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The TIOBE rankings aren't to be trusted. Just click on Groovy to see its history graph - it went from #82 to #17 in a mere 12 months.

The last time Groovy made the top 20, it hit #18 in Oct 2013, but 3 months later (Jan 2014), had dropped back out of the top 50 (#32 in Nov, #46 in Dec). TIOBE said the following month "The data is produced by one of the sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. After we fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings." [1] Just before that fix happened, interviews with the current Apache spokesperson for Groovy (Guillaume Laforge) promoting Groovy's top 20 position were published in 5 online rags (www.infoworld.com, www.eweek.com, cacm.acm.org, jaxenter.com, and glaforge.appspot.com), and all of them quickly appeared in Google's top 30 search results for "groovy programming" and remained there for 6 to 18 months afterwards. I'm guessing the same feedback effect was engineered again before the end of last month (Jan 2016), and Groovy will again start losing its new top 20 ranking.

This rapid rise then fall also happened with Groovy in December 2010. Groovy began a sudden rise from outside the top 50 when Groovy tech lead Jochen Theodorou "volunteered" his services to Tiobe in late 2010 to help them improve their algorithms. Than in April 2011, Groovy fell from #25 to #65 on Tiobe in a single month after they increased the number of search engines they monitor.

These fleeting peaks for Groovy in the TIOBE rankings (#25 in Apr 2011, #18 in Oct 2013, #17 in Jan 2016) between its usual ranking of somewhere between #51 and #100 (e.g. #82 only 12 months ago) are a bad thing for Groovy because of damage to its reputation as a solid language suitable for long-term IT solutions. Such ranking volatility gives off the stench of search engine optimization, a smoke-and-mirrors marketing tactic intended to benefit a single stake-holder, probably the person who privately owns the groovy-lang.org DNS domain.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...
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What of all the employees of the stadium? Of all the travel to and from the stadium? Of the merchandising deals? And any other numerous subsequent results... what does the money that goes to the employees or third-parties count as? They don't get paid in company scrip.

That's akin to saying that the money for any government funded project only go to the party directly responsible for building/supporting it, and all of the consequences from the initial project are inherently zero.
Go compilation speeds will be up to 2x slower in Go 1.7
That's what the NFL rule specifically prevents. They require a single human owner, or a small group where one of the humans has at least a 1/3 stake.
Is there a timeline to how long it took them to figure out Redis was down? Because having experienced the same, you get an alert. Cool. HA-Proxy says app servers are down. Ok. You SSH in and see that everything looks ok but the processes are bouncing. You tail the logs to find out why (obviously lots of these steps could be optimized). Within a few seconds you spot the error connecting to Redis. A minute later you've verified the Redis hosts are offline.

That's the first 5 minutes after getting to a computer.

After that it doesn't really matter why they're down. You failover, get the site back up and worry about it later.

Are these systems on a SAN? That's probably the first mistake if so. Redis isn't HA. You're not going to bounce it's block devices over to another server in the event of a failure. That's just a complex, very expensive strategy that introduces a lot of novel ways to shoot yourself in the face. If you're hosting at your own data-center, you use DAS with Redis. Cheaper, simpler. I've never seen an issue where a cabinet power loss caused a JBOD failure (I'm sure it happens, but it's a far from common scenario IME), but then again, locality matters. Don't get overly clever and spread logical systems across cabinets just because you can.

Being involved with this sort of thing more frequently than I'd like to admit, I don't know the exact situation here, but 2h6m isn't necessarily anything to brag about without a lot more context.

What's pretty shameful is that a company with GitHub's resources isn't drilling failover procedures, is ignoring physical segmentation as an availability target (or maybe just got really really unlucky; stuff happens), and doesn't have a backup data-center with BGP or DNS failover. This is all stuff that (in theory if not always in practice), many of their clients wearing a "PCI Compliant" badge are already doing on their own systems.
hmm. I thought it worked like this "Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work." [1]
and
"Discouraged workers are a subset of persons marginally attached to the labor force. The marginally attached are those persons not in the labor force who want and are available for work, and who have looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months, but were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey."

I don't think it's connected to insurance benefits. I think the statistic is dumb, because it should count people who are available to work but aren't.

On the other hand, if you aren't looking, maybe you really aren't available.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#unemp
But how were the council members appointed? Resident approval must be involved somehow. If this city council is doing a bad job (seems like it), push for a new council. If the tide is too strong against, you have to challenge ideas.

A lot of folks seem to believe there's a legal apparatus we need to invent that can solve this, when it's perfectly sufficient to just get traction for a critical stance on concussionball (gasp!)
Haven't tried Soli if that's what you're referring to, although I don't see how they compare as Google aren't doing mid-air haptics?
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mathgeek, your sentiment is seconded.

Seeing people saying, "It's me time." is a bit disconcerting. Respectfully as an opinion, spending between 2 and 4+ hours a day sitting on a bus/train is not "me time". Why do I think that? Because of what I suspect the answer to this question would be: If you had 2 free hours at home would you spend it doing the exact same task that you would do for 2 hours on a bus?

I understand that a two plus hour commute is a choice and obviously there are people willing to accept it. But I am suspicious that the "me time" argument is in reality a rationalization to make what would generally be unacceptable appear acceptable.

And as an appeal to the emotional side, you have one life. Do you really want to spend 10% of your life on a bus every month?
I know that may not feel rich to you, but it definitely makes you the exception to the rule. Most students receive some amount of financial aid, especially in 2016 after decades of massive inflation in tuition costs.
That's a colorable argument, but my response would be that the likely ultimate outcome of capital and price controls along with a disbelief in the concept of hyperinflation is zero chickens for the poor, because in the absence of a stable economy all commerce will go to the black market, and the black market could give two fucks about the poor.
Yes. Note the idiom "in league with."
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My highschool (Spring Lake Park, MN) had a program like this when I was a student in the 90s. It was a specific course you signed up for like autoshop.

The basement and foundations were dug and laid by contractors but all of the other, non heavy equipment, construction was done by students under supervision from pros (like helping out a habitat for humanity project). Everything from framing, plumbing to electrical. Students would rotate and get their hands on every part of the house. Returning students took on leadership roles and more skilled tasks.
Now if only stadia were built to last, like cathedrals...
> But my question is this: From my understanding, the First Amendment establishes limits on what government can and cannot do, it doesn't establish what a private entity can and cannot do. In this case the law allows a private business to sue a private individual, and while the law itself is established by government, the use of that law is not.

The first amendment prohibits government (Congress, actually, but the 14th Amendment's due process clause has been read to apply, among other things, a virtually identical restriction to the states under the doctrine of incorporation) from making any law abridging the freedom of speech. Whether such a freedom-abridging law creates a cause of private action or public action is immaterial, it is the creation of the law itself that is prohibited.

(That said, most ag-gag laws involve both criminal penalties and private causes of action, and so do not actually meet the description of the government role being merely the creation of a law under which private parties act.)

>So maybe someone with more legal expertise than myself can answer: Is it possible to bring this issue before SCOTUS if it is only used by non-government? Have they effectively found a loophole by keeping government out of the actual lawsuits? Can you sue a law itself (would you have standing)?

You don't sue the law, you raise the unconstitutionality of the law as a defense against any attempt by any party (public or private) to use the law, e.g., by suing you or filing criminal charges against you.
So, while it sounds like they have reasonable HA, they fell down on DR.
unrelated, I could not comprehend what this means?..:
technicians to bring these servers back online by draining the flea power to bring

Flea power?
> You can't have it both ways.

Sure you can. They paid for the codebase, it's theirs. You don't own it, whether you have the responsibility for keeping it maintained or not. That's true no matter which approach the company takes to managing their technical infrastructure. They can make decisions about it with or without your input and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's theirs, not yours.

What you own is a responsibility to that codebase and to that company. A responsibility that the company is paying you for. It's your responsibility to not fuck up that codebase. If there are conflicts, you need to bring them up to your employer and let them make the decision.

What I think you're not getting is that tasks like cleaning up, refactoring, etc. are part of the job and that you're not doing your job properly if you don't do them. You do not bring these up to your employer or allow him to stop you from doing them, because they're part of the job.

If you work in construction, clean up is part of the job, you don't ask your boss whether you clean up or not, you clean up and he pays you for the time. Same with dev work. It's not up to them, you are a professional and nobody should tell you how to work. If they don't like it they can fire you, and you can go somewhere that appreciates your professionalism. You'll probably get paid more too.
Not true. Investors probably have preferential shares and liquidity preferences which will safeguard their investments regardless. If it is indeed a small/medium size business, then the current $10B valuation is totally out of whack, and guess who gets screwed in the end - yep, employees..
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> You can only test hypotheses of the form "A is exactly like B" - no bug fixes are allowed, because they will show up as differences.

Of course they will. That's a feature. The system doesn't intrinsically know whether a change in behaviour is a bug added or removed, it can only report that there's a difference in behaviour, it's your job to investigate whether the control or the experiment is correct.
Now imagine there are many other people who have this one other reason they still use XYZ. That's how many companies stay in business. I worked at a company where customers would call angrily and shout "The only reason I am still with you guys is because of the designs you guys have, but your service sucks, blah, blah, blah...," and this conversation usually ended with "OK, 4125-5623-8451-XXX...Expiration Date XX-YY... OK, Thank you!"
You are pissed off at basic human nature (Create groups, status for self, promote others with ceremony, create structure, address by role).

Moreover, you generally become an individual in a company when you prove your worth.
> explain the popularity

Besides the hits,

1. The short season

You're always left wanting more.

There's an order of magnitude fewer NFL games compared to the NBA, MLB, or NHL. And it's convenient - you can follow pro football and have most of the year off and, during the season, most of the week off.

2. The action

Yeah, the ball is only in play for a few minutes, but there are 60-70 plays per game - that's a lot of punctuated action compared to the snail's pace of baseball or the constant back and forth of the other sports. And the plays are more likely to be do-or-die drive or game changers than in the other sports. It's way more edge-of-your-seat.

Those two features are somewhat "drug-like," imo.
Why is it easier to share our secrets with people we barely know?
Thanks for the input, if it's not too much trouble would you mind submitting where you are and what you searched for perhaps with a screenshot of the map to the 'submit feedback' at the bottom of the page?
> I thought breaching a contract was not a violation of the law.

Breaching a contract is a violation of law (specifically, the subset known as contract law.)

> There will be civil consequences of course.

"Civil consequences" require a violation of the law.

Obviously, they don't require a violation of criminal law, but criminal law isn't the whole of the law.
It is no more in an insurance company's interest to raise rates arbitrarily than it is for any other company. If one company's premiums are significantly more expensive than other insurers, they'll lose customers – and if what you say was true, any insurance company that realized this could cease the practice and gain many new customers.
Correct, I think... right up until rich people's private property got in the way of doing more for the poor.
How to slow down traffic even more: dig trenches across the road. Remove bridges and culverts, use fords instead. Block lanes with ornamental sculpture. Block lanes with "DEAD END" signs. Remove navigational signs generally. Install caltrops. Remove drains. As an extension of school lunch programs, routinely issue free traffic cones to small children.
Why not try both? The vibe and culture surrounding the two sports are totally different I find. Baseball teams, for instance, play almost every day as opposed to once a week for football. I think at least partially because of that (each game is less consequential), it's more common to casually watch baseball games as opposed to football where it's a proper event and people get really into every game. Depending on where you are, it's probably easier and cheaper to get tickets for a baseball game.

Two totally different sports, really. Buy some tickets to some games and see what tickles your fancy.

If you do go to a baseball game though, I recommend at least once getting bleacher seats (basically equivalent to general entry). That's where the fun happens!
I'd bet they will just happen one day. "Super cruise control" will get an update that automates your whole trip, et voila.
You are assuming "country" and "sovereign state" are synonyms, but that isn't true in general. The word "country" is used to refer to the four first-level subdivisions of the UK - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales - this is standard and well-established English usage (well, certainly standard British English). The concept of a sovereign state having subdivisions known as "countries" is not unique to the UK, as the following article attests - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_country
That's why I hear some people say that Wrigley Field is Chicago's largest bar, and it happens to have a game field in the middle of it.
Heh. Looks like the cipher suite options are outdated for this site (so it probably wouldn't pass an SSLabs test).
Last I was aware, there was no evidence that this investment provided any return.

Not that it matters because that still wouldn't justify a huge investment by the public into a private entity without any ownership stake.

If the idea was really to create something resembling a grant to private organizations to create business that stimulates the economy, you would rationally have some kind of process around for screening candidates based on merit and be more diversified in your awards.

I'd like to believe it's anything other than a kind of blackmail where these organizations use their media power (== public opinion) with impunity to bully municipalities into providing them the tax revenue of citizens, wasting money that could otherwise be used for individual or public good, but that's all I can make out of it.
> Yah, because we don't need plastics or synthetics

You know there are other non-petroleum oils that can provide some of these needs, right?

As for lubricant uses, looks like that can work too: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020740311...
Apparently the limit is now 5% per individual, 30% per family, and stakes can be owned by irrevocable family trusts:

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2015/05/25...

The loophole-finder in me wonders if it would be possible to create "The Mitochondrial Eve Family Trust", for all descendants of mitochondrial Eve, by invitation only. Assets could then be contributed into this trust in exchange for season tickets to a football team, and the trust would own the team. Additional restrictions (eg. X generations of residency in a certain metropolitan area) might apply.
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I think your logic is correct, but your implied outcome is probably wrong.

>"If you get in an accident and suffer damages and you allege that this is due to a manufacturer's defect, this is a basis for suit against the manufacturer."

Right now, this is an edge case. The self driving car may cause it to become common.
There are better ways to get people to educate you than to be a condescending jerk and waiting for angry responses.
> There is no explosion. The cost of collisions today is reflected in the car insurance, so about $100/mo. If the manufacturer were to absorb this liability at current incident rates, it would make cars about 30% more expensive (assuming $300/mo loan payments).

Except juries invariably award much larger damages against companies then against individuals; particularly when the individual is dead or permanently disabled by the accident. People will be reluctant to levy a multi-million dollar award against a reckless driver's widow, but will be perfectly happy to award it against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Punitive damages are extra compensation to discourage future behavior. Yes, these are not used in every country, but compensatory damages certainly are, and those can get pretty high.
I've read that page, I don't see their words where they say Protobuf is not good at encoding raw bytes. You have not been able to confirm it because you didn't spend 10 minutes trying it (add a bytes field to a message and see what the resulting message size is, add it to the benchmarks). I got to that "No" in the feature comparison and realized that this comparison was more marketing than science.

There are lots of options for routing Protobuf messages which are pretty straightforward logic. Most common is probably writing the length of the message first before writing the message. You could also break up the message into two parts, a header used for routing and the message. You could use UDP as the transport mechanism if your messages are small enough.
It's a terrible time to try to get public funding for a billion dollar project in Alberta while thousands of people are losing their jobs due to oil price.

They will try again. Here is a Grantland picce that covert it: http://grantland.com/the-triangle/how-to-sell-a-stadium-in-s...
This is an amazing and inspiring initiative and I wish I'd been involved somehow. I'm not sure whereabouts in Australia you're based, but if you're in Sydney I'd love to buy you both a beer :).
non profit with tax breaks you mean
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I wonder what the results would be for 1.5.2 (the version which had the bug in key generation). Has anyone check this? If not, I'll do it when I have time later today.
> but [the Astrodome] will likely become a park to bridge NRG Center and Stadium

Only because so many people are too sentimental for the damn thing to knock it down. It's likely to become a greater boondoggle than anything else that exists on the property.
> How robust do you imagine it would be to just record the call / response pairs of the mutable objects in the new code and then replay them when running the experiment on the old code? […] Obviously this would fail when the two versions perform different operations in the database, even semantically equivalent

I'd think the latter would be the common expectation by virtue of a different implementation.
Have they broken US law, from Venezuela?
Does anyone know if there is a list of the 60,000 apps that relied on Parse? I'm just curious.
How does a single network 100% of vehicles are tied into avoid the problem of an attacker only having to subvert one node on that network to compromise everybody? (Not to mention the difficulty/impossibility of getting to 100% in a reasonable timeframe.) Seems like that's been shown time and again to be practically impossible.
Boomerang (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) seems okay. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now.
When it's convenient, yup, doing a public service, keeping kids off drugs, stuff like that.
Ask HN: Any open source alternatives to intercom.io?
intercom.io is excellent, but can be quite costly for a startup. Anyone know of any open source alternatives?
If someone believed in King Obama, would your surprise elevate or diminish your confidence in their general-purpose information gathering skills?
> Google, which is perhaps the most famous example of the "We have 4 official languages, and you're not introducing a new one" policy

I believe those 4 languages were Java, C++, Javascript, and Python. Nowadays they also use Go, Dart, Groovy (in Android Studio), and I guess a lot more. (When I say Groovy, I mean the tiny non-Turing Complete subset of the syntax used as a DSL in typical Gradle build scripts.)
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I agree that the bar for safety should be ~10x human-level. But I also find it interesting, because that should be a moving target. Eg if we realize humans often rear end the car in front of them, and fix that with "auto braking", then we'll improve how safe human drivers are.

Thus, hopefully, both humans and self-driving cars should have improving records [although I don't have any data to back this up].
I really like the Dataflow programming model, but this feels to me like an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Spark Streaming is a fully open-source project; although the Dataflow SDK is also OSS, my understanding is that the released version can only handle bounded datasets. Support for streaming (which is the major innovation, IMO) is only available in the form of stubs that call out to Google's paid, proprietary Dataflow service.

It's totally fine to compare an open-source project with a proprietary alternative, but I think it's odd that this article opens by talking about how the Dataflow SDK is being opened, and then spends all its time talking about proprietary features.
NASA says 20, SpaceX says 9, I'll call it 15.
Hard call to make. It is reasonable to ban teams whose owners are technically incapable of ever changing their (legal) mind about any future question.