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Re:Ask HN: How can I delete my HN account? on Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:53PM (#8969668)
In Europe we have the right to be forgotten (wikipedia for a reference).
Re:Ask HN: How can I delete my HN account? on Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:27PM (#8969547)
I can understand that deleting posts is not nice for the people who posted an for the integrity of the information and context, but the link I am referring to is of a different nature, that is the /user?id=me could be deleted without breaking any thread. To add that feature seems a reasonable and sensible compromise between privacity and integrity of information.
Re:A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:08PM (#8968840)
As any mathematician knows the difficult part is not to write the proof but to found it.
Re:A Note to My Readers on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:20AM (#8965665)
Knowing nothing about this person I thought It was a woman: "I want to spend some real time with my parents, while I still have them, with my husband ...".

He/She wants to write a book and has time for his family and take care of his health.

The writer seems to be very good: A world of mass intimacy with their reader, he loves them, he cares and that is the reason I find so hard to go away.

Re:Firefox Hello on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @08:00PM (#8963695)
BSousa is commenting in another post down that in Manilva (a town in Spain) the service went down for two days ? (that's all). I posted a link in which Manilva is going to be the first town in Andalusia with 100% optic fiber (only telefonica) and now has 4G. There is one comment in that page from one people living there, and he says: At last we are going out of the prehistoric time.

There is a headline: Peter Thiel: Google Is A Monopoly - Business Insider

Re:Firefox Hello on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:55PM (#8963680)
I can't see the reply button for the comment down this.

There is a headline: Peter Thiel: Google Is A Monopoly - Business Insider

Re:Firefox Hello on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:41PM (#8963619)
Telefonica is the one that is getting out manilva from the prehistoric in the FTTH (comments from this web)

in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKHUA3bs1iY

translated: Published on Jan 15, 2015

The Mayor of Manilva, Urieta Diego and director of the South Territory of Telefónica Spain, María Jesús Almazor, held a meeting to present the expansion plans the company has planned for the town. Thus, they have confirmed that it has begun the deployment of Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and that citizens already have 4G technology.

According highlighted the mayor, Manilva, later this year will be the first municipality in Andalusia to have installed fiber optic network in the hundred percent of the town.

Re:Firefox Hello on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:31PM (#8963579)
"Lack of service for hours every day", is that a personal experience?

Telefonica was providing services in villages and small towns with very difficult geography (mountains, roads, ...). Now there is a big competition in Spain, for example Jazztel is offering 200Gigabit/s up-down for 36 euros/moth and phone tax included. Our country is getting better in the IT sector and telefonica was the pioneer. It is easy to critique but in the old times there was no other option, and for many to have the opportunity to be connected is much better than to be out of the web.

Re:Firefox Hello on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:10PM (#8963481)
I am from Andalucia!
Re:Firefox Hello on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:58PM (#8963421)
It appears that my karma level don't allow me to downvote you (at 240 I only see the uparrow). I live in Spain and Telefonica is a very good company with an excellent service but a little expensive (you have to pay to have good quality). The appropriate word your post is FUD. I hope and wish that such a great company continues its expansion and growth. By the way, I am not affiliated with this company in any way but I recognize the value of great companies like telefonica.
Re:Sometimes, it’s just time to go home on Friday November 07, 2014 @12:37PM (#8573625)
What I see and makes me to reflect is that we allow ourselves to be rewarded (go home) when we are on the way to success. But what happens when we are in the worse part of a start-up? Harsh, very harsh.
Re:What makes for a stable marriage? Part 2 on Friday November 07, 2014 @12:28PM (#8573578)
In my country, with loads of unemployment (23%) and people struggling to meet ends, some people don't divorce because they can't afford it. Harsh but true.

Just a litte question, why using divorse and not divorce, just spelling or any other reason?

Re:What can I only do in Erlang? on Friday November 07, 2014 @12:22PM (#8573555)
People in racket are using typep racket, clojure has annotation, in lisp you can declare types and sbcl infers them. Haskell also is fond of types. Perhaps in erlang types are not so important because you try to decompose the problem in small parts and hence is not so important to declare types?
"Just keep applying, applying, and applying."

I know persistence is great virtue, but I was wondering if there is any way to get real work experience (team, communication, real job conditions) and at the same time getting a good salary, that seems highly unlikely now. Only way to get it if you are able to, in same way, show something outstanding of a great value for your employer, what doesn't seem easy to achieve.

Thanks, sounds like a very good advice. But perhaps documentation is a no so appealing endeavor.

Another weakness of mine is that whatever I do I want to be paid in advance. I just don't see a quick ROI from working on documentation but I may be wrong.

Re:What Do You Need? on Thursday November 06, 2014 @11:28AM (#8567787)
A language for parallelism to get full power of the CPU, a lot of cores, low consumption, long life product, easy to extend and adapt, free drivers, easily adaptable for mobile.
Re:The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy on Thursday November 06, 2014 @11:24AM (#8567751)
"I found out that reddit's front pages are not a pure meritocracy based on votes, but that rankings depend heavily on subreddits"

(meritocracy was between commas). Clearly votes are not what people think when you speak about merits, but let it be.

Ask HN: How lacking speaking and writing could I get a programming job?

I have a Ph.D. in math and four years in CS (I drop out of CS because I began to study my Ph.D, luckly I was able to put together my studies in Math and CS and publish some papers about complexity of algorithms in top rank publications (I got tenure in a good university). I can program in many languages, python, ruby, lisp, scala, javascript, Mathematica, julia, R and others. But my main...

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Re:Nature: IPython interactive demo on Thursday November 06, 2014 @10:46AM (#8567512)
A little nitpicking, I change x^2 to xsin(x), then to xMath.sin(x), then x*math.sin(x) to no avail. In wxmaxima you just have an iterative notebook and you have available a lot of symbolic and numeric computations with no fuss. Also you can create section, subsections, convert to pdf and html, save in xml, and much more. What is missing in wxmaxima is a tool to use your mouse in a much more dynamic way.
Re:Nature: IPython interactive demo on Thursday November 06, 2014 @10:38AM (#8567468)
if they provide such an implementation and allow others to freely modify/adapt, them they can get more competitors, so is a risky business.
Re:On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:57PM (#8563125)
If I had to cope with a bullshit jobs that required only physical capabilities, I should try to advance in my start-up or whatever high thinking I am doing. Newton created his gravitation law when the university was shut-down because the pest. Doing something really nasty make you enjoy a lot your mental work in your real passion.

Also, having your mind free but your arms working is a good way of thinking deeply.

Edit1: I should add I don't like bullshit jobs!

Edit2: Addendum For example you should try to learn and read a lot at night but just some core points, and the next day while working physically you should echo mentally all those material, discussing, analysing all in your head.

When I was younger I could reason without writing, now I should need to write thing down, anyway the desire to get out of a bullshit job is a great force, the most boring the job stronger the desire to escape from that job and greater the concentration you find to center into your real passion, your real job, the one you adore.

"They needs to realize that they can get good at stuff".

Each time I begin to learn something new, as a new programming language, the beginnings are very hard and you feel dumb, this is the most difficult part. Once you have practice a lot, then all goes smoothly.

Add to this that everyone seems to forget quickly how hard was to give the first steps. When you are learning something new people take for granted that you should be ready, but may times you are in that stage in which progress is hard and slow. So we should emphasize this point when we start learning.

To estimate the time required to design your system you need to estimate the variance of the time required. A well known result is that the variance of a sum of independent variables associated to independent problems is the sum of the variances of the subproblems.

What this mean in practice? It means that you should try to decompose your problem in independent and dependent subproblems (perhaps associated to features). Independent subproblems their variance, the formula for dependent problems depends of the correlation between them.

What I am trying to say is that if you know a little math and have an intuitive knowledge of the structure of the problem divided in sub-problems you could make a much better estimate of the variance (and this mean there is much less uncertainty in the delivery time). One could design a program that constructs a graph and a knowledge base of previous programs that you have designed. The graph edges should be weighted in accordance with the correlation factor of dependency of those components.

Now that I am writing this, it seems very likely that someone has implemented such a scheme to estimate time delivery. Perhaps there are start-ups using this system to estimate delivery time, since all this is basic math.

Edited: Mostly grammar.

Ask HN: Has any of your posts ever evolved?

Intelligence floats in big cities, we breath it, and for those like me that dwell abroad, HN can be that breath of intelligence.Has any of your post help you with a synergistic approach, new connections, give you a new outlook, fund your business or suggest a successful alternative? I'd like to know any post in HN that has made a profound effect on you.For example, one post about learning...

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Re:Does experience slow you down? on Saturday November 01, 2014 @08:44AM (#8542852)
botton line: Thinking in premature optimization stagnate your desing.

Blood for success in the Hollow Network

You opened the door, kids, now you are the treat no more tricks, join Jack to pay back.You farewell your soul, only relief nobody will miss. You are born, welcome to HN.What would you sacrifice for success?P.D: HNers, Thanks for the English learning advices on HN about "How do you write so well?", On Writing Well by Zinsser is a wonderful advice.

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Re:How do you get to write so well in HN? on Thursday October 30, 2014 @04:52PM (#8535738)
Edit: The last two paragraphs were added when the post was number 5 in HN in an unsuccessful and evil attempt to reach the top.
Re:How do you get to write so well in HN? on Thursday October 30, 2014 @01:15PM (#8534309)
I am the poster I am really enjoying this post going up (now 18.14 time in Spain) is number five, I am exhilarating with joy. I can't imagine the pleasure those start ups reach when they launch and they find in their web that page count and money is rocketing, it must be something ever lasting in your memory (and better if it last in your pocket).

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