skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of the founders were Cloud Foundry developers, and so had undergone thorough BOSH indoctrination. You can absolutely see that Concourse comes from the same philosophy as Cloud Foundry itself; it's virtually an answer to the question "what would a PaaS for CI look like"?
Replying to tptacek: OK, but I think everything you said is consistent with no one in public having any idea or caring. This was "out in the open" in the same way that essentially all regulations that benefit a concentrated interest with diffuse costs do (like most pork). It's just ignored by the public.

Anyways, sorry to drag this out. I don't have anything more productive to add. I appreciate your insight here.
That there is a central main narrative that is the primary trend across the population that can be used to make predictive generalizations. The idea that a broad conclusion about what is important vs not now has any meaning beyond the person speaking is no longer the case. The Internet has truly splintered us and we are now all exposed as talking only about our own impressions, not referring to a larger whole that previously could be used to fashion an identity and sense of correctness around.
There is actually a nugget of thought in the article beyond the explanations you always hear (and which make up all the comments in this thread as I'm writing this): Even if you base your project schedules on accurate estimates of the median time required for each step, you will still be behind schedule for most projects.

The reason is actually quite simple: when things go well, they can only go so well, but when they go bad, they can go really bad.

Or, in a more quantitative way: while each step of the project will be equally likely to take longer or shorter than median, the steps that take longer can take much longer, while the steps that go faster only have a limited potential for balancing out the delays.
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I've just bothered to chase pointers to find out who you are, and yes, indeed you were. We overlapped by the best part of a year, i think, but never had much cause to interact.
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Ownership is a bundle of rights. In the U.S., if you have rented out a property you "own" to another person, you do not have the right to enter that property without prior notice or consent of that person.
Because everyone knows it is security theater.

Plus stealing from luggage is a major source of income for TSA employees, they are caught every few months but they keep doing it - so for every one caught you know there are hundreds not caught and management knows this.

https://google.com/search?q=tsa+stealing

Remember how corrupt TSA employees are the next time you see a story on the news about how corrupt officials in another country are...
It's funny, my first passing thought was collusion. It's meritless and baseless, but I assume it stems from my finding it frustrating that the courts allow a thing to continue before they rule on its Constitutionality. It would seem to me that stopping unconstitutional behavior by the executive branch should be the most important thing before the court, and something that should not drag out for a decade. So why does the court allow a program that may be violating millions of peoples' constitutional rights to continue, all the while agreeing with and ruling in favor of government stall tactics?

It's amazing to me that the court agreed with the executive that they had no right to judge on executive constitutionality! I get that it's procedural, but is it true that there has to be a ruling on something from a lower court before a higher court can even consider it? (And is it weird that they can rule on the procedure of a thing but not a thing?)
Think of it in terms of rehabilitation vs punishment.
City dwellers who park on the street or even in apartment garages do not have the authority to install chargers. EVs are 100% off the table for me for at least 20 years (until I own a home) and probably forever (unlikely that I will own a suburban home).

Sure, there are public chargers, but not nearly enough, considering that you have to sit at one for 45 minutes or more.
Well, it is Puffington Post...
I don't think Facebook was ever really don't about privacy. Exclusivity, perhaps, but not privacy.
Articles like this always make me revisit the Vigilant Citizen website [0]. The site often reviews music videos and large events like the MTV Music Video Awards and looks at the symbolic imagery used. The subject of these videos often seems to be mind control of the artists.

I don't want to sound like some crazy guy, I just find the whole mind control theme interesting without having a real opinion on the subject.

I always wonder what's the point in rehashing the same imagery so often by so many different artists and events. To me it seems pointless. But maybe it has some effects on the youths that watch these videos every day? Or is it just meant to look "cool" or "interesting"?

I certainly don't watch much television anymore these days and I don't seem to recall videos that used such imagery in my youth. On the whole, I think videos in the 90s and early 2000's were often much more interesting or funny.

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[0]: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?s=mind+control
Fine art has become irrelevant as a consequence of the mass consumer society we live in. Once upon a time there was a class of people who were viewed as being above everyone else in terms of artistic skill and taste. Whatever you want to call them, they were a result of a parallel elite social and economic group that was viewed as being above the others. They elected their group of painters, musicians, architects, etc.

Modern society has shaped a world where the mass of people dictates what is interesting or not based on the money they pay for that product. So, the Beatles are viewed as important, not because their musical skills were better than thousands other musicians, but because they were consumed to a point of making a big difference in our society.

In a mass society, there is a huge pressure to lower the quality of everything, because this means that more and more people will be able to enjoy it. That's why people are not creating the next 5th symphony, they're creating instead the next Justin Bieber song. In such a world, fine arts have no power because they are not able to move lots of people in the same way that a video game or the next Star Wars movie can.
Would you be so nice to share the information you got?
Only to take it away after a couple years. I'm avoiding Google services for a while or indef.
> The same query when ran on DB2 took 12 hours, on postgres (5x more data) it took 24 hours.

You're doing it wrong. These type of queries should be run on a column store (e.g., Vertica).
In 20 years, most cars (electric or not) will probably be self-driving ones owned and controlled by a centralized ride-sharing service. You won't need to charge/refuel them.
I have never seen a guy get turned down by a woman in the real world

You may not have, but it happens. I have read support threads where women talk about being punched in the face for rejecting a guy in a bar. I'm sure if you talk to a bouncer at any popular nightclub they'll give you loads of stories of women being assaulted by creepy dudes.
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If you want a remote unix toolchain in a browser, http://c9.io is a cloud IDE with a browser interface that includes shell access.

It's a full Ubuntu environment running in a Docker container on their servers.

Their free tier is more than enough for playing with the shell.
I've been browsing their (extremely heavy, intensive) website trying to figure out "what are the modules" ... and all I can see is that there is a removable battery and that I could replace/repair parts like camera and speaker and so on.

But it looks to me that all of the actual functions of the phone are integrated into one big SoC.

That misses the entire point of a modular computing device - phone or otherwise.

I want a wireless comms module (which contains not just the wifi/bt/cellular antennas, but the chipset itself) that I can remove or hard disable with a switch.

I want an inputs module that contains not just the mic and speaker, but their enabling circuitry so I can remove it or hard disable it with a switch.

I want a GPS module ... a USB ports module ... a camera module.

That's what a modular smartphone is all about. There's nothing modular about a big monster (closed, telco-owned, user-hostile) SoC that contains all of the actual functions.
Unfortunately this ships with an already outdated version of android and fairphone has explicitly said they will not guarantee support for Marshmallow. They have solid reasons for this, but that is a pretty big down side as a potential customer.

In fact, I'll go so far as to say: If the android OS cannot be kept updated, claiming that this phone has what it takes to last you more than 2 years is ridiculous. Even if you somehow get to keep security updates coming, there will be features in the new OS that are worth upgrading for even if the hardware is still perfectly fine, and apps will begin requiring an OS version you don't have.
Net neutrality, as it's currently being implemented, grants the FCC significant amounts of regulatory power over private companies. This regulatory power has the potential to be abused. So, Rand Paul being against it is consistent with his general philosophy of less government intervention.
I disagree because I see new tech trends forming. This is roughly what I would've believed around 2013.

I'm tempted to start a blog with a few of my more out-there predictions & observations - I've got a half dozen posts already written up and saved. But I want to put myself in a position where I can capitalize on the new trends first. Markets are fun because you can literally bet on your predictions of the future. :-)
Ironic that you're going to worry about legal issues while renting an illegal hotel room. Considering AirBnB is all about pushing boundaries and outright disregard for the law, the use of this script seems completely apropos.
From this, it seems to me, it is just a small step to an indentation based language.

So why not just use python combined with a normal editor instead?
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So the camera is the thin line between the stranger killing the child or not? Sounds pretty fucked up.

(I realize this isn't really addressing your intended meaning, but the ambiguity is there in what you said, which is pretty...)
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This is a great writeup on a simple bit of math that violates common sense expectations. Consider you need to go on a 100 mile trip and want to average 100 miles per hour. Conditions are bad and for the first 50 miles you only average 50 miles per hour. How fast do you need to go to average 100 mph for the whole trip? Clearly 150 mph, right? Except of course you are too late and would have to go infinitely fast as you need to complete the trip in one hour and have already taken an hour.

From the article: "But while there’s a lower bound to how “under” the median a step can be – a step can’t take negative time – there’s virtually no upper limit to how much over the median time a project can take."

So when one step takes a little longer than expected most people fall into the 150 mph trap and get frustrated when they don't meet the false expectation.
I've got to hand it to Fing, they've convinced people to pay through the nose for something we used to do for free.

Nmap. You want nmap.
Because humans suck in predicting the future.
:(

Why are you hurting The Web?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10327485
Are we really sexist against male teachers? I don't buy it. There are male teachers everywhere at all levels in Chicago, and male teachers are routinely represented in the media, usually positively.
First time I see a credible take on this subject ! Great writeup.
> The debate on CISA was over. Thankfully

Thankfully? In the sense that at least it wasn't close to PCNA or that you think this bill will do anything to actually benefit "cybersecurity"? Because if it doesn't serve its purpose, then it doesn't really matter how close was or wasn't to the PCNA, does it?

Also, you're not worried at all about the legal protections companies get for cooperating with the NSA? If they "aren't doing anything wrong", why should they need legal immunity?
The impact of CTEs being "optimization fences" in PostgreSQL really depends on workload, and how cleverly you write your queries. If you are not aware of this - as most users using CTEs merely as an alias - you'll be badly surprised.

I've been recently running TPC-DS on PostgreSQL 9.5 (alpha1 IIRC), to see how we're doing (I'm one of the contributors). Thanks to the grouping sets, we're now able to execute all 99 queries in the benchmark, which is awesome. Regarding performance, I've expected grouping sets to be a performance issue as the current implementation is rather simple. But to my mild surprise that's not the case - CTEs are the main problem.

On 100GB data set some queries took hours to complete (well, I interrupted them so I'm not sure how long it'd actually take). After a rewrite (replace CTE with a subquery), the query took a a minute or so.
Whether you like it or not, it appears that everything that helps privacy will soon become illegal.
You are right. The FBI has corrected the report of her Facebook warnings that was floating around the news networks.

Marquez (the Muslim convert who sold them the guns), however, did post something on his verified Facebook account a month before the attack.[1]

And Malik (the wife) did apparently post something on Facebook minutes before the attack.

Do you disagree with my overall point, that the U.S. law enforcement has over-surveillance and under-intelligence?

1. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/san...
This HuffPo piece adds nothing. The original content is actually here: http://www.takepart.com/open-letter-to-california-air-resour...
When I was doing more project work I outright refused to give estimates, explaining that I could come up with a random figure that's so low they won't believe it or so high they won't like it, and in any case the figure would have nothing to do with when the project would be complete.

Instead I offered broad time ranges that would narrow down to more accurate ones as work progressed. The managers who had to report those upwards didn't always like that first but they grew to appreciate how the dynamic worked across the project timeline. In the beginning, they didn't know how long because nobody knew how long. Well, maybe definitely more than a month and definitely no longer than a year, and "it all depends". But every week we knew more and they knew more, and the time margins could be shrunk incrementally as soon as difficult tasks turned out to be not so difficult. So the more progress the better everyone knew how we were doing.

That is one gratifying slide to completion but I do admit it probably doesn't work for every team or company.
I am thinking more at the internal-software level.

Consider an enterprise that has a simple case management app -- essentially, a help desk app for one portion of the business.

There is another app within the system that was developed 5 years before to help choose when to start a case. It's maintained by a different team, so there's no natural coordination.

If these were two Unix tools built like programmers would build, someone could connect the output of one, to a filter in the middle, to the input of the next. However, in the real organization, there is an individual who spends 20 hours a month to manually copy the information from app 1 to app 2 because the work to create a proper hypermedia interface.

The combination of a corporate-aware Huginn (single sign on, etc) and a revolution in corporate apps that treated hypermedia as a first class citizen could make it happen. It's not happening now, however.
This is like high speed internet.

If you care about it you can easily find an apartment in any large US city which lets you charge an EV, if you don't ahead of time you can have issues.
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Where is that visual google graveyard to remind us about adopting google products...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...

http://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2990958/software/google-...
>but it works

It works to drive ad impressions. Since everyone on the internet is entitled to all content for free, anyone putting in more than the minimum effort to get those ad impressions is, from a business perspective, wasting his time.
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Me and My team have developed a CRM Backend and App which allows enterprises to handle their human resource efficiently for clientele meetups, customer address verification, etc. Anyone interested to come on board as an investor ?

Were based out of Chennai, India. and the firm behind the solution is Pupa Clic.
$8.99 @ NameSilo.com - free privacy too

No coupon(s) needed.
Very interesting (Defcon) talk about a similar store from the owner of textfiles.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY
Most men if approached by an awkward unattractive woman

No, it's just that the distributions for attractiveness are different between women[0] and men[1]. Women rate 80% of guys as worse-looking than "medium attractiveness". Men, on the other hand, rate women on a much more normalized curve.

[0]. http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/your_looks_and_inbox/Male-Messagi...

[1]. http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/your_looks_and_inbox/Female-Messa...
(And here rates are provided in X per 100,000)

I'm not playing this game with you. Obviously, the information wouldn't expressed that way in the WP article. You may recall that they're a newspaper, not a scholarly journal. So you know perfectly well that it wouldn't have expressed the information in those terms.

The article does mention exactly what the increase is. As to the base rate, the WP article doesn't use that exact term -- but they do give hard numbers for the sample sizes involved, and took care to point out that the smallness of the proportion of infants who developed autism (with or without taking SSRIs) was one of the factors that led the researchers to point out that their findings should be taken with caution.

If you want more data and specifics, read the JAMA article. If you think the researchers themselves made some basic flaw in their statistical reasoning -- and, correspondingly, you'd like to bring their reputations and their future funding channels into question -- then the burden of proof lies on you to show it. And I'm sure JAMA Pediatrics would be very interested in getting an email from you.

But if you're going to fault the WP article for not conveying every facet of detail from the research article, in as many digits of precision -- even though its overall presentation was basically fair, and on point to the level of detail that would be meaningful to its readers -- then you're basically playing head games.
Stock bonus for Sr Dev at microsoft is up to 30% of base(vested over 5 years). That won't hit 100k even if you are at fifth year. Is it typical for google, facebook to give 100k in stocks per year (assuming they vest more a less over same 5 years or so).
Never knew .com was used. Was always .org and about 12 other country suffixes
There is any advantage of it over conventional browsing HN ?
Why work in San Francisco as a foreign developer?
Well, it's because if they had more powers they could be more effective, right? This line of logic ends only when the people stop asking for perfect security.
I mean what you're saying is correct, but I never said China instantly switched everyone over to simplified once China decided in the 50s/60s.

I am saying the superpower it has since become has "forced" most other countries to defer to using simplified rather than traditional.
Agreed on both points. I find it interesting that the properties of Bosh are clear strengths when present in other systems; if what Bosh does is so intrinsically good, why didn't it take over the world? Because it's a PITA to use.

That's meant more of a musing than a passive-aggressive complaint BTW. As someone that's scaled the "Bosh learning cliff" I'd like to see it used more widely.
If you're willing to spend an unlimited amount of money, sure. In the Bay Area at anything close to 30% of income? Hell no.
This falls into my line of thinking, I tend to be liberal on my project estimates as well.

Unfortunately some project managers / product GMs, and sometimes worse, technical salespeople, fail to understand what all is involved in building the software, web functionality they've come to expect to "just work".

That being said, I've been surprised at how understanding people can be when you explain to them in thought out manner.
How much did it cost out of curiosity?
A point that's well worth stating for those that may not realize it: rewriting a query that uses CTE into one that uses subqueries is really just a case of using copy and paste to perform substitution: replace the CTE references with their definitions. So, to a large extent you can have the best of both worlds.
I sure didn't intend to be argumentative, and as I said, I do think you are right, the fingerprinting example is flawed just as you point out.

I was only considering the calculations in the abstract, as representing how such algorithms might be used by a real entity attempting to track its users. I was putting myself in the place of the tracker and imagining how I'd deal with the issues you brought up. I certainly do not and never have done any such thing on the servers I run in real life.

A year or so ago when I was first aware of the Panopticlick site, I was impressed with how easy it was to more or less uniquely identify my browser. I tried numerous ways to make it less unique. Best I could do at the time was reduce the "entropy" from 22 to 15 or so. Even though I knew these results were hypothetical, it was still educational.

So the Panopticlick site makes its point even if it's not 100% accurate. How much it scares people is hard to say, but probably not a lot. Bottom line is I've been aware that fingerprinting could be happening, but also not a whole lot to do to reduce my browser's uniqueness. Obviously, it hasn't stopped me from getting on the web anyway.
Fing is free. You only have to pay for their "enterprise cloud" offering.
There is no nmap for the iPhone.
Because nothing is perfect, not the project, not part of the project. Each time you make any tiny piece a little bit better, you spend a little bit more time, you slide behind.

When you accept this fact, sometimes projects get done on schedule
You know, there is life beyond your own city. Hotels aren't granted a monopoly over short-term rentals everywhere.
Hey, do you have a link to your comment that lists all the safety advantages of Modula-2? I saw it once then couldn't find it again haha. Google & DuckDuckGo give me jack on the topic past the research papers, etc. Nice to have a simple list to drop in online discussions to get the point across.
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every liberal has to draw a line somewhere. he might think aborting is murder, so he puts the same restrictions you (hopefully) put on murder.
They are two seperate parts of the product. You can run Fing stand alone or you can subrscribe to and use the Fingbox cloud.
I loved my Motofone too. I've also been thinking a smartwatch might be the best chance for a small phone these days. Thanks for the link to the Pine.
This always bugged me cause it means every project estimate should be infinite in length.
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