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I think the Docker based self-hosted PAASs (Deis, Flynn etc) is squeezing the smaller PAAS offering at the low end, and Elastic Beanstalk/Azure/Google CloudDB is killing it at the high end.

Why would you use <insert random small PAAS company> when you can deploy your own on AWS and then use their managed DB service?
A better article could be: "It's 2016 and we still don't know how to monetize a popular website well enough to fund its continued existence".

Even better if it actually provides ideas on how to move forward.
Or subscribe to a newspaper you haven't started reading yet.
> If I install Notepad++ because it allows me to work faster, am I using or abusing the computer?

This, and all of your examples, would be considered abuse if your corporate policy stated you were not allowed to install any software without IT's permission. It is that simple, really.

> if employees have local administrator rights, they are expected to manage their system themselves

This sort of thing really only occurs at small businesses with little-to-no internal IT support, or with very special cases (such as a developer, which would have special approvals by the company to do so).

> If your employees cannot be trusted to manage their machine, why do they have administrator rights in the first place

Well, they shouldn't, and they don't at most companies.

In the end, you signed a usage agreement. If you deliberately break that agreement, don't be surprised by the consequences.
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Bit coin simply doesn't help with remittances: https://www.saveonsend.com/blog/bitcoin-money-transfer/
Then who are the "others"?
Show up to my job as if nothing happened, get a tax adviser, and see if I could get it in a blind trust. I'd turn in the ticket, disappear for a year, and while doing that attempt to bootstrap a software company. If I failed I'd open source what I worked on with the knowledge that the cost of failure would not harm me in any way and be glad I had the freedom to try writing non-trivial software by my self with no financial repercussions.
In that case, I support it entirely. The Olympics was a much bigger fiasco.
You agree to this even if you're just using Windows and/or IE, or any other Microsoft software for that matter. So either you have absolutely no Microsoft software, or you're open to an audit.
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> Cool. I’m glad to see Pascal has adopted Rust’s approach of putting the type last, so you can actually see at a glance what the variable names are.

I'm guessing (hoping) this is irony...
Cutting standups to twice a week would be ideal but it was a big thing to bring in agile in my place so it seems like it would undo a lot of good work.
I think it's time we forgive the entertainment industry for that "you forgot to carry the one" trope. Turns out they were right!
Exactly. I lost my GoPro Hero Black v3 rappelling down a canyon[1] in Bali, later borrowed a friend's v4 because I was considering replacing it.

The display was fancier but less functional, when I was handling the camera and pressing buttons it would dark out momentarily unlike v3, it had better specs but all stuff that doesn't matter anyway for the reasons you mention.

Sad to see that every great product like this seems to inevitably succumb to death by product management by piling feature on top of feature, instead of just doubling down on what makes it a great product in the first place.

1. Hit the plastic casing at exactly the wrong spot against a rock wall so it popped open and the camera flew into the river below
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>>was it worth it?

You are not supposed to read about any algorithm. There is nothing special about knowing how some sorting algorithm works, or any algorithm for that matter. That knowledge is no better than knowing how some war in history happened. Or remembering arcane trivial about things. Knowing how to sort a list a dozen ways, no big deal. Unless you discovered the algorithms yourself, there is nothing special about just knowing how these things work.

You are supposed to learn how to discover your own algorithms, reasoning from the first principles, learning the axioms that govern the area of the problem, learn the rules, then work out step by the step, deriving new results from the results discovered a step back.

You are supposed to learn how to reason about the problem. You are supposed to learn to understand the problem, state it in simple terms, learn to draw diagrams to represent it, solve sub problems. Build theories, hypothesis, question them, prove them etc.

We don't do algorithm studies the right way.

Even software interviews are not testing algorithm skills, they are testing algorithm memorization skills. Nothing different than those teachers who used to confuse memorizing multiplication tables with genius.
I like the ideas, but I don't like the culture.

A big hackerspace is around my corner, but I just can't be there for long.

Too much awkward males, too much chauvinism, too much image cultivation.
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They're not that good, they're just not innovating quickly.

Even simple improvements like battery life or a better remote would probably drive a lot of upgrades.
When an article simply states, with absolutely no attempt at justification, 'But how do you solve this? Bitcoin will be the solution', you can just give up there and then. The author is a lost cause.
The post is pretty good but the comments following are gold.
Although it's becoming less meaningful statistic due to a host of reasons the audience figures for free-to-air (FTA) TV have almost always had the ABC trailing the smallest commercial network. A 2009 graph[0] shows how it's historically been although digging into more recent numbers their position is slightly better with the new digital channels.[1] Although we are in the holiday season and the commercial channels seem to perform better in other portions of the year.

[0] https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research/statistics/archf...

[1] (~467k pdf) http://oztam.com.au//documents/2015/OzTAM-20151227-C1MetFTAS...
For native modules, below options are ideal:
- V8 C++ API : These APIs will continue to work with node.js v8 as well as with Chakra because in shim layer we map them to equivalent Chakra APIs. If you see problem in any APIs not working as expected using Chakra engine, please file an issue on Microsoft/node and we will happy to fix it.
- NAN : Node.js Chakra is compatible with latest NAN version so it should continue to work with V8 and Chakra engine.

Regarding, Node inbuilt native functions (in other works deps) that are independent of v8, continue to work in Chakra without reimplementation. Chakra shim comes into picture to map V8 C++ APIs to Chakra equivalent.
Man, I agree with you. This kind of reasoning is bizarre, how could you possibly know the strategies of the other players? And yet it's right. Read the first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium, which is brilliant in its simplicity:

> In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is a solution concept of a non-cooperative game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only their own strategy.

Many people have tried to define mathematically what "rational behavior" means when there are multiple players. Nash equilibrium is the one idea that stayed. It's the first chapter of every game theory textbook. Since the 1950s, literally all publications about non-cooperative games have been based on Nash equilibrium. To understand why, you'd have to look at the history of the field, or you could take my word for it. If it's any consolation, it was very unintuitive for me at first, too.
There's a lot to this, but a university like UC Berkeley does educate far, far more undergraduates than a very elite private like Stanford or Harvard, and enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined, something you can say about several different UC campuses. Although UC gets support from the state, the massive endowments and favored tax status of the very elite privates may be more valuable than direct state support, with fewer strings attached.

The UCs are inefficient with money, but think about how much places like Stanford and Harvard are able to spend on an undergraduate class size that might be a quarter to a fifth the size of a UC, with a lower percentage of low income students as well.

If you consider scale an important factor, measuring a university by how many students it can educate in addition to how well they do after graduation… you know, I think the UCs may be a far more "efficient" model than the ivies.
It really appears tedious, at best.

The explanation is golden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake

"Despite the obstacles, readers and commentators have reached a broad consensus about the book's central cast of characters and, to a lesser degree, its plot. However, a number of key details remain elusive.[6][7]"
It could die off if we discover the NSA stole Intel/AMD's keys to backdoor every computer in existence.
Back in middle school, I did a science fair project on this for the Florida lottery. My hypothesis was that each ball was dropped into air-blown hoppers made by the same manufacturer to the same specifications, and each ball had slight variances in weight and aerodynamics due to the (assumed) pad printed numbers on the balls; thus, the "hot numbers" were statistically more likely to be drawn.

EDIT: also, the hypothesis included the average amount of time the balls were being tumbled before drawn.

It was, to my middle school statistical ability, correct at that time (ca. 1980s). The "hot" numbers "won" me over $3,000 over the course of two months. Random numbers? About $20.

Things have very likely changed since then, though.
If you can't track the binaries you are running you have a bigger problem than recompiling some of them. Security issues aren't the one in a decade thing, if you can't easily locate which code has to be updated, you are in trouble already...
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> "You'll also notice that less than a year after saying that she was off the network."

Fair point, but I wouldn't say the US networks were much better...

http://youtu.be/ozxzNjRqCiE

http://youtu.be/HrKKkGl3TnY
I worked at Mivrosoft when Tony Bates - curent GoPro CEO - was Head of the Skype divison there. After the Microsoft aquisition, and Steve Balmer announced stepping down, Satya Nadella, Stephen Elop and Tony Bates were the front runners for the Microsoft CEO seat.

When it turned out Satya got the CEO seat, rumours of Tony joining GoPro immediately surfaced - and turned out to be true.

I am pretty sure GoPro execs were hoping Tony Bates would make GoPro the mainstream success that Skype was. He did... except Skype was never profitable - but it was also not publicly traded, so this wasn't apparent, and never really an issue.

I do wonder if GoPro would have done better to appoint any other CEO, but personally I never even noticed any change of direction before or after Tony Bates being the CEO, despite the massive hiring spree that followed. Mind you, the same happened at Skype after the Microsoft aquisition - except Microsoft easily footed the bill.

In the light of things I do think GoPro did make the mistake of hiring an overly ambitious CEO, who hired too fast and too soon, without the financial results following.
At this point I am even scared of posting something against CIA, Palantir and NSA on public forums. Yeah, and Snowden like possibilities are 0 now, they probably track every single employee and the person might just disappear or come under a bus if he does something his bosses dont like.

I might be old fashioned but Mulder in X-files does not seem like a fantasy anymore.
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At my current job, I've removed 20kloc more than I've written in a 200kloc ish code base. Deleting code is one of the most enjoyable experiences of the development process in my mind.
A company who blames the uses of a private gmail is dysfunctioning, and a country should rather get rid of such companies rather than the employees. Economic excellence, by keeping companies who know how to manage the motivation of employees.

OTOH there are problems with salespeople communicating with customers on their private emails, like, ugh, the director of the CIA who was recently caught by a teenager.
By the way, mplayer is also affected, even after installing a fixed version of ffmpeg.
It is not locally produced...
Not to mention you have to beat their prices too. AWS and Microsoft are expected to keep prices low to keep out competition.
I agree that it wouldn't be a good idea to use this, unless you had configured the local resolver with overrides for the DS records forthe domain (to avoid the risk of ICANN / TLD (registry) / registrar malfeasance), but at that point, why not setup a private CA to sign the user keys? I guess maybe you wouldn't get easy distributed key revocation that way.
this looks really cool. I'm tempted to start a side project just to try this out
>> it's converted to kinetic energy, it becomes heat and light.

> Kinetic energy does not become heat and light.

So have you told the LHC people that they're misguided for thinking they can produce the Higgs Boson by colliding protons together? I'm sure you can persuade them how wrong they are.

> Kinetic energy is velocity.

Yes, among many other things: http://physics.info/energy/ (see the table "Types of kinetic energy")

Electromagnetic energy (heat and light) is a kind of kinetic energy.

But you know what? I've decided not to try to correct all the errors you've made. If you actually understood physics, you wouldn't have objected to the things you have (you might have found a better reason to object).

> Friction might cause objects to equalize in velocity, but can not actually reduce velocity ...

Wow. Those fools in Europe are sure misguided to have spent so much money on a circular 17 mile pipe dream. if only they had consulted with you before building that monstrous contraption. They actually think their gadget can convert near-light-speed velocities into many other kinds of energy, including electromagnetic, and the creation of particles from energy and the reverse. Do them a favor -- set them straight, as you've set me straight.
Game designer creates modern version of 'Facility' level from N64 game Goldeneye
In this case it actually is.

Imagine the nightmare of having to hunt tens of shared libraries versions, and even have to re-build them and patch them with the correct version of the language/apis so that they continue to work.
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Government as customer and near monopoly means you dont have to worry so much about job security.
Yeah, that's a false positive. Those are pretty rare for Deep Grammar. What is more common is that it finds an error but the suggested correction is not what you would want. Although other times the suggestion is uncannily accurate.

The recommendations themselves aren't the important thing, but rather that it flags an error when there is an error. You can find a quantitative evaluation here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deep-grammar-checking-using-l....

But yeah, I'm still working on making it better!
To test it out try a custom time of .1
In uni I participated in a 20+ person hackerspace in Australia. It was great, you had tons of space to set up your project, event nights were a group of loosely allied friends, and there were never more than 5 people using the space at any time.

When I came back to the states I joined the local 100+ member space and absolutely hated it. Met some really cool people but the majority were a bunch of jerks who either couldn't give you the time of day or just wanted to do things the hard way.

Maybe the idea of a hackerspace should be like 3.2 bars were in 20th century midwest. One in every neighborhood that served the values and needs of a small core group.
Designing better mechanisms for dating sites doesn't have enough leverage on which dating sites become useful and valuable. Like, matching markets are well understood and very effective, but AFAIK there isn't anything in the online dating scene that works that way. It'd be straightforward to replace a Tinder-style swipe-fest with "put up profile & rank the profiles you see, then go on a date with the highest ranked profile that doesn't want someone they ranked higher". There's no point to doing that without a marketing budget.
I couldn't sign up using an email address that has a + in it. (My amazon email is abcd+amazon@gmail.com). Could you get paribus not to flag it as invalid?
I've never heard of anyone getting fined either. A plain privacy policy link in the footer should be sufficient.
Transactions per second are bound to the block size.

The mining groups in China are against raising the block size because of bandwidth and other realistic concerns.

The core developers, many of whom are employed by a company that has a business model that has a higher chance of success if bitcoin does not raise the block size, can neither agree that the block size needs to be increased, nor how to perform the increase, nor to what size to increase it to. Even if they could agree, the Chinese miners wouldn't update their software, and we'd end up with a forked blockchain.

The primary places where bitcoin is discussed are moderated by a single individual that considers things like XT and implementations of BIP-101 to be altcoins and actively shuts down discussions about them and other block size increases.

It seems to me that bitcoin isn't in the process of scaling at all.
> Refunds cannot happen while being anonymous.

Preferring anonymity != preferring no payment disputes.

Bitcoins are also only pseudo-anonymous, and every transaction is publicly available making it less anonymous than a closed payments system or cash.

This rhetoric that apologizes for Bitcoins design flaws ("it's a feature not a bug") is detrimental to future blockchain implementations that could design a competitive solution to refunds.
I'm not sure if i'm foolishly answering a rhetorical question, illustrating your point or just extending the metaphor too far..

but I would attack the wild buffalo instead of poaching an owned cow and triggering a lion hunt by the local police department.
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Perhaps you'd care to expound? I suspect you hold this opinion due to your age, though I can't be sure as I don't have much to go off of.

Hacking to my understanding is exploring a system of rules, learning them inside and out and using those rules in expected and unexpected ways to control the system to your own desired effect, which may be constructive or destructive in nature.

I grew up during a time when individuals were doing this with the phone system and computers and other technologies and this included understanding and utilizing social dynamics and interaction to achieve a desired effect, usually gaining access to information that could be leveraged towards further hacking.
The funny thing is, half of the time links to Forbes don't even work. I'll click on a link and it will show me the quote of the day, but then instead of taking me to the intended article, it drops me off at http://forbes.com/.

I'm really surprised they haven't noticed a loss of traffic related to this. Perhaps it's just my setup, but I've been able to repeat it on Firefox and Iceweasel, which are quite popular web browsers.
My favorite is when they pop-up the survey question right in the middle of when I'm entering my credit card number.

Die a fiery death indeed.
more like <1% of a Big Dig
Nothing. :)

But for all the long hours and high stress levels, I do still quite enjoy my job. Which makes it all the more harder sometimes, because as bad as my current place might get on occasions, I know there's very few positions out there that are sufficiently better to encourage me to leave.

But the plus side is that it puts me in the fortunate position where I can turn down jobs. A luxury many people don't have.
Looks like it bundles libavformat internally.
Nanomaterials are very cool. However, have you actually seen many of them come to market?

You know why? It's extremely complex to manufacture them in any high-yield, high-throughput process. Since the mechanism relies on the properties of a nano-structure (however that is made via any number of techniques to record and make tiny 2D or 3D patterns, tubes, strings, etc), it is very difficult to make.

It's very sensitive to vibrations, the kind you can't feel and requires fancy highly-stabilized tables and vibration isolation systems that cost a lot to isolate a small area. You need a special room away from traffic, city noise etc if you want good, repeatable results.

I've yet to see this fundamental problem with production addressed. Would be curious to hear from someone working in the field.
Sorry but the question is not if you suck or not at bash. The issue is that there's always someone else that DOES suck at it, in unimaginable ways, and the regular guys like you and me have to deal with it. And there, Ansible helps!
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although if you're giving the service free reign of your email, it could easily look for those confirmation emails.
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Wow! Cisco must be held accountable.

And they will be, right after Tibet is free!

Also after Bush and Co. are held accountable for the middle Easter mess.. oh wait... that doesn't apply. The EFF does not care about real criminals in their own country, only technical ones.

The naivety of it....
It's tragedy of the commons.

Bitcoin is designed for having rational actors as miners. The miners profit less from the larger block sizes, and since they control the block size it's not going to happen.

Bitcoin users who think the miners will do it "for the good of bitcoin" don't realize that the entire bitcoin ecosystem is built on the miners acting in their own best interest, not bitcoin's.
I really dislike this business strategy, too, but if it's not all that bad if it's implemented correctly and cleanly. I'd prefer it over obnoxious ads if I can answer questions very quickly and I don't have to wait for my article to load.
I'm starting to think that a good approach to much of this would be an auto-learning adblocker. E.g. visit a site once, refresh and if your browser renders something different to the previous render, your adblocker gives you the option to drop it or leave it (and then does the 'right thing' with pulling out those elements of the DOM).
You mean... A web browser? Or a virtual assistant?

Not meant to be sarcastic, honestly. I just can't imagine what your dream app would actually do that isn't done by a web browser or a virtual assistant.
The article missed one. When the page is so densely packed that you can't find any white space to scroll with your mouse wheel for fear of rolling over a pop-up ad.
Well, Udacity is providing training for the money. The job guarantee is on top of that.
I had the same thought [0] when Matt Ranney mentioned that at QCon SF this past November. Especially since this post calls out a Bigtable-like data model, I'm somewhat perplexed.

[0] https://twitter.com/_wsh/status/666329980515647488
Yes. This is why no support for Nvidia or Broadcom.
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