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> Start-ups actually do this? What's the value in a nice office when you are not established?

To play devil's advocate: You want to invest in big, fancy offices because...

- People will be more likely to stay longer each day

- It helps recruit talent

- It helps instill the "Company Culture"

- We have to look successful to be successful
It's more that the Fed was actively working to bypass their own system. For example, in changing the minutes of meetings, in refusing to let her file a report that the boss would then have to overrule, and in general telling her that she was blanket wrong in a matter of interpretation.

I don't see why consensus is such a necessary issue. We don't have consensus in any part of our government, but we are quite happy having dissenting supreme court justices write their own opinions. Why can't regulators also have dissenting opinions? The health of our economy is far more important than anyone's personal feelings in the matter.
It's a nice article that has some good data and makes thoughtful points, but oh my god the readability! That is the most gentle-on-my-eyes reading I think I have ever done on the web.

As someone who has spent a lot of time finding ways to make web pages more readable https://github.com/chrisbroski/simple-css I am impressed. After a little revers-engineering to figure out what he did that makes his so much better than mine, I discovered the major difference is he is using the Equity font http://typographyforlawyers.com/equity.html (of his own making.) I typically think custom fonts are of dubious value but damn in this instance it made a real difference.

I know the guy wrote a book on typography so I shouldn't be so surprised his typography is so good, but I am so used to being disappointed.
I have mixed feelings about the MOOCs.

On the positive side, the benefits are substantial. 1. Democratized access to the world's top educators, 2. Low cost distribution of education.

On the negative side, the MOOCs are kind of the large classroom problem taken to the extreme. It's generally agreed that a classroom with more students per teacher is not as good as a lower student/teacher ratio.

But to critique my own negativity, the people working on MOOCs are smart and motivated. It's a bit naive to think that the current MOOC is as good as they will ever get. Clearly, these are early stage products that have substantial evolution and improvement in their future.

The one area in open education that needs to improve is around content licensing. If you look at most open educational content, the licenses are restricted open source (GPL like) and note unrestricted open source (MIT/BSD/Apache like). I fail to understand how making the content unrestricted would not benefit everyone.
As I mentioned in my other comment[1], I'm not 100% sure, but I think RedHat's patches for the 2nd vulnerability also cover this one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373320
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Don't bring a server into your home if you value your sanity. Those little fans spin at 20,000RPM and can be heard throughout your house.
Well it was just a toy example I came up with in a couple of minutes.

But sometimes depending on the requirements a file is enough. If you intimately know the and control the bytes that get written it is easier to understand and reason about your systems (that means optimizing it, scaling it, making it fault tolerant).

Also one way to make a resilient and fault tolerant database is to have less code running. Sometimes the base libc and unix offer a good and stable base on which it is easy to build. If you append the file in read or append only mode. You can rely on certain behavior now.

People in the past have bought into marketing crap and got stuff like MongoDB which would throw data over the fence and pray that it would be synced eventually (by default!). But heck it was WebScale(tm).
exaaactly!!!
Love the build status badge. Nice touch.
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I don't use redhat, but my hunch is that the redhat patch is much more like Florian's (redhat security person):

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/693
I'd call them a douche bag. Seriously this isn't something you want to advertise even if it's true. Stay down to earth and play down your successes especially if the person you're talking to is less successful then you.

Did Steve Jobs call himself a serial entrepreneur? True success advertises itself.
Is this A/B testing for the other massage post on the front page? Or are you a different company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372392
Account created and commented within a minute. Solid, seems legit.
Maybe he is seeing new investment opportunities on the near horizon, perhaps including the rise in interest rates, which is expected at the beginning of next year? Tech has been one of the few places for people to put their money for quite a while, but it doesn't mean that will hold true forever. Commodities started heating up around the same time as this round of the tech industry "boom", and has pretty much crashed now.
Everything ef4 said plus:

Paying to get something is a lot more motivating than paying for something you already have and are under no risk of losing. The idea of people paying you out of pure gratitude is probably the most attractive, guilt-free, inarguably nice method around for getting paid. Unfortunately, I've never seen it work not-terribly.

Even just putting the book behind a pay-what-you-want wall that allows $0 but defaults to $5 would probably significantly increase the number of payers. It's not even about people's greed or ability/desire to pay. It's about their laziness. Can you imagine how terribly the Humble Bundle would perform if they had you download all of the games immediately for free then asked you to remember to come back and pay for them later? The entire revenue plan for the Bundle organizers themselves rests on including themselves in the revenue split by default knowing that most people will be too lazy to even spend brain cycles thinking about what they personally think should be the proper split. The customers just look at the fairly reasonable default and go "Um, sure. Whatever. Here's my money. Can I get the stuff now?"
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Are they now? Part of what you do at a university is build your professional network, both upwards, through your mentors, and sideways, with your peers. You also get introduced to new developments in your field, through informal, unscripted interactions, just walk down the hall and talk to the fellow in the office two doors down. That's a university. You don't get that through online courses. For a trade school, online courses work just fine. And the ruling class needs well-trained, obedient drones.
Amazon have been doing this for a while in the UK. Opening local distribution centres and using their own van. A lot of items I buy come from there now, a suprisong amount. I bought some tassimo capsules the other week and they arrived same day, in fact they arrived 2 hours after ordering - free delivery.
You're explaining the reasons for the traditional division of labor. But what we want is (one of) the consequences, not the causes.

Somewhere in your argument is the notion that sex, unlike e.g. race, is actually based on a biological difference that matters in practice, and is therefore a legitimate criterion on which to base socioeconomic behavior. But that doesn't make it not sexism, it just calls into question the legitimacy of "sexism" as a pejorative.
But which behavior is correct? On Ubuntu, ls is redefined, but isn't that what a shell function is supposed to do? If Red Hat "fixed" this, then haven't they disabled a feature? Sorry, not trying to be obtuse...
My big annoyance is with the MOOCs that still try and fit you into a schedule. Many times I have been in a course where I would have burned through the whole thing if I was allowed. But instead they feel the need to stagger the information on a weekly basis and I lose interest. Coursera is the one that comes to mind. I also don't care about getting a grade or certificate. Just give me all the lectures at once and some exercises so I can practice if I want. Gotta let go of the past.
>"Instead she comes across as extremely stubborn and unable to compromise or see other viewpoints besides her own. I would have fired her too just because she was so difficult to work with."

And frankly, that would be a reason for you not to be a manager of Fed regulators.

The Beim report specifically, specifically, says the kind of dissent she represented is exactly what the Fed needs.

And she did offer options, that she could simply be overruled if her superiors disagreed. This is how it should work. If they disagree, they need to personally be taking responsibility for that disagreement, not forcing the employee to change their views.

Not to mention it's pretty clear Goldman had no operative conflict of interest policy. They've simply been in blatant conflict too often for it to be believable there's anything limiting it.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369734
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I haven't done that volume but I have written a few thousand lines including this branch of a GCD wrapper library which uses generics to allow return values to be passed between the closures running on the different threads in a typesafe way: https://github.com/josephlord/Async.legacy/blob/argumentsAnd...

It was a nightmare getting it all building right (generic methods on generic classes took me a bit of time to sort out) but I think it works well now.

As for performance noting the amount of Swift you've done (and your activity on the DevForums) I expect you know all this but I've done quite a bit on speeding someone else's code up. There are certainly plenty of ways to accidentally slow down code:

Summary of the optimisations taking someone's project from 10fps to about 1500.
http://blog.human-friendly.com/swift-optimisation-number-ios...

Presentation on how to make Swift go fast:
http://blog.human-friendly.com/london-swift-presentation-swi...
I am not going to suggest you spend a lot of time on this, but poke around http://www.sec.gov/about/laws/secrulesregs.htm and mostly the regulations seem reasonable. At least compared to generic government regulations which can be far far worse. Consider, some raw materials would classify as nuclear waste if used to build an outbuilding at a nuclear power plant but you could use the same stuff to build a school.

Anyway, IMO I think the issues come down to financial transactions being somewhat abstracted from 'morals'. Sure, people rarely get into finance to make the world a better place. But, it's hard to feel telling your friends to sell stock before bad news hit's is a bad idea. Toss in people chasing after a few points here and their to hit their bonus and the incentives tend to be messed up.

Many regulations seem reasonable when applied to a financial system, but seem arbitrary for any one transaction.
The thing is I'd rather take a course from a top instructor even at a massive scale, than to take a poor course made by a guy who doesn't have any real business teaching the class. There is no reason every tiny state school should be recreating a bad machine learning class (example) when you can take a good one from a good instructor. If you go to even more basic topics (intro to comp sci), the quality you will get from having a TA teach a class to a lecture hall to a top instructor teaching over a MOOC will be like night and day.
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Obviously just a coincidence. :P
Interestingly, this is a problem that Indian e-commerce players tackled early on but probably due to different business dynamics. There's no dearth of courier services but none of them has the mindset of providing A-class customer experience. As a result, most of the top players handle the logistics themselves in many cities. In fact, half of their employees are associated with last mile deliveries. The result is a delightful customer experience with the top 3-4 players. Returns/exchanges are a breeze too. Time will till if it scales well while maintaining good margins.
What other verticals would these services need to expand to increase the wealth gap?
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I heard that, but it supports my opinion that she was simply unable to appear to be wrong. There was no interpretation required - either they have a policy or they don't. Since there is a document with that title they obviously have one, however poorly written it is. Her belief that since it didn't meet the Fed's standards it can't even be called one is just extreme.
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Synology released a security advisory outlining the affected Synology NASs: https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/security/bash_she...
"I think you earned the right to be called an entrepreneur."

The problem is that most of the people who have "earned the right" wouldn't be caught dead calling themselves "entrepreneurs". My plumber is an entrepreneur, my doctor is an entrepreneur, and my accountant is an entrepreneur. They all call themselves "plumbers", "doctors", or "accountants". "Entrepreneur", in fact, doesn't seem to convey any actual information, at least in a what-do-you-do sense.

On the other hand, a person calling themselves an "entrepreneur" does tell me one thing: How they want me to view them. As far as I can tell, they want to be seen as someone who takes Big Risks in search of Big Rewards (even if they don't, or even if their idea of a business doesn't make any sense whatsoever).
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Everything were there is a lack of women like technology the first step is gender equality.
The portion you quoted is a little misleading (understandably so for conciseness, but it does give the wrong impression). With a bit more context:

"Orowan had quipped that there might, indeed, be some truth to the story about glass flowing. Half of the pieces in a window are thicker at the bottom, he said, but, he added quickly, the other half are thicker at the top."

Which reads to me as a joke. I note this simply because it seems sub-optimal to introduce myths about the thickness of glass in old cathedrals when correcting a myth about glass in old cathedrals :)
It does. Especially considering the fact that RSpec itself was created as a joke solution to the "I wish my tests were more human readable" meme several years ago. Hopefully that sheds some light on why some of us might be hyper-sensitive about it.
Without expressing a position on Marc A's views on Snowden, I look at it a bit like Hollywood celebrities' views on politics. I may (arguably) care what a celeb says about a topic where he/she has demonstrated expertise, such as the craft of acting, but I would not expect them to have special expertise on vaccination, firearm policy, foreign policy, climatography, intelligence agencies, etc.

Similarly, I care quite a bit what Marc A. thinks about VCs and startups and cash burn rates: he's a smart guy with lots of experience who is willing to speak his mind, a rare character trait nowadays. You can appreciate and even applaud that without endorsing his views on the possible legal fate of an ex-government contractor.
Good stuff; that was the response I was hoping to hear.
What are you talking about this his been a feature on most phones since day one. I think they call it "calendar".

Also it's sexist to assume only women want to track menstruation isn't it?
It's ironic that the sides are basically the proverbial Greens and Blues.

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Color_politics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot_racing#Byzantine_era
You need to use export -f now, the specifics of how functions are exported have changed in the redhat patch, ls='() { ... is not sufficient anymore. Nothing has broken unless you had something calling bash that was not bash and you used this internal to bash implementation hack-like knowledge that 'foo=() {' is how those pre this redhat patch versions of bash did it.
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Then your MOOC is the entire internet.
remotely? how?
First remind them it's a preliminary range. Then escalate by informing the hiring manager what happened. HR's role is to support the company mission. HR throwing a spanner in the works just because you gave some estimate is weird at best.

If you really end up with HR from hell, either they'll drag the company down with them or they'll be separated soon -- good riddance.
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It's not material design! Nothing accept colors is material design. No animations, no guidelines nothing!
I won't comment on Amazon for NDA reasons, but in terms of feasibility of the last mile, the answer is "it depends". Sorry to disappoint you.

The following factors can have orders-of-magnitude effects on the costs of the last mile.

* Cycle Times (the time from route start to route finish). If you offer short cycle times, you lower your delivery density (distance between deliveries).

* Market Share. The more customers you have, the higher your delivery density.

* Range. The bigger the delivery area, the further you have to travel at the beginning and ends of delivery cycles. Short cycles with large ranges can add up to very large dead weight losses.

* Street patterns. Street patterns can ease or severely inhibit efficient routing. In a town full of cul-de-sacs, you have almost no flexibility to optimize your routing. In a pure grid, you can optimize extremely well.

* Vehicle requirements. Smaller vehicles are extremely nimble, aren't subject to the same traffic considerations, and don't have problems with parking, ingress, or egress. Larger vehicles can be much more difficult to move around. This is actually a huge benefit to companies like Taobao, and pizza delivery, because they can use motorcycles effectively. Refrigerator Delivery, not so much.

And to compound that, labor and fuel costs are a multiplier for the factors mentioned.
Interesting article, thanks for that.

An anecdotal addition, but FedEx SmartPost can be incredibly annoying depending on how well the local PO works. In some instances, FedEx tracking would mark a package as "delivered" when it was just dropped it off at the local post office. When I was living in Brooklyn, this basically meant I was going to get a pink slip on my mail box within the next 3 days (even though I work from home, they NEVER rang the bell). And since, apparently, none of the local carriers were delivering packages in the neighborhood, this meant I was going to have to wait in a line of disgruntled neighbors with pink slips dangling from clenched fists for at least half an hour and often twice that.

Because of this, I would generally avoid FedEx when it was an option. I believe UPS does this as well with some category of their service, but I haven't dealt with it in my own experience.

I don't mean to say that all of USPS is broken. I'm generally impressed by the system as a whole. When I was living in Seattle, the service was superb, and now that I'm in Chicago, it's somewhere in between. I'm just saying that the service isn't necessarily consistent, and has, in the past, led me to find other options.
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VC-funded startups have always burned cash at prodigious rates. There's nothing inherently worrisome about that. What worries Andreessen, Gurley, Wilson, and other investors with decades of experience is that many startups today are burning cash by spending on things that do not increase business value -- and in some cases actually destroy it -- without worrying for even a moment about the possibility of running out of money.

In Andreessen's words: "Lots of people, big shiny office, high expense base = Fake 'we’ve made it!' feeling. Removes pressure to deliver real results."[1]

In Gurley's words: "I think that Silicon Valley as a whole or that the venture-capital community or startup community is taking on an excessive amount of risk right now. Unprecedented since '99. In some ways less silly than '99 and in other ways more silly than in '99. ... For the first time since '99, in the past 12 months, I've been in board meetings where the company says, 'Our only option is a 10-year lease,' at record pricing on a per square foot basis here in San Francisco, which is two or three times what the rent was three years ago. And so this is why it's all cyclical—because the landlords get greedy. They wouldn't do a 10-year lease if they thought that the rates were low. So they're implicitly telling you they want to lock this in for 10 years, which is its own form of greed because what happened in '99 is half the companies went bankrupt and they couldn't pay the lease over the 10-year period."[2]

In Wilson's words: "I’ve pushed back on long term leases that I thought were outrageous, I’ve pushed back on spending plans that I thought were too aggressive and too risky, I’ve made myself a pain in the ass to more than a few CEOs."[3]

Their worry, in short, is that many VC-funded startups are burning cash stupidly.

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[1] https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/515219433695223809

[2] http://online.wsj.com/articles/venture-capitalist-sounds-ala...

[3] http://avc.com/2014/09/burn-baby-burn/
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Thank you! I haven't had time to read the documentation for Red Hat's change.
Right, because engineers trained on mobile systems and mapping technology should just start "analyzing Ebola mutations".

The point is that it wouldn't hurt if they would start taking an interest in matters of actual social and economic import.

Rather than just (apparently) bro'ing out at 4am and "collecting a lot of XP." And waking up the whole damn neighborhood.
I'd just like to point out that the "why now?" question is probably related to a major shift in America's monetary policy. Since the 2008 crash, the Fed has been using a policy of "Quantitive Easing" (QE) to keep interest rates artificially low and thus encourage lending and spending. It's been known for while that the Feds were looking to end this policy sometime this year and it's looking like the end of October will be that time. Although the Feds seem to indicate that they won't actually raise interest rates until sometime next year, halting QE will have the affect of making less money available for lending. No one is really sure what is going to happen but this is an event that will affect the economy as a whole. To me, it's sounding like one of the industries that could be particularly affected by this policy is Tech and the result will be a market correction in startup valuations.

Links!
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantitative-easing.asp
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/01/ec...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2014/09/23/the-end-of-t...
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/08/05/goldman-sachs-here...
You're right, it's an unsubstantiated opinion. I haven't seen grand examples of design swinging back toward skeuomorphism, though some of the more extreme minimalistic choices have been changing.
I don't understand the whole "so discouraged that they left the labor force entirely" bit. If you have that luxury should you even be counted?
Even more so -- who has time to program apps like these?

That's the weird part.
Nice site, will you be opening for other cities too? like DC?
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