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> You seem to be implying that these two concepts are mutually exclusive. They're in fact completely independent of one another.

My point here (perhaps poorly made) is that people behave as though they're mutually exclusive. e.g. that you're not really paying your dues unless people are shitting on your work (and when you've progressed, you'll shit on those below you).

> The "tech industry" is not harsh. It is in fact exceedingly gentle.

Picking an extreme example and then saying tech is gentle by comparison is somewhat ridiculous. The tech industry is certainly more relaxed in a number of ways (e.g dress code) but that doesn't mean it's 'gentle' in every respect. As the OP tries to point out.
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is it really "so nice"? I wish they had been able to go forward with typestate :(
The argument that PhDs should earn more because their education costed more is faulty. Salary is a price, you see. It is governed by laws of economics, supply and demand. Scientists should not earn more, because their value is unknown. Why would anyone pay $200,000 to someone who "might" create an amazing paper? Whereas those in investment banking earn much more than that because they provide much greater value to the employer. One should be pragmatic about life and not feel entitled just because they incurred high costs.
I actually don't have any expertise in this industry, only familiarity.

When I was young I worked in the "domain industry" (domain squatting and content farms) and you end up meeting really interesting people who work in the grey/black hat SEO/PR/Content/Affiliate Marketing industry.

I've kept in touch with the technical guys I met because they are fun people to drink with and hear crazy stories, most friendly black hat people are, even if the actual industries are pretty awful. I do miss programming against an adversary rather than for friendly potential customers sometimes, I will admit.

It's mostly like you'd expect. The vast majority of work is low skill inexpensive devs just brute forcing things and outrageously crappy PHP libs being bought and sold on forums. There are few startup types using the high skill approach, will actually think to read the relevant computer science papers. They seem to complain a lot that it's so easy that their skills are rarely cost effective, these sites have every incentive to not notice the manipulation, it makes every one of their metrics look better to advertisers and investors.

The technical side is actually more of a support industry compared to the real side of writing and pushing stories to bloggers and news sites. Ryan Holiday's Trust Me I'm Lying book outlined how it works in general, although I can't say his specifics are true it's nothing I hadn't heard before. That recent New Yorker article "The Virologist" made me laugh pretty hard, those types are everywhere.
what is the benefit of your approach? The lookup table will still have data growth issues
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I have been seeing this too. Steve Pinker in his books, Sense of Style, has portions which talk about this problem. He calls it -"Curse of Knowledge" and has advise for scientific writers. I wish researchers could spend a bit more time on improving their writing skills for better communication.
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This. Exactly this. I would hate to work with such people.
Taken aback? Bold claim? As a novice developer if someone is declaring their app to be "secure" then there is nothing wrong with it. There are two possible scenarios.

1. They've actually made the app really secure.
-> Appreciate it.

2. They've probably left a lot of loop holes. They've made it "secure" based on their understanding of security.
-> Appreciate it. The feedback be given in a much more positive way by acknowledging their existing work and then giving them few pointers of making the app more secure.
If you were taken aback then you're just being cocky.

You're not expected to be friendly with anyone. At the same time, there is no need to be condescending. You, as a senior dev, are expected to give positive feedback and mentor the group of new developers.
This is known as the "public good" problem. Hard-line libertarians and conservatives deny that such a thing exists, while moderate conservatives acknowledge the possibility, but define it so narrowly as to be meaningless. Other right-leaning individuals acknowledge both the existence and value of public goods, but have such distrust of government that they'd rather go without, or failing that, allow a single company to impose its own form of taxation.
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Where did you see this? I couldn't find anything about Show HN in the Guidelines or FAQ.
The context of the quote from the article has to do with speculation that Google will one day want to start their own insurance company to become a direct competitor in the insurance business.
I have also noticed that the content of blog articles varies slightly depending on who manufactures the ram that I'm using - related issue?
Doesn't just have to be retained earnings from past profitability, it could also be investor cash that would presumably be recuperated with future profitability.
This is obviously the second stage of NORK's sophisticated cyber attacks.
Like three different kinds, too!

// Old-style generics; monomorphized
// with S as an "input" type of MyTrait
fn foo<S, T: MyTrait<S>>(elem: T) { ... }

// Where-clause-style generics; monomorphized,
// with S as an "output" (associated) type of MyTrait
fn foo<S, T>(elem: T)
where T: MyTrait<Thing = S> { ... }

// Trait objects; dynamic dispatch
fn foo(elem: Box<MyTrait>) { ... }
A skilled driver could move the truck to a freeway, get out, and then let automation take over. Then at the other end the truck could stop and let a driver climb in and drive off the freeway and onto trickier surface roads.

An autonomous vehicle has to have cameras and sensors and the ability for a computer to control it. With these in place it should be possible for a human to operate it remotely (like military drones). I would imagine this would be a good intermediate step before full automation.
>What's the source for your 20% figure and have you read any of Paul Campos

It's NALP data; they post it on their site.

I like what Paul Campos has written, at least what I've read of it, and agree with many of his points, which is why I referred to the "lawyer/law school bubble." I wouldn't go as far as to call it a "scam," but he knows more about the topic than I do, and it is a more memorable name for a blog.

By way of disclosure, I've taught law school classes as an adjunct and enjoyed it. But if I were giving a 22-year old advice, I'd tell them to think strongly about alternate careers barring acceptance to a short list including Stanford/Harvard/Yale, precisely because of the oversupply of lawyers (last month I suggested to my cousin that she not go to law school, for instance). Also as a practical matter look at the GCs of everyone's favorite tech companies and estimate whether you're likely to get to that level if you go to a lower-ranked school: Facebook (Harvard), Yahoo (UChicago), Google (Stanford), Twitter (NYU), etc. Whether you like it or not, biographies matter more in law.

But nowadays I'm working on http://recent.io/ and not paying close attention to Paul's or other legal blogs except for indexing and semantic analysis purposes...
> The point is, "discrimination" is sometimes just
> applying statistics. Just because some statistical
> factors correlate with race doesn't mean one is being
> racist; they are just optimizing their selection process.

It's still not very good thinking, ethically or pragmatically.

Even if you could 100% accurately determine a candidate's background from looking at their resume, and even if you could be sure that people from their background were more likely to be "bad" people[1] then couldn't you also look at "Jamal's" resume and conclude: "Obviously, Jamal must be a talented guy to rise above his background and pursue a technical career?"

In the end, it's all guesswork anyway. Companies would be much better served by sticking to the facts on "Jamal's" resume and checking themselves whenever they catch themselves inventing fictional histories for people based on a candidate's name and their own racist prejudices and stereotypes.
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[1] To be clear: I don't agree that either of these things are true.
I guess I should do some more research regarding that. Although, I just liked the idea of inheriting from a base "empty" game object. It makes it easy to have lists of GameObjects. Also, all of my components inherit from a Component class which makes it possible to AddComponent() and GetComponent(). That way, a user of the game engine could create a new type of component and easily add that to any game object. However, I may be over complicating that as well...
Although that aspect is utterly brutal, another way of looking at it would be a free ticket on a time machine into the future.

If that sort of arrangement existed today, I think you'd see many people lining up for Space Supermax.
I personally love these style of videos, I can see myself being a regular consumer of them. I'd pony up for a subscription...

but at an 18$ price tag for each video, I feel like that any video I get from you would be only one video. I mean, how good of a programmer are you, really? Eaking out some of the best of youtube? Are you sure? If your value isn't there, where is it? Video quality? definitely not in audio... It doesn't feel more comprehensive then anything else out there.

It reminds me VERY much of the blender series. http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_...

which is 32 bucks US, it's a pretty steep price, but there are a few things that help justify the price, huge numbers of art assets, obvious talent, innovative techniques on display, guides on setup, official support from blender, and part of that money goes to blender and its development, and blender deserves that money.

You see the contrast.

I'd be interested in a subscription if the plan is to keep making these, I'd be interested in buying the lot if it's not, but the lot costs 72$

yikes.
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The stuff about child support is actively gross and totally incorrect. Median child support in the US is ~$500/mo; vanishingly few people have the kind of money he's talking about.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p60-246.pdf
given how niech the market is for this, I think some of your numbers are overoptimistic.
Interestingly, funding fundamental research is one of the key areas where Peter Thiel's views diverge from the majority of libertarians. He's said a fair amount on the necessity of funding fundamental research. He has significant complaints about the volume of researchers, but that's quite different from what you've suggested. My view of his positions would be that he favours earlier aggressive weeding leading to smaller graduate programs, fewer postdocs, fewer tenure track positions and potentially fewer tenure positions, but the positions that exist getting higher per capita funding to do quality work on important problems. He's likely close to assuming deterministic-optimism if you believe the best research is far closer to random we're probably currently funding in a fairly effective way. However, if you believe there are 10x scientists in the way there are 10X programmers, and also believe that 10X scientist strongly correlates with being successful in other fields, then we're probably funding in a system that strongly encourages those 10x scientists to work outside academia and potentially outside of science entirely.

We probably agree a lot on political philosophy: I believe markets are the best mechanism for solving many problems, but there are many problems they suck at and the purpose of government is to intervene in those problems. Fundamental research falls into one of the major categories of problems markets are poor at solving: high value creation with zero-to-little value capture results in markets being unable to create the high value. Other interesting categories include severe negative externalities, and prisoners-dilemma type issues where we often need incentives to break getting stuck near individual 'optima' that lead to societal suboptimal solutions.
As a reminder, and alternate and clean-slate implementation of NTP started by phkamp, Ntimed [1], was featured on HN a few days ago [2]

[1] https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781435
Money is a driver. Google can either take 1 USD) per click or 5 dollar from the credit card companies. They're cutting out the middle man, other comparison websites. I wouldn't think they do it for the benefit of users or because users asked for the service.

) I don't know that the current adsense price for query term on credit cards is
Do you mean continuously or only at the refueling stations? It makes me think of how some fast-food places outsource the drive-through ordering process to call centers.
Wasn't garbage collection actually always just planned but never realized (other than reference counting)?
There are many different thorium designs based on different objectives. The original designs assumed that we would run out of uranium so the primary objective was breeding. It is clear now that we have much more uranium than they thought.

We should start with an understanding of how much waste is there currently from today's reactors. Roughly one coke can would hold all the waste generated from one person's electricity (European standards roughly 1kW) for a lifetime.
We can reduce the volume of waste readily by removing the uranium and re-enriching it. This can be done with virtually all reactors including todays reactors. This will remove 90% of the waste volume but does nothing to reduce the hazards of the waste.

We can remove the elements that are heavier than uranium (transuranics or TRUs). This is the long term hazard. This material can be recycled into a reactor to be fissioned (destroyed forever not simply buried). This can be done to a very limited extent in some of today's reactors. But either IFR or molten salt reactors would really be the appropriate way to eliminate the long term hazards of nuclear waste. Such a process will be limited by our ability to separate the TRUs from the fission products. We expect to achieve around 99% separation so to reduce the long term hazard 100 fold.

The near term hazard comes from the fission products. These will decay in a reasonable time. Every 30 years the radioactivity will decay by half. So by 300 years you are back to roughly background radiation. 300 years is short enough we know how to build containers to last that long.
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I hate Comcast, but what an absolute load of nonsense:

> I asked her what I needed to do and her response left me stunned. She explained that even though they were no longer able to uphold their part of the contract, I would still needed to pay them.

YOU are moving. YOU are trying to change the terms of the agreement, not them. If you stay in your current home I'm sure they would happily continue to provide you service, so clearly you're the one altering the arrangement not Comcast.

Minimum terms are required since installation is typically free. However I will fully agree that 36 months is too long, and I'd never have agreed to it. I also think Comcast could have reduced the ETF, and it is bad customer service that they didn't at least give you a small break (given how excessively high the ETF was).

But 85% of the issues on that page are self inflicted. You agreed to the 36 months, you agreed to the wrong package, you moved to a non-serviceable area within the 36 months you agreed to, and now you are whining about it like it is someone else's fault.

Maybe it is about time you started taking some personal responsibility and actually reading what you sign before you sign it?
I'm pretty sure they haven't addressed the old issue of having keeping your FTP credentials in plain text. To me, that's not very secure at all.

Source: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/azure-web-sites-ftp-credential...

"Notice how the password looks encrypted. Well, it’s not really encrypted in fact. This is your password in clear text. It’s just crypto-random gibberish, which is the best kind of password."

What exactly is "crypto-gibberish"?
The opaqueness is a feature, not a bug. With full transparent knowledge of what goes into the risk calculation, people will absolutely game the system and ruin it for everyone else.
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But here's the thing: The clock source that goes into your DAC isn't influenced by the pattern of packets arriving from your storage system, it's typically a standalone oscillator sitting in the vincinity of the DAC and its controller in the shiny converter box... (for Pro-Audio it will be a rather dull 19" rackmount box, for audiophile stuff it will be brushed aluminum and have wooden knobs...).

The only bad thing that can happen with the sound quality is that the computer isn't fast enough to keep up with supplying the controller next to the DAC (often in consumer hardware everything is integrated in one piece of silicon, though) with data, which is normally called a buffer-underrun. The ADC then doesn't know what to do and might produce clicks due to the sudden frames of silence inserted, some might just replay the last frame over and over again (stuttering or harsh noises). This is obviously audible to a huge extent.

And yes, there are synchronization issues, and sometimes devices resample to bridge synchronization barrier., You'll be able to configure master/slave relationships, distribute word-clocks, ... but for the simple task of listening to a FLAC file of a Jazz Concert, those complications just don't apply.
GNU grep was written my Mike Haertel, not Haerkal as written in the article.

Super smart guy.
He doesn't say in the post that they have ditched the previous PHP site in favour of Django/Python... Lesson learned? xD

http://oi60.tinypic.com/20sj3b9.jpg

PS: Still wondering why they use Apache instead of Nginx which is more efficient/robust/secure
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The overall concept is good, but there could be things that go wrong in the real world. How fast the heat ramps up vs the failsafe plug in the vessel melting, or the chance of some material failure shedding debris which could potentially plug the drain path.
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High level question: Why do we need to
care about such things? Or, what's wrong
with just HTML and just some simple usage
of old CSS3 or whatever it was? That is,
why do Web pages need to be so complicated?
Since we have decades of word whacking software
without such features, why do we need such
features now?

My Web pages are all really simple: Each
is 800 pixels wide, with just a little use of
CSS and then nearly all just HTML, with the
layout using tables. I have yet to write
a single line of JavaScript although
Microsoft's ASP.NET writes a little for me.

To me, my Web pages look quite functional,
usable, easy to understand and use, etc.

For the need for a lot more, I don't
get it and worse: On the Internet
I see a lot of really
complicated Web pages that jump around
while loading and then again when I use my
mouse to put the page into the focus
and use the scroll wheel on the mouse
to scroll the page. I don't like the
jumping around.

Why go to the trouble to build
such complicated Web pages?

I'm not criticizing but trying to learn
and inviting answers.

Why bother? HTML was just another text
markup language, and nice, and CSS helped a little.
Isn't that enough?

I learned some HTML, and it was fine,
and now I want to
move on and just use it and not
stop here and make a career out of
adding unbounded complexity.

Shouldn't things be as simple as possible
but not simpler? Why be so complicated?
To me, the complicated Web pages I see
are a disaster, slow down my computer, etc.
-- I'd much rather have
just simple Web pages with old HTML,
only simple CSS, and little or no
JavaScript.
So those Networks are used "exclusively by North Koreans" - mostly still running Windows XP - and non of there computers where ever owned?
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> My point here (perhaps poorly made) is that people behave as though they're mutually exclusive. e.g. that you're not really paying your dues unless people are shitting on your work (and when you've progressed, you'll shit on those below you).

You're jumping to the unreasonable conclusion that the only possible interpretation of "paying ones dues" is to be "shit on".

That is, quite correctly, the view held by certain occupations (e.g. the military), but it is not the only way to parse the term.

A more charitable way of interpreting it would be as shorthand for "demonstrating commitment and competence". This is a fairly ubiquitous concept across virtually all professions.

> Picking an extreme example and then saying tech is gentle by comparison is somewhat ridiculous. The tech industry is certainly more relaxed in a number of ways (e.g dress code) but that doesn't mean it's 'gentle' in every respect.

Did you expect me to enumerate every industry that I consider less forgiving and more emotionally demanding than tech? Fine.

academia
finance
military & law enforcement
law
medicine
management consulting

Those are just the industries I could name off the top of my head and which I have enough familiarity with to pass judgment.
I wouldn't really trust doing so with less than say 40-50 servers, which C* can do quite well, but this is very much overkill as an expense for most people.
As an actual woman in computing, who's not particularly interested in having kids and chose her career for practical reasons, I find this article (and many other articles and comments like it, written by men and relying on stereotypes and blatant assumption) to be offensive.

And before you tell me to grow a thicker skin: by calling this offensive, I don't intend to squash anyone's ability to speak. But I absolutely have the right to be pissed off when someone pretends to speak for me. It makes me lose respect for the person who thinks they can pontificate about someone else's experience and motivations.