates, Jobs, Bezos, and Ellison are average-looking at best.

Ok kids, so here's what the analyst program is really about. When you're in school, deadlines are easy to meet and well-tested. If you miss a deadline that 20 of your peers made easily, then either something bad happened or you fucked up. People coming out of school tend to have a "deadlines is deadlines" mentality, because they've spent 16 years in a world where almost all deadlines were well-tested and could be met by anyone with a work ethic (and a stable home, and no health problems, but we're sampling from the upper-middle class here). The difference, in business, is that many deadlines are untested and arbitrary. Some deadlines you absolutely have to meet. Most are just some guy's opinion, and as long as you aren't personally responsible for the miss, it doesn't matter.

Soft-side finance and biglaw have larger-than-normal proportions of deadlines that actually matter and want to put people through a wringer to see who has the unconditional (again, "deadlines is deadlines") work ethic and who doesn't. In some businesses that are heavily relationship-based, having at least one person on the team with an unconditional work ethic can be a lifesaver.

It's bad for tech that it answers to such people, though, because the sorts of people who tend to have an unconditional work ethic are a disaster in any line of business that requires vision. It's the tradeoff between subordinacy, strategy, and dedication (pick two). People who are subordinate and dedicated (unconditional work ethic) will never be strategic, which means they'll be poor at choosing what to work on. They're great in analyst positions and maybe as VC-funded founders (because the VCs are the true executives) but absolutely useless in decision-making roles.
Even if it was about thousands of guests, you can buy more than one machine.
The only question is, how much is the client willing to pay?
That is a problem but the lack of a viable way to do native feeling apps on mobile devices has (I think) to a large extent driven walled garden app stores which are just as pernicious.

It's not all roses in any case.
This happens to me as well. I've wondered for years if there is actually something wrong, or if I'm somehow just worse than most people at picking one stream of words from high background noise environments.

FWIW, my hearing is excellent, and I have a headphone hobby. I definitely notice small details in music. I almost always wear earplugs at clubs / loud environments, and in general loud sounds seem to bother me a bit more than others, while my tolerance for extremely loud sounds is low (permanent hearing damage etc).
I have had mostly the same experience.

On the plus side: a lot of companies care about Open Source experience and are able to evaluate it.

On the down side: companies who do it are still the minority, and you'll get a lot of competition from similar folks, who'll likely have written even more open source code than you did, and if they have had a real paid-for work experience will probably be preferred
What's the point of that? You still need to worry about your own off-cloud backups and a contingency plan for when your vendor goes out of business.
If you "buy" one of his tutorial I don't think you will get in trouble. Just don't donate or send him a check if you worry about IRS coming after you.
Yes, there are plenty of articles discussing MIT and grade deflation. Unfortunately, none of the ones I could find have any data - its all anecdotal from students. The hard data I did actually find (http://www.gradeinflation.com/) shows grade inflation at MIT matching that at Harvard (the media's favorite grade inflation target) almost perfectly from 1950-2000.

I never thought this before, but now that I've actually looked at what little data is available, it looks an awful lot like the MIT grade deflation thing is a myth.
Great thinking doesn't rely on publication date. One could argue that anything that only works in a certain short period of time isn't great thinking. There are things written thousands of years ago that are still relevant.
It should also be noted that sometimes you're not talking to Millie. Self-hosting is a viable option for a lot of people and businesses, even more so with the help of a friendly local CIO-as-a-service consulting company nearby whose rates are competitive with the SaaS+time wasted by non-tech users trying to manage the PCs that access it.
In AdWords, which is 90%+ of Google's revenue, advertising prices that advertisers pay are set by advertisers, not by Google.
>"...internal feedback..."

Not so internal anymore! Don't get me wrong, I read your comment with interest, but then was struck with how we are talking about him as if he _was_ dead. Apparently he likes his life to be public but actual job interviews somehow strike me as private.
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No, they spend an enormous time commenting on actions by private companies, including corporate surveillance. Maybe you've just paid attention for the last few days?

Meanwhile reliable critics of Google like Cory Doctorow have also been criticizing the ruling by the European Court of Justice, and if you read the link in that tweet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/hidden-in-plain-sight

you'll see that the implications of that ruling actually are troubling. I think on the contrary, implying that being troubled by the ruling is equivalent to "defending Google's rights rather than defending individuals' rights" is disingenuous and intellectually lazy.

You can disagree with them, but it shouldn't be hard to empathize here: imagine someone who strongly believes in an American-style right to free speech; surely it's not beyond the realm of possibility that that person can't be both a vociferous defender of individual's rights while also worried about how this ruling will itself erode those rights?
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For anyone (like me) wondering who Japan Power Plus / what they built:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-or...