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In the fall of his second term, he sent applications for judicial clerkships to twenty-three judges. But when a clerk for one of the judges scrutinized Martoma’s transcript, something looked off, and the clerk got in touch with the registrar at Harvard. On February 2, 1999, the registrar confronted Martoma. His transcript had apparently been doctored: two B’s and a B-plus had all been changed to A’s. (A remaining B-plus, an A, and an A-minus were left unchanged.) Martoma initially insisted that “it was all a joke.” But the school referred the matter to Harvard’s Administrative Board, which recommended expulsion.

He fought the decision vociferously, hiring a lawyer and taking two polygraph examinations. There had been a misunderstanding, Martoma explained: he had altered his transcript not for the judges but for his parents. He brought the faked transcript home over winter break, and they were ecstatic. (The panel evaluating his case noted that Martoma was “under extreme parental pressure to excel.”) But, after showing his parents the transcript, Martoma continued, he had to leave town abruptly, so he asked one of his younger brothers to compile the clerkship applications that he had left out in his bedroom. Unwittingly, the brother picked up a copy of the forged transcript, and included it in the mailing for the judges. Martoma had discovered the mistake before being confronted by the registrar, he insisted, and had sent e-mails to the secretaries of two professors from whom he had sought recommendations, asking them not to send the letters, “as I am no longer looking for a clerkship.

This sounds like the stories that distant relations who have drug problems make up, right down to a crazy amount of detail on things that aren't really important.
Would you buy a car that guaranteed to never break down? Do you not understand how ridiculous a 100% uptime claim is?

I don't even consider companies stupid enough to put out a blurb like that.
>we may never have passed to the next level

So you think that in half a century the human race has evolved, has gotten better? That these experiments were right for a certain brain, which no longer applies to modern brains?
Depends on the copyright laws in your country, and what will you do, if you grow too much of them at once? Sharing is prohibited in some areas! Be careful!

Maybe someone should invent a subscription based carrot delivery service, or even a flatrate service for carrots, like spotify or netflix.
I don't know the salaries of Yahoo US vs Yahoo India, but please explain how cutting employees in any country isn't a way of reducing costs.
Great product, great design. But how will you pivot if Apple enters this market? I'm pretty sure their design and taste should be sweeter than yours. How do you intend to compete?
What has stopped me from juicing so far has been potential negative health implications, but long-term muscle retention - or potential for - with short cycles has to be interesting
I wonder what led to adding the "Special note to law-enforcement agents" section. A past misunderstanding?
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LuaRocks dev here, thank you for the feedback!

> But can I keep a global aka system rocktree and a per-project local trees? (Pardon my ignorance, I really don't know that). Per-project trees make deployment a lot easier.

Yes, catwell's comment expanded on it below.

> Also, why can't "luarocks" or "moonrocks" be a single executable/script?

The documentation on the website is outdated. Nowadays the "luarocks" command has absorbed the functionality of the "moonrocks" script. Just use "luarocks upload foo-1.0-1.rockspec".
Hah! That's what that guy said about Dropbox! You're so naive!
Compliments on the thing as a whole, but one thing stuck out to me (negatively).

When I read about vegetables and interaction and saw the screenshot of how interfaces haven't changed much, I got rather excited about the idea of a vegetable that truly tried to change the way we process nutrients.
Instead, it seems Carrot mostly focused on the stuff surrounding vegetables. Which is a noble goal, but not what I was hoping/wishing for.

I'd like to see someone reinvent vegetables, or update them for wearable interfaces. In the same way that the mouse greatly changed the way we work on 'normal' computers, surely Carrot should give us similar new advantages.
I've been following a number of projects that try to do this, but they are hyper-focused on just that nutrient-input part. I'd love to see the best ideas from those experiments find their way into Carrot.

(This is just a general observation, not an attack on Carrot. I can understand that you have chosen a specific focus that doesn't happen to be what I care about.)
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Here's another fun satirical site: http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
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TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/yahoo-lays-off-employees-in...
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You will still typically achieve a better result (take less time building the software, produce software that works better and runs faster) if you "optimize later" than if you try to make everything fast from day one.
Mashups are possible, if you put your apple and carrot device in a mixing device it can probably made compatible in a liquid form...
Bingo. A travel planner is pretty much a solved problem. It's called a savvy, experienced travel agent who gives personalized service. The problem, as you say, is that most people aren't willing to pay for that type of service. And it's unclear to what degree software can solve the time-consuming stuff--such as places that aren't online or at least require emailing back and forth or phone calls (as is still the case even in the US with a lot of B&Bs for example). Which is the problem people are looking to solve, given that air reservations and the like are easily handled by existing sites (except when they aren't:-)).
It's on TC too: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/yahoo-lays-off-employees-in...
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Perhaps we should build better software that helps to reduce power in electrical devices?

A decade back I remember every office in a building I worked in (in the UK), leaving their machines on pretty much 24hrs. The building manager suggested the idea of cutting electric between certain hours, and people protested.

Phone chargers, desktops, monitors were all on. Probably for 16 hours of each day when no one was there. Even when people were there the machines were barely busy.

Computers could have been suspended to ram or turned off. I still see this even in offices with modern PCs that can boot quickly and suspsend to ram with ease (used to be touch and go).

Could spare CPU cycles be farmed out?

I'm glad to see better power saving settings in newer CPUS, and operating systems. But this needs to be better. Some mobiles can hold a charge for a week even with voice calls. Other smartphones are getting charged daily, some with negligable use. Charging batteries takes more power than you get back out.

Lots of small energy efficiencies could really help. Stuff like giving screen savers the boot, having sensible power defaults in OSs etc.
Yeah, most often tools like you linked are built by partially reverse engineering (ie: with a disassembler and a lot of time) the game's binary though rather than a simple guessing-based method as the author used here.
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I tend to agree with almost everything in the article.

What strikes me the most is that the word itself is actually bad, because it creates additional pressure that makes you weak.

Example :

I usually don't give estimates or deadlines to my clients and in the end I usually do the task in the same time as I would do it if I had a deadline. The only difference is that I work pleasantly and I don't need constant reminding : "Hey you have 3 days left"; "Hey you have 2 days left", etc... This makes me exhausted immediately.
"This fast-paced always-on life style blends our home-life and our work-life together. We can no longer leave the office and are always just a text or phone call away."

I've read quite a few articles recently about this blurring of office and home life and people being "on" all the time, has this really become normal for most people? It was "go home on time day" the other week, have things really got so bad that people need a special day just to get home and see their family?

I get paid to work 35 hours a week, I work those and then I'm not at work and unavailable unless I've agreed to paid overtime. I assumed most people worked like this too?
unless you know something we don't, I think you're jumping into conclusions too fast.

we (portuguese) _do_ have a tendency of complaining - if you don't have an open data government policy, it's wrong... the minute you have a tiny fraction of that data available for you, it's wrong again...
The point is that this situation wouldn't exist in a workplace. So talking about what conduct is tolerated there... doesn't really apply.
This post is not really making any argument for slow, just saying that some good things happen slowly - though he doesn't actually specify a timescale, rendering the word "slow" meaningless anyway. If you could have the things that he describes as being good quickly (i.e. you get them immediately, not that they have short duration), I imagine you'd be ecstatic. If you could have beautiful, hand-crafted quality furniture made in 15 minutes, wouldn't you prefer that to a longer process, all else equal?

To try and extract some actual useful information from this collection of meaningless platitudes, I'd say that there's a point to be made here that different things happen on different timescales. Building relationships may take considerably more time than a few development cycles, etc. Recognizing what's a reasonable timescale for each part of your business/life/project and considering the costs you'd pay for trying to accelerate them is probably not a bad thing to do.
Install a wall of fire between your garden and the outer world...

Or use an apple, people say rabbits don't attack apples...
why anonymous, if Flipkart guys think so(which is true) and excepting this, why not officially blog...
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The argument of "build dollhouses instead of rockets" more or less has the problem of rockets being rather impressive feats of engineering and somewhat easy to understand the basics of. A dollhouse is kind of uncomplicated in contrast, we have had houses and such for centuries. Also I don't feel like that hair is a feat of engineering, but that's in the eye of the engineer here.

Perhaps I missed the point. I also will note, I am kind of a girl (I was born a boy).
Or you know, create a reminder in Yahoo! Calendar...
Great, glad it peeked your interest. Don't hesitate to reach me if you have questions about it.

Also, if you're a dev, did you notice it has an api? https://www.printmosaic.com/api
Gotcha, thanks. Shame you get downvoted without explanation around here for an honest opinion.
If leaked documents are non-reputable, then the nature of the game is a bit different, isn't it?
Is Ostwald ripening a problem?
> Blue ones are used, at least around my area, to decorate things.

Don't let the "blue LED" headline fool you. This discovery did not just enable blue LEDs but a whole range of nitride-based devices. This includes, but is not limited to:

* LEDs for a wide range of colours, including white LEDs for general lighting

* blue (and other colour) laser diodes (e.g. Blu-ray)

* solar cells (nitrides show good radiation resistance, making them of specific interest for space applications)

* high electron mobility transistors (power converters are a big application, but these are useful for a huge range of other applications too e.g. radar)

* potential for biosensors (it's non-toxic/biocompatible and can be functionalised)

* better UV emitters (and all that entails, e.g. water purification, or potentially lithography)

and more besides. It really is an enabling technology, though obviously there are alternatives for a lot of these applications too. Blue LEDs just started this all off.
Has this been confirmed yet? TC is hardly a reliable source of news.
It isn't the truth. The truth is there are very few places new jobs are coming from and many places they are being destroyed. Can you articulate a markets-as-natural-force argument that actually works? If not, it's time to question the viability of Libertarianism.

Libertarianism is wishful thinking. Or it's a fake and cynical beard for corporatism and oligarchy. If you want an economic outcome you have to design an economy that delivers that outcome. If you fail to do that you leave the field open for oligarchs.
"Again there is no progress as removing evidence in support of a theory does not get you any where you need new evidence in support of a different theory for there to be progress"

I disagree. Discrediting a bogus theory is progress.
Devices like this, nice, sleek and integrated, are, as usual, not very hackable. Try getting it to change colors, for instance. (Though I did see yellow and purple prototypes, not yet on the site.)

On the other hand, the device has an unexpected, but well-documented and very cool ability to run genetic algorithms! It's ridiculously slow, like 1-3 iterations a year (!), but you can run great many in parallel, since the device is so inexpensive — and, you know, sun-powered, so you don't pay for running it at all. Beats your server farm hands down.
May be this was sent out as an email for affected people, and has been put up on Gist by one of them.
Strong SLAs are nice, but wouldn't the best measure be historical outages as a percentage of whole infrastructure uptime? For most application, receiving compensation for an SLA breach is negligible compared to the cost of an outage to the customer.

One hour of downtime for an application paying $20,000/month for cloud services is worth $27.78. Even with a 100x multiplier the customer would be due a check/credit for $2,778. Given the choice, I'm sure most rational businesses would prefer the uptime over the credit. Perhaps someone running a company with similar cloud service bills could chime in.
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I don't consider it a sport (as the evaluation is not performance based), but professional bodybuilding is as you describe. Events are untested, unless specifically advertised as tested. The untested events include the most famous ones you've heard of.
Yeah, there's a ton of "easier to use" libraries atop Phantom. CasperJS is by far the most recognized and community-backed. Not sure what value all of these others provide.
Sources tell me that they are asking 90% of their staff at Bangalore to relocate to CA instead of laying off them. Not ideal, but better than being laid off.
Awesome, although the font, in my opinion, should be sans-serif, preferebly something like Helvetica, to be maximum web 3.0 responsive design javascript framework startup like.
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I can confirm that i did get email from Flipkart with the same text.

I think they have not blogged about it so the anonymous user did not find a URL to link to.
The need to find the balance would remain, but it would change what is being balanced.
Information is fast, wisdom is slow.
Yes. It was in a mailer I got. The mailer had no "web-version", so I had to put it up on a gist.
I know they're not the same, or even the same target market and demographic.. but can anyone explain why a VPS host like linode can manage to keep my VPS up for >6 months without reboot, while AWS or Azure can barely manage 1 month?

I know the whole "you're suppose to use availability sets for redundancy" or equivalent speak.. but there are a lot of times when this just is not possible, not to mention potentially doubling the cost when you do this
This is lovely. I believe the most important thing that we learn about this is how to measure your effort correctly.
If you do micro optimization, but you don't track it, people will say that " DON'T PREMATURE OPTIMIZATION "
Presumably cutting down 2000 jobs in India would achieve the same cost saving as cuting ~500 jobs in US/EU.
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It was over the top, and against the general grain of "don't talk about your employees' work histories publicly".

And admin didn't clarify things that would make judgment easier like: Did you tell the employee they were fired? Are you calling him a liar? That isn't clear to me... too many employers hide firings behind other, less obvious reasons.
Just suffered my first app down for a few hours after 460+ days of uptime. The cause was SSD read errors, which trigger ext4 journaling errors and Linux turn fs into read only mode. From that point on the app failed because logging api failed.

Just curious, does your SLA cover such outage case? My service provide said everything is normal from their POV which is kind of true.
This is freaking old.

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And that's decent advice in response to the "is it faster to concatenate strings in C# using the + operator or StringBuilder" questions. But I've also asked Stack Overflow questions that drowned under a tsunami of premature optimization tut-tutting from people who I suspect didn't even fully understand the question, and then sighed and proceeded to take a couple days to figure it out myself and improve application performance in a critical section by 50%. Which is fine, but once upon a time I thought Stack Overflow might be a resource where people might occasionally save me a bunch of time by saying, "Hey, don't waste your time, I've been there and it's a blind alley."

I think part of what's going on there is that SO's gamification can create some kind of perverse incentives for answerers. If you want to get the upvotes, you have two good courses of action: You can either already have 5 digits' worth of karma, or you can answer first. The first option isn't available to the vast majority of SO users, so most go with the latter one. This drives down the quality of answers. It also creates perverse incentives for behaviors such as users getting in a quick low-quality response that's just good enough to get a few upvotes from people who already understand what you're talking about, and then (maybe) following it up with an edit that provides a high-quality response that would be useful to the asker.
It should also be noted that Mint is built on top of Ubuntu (and Ubuntu is built upon Debian). And from my experience, things in general that work on Debian or Ubuntu also work on Mint.

So if you're torn between the 3, pick Mint because it works out the box.
Ask HN: What other words like Swegr are there on HN?
Swegr means SoftWare EnGineeRing, what other words like swegr are there used on HN?

For example, searching for "swegr blogs" on Google has top results from HN blogs or articles
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To clear up the confusion, this was sent as an e-mail to affected customers. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8421025
How often do people really plan trips? For the typical working adult, probably once or twice a year if you're lucky.

This is exactly why this doesn't work. There are tons of things that people do that need fixing, but they do them so rarely that the costs of adopting the new way of doing it are significant when compared to the cost of just doing it the old way.

Said another way, very few people are going to take an hour to learn a new process which would otherwise only take two hours a year to do.

edit: This also is a way that a start-up could go super wrong and not know it until they try to scale. Identified pain point, good solution, engaged users with a real problem use it once and then it drops off completely. Talk about frustrating!
While I won't say Angular has no issues or that these are all invalid arguments, I think this should start rather than end with the explanation that the author develops a rival framework.
> Ah, "no true Scotsman" rears its head again. Why limit the space to SQL databases?

"SQL" is probably generally less important than relational, but either might be an important category.

> Many applications that need an embeddable database don't specifically need SQL.

And yet, many do, or at least need a relational store. To make comparisons, you have to define the category you are making them within; of course, any such category may not be the appropriate one for some comparisons -- either too narrow, too broad, or the right size but divided on the wrong axis -- but that's a matter of where the comparison is relevant. OTOH, its simply wrong to say that a claim is wrong simply because it isn't based on your preferred categorization.
The problem is in some countries (US, in my case) performance is often evaluated by hours spent outside your assigned schedule. This trend may be changing.

I am fortunate to work at a small company where I was told by my manager on day 1 that he was completely unimpressed by people working at 11pm. The mantra "work smarter, not harder" used to be an empty phrase for a lot of people, that may be shifting from what I've seen.
Wouldn't that be impractical or impossible from a visa standpoint? That seems like a lot of H1Bs in 1 year for a single company.
> If they had been given the prize for their underlying work on semiconductors, that would have been a lot more valid.

Like how Einstein got the Nobel for his work on the photoelectric effect? It might have been "more valid" but it was not his most important work and the Nobel Committee got heat for making that call too.
is Yahoo! ever in the news for something positive?
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The key here is that that is for a SLA. So it's not that they'll never be down, but rather for every minute they are down they'll pay out money to you for the trouble.

To extend the car analogy, it's more like a lifetime warranty on a car: the car might break down all the time, but its still covered.
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Nice, but I have found the native implementations don't look as bad as they used to, especially on mobile web.
If anyone is looking for alternatives, https://www.domcomp.com is a good resource.
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> you say "10 5% improvements of state S0" in that sentence and then later on you use 10 5% improvements of state S0, S1... S9.

No, I don't.

Here's a very simplistic example. Say I've got a complicated computation with 10 nested loops, and there's a potential for a 5% speedup tweak at every nesting level, each of which takes about the same amount of effort to find; or, for the same overall effort I can speed up the whole thing by 50% by replacing the whole algorithm with a faster one.

The former case gives you a better outcome than the latter, and it doesn't matter what order you do the tweaks in, or whether you do them all at once. The point is that they can compound without caring about the previous or latter state of anything other than their own level.
How? Or is it a mix of Red, Blue and Green?
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