skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for mentioning SmartOS (I was about to mention it myself). There is also LX-Branded zones which actually allow you to run Docker images in zones (ref: smart data center).

I don't agree with your gripes about Docker though, it does actually solve problems and allows developers to define what the requirements are for their software to run (it also makes build systems much less horrible). More importantly, all software is "random files copied from the developers laptop", so I don't see why that's a negative.
What's shocking is the lack of a clear explanation by the so-called experts contacted in this article.

My explanation as to what is likely happening:
"Every WiFi router has a special unique number - think of it as serial number - baked into the device by the manufacturer (known as a MAC address). Manufacturers request a range of these unique numbers from the IEEE, and are never meant to duplicate them. When you connect to a WiFi router, you connect to its friendly name (SSID), but also your phone receives a part of this special unique number (BSSID address) [1].

Companies like Apple, Google, and SkyHook, record the location of WiFi routers using this unique number. When a phone or other device has a strong GPS location and a strong WiFi signal, they can fairly reliably assume that this unique number is at this specific location.

However, not all manufacturers strictly follow the unique number allocation rule, as getting allocations can be a time consuming process. 999 times out of 1000, reuse of these numbers is not a big issue, and goes undetected. In this case, it is likely that the thieves are using, or are located near, a WiFi router with the same unique number as this couple. Changing this special unique number is sometimes possible on expensive enterprise grade WiFi routers by knowledgeable experts, but not possible or advisable on home routers. The couple should change their WiFi router."

Yes, I have conflated a number of terms there for simplicity. For technical accuracy: WiFi router -> access point.

Edit: added [1] https://arubanetworkskb.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/FAQ/Ho...

As BSSID is != MAC address.
I keep wondering how Java compares to Go these days. I'm not advocating Go, just wondering how much of an advantage Java has for server-side "web applications and services" for new businesses that are the usual small to medium scale with a single-digit number of developers and no legacy vs giant enterprise scale.

It just sounds as though the advantages of Java help large, complex systems of services and developers more than they help the vastly more numerous small-med systems.

Can someone with experience comment, because I'd like to understand the options a bit better.
Yup, you type B's are glorious, righteous, and so often misunderstood people. We, type A's, are pretty much only good for writing unit tests.
counterexample, I am type B but I like rigid languages.
> 1. create "hygiene trucks" - they are semi trailers that are mobile that would provide showers, bathrooms, 'scrubs' style basic clothing.

How is this better than a permanent facility? It's got to be way more expensive to build this into a truck.

> 2. container based micro housing, divide the containers into ~3 rooms.

Containers are not an affordable way to build housing. Shipping containers converted into housing is a fetish for rich people with architects.

> FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH

Yep. Mental health problems are highly correlated with homelessness. Everything from depression to schizophrenia to substance abuse. Often multiple issues combined.

> NO PETS.

This eliminates a huge number of homeless. Many homeless desperately cling to their pets because they have no one else.
I went to middle school in a majority black school. In all honesty, most of the white kids were in the honors courses and generally segregated from everyone else. In high school I chilled with more black people because the area was very country-culture influenced and we generally felt out of place.
Amazon doesn't offer jobs to help people. It offers jobs because it sees an opportunity to make money. Homeless people are probably cheaper than other workers, and are probably just as productive, thanks to Amazon's discipline enforcing measures.[1]

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[1] This article has a pretty decent write-up of what it's like to work for Amazon: https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2015/12/20/welcome-t...
But Nim shows that it's possible to have a fast, statically typed language that is also terse and lean and "script-like".

I actually do believe there exists a sweet spot. I just think that during design, too little thought it given to the scalability of languages. And I don't think it's that difficult.

For example, type inference is something of a game-changer, capable of making a statically typed language feel nearly like a dynamic one. Yet it's only recently being applied in mainstream languages, despite the theory not being particularly new.

I also think too little thought it given to the cognitive overhead of syntax. Wirth famously designed his grammars to fit on a single screen. Go (which, like its earlier incarnations Alef, Limbo and Newsqueak, is very much influenced by Wirth) gets this syntactical simplicity right. I thought early Rust syntax showed a lot of promise, but I'm unhappy about the current jungle::of::punctuation.

> If you're happy with Go, use Go.

To be clear, I'm not happy with Go.
That's fine, and has absolutely nothing to do with this case. The police were just doing their job searching for a missing girl and had strong evidence that her phone was in the house. And people here are outraged. It's absurd. The point of the fourth amendment is to stop excessive or abusive searches, not all searches ever.

Second I think some of the police hate is just availability bias. If you read nothing but articles on the Internet about police somewhere doing something bad, of course you will think they are all terrible. Like people that watch the news and think air travel is more dangerous than driving.
You won't find any router that takes coax, that portion is handled by a DOCSIS modem. In your case, you're unlucky enough to have been given a combined modem/router by your ISP.

You have 2 options to improve performance -

1. Use a third party DOCSIS modem, if allowed by your ISP, along with a seperate, dedicated router.

2. Put the modem/router abomination into gateway mode, and get yourself a seperate router. If the modem does not have a gateway mode, you can often use PPPoE to bypass the modems routing function.

This often resolves the connectivity issues introduced by these devices.
What kind of developer do I need?
Hello, I'm looking do develop what I would believe to be a web-based app. I do not possess the technical skills to create it myself so I'm kind of in the dark as to where to start and what kind of developer I'd even need. The Idea itself is not particularly new or groundbreaking, but I'd like to improve on what's out there. I'm looking to create a site that lets users input data, choose a "theme" or template, and create beautiful infographics based on the data inputted. The user could then further customize colors and logos and finally, give them the image format to download. Users would have the ability to store logos on the site for easy access to customization of future graphics even set up profiles with color preferences....what kind of developer would I need to accomplish this? How could I vet them and make sure they know their stuff? and what would it possibly cost to create something like this? Thank you for your help and experience.
I didn't see it that way. More spontaneous and un-predictable is what I got.
Perhaps not, but you have people who honor their US Confederate ancestry after living in Brazil for generations:

http://www.vice.com/read/welcome-to-americana-brazil-0000580...

But I agree that Brazil overall is an impressive melting pot, on par or better than the US.
Reginald?
At the risk of upsetting those that pay my bread & butter, yes, for the most part. And then there are tons of buts.

The first one: but they're usually good at judging people.

The second: some of them do hire tech people to help improve the odds (because that's all this is, playing the odds, improve them enough and you can do very well at this).

The third: they're past masters at the other end of it, protecting the exit. This is important because without an exit there is no return worth measuring (dividends don't really count as a rule, but an IPO would be nice if the company survives the lock-up period or if the VCs get to float their shares or a large chunk of them).

Obligatory lame VC joke: Q: Why does a venture capitalist walk into the negotiation room backwards? A: So they keep sight of the exit.

The fourth: there are at least as many irrational founders as there are irrational VCs, if not many many more.

Finally: Trust is everything. Break the trust at any point and you can kiss any investment goodbye. Have broken tech, a broken business model, a good attitude and team willing to put in the time and the effort to fix the tech and the model (or even an outright pivot) and I wouldn't rule out that you get funded.

Fun fact: the one thing that keeps on being repeated back to me whenever we (one of my clients and me) go to do tech dd on any one of the companies they've signed a terms sheet with is that no matter how many other investors have already been in that position and no matter how many times that company has already seen due diligence teams it will be the very first time that they actually get to really show their tech, both the good and the bad. This never ceases to amaze me, the amount of sloppy homework on the part of VCs and the usual suspects of companies that do dd (usually the big legal and accounting firms get hired and they then farm out the bits to various parties) is scary and this costs quite a few of them many millions of dollars annually. Even so, it's good advertising for me so I really shouldn't complain.
Umm, taking nothing away from his incredible stewardship and everything, but that's not true. I believe Rich Hickey et al did the first implementation. Not to mention that contributors have added hundreds of commits.
I don't think it's too great an assumption that information on a location involved in a suspected crime is added to a database so that lookups concerning that location have a backlog of such information. That's got to be close to MVP for a police database surely.

The dispatcher who gives the officers the call to attend would then give the background information known - "Murder here 2 years ago - previous occupants; parking violations issued to this address; 53 unconfirmed reports of stolen phones, 47 of which were later found not to be stolen just giving wrong GPS info. Caller says their stolen phone is at this location according to GPS reports.".
When I read this I raised my eyebrow. I hardly think that Lisp (1958) can be the base of the operating system of the future. Their texts are full of bold statements about how easy and natural lisp is and how everything else sucks. Nevertheless it's interesting to look at their references:

http://3lproject.org/references

I understand than in short, the security model is about how to make sure a process does not do more than what it's supposed to. In this case it's lisp environments that provide the necessary sandboxing.
It might be interesting to see how the rise in this cash hoarding correlates with the tendency to stop paying dividends to stock owners and instead focus on growth in stock price.
pls add [pdf] to title
Fedger-API bindings for PureScript
I've rarely seen this trend, personally...
The fundamental concept of "trickle down" -- legislate to further enrich the already-wealthy, and those less well-off will become more well-off as an indirect effect -- is way older than Reagan. William Jennings Bryan bashed on it in his "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896.
you could almost have this as a macro the question occurs often enough :-P
If I had to guess it's because socialists believe that everyone should bear the cost of helping the financially disadvantaged, whereas conservatives believe that its up to each individual to decide of they should help someone (beyond such things as emergency/military services which are socialist but have been enshrined into our view of government).

So a socialist who wants to help the homeless will spend their time fighting the government to fund to social services.

Does political action count as "getting your hands dirty"? Well I'm not one to decide.
Hyperloop COO Explains State of Hyperloop Development
Don't forget Python and R and C++ and JS and ... hmm. Almost like the language doesn't have much to do with it so much as the writer. But I digress!
> Unfortunately, we have a strong compatibility story, and so must take strong measures to enforce it. You can use the nightly released on the same night to get a build that's like a particular stable, but allows features.

Unfortunately, the crates.io system does not follow the same policy, and crates regularly require feature flags.
> google pays apple 75% for their search deal
Yes! It is so much easier to write a bunch of aspirational code when you know the compiler is going to tell you exactly why all of the stuff that can't possibly work won't work, so that you can go fix it.
He changed the quote from "doing it wrong" to "doing wrong".
There's this whole continent of pretty civilised countries just to the east of US.
> But the magic of HTML is in the browser where you click around. Having a standard for form equivalents and links in a JSON API doesn't pack the same punch because there is little purpose to have freeform consumption of an API the same way that we have freeform consumption of web pages by humans.

I think that's the whole point of the original article: If we're creating an interface for human consumption (a UI), then REST is eminently relevant, and we shouldn't forget the power of HTML-over-HTTP as its most widely-supported realization. But if we're creating an interface for programmatic consumption (an API), then REST is more problematic and we shouldn't feel guilty for not achieving its ideals.
It doesn't matter what I think; I'm also an outlier. ;)

If we extrapolated the view you're describing to the world at large, someone would have already noticed the general lack of correlation between advertising and revenue and the ad industry would be decades dead. As it stands the correlation is pretty solid and advertising is still profitable to be in and sought after by those who want to grow and shape their brand image.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/why-good...
Any data on the hit rate and falso positives?
> Is he a hero I can personally identify with?

> Mace Windu

> Vader

Mace Windu was a completely bogus effort to put Samuel L Jackson in front of Black ticket-buyers. It wasn't even a good role for the incredible (but range-limited) performer Jackson is.
California to make effective phone and laptop disk encryption illegal in 2017
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." — Adam Smith

Of course, he also said:

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged."
At least to Canadians we can point out 'French' Canada. The people are different, but still Canadian.
Why no pets?
Cryptography yields two components: encryption/decryption, and authentication. Break one of those, and they're both broken. And that's what really bothers me about all of these politicians who only fixate on the encryption part. They're oblivious to extreme risk introduced by breaking authentication.
1) dating as an Asian men
2) representation of Asian men in popular media
does anyone know how challenging it is to add Datomic subscriptions to Om Next?
So far, humans are the only ones to build a fusion bomb.
"Full-disk encrypted operating systems provide criminals an invaluable tool to prey on women, children, and threaten our freedoms while making the legal process of judicial court orders useless.”
"worked", past tense, on Starkiller Base, before he became a storm trooper.
This case is one that Groklaw used to cover, and... I have no idea what's going on there anymore, and don't know where else to look for anything of similar depth and trustworthiness.

Groklaw was a news site which covered tech company litigation, which shut down in 2013 because the primary author, Pamela Jones, felt threatened by bulk email collection. (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175) Finding out that the old cases it covered are still going through appeals and maneuverings, its absence is deeply felt.
Except that if Android didn't exist, those users would be using another phone that was serving Google ads (as opposed to not having a phone).

A better analogy might be television. If a company such as GE produced TVs and also owned a television network (NBC), then selling TVs so people could watch NBC would generate ad revenue but if someone replaces their GE television with a Sony TV, NBC still makes money selling advertisements.

I'm not sure I would describe the television equipment business as the entity generating revenue.

In the Google ad world, it is the ad-network that is generating the revenue, not the phones/tablets/computers that are rendering the ads.

That isn't to say that Google isn't getting revenue from Android, just that it would be odd to attribute the ad-revenue to the device business.
I'm 95% sure the last example in #3 is undefined behaviour. #(a b c) is not valid, so evaluating it with multiple levels of indirection probably is a compiler bug for not erroring out.
But it is work, to those who would otherwise not have any. It's very easy to say "you shouldn't work there, that job is terrible" when you're not the one spending nights in a park.
An API is not a painting. It is a set of facts.
Yes, but if you're looking at them as an investment then you need to look at the overall picture. Just looking at prices over time is interesting, but it doesn't give the financial picture from the perspective of a homeowner because it ignores taxes, maintenance and repairs. Once all that's factored in the picture tends to get a lot less rosy.

For example, over the past 25 years the average price of a US home has grown by about 14% in real terms. I'm too lazy to calculate out what that would be as an annual percentage rate, but it's definitely lower than the average US property tax rate, which I believe is a smidge under 1%. So already, even without considering other expenses, houses tend to be gradual money losers on average.
> It looks like nothing stops you from purchasing an encrypted phone on the second-hand market...

For reference, the ability to do this hinges on the Definition of "Sold in California" which is defined in -uh- CA Code 22761.(a).4 which reads:

'(4) "Sold in California," or any variation thereof, means that the smartphone is sold at retail from a location within the state, or the smartphone is sold and shipped to an end-use consumer at an address within the state. "Sold in California" does not include a smartphone that is resold in the state on the secondhand market or that is consigned and held as collateral on a loan.' [0]

[0] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&gr...
Looks cute! Congrats on the 500-1000 downloads!
> Anyone who puts their hand up for these jobs, knows or should know what they are getting into.

In many cases they know they're getting into the only job available to them, and that their kids need to eat.

We shouldn't be creating a world where people are expected to do strenous physical labour under stressful conditions for barely enough money to live. Amazon is taking billions a year, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the people who make that possible should see some of that.
New Relic Major Outage
And in those countries too, businesses need the government.
Socialists will help the poor a lot, just look at welfare states like Sweden. The problems there are two:

- The socialists use other people's (tax) money to help the poor.

- The socialists have no real reason to make the situation for most poor so they don't depend on hand outs. If they depend on tax money, they will vote left.

And there is a lemma from those two points: If a lot of taxes is used to not-really-help the poor, the large majority of people are quite poor too -- and the socialists will get even more votes, so even more tax can be squeezed out of the middle class.
I took it to mean it was a women only shelter (pretty common actually, for victims of domestic violence).
What it were proved that Amazon was offering jobs to the homeless at the exact same rate and conditions that it offered to all its seasonal workers, thereby not treating the homeless any worse than others.

Then what?

To me it would indicate that the motivation behind proposing jobs for homeless, which is usually a barrier to other employers, would be a benevolent one.

They basically said they will not bias against employment based on your housing situation. All things being equal, this is a good thing.
I'll put a second vote for Spring Boot. You're right that when the magic fails it can get a little complicated. However, I've found Spring documentation to be very good. Also, once you understand a little of how it's put together it becomes pretty easy to selectively replace whatever piece of the magic with your own custom version.
They'll pay the taxes. Also grumble for a month maybe, then go quiet.
Perhaps the shelter who is hosting the fair could agree that workers that take night-shift jobs from the fair will temporarily be allowed to sleep in the shelter during the day.

Are they not best positioned, and inclined to help?
Try a different example, because art appropriation is pretty well-developed. http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/30/8691257/richard-prince-ins...
I don't disagree, but there aren't enough "experts in the field" to supply your proposed demand. In a typical diligence round, you usually have financial/accounting, legal, commercial and ops/tech diligence. Are you suggesting they find a finance expert, a ops/tech, and commercial expert and pay them $1-3k each and on each investment?
Sounds like exactly what I go through every time I've fixed a malware-laden computer at whatever house I seem to be hanging out at nowadays.

Everyone seems to have a laptop that "won't boot" or something...I've had to stop cleaning them for this very reason.
10 to 250k is what a single angel will invest. Usually these team up for a larger seed round depending on their ability to fund.

Sure, $50K is peanuts, but then again, compare it to what YC offers and it's actually not all that weird. Usually seed funds do not get you enough money to go on a hiring spree and collect your favorite list of valley talent. But it might just be enough to get you to the point where you can demo your stuff and get a larger round. Essentially that's all that seed funding is, a way to get in front of a group of larger investors after doing some more product development.

There are dishonest people both on the founders side and on the investors side, no exclusivity there for either group.

Rare to see a career based on dishonesty last very long, word definitely gets around.
So uppercase Turkish `ı` is the same as ASCII `I`?.

Go and Haskell also have some special (unconventional) treatment of capital letters, which probably make them biased towards the English language.
I think the issue here is the difference between "is" and "essentially". Having a guaranteed matched release with alpha features would apparently be useful, for at least one person. Not being guaranteed could cause some real headaches under certain circumstances.