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Absolutely lovely advice!

For me, it was tennis. I started playing and fell in love with it. It all began when I was working from home for a startup in another country. I would work and in the evenings, I would quietly slip out to the courts, play for two to three hours, and return back to work. Tennis is an amazing sport, if you play it passionately and properly, and only just for fun. Once I got better, I began looking for local tennis circuits. The coach I used to play with put in my name at a local tennis tourney. It was the first tourney I ever played. And I was jubilated, not only at being able to play a properly arranged tourney, but at realising that what I previously thought that there were hardly any good players around locally was totally wrong. There were many talented players, of all ages, who were just as passionate about tennis.

I fell so much in love with tennis that it became the only thing I was passionate about in life. I dearly looked forward to slipping out of work to playing tennis. I participated in more and more tourneys, and even though I lost, if it was a good match, I felt extremely satisfied.

Last year, I quit my work from home job (which last 4.5 years), mostly because I felt I wasn't getting anywhere working from home. I joined a local startup not too far from where I lived which was working on things I loved. Along with it, I switched tennis clubs and joined a professional tennis club where top-notch players coached and played and where I could find many a good player to play with.

All in all, I think that the advice, "do something that has nothing to do with any of this", is really something you ought to try.
There have been at least 15-20 trillion constitutional violations

It is an amusing, even throwaway line, but it has a horrific message - the US administration is happy to sail so close to the line of totalitarianism that it will possibly violate the constitution a trillion times. In the UK we jus found out similar legislation is unconstitutional and we are hurriedly writing another law to get round it. _sigh_

What happens when a country that really cares about it's constitution has to rush an amendment through or face civil rights violations from everyone?
Nice shirt, nice pants, nice shoes. Not too fancy, but don't come in looking like a slob. I'd avoid t-shirts. Suit and Tie is usually what sales guys wear because they are the "front of the house".
Why copy/paste the entire article? It's up and running and not even behind a paywall.
frbo.com, airbnb.com are good starts.
That's not what it actually says. The multiple is of the "historic market". Uber grew the market, no question about that. (To exclude Uber from the taxi market is a bit of newspeak however.) In San Francisco.

The article argues that this is true in the global taxi market as well. The reasons given are the ones I've tried to summarize.

I might have missed a few though. The article is very long and makes a lot of frivolous claims. Very few are substantiated enough to be questionable, but those that are, are. The only exception I could find is the one about the real time positioning.
I just interviewed a few days ago and was agonizing over the same thing. The place I interviewed at had a casual dress code - jeans, t shirts, shorts etc. It's a software company, not a company that has in house software.

I didn't want to over or under dress so I wore dockers, dress belt, dress shirt tucked in and a tie. I think the best idea is to hit business casual - not full suit but not casual.

The founder was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He didn't say I was over dressed and I got the job. I would have been really uncomfortable in a suit.
I wear what I wore to work that day.
The article links to the company's Technology page: http://www.shethinx.com/technology/

Basically it's underwear with a built-in sanitary pad.
Agreed. I feel that presentation nuances in your printed or PDF resume are important.

For example, how does this structured approach ensure that everything fits neatly on one page?
Why do I hit a paywall when I click the link from HN but if I search google for the first paragraph of this comment and click the result I dont hit a paywall?
Whether or not the data is analyzed in a timely manner is irrelevant to its' legality or morality (speaking solely on spying within the US.) One would assume that both competent terrorists and Russia have had proper NSA counter measures in place far before Snowden's leak. Indeed, bin Laden was able to remain hidden for a very long time. What we have seen is plenty of stories of dumb Westerners attempting to become jihadists.

NSA blackmail is far fetched. Of immediate concern is NSA employees inappropriately spying on other Americans. This has already happened multiple times that we know about: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-23/nsa-analysts-intent... Lapses at the companies which conduct bulk top secret clearance checks should only raise more alarms.

The most recent doc leak demonstrates that not only was a contractor such as Snowden capable of searching and extracting data but it was done so without the NSA having any idea. No paper trail. How did someone get certain information on you or did they? No one knows. Blackmail hardly necessary if politically charged attacks reap large rewards by crippling a citizen running for office or an attorney general investigating a corrupt corporation. Anyone could be targeted: a sitting congressman, someone running for office, a federal judge, friends, children, family. Conducted in a veil of secrecy with secret oversight guarded by a national security mandate leaves no accountability: a total abandonment of America's foundation of checks and balances.

In the longer term, this behavior is more grim than that posed by a rogue individual such as Snowden. If the existence of the NSA and its spying on Americans is fundamental to national security anyone who opposes this behavior is as big of a threat as a bin Laden. It becomes appropriate to target not only Americans but also sitting government officials who pose a threat. Congress's muted reactions could leave one to believe this is already the reality. At the least, the fear is there.

Integrity and values are shallow and attach only individually to a mortal man. If an institution or government is built without transparency and without a balance of power, eventually, at some time bad people will gain control. They may be intentionally bad, seeking nefarious and self-motivated gain, or it may be unintentional: simply an absence of knowledge in a certain area which produces disastrous decision making. The Catholic church abuse scandals presented a mixture of both. Because the institution was deeply opaque and without proper checks and balances, widespread failure occurred. Even lives devoted to continuous moral contemplations, recitations and displays of charity could make up for this.
Sony's loss of Vaio is a hard pill to swallow for me, since I basically grew up on Vaio, and may now find myself using Lenovo more since newer Vaios are not quite what they used to be.

Nevertheless I think that Japan's tech industry has a lot of advantages going for it. The corporate culture is conservative, but a side effect is that standards for testing and products released are usually very high. With high-tech manufacturing Japan has a lead over many competitors for developing products that fill high-end niches in the industry. Abe's reforms are favoring Japanese exports, making it easier for international consumers to afford Japanese products.

Maybe Japan's tech industry is "eclipsed," but do not expect it to go away as one of the industry's leaders any time soon.
FWIW I ranked Legendary (in March 2014) without using any Legendary cards. It's definitely not required for success.
I beg to differ I get hit with an instant paywall for every economist article I click on from HN. But oddly enough not if I go through google.
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Heh, so does this site need to be forgotten for those queries too?
Almost all my stories are on the very right side, with one or two on the very left, and not much in the middle. You should either use percentile score to determine the location (so the median scoring story is right in the center) or apply some sort of transformation to the score (log is probably reasonable, I'm guessing scores tend to be approximately log-normally distributed).
There is a strong culture of dog-fooding in Amazon. The advantages to it are quite straight forward :) If you've got a whole bunch of DBA experts already hired, why would you hire additional people to do DBA work for every team, when they could just use RDS? Along with that is the huge added benefit of a direct feedback loop, with consumers and producers able to directly meet and deal with feature requests, problems etc. etc.

Retiring any of the services that have been launched would cause not inconsiderable pain to other teams :)
I'm getting strange behaviors. When I access from my current desktop (IE, ugh) the article doesn't even load, but from mobile I can access it via the link just fine.
The slides give you nothing. I recognized every boss, good and bad, in his examples.

Here are my two main takeaways from his talk:

1. How to recognize situations and know what your superior did wrong and how to respond

2. How to be a better boss yourself, someone people will recognize years later as someone who really helped them grow

I started listening and didn't really have the time to give yet this has ended up being the best use of my time all week.
Agreed. I'm confused. I don't understand how this helps users access data on "any" device.

The data pulled from the backed is handed off to the front end. The front end determines what's displayed and how it's displayed based off of the device. What does data storage have to do anything.
If you have a New Yorker subscription, you can read all of John Brooks' work online: http://www.newyorker.com/search?qt=dismax&rows=10&sort=score...

Each of these links (after a summary) to a scanned archive version of the actual magazine, which is cool. You can see the ads and layout of the day.

Edit: I actually want to read all of them, so here's the direct links to the original articles:

- Fluctuations: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1963-08-31#folio=034

- The Fate of the Edsel: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1960-12-03#folio=198

- The Federal Incom Tax:
--Part 1: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1965-04-03#folio=052,
--Part 2: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1965-04-10#folio=051

- A Reasonable Amount of Time: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1968-11-09#folio=160

- Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1967-04-01#folio=046

- Making the Customers Whole: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1964-11-14#folio=160

- The Impacted Philosophers: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1962-05-26#folio=045

- The Last Great Corner: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1959-06-06#folio=128

- A Second Sort of Life: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1961-04-29#folio=045

- Stockholder Season: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1966-10-08#folio=159

- One Free Bite: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1964-01-11#folio=037

- In Defense of Sterling:
-- Part 1: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1968-03-23#folio=060
-- Part 2: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1968-03-30#folio=043
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I think you've cut straight to the core of the FAA's reasoning in this matter. And sound reasoning it is: According to a 2007 article in the Journal of the American Medical association, general aviation accounts for 94% of all aviation fatalities. [1] You are literally 82 times more likely to die in a private aircraft than in a commercial airliner.

But as you say, it's an issue of informed consent – perhaps the FAA can draft rules around making users of flight sharing services aware of the risks, while promoting safe practices by pilots (though one might argue that is exactly what commercial licensure is for).

[1] http://doctorgrayson.com/Aircraft.pdf
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might
be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports,
unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures.
If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Thanks. BTW, I like your ambient music. I have it playing in the background right now.
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Parse's solution is a great start as you say, but I can see myself running into the limits of that approach fairly quickly.

And, as you say, if these solutions mature, we might have some very powerful stuff in this space in a few years... maybe almost as powerful as just having your own server-side code running on some backend servers ;) But at that point, we're right back to where we are with traditional/custom backend systems being run on cloud server providers (which is not a bad thing!).

It just kind of feels like we're trying to re:Invent the wheel. You can offer these kinds of "a la carte" services all day long, and they're nice (on the surface) as long as they play nicely with each other in an open ecosystem - e.g., "let's grab this identity provider, that storage solution, this analytics engine, etc." It might look similar to Heroku's "add-ons", but with components that perform more specific functions. I just don't see that openness coming from Amazon, Google, etc. as they will all want to lock people into their services (which is understandable from a business standpoint). And unfortunately, anyone who buys into partial (and proprietary) solutions in the meantime are - in my opinion - just shooting themselves in the foot by limiting the use of their data.

Even in a perfect world with a vast marketplace of plug-and-play, interoperable cloud components, I would ask: is the "soul" of your app's code really captured in a conglomeration of components like this? If you have a need for a backend with custom logic of any kind, I think you're probably doing something unique (hopefully anyway). If you're going to need some real, unique business logic that can't be offered as an abstract cloud component, then I strongly suspect you're going to want more control over all of the backend. Even Parse's approach ends up looking more and more like a traditional custom backend system as you add more power to the "Cloud Code" approach.

As a programmer, you can often find libraries and drop-in components that accomplish 80% of what you need, so you write some custom code to "glue" those components together. That custom code usually contains business logic that really couldn't be abstracted or offered as a drop-in component. Where does that custom code live in the "perfect" ecosystem of plug-and-play cloud server components? How do you control the thing which makes your app/backend business logic unique? I don't think it's going to be in the client/mobile app as some people tend to think.

Maybe there's a good solution that combines these kinds of components with custom (and flexible) server-side code - I just haven't seen what it looks like yet. If I tried to use this stuff today, I'd be kicking myself tomorrow as I figure out that it's a pain to juggle data between components that I don't control and components that I do control.
If the referrer is Google, it won't show a paywall, so that Google will index the entire document. If they don't do that, Google will either only index the beginning of the content, or they'll penalize the site for hiding content that was indexed. If the referrer is HackerNews, they can reliably show a paywall without worrying about taking an SEO hit.
Very probably yes. GCHQ's retention goes back (very broadly) that far (it's inconsistent) - and they have some access to each other's networks (the NSA access GCHQ's network via example.gchq.nsa.ic.gov, specifically, so for example https://wiki.gchq.nsa.ic.gov/index.php would get you to GCHQ's internal MediaWiki if you're on the NSA network - GCHQ use an internal .gchq TLD). They can query selectors on each other's databases, and filtering of what's "not allowed" seems to be very often up to the analyst. (Of course, I don't know if they share everything. Probably not.)

The NSA's own BLARNEY initiative for this stuff dates back to 1978, although I think GCHQ beat them to the punch in effective mass telephony intercept - the first one I'm aware of started in the early 1980s, although that is offline, and probably no longer archived as the media (digital tape with low-bitrate encoded audio) would probably have degraded beyond all usefulness by now (and it sounded pretty crunchy in the first place, I understand, kinda like a bad squelchy lower-side-band transmission!).

Remember, however, that they didn't have the same kind of analysis capability back then that they've got these days (but they can probably go back and analyse old stuff they still retain). As Snowden's disclosed, you're seeing the newer systems having full-take ring buffers in nearline storage, followed by offline selection for recent access and analysis from that using a huge amount of distributed processing, and in turn automatic selected archiving out of that. It's pretty much the difference between microfiche and Google in effectiveness.
From that same letter, the FAA seems to strongly imply it's ok to ask your friends if they want a ride on Facebook (say by posting in your own feed) but not ok to ask the General Public by 'holding out' (by posting in a public group on Facebook). "Holding out is accomplished when one communicates to the public, or a segment to the public, that transportation services are indiscriminately available to any person with whom contact is made."

Signing up for FlyteNow and playing around with the website makes it pretty clear there is 'holding out' going on here. Which is a shame because it's a rather nice idea and more akin to carpooling aggregators than Lyft or Uber. Being able to see if pilots have previous airline or military experience is a plus too.
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The time I attempted to explain bitcoin to my parents I ended up starting with explaining how public key crypto works (to the best of my ability) and wound up dealing with so many tangential questions we barely managed to touch on bitcoin. I'm sure they took away almost nothing from an hour long conversation.

I think it is possible to understand bitcoin as a financial system if you have some background in financial concepts (my dad was able to pick up the open ledger concept pretty easily). But to understand the technical details you really need an implicit understanding of a lot of different technologies.
> "You and I are not the customers he is thinking about."

No, the customers are the companies that you and I work for. And Microsoft main business is enabling the workforce of those companies with greater productivity. Microsoft's business related to entertainment and lifestyle (a.k.a. "your life") is still much smaller. Hence the message on productivity. I don't believe that implies that Microsoft doesn't "want" you to have a life outside of work.
I'm not sure if it is NoScript or cookies disabled by default but I don't see the paywall even on the direct link from HN.
I'm not sure why my comment was downvoted, but having read and gone through over half of the Land of Lisp personally, I can factually state that it does indeed have multiple game exercises involved.

To quote from the book page:

Along the way you’ll create (and play) games like Wizard
Adventure, a text adventure with a whiskey-soaked twist,
and Grand Theft Wumpus, the most violent version of Hunt
the Wumpus the world has ever seen.

http://www.nostarch.com/lisp.htm#toc

If someone would like to argue that it does not have a "game approach", I would like to see the specific reasoning as to why.
In most large cities knowing how to drive is not the hard part of driving a taxi. That would be the local knowledge, which places even exists in the city, and where the GPS routes are dead wrong.

It has been said that London cab drivers even have an enlarged hippocampus due to the large spatial knowledge. I don't know how true this is, but I've heard the examination is a brutal one to pass.
It's not just the taxation (which is true), it's the fact that they are backed by a particular entity. In the case of USD, it's the United States government. Dollars may not be "backed" by anything tangible, but they are accepted because the US is (largely) a trusted entity. That's what makes USD useful to people internationally.

Bitcoin doesn't have the advantages of having a government backing it, but some would probably argue that that is an advantage.
The economist appears to be following the drug dealer model (the first few hits are free). Once you've read enough over some period of time, they start throwing up a paywall.
For Constitution Amendment to pass, it's not enough to get a couple of House members. You need 38 states to sign.
You have no idea how excited this project makes me. I have a total nerd boner for AI and Hearthstone, so... I'm hyperventilating right now.

Hopefully I can grok your work and maybe I can contribute!
The point of an article like this is to warn people about things like tht in advance, not make them find out themselves. For that reason, at least, it's silly to tell your readers to read a book you know very well most of them are incapable of reading; that's a waste of their time.
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The things you identified you will need to know and would be proficient knowing them. JDBC not so much but depending on the libs you use, you could be using it indirectly. Same story with maven, knowing how to look up stuff on mavencentral will help but beyond that you don't need to care.

Knowing a little Java would help when calling into Java libs but an IDE like IntelliJ that can help you understand conversions would do well too.

A lot of people convert from languages like Perl and Ruby without tremendous difficulty. I can only recommend diving in to make a real assessment, prejudices and phobias will otherwise prevent understanding.
Is there a reason you reposted the entire article? As far as I can tell, it's not behind a paywall (and I'm not logged in). EDIT: never mind, it would appear that some are hitting a paywall. Which is still strange, as I clicked the link straight from HN.
Can you put it on the Seagate Wireless Drive?

This has a simple value proposition: Apple charges $100 for incremental 16/32/64 GB mobile storage. Users can buy 2TB worth of wifi storage for $200 and replacement firmware+source (http://www.hackseagatesatellite.com/) for $35.
I'm about halfway through Crockford's second video which is pretty damn good. I'd say it's a good overview and introduction to JS, but if you really want to learn books are the way to go. That's how my brain operates, at least.

I'm still relatively new to JS and have really enjoyed Secrets of the Javascript Ninja.
> I really do wish HTTP had a mechanism for responding to a single request with multiple combined response bodies as if requests were made for each individually

That seems to be a pretty significant feature of SPDY and the in-progress HTTP/2.0 work.
My usual clothing is Jeans, Polo and Nike Classic or similar shoes... I've used this for day-to-day, interviews, conferences, pitching investors, signing bank deals, parties, dating, and a long etc....

I.e: http://is.gd/9XmJbM

I only use suit if the dress-code of the event clearly hints you that will be necessary... But I think the most important part is being yourself and a wear a big and honest smile!