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In python, lambda usage extremly beautiful. Also, 'lambda' keyword solves readibility problem.
I expected a keyword. Is there any challenge to add keyword?
Tested it out with GeoIPCountryWhois.csv from Maxmind, seems to work ok. However selecting the output is almost impossible, locks up Chrome. This isn't your apps fault of course. Usually I use Sequel Pro for this, which allows me to map csv fields to db columns
That last sentence is paraphrasing a recent djb cfrg post: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg04880.h...
I was working wood for the first time in a while recently, and amazed by how quickly pine can be worked.
Nice work. I really like http://muyueh.com/30/hexagon/

First find attempt I got 85 seconds
Second 23 seconds
Third 185
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Well written, tallies with my start-up experiences.
You're a .Net developer then?
Yup, the polls default to optional and if you're a game dev you can give some coins or virtual currency to sweeten the deal for the players.

Badly written multiple choice polls can get as low as a 10% response rate, but well written one (which are optional) can get as high as 70%- to the user it can be fun if written well.

What we're learning is that length (brevity is king) plays a bit part of it, as well as speed to load the question.. we had to change our loading order to get better response rates for our users.

Also we recommend to put questions at the points that makes sense... eg while waiting for a game level to load, or after a big activity is complete and it's a natural break point...

Other point is - we typically recommend questions only go to a small subset of the audience - enough to answer the question you're trying to ask. So most users never see a question...
In Europe I've seen both. I rented a place in Finland that was a college student's apartment; he'd rent it on some weekends and just stay with his girlfriend those weekends. There are definitely people doing it "as a business" as well, and some of the challenge in using it as a customer is trying to figure out which is which (I prefer to rent from the person who lives there). You can usually tell, from how many properties they have listed, how frequently they have reviews, what their booking schedule looks like, whether they themselves ever stay places or only host, etc., but it takes an extra level of manual filtering.

For renting of rooms or couches (vs. renting whole apartments), a much larger percentage are people renting out parts of their own living space, so you stay with the resident and usually meet them or even hang out with them, kinda "couchsurfing for money". Though there are some such listings (esp. in NYC) where a shared rental is shared with other AirBnB renters, not with the permanent resident, and I definitely avoid those.
I'm surprised by how many things that aren't that difficult or novel end up on the front page. CSV related projects come to the fore every week.
The even shorter answer is that humans are spacially and temporally myopic.

Our decisions are tend to be highly local, with little thought given to the broader environment, other people, or the future.
I agree somewhat, however I wouldn't place a large emphasis on it at the first section... maybe section 2 or 3. There are some parts that are valuable to keep in mind all the time from HCI, but I don't think the hard numerical science is really salient for most people looking to break into the field. Find the threshold of academia vs practical application and stay firmly in the latter when sharing course materials.
I'm guessing that you are over 30.

People who are young professionals now do not remember the Cold War at all, and have grown up considering the U.S. to be essentially invulnerable on the international stage.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 were the worst thing they've experienced. But while those were terrible, they were clearly not an existential threat to the entire country, the way that the Soviet Union was for 50 years, or Germany or Japan before that.

Thus, many young people see international espionage primarily as a means of corrupting lesser states for our own benefit--an abuse of our considerable power.
Obligatory link to epic Schrödinger's Cat poem from The Straight Dope, for those who haven't seen it before.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/113/the-story-of-sc...
I'd be interested in seeing a weekday version of this data.

Realtors, car sales, etc, all work weekends. In tech, what about weekend maintenance windows?

Admittedly, that's probably less of a thing now we have redundancy and continuous deployment practises; the concept of a late night / weekend change window is diminishing in my personal experience. I'm intrigued if that's true across the tech industry.
So, reading this comment it is clear that you still don't get it and haven't bothered to read the old paper or the new paper.
I expect them to ask me questions like "what do you mean, write Scrabble?", to draw out some class diagrams, and to implement some scoring. It shows how self-directed they are and how much they trust themselves to develop architecture.

This is a psychological test. You describe how you would imagine yourself solving it -- which may or may not be accurate -- and think that's how "good developers" would approach the problem.

The candidate doesn't know you. You might be the person who says "I'm looking for the candidate to tell me that is a stupid question" or "I expect the candidate to make a first simple iteration planning to throw it away instead of bothering with UML diagrams."

For the candidate, this is a game of rock-paper-scissors where they have to guess the state of the PRNG sitting across the table from them. There is a much better route: tell the candidate what you want[1] and see if they give it.

[1] Tell them directly; it shouldn't be buried in a post on your company's blog. I have encountered this pattern myself.
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"Okay, how do you determine what portion of revenues are profit?" (crickets)

Seriously, I've heard this one waaaay too many times. It's right up there with "you'll work for equity right, and maybe we can throw in a bit of cash if you put in enough hours?"
Heh, maybe I should start submitting some of my more trivial projects and rack up the HN karma ;)

i.e. "A testing utility for database migrations"
We built something similar for a photo app and our fashion app. Worked great to get details such as what types of content people were looking for. We also headed towards a slightly different path. We had simple polls, but also built in 1 to 1 communications. Essentially like a built in messaging service on top of the polls. Never pushed it to anyone else and only ever used it for our own apps.
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You are not, very good observation. I am doing the same with Python. Except in Erlang you can have a lot more processes and distribution & serialization is built it + many other diagnostic and debugging tools.

The point about function idempotent and minimization of state made by Ulf Wiger is also important I think. Being able to test a function will all the inputs and then say, well it works and this part is done. While if it is a method attached to a large object you might not be able to easily do that without lots of mocks. This of course applies to any language too not just Erlang.
That's not really any more context, there's nothing but speculation there.
I'd be wary of that paper: of the 5 garbage collectors they have tested, only one appears to be generational. That makes me doubt they used sufficiently state of the art garbage collection.
How much of that existential threat was really real though?

Apart from the Cuban missile crisis was there ever any real threat to the US from Russia?

This is a genuine question, I really don't know the answer. I do know that Americans spent a lot of time with "Duck and Cover" exercises. the UK equivalent was "Protect and Survive" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive
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It's a microsoft review site lol. Not biased at all.

http://betanews.com/
I can't agree with you. HCI has a lot of impact on design, in spite of not being acknowledged (or even known) by most of the practitioners. What the aspiring UX designers are reading (in Smashing Magazine & others) is, mostly, rephrasings of HCI knowledge.

Most UX methods and guidelines come from HCI (and HCI, of course, comes from other disciplines).
Things not addressed that I think are important:

1. Salary. Startups always seem to offer lower salary in return for said equity.

2. Career development. Startups demand that you build somewhat hacks solutions for the sake of time. In many instances you might not get the opportunity to learn how to do things right. Too much of this and you get used to building hacks products.

3. 80-hour work weeks might not be the norm, but what about 60 hour work weeks? that's a deal bresker for some.

4. Diversity. Startups are notorious for hiring people just like the founders.
Orgs do really expose their Active Directory server on the internet, to integrate with external servers ?
Actually we get phenomenal conversion. But we vet our customers (Enterprise) and they're already 'converted' when their boss says "We're trying this collaboration tool" so its fish-in-a-barrel.

I work at Sococo. You can try a trial - its free - and see how it works better than I can describe :)
I've seen most of his talks, actually I'm a fan. I wouldn't consider Clojure to be a good example of purity though - it has both LISP purists as well as FP purists (Haskell) against it. Actually it is quite pragmatic for running on the JVM and even has optional typing.

If elegance and simplicity are achievable without making too many sacrifices, great! I'd choose Clojure over C++ any day.
Make HER look good. (Dilma Rousseff is the incumbent President of Brazil. Her main opponent, Marina Silva, is also a woman.)
So I was being somehow unfair in checking your post history, when you explicitly said to check your post history?

Next five before that are:

turning off power in nuclear plant

bitcoin funds transfer

advice on drinking water

theories on OSS

encryption of metadata

This isn't a 'gotcha', just pointing out that you are repeatedly bullshitting about things that are easily verifiable.

And idly wondering why.

edit - Hang on.

After all your fucking winging about how fucking oppressed you feel, on the two things you cited (NSA/Snowden) you get far more upvotes than downvotes on your comments.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=xornot+snowden#!/comment/forever/0...

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=xornot+nsa#!/comment/forever/0/xor...

I call Shenanigans.
Prevention and repair of the root causes of aging should postpone age-related disease, and thereby reduce expenditure. The overwhelming majority of expense occurs in the very late stages of death by aging, dealing with a failing body due to overwhelming levels of cellular and molecular damage and the various systems flailing in response to that damage.

If a person never gets to that point, if they can have a health profile that is effectively the same as a 30-40 year old in perpetuity, then the expense remains that way too.

Incremental advances towards that ideal will have incremental benefits in terms of cost of medicine over time.

None of which changes the fact that entitlement programs are a great evil, and put perverse incentives on the development and provision of services. Technologies enabling us to live for centuries in near perfect health will result in of course a vastly increased lifetime medical cost over the present horrible situation. Why should that be an issue? It should be a grand opportunity for providers of services, just as it should be for food companies, clothing companies, and so on. But instead we have these present debates in which people actually seriously argue that it's great for people to die young.
>> This is why the WoT is a bust and nobody developing new crypto systems cares about it anymore.

I think the real reason nobody cares about it is because it gives you actual privacy. There is no way to exploit it commercially. All they could get is that data went "from here to there" with no idea what was in it. Not even Google could target ads with that.
Backwards compatability. Old valid code should remain valid. That includes code which calculates wavelengths.
It has to do with Erlang. Because the original discussion point to 2 things in Erlang that make it easier -- immutability of data structures and the functional aspect. Testing a function that idempotent means that when it is tested it will be solid the only work you'd have to do is if requirement changes. In OO programming having large objects with mutable state + threads, it is very hard to reason how a particular (failure) state was arrived it. So besides requirements change another thing that changes is the state in the objects (in an unpredictable and untraceable). You end up with engineers saying things like "Yeah I see this bad data in this property, but how the hell did it get this, I don't know".
Yeah its easy to write mean comments, and still be 100% wrong. I'm done here.
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Like banks do with money, they have an X capital and lend (or buy bonds) for 10000X. Only difference is if Dropbox fails, the tax payer isn't gonna pay the mess indirectly... He will lose the data.
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I'd like to add the emphasis:

> It makes sense to me to spy on all the folks in other countries.

I'm not American, but I do live in a Five Eyes nation. I've had to come to terms that all my online correspondence for over a decade is stored in some data farm somewhere, for the sole purpose of incriminating me or someone I know.

I'm not at all a terrorist, I don't infringe on the privacy or comfort of others, and yet I am targeted under the banner "Not American". I'm at a loss of words to explain how violated and helpless I feel, and how deplorable such an act is.
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No OSS linux client, but we do have a closed source one. CrashPlan Does work headless[1], but note that that setup out of the scope for our support team.

1: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Conf...
Not shown in this article are all the things you can do within the [] (typically just [&] or [=]), which turns a simple lambda into a closure.

The syntax is a bit arcane, but it does what it needs to. They could've stuck a "lambda" keyword in front of it all, but it's not necessary, and making a new keyword always has the potential to break old code.
> [Compatibility with C] makes it possible to use C definitions directly and inline with no conversion overhead or indirection. When your work is writing fast code, the ability to leverage existing fast code damned well is a feature.

That is achieved with ABI compatibility. You don't need source compatibility however. At worst, you'd have to re-write the prototype of the C function in your own syntax-incompatible language.

Think of it as a zero-overhead FFI.
That isn't really all of the relevant data. Is 19 feet in that time period a lot or normal? Why did it fall so much?
Link to the original university conducting the research:

http://www.swansea.ac.uk/media-centre/latest-research/sheepd...
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FTA:

“Rock star” engineers sometimes work at startups, but usually they work for big companies who can pay them twice the salary and have multiple indoor water polo pools and racquetball courts.

THIS is something the 'startup world' and a lot of people on HN are not aware of. Really, really bad-ass programmers usually work for big corporations for good salaries. Not always, but usually. The reason I mention it is because there is a myth that startups are built with the latest, greatest tech by the brightest minds. Often this just isn't true...many startups are hacked together by inexperienced programmers fresh out of college. Sometimes this works, but often it means that nobody on staff is really a master coder, nobody on staff has ever had to fend off Russian hackers attempting to take down your code at 3 am, nobody on staff has had to deal with thousands of users who wake up one morning, can't log in and no money is coming into the company. These are the battles that most programmers learn in the trenches of big companies, fighting tough battles, fixing complex problems under fire. It's not ideal, but I'm not sure if you can really become battle-hardened without going through real battles with real jobs on the line.

This is what happened at Twitter - when the government came after them because they were getting hacked too often, Twitter went out and hired 'real' programmers and got things working. That's something that gets missed a lot in the 'startup story'.
Definitely, though wasn't the A15 designed for more of a compact server role? IIRC the A15 had different design goals.
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Ad hominem.

I'm not surprised after I saw that a third of your comments are heavily downvoted.
That sounds great until you realize you miss out on the economies of scale that injection molding provides.

A toy soldier that costs the better part of a dollar in materials, or one that costs fractions of a penny? Which one is going to provide better margins?
I can't speak for other places, but its very common in rural Wisconsin/Minnesota; myself and every one of my neighbors have some form of wood heat, usually in addition to propane. We were glad we had it when propane hit $6.50/gal this winter, up from $1.75/gal the previous summer. I get requests from people all the time to harvest dead wood on my land they can see from the road.

http://www.greenwoodusa.com/blog/2011/10/wood-the-fastest-gr...
Already happening in Easter Europe and China. Go to the doctor and they show you under the microscope -- look you got spiders on your face. Buy this cream we made in the basement over at my cousins' it will help you.
Low lighting means long exposure times which means motion blur trails that look weird once we run them through our stabilizer. Hope you get the chance to try it in brighter lighting at some point.
A theory: there is more to India than gang rapes and lynching on mango trees.

Poor treatment of women in India is a major problem. I've been obligated to engage in actual street violence twice as a result of this, compared to approximately 0 times in the US [1]. After 10PM I will escort a woman home regardless of how annoying I find her. On the two occasions I attended an Indian church, "the ability of girls and women to protect their virtue" was one of the issues that attendees were instructed to pray for.

Nevertheless, India is more than just the land of gang rape. In upper middle class households, women are often treated quite well. Similarly in a professional context. India had it's first female prime minister in 1966 (admittedly, she got the job via nepotism).

Discounting the Indian upper class experience simply because of a few high profile examples of (primarily) lower class problems is a fallacy.

[1] I've spent approximately 30 years in the US and 2 in India.
So will I get a big payday from company shares even if my startup isn't very successful?
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I just got back from a week vacation, staying in a house we rented through VRBO.com.

Can anyone explain why VRBO, which has been in operation for 15 years, and explicitly focuses on renting out 2nd homes, has not faced the backlash and scrutiny that AirBnB has? Is it just that they have not done enough volume to get the regulators' attention?

Because reading about the proposed rules in this article, VRBO rentals seem like they would violate at least one of them:

> -Requiring hosts to only rent out their primary residence and setting guidelines on how many days they must occupy the unit each year (currently 275 days)
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This is painfully close to something that could be much better. Sadly this "p2p" system is strongly centralized. I cannot make a private network without zero-tier's authorization. I cannot add nodes to a private network without zero-tier's authorization. If zero-tier servers fail or the company dies, the network goes with it. Because the strong centralization, future viability of the network hinges on a single small companies continued existence. I cannot use this to build anything meaningful. It could only serve as a competitor to other vpn providers, not an improvement over the status quo.
There was a weight above which I could actually feel that effect. It was very unpleasant and I took it as a "you gotta fix this or your gonna f*ing die". Kinda like how people don't change their ways until they actually have a heart attack. There is also another weight below which my snoring quiets down and heartburn goes away. I did pass through both of these in all of this too. Be happy with every pound of progress and look forward to more.
As someone currently learning C++ the biggest surprise was finding out about C++11/14. I'd assumed that the language hadn't changed for decades so it's great to see it still being updated.
1) I agree passwords suck and they need to be replaced. I'm not sure that I want to tie my identity using biometrics to every service that I use.

2) My thinkpad has a fingerprint sensor in the palmrest. That's a sub-optimal location for your sensors?

3) expand from identity into pseudo-health. Sell it as a toy and avoid (possibly illegally) the regulation, or get the certs and sell a quality device for medical uses. Telecare is big.

4) I would use it if it worked across my Windows machine, my iPhone, my linux machine.

5) I have zero money. It's probably worth the same as a Yubikey. (Yubikey is almost perfect, but not quite.)

EDIT: I've just started taking Ramipril for blood pressure. Would that change my ECG enough for the machine to not recognise me?
Perhaps the name is intentional. After all, this is intended to be the guts of a website...
I dunno, I have got a fair amount of imaginary internet points on here before for suggesting that there is a good chance that Snowden is still working for the NSA, which isn't exactly the popular opinion.

edit - well ok, 4 :) but it didn't get hammered down
Thanks for the feedback. The author did include an HCI course in the extra recommended resources, right at the end. The challenge (I think) was that the HCI course on Coursera, at ~100 hrs of work, would be as long as the rest of the curriculum.

Are there topics within HCI that you think are more fundamental than others?
how much equity does the average early employee get? How about the average late employee? What about for a company like twitch, that just exited?
That's pretty cool, especially the 1 to 1 communications.

We're thinking about adding that reply and inbox so you can keep it on the conversation going and help users out with problem or ask for more info..

I think Intercom just added something like that for iOS too..
if u want to be a pro UI/UX designer, learn javascript (Kintetic, GSAP, backbone, famous, node and everything else that comes with node).