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My impression (from seeing IPv6 support projects being regularly deprioritized at a previous employer) is that it's more of a market/deployment problem than a technological one. Layer 3 is a uniquely annoying place in the current networking stack, in that changes to it are useless until everything on the path between you and the other hosts you talk to speak IPv6.

With upper-layer stuff like HTTP2, you can get some return on your investment as long as two hosts that want to talk to each other, however distantly separated, speak the new protocol/features. With lower-layer stuff like 802.11ac or 1GB ethernet, you can get most of the benefits just by upgrading the client hardware and infrastructure in a local setting. If you want to talk over IPv6, though, you need to upgrade clients, local infrastructure (e.g. in-home routers, corporate IT equipment), carrier routers, datacenter routers, and servers. In many cases, each of those things is controlled by a separate organization, and none of those organizations gets any benefit out of implementing IPv6 until everyone else along the chain does so too.

For example - let's say that you're providing some kind of web app or service from your own servers. There's a non-zero effort involved in setting up IPv4/6 dual stack throughout your stack, so you first check if you can even get IPv6 connectivity. Using EC2? Nope - no IPv6. Using a leased server in a colo? Pretty good chance they'll also not even have it available as an option. So at that point, why even work on this feature that you're not going to get to use, and that since it's not exercised by real traffic will probably be full of bugs?
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No doubt a step in the direction of the Ivy League style of biased selection. Sure, you can say (and mean) that non related people still have a chance to get in, but this action spoke louder than the words.

I not saying YC is elitist, because the since-the-beginning action of actually reading ALL applications, no matter from who, says a lot about the meaning to accept people with no connection at all to YC ecossystem.

But, said that, this announced action is a step on the opposite direction. I would appreciate another step in the direction of "we give a fair chance to not well connected people". Maybe some active recruiting actions on other places outside Silicon Valley.

As a double counter-example, 500startups do a lot of active recruiting outside USA. But, at least in Brazil, to have a real chance on getting in, you need the personal approval of a particular individual (Beddy Yang) to endorse your application. Having an application from Brazil, with no endorsement from this person, is as good as not applying at all.
So solve one problem, but creating another to the openness of the selection process.
Do you recommend Spring 2013 for a reason?

The Spring 2015[1] has a similar but different set of lectures/assignments. Do you think that is better/worse?

[1] http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/
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We can always work remotely or as overseas contractors
>You only get to witness the birth of a child once

You know what else? Though it's rare, the spouse is needed to make important decisions in the event of some unplanned problem and the incapacitation of the mother.
Rob Pike? I thought that C came into its shape before his time.
The punitive damages were also roughly the amount of money McDonald's makes selling coffee in one or two days, according to a contemporaneous WSJ report: http://www.business.txstate.edu/users/ds26/Business%20Law%20...
I live in Seattle, where it seems like at any given point in the city you can see a crane or some active construction. I was struck by the relative lack of construction in SF, despite the huge demand for housing there. It's just an observation.
I think there's actually a checkbox when submitting a recommendation as an alum. (not kidding)
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surprising => weird

hack => trick

Happens a bit in sama's and pg's comments too. Kind of funny, I guess nobody's immune to writing buzzfeed posts.
It really depends on the amount of writes your database needs to handle, and the overall quantity of data. There are very strong CAP systems (Zookeeper comes to mind), but I wouldn't want that for very large quantities of data, as it wouldn't be able to keep up.

For example, if you are doing logging for a few million simultaneous users (say 5-8 per resource request across service layers), a single system wouldn't be able to keep up, and definitely a single system that has to coordinate each write as an atomic/consistent state.

The fact is, depending on your needs, you will need to sacrifice something to reach a scale needed by some systems and to minimize down time. It's a trade-off. And any distributed database will have real-world weaknesses.
I disagree with the behavior of registering an account named America Sucks ("murica_sux"), just to fire off a couple of shallow comments on HN.
How do you decide what expertise is? This sounds suspiciously like, "I'm not going to vote for candidate X because they don't have political experience" where political experience for the other candidate is basically lower-level government riddled with corruption, horse-chasing, and cronyism, because voters don't give a damn about who their votes go to in lower-level elections.

In other words, if you aren't thinking about it, then you shouldn't abdicate your moral responsibility so facilely like that.
I wrote an article talking about this a few months ago:

http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.source...

"The difficulty of writing consensus critical code: the SIGHASH_SINGLE bug"

Five pages of detail about a single bug^H^H^H feature, and just the other day I found yet another edge case in the implementation that I hadn't noticed before.
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If this is true it's a little bit sad. If a person isn't present in the most important moments of a family is "changing the world" of the family for worse and not for better.
Yeah the cross-section images in the article are very misleading, because they cut off the full width of the buildings on either side. A typical San Francisco lot is 100 feet deep, of which 2/3 or more is usually house and the rest is yard space in back. Put the actual full depth of the houses on either side of those images and it's much more obvious that you'd be just be creating tiny little houses in the middle of the street. They wouldnt contribute that much to the total amount of housing space and wouldnt have the property value of the surrounding larger houses with real backyards.
If not using aws features like auto scaling , elastic load balancing etc. you most likely spending more money that needed if you are on AWS.
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Not really sure what the point of the site currently is, but I'm holding out hope for a rebirth of AltaVista.
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the whole point of investing is to make money, not find "opportunities for investment that have been undervalued by the rest of the market."

you are confusing the means to an end as the end in itself.
On my end (east coast US), I hear the Python/data/analytics things a lot but haven't directly encountered those companies.

Python was at least previously big in a lot of local shops doing a lot of systems programming type stuff (management apps) -- including folks like Red Hat and HP, including my old one (Ansible). Startups are still highly likely to use it.

There are enough Django shops around, including at least one major Django consultancy-type shop, but it feels like slightly more (but not much more) rails on the web side.

I'm not plugged into the industry biotech to know how much Python is floating around, but I think it's probably pretty common, just that those folks travel in slightly different circles and we don't cross polinate enough.

"Is anyone actually adopting Python 3 as their default yet?"

Almost certaintly someone has, the real question is what percentage and what characterizes them :)
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All the negative press and comments about this miss the point. The guy has very specific, very ambitious goals that he has a track record of achieving. He prioritizes those literally above everything and expects the same from key employees.

Working at Tesla, which has already done a ton to change the entire car industry is a huge privilege, and no one's making you do it. If you can get a job there, you can get a job elsewhere, but if you do want to have your job there and help reshape the world behind someone with a track record like Elon Musk's, yeah, you're going to have to play by his rules. If other stuff is more important to you, go work at like 95% of other companies.
I live just across the river from a recently-retired Ford plant in St Paul. The plant had its own dedicated hydroelectric dam on the Mississippi (before you're shocked, the Mississippi just isn't very big in Minneapolis as rivers go, and it was whitewater there before being developed).

I keep waiting for someone to buy up that location to build a giant data center - Amazon, Google, someone like that. It's a beautiful spot with clean dedicated power, in the heart of a metro area full of enterprise operations talent.
They can be sued multiple times for multiple instances of the same injury type. This has been known to happen involving ADA accommodation & injury lawsuits where a state contracted provider doesn't learn their lesson the first time. The original lawsuit specifies plaintiffs, injury and covered time period, and usually requests an injunction to "prevent" future injury. The original lawsuit is settled, but the provider fails to take reasonable action, and so a new lawsuit is filed. The second lawsuit is usually not settled on "modest terms".

The "hot coffee" lawsuit was well justified, as the burns were serious and McDonalds did not learn from previous instances.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer etc. please ask your lawyer for legal advice.
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this was intentional buzzfeed satire :)
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1) If true, NONE of us here know under what circumstances this happened. Maybe Elon hadn't slept for days at the time and later apologized, or maybe the employee was really at fault. NONE OF US KNOW.

2) Some of the quotes from the book make me think the author merely went through other people's interviews/articles and compiled them into a sensationalist book.
Getting a blue page with ≡ and "passcard" at the top right corner and a strip of a black footer. Nothing else. That's not how it supposed to look, is it? Recent FF.
If true -- that is, Musk was criticizing an employee specifically for being at their child's birth instead of work -- then he's an ass, and he's wrong. I would expect somebody with 5 children would know better.

Every man or woman put on a pedestal will inevitably disappoint their admirers in some regard. Steve Jobs, despite his skill at pushing Apple into a highly profitable and desirable direction, appears from most accounts to be a horrid, miserable human being. Same with every politician and celebrity.

I doubt this will change much; Musk's goals and reputation hinge on technical delivery, not interpersonal skills.
That flies in the face of every A/B test I've ever seen - and I'm not an audiophile - presumably they know 100x more than I do about audio quality. Nobody buys $900 stereo cables because they think they'll perform better than $45 monster cables. They buy those cables for the presentation, the craftsmanship, and the brand.
Nesting them I feel is almost always bad

blarg = [ foo(x) for x in y if x > 2]

I think is pretty decent. Helps if they are calling named functions, so it's more self documenting, depending on complexity.

Dict comprehensions can be a little brain-warping too :)
Before anybody jumps to conclusions about Musk, we need to first know the source is accurate and the email is real, and also we need to know the context of the email.

It could be very well that the employee failed to communicate the fact his wife may go into labor prior to the event, and with no heads up of any kind, he gave the excuse after missing the event. In which case, I completely agree with Musk, if any employee is expecting to be out soon, they need to make it known. And let's face it...you have quite a few months notice on when the baby is due.
For those unaware, Hillsboro OR has Intel's R&D arm and several datacenters (including ones still coming online).

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with less physical, psychological and emotional degradation than the vast majority of the world.

I think you're incorrect about this. I think you aren't counting the mental and emotional toll of working on projects that get arbitrarily shitcanned, or working 120-hour weeks because you think you'll be the king of the roach bucket because your investors said so, or the constant dehumanization of "You are programmer beep boop why can't you just make this business concept work?".

As far as physical hardship, look at all the folks with carpal tunnel syndrome, obesity, diabetes, bad backs from slouching, or any of the other issues endemic to white-collar long-hour development work.

And for all that, we're still probably just going to be me, complaining about the working conditions and things that suck, and you, dismissing those same issues because some Kazak iron worker works in a dangerous foundry. This is stupid.

No one in the top 10% has any business complaining except about the condition of the bottom 50%,

See, this line of thinking expands easily: "Nobody in the top 30% has any valid complaint, except..."

Suffering is suffering. Handcuffs are handcuffs, golden or not. Abuse is abuse, whether it is from a shitty founder or a shitty secret policeman. Being underpaid is being underpaid, whether it's by one dollar or a hundred thousand.

Your line only suits the super-rich, and is a great appeal to guilt to help people ignore how much they're getting shafted.

EDIT:

So, again, not a single act of self-abasement or renouncing of privilege is going to do anything to help those truly in need. Face facts: there's not enough room in the clubhouse for everyone, and we don't help ourselves by voluntarily standing outside, unless it's with torches.
Or maybe it suggests underlying order?

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But you are a man and so you don't get to see the vast amounts of sexist unprofessional behaviour that women have to put up with.
An friend of mine told me a story about excel abuse in her company. She's in HR, and it was annual review time. They were passing around a spreadsheet with 'employee name' and 'raise %'. Each manager was supposed to enter the raise for their employees.

So, a few days later, the spreadsheet came back, and the HR director was ready to process all these raises into payroll. My friend took a look at the sheet, and nothing made sense. Low performers were getting high raises, and vice versa.

After some investigation it turned out that some of the managers had sorted the spreadsheet so that they could find their employees better. But someone had screwed up, and only selected the name column. So, everything got messed up.

What was amazing that even after this was pointed out, the HR director was still pushing for the raises to go through as-is, because it would take too much time to do everything again.
Who says I'm defending the status quo? I have zero desire to defend the status quo: I don't think it maximizes either scientific productivity or my own personal opportunities.

>Great. What exactly is the plan here?

We can start listing from incremental reforms and work our way up to radical ones.

1) Shift from post-docs to "perma-docs". This will immediately address one of the biggest hidden costs (in the sense that the accounting methods of grant funding conceal the cost entirely) in science: by the time you've got a grad-student trained to do decent research, they graduate, and by the time you've got a post-doc running experiments at a decent pace, they too leave. The only people who stay in a single lab long-term are the professors, and they've become glorified managers. The result is that science is actually losing a lot of productivity to skilled-labor turnover. The solution? Just stop pretending everyone will be a professor someday, and allocate money for paying permanent staff scientists with PhDs to actually run experiments and publish results rather than shepherding graduate students.

2) Lengthen the grant cycle. This does mean more money per grant, but it doesn't cost the government anything to allocate the same dollars-per-grant-year in longer blocks of years. Use this reform to commit to letting scientists do long-term work: more like five years than two years, or even, ideally, something like 10 years. Since whole sciences are not routinely totally revolutionized every decade or two, funding periods should look more like substantial fractions of one's whole career than like the time it takes to train up a new MS or PhD student.

3) Build and use a framework for allocating grants based on value-of-information calculations that reward doing experiments whose outcomes are uncertain, rather than experiments that will probably work (which really means: experiments that don't teach us anything new). Find a way of actually quantifying the uncertainty a subfield carries about its open problems before and after new publications, and reward the scientists who do best at surprising their peers.

And we can get more radical from there if I keep wasting my time thinking of these things instead of doing useful work.
It's called the "Magnus effect" and is not new at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect

There are airplanes and boats that use this technique too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_airplane , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyone_(ship) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Ship_1 ,

Wind mills and green energy is great, so go for it - just don't try to patent the "Magnus effect".
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That's ridiculous. No one's commitment to any organization or cause should be questioned if they choose to see their child born vs. coming into work.
I wouldn't want to invest in them eitger, mostly because of the massive victim complex they have.
Definitions are flexible and communities collectively decide what words actually mean. Sure if you are talking to PhD Data Scientists CAP have incredibly specific meanings.

I think it is clear that the much broader user/marketing/coder community has a much less rigid definition of these terms. In my opinion, fighting against terms or ideas getting watered down is a lost cause. It inevitably happens and there is very little that can be done to stop it.

As I said in another reply really the battle cry should be something along the lines of "Every database needs a real thoughtful precise technical breakdown" not "Stop using terminology that gives a brief, if imprecise, overview of the product". Because the later is almost certainly not going to happen.
I like the fact that you are so happy to have people point out flaws in your argument. If only more people...
>How do you decide what expertise is?

I do have expertise in some small amount of things myself, so I can recognize it in others. An easy heuristic is: the ability to make detailed predictions, and to specify where and why one is able to make detailed predictions.
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A post with too many links is not interesting and looks spammy.

I think it's better if you cherrypick two or three of them and add a small explanation. For example:

* Fridge with transparent door: [link here]

* Washer with additional soap container: [link here]

* Complete list of all 3d pages: link here

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Also, if you have been working in this, a nice blog post about your work would be more on topic. Is this official? Differences with the previous page? Will this be integrated with the official page? Where did you get the models? Do you have to tweak the models or the WebGL support? Is there an impossible to render machine?

(On the technical side, this takes almost a minute to load in my slow netbook, you should add a "loading" animation. And the color changing button is not obvious.)
Well. YC is elitist. At some point, just based on volume you have to be selective in a way that's perceived as being elitist.

You have 5 applicants. They all look great/same. One of them has a reference you can trust. OF COURSE you weigh that. Why wouldn't you use a signal if you thought it might make a difference?

The fix from the applicants side isn't to try to put that in your resume (it's just a nice to have, hardly worth the X years it will take out of you life).

The fix is to differentiate yourself in terms of product and traction because that's the only way completely within your control.

ps: I agree with the general gist of your comment though :)
This post is really great. Often when trying out a new ecosystem the longest part of the learning process isn't learning the language or tools themselves, but learning a process that works best for the language. This gives a lot of insight about how you approach Rust and the other tools in your toolbox.
I am reminded of this famous Stallman incident, where he basically scorns at another developer for having a baby:

http://edward.oconnor.cx/2005/04/rms
You wouldn't want to legalize lynch mobs. But maybe there's a happy medium. Making it clear that citizens are allowed to take videos of cops might be a good start.

For actual punishment, force isn't necessarily needed. A lot of societies manage it by social pressure, with "shunning" being an extreme version. Pressure for conformity already exists regarding things which are not illegal, so I'm not convinced that it makes things worse to rely on it more for things which are currently illegal.

One of my anthropology professors used to say there are two ways to keep order in society: by force, and by ideology, and the second is a lot cheaper.
It's a terrible example for many reasons. One that is more often misapplied than not.
If you consider the birth of a child "other stuff" less important that your job your priorities as a parent are already seriously fucked.