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Not OP, but I can tell you what I've been experiencing. It's not about status, I don't care about impressing anyone else.

After leaving at&t to work in trendy-SF-startup tech scene, my salary sky-rocketed. So I get married and have 2 kids. You'd think I'd just be relaxed and happy right? I was; and I am still really, but that relaxing time gave me more time to read stuff like HN, etc.

--- I read a ton about poor public education in USA... and now I need a private school. Or, I need to move into a neighborhood with million dollar houses to gain access to their super-amazing public schools.

--- I read about horrible quality of food and watch "Food, Inc.". Now I've restricted my whole family's diet to USDA Organic, non-GMO from WholeFoods and my monthly grocery bills easily exceed $1,000.

--- Today I'm still driving my first car, Honda Civic LX 2002. It's great right? For me yes, all I do is drive 20mins to BART station and back. But I have a wife & 2 kids; time for a family vehicle. I could just get something cheap & used, right? Then the thought of my wife being stuck in a broken-down vehicle somewhere with our 2 kids hits me and I'm like... "Nah, I better make sure I get a nice, new & reliable, many airbags vehicle with GPS and everything to keep my family safe" It's kinda FUD really, but when it's my own family and I have the money, YOLO.

--- Clothes? Today I have a standing desk, but I use to sit a bunch. I started noticing that cheap jeans do feel less comfortable. Before I know it, all my jeans are near $200 from GUESS. They don't look fancy, you can't tell they're from GUESS. But they feel great.

I didn't do any of this to impress anyone. I just want the best for my family. And I've learned that the definition of "best" keeps moving higher and higher the more I read about stuff & experience things.
If you've such big site, you should avoid resource priced cloud and go with your own VPS. It might take you more time to set it up, but it will be definitely much cheaper ($50/month and less), and it can surely handle all your traffic until it grows really big....
The hamburger substitute sounds promising, but if the point of this is to create protein efficiently then this doesn't make any sense to me:

"Mayonnaise made without eggs that is creamy and smooth."

Eggs are one of the most efficient sources of protein there is.
Do you have any idea if this service will attract any actual users? Based on what I've read, I can't even figure out what it does, so I am certainly not a potential user. But, do you have any actual demand??

What I'm hearing is that you built a massive application, you've run into a technical problem and now you would rather wait on Google to fix it than to take any suggestions on how to get it up for actual users to use. Seriously, don't do this - at your stage, it would be better to have 10 real users than a site that has been fully indexed by Google.

On your note about persuading Google to index your site after being excluded, do you have any actual experience with this happening?? I've been doing this kind of stuff for years and years and have never had a problem. It can take five or six weeks at the outside, but that is still less of a problem than a product that can't be accessed...
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The combination of your IP and a timestamp of when it was used usually links directly to your ISP account. Your ISP probably has your address.
This is not reddit. I simply want to know if I can get a writable Web page without the hoops of login. I want an obfuscated write URL that I can expose or send to them. That is all. - the askr
Singletons are how global variables are named to pretend they're ok to abuse.

(Don't get me wrong, they are necessary)
Yeah, he certainly comes across as arrogant from that. Has he actually experience in the areas, he wants to be involved in.

Also what actually is the wikipedia replacement he's talking about?
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I can confirm, that, at least at some companies, more time has been devoted to ux, and now ui.

If I am correct, I think they've always shot for good ux, but ui was usually secondary. Now they have focused on ui a lot more, and companies have even begun incorporating an extensive styleguide for the user facing components (something that would noramlly be done for a webapp or website by a front end dev, but is usually neglected in enterprise apps). ux has also been refined.

Legacy products are probably not getting extreme make overs any time soon(because of existing customer base, but you never know), but I would not be surprised if we begin to see other developers of enterprise level software begin to pay more attention to UX/UI and likely mimic the look and feel of web apps created by what were originally smaller companies. We are at the point where enterprises are not only using domain specific applications, but have employees familiar with webapps like twitter, facebook, etc., all of which blow a lot of older enterprise products out of the water design wise.

Essentially, customers expect more on the design side these days, and I think enterprise devs will begin to attempt to meet that expectation to the extent that they can.

(I've even seen enterprise apps that have started using what I would term 'cutesy' user facing messages. There's probably a technical ux term for it but a good example would be github's "github <3's you' or whatever they display when you sign up--stuff like that, or giving the user a pat on the back when they run a function like 'good work!' stuff you'd never imagine would appear in enterprise level apps is creeping in because of the sheer popularity of webapps like twitter, etc.)
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That still doesn't explain how the singleton is better / easier. It just explains why it's not that bad.
I doubt the "guys at the Pentagon" would really like to hear that plan. They've got to keep profits up at Raytheon and Lockheed! b^)
All of this ensures the organization will stay around.

Collateral, incorrect targets, and martyrs enrage the populace and get recruits. Killing the head keeps the group from getting too big. Keeping them out of the courts allows for any real grievances they have to remain unheard by the voters (out of sight out of mind means they won't be fixed). This gives the MICC a great target to keep them running.

I've heard that one should never blame one evil what could instead be attributed to stupidity, but I do not agree with such logic. Under that rule, there would only be stupidity.
Honestly, I was torn between clicking the link and not clicking the link...
> Most large corps run their own NTP servers, some of them public, e.g.:

Doesn't fix the problem. They have to sync to something, someone's gotta maintain the connection to actual atomic clocks. Something has to secure that connection. Someone has to maintain that something. You're severely underestimating the scope of the problem.

> As I see it someone like Google should indeed just hire the guy and take pool.ntp.org under their wing.

They should, but they probably won't, though they might as a result of this article. That would make protecting the world Google's responsibility and it doesn't make good corporate sense to do that. Google would have to find a real reason to throw $X0 million a year at this. The estimate given by Father Time was $4 million a year, that will only make sense if he builds it himself. If Google does it it will cost a lot more.

This is a resource allocation problem, one traditionally solved by governments. Nobody wants the government to do this, so we have to find some innovative way to fund critical technology projects.
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For some stuff, you just need your own rack.

Well, the article does a terrible job at explaining why that rack is needed and why it can't be in a datacenter in the same city as the NTPd maintainer.

Honestly, I have a hard time believing there is new NTP hardware coming out every month that the maintainer then personally has to write drivers for.

And even if that was the case, what prevents that hardware from working when it's located, say, on a desk in the house of the maintainer (I think most timeservers are fanless and don't consume very much energy)?

Perhaps there's valid reasons and explanations for his monthly trips to that datacenter, but the article only left me with questions.
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I don't think that is quite what the parent was referring to. I think it was more "space" as in "have a clean simple uncluttered UI with ample padding around the edges" (see point 3 here: https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeo...) not literally a lack of &nbsp; spaces between elements.
> If it really was so dire then that would be all the more reason to not rely on a single "superhero" who may get run over by a bus tomorrow.

Which is why he for a couple of years have tried to get corporate sponsors for a foundation to hire more people to work on it, but even that has been met largely with apathy.

> But if $7k/mo are not enough to maintain a package that others have re-implemented for free (openntpd etc.) then something seems seriously wrong.

If you think that's all he does, then you don't understand what he's doing.

You also seem to have missed that $7k also covers all his costs, including hardware replacements and hosting for parts of the servers.
Google crawlers come from well-known IPs, especially well-known to Google. Appengine requests come through reverse proxies, and there is no fundamental difficulty in not counting requests from crawlers towards the quota. That said, see my other descendant comment.
Just checked out the source of Kinematic https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic

Nice use of atom-shell and React.
It's been a while already since I bought a copy of Wired..
Both the average and the median listed for the US seem way too low in this Bloomberg stat.
I'd love to see some "better" designs. Good design is hard, and it's worth paying a good designer to do the work, but often designers will make something look nicer whilst making it harder to use or a lot more resource intensive. I regularly have to load hundreds of kbs of stuff just so someone can show me a design feature that has no function. to be clear: I'm not talking about line spacing (which makes things easier to read) or font colours (which can improve contrast) or some javascript that actually does something.

tldr designers need to start calling out the bad design, not just un-designed software.

> Rational Team Concert has home icon in top corner. Why?

So many product blogs make the mistake of having the big icon linking to the home of the blog, not the home of the product. Link to the product.
You are in luck!

Strang, Calculus, 2nd edition: http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Second-Edition-Gilbert-Strang...
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It also requires quite a bit of calculus though!
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Thank you.

I'd like to have this subject discussed much more often than it is nowadays. Military is on an extreme of the ethical-unethical scale but there are many more cases which would deeply fall into the unethical side of the scale and are not being talked about at all.
My understanding is that it is largely an accounting optimization.

Their explanation: http://www.quora.com/What-is-500-Startups-business-model

Important to understand: they've got one brand but two entities, the investment fund and the accelerator. The accelerator is designed to take in $X per year in revenue and pay out $X in expenses, for a net profit of zero or slightly negative. (Having more than slightly negative is tax inefficient. You get to book the implicit tax value of the loss as a carryforward asset but you would have no way to ultimately realize it since the accelerator is designed in this model to never actually make significant amounts of money.)

"But isn't it equivalent if you just give them $75k." No, not equivalent. This manages to teleport revenue through time from the eventual carry into the present, pays for present cash expenses, and gives that revenue favorable tax treatment.

How exactly it's favorable tax treatment is a great question for a tax lawyer. Here's my layman's understanding: you can deduct expenses from capital gains prior to taxing them but they have to have a certain level of connection with the gains, and it is possible that "general administrative expenses of our operation" don't have that level of connection. Shuffling those expenses into the accelerator makes them clearly deductible against the accelerator's ordinary income, since the accelerator looks like any money-comes-in-money-goes-out IT business. The program fee is clearly revenue. Their rent is clearly an expense. If revenues equal expenses than their revenues are taxed at, effectively, 0%.

"Tax optimization on $25k doesn't make sense" would be a sensible objection until you remember that 500 Startups operates at industrial scale and that this is suddenly $3 million in revenue a year.

n.b. 500 Startups would, eventually, pay whatever the normal capital gains taxes are on the carry (and/or ordinary income tax if the law is ever changed to make it less favorable), in accordance with the standard treatment of investments under US tax law. It's not an avoidance strategy, it is a temporal optimization strategy.

Edit to add: Above explanation is purely "My best understanding of the matter as someone who had no hand in putting this together." based on my inexpert understanding of standard US principles of taxation and their public statements about it.
Try google.com/custom to get more deterministic results, although it seems like they might have changed that as well.
This is not true in my experience. There are a lot of people who want to do a job that doesn't pay well (like teaching elementary school) or there aren't any jobs in their area other than physical labor (much of the midwest US outside of the cities).

Saying "anyone with half a brain can find a job they love" is really dismissing quite a lot of people that are not in the same privileged situation as you.
The Speccy had been announced by that point though hadn't it?
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The prototype is clearly an ATmega32U4. The Atmel logo is clear, you can just about make out the part number, and it only has 44 pins.

While the Arduino did great things, I don't really see much point in continuing with 8-bit MCUs as hobbyist platforms. ST's Nucleo boards, for example, are far more powerful and very cheap at only $10. They also support the mbed platform with its online compiler, which makes it pretty easy to get started with. There's still a lot of room for improvement in the software, though.
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To reinforce this point: here's just a fraction of what you can do with linear algebra [1]

[1]: https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/here-s-just-a-fraction-of-wha...
Out of curiosity, what drove you to try soylent?
The military is simply doing its job when presented with a task

That was presented as a defense of My Lai and was a not successful argument.

The military is achieving far more value

You're going to need to quantify this statement, because from this distance it doesn't look like much is being achieved at all. Yemen has fallen to the rebels and ISIS still hold much of northern Iraq.

answers like "don't invade other countries" are pretty worthless.

Absolutely not! It's a simple, clear, actionable, moral rule. It's also a core principle of international law. I'm not sure why this is so much of a problem.
Sorry, I tried to find an alternate article but this seems to be the original and the only other one I found was blogspam based on this. I'm a bit annoyed with the ads and the fact it's split over 5 pages, also (I even checked the "Printer Friendly" link to see if it would display all on one page, but it didn't). Still, I thought the content itself would be interesting here.
> Who are we to claim the people brutally murdered by the IS are - to the IS - "innocent"?

If you believe the West and IS are morally equivalent then you may want to revisit your worldview.
They have to sync to something

As I understand it, they usually sync to GPS?

You can buy those boxes on Amazon[1], starting at around $299.

Google would have to find a real reason to throw $X0 million a year at this

$X0 million?!

To construct and run their own atomic clock, or what would they spend so much money on?

I may indeed be completely missing what this guy does. He runs an actual atomic clock in that rack, like the one from NIST[2]?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/TM1000A-GPS-Network-Time-Server/dp/B00...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST-F1
Thanks for the link to the book.

I had a similar experience where my college linear algebra class was not good, taught by a grad student who seemed to have no enthusiasm for the material or for teaching, plus his accent was hard to understand at times. It was also the first exposure to proofs in the math curriculum so from the beginning I remember being overwhelmed by those and totally losing sight of the forest for the trees.

I sat through the whole semester thinking it was a pretty useless subject. My senior year I happened to take a machine learning and a quantum mechanics class at the same time and had a big ah-ha moment when I realized how big a role linear algebra plays in such a wide range of subjects. I went back through my old textbook and notes at that point and that new perspective made a huge difference, it was like it was completely different material and it was a lot easier to understand.
Not only is this not really a summary of the article, the little that is there, is wrong.
I bet you're looking forward to the last episode of HPMOR on Saturday.
I have a major in Mathematics, and I truly didn't need calculus after the multivariable/vector calculus course I had to take my Freshman fall. Why did I have to do so much if it wasn't going to be necessary until graduate school at the earliest, or perhaps never depending on specialization? And why was it a prerequisite for my other math courses (in algebra, topology, real analysis, number theory, and combinatorics)?
There are no universal Schematic/PCB Design files. It is actually very common to provide only a PDF as reference. Anyone who is going through the trouble of trying to make these should have the basic skills necessary to do a decent layout. It is a very simple board.
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I wrote a backup program that uses Glacier, and the retrieval policies are nearly impossible to manage and explain. But the thing I really don't get is that you can use Amazon Import to read a hard drive into Glacier, but you can't use Amazon Export to get a drive full of data back out. You can with S3.

In a disaster situation, a company is going to want hard drives sent to them next day. As others have mentioned, this isn't a money thing, it's a time issue. But it isn't available with Glacier (probably not with Google either...)
Inflation is wealth transfer from deposit holders to the state. It is, in other words, a stealth tax.

I think people accept inflation because they don't understand Economics.

Moving to my commentary of this article, it is basically a puff piece that seemingly educates but really doesn't.

Don't waste your time.

As bcg1 points out, the figures are bogus anyway and are constructed to conform to whatever story they want to tell at the time.
The BBC was involved in an early moment of computer hacking (cracking) history in the programme "Micro Live" in 1983.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Live#Hacking_incident

> The first one-off special was the subject of a memorable hacking incident. Ian McNaught-Davis and John Coll logged into the programme's BT Gold email account to demonstrate the features of the then relatively new idea of email, only to find that the account had been hacked. Shortly before air, the floor manager had informed Ian McNaught-Davis the password for the account, unfortunately while his microphone was live. Visiting computer guests, who were in the Green Room, overheard this information and immediately telephoned a friendly hacker, who proceeded to use the information to get into the account.
BLESS YOU. I have a computer vision exam on Tuesday. Naturally, the prof is awful at explaining math and only seems to care about the theory part.
So is the US, apparently, if you're to believe the story about Bush's motivations.

> In the prelude to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush told Jacques Chirac that Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East: "This confrontation is willed by God," he told the French leader, "who wants us to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog#Modern_apocalypti...
...when is the first private drone murder going to happen in the US...

Can we really assume it hasn't happened already? Of course we can imagine some users of killerdeathdrones that would be proud of themselves and would want to make it clear that no person is truly safe. Other purposes would be predicated on secrecy and uncertainty. At least until they work most of the bugs out, the first drone murderers will probably stay quiet about it.
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You can probably do worse than to cut mathematics up into "algebra" (not just linear) and "analysis" (calculus). They're almost completely diametric points of view by the bulk modern mathematical canon [0].

There's a fair point to say that one shouldn't learn so much calculus as to lose your linear algebra, but the opposite is just as true. There are a lot of comments in this thread along the lines of saying that linear algebra is far more useful than calculus in CS. This statement feel not exactly unfair but certainly like it's a reactionary measure.

Whenever you have a notion of change you have some kind of calculus underlying it. Even if you end up having to view that notion of change algebraically. For instance, there's a famous functional programming result that there is a well-defined "derivative of an algebraic data type" which allows you to talk about changes in data "over time".

I'd also feel very bad for anyone who tried to learn too much probability without studying quite a bit of calculus first.

[0] Sure there's discrete calculus and algebra underlies the mechanism of most calculus computation. Likewise there are continuous groups and you can't avoid how topology mixes the two concepts.
http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/04/google-attack-...

Discussion of the above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890328
As a programmer, I've used calculus and linear algebra exactly never in my professional (20+ years) career. It just doesn't really come up doing web apps, sysadmin or dba work.
Why is it degrading?
> Southwest isn't well-liked

What are you referring to? Southwest is loved by customers and employees.
So again, can you conceive a better alternative for dealing with reality as it is now?

Of course I can. Learn some humility, diplomacy, and restraint. The military has no business in Iraq and needs to leave. Iraqis have said so countless times.

You're assuming this is a military task. But I said "learn diplomacy." If your "reply" to a "learn diplomacy" comment assumes that this situation remains a military responsibility, then your reply is not a reply at all.

"Learn diplomacy" means "use diplomats." And it also means talk to some countries who know how to do so successfully, and follow their lead.

"Learn humility" means "stop assuming that this is America's problem to solve." It's not our business and all we're doing is fucking it up.