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I really liked React and the idea of components with two way data binding. Unfortunately I found it just doesn't work well with SVG. If you have some HTML divs to manipulate, great.

Also if you have good experience in JavaScript overall, Backbone.js is fantastic. Combine this with Underscore/Lodash and Babel for ES6 and you have a good build system.
Yes, exactly; here's more information on there use to give context:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/mar/21/secrets-to-keep-...
In normal circumstances, yes. But DB's solvency is in question. An insolvent bank is worthless.
Great. Set up a solar-powered fertilizer plant and put the nasty petrochemical-based ones out of business.

Talk is cheap. Results matter. Especially when you're talking about the food supply for billions of people.
Indeed. Another example is that you could have a length field in a text format that precedes a string, so you can skip over it without parsing it. But humans will forget to update it, or update it incorrectly.
> America sorted its banks out swiftly after the 2008 credit crisis.

Is there general agreement that the US government acted effectively in this matter, not just for bankers, but for society as a whole?
I used to work in the financial institutions group at a buldge bracket bank doing valuation and M&A on the banks team. The thing about bank valuation that's weird, is that it's balance sheet valuation and not income statement valuation. Banks don't sell things, they sell money. The make money off interest earned on loans - their cost of capital (~interest paid on deposits=0) - branch/hr overhead (if they have branches). Anyways, to compare a bank to another company that sells physical goods or widgets is kind of silly to begin with. They are not valued the same way, and they make money completely differently.
"Bizarrely"

You're being charitable, clearly. It's probably the same motives that produce other bizarre circumstances, like the CDC being barred from researching gun violence and the puzzling amounts of US manufactured weapons ending up in the Mexican drug (civil?) war.
At my previous job it was older browsers but my primary avoidance of ES6 is related to my open source project (msngr.js) where I want to ensure I support not only older browsers but also node.js 0.10. I could use ES6 and transpile with babel but I try not to do that when possible to keep the build process as simple as possible.

If there was a specific ES6 feature that I think would hugely benefit my productivity or if I was working on a project that could utilize ES6 in other ways I would certainly use it more.
M28 Davy Crockett, Project 705 / Alfa submarines, Operation Gladio, Duga radar, Project Sanguine / ZEVS, Project Azorian, SOSUS, TACAMO

Notably, most of those are answers to "How can we throw money at something to mitigate the risk of getting nuked?"
No one said anything about "Illinois becoming unarable".

If the Corn Belt moves up into Saskatchewan, Illinois would probably switch to producing rice, cotton, sugar cane, citrus fruit, or some other warm-weather crop.

What's patently silly is your idea that farmers are too stupid to switch to crops suited for the local climate.
*Current market valuation.

I think it's an important differentiation.

The underlying dynamics of the two companies are quite different, and I'm not sure their "worth" can be directly compared.

One is worth a lot to the granny taking out cash from her pension fund, the other is worth a lot to the advertisers wanting to cash in on the cloud social services.
Web experiment that take you deep into the forest Wilderness
Same here. I supported a partner for some 20 years until he passed. He took care of the household and the cooking, I worked, and neither of us was uncomfortable with the arrangement.

I don't like how the article starts out with the qualification "most women X" but that gets dropped early on, leaving the default implication "all women X." And the title presumes to speak for all of us. Trust me, it does not.
Nice forest ambience.
Please explain why taking into account sudo comparable sells/offers such as Slack, WhatsApp, etc.

EDIT: As noted below in the comments, LinkedIn was bought for 26 Billion in cash by Microsoft.
So basically, what you have is a broken system that neither the police nor the general public are happy about: the police because they worry they will be treated unjustly if they need to exercise deadly force, and the general public because they worry the police might kill them for minor traffic violations.
From what I've heard, "high volume" is now so high that hardly anybody really expects cost savings from "true" (i.e. new full layout, one customer) ASICs anymore. The vast majority of "new", "custom" chips are sold to multiple customers and/or are light customizations of existing designs.
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Winnipeg is only 62 miles from the U.S. border.
Busy devs aren't going to do a competitive services search... they're going to use the first tool they find / hear about. Focus on SEO, SEM, offer a free demo mode with watermarks, then charge around $5-10/mo recurring for unlimited usage for solo dev (maybe $20-30 for team use), and you'll be golden.
Sounds like you haven't seen much of the evidence for big bang theory. I'm going to call your attention to the COBE mission.

http://science.nasa.gov/missions/cobe/

This took the predictions from the big bang theory about a small hot dense universe, and measured the cosmic background radiation, and it matched perfectly.

The idea is that when the universe was young, it was so hot that all the matter was in a plasma cloud, and that photons (and other EM radiation) couldn't travel very far at all before being absorbed and re-emitted in
a random direction. Then, the universe expanded and cooled enough that the cloud became transparent. But there were still those photons (etc) that now just kept going in all directions. Some of them happen to be arriving from all directions no matter where you are (unless you're on the rim of the universe or something). That's the cosmic background radiation.

And we measured it, and it matched so well with the predicted numbers it was astounding.

This is also the graph that shows up on the "Science, it works bitches!" xkcd shirt.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/54:_Science
Nothing terrible happened to the US economy, compared to past banking failures I would call that a success. However, it's really hard to compare such things across vastly different time periods.
> Why this over Ansible? It's a long story :)

As someone who just spent the last year of his life using Ansible, something tells me I already know this story. I feel for you.
Yes, dynamic typing allows experimentation. But just because you can make JS look like Haskell doesn't mean it's the most effective way to get stuff done. You'd be better off writing Haskell and transpiling it, IMO.

Note that I'm talking about writing an entire application in this style, not just sprinkling categories here and there.
Want proof that this is total mathematical coincidence and irrelevant....if DB were going to sell itself, do you really think they would include SnapChat in the comps table? No.
Nice CLI tool for mac without dependencies
"Your glib confidence is misplaced"

Not any more than your Chicken Little "sky is falling" schtick.

"Glib", indeed.

Your "Venus" idea is absurd. The CO2 level in the Earth's atmosphere is currently around 400 ppm. It's been as high as 8,000 ppm in the geologic past without the Earth turning into Venus.

Venus's atmosphere, by comparison, is 96.5% CO2. That's 965,000 ppm.

It should be obvious that a) all of the CO2 in fossil fuels was in the atmosphere at one time (that's what "fossil fuel" means) and b) the Earth did not have Venus-like conditions when it was.
I used to host a site for a local youth sports team.

Almost all the referrer logs from Google Images had search terms like "hot under 13 girls". I banned the Google Image robot from the site, since no useful visitors arrived this way.
Not when GA is blocked like it is by any privacy-concerned individual.
I just wish there were some way for it to deal with paywalls -- since most of the pdfs I need are behind JSTOR or Muse. I realize this would be a technical and/or legal hassle (things from behind a paywall would have to be private by default, I guess) so I'm not holding my breath. But for use in the humanities and social sciences, it would make it a lot more useful.

I keep meaning to write some script that downloads jstor PDFS that I want to pin, uploads them to my server, and bookmarks them as private there. But trying to figure out whether I'd need to add a robots.txt and the like has kept me from making it happen.
As part of my interview process, I sometimes open with "How did you find us?" and Indeed has come up a lot more than LinkedIn over the past year. Perhaps this is because candidates like that it scrapes from everywhere, or it's algorithms do a better job at narrowing the sea of open positions to relevant ones?
The guy who wrote that article is such an idiot. A reducing market capitalisation is not "shrinking the banks". It might mean the banks may be making less profits, but that doesn't make them safer, rather more dangerous on the contrary (as they can't climb their way out of a loss through earnings). Shrinking a bank means reducing its balance sheet, its leverage not its share price.
The point is that there won't be an all-cash 17bn transaction for Snapchat. I'm unaware of a SV startup sale in that dimension which happened in mostly cash. Usually, and I may be missing some deals, it's part cash and mostly shares of the buyer.
Which is interating here since F* can extract to OCaml. I wonder how hard it would be to wire up a test harness to compare the two with randomized tests.
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"Bank Vaulations [are] weird"

So are private Silicon Valley valuations.
Why are any of those worth over a billion? Valuation should be assets - debts + future profits. In reality, mostly, it's psychology + voodoo magic - negative press.
The capitalisation of a bank is not based on its market value but on its accounting value, i.e. how much money shareholders brought in, and how much profits the bank retained over the years.

A falling share price doesn't impact the bank's capital ratios. It does impact however its capacity to raise more capital if required, which is not a good thing.
DB may be insolvent, but to be fair, there aren't many banks that can pay out the figures recorded in the managed accounts. I recall one Utah bank which is supposedly able to, and there may be others, but usually a mainstream bank cannot fulfill 99% withdrawals of assets on short notice.
A little different: Services like statuspage.io, Runstatus, Cachet, Status.io, etc. all offer status pages. StatusGator aggregates all the status pages you care about into one status page for your own reference and also sends you alerts to email, Slack, etc, when those pages change.

I love the idea of blogging about growth and profitability. Seems like that could be a good marketing channel, in addition to being very educational.
Completely different model, and banks are weighed down by projected losses on bad assets. But the image is still valid, "Look at this formerly formidable mega-bank which has less equity value than a disappearing picture and video app." (Of course it's not a public market valuation, and much of the assets are supported in debt) European banking has been suffering along with Europe.

Perhaps the bigger issue is that when banks get to such a low level of equity relative to debt, they have no cushion to absorb losses. Once the equity hits zero, they become insolvent and that's when the Lehman comparison becomes very valid.
Does this provide automatic subcommands? For example if I write a module/script can I just do `shutit <custom command here>` from within any directory?

The use case is a heroku/docker type cli without needing to mess with the Python args module and setting up a bash alias
I wish some other question was asked more: "for configuration management, why Ansible with its atrocious YAML-encoded programming language over CFEngine or Puppet?"
Interesting, what metric do you use to consider "active"?
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Ok, but if I wanted to buy enough shares to own DB or snapchat (if it were public at its current valuation) I would have to pay more to own Snapchat. So while it doesn't make sense to compare underlying assets/liabilities, it does make sense when you ask the question: how much would I need to pay to own this business?
Hmm the live example wasn't working for me :c.
Come to think of it, the "strictness" of the Promise constructor is more ergonomical for concrete, day-to-day usage, where you're binding specific things together.

It became a pain point for me when using Promises as part of a larger abstraction, where the exact use was not known. Then I've worked around the strictness by embedding a "trigger" into a set of Promises so that I can set them off all at once, after they are all created.

Good article, btw. One of these days the Monad/Category lightbulb is going to go off for me, and this brought me closer to that using a familiar example.
And fresh from the printing presses: DB chief economist asks for ANOTHER 150 billion € of public money (not investors, but the state funds!) for the banks of Europe (http://www.welt.de/finanzen/article156924408/Deutsche-Bank-C...)

F..k this shit. It's just plain insane. Let the banks go bankrupt already and build a better system on their ashes!
I have been a single founder company for going on 10 years. Running multiple SaaS services over those years. Some have come and gone and a couple stuck around for 8+ years. Revenue has fluctuated anywhere from $800k+ yearly at its height (before 2008 crash) to as low as $250k yearly.
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This bug has been around for a while and based on reports seems to affect more than just the baytrail chipsets.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1575467

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1575467

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Linux-Bay-Trail-Fail
Sorry but these types of studies strongly smack of eugenics. This reminds of Stephen Jay Gould's book "The mismeasure of a man".

If the SNPs are inherited (and possibly racially so) and a lower educational attainment should be associated with a lack of native intelligence, can we then conclude from this study that certain groups have a lower IQ and therefore are genetically pre-disposed to have less educational attainment? Can we test for these people in the general population and prevent them from breeding?

Are these SNPs associated with criminal propensities or mental issues and therefore correlate with a lack of educational attainment? We could then identify them and drill holes in their heads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

Science is littered with shoddy peer accepted studies correlating IQ with genetics. This seems to be the 21st century version.
This is the same bank that has strong ties with Trump.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-donald-trump-needs-a-loan-h...
How about using wolf urine as a repellent?

https://www.predatorpeestore.com/wolf-urine-for-bobcat-probl...
That’s the same as Quassel + Quassel-Webserver ;)

In the end, as long as the people use a FLOSS IRC client, it’s beneficial for the entire community.
I don't think any bank can. But it's not a capital problem, it's a liquidity problem. A bank, whether an internationally active, or a mum and pop local bank, is in the business of taking short term deposits and lending the money long term. Banks are required to cover some of their deposits in liquid assets so that it can sustain some level of stress. But a full scale run on the bank where all depositors want their money back would kill any bank, big or small.
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"You are throwing away decades of effort that went into to harden and secure the existing library, and your gain is pretty small."

If that were true, then it would be a good counterpoint worthy of long thought. The reality of crypto libraries is that popular ones often had preventable errors due to bad coding and/or unsafe language that also took entirely too long to notice.

"you can't really write a crypto library without using C/assembly"

I'd argue you can't write a crypto library using C by default unless you're a really good coder. C is just an accident of two team's bad hardware:

http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG

Languages like Modula-3, Free Pascal, and even Fortran were easier to analyze to ascertain the program's properties. It's why Modula-3 had first, standard library verified free of specific types of errors. Also took years to make a certified compiler for C which had been done in other, simpler languages. Finally, the top performer in secure, systems code is SPARK as illustrated when re-implementing C crypto in it caught a problem.

http://www.adacore.com/press/spark-skein/

Note: The portability result was also impressive given it's one of C's strengths and difficulties.
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The British Productivity Gap
Sadly, the current iOS client hasn’t been supported in quite a while.

But there are 2 independent projects that allow sending notifications via Pushbullet or GCM to your phone if you get a highlight via quassel, quassel-pushbullet and quassel-irssi-notifier.
China's venture capital market is bigger than we thought
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LinkedIn, while not really a startup, was an all cash purchase.
Interesting idea - if you give me a specific use case (github issue?) I'll work on something.
I'm attempting to run a side project / business. I'm launching it this month (it's been slowly gaining in sign-ups prior to release which is a good sign in my opinion). It's https://www.simex.io/, a personal assistant you can give tasks to over email, sms and other protocols in the future.

So no growth (unless you account my 50 sign-ups in the past 2 weeks, much higher than my sign-ups at the beginning of June when I added the form) or revenue yet. I'm hoping to launch in a couple of weeks and then immediately begin testing different monetization ideas (I have 3 and I don't think I should do all of them; would like to focus on one maybe two at the most so I need to do some testing).

The A.I. / assistant space is becoming quickly crowded but I think I have a bit of a unique niche in that it'll handle tasks asynchronously (starting with meeting organization and overall asking a group of people a question and aggregating the results much like a map reduce over people (okay that sounds hyperbolic but I like the symbolism)).
These frameworks are all so different it renders these results pretty moot. Vanillaja is fastest but it doesn't offer half of what React or Angular do.
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CTRL-F "Idiocracy"

But seriously, can it really be said that this is related to natural selection rather than some other pressure? I guess it kind of depends on the definition, as one could argue that any result within a given environment is causal to that given environment. However, while I do anecdotally see that more highly educated people have less children (and also the opposite, which the author writes of), I still think that people generally try to select for the smartest and most capable people within their social sphere. In other words, I think people are still selecti mates which are smarter, but due to socioeconomic factors unrelated to breeding, the less educated end up having more children.
Can anyone who uses snapchat speak to how effective the introduction of the "Discovery" ads section has been.
I don't know anything about dark energy, but I can talk about dark matter.

So, lets look at the galaxy rotational curve data[1]. (Go look at the picture in the top right.) Galaxies don't spin like a record, because they aren't stiff. Instead, the stuff spins at different speeds. Also, galaxies are not like the sun and planets, where almost all the mass is at the centre, but rather it's spread out over the disk.

Now, we can try and predict how the mass is spread out, based on the size and colour of the stars we can see, and use that to get one prediction of how the galaxy should rotate.

We can also measure red/blue shift from stars, and use that to try and actually measure how the galaxy is rotating.

The problem is that these two don't match up. Which is a problem. So, we're trying to find ways to explain why they don't match up.

Now, one way to do this would be to note that if there was X amount of matter that we didn't account for when we only looked at the stars, then the curve would in fact match up.

Since this matter isn't stars, and doesn't give off light, it was called dark matter. And it seems more likely that there's a bunch of mass we can't see than that gravity works weird.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
> Achieving human-level performance on any real-world task is an exceedingly difficult endeavor when moving away from a few simple and well-defined tasks.

It's an exceedingly difficult endeavor to try to get all humans to produce "human-level performance" while doing simple and well-defined tasks. Evidence = Mechanical Turk.
I've never been able to find an actual technical description of the hype-loop.

Wasn't it downgraded to maglev at some point?
Why is it found more densely at the outside of galaxies? What does it say about those civs?
Hovercraft and pneumatic tubes will always seem like the future to me.
It's a cartel. The local "Realtor" association operates the MLS.
You disable it in your browser or most likely run something like noscript to maintain a white list.
I started Apex a few months ago, first product is a little uptime monitor built on AWS Lambda: http://apex.sh/ping/.

Almost 2000 users already, not quite paying for itself since I have a free plan but it's almost breaking even at least haha. That said legal bills alone were ~6k, so it'll take a while to recoup that.

Long-term plan is to have a bunch of products like this which are low maintenance, as long as they're producing some form of positive income then great!
When I first looked for something to let me be "always on" I ran into the same advice you're giving. It didn't help me at all. Most people looking for the answer to "how can I have always-on IRC with a backlog" don't want to learn about what a BNC is or the pros and cons of the various BNC solutions out there, they want something actionable.

I ended up installing Quassel with a docker image and downloading a Quassel client for my laptop and smartphone. I hear it's possible to connect to Quassel (and other bouncers?) with regular IRC clients, too, but I can't be arsed to figure out how.
It was much more than just the failure of Lehman Brothers that brought the financial world to its knees in 2008. This article is rubbish.

Comparing a Banks market cap to Snapchat? You can't take this seriously. I thought more of Bloomberg.
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I like to think that there are two extremes for valuations.

On one side of the range, the consulting firm, which has no assets, and which value is a pure function of future earnings.

On the other extreme you have an investment fund where the value is purely a function of the value of the assets which are all liquid financial assets. You don't buy the fund at a premium, otherwise you might as well buy the underlying assets yourself.

A bank is somewhere between the two. It has what should be a reasonably reliable accounting value since at the end of the day, all of its assets are financial assets that can be sold and aren't highly specialised like a factory or a hotel building is. But on the other side a large part of the value is not just the balance between assets and liabilities. It has additional earnings (fees, trading activities, etc).