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It always astonishes me to see graphs of yields for all these different plants and animals skyrocketing upwards under the pressure of selection on additive genetic variation, despite their totally different biologies, lifecycles, and even optimizing for different things (egg vs milk vs muscle).
From what I've read of the spec so far: msgpack has a confusion between text and binary data baked into it that will probably never be resolved, and CBOR deliberately fixes that.

It also seems to have a better implementation of streaming data than msgpack. In msgpack, streaming is something you have to implement outside of the format itself, possibly by concatenating together many msgpack representations. CBOR has a way to say "here comes a streaming list, I'll tell you when it's done".

BSON is a representation of MongoDB's data model and doesn't make that much sense to use without MongoDB.

I currently use msgpack for a lot of things, but if CBOR's Python library is good enough, I might switch.
Haha. I wasn't quite sure if you were asking because you were familiar or unfamiliar, but I figured I'd post it anyway for the benefit of other people clicking through the thread (e.g. GP, who sees replies to descendant comments). Don't read it as a reply to you personally :P
Israel doesn't give a shit; they've owned up all sorts of US infrastructure, and even (famously) had double agents planted in the US.
To be fair, iOS rolls off the tongue a lot better than whatever multi-word monstrosity Microsoft is calling their products this week.
On that note, this is one of the most impressive demos I've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Wk9Oi_Fsk

(When you're familiar with what a baseline atari 2600 game looks like, this is just beyond the pale.)
Yo dawg, we herd u like patching vulnerabilities, so we put a vulnerability in your vulnerability patcher, so you could patch vulnerabilities while ur vulnerable.
There are very few processors in the US that will process this type of risk. I'm the founder of a lottery app company called Jackpocket and the compliance / due diligence is ridiculous. Now that DFS is seen as illegal and toxic its going to be near impossible to get someone to underwrite this risk. Time for Bitcoin to shine!
Really the last thing Microsoft needs with their phone strategy is more change. It seems like the one product line they aren't willing to slowly refine -- they throw out almost everything every 2 years.
It is very disappointing that Clinton's head isn't on a pike for such an egregious display of malfeasance. If it weren't for her name and relations, she would almost certainly be subject to more severe action.

Though the US federal government is often far too heavy handed with their response to information-related crimes, this is a pretty clear-cut example of where a heavy-handed response would be completely appropriate.
Hmm, he wrote neither "instead" nor "wouldn't have been", so I'm having a hard time reading that sentence this way. I'm not a native speaker, though.
will do whatever it takes to get on their "good boy" list

That isn't true. If Fedex charges good boys $0 and everyone else $10, everyone else will only bother with the good boy list if it will save them the $10 per item.
> People that are against H-1B aren't trying to keep out other people.

You wouldn't know that from reading comments in places like HN.

Your point about citizenship (it could be a green card or a different visa, too) is a good one: by giving people with a work visa the freedom to move around, they're no longer beholden to one employer, and their wages will rise to the market rate.
There is something else going on, too, I think. One of the core strengths of Excel is that it frees a lot of people from dependency on "real" programmers. Any toolset that looks to replace excel (not an easy task) absolutely has to have this feature, or it will be a non-started in many of the core excel niches.

However, very few programmers can successfully go into a project that is fundamentally a programming tool, and maintain the mind set of "how I make sure that my own way of looking at this remains completely unnecessary?"

If you find yourself having a bunch of conversations with finance types and analysts that all look like: "but if you just approach it this way, it's much more powerful because X" you've probably already failed.
It does not, however as of 2012 it is quite hard to prove that the worker skills are essential to the company in a way that only transfer will fill the skill gap. Also L1s are not allowed to change employers so de facto it's an indentured servitude.
The projects being funded by YC (esp basic income) are substantially different and difficult to scale than those of traditional startups, YC or otherwise.

In the interest of reducing noise, are moonshots what you are looking for, or is it anything-goes?
There would be high demand for buying land to build new homes on. Or buying land with old low-rise buildings, and replacing the buildings with higher and/or more efficient design, to provide more homes on the same piece of land.

But even if the owner would like to sell the land, and buyer would like to pay a lot of money, this is usually not allowed, for political reasons.

If let to operate more freely, free market economy would be efficient in increasing the density of homes in high-demand areas. This is very much not happening in San Francisco.

If people are willing to pay Manhattan-prices (and even more), the free market response would be to build at Manhattan-density.
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If something can be done with regex, someone will do it with regex, and it will end up in a big project.

That’s why I weeped when support for named groups and backmatching was added.
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It's quite active, though most development is going into the 2.0 release (which adds things like clustering). Here's the alpha if you're interested. https://couchdb-ci.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/release-candid...
The real problem is not with the cops doing their jobs and enforcing the law. The real problem is that the laws are so dysfunctional to begin with. For decades, stupid laws were patched up by a police system that simply chose not to enforce them widely. This is of course as ugly a "hack" as you can possibly get. People lose respect for the laws, and it gives the police immense discretionary power that they can wield on the basis of their subjective whims. But the system chugged along like a 20 year old computer valiantly running Windows 95... until one day, a cop shows up who decides that his job is to enforce the law, and that's when the sheets come off and people realize just how stupid the laws really are.

If you find yourself shaking your head when reading the article, and are looking for someone to blame, don't blame the cops. Don't blame the police commissioner. They are simply doing their jobs, and that's a good thing. Blame your lawmakers for writing into law, or not repealing, absolutely idiotic laws. This problem does indeed need to be fixed, and we need to fix it by actually changing the law so that it makes sense.

1) The speed limit should be set at a level that people are actually expected to follow. If you don't mind people driving 70mph on the freeways, change the speed limit to 70.

2) Traffic fines are not meant to be a revenue source for the government. They are meant to be a form of punitive punishment and deterrent. A $400 fine is overly punitive for an unemployed person, but it's also too lenient for a millionaire. If the goal is for the fine to be punitive, it needs to be indexed to the person's income.

3) People shouldn't have to leave their jobs and go to court, and sit around for hours, just to have 5 minutes in front of a judge to ask for a payment plan. This sort of thing should be completely automated and doable online. Judge appearances should be reserved for special cases, not for rubber stamping.

The sooner the police start enforcing the laws strictly, the sooner people will realize how broken the laws are, and the sooner we can get to making real fixes like described above.
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What does that mean for IBM and Express?
> If spying on allies sounds appropriate to you, then I'm not sure you understand why Snowden is even an issue.

I disagree. The important revelations from Snowden (in my opinion) is not nation-states spying on (officals of) other nation-states, it's nation-states conducting dragnet surveillance on their own citizens and citizens of other countries.
>it's been pretty stagnant since it was acquired, very few bug fixes and afaik no feature enhancements

It's become noticeably buggier since the acquisition, in my opinion.
Simply require local police/court systems to turn fine money over to the state, which will move the incentive for abuse from the local level to the state. Or, require that it is sent to the Federal government. Better yet, burn the money (but that is still akin to giving it to the money printers).
I work on a site with a long history. I recently created a benchmark and found that I could make around 500 synchronous HTTP requests to our infrastructure per second (essentially localhost calls). If I switch my benchmark to HTTPS I can only make about 5.

That's a big difference. I'm a developer, not a hardware guy, so I don't know what causes the slowdown for us. I assume it's the actual setup and teardown of the HTTPS connection. That is a fairly significant difference when I want to use API's via HTTP/HTTPS and I need to make a lot of calls quickly.

My point is that HTTPS still seems to be 100x more computationally expensive than HTTP.
One word (well, 5): hermetic, peeled San Marzano tomatoes.

Sure, they aren't fresh tomatoes. But they're super tasty, nutritious, store and ship well, and they're fairly cheap to boot. Try making a proper bolognese (proper, as in, start with frying up sofritto) using cans of San Marzano... O.M.G.

Conserved vegetables are awesome. Conserving even helps increasing the nutrient value by increasing bioavailability.
"We can solve all of the world's problems!" - Bay Area
"What about us?" - The world

rant.

Maybe I'm a bit naively bitter on the subject, particularly after spending some time at Chicago's opengov hack nights. Something about it got very, very turned me completely away from modern civics and its problems solving. Much of it seems to stem from the same vain as high school grads building unmaintainable schools in "primitive" cultures many miles away.

My problem isn't that Uber, SF etc exist. Individually, "fuck yeah!". As a whole, though, they take the focus away from the nuance of actual problems and create comfort for those who can afford it. The poor, the mentally sick and the fringe simply aren't accounted for to the level that they can be. Especially after walking through SF streets earlier this year. It was infuriating to see so much homelessness and prosperity of achievement condensed in the same place. Chicago and NY have nothing on how sharp that difference was (although, I admit it might be selection bias).

Many techie-type folk my age tend to complain about the large economic/social problems. Very few of them ever take action - yet they complain about inaction! If that feeling is as pervasive as it seems, then maybe the problem just might be within some nuance that's not being addressed. When skill's diverted from that nuance towards Bay-like areas and their functions, then YES, they are part of the problem. Just maybe not directly or in an intuitive way.
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This is very true, I remember taste of tomatoes grown by my grandpa 15-20 years ago, it's almost a different veggie. Same with strawberries I remember eating from bushes as a kid, didn't taste or look like the ones in the shop.

Cherries on the other hand are pretty good. Maybe because they grow on trees, which have much longer lifetime and therefore are harder to optimize for yield. Also seeing couple of cherry "farms" made me think it's a good idea - instead of pesticides, genetic modifications, in-house cultivation or whatever - they use gigantic mesh to protect them from unwanted animals and I think that's it. I don't know if it's a common practice or just few exceptions I've seen.
It doesn't have a hard limit, but it has much stricter requirements. It is not enough for the company to simply want to transfer you, you must possess skills that can't be found anywhere else (mostly, proprietary knowledge). You need a very strong case.

That's L1-B. L1-A (manager) has different requirements. But in any case you need to be high up in the org chart. "Project manager" won't cut it.

It gets harder the more you hire. Say you are the only one who knows about technology X (i.e., you created it). It is easy to make your case. It won't be as easy when you are employee #100.

Also, after a certain percentage of workers are on that visa, the fees get much higher.

I don't think it has minimum wage requirements, but good luck getting a low salary approved. You are supposed to have a unique skill set and proprietary knowledge, after all.

Disclaimar: I'm on L1B.
WireShark: Allied Drone Edition. No seriously, I have no clue.
The wage for a Level 1 'Computer Programmer' in SF is 66k/yr[0].

The wage for a Level 4 'Software Developers, Applications' in SF is 138k/yr[1]

Which option do you think employers choose?

[0] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-11...

[1] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-11...
What's the phrase - a lie can go halfway around the world before the truth has even tied its shoes?

Just another fabrication by our overlords, I mean benevolent protectors, designed to force the rabble, I mean the civilians, into sending everything clear text.

The government won't be happy until they can execute random people on the street with impunity.

You know it, they know it, the whole fucking world knows it.

And anyone who down votes me I hope they make you lick freshly squashed dog shit off their boots in front of your kids before they execute all of you.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991745 and marked it off-topic.
The Israelis used a commercially-available encryption scheme, VideoCrypt, which was brute-forced (albeit slowly) as early as 1994. Then it's just a matter of intercepting the satellite signal from somewhere within its downlink footprint.

The article dates to 2010 and it sounded like the Israelis were switching to a better encryption scheme even back then, so I'd expect this information is strategically useless now. VideoCrypt was probably more of a "fences make good neighbors" thing to keep Hezbollah from seeing their drone feeds quite so easily.

Also on the "dates to 2010" thing, this is probably something that could be GPU-accelerated nowadays.
Like facebook, there is no using it correctly or not. Once you are in you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed. Call me old, but I still use bookmarks. Every morning I check my news from my favorite outlets and blogs using old html. The things worth my time don't fit with twitter's approach to information.
Just kidding about the last part.
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How about carbon sequestration tech? Seems like the world is starting to move towards renewable energy generation, but that alone won't prevent the adverse effects of CO2 levels rising.

A rigorous survey of what the current possible carbon sequestration tech and methods would be really helpful. Another organization might already have this survey done, but I haven't seen anything online (in my admittedly trivial search efforts).
It's strange to me that although distributed version control systems are very popular, we all use centralised issue trackers for them.
Seems so.
Because these areas are part of the nuance that allows SF-like mentalities to exist. Ignoring that nuance ignores the larger problem on how these bubbles can happen.
To be fair... he's not working... he's on sabbatical :)
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bcg1 is right - I am largely referring to people very much like the example in the comment I replied to. Also when i think of "lifestyle inflation" it's more geared toward currently working professionals - folks who get a raise and their take-home increases by $800/mo so they go out and buy a car with a $700/mo payment attached to it - and less the transition from student to worker.
Well, the page you linked to actually "looks better" than a typical page you get on bountysource.com, but even it shows that only handful projects receive good funding, other mostly "motivational pack", and clicking around, there will be lots of zeros. So, I guess it lies more on well-known and wide-scope projects to promote such services and make them popular, whereas Kickstarter is an already popular platform with active community around.

In our case, Kickstarter was just the right choice overall - we're aware that there're well known competitors, and we want to see if there's enough community interest to back development and support for a reasonable time (half-year, better a year). Starting a KS campaign requires a lot of preparation, but I guess it's good again, because it allows to sanity-test earlier exciting ideas, to see if you really can pledge to implement them.
One could make an even faster, lighter, and more usable platform if it didn't have to support apps at all. Heck, the very first iPhone was such a platform. But really the fundamental purpose of a smartphone is to run applications. It's also the fundamental purpose of most operating systems, including especially Windows.

The part of Microsoft that runs the desktop side of things knows that people use their OS to run apps. That is it's primary purpose and they do everything they can to move forward while ensuring as many apps run as possible.

With Windows Phone/Mobile/Whatever they've done everything possible to make app existence and development as low priority as possible. And as such, their platform is mostly empty.

Apps are fundamental to the smartphone experience -- the lack of them is not an absurd reason to avoid the platform. Ironically Microsoft makes some great smartphone applications but even the best mobile versions of those are on other platforms.
Telcos are actually a great example of how the free market (eventually) routes around incumbents who fail to satisfy market demand.

The telcos have stalled residential broadband for decades, leaving most of the US stuck with early 2000s-level cable modems or DSL. None of them will make a move.

So what happened? https://fiber.google.com/about/
That was my thought too. It sounds like having an issue tracker tightly coupled with the code/repo structure would be extremely useful in monorepo's.

The problem might not be that it's hard to figure out which issue a repo would belong too, but rather, having multiple (separate) repositories that have things in common.
Afaik newer versions of messagepack added an extra type to have string and binary now seperated.

I read somewhere that CBOR was better designed for extensibility, but don't know anything further about it.

One difference (on the non-technical side) is that CBOR is standardized through IETF.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10996698 and marked it off-topic.
There's a political agenda at work here, which views all intelligence activities as being morally equivalent, and thus this is as wrong as warrantless domestic surveillance.
> I also skimmed your views, and I'd like to address the straw man in your moral section. People that are against H-1B aren't trying to keep out other people. I'd prefer that if we do indeed have a shortage which requires special immigration visas that we have actual hard evidence of the shortage first and if the data shows it then to focus on encouraging employers and education institutions to train citizens first. If that can't be done, I'd rather we automatically give citizenship to those that we deem are vital to our economy instead of keeping them in immigration limbo that is the H-1B system.

Yes, but the majority of people against H-1B are not proposing or pushing a feasible alternative. Let me just state a short argument here: currently ,there is no simple way for a programmer being offered a $300k salary to immigrate to the US within a reasonable timeframe (let's say <6 months). EB-x will take years depending on your country of origin (and still takes 1-2years even without waiting, just for the processing time alone). Said programmer will not qualify for O-1 (O-1 requires specific types of achievement/ popularity). L-1 requires you to stay with the company abroad for at least a year.
If anybody wants a little more code with their blog post, here is another example http://maxdemarzi.com/2014/02/12/online-payment-risk-managem...

A proper fraud detection system has lots of pieces. The one the customer was having trouble with was Cross Reference in real time. Imagine 10k requests per second coming in, you can use cross reference to flag transactions for further analysis or as a partial weight to more fraud detection algorithms.
Yeah, just noticed that there's a ton of solutions already out there based off of Shopify.
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