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Seems nice but is only for Mac OS X. Is there an alternative for Linux or Windows?
It's partially related but something I would really like to have is a cross-website cache for public scripts. Around 80% of the size of the scripts is public libraries used by almost everyone (jquery, bootstrap, moment.js, various jquery plugins, angular...) and each of them is downloaded thousands of times.

One simple solution could be something like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.min.js" public="sha1:356a192b7913b04c54574d18c28d46e6395428ab">

This way the browser can have a look at the hash and not query the file at all. This could not lead to security issues since the hash saved by the browser is not the hash displayed but the one computed with the actual file. (and obviously you are only using the public attribute for scripts which are meant to be public).

With this technique, the most popular libraries could be cached and not downloaded by users.
No, their statement was that lowering unemployment is not an adequate sign of whether or not the labor force is healthy using an example from the past.
I'm uncomfortable with your generalizations (though you did account for exceptions with your last sentence).

I guess I would not be so pessimistic and give founders the benefit of the doubt that they think they are building something innovative (a word that means different things to different people).

The summer YC class had a fusion startup and a fission startup if I recall correctly. That is innovation in my book. And I think most startups are trying to change the status quo even to a small extent.

And why does a startup even need to be innovative? In this great talk by the founder of Asana (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3117) the point was made that while they're not curing diseases their software helps the people that are stay organized and save time.
If anything, your story backs up the OP's one - your experience depends entirely on the quality of your cleaner, which is something that Homejoy do not control.
> And someone needs to tell him that the Documentary Hypothesis is dying.

It's been a long time since I pursued my interest in biblical criticism, and don't know of critiques of the documentary hypothesis. Where can I find out more about it? Thanks!
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Hope is nice, but it doesn't get the guy housing or food or health insurance.

As a society, we're moving toward a new economic model. One that's superior in terms of creating output and wealth, but strikingly materially inferior for lots of people: it requires a different and much less broad-based skill set than the old economy required. It's possible for an individual to find the odd piecemeal job that requires those old-style skills, but extremely difficult to make a real living off of it.

Short of turning people into soylent green or magically educating everyone to above the current median skill level, I see the only real solution to this problem to be a basic income or a job guarantee. (I don't, however, see any way for US political institutions to create those solutions.)
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But do we know most young people prefer a fixed salary instead of undertaking? How do we know that?
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Can someone who uses this service answer a question: If this guy, who is in the top 30% of cleaners in DC builds a reputation, can his bill rate, and thereby his income go up? If this is the case it sounds like a great way for someone who is a hard worker, but lacks skills to make a fair living.
Stepping up in venture capital funding, or stepping up in other ways?
Yep, using Telescope.
Reading about the baroque complexity of old technologies certainly makes me glad we don't have to deal with it any more!
Palm OS?
Did you just describe git? Git has revisions of files, and they can be tagged, merged, etc. It still works on top of a conventional file system though, because why reinvent the wheel?
Excellent question. Let me noodle on that over a beer after work. I want to say 5 (SF, LA, CHI, NY, ATL), but its a very subjective metric.
No, think beyond how they are now. For a start it is a high risk event because it is a big event, mainly because of the sales, it could be sold gradually. Also more data would mean that valuation was easier.
I think we'll see at least two main car providers in major cities plus some niche operators, then one major network that allows you to buy your own car to be committed to a pool as an investment.
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I mostly agree, but remember that evil doesn't stop just because you remove your complicity from it-- it has to be actively contained or else it just continues to spread.

I agree that the US is a force for evil in the world. Getting other Americans to believe this is extremely difficult, as it is directly contrary to decades of militaristic propaganda.
"The bias implicit in this suggests that you consider that either someone agrees with your point of view, or else they support the slaughter of innocent children."

There is no bias. Either he is lying, or he is not. You can sugar-coat the discussion any way you want to wiggle out of it, but facts and lies are what count.

And yeah, you're right. There is only one side, and that's the side of "the best available truth". Not that people understand any of that jazz with all the "bias" being thrown back and forth in the media. Your post included.

Honestly, I don't even know enough about this recent Gaza/Israel thing. Just commenting on your "bias" retort to the parent's assertion that 400 children were killed.
My guess is that one thing that future software will have is automatic generation of user interfaces.

I think "naked objects" or "apache isis" are the best examples we've got for that for now , but they are rooted in somewhat complex java code, instead of being rooted in an easy to use tool, such that lets the business analyst who had some course , sit with the client and fully define a running system , step by step. In some cases the auto-generated UI would be good as it is , and the system will be used as-is.

In other cases , we might need easy tools to customize the UI.
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Canadian's have TN visas, which sidestep the H1-B fiasco.

Why haven't you tried out Seattle yet? Usually it's higher pay and everything is cheaper.
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I'm not sure this would work, especially given the lack of funds that RS currently holds. But I think it could work, or could have worked. Radio Shack did start a marked move towards re-embracing the DIY/Maker community a while back, but it was hardly a wholesale pivot... I think it was just a case of "too little, too late".

Still, I wish this could, and would, happen. Ordering parts online is cool and all, but having a physical retail location nearby with a great selection of parts, supplies, books, tools, etc., would definitely draw me in.
Great to see this:

> This release adds significant internal changes to Spark focused on improving performance for large scale workloads.

We looked at Spark Streaming briefly when choosing which CEP engine to use. We ended up not using it as its performance wasn't on par with other offerings.

I hope the performance improvements they've done carry over to the spark streaming product. http://spark.apache.org/streaming/

We ended up using esper and a proprietary engine. The biggest problem with some other streaming utilities is

1) performance

2) you can't step time when doing back testing. ie when replaying a day of trading you'll often have signals that say something like be passive for the next 10 seconds and then go to the bid for 10 seconds and then mid point and if you still aren't done then cross the spread after an additional 10 seconds.

When backtesting you obviously don't play back in real time or it would take 6.5 hours to re simulate the day, you play back as fast as you can so you need your CEP system to step time as it goes so it properly fires your time based triggers.

I'm checking out memSql right now to see how it lets you step time whit queries.

Startup idea....
It would be nice to have one unified way of doing real time and batch processing of data. That way your real time trading engine can be back tested in the same way it runs in production. I think/hope Spark is on the way to solving this.

If anyone has any input on the best way to unify streaming vs batch event processing please let me know!!!
Yup, was going to say the same thing.

It didn't have files, it had database records instead. In general each app used its own database, but it was possible to read databases from other apps too.
Hear, hear! I replayed the old Dooms (< 3) a few years ago using Doomsday and was surprised at how fun they still were. I was afraid they'd be outdated and boring, but they really seem to tick off all the right boxes in terms of fun gameplay.

I still think Quake 1 is a lot of fun, too.
Also, if Homejoy is interviewing and qualifying these workers, how are they not employees? The way these workers are treated seems mean-spirited
So what? Isn't it more important that their employees are doing a piss-poor job?

Managers should be concerned with what salaried employees produce, not how much time it takes them to produce it.
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Out of curiosity, what's the sq. footage of your living space?
Out-performed? How about it being cheaper for companies to hire and maintain... It's not about quality at all, it's about saving money.
>>It's a significant digital-age fair use ruling, one that's especially important for people and organizations who want to comment on or criticize news coverage.

This is why FOX News sued.

>>The company has more than 2,200 subscribers, including the White House, 100 members of Congress, the Department of Defense, as well as big news organizations like Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC, and the Associated Press.

This is why FOX News lost.
For an anecdotal counterpoint, I started using Homejoy about 2 months ago. I've had 5-6 different cleaners at this point. I asked the last 3 cleaners what they think of working for Homejoy and they unanimously replied that they love it. The pay is pretty good and all three said that they love how Homejoy gives them jobs and then gets out of the way.

I wonder if the worker in the article is representative of most Homejoy cleaners. He takes the bus to get across town, which turns a 2.5-hour cleaning into a 5-hour task. I think all of the cleaners I've had so far have cars, so in those cases, they're making $50 for 2.5 hours of work and maybe 15-60 minutes of commuting, instead of 150 minutes of commuting. The economics are much better in that scenario.

My anecdotes do not address the issues of workers comp or unemployment insurance, but the people I've met through Homejoy so far seem very happy to work there.
> Consumers have had both "regular" and "large" phones to choose from and they're choosing larger and larger displays.

I'm sorry, but I can't read that from the data you shared. "They"'re not choosing larger and larger displays - it was an untapped market, so people willing to buy bigger smartphones are doing it, as they become available. We can't assume that everyone/most/many will follow this trend and we also don't know when it will stop growing. Also it seems natural that buying trends will, up to a point, follow marketing trends - if almost all automakers start selling only big cars, then people would choose "larger and larger" cars.
pcap is an abstraction over bpf; in fact, the two were originally developed in tandem.
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It's a secret court, with secret penalties, none of which you're allowed to talk about if you're being attacked by it.

Democracy does not coexist with expansive secret court systems...
You might be right but to me there is a big difference.

Uber seems to be collecting much more interesting data accross greater distances than those you mention which I why I think about them as a logistics company.

But again I think they are grossly overvalued and I think they will find themselves having to change to something else as competition will heat up and pushes prices down.
> Even in the 90s there were quite a few attempts to create movie like games

Not just that - fancy animated cut scenes for intros and finales like in Dune 2 (1992) for PC. For a game that was maybe 10 MB on disk, those short animations were about 10 - 20% of the total installed size.

In any case, a team of ten people over the course of a year is typical for the time. The whole CONCEPT of a megabudget game with a hundred people solely dedicated to art and design for several years is something I've first associated with Final Fantasy VII.

The term "AAA" for me has implications of "Three million copies sold and we didn't even make back our IT budget".
For your project make sure you plan what to do if one application created the item, but another program wants to open it.

Don't try to do it by applications registering types they can open - this never succeeds, there are simply too many file types in the world.

Also think about how to send data to someone else.

And finally think about how to integrate with existing devices that still use files.
Do you think we'll see public transit orgs (for example, PACE/CTA in Chicago and its suburbs) purchase their own self-driving vehicles to provide transit services?
Partly because $100k credit likely costs them $5k in the first place..
Try to actually think about it. What movies fit that formula?

Iron man - no, an arrogant man built his own powers
Thor - no, an entitled boy temporarily had to cope with the absence of his powers to earn them back
The Hulk - no, he is not a great wizard, he is trying to cure himself
Captain America - you could make an argument for it, but no, he auditioned for his powers
Batman - no
Guardians of the Galaxy - no
Spider-man - OK, especially in "The Amazing Spider-man" they played the destiny card
Superman - sort-of, but he grew up with his powers
Green Lantern - yes
Daredevil - sort-of, but his wizards power is "not actually blind"
X-men - sort of, but their powers are a civil rights race analogy

Most comic book movies do not fit the boy-who-thinks-he-has-nothing-is-actually-a-great-wizard formula and those that do tend to be less successful.
Nacchio isn't accused of one of those "transporting the wrong species of muskmelon across state lines" crimes. He was convicted of defrauding his own shareholders out of many many millions of dollars. It's worth adding that the conviction happened during a famous wave of prosecutions of similar crimes at Worldcom, Anderson, Enron, &c.
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No degree, no TN visa.
This, like the inability to take Homejoy to court (yeah right), is probably against the <Booming-Voice-Of-God>TERMS OF SERVICE</Booming-Voice-Of-God>!!
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I really couldn't imagine using one of these services and dealing with an independent contractor. Too many things can go wrong in a house.

The cleaning service I used tried to move a dresser to clean behind it better and in the process scratched the hell out of the wood floors. I appreciated the over eagerness to clean, but it was still a big screw up. The company handled it, we got estimates from a few refinishers and they cut us a check for the highest one.

I know that this is possible with an independent contractor, but I know its highly unlikely that that would happen.

I pay a premium for the service because of that, and because they treat their employees well and pay a good wage with benefits, the employees in turn work their asses off for it and the owner has a waiting list of new employees every time he has expanded his team.

Service economy is great for people in our line of work who can command a high rate and have something to lose if we screw up. I'm not convinced that it works well pushed down to this level with people who already have so little.
If Rust is widely adopted, and this actually becomes a problem for anyone, someone will submit a pull request to remove it, it will be debated, and probably pass.

On the other hand, its presence in the current codebase will tend to attract playful tinkerers, which is arguably what it needs in its current stage of development.
Kind of funny to say that on a text-only JS-free site that seems to be alive and well, linking to an article on an old-school mailing list archive site. :)
I don't even know how to respond to this comment, because I don't see where Nacchio's "credibility" is even on the table.

The guy was convicted of defrauding his shareholders out of many millions of dollars. The basic fact pattern supporting the allegation is there in black and white; his attorneys have, from what I've read, acknowledged those facts.
It's weird that you link to a definition of "concern troll" and then manage to misapply it to a post that, even if it was trolling, is not concern-trolling.
It looks like just a list of some JS scripts, what is so note-worthy?
I think you have the same idea I do. In a statically compiled language, all of the high order polymorphism eventually compiles down to actual, concrete code that should be expressible in hand-specialized C structs and functions performing a single, specific task. Haskell makes that specialization process incredibly convenient and C makes it incredibly inconvenient. But, the point is not to ship a bunch of production code quickly. The point is to provide a low-abstraction example to demonstrate concretely what the compiler is doing for you without prefacing the example with "Assuming of course that you have already studied Haskell..."
With this work with Dynd, Numpy scikit learn etc and arbitrary python extensions ? That would be amazing :p
Of course research is iterative -- you wouldn't say other fields of math or science haven't had success/breakthroughs just because they are relying on old techniques.

That said, some more recent work comes to mind.

In terms of new algos: planning algorithms, deep learning architectures (ANNs without backprop), reinforcement learning, alife and multi-agent systems.

In terms of applications (which you already hint at): Deep Blue and Watson, both of which are great examples that shouldn't be regarded so trivially. Is the only difference between the "old algorithms" from the 1960s and Watson challenging people on Jeopardy is a matter of margin? No. It's not as if we were nearly there in the 60s and only needed to crank up CPU or RAM speed/storage. Read IBM's paper on it -- it took a complex architecture spanning natural language processing, databases, search, and machine learning. As for Deep Blue, even in the early 90s people said there would never be an AI to beat the best human Chess players. Once it happened, the paradigm shifted and "of course" AI can beat humans at Chess, as if there hadn't been who denied it was possible.

Some of the coolest more recent applications are in the realm of machine learning: self-driving cars, robots that learn to navigate or perform tasks, and image recognition (which has made an immense leap in the past ~2 years).
Excatly. Nothing. The computer should be able to figure out what to do on it's own.
Curious, what would that look like?
For software related jobs, pretty soon I'm going to start accepting candidates with substantial coursera credits. Furthermore, we'll be looking at courses in related fields.... Epidemiological Modeling in our case. Students who have successfully completed those core courses and have gained actual knowledge will easily come through in the interviews.
Plus, I think Milk was a way of getting into Google. Build anything, get picked up by G-Ventures.

This time, he's just doing it for himself because he likes building products. There really is no end game.
Do you or does anyone know if there's any kind of existing market for pirated textbooks? I'm not a student but if music and films are pirated in large doses, it seems textbooks geared towards the same demographic would be popular.
this is a good point, and while TOS may 'legally' protect a company via so-called 'consent' the reality is people often have a different idea of what they THOUGHT they were getting in to and what legally the company claims they can get away with.

This is the kind of things that eventually lead to class action suits, but settling this via the courts takes years.
What the fuck?

Let me see if I understand this. The president wanted to do some things on immigration. He decided against it. [insert long political debate here]

But the things he was going to do had nothing to do with the H-1B Visa Ceiling, which can only be raised by an act of congress. So the reporter writes this piece about the administration's plans, which have nothing to do with H-1B, then kind sticks in that the president could do something about H-1B spouses at the end.

The headline literally has nothing to do with the article.

Now maybe somebody would like to make the case that the toxic atmosphere in Washington, combined with party X doing Y, yadda yadda - -- no increase in H-1B Visas. Which is where the lead kind of promised we were going. Great political wonkery piece. I'd probably read it. But the supporting text was all about administration stuff. If you want to write a piece about what congress is doing or not doing? Call me crazy, but I'm thinking you should have some stuff in there about congress.

I'm kind of at a loss here. Do the folks at the WSJ read the articles before creating headlines?
I had a very similar experience. I love the cleaning lady I found through a more traditional route: word of mouth. But when I heard about Homejoy I had to give it a try, it is a little cheaper. But the cleaner they sent did a significantly worse job than my regular cleaner. Cleaning isn't something that everyone knows how to do, in fact most people don't really know how to clean. Without training, I don't see how Homejoy can offer any guarantee of quality, which is why I won't be using them in the future. Booking online is nice, but if the quality isn't there, it isn't worth it. I do pay my cleaner significantly more than $10/hour, but I feel fine about it. Since I have met her and see her pretty regularly, I would feel guilty if I felt like I wasn't paying her enough to live off of, and $10/hour in the Bay Area isn't enough to live off of. It might not be as convenient as online booking, but all the money goes directly to her, and I feel good about that.
>Hollywood 2.0

Actors are now being hired based on the amount of followers they have on twitter. If you have a lot of worldwide followers you're guaranteed to be casted since that's where all the money is these days.

>Government

The problem with this is dealing with government technocrats who will never deploy your software as is and will demand all sorts of complexity, basically creating the same garbage they were using before. If you can somehow survive this insanity there are gigantic contracts up for bid, for example many post offices are using Microsoft Mobile devices and looking into some kind of wearable scanner that doesn't charge hefty MS licensing fees. Then there's the Integrated Case Management software contract for $182 million that still doesn't work http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/government+million+co...
Selling gradually doesn't do anything and makes the entire process far more complicated and time consuming, as well as potentially pissing off investors.

As for data, it isn't something that has been lacking. Moreover, IPOs aren't priced according to valuation (though sometimes bankers reverse engineer a valuation to satisfy a price).