skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah absolutely - not trying to take anything away from developers particularly. Different skill sets, but practically the same outcome most of the time. That's a great example of why knowing how to create a BST from scratch isn't the only knowledge needed to build great software.
You just showed that the words "weak" and "emotional" mean two different things. No one ever questioned that.
So, I guess that means you automatically write off companies that don't give you a laptop at all?
You can use the normal issue tracker for that.
I plan to write up how the site was built and give some hints as to how you can use lazy loading, etc. to your advantage.
Let's not troll HN, please. Microservices and modules solve two different problems, microservices are nowhere in this article.
Wow! That's really ridiculous. People can be protective of the code they right, but to level that charge? Perposterous!
Yep, when you set up your phone you get a notification to enable it, as well as it's features. It's pretty upfront about what it does and what it collects too.
Do we really need a new religious holiday? Because that's what democracy has become - the national religion.

The fundamental problem of democracy is that people end up believing that the government works for them. Under other systems, people know they are at odds with their rulers. If things get bad enough, they will organize and rebel. But democracy simulates a pressure-relief valve for discontent, actually leaving people convinced that they're responsible for the crappy outcome!

The presidential race is the focus because it's the archetype for the whole system [0]. Regardless of whether the dipshit or the criminal wins this fall, the useful idiots who fell for their revolutionary rhetoric will subsequently be justifying oppressive policies that hurt the losing team more than themselves. They'll receive none of the promised relief, yet they'll reassure themselves that the other skinjob would have been sooo much worse. It's a remarkable system for converting dissent into support, and I would call it elegant but for being its victim.

[0] The exact same dynamic plays out in local races, choosing between the scumbags who raise taxes and create new nanny state regulations, or the asshats who underfund schools and let infrastructure fall apart. The bureaucracy's middle management or the scope of its control is rarely cut back.
It would be reasonable to assume that the data in the auction contains as-of-yet undiscovered exploits. this also makes sense when you consider we will not likely know who walks away with this.
I like the idea of Wealthfront but I can't imagine why anyone would pay any fee for the service.

Perhaps that's why Schwab has a fee free robo advisor, and surely every other brokerage and bank is working on the same thing.
Certainly not upset at the person for posting it, I admit i see how it could have come across that way.

To your point, this isn't from 1950 or even 1975. It's recent.
I may be able to help, I worked as a personal trainer before I found my calling .

Sounds like you're giving yourself a chore, your body will do what comes natural. Procrastinate. And Hey, I've been there, cold yet warm morning bed, its more restricting than handcuffs.

Try this. Lower your expectations. Seriously. A big reason why most people don't follow through on diet/exercise goals is they become disillusioned when they do not see results or their own bodies seems to have its own agenda. Don't make plans of grandeur. Set your alarm to your preferred time, get plenty of sleep if possible. As soon as that buzz goes off, jump out of bed and go take a shower. Now that you're awake, you can work out. Do this enough and your body will take a hint.
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The article mentions several times that student loans are putting a lot of people off more debt. Then it says they'll have no credit history when it comes time to buy a house or car.

What about all the student loan payments they're making? That's certainly a credit history, esp. if you miss a few.
I disagree that the interest costs of technical debt feel invisible. I personally feel a very heavy burden when cutting technical corners / coding to specifics rather than the elegant generic cases. Indeed I spend a large amount of time in meetings persuading non-tech people of the impact of their (often technical-debt unaware) instincts. If you are in an organisation which is unable to measure, even in broad terms, the impact of technical debt, then that organisation is probably not run by the kind of people who should be managing a tech business. It's why most successful startups in the past 10 years have been run by people who understand code.
BlackHat is run by the same people as DefCon. BlackHat is their (very success) attempt to monetize the infamy surrounding DefCon. Many of the talks you see at BlackHat will appear (usually watered down) at DefCon.
If the less informed shareholder move to passive allocations, the market actually gets more efficient:
http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/passiveactive/
I agree, the actor model is a significantly more usable metaphor for containers than functions. When you start thinking about supervisor trees, you start heading towards Kubernetes, which is interesting.
Can't edit, but I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't have posted it. Sorry I gave that impression. My issue is with Joel.
This is interesting - I can't tell from the article if the text message was divulged by the receiving party or through a subpoena. I understand that SMS can be captured by the provider and they can be subpoenad, but what about messages sent via a third party service (iMessage, WhatsApp, etc) that are (at least notionally) encrypted and not visible to the service? Would an individual be compelled to present these in court?
We considered a port, but it would have been a ton of work (half the game is written in assembly language, plus we'd need to redo assets, rework it for different screen resolution, etc) and we'd still need a publisher. We were pretty burned out by the end of it.
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We are looking to use one of owncloud, nextcloud, or seafile. What are the pros and cons of each? Any opinion is welcome.
> Add on the fact that the author of the readme is clearly writing in an exaggerated Russian / East European accent, with such wild claims and mystery surrounding the terms of the auction...I would suspect joke or alternate reality game more quickly than a hack of Equation Group.

Without any spelling mistakes.
That's fantastic! I was just going off of the README without looking too deep. You are correct.
Here is a good explanation with examples

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Tax_loss_harvesting
If Apple is 5% of the index and it is 5% of your portfolio then you don't have to do anything. If Apple stock goes up and makes 8% of the index, then it's also 8% of your portfolio.
That was my first thought - are they avoiding credit cards or credit card debt? - but later in the article it says:

"more recent data has also suggested that millennials are using credit cards less than people of a similar age did in the past"
> We noticed that men constantly asked for WAY more than women when applying, so we decided to take the salary negotiations off the table to make it easier for everyone.[0]

So I'm being punished because some people don't ask for what they're worth? I would consider applying for the senior position but it's less than I make now. This policy means I have to either 1) take a pay cut; 2) punch above my weight and apply for the next rung up the ladder; 3) not apply.

I get what they're trying to do but this does not seem to be a way to go about it while continuing to get the best applicants possible.

[0] http://corgibytes.com/careers/
Im willing to bet people don't value fraud protection because they haven't been a victim yet. I keep the number of places that see my debit and checking numbers as few as possible. Plus, the credit card companies themselves don't view fraud the same way or with alarm.
Could you outline the procedure to get rid of the spy? All I can find are bizarre instructions like this one:

http://www.technicalnotes.org/disable-cortana-in-windows-10-...
Given the option for zero interest payments on things like appliances and computers, why would you use a credit card for those?
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I think it probably depends on how much you stand to gain from automated tax-loss harvesting: If you don't have the time/skills to do it yourself, strategically selling depreciated stocks (then, potentially, buying them again later) can cancel out a lot of the taxes you'd pay on gains elsewhere in your portfolio. If the Wealthfront fee is less than you save, seems like it'd make sense.
> This article really just emphasizes the fact that we are living in an age of complete lack of personal responsibility and self-control, where you can blame an institution for your inability to spend.

Not having credit cards is one way to control yourself.
Are slow convergences useful for testing purposes?

What is being tested with 100million function calls?
This. It's really not that hard to do correctly. The fraud protections are much better, at least in my experience in the US, than using debit cards, you get the reward points, and you can "float" expenses over the course of the month, as long as you pay it off every statement - which is nice if you only get one paycheck a month.
I always thought the free flights, etc. was like the casino comp'ing you free drinks.
Todd Schneider already did a bunch of analysis on the data. I simply wanted to use the dataset to compare various OLAP engines.

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...
How a digital-only smartphone opens the door to DRM
The "acoustic soul" part has fed into many areas of the design. We were really interested in what made certain acoustic instruments so universally loved and ubiquitous. One of the things we have paid a lot of attention to is the expressiveness of all the controls. You can manipulate many parameters in a fine-tuned way at the same time.

We were also interested in the idea of musicians having an "emotional relationship" with their instruments. That's not something you typically see in digital gear. So we wanted the aesthetic and experience of holding it to be more intimate.

And lastly, as I said in the first comment: we really wanted a musicians cause-and-effect to be obvious to their audience.

We have an app platform called Symphony which runs on your computer. Munes also come with a license for Cycling74's fun visual programming environment which will let people create their own "apps" with little audio programming experience. These apps can easily be uploaded and shared.

In addition the onboard embedded software is open-source, so hackers can have a field day with it!
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Maybe I lack self control but it was really easy to go from paying off $30k in credit card bills every month, to not having that income anymore, to being $30k+ in CC debt.
I was being a bit flippant; they're not all American, and checking the list now I see I've actually read 5 out of 11 of them.
Until the function is called again, no?
I never trusted these devices and unless mandatory I opt out. If one of these systems gets hacked and the encryption is poor now my fingerprint image scan or data points is irretrievably in the wild. A few years ago my gym installed fingerprint scanners to speed up entry to the gym instead of a clerk checking ID cards. I opted to continue to use my ID card and at first there was subtle and not so subtle pressure to use the FP scanner. I complained to corporate and eventually they must have got the message as the clerks check my ID to let me in the gym without complaint or (passive aggressive) delay.
That sounds more like HFT which is such a small part of Wall Street that it practically doesn't exist.
It looks like you haven't tricked anyone into asking you what your project is yet. Sorry man, but it was a great attempt to get your project some exposure. :(
A good RAID controller exactly fits your included quote. It will speed up reads by distributing to all disks, but writes will be slower because they have to be written to all disks before the controller will signal the write as completed.
I think I read elsewhere that this would be streamed live. I presume no advance application is needed to do that, or am I wrong?
> Credit cards are frequently necessary for the bigger purchases - like washing machines and computers...

Saving up enough to buy items like without going into extremely high interest credit card debt is responsible consumerism.
Black Hat was run by Jeff Moss. He sold it to UBM several years ago. It is most definitely not run now the same way Jeff ran it.
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One thing that even people who consider themselves financially savvy (e.g. those who pay off the credit cards in full each month rather than carrying a balance) often fail to realize is that credit card companies are middlemen; the fees they charge the merchant -- typically around 3% of each transaction -- ultimately get paid for by someone, and that someone is you.

If we all were less beholden to our credit cards, and/or the public and retailers were more comfortable with higher prices for credit card purchases, we might see cash prices go down. The savviest among us would probably lean more on cash for smaller purchases and reserve credit cards for only big-ticket purchases (because of the transaction/purchase protection benefits).
While I realize it may lead to less (reckless) spending, this is probably a good thing. Certainly my generation overused credit cards, and many of us learned painful lessons from it. I sure did, though even now I have a somewhat cavalier attitude towards the plastic.

Sure, there are lots of benefits to credit cards if you have the discipline to use them to your advantage. But most people don't have that discipline, and the banks try very hard to loosen what discipline you do have.

As an American living in Europe I find the different attitudes to credit cards over here very interesting.

For instance in Germany I had a Visa and now I have a MasterCard, at a big fancy bank, and both are automatically paid in full from your account on the first of every month. It might be possible to run up debt on a credit card in Germany (or it might not) but it's not the default action like it is in the US. No "click here to pay the minimum."

Also, lots of places won't even take credit cards in Germany. Like Ikea for example. Instead these places will take your "EC card" which is like an ATM card in the US, i.e. a direct debit from your account.

While the Germans are notoriously paranoid about debt -- hyperinflation will do that to you -- some other countries are more freewheeling. In Hungary most people don't have credit cards, but lots of places (including Ikea!) accept them.

(Slightly complicating this whole story is the fact that in Europe most debit cards are also Visa or MasterCard, which I assume is transparent at the point of sale.)

However, back in debt-averse Germany, unsecured personal credit is much easier to obtain, at much better rates, than in the US. So if you're gainfully employed and you really need to buy that used speedboat to set the Spree on fire, they've got you covered.

[edit: grammar]
I'm not making a claim about reincarnation or past lives. I'm saying something along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_individualism. And no, science has not shown that you get one particular mind. It could, at best, show that you experience one mind at a time. But what is experiencing the mind?
The finishing millwork stuff is crazy. We had an insect infestation on our front porch behind the beadboard. I pulled it out to get rid of the ants, and some jerk stole it from my driveway. Replacing those boards would cost something like $5,000 today.
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commit to severely degraded quality of life that comes with a megacommute

Do not under any circumstances concede to a megacommute, any other option is better than that. You might as well concede to chopping your right arm off.
OK, but don't you think the same service will be offered fee-free from robo advisors from big banks and brokerages? That's my guess, anyway.
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That bug should probably be closed, because the person who published the PPA uploaded a version to Debian just a month later [1]. From the package's tracker page [2], you can see that the same person became a co-maintainer, and has been preparing most of the uploads ever since.

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/180171

[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lyx
I honestly don't understand why they're so popular here either. A debt card is basically the same as paying with cash, because you have the money. With credit, you're still doing the same thing, but you pay later- either way you're still paying the same amount, but with credit, you can fuck yourself pretty easily.

Also, it's because credit cards are so prolific here that it's harder to take out a mortgage, if everyone has a good credit score but you, then you're not going to be at the top of their list.
Indices are updated synchronously on every insert, slowing your writes, for the sake of transactional guarantees that most applications aren't written to take advantage of. Queries have to be passed over the wire as strings

Those are implementation details, not inherent properties of the relational model.
Can't put a price on a free drink!
https://github.com/StamusNetworks/SELKS

https://github.com/StamusNetworks/scirius
I didn't catch any reporting about any malware code that Snowden retrieved, can you link me to those new stories?

I remember an config file regarding the XKeyscore tool, but nothing else.
> this silly rigmarole of purchasing and then paying off to prove to future agencies that I'm responsible

That actually sounds like a fantastic method for a lending agency to determine who is responsible and who is not.
If you disable Cortana, Search process is still running. If you kill it, it comes back.

Hm let me think which type of software has this behaviour...
The thing is that most projects fail for reasons other than technical debt. Not having clear requirements to begin with is one, and running out of money along the way is another big one. There's not much programmers can do about those, and burning time working on tech debt may actually hurt you on the second one.

Rather than thinking of it like a house you have to live in, I think of a healthy codebase more like a busy police precinct. It may be a bit messy, but that's just because there's always something more important to do than tidy up.
That may be the case, but they need to update the documentation to reflect that. This is what it currently says:

"Note: All the new features required have been submitted for inclusion in PostgreSQL 9.5. Many have already been accepted and included. If all the functionality BDR requires is added to PostgreSQL 9.5 then the need for a modified PostgreSQL will go away in the next version."

Well, PostgreSQL 9.5 has been out for several months now, and there's no note at all for 9.6. For a 1.0 announcement, that's a pretty strange omission.

So we get something that only really works with a patched version of 9.4 when 9.6 is going to be released soon, and talks about 9.5 like it isn't out yet? No thanks.
What about buying or coercing votes? Seems like a purely mail-in system would enable both. One benefit of polling places is that it's very difficult (if not impossible) to tell who anyone voted for.
That is probably the only reason why I use credit cards. Make no mistake your paying for those perks, they are just hidden in your everyday purchases. About 15 years ago I got tired of trying to negotiate cash discounts (usually only for larger purchases), and became a loyal discover card user. So, now i'm part of the problem, and the banks are very happy to keep it that way, because they are also making a percent or so on every purchase I make...

The good news is that gas stations offering a few cents off a gallon, small restaurants, etc that have built in cash discounts seem to be more common now than they were just a few years ago.
For a free $200 flight (on the low end), you'd need to spend (on the bottom end, with an exceptionally good 3% rewards number) 200 / 0.03 = $6667, on whatever stupid categories your credit card has for the 3%. Just how much money do you think most millenials have?
The way it works is that credit cards charge merchants ~3% per transaction. They don't allow merchants to charge proportionately more for CC transactions over cash transactions. Since it's business suicide not to take cards, everyone just charges a few percent more across the board. So basically everyone without a good card is getting fucked over, but if your card has a rewards program you can at least get some of that 3% back.
This looks great. I'll definitely try it out.
My sense is that Millennials have a less rosy view of their future economic situation than did generations past.

I don't know if it was coming of age during a banking crisis or huge student loans or expensive housing or what.

But obviously if you're unsure about your future earning potential you'll be more hesitant to rack up future obligations.
I just saw a great term on a friend's Facebook today... "refracturing". That's when you fix bugs by introducing new bugs.
We noticed men consistently knew their market worth and women undervalued themselves, so we decided to use the hot button topic of diversity to make it seem like lowball offers are actually coming from a moral high ground.
> You're assuming that you need to change things. Almost all big-data approaches work better when you abandon that and go for a log-structured model where you only ever append.

That depends on your loads. If you're write heavy, then yes. If you're read heavy, then you're adding extra work to find the current row out of all the appends. If you're read and write heavy, then get used to buying really expensive beefy machines and maybe sharding...
At least in some EU countries, we do call them debit cards, and while the percentage is much lower than in the US, a third of all adults do have (at least one) credit card.
I agree, Conway's law, for example, has as much of an impact here.
I'm not so sure this article is entirely accurate. I have Windows 10 Anniversary Update on my Surface Pro 4 and the switch to turn "Hey Cortana" off takes just 2-3 clicks.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/EI57H
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I think at this point we can just ignore the yields on bonds.

The majority of the "income" from government bonds has come from capital gains, not the coupon.

Then the yield decreases it is because the bond itself has become more expensive. Sell the bond at the higher price.

Negative yield is an annual rate.

Taking a short position is more expensive.

Holding a CDS is more expensive.

If you expect negative yields to continue or go deeper, then bonds are a good investment.

Now, if you are in more illiquid corporate bonds, then you may be forced to hold them till maturity.
One thing I liked about the 4000 was that it was loud enough to give a reasonable feedback while typing, but not annoyingly loud (at least when alone - I never tried it in an office environment). And that pad to rest the palms one was amazing.
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