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I do agree that Windows support for the Linux CLI is a good thing but I hope it doesn't lead the device manufacturers caring less about Linux drivers for consumer hardware.

"What Apple did was to give every computer science and software engineering student a three-pound Unix workstation for not very much money, and unsurprisingly, they proliferated"

Haha, this is a joke, right? College students can rarely afford "premium" things. Maybe the author was some sort of arts major? Apple doesn't make low end laptops. A CS student is much more likely than the general public to "spec out" a laptop and if you're spec'ing out a mid range or lower laptop and don't have a lot of money to throw at a brand then you're very unlikely to wind up with a Mac.

The vast majority of the CS major at UM was running a mid-low end laptop. There was a horribly dated Debain VM that was supposedly used to test run student code that students were encouraged to write their code on. People with tended to stick to Windows with a Linux VM lying around for use if needed. As they got to the classes requiring lower level system calls (threading) they made more use of the Linux VM and a lot of people transferred over completely as they became more comfortable with Linux. There was a direct correlation between available hardware resources and how quickly people switched to Linux. The people who played video games held out the longest. Apple laptops and newer cars did get more common in senior year because more people had summer internships and could afford to drop big money on something. However, there was a pretty big divide in the hardware everyone was running. People had old laptops with batteries that lasted 1min from fully charged and people had new laptops and not much in between.

I think there's a lot of truth truth to academia pushing people toward *nix but I don't think apple laptops affected that one way or the other. Just spending a lot of time in an environment where everything is built LAMP stack or run on the same machine that used to run a LAMP stack for something else is a far bigger influence.
Integrating Google ReCAPTCHA with Rails 5 App
That does seem to be the case, haha.

One aspect that is interesting to me is how Tesla will change the performance category.

The Model S is a nice looking car but it's a rather pedestrian looking car if you compare it to other cars that cost the same or more.

Yet it can beat way more expensive cars and absolutely destroy all the much less expensive tuner cars that fanboys love.

So when soccer moms and boomers everywhere can (and do) smoke these other performance cars, it becomes a rather sad reality for them. Until Tesla makes one they can afford. :)
There are also records of Bristol fishermen using the then highly productive fishing grounds off the coast of Newfoundland and obviously keeping their location quiet!
Any art paid for with public funds should be in the public domain. It seems like an unfortunate oversight that the artist was allowed to retain copyright here.
Celebrity culture has always been around, but in some ways it feels more noxious and gamed than it used to be.

Maybe it's just me, I guess. But when I look at someone like the Kardashians, honestly the only real reason they got this opportunity to be "famous for nothing" is their Hollywood connections. They certainly didn't rise up on their acting ability. The celebritization of "lucky sperm club" members as you mention also bothers me.

But, yeah, I don't get the article's attempt to drag other musicians / DJs / rappers into this. Well known musicians / performers going to a club and getting insane sums for simply performing? That's not news. Yes, today its EDM and rap in the club versus rock bands on the stage, but that's what is trendy now; big artists in the 1960s (your Beatles and whatnot) also got (2016 equivalent) six figure appearance fees too.

One can argue about the merits of the winner-takes-all nature of the entertainment industry, but it's a little less "money for nothing" in that case. Lil Jon did have to spin a set.
Great question! When you enable a source, we begin running a job on an interval for you that pulls the data from the source, applies some light normalizations and transformations, and sends the data to our Object API (which is in charge of upserting the data into Segment and flushing it to your warehouse).

In Salesforce's case, we issue bulk queries to pull the complete collection on the first run, then modify the queries thereafter to request only data that's changed since the last run.

We don't do any aggregation of the data. We load it into a data warehouse (redshift or postgres) in its complete, raw form so that you can use SQL to aggregate/join to your heart's content. Here's an example: https://help.segment.com/hc/en-us/articles/208215583-Salesfo...
Agree. But Segment + Looker is a KILLER combo.
For the people in the back, the phone is acting like a periscope. It's probably improving their view.
I'd like both, actually, but I guess your strawman allows you do just dismiss other perspectives.

I want a government accountable to the people, and the right to bear arms was meant to ensure that. The removal of arms turns a citizenry into subjects.
I'm watching closely Apache Flink recently and it seems to me that it's more universal that Apache Spark, and with less overhead. Today if somebody asked me for general purpose stream processor engine I would recommend Flink. Of course Spark has many advantages too, but unless you don't need explicitly need Spark's RDD, then go for Flink.

What I'm still missing is better support for machine learning libraries, but I suppose it's a matter of time.
Apple might finally let us hide unwanted built-in iOS apps on iPhone
the article says tinder has an api for 3rd party apps and services. I completely fail to see the purpose of this.

what makes tinder tinder is it restricted usability. there's no search and no rewind.
highly recommended. read it over a decade ago, and still think of it often. the feelings/emotions, as they relate to all sorts of mundane aspects of society (e.g. the barn), haven't faded in the slightest.
The biggest advantage that makes RDS and friends (DynamoDB, Redshift) so extremely attractive is that it (almost) completely offloads operating system and database server responsibilities onto Amazon. While there are some workloads that legitimately require physical hardware to execute on, there are a LOT of costs associated with that decision (networking, storage, power, hosting, licensing, etc.) that people tend to forget in cost comparisons.

I've worked with hardware for several years and love the challenges that come with it, but in most cases, the cost of debugging those problems and working with vendors to get fixes/replacements down isn't worth it. It's a HUGE time suck. I've been working with AWS for the last few months, and being able to safely dispose of a bad instance and spin up whatever underlying services that ran on it on something else is amazing.

If I were in charge of building infrastructure at an early-stage startup (or even one that's at a later-stage), I would absolutely 100% start with AWS and really squeeze every bit of performance out of the code for their products before thinking about going physical.
Why Costa Rica specifically? Lifestyle + lower cost of living, or particularly easy to setup and run businesses?
I must be stupid; with 2 hex chars (dir structure like 0a/7b/...) wouldn't we have 16*16 = 256 (edit: can't do math) entries per directory, not 96?
> Are you really referring to a tenant of Marxism

Marxism's taking in lodgers now?
Their ancestors, yeah. So I see no different scenario than the rich beget famous recursion we're talking about.
Oh... Any idea to make them look more like examples?
Unicorn engine home: http://www.unicorn-engine.org/
So you're an IC suffering under "incompetent management". Yeah sometimes you just can't work around this, but often times you can learn to sell your ideas better to those specific people. Maybe they don't jive with your delivery. Change it.

If you speak the language of revenue, you can rationalize almost anything that will grow it responsibly.

If the language of revenue and various delivery tactics still don't convince your management, then it's time to leave.

I too struggle with focusing on the negative sometimes, so I constantly encourage myself (and the author and others who are feeling similarly) to redouble efforts to optimistically communicate in the language of revenue.
Convenience for sure!

http://amzn.com/dp/B001R11CAI
> pseudo-babble about auras and energy

Those labels are metaphors for an experience you may not be aware of. He's not talking about something measurable, but ethereal. It's akin to an artistic feeling. You can feel it through certain meditations and awareness practices.

Claiming to know what it is is contrary to knowing it, because it transcends labels, but I will claim that there is a "something" to be experienced that can be referred to as "aural" or "energetic". It is the essence of something that is both inclusory of itself and its context. It grows beyond the thing itself.

Seek and you may find it's more actual than our linear logic, and that it shows once and for all the absolute nudity of our emperor Logicae.

It is for experience alone.
IOW: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.
I know! Because they pay for percentile, having high output makes their ddos input free
aka grass is greener on the other side
Obviously you may not always be in a position to follow this exactly, but regardless of who you are it's a solid plan to aspire to.

Even if you can only save $100 a month. Or if you can avoid using a credit card to buy things you don't really need, like a new tv to replace your old one that works fine.

The average person who is not currently dealing with a significant life crisis could follow some of this, but often chooses not to, either due to not knowing any better or lack of self control.
Google and Rackspace develop open server architecture on IBM Power9 hardware
It will get worse when electorate instead of choosing the right candidates, chooses the more electable ones. The constitution cannot provide safeguard against ill-informed electorate. Not just the US, applies to any democracy. Most democracies have similar awesome constitution texts.
> Arguably in a democracy we Americans should all be blaming ourselves for that

Maybe as a nation if you consider that the term makes any sense, but for the most part this has started to happen before most Americans alive today were born. Like always there is not a single date in History where you can pinpoint a decisive moment where the Constitution was destroyed, it's been a progressive and "death by thousands cuts" kind of thing.
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TED to shutdown its Open API on July 15th
Supply vs demand though. Even if we need 30x current solar capacity to make a dent, if there isn't adequate demand, then it is still an over supply
> Arguably in a democracy we Americans should all be blaming ourselves for that.

I'll accept the blame for spending so many years falling for the two-party system. For that I'll take my blame.

But for voting for candidates who turned out to be nothing like they presented themselves? Who outright and repeatedly lied during election season? (and here I'm talking about more than just the presidential level) I'm a reasonably intelligent, well-informed, and fairly skeptical citizen. If, in my idealism, I have fallen for political tricksters, then how can I blame my fellow citizens for doing the same?

In fact, with respect to the "well-informed" part, it was only when I completely stopped consuming mainstream media news that I was finally able to see through all the bullshit with some clarity.

I think most of the blame should fall squarely on the shoulders of our leaders. After all, we don't typically blame the secretary for a corporation's failure, right? In principle, that blame goes to the CEO, and s/he gets booted out.
You're not double-taxed as a US citizen abroad. You pay the higher of the two taxes. And you don't pay US taxes on the first 100k of income.
Forewarning: I don't have WSJ, so I can only really comment on the title and get a little context from the comments.

I've only used Lyft and Uber in NYC, but I use both frequently (or have; I was "scammed" by a Lyft driver and had a kafkaesque experience with Lyft's management trying to resolve the situation, since which I haven't used their services).

I almost always engage my drivers and try to get to know them. Frankly, I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever in their "friendliness". Topics range anyway to US politics, their home countries' politics, to their job, to their family, to whatever else. Almost all drivers will engage me (assuming their English is good). The only difference in engagement I've noticed is from Taxi drivers, who, of course, expect tips, and thus, I don't think there's much merit to the preconception that "they're nicer to me because they want my money!". Most people enjoy talking to others; when they're stuck in a car with someone for a half hour, they just might want to chat about life. I think it's that simple.

I've asked nearly every driver, with either Lyft or Uber, how they feel about either company, and they rarely have any complaints (and no, I don't think they suspect I'm auditing them or anything along those lines). At least in NYC, bear in mind that the vast majority of these guys are in some combination of:
1. Working for both Lyft and Uber (whenever they feel like it)
2. Driving as a part time gig
3. Coming from a Taxi gig, and thus, the grass is much greener regardless of whether either Lyft or Uber empirically "treats them better"

Just as well, I really can't imagine that customer treatment varies wildly between Lyft and Uber. All of these guys have horror stories about customers, just as us, as passengers, have horror stories about drivers.

So, I think, despite not reading the article, Lyft, via Logan, is likely just spewing marketing nonsense, and a lot of commenters leaning towards a particular company might want to rethink the bases for their conceptions.
Just out of curiosity, what happened to them? Besides significant medical or legal expenses, it's hard for me to picture.
Dropbox on iOS is disappointing
At this point, I'd be fascinated by "alt-mobile" OS's that are simply the best of the bunch. That is, never mind about being comparable to iOS or Android, just simply the most user-friendly and reliable among the runner-ups. So is Ubuntu Mobile better than Firefox OS? Or Sailfish OS? Or even Windows Phone?
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B2 kills s3
There are no guarantees that any path you take will be the right path for you by any metric, financial or otherwise.
The "websites -> apps -> bots" deal was actually lifted from a recent Ben Evans (a16z) presentation.

http://www.slideshare.net/a16z/mobile-is-eating-the-world-20...
"It has been a long road for the third tunnel. Though construction began more than 40 years ago, it had to be stopped several times because there was not enough money."

It's happened before when the issue was much bigger problem. Now it is less. I am sure it will cost him next to nothing.
VC funding in Asia. Can we get any more vague in news, first of all are they counting the VC going into Turkey and Taiwan in this? Which exact nations are making a cut here? In future, using more specific terms like West Asia, Central Asia would be of greater help, and even better naming the countries.

Asia is probably the most vague terms out there. Its a continent of continents, so being specific helps.
I understand the argument, but is that what actually happened here? My understanding is that the one thing the defense doesn't have is the whole justification for entering the defendant's personal space in the first place.

I could be misreading!
I wouldn't recommend this approach. A relationship is built out of time spent physically present with a person, trying to hack this by building a relationship with less time spent before marriage, or by substituting time spent in presence that is not physical, makes for a weak bond that will likely break after a few years of marriage, particularly if one or both of you have poor social skills.

I emphasize social skills because, like Vitamin D, the hacker lifestyle leads us to be deficient in such a vital resource. We should be supplementing our lifestyle with lots of activities that force us to interact with other people in ways we're not used to. I've been going to the same bar for the last 8 years. It's often painful, I still don't really fit in, but it's been crucial for helping me develop my sense of self.

Another good place to frequent is coffee shops, but good neighborhood coffee shops are quite rare. Starbucks doesn't really do the trick, something about the atmosphere discourages the kinds of spontaneous casual community that you really need to develop social skills.
I have been using the Aquaris 4.5 for probably ~300 days and I am still impressed how much Canonical has fucked up the Linux-powered smartphone idea. I could go on a long rant here, but there is one thing that pisses me off the most:

In order to gain access to the software repository (the "App Store") and receive updates for installed software, you have to have a registered ubuntu one account activated on the phone.

Excuse my language, but what the fucking hell?
Not everyone does all their typing in EMACS.

P.S. Have you heard of vim?
This is widely true in a lot of other engineering disciplines, especially those that are more hands-on. Anecdotally, in certain parts of the country this is why engineers (think mechanical, civil, etc) are viewed a large step below "true white collar management" types.
Reinforcement approaches are certainly interesting, but one of the things missing here (and in most A/B stuff) is statistical significance and experimental power. If you have enough data, there are hand wavey arguments that this will eventually be right, but in the meanwhile, if there is some opportunity cost (say, imagine this is a trading algo trying to profit from bid/ask), you screwed yourself out of some unknown amount of profits. There actually ways of hanging a confidence interval on this approach which virtually nobody outside the signal processing and information theory communities know about. Kind of a shame.
There is really no expectation of tips on Lyft. When I was a driver, only about 20% of my rides tipped (and I was a 4.9-4.95 driver, though it could be a race/gender thing) and it's frankly nearly impossible to track who tipped you or didn't.
Yup, same deal. The city dwellers always despise the rural folk they depend on.
One of the key issues in elections is that candidates promise stuff to specific interest groups - which is basically the same thing as buying votes (with future government funds, on top of that). That kind of behaviour should be explicitly forbidden and should be prosecuted because it actively damages Democracy.
This is almost a standard product with a lot of providers :

http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hosting/north...

> If you just ask for machine than yes, that's going to be cheap. But your forgetting you need databases, Application delivery controllers, firewalls, VPN appliances. All of ...

What do vpn appliances have to do with database hosting ? I'm guessing you're an enterprise java developer ?
Drone Delivery of Medical Supplies
> Being from Europe, I was also weirded out that almost all discussions of class in the US was about money.

The subtle differences between the USA and Europe on this subject are quite interesting. Another one is that in the USA, being branded as 'upper class' is pejorative and instantly implies you are rich, spoiled and not likely to be a hard worker, if you work at all.
And Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Ev Williams, Marc Benioff, Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Arianna Huffington, etc... get Millions of dollars per day. Within any one of those weeks, there is an hour or two where they're not doing much more labor than a Scott Disick or Nikki Minaj in a club.
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But the difference is that he still did whatever the wealthy republicans wanted too.
That appears to not fully interoperate with regular TLS implementations, and does not require the use of the most popular secure ciphersuite ECDHE_RSA_AESGCM. If they need to make changes to make it secure, define an extension and say this profile makes the extension mandatory (like MAC-then-encrypt), but don't just change the protocol.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11217515
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news as well but your Story Worth service also won't live forever.
I enjoy taking pictures of the people I know, not so much their surroundings. Video is even better!

The future of recording is an interesting thought exercise... photographs will become antiquated as video takes over, but what comes after that?
> If he had gone into leadership, he might now be looking at examples such a notch, who got rich from dev work without becoming a 'manager'

A well-paid manager saying, "But I could have made more developing Minecraft!" might as well complain, "But I could have made more if I won the lottery!"

If high compensation is the goal, being a manager is simply a much more straightforward and reliable path than being a programmer.
This was a fundamental part of Athenian democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

We trust it for juries, it's not too outlandish to think it could work for policy-making, too.
Now: realtime Node.js deployments
They're also smaller towns, so the driver demographic is different and probably skewed towards happy relative to the driver demographic in big cities.
I do think the example is bullshit, simply because you could throw ONE very thick pot and have it weight more than 50 pounds. Of course it's a horrible pot and you wouldn't get any better since you only made one piece, but it would get you an A since it would use more clay. Total # of pieces thrown would make more sense than pounds of clay used.
This is also true :)

And we can negotiate better prices with more traffic, etc.
What a coincidence, today only I came across another ETL as a service from Pintrest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11438216
The Making of a Maker
> Talk to stakeholders and try to gather as much information about features and requirements as you can.

This. I think so many times when new software is being designed, this step is glossed over. So often have I seen engineers barge ahead with their design, send it out for review, and receive comments that would have been addressed with the slightest bit of research and communication.
Some governments have similar power written into law, but lack the technical means and budget to use them.
The actual code used on the page needs better handling of out-of-gamut colors. When I plugged FF0000 into the first value for the gradient comparison, two of the samples turned pure black.

Other than that, it looks very promising.
At what level of pricing does a Netflix-style service for indy mac developers work? I would guess the judging who gets the money will be just as fun as streaming music, but I am honestly wondering if we have hit death by a hundred $5 subscriptions. Its a real shame we never got to the frictionless / no-per-transaction fee micropayments.
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Just finished that book last night, actually.

And perhaps I was being a little over dramatic with the "collecting dust" bit. I've used the camera everyday since I've gotten it, if not just to drill the features and how to access them into my head.

And also, part of the reason why I've been reading more than shooting for the past week has been that spring still hasn't come yet up here, and I haven't wanted to stand outside in the below freezing cold during the ~2ish hours of daylight after I get home from work.