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Disclaimer: I am attending Park University online B.S. Information Computer Science doubtful anyone on HN would even consider this as a credential or a legitimate learning experience to offer insight on econ exams.

Going against the grain here I can understand the student's frustration when tests are implemented to establish a metric that is ultimately attached to a record of sorts and in some cases can affect the psyche of the student.

My example that is somewhat related was during a "Web Programming" course we were taught basic things like DHTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. All culminating in a final project of a personal website, nothing to difficult there.However due to the nature of online courses I had to take a test at a proctored location with a computer. One week prior to the exam being sent out instructor notified us that "Administration has mandated this to be a written test." This really threw my game off. I'm not sure any developers have ever tried "writing" a full webpage including CSS and Error checks for form fields on a sheet of paper but it definitely affected my performance on the test. During the class we it was in now way imparted upon us that writing code with a pencil would be our final artifact of having learned something in the course.

As much as I and many people I have met attribute intelligence to critical and problem solving skills. The reality of "normal" institutional teaching emphasizes the ability to take tests and remember data only dumping and moving on to another subject to repeat the process. The over arching theme, in my experiences, is that remembering and regurgitating topics in the course was/is the most rewarded endeavor. For some it is very difficult to escape this conditioning of remembering and studying material in order to get the right answers on a test with critical and problem skills existing only as a side effect of "learning".
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Someone posted this to Hacker News a while ago about how submit bugs and interact with Apple. When I compare them to other software providers I have interacted with (development tools/platforms/libraries/etc), the only team looking worse than Apple is google. It's a coping guide for an abusive relationship.

http://blackpixel.com/blog/2012/02/radar-or-gtfo.html
"Sandstorm looks insecure and inefficient, but that probably won't matter."

You may need to expand on that. It is not clear that you know what they're doing with sandboxing, etc. If you are, then I'm definitely interested in your further criticism, if this was a knee-jerk response I think it's unjustified.

"I imagine there will be a fair bit of work from my end to re-building apps so they can take advantage of tuned settings, shared services, caches, and the like."

Are you building apps that you expect people to deploy to their personal servers on a routine basis? For normal DevOps folks working inside of a corporation, Sandstorm is a complete non-event. It's not targeted at any part of your pipeline. The fact you're asking about bottlenecks makes me wonder a bit if you understand where this is targeted, too; frankly Sandstorm could slow everything it runs down by a factor of 10 and I wouldn't notice. My VPS that I would run sandstorm on is 99.9% idle anyhow, if not 99.99%.
Did you use the Docker images?

I set up a Gitlab using Docker recently, and it was super easy to deploy (using https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab).
On a side note, we also package our own app as Docker containers (https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS).
Only five years ago since the original announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080

> * CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript through syntax that favors expressions over statements, cuts down on punctuation noise, and provides pretty function literals.
Sure. I agree that (morally) the EU shouldn't have bailed out Greece. Greece cooked its books and Greek debt holders at the time of the bail out were suffering the consequences of lending to a fiscally irresponsible state.

That being said, the world was uncertain as to how much economic damage had yet to be done, and by shoring up Greece it assuaged investor confidence across the western world. Personally I think that the level of debt in the developed world is completely unsustainable because it relies on population growth and productivity growth in a manner that will one day lead to a massive global failure / inflation, but my opinion isn't really the majority opinion on economics. Essentially Germany shored up Greece for Germany's own interests: stabilize the Euro and investor confidence in Europe.

That being said, Greece can afford to pay back its debts. The current debt to GDP of Greece is 175%. Before the populist clowns looked like they were about to win the government, the interest rate on Greek debt was around 5 or 6%, which is affordable, and the longer it is paid, the lower that rate will go. Look at Canada during the 90s, the interest rates plummeted as soon as the government paid off 10 points of the debt to GDP ratio, just because the government gained investor confidence.

Greek pensions and benefits are unsustainable. Greek tax rates, while nominally high, are not uniformly paid due to corruption. That is the real real reason Greece can't afford this debt burden. And frankly, if they are going to default, they should do so soon, since the world is at a high mark financially right now.
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You can use Spyne[1]'s HttpRpc and JsonDocument protocols via Flask-Spyne[2].

You can actually use Spyne with Django as well[3] (and Spyne has a "general model serializer" that can be used with a lot less boilerplate than what's shown here).

Spyne supports a lot of protocols as well as persisting to a relational database via SQLAlchemy.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of spyne.

[1]: http://spyne.io

[2]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask-Spyne

[3]: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/tree/master/examples/django/...
"Because otherwise coordination costs would decrease as you add more people, right?"

Not so fast, or you might lose 10 points. ;-) Note that the coordination cost is given per-capita, and it is proportional to N^2. If the per-capita cost was O(N^a) for a < 1, the total cost would still be N*N^a = N^(1+a) which increases with N.

If the (per-capita) coordination cost were proportional to N, that would indicate that (e.g.) to do something, you have to contend with "N" other people (everyone else in the population), which makes sense.

The total coordination cost would be: (N people) X (per-capita cost of N) = N^2, which is familiar from various kind of networks, e.g., distributed computations in which total communication costs can rise like N^2 (where N is the number of processors).

But if the per-capita cost is proportional to N^a for some a > 1, that's even stronger. I'm not sure how you justify that. I'm sure you can, I'm just not sure how the course did it.

Maybe you say that you have to coordinate with all N other people, as well as all pairs of the N other people. The number of pairs of other people is proportional to N^2, giving you a per-capita coordination cost proportional to N^2.
Can you expand on this? What have they been misleading about?
Hi HN,

Editor-in-chief of avant.org here (& editor of said piece). Very surprised/pleased to see this link pop up while browsing the front page.

The author had a good deal of additional material that we cut down to form this brief survey, and I'm sure all of you have some great resources as well. If so, post them here. I'd love to share with our readers!

We are a (soon to be) non-profit that publishes critical, cross-disciplinary essays, frequently about science and technology. If that's your thing, consider finding us on twitter: @avantdotorg

Also, a few other pieces that have cropped up on HN before if you're so inclined:

• http://avant.org/media/stealth-infrastructure

• http://avant.org/media/75k-futures

Looking forward to your comments! Always a thrill to have one of our pieces circulate here.
It would have been very nice had the article said that, and described what "muonium" is. I took it to be a proton plus a muon, not an anti-muon plus an electron.

To describe it as "a hydrogen isotope" is just about the optimal mix of uninformative and misleading!
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I must have missed the part where he asked for new loans.
1: Lawyer.

2: Physicians' professional board may have advice.

3: Document the crap out of everything. When these scumbags hang, I want to read about it in the Globe and Mail.
Your point is good, but I think you've missed the argument.

The author wasn't saying that intersectionalism produces worse injustices than other parts of society.

The author was saying that intersectionalism marginalises itself and drives away allies by focussing on orthodoxy and using shame as a tool to change habits of speech.

This ties into the larger issues of gender reform in tech. A left wing that didn't actively repel those who speak slightly differently would be in a stronger position to change society.
My first impression looking at the questions was that they were intended to take the knowledge they had gained during the course and apply it to what may have been an unfamiliar circumstance.

Done correctly, that's a completely fair exam. I'm sort of inclined to think that if there's this much smoke, something's probably on fire though. I know my own students will complain about silly things, but if they all complain about something, invariably I end up agreeing with them.
Also, failing to understand the piece. The piece was about knowing yourself.
The pie charts remind me of this article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/pie-charts-are-the-worst-2013...
Could you register it as a trademark and then issue take down notices?
Valves are very difficult to model. Noob DSP designers think 'even order harmonics!', so they slap a Chebyshev polynomial in the chain and half the time they don't even remember you have to oversample to avoid aliasing.

The hardware valve sound is a mix of compression, microphony, and at least two different kinds of distortion - and probably other things no one has figured out yet.

Distortion is unexpectedly complicated on its own. A while back I looked into models that use a Volterra series, and the math soon got very scary.

Doing it properly could potentially be a machine learning problem. I seriously doubt it's possible to reduce good distortion to a simple one-line equation - even a very long one with lots of coeffs.
Completely skipped graph and object oriented databases. Makes it sound like the NoSQL folks invented distributed data-stores.

The fact is that most of the innovations that happend during NoSQL already existed and really deserve more attention than, "Oh, and NoSQL happened."
It is widely accepted in the Database community that a primary reason people choose NoSQL data stores (read:Hadoop) is because it's free, compared to the costly enterprise alternatives. Just get your cluster, download the files, install, and go.
The article also says it was published in "a leading German language business newspaper", so it's likely it was translated into German as well as English.

Still, I think it's fair to say he wrote it himself, so long as it's been accurately translated on his behalf.
The only "everything" you should be able to get, if the security is correct, is for the app you compromised, not the other ones running on Sandstorm. No, it does not magically secure applications put behind it (though IIRC it does put a couple of useful tweaks in place, but that's all it can do), but it can prevent "I compromised your WordPress and stole your entire machine's contents."
It is interesting to see this reaction. In the US we have been paying for education for quite some time and the thought that it is a product and students the purchaser and benfactor of that product does not seem to be a very important topic rather it is met with some levels of resistance and blame on the students when "we" fail or otherwise complain about our educational experiences. Lots' of walking through snow uphill both ways reactions from professors and attendees of college/university.
They kinda have identity crisis sometimes. Recently I read a long opinion piece about WWE's Royal Rumble on Polygon, no idea why that's in there.
While that sounds grueling, it sounds like a lot of fun!
Private schools are usually better schools; if you have the means to provide your children a better education than the state can, why wouldn't you? I never understood this Harrison Bergeron mentality of holding people down in the name of equality.
Totally what onion2k said.

SOS (shiny object syndrome) is the death of almost all products, teams and companies in my opinion. You are better of having 50% of the features but high quality and then add one or two key features every month, quarter etc but have them be rock solid. This is of course, the idea once you have paying customers. Up to that point its a bit more fast and loose to get customers paying and on the line.

The problem will be if your CEO isn't seeing user attrition and is spending most of his time talking to prospects then he will only be hearing comments like, well if you had X, blah blah blah... If you have a support desk, ask him to sit on it for 2 hours and answer questions from users, make sure you pick the peak time. This can also be a little dangerous if he is the volatile type person, but usually it helps most people change the conversation in their head from shiny shit to damn it let's put some priority on existing issues for clients. I think that is also the point of onion2k's comment about give him reports hourly if necessary to show the details. I just found that getting a CIO, CEO etc to physically have to do something like sit on the support desk or go talk to existing clients with issues makes a bigger impact than a report, but they go hand in hand.

It is about helping him change the conversation in his head, he obviously doesn't want to see the company do poorly or have clients leaving, but he likely is marketing focused and so looses track of existing clients to some degree. This isn't uncommon just something that can lead to SOS and then an eventual death spiral if not caught. The opposite is the internally focused CEO that isn't talking with prospects or gaining new clients because he/she isn't looking at how to grow the product, and that can spell death just as fast if other people don't fill that void.
A similar, though more scholarly, work
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/4/
I am having a hard time getting that from this message:

>My party, and I personally, disagreed fiercely with the May 2010 loan agreement not because you, the citizens of Germany, did not give us enough money but because you gave us much, much more than you should have and our government accepted far, far more than it had a right to.

>Our task is not to confront our partners. It is not to secure larger loans or, equivalently, the right to higher deficits.

There will have to be some money injected somewhere in Greece, but not in the same way, and the point is to get away from loans.
I've done a bit of work on React Native animations. We are mostly working on two experimental animation APIs.

One is implemented fully in JS and is used when we need to implement gestures and respond to ongoing touch interactions. This is tricky because we need to be very careful to keep our JS frames very short and fast during the gesture, avoiding expensive allocations and making sure we don't try to process too much data in Relay.

The other API is much more magical. You configure the animation for your component immediately before a setState. The new layout is computed normally, but instead of directly updating the native views, we use POP[1] to animate to them on the main thread. This is a really easy-to-use API, but there are a few caveats.

We're still developing, stabilizing, and cleaning up these tools. It's great to hear your interested in this, we'll try to open something up before too long!

[1] https://github.com/facebook/pop
Yeah, it's reasonable that a leader should do all his writing in his native language and have it professionally translated. Why would it be any other way?
This is not a quality article. As a sibling comment already noted, the author's purple prose[1] is tedious. As for the content, I can't figure out the logic of the particular technologies he's highlighting.

In between the timeline of RDBMS and NoSQL, he doesn't mention object-oriented databases (Poet, Gemstone, etc) and he skips the rise of data warehouses (OLAP, star schemas, etc).

Lastly, NoSQL is driven by at least 2 orthogonal forces. #1) the ease-of-use API mapping "documents" to programming language objects (e.g. Javascript json) without using mappers such as ORMs. #2) the horizontal scale out of data nodes (HBase, Cassandra, etc)

The author is talking about NoSQL in terms of #2 (big data) even though I suspect that the vast majority of motivations for NoSQL used in github projects is #1 (no joins is easy programming and I'm not saving terabytes of data anyway).

One can do horizontal scale out using traditional RDBMS but it's complicated. That's what Facebook did with MySQL -- they created a custom app layer for sharding. One can also favor a document oriented programming interface without aspirations of a horizontal terabyte scale using a NoSQL like MongoDB. A lot of blog engines programmed in a weekend use MongoDB as a backend because the programming API is easy and productive.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose
I've taken lots of exams where they expect you to apply the knowledge you've mastered in a course to solve a new problem.
>Yeah - about 40% of them have the management port open. I can see how they could be bricked. Not good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2te5h8/the_internet...
This is muonium: anti-proton plus electron, not muonic hydrogen (proton plus muon). I made the same mistake: it's a very poorly written article.
I worked on a team in IBM's Linux Technology Center that worked like this. We had people in several sites, and even those in the same site were spread across half a floor, not sitting anywhere near each other. So, in general, conversations occurred via IRC or mailing list, not in person, even between people at the same site. If a problem-solving session occurred in-person (often with a whiteboard), a specific person in that session (identified before the end of the session) would be responsible for writing up the result for the mailing list.

The only thing we'd ever handle primarily in person was going out to lunch as a group, which for obvious reasons only mattered to one site. And we almost never talked about work at those lunches.
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The company might do that to other people as well. Even if you find only 2-3 other people then a judge would see it as systematic fraud with higher penalties.

I just hope the SEO company isn't hiding in another country.
One is 14,XXX.XXX. So I think the author just set decimal places to 3 instead of 2.
That's an apt comparison: if no (or painfully few) students were able to give at least a reasonable answer, the problem lays in the teaching curriculum or methodology. (This may not be the course itself, it may be a broader question about hand-holding an academia or similar, but the question remains.)

I remember a particular instance in Geometry in high school. Everyone did poorly, so the teacher allowed us to work together to answer the questions again. My group was stuck on a particular question, so I asked the teacher to clarify. She refused, saying we were taught it. I retorted that since everyone was struggling, clearly the problem was on the other side of the desk. (It went over about as well as you might expect.)
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The key thing to remember is that MongoDB is web scale. MySQL is not web scale.
It's perhaps prudent to distinguish between the German people and the German politicians. It's my feeling that the average German would have suggested NOT to extend large loans to Greece. It is the EU (and German, French, Italian and so on) politicians that believed that in the grand scheme of the Euro, it would be the best cause of action.

The sad part is that the loans to Greece perhaps wasn't so much about Greece, as it was about Spain, Ireland and perhaps even Italy. If we ignored everything else, then letting Greece leave the Euro, rather than offering large loans and unrealistic terms, most likely would have hurt neither the Euro, nor the EU. In the real world, letting Greece leave would mean that investors and speculators would start to question the dedication to the Euro, given that Spain or Italy (much larger economies) might be forced to leave the EU next.

I'm not an economist, so I might be totally wrong, but for a regular person an investment (of this scale) in Greece was obviously a bad move, at least in hindsight. It's sad for Greece, but they where just casualties of their own politicians and a Euro they should never have been allowed to be part of in the first place.
A CNN article from 2010 referenced 2008 government documents that said "6 in 10 Greeks don't pay income taxes"
source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/31/greece.taxes/

I don't know what the rate of tax evasion is in other western countries, but I'm willing to wager the situation in Greece is dramatically worse.

I remember reading a NYT article from the same year that provided further insight:

Various studies, including one by the Federation of Greek Industries last year, have estimated that the government may be losing as much as $30 billion a year to tax evasion — a figure that would have gone a long way to solving its debt problems.

The cheating is often quite bold. When tax authorities recently surveyed the returns of 150 doctors with offices in the trendy Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki, where Prada and Chanel stores can be found, more than half had claimed an income of less than $40,000. Thirty-four of them claimed less than $13,300, a figure that exempted them from paying any taxes at all.
source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02evasion.htm...

I haven't seen more recent numbers, but it makes me wonder about citizens' culpability in the government's debt crisis.

Maybe I'm overestimating the role of taxation in this debt fiasco, but it does seem as if the attitude of a lot of Greek citizens needs to change, if it hasn't already.
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What do you think are some of the important milestones in between? We've gotten similar criticism before but it would be helpful to fill in those gaps. The piece was edited for length, hence the 'brief,' and we knew there would be quite a bit missing.
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