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Github has a command line tool that lets you merge in pull requests by downloading and applying the PR's patch; that will keep your history clean. PRs offer a great UI for coffee reviews; just because you use them for that purpose doesn't mean you need to merge with the big green button.
Most current mice seem designed to violate the straight-wrist dictum as much as humanly possible. After a few years trying several low-profile mice I've settled on a trackball, in a recessed mount placing it near keycap height.
I work as a researcher in a grant funded lab, I can see where this post is coming from. There is a lot of needless politics in academia, and often the right things are not rewarded. However no matter what set of actions you choose to reward, people will find a way to game that system.

The criticism in this post, while at least partly true, is too cynical to make a difference in any way. Sure, there are a lot of poor and useless papers published and terrible labs in the US University research system, but the search for knowledge is moving undeniably forward under this system.
Yes, microservices are just a rebranding of a SOA subset.
http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html#Microser... But I think this direction is inevitable, and we'll soon see freemium microservices.

Amazon's "Lambda" page (esp scroll down to the "benefits"
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
) shows it's more like offloading some tasks (like worker threads in the cloud).

I had a play with the second (linked) app, SquirrelBin http://squirrelbin.com/ which can edit and run javascript snippets. The latency is awful, 2-3 seconds for me (I'm in Australia, but that should only add 200ms roundtrip or so). They seem to spin up (reuse?) an entire instance for each request - it's incredible that it's as fast as it is.

But the problem is the architecture of this specific app: the delay would be fine if you could edit-run-loop code locally, without the cloud. But they wanted to demonstrate quick development (for them) by just making a CRUD app, using AWS Lambda existing http endpoints for PUT, POST, GET, DEL. So after editing you have to save, load and run - and each one interacts with the cloud. BTW the article about SquirrelBin
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/the-squirrelbin-archite...
This is Amazon's wet dream. Your app isn't an app at all, it's just a collection of configs on the AWS Console. When and if the time comes to migrate off of AWS, you realize you don't actually have an app to migrate.
The download sizes reported by other commenters seem to suggest a bit more than simple shims.
Doing it right is hard. Scaling infrastructure throughout multiple zones while keeping data as consistent as possible, deployments as easy as possible and having as few SPOFs as possible is pretty difficult (and done differently by every single team). The range of things that can go wrong is huge...
> How is this different and better for me than a credit card?

Klarna let you choose between invoice and credit card in their checkout (which is embedded in the retailer website, similar to other payment solutions).

Although they started out with invoices, I think they are better described as a payments platform these days.

> what are their interest rates?

According to this document[1] on Germany, 10% - 15%. I found it through a Google search, don't know if it holds for the US.

[1] https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/legal/terms/2/en_d...
Thanks. I did see this and it's why I sort of narrowed down to that one. Amazon Q&A has it working on Linux so I might try it for myself. I was just wondering if anyone else had used it over an extended period of time.
That's what you get when marketing relabels the cluster as "cloud" and a VPS interface as a "compute service". You start thinking it's buzzwords all the way down :-)
For me it all changed as soon as the PhD ended. Suddenly the cost to employ you skyrockets, and it becomes apparent how few permanent positions there are relative to the applicant pool. My PhD was pretty great, but my experience afterwards was pretty depressing.
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Does that mean a lack of funding can't catalyze the issue?

Edit: Just for transparency (topical!) I did not downvote you, and totally agree that cronyism is a major (and yeah maybe causative) issue, but I also think the decision on how to fund is basically an entirely separate problem which really doesn't have an obviously good solution (in my mind).
How does the work for stowers is arranged ? do the computer give them specific sets of items to stow ? or is arranged according to the order the goods arrive ?

And what is this pallet land ? what's the benefit?
speaking to "you" rather than throwing vague shade at the group of all sysadmins is merely direct, not confrontational. it is not an expression of outrage to point out how weirdly passive aggressive the remark was.

the sysadmin is a subset of hacker, a culture proud of its autodidactic tradition. and the spirit of the internet is to share useful information once you've learned it. it is totally appropriate to come to this website and post that you were interested in the subject of security in networked file systems, didn't know what the acronyms meant, and here's that information if anyone else wanted to know.

it is extremely important to learn how to learn. and i am genuinely curious about this apparent expectation that literature in a highly technical field should have a glossary everywhere. would you expect a blog about routers to always explain what TCP/IP stands for?
Because Rpi is not an open hardware :-/﻿
Things I do, may or may not work for you:

1. Bring a comfortable pillow. For some reason planes put me to sleep almost instantly. I can be asleep before the plane takes off in most cases.
2. Dress casually and light. I hate being hot. I like to be able to stretch and move around comfortably. I don't mean you have to wear your pajamas on the plane, but a comfortable pair of pants and light shirt can make all the difference.
3. Normally I like a window seat, but on a longer flight I usually try to get an aisle seat. It makes getting up and down a lot easier to stretch and walk the aisle from time to time.
4. Bring snacks.
5. Depending on how much you fly and if you have elite status, go for the upgrade if you are able.
6. I usually try to bring an assortment of things to do (i.e. work, movies, books, etc..). That way if I get bored with one thing or finish something I can move onto something else.
7. Depending on your flight, you can try to hack your way into getting the seat next to you empty. There are several ways to do this and really depends on the airline, the flight, the time of flight, the type of plane, etc.. You can Google different hacks you can try.
> How is it that we are okay supplying free weapons to poor people but go to great deal to restrict the supply of information ?

I hope that was a rhetorical question.
Kind of Off-Topic, but I emailed Tina immediately upon reading this last week. It really moved me. I'd like to chat with any lawyers working as Public Defenders, pro bono or otherwise, to get a better idea of the day to day challenges they have with managing case load and communicating with clients. Things technoloy could help with. Does anyone know a good place/community/group to join?

I ask because myself, friends, and close family have all had experience with a Public defenders office at some point, the article is spot on about many clients being poor, assumed guilty, and lacking resources. I'm currently helping families navigate the criminal justice system with a company I started , but it's been on my head (and heart) to begin looking at providing resources to PD offices as well, as it's so important that these cases, particular low-level and drug offenses, are handled efficiently. I would love to get a better idea of the day-to-day challenges faced by an active public defender.

Also if anyone is interested in a amazing documentary about the courage and dedication PD's have check out Gideon's Army: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2179053/. I think it's on Netflix.
Don't decompose up-front. Instead, take your prototype and and start adding the polish necessary to turn it into a finished product. When a subsystem starts getting so complicated that can't understand it when you're changing it, look at that subsystem in isolation and figure out how you might refactor it to eliminate code duplication, create simple interfaces, etc. Eventually you end up with clean system boundaries separated by message passing, but each individual step doesn't require that you hold the whole system in your head.
> I cannot understand why people really think any system is so foolproof as to charge only those guilty.

A cynical observer might make a connection between the people who think that and the inability of the system to charge only those guilty.
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It's relatively easy to get people on your side of that debate. Tell them about how often people who have been convicted to face the death penalty are later exonerated.
I'd say that most people don't need auto-scaling, and this configuration is almost definitely harder to understand and learn than a simple php script that works everywhere.
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Are we supposed to bask in your prescience? How has your quest for non-Google services progressed in the near-year since that post?
To add to your point, they have done this before and are still doing it. There is no guarantee of continued service.

http://recode.net/2015/03/18/amazon-will-shut-down-amazon-we...
Same-day will be too late for a special meal request (I suppose depending on the airport, but it would be very rare for it to work). I've tried this when getting unexpectedly rerouted and it's never worked out.

I've heard great things about "Asian Vegetarian" in-flight meals, but I think many airlines only offer them on flights to Asia, something I haven't done yet.
The musical hacker creating the songs for Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, etc.
> When people ask how to push back against police misconduct, how to decrease the costs of mass incarceration and how to ensure fairer treatment of our nation’s most disenfranchised citizens, part of the answer lies in fully funding public defender’s offices and enabling us to represent our clients in a meaningful manner.

If the justice system is a funnel, these public defenders are at the very bottom. Adequate funding may relieve pressure, but the long term solution is a better filter at the very top. One solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9802861
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Hello! My name is Adam and I am a student at a coding bootcamp. For our final project we are creating our own song recommendation algorithm. Users on our app can sign up and sync their Spotify playlists to begin generating playlists based on our algorithm. We are still working on the site (some parts don't look/work the way they should), but for the purposes of testing the algorithm we need a lot of users to sign up and sync their playlists. Does not matter if you have a premium Spotify account or a free one. Once a user signs up they will be asked to sync their playlist immediately. The whole process should only take a minute or two. So, if you've got a moment, please head to the url, sign up, sync, and be forever appreciated!!

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My take on this might be too pragmatic for your taste, but I think that as long as the paywall disappears if you enter through Google (as is usually the case), it's not more than a minor inconvenience.

I agree that content that isn't openly and globally available should be avoided.
And I'd follow with creating incentives for people to actually pay for the content. Relying on charity isn't a sustainable source of income in general case.
Considering most OSes ship with python, I usually go with one of the following, depending on the python version installed :

python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer

or

python3 -m http.server
I miss working on homebrew for the PSP. That was a fun time.
This cluster on the left are all of the DoD ASNs http://as2914.net/#/galaxy/ipv4?cx=4134&cy=5005&cz=-884&lx=-... they really stand out as their a group on their own.
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My experience of the UK and Germanic systems:

In the UK, you can do any degree and people will still hire you for a graduate job. Something like a bank or a consultancy won't care whether you did Engineering or Classics. They might care more which university you attended. The idea seems to be that anyone fairly smart can do anything.

In the Germanic world (Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia) doing a degree is choosing a life path. You're an Electronic Engineer? Great, you can apply for jobs in EE. Nobody else can. And you'll have a hard time doing something else, relative to the British EE student. There's a real belief that studying something somehow makes you competent at a job.

Neither of these views is entirely true, of course. Your Classicist will find it harder than your CS guy to write good OO code. Your German EE guy may well find himself getting by on soft skills.

What does this mean with regard to tuition fees? I suppose the Germanic system requires a certain number of graduates in various sectors, and employers would feel justified in complaining if society does not push out a sensible number of engineers. Likewise, you will hear the occasional voice in the public debate about too many people being allowed to do courses with no specific purpose. Since society is paying for this, everyone who can write to a newspaper has a voice in what young people get up to. As a young person, you really need to be on the academic path quite early to beat the selection system.

In the UK, where having a degree is a sort of entry pass to the middle class, the debate is more about fairness than economic goals. If you make it expensive, poor kids have a hard time getting those nice desk jobs that allow you to buy a house and car. On the other hand, it's individual whether you want to take out a loan, a risk that's up to each 18 year old. If you want to climb the ladder, you can pay up and give it a shot.

So there's a big question of what university is for. Is it so that society can fill out certain jobs? Or is it a vehicle for individual advancement? Of course it's a bit of both, but there are legitimate arguments for higher or lower fees, and pros and cons on both sides.
A good story, I think a lot of us have at least one story like that of interactions with the technologically-inept.

But I wanted to ask you about your use of the term "flipping the bozo bit". I've seen others use that as a derisive way towards people they think less of, but curiously the source of this expression is prescribing precisely NOT doing this behaviour:

> McCarthy's Rule #4 is "Don't Flip The Bozo Bit". McCarthy's advice was that everyone has something to contribute — it's easy and tempting, when someone ticks you off or is mistaken (or both), to simply disregard all their input in the future by setting the "bozo flag" to TRUE for that person. But by taking that lazy way out, you poison team interactions and cannot avail yourself of help from the "bozo" ever again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo_bit
I have a passing interest in this kind of thing, for novelty's sake more than anything.

I might have to buy the next console that comes out and just leave it boxed up in the closet for a year or two, so when this stuff surfaces I can experiment. I feel oddly left out when I hear about this stuff and either don't have the correct version or just don't have the hardware itself.

I had a friend growing up with an amazing PS2 that basically functioned as a media server. Absolutely blew me away at the time.
If I understand you correctly you can also do this in zsh: https://grml.org/zsh/zsh-lovers.html although not automatically.
This is neat, of course. Yet, being classically trained myself and a software engineer, both for 30 years, I have yet to find an alternative music notation system that would make me proclaim I would use it.

When I look at a traditional score I see and hear the music in my mind pretty much instantly. There is zero cognitive load, at least at the conscious level. With any kind of text-based notation you have to read text.

Another point, perhaps minor, I think I can say that most of the world does not learn notes as "CDE" but rather "do" "re" "mi". That's certainly how I learned it because I did not study music in the US. Perhaps you've accounted for this?

For me paper and pencil is still the best approach and the most natural experience.

Notation is a powerful tool, in fact it is a tool for thought. I learned this in CS when I studied APL and used the language professionally for nearly ten years. Music very naturally lends itself to a sophisticated notation. I am not sure taking that away can ever produce a better outcome.

Someone more qualified on the subject can probably explain why it is our brains have evolved to be "tuned" for notation. My hypothesis is we evolved powerful image recognition capabilities coupled with high speed classification and semantic processing. We can instantly recognize shapes (predators, something flying towards you, etc.) decide what it is, access a library giving us options and decide how to react. All of that in a very small fraction of a second. Notation benefits from us having developed such capabilities in our brains.

It isn't my intent to criticize this effort. Without attempting new ideas there can never be any progress. Kudos for trying.

I'll end with a question: What would you say is the use case for Alda?
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It reads to me not so much as an ad hominem as an explanation of why he sounds so bitter towards academia. "He's only had one second author pub" is, almost unequivocally, a statement that he hasn't been academically successful. Maybe it's because he's not good at science, maybe he's not good at gaming the system around science, but something is off. Without hearing him talk about his work in something like a seminar (and being fairly familiar with his specialty, which I am not), it's really hard to say. I won't argue that the publishing system is perfect, but in my experience, it's really not "corrupted" in any meaningful sense of the word, and that good work will find a venue (even if not a glam journal).

I think really the point that the GP is raising is that, protestations to the contrary aside, the OP really is bitter. Maybe they are truly disillusioned by the system around science, but such a critique does hold more weight coming from someone who has done well.
I hope there isn't.
From Pubmed, it appears that since 2007, he published 6 papers in one lab (likely his Ph.D. lab), including a first author in PNAS, and 4 papers in a second lab since 2013, including the Nat. Neurosci. paper you cite, where he is one of 3 authors.

It isn't a terrible publication record. One would have to know the significance of what he did publish in order to judge properly.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Gariepy%20JF[auth]
So to verify, people should also not link to books, or to new releases of commercial software?
Make the companies that profit from the research do the research themselves, in house, and pay for it and direct it themselves. That's the only way.

You can't set up academia as a soviet-style bureaucracy and expect it to perform any differently from a soviet-style bureaucracy.
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a series of "sequences" with the goal of creating a book on rationality.

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences

If your dad thrives on "smarter than you" arrogance, then a more subtle and crafty introduction might be, "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality," also by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

http://hpmor.com/
People will still say they must have done something wrong to end up there in the first place.
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Author here - that's actually pretty close to what I have in mind. Coupling the mouse and the keyboard would be sweet, but I think the switches are a bit funky. Like on a regular keyboard it still takes each finger two movements to click. One for moving to the switch and one for pressing the switch. On a Datahand the act of moving to the switch is also the act of pressing it.
Agreed.

Society is at a point in time where many forget the reasoning for principles of the judicial system. The presumption of innocence in particular is critically important and written into most modern democracies constitution.

The alternative of being presumed guilty can lead to a lot more corruption and injustice.
> and sleeping pills

Although check the laws of your destination country. A few people are arrested for being in possession of controlled drugs because they took something for the flight - possession by bloodstream.

http://diytravelexpert.com/dubai-danger-medicines-drugs-and-...
Years ago, like 1999 or so, I chaired a Linux conference.
The Usenix people wanted me to fold Linux into Usenix and
thought (probably mistakenly) that I could bring those people
to Usenix.

I said sure on condition: all papers are blind reviewed going
forward. No authors, nothing that could identify the authors
in the papers until they are accepted.

Usenix flat out refused. Which sort of backs up what this
guy is saying. Sad state of affairs.
I think it's better to see them as a payments platform.

You may be right that U.S. customers won't prefer paying by invoice en masse -- and Klarna checkout offer that too.

Some consumers prefer immediate [debit card] to deferred payments [invoice or credit card], others want it the other way around.

Internet retailers can use Klarna's payments platform to enable both immediate and deferred payments.
I wouldn't word it so dismissively as your last comment does. Doing things that work well in small settings at scale is really hard. Ideas that work perfectly well in small settings break down terribly when you try to organize a large company around them.
If you have a preference for a hot meal, check if the specials are heated. I've had a couple of cold (they were supposed to be cold) meals that I didn't really like.

I agree about the alcohol. If I'll need to start working as soon as I arrive, I drink and snooze to pre-adjusting my internal clock.
I made this, so you can run a Node Express app in the AWS API Gateway. If the API Gateway ever goes away, it wouldn't be too hard to host your express app elsewhere:

https://github.com/johntitus/legerdemain
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Great advice.
Once you pass security you can probably grab a decent sandwich and a couple packs of snacks from a food stand/court, too.
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You have to remember that British universities include Cambridge, but they also include places like Thames Valley University, which at one time was in danger of losing its recognition, the University of Luton, which tried to drop its awful reputation together with its name, and the University of Staffordshire, which some 15 years ago received much money from Saudi Islamists and consequently offered courses explaining that the Jews were Evil. The two-tier system of polytechnics and universities over there is still very much alive, except that it's now inofficial, and the polytechnics have lost their way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10164147