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> Perhaps it makes economic sense to have you working less efficiently while saving a large amount on rent.

Open office vs. private office is about $4,000 a year for an employee. Doesn't take much lost productivity to break that barrier.
Focus on the problem, not the people.
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Roughly nobody is going to come up to you after you've helped them put in a fence and say it must be your fault the animals got out last night because you helped them put in the fence six months ago, and you need to come fix it right now. Nobody is going to come up to you after you gave them some chicken soup while they had a cold and say it's your fault they now have cancer and you need to come fix it. But for some reason, a lot of people will do this with computers. Not everybody, and if you have a user who is actually reasonable about it then by all means help them. But be wary about it until you see how they act with computers (which will not necessarily be how they act for anything else) and be ready to cut them off if they start abusing you.
I use it every day, but there's always some aspect of its behaviour that it turns out I didn't understand the first time round. Perhaps that's because I jumped into the project with only a very rudimentary understanding of Om, just enough to complete a certain ticket. I've since then spent a lot of time going through the docs, but it just conceptually doesn't sit well with my brain. Sorry I can't give a more useful answer. Reagent on the other hand, which I haven't used in production, just "feels" better every time I play with it.

The thing that helped my understanding most was a recent project where I got to work with React directly. Also, reading the source.

So yes, it's mostly because I'm a little lazy, but Reagent doesn't seem to punish me for that same laziness. 😆

EDIT: More details.
That's neat but I'm sure those gems are far more than 9 lines. I was expecting something more like:
https://donatstudios.com/Damn-Simple-PHP-ASCII-Art-Generator
His debt will be with the corporation, so by the time he'd be ready to see a court room, the company would be gone. Suing a collapsing startup is a waste of time.

(The small claims limit in California against companies is $5k, FWIW).
Ask HN: How do you feel about companies collecting online sales tax?
While it decreases the amount of time and effort to determine what sales and use taxes I owe to the State when taxes are due, I don't like companies collecting sales tax online. How do I know if they are truly remitting the sales tax they are collecting? Yes, they would face prosecution for falsely collecting sales tax and not remitting it but what if they aren't located in the the U.S.? Tracking down and determining what online businesses are actually properly registered with my state to collect sales tax take more time and resources than if I just track my purchases that need use taxes paid.
I would amend that to say, "From each according to his ability, to each if someone with the ability cares to provide it for free."

If production of free software was directed by need, there would be a lot more free toolkits for the healthcare industry and a lot fewer free games and software dedicated to distributing free porn.
> Misses a huge point, if you're doing a startup with friends, typically you're all working for free.

Working for shares is not "free". It's a gamble (if it busts you get nothing), and if you want to gamble that's your call, but whatever the deal is for your compensation, get it it writing.
It's not the specific "10-minute turn" that's the key, it's having a faster turn than the competition. The regulations affect everyone equally, and if Southwest has a 25-minute turn while other airlines can only manage a 35-minute turn that's still a win.

Also keep in mind that some airline regulations were much more strict in the 1970s - all routes and fares had to be approved in advance by the Civil Aeronautics Board and competition on price was nonexistent. Southwest was exempt from these regulations because they only operated within Texas.
Very cool, and very performant. I'd love this as a live wallpaper on Android :)
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flaws:

1. same 'who do I write on the shipping label' concern

2. assumes a sufficient existing salt supply (perhaps these people already needed salt, so this aid healed two birds with one bandaid)

3. assumes knowledge about proper iodization (ratios, sanitation, etc)
Yes. Screen readers load the page contents into a buffer and allow users to scan headings, links, etc. having a broken outline structure is potentially confusing [1]. This is also why descriptive linked text is important (ie: no "click here") [2]

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H42.html
[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H30.html
It was mostly the whole reify dance, which I never had to do in any other clojure/clojurescript project.
I have to admit to never having installed any extra GNU stuff except gmake in a BSD, everything else just works...
I would rather see ES6 with no class support whatsoever and having people learn to code without them instead of adding features to satisfy the lowest common denominator.

I've used classes in CoffeeScript and regretted it every single time. Once your web project starts to grow in scale classes quickly become your first pain point. Especially given how functional JS libraries have become nowadays.
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I'm personally waiting for footie pajamas to be considered office attire. I give it ten more years.

either way, I'm saddened that you are downvoted. If you look through the past fifty years of culture, there is a distinct shift from ultra-masculinity and characteristics of maturity being favored to emotions, childlike playing, and feminine attire becming the characteristics that the youth favor in their sexual partners. Do we not want to acknowledge this is happening, or was it merely the "tone" we're supposedly downvoting once again?
I suspect what we will see happen is the District Court will rule that it was fair use, it will go to the Federal Circuit again and then the Federal Circuit will overturn the fair use claim. As the Federal Circuit is incredibly pro-IP, I suspect they will be unpersuaded by any claim otherwise.

At that point, if SCOTUS does not take up an appeal, the computer science world will have a big problem. If APIs are copyrighted and reimplementing libraries violates copyright, then:

What of all the projects that have implemented LIBC, and used glibc's API and headers? e.g.: Is musl now GPL?

What of any OS or project that has implemented a POSIX layer? (Is this the decision SCO needed to finally sue someone for Linux finally violating SCO's copyright?)

What of any project that implements x-plat APIs? As another comment pointed out, Microsoft's Project Islandwood re-implements iOS APIs. But Xamarin, Cordova and other projects all ingest APIs and reconfigure them to make them accessible on multiple platforms. Are they contaminated by copyright now?

If the Federal Circuit decision stands, software might have finally encountered the lump it can't digest as it eats the world.
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The link goes to the lawsuit filing. Some background information:

Link Corporation is a building contractor in the South Bay. The owner claims that every single negative review they've ever received is fake. Link has filed suit against 8 "John Doe" reviewers for $1,165,000 each, and is attempting to identify them via subpoenas.

IMHO, some of the negative reviews do look suspicious but this could backfire horribly if any legitimate customers got caught in the net.

Most of the reviews quoted in the suit can be found here:

http://www.yelp.com/not_recommended_reviews/link-corporation...

The Yelp listing shows an unusual flurry of activity, both positive and negative, in early June.
Someone please make an HN poll asking what type of office we all work in - open, cubicle, small office, other...

I lack the karma
Random Wolfram story, was at lunch yesterday at my old college and respected computer scientist who originally interviewed me. He told me that he first showed Wolfram a computer.

This guy was a friend of Wolfram's mother who asked for help because 8 year old Stephen was "bored with dinosaurs" and wanted something else to think about.
I've always thought the fact that our modern VTEs still being stuck in pure text mode is a regression. We've already settled on terminal control being VT-100 (or more accurately ANSI sequences).

Given experience from prior windowing systems like rio and Oberon, why isn't it standard fare to have programmable text, built-in text processing in terminal windows and bitmap images? TUIs are only the tip of the iceberg, and the inclusion of aforementioned features would obsolete plenty of use cases for GUIs, along with making a lot of task automation so much easier. Application launchers and things like "let me hack a quick script to do a processing job" then become unnecessary.
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It's scripts like this that makes programming fun.
Very appreciative of the replies I have had so far. Unfortunately, there are no positions for just software developers.

I'm looking specifically for Machine Learning developers and that you already have put a project consisting of ML into production already.
Free isn't free in your case. You're doing presales engineering plus learning stuff that would be difficult otherwise.
I'm not sure why you say that a traditionally JITed language won't benefit from this. We've had AOT compilers for the JVM and for .NET for years.

The perf may be slightly worse, but we've had good-enough perf forever.
Seems like a good example of technical people placing too much importance on a technical decision.

It seems clear Lisp would have been a perfectly fine choice, as would a number of other languages. It also seems unlikely the world (or even Mathematica) would be dramatically different for it.

I wish more "X is better than Y because of Z" discussions would admit aesthetics were an important factor. Instead we end up with convoluted justifications that just annoy everyone (Lisp is slow, C is fast, C++ is complicated)
> What about SSL certificates and authorities for HTTPS?

> Each Own-Mailbox will generate automatically its SSL key at first setup, and send to us the public part.

> Letsencrypt Certification Authority will be used , it is free and very easy to setup, and it will be handled automatically by your Own-Mailbox. Every Own-Mailbox will automatically ask for certification for its key indepently from us.

Interesting idea.
It's not clear from the link posted earlier[1] if mythbusters did a run of 10-100 seatings and calculated the average/median for each method - but it looks like they just did each once. If so I don't think a difference of +/-1 minute is significant. A difference of 100 in customer satisfaction probably is.

This is also culture dependent. Nobody boards planes like a group of Japanese. Be that salarymen or high-schoolers on a school trip.

The rest of the world might board in more reasonable time if they got help to stand in line by their seat numbers (better yet, print seatnumber and an integer on the ticket - have people line up at the gate prior to boarding in accordance to the integer).

Would work except for the Scandinavians that'd consider themselves exempt... ;-)

[1] http://mythbustersresults.com/airplane-boarding
WCAG contrast calculations are designed to account for this: "Color deficiencies can affect luminance contrast somewhat. Therefore, in the recommendation, the contrast is calculated in such a way that color is not a key factor so that people who have a color vision deficit will also have adequate contrast between the text and the background."

http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contr...

So if you pass WCAG color contrast checks, you'll be accessible to users with color deficiency as well as low vision.
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Besides, we could solve the world's energy problems by burning idiots - they are renewable, and often contain lots of fat.
Sprint's network is pretty bogus, though. For $45 a month I use Cricket, where I get 5GB of bandwidth (10GB for $55, it's a recurring promotion) on AT&T.
They're talking about the split of programmers, not of concerns. The client-server model is definitely here to stay but having separate groups of people handling each side is a sure way to greatly lower the quality of the product.
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No. It is a combination of structured and unstructured data. It's just that the data is not in some consolidated or coherent schema that is useful for the business to use.

Hadoop and NoSQL systems are critical for this role since often it is extremely time consuming to (a) design the final end state schema and (b) create the ETL processes to populate it. So the idea is to just fill the data lake as quickly as possible and then work out later how to use it.

Data lakes are a concept that apply mainly to enterprises so we are talking about big data and complex, multi disciplinary/functional schemas.
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Been using it for a few years (i think the actual install was 013, updated over time to something akin to 014, so i still have /system/Links rather than /System/Index) and i keep being surprised how many tarballs i can basically go "MakeRecipe Foobar x.y.z example.com" on and follow it up with a "Compile Foobar" to get it installed if there is not already a recipe in the repo.

Some larger projects are a fair bit more hairy however (Hello Mozilla) and i think people basically gave up getting Gnome to play along...

Also the guy that did the 015 release claimed he spent more time getting the whole consolekit+polkit+desktop rigmarole working than getting the kernel and such going.
reify is usually a low-level construct in Clojure. A lot of libraries use it under the hood, I wouldn't be surprised if you use a few of them :)
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Well M-expressions to be more precise. Actually if you ask some they'll tell you that Mathematica is the only Lisp that implemented them.
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> why mess with something that has so few down sides?

When I look at high frequency trading, it says to me that the game is rigged. It's like going on Jeopardy up against a machine contestant that always buzzes in first.

How on earth can I possibly succeed as an individual investor in a trading environment where institutional investors are so privileged? How many other ways is the ostensibly neutral marketplace overseer profiting by offering those who pay-to-play opportunities to shave pennies, nickels, dimes, and dollars from me?
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Measuring a big system might be useful if you are interested in this information.

However, steering the big system by looking at the big statistics while ignoring its much more deterministic effects on parts is both, an oversimplification and common practice.

Just think of a tax where they talk about future income streams for government but totally deny the costs (especially for complex taxations or ambiguous legislation). Or changes to the way GDP is calculated. Or "economical stimulation" via war.
Why aren't leap seconds treated as a time zone change, like a daylight saving time transition? Keep the underlying clock counting the number of actual seconds since midnight, January 1st, 1970 (or whatever your epoch of choice is) and just add one more second into the offset to local time. Is there some big problem with this approach I haven't thought of, or is there just too much history with doing it the other way to change now?
Not really, they'll pay off Apple. Who it will really hurt is start ups that don't have the money to license. If APIs are held to be copyrightable and not subject to fair use then this will lead to reduced innovation in the US. A similar ruling in Germany went the other way and stated that APIs are functional and hence not copyrightable.
Not exactly what you're wanting but there was a poll a little while ago asking what people prefer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815512
Slight typo: compliment is correct here, rather than complement. Excellent discussion.
On the other hand nothing will get it reversed quicker then pretty much every juggernaut lobbyist wing being turned against it.

It's going to turn around and sting Oracle just as quickly as they think they profit from it.
In addition to what others have said about distraction being more than just noise, this idea runs directly counter to the "official" reason for open plans: free flow of information and spontaneous communications. By necessity those make an open plan noisy.

In fact, it creates a horrible contradiction: you are supposed to be able to simultaneously block out all this shit, but still pay attention for those moments of serendipity wherein you can interject something useful. The vast majority of knowledge workers can't work like that.
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Perhaps if you're in an office park with arbitrary amounts of office space where costs simply scales linearly office size. Otherwise it tends to be far more than that.
Very beautiful indeed. I just realized jellyfish are a lot like mushrooms.
To me it sounds more like NIH syndrome. Wolfram was young, smart, cocky, and didn't really know much about computation when he started - but was convinced he could do a better job if he started from scratch.
Has secure IM app Surespot been compromised by the feds?
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A key thing is that an HDFS-like system has compute resources that scale with the storage, so the time to do a "full scan" of the system is constant with respect to the number of nodes.
Alternately, you can just require multitouch zoom and get rid of the antiquated notion that you can double-click to zoom.
Tough thing about headphones is I find they're only comfortable for so long. That, and there are times where I can't really work with music and just need quiet.
I recommend Henry S.F. Cooper's book _The Morning Star_, which is about debugging hardware failures and OS race conditions on a spacecraft orbiting Venus.

(There are similar stories about debugging stuff on the various Martian rovers, but Cooper's book is a very good treatment...).
It appears that the discussion on arbitrary precision vs machine precision is obsolete as it does not seem to apply to Mathematica, maybe it used to be true for SMP, though I'm not sure.
Composition over inheritance wins, so hard.

(edit: downvote for a typically well-thought-of idiom, especially with regard to a language like js? .. if you disagree, why not talk about it?)
I know the speed of rotation changes slowly. But that would be a reason for lengthening a day, not adding a leap second. The leap second is added because our concept of time is slightly off, but it keeps being presented as if we had to add an extra second because of the slowing of the rotation. If that was the case, it would be like those 2 hours that were added in the last few million years. We don't consider them leap years because they aren't a correction but a redefinition (ignore for a moment that humans weren't around to define as a day as 22 hours back then).

Consider the leap year for a second. We add it because our years have 365 days is slightly incorrect (by about .25 days a year). It isn't that the number of rotations per revolution is or isn't changing. That isn't relevant to our use of a 1 day correction every 4 years. If some force caused us to revolve around the sun slightly faster and it took 365 exact, then we could remove the leap year.

Removing the leap year would be a result of our revolution being slightly faster. But the leap year itself is not.

In short, the delta of the leap correction is a result of the change in the system being monitored, but the leap correction itself is because our system of measurement is off.
Or M-LISP. Or Logo for that matter (loosely).
Thanks, works perfectly. Now I can delete some unnecessary JS :)
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Do you mind sharing which carrier you have now? I've been looking at switching to one of the lower cost carriers, but haven't seen one that supports the iPhone.
My thoughts on this. Overpressure in the LOX tank could be due to 1) failure to vent properly or 2) something heating it up.

Option 1 is based on the fact that it's constantly evaporating and needs to vent. This seems really unlikely given that it passed all test on the pad 2 minutes before. It also sounds like this was likely ruled out based on Elon's tweet about a "counter intuitive cause".

Option 2 sounds like fire or flames due to fuel leakage or something, but then realize that this is the second stage and all the action is going on 100 or more feet down in the first stage. They also have a camera on the 2nd stage engine which was shown shortly before the incident and nothing was going on in there. I wonder what the in-tank camera showed.

It seem that to get the extra energy into the tank, something must have fired up early. But if there's one thing Spacex seems to have a lot of it's data. Aside from a breech letting external air in (like the last shuttle accident), how do you get enough added energy into a tank to build pressure to the breaking point? In 2 minutes.
It's not so much the case that I am more productive when working in a private space as it is I am less productive working in an busy open space...if that makes sense.
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As far as the debt being with the corporation, if a judge decides the founders acted negligently, s/he can "pierce the veil" of liability and hold them personally liable.

Good to know about the Cali small claims limit.
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No! How could anyone have such a colossal lack of common sense?!
I'm not too familiar with it myself, but if I had to hazard a guess it's because setting an element to display:fixed breaks it out into its own root stacking context[0], and browser zoom affects every stacking context[1].

Would love to hear from someone who's actually familiar with what's going on though.

[0] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/09/Stacking-Changes-Comin...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Under...
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Stree: a better Git subtree command
Bees travel when colonies split.
I recommend reading Great by Choice [1] which talks more about Southwest Airlines and what makes them great. The book is about "10X companies" and what they have in common, but also what they do differently from their competitors. For example, Southwest Airlines copied PSA's business model verbatim but PSA [2] went out of business. The book talks about why. The main reason I like the book and others in the series [1] is that it is like reading a really long research paper about what makes great companies great with entertaining anecdotes sprinkled in.

1. http://www.jimcollins.com/books.html

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines
Apple doesn't need the money. What they do need, however, is developer lock in which is probably non negotiable.
Nice. I just ran through it along with http://www.keybr.com/#!game to spike my mental acuity. Anyone have other suggestions while I'm at it?
Implied pronouns, perhaps a trend from Facebook usage? On Facebook and Twitter you have an implied "I" that makes saying you did something redundant. This could transfer over to other formats of conversation.