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Reminds me of this scene with Stanley Tucci talking about building a bridge in the movie Margin Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mc-38C88g

That was the first thing I thought of! Big fan of transit. Seems very similar.

Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, these are just ads, not some kind of sexist job board where you put in your gender and out comes a list of eligible jobs. Just yesterday the internet was mad that people were seeing ads and it was bringing the downfall of democracy. Why are we mad they are now not seeing ads?

Given the number of features in a model as sophisticated as Facebook's must be means these researchers are almost certainly oversimplifying, and certainly the way these articles are written as if to teach readers there's an evil software engineer writing biased code. From my experience in ML it's almost certainly the opposite--most of the data scientists I've worked with are highly aware of the issues of bias in AI and actively work against it to a sophistication level never understood by journalists.

Paid ~$5k/m 2br rent in NYC. $225/m 10x10 storage unit to go mobile this year. So quite a bit less in many cases, especially folks living with less in urban environments, but yes, a whole house, vehicles, etc.. will be pricier to store.

Yeah I hear the terms 'liquidation preference' much more often than 'preference overhang'.

A lot of people use Emacs, but I remember as Cursive took off in the Clojure community. It's so wonderful being able to work on a large JVM app that includes Scala and Java in IntelliJ and have first class Clojure features. Cursive is phenomenal, and because it's (or was at the time) the only choice, I would gladly fork over 2x the cost out of my own pocket (though my company would let me expense). It was great too to go to Conj and major Clojure conferences and hear Colin announce new features and talk about the roadmap.

I have seen it before but thats a good reminder in this case!

English-native developers building apps for mainly Western languages can easily introduce encoding i18n bugs that are really unfair for other folks. The rise of emoji in everyday text has been great to force developers to deal with the upper end of the unicode spectrum and make fewer assumptions about inputs. Often in a data processing app I'll throw a few emoji in my unit tests.

That's a good point. There will be prioritization, and the costs could be so high as to rule out brand plays even if they could get the rules interpreted as loosely as possible. My idea might need to bake a bit longer. :)

Most people talk about 1) tourism and 2) research which makes sense, but I can see a lot of benefit for marketing and branding. Imagine promo videos of someone using your gadget in space. A private company could fly up a few models/actors, a few of the latest brands goods, and get shots looking back at earth or floating around.

Luxury goods like watches and pens have already capitalized on this (Fisher Space Pen, Omega Moonwatch). I could see other high margin luxury brands snagging a seat:

- Sneakers (Air Jordans -> Space Jordans?)

- Jewelry (Diamond industry could play up a diamonds/stars theme)

- Fashion (play up the weightless/effortless aspect)

Any brand could get in on it if someone figured out the economics of a testing service. Small brands and Kickstarter projects could pool resources and fly up a few hundred toys and say they were 'tested in space'.

There are some startups trying to fix these issues and price at flat fees to mixed effect (Trelora in Denver comes to mind as an example).

I think the true solution will come not by lawsuit but by mass scale market-making by companies like OpenDoor and Zillow. When you want to sell your home you can go to these companies and get a check within a few days, and when you want to buy a home these will have built software and systems to make purchasing a straightforward process. They'll provide liquidity and take a cut, but with a couple of companies in the market the 'spread' will probably be lower than buyer+seller broker fees.

They may not serve unique and luxury real estate in the near future, but for the 'typical' suburban home it seems like consumers could see a benefit.

There are some startups trying to fix these issues and price at flat fees to mixed effect (Trelora in Denver comes to mind as an example).

I think the true solution will come not by lawsuit but by mass scale market-making by companies like OpenDoor and Zillow. When you want to sell your home you can go to these companies and get a check within a few days, and when you want to buy a home these will have built software and systems to make purchasing a straightforward processes.

They may not serve unique and luxury real estate in the near future, but for the 'typical' suburban home it seems like consumers could see a benefit.

This looks great!

I like hosting small to medium events and even though it seems simple most platforms are not effective:

-Most of my friends either don't use or don't regularly check Facebook

-PaperlessPost simply didn't deliver 80% of my invitations for last holiday season and almost ruined the party. Will never use them again for anything.

-Others just don't seem attractive/affordable/easy.

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Agreed. It tags the complexity with identifiers, which is of some use, but it doesn't change anything about the execution path which can still get wildly out of hand.

Lots of great stuff here. It is a numbers game in many ways since I've been in interview processes where we turned down lots of people who go on to succeed in amazing ways at other companies.

I would be wary about recommending most people write cover letter templates. I can tell a templated letter most of the time. I'd recommend just writing a few sentences from the heart. Why you're great for them. Copy+Paste doesn't work, since each company is different and your background will connect in different ways. Keep it short and just ask to learn more.

This is great, but I'll need an API wrapper package.

I've met Jake and he gives one of the most inspiring and pragmatic pitches about the future of energy I've ever heard. What they're building sounds like magic--massive amounts of energy with incredible safety and portability. Super exciting stuff.

Fun to see this here. I TA-ed for this course--one of my favorite undergrad classes. I highly recommend picking up the full book. The merging of proof and program is really cool as a way to teach CS concepts.

I'm actually working on porting a lot of the examples over to idiomatic Clojure. Email me if you're interested in following the progress there.

Brilliant work. This will be a huge timesaver for me. Thanks!

This is of course not a joke in some countries, and has been done with success. I am very good friends with someone who grew up in one of the central asian dictatorships (stan), and their family had one of the (few) internet lines in the country. One day his family lost an important email, so they walked to the intelligence office, told them the date, and the officials were happy to retrieve it for them from the file drawer. They had been printing out and physically filing every piece of correspondence from each internet user (somewhat doable for the regime given only a small subset of the population). The point is, in this stan, there was no pretense of privacy. They were your helpful backup service.

I actually needed something exactly like this yesterday, and was having issues getting Bookstrap's modal to do what I wanted. Thanks!

This article isn't even about Google. The title is for linkbait and page views. Bershidsky should stick to writing about Russian affairs, not conventional "wisdom" generalizations about the "latest" trends in technical employment.

I'd encourage you to think bigger than just tinkering with the next big framework as some are suggesting, whether that be a UI kit or Node or whatever. Instead try to understand why and how they work, and just keep programming. Focus on principles and languages over frameworks and toolkits.

Find an area of technology that you do care about. There are SO many areas to explore, and this is a great time of life to poke into them-- computer security, artificial intelligence, graphics, operating systems. Have you banged your head on a segfault in C? Can you explain HTTP? It is mind boggling how much is out there, but deep familiarity will make you a great engineer.

If it's design you're interested in, practice. Copy, "steal", and iterate.

I don't know your situation or how far along you are, but this is an amazing time to be learning. Do a breadth first search on technology--learn a little bit about a lot, and then dig into whatever piques your interest.

Interesting points, but I'd argue my IDE should make refactoring so easy I do it all the time. Since, I don't write perfect software the first time, I have to iterate. That iterative process shouldn't be a punishment.

Also I don't want to have to think about code formatting. It's a necessary piece of writing but it only gets in the way of logic flow.

This same thing happened to me. Thought it was a "see if these people are on LinkedIn". Instead it emailed them. Somewhat mortifying, but fortunately I tested with a limited subset of my address book.

Congrats. Requests has been super useful to me. Awesome stuff.

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I'd be interested to ask Mark about the tier between "brick and mortar" and "digital." Sometimes even engineers get sick and need a doctor. Or sue each other and need lawyers. Or remodel their home and need a contractor. It's nice when these people are smart, and fortunately many are, even if they never write code. It's still ridiculously hard to get into medical school--our doctors are the kids who got straight As in university. Perhaps that's an extreme example, but there are many industries that do not have "the intelligence sucked out" in a human asset notion, though perhaps in another 10 years big data will write prescriptions.

I was wondering how long it would take for HyperDex to get some traction on HN. While I haven't had immediate need to use it myself, I have several friends who attest that it is a lovely system. The article doesn't mention it, but it's wicked fast, outperforming Redis in many metrics. Clearly the consistency is the big kicker though. So many systems are saying eventual consistency is "good enough." Clearly that can be fine for a SoLoMo app, but probably not for a medical system.