skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a big issue in the media in Melbourne a while back - media pundits calling for the road to be closed to bikes with lots of invective about how cyclists clearly didn't have the sense to take care of their own lives.

I love it when simply looking at the data shows the bigots for who they really are.
I don't believe they do. If you want a US datacenter, consider LeaseWeb. They're a Dutch company but offer servers in DC and San Jose.
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Not sure about this. The Apollo program itself lasted through 3 presidents and for 11 years.
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There was a story floating around about a self-taught C# programmer going for a job, and verbally describing the language as "C Pound".
The same (kind of specious) argument applies to the AWS case.
Having had several offers to relocate to the Bay Area all I can really say is that almost nobody pays well enough to make it worthwhile. You can make $150k-200k in Seattle, Portland, Denver, Austin, etc. and work on some really interesting problems with marketplace leaders (often even for companies based in the Bay Area). You end up living like a king comparatively. You'd have to make at least 30-40% more than that in the Bay Area just to maintain a lateral quality of life.

Having now screened over 300 candidates for openings on my team, the overwhelming majority of them being people already in the Bay Area, about the only thing I can say is that with all the easy money sloshing around the economy there it's just way, waaaaaaay to easy to be a terrible engineer and still maintain being a highly paid "professional". Most of the people I screen/interview are advanced-IDE users at best or simply framework operators (i.e. they have no idea how the things even work that they're claiming to be experts in).

Sure there are a lot of bright folks too (law of averages and all that), but it's depressing to see what people are getting paid to do glorified web scripting or whose entire job function could be replaced with 50-lines of Bash.
Just to remind you: the great Civil Rights era cases were all plants, and care was taken by the organizers to find a presentable defendant with a clean record. Lady Chatterley was a plant, too.
May I recommend: https://18f.gsa.gov/tags/our-projects/ (I work at 18F)
It probably allows you to run your Oracle workloads.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_descriptions_of_t...

Or open any of these and search for “Maxwell”: http://www.av8n.com/physics/maxwell-ga.htm
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.3619.pdf
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/5/6879517/06876131.pdf
http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/SpacetimePhysics.pdf
http://faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/GA&GC.pdf
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Google shuttering a product is a bit of a different thing than a company going out of business. It's a different pool of people in a different position dealing with different issues. I'd like to think they would do the same (right) thing, but I think that's a risky bet.
What is the laravel community? Why does the hexagonal architecture specifically play to their needs ?

My (small) research on hexagonal architecture looks like devices are accessed through generalized mechanisms and input/output is accessed through generalized mechanisms so the code is agnostic about certain kinds of implementation details.
His point is that all this funding is not leading to any new features in the open-source version.
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Millions of people killed in WWI would probably rather have been floating around with Shackleton.
Xinjiang has been cut off from Internet for at least 11 months. It's seldom reported outside. Ppl even used dialups in landlines but soon get cut off again.
Smartcasual meets Altaf Rehmani
Just maintaining a project as large as nginx is hard enough, and takes a lot of people to do it.
JSON is not all that readable for a human either, if that was the main complaint. I guess let me just ask this: Why does XML suck?
I wasn't sure what you were talking about, with respect to the other side of the story, but after searching ran across this article:

http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engin...

Not sure how I missed it, but if anyone else did as well, it really looks like he just moved the guts of an old clock into a new casing. He didn't really design any circuitry at all.
Bit bucket is great if you are ok with pushes taking 1 minute and webhooks taking 20 minutes.

Sadly, wish I was joking. But it happens all too often.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages

> Punitive damages or exemplary damages are damages intended to reform or deter the defendant and others from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the lawsuit. Although the purpose of punitive damages is not to compensate the plaintiff, the plaintiff will receive all or some portion of the punitive damage award.
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He didn't even make the clock: http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engin...
> The action also shows that despite spending billions of dollars to create one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet censorship and surveillance systems, blind spots abound.

Does anyone here have a source that compares the reach of Chinese surveillance with the NSA and GCHQ?
> with time, more details come out that make the whole thing not quite as clear cut

What details came out that made it less clear cut?
Ask HN: What got you into coding?
http://www.av8n.com/physics/maxwell-ga.htm
What do you mean bare metal? Does that mean physical server?
While your article is interesting re building better debugging skills, I wonder how many of the tools mentioned require root access or more than just user access.

Is tcpdump or strace available to those who don't have control over the machine? Or is there a variant that would be available ?
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You're correct that if someone has to store a physical item (like a car), there are costs related to storage. In the case of 21st century currency, however, almost none of your money actually exists in physical cash [1], the vast majority simply exists as accounting entries, stored as digits in computers (seriously).

Traditional banking typically consists of two SEPARATE functions.

1) The first function is the safe-keeping of deposits (for which a fee would normally be assessed as an actual commodity (gold, silver, etc.) would be stored, and you have to pay rent, security, etc. related to the safekeeping of that commodity).

2) The second function is loan intermediation (that is, matching up people who want to invest their money with people who want to borrow it -- as an investor you would receive a return on your money less fees assessed by the bank for determining who should receive loans). Certificates of Deposit (CDs) are the classic example of a bank engaging in this second function. CDs require you to relinquish your ability to withdraw your deposits for an agreed upon term.

Modern banking, however, muddles these two functions. Paper bills no longer represent specific quantities of physical commodities held for safe-keeping by the bank. They simply represent themselves, pieces of paper that people continue to accept as money because they were slowly weaned off of using physical commodities.

Further, banks are allowed to simultaneously loan out the money you have sitting in a savings account (and pay you interest on it) but also give it to you in physical cash should you demand it.

How can it be that your cash could be in two places at the same time (invested in a loan but also available for withdrawal)?

If you loaned your car to a bank, and they lent it out to someone else, could it simultaneously be available for retrieval by you and also continue to be loaned to someone?

Obviously not, it's no different with money. But, because cash is fungible, and most people don't withdraw all their money at the same time, banks are able to continue this charade, pretending like your cash is available for withdrawal while simultaneously lent out to someone else.

The only time that the charade becomes readily apparent is during financial crises. During crises people get nervous and start demanding their deposits in cash, if everyone should do so (a run on the bank), the bank would not have enough cash on hand to make good on their contractual obligations. The only reason the charade continues is because central banks loan banks more money during crises by printing more money out of thin air (of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch, money printing debases the currency, so anyone who holds cash loses).

[1] Estimates vary, but the consensus seems to be that less than 10% of "money" actually exists in printed bills/coins:

(a) Estimate 8.3% -- https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-worlds-money-is-printed-in-cash-bills-coins

(b) Estimate 8% -- http://www.howstuffworks.com/currency6.htm
While the article is okay, the headline is tautological --- 'For addicts, the thing they are addicted to causes problems'.
Are you joking? Check the changelog of the open-source version.
http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
This makes no sense. The standard award for one death is $8m.
In no world is what he went through equal two people losing their lives.
If they had gone to Mars, the tally would have been 0/237.

The reason why? Because the differences of scale between going and coming back from Mars vs the Moon is about as much as the Circumnavigation of Earth and doing an average sail voyage between two well known ports in the Mediterranean Sea. There were plenty of sailors that survived those too, but the difference of scale did matter at the end.
> it really looks like he just moved the guts of an old clock into a new casing. He didn't really design any circuitry at all

He's 14 years old and learning electronics—I'm not sure what light this sheds on anything?
> Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix.

I'm sorry, in what way is this frivolous?
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When I'm measuring developer performance I look at one stat: Do they make reasonable deadlines without generating a ton of bugs?

Why is this? Well, it's because the amount of tickets, code, or even time spent "logged in" doesn't matter. The only thing that matters to a business is if they can deliver on time so the product can keep moving forward and others aren't waiting for them.
> This family acted in a provocative way

Lucky for them, then, that the school and police were as racist as his family expected, and they walked right into his trap.
Different companies offer different products. Some lenders were doing 90% LTV up to 800k, some were doing it up to $1m. Some lenders might give 30 year fixed rate loans on certain high LTV loans, others might only do ARMs.

Every business makes a calculation about what kind of business it wants to do.

I did not use a mortgage broker when buying a house. My reasoning was that they compete on price enough that the interest rates aren't worth shopping around for. The PRODUCTS may be. If I was doing a bridge loan to buy a 2nd house, I might shop around. If I'm doing a straight-up financed purchase on 2 stable well-documented incomes, I'm probably going to get about the same product and rate no matter what bank I use.
That pricing is ridiculous though. I can get 15 Hetzner servers for the price of one EC2.
Living in fear of lawsuits is why we don't have climbing equipment in parks and diving boards in pools anymore. Lawsuits need to be scaled back and commonsense returned.
An asshole.
I vividly remember the first "joke" I shared with my infant son when he was about 1-1.5:

He was pointing to colours and my job was to say it out loud. At one point, I deliberately called black as "green" and he instinctively skipped to the next color but quickly did a double take and jumped back to the previous one, thinking he misheard it. I repeated "green" and he looked at me and started laughing (I was expressionless).

Mind, this was the first time I had done something like this in any context. And he got it! It was a joke.

Now, at about 5, he gets puns and sarcasm is hit'n'miss. As a side-note, the whole thing as to how his appreciation for jokes is evolving is interesting. But the most important thing for me as a parent is enjoying these moments of laughter.
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Unable to edit so adding a new comment. Yes that's possible but I think the result would be the same. I freely publish my details around so I think I would still get quite a lot of support requests.
Could you list some examples?
More like clock boy wants to line his pockets with tax payer money after getting massive amounts of sympathy, products and scholarships from liberals trying to signal to other liberals.
Either in South AL or Northwest FL.
So the article first describes where a developer in a media company sits inside the pipeline, then goes to describing politely and in a lot of corporate speak how media companies build advanced equipment for managing the radioactive waste they later unleash on users, and then concludes by noting that the websites would be much better if someone was to keep those pesky marketers from touching the code.

And I totally buy the last point. The flip side of designing systems allowing managers and sales to add scripts optimizing "company specific performance indicators" is that they will add those scripts, which ends up in a lot of problems for the website. This stuff should be managed by developers, but it's hard - if your boss buys Ad Optimizer X, and the Ad Optimizer X comes only packaged with Tracker X, you will have no choice but to add it anyway.

I've been in that boat (and fortunately managed to abandon ship). The boss comes and says "just add this tracker code to the project". Oh, so he hired an external ad agency and set up a whole large plan, and the dev team gets to know about it only when they're told to start including random third-party scripts. I wish there was a way to push back, or at least to get info beforehand.

Some people actually talk about unionizing. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I'd love for us to have some leverage to push back against absurd or plain immoral demands of the management. On the other hand, I worry it'll pave the way to the professionalization of development - where in order to use a general-purpose compiler you'll have to have an engineering license, or something.
Junk bonds sound more negative than they are. It just means they aren't a nation-state or a decades-old multi-billion dollar company, so there is more risk of default.

But bondholders get priority over stockholders the same way preferred stockholders get priority over common stockholders. And as a result, it's less risky to buy bonds than to buy the company stock, since they could at least pawn off the factories and cars if the company has to be sold off.

A quick Google search shows a market cap of 28 billion, and outstanding bonds worth 1.2 billion. So it seems unlikely to me that the company would be unable to be sold off for 1.2 billion to cover the bonds.
You have to admit; simply taking the casing off a store bought 80's clock, putting it in a suitcase and bringing it to school could easily be grounds for a bomb hoax.
I wish I got $15 million every time I got called to the principals office.
Yes, I may have failed in getting it across, but a big point is this: I don't think dynamic languages will suddenly die out. Instead, strongly-typed languages will become more convincing. We are seeing better tools, and they are becoming more ergonomic.

Elm's latest blog post said it really well:

> Compilers should be assistants, not adversaries. A compiler should not just detect bugs, it should then help you understand why there is a bug.

http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants
You obviously haven't been around the internet too long, if another kid takes a apart a clock and puts it in a briefcase he could easily cause $15 million in damages from cultural appropriation alone.
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exactly. if the school conducted itself in a humane and respectful manner in the first place there would never have been an incident at all, which is exactly the point. there should have never been an incident at all.

regardless of whether or not mohammed and his family were well-prepared to exploit the media for a favorable narrative, they were still wronged.

even if they deliberately provoked the incident, they were still wronged.
It wouldn't even need to be multithreaded, I don't thnik. You could have some green threads-type system, using asynchronous I/O, a single-threaded server, and something along the lines of Lua's yieldk. Have a new script spring into life for each connection, suspend it when an I/O operation starts, and resume it when the results are ready (or when something goes wrong). I think this will be what Erlang does.

(I'm sure there are potential problems with this, but hopefully it would be overall no worse than the current situation, while being easier to work with.)
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This thread makes me want to stop coming to HN.
Maybe - I have a number of services that can tolerate a small amount of downtime if they fail, during which I would spin up a replacement AWS server. 99% of the time I'm only paying for the one machine that's running. These would all need dedicated hardware failovers if they weren't hosted in AWS (the same system does have hardware components, and they either have redundant failovers that are mostly idle, or for clusters we run at 66% capacity to allow for failure. Either way, it's often not true that one hardware instance can be substituted for one AWS instance, unless you don't care about long downtime when the hardware fails).
I admit that the drug discovery thing was unnecessary filigree for an argument that could have rested with "we need more children so that old people don't end up starving to death".
The hack is cool, but the post's title could use a lot of work. The article doesn't really talk about how git push over SSH works, and strace isn't even mentioned outside of the first paragraph.
This had nothing to do with race. Children have gotten into serious trouble just for drawing guns (see links below). This is a result of "zero tolerance" policies which have been in place for a while now.

This child repeatedly brought out a clearly provocative object which he didn't even make and which looked like a count down timer in a small container. He also ignored e very single teacher who politely asked him to put it away. Until finally one teacher got freaked out enough to take action.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486036/Eight-year-o...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/13-year-old-suspended-for-doodli...

I don't agree with his arrest just like I don't agree with those kids getting into trouble for drawing guns. But to try to paint this as a race issue is plainly ignorant at best.

When you look at the details of this case (the father who is a Sudanese politician, the sister who tried something similar a few years ago, Mark Cuban saying that when he was talking to him he was being fed lines and told what to say, the fact that he didn't make the clock and has not even a cursory knowledge of electronics commensurate with his age or skill - claiming in an interview to 'solder' CPUs, etc.) then it becomes clear what this was really about.

I feel sorry for the child because it is clear that his father orchestrated all of this.
At 15 mil, how is it anything but opportunistic?
Internet outraged to lose boy hero.
Meanwhile Ahmed laughs all the way to the bank.
No need to get clever about it, or rather it's already been done. ;-) Except for the reseeding bit, getrandom() does that for you by default: blocks if /dev/urandom hasn't been seeded yet. At least according to the man page.
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There are a few benchmarks of Apache 2.4:
1. http://www.eschrade.com/page/performance-of-apache-2-4-with-...
2. http://mondotech.blogspot.ru/2012/02/apache-24-vs-nginx-benc...
3. http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2012/02/apache-24-faster-than-ng...
In that getting called into the office for your homemade 'clock' is not a big deal, and certainly not a $15m big deal.
No, it signals that the only way to get ahead is to rent seek and ask oppressed instead of working hard to make the world a better place. I don't know how you think it's racist? The police could just have just as well thought it was a bomb, this just in timed bombs actually do look like bombs and the police were probably just being overly cautious. It's not like there haven't been students that want to blow up their teachers.
It sheds light on the issue in that his parents likely orchestrated the whole thing.
The clock boy incident was a clever hoax. Ahmed and his family may not be great engineers, but showed themselves masters of our media and legal system.
Just use babel.
Why the internet changed their attitude and started hating Ahmed Mohammed

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3tzyos/e...

TLDR:
People believe everything was set up by his sociopath Dad, who has a background in being obsessed with the spot light.
This is the kind of censorship and control that becomes very difficult to escape once activated. It seems imperative to me that anyone living in China who isn't already well off aught to consider having a backup plan in the event that communication with the outside world is completely disrupted.

This isn't the kind of move anyone should be taking lightly, more so for those directly in the country being cut off.
The internet may be the least they worry about. Xinjiang is big hot dense mess since a few years ago, terrorists and extremists are not rare in Xinjiang. The current state is more likely in a war against terrorism.
Interesting to watch all the bitter fighting over control of the narrative. I feel like the comment threads all over the internet are a more interesting story than the story itself.
Other place where this is great is enterprise cloud migration and hybrid cloud formation.

When one decides to go cloud, you need to throw away you prior investment in SO licenses and hardware. Although you have no alternative but throw away hardware, being able to reuse investment in software greatly reduce migration costs.

Of course one can just wait until all his licenses expire and then migrate, but such a hard migration would increase risks.

And of course it would be nice to have a price comparison between running normal instances and using a dedicated host with my own licenses, but without deeper inspection, dedicated is cheaper.