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> I would just like to say that Mongo/Angular/Backbone is not a really valid stack since Angular and Backbone are pretty much competing technologies. You can probably mix them up but I hope no one really does that.

Yes yes, I know :)

I played a bit too fast and loose with that particular example but it was late and it was more to make a rather hurried point then to actually engineer a production stack.

But facts are facts, so I appreciate the correction.
True, but until such time they have proven it is an issue and that there are not other investigative avenues to be used to capture and prosecute terrorists then they should keep their hands off my encryption

That is how free societies work, we do not give up freedom simply because there might at some point in the future be a problem...
(Savings account is normally inaccessible from ATMs — at least my isn't).
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This marks the day when Instagram switched from providing a service for their users to providing a service for advertisers. With this algorithm in place, they can also sell premium positions in people's feeds. For this reason it also marks the start of a slow, eventual decline. It won't happen for a long time, but eventually Instagram will be replaced when the gap between user needs and what they get becomes too large, and a competitor appears with a solution to those needs.
PIA no longer trusted?

FBI would like to get more information about it.

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tes...
I'm not familiar with how things in the US are, but in the UK and specifically in London a lot of senior tech people do contract work which pays considerably more than permanent positions.
UK #Budget2016 soundboard
The return of the flophouse... hopefully after the .com-2.0 crash maybe the homeless in SF will have a place to call home again.
> Montreal? Calgary? Edmonton? Halifax? St. John's?

Winter.
This government and ISP is modifying your HTTP traffic.
in the US you would, you would likely not get elected at all if you ran on a "Free Daycare" policy unless you could somehow pay for that free care with out using any tax money
I think they're just escaping the hyphen, I don't know of any hack that might use that [there are many "backslash hacks"] other than perhaps for IE5.5 (on Mac?). You're not supposed to start class names with hyphens by convention so there could be a pre-parser/checker that complains if it's not escaped?
Shocking that the BBC is affected by this, given that it should be advertising-free. Presumably, this affected non-UK residents[1], but as a public service the BBC should have much higher standards when it comes to advertising.

[1] With the obvious caveat that a website can't reliably determine that.
Which one? Sorting out names, verbs, adjectives etc. Or finding out what "role" each word is playing (sorry, English is not my language so I do not know the proper technical terms for this... In my culture the first is called "Grammatical Analysis" while the latter is called "Logical Analysis")
Does everybody misspell its?
You may want to play SOMA then. The whole game deals with this very subject and its implications. I can highly recommend it for the excellent storytelling, dense atmosphere and brilliant sound design.

http://somagame.com/
It seems like there are 2 OSS models other there: 1) community supported; 2) company led.

Most of the "community supported" projects that I have used are libraries. Since shifting from developer to the devops team, nearly everything that I rely on is "company led": saltstack, docker, grafana, influxdb, ELK, ngnix, sensu, rabbitmq, etc.

That being said, we are now re-evaluating the use of influxdb.
London banks can pay more because whilst other companies have to make products banks make fiat money. This acts as a tax on the rest of the uk.
But not for the royalty.... err sorry VC's.
Excess of tools is not trivial, it's the main problem with web development today, IMO.
> This is going to continue until planning commissions start allowing the construction of higher density housing.

Or we have more remote jobs, and/or satellite offices. For example in the UK why have your developers in London? Open an office in Newcastle or Glasgow, you're just a few hours away by train (an hour on the plane) and you'll save a fortune on salaries and office space (and probably a tax break or two). Or use remote workers where it makes sense.
>coliving experiments in big cities, targeting young adults

I think layman translation of this marketing bullshit is "barrack"

http://i.imgur.com/UB56u0G.jpg
And with it... Rez Infinite.

I am so stoked.
This is ... confusing.

a) The concept of a typographic grid is a print layout design tool fundamentally unsuitable for coding flexible component-based layouts on today's web (it probably always was, but talking about a "grid" can give designers an air of technical mystique they quite enjoy ;)

b) Flexbox was invented to move beyond the grid. We don't want or need a grid anymore.

c) It takes less than 1 day's effort to learn the vanilla CSS flexbox API and you can re-create this "grid" if you really need it with a few lines of plain CSS. No framework dependencies, other developers don't have to learn the framework, and no polluting your markup with global utility classes.
I'm not sure if a fix would be so easy. Housing prices have been rising everywhere, even in small cities like my home town, where a decent amount of construction is going on.

I think that the biggest reason for growing housing prices are the currently low interest rates.

There are two factors that cause rising prices (due to low interest rates):

1) It's more affordable than ever to borrow money, so people are willing to pay higher prices, and even people with little savings can afford to buy a home. At 8% interest rates nobody would be able to afford current prices. This means that sellers can ask much higher prices.

2) Since interest rates are so low, people are increasingly looking at the housing market as an investment opportunity. Aspiring homeowners now have to compete with deep-pocketed investors leading to a further increase in prices.

So I think that housing prices would naturally fall if interest rates went up. (Of course, for young people without savings this makes little difference; they would likely end up paying just as much due to higher financing costs.)
I've lived in houses with up to 4 other people. When I travel, I frequently use hostels. This sounds like an interesting concept if executed well. The main reason I eventually moved into a two bedroom apartment was more to have a better location and nicer place than to get away from people.

How many resources do we waste on underutilized space? The US is more extreme here than any other country I've heard of.
Exactly. Proving the theorem was his dream and kick started his passion for maths. This is a man who has achieved his childhood dream. That's no different from a singer who's achieved their childhood dream.

For many, I imagine maths is cold and joyless so they associate that with those who enjoy it. Nobody can see the internal experience, which probably is just as warm and joyful as the singer or writer who achieved their dreams.
Ah, but there's a difference between formal verification and programming languages. The problem of general formal verification (known in general as the model-checking problem[1], regardless of the approach used which could be model-theoretic or proof-theoretic) is literally the hardest problem in all of computer science. Any computational problem can be reduced in polynomial time to program verification (i.e. model checking). In fact, all NP-complete and PSPACE-complete problems are trivially reduced. Finding a general tractable solution (even if it includes human intelligence) is therefore a mathematical impossibility. The best we hope for is a solution that is applicable to programs people write. The question is then whether there is one well defined "class" of programs humans write to which an efficient algorithm (again -- even one involving humans in the loop) applies. So far results from decades of verification research show that this is not the case, and there are at least several such classes, but maybe the classes aren't general enough. If humans are part of the algorithm (e.g. interactive proofs, manual dependent types), the class might be wide, but our experience has shown that verifying programs in this way takes tremendous effort, even for small programs, and even when the programs are kept especially simple for the sake of verification. Even if there is a solution that is applicable to most (I'll settle for most) programs, it is so far nowhere in sight. Most efforts are directed at finding partial solutions for specific domains.

[1]: Called that because it is the problem of checking whether a given program is a satisfying theory -- i.e. a model -- for the given logical property.
>Everybody I know from school who were offered the option to work in the US have picked up their Canadian degrees and left.

This is what young people do; they adventure. Then, many times, they come back to their roots to settle down.

I'm sure there're a few people around these parts with anecdata regarding the joys of finding housing and raising a family in the SF Bay Area.
Absolutely this. It fully conveyed real emotion with a sense of panic.. then seeing the different behaviors in the crowd too. The guards. The whole thing tells a story. I hope it's significantly more than just a tech demo. I'm hooked.

And I suppose it's worth pointing out that creating all the tooling to put this together is just as impressive as a lot of the more obvious aspects. It's a giant content creation pipeline coming together. I expect these demos from Epic, not Unity. They're stepping up.
It is unlikely any child born today will have a job at all, Human labor will be completely replaced by Robots by then.

As to the bullshit notation that if you do not take 26 weeks off to "nurture" your child they will grow up to be unbalanced individuals, I would like you to cite some research that shows that? I have a feeling most of the people reading this right now grew up with both parents workings full time during their infancy, I know I did. Are we all unbalanced because our parents did not take 26 weeks off after we were born?
Wow, check your anger and your prejudice. Yes, the site could do with a clear link to the source, but most software engineers are familiar with the 'github-link-in-top-right-corner' pattern, so it shouldn't be a problem even if you're ideologically opposed to using more robust alternatives.
Faking happiness on social media helped me cope with depression
Thanks. Seems they must have edited the video since yesterday, cutting out early part of the stream.

Curiously I can still see the proper thumbnails when hovering timeline at the original timestamp.
Well, I wouldn't mind if most restaurants had robots instead of waiters and digital food ordering (like tablet on a table). Human element I usually need is people I came with, not waiting staff, I don't remember when I had any useful input from them (they don't know my taste and their goal is different from mine). Nice looking smiling human per hall, who can come up to our table once and ask if everything's ok would be enough. Maybe in top fancy restaurants it's not the case, but 90% of restaurants aren't in that category where I live.
>Do people really think their handgun is going to help them resist a predator drone strike?

It can do some damage to the person flying the drone. Or maybe "right to bear arms" will include the right to own our own drones?
If we could just stop talking about AdBlocking all day again, that would be great :) Revenue is dropping and dropping the last months, so is my engagement on keeping the sites great.
Of course, at some point an employer really has to consider whether an employee who is often away sick is contributing enough to justify his continued employment. That's not uncharitable — it's a fact: if one's not working, then one's not producing value, and if the value one produces is less than the cost of one's wages, then the employer is taking a loss. How many such losses can an employer survive?
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Can class names begin with a hyphen followed by a number?

This SO answer says [1]:

> a name must begin with an underscore (_), a hyphen (-), or a letter(a–z), followed by any number of hyphens, underscores, letters, or numbers. There is a catch: if the first character is a hyphen, the second character must be a letter or underscore, and the name must be at least 2 characters long.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/449000

Which references the CSS Grammar spec [2].

[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner
£35,000 salary in the UK has the same buying power (for want of a better expression as a $60,000 US salary. Adjust for "because London" and you're looking at £45/55K (not hard in London) equating to $75K - $100K.

Thinking about it, I know a dozen or so people in the "poor deprived" north east of England earning over £40K who are under 30 years old so we're not all badly paid.
If the rules are put in place pre-sale, with the agreement of the owners wishing to sell sure..

My problem is that communities change the rules with out the consent of the property owners. I do not believe in Democracy, I do not believe that 50.1% of a community has the ethical right to impose rules on the other 49.9% of a community
> put things in perspective ... risk 7 billions lives and the lives of their children for centuries?

You and I have very different ideas of perspective. I don't want the FBI to win here, but it wouldn't be that bad.
Based on some quick Googling and Glassdoor, it looks like average salaries are ~110k vs. ~80k. The cost of rent in San Francisco looks to be ~190% higher.

Not sure how well those figures line up with reality, though.
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..or a source.

I've deployed a Redshift-based analytics application, and we're discovering operationally that -- for some workloads -- we would be better served by a Postgres RDS instance instead. It would be nice if I could one-click (or few-click) migrate everything from our Redshift instance to RDS.
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Yeah, funnily enough that's where I used to live, although in an old block of apartments, and I believe I know which place you are talking about. Granted the single family houses around those streets are not exactly 'low density' as they are packed in quite a bit.
> However I hope you will also agree with me in that the term "lead" for many things gets thrown around quite easily in the tech world.

Hm, actually I haven't seen it. For me, "lead" has a very exact meaning: a developer who is personally responsible for code that developers people write, and has authority appropriate to that responsibility.

What else can it mean?
Looking after babies is damn hard work. They aren't having a holiday. They're having time off from work so they don't going fucking insane waking up three times a night to get puked on.
Schedule time to Refactor code
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Look at Japan for what will happen then, just last week I heard that the biggest producer of diapers in Japan sells more of the adult sized version than the baby sized one.

The population problem is a result of some people having too many children. As child mortality decreases we will most likely see a decrease in very large families as well.
Agreed. Better use docx for every type of documentation. Just embed it with base64 if thats what you need. Nothing more standard than a good ol' docx.
Because one party has a new rather huge burden, both consuming time and money (I love my kids, but let's be honest here: The first month/the first year isn't all roses).

They don't slack off, they produced a tax payer that will likely secure your future pension (depends on your country and social security structure ofc). This is not a vacation.

Even comparing that seems rather laughable, honestly. We're talking about common decency here - offsprings need one person to look after them and at least for a while it should be one of the parents. Trying to game the system is .. disturbing, really.

The real problem is that Etsy makes the news with their policy, not random childless persons trying to fly around the world for a while.
> Do you realize that many researchers would be ashamed if others saw their latex code?

I really don't get this argument; I see it come up regarding open data for reproducibility too. TeX/LaTeX source is just an extra piece of metadata which might help someone out in a few years time. That's nothing to feel ashamed of, and it's certainly less shameful than not providing the code. If the code allows flaws in the research to be exposed, that's either something to be proud of, or (if it was intentional) it's not the code that's shameful.

My own LaTeX is mostly an inconsistent mixture of copypasta from stackexchange. That doesn't mean I'm ashamed of it, and it's all in public Git repos at http://chriswarbo.net/git if any human or bot actually cares to look.

Speaking of which, the commit histories of those Git repositories aren't very good either. Lots of commit messages like "Fixes", or "Oops, typo in last commit", with multiple changes bundled into single commits, atomic changes spread across multiple commits, etc. But, in the same way as my LaTeX source, it's better than having no commit history, which would be the case if I set myself higher standards.

Of course, I can follow higher standards, but that's when I'm paid to and/or when collaboration is important. For personal stuff, I'd rather invest the time I save interacting with Git on writing more tests, or refactoring, etc.
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I see anger but I'm struggling to find "prejudice" here.
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because competition.

Get OsmAnd~ from Fdroid: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.osmand.plus
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North Korea sentences US college student to 15 years' hard labour
I wonder why The Guardian isn't (at the time of writing) allowing comments on that article. Could it be because their business model has an over-reliance on people not using ad-blockers?
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> renting is still much more affordable than buying

Because rent is constrained by wages. Land prices are constrained by fiat issuance. Fiat issuance is constrained by credibility.
Or better yet: tenement.
Prices are set at the margin.

A single digit percentage of actors in the market with the objective of not losing 100% of their capital by turning it into a hard asset in another country is sufficient to move the market.

In Australia it is the combination of negative gearing AND the 50% capital gains tax concession on investment properties. Average rental losses per negative gearer were reasonably constant and small up until 2001 when the 'sound economic manager' Costello introduced the CGT discount, intially for a limited time only to make up for the introduction of the GST. From 2001 onwards, claimed net rental losses have blown out significantly, such that the annual forgone tax is greater than what the federal government spends on universities. This is because the gains permitted with such generous CGT concessions more than make up for year-on-year rental losses. This strategy only makes sense when house prices are rising, which has been the case for ~20 years in Australia. Given that Australians are at, or close to the limit of their ability to take on more credit, real standards of living (real net disposable income per capita) have been falling for the last five years, it seems that the bubble may not be sustainable. Unless you internationalise the housing market and make it a place for turning cash into hard assests, like London.
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Maybe you do - and if so, kudos.

But that's not standard industry practice. Nobody looks at your Github - except maybe at the final stages of the process. In the meantime you have to get through a lot of filters.
I don't get why NK would think that story is particularly good.

It just seems odd from every angle, except the Z-society, if we are willing to believe they are grade A assholes who would put up a fake monetary reward to convince someone to get in a lot of trouble.
HAM is not the only reason. Canadian banks are lending insane amounts. People always say Canada's banks are "sound". Every bank is sound until land prices go into reverse.
I thought of that article too, and while this highlighter isn't quite as colourful as that example, it still felt more distracting to read than monochrome text.
Disclaimer: grew up in Ontario, studied at UWaterloo, then worked at BB, then worked in London, UK for 2 years, and now moving to Silicon Valley on a TN visa.

I wouldn't worry _too_ much about the brain drain. Sure the US is more lucrative for young people, but I would say Canada is more lucrative for families. Consider the public schools in Canada vs in the US, and cost of a UW degree vs a comparable university degree in the US. I don't think that most young Canadians who move to the US will stay there permanently.
Indeed: the first paragraph of the linked paper says "Current good taggers have sentence accuracies around 55–57%".

(This surprises me. I would expect accuracy for different words in a sentence to be correlated, you either make no errors or several.)
Exactly same issue with India. India has tons of IT Company and Government invests a lot in education.. obviously pay is more in US but I think it is also environment.

That makes me wonder what has US done right to remain talent magnet
> pay the better part of a million dollars for something with less than a day's deliberation

> the effect on Victoria seems to be our own mini housing boom.

Sounds a bit confusing. Are houses in Victoria priced at a Million dollars?
Montreal is great. I recommend it. Yeah it's a bit cold but it's dry so not damp cold. Would you rather be a bit cold or working like a dog for some US company where your healthcare could vanish overnight because your boss was in a bad mood?
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Contracting rates != salaried rates. You have to charge more because you don't get any benefits (vacation, sick leave, pension), and have little job security.
yes, I know the story. I've heard it a million times. Like I said, people don't like change.
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>A turn-by-turn app that pre-caches the route as soon as you ask for directions, ensuring that you’ll get to your destination even if you drive through an area without cell coverage.

That's not what I call "offline". HERE is offline, this is useless.
Adblocking is immoral, but malware filtering is not :-)