skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking from my experience, benefit accumulates with the increasing number of applications under your authority, esp. in case each of these applications is some variation of CRUD Web Forms / Report Generation / Data Processing & Migration (read: typical enterprise environment) and shares most of its' dependencies with other applications, while still having a unique configuration.

In such environment, having the means to create a vanilla project configuration and then extend/customize it a tiny bit for each app is immensely helpful.

Now, of course, this can be achieved without bootstrapping frameworks, but the real game-changing feature is that you get a single "executable jar" artifact for deployment:

- VERY convenient and straightforward to use with containers such as Docker

- if you don't use Docker, 100 jars are still easier to maintain than, say, a cluster of 100 Jetty instances

- possible to use CLI commands to run short-living daemon jobs; no need for a separate job infrastructure (schedulers, triggers, executors and such), just use shell & cron

Besides that you usually get:

- pre-packaged health-check and monitoring tools

- if bootstrapping framework is popular enough: community support for plug-and-play modules/plugins that leverage some particular framework/technology (e.g. Bootique framework is an excellent example of modular approach: https://github.com/nhl/bootique)
EV is a standard for identity verification, rather than a product.

Our product is 40-100x faster validation for EV. If you think DV is fine for your app, that's awesome. But if you're thinking about getting an EV cert, we do in an average of 5 hours what others do in 7-10 days.
Because tau is more intuitive and this is all about intuition.

If you were baking a pie (pi?) and someone told you how much of an ingredient to add per half pie, that would be less intuitive.

And no, I do not get confused by concepts like 90 degrees, but this is about inspiring intuition, not the ability to do calculations without error.
Google offers search recommendations for different geographies, based on people's interests. This site explores what Google suggests for different letters or words.
True but in the professional cooking world, I think it's probably comparable to programming. In some cases, it may be more creative.

At home, you can experience more creativity by looking up lots of recipes for the same dish, start understanding what the core ingredients/flavors are and venturing out from there. Eventually you get a handle on ingredients and cooking methods like they're the syntax of a programming language.
the clause of being under age has been misused by organized crime as the least punishment was applicable

And should we change our morals and flush away decades of cultivated ethics about juvenile justice because organized crime groups recruit underage people?

Creative suggestions and covering those in detail is a media propaganda

Here's an MP from the upper house of parliament, saying:

"Hands and legs of the males who commit rapes should be broken. A law for this should be enacted in this House." [1]

That's not propaganda. This is happening openly - because this time it's okay for people to show their worst sides.

[1]: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-make-law-to-break-hands...
I thought it was a pretty nice intro to APL and what you can do with it ..
What is rotten is overcharging by dental practices. The NHS fee structure is extremely simple [1], yet because people do not research the charges, receptionists are able to easily mislead people.

Often the dentists do NHS and private work and they either tell flat out lies such as "that's not covered on the NHS", and/or suggest their brother/sister/best friend does the work privately) or just makes up random fees.

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1781.aspx?CategoryID=74
>Good, kind people braying for blood is sickening.

Then they aren't good people. They think their horrible behavior is justified for some reason, just like most people who do horrible things. That one may personally empathized with one group over the others shouldn't blind us to the same underlying pattern.
> So "astronomical summer" oddly starts with the day that the incoming solar energy is highest in the northern hemisphere?

In a way, but you're looking at the effect, not the cause. The solstice is the day where either day or night is the shortest, which is caused by the earth either being at the aphelion or the perihelion (i.e. nearest or farthest points from the sun).

One could reasonably suspect that the solstice dates better represent a period just before the centre of the season rather than the beginning of it, since seasons take a bit of time to move in (at least up here in Canada). Snow won't stay until the ground has cooled enough, for example.
These things happen to the best: In 2001, the World Economic Forum had their MS-SQLServer with personal data of the participants connected to the Internet. With the standard account enabled (user: "sa", password: empty). It then got "hacked" and the data leaked.

German article about it: https://www.woz.ch/-41f8
Well, yes, but the fix won't be included until the 1.6 release.
> Most exceptionally high earners have college degrees.

Interestingly though, most exceptionally high earners have post-graduate degrees, according to Gallop[1]. When you exclude that group, the non-college graduates make up the largest portion of the highest earners.

If there is causality here, it seems one has to be mindful to continue their studies long enough to see the benefits. Simply getting a degree does not seem to pave the way to a better income.

[1] http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...
> `vagrant up` times will be much faster and the amount of disk space used will be significantly reduced. As an anecdotal measure, a small Linux box on my machine went from a 10 second import to less than second. And a Windows box (typically very large) went from a 40 second import also to less than a second.

I tried this, but it does not seem faster to me. All my projects set up on vagrant from halted state (`vagrant halt`) to up (`vagrant up`) take same amount of time as it was with `vagrant 1.7`.

Or I am doing/understand this wrong?
The most famous scientist in my country [1] had to travel 1000 km on foot from his home village to university to get decent education. He then proceeded to make a lot of important discoveries in many areas of science. Now imagine if we had Wikipedia in every village. Imagine how many more people could make use of their talents if they had access to the basic information to get them started.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov
As a developer I like what MS is doing. Fragmented platforms is a programmers hell. Universal apps and the same operating system across all devices is surely the future. Most PC developers like myself wont care enough to learn a new language and system, just to try out making a mobile app. But when we can do it all from visual studio and c++ like we are used too. Then the barrier to entry is low enough that more of us will. More programmers mean more apps.

Sooner or later PC's are going to get so small they fit in your pocket. I just hope windows phone keeps going until then. Im not sure how apple and android will cope with that future.

In the meantime, I think the Lumias are just fine. They makes calls, they takes pictures, they gets you on the internet. What else is there? I haven't noticed any apps I cant get either. Then again you don't miss what you never knew.
Am I the only one who doesn't see this?
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See C++, Objective-C and a bunch of other languages actually in the C family.

They all share C. Real basic C.

'The Lisp family is diverse.' You interpret it in a way to make it practically meaningless.
Why not just never improve anything, ever? I mean we might have self-driving cars in 20 years, but another 20 after that there will be something even better than self-driving cars, and who wants to own something that will be obsolete in 20 years, anyway?
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As it happens, I've tutored people in the middle of high school geometry. Radians confuse them. Full stop. If there is something that can make it easier to understand, while at the same time sacrificing absolutely nothing of mathematical consequence, it's a good thing.

What confuses me is not the relevant issue. I've got $BOATLOADS of higher ed. I'm not the interesting case.
> Hotplugging devices was the domain of the kernel and udev (and consolekit for user access). The only reason "systemd" does this now is because they replaced consolekit (yay) and absorbed udev (boo).

Yeah hotplugging has obviously been available for ages.

> You either love or hate the ambiguity of terms like "systemd"

Indeed, in this case I was referring to the whole framework and not PID 1.

Personally I've been running systemd on my systems since even before Arch Linux incorporated it officially and I've pretty much never had any problems. I especially haven't had any boot related issues with it. I even have multiple luks encrypted disks attached.
Thank you, outstandingly well reasoned and explained. I understood the incentive issue. No manufacturer of a thing, that makes money per thing they manufacture, is incentivized to try and reduce the number of those things they get to manufacture. But the fact that the optimization process towards efficient rockets leads the design away from optimizations for re-usability (principally towards a single large engine on the first stage) is new to me.

The fact that the Falcon 9 is deliberately designed for less efficiency with 9 engines on the first stage, but still ends up cheaper than the alternatives is even more impressive given that insight.
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That is not a very good way of scoring, because nobody cares about the difference between about "bad" and "awful" yet those classifications have the most bits of information.

Perhaps start at 5 and go to 15.
yea, i think wyden makes sense: "It would create a perverse incentive for companies to avoid looking for terrorist content on their own networks, because if they saw something and failed to report it they would be breaking the law, but if they stuck their heads in the sand and avoided looking for terrorist content they would be absolved of responsibility."
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I guess maybe you're right and that is the reason why (people making assumptions). However, I've never said any such thing, and no I don't think it would have been ok by the Nazis to simply exile the Jews back then.
Yes, but I'd rather have it showing permanently. It doesn't take up much space, but it does provide really useful information - date and time, at the very least!
My first reaction is to agree wit you, but then I thought about it and how do we know they don't? Sure the common wisdom is "teachers suck" and "our education system is out of date" but I haven't been in an elementary school math class in 25 years, let alone a majority of them to really have an informed opinion about this.

If it really is a problem, an obvious solution is to just supply prepared materials that are based on this to the schools, and that will do a lot to make it available, if indeed it does work as well or better than the current materials.
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Since they're talking about the "import" maybe they're not talking about from the halted state? Maybe just the initial `vagrant up`?
Fine, but give them the rights to go with the responsibilities.
Seems like the site has gone down with traffic and CloudFlare is serving up a generic 522 error page.
That's an excellent point - I've added it to the article and credited you.
For those who don't know, Larry Sanger was instrumental in setting up Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales. There's quite a lot of controversy over who founded Wikipedia, but nobody can deny Larry was one of the earliest members of the project.
>So what is your age limit? If 16, why not 15? And if 15, why not 12, or 10, or 7, or 5?

This seems necessarily goading. Why does 18 magically make someone an adult? If anything, we've swung way too far to the left on this issue. A 14 or 15 old person is mature enough to understand complex moral issues. At 15 I drove a 6,000lbs death machine car and had a part time job on top of school. The idea that I didn't understand rape or murder was wrong at that age is asinine. I'd say high school age is fair game for serious prison time for serious offenses.

Here in Chicago a lot of our shooters are 15-17. These aren't innocent children, but fairly serious criminals with nothing but a life of crime ahead of them. Catching them early has potential for betterment compared to leaving them in the loving arms of the gang system and more or less guaranteeing the further victimization of others.
No they should not use Tau, because the point of education is to give you knowledge that you can build on later. Nothing else uses Tau, so teaching you Tau does not prepare you for further education.

I'm not even gonna touch the Tau vs. Pi debate because it's like a sports team rivalry, and not a rational discussion.
Perhaps an agency had a backdoor and then changed the lock to let another agency in without giving access to prior intercepts or even acknowledging that they had prior access?

Say NSA had a backdoor and then replaced it with one shared with GCHQ. In that scenario, the NSA has not lost any capability while GCHQ has gained capability and NSA has plausible deniability that they did have prior capability.
How developing apps for Windows Phone can be compared with iphone/android? I have experience in neither, but I expected Windows to gain traction given the free VS IDE, adequate emulators, and universal apps automatically suitable for desktop use.

Is it just small market share blocking wider adoption, or is the tooling somehow lacking still?
You ranted about it being a "lot" of code. The default Silex installation doesn't even bring in the Security component, which is probably what prompted your comparison to Spring.

Event dispatching + kernel (basically a handler) + request/response isn't particularly complex, is it?
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I was wondering about this too... there's something fishy about this quote.
Google and Ford reportedly team up to build self-driving cars
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Even if they did, students don't care for most things, intelligently explained or not. That's a first problem to overcome.
A FIRST Robotics Competition event writ large.
Yep, bummer I was looking forward to checking this out.
As with defunding the IRS, the intent likely being to ruin them financially so they can point to the USPS and say "See? Government can't run anything properly! Let's give the business to my friend over here..."
Sorry, but the bitcoin "wasted power" is just a NON-ISSUE right now.

World wide standby power waste must be 1000 times more than what bitcoin uses - world wide power usage ~17TWH, 1% standby power waste => 170GWH.

I'm pretty sure that all the power dedicated by the banks to perform the same opperations as bitcoin (people driving to work, office building power, air conditioning, datacenters power, and so on) is signifficantly more than 40MWH.

So, just the global standby power waste is orders of magnitude greater than what bitcoin uses, and banks probably use a lot more power to perform the same opperations as bitcoin does.

If you pay a 1$ fee to a bank or a bitcoin fee, that 1$ will recirculate back into the economy.
The difference is the banks are a lot more inefficient and are such human resources hogs because of their exclusive right to create money out of thin air.
>So what is your age limit? If 16, why not 15? And if 15, why not 12, or 10, or 7, or 5?

so why 18 then. The age limit is just a line in the sand that is different in differents states and for different things (driving, drinking, having sexual relationships)
I think they finally had real time stream just because they were not landing on sea anymore; they just didn't have the bandwidth from the barge. Elon mentioned the reason they couldn't stream before was technical, not political/PR, and that they always wanted to stream it.

Agreed, though. It was masterly done. Loved the timeline.
Hollywood white teeth == healthy?! How? To me they look bizarre, do normal Americans really have teeth like that? (serious question)
I think typifying cities as nothing but block-sized high-rises is completely wrong. Even large parts of Manhattan are full of 4-6 story buildings.
The "Windows Continuum" is what I have wanted from a PDA / smart phone since the Newton. I really would love something I could carry with me and then dock to get the big screen experience. I do wish it was OS X (not iOS or at least not a locked iOS), but this is a step closer.
The feature isn't enabled by default, you'll need to set linked_clone to true:

https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/virtualbox/configuration.html
The linked article shows no such thing as "state funding for higher education monotonically decreasing since the 80s". Figure 7 only shows share of state funding decreasing. Note that this can happen if tuition is increasing faster than state funding, even if state funding increases or stays the same.

Figure 7's source is State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, so let's get the report directly from the source. Here is the latest report: http://www.sheeo.org/sites/default/files/project-files/SHEF%.... Figure 2 shows inflation adjusted, per student state funding peaked in 2001 rather than monotonically decreasing since the 80s.
It's hard to do a meaningful average when there are so few competitors. Being a 6 might be "not terrible", but it's going up against the iTunes and Android ecosystems which are incredibly large.
Phone. Windows Phone.
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That's a function as much of physics and geography as planning, and one of the reasons Cape Canaveral exists---there's a lot of Atlantic Ocean in which to ditch a failing spacecraft on either the launch or landing vectors.

There's a reason the United States' launch facilities are primarily along the east coast of the country.
I'm always really impressed by the "Japanese" diagonal wrapping technique.

Professional at work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qi8ZXUH_wY

Technique explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQM8KKP-3Oo
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I've tried to figure this out before, but everything I've read suggests that Microsoft doesn't support VM licensing/activation in a meaningful way unless you have Software Assurance, and even then it's kind of confusing.
"Hacking" bank and credit cards with this is still pretty hard and a bit theoretical (fake PIN entry form on the terminal...), but printing prepaid cards (= virtual money) like Paysafecard c/should be pretty easy. And that's a biiiig problem.
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According to...?

A lot of people love learning new things. It's the mode of learning them that is offputting to so many.
When it comes to Microsoft, the tooling never lacks. Usually it's the best you can get.
> But it does because their type says so:

Sure. But I remember doing this with checked exceptions, mousing over each method call one by one to figure out which ones could or couldn't throw. It's much nicer if you can see which methods are the throwey ones immediately - =/<- is a real sweet spot in terms of having the difference be visible but not overly intrusive.

> But that's the opposite of a problem. That's like using `IO a` outside of an IO monad. You want the function to only be called in the right context (an appropriate handler is in effect).

Disagree. I want to be able to have a value of type IO a outside a method - e.g. in a static field. More generally it's really huge to be able to just treat these things as ordinary values that I can manipulate using the ordinary rules of the language.

> I'm not sure if the same effects would make sense, though. For example, Either is a monadic value which doesn't make sense in an imperative setting.

The two effects are "possibly skip the rest of the computation, returning an Error instead" and "record a programatically-accessible Log" - I think those both make sense. The point is the reason you have to use the horrible monad transformers is that the order in which you evaluate these effects matters - if there's an early error, are later log statements recorded, or not? There are more complicated cases when e.g. catching I/O errors.
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You're aware there are a number of different libc-implementations one can choose from, right?
I think he needs a new CIO:

“We looked at the problem and I told Jeff I thought we could improve the load time to maybe two seconds. He wrote back and said, ‘It needs to be milliseconds,’” said Shailesh Prakash, who heads the Post’s technology team as chief information officer. “He has become our ultimate beta tester.”

Mr. Bezos helped solve the problem by suggesting loading low-resolution images onto the app first, allowing the page to load on readers’ screens more quickly.
A slightly more practical system for defeating surveillance cameras specifically.

http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/02/21/ir-leds-used-to-defeat-s...

Not as noticeable to bystanders. Much more passive approach that can be maintained for as long as necessary.

Not as likely to get the police called on you.

Combining the two approaches could work http://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/ir-laser-module/...
> As a developer I like what MS is doing. Fragmented platforms is a programmers hell. Universal apps and the same operating system across all devices is surely the future.

Whether it is or not (I don't think so) that's not really what Microsoft is doing. You can't just download Windows 10 software and run it on Windows 10 Mobile.

Nor should you be able to. Phone software should be written for a phone. I don't want to run a Windows desktop app on my phone any more than I want to run a phone app on my desktop PC. They are fundamentally different platforms, with different interfaces, different screen sizes and different needs.
Or patronized by adults that know their safe drinking limits? Novel idea, I know.
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The problem is not punishing the rapist; it is catching the rapist and pushing the case towards sentence.

A lot of rape cases are unreported, unfilled, not looked for thoroughly, misattributed or the criminal is let go because he is well-connected, minor, minority or inconvenient in any other way.

Pushing the severity of punishment for the slim share of criminals who we managed to catch does not do much towards crime prevention. They should clearly be aiming at inescapable justice rather than sadistic justice.
I donated and you should too. https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ You get a t-shirt and your name/company publicly listed as a supporter (if you want). They're a charity, for tax purposes.

More importantly, they use their money efficiently and have tangible positive results.

Unfortunately due to the VMware lawsuit they've lost some corporate sponsors. Note that on the whole, their GPL enforcement is not litigious and not profitable. And that's just one part of their overall mission.