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> It's odd how much novice programmers are asked to work on blank-slate exercise projects, which strike me as inherently advanced work.

I disagree; in my experience learning how to fit your changes into an existing codebase is much more difficult for beginners.
This is something many people forget: Apple has a challenge changing system APIs since they need to avoid breaking other apps but they can start scanning App Store submissions immediately and take action with absolute certainty that there won't be collateral damage.
What would happen is, RMS comes up with yet another GPL variant to prevent that scenario from happening.
I can respect that - I never use Reddit's search function so I have been relatively unaware of that. I think the problem is that its almost impossible to police all of reddit - even if you shut down one thing (as we saw) 10 more pop up. Not sure there is a good solution, but the lesser of evils might be to just ignore the antagonists.
Denial has worked so far. Heck, even the relationship between forms of life on Earth is effortlessly denied by the Creationists.
Not remotely related. Please take your off-topic hate elsewhere.
Cheer-up!! You could be making CIA license plates. Eat some wonderbread and laugh at the niggers who think "Life's not fair."

I haven't looked for a job since I quit Ticketmaster in 2003 for the second time. I'm in a CIA prison.

The good news is God is going to fuck my enemies.
I believe he's referring to the admins banning all the new subreddits that were created after the announcement to spam /r/all, for ban evasion.
I agree - good points :)
> I won't be surprised if bing is handed over to yahoo completely.

I would be very surprised. As would all those MS employees working on Bing, it would be unprecedented for a company to hand a fully functional and somewhat critical leg of the company to a competitor.
The hits are mostly modern, unfortunately.
One thing is for sure,
Ellen Pao is not liked in Reddit.
Because banning certain reddits is a value to no-one and a disvalue to everyone.

It does not add value to me to have subreddits Ellen Pao personally disagrees with be banned. Rather, it takes away value.

And now that the precedent has been set, the same will be the case with future reddit leadership.
Reliability of an OS kernel is measured exactly the same way as any other complex piece of technology: you note how often it does not do what it should do. In the case of a large QnX deployment over all the time that I worked for the company involved (several years), 0 incidents that we could attribute to the QnX kernel (or even any part of QnX).

If something didn't work it was either hardware or our own code, the way it should be. It's not magic but it is very good at what it does. And it is a way of building things that just works, message passing is a very powerful technique for making reliable distributed systems.
Or the relevant stakeholders might actually believe in good faith that having one VM in the platform is better than two.
It's as good as literally "any description"; science forum, racist feedback command center, gay hookup site, blog response community, 10th largest website in the solar system, click-bait blog-spam sales site, blue trombone weekly meetup organization, micro blogging community...

It's actually by definition a link aggregate website.
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Transistors have kept getting cheaper, but single core perf hasn't been growing as fast for the last decade or so.
He costs $3 per m^3 on the open market. Argon costs about $8 per m^3. N2 is cheaper.

There are some uses for He that are harder to replace. Argon will collect in low spaces more than He; N2 might be a compromise for welding. Nothing can be relied on to be quite as cold as liquid He. But there is a lot of substitution that can be done when He prices rise, several generations from now.
"The paper from which this example was taken made the mistake of assuming that all five philosophers are men."

And some mistakes are unforgivable.
So, you are saying they did nothing but slander her and are now surprised they were banned?
I believe it is the only way if you truly want a single user to have complete control of decryption. There are other solutions if you don't. I heard of one the other day (from MaidSafe maybe?) where you have a shared secret amongst your "friends" and if a quorum of them agree, it can reset your password. I assume this means your data is duplicated and encrypted via that shared secret as well which could be coerced I suppose.
Read a little more carefully. He didn't say YC guarantees success, nor does he believe that. (I'm one of his cofounders, and this came up).
One hypothesis could be Uber can't raise their fares if there's significant competition and outside options. That is, if Uber were to take a higher margin cut, others would undercut be able Uber. Overtime, each competitor would be subject to the same sanctions and maintain depressed margins in the highly competitive market.
I vote kn0thing for the political leader from the south in this joke...
Yes. Quantopian.

Not HFT by any definition (unless your definition of HFT is on the order of minutes), but purely algorithmic and data-driven. You can backtest your algorithms with up to 13 years of historical data, live trade your algorithm with paper money, and even link your algorithm to a broker and trade your algorithms with real money.

It's the single most disruptive financial service I know of, and I've had tremendous success with it, even without linking a brokerage account (just checking it daily for trade signals in my super-low-frequency algorithm on paper money).

https://www.quantopian.com/
The fudging of /r/all is from what I saw, the troll posts disappeared from the front page after about 4 hours but they were all there if you checked /r/all/top. After a few hours, they were all contained in /r/all/rising, every day they're still there. I actually didn't even know subreddits had been banned until I missed a touch on my phone and instead of hitting the reddit front page I hit /r/all on my phone, these are next to each other on the reddit is fun app on android.

The imgur alternative I mentioned is apparently slimgur.com. Here's a post with the story, this is where I read it from: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/39nang/reddi.... As of now, it has over 4k points, a mod presumably sharing the details (comments with slimgur links have to be approved by moderators). It was at the top of /r/all/rising when I saw it a few days ago
L4 is used in the secure element of every modern iPhone. OS X/XNU is based on microkernel designs. Windows is a hybrid.
Very interesting - thanks for sharing. Is there a corresponding brief by the plaintiff? I'd like to see both sides of the story.
I'd question the need for that many nested callbacks when you're already using Promises.
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I would love to see these claims, please stop spreading FUD and show real evidence.
I've seen 8chan and after that I do not yearn for a fully open Internet.
It would be helpful to quantify "sucks" in there. Otherwise it's simply an opinion. As an exercise, just write your own XMLHttpRequest interface. It will take you about 20 lines or less, even doing it in the most naive way. I'm serious, go do this. It will make anyone a better developer.

Frameworks rarely give you much for all the baggage that comes with it. I say this as an angular user specifically, but I haven't used any others that don't have this problem.

It might, MIGHT, be that these standard setups suck, but if they do, adding a complicated toolchain without a reason doesn't seem like a very pragmatic approach to why the suck or how to fix them.
That's great news, thanks for the additional context. Apple and the web have a ..complicated relationship, so it means a lot that they have no known objections and are likely to endorse. It seems too good to be true that all the browser vendors would agree on something this beneficial to developers :)
Moral of the story? Use GPL.

If only Etherpad had done so in the first place.
Anyone care to explain something that I might be missing?

Perhaps her primary concern isn't a cash payout.
One problem is that programmers accept this stupidity from the machine rather than try to fix it. For example, if the computer had a definition of a good PBJ and some sort of solver, it might just figure out how to construct a PBJ with the given materials. Or maybe it would ask for clarification of some steps. Of course we don't want to treat all problems as general cases to be solved on the fly, but I don't think we should accept complete stupidity from the machine either.
If you want high performance and simple why not use flat files, bash, grep (maybe parallel), cut, awk, wc, uniq, etc. You can get very far with these and if you have a fast local disk you cat get huge read rates. A few GB can be scanned in a matter of seconds. Awk can be used to write your queries. I don't understand what you are trying to do, but if it can be done with a SQL database and doesn't involve lots of joins then it can be done with a delimited text file. If you don't have a lot of disk space you can also work with gzipped files, zcat, zgrep, etc. I would not even consider distributed solutions or nosql until I had at least 100GB of data (more like 1TB of data). I would not consider any sort of SQL database unless I had a lot of complex joins.
Watch the video: it was in 34 generations, each consisting of likely hundreds of attempts.

Mod: please edit title appropriately.
It would be helpful to get more detailed information in order to provide more targeted suggestions. What is your educational background? What is your work experience? What languages/domains have you worked in?
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If there's too much congestion to provide LTE speeds in a certain area, they shouldn't be able to advertise LTE speeds in that area. Or they should build more capacity to manage the congestion.
Given that /r/all currently has pretty much zero note of the crapshow from a couple days ago, I would think actually facing it and just bracing for a couple of days pays off a lot more than just ignoring it and letting it build up over time.
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Why does Airbnb feel the need to raise such a large funding round instead of going for an IPO?
I get that - I think my bigger point was that they need a verb to reference "duck it" "duckduck it" or "ddg it"
Like the above poster said, it's how they're applied.

I live next door to this. Every year my vineyard is blasted by idiots growing corn or soy (farmed by subcontracts of leases off my neighbours land, nice and hands off). Because it's Roundup Ready they don't care or think, they just blast. It's an ecological nightmare.

I'm not concerned about my health, I think glyphosate is mostly harmless to humans. I'm concerned about ecological diversity -- I have a bush lot, I can see the immediate damage this stuff causes to native plants.

Last year I took the growers pesticide training course here. It was very enlightening to see from the co-participants in my class just how derisive they were of the general public's concern about their large scale use of pesticides in areas they consider "theirs", as if there are no neighbours, human or natural.

And it's not like we're talking farmers growing 'food' next door -- it's soy or corn for animal feed. The land owner gets $150 an acre. It's barely profitable. It's stripped the life out of the top soil, so if you factored in the actual value of the land over 50 years, it's probably negative profit considering the permanent topsoil depletion.

It's a stupid way to organize human affairs, a total short term waste of precious expendable resources. Modern industrial agriculture is moronic and technocratic arm-chair libertarian justifiers of it who read a couple articles in The Economist and watch a TED talk are complicit in its ugliness.
It is a mistake to assume Ellen Pao is the reason for /r/fatpeoplehate's removal, both /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots were banned before she worked at Reddit. Who's to say /r/fatpeoplehate wasn't also removed at a consensus by the staff?
Okay, so I'm listening. You argue that I have caricatured those I disagree with as mere technofetishists (to be fair, I've also characterized most anti-GMO arguments as Luddite).

If the argument for GMO crops is not that more production will solve the hunger problem, then what is the intent? And do you believe this represents the majority of pro-GMO arguments?

Please, understand that I love being proven wrong. If I can be convinced to change my mind on something I care about, I'm smarter for it. But it requires more than telling me I'm wrong. Tell me what's right.
Could very well be the case :)
Banning hate and harrassment subreddits has value to many people.
If you're interested reading more personal encounters like this, I highly recommend "When the Air Hits Your Brain". It follows the author's journey from resident to experienced neursurgeon with a wisecrack sense of humor and greusome detail.

I finished it in premed days when I was looking for an candid story of becoming a neurosurgen. Definitely kept me fascinated.

*http://www.amazon.com/When-Air-Hits-Your-Brain/dp/0393330494
What I find interesting about this discussion is the implicit realization that the freedom to inspect the source code is valuable. It has not always been the case that one could make such a statement and expect the majority of readers to instantly understand. What a long way we have come!

I suspect, though, that we still have not come far enough to be able to deal with this problem culturally in the mainstream. The technical solution you present would work exceptionally well along side licenses like the AGPL and would definitely be a boon to the free software community. However, are people as eager to provide freedom to others as they are to take advantage of it?

I choose to mention the AGPL on purpose because it goes a fair way beyond what you propose. It grants all 4 free software freedoms, not just the freedom to inspect code. I could well understand if someone felt that they were very keen on the one freedom to inspect code, but couldn't bring themselves to champion the other 3. The problem is that many, many other people feel exactly the same way about all of the 4 freedoms. Not only do they not see particular value, but they are actively opposed to it.

I think you would fight a losing battle trying to implement this in a standard. In the same way that I couldn't realistically expect to convince most people to use the AGPL in their web projects, despite the obvious benefits that I see, you probably could not convince enough of the powerful players to do this. As a programmer, once you live in a world where this freedom is ubiquitous, it is obvious and even jarring when the freedom is witheld from you. As a decision maker protecting corporate interests, it is merely a matter of tradeoffs and the value is not apparently clear. Certainly, it is not something that most people outside of the programmer community would want to encourage as the default course of action, even if they are willing to engage in it as an exceptional case.

Of course, I would love to be proven wrong ;-)
1. Check job descriptions (from good companies) for the position you'd like to be working in.

2. Learn the skills they list to an basic level of competence on your own through self-study.

3. Get hired at a company where you can learn from more experienced people.
Because of the ban on groups which actively harass others? Or is there another reason?
IT doesn't but it does mean the days of anybody being able to prospect for gold are long gone. you'll always be able to get more of almost any physical resource, but the notion of Peak ____ is economic rather than purely physical.
It took me a while. My background was Java, Python, ActionScript and a few other languages sprinkled in. After about a year working JS, its now my preferred dev environment.

The turning points for me:

- modularity - npm has really changed the way I program, for the better

- Node.js tooling (including a Browserify, Babel, Webpack) will greatly improve your experience with the language

- live reloading, zero compile time, instant visual feedback

- the breadth of Browser/Node/npm APIs can make it a ridiculously productive language to work in

- IDE plugins and linters can catch a lot of errors as you type

- above all else; it has an amazing community of enthusiastic developers, tinkerers, scientists, artists, etc.
This logic would basically forbid any lawsuit, no matter how meritorious. Leaving aside what you think her odds are, this isn't how it works. You have to balance the odds of each outcome, not just the absolute best and worst cases.
Well, she's a woman, which alone is enough to catch a lot of heat on Reddit.
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albertop, and I, are confused by your post, because you are defending her decision to refuse the 1 million with "righteousness" but must have missed the part of the article where it states she counter offered to settle for 2.7 million.

.. or, 2.7m = righteousness
Right, which is why the problem is genetic engineering (GE), not genetically modified organisms (GMO) themselves.

To put it more bluntly, the horrors of this stuff (I live next to it and suffer its idiocies, see post elsewhere in thread) is the fault of engineers and marketers, not "science" per se.
...she tried to extort money? ...she lost, and they weren't
doing anything wrong.

Sorry, sarcasm doesn't carry well over the Internet...

Are you saying that because she lost that implies that she was engaging in extortion?
I agree on the cesspits of hate, but I think the good in people always overwhelms the bad. Or at least, I hope. :)
I think its because of the censoring of stuff which is critical of her and her husband and less about the banning of fat hate subs - See: https://twitter.com/arrington/status/609065906900066304

It especially does not help the fact that her husband was at the helm of a massive scheme that defrauded untold amounts of public workers in regards to their pension

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Fletcher

http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/case-builds-against-former-ny-h...

Who you are friends with says alot about you. Who you are married to says much, much more.
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Were that the case she wouldn't offer to drop her appeal for $2.7 million.
Mary Schweitzer extracting collagen, haemoglobin, elastin, laminin from 80 million year old Hadrosaur and verifying it. [0],[1]

[0] 2012: http://www.nature.com/news/molecular-analysis-supports-contr...

[1] 2009: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17060-first-dino-blood...
To clarify, statsite does spawn threads to do some of the aggregation and flushing at the end of the collection interval, but yes it is possible to saturate the main loop at a very high ingest rate.
I'm always suspicious now of people stuff like this - articles on freelancing who sell courses about freelancing ... people with travel blogs who sell books about being 'digital nomads'.

It's great they have found a life, but plenty of people doing freelancing will be making money from freelance jobs, not running courses on freelancing itself ... and most 'digital nomads' will need to do stuff that is not making products for other 'digital nomads'.
How is he?
1. No.

2. That doesn't follow.

3. I'm not proposing that we ban GMO. I think it's important research.
You'd achieve the same thing by building a proprietary userland, from the C library up, on top of the Linux kernel. As far we know, no one has bothered (on a large scale) because it would be a massive waste of time and money.

The closest you'll find to this alternate universe is Android.
It seems they were using some of the tools:

https://2011.eurobsdcon.org/papers/gras/minix-bsd.pdf

"ABSTRACT
MINIX 3 has imported a significant amount of userland BSD code.
The trend began several years ago, but the pace has quickened
markedly. We have already imported NetBSD’s buildsystem, NetBSD’s
C library, the pkgsrc package management infrastructure, and various
userland utilities from NetBSD and FreeBSD."
> "it was creating cesspits of hate when left to itself."

'it' is humanity. If you can't handle looking at a true reflection of humanity then you're worse than the bigots, IMHO.

If we plug our ears and hum, "la la la" to the uncomfortable opinions held within pockets of society, we remove all possibility of discourse on the topic. No one should ever be so sure that they're right and others are wrong to take that leap. Even with racism, sexism, fat-hate, and so on.
> I yearn for the days when the Internet was truly open.

When was that? Back in the early days, ISPs and hosts would shut down sites with very little provocation. I remember big outcries around sites being taken down by their ISP and/or having their domains seized by the FBI for file sharing and/or hate speech.

In fact, you could argue that the internet is more resistant to censorship now than it was back then. The ISPs in the early days had fewer customers and more competition, making them vulnerable to bad press. They pretty much had to act on any crank who complained about objectionable content hosted on their servers. ISPs today are bigger and have de facto monopolies (TWC and Comcast), so they don't respond so much to bad press. While that may be bad news for customer service, it's good news for the conspiracy theorist who wants to discuss which Rothschild is behind 9/11. Also, ISPs don't have to take sites down as often as they used to because most of them are hosted through third party companies like wordpress and google (blogspot).
Her offering a high or higher number doesn't imply that she was only out for cash. Perhaps that amount was what she considered sufficient to punish KP appropriately.

And for the record: Consider this statement as me playing the race card.

But look: I wasn't on the jury, and I haven't reviewed the court records, and like everyone else here I'm playing armchair quarterback.
Correction: when you sue someone and lose, that does not necessarily mean you were extorting them. In fact, it almost necessarily precludes extortion, since extortion is the act of threatening to reveal a damaging secret unless you are conpensated. It also doesn't necessarily mean that the defendants did nothing wrong, as in the example of failed lawsuits against the NSA.
Thanks for the plug, I have signed up as well to the class and its great !
No one is forcing you go to (\d)chan.

Hate speech is an easy target. But the censoring and anticompetitive practices have spread further than that.

Google, Apple, Facebook, can change their ToS to bring down potential competitors. They can remove your app for any reason, block access to their APIs, and ban you for posting content that leads to your own external page. It's happened plenty, and Reddit is no exception. These guys want you to live in their closed ecosystems where they control who the winners and losers are and what information is seen.
And Russia (Yandex) and South Korea (Naver).
No, that's generally not enough. The U.S. courts generally follow the American Rule, not the English Rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_%28attorney%27s_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_%28attorney%27s_f...
> You shouldn't be generating the text in advance and then processing it.

That depend on how long the preprocessing take and how often you need to manipulate the processed text.
On the upside, Google Authenticator has access to an accurate RTC.

On the downside, your encryption secret is available "in the clear" in the form of a TOTP token that is loaded into the app. You are highly vulnerable during these moments. If an attacker gets a copy of the TOTP token, they can generate the six digit numbers as easily as you.
They wanted to upvote their friend's post and ask their friend questions on the HN thread, sometimes several times from different accounts?
Maybe you have a rooted Android device and don't entirely trust the software running on it?