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I disagree. Here's Wikipedia:[1]

federal investigators believe the fraud began as early as the
mid-1980s and may have begun as far back as the 1970s
...
The amount missing from client accounts, including
fabricated gains, was almost $65 billion

Bernie could have been conning people for over 30 years, and he was in his 70s when it ended. If that's not "successful", then you
must agree that no Ponzi scheme can ever be successful. (Even Social Security will eventually collapse).

If I were in Bernie's shoes, I think what would pain me the most is that both of my sons were dead, and that one died as a result of the Ponzi scheme (and was it really suicide?). But then again, if Bernie is really the psychopath I think he is, he might not really care about even his own children.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
Becoming a psychopath is not possible. I mean a true psychopath. The initial point made is however pertinent.

In some particular context, like military or startups, the psychopathic traits may seam an advantage. So why don't we see more psychopaths in those fields ?

This question has caught the attention of many scientists, hence the interest in finding successful psychopaths.

One answer regarding startups could be that empathy with user experience could be an advantage. At some point one also need empathy with employees. Fear is also an advantage because one should better be paranoid to anticipate dangers and avoid them. Soon or later a fearless person would wet it's match.
> Their forces didn't invade they had no new troops, the troops where there as part of a rented military base to practise water maneuvers on the black sea, and I dread to think what would have happened if they hadn't been.

You have no idea what are you talking about. They brought much more troops there than were on rented military base. But even without that, it's still a breach of international borders and an invasion. It's not an uprising. And obviously Russia had no bases in other parts of Ukraine!

> the referendum was legitimate and acknowledged by the EU.

It wasn't.

> and yes, Russian language was not allowed anymore.

How so?

> officially it's supported by their constitution, but that was rectified when the new government got to power.

Stop spreading bullshit. I live in Ukraine. The law which they tried to remove was just not working. Nobody stops you from speaking Russian (in fact, I mostly speak Russian - at home, at work, and at government organizations), it was never oppressed.

> also, lets not talk about her phone call with the Estonian prime minister urging them to "nuke all the fuckers".

"her"? Who is "her"? What are you even talking about?

> doesn't reek of stability to me.

Stability? Of course not, our shitty president was just overthrown, Ukraine was in crisis, and Russia's attack was surely just in time.
It was stupidly blatant and my employer dealt with it once it was brought to their attention. Not fun by any means.

Oh, I've also faced internet crazies, but I've always practiced a reasonable level of anonymity as self-defense, so they've never been real threats. Actually it was amusing when one person sent all these harassing emails because they screwed up the Sendmail exploit and highlighted the real IP with something like SHADOW_SHADOW_SHADOW. Their ISP dropped them quickly once I explained all the interesting things I knew about that particular customer.

EDIT: It's a bit disheartening to see the two posts in this thread as my only posts that have not yet been downvoted on this story as these are honestly the least relevant to the topic at hand.
300 requests, 5MB, 24second until load.
Releasing all documents from the Inquisition would be interesting... I think most trials were well documented.
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OT:

> "it's rather the exception than the norm"

> "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat are involved."

How does one learn to use idioms like a native?
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I don't see any difference. You must be in a different A/B test bucket than me.
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I just want to say that I'm deeply uncomfortable with how quickly hacker news mods have moved to kill comments they disagree with since the new "professional" management came in. Is yummyfajitas hell-banned now? He had nearly 7 years of history. All his comments here are dead-ed.

For the record, this is what the grandparent said that got him hell-banned:

"According to the article, the author received one unwanted message every 50 days. How is it "cognitive dissonance" or "denial" to describe pressing delete every 50 days as a minor problem?

Note that in a typical 2 week period, I probably get more than 36 recruiter spams. Could you concretely explain what you feel is being denied?"

You might disagree with it, but it's hard to see how it is beyond the pale of polite discourse.
I think there's only two and Lisp doesn't need to be on that list, but maybe I say that because I've been using Common Lisp for so long.

Lisp ought to be easy since all you basically have to learn is: "(function parameter1 ... parameterN)".

Coming from Lisp I've been trying to learn some Haskell and holy cow syntax[1]! There's a lot to parse and know (compared to Lisp) before being able to write a small program.

[1] I know it is not literally syntax but mostly function calls, it's still a lot of extra special characters one needs to know about.
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One of my heroes is Fred Beckey. He's a lifelong climber, and is still climbing into his 90's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beckey

http://www.mountainproject.com/v/fred-beckey-90-years-old-cl...
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One of the coolest things about old manuscripts is definitely learning about where and when they come from, and which group of people wrote them and why. Lots of backstories... learning history is so much more interesting when a physical object gives it relevance and context.
Omissions are not lies. Yes, it's true that a lot of PhD-Students get DARPA funding, but that doesn't make the fact less true that Google also gets this.

All you are presenting is different interpretations of facts and weighting them differently - which is completely okay and a politics standard.

I disagree with you on one thing: if the main asset of google is trust, how come it aggressively lobbies against german consumer rights and makes themselves a hated target in that country? Doesn't quite fit...

I don't believe that Assange is necessarily _dishonest_. I have different interpretations to a lot of his things, but I am convinced that they are his actual opinions.
Those two points apply also to quite many "normal" non-shill commenters on the internet, and realistically you should expect "misinformed ranter vulgaris" to outnumber actual shills 100-to-1 in most discussions.
Why? For beginners web technologies are perfect. you can have results like a first static page within the first day and from that point go on to eventually build complex web apps. and all that with the same tools and languages. you will not be a programmer at first, but you might become one.
No story here, move on :)
Well, before that you have to be able to read Latin alphabets. I had to.

You may be fortunate enough to have a native language that happens to share the writing system with English, but a lot of people don't. Actually, I think the majority of people don't.
http://imgur.com/cMshOJx

Screenshot for anyone who isn't seeing the new page.
No. I would like to, when I get the time (Also powertop -http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_14... )

But thats the point. Lot of us depend on our computer for work and don't have the time to fiddle with lot of error-prone settings.

This is why Linux users have been migrating to OS X for years. Deep down, we are all idealistic hackers who would love for FOSS, and open-source to win, and give the finger to big brother, but we also need to put food on our tables.

Canonical lately has been chasing unicorns and leprechauns to find the Next Big Thing (never mind that they are late to mobile, tablet, and even unified interfaces). Canonical is right that mobile is the future. Mobile first of all includes laptops, tablets , phone. And the basic requirement for a successful mobile platform is battery life.
Somebody emailed us who was worried that letting this post be killed by user flags was unfair to other users who were carrying on a legit discussion. They asked if we were meaning to suppress the defense of an unpopular point of view. The answer is no, and we've unkilled this thread accordingly, although it's so late that doing so is mostly symbolic.

We often unkill flag-killed threads precisely so discussion can continue. Had we been more aware of this post at the time, we probably would have done that. There's too much material on the site for us to be aware of it all. That's why you should email hn@ycombinator.com if you see something amiss—that's guaranteed to bring it to our attention.
I would say a "tick" comprises the timestamp (stored as a long int) and ten levels of the order book (bid price, ask price, bid size, ask size) each stored as a double-precision float or a long int, so that's

(1 + 4 * 10) * 8 = 328 bytes

per tick, so 1KB isn't far off. Obviously not every level changes on every tick, so there are opportunities for compression, that can be significant.

Note that the "tick data" from histdata.com gives you prices sampled every 1 second (so not every tick) for the top level of the order book, and doesn't give you any size information at all.
Those have been A/B tested for months, if not more than a year. I like it better than the current default that most people see; I wonder why they haven't fully committed to it yet.
Not on a touchscreen device.
I once worked on a project that was started by two construction engineers. It was a Java web app. It worked well enough, but many customers complained about the ammount of crashes and errors the app produced. But it had nothing to do with them being construction engineers. It was their mindset that they thought they now knew enough and don't need to become better anymore. When the complexity grew, the app was above their competency. Even when faced with their failures their were unwilling to admit that they need to learn more about professional software engineering.

I have talked with some developers about my observations and almost all of them had a similar anecdote to tell. Some of them included CS grads with a similar "good enough" mindset.

These anectodes are in no way a representable study, but for me, it put the radical professionalism movement of Uncle Bob in a whole new context.
Absolutely. I always suggest python since it teaches kids to always indent and make code readable. It also has very good documentation and is a simple language. There is plenty of help out there for it as well.

I initially tried js/html with the kids in my school, and although it was fun because they were making making visual things, it turned them away from the console. This is not a good thing since the console is where they have to do a lot of the work, and having an aversion to it is one of the worst things that can happen to you.

I simply state this as my experience. Yours might be different.
Yep, I'm seeing the same redesigned page. I get the new page with Chrome (OS X) both logged-in and incognito, and also with Safari, but I see the old page in Firefox.
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I see a lot of empty space here - http://imgur.com/DmXPa3J, to the left and right.
I don't know what exactly the parent poster had in mind about FDA, but a commonly seen argument is that delaying a drug for a year by requiring more tests saves X expected lives (more chance to discover adverse effects), but also costs Y lives (those who would've been saved during that year), and that FDA are motivated by political reasons to act to ensure safety even in cases when X is significantly less than Y - thus, in effect, killing many people.

But that's not my point to make, so I can't give specific examples.
I agree... I did a similar thing here:

https://github.com/aosmith/toy-os

The x86 code seems like a bear but once it's explained it is fairly simple.
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Why is debugging a pita?
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>Replacing tens of thousands of workers with an algorithm would be insanely valuable as well.

You have to believe that a company like Facebook would much rather have an algorithm doing this then spending money on getting it done manually. The problem is that it isn't a feasible solution right now.
I can't get to the redesigned page, but the old design is 240 requests, and that doesn't stop it from loading the home page in a couple seconds at most. Most of the requests must be non-blocking, non-essential to above-the-fold rendering.
I seem to remember Steve Yegge saying that not a pixel moved on the Amazon page without Jeff Bezos say so - and that had lead to a legion of designers simply resigning in frustration (I think it was along with the "makes ordinary control freaks look like hippy stoners" comment)

So what changed? Did Bezos mellow? Or did A/B testing reveal a vast amoun of money lying on the table?
It's a testament to his thesis on Old Masters and Second Acts that you cite his founding of Lapham's Quarterly instead of him being the editor of Harper's for almost forty years.
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Though having to do a Beta App Review makes this useless.
If you get a 80 % turn out and only 10% cast a vote for a candidate then I think that would send a much stronger message. It clearly differentiates between the case of just too lazy to bother and of genuine disdain for the current options.
Possibly, because despite looking better, it performs worse on metrics they care about and they've been trying to fix it and find out why.
Thanks for this. I think that access to the new design depends on your geo-location. Even using Amazon.com I still get the old site from Germany.
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This is especially relevant given previous statements by Amazon that every 100ms delay resulted in a 1% profit drop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273900
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One thing I find interesting is what design trends this redesign doesn't follow.

For instance, the logo and search header could easily have been fixed to the top of the window as is so popular lately.

All in all, the design seems solid and familiar enough to still find what you need.
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> You don't know me; and you almost certainly haven't seen the personal affects of depression up close like I have.

I have, actually. The person I care about did not have any substantial pre-depression experience with mood altering substances, prescription or otherwise, but post-depression treatment with antidepressents has been a huge help to them and, indirectly, to me and the rest of my family. Nevertheless, I do have a pretty good guess as to what your experience has been like.

My post was intemperate, to say the least. Your post struck a nerve with me and provoked a reaction that was undeserved. I've had to deal with one too many "depression isn't real" and "people just want happy pills" attitudes in the past and it's apparently caused my reading comprehension to suffer. I painted with far too broad a brush and you have my sincerest apologies.
They have been testing this new design for quite a while now.
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I am his target audience and I know plenty about DARPA grants and think tanks. Assange has read massive amounts of leaked diplomatic cables (remember he ranks among names like Manning and Snowden for leaking documents), and as far as I can tell is very well politically aware and spoken.

No, don't look at the (one) mention of DARPA funding. Go look at the content of the diplomatic cable quotes, the fact that Schmidt visited him with US Government Officials to espouse US foreign policy objectives. Look at the sum of his argument including all of his evidence. And remember that this is just an extract from a book he wrote about it.

Partnerships with US Corporations has always played a role in US Foreign Policy. Right now the military is talking about replacing large parts of its active forces with private companies. For information systems and telecommunication, launching rockets, building planes, creating munitions, researching weapons, it is the same.

Eisenhower gave his famous speech in 1961 on the forming Military-Industrial Complex. Military-Industrial because it partners the Military and Industry. (He warns America that if it goes unchecked, it could have dire consequences. I'm not saying it's gone unchecked - that's a different discussion.)

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

I go to my earlier point, the partnerships are not limited to munitions. Using Google to spy on foreign countries already shows that they have an intimate relationship. The question is whether Google is involved in Foreign Policy in other ways.

From GCHQ to NSA: "Let's be blunt - the Western World (especially the US) gained influence due to drafting earlier standards:

* The US was a major player in shaping today's internet. This resulted in pervasive exportation of America's culture as well as technology. It also resulted in a lot of money being made by US entities."

http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPl... (96)

The US would have a lot to gain if they could use Google to 'prioritize and export US culture'. Google's CEO sounds an awful lot like he's saying that.

From the intro text:

"They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to Western companies and markets."

The US keeps an eye out on US Companies, too. Seems like an easy trade for me if I were a CEO. It will also help you expand your international base. Win-win.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...
Does Amazon get a lot of front-page visits? Personally I only land on Amazon product pages from searches for those products.
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Or J, and related languages. Crazy stuff, but apparently super productive once you're used to them.
And good riddance! Lawsuits from HN folks were really beginning to clog up our court system... /s
With age you can become more effective! As a 64 year old Developer I tell clients that my USP is 'grey hair'. Younger developers may produce slicker code and better SQL structures - but having run businesses I can look at the requirements from a Directors/Owners point of view and guide them on how to get the most benefit for their organisation from the technology.
Sigh. So far they're only hiding text on the front page, but they're following a trend that's far worse than the flat fad. I need information, and unnecessarily huge product photos convey only a tiny fraction of the necessary information -- even when they're photos for the right thing.

As it stands, fewer total things fit on my screen at once, and they individually convey less information. I have to specifically roll over to see product names, prices, and ratings.

Stop treating text as an enemy to be eradicated. Text is the basis of modern civilization.
Companies and developers need to make the conscious decision to host binaries via SSL/TLS

Yes. And source code, too. If you can't provide ssl for downloads, you should be using a third party service like GitHub who can.
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My grandfather is cut from the same cloth, at 87 he still still farms and does hard physical labor. He's slowed down and is semi-retired but he golfs nearly every day when not working (carries his own bag for 18 holes). Retirement isn't an option for some people...
I agree, I don't think there is crisis in IT in Spain as a whole, but our recent banking industry restructuration is dumping into the market a good amount of middle-age experienced developers and analysts.
I remember how I was starting to think at the beginning of college, that with a reference sheet I could pick any language and start writing in it ... you know, C++/Java/Python, it all looked the same.

Then I applied for a course in Programming paradigms, that boiled to 4 weeks of haskell and then 4 weeks of prolog.

So, definitely add prolog to your list :-)
It was eye opening :)
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You have to consider that in some countries devs with no experience are willing to work for $300-400 a month...
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$1000/month is pretty low savings for someone who works in tech in the Bay Area. It's not unrealistic to put away $10K/month if you hold a senior position at one of the major tech companies (think about it: total comp can easily run $250K+/year, so you're taking home about $160K/year after taxes. Save $120K/year and you still have $40K/year to live on, more than most non-tech workers get). At $10K/month you can save $600K in 5 years, good for about 10 years of living expenses if you're frugal, more if you get good investment returns.

It's also not unheard of for tech workers to skip the "found a company" stage entirely and retire off their savings, with F-U money, after 10 years in the field.
The situation for developers in Europe currently isn't good. Forget those nonsense 'skilled worker shortage' articles. Europe's economic recovery does not proceed as fast as expected, forecasts are even lowered due to the sanctions against Russia. The 'best' you can do is sit and wait until next spring because spring usually is the high season of the IT job market.
Thanks for linking me to this. I too made the incorrect assumption.
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Feel free to contact me if you want to move his CV in a couple of companies that I know are hiring (Salamanca and Valencia).

Good luck to you and your father