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Ask HN: What are 5 traits/skills in a great developer evangelist?
Hiring a developer evangelist seems like trying to find a pegasus. Other than generic traits like communication skills and 5-10yrs programming experience, what do you think makes a truly great developer evangelist? Any specific examples of people?
Brasilian author Paulo Coelho is another great one. His novel "The Alchemist" is a classic.
Looks cool. but 512 is pretty weak
Honestly, the site was designed well enough that despite clicking on the link with little interest, I ended up signing up for it within a minute or so. Now, time to try it out!
Every SD card I have gotten has arrived in a case. I'm sure there are exceptions, but you can also buy them cheaply (there's a 10-pack for sale as an add-on item for $4.25 at Amazon).
No comment on the game as I haven't tried it yet, but the scroll hijacking on the homepage makes it kind of annoying to read the text, expand/collapse FAQ questions etc., especially in a smaller window. I suggest disabling it once you scroll the top section out of the viewport. This looks like fun though - I'll definitely be trying it out.
Overview of C# 6 language enhancements
If an attacker changes the signed copy on the CDN, the signature check will fail.
that is why we are running the speed test. we need to see how fast various browsers and devices are
Wow, that is super sweet. I have been planning to add user interaction to algomation.com but have not had the time yet. The input mechanism would need to support validation and defaults so that algorithms could always run unattended but otherwise very doable despite the web workers that I use on the site.
Yes, it's just that we're used to more focused initiatives from YC.
As someone who knows it intimately, I would like to say that this kind of thing is endemic across the social science literature. What is frustrating is that only very few people seem to have the ability to understand why it is not sound.
>The mathematician hunkered in a foxhole, earning his pay, finds it difficult to set aside the prejudice that he is grappling with something real—to keep up morale, if nothing else.

This is true of myself as much as I think Platonism leads to strange ideas about things in other regards. There is also an idea known as logicism that I think might explain a bit better what universal mathematical objects are.

I am not a mathematical philosopher myself, maybe some day, but when Franklin says numbers can be relations to things, I think that the fact that there are uncountable sets which means there is not a way to map the natural numbers in any "relation" to that set seems like it undermines the Aristotelian idea of linking mathematical objects with physical things.
That article is really cool, but...

>The most momentous product of Stallman’s genius, Linux, was the first operating system to feature software that was entirely free

Ugh!
I think it is... "I have driving lessons to take" might be his subtle way of saying "I'm moving to the US, where people have to drive everywhere".
The case did not just concern "ads." Read the District Court's opinion: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2887803236861980....

The District Court determined that the movie itself was "electioneering communication":

> After viewing The Movie and examining the 73-page script at length, the court finds Mr. Morris's description to be accurate. The Movie is susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the United States would be a dangerous place in a President Hillary Clinton world, and that viewers should vote against her.[12] The 280*280 Movie is thus the functional equivalent of express advocacy. See WRTL, 127 S.Ct. at 2667 (setting out the "functional equivalent" standard). As such, it falls within the holding of McConnell sustaining, as against the First Amendment, § 203 insofar as it bars corporations from funding electioneering communications that constitute the functional equivalent of express advocacy.

This essentially prevented the group from airing the movie on television within 30 days of the Democratic Primary (i.e. the very period during which one might want to air a movie advocating for or against a candidate!) The group would have faced civil and criminal penalties for airing the movie.
A web search for "garden of branching paths" is informative.

See comments and stories by his (out of print) translator, who spent three years in Argentina with Borges, http://www.digiovanni.co.uk/borges.htm
Basically, don't enter over saturated markets unless you offer something that makes you different. Google did it offering relevant results for search, Apple did with an iPhone that just works. The key of Thiel's reasoning is 'By "monopoly," I mean the kind of company that is so good at what it does that no other firm can offer a close substitute'.
It is absolutely the right of a private property owner to control and monitor access to its property.

Nobody denied this. But it's absolutely everyone's right to criticize her/him for it.
A Roth IRA and a 401k are investment vehicles - stocks, bonds, funds are investments. I don't think you quite understand investing which is why Financial Services needs to be disrupted.

You claim it's all a scam but the market has been going up and up over the last 100 years. The scam lies with the advisors and products that charge high fees and are not transparent. Companies like Betterment and Wealthfront are changing the game buy making these fees transparent and putting you in a good diversified portfolio.

The second problem is that like you mentioned saving and investing is only available to people who can afford to save. This is the same thought that 85% of millennials who don't save feel but the reality is, you can. There is just no easy way to do it...yet

https://www.wellsfargo.com/press/2014/20140610_millennials
http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/historical/djia1900.html
Dang! I thought I saw a real glitch. :)
Hey ran the test. Looks pretty cool.
That's not inefficiency. That's precautionary, and SOP in most first-responder units. Rarely do first-responders know the extent of what the situation on the scene is going to be before they get there. Diesel and miles on the truck are cheap, and peoples' time is a sunk cost.

Don't take my word for it though, the Mayor of Provo answered the question much better:

http://provomayor.com/2011/03/04/why-do-we-send-a-fire-truck...

"I’m often asked why we send a fire truck on every medical call. Does it really require an ambulance and a fire truck for many of the minor injuries? It seems a waste to drive a very fuel-inefficient fire engine to something where the additional personnel are not needed.

While there are some calls for emergency medical assistance that can easily be handled with just the two personnel on the ambulance, there are many that require additional help. Nearly every EMS system sends a unit to “back” the ambulance for a number of reasons. First, nearly every life threatening emergency incident is best handled with at least two paramedics in addition to the driver. Second, there is not always enough reliable information on the patient condition to determine if additional help is needed. Valuable time may be lost if additional personnel are not dispatched until the ambulance arrives and makes an assessment. Finally, even so called “routine” medical calls often require the patient to be lifted into the back of the ambulance. Even if the patient is not obese, it is safer for the patient and for the backs of the medics to have additional help to lift.

When the fire truck is not needed on an incident, it is released to go back into service as soon as possible. The cost of the fuel to have the extra help immediately available when it is needed is a small cost when compared to the loss of precious minutes when a life is on the line."
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As we’ve grown, we’ve become part of the care solution at institutions such as Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health, UCSF, Duke Medical and Cincinnati Children's. In addition, Ginger.io has emerged as a leading voice in the conversation around bringing technology to behavioral health. Ginger.io is part of the Techstars network and is VC-backed by Khosla Ventures and True Ventures.

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Ginger.io is looking for a mobile developer to help drive the consumer and patient experience on Android. Your core responsibility would be to work with the rest of the Product team to craft the user experience to enhance the patient’s connection with their doctor. Patient experience is at the core of Ginger.io, and you will be working directly within the Product team to conceptualize, build, test, release and maintain the Ginger.io Android applications.

Responsibilities:

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- Work with the iOS team to ensure that the Android app experience is consistent

- Make architectural decisions that balance the trade-off between the level of customization and complexity

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> There is no "atheist" movement. At least not one that encapsulates anything but minute fraction of atheist/agnostics.

I think you are in the wrong here. Only a small fraction of people self identified as "christian" (to speak of an example I actually know about) forms part of the clergy, and thus mediate the experience of God to the unwashed masses. The same way, there is a small fraction of high status individuals who act as spoke persons for the whole community of atheist/agnostics.

From the people I know directly, both the "christians" and the "atheists" are unconcerned with the big picture of things. They just want to go on with their lives and perhaps go through them in a sane, ethic way. You know, normal, law-abiding people.

The Capital-A-Atheists on the other hand, have an agenda beyond the needs and wants of their flock. Like the Clergy of old, they are very concerning with identifying people that dare to think differently (a.k.a. WRONG) and stomp on them, hard. These debunkers and skeptics, provide little value to society, if you take into account the way their predjuces and biases set back scientific discoveries decades or more.

This group see themselves as upholders of The-Truth-with-Capital-T, but rarely bother to rise the philosophical question of what can or cannot be known to the human intellect. They see themselves as saviors of humanity and defenders against Superstition-with-Capital-S, regardless that your average individual superstition starts its life as a piece of practical knowledge for which the context and rationale have been lost in time.

Back to the point, what this article talks about is what typically happens when small cliques of men get unquestioning power from a mass of followers. An atheist that this has "nothing to do with each other", but so could say a catholic about child molestation from priests and further cover up from the part of higher raking officials. The failure (or unwillingness) the recognize unckecked power structures in both cases only help to obscure the truth and perpetuate the abuses.
They barely do make money. Bing is heavily subsidised both financially by Microsoft and by what remains of Microsoft's desktop monopoly. Yahoo is a lot more than a search company, and hardly in the best of health.

Is anyone making significant money out of search (apart from Google)? Does DDG?

As for why they would want to be in search. For Bing it seems highly misguided. DDG probably would like to be even 1% as big as Google, so they could sell adverts and make $billions.
Employers can also demand you pee in a cup for them. Many employers consider that degrading to employees, and that making such demands of employees supports a counterproductive Drug War.

Employers can also paint the walls puke green and pipe in Muzak. They can hire the low bidder to make lunch out of pink slime. They can keep the offices at uncomfortable temperatures.

So, yes, they can also track you like tagged livestock. But they can also choose not to.
Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg would have heard this advice and been convinced that there was no point in competing with MySpace..
By far my favorite author. Most people begin by reading his short stories (which are amazing), but they should also read his non-fiction. I recommend Borges: Selected Non-Fictions. As far as I know he never discusses software or computer science explicitly, but all of his work is saturated with ideas relating to these things.
This is the secret of capitalists. Monopoly for them, and market discipline for everyone else.

"Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites"

This is why State capitalism or something like fascism to them is the ideal. Any democracy is the most HORRIBLE thing.

Because after all, there are only a few capitalists, and then there is everyone else...
People would buy a self driving car from Apple, and it seems the market is starting to build momentum.

User interfaces and industrial design is what Apple excels at. I'm not sure I'd trust a self driving car from them.
Thanks for that! I have not seen this one come up.
Is this a joke article? I mean, I kind of get saying that RMS had a role to play in GNU/Linux, but calling it Linux and then repeating again and again that he wrote it just sounds comical.

Still, it does establish the fact that he uses some alternative means of getting in. Good for him.
> English literary culture is [...] indifferent [...] to writers in other languages.

That's particularly true of booksellers in England, so I'm not sure whether the resulting landscape is a cause or an effect of commercial arrangements. Outside of the London - Oxbridge axis, it's very hard to find bookshops stocking anything more than US/UK writers. Coming from Italy (where it's often hard to find works by Italian authors in the average bookshop), it was a shock I never really recovered from.
Definitely +1 for for using default Rails view system. I've been fighting Arbre every step of the way every time I try to do something a little out of the ordinary.
Robot OS to Support Linux and Android on Snapdragon
Reading about singularity always cheers me up.
Really? Borges casts an enormous shadow across modern American literary culture; you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who is indifferent to him. Like Nabokov, this is partially due to his academic influence, but his writing was hugely influential as well. Most American college students with a literary interest will have at least read the Ficciones.
No, but universities are (and always were) highly effective "startup accelerators" for science/engineering disciplines.

The thing YCombinator (and its ilk) did differently was to realize that software was atypical of science/engineering fields in that it didn't benefit as much from many of the services offered by universities, so you could strip out most of the "cruft" and form a "lean" university that was just as effective (more effective, in hindsight).

When you bring the focus back to science/engineering, suddenly the "cruft" doesn't seem so pointless. If you try to build an accelerator aimed at traditional science/engineering problems, you re-invent the university.

What is that "cruft"?

* Formal training and apprenticeships from experts in various fields

* Many-million-dollar macroscopic and microscopic fab facilities (shared but not specialized)

-- Fancy microscopes (optical, electron, etc)

-- Fancy spectrometers

-- Nanofab junk (mask writers, aligners, chemical benches, CVD machines, etc)

-- Chemistry junk (NMR machines, MS machines, Chromatography machines, etc)

-- Physics junk (telescopes, accelerators, etc)

-- Engineering junk ($50k oscilloscopes and logic probes, test machines, FPGAs, CAD/CAE software, expensive simulation software)

* ~$1MM-ish labs (highly specialized but shared less)

-- Strange chemicals, gasses, and the tools required to deal with them

-- Strange biologicals (animal lines, cell lines, specialty constructs, reagents)

-- Fume hoods, centrifuges, schlenk lines, etc

-- 3D printers, milling machines, highly specialized fabrication and diagnostic apparati that are custom-built and one-of-a-kind

* Library/journal access

* Connections to cheap labor (no comment)

* Connections to funding for both blue-sky research

* Connections to funding for seed-stage commercial prospects

YC specializes on the last bullet point and mixes in business training. It could certainly have something to offer to startups in science/engineering fields (especially if their ultimate product was software), but we shouldn't forget that it has relatively stiff competition once it starts wandering outside of its core competency into more traditional fields.
Illegal Immigrants Forcibly Occupy Small Texas Town
You're saying that MySpace was highly tuned? It was awful. It was a truly terrible experience, even compared to other social network sites (eg. mixi.jp had a far better experience back in 2004). It was obvious to everyone that you could make a better social network than MySpace -- I even suggested it to my co-founder back then.
I am very happy to see this list.

I came to Demo Day in 2010 (as an investor) but left without investing in anything, because I was so demoralized by the way it seemed everyone was trying to start lame web sites doing relatively trivial things.

If Demo Day looked like the stuff on this list, I'd be banging down the door to get in again.
It is my privacy, and just because a private building owner can legally violate that privacy doesn't mean that they should or must[1], or that the users of that building shouldn't question the stated reasons that their privacy is being violated (particularly in the case of universities, which usually respect their community members' opinions more than a typical private organization).

[1] For this reason, your assertion that secretly entering a private building is a crime is not universally true.
100% agreement here. Erlang doesn't look like an procedural language, so I'm not tempted to think in procedural terms. Also, Erlang's single-binding variables tends to keep me honest.(edit: add next sentence) That being said, Elixir does have some very nice features and is quite well designed; José Valim and other contributors are very open to input.
Thiel fails to mention that at the time that air travel was regulated airlines did make money even though they weren't a monopoly and had competition.

http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/031714/why-airlin...

"The landmark event in U.S. commercial aviation history – as important as the incorporation of sound was to motion pictures, or the forward pass was to football – was the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Prior to its passage, the federal government set rates, fares and schedules, guaranteeing profitability to each oligopolistic airline but doing its best to thwart innovation. "

So prior to about 1978 during certain stretches it was pretty good to be operating an airline.
I really like what PeerJ is doing in that space: https://peerj.com/

Really takes open access (which is great, but still expensive) to the next level. Very inexpensive publishing, and free preprints.
Yandex and Baidu.
But he wasn't competing with MySpace. Not when he started The Face Book at Harvard.

Nor when he expanded that out over numerous other Ivys and Stanford, then additional selective universities.

It wasn't until he'd created an existing, high-quality, attractive userbase, of interest to both advertisers and the general public, that he was competing with MySpace.

Sometimes the monopoly is in where you define your market.

Amazon took a similar tack, first going after book sales (an excellent market for online commerce), then a broader set of markets.
> But I've never heard of anyone calling AT&T or Verizon or Comcast a "platform" that a developer might choose to build a business on.

E.g. Netflix is a business built on AT&T and Verizon's and Comcast's platform (namely their customer-facing telecommunications networks).
Obviously Julio Cortazar: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cortázar
This is pretty cool, but looking at their sample reports, it doesn't actually seem to tell you anything about what the data means.

There's a lot of "We identified a time series variation as shown below..."
There's actually a few other alternatives if you want to interop with straight-up C++ interfaces:

1. Use SWIG [1] to generate the C-API from the C++ headers (you are limited to a subset of C++: no STL, no templates, all interfaces must be pure-virtual).

2. The guys behind Mono created an amazing tool [2] that allowed you to call C++ symbols directly from managed C# code via transparent translation of the underlying ABI scheme (automatically maps the object layout, vtable layout, and name mangling scheme and emits code at runtime). They finished the GCC ABI and added partial support for MSVC ABI. Sadly the project seems to be abandoned in recent months.

[1] http://www.swig.org/

[2] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Dec-19.html
The main goal of a technology like this is to help the caching of common scripts, not to cache your entire website.

The only information you could have with this is that the browser already downloaded jquery from another website, that is not going to help that much.
It also doesn't help that very few projects bother documenting for developers. I believe some traditional UML tactics and other documentation could often not only help with on boarding developers but also lead to a realization of just how convoluted the structure is currently.
> That's because we dedicate most of our water and land resources to feeding cattle that we then eat.

As a farmer, I'm struggling to picture how we could change that land utilization in a significant way without technology to enable it. It's not quite as simple as consumer desires, although you are right that changing consumer habits changes the flow of money and where it is invested which would also spur on the necessary technology, presumably.
(Infinite) streams can be seen as really fundamental codata constructions as well. They're `nu (a )`, so if you believe that both codata and products are necessary then you have streams.

A lot* of people have rejected the first of those for most of the history of mathematics, but nobody rejects the second. Thus, streams are exactly as popular as codata/anti-foundation is.
Fair point, although I'm doubtful Baidu could survive if it had to actually compete with Google (which is banned or filtered in most of China).