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Dear Future Homejoy Engineer
dear future homejoy engineer,

so it's xmas eve and i'm in the office with several other folks who didn’t have plans for xmas either. everyone is cranking away. we’ve decided to watch the interview later and then get dinner and drinks together.

personally i'm fixing bugs and adding features to an internal tool i've built to increase transparency and communication. mark, our vp of engineering, is mulling over some scaling project. chris is putting the finishing touches on the app that all our service providers use to get jobs everyday. dima is messing around with an algorithm that’ll predict our future service level capabilities. ankit is iterating on our payments infrastructure. sid is revamping some of our cs tools. ratih is re-configuring her data dumps to match our recent metrics migration. she’s also the one playing the pop music. i think i just heard britney spears.

right now i’m taking a quick break and after a quick lap around the office, i notice actually many more people here. i wonder — how am i so fortunate to be the ceo of a startup where people are so driven? don't get me wrong, many other homejoy folks are back home celebrating a proper xmas with family as they should definitely do! but for others, they could be doing something else on xmas eve and xmas. yet they chose to work on making homejoy better.

i can't be 100% sure but i think people choose to work here because they believe homejoy is not just another cool startup; it’s a mission; it's a passion. we're building things that enable and will change the way people live and work. this is not an overnight venture; we know it'll take a long time, and we’re all committed to it.

given the holidays, my calendar is somewhat lean so if you're around the sf bay area before the new year and think homejoy might be a place for you, shoot me an email (adora@homejoy.com). would love to meet up and tell you more.

talk soon,
adora
You often want to:

* add or remove columns from a frame

* perform vector operations on columns in a frame

This would be awkward in SQLite. However, maybe a Column Oriented DBMS exists that would be workable.
To be fair, the grocery stores' own delivery services charge similar markups, and they don't allow coupons. A spot check at Vons (Safeway) for items I just bought yesterday shows more than 20% markup for delivery orders, plus a delivery fee. I got 1 gallon of milk for $3.49 and the same brand is $4.69 for delivery, a 34% markup. People know they're paying a premium for grocery delivery (that's where the profit margin is), and any delivery charge is there to encourage people to spend more per order rather than ordering a few items at a time.
to me, ideology and marxism are loaded terms.

i think the fact that you refer to marxism as a base class and marxist leninism as an instantiation mean that we fundamentally agree on the nature of the distinction between the two.

i think the nub of our disagreement is whether ideology is a loaded term, and whether marxism meets our personal definition of that word.
It does provide links to the research groups who made the video, which both have links to their publications.

Direct links:

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications.htm

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/resources/studies

Since the video is a high level overview of several subjects and several studies, there is no one paper that is titled "Rich people are kinda assholes sometimes", but there are many papers on empathy, class, etc. many of which are downloadable for free.
Film is art, it's important people remember that, HFR is just another tool - it shouldn't be forced upon people.

You won't see people claiming 3D is an inherently superior format to film in, we shouldn't see the same for HFR.

Conversely if a director feels it's best for their film to use HFR, in full or in parts, people shouldn't be jumping on their back about it until they've seen the end product.
I think we probably need to start talking about actual numbers. Over time and on much reflection, I've come to believe (with low to middling confidence) that the optimal value presently falls somewhere between $6k and $15k/yr. In that range, I expect more people to stop working second jobs or overtime than to stop working at all.

"It's not too terribly hard to do small things, none of which are secret, to improve your value and demand higher pay: go to school, get certifications, build up experience, ask for more money, better financial management, etc."

It's harder when you're drained from working and stressed from tight budgets.

I certainly don't pretend that everyone will always make the best decisions, but BI at a sensible level makes it easier not harder.
When I was a lad [mid to late 1970s] the BBC Christmas Day movie, every year was The Wizard of Oz. I don't think you've had that kind of 'fixture' in the schedules for a long time now.
I'd suggest the "To improve how people navigate on earth" to still be a poor description. It doesn't use the jargon, but it also doesn't tell anybody about what the thing is/does/how people will use it. It completely lacks emotion and connection to a consumer.

"A map on your phone so you can get directions no matter where you are"

"A better location system so you can find the place you're looking for without having to look at or read directions"

I'd suggest "to improve" is not a goal, your description needs to be more concrete, yet flexible enough that you aren't limiting other peoples imaginative use of your product.
>In this case, it would be relatively easy to implement a server on top of Fireplace which would communicate with a slightly modified Hearthstone client. This would be a huge no-no for Blizzard and they would try their best to shut it down, so I'm not doing that.

Besides doing something like this, how else would you go about testing this kind of thing?
If film actually lasts that long, then why not print a digitally-encoded film? (Think full-frame QR codes or how Dolby Digital used to encode digital audio between the sprocket holes.) Sure, the film would probably be longer than a human-visual print, but then the encoding could include forward error correction. Don't use inter-frame compression (so that one part of the movie is independent of another), and for that matter don't get creative with the intra-frame compression--just use RLE or something really easy to reconstruct.

Also, when printing such a digital film, be sure to write down the encoding algorithms on archival-quality paper, and store that along with the film. ("We sampled an 8192x4096 image in anamorphic ratio X, with three channels, 16 bits per sample per channel planar, over the color space Y...")

As with all such things, if people were serious about it (or money becomes involved), this would be a solvable problem (or at least a tractable problem).
I think to say that humans must serve a purpose in society based on their ability to make money is dangerously utilitarian. As it stands, I'd guess at least 20% of adults in America (shot in the dark) do not make any money and rely on others for food and shelter. These people are kept out of harm, and their safe mental state keeps other people out of harm. They can offer community service, familial or household care, and plenty of other things that do not profit them any cash. Most importantly, these people are spouses, parents, children, and grandchildren. They offer emotion and humility.

I know it seems like I'm doing my best to assert your rudeness or heartlessness, but I'm just trying to raise the point that one's monetary value is not wholly representative of their value in society.
If you have an Android phone, setup google voice... Either install the GV app, or install Hangouts Dialer, then request an inbound number.

It gives you integrated voicemail, with automated (though sometimes bad) transcription. It makes dealing with VM as easy as SMS, and if it came from a cell, you can reply with SMS right there. The hangouts integration has gotten better as well.

I've been using it since it grand central before google bought it... There are other similar services as well.
If you ever get the itch, I'd love to see follow-up posts with examples that are more system-wide in nature!
Indeed. I had to laugh though, because first I read it as a sound person would and wondered why you had made that comment here. The camera uses internal fans to cool down the sensor between takes and it is really loud, like a hair dryer. So when you start shooting that often means stopping because of some sound which wasn't obvious over the background noise of the camera cooling itself down. Not cool.
I agree that using C is a really dumb idea for anything security sensitive.

It's rather curious the website says it's written in C against the libbitcoin library, as libbitcoin is a C++ library that doesn't even export C headers.

As to their identities, I suspect it's the same people (Amir Taaki and friends) who are doing Dark Wallet.

I rather doubt that as I haven't heard anything about Slur from that group - as Dark Wallet Chief Scientist they pretty much always run new ideas past me. Secondly they already have a better protocol for paying for information that that I and Amir Taaki developed: https://github.com/unsystem/paypub PayPub uses a non-interactive revealing stage to avoid the need for the trusted escrow agents that Slur claims to use.

re: Dark Wallet, keep in mind it's still officially an alpha undergoing testing prior to release, but its CoinJoin mixer gets regular usage, mixing what seems to be in the region of a few thousand dollars worth of bitcoins every day on average. It is the only CoinJoin implementation I know of with any usage, other than the known to be badly broken blockchain.info one that doesn't provide any privacy. Recommending people use it to donate anonymously is quite reasonable.
Banana Pi project forks, with two competing gen-2 SBCs
Black box testing, much like the Wine project does. You can see my battery of tests here:

https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace/blob/master/tests/te...

Also, the game has excellent debug logs which I could always generate in Fireplace and compare the two or some such. And if all else fails, I can always peek at the Hearthstone protocol.
I've seen a lot about Julia on the last months, it seems like a good language (performance and kind of a nice syntax), For me, what makes R a very good choice is because of RStudio. Being able to play there with your data and save it all for later is one of the biggest reasons to use RLang. The Python equivalent would be emacs org-mode, which is great, but not as graphical as RStudio.

Julia seems like a good language, maybe someday i will jump on it, but for the evil mind out there planning to write another language. Please stop, we already have great languages! I can't keep up with the learning! and is so damn difficult to even start a project with so many choices!
> money is treated like an endless well of fairy dust that can be sprinkled all over the population and magic will happen

Money is an artificial resource meant to create a level of indirection between the buyer and the seller. The amount of money in circulation at a certain point in time does not explain why some people eat better than others. If you want to argue against UBI on the basis that resources are too scarce to be enough for all of us, you need to talk about the actual resources.

On the agricultural side, we have overproduction in Europe and in Italy the cultivated terrain is smaller every year.
Out of curiosity, not criticism, why would you want to?
The same is true of the phone and voicemail... also, voicemail interaction doesn't have to be a pain.
Well, the ones who purchased the secrets are the ones who can request arbitration; if they do, presumably the information is false and worthless, or they are attempting to cheat the system to have their cake and eat it too.
>"We remind and warn consumers that it is a violation of federal law to use a cell jammer or similar devices that intentionally block, jam, or interfere with authorized radio communications such as cell phones, police radar, GPS, and Wi-Fi."[0]

Why should this be any different?

[0]: https://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/jamming-cell-phones-and-gps...
Amazing that someone with so little understanding of digital data storage can be paid to write about the dangers of it.
Interesting. Do you have you have more than this article to go on (I found it's connection tenuous, but it could be just this report). Has the white house nudged CISPA specifically? What's quoted in this article is sort of a blanket "partnership with private sector" statement.

The problem is that there are tons of different ways that national and military partnership expresses itself and especially in the case of cyber partnership. For example here's a quote from Richard A. Clarke, previous National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism for the United States, on the private sector and cybersecurity: "There are certain circumstances under which private sector companies may be legally targeted by national militaries both in kinetic and cyber conflict. Under the law of armed conflict and the principle of distinction, civilian infrastructure is generally considered to be separate from military objects, with military installations always targettable during international conflict and civilian infrastructure off limits from direct attack. However, even in the physical realm, there is often ambiguity about what constitutes civilian infrastructure...

Without extensive private sector involvement, governments would not be able to devise international cyber norms that would work or be accepted. Beyond the need for their expertise, private sector cyber corporations also have equities in the conduct of governments in cyberspace. Private actors must participate in the development of international norms related to cyber war if for no other reason than they are potential targets for attack."
I don't agree with the premise that Apple products have a higher cost, at least here in the US. As far as I can tell, if you want something similar to a Mac you'd have to pay just as much if not more, and it's honestly hard to find something that can compare.

I think if you only look at the "computing relevant" specifications it might be possible, but what I think is much more difficult to find is other products that offer the same quality for the other things. For example, I haven't been able to find another laptop that can offer the combination of good battery life, keyboard, screen quality (not necessarily resolution), and trackpad. They are also quite nice looking although that's subjective obviously.

If you know of another laptop that has all these things please do recommend it as I am looking to upgrade soon! Preferably Linux compatible =]
The Interview Online FULLHD
While I wasn't 100% on board with the cable leaks, I do think disrupting political interests and forcing transparency in government is a good idea.
> People in this country are opposed to universal health insurance

The highest hopes to see something implemented in our lifetime come from more civilized countries: Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
There's a wonderful article[1] in London Review of Books in which Andrew O'Hagan, hired to be Assange's ghost writer, gradually becomes convinced - from a position of admiration - that Assange is a confused and vainglorious narcissist who has little interest in spreading information and far more in spreading the cult of Assange. It's long but utterly engrossing.

[1] http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting
it's not even just the Supremacy clause. Generally speaking, the state governments cannot regulate federal agents, nor can the federal government regulate state agents except for things like the equal protection clause.

See Coleman v. Maryland, holding that since the medical leave act provisions under the Family and Medical Leave Act were passed under the commerce clause, not the EPC, then state governments were not bound to it.
The net effect was to shout "he's got a gun!" at the critical moment of action - a security council vote, IIRC.

I didn't think Saddam was a serious threat to the west at the time, but the relentless hype did make me think it over one night: what if? And then I saw that anything asymmetrical he could do would quickly result in his destruction. Even if he had all the dirty weapons possible at his disposal, he wouldn't have been able to use them.

And, of course, what came out later makes governmental prognostications now from secret evidence almost impossible to believe. Western governments, in particular US and UK, lost their credibility. Secret evidence is used for political purposes, not for security. The case for covert interception of communications is severely weakened. Probably even our security is damaged.
Regarding 1, I'm not 100% clear on what you mean.

Typically the money would not itself be taxed. It would offset taxes and, for those making enough money, could take the form of a tax credit.

Hopefully that covers your question.
If you're looking for a nice graphical way to play with data in Python, may I suggest IPython Notebook [0]? It's not always easy to configure, but it's maturing fast and lets you have Python code, Markdown, and graphs in one place, not to mention the 21 other languages available natively or as add-ons[1].

[0]: http://ipython.org/notebook.html.

[1]: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPython%20kernels%20... (I'm counting the two Perl kernels as one language and not counting Calico or the example kernel.)
Atop these constructions you want laws. The constructions alone only give you about 50% of the power. Laws help you control the multiple ways to interpret a structure (multiple theories). This is a great reason to steal things from abstract algebra: mathematicians have collected many great sets of laws.
Not me.

What could you do to change that, or nudge it in the direction you want?
It's not just that the lack of realism jumps out. Everyone instinctively knows movies look strange compared to real life, but this dream-like quality is part of what makes them so seductive.
Ask HN: Social awkwardness
Fellows,

Has anyone out there, at some point in life, had the impression that people, acquaintances, suddenly walk away, as if you had done something that bruised them?

I've lost many 'friends' in the past and continue to lose as life goes on and can't really tell what I am doing to them. The more I reason about it, the more emotionally distressed I get.

I reckon that it could be because I tend to take things seriously most of the time and people at the end probably find me dull and boring, but that's rather shallow.

What would be good strategies to deal with it?

edit: typo
Of course, the downvote. Any critique, no matter how thoughtful or balanced, of any of the HN sacred cows (patio11 in this case) will guarantee you downvotes.

Tyranny of the majority is in effect at HN.
I don't think Lightspark is still relevant. The last release was made on 2013-03-16.
The Wikipedia article seems to disagree with you:

"Mothers spent more time rearing newborns, and the educational impacts are regarded as a success. Students in these families showed higher test scores and lower dropout rates. There was also an increase in adults continuing education."

If you know better, please fix the article.
There is a great 2009 article from Stratfor [1] (The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire) which outlines how America came to be the country it was in the 20th century.

The article attributes most of American strengths to geographical advantages and previous geopolitical moves. It's quite a long article, and even if you don't agree with Stratfor views, I would really recommend reading it.

[1] : http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-p...
Avatar 2 will likely be 60FPS http://www.es.com/Products/60Frames.html

Opposite is Tarantino, who hates digital and is shooting is next film in 70mm. They should be released around the same time so we will have the best of digital and film to compare.
I initially started using node-webkit a couple of weeks ago but I decided to have a look atom-shell last week.

I miss how thorough, relative to atom-shell, the docs are for node-webkit, but atom-shell does seem more mature and thoughtful in the way things have been implemented. Nide-webkit's iframe changes are a bit ugly, but atom-shell's webview element is nice and clean, plus it looks as though Mozilla want to standardise something similar.

Has anyone seen issues with the separate browser and application processes? I haven't had any yet but I feel that I might run into issues soon.
Just because the interface is bad, doesn't mean the concept is bad... I've used Google Voice since it was Grand Central, love it... I never call in or press buttons... it's an app on my phone, and a website ui I can use... easy peasy.
There is no "free". someone is paying for this, and this someone is you through taxes, but most of it is the companies taxes in Spain.

This makes small businesses lives in Spain hard, and make big corporates think twice before getting real big centers in Spain.

This lack of competition is the reason you need to consider moving to US to have a good chance of a better life.
working out; if your not healthy your body and mind will spend energy on fixing urself when really your mind should be focused on enjoying your life and feeling good, and the body strong and comfortable in any situation.
In the US, I suspect a prosecutor would successfully gain a conviction against the bot's operator. This verdict would be repeated several times over a dozen years before any judge or jury ever tried to see it another way. And, IMHO, the only other way this could possibly result in anything other than trouble for the operator is if these bots were not only self-replicating, but also self-funding. They'd have to earn funds, open bank accounts, start VPS accounts, etc, and bombard lots of innocent people with illicit goods before any court would entertain the idea that no human was responsible.
I was asking you understood the part I quoted, not what part you took issue with.
I believe it's implied that the FBI can trace past the proxy servers (not much of a stretch). Naturally, the FBI does not want to give up information on how it does that to avoid cybercriminals counteracting that method of tracing. Just a guess.
Using Bitcoin for daily expenses
Is there anything really wrong with system tray integration being simplistic? I don't need anything more than what atom-shell offers 99% of the time, and if I did, I'd probably be doing it in something other than atom-shell.

I'll look out for memory issues with graphics related javascript libraries though, I was going to use them a lot in an upcoming project.
One potential side effect of a minimum income is to make the U.S. (or any country implementing it), even more immigrant hostile. These programs usually only consider the effects in a vacuum, not with respect to much larger population that wants to get in. Either immigration needs to be restricted, or you have a "lower" non citizen class that doesn't get these benefits from the beginning (ironically perpetuating more inequality). Milton Friedman discussed this fundamental contention between welfare and free immigration, and it's coveted a little here: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE .
> Probably because Flash isn't as relevant as it used to be.

That's not the angle I was going for actually. If Flash isn't as relevant now, why start a new implementation at all? Is someone wants to do it for fun, then sure. But it isn't even an interesting research project. Lightspark came the closest with actual GPU acceleration. Porting to JS is just a blind port.

It makes me not trust this as a viable future implementation, if none of the previous ports came even close to relevant.
It's likely mostly due to the positive feedback loop. I've become interested in the idea of a basic income from reading stories via HN, and I posted this because (which I agree it isn't really a test of basic income) it is related, and I hadn't heard about it before.