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> when the UK continues to do phenomenally well

So, in your view, the UK is doing " phenomenally well" right now? I mean I have read other opinions, including "deep political, social, democratic and economic crisis" and "value of the pound plunges".

If the EU is trying to convince the remaining member states that "leaving is terrible, you should remain", then it's absolutely working:

http://www.politico.eu/article/support-for-angela-merkel-ris...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/support-for-eu-memb...
I wanted something small that I could get off the ground without spending a year or two on development. It's also a fantastic fit for Lambda, and I had already built the apex(1) tool so it seemed like a decent place to start.

As far as why use my tool? When you have so many to choose from, I'd say choose the one you enjoy. That's my goal really, to create things that I, and hopefully other people enjoy using. I'm trying to surface more information as well, so I think it's definitely a bit on the dev-centric side of things.

I also take it as a challenge when the space is already saturated, if you can enter the market late and still have a "hit" then that's pretty cool, and gives you a better idea of you can (or cannot) do the same with larger products.

I think almost every space is pretty crowded now to be honest. If you can name some that aren't crowded let me know :p. I would say the same of so many tools: oh another PaaS, another analytics tool, another email marketing tool.. blah blah haha. Doing something truly unique, AND by yourself is unlikely these days. I'm new to this stuff, I could be totally wrong, but I think picking a big market is key, and lots of people have sites/apps/apis.
Why do you have a tax-managed fund in a retirement account?
> The total value of that commerce is a few thousand dollars in AdSense revenue

Incorrect. Youtube videos are reportedly from personalities giving an honest opinion. Adsense is advertising. Most people know the difference and if they made a choice to buy the game based on that information they have been defrauded. 5.5 Million * 60 = $330 Million, not a few thousand dollars.
Thanks for the historical context. I guess it kind of made sense to structure it that way at the time.

> What you first propose would create a lot more administrative overhead for the employer and payroll company.

Could you please explain how? I understand it will involve changes to existing processes, calculating withholding etc. But if the company is saved the trouble of finding a plan, administering it (or paying someone to) I would have thought it would be less work overall?
You make a repo with the same name as the your user account and domain, e.g. user.bitbucket.org
Well, in terms of energy density, you are alright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

... but not in terms of power/weight for the motor (or fuel cell in this case):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-weight_ratio#Fuel_cel...

... You'd need about 1000lbs of weight for 200hp equivalent.

Also, I'd rather be surrounded by hydrogen than jet fuel :).
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-33360841

http://www.politico.eu/article/eu-wasted-money-on-new-airpor...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11985763...

I don't know of any comparisons with state-run development funds in the UK, if you find one let me know, but post-Gordon Brown the UK tends to focus less on big spending projects to try and economically boost the regions, hence the grumbling about how London gets the lions share of investment funding.

The EU likes to dole out a lot of money to businesses for investment purposes, which is suspiciously close to central planning. I doubt national-level central planners do a radically better job though.
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If you use Rails and want to integrate two factor auth into Devise, we built a gem / devise strategy for that: https://github.com/tinfoil/devise-two-factor
It's impressive how many resources you threw at problem! We (Shellphish) had very similar results by using AFL [4] for fuzzing and angr [5] for symbolic execution (we published our approach at NDSS in February [1]) on around 300 cores. Of course, we procrastinated pretty heavily, ended up hacking our CRS together in three weeks, and it was absurdly rough around the edges and didn't get anywhere near your crash numbers during the qualifying event itself. As we discuss in the paper, our experiments with the impressive numbers were carried out afterwards, in less chaotic conditions.

It's interesting that the approaches taken by us [1], you [2], and ForAllSecure [3] for the CQE (at least on the exploitation side) were so similar. I've talked with two other teams that had an analogous setup (as well as two other teams, who did quite well, that took a very different route). I guess some great minds think alike!

As a side note, in the ToB blog post, you talk about wanting to join up with another team to be able to play in the final event. Did you guys end up finding a partner? It'd be interesting to face your CRS again next month :-)

[1] https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-me...
[2] https://blog.trailofbits.com/2015/07/15/how-we-fared-in-the-...
[3] https://blog.forallsecure.com/2016/02/09/unleashing-mayhem/
[4] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
[5] http://angr.io
Thanks. I just corrected that.
You can use the Aerobatic add-on for Bitbucket

https://www.aerobatic.com/

SSL, custom domains, static generator auto-builds, etc.

disclaimer: co-founder of Aerobatic
SEP IRA has worse benefits for employees than a 401(k), but it is cheaper to offer.
I'm a little uncomfortable with using "MIT" to mean "a particular set of researchers at MIT"
JavaScript's memory model is incompatible with that of Rust anyhow. You would want something like typed assembly language (Google this--it's a fertile research area). Very researchy though, with uncertain payoff.

But note that a lot of security problems are not in the jitcode but rather in C++ implementations of JS objects and in the compiler itself.
nootropics have been around for a long time and the base agents like aniracetam have been studied for decades.

also, you're "messing" with the chemicals in your brain any time you consume something... unless you're aware of studies that have shown negative affects attributed to nootropic use.

I use a stack of nootropics and it's better than coffee, but not like some magic wonder drug, it just helps with alertness and focus.

I also use a tcds machine when I really need to get things done, I have found, for myself, an arrangement that kicks my brain into full gear.

the downsides of my config are:
my teeth feel like they've got batteries stuck to them for a week or so after. it's not that bad, but it's uncomfortable.
I get over powered I suppose is a good enough word combo, I feel too awake and need to sit in a dark room and relax for a bit.

the upsides are:
ultra focus, very able to context switch and maintain previous data whilst working on large infrastructure issues and or writing complex software applications for large infrastructure goals. much much more so than I get when it's just me and a cup of coffee.
depression just goes away, hell I forgot what it was like to be depressed for a while, it was nice, it's like all the negative thoughts aren't able to make themselves known. I am currently on a 6 month break to give me a good idea of lasting effects (depression is back sadly).

I would have to say that the benefits of both tcds and nootropics are not yet fully understood, and neither are the downsides, but I can say for myself, it's been a positive experience.

my only advice on the tcds portion, if you have the skills, build it yourself, you want really good components, or buy a really nicely made Analog one, there's a difference between smoothly generated output and a cheap digital machine you buy off amazon for 100 bucks. you can feel the difference.
Selecting a short time scale is not representative of anything. 401(k)s are meant to be long-term investment vehicles for retirement.

Let's say I've nearly worked 30 years and I'm hoping to retire soon. Had I put my money all in silver, the top performer in your YTD chart, I would have over tripled my initial investment. However, putting my money in the S&P500 would've given me a 10x return over the same period.

When it comes to buying equities or commodities, I typically prefer equities. Companies can innovate and grow and create new value that didn't exist. But a pile of precious metal today is the same pile of metal tomorrow.
This could be a great service for electric cars. More over in cities where there are no plugs at the streets.

Are you thinking about that option?
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You just need to carry energy into the airplane, with coils for example. No need for a catapult.
> The UK is a net payer to the EU

This is true in all areas except research funding. That's because researchers can take part in EU-funded projects (e.g. Horizon 2020) where the funding was awarded to a multi-national project team and so doesn't form part of the UK entitlement.
This might help:

http://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~yandell/statgen/ucla/Help/Produc...

Looks like either top level headings (equivalent to sections I guess) or a line like this "----------" would work.
Yup, same with anti-vaxxers. But they (like anti-vaxxers, or even vaxxers) think they're doing the kids a favour.
I half expected the page to blank.
I hold the belief that Google must be getting something else out of Project Zero other than just "we hire the best hackers" bragging rights.

I figure they're selling exploits (the ones they don't publicise) to governments.
The calculation (admittedly a difficult one) should not be based on the amount of AdSense revenue generated, but the revenue generated by the number of people who bought the game based on Youtube_Personality's recommendation. Shadows of Mordor cost $60 at launch. Let's say just 20,000 people went out and bought the game as a result. Suddenly, the value of that fraudulent promotion is $1,200,000.
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She was so good at thinking outside the box that she fell off it
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I've never had anyone look at me funny when having just some kind of meat and some non-starchy vegetables for lunch or dinner, which isn't much higher in carbs than the breakfast you describe in the no-toast form, and lower than the with-toast form.

Its not what I always do -- I'm not fanatically anti-carb, at all -- but I've certainly done it around other people, and no one seems to care.
Boomers were never fully in the self-savings pipeline since these savings accounts were only available mid way through their careers. Your point is more valid for GenX which is the first group fully expected to save for themselves.
I am still having trouble seeing, for certain and without ambiguity, that Brext itself implies that UK researchers can't be listed on future projects. is that a straight-line, 100% implication? Everything I've read about Brexit suggests that nobody can predict the specifics about what will happen, when it will happen, or how much will actually happen.
Again, by that logic, any random checks, including DUI checks, are unacceptable. That's what the first link is partially about. Second link is the 4th amendment and third link is an irrelevant opinion that doesn't even open from my end. All of that only supports the theory that dgacmu is one of those amusing "sovereign citizens" who treat the police like nuisance.

So yes, I ignored those links. And a lot of nonsense in that post.

Edit: I did learn that random stops are mostly illegal though. What a country to be a cop in. Now I'm doubly not surprised why American police acts the way they sometimes act.
You should not be paying ETF trading fees. And the bid-ask spread is quite small for most popular ones.
thanks for this package. I just discovered Atom and will use and share with my teammates at work!
Maybe not for everyone, but my local Christian station doesn't have ads.

http://www.klove.com/music/radio-stations/radio-station-down...
I for one don't mind a large silent empty universe that's pretty to look at.
I already have such a repo. But I would reckon the repo needs to be open source right? What if I would like to host all my open source repos on that subdomain?

Oh ok, it needs to be the entire url 'user.bitbucket.org'.
I don't think there's any inherent difference between ETFs and mutual funds as far as dividends go.
You're correct, basically nobody knows what will happen. That's why many people don't want a UK partner in current applications (or at least prefer a different partner if a suitable one can be found), because they don't want this risk that, in 2 or 3 years, the UK partner might have to withdraw, if the UK leaves the EU research programmes. They might not have to withdraw, too, but nobody knows for sure, so it's a risk. Hopefully by next funding round the UK's intentions/timeline will be clearer, so people will either unambiguously know that the UK will stay in the EU research programme long-term, or that it won't.
> And what can someone do to maximize that value...

Understand your employers standards for future raises & promotions. Also, there is a timing factor to consider. It's often easier to qualify for a raise in next years budget, than the current year. Additionally, look at the intangibles.

On this subject, Stuart Diamond is masterful > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liCOqUQzpQs
From my experience the most common customer service requests fall into the following:

* Enrollment

* Distribution

* Rollover

* Loan

* Panic due to market movements

* Asset allocation/rebalancing

The top three on that list are when you enter or exit a job so if you have been with the same company for those six years you likely would not have used customer service.

I do encourage you to sign up for a meeting with your 401(k) advisor if they come to your office and do those. It is good even as an excuse to look over where you stand.
I am looking forward to this upcoming post about why you decided to avoid target date funds. Specifically I am curious how you calculate that target date funds have nearly twice the expense ratio compared to guideline. VFIFX (https://www.google.com/finance?ei=CWOOUpC2CO-bsgfSRw&q=VFIFX) has an expense ratio of 0.16% while guidelines is 0.13%. Cheaper, yes, but not twice as cheap.
Doesn't work for me
> Peanut butter, a sugary treat elsewhere

If your peanut butter has any sugar in it, you're doing peanut butter wrong.

In fact, if your peanut butter has anything but peanuts -- except maybe some small amount of salt -- in it, you're doing peanut butter wrong.

(Yes, lots -- but not all -- commercial peanut butters do it wrong.)
Slightly related, here is an L1 satellite's view of a solar eclipse that I stitched together from Japan's Himawari-8: http://earth.apawl.com/eclipse/
They're in better shape than almost all of Europe. Germany being the main exception.

And as for today vs a month ago, what's the evidence for that? I see them in a very strong position. The anti-business Labour Party is doing poorly in the polls, and the Conservatives have quickly coalesced around a new leader. The FTSE100 and FTSE250 are doing fine. There's every reason to believe that both Hillary (judging by her policies over time) and Trump (by explicit statement) are eager to sign a great deal with the UK. The future is bright for Britain.
What is the percentage of Americans with assets in a Roth IRA compared to the number of Americans who would rather see someone else pay for a tax increase? Politically, altering the deal on Roth IRAs could work out quite well.
The target funds have higher fees and are less tax friendly for non-retirement accounts. In a 401(k), if they have low institutional fees, sure.

Basically, with component funds, you can always implement a target date glide path. You can't get the component funds usefully out of a target date.
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It will likely be a net drain on the budget, but it's highly politically unviable to stop payments altogether.
Thanks for clarifying that this is just risk estimation based on not knowing what the outcome is. There is also a risk in not including UK institutions- they have some mighty fine researchers there, so not including them might lead to a project not being approved (for lack of continental experts in a specific topic) or being unsuccessful (for lack of execution capabilities).

It's trading a well-understood risk for a one that is not well-understood, hence my comment about it being irrational.
sorry to ruin the joke if that's what it is, but this is sarcasm, right? (my point being: our instrumentation constantly gets better, and there are things that we can't now measure/might never be able to measure which have a material impact on things we can measure)
Many ways to skin a cat.
Are the receivers of the money liable for any penalties? Seems like they should be equally liable, if not more so.
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You're not wrong, but you can use that technique and benefit from Dependency CI too.

Typically, you can define your dependencies in a file specific to a certain package manager. NPM uses `package.json`, RubyGems uses `Gemfile`, etc.

It is a reasonable practice to "vendor in" your dependencies, as you suggest. But given the declaration of your dependencies in some manifest file, Dependency CI can give you valuable insights.
> Guideline is trying to be the Vanguard of 401(k) custodians.

Vanguard is customer-owned, while Guideline is not. That is an important distinction, regardless of current low fees.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/

The Poisoner's Handbook

The radium portion was especially sad, but fit in quite well with the lead section in american societies willingness to poison people to improve profit.
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DISCLAIMER: the following is my personal belief, and I don't have more than a few anecdotes to back it up.

You shouldn't be concerned about copying no matter the format. Almost anyone who gets a copy of your book illegally is someone who would not have read your book at all if he couldn't have gotten it for free. And with these people, you are better of if they do get it; they may share it with someone who will become a customer, or they themselves may become customers in the future, when they learn that they like what you do and/or their purchasing habits change.
Yes, I think you're right. Design is such a huge topic and hard to condense into one chapter (one of the shorter). I will pull more details into it and perhaps others, thanks.
That's entirely possible. My instinct would be to say that California would have more strict regulation but we could also be dealing entirely in federal.
Some businesses extract value from an employee based on how impressive-seeming that person is on paper. This happens a lot in consulting, finance, law, arts, academia, corporate business administration and politics. In these domains, status and affiliation are very important, generally vastly more important than actual productivity. Since these fields are also associated with things like wealth, elite status, access to private clubs and opportunities, being a sought after relationship partner, etc., it glamorizes them and by extension glamorizes the path necessary to get to them -- typically either happening to come from a well-connected family or else attending an "elite" school and succeeding in networking there.

Effects like this snowball. So once a school is known for producing graduates that others are desperate to affiliate with in a certain field, like say art or law, then impressive people from other fields may be drawn to work there, like an excellent professor of computer science who thereby actually does elevate the level of education granted to computer science graduates, making graduates into the sorts of people that tech companies want to get on-paper for acqui-hires because acquirers will want to affiliate with them.

One general trend I see in humanity is that the more that we advance a sort of scientific and rational understanding of the world -- something that should supplant most of these systems of credential -- the more that human politics is used to build Dutch book-like circumstances in which, no matter what the outcome, impressive-seeming-ness and competition to affiliate with "fancy" people will continue to be the dominant manner of achieving wealth and autonomy.

To be clear, even though I attended an Ivy school, I find this lamentable. I did not enjoy my time there and feel basically how Mike Reiss feels. But at the same time, I also see all the banter on Hacker News about how the degree doesn't matter and I just roll my eyes. What is it that people think? That something like HackerRank or TripleByte are going to democratize tech hiring? Please. They will be (and already are being) used as just additional tools in the political toolbox to allow people to make up whatever arbitrary standards they desire for the sake of favoring candidates based on political reasons.
Ask HN: Liberal Arts or Engineering College for CS?
Hello HN, this is a debate older than any of us here, but I couldn't find much relevant to my case.

I was recently accepted off the waitlist to the brand-new CS program at a prestigious liberal arts college on the west coast. Before that, I enrolled at a top 20 or so CS program at a state school near me that's renowned for its engineering programs. In principle the core curriculum seems relatively the same: intro to programming (both use OOP constructs), algorithms and data structures, concurrent programming (LA uses Go, while state school uses Java), programming languages, etc. The liberal arts college has no general education requirements beyond a credit minimum, while the state school has extensive, arguably annoying, general education requirements to be fulfilled by (from what I can tell) courses that would have little value in my education. Moreover, the state school has more CS course offerings, but I worry that I won't get to take many of the higher-level courses that interest me due to the gen ed requirements.

Obviously the state school would win in terms of industry reputation, but the liberal arts college has a considerably better reputation within higher education from what I can tell (many students go on to get PhDs, and those who do go to top-tier institutions; the same cannot be said for the state school) I'm interested in attaining further higher education, but don't want to be screwed if I decide against it.

On the economic front, the LA college is about $10k more per year than the state school (I'm an out-of-state student,) but my generous parents are willing to cover the difference.

Sorry to ramble, this acceptance has really turned my plan for the next four years on its head. WWHND?
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Specifically in the peripheral nervous system, there's been some work along these lines, primarily in anesthetized experiments, using ChR2-expressing stem cells, which integrate into denervated nerves, and enable optogenetic control of the previously denervated muscles. See here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24700859

We wrote a review recently about what's been happening in optogenetics in the peripheral nervous system/spinal cord. That's here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27147590