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I agree the replies are in good faith, and I'm happy people took the time to respond to me. But somehow the good faith makes things frustrating. Trolls can be ignored, downvoted and banned, but communication problems are complicated. If we have a discussion and nobody changes their mind, something's wrong.

About your first link: http://neis-one.org/2012/11/active-users-osm-nov12/

They did precisely what I was advocating: adjust for population and area (though a little coarse). And it makes the data much more insightful: look at that bright Greenland, or Brazil lagging behind the rest of the continent. That's not visible on OP's map.

And I stand corrected on the import information. I hadn't thought of that. So the information on the map is not useless, but it could be much better.
Maybe because of license issues? Windows also uses more resources.
Inequality is not inevitable
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A huge factor is the low consequences and low responsibilities required of the _typical_ teenager.

An adult at work beats up a co-worker? Fired, jail time, lawsuit. Same thing for a child? Detention or a day of suspension.

Likewise, adults are busy making money to pay for a place to live, food, etc. Teenagers - it's all free to them.
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This is a good point. I have found cstheory.stackexchange and math.stackexchange a good place to field questions of mine (with the latter mostly being for stupid questions that I should already know the answer to).

That being said, the stackexchange community was designed for the purpose of quashing discussion, especially that which doesn't directly address the question at hand, even if those discussions are productive and insightful.
Not sure why you have been voted down.

Oh wait, I do. This is Hacker News; where surface experts abound on every subject and you best not ask for facts, veracity or credibility.
Ask HN: Is IT support becoming an anachronism in startups?
I've been in IT support for longer than I like to think, always striving to make IT a department a technical lubricant that enables a company to grow smoothly. One way that manifested was my goal for new employees to be able to walk in to a station 100% IT complete on day 1: after a brief IT orientation, they should be able to enter their password and get straight to work. On more than one occasion, my IT teams have been told our on-boarding was the best the user has ever experienced.

Recently however, I've had a number of people in both HR and IT proudly proclaim that new employees are handed an imaged laptop and an instruction sheet on their first day -- everything else they figure out themselves and IT as a support organization is nearly non-existent. If their Mac has problems, they hoof it to the Apple Store themselves for service.

I can see some advantages to this -- it has to help get you socialized in a new place and it certainly teaches self-reliance, but IMHO it also discourages standardization -- it feels like instead of 3 IT people doing things 1 way, you could have 50 people doing things 50 different ways. Having developers take time out of their day to diagnose printer problems or spend an hour in line waiting for a Genius Bar appointment also seems crazy.

Is this a growing trend in companies?
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Good luck with that as a Court Reporter.

Almost all journalists start out at regional or local publications covering Courts. It is considered the apprenticeship of mainstream news journalism.
I agree that Facebook's experiment was ethically problematic, but comparing it with the Tuskegee Experiment is a wild leap of exaggeration, since there's no proof that Facebook did significant harm to any of its users. For those who are unfamiliar with that sordid piece of U.S. history:

"The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government."[1]

Syphilis can have devastating effects if the infection spreads to the central nervous system.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosyphilis
I think this is what frustrates me. We've slowly started reducing the amount of Windows machines in our cluster as the licensing for SQL went from £160 a month per CPU up to £240 per CPU in the space of 2 years.

This is unacceptable.

We can't run a business trying to guess what this will be in another 12 months time.

Resource is a big issue, I recently fired up a small Linux box on Digital Ocean as a test; it's 512mb with a small CPU. The machine barely runs at any overhead when dormant. A Windows box is using 1GB before the operating system has finished loading
I would also like to see such a community.

I've found it somewhat in the Julia community, which tends to lean heavily towards scientific computing and has a lot of Ph.D.s, grad students, and Ph.D. dropouts. We just had JuliaCon last week, and the talks tended to be first about a problem domain (statistical modeling, optimization, natural language processing, finite element methods...) and secondarily about Julia. I loved it.

If you're in the Chicago area, I'd encourage you to drop by our Julia Meetup group, which has a similar format. Previous talks have been about solving problems in climate modeling, machine learning, and molecular dynamics, and I'm trying to line up talks later this summer about machine learning in psychology and MLE modeling of longitudinal econometric data. (All using Julia, of course.) The group is small, but the quality of discussion is very high. Join the group and you'll get an email when the next meeting is added to the calendar:

http://www.meetup.com/JuliaChicago/
Construct 2 is an excellent tool for building 2d games, and I'm sure you could create a decent RPG through Construct 2 - and have it work across many platforms.
I think a site organized around "links to papers" would have an even harder time gaining critical mass because people find out about papers in so many ways (word of mouth, conferences, blogs, arXiv), and the "best" ways to find out about papers that you'd then devote a long time to reading usually need serious motivation (great talk, met an author, know you need to learn a technique) rather than a random link.
"Bodily passion was not just a part of Bentham's life: it was fundamental to his thought... Of all enjoyments, Bentham reasoned, sex was the most universal, the most easily accessible, the most intense, and the most copious – nothing was more conducive to happiness."

Yep, this is someone who tech nerds can honestly relate with. Easily accessible. Uh huh.

http://www.damemagazine.com/2014/05/23/amazon-killing-my-sex...
its “cost of materials” is close to zero largely because those users have no idea how much their data is worth

Ten dollars a year on average. Facebook had $7B in revenues last year from 700M users. That's assuming all of Facebook's value comes from users' data which is not entirely fair. Even if you're an American (making your info more valuable on average to advertisers), you still spend more on toothpaste, hopefully.

I get valuing privacy but where did the myth that your data is worth a lot originate? Most people will give their details for a coupon. Not because they don't know data's value but because they do and it's almost nothing. You need to aggregate millions upon millions of users to eke out a profit.

Regardless, I like this bit of cold accounting applied to your own life.

she calculated how much had already been invested in JLM in its 35 years of pre-corporate existence. Her mother figured out how much it had cost to raise her as a child; college education expenses were added in, as was a modest inheritance and her earnings to date. Adjusted for inflation, the total came to just over $1m, and Ms Morone confesses to being dismayed at how little output this investment had produced.
The article goes on to answer that two paragraphs later:

"You may wonder why, if adolescents have such enhanced capacity for anxiety, they are such novelty seekers and risk takers. It would seem that the two traits are at odds. The answer, in part, is that the brain’s reward center, just like its fear circuit, matures earlier than the prefrontal cortex. That reward center drives much of teenagers’ risky behavior. This behavioral paradox also helps explain why adolescents are particularly prone to injury and trauma. The top three killers of teenagers are accidents, homicide and suicide."
The reason that comment was voted down is very likely its rather unnecessarily adversarial tone. It takes very little effort to have the same content and be polite while expressing it.
I like Chart.js, I can't tell if I'm looking at the beta from my phone though. I'd hope they add a scatter plot then it'd be close to perfect. There might be a fork I haven't found yet, but I know anything I made wouldn't look as nice.
.Net developer here.

I think VS is really awesome and a + for .Net . The support for Mono and cross platform has grown and Microsoft has shown interests by partnering with the team behind Mono..

IIS is getting decaprecated (= The OWIN project).

LocalDB doesn't require you to create a new database and you really have a json file as database . You can just use it, it's called Biggy and it's on GitHub ( https://github.com/robconery/biggy ). (a file based document store). - i used it and it works. - It's actually more then a file based db, but check it out if you're interested.

Git support is build-in (already a long time) and TFS seemed to work for me ( i use Visual Studio Online).

Using Windows, well. I think this is "currently" a no-brainer. But Mono will be more important, so it should become usable on Linux also... (normally). Btw. I use Linux tools on my Windows machine all the time, stuff like Cygwin,ImageMagick, Go, Ruby are installed by default on my development pc.... It doesn't mean i can't work in Linux (i also have a Pi which requires me to work in it). Currently, i just prefer Windows
Apparently, everything Aaron downloaded is available at theinfo.org. Nobody has really done anything (apparent) with it. The site is down now, so maybe that is an indication this doc has inspired something in someone.
>>This bill is largely irrelevant and pro forma. There was no enforcement of the underlying statute it repeals anyway.

This is true until it isn't[1].

1. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/560564-the-essence-of-fascis...

>>The upshot is that every Bitcoin startup in California is still and will still be breaking multiple laws, possibly including the MTA (which AB 129 has no effect on) and Y Combinator and other VCs are just as liable legally as any of the founders of those startups via federal law.

And this is exactly why I'm glad there are people who use legal reforms to chip away at situations like this. Companies & people that are operating in a form that's technically illegal but nobody enforced the law on them. One day, Coinbase or whatever starts getting really big then some back-room deal(extortion) happens where someone says "Look, you either play ball with me or I'll start reminding powerful authority figures about Law ABC of section 123, on appendix XYZ passed 7 years ago as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill nobody was paying attention to that would shutdown your whole operation."

I'd also like to see some kind of reform for the ridiculous situation created by IRS declaring bitcoin as property without any clear process of accounting and reporting it on your taxes. Look at this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tax_compliance ...what am I suppose to do here? What this really cause is the creation of 2 kinds of people. Those overwhelmed/intimidated by IRS and just quit bitcoin altogether, then those who choose to just ignore it and thus are now breaking a law that definitely won't be uniformly enforced. Forget about the counter-argument "Well, they choose to break the law so they need to accept the consequences". Those who are thinking of this I invite to read the following: http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic . It's nonsensical to expect everyone involved in buying/selling bitcoin to suddenly be able to handle the tax implications in this fashion. There was a time I was able to just create a bitcoin QRcode coupon and give it to someone without a second thought. Now it's all mixed up with property tax or something; I dunno.... nobody does. At least that Wiki entry isn't 100% sure and nobody wants to be on the receiving end of IRS's wrath.
I would say the current state of the tech world is antithetical to Bentham's views in just about every sense. We, as a group, are massively sex-negative.

Is that why this article is on the top, or because it was submitted by an admin?
You'll probably like Lambda The Ultimate. It's a Programming Languages weblog with discussions and forums, but their traffic and updates are miniscule in comparison to news.ycombinator. If you're a busy PhD student, that's probably not a bad thing.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
How to Get an Article onto the Front Page of Hacker News
This probably qualifies as a shower thought, but if every smartphone just had a tiny solar panel built into it, at EOL, each and every one could be utilized as some kind of periodic off-line sensor in some environment e.g. car GPS tracker or daily photo taker. This would extend each unit's useful life by several years in an interesting way.
From a security perspective I can't think of a single reason to not hash.

Not hashing is like not brushing your teeth. There's no immediate repercussions but you're risking extreme pain and cost in the long run.

My guess as to why people don't hash is mostly inline with why people don't brush their teeth:

* Laziness

* Lacking a culture of health

* Ignorance

Laziness probably comes mostly from the developer side. A developer makes the wrong trade-off: faster launch today over long-term security. It's easier to write a program that emails the plain-text password to a user than to create a password-reset mechanism.

Lack of culture. An organization or a group of developers don't prioritize issues of security and long-term sustainability. They are stuck in an eternal day-to-day, short-term focus.

Ignorance. Management and decision makers that simply aren't aware of the dangers of non-hashing. Brushing & flossing your teeth is actually a very weird and non-natural behavior. Most kids need persistent years-long training to develop the habit. Like brushing, if decision makers haven't been educated about hashing they will probably only recognize the benefit after some unpleasant disaster (database breach, e.g. teeth start rotting & falling out).
What size of projects are they?

We do a lot of integration projects with our clients, ie integrating with CRMs / ERPs and the timescales on these projects is usually about 10/12 weeks. I enjoy this project turnaround as it means I'm never stagnant on the same project for long and I get to experience new things.

I imagine the projects for a Fortune 500 is 1 or 2 years long with thousands of man hours?

EDIT: Clarified a question
Thanks a ton for the feedback. This version is a somewhat handicapped version I could share, as the cart process is not ironed out. The only thing I am thinking with the cart is for large bulk downloads in a zip file, for a fee. Trying to solve the USGS discovery and download process.

If your email is good on your profile I will shoot you a note when it is closer to prime time ready.

Also I should test on opera once in awhile.
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I'm pretty sure the only potential hit would be if users are inconsistent in writing links to your site. If everybody wrote www or non-www it'd be exactly the same. If it's mixed, users/bots are sent through a 301.
Derek's first principle is true on so many levels:

<< #1: You can afford to be generous - The #1 most important mindset to start with, underlying everything, before engaging in communication with a customer or client, is that your business is secure.

Even if it’s not, you have to feel that it is. Money is coming your way. You are doing well. You are one of the lucky ones. Most are not so fortunate. You can afford to be generous.

All great service comes from this feeling of generosity and abundance. >>

Investing in your existing customers is one of the highest ROI marketing efforts you can undertake. You've already paid to acquire these customers - and any incremental investment you make in them is usually going to be less than the cost of acquiring a whole new customer. Plus, it's the right thing to do - to make sure that everyone has a great experience.
Of all the possible HN alternates that have been proposed, this one is probably the one that makes sense. I don't think there is any alternate at the moment. I have a couple of thoughts and queries.

1. You put grad students in the title. But you only mention natural sciences and mathematics in the text. What about social science? What about the humanities? I am a physicist but I would personally like to know about progress on major problems in all academic fields. If you limit yourself to only some disciplines how will draw the line and why? HN has the line "interesting to hackers", which makes it very very broad. It relies on undemocratic voting, and occasionally moderation, to separate the good from the bad.

2. The reason the quality of arguments at HN is relatively high, is primarily the software behind the HN scores system. It very effectively kills of many techniques that are used by people to raise their scores. Arguably, getting on HN front page is directly correlated to the visits/money you get, while on an academic forum people will only care for egoistical reasons. The problem will be less, but it will still exist. If the community takes on and starts to grow, it will need access to the HN points software which is not public at the moment as far as I know.

3. Discussion surrounding links to papers, news articles or essays are generally serious and 'valuable'. This is what HN does primarily. You are proposing a forum where people can talk about their own thoughts and ideas. There are many such internet forums for this purpose. Most of them degenerate into homework problem threads and how to get into grad school questions. Why? Because what you thought over breakfast this morning is usually not brilliant enough, while a paper/essay/news has had many hours of professional thought behind it.

4. It might be possible to piggyback over HN. Any link on HN relating to grad students can be manually resubmitted on the community website. The discussion happens on HN. The community website only serves as a curated list. This will solve the problem of drowning in the noise of software. Of course, the limitation will be that all posts submitted will have to conform to the "interest to hackers" criteria.
Qt5, CMake, C++11. It's definitely good enough to use.
Ask HN: Do you have more sick time than you can use?
I am a very healthy 30-year old who only gets legitimately sick once or twice a year. Over the time I’ve been working at this company, I have accumulated over 6 weeks of sick time, and it continues to grow. However, unlike with vacation, I can’t cash it out.

Does anyone else run into the same problem? (Or maybe it’s a non-problem?) If so, do you ever use your sick time on a whim?
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I love the Django-style syntax for HTML templates, but if I'm working on something on the web and I'm using Go it's probably for speed reasons. This means that I'm probably trying to avoid reflection. There's a bit of competition going on between HTML template libraries for Go and I'm not sure any has truly satisfied the majority of use cases. I'm curious to hear what other libraries people are regularly using.
Whoa, great, thanks!
Men and women are sexual beings, no doubt; and sex can be about but pleasure, but also so much more.

Readers here may be interested in studying a somewhat different take on human sexuality, John Paul II's Theology of the Body[1], which "presents an interpretation of the fundamental significance of the body, and in particular of sexual differentiation and complementarity, one which aims to challenge common contemporary philosophical views."[2]

[1] http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2TBIND.HTM

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology_of_the_Body
Time to go back to OfficeSuite again!
US citizen here.

I have friends and family in Europe and Canada. One relative in Canada was told that they would have to wait several months for an x-ray needed for diagnosis (and might die by that time), so came to the US for treatment instead. A relative in Europe was told that he was too old to qualify for treatment, so he came to the US for treatment instead.

From what I've been told, some treatment options that are expensive or not-fully covered in the US may not even be available at all in Europe or Canada.

So, while the US has much work to do, I think the more socialized systems of some other countries are not better in all respects.
Your old smartphone could pinpoint illegal logging and save the rainforests
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That both violates Occam's razor - you need to postulate two mechanisms instead of one, with no evidence presented - and common sense. On the battlefield, the brain's "reward center" (whatever that means) certainly isn't being activated. Yet the army doesn't refuse to recruit 20-year-olds because they'll inevitably be paralyzed with terror when the guns start firing. Indeed, 20-year-old men are the first people that every army wants to recruit, in all cultures and all time periods.
Things seem to work better for me if I float the game window; maybe try that.
It's interesting, I feel that if the trend of jinja-likes continues, we will eventually end up with another abstraction layer on top of the templating system; eg. a templating system that "compiles" to whatever you're using right now.

One alternative being a single unified "jinja" syntax with several backends.

In any case, good job on this! It looks really good.
Isn't backslash the default <leader> keystroke?
That's a good idea. I'll think where I can add this without having people press it by mistake and getting lost. About the search, that's an unfortunate part of the play store discovery problem. They prioritize ratings/downloads over keywords...
This doesn't really seem relevant to a modern view of the world.
It needs to be mentioned, if not for comments here then at least the comments on his own blog, that the author was not someone who simply dabbled in .NET and is trying to bash it for the sake of bashing something. The author, Johnathan Oliver (no, not that one), is an absolute authority on distributed architecture and created what became one of the biggest open-source projects in .NET (https://github.com/NEventStore/NEventStore - originally joliver/eventstore).

His work had a significant impact on my adoption of CQRS and Event Sourcing, patterns that are becoming very popular in Java, Scala, .NET, and to my surprise, Node. I've been happily programming in python for the last year and happy to see CQRS is starting to get more recognition in the community. I'm going to do what I can to help build its momentum, but it certainly doesn't have the same adoption compared to the .NET community.

So, when someone who has done so much work in the framework starts to question it, I will certainly give their opinion some thought instead of firing a retort:

> It's OK to rant but at least get your facts straight. The rest of your rant looks quite foolish as well. For example, firing up a Windows VM is rather fast if you try it in Azure.