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What's wrong with that? Hack was based on PHP, no? It's like CoffeeScript and JavaScript - lots of the incredibly useful features in CoffeeScript found their way into ES6.
I don't see what's wrong with that, nor do I understand why you seem to be so upset over it. People having multiple accounts here is hardly a new thing (throwaways are all over the place), nor does it seem to be frowned upon unless abused. Hell, even pg had multiple accounts.

Anyhow, we should probably continue this conversation over email instead, there's an address on my profile.
Funny, I've noticed that most comments about "the Fed's money printing" are ignorant, paranoid nonsense.
I believe that RFID are not battery powered - the signal that pings them is what powers them.
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Why did people start using anymore in the positive anymore?
Often compared to Rails. However no matter how similar syntax wise, Rails greatest power is its community support. Which in Elixir's case isnt there yet. I do believe in Elixir. However they would need wide adoption to compare with Rails.
Edit: I meant Phoenix. Sorry
VB was to the desktop what PHP was for the web. An accessible and easy to learn platform that got a lot of people into building shit quickly. Hopefully most moved on since.
Or like leaving the house without a suit of plate mail.
Maybe we should learn from the ‘controlled’ experiment in the UK. There the new fees structure caps undergraduate tuition at £9k per year. Gov loans with very forgiving repayment terms are provided for students. The government expected only a few elite universities to charge the full £9k, with the rest charging between 6k and £8k. Their rationale was that universities would compete on price and try to deliver value for money. In reality, universities interacted with each other in entirely the opposite direction – they raced to the top. This is quite surprising, considering the huge variability between universities and courses: 3 years of tutorials in economics at Cambridge cost the same as staying at home and doing social work at the University of Huddersfield. LSE used to charge £8.5k (a symbolic gesture, more than anything), but bumped it up to £9k when it realised (1) their perceived value was derived from their price tag (the higher the better) and (2) that hyper-competition over league tables encourages aggressive spending programmes.

I think this tells us that universities will always charge as much as they can get away with, and that laissez faire economics does not work well in a market filled with institutions that are often shielded from free market effects (e.g. ‘lock-in’ to past choices, difficulties for new entrants into the market, no easy way to weigh-up costs/benefits of investment, etc.). Colleges in the US have a broad range of incentives to charge the highest acceptable market rate (which is usually between $55k and $85k for undergraduate tuition).
Racist ramblings.

"In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but
commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is
unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the
general population?" -- http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129

Also: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/669592461111599105

There's more, I'm sure you can find it. Honestly, makes me sick how he's celebrated here. "Sure he has said some wacky(really?!) things but whatever I'm grateful." Done with HN for the day.
The validity of the algorithm can be - and apparently has been - reliably tested and been found to be useful and mostly unbiased. This analysis has been performed by both the algorithm's creators and highly adversarial third parties, such as the author of this article. Both found that whatever bias there is is small, and cannot be distinguished from random chance.

For example, the author of this very article has done such an analysis. Here's her R notebook:

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis/blob/master/Co...

Her analysis shows (within the limitations of the frequentist paradigm) that:

a) the predictor is useful - score_factorHigh and score_factorMedium both have p-values that are essentially zero.

b) The predictor is not racially biased that much - race_factorAfrican-American:score_factorHigh and the other bias terms have p-values that are > 0.05 .

Look, I'd love it if we required such algorithms to be open source. I'm a huge proponent of both open science and open government. Nevertheless, there is an entire discipline devoted to evaluating predictive algorithms without needing to care about their details - it's called "machine learning".

The wonderful thing about statistics is that even a highly biased person (such as the author of this article) can still reach a correct conclusion that goes against their biases.
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Heh. I'm a breakfast eater now.

I used to not eat breakfast. I'd be starving at 11:45am when it was time to go out to lunch with my coworkers.

I decided to make some changes in my diet so I wasn't so hungry for lunch and could make better choices. Started eating a healthy breakfast every morning.

I was starving by 12:00pm.

So, for my anecdatel point, I think it has more to do with when your body expects food than actual hunger.
The compiler doesn't allow it, but if you call the function with for example reflection you get null.
This is neat. It's nice to see learning tools like this in a language like Ruby, as many implementations of relational algebra codebases in ruby are pretty complicated (see ActiveRecord/ARel and Sequel).
It's listed under First Projects "Portal Game by José Valim. A complement to the sample project on the official guide."
A. I was not defining collective bargaining, just giving an example of the difference between colloquial and economics demand. But lets just ignore that point as its largely unrelated. I removed it from my original comment.

B. No, it is not clear, IMO. His use makes it seem like he is actually referring to demand, when in fact he is using the colloquial definition. People routinely confuse the two.

C. Semantics become important when things become ambiguous and confusing. Most programmers would likely agree with this.

D. Fair.
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If you're into music you could learn to play an instrument. It can be pretty expensive, especially if you take lessons (which I would recommend at first), and if you don't have time to practice regularly it's probably not the best idea. But it will give you a good reason to spend some time away from any screen, and it can be very rewarding.
But they look the other way. Singapore has an open gay scene. I suspect it's like many laws in many countries; if the government wants to nail you, then it'll get used.

As an aside, being gay isn't illegal; acts of "gross indecency" between men are illegal.
I think there is much to be said about Jack in IT who spent 6 months working on a program that doesn't even meet the business' needs in the end, for something Joe could have done over a week end.
Digix: "Gold in tokenized form on the Ethereum blockchain..."

Digix: "[ANN] Gatecoin Hacked, only BTC and ETH is currently affected, all DGD tokens are safe."[1]

OK, do we have a use case that works?

[1] https://medium.com/@Digix
They analyzed what they could -- the outcomes of the algorithm (recommendation) and the accuracy of those recommendations. They picked out specific examples, but the analysis was over the whole data set. I think you missed these relevant parts from the article:

> We obtained the risk scores assigned to more than 7,000 people arrested in Broward County, Florida, in 2013 and 2014 and checked to see how many were charged with new crimes over the next two years, the same benchmark used by the creators of the algorithm.

> The score proved remarkably unreliable in forecasting violent crime: Only 20 percent of the people predicted to commit violent crimes actually went on to do so.

> The formula was particularly likely to falsely flag black defendants as future criminals, wrongly labeling them this way at almost twice the rate as white defendants.
White defendants were mislabeled as low risk more often than black defendants.

> Could this disparity be explained by defendants’ prior crimes or the type of crimes they were arrested for? No. We ran a statistical test that isolated the effect of race from criminal history and recidivism, as well as from defendants’ age and gender.

> Black defendants were still 77 percent more likely to be pegged as at higher risk of committing a future violent crime and 45 percent more likely to be predicted to commit a future crime of any kind.
If you're truly not wanting to become a desk sitter at home just go out and run, hike, walk, ride a bike. You know, something active.
It may sound a bit over obvious but getting outside and exercise helps me get my mind off things and "reset"
There are lots of interesting observations and historical tidbits in ESR's writing, but it needs to be taken with a sizable grain of salt for it to not do more harm than good. He presents himself like a social scientist finding hidden truths by connecting dots that no one has thought to connect before, and I'm pretty sure that's what he thinks he's doing, but the core of what he does is come up with narratives, try to find facts to support those narratives, and selectively ignore facts that don't support those narratives.

He clearly prioritizes narratives over analysis, with heroes and villains and truth and lies and good and evil and grand forces of history shaping the world in ways only he can perceive. If he was really serious about being a software historian, he would spent a lot less time in "I'm just telling you like it is, I've got a bibliography with citations and everything" mode, and a lot more time actively looking for evidence that refutes his claims in the interest of evolving his views. He would also use phrases like "us" and "them" and "elders of our tribe" and "I'm your worst nightmare" and "do you even know who I am?!?" a lot less often (like, never).

Once I noticed that he was basically writing a story in which he was his own Mary Sue [1], I could never unsee it. :( That sucked because I really did enjoy and learn from reading his stuff during the peak-ESR years of the mid-to-late-'90s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue
It is on top of hbase, Cassandra, or accumulo. So yes, it is web scaled.
Great summary article for beginners. Ed's been reviewing scopes for as long as I've been in the hobby. His advice is sound.

The best advice I can give beginners is to get out to a dark sky on a moonless clear night and enjoy the wonders above you. Maybe watch for meteors for awhile. That only costs you time and effort. No equipment needed.

I've got mixed feelings about astro apps and phones/tablets. Sure their handy but I often see people looking at it instead of the night sky. While your looking down or trying to move your device around to orient it a meteor goes overhead. But you missed it jacking with your phone.

Also your night vision is affected by that phone/tablet screen - every time you look at it your pupils constrict letting in less light (unless you put a red filter over the screen). generally it takes 20 minutes for your eyes to become adapted to the dark. And 3 seconds looking at a bright screen wipes out that adaptation.
It seems like every time I set up some supporting infrastructure it ends up rolled into the next gitlab release a week later, not that I'm complaining (much).

If you haven't checked out gitlab in a while, you definitely should. It's been moving fast and come a long way lately.

Thank you Gitlab team for making an open source, self hosted platform and all the recent improvements you've made.
Looks like it's over quota and the sign up process wasn't finishing successfully. Tried to check it out but can't.
What's it like for foreigners? Does one have to seek out the ex-pat crowd or does everyone mix?
The middleware would be best option. Put it between your code and the calls and then have it able to throw random errors.

But it means you have to write the middleware and have it be it's own source of bugs, which is still better than nothing, but another risk.
Not an expert, and this is limited in what you could use it for, but for gambling purposes, couldn't this be dealt with by using the next X hashes after the bet is placed, where X is a large enough number that the likelihood of the better being able to produce that many successful blocks in advance is nil.

So, at the simplest, you take a bet, and then use the next two hashes for your random seed to get a result. Even if a miner found a solution for the next hash and withheld it long enough to make a bet, he wouldn't have enough information to do better than random chance. And as I understand it, the entire blockchain relies on the fact that one miner shouldn't be able to generate two blocks faster than the rest of the mining pool. Increasing from two grants even greater certainty.

Of course, the trade off here is that you have to wait for X blocks to be generated after a random number is requested and before being able to use it. So, your gambler has to sit around a bit to find out if they win, rather than instant feedback. (Of course, for gambling, you can hide this with some pretty animations of a roulette wheel, dice, horses running, etc.)
Well, because there is a decent case to be made, one that is favored by a number of Christian scholars, that at least some of the events the book is referring to occur in the past, not the present or future.
Oh, my bad :)
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Maybe in the coastal cities and Austin TX. Aside from that, our economy is barely budging and people are sliding ever further into debt. That's the thing about rot: if you don't address it early enough it soon consumes everything.

Besides, a lot of our "rocking" of the information economy is because of legacy, not current policies. The US emerged from the Cold War as the sole global hyper power at the same time the Internet was being developed as a commercial tool in the very same country.

If Great Britain hadnt conquered half the world their cultural products (Beatles Bond and Harry Potter) would have very little reach, London would have no more reason than anywhere else to be the global financial centre, and their manufacturing and mining economy would be in equal shambles as today.

My godfather - a historian who specialized in Ancient Rome - often said that "It only takes one generation's loss to lose everything forever."
>If you want EC2 to be a virtual hosting service, for example. You are expected to use RDS if you want to store data, not put it on an EC2 instance.

Heaps of people run their own datastores on AWS, this doesn't feel like a great example.
Out of curiosity, what sorts of skills/etc would you want to see for students to succeed in college, that they don't have now?
I don't see why new programmers need to read it. When I read it first time, I didn't understand what it really talks about. I thought it is about the difference between open source and closed source.

In fact, the book is about the difference between development models of open source projects. Cathedral is not necessarily a closed source project. When the book was written, Emacs, nethack and other open source software were cathedrals in a sense that core team developed software in private and released "tarballs" from time to time. Now, most new programmers don't even have such projects around. The first thing they see is GitHub, where forking a project is one click away. Even *BSD systems made their version control systems open for everyone.

Programming culture has assimilated superior development model and there is no way back. New programmers don't even imagine that developing open source software is possible in cycles of gathering patches and releasing tarballs, like the GNU project did before.
Ah gotcha - yes this is a flaw in Rails - from the first version, Rails aimed to be "database-agnostic," which isn't actually a valuable property in practice. And DHH disregards when he feels like it, eg. nonsense like https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/9f6e82ee4783e491c20f52... .
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Not to be overly pedantic, but Elixir is a language and Rails is a framework built with Ruby. As I understand it, ELixir is more popular at this point in its life than Ruby was when it was the same age. With respect to Rails the ELixir equivalent would probably be Phoenix, which is a wholly different beast. It is just past 1.0 and is already very productive and growing in popularity. While the community isn't large per se, it's growing. Additionally I think it caters to a different audience.
Speculation actually does deliver value. Whoever sold to the speculator gained value - they got rid of some risk, and gained enough cash to make it worthwhile. The speculator might also deliver value to whoever they sell to, particularly if the speculator lost money on the deal. Plus they provided liquidity, which sounds like BS until you need that liquidity (eg, try selling a house in a slow market)

Banks deliver value too, unless you prefer to do all your transactions in cash that you pull from under your bed and you never need a loan for anything.

Rent-seeking is indefensible pretty much by definition, although I think people tend to perceive many things to be rent-seeking that actually aren't.
Thank you for sharing that documentary, it's convinced me to change my mind, I'll be voting to leave. Please keep spreading the documentary, I'll be sharing it also.
> In that it reduces the amount of zero-training freeloading employers can do

I'm confused why you think not training employees constitutes "freeloading." Employers are paying wages on an open market for employees that come pre-trained.
> The whole issue is universities aren't having to deal with market forces. Add back in the incentives and it'll be 10x cheaper.

That's not the whole issue. If you remove the loan payback guarantee, then creditors will start to evaluate the creditworthiness of students and their families when deciding whether to offer educational loans. Poor families not being able to get loans is a political no-go.
Not really weird, no. I felt that way when I was in high school. But now my habits have changed.
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To be fair, the top comment here calls out Poe's Law. You can see this best by how "A Modest Proposal" was recieved: the anonymous author was villified and many powerful people were outraged. People were repulsed and offended and everything'd else by it.

One of my favorite Asimov quotes is "It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." It's a damn shame that it's helpful to put blaring giant signs that say SATIRE on it and ruin the joke a bit, but there's just a ton of people out there who just never really got up to speed on detecting it. Many - possibly most! - people really don't look that deeply into things and tend to take stuff at face value (or don't know that there is a deeper meaning to spot), no matter how outlandish.

All that as a mea culpa, as I read the OP's README and thought, "man, that seems like a bit of a mess... under what circumstances would you need to do that?" The answer is NO DO NOT DO THIS but I, lacking experience, kinda didn't get that right off the bat.
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After reading the recent Baremetrics post where they were called out for "only doing $45,000 per month" I became curious about the metrics of other SaaS companies. I realize most companies aren't as transparent as Baremetrics, but even some anonymous stats would be interesting.

What does your SaaS do, how many paying customers do you have, and what's the average monthly revenue per customer?
Like a dead relative, when I think of VB6 I look back fondly on being able to edit live code at a breakpoint without having to restart the debugger, and ignore the traumas like the interface to the win32 API and the half-baked error handling.
But the active suspension system etc. isn't actually in the "autonomous driving" category, it's an aerodynamics/grip improvement. What it does (maintain perfect ride height) isn't something humans do anyway.
Tuition is only deductible up to $4000 per year. Which would be reasonable if that were remotely close to what any college (outside of a few notable, laudable exceptions) are charging.
Woah, that's a huge change since I played. Some of those cards were definitely frustrating me, as was the fact that the card pool made the 'random' effects hard to anticipate. My biggest complaints were probably about League of Explorers and Blackrock cards, but it's still progress.

Arena was definitely my preferred playstyle - it had a lot of variance, and I never felt punished for not having all the right legendaries. On the main ladder I felt like I was hitting a ceiling where I played lots of netdecks I couldn't "afford", and just lost interest. Maybe it's worth another look!
This is my experience as well.
So does graduating high school... Or having a previous job where you got a good reference. Or passing a probationary period.
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In the same idea, has someone already worked integration with a debian repository (with aptly or similar) and has some linked to share on how to do it the smartway?

We're thinking about using FPM to create the debian package
Package which is the retrieve as the artifacts of the gitlab-ci build stage

And then to have a separate service that will receive a webhook at the end of the (successful) build, to retrieve the artifacts and update a repository using aptly.

Does it seems the right way or is there some much simpler solution ?
Yes, some experience. I should also mention that i purchased a entry level $50 podcasting microphone.
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It is clear and it's not in part, it's entirely caused by.
>>... anyone can create "money" out of nothing. Getting others to accept that money is the tricky part.

Indeed, especially since creating your own currency is illegal in many (most? all?) countries.
That's 2X or 3X the common ATM limits in the US (which seem to vary from bank to bank, or even account to account). Is there a higher limit at non-convenience-store ATMs?
In the case of "eat" you may be right, if you want to seriously lose weight you should probably adopt a structured eating plan.

In terms of "consume" in general, there is an intense commercial pressure to get you to "consume" more. Oddly you don't see ads pressuring you to eat lunch or eat dinner, although Taco Bell used to advertise "fourthmeal" for a while.
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Because the government subsidizes that training. If it didn't, there would be far fewer trained employees for employers to choose from, wages would go up, and employers would have to shoulder more of the burden of training.
I was just pointing out that public service can pay as well as private sector - if not better (pensions at 80% pay!).
It doesn't seem like it...