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This.

If I became a millionaire overnight I would probably take a month off to be supremely lazy. Then I would get back to work in whatever strikes my fancy, probably for VERY long hours.
That's correct. I've recently deployed LE on a side project. The official letsencrypt client supports a mode called webroot, where you basically tell the client where your webroot is located on your file system, and it will place a file in .well-known/acme-challenge/<random> to confirm ownership. I use nginx in front of multiple domains with different backends (which do not all have the platform equivalent of a webroot), so I simply added a location directive for .well-known to all vhosts pointing to the same directory which I then pass to letsencrypt.

It would be trivial to move this to a separate machine by using a reverse proxy for .well-known instead of serving it directly from your load balancer's filesystem. The rest is just scp'ing your certificates and keys to your load balancers (or using your configuration management software of choice to achieve the same). With ACME being an open protocol it's quite likely that someone will end up writing a client specifically for this use-case, making it even easier.
I had the exact opposite experience with Intel's "steaming pile of crap" as you put it. We had a computationally intensive app that was sped up by 25% compared to the version produced by MS compiler. This was few years ago though.
> Do you have any comprehensive resource on timing Vit-C supplements?

There isn't any that I am aware of except bowel tolerance method. IMO, timing during healthy state is relaxed - twice per day is probably enough for most people; during stress however individual dose shouldn't be higher but should be taken more frequently (until bowel starts to complain, which means C is not absorbed any more and passes to colon where it causes diarrhea trough osmosis). What is remarkable here is the difference between bowel tolerance in healthy (low) and disease (high) state which suggests that vitamin C absorption increases.

See my answer here:
http://www.paleohacks.com/vitamins/vitamin-c-supplementation...

> Also what form of supplement & which brand did you intake? Liposomal vit-c?

I take pure synthetic AA with sodium bicarbonate half of the time (3-5g x2). I don't have experience with liposomal vit-c but I am sure it is way better then regular C, altho far more expensive.

> Do you also have any comprehensive resources that explains if vit-c supplements can affect recovery from lifting weights or general exercise?

I don't have one at hand now. Some people think it prevents adaptation during exercise and don't take it. I personaly think it reduces stress so it simply gives you an option to work more. Since exercise can actually reduce your immune system if you overdo it or have concurrent stressor, AA intake will certainly be more beneficial on the long run then any supposed adaptation shortcomings.
They're still ad supported, and their infrastructure costs are much smaller than cable. (Eg, no plant of copper and fibre run across cities. Just some leased tower space, etc)
Founder/CTO of Bloc here.

We've got many people within the company that attended top CS programs, and we've worked with employers to come up with this curriculum. It's solid.

Because it's not included on the landing page, I want to share a little more detail about the software engineering principles phase of this program. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

- Data Structures (linked lists, hashing, stacks, queues, trees, BFS & DFS, etc)

- Algorithms (breaking down problems, complexity analysis with Big-O, sorting algorithms, etc)

- Relational Databases (Use cases, platforms, the design of SQL, performance & caching, etc)

- Architecture & Design Patterns (Separation of concerns, metaprogramming, OO principles, MVC, ORM, Singleton Pattern, and more)

- Best Practices (refactoring, code smells, logging, managing multiple environments, organizing a codebase, etc)

(This is all in addition to the Rails, Frontend, & Apprenticeship portions of the program!)

It's always a challenge to build a high quality curriculum with the appropriate level of depth, and so far I'm really, really confident in the competency of someone graduating from this program.

And, as usual, the best part of Bloc remains the mentor / student relationship. If we find we need to augment these topics on-the-fly, that will absolutely happen.

Let me know if you have any questions!

-dave
+1 to index funds for saving, but you are already into a better off market when you look at optimizing savings.

Debt is where most people fall down, and most folks in the US don't manage debt well. For example, there is a phenomena where people will take additional expensive debt (e.g. credit card) to keep their savings/401k contributions high. Irrational from an ROI standpoint, but very common.

I like all of these startups that try to optimize your spending/savings (e.g. Even, Acorn, Betterment), but I haven't seen anyone doing this well on the debt side.
It would be nice to give the 1000 random people and the person picked a say in the process too.
For hardcore music nerds, the Mastering room is a must.
I like the <!-- Oh noes, you found it! --> in the HTML

I always paste into Emacs notes first
According to accounts there were bidders from 2B to 3.5B and Fidelity came in at 4.5B at the last second to win the bid. The fact that they now wrote it down to the range others were bidding at is essentially meaningless.
Actually the trial doesn't technically involve sending harassing emails. Those weren't officially entered into evidence, so it's literally for the headline change.
Well,famously the Greek elders complained about the laziness of the modern technology of writing the philosophy down rather than rote learning!
Was it this article by Nick Szabo on Unpredictable Elections? He talks a bit about the Venetian method: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/03/unpredictable-elect...
The person who logged in and made the changes is not the person being prosecuted.
Oakland’s Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Move to Block an Open Market
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As American homes get bigger, energy efficiency gains are wiped out
This stuff feels really alien to Europeans who visit the US. We're used to really weird looking polygons with way too many vertices when dividing the land...

(All of those vertices of course having some sort of historic explanation.)

As a city tourist though, I really like the grid street system.
Looks like my attempt at Cities: Skylines
> The real cure for a sluggish economy is a large-scale, man-fought war (barring any kind of nuclear event). War simultaneously boosts demand as the government ramps up spend across a bevy of sectors (industrial, aerospace, medical, food, science, tech) and the labor force decreases for obvious reasons.

The government spends as much as they can on all those things because people believe their very existence is at stake. Too bad we can't find that sense of urgency any other way.
50 -> ~10 students standing was my experience with laci's algorithms class. He's still an excellent instructor, though. Willingness to do hours of background and follow-up reading outside of class was a requirement if you wanted to get a deep understanding of the material, and it pays off well. (He was very approachable though, not at all the research professor stereotype.)

(HatLab, what a small world... :)
years ago I was working on a pitch for a startup based on tech I had developed. My adviser, a successful serial entrepreneur told me not to call the tech "revolutionary" (or something like that) because potential investors hear it all the time and it smells like BS.

But dammit, some things are revolutionary!
Also, please don't hide the page contents when I edit the URL. I'm sometimes modifying the URL based on what I see on the page.
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That point on night soil makes a lot of sense. Note that point about thick-skinned fruits and vegetables being seen as safe, in the grandparent post.

I'm also reminded of how the Chinese traditionally regarded cold drinks as dangerous. They didn't even drink wine without heating it -- and certainly would never drink cold water, or tea that had been steeped without being brought to a boil (and, I think, held there).
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PLUTUS – Tap&Pay using the Blockchain at NFC-POS terminals worldwide
We are building a technology that lets users of digital currency pay at any store around the world which has NFC enabled Point of Sale Terminal.

The app solves the problem of merchant acceptance by circumventing it. Instead of trying to dig a tunnel through the mountain, we’ve built a fast road around it

https://plutus.it/
Explainer Video: https://vimeo.com/142680468

We also did a recent reddit Q&A: https://redd.it/3sabrd
Did he say you can pay off college loans in three years?
Yep, I could totally see it speeding up computationally intensive code - but try downloading it and using it to compile entire code bases with medium to high level of complexity - like ACE/TAO or Qt or any other OSS project. It might compile at low optimization settings but then it's not faster and the moment you try to use optimizations it makes your life hell.
No, it's the person who knowingly gave credentials that did not belong to him to someone else.

If I'm cat sitting for my friend, and she makes a copy of her house keys for me, and when I'm done catsitting, I give those keys to some random guy on the street in a hooded sweatshirt... who is liable if he uses the keys to enter her house? I'm pretty sure she would blame me.
Puff piece by a guy trying to get people to use his startup. I think it's actually way worse to use his technology to automatically move money around your accounts. I like to be on top of where my money is.

And "emergencies" happen several times a year. In a few month span I had to replace a water heater, then a dishwasher, then tires on my car. Several thousand bucks of expenses in a couple months. Having to withdraw from a 401k for life's unexpected issues is insanity.
Discussed at Scott Aaronson's blog: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2521
That's not what they're doing or why.

They're not here to decide his fate or his case, though that may happen incidentally. They're here to settle a legal question that was posed to them in the petition for a writ of certiorari.

It's not their job to try his case, nor will they. Unless the entire case hinges on this question (it doesn't), they don't decide his case. So they might unfreeze his assets while he faces fraud charges, but we're not looking at them deciding his guilt or innocence here.

They're trying to decide what the best precedent to set is, which is why they have to consider every possible scenario. So yes, they really do have to consider scenarios with guilty people. It really wouldn't make sense to have them blind themselves to how the precedent will play out in the future. Surely you do not believe this will never be applied to people guilty of fraud? They do consider doubt in such stories, but only when it's important. So they might do that if they were pondering the scope of reasonable doubt, but it wouldn't make sense here.

This case may involve him but it's not about him. It's only about the Sixth Amendment question posed. They're not concerned about all that other stuff because they're not deciding his guilt or innocence.

> Yes, the money might be able to get away. But you've arrested the person, and that's all you get.

The Supreme Court and prior cases disagree with you.

> Aside from the due process problems here, it's quite disturbing to see the government seemingly much more interested in the money than the crime. Something's wrong there.

Yes, but that something is your understanding of what they're doing and why.

Due process is your Fifth Amendment right. Nowhere does this case allege a violation of that right. This is not at all the same as a Sixth Amendment right to counsel being argued here. Moreover, he is in fact already defended by counsel of choice, specifically this one: http://www.royblack.com/attorneys/Howard/Srebnick/

This makes the hypothetical infringement of the Sixth Amendment rights rather oblique--was he really denied his right to counsel when the very expensive lawyer he chose is arguing before the highest court in this country?
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Apparently there are fixes for this even in our own country. Oregon's state legislature, for instance, has a clause which says what the bill is about. Any amendments that don't meet that qualification are not allowed to be tacked on.
This is roughly accurate with the few people I know that have gotten cards. But theirs were in person rather than video chat, but may as well have been.
... and the About page [1] gives some interesting details about the technology involved here. I'm not sure how new this is, but I haven't come across it before, and I'm impressed.

[1] https://insideabbeyroad.withgoogle.com/en/technology#x=&y=&z...
The company I work for would definitely pay for an API.

However, as a user, I'd hate it. I already receive too many spammy SMSs, if WhatsApp was an alternative, it would be dreadful.
MIT Technology Review announced this last year, too.[1]

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/524606/new-desalination...
I used to use this a year or two ago but quit because it was always lagging behind the official releases. In many cases it wasn't his fault - I remember a few times he had found bugs in the intel compiler that prevented him from releasing new builds - but the reason for the wait doesn't really matter when the advantages are so negligible as they are in this case.
Marijuana is an interesting drug. On one hand, it is like a stress reset button (along with a good night's sleep), but on the other, it's impossible to OD or feel sick on it, so, unlike alcohol, you can binge or have it all the time and feel few adverse side effects.

Thing is, studies have shown that too much use can dampen the brain's ability to absorb (not produce!) dopamine, making everyday successes feel less significant.

So yes, it did help, but it comes with caveats. Just because you can blaze all day erryday doesn't mean you should.
That's my read too - if we want to prevent a pop we need to be letting air out of the balloon regularly.

Some skepticism from investors is good, more due diligence re: valuation is good. This is a pretty mild correction overall, which is good for everyone.

I'd be much more worried if Fidelity were snapping up startup shares at ever-higher valuations without ever reckoning actual performance.

As people who work in the industry, this might mean a mild slowdown in hiring as funding becomes a bit more difficult, but it also may prevent the catastrophic alternative which is the bottom falling out from under us and massive tech-sector unemployment.

Personally I think all of these recent announcements are good for startup employees. For the last few years some of us have been expressing a lot of skepticism about the real value of startup options and how much they can realistically exit for. Between valuation write-downs like this, and the face-plant IPOs of the last couple of years, I think people are starting to see the true value of startup options and I hope it results in people being much more discerning about how they're being compensated.
I am impressed.
> I've been in this situation before and I returned the equity because I felt like there was still a lot of work to do

Generally vested equity represents work done and unvested equity represents work still left to do. Did you guy just not do any vesting and award everyone's equity at the start?
Can you expand on why it doesn't have effect on you?
I never paste anything directly anywhere when copied from a webpage. I first paste it on Notepad to handle any formatting and hidden text. Once pasted on notepad, I copy/paste to the final destination.
Apple Is Planning a Peer-To-Peer Payments Feature
I'm always interested by alternative 'Foxes, but I'm intrigued as to why the installer is about 25MB bigger than Firefox. What's in there that makes it a 50% bigger installer?
Shouldn't it be the US and German governments that are offering amnesty from criminal prosecution for Volkswagen whistleblowers?
Why not use both? Select a random sample of candidates and then hold an election. By adjusting the number of candidates you can have the process act more like pure sortition (low number) or pure election (high number).
Fully agree.

Where I live (Finland, a very expensive country) cabbage is typically 30-50 cents per kilogram (including 14 % VAT), less than half what you list. Almost everything is more expensive here, but cabbage is one of the things that is not. And it is a healthy foodstuff, like the others you list.

If cabbage is more expensive in America, it's because people don't want to eat healthy food. It's not cool. But still, it is so cheap that eating too much meat and flour instead is really a choice. Perhaps people are not informed enough to make a rational choice, but nevertheless it is a choice, not something forced on them.
If you followed his advice and not bought a house you would have had 2 less emergencies. Also, renting in the city you would have had no need for a car and thus 0 emergencies.
Why is Tim Cook sacrificing the Mac at the altar of the iPad?
Unless Fidelity honestly felt that the valuation was accurately represented as $4.5B, and now doesn't feel that way?
Mere "rants on Facebook" caused a higher Canadian youth voter turnout than in decades to oust the long-standing Conservative party.

Let's not be too cynical. :-)
Testing beats reasoning from specs.
If you're trying to do that, you should really be taking 580 over the Richmond-San Rafael bridge. There are very few circumstances in which that isn't the faster route.
Guilty as charged. I LOL'ed when I pasted this in to notepad first.

Luckily I usually do the paste, but not for security reasons, to make sure formatting is as expected.

Now I have a reason to do that every time.

Thanks poster!
I assume that's short-hand for taking a loan against your 401K (penalties mentioned as a worst-case-scenario?). Which you pay back "to yourself", with interest.

I have an emergency fund because "I'm supposed to", but in hindsight, paying myself 4% would've been a higher rate of return than my 401K has seen this year.

In light of that, is the advice really that bad? Even if it was a good year and it turned out wrong, you've probably only lost a few points on that money over the term of your loan. If the alternative is putting money into a Savings Account returning a fraction of a percent, and actually becoming worth less over time?

Just thinking out loud. I don't consider myself all that financially savvy.
It's not completely irrational to take on additional debt to maintain 401k contributions, especially if you're in lower income brackets. You can't lose your 401k to bankruptcy, which in some ways makes it a more stable investment than not taking on the emergency debt. There are tax benefits as well.

There's also the budgeting and discipline aspect- if you make yourself work inside of a budget (one that's comprised of your money after your retirement savings) you're much more likely to stick with it in the long term. Once you start allowing emergencies to alter your retirement plans you may end up doing it again in the future. It's much better in that case to take on the additional debt and take paying that down out of another part of your budget.
thank you brudgers! it was meant for the very basic/simple and the advanced! if you want a basic post, you can put one up! But you can get even more creative with it and design your own templates. it was meant to be a skeleton.
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the same way it can help in the case of the CA, parties like Google will set strict standards + see them compiled with or DANE etc will be ignored from the suspect TLDs.
> By "hacked" does Wired really just mean "used the credentials to access a Tribune server and make a minor alteration to the headline of a Los Angeles Times news story?

yes
Or just paste it in the address bar and copy it again (ctrl+l ctrl+v, then ctrl+a ctrl+c). This removes newlines, though.
Appears to be very off. xe.com has it at 3,000 KPW to about 22.49 USD[1]

[1] http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=3000&Fro...
Far fewer babies die at birth and our life expectancy is, what, twice what it was historically?
> This guy's advice applies to people who have a higher risk tolerance

And resources to spare. For the people that entered the workforce after 2004 - the economy has not been generous. And the spoils of growth has rarely got to them. We in tech are so far in position to extract almost fair value for our labor, but not all sectors of the economy are like that.
This is the double-edged sword of allowing institutional investors to jump in to pre-IPO companies. They can provide staggering sums of money and allow you to put off your IPO for longer, but they bring with them many of the pain points that an IPO does. Retail investors and HFTs aren't the ones causing boardroom drama over margin and sales numbers, and the institutional guys won't put up with any accounting shenanigans (a la Groupon).

I really wonder if, after all the dust settles, many of these "unicorns" would have been better off IPOing around a $1-5 billion valuation. For sure their early investors will be if the late-round institutional guys are writing down their holdings by this much.
I would expect the Atkins and Paleo diets, and the controversies around them, to be a good starting point -- or even Gary Taubes' _Good Calories, Bad Calories_.
It took me a while to understand that when you wrote “IE”, you did not mean “Internet Explorer”, but “i.e.” (an abbreviation of the latin phrase “id est”, meaning “that is”).
Is the probiotic you took the one from General Biotics? I was interested in trying them out but I never got any feedback on whether a one-month supply would be enough to notice any benefits or if it's something that requires a few months to kick in.
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A beta was just released on the 10th.

Features include customizable mouse gestures, tabs on the left/right/top/bottom, tabs with preview, tab stacking, tab page tiling, black color theme, custom shortcut keys, web panels, speed dial, etc.
>Such as?

Looks for .js and .jsm in the source tree.

Bookmarks, Tab management, all UX, PDF viewer, Search, Prefs, Sync, parts of SafeBrowsing, WebRTC, Update Handling, Login and Form manager, Devtools, Reader Mode, and uh I think I've proven my point.
I think this is useful for small teams trying to validate ideas and not wasting time doing so.

I think the biggest downfall in terms of dashboards is making things actionable and getting away from vanity metrics.
Not a biologist, but a fan of flora! He's correct. Maybe not the best comparison, but mushrooms are a lot like snakes. [0] Fact of the matter is, if I saw a snake with any variation of red, black, and yellow I'd be sure to keep my distance. To quote the article:

>Though there is no harm in assuming all colorful snakes are dangerous

I assume all wild mushrooms are dangerous. There is no harm in it. :)

[0] http://www.wildlife-removal.com/snakecolorrhyme.html