skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did look at Kinesis too, but for my use case, it didn't really help much over SQS. There is still no way to put a Kinesis event "in the future" so that I won't see it for a second, and I would have had to set the batch size to 1, if I was using Kinesis as a means to throttle an activity.

In the spirit of treating this like Lego, I suppose that maybe I could have uses SES to email itself an HTTP request description, and counted on the email lag to keep requests spread out over time. But at this point, things are getting so weird that I think it's time to just admit that "work on something at a specific pace, then go to sleep for a few hours" isn't the sort of task that the serverless architecture is well suited for. Serverless is for tasks that you want done on demand, as quickly as possible, imo.
a lot of those who 'made it' are actually cashing out of their real estate and moving north, or east. they end up with a bigger house, less taxes, more cash in the bank.

with climate change, oregon and colorado will be just like california in 10 years anyway! as for texas and its droughts and carpetbaggers... well, it'll be even more california than california.
study your competition: https://leanpub.com/rails-on-docker

use a complex rails app, one that uses redis/sidekiq.
how to handle logging when running multiple instances of the rails app.

dockerizing the CI pipeline using jenkins...etc.
Microsoft's Bing Isn't a Joke Anymore
Getting so annoyed by forbes.com welcome message. I don't understand why they stick to it.
>Therefore I cannot see why I cannot claim ownership on a Pokemon that spawned in my land, the same way I claim ownership on a tree that grew in my land.

Because it didn't spawn in your land, it spawned in the app on your phone. Unless you're claim ownership over the app on your phone because the phone is "in your land," you've got nothing to claim ownership of in this case.
I'd never heard of this. Thanks so much! I've really wanted to try to set up my own Parse instance[1], but it's suicidal to use Mongo. Hopefully I can make it work with only a few changes.

1. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Fai [pdf]
Here's a link to information about Algolia's ranking formula - https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/relevance/ranking. One thing to note is that 'textual relevance' is considered before 'business relevance'.

One component of textual relevance is the presence of typos. A typo-containing match (error instead of Errol) carries less weight than a typo-free match, so it will be ranked lower even when the business relevance ranking (popularity in likes/comments) is higher.

Algolia is an API so each implementation can be a bit different - developers have the ability to tune the relevance formula to better suit their needs. So don't feel bad about needing an explanation, this stuff can get complicated :)
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I think in many ways it's just tradition. Old browsers did wonky stuff with non 200 codes and that just created inertia that made people never quite take the effort to follow the spec.
While we are doing this...

#define APP_TIMEOUT (2000000L) /* 2 seconds */
...
usleep(APP_TIMEOUT);

usleep limits its argument's range to values from 0 to 1000000 and is considered obsolete. Please use nanosleep instead.
This means that GRU has a pretty good net of spies in Turkey.
My friends and I talk about this a lot.

We aren't living in the 1880s anymore. For one, we value life, health, and safety much more than they did back then, with things like OSHA, much more stringent labor laws (overtime, child labor), more types of insurance required for employers including unemployment and various disability coverage, environmental laws like CEQA/Clean Air Act, and tons of other stuff.

But I think the biggest change is ultimately cultural. We just don't value growth today like we did back then. We want safe workplaces, and a clean environment.

I also think there's a much greater tolerance for government bureaucracy today then there was in the 1880s, including all kinds of permits that take weeks to issue, multiple agencies overseeing everything at the state, local, and federal level, and just in general a huge expansion in the size of government. If you told someone from the 1880s that US government spending would rise to some 40% of GDP over 120 years, they'd think you were totally insane.

I go back and forth on whether it's good or bad. It's a complicated question. It takes forever to get anything done, and yet, young Chinese nationals are coming to the US because their parents have utterly ruined their environment, they don't trust the safety of their food supply, and factories with hundreds of people in them burn down, killing everyone inside. I used to think the US and Europe were radically different places, but I'm coming to see they're more alike vs. different. It's really the US and China that are worlds apart.
Uh, if you have been following along, you may have noticed that most people cannot afford the bay area as it is. Adding some supply might help things, rather than make them worse.
Let's look at a similar case in the US:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/microsoft-wins-co...

US government sues uses SCA to request data held overseas by an American company. Court rules that US government under SCA has no jurisdiction to request data held overseas, even if by an American company.

In this case, WhatsApp does not operate in Brazil. They do not have a legal entity in Brazil. A Brazilian judge has exactly zero jurisdiction over WhatsApp.

You imply that Brazilian authority extends overseas, over the entire Internet.

Sure, it is in the judge's power to blackmail the company by ordering other companies to block it. But the judge still has zero authority over WhatsApp.

Edit:

The correct way for the judge to proceed would be to use the Mutual Legal Assistance treaty between the US and Brazil to request the data through the US Government and judicial system:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/106962.pdf

From Art. I, assistance shall include:

(f) executing requests for searches and seizures;

Which would be subject to US laws, therefore, probably wouldn't happen.
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Adequate in Western Europe is adequate in the Bay Area or NYC. We're not talking about Hong Kong or Tokyo here.
Just checking: was the orange interface a monochrome, amber, screen?

It's surprisingly hard to search for this kind of stuff.

I had a go, but not successfully.

I did find this list of software, which might trigger a memory?

Cardfile,

pfs:file,

QuickFile,

PC File[1],

4th Dimension,

Paradox,

dBase,

Filemaker,

foxpro,

Nutshell,

Vulcan,

http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/allan/eBook13.pdf

http://jeanne-sewell.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/history-of-datab...
Some people are better off than others. But stating as a fact that the EU was no benefit for some people needs a supporting argument, since it can't be demonstrated empirically (as a counterfactual case).
The problem is that there's never been a point where government got involved in economic formulas (in my lifetime at least) that it hasn't been mismanaged.

That's the reason why so many people are anti-regulation and pro free market for just about anything not dealing with actual risks to public safety.

Artificially control supply, prices skyrocket. Let the free market work and as demand increases so will supply as people keep building to accommodate. Also creates lots of construction jobs.
> Real estate is usually leveraged. You don't simply get to keep living in a house if you are insolvent and owe more on the property than it is worth.

Right, but the problem there is the insolvency, not being underwater (conceptually, you have the same problem if you are insolvent but owe a nonzero amount that is less than or equal to the worth of the property, though if its less you may be able to stay off insolvency by increasing indebtedness -- though that will probably take convincing a lender that your income/expense balance will change soon enough that you won't end up insolvent and overleveraged.)
How can you be priced out of your own home? If you own it, you don't have to pay anything (unless you mean they cannot afford property taxes).
I work for a large-ish bank. Sadly can confirm everything this guy says is completely accurate.

I'm trying to get out...
I was thinking more the other way around. Slow, clunky, low-res console-first games that labor to get 30 fps while using a tiny fraction of the available CPU, GPU and RAM when ported to PC.
I wonder if they apply the 3-generations jail sentence for copyright infringement as well...
Here's the problem. We can talk tech all we want, but you have to reduce modern politics down to a catch-phrase that makes your opponent look stupid. You make anyone who tries to ban encryption embarrassed and make others call them stupid. Hell, pull out the card deck and say they're trying to ban a card trick. Logic is so long dead in politics that you got to go for the emotional gut. Bonus, if you can phrase stuff in such a way to make them unpatriotic too.

I'll go be sick in the corner now from writing the truth of it.
I stopped visiting sites with image recognition reCAPTCHAs. It has to be one of the worst UX patterns ever devised. It's dirt cheap to automate them away so it doesn't really stop any self-respecting bot maker, and it comes at a price of being a huge pain in the ass for a real user. Every time I run into them I felt used and abused.

It's really sad. So much brain power and this is what they come up with.

Apologies for the rant, couldn't help it. ReCAPTCHA is one of very few things I genuinely hate.
Yep. The main reason I thought this was worth mentioning though was the original title of the article singled out iOS :)
A perfect implement for inserting gum.
Google introduces speedier ads to its Accelerated Mobile Pages program
Fun fact: Colorado isn't a perfect rectangle (besides the lines of longitude converging). It's legally defined as straight lines between certain points that surveyors tried to make straight, but didn't get it exactly right. For example, see this part of the western border: https://goo.gl/maps/BKgwJ4bMfjF2

http://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/...

Another kink in the souther border:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.988568,-106.87603,12z

Credit to this blog: http://www.howderfamily.com/blog/colorado-not-rectangle/
509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

Here's an archived copy:
https://archive.is/cRkgb
That's the crux of the matter, isn't it? How much right should I have to control what other people do because it might bother me? I think that currently, we err way too much on the side of letting people block things, here in the US.
WhatsApp is not subject to the Brazilian justice system, it does not have to answer to Brazilian law.
Whole 8MB of RAM? Wow! ;-)
Not necessarily. Turkey's just playing both sides. Why wouldn't they? Russia wants free military transit for their warships of the Turkish Straits (which it has to clear with Turkey right now [1]) and it would vastly prefer not to have to go through a NATO country. It would also appreciate another large ally in that region, or maybe another naval base and airfield.

EU wants to be friendly with Turkey because it's the only other route for oil/gas pipelines towards the Middle East that doesn't involve Russia. EU is already heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, and has been seeking solutions [2] to remedy this, which Russia understandably machinates against [3][4].

NATO wants Turkey as a hedge against Russia, as a detente for Greek-Turkish disagreements, and a foothold in the Middle East.

Turkey could very well be in a position to court both NATO and Russia and see what it can get. This may not imply shifting alliances, just trying to get incentives from all parties.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabucco_pipeline

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Stream

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Stream
Hm, it looks like thumbtack raised an enormous amount of capital compared to Homejoy, both before and after.

What do you mean by "terrible at pitching"?
I've never understood, what does Vim or Emacs have to offer that people use it over Atom or Sublime Text?

I think I can edit and navigate through text as fast as Vim users, using the native OS text editing hotkeys.
I'm not sure what you mean. You don't have to build 50-story buildings just because you have created a demand for them.
Or you could live in an appartment building, like hundreds of millions of other families do. A big house is a luxury, not a necessity.
We might have too much red tape right now, but to say that 19th century problems didn't create red tape is not quite correct. The Jungle was published in 1906, and was about 19th century problems. It lead to red tape regarding food safety. Taft used the Sherman Act (red tape from 1890) to deal with competition problems.

With regard to railroads, there was no minimum wage to consider, no worker safety to consider, no environmental impact to consider and no zoning to consider. The only challenges were logistics, money and buying enough land in a straight line. Sure, there are costs to that approach, but the railroad builders don't have to bear them
Sounds like it did not go so well. What was the postmortem.
Interesting. After watching the show Billions, and reading up on how much money hedge fund managers make on fees (seems totally ridiculous), I wonder how common is illegal insider trading for hedge funds? No matter how good your model is, you won't beat someone with information your model doesn't have.
I think (but am not completely certain) that we needed a high-growth environment to be rich enough to invent the technologies that give us safe workplaces and a clean environment.

If that's true, I also wonder what safety and and living standard improvements we might be giving up because we don't have high growth today.
MSVC's latest versions support a clang frontend w/ microsoft's code generation as backend. Are you referring to something else?
Demand =/= quantity demanded. If people demand a certain quantity at a certain price, they will demand more at a lower price. That "more" isn't going to make the object's price go up.

> What if Californians just decided they want their communities to look the way they do now?

If that, rather than selfishly increasing their property values at public expense, is their true motivation, they can do this in a way that satisfies everyone. Drive out all the businesses that bring in the money chasing after housing.
Different strokes for different folks. For me, the first editor I ever used was vi and I just stuck with it. I've never used Atom or Sublime but from what I can tell they're nice editors too.
> - Do they allow private ownership of property, including the means of production? Yes, Sweden's economy is almost entirely driven by private businesses.

Government spending as % of GDP is an excellent metric re size of the government relative to the private economy. This assumes that as a nation is more socialist, the size of the government will increase.

Sweden slightly over 50% (http://www.tradingeconomics.com/sweden/government-spending-t...)
U.S. 20% (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S)

I don't doubt that private property ownership is permissible in Sweden, but the government dominates GDP as compared to any single private sector.

> - Do they force the redistribution of wealth, so as to attempt to prevent the existence of rich and poor classes? No.

Sweden has higher personal tax rates than the U.S. I dispute your "No." here.

> - May the government arbitrarily nationalize your wealth, investments, or business? No, that would be a rare event in Sweden.

It depends. The Swedish government is a highly functional one and will not act capriciously. I believe they will step in and nationalize wealth/real property if doing so was important to the wellbeing of the nation, whereas the U.S. even during the bailouts of 2008 went through great pains to avoid direct government ownership / control, even to the point of handing private equity firms free risk-adjusted money.

> - Does the State determine all investment priorities for all businesses? No, quite the opposite, businesses are free to set their own priorities, build new products at will, choose how they allocate capital.

Given the GDP % stated above, this is debatable.

> - Does the State dictate most allocations of capital? No, the opposite.

Same as the previous point.
Lets not forget that they are speaking about neutrinos - particles that are notoriously hard to detect precisely because they hardly interact with "regular" matter.

So the fact that they traveled hundreds? of miles still in superposition states just means that they did not interact with anything over those distances.

I am failing to understand how this is weird, in-fact this is exactly what the theory calls for.
No, you can just let home prices inflate, or force everyone to commute from 2 hours away. The parent's point is that increased density often follows increased demand; and increased demand often follows a productive economy.
But you see the spiral that leads to, don't you? Wages increase -> local economy adjusts to absorb higher incomes (i.e. everything, including housing, becomes more expensive) -> "we need to demand higher wages" -> wages increase -> ...
That's not what the vulnerability is here. If you have a server endpoint that returns an array without wrapping it as a property on an object then an attacker can write a webpage that overrides the Array prototype and requests the json from your page as a script, thereby bypassing the cross origin check it would be subject to as an xhr request. So if you have a page which returns sensitive information as an array you (were, it seems browsers probably don't allow you to override the array prototype anymore) are vulnerable to the attacker stealing a signed in users secrets.
Where does it say he gets a below market salary?
Spread Networks built a $300m line between Chicago and NJ just to save 3 milliseconds. That project involved building a tunnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_Networks

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/opinion/krugman-three-expe...
Well at least it would help you avoid warm-up for the interpreter/compiler itself, so it might help a bit.
Are Android intents supposed to be like Smalltalk/Erlang message passing?
The whole Activity/Service/Intent structure in Android seems very actor-y to me. I mean, you're basically formatting your call into what's essentially an IPC object, and these intents might be passed to a component (activities/services/etc.) that may or may not actually be in the same process.

I know the idea isn't exclusive to Smalltalk etc., but in this case, is the Android data hiding model explicitly supposed to be inspired by Smalltalk actors, or am I just misunderstanding lots of things?
I think we all do this to some degree. When I'm working on a difficult problem, it feels like Christmas Eve, because I know I'll wake up and have the solution coded up before my coffee is gone.
You are right, the author was extreme, but not by that much. Look at Houston, or Austin and you'll find lots of perfectly nice, new construction, 4b/2br in the $250K range. I live an hour outside Boston where there is a similar dynamic at play. My frustration is that large cities like Houston are able to build inexpensively, while relatively small ones like Boston/SF are just insane.
Still better than no development at all.
> while this removes the ability to of the client to go to an arbitrary page on its own

Yeah, that's the whole problem with this approach.
No.. what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't use a map projection, but rather picture countries painted on the surface of a sphere. Then the border of a country is represented using latitude/longitude coordinates, and straight lines are instead arcs of a great circle. The difference should usually be pretty small, but some countries cough China are big enough that it might matter.

If a measure of rectangularity depends on the map projection used, then it probably also depends on how you orient the coordinate system (e.g. where the North pole is), and is therefore not well defined.
> oh right, the OFFICIAL one. Sure.

Not official in the sense of "there is some standards committee making these designations", but it seems to be a commonly accepted practice that the title of "Senior Engineer" is assigned to someone who "is capable of being given a high level (and often vague) task, and work completely independently on it and finish it" but not anything more.

But my main concern was distinguishing between the title and the role. When I think of the role, I think we generally consider someone to be senior when they can:

a) work through very thorny technical problems and find novel solutions

b) connect technical solutions to the needs of the business

c) provide leadership or mentoring to other engineers

Like or not (I don't, personally) the title and the role use the same words but mean different things.

> Not really, as the upper levels aren't reached by most people.

I'm not clear on what your point is. Is it in the middle of most people's career? No. Is it in the middle of most technical career ladders (as used in various tech companies)? Yes.

My point is that in places where there is a technical career ladder, there are titles that do actually reflect (what I consider to be) the role of a senior engineer. This is how tech companies get around the fact that convention has lowered the expectations of the title Senior Engineer.

The core problem is that there is confusion about the relationship between title and role. The OP is trying to fix this confusion by raising the standards of the title to match the role (by explaining what the role really entails). I'm just trying to clarify the conventions set by the industry so that people can plan their careers accordingly.
True, but... never burn bridges (unless you really would go on unemployment rather than work there - or with them - again).
This is a catastrophe! If muslims do not make it into the modern era, what are the alternatives?

We can not build walls between blocks, so perpetual war is the only answer.

Losing Turkey is even worse than losing the UK - and both are probably connected: Turkey is abusing a weakened EU.

Collaboration and compromise is falling apart: welcome to BoJo's future, where everything is a trade and people have no rights.
Let's look at a similar case in the US:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/microsoft-wins-co...

US government sues uses SCA to request data held overseas by an American company. Court rules that US government under SCA has no jurisdiction to request data held overseas, even if by an American company.

In this case, WhatsApp does not operate in Brazil. They do not have a legal entity in Brazil. A Brazilian judge has exactly zero jurisdiction over WhatsApp.

Sure, it is in the judge's power to blackmail the company by ordering other companies to block it. But the judge still has zero authority over WhatsApp.

The correct way for the judge to proceed would be to use the Mutual Legal Assistance treaty between the US and Brazil to request the data through the US Government and judicial system:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/106962.pdf

From Art. I, assistance shall include:

(f) executing requests for searches and seizures;

Which would be subject to US laws, therefore, probably wouldn't happen.
I agree Erdogan is using this as an excuse to seize complete control, but I don't buy the fake coup conspiracy theory. The military had no reason to agree to help Erdongan do something like that, and who would volunteer to get tried for Treason?

The military never liked Erdogan and he's been locking up military leaders for 'plotting' against him for years. Some of them finally got fed up with him, but made a mess of it.
i had very high hopes for opa [http://opalang.org/]; i'm still sad it didn't catch on instead of node