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Riot is actively building engineering teams from leadership level to hands dirty individual contributors. Particularly interested in quantitative traders/market store/risk store architects, J2EE Platform architects and uber low latency/ hi avail scalability focused talents, talents that have worked with NOSQL,general open source dev, Coherence,
web apps, Go, and are product and end user focused engineers.[vs shiny pretty tech for techs sake only]

Agile architecture & design, software components and architecture, data architectures & distribution. focus languages can be [but not limited to] Java, C#, C++, REST, XML, JSON, a wealth of exotic database technologies. multithreading, infrastructure and connecting pieces, service middleware + micro-services.

Massively collaborative and can find passion for delivering SAAS/GAAS

This is a faily unique scenario where globally, the Company services +70M players a good proportion playing daily, and at appreciable concurrency yet we are building the European engineering presence from near scratch.

League of Legends and its global e sports ecosystem is humbled to be one of a handful of global products that doesn't require heavy handed performance marketing tactics,
the community is passionate, are strong advocates and the company's internal talents, equally so about serving and providing ongoing upwards trending value to their players. Riot enjoys direct and robust conversations with its players and vicerally listens to them.

Feel free to reach out directly to me if you're curious. we are looking for entrepreneurial minded experienced engineers at this time at high mid through leadership level.
If you are tired of justifying "what's the ROI on that" when you come up with a consumer focused awesomesauce solution, and If all of this sounds a lot like you please feel free to reach out:
cwesterman@riotgames.com
I live in the UK and I don't have a garage either, I'm fortunate enough to live on a quiet enough street off of main roads though, so I do all my maintenance on the street. It's ok until the wind gets up, and genuinely pleasant in summer.

So far as being vulnerable - yes you are. This is something you have to come to terms with, there are many biker safety courses out there designed to make you a better rider, police riding courses are very good, and so are some advanced ones - they'll teach you how to ride defensively, how to read the road as best as possible, danger assessment etc. That said, there is always a chance something out of your control could happen to you, but the same could be said for walking out of your house every day, we do what we enjoy because we enjoy it - you must assess the risk vs reward and decide if it is for you.

My advice? If you honestly have an interest, try a beginners course, even if you don't initially intend on getting a motorcycle it will give you a little taste of what it is like and let you make a slightly more informed decision.
> Everything is really polished and well done.

I'm using Elementary OS right now. It's pretty, but it's really no more polished than Ubuntu. In fact, it just mostly uses the same Ubuntu repositories. That's not a bad thing, but it's worth keeping in mind that Elementary OS is as good as it is because it's building on Ubuntu.
Weird, I've found hangouts to be nothing but great with no missing messages.. however i (and pretty much everyone i talk to) just use it on iOS/chrome and not tied into sms like iMessage. The only issue I've had is it tends to chow through my battery.

When i was playing around with an andriod you could choose to have it take over sms or not, is that no longer an option?
But how! I don't know about other people here, but in our company we haven't figured out how to parse (for testing of course) dynamic websites. All tools, including free tools like Selenium and paid tools like QF-Test, seem to not be able to understand how it works, or our web developers are not able to code dynamic web like it should be coded.
When a partition happens, you cannot communicate, you can choose to be available, or consistent.

If you choose to be available, for all operations at all disconnected sites, you may need to resolve conflicts in some fashion when or if the partition resolves.

If you choose to be consistent, you may need to deny operations to some portion of sites or for some portion of operations.

I find the ATM example to be very useful, I also try to whenever possible understand the system in terms of ledgers and accounting...they have been solving these problems also for a long time.

The formal definitions are very useful, and I would argue have unfortunately been lost in the noise. People are often trying to understand and compare many different and sometimes quickly evolving technologies, and these working definitions and misinterpretations seem to be largely related to misunderstandings or in some cases fit to the terminology of a specific vendor (which can be very confusing!)

It is also very useful to test your use cases and what you can tolerate in terms of consistency, latency, and availability with specific implementations.

I think a lot of the problem is that marketing material and documentation have collided in a similar fashion to reporting and advertising.

The unfortunate message seems to be: buyer beware

I think a similar thing has happened probably many times before, relational databases for instance and isolation levels are rarely discussed in terms of the formal definitions and much more often the vendor specific definitions.

My maybe much weaker message/ take away would be: define the terms that may be ambiguous so that you can get to the real fun of the ideas !
The problem is you don't even try to make hangouts work for you. You complain that you can't even choose between SMS and instant chat, yet hangouts offers that effortlessly. And you ca see someone online/offline, you can even see exactly the last time they opened the app.

It's fine to not like Hangouts, but your complaints are just plain false.
this doesn't work well over my Mom's earthlink dialup.

Not long ago I downloaded a tool for Mac OS X that had a selection of cafe ambience recordings. While it did make working at home - alone - modestly more tolerable, it was not long before I stopped using it then returned to the cafes.

It's not just the sound but the actual presence of other people that matters to me.

Consider the position of Kuro5hin's trane, a huge fan of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, 3-D printing and other newfangled technologies.

Trane asserts that terrorism would be a thing of the past if we were to only set the terrorists up with VR goggles, so they could cut the heads off of simulated victims.

Trane so far, doesn't buy my argument that the terrorists would not find true satisfaction that way.
Perhaps that could be done by one of the many other people there.
I wonder how Canonical feel about Elementary making money off an operating system that receives updates from archive.ubuntu.com
So basically Amazon is tempting you to place wifi enabled microphones around your house? I sure hope it's only capable of picking up high frequency audio.
Considering I'm a poor startupper... yes :)
If they accepted Bitcoins, I would have paid some USD. But mirimir has no credit cards.
This is completely baffling. Just remove the option to download your thing for free.

You know it has value. You just spent a thousand words explaining why you think people should pay money for your thing. There's an easy way to get them to do that: Charge money for your thing.

No need to guilt anybody. No need to apologize. You built an entire operating system. Those cost money. Give your users the option of paying you, not using your thing, or (if you absolutely can't detach yourself from this irrational need to give your work away for free) building it from source.
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This is why, if you want video conferencing or VoIP, you can't trust the encryption unless you are dead certain that it is end-to-end, and you have control over the implementation of the crypto at both ends.

Lots of people regard Skype as secure because its connections are encrypted - but Skype is in the middle.
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No 1080p screens in 2002 laptops.
Interesting read. Maybe I've been living under a rock, but this is the first I've heard about elementary.

Though, not directly related to their payment model, I wish they would more clearly state that they're a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. I couldn't "quickly" find any info on it anywhere on their site, so I had to find out from Wikipedia. I guess this has something to do with their target audience, and the way the sell this as an alternative to Windows or OS X.

Somewhat related to their payment model, I would very much like to see them contribute some of what they're making back to Ubuntu/Debian, if they don't already.
It really doesn't matter how they feel though.
LOL: "loading ajax.googleapis.com"
Deis is relatively simple to install and get started with (http://deis.io). They have a CloudFormation config to deploy on AWS.
Removing the option to download GPL software for free seems like a pointless exercise...

Also: they build a set of desktop apps for Ubuntu and did some other polishing work. Not to say that isn't hard and important work, but it also isn't "building an entire operating system".
Probably the same way the Debian folks feel about Canonical making money from an operating system built on Debian.
Effectively the same thing Samsung did to Sony.
You must have been really lucky with repairs. We have a fleet of cars at work and until 7 years ago we always used to buy cars which were 3-4 years old, using the same logic as yours - most of the value that should be gone is gone, insurance is cheaper, whatever. We made the switch to only new cars on lease and having all repairs done under new car warranty saves us TONS of money per year. I personally never want to bother with a used car again.
Dash was not an April fools?
In Sweden you pay 3% of your gross salary but there's a cap so you never have to pay more than 135 euros a month for a child.

If you have more cildren, you'll pay 2% for the second (max 90 euro), 1% for the third (max 45 euros) and nothing for the fourth.
The popularity of part time work for women may have been a fluke, an accidental mix of choices, culture and circumstances that has lead to the current situation. A situation that is certain downsides.

However, the big upside is still underway: it is becoming increasingly normal for men to work part time. Already it's common for men to work no more than 32 hours, that's not even considered part-time anymore.

If this trend continuous, the Netherlands is shifting towards a much shorter working week than most countries, without any major upheaval or further government intervention. However much by accident rather than design, it does seem to put the country one step ahead of most when dealing with an economic reality in which full employment for everyone is never going to happen.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4986790
We knew this in January when Andrew Ng mentioned both the depth and size of the computational layer. Again, the scale that Baidu brings to machine intelligence is remarkable. But I wouldn't put Google or MS out of the picture just yet. There is much not disclosed yet.
They do, though...
Same in the Netherlands. Solution? Create a law that requires employers to hire you on a contract after 3 years of solid work.

Now guess what happened :p

You get fired after 3 years, so they don't have to give you a contract. Then they hire someone new with less skills, but at least for 3 years they don't have to give a contract and can fire you whenever they need to and of course pay you like a temporary external employee instead of a full-time on contract employee.
I hitched a few thousand miles recently across Europe.

As far as I can tell it's just a misunderstanding of statistics and extreme risk aversion that reduces numbers.

This idea that it's more or less dangerous than some other activity just doesn't jibe with me. Life isn't about going to the gym with muesli and green beans and avoiding scary information and so on. It is precious precisely because we have freedom.

On the idea of public transport replacing hitching - that's a completely different experience. It's commercial. You deal with ticket inspectors assuming you are a thief, barriers, overcrowding, limited routes, high cost (the entire point of hitching is having an extended/permanent trip on a budget). Etc.

Self driving cars may well kill it off entirely. And we will have lost something great - one of the few areas of life untouched by capitalism.
You can just use both hands to work with a device.

My (Chinese) parents prefer large screens because they have bad eyes.
Any examples of that occurring?
I use nightwatch.js ( http://nightwatchjs.org/ ). It's a layer on top of Selenium that makes browser testing a lot more straightforward. If you start with small, straightforward tests and build testable things from there you code will improve.
"The Dutch government has said that by next year 30% of executive board positions should be held by women..."

I wish one day we can do away with this sort of 'reverse' sexism, and I think that next year 100% of executive board positions should be held by capable people, regardless of their sex.
This is blocked by my work, is it just a blog with a link to a YouTube video? Could someone post it here if it is? Thanks
Not at all. The "download" we're talking about here is the binary (unless I'm mistaken).

People with $10 in their bank account and the ability to calculate the value of half an hour of their time will happily pay to avoid fighting dependencies to compile this thing from source. The angry entitled people commenting on this poor guy's blog can download the source for free.

(And to your edit, people who think that there is not $10 of value added can simply not install it.)

Everybody wins.
The richter scale in general is not a good indicator of the destructiveness of an earthquake. You need to consider the location of the epicenter and the depth of the quake before coming to any sort of conclusion.

I experienced this first hand here in Christchurch, NZ. We had a 7.1M quake and then a 6.3M aftershock 6 months later. Despite being almost an entire magnitude smaller the 6.3M aftershock was 10x more destructive. This was primarily because the epicenter of the 6.3M quake was 40km closer to the city and some unusually high verticle accelerations caused by the strike slip motion of the fault and the local geography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake

The Mercalli Intensity Scale was developed to give a better indicator of the actual effect to people on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale
Wow, that's super neat, i'd never heard of it. Seems like something that should be absolutely mandatory for all factories equipped with such devices! Go technology!

Here's a demonstration, it's very fluffy but it gets the point across. https://youtu.be/eiYoBbEZwlk
Why is LG seen to be inferior in every aspect? I personally think LG has better phones than Samsung, especially the UI. TouchWiz is horrible.
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I wonder how google indexes a page that inserts an element in the DOM 120 seconds after the page was loaded using a setTimeout()
So? That doesn't change what TAS stands for. Saying it's "Tool ASsisted" is wrong.

If someone referred to, oh, Paris Hilton's dog as a VIP, would you really want to make the argument that VIP actually stood for "Very ImPortant"?
https://youtu.be/COGmRYA-eV4
I don't see why. The GPL requires that you provide the source for free. It says nothing about providing the binaries for free. The entire job of a distro is packaging and ease-of-configuration-management. If you do that part yourself to spite them, you're removing the entirety of the advantage you were getting by using their distro in the first place. The incentives work out.
I don't.

With a manufacturer direct sale you don't know what a reasonable price because they would never have to tiers of pricing which could be found out and exposed as so called "invoice" and similar pricing is done with regular car dealers.

I also do not support direct sales where dealerships have throughout the years established the brand in question. Now for new brands who are wholly unrelated to a current established brand I take no issue with. However to say that GM or Ford should be able to bypass the dealership model which they already abuse with must carry and demo rules would not be remotely fair as the customer relationships were established not by GM or Ford but instead by the dealers.

However I do not support the idea that manufacturers or their assigned dealerships should be the only businesses who can repair or service any part of a vehicle.

As for car buying, doing it this week. Never once in thirty years and a dozen cars or motorcycles have I ever had an issue buying or selling car. The majority of horror stories come from used dealerships serving people who cannot afford down payments or the like.

tl;dr

dealerships helped establish brand loyalty for older car makers and that investment needs some protection from poaching of customers

with a manufacturer direct model you never know if you are getting a deal and have convince yourself irrationally that you are
That's excellent, the first thing I have to do with new machines is always strip out the distros favorite tools and install the ones I use.
The highest GPA at my data science master course (Well, NLP and machine learning) was a history undergrad.

One of the best in my class was a philosophy major.
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"You built an entire operating system."

It's Ubuntu (under the hood), marketed at people that wouldn't consider using a *nix OS.
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I'm working on a web application that helps a group of friends to play virtual roleplay in a cool way (using advanced chat interactions - like soundtrack while roleplaying, others devices that helps you play while you're outside, everything that can enhance your roleplaying experience).

I'm also working as a side project to integrate AutobahnJS (a PubSub / RPC lib based on WAMP protocol) with React.
It all seems a bit similar to Red Star OS.
> When i was playing around with an andriod you could choose to have it take over sms or not, is that no longer an option?

No it's still an option. They just didn't bother to look for it, or don't realise that they may not have the phone number and Google profile of their contacts synced...

But yes, if the person you're messaging has a phone number and Hangouts profile, and those are applied to the same contact, you can choose to SMS them or send a Hangouts message.
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I just hope he (and his successors) maintain the same uncompromisingly critical approach when it comes to adding features to the language..

I think the lack of some things like this, is a sort of reminder to the programmer that says, "hey you, you are writing Python. Not Haskell. Do not go that way because we don't have stuff to deal with what you may find further down that road".

Nothing ruins a language like adding a bunch of poorly thought out half baked features, that does not fit well with the rest of it...
FYI, this is not available for Trusty Tahr (14.04). I only skimmed to find the link to mini.iso and didn't notice the article omitted references to 14.04. My mistake, but sharing here in hopes of saving someone else some time.
> Even now Samsung make the majority of money in the Android world

Making the majority of money is completely irrelevant to actual market-share. Who makes the majority of devices?
Any idea whether this affects (randomized) A/B testing? I think that in the past, Google has simply ignored the dynamic test changes to the site's content. Now I'm not quite sure anymore.
> It is a uniquely American perspective.

Citation needed. Oh wait, there is none, because you are wrong.

You may get by with public transportation for commuting and taking the kids to school, but unless you want to get stuck at the house on weekends, you will need a car, unless you want to live in the city center.
Some good books on Machine Learning:

Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Flach):
http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Science-Algorithms-Se...

Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Murphy):
http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspec...

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Bishop):
http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...

There are some great resources/books for Bayesian statistics and graphical models. I've listed them in (approximate) order of increasing difficulty/mathematical complexity:

Think Bayes (Downey):
http://www.amazon.com/Think-Bayes-Allen-B-Downey/dp/14493707...

Bayesian Methods for Hackers (Davidson-Pilon et al):
https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Kruschke), aka "the puppy book":
http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Bayesian-Data-Analysis-Second/dp...

Bayesian Data Analysis (Gellman):
http://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Analysis-Chapman-Statistical-...

Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (Barber):
http://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Reasoning-Machine-Learning-Ba...

Probabilistic Graphical Models (Koller et al):
https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm
http://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Graphical-Models-Princip...

If you want a more mathematical/statistical take on Machine Learning, then the two books by Hastie/Tibshirani et al are definitely worth a read (plus, they're free to download from the authors' websites!):

Introduction to Statistical Learning:
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

The Elements of Statistical Learning:
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

Obviously there is the whole field of "deep learning" as well! A good place to start is with: http://deeplearning.net/
People tend to use Linux for mass installs, though. Once you say "it costs $10 to download this software", you have to ask "but what if I want to download it again? Or, conversely, download once but install onto 1000 PCs?"

The fully-correct-and-flexible answer is, sadly, the Microsoft-like enterprisey one: to have a user account and charge the user for a multi-seat license to the software, which provides a product key entered during the installation. That way, you can reuse the same installation image as much as you want, but each activation has a cost.
Then they would lose 99.875% of their userbase. The support forums would dry up, there would be fewer advocates etc. A Linux distro needs a critical mass of users.
This has already been discussed on HN before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029995
Why don't you include the payment WITHIN the system? I wouldn't pay before I try eOS, it is only if I stick and use it, will I consider paying.
>"The problem with that is, they're just fine with every other form of coercion."

Care to paste an example of what you mean by that?
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One neat thing Amazon are doing with this product, which I hadn't considered as an "internet of things" option, is making each unit of hardware order a single supplier's goods. All the example buttons say "Tide" or "Bounty" or "Gillette" or "Olay" right on the button - all Procter & Gamble. And the other goods pictured [1] are all brand-name goods with fairly big marketing budgets.

In the jargon of the grocery industry, this means the buttons can be "supplier funded" - Procter & Gamble probably pay Amazon a reasonable portion of the cost of the button, as a marketing method.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button