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Is lighttpd still in use? It's had terrible memory leaks gone unfixed for years and the development is awfully slow.
Following TDD only gives you testable library, not one with good API. Good
requires something different.

To have a good interface you want to think how would you use it, and only
writing it after this step. Probably stopping along the way and stepping
backward when problems arise.
Deep Learning Without Poor Local Minima
In a most ideal world I'd end up contributing to this project while listening to serialised Mozart played on didgeridoo.

I would be so happy.
Don't Forget Your Website
That's what I tell my students, it's "character building", in the same way playing sports in the rain was as a child for me.

Also, many students previously did a course on Java, and clearly never really understood the basics, it's much easier in Java to play "keep tweaking and fixing the exceptions until it works, then don't touch it", particularly for introductory-level projects.
A work from 1616 called 'the first science fiction novel'
Interesting to note that one of the sites the article refers you to (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices) to check for trackers, has quite a few trackers of its own...oh the irony...
you don't "man c", you man the function. like "man getaddrinfo". You know, because your OS is written in C and the way it works should be documented?
More downvotes without any explanations. I've literally been doing this for multiple years and it works great, I don't know why it ends up being such a controversial solution.
So, do you only watch shows about Gandhi, MLK and J. Christ?

Not sure about Mad Men, but HoC doesn't "glorify" its subject. And tons of great art is about "assholes".

The thing is, and this is a very christian message, assholes are people too.
How so, by requiring background checks for Uber drivers? When I lived there, they required the same livery license for pedicab drivers as well -- which was basically getting fingerprinted and paying a $25 fee.

Uber and Lyft were the ones who pulled out. The regulation that Austin passed was in no way overbearing; it just required fingerprints. They claim this "destroys the ridesharing economy" but in my experience, Uber is basically a part-time job for most drivers. Most people will go get fingerprinted for a part-time job. Very few people are ridesharing; but maybe this undercuts the argument that Lyft and Uber use for the drivers not being employees...
The line stuck so well because it was so poignant when Colbert said it. This was a time when Karl Rove was criticizing people in the "reality based community" who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality."

Since then the republican party has gone even further off the deep end.
I may be reading this wrong, but I think they are purposing a not C not A not P solution... thats "ok" fast? They explain how to make a single mysql instance run as key-value but I dont understand how it becomes master-master or cross DCs. Wonder if they run Jepsen or do any partition tolerance tests given their mentioning it.
You mean

char *p;

?

I prefer to use char* p; as well as std::string& s; and etc. rather than attaching the type syntax to the name, since in essence that's part of the type. But yes, it's a mess that this inherited C logic doesn't treat it that way clearly. To avoid such mistakes, it's better not to use comma declarations altogether, you can perfectly avoid them.

It's a good feeling when working with new languages like Rust which avoid such mess.
What about the article today: Chinese censorship can teach the world that it works?
Anonymous benchmark markets
fair enough. Shoot me an email if you're still interested
It's decent, but using it in outdoor running mode (the only exercise mode I've tried) depletes the battery quite fast. I enable the optional GLONASS, I'm not sure how much effect that has.

Big handfuls, you'll get about 8 days out of it, less a day for every 30 minutes of running.

Garmin have released a few firmware updates for the watch which may account for the difference between my findings and those of early adopters.
>Well said. It's ridiculous we enforce labor and environmental laws in the US, then buy products from countries using slaves, sweatshops, and polluting without any regard. We sell out our ideals to save a few bucks.

Some politicians have suggested externality based import duties and I have to agree. We don't need import duties on goods from Germany or other countries with strong regulations, but companies in the USA cannot compete with third world countries with no labor or environmental regulations.
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Labelling anything hipster-free is the best way to get hipsters on board.
Sure, and occasionally the add stuff and consult with Mac software houses and indie devs (or musicians and editors for their Pro stuff) on what to add etc.

But that's not the same as building a bunch of APIs for a competitor.
Toyota and Volkswagen Invest in Ride-Sharing Companies
The part about no support isn't really true, at least in the Netherlands. There has been an endless stream of government programs, and billions upon billions of euros invested, which unfortunately had only a small effect. So I have little hope that the current immigration will go significantly better. I don't know if there's a magic trick, but if there is we certainly haven't yet figured out how to perform it. Even in cases that seem very successful the results aren't as good as you'd hope. The mayor of the second biggest city in the Netherlands is Moroccan, and he has said that he will not allow his daughter to marry a native dutch man. The theory that it's all about not enough support doesn't explain the fact that there are lots of successful groups of immigrants, like the Chinese. They have high employment rates and low crime rates. Therefore I don't really like the talk about the failure of multiculturalism.
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“My sense is we were innovating too quickly for Uber and Lyft. You get to be a big company, you’re less nimble. But these companies have to expect disruption.”

Gold. Reminds me of how Slowgle is getting disrupted by Paris.
Menu Next Door (Airbnb of food) grabs $2M for its home cooking platform
Slanted is an understatement. The following words are from the article, written by the author, and take the article out of the realm of actual reporting, and into the realm of bullshit --opinion--

>hilariously

>The City Of Austin Is Embarrassing Itself

>ham-fisted

>absurd

>un-ironic cluelessness

>senior correspondent for The Federalist.

That last one was an insult.
I wonder why slowcgi over libfastcgi?
You can't be talking about programming because we can already telecommute. And bathing? What's that ...
That was previously the home of the fast cgi specification.
I don't think people are intentionally adding friction, it just sometimes gets that way.

Most people would be completely lost studying on their own. They exist, however. But if most people could do it they would. And you are correct also about lectures lasting longer than most peoples' attention span. But they stem from a time when college wasn't for most people.
>But Windows 7 isn't deprecated. Microsoft have committed to supporting it until 2020, and their customers will expect them to honour that commitment.

So what? They can change their mind at any time, and I for one hope they do. What are customers going to do, file a complaint? hahaha

>You and I seem to be looking at very different stock charts.

I don't know what you're looking at, but the Google chart I'm looking at for 2010-now shows constant growth, starting at about 2012 and really gaining steam in 2013, and continuing until now, albeit with some stumbling in the first half of 2015. Their stock price now is higher than it ever was in 2013-2014, and is in general going up.

>Apple could have started competing more aggressively for desktop/laptop/server markets.
>...even a major new player entering the market or a shift in strategy from some other tech giant isn't out of the question.

Apple's been competing in those markets for decades, and they're still a tiny player. Linux beat them easily in servers. The idea of Apple servers is a joke. And MS servers are locked into many places in enterprises thanks to SharePoint, Exchange, AD, etc. and of course Windows on the desktop. Apple hasn't gotten anywhere on the desktop for businesses, and not much in homes either thanks to their high prices. I don't see that changing; Apple has always had high prices. Linux has been tried on the desktop for decades too (earnestly since around 1998), to little effect. And don't make me remind you about the fate of BeOS.

>Screwing your customers for profit looks good at the next quarterly earnings call, but not so much two years or five years down the line when your customers and competitors have had time to react.

You seem to be making the classic mistake of thinking MS is a normal company which has to worry about competition. It isn't. The only real threats they have to their business are 1) their old OS versions (which they're dealing with by pushing everyone to Win10 like it or not) and 2) the need for their products being made obsolete by new technology (like tablets). #2 seemed to be a concern for a while but it looks like the tablet market has gotten saturated and that's played out. There's too much stuff you just can't do on a tablet, so while some people can and have gone to all-mobile computing, everyone else is stuck with Windows, and they aren't going to stop using it no matter what. MS might as well take advantage of that as much as they can.
tl;dr: "Language regardless; lazy, indecisive people often fail to complete complex tasks."
I haven't look through the repo yet, but I know there was some shake-up a while back with the Star Citizen developers injecting capital into CryEngine. I don't care about the politics, but I am curious how the branch published here relates to branches used by developers on those projects, i.e., will things like their 64-bit fork be merged at some point?
> Most people will go get fingerprinted for a part-time job.

That's how it starts. Then the government starts mandating transdermal implants at birth that contain a GPS chipset, and a kill switch. We're headed to a level of dystopian control that would make a brutal banana republic dictator shudder.
The whole concept of EULAs that cannot be understood by non-lawyers goes against the aim of having them read and accepted by end users before running an application. The problem is that there's no standard text where it'd say you agree to ISO-XYZ and everyone knows it's a respected and well understood agreement that's in use for all kinds applications already.
When will people realize you should never call a project Panama? ;-)
If they told you what they saw and you traded based upon this would this not constitute insider trading?
How is this a noteworthy comment? You admit that press releases like this are tired and cliche and misleading marketing speak, and then somehow expect people to not be unhappy with that, or to not express their opinion? This is a discussion platform, people will discuss things. There's not a whole lot to say about this article because there's so few details on what's going to change because of this (other than it being free).
Used to work at Twilio and definitely had this thought a lot. It's harder than it seems, at least to make it reliable.

Inbound forwarding is easy. Setting caller ID on outbound is where it gets hard in terms of user experience.
I think the actual litigation that has already occurred -- e.g., the Washington State and FTC consumer protection suits -- have treated it mostly as a purchase (money exchange for a specific obligation), and certainly not as a donation.

It's certainly not portrayed as a pure donation (money given with no specific reciprocal commitment) in Kickstarter's terms.
I think this is great. However, if you are Austin and you're idea was to strong arm Lyft & Uber into allowing background checks to make ride sharing "safer", one would imagine spawning a comleteley unregulated black market would be "suboptimal" to the desired outcome.
Can China's Futuristic 'Straddling Bus' Finally Become a Reality?
This cracks me up because some people believe the media has treated Sanders unfairly, others believe they've treated Trump unfairly. Maybe both.

Personally I believe left/right bias isn't that interesting. The media has a strong bias toward sensationalism, and in elections there's a strong bias toward reporting on a horse race. Maybe this is the bias you're talking about. IMO these biases have helped Trump and Sanders respectively.

What a weird society we live in where everyone thinks the media is biased and few agree on exactly how.
For feature films, the jobs are specialised, so Houdini does tend to be restricted to FX (although more and more companies base their lighting/rendering pipeline on it). But for commercials, it can happen that it is used in more departments.

I did commercials where animators where taught to use it, and that was a success in my opinion. They were happy because the animation tools are basically the same and the rigs were updated faster than they would be on other packages.

And it is true I've rarely seen models being done in Houdini. The only time I did one was for this commercial (https://vimeo.com/17808406), where the character is quite procedural. Had it been a more classical character, a Maya modeller would have done it.
And that's annoying from a UX perspective; a user should not have to know the genealogy of a particular utility in order to guess at some of its command-line arguments.
>The sad thing is that we knew how to work with structured text.

Which is?
Regex101 is my go-to Regex testing tool. It's awesome.
The problem with this kind of idiom recognition is that it must be conservative. That rules out lots of cases involving floating-point arithmetic and memory references.

In the particular example of population count: this has been a hardware instruction on many processors since the early 60's. It is a crying shame that it's not part of the modern C language or standard library.
Hey, thanks for linking this. What an entertaining, insightful piece of writing!
I think this is the case of the startup world ignoring things outside their bubble. At most companies, options are issued are against stocks that pay dividends, vest at a discounted rate (sometimes $0), and are generally net positive. Yes, in the startup world it's basically like a kickstarter for total compensation, but that's "99% of the time" not how options are used/viewed and a specific silicon valley corner case.
I've been an expandrive user for over 5 years now, thanks for the great product!
I can't tell if you're serious or not. If you are, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

If you're not, congratulations, you got me.
That's a great scene, with Jobs announcing that Internet Explorer would be the default browser on the Macintosh, and the crowd booing. Jobs has to stop speaking, twice.
I'm a huge fan of Stratechery and Thompson. They've given me powerful ways of thinking about the world.

Are there others out there? While Thompson does talk a lot about the intersection of technology with business strategy, he tends to focus on large, well-known technology companies that primarily have consumer facing offering.

I'd pay to read something like Stratechery for biotechnology, or enterprise software but to the best of my knowledge none of these exist.
Man! I hate Basecamp too! I haven't bothered trying it with my Fenix, but I used it on my Colorado handheld GPS for a few backpacking trips, and it was terrible. Especially the early versions.
It looks like TrailDB solves a particular problem (which is actually quite common btw) the right way. However the language barrier makes it hard to use it as DB. I believe that Python binding is nice for development environment but in production we would probably want to use a low level language for performance reasons because we'll be dealing with billions of events in a single machine. Do you plan to implement a query language which compiles to native code such as SQL?

How do you handle continuous data with TrailDB? It seems that you store raw events Kinesis, buffer events and periodically write TrailDB files to S3. When you want to process events for a specific user, normally the events might be in a random TrailDB file so the timeline would be mixed up. Do you merge TrailDB files in a single instance when processing the data or have a sharding mechanism?
Is this going to be the fate of every worker protection law? Why even bother making it a law, if the company lawyers will simply sneak a waver into the mile-long employment contract, buried between the NDA and the promise that you will help train your H1B visa replacement?
Their MySQL version is pretty much the vanilla version, from your post it sounds like it's very different but it's not.

https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6
Probably good for this use case, but when you search by more than the numeric id - ie by text columns, either read queries are slow or writes will be because of indexes.
Why I Bought a Chromebook Instead of a Mac
For first time since 1880s, more young Americans live with parents than partner
Remember, build a better mousetrap. Don't avoid mousetraps because somebody already made one.
correct. I agree with you as well as parent to some degree. However, chiefly, it shoud be noted that

Business Owners and Gun Owners operate in the free market and presumably use the internet. Wherease everyone who is operating within a freemarket or active on the internet may not be a gun owner or business owner.

The parent is talking about at a system level. You are talking, at least my charrachterization of it, about a layer of abstraction within a system.
Because normally, the context here is that you're trying to set up an existing internet service over the Tor network. Your web server, for example, typically doesn't know anything about Tor, and will happily serve up pages to normal internet users unless you configure it not to.

Services designed for Tor don't have this issue and can be secure by default. Ricochet[1], for example, advertises itself as a hidden service automatically and doesn't communicate outside the Tor network.

1: https://ricochet.im/
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fwiw - i love the quality of the screenshots and comments and the conversation after that ensues after
The appeal is that there's nothing to "get".

It's entirely understandable to not understand why people use twitter, but how to use twitter is incredibly simple, beyond probably any other social network.
If you're going to limit the discussion to startups (I did not), then we need to have a different discussion. I imagine all Facebook employees with an employee number less than #1000 are quite happy with their options. As with all things investing related, risk is proportional to reward. So, those 70% that aren't paying off are offsetting the 30% that are paying off massively.

If you don't want to take this risk, choose a different industry. Traditional corporations issue options all the time that pay dividends that consistently net positive value. You may only get a few hundred/thousand per year, but you can depend (somewhat) on the income they generate.
Social Media vs. Content: Where Should You Invest?
Phoenix and Elixir is probably your best bet.
How do you use FPGAs to accelerate machine learning?
I'm Not A Law Student. Can Anyone Specify Me What This Employee Is All About?
No, but nothing they've done has indicated that they're even attempting any kind of solution.
In Baltimore, the black market cabs are called "hacks". They exist mainly because people don't have enough money to afford cabs and there aren't enough bus routes.

"Hacking" involves driving along popular roads looking for people who use their index and middle finger to claw at the air ("hawkin'") to indicate they'd like a ride. Fares are hashed out before the ride begins, usually a flat rate, and well under the price of a cab. These illegal cabs sometimes take advantage of the riders because they can't complain to the police. Though in many cases one might develop a relationship with a particular hack and call them directly for rides.
It seems to me that one of the core differences between MySQL/Postgres and distributed stores like Cassandra / Hbase is that with the former your data and your write workload have to fit onto a single host. If either one cannot fit then you have to partition at the application level or use a real distributed data store. Partitioning at the app level is an operational burden and complexity that would be best avoided, but there are always exceptions.
Compiler vendors have been doing stuff like this (recognizing specific code patterns from common benchmarks) for 30 years, back in the days when there was real competition amongst C compilers (Borland vs. Zortech, for example.)
the choice of the word rogue says something. That term has been popular in the financial industry in the context of "Rogue Trader" as a way to deflect blame on the company even when they knowingly took part in the conduct.
Thanks for kappa, I really like the idea, but it currently seems a bit "broken/unmaintained", is it still actively developed?
No, absolutely not. I am talking about harassment. Twitter has a huge harassment problem.
The responses here are pretty much on the money, but just to expand on my original remark: yes, you're right that just achieving their goals might be transformative. However, that would require someone to come up with a use for the tech that is outside of what's already being achieved. SpaceX's _goals_ are nowhere near the level of tech required to have a sustainable human presence anywhere other than earth, or even put more interesting objects on other planets. And to date we're still talking about costs out of the reach of many nations, never mind companies.

Don't get me wrong, what they're doing is hugely impressive and the nerd in me thinks it's amazing. But making a difference in a way that (to go back up the chain) gets people upset? I don't think SpaceX has got close to that.
There has been some focus on dumpster diving for food in TV here the last few years, mostly positive.

Also, as people who are into cheese or beef will tell you: you should go for the oldest one available at the shelf anyway ;-)
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Shame no one told it there are no 1 to 9 bills :P
Kind of feels like it does with real money, because obviously the manufacturer will just blame me for it cooking itself
Your posts are coming from someone who has likely never had to experience that. While that's good, and I hope you never do, stop trying to downplay the experiences of others.
Having actually written web applications with C as my very first web-dev job, my opinion of this is... not high.

I'm sure at this point there are better abstractions to use (nobody knew how to structure a web app way back when) and there's less ad hoc templating and other string cobbling now, but I can't imagine going back unless there were compelling performance gains I needed and couldn't get any other way.

C also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6402885
Apple Opening Siri, Developing Echo Rival
Just an FYI, my workplace McAfee Gateway filters this site due to "Violence"(??!). Not sure what you have to do to get off that list.
I read that book and it was so good I immediately read it again. Then I read it halfway through again before switching to another book. Really great read and, oddly enough, a great book on leadership (especially in creative organizations).
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I have never understood why it should be lawful to waive basic rights like that. The only reason to do so is to hide information from people.
Twitter will stop counting media and usernames against 140-character limit