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Put your contact information in your profile please.
Sounds like you'd have been a much better fit for Renaissance Technologies than Goldman.
Ah, I have thought of Uber as UPS for people. Door to door routing, with out me having to think of all the logistics would be a thing of beauty.
Excellent! Finally someone who speaks out sensibly.
It's a scarring experience to fail and all this nonsense about "fail soon fail often" is difficult to stomach. And it is note worthy that this "mantra" is only sung by people who have been successful. Ever heard someone saying it who just failed???
I can accept the charge of being pedantic. The text in the Slate article is "first Nobel laureate in history to [sell the medallion]" while the linked-to article in the Telegraph quotes Christie's auctioneer as "the first Nobel Prize to be sold by a living recipient" so I assume you think the Telegraph is also pedantic for adding the qualifier "living".

"Offensive" I contest. Here I thought I was diminishing his uniqueness.

But "Selling your medal for personal gain is just crass"? That I reject.

I reject the validity of your blanket condemnation of what a winner can do with their prize. Where is the limit? Can a Presidential Medal of Honor winner auction their medal? Purple Heart winner? Pulitzer prize? State spelling bee champion? Or is the Nobel Prize somehow unique?

Would is be crass for a winner to sell the award if they needed the money to pay for a bone marrow transplant? To prevent foreclosure on the house? Provide seed money for a new business? Surely you don't think all possible cases of personal gain are crass.

Crick's family sold the medal after his death. 70% went to research organizations but I don't know about the other 30%. Is it okay for part of that to go towards personal gain for the family members? It had been in storage first in a room and then in a safety deposit box for 50 years. Why should he, or any other prize winner, wait until death to sell the prize?

P.S. The account about dissolving the gold was also in the link I gave.
As an iOS Developer I would not recommend using RubyMotion to "learn" just hunker down and learn Objective C it's really not that difficult to pick up. Currently I would also give the the same advice for Swift - You're better off learning Objective C and then learning Swift since there is still a lot of interaction between the two (this may change in the future).
My goal was to emphasize that you are correct that not all useful instances of dynamic dispatch can be reduced to static dispatch. With regard to the DOM specifically, however, there is some concern that the structure itself was designed and standardized such that it can only be implemented efficiently by assuming some sort of inheritance scheme, effectively baking the typical OO approach into the web standard. Opponents of inheritance being added to Rust have claimed that this is a unique case, and that such a feature would not pull its weight in any non-DOM scenarios (or worse, that it would be redundant with Rust's trait system and that you would fall into C++'s trap of nobody agreeing on which subsets of the language to use). Given the nebulousness of the proposals in this space, I have no dog in this fight at the moment.

My other goal was to show that Rust gives you enough tools to manually emulate an efficient inheritance-style dynamic dispatch scheme, even if it can't fully prove that your implementation is safe.
Future computers may use light instead of wires
So can we say Joyent blew it with too much corporatism?
Created this account just to help you :)

I was in the same situation last week - I needed an old file that was inside a .rar archive, and gmail wouldn't let me download it. I knew about google takeout, but i didn't wat to download several gigs just for that one file, so this is what i ended up doing:

1) In Gmail, create a label (any name will do, like "rar export");

2) Add the message google won't let you download attachments from to this label;

3) Go to google.com/settings/takeout, and look for the option which lets you export a single label from Gmail.

Hope it helps :)
There's a huge liquidity advantage, relatively unique to this market, that is difficult to compete against.
Pervasive use of ST, or almost any monad for that matter, leads to serious problems in Scala since you basically have to use trampolines and take a massive performance hit. It's also extremely verbose to do it correctly.

It's a good solution in Haskell though.
Woah! This is really cool, and represents some of the same ideas I have for a database/cache except in JS rather than LISP. I'd love to compare notes - http://github.com/amark/gun .
I hadn't seen "non-information" used as a way to describe that sort of thing before, but it makes a lot of sense. Avoids a whole bunch of unproductive arguments about whether something's "real" or not.
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UberX is almost always less expensive than a taxi. Certain NYC trips might be an exception.
Chez Scheme is not currently available for purchase. This has been the case since it was aquired by Cicso Systems.
Show HN: Capture your real image – Zero refraction metal mirror
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I think you can criticize targeted visa programs without committing the lump of labor fallacy. The reason is that very targeted types of migration such as high tech visas can cause market distortions relative to other fields.

For instance, every new developer probably leads to employment for baristas, brick layers, dermatologists, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, and divorce lawyers. Because developers and engineers in general tend to generate wealth rather than redistribute it, this is especially true.

Here's the thing, if you create a visa program to allow easy migration for developers, but not for all those other professions (or you create a regulatory state that makes it very difficult for migrants to join those fields), what you create is a market distortion. Because new economic activities are available without the competition from the newly arrived migrants, those with existing work and residency rights will have an incentive to avoid engineering and go into other fields. Even if people aren't specifically displaced, even if pay rises a bit, better prospects in other fields may ensure that the existing workforce never goes into software development or engineering in the first place (i.e., someone who would have done so will now instead go into dentistry or tax law).

This, I think, is what we've seen - people who have the right to live and work in the US at the time when they are choosing a career path are shunning these fields. Now, if migration were more general, it wouldn't do as much harm to developers, because while there would be more competition, it would be spread evenly across all fields, not just software.

Think of it this way - suppose we allowed farmers to come to the US, but only if they grow lemons. If you switch your crop, you must leave, because there's a shortage of lemon growers. This would hurt likely harm existing lemon farmers, and you'd expect them to switch to a different crop (probably avocados, where they don't have to compete on price with the suddenly larger and captive population of lemon growers). There might seem to be a shortage of lemons, prices of lemons might still go up, but until they reflect the opportunity cost (what you could get growing avocados), people with the choice won't grow lemons. In this case, the "come here if you agree to grow lemons" visa program would be creating a market distortion that is preventing the lemon market from "clearing".

This is also why a lot of people who have no objection to general skilled immigration strongly oppose such specific tinkering with employment levels, and why a lot of people feel that there really is no evidence of a developer or engineer shortage when you consider the opportunity cost of becoming a developer for people who are free to choose a profession.
OPs can delete links for a brief time after submission. Mods will sometimes change links to a better source of the story. Also the auto-mod system will mark certain links "dead" based on various signals. It could have also been linked in a comment (I suspect that's the case here).
A trillion dollar niche!
Tutorial for Happy Cyborg: Upload Your Personality to Twitter
Talking about Docker as we are

Does any one agree it's still too hard for dumb dumb developers like me? I'm on windows (boo hiss) so in the past I've tried to use boot2docker, but you can't just point your webserver container at a place on your local file system and say serve that please

You have to bring in some crazy storage file container which will serve it all via samba or something and then you need to figure out linking those containers together and then how the hell do you tell a web server "hey you, document root is over here on another container"

At this point I'm usually like fuck it we'll use some bad idea .exe web stack and develop as normal
I like the idea of containers, quicker smaller than vms, nice file system history going on but in practice
it isn't easy enough in my opinion
I think that we will get there eventually, but there is still plenty of work to be done - for it to work it needs to be mass market, which means it needs to Just Work.

One project I've been meaning to delve into is https://sandstorm.io/
With $2b in revenues vs ~$0, I'd put the Uber valuation in the bigger category.
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Google and Facebook may not sell personally identifiable information to advertisers, but they track users relentlessly and insatiably. Google, in particular, has it's tracking tentacles in every conceivable corner of the web: whether it's tracking school kids through Google Classroom, or tracking users through the entirety of an OS (ChromeOS), or tracking your behaviour on your Android smartphone - the list is endless. No, I don't think they do sinsiter things with your data but they have amassed (and continue to amass) an absolutely gargantuan volume of date about users.

What Facebook and Google collect about you far exceeds a simple "advertising profile" of your likes. They know more about your online behaviour than you do. I've said this before, but Google omits basic facts in their privacy policy about the data they collect about you. Things like: how long they keep your data, whether the data is anonymised, whether your searches or activity are disassociated from your identity, and who sees your data inside the company. These are not minor or unreasonable questions to ask - they are exactly what you'd expect to find in a privacy policy (especially from a company that arguably tracks users more than anyone else online). Yet, Google does not answer any of these questions. Why do they get a free pass?
Understanding JavaScript OOP (2011)
Scaling done right. It's kind of awesome seeing such a company blow up like this.

I think that a lot more competitors in the near future will enter the market (as Uber pretty much validated the market for them) but Uber will remain the biggest and baddest. Uber will probably become very big, then diversify in some way (just like Google did) and then Uber will be established. Maybe 'Ubering' will even become a word just like 'googling'... heh, funny. But hey, it's all speculation from this point imo.

Time will tell.
VC cash isn't infinite, and the amount available today won't last indefinitely. And are many VCs really likely to invest in a new startup when Uber just got over a billion dollars of cash? You can be as innovative and disruptive as you want, you're still going to have an extremely hard time beating a company with $1.2bn in the bank.
Show HN: An experiment with Velocity.js animations and Webkit gradients
Google can not take my information unless I give to them willingly which I do because they are offering something useful in return. NSA on other hand draws a salary by taking away 30% of my income from me.
Comcast Really, Really Doesn't Like Netflix
Pricing Teardown for a Y Combinator Company (YC '14)
I used duckduckgo when visiting China where google.com is blocked, its own baidu.com is useless for searching technical content, most developers need use vpn to visit google.com for development, but VPN is not a safe bet since the GFW keeps evolving and many VPN can not cope with that for daily reliable usage.

duckduckgo can do well in that market, better than bing.com and yahoo.com in most cases from my experience, but not enough comparing to google.com.
Stability is a form of freedom. Disruption of everyday life by individuals or groups, as often happens in countries with weak governments, is itself a form of oppression.

I lived for the first part of my life in Bangladesh. A relative was killed in a workers' strike, by an explosive device. Our house was the target of armed thugs who tried to break down our gate and rob us. Once, on a visit from the U.S., my family had to return from our hotel to the airport under armed guard because the streets were not safe during a strike.

That's not freedom! The fact that we could overthrow the government with small arms is not freedom. Especially in a democracy, because it represents political minorities imposing their will to overthrow a government that represents the majority. That's oppression! Any day of the week, I'd prefer a democratic government that can blow me away with a drone strike to one that can't keep criminals and radicals at bay.
Insider's Guide to Pitching VC's
Horrendous - PowerVR is one of the worst companies wrt open source. You do get OpenGL ES 2.0 blobs, though.
Your experience is not universal. Every single person I've talked to their company is deciding between amazon and google. Neither MS nor rackspace even come up.
There's a Better Way to Board Planes
I'd also lean towards keeping compose a separate binary, particularly given the community's concern over Docker's feature-creep, and the fact that it uses a separate configuration file, and doesn't need to be the same binary for any particular reason.

Also, I filed an issue on the Github repo for this, but "machine" is already used by a command line tool on OS X and other BSDs.

Perhaps "docker-machine" and "docker-compose" are good compromises in both cases.
How cool! It's a nice glimpse into an otherwise hidden past, something even the developers probably never thought would see the light of day again after release. I let a giggle escape at void* _gWanky_arse_tit_fuck;

This being HN, maybe one of them can chip in about what the original binary was that was ran against it? Didn't they do a kickstarter to make a new iteration in this franchise? Or would that land them (or you) in hot legal water?

BTW: Is there a name for such software spelunking? Feels a bit like digital archeology.
Do you have experience interviewing candidates?

Many candidates will answer this question correctly and yet be totally unable to do anything when they're confronted with a non textbook case. To be clear the brain teasers I ask are mathematical problems, not the type of brain teasers used in consulting interviews. For instance:

We play a game where we each draw a secret random number uniformly between 0 and 1. We each may re-throw if dissatisfied with our first throw, or me may keep it. We do not know whether or not the other has chosen to re-throw. We then compare our results and he who holds largest number wins $1. What is the best strategy to follow?

That's the type of brainteaser I'd ask. It's accessible to a good high school student. I interviewed a PhD candidate in applied mathematics from a top Ivy league university who:

- wouldn't believe that maximizing the expected value of the number obtained wasn't optimal until shown an explicit counterexample

- was unable to write the equations properly or model the problem

- was unable to solve the equations after I handed them out to them

He was however able to talk about his thesis work. Your questions wouldn't have caught that at all. His thesis work was in game theory.
or Netflix streaming.
The sarcasm's there because the market clearly doesn't work as it should here, just as it doesn't work in many other industries. The free market works for commodities trading, but not much else.
Just curious, are you doing anything to support the container ecosystem, aside from publishing upset Hacker News comments?

I think the strong interest in Docker demonstrates there's a need for a layer on top of LXC. It's open source, so what's the problem?
This needs a little more information. What are the features of the app? Is "Drag and Drop a Video and it becomes a GIF" the only functionality? (usually such apps offer trimming in addition) What is the quality of the output?
My rationalization of the investment is that B&N's partnership with publishers is/was tremendously valuable and would be very difficult/time consuming to build. It made more sense to partner with NOOK in order to secure access to that content than to try and build at Microsoft.
Your comment sucks, but let me just correct something: Guile uses the LGPL, note the 'L'.
What can Scheme learn from JavaScript? [pdf]
TL;DR "Perfect infinite compression is impossible, but we're calling our perfect infinite compression scheme something different so that doesn’t count."

And this was backed by a comp sci professor. The only explanation I can see is that greed can blind people to anything they don't want to see.
Hi,

The last few days have been absolutely incredible, we’ve attracted the attention of the world, and were marching closer and closer to bringing the zero refraction handcrafted metal mirror to life. To get there, we need your help to bring family, friends, fans, and followers to the campaign.

This crowd funding process and its soft launch has already provided us with a lot of great feedback, especially about its sizes, and interest from handmade product lovers from all over the world -- and we’ve been listening to it all. We observed that all are looking for more opportunities to get the metal mirror at various sizes, so we went back to our artisans and came up with a solution. Today were offering metal mirrors with various sizes. We’ll offer a limited number of mirrors at each level, and as each tier runs out the next ones will be made available, so act quickly to get the best deal!

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If I just want to learn Statistical Programming, is R good for that? I can't afford/not willing to buy SAS or Matlab.
R is a 'rip-off' / open source re-implementation of the commercial S language by John Chambers. (There are some differences in scoping iirc). Haven't many of its 'modern' PL constructs already been used in Lisp (dialects) before?
That's pretty much exactly the reason the author said he rewrote it in Objective-C; so that he could learn it.
I can't think of anything that would stop governments destroying Uber - is there anything? They've already started getting banned in various places, and it's not hard to write laws to enforce a taxi monopoly.

They're doing well but I don't see anything that would stop government regulating them out of existence. They're no, say, Bitcoin in that regard for sure.
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Circle-Circle Intersections
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You know it's an old military acronym, right? F.U.B.A.R. stands for eFfed Up Beyond All Recognition. (And SNAFU is Situation Normal: All eFfed Up.) ;-)
Ask HN : What is the best way to promote an indiegogo campaign ?.
Hi,

The last few days have been absolutely incredible, we’ve attracted the attention of the world, and were marching closer and closer to bringing the zero refraction handcrafted metal mirror to life. To get there, we need your help to bring family, friends, fans, and followers to the campaign.
This crowd funding process and its soft launch has already provided us with a lot of great feedback, especially about its sizes, and interest from handmade product lovers from all over the world -- and we’ve been listening to it all. We observed that all are looking for more opportunities to get the metal mirror at various sizes, so we went back to our artisans and came up with a solution. Today were offering metal mirrors with various sizes. We’ll offer a limited number of mirrors at each level, and as each tier runs out the next ones will be made available, so act quickly to get the best deal!

We need to keep the campaign momentum going. Please help by sharing the news and, of course, keep pledging!

http://igg.me/at/metalmirror/x/9224494

George!
CEO
No, I mean I clicked on the HN link, and that's all I was presented with. Chrome for Android.
I don't like them at all. Yes, they look pretty, but it's an emulation of the worst aspects of paper forms. The grid-style form is my least-favourite paper form and I frequently find it confusing and difficult to fill out such forms correctly. Perhaps this is because the linear flow of the form is awkwardly two-dimensional, or perhaps because for anything beyond a trivial example, the layout becomes unnatural as the size of the fields don't usually lend themselves to a logical and human-friendly structured layout.

Perhaps it's because the grid style form ignores the importance of whitespace in clear and understandable design. Here's a good test: hold the form upside down and see if you can still tell it's structure at a glance, or hold it at the other side of the room and try the same thing.
The deep silence says Y E S...
I've always wondered how many "tech" guys can seriously be so ignorant that they use facebook, or maybe it's just plain stupidity.
Really fantastic article. He emphasizes the fact that the death of privacy is not the real problem. The real problem is the death of privacy for citizens, but not for their government, when it should be the other way around to have a balance of power.

"The real reason lies in the calculus of power: the destruction of privacy widens the existing power imbalance between the ruling factions and everyone else, leaving “the outlook for subject peoples and oppressed classes,” as Orwell wrote, “still more hopeless.”"
>someone asked if you can do these without a math degree. The short answer is probably not. YOu'll need a math, engineering, or physics degree, unless you really are driven to learn hte math yourself.

This is interesting, but I have a slightly different interpretation of the question: Assuming you _can_ learn the math yourself, will anybody believe you? Is the degree necessary, if only for pedigree purposes?
Ask HN: What Virtual PBX service do you use?
I'm in the US, and my only must-have features are find-me/follow-me, unlimited numbers on a call block blacklist (the one missing feature on my current provider that is driving me to look for a new provider), incoming fax, and can migrate an existing toll-free number. I'm not price sensitive, I'm willing to pay for quality of service. Not having legions of pissed-off customers posting horror stories of billing and support issues to Yelp and other places on the Web would be nice, but it seems to be the fate of every company in the telecomm industry to raise the ire of a significant proportion of their customer base.