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> Einstein basically is THE stereotype of the aloof genius.

'Aloof' is a subjective term and you are entitled to judge him that way if you want to.

I'll assume, 'aloofness' to mean that his thinking was confined to his work and that he lived by himself without much contact with the outside world (a la Pearlman).

The reality may have been the exact opposite of this, if you look at his biography. My main source is Walter Isaacson's book. Einstein was a humanist who cared much for the well being of humans. He was a social person by all accounts, forming warm relationships with people from all walks of life. As a youth, he was a keen student of music and philosophy, as evinced by his deep involvement in a study group with a couple of his friends. His personal relationships and tribulations (e.g. divorcing Mileva Maric and marrying his cousin) seem no more deviant than that of many normal people. He was a committed pacifist who campaigned for many issues by using his standing in society as an intellectual. He supported the Zionist cause, decried racism and bigotry, etc. He wrote many essays and expressed very clear and reasonable opinions on a wide range of topics ranging from the American society to nuclear weapons.

Compare that to Pearlman declining the Fields Medal and Newton dabbling with alchemy and occultism, which are both representative of fairly weird behavior. To reiterate, 'weird' by societal norms, which individuals may or may not be expected to uphold (unlike, laws).
I don't think the Amazon employee total includes their warehouse workers who actually work for Integrity Staffing Solutions rather than Amazon itself.
> That difference is partly due to different things being valued

This is misleading. All valuations are based on the discounted value of future cash flows. There are three variables at work here: today's cash flows, the growth rate of these cash flows and the discount rate. The market is simply saying that Amazon's growth prospects outweigh it relatively smaller size.
Sure, but first you go put all your wealth into AMZN for the next ten years and don't touch it. Think you're any better off from Walmart over that time frame? Valuations are fickle at best. At some point, money needs to be made.
There are metric-truck-loads of existing research on behavior changes
due to known surveillance. Though they might be pre-testing units
off-camera for the sake of giving a good "demonstrating quality" stage
show while being recorded by your system, there's also the effect of
better behavior when knowingly being monitored. Either way, you win. ;)

The problem with pre-test is it can both decrease defect rate _and_
decrease throughput rate. Depending on how much each decrease is, you
can actually decrease yield/time rather than increase it. This exact
problem exists on PCB manufacturing. It's certainly possible to pre-test
every component as it comes off the reel and before it's used on the
PCB. The component pre-test does decrease defect rates of the finished
boards, but it also decreases throughput rate, so it can negatively
impact yield/time. The decision then becomes an investment/accounting
problem. Often, post-mfg circuit/component test automation and reworking
failed boards makes more sense financially.

As far as I know, no one does hard or soft real-time verification of the
human side of manufacturing and lab experimentation, but _my_ knowledge
of the current state of the art is admittedly outdated. Using CV and ML
to spot human manufacturing errors (or inefficiencies) seems feasible if
you throw enough compute power at it, but whether or not it's practical
and financially viable is another (more important) question altogether.

Though CV+ML may not be reasonable in the real world, I agree with you;
it sure does sound like fun to try.
One thing I note is that their recommendations aren't terribly smart.

I mean, I bought a coffee table through Amazon a few months ago. After buying the table, for several weeks it kept showing me coffee table recommendations. I would think Amazon would be smart enough to try and sell other living room furniture or things to put atop the coffee table I just bought, rather than trying to sell me more coffee tables.
> Complete representation of all real numbers using a finite number of bits

He's 1/3 of the way to three impossible things before breakfast by slide 15.
That's the case with Microsoft and Apple too, I expect many companies.

When I was a contract programmer at Apple In 1990 I was told that it hired so many contractors so it could inflate the ratio of revenue to employees, which would inflate the stock price. While Apple still had to report our pay it was some other kind of business expense, like office furniture.
This just in: one particular technique is not good for every use case!

Most of these complaints boil down to REST is not complex enough to capture more complex interactions. But that is its strength -- yeah, there might be some tweaks to make but if you run into a RESTful interface it is easy to get your bearings.

If you need something with more meat, pick something else.

That said, shoehorning problems into a limited number of return codes with pre-existing specific meanings is an inherent problem with the whole REST approach, I'll give the author that. It is almost never a good fit.
The slides [1] and overview, with supplementary software [2], are also available online.

[1] http://www.scs.stanford.edu/brop/bittau-brop-slides.pdf

[2] http://www.scs.stanford.edu/brop/
You have a lot in common with the U.S. Department of Treasury.

At the end of January of 2015, Wal Mart's income tax was approaching $8B for the previous 12 months.

Amazon was 161 million.

https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/Wal-Mart-Stor...

https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NASDAQ/Company/Amazoncom-I...
Sure. That is important to do a few times. Just like writing a compiler. However, most people do just fine using GCC and the same thing applies here.
Friends of mine have been software developers at Amazon. They are well-paid, but evidently that did not make up for other aspects of working there. Apparently Amazon can be a great company without being a great place to work, at least relative to technology companies.
Your dilution math is pretty pessimistic. Even if you are diluted by 30% 5 times (which would be extremely uncommon for a company that grows so successfully), you'd go from 0.5% to 0.1% of the company in your example. More realistically, you'd probably expect to have around ~%0.15. So now you'd be looking at 1 or 1.5MM in a probably still-growing company, which compares much more favorably.

Yes, as I noted above I do agree that volume constraints are an issue and are pretty annoying. Even in the examples where you get to hold options for 7 years, you wouldn't get the ability to sell at the "peak" (if you think there is one) unless the company was public.

There are many things you have to take into account when valuing stock options, and from a purely compensation basis I agree that Apple/Google/Facebook are going to be tough to beat.
What sort of developer fails to think about the possible consequences a given product might have on the lives of people they will never meet?

Any developer on a project that doesn't have a formal analysis system for feeding thoughts about the lives of users into the product spec. And I mean beyond the "will it sell" sorts of analysis. So to answer your question: most.

I have worked on safety-critical systems, my train of thought goes: products need to be less harmful --> FMEA.

I actually look at it a bit like the way computer security can go overlooked. You can actively employ as many netsec hobbyists that spend their evenings hunting vulnerabilities, reading research and messing with security software as you want. And they might marginally increase the security of the software and systems, but the business has to decide to invest in security before they're allowed to focus on securing the system. Once the business has bought in, then you really don't need a huge cultural change towards security, just get enough guys to set up the quality systems, and then keep up with security analysis and reviews.

Edit: From a purely reductive standpoint, developers can tailor product to overseas markets with different cultures. As long as the business cares, and spends the effort to determining how to target a culture, the developers don't really matter.
From the comment you're replying to, that was a "b" for "billion".
I did a little searching to expand on your numbers. What follows is not scientific.

According to https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/cdn/ CloudFront, Akamai, MaxCDN, CloudFlare, EdgeCast and CDNEtworks account for ~75% of CDN usage by the Alexa top 1M (with 28 others listed)

Data from http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
suggests that the 1.4.2, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.8.3 versions of JQuery are cover 53% of the 23M the have version data for (with 23 others listed)

That puts a lower bound of 690 on the number CDN-Version pairs in the wild.

If we make the (totally unsupported!) assumption that the distribution of versions is the same across all CDNs than 20 of these CDN-Version account for ~25% of the versions.

This could suggest that there is a cache advantage towards using Jquery 1.4.2 (21%) served by Akamai(37.5%)

Seems like jacquesm should now have the data to test this and give us a actual answer.
Do you realize that their lack of profit is not because they can't profitably sell things at current price points? The lack of profit is due to reinvestment in the business.

It would be more like if you were mowing lawns at a very small profit and using that profit to continually buy more lawnmowers and trucks and eventually investing in developing my own, more efficient lawn mowing technology. Each summer you lose a little money but after 50 years you now are mowing 50% of the lawns in the US and doing it more efficiently than anyone else is capable of.
On the Apple Appstore, I've seen an average of around 30% App Store Views to App Units (i.e. downloads) being typical.

Note that those figures are historically limited because before the launch of iTunes Connect's App Analytics there was no way of knowing your number of views.

Hope this helps!
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It is a little strange but then people's shock is usually related to how harmful the substance can be.

My comment was mostly in jest because at the time of posting I don't think there was one mention of the word alcohol. Plus I thought programmers were more known for their coffee use rather than alcohol.

I will also add that I have no problem with caffeine, just coffee. Drink tea. Strong, black tea, with milk.
Never take "never" literally. Never.
New York Times alters Clinton email story
So you are showing high level geographic density information and you choose to represent it as individual points? Tsk, tsk. How about some heatmaps, topos, anything else? As is the country level view is useless.
So much distraction. How about being able to order two pair of the same model and size, and have them arrive as two pair of the exact same size? I think the olive hunters took over Levis long ago.

http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/american-airlines-crash-landi...
How odd that I didn't really "notice" the look.

This sounds like a useful service that fits in an area where Google Voice totally dropped the ball and Burner hasn't gone yet.
Does this do something like rebroadcasting the stream, or does it merely sync your place on a show using their own Netflix account?
I feel another strong issue in the mix is that we just don't know how to fill our 60min time slots with questions that are more relevant to front-end engineering.

In absence of literature, we resort to what we have experienced and that starts a long conversation about some problem with a back-tracking algorithm at work. The reality is that we are either afraid or ignorant to admit we dont know how to check skills for the role.

The interview panel IMO should be a mix from fields like engineering, design, product management and marketing instead of just engineering.
>but it's easier to get stuck on a very specific value system or culture on the internet.

It's even easier to do that offline.

>You and I may have something to talk about if we're both reading Walden. But if you've been watching unboxing videos of new laptops and I've been catching up on how to build fairy houses it doesn't matter that we're both living in the same house. That's a little sad.

Only if the person interested in laptop specs and the person interested in building fairy houses never share their interests with one another. Perhaps both have more to learn, not just about each other, but things in general than if both were reading Walden?
Apple disables app reviews from devices running iOS 9
Use IFTTT to build a Wikipedia topic bot
"Maybe if I use that famous phrase from the title of a famous document, people will take my sloppy draft more seriously."
A good fast prime will take pretty pictures in most light so I'll take good glass over a flash any day of the week.

Totally agree about available light being the most important thing, though. I think it even trumps having a good subject in many cases.
Ask HN: Would you pay $10/mo to monitor your appl. logs for intrusion attempts?
Please explain if you would.

If you would, please explain if you currently do, what you use, and how effective it has been for your use.
It may soon be time for extraterrestrial emigration. This planet is done.
The reason they have to filter out artificial sources, and the only reason they're a problem, is we are literally right on top of the source. These aren't even as far away as, say, Mars. New Horizons, for example, can't communicate with Earth unless it points its transmitter / receiver directly at us. And that's in our own solar system! Only a few light hours away.

Just think about it. The signals are going to be so weak by the time the photons get here they will be indistinguishable from the CMB.
Jonathan Corbet has explicitly said he likes seeing LWN subscriber links posted to services like HN, as long as nobody is systematically posting every paid article.
I have noticed this too, find it deeply frustrating, and concede that it's a major reason why I find myself feeling less welcome here and less interested in being part of the HN community.
To be more accurate, sodium chloride salt doesn't work. The freezing point depression effect depends on the total number of ions/molecules in solution. A dissolved mole of NaCl produces one mole of Na+ and one mole of Cl-. A mole of urea would be half as effective, while a mole of CaCl2 would be 50% more effective.

CaCl2 works down to about -32C (-25F).

But at some point, you just can't dissolve enough stuff into the water to stop it from freezing. Fortunately, that is also about the point where ice stops being quite so slippery when you drive or walk on it. So you just throw down white sand for better traction instead, put on the winter tires, and you're good until it melts in the spring.

In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ontario, Michigan, and New York, the temperatures are such that snow and ice could go through multiple freeze-thaw cycles. If they just left it, snow would melt and re-freeze into smooth, slippery ice. Ice would melt and seep into the roads, then refreeze and pop out big chunks of pavement each time. That's why they salt and plow. It's too cold for it to safely drain away, and too warm to just leave it alone.

If there were a substance that allowed snow and ice to stay frozen at higher pressures or higher temperatures, that might be useful there, too.
... and if the car behind them didn't? You act like there's some sort of protective bubble because of this fact.
Oh, you're right. Thanks for the correction.
I'd assume it just syncs the place. Otherwise, there would be a whole legal component to this that would likely result in a swift shutdown.
You're asking for a citation on the usefulness of parsimony as a principle, which I find relatively funny.
Is HATEOAS generally considered good? I recently had to integrate to two corporate systems.

One, the API used typical GET, POST, PUT, etc.. The second (before I knew the term applied to this) provided a single URL whose response was needed to describe the other operations. I remember instinctively hating the second. Now MY code has the burden of translating these into the specific calls. However, now we are version proofed.
As long as you don't count the warehouse workers…
I have already received a few emails showing interest and I am committed to make this happen. Send me an e-mail today showing interest and I will ship an assorted pack of premium Nepali tea for free for the first month (early September).
Genze e-bike uses the same batteries as a Tesla Model S
The company can't grow forever in a finite universe. "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop", despite what Bezos says now.

Someday Amazon will either be out of business or paying a dividend.
Yes, it could. A vaccine could kill a child. A meteor could crush the HN server as I post this.

But is it even remotely likely? No. Of course not. Discussing it is pointless and counterproductive.

It's not like you've been down the list of likely harms-sorted-by-danger and reached this one.
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All real numbers are representable, but not necessarily to arbitrary precision.

You should really read the book. A lot of the atomic operations seem cumbersome, because the unum doesn't have a fixed size representation, but you just get over that when you remember that the real problem is shuttling data over buses. More compute transistors is not a problem.
On first read I thought you meant a giant warehouse robot shuffling books like a deck of cards.

Let me know when they can do that too.
Good question. It uses websockets to send/receive sync commands to each individual browser, each of which has its own instance of netflix. So theoretically every user still needs to have their own Netflix account.
> (first set theory, then properties of natural, whole and rational numbers before constructing the real numbers using Cauchy sequences)

This is the standard presentation in every textbook I have read.
As you're well aware, I'm constantly baffled by how little positive intent is assumed on my behalf around here, but no, I didn't mean to suggest the company isn't generally interesting to me.

It's a source of frustration for me that this line of comments is even getting any attention at all, considering its personal nature (the topic seems to be what I find interesting).

Of what relevance is it to the submission whether or not I personally find what Palantir does to be interesting? Wouldn't a much more valuable conversation be about the apparent-but-perhaps-not-actual uniqueness of what Palantir does?
I stopped drinking at the beginning of the year. I wouldn't say I had a drinking problem in the way it's usually used but it was a problem because I couldn't drink any amount anymore without feeling like shit in the morning which meant I spent half the next day doing nothing because of how awful I felt.

I felt drinking was a problem for two reasons. First being that I wanted to lose some weight and drinking calories was interfering with this goal, and two it was slowing down my progress and productivity. Now that I don't drink at all I have both more free time and I'm more productive because I don't have hangovers.

This all sounds awfully preachy, it's just refreshing for me to talk about it because it's something I've never done before. I've never gone this long without any alcohol since I started drinking as a teenager.

I would say there's definitely some other contributing factors to my abstinence from alcohol, but this isn't really the time or place to get into all of that.
I guess that that's what happened, and what's happening everyday... Newton action at a distance wasn't convincing enough, so others sought other, "deeper" explanations, among which most notable is of course general relativity. (And it's probably noteworthy that, from an "instrumental" point of view, its benefits were initially marginal...) The difference to me is between saying "the explanatory power of this current theory can (and will eventually) be outdone" and "being able to explain is a dimension of no importance in a scientific theory". Maybe that is Chomsky's concern, even though this instrumentalist attitude is far from new or unknown (think of Copenhagen (lack of) interpretation of quantum mechanics, and its (in)famous motto: "Shut up and calculate"!) If you are interested in this line of reasoning, I found David Deutsch ("The beginning of infinity") and Karl Popper ("Conjectures and Refutations") two passionate (and opinionated) voices!
A (non-tech) company I used to work for hired temp workers as a way for HR to hit some kind of "low headcount" performance bonus. It was terrible for everyone else, including the temps themselves.
Flyway is pretty good. It's Java-based. http://flywaydb.org/
> I'm really confident that looking only at net profit as your sole method of valuation is a losing stock market strategy.

I'm not sure investing only in highly profitable companies would result in a "losing stock market strategy" (assuming "losing" means underperforming the S&P 500). Just looking at the ten most profitable[1] eight of them (all but Chevron and Walmart) are among the most weighted in the S&P 500 (in fact they're the top eight), Apple alone makes up 3.84% of the index. Combined these eight seem to account for about 15% of the index[2][3].

That's only looking at eight highly profitable companies in an index of 500 and it's 15% of the index! I can't imagine a portfolio of the 20 or 30 most profitable underperforming the index considering they would make up such a large part of the index itself. [Though it would be interesting to see historically what the performance would be of such a portfolio].

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/06/11/fortune-500-most-profitable-co...

[2] http://portfolios.morningstar.com/fund/holdings?t=SPY (this is actually looking at the ETF but it's presented better then [3], which is provided to show they don't differ much)

[3] http://slickcharts.com/sp500
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I'm curious as well...
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Without Obamacare I would have no coverage other than the legal requirement that emergency rooms treat me. Thats not an efficient allocation of money, that is its a lot cheaper for everyone if I can use my insurance.

Its not that I have a problem with the monthly payments but that I have so many preexisting conditions.

The insurance companies would get really petty when they denied me coverage, for example because I had an ear infection when I was two years old that damaged my hearing. That way they didn't have to come right out and say I was rated because I am mentally ill.

While I can get coverage at most coding jobs some of the best jobs I have had did not provide medical. Also I am commonly self employed. Given that most new jobs are created by small businesses its likely that job growth is putting money into the economy more than obamacare is taking money out of it.