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Come up with an interesting project to work on in your favorite language. Keep adding more features until some functions have a lot of parameters. Then Google to see how you can group the variables together into objects so you don't have to pass so many variables around. Then just keep doing that in your new programs. After a few months or years you will get used to organizing code that way.

One thing you should not bother doing is to order giant piles of paper just so that you can say you read X famous author on OOP or Design Patterns or whatever. That is a waste of time and money now that we have Google and blogs/online articles etc. And anyway you are going to learn by doing it for X years or months, not by reading a book.

Also, be careful because people will to make it seem much more complicated than it is. The more complex or subtle aspects you are probably only going to remember or understand if you learn them through practice anyway.
Carelessness matters a great deal! The risks/damage to the security of the country are tied to the care of what and to whom things are revealed. Its the same reason Hillary should be tried, she was ignorant and careless w/ secure information.
What if the audio pitches were outside human detection and distinct enough patterns?
I love the black and white nature of this.

A crime is a crime even if done for good.

But I like Snowden.

Tough call.
> At the very least if two Dots hear the same voice commands hopefully only one (the closer one?) will respond.

That's what the newly-announced "Spatial Perception" feature does.

In theory, it will detect which Echo or Dot is closest to you, and respond only on that device.

Happily, it's going to be rolled out to existing Echo/Dot devices as well.
often times it can be a he-said she-said situation though
NYC threatens to sue Verizon over FiOS shortfalls
Could you write something less meaningful?
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OH NO. NOT SOROS. CALL THE CONSPIRACY POLICE.

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Even if pardoned how could he ever come back? Surely they will paint a target on his forehead and "oops" casualty of a car accident or maybe he magically gets cancer etc.
Yes, top-level await sounds silly. It would freeze the entire app... You couldn't even render a loading progress bar - It would defeat the whole point of loading modules asynchronously.
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It is very heavily recommended to opt in your users in this service (and mandatory to ask the user's permission for the location detection anyway, the most costly by far privacy & battery wise).

I am not sure how legal it would be to collect this kind of data without asking for the user's approval first (not that it would stop all devs of course).

Glancing at the doc, I might be mistaken, but it looks like on iOS, just like on Android, you don't need to ask a permission in order to access to the accelerometer.
Except that this behavior is not indoctrinated by an "authoritarian" state, publishing you with death, but rather by a omni-present culture punishing you on social grounds.

IMO libertarianism that gives corporation more freedom than people, just make it easier for them to push through any legislation and "cultural propaganda"and they want, not so much solving this problem.
It's a case of different expectations. You expect an "intelligent machine" to get it right and you're exasperated when it gets it wrong.

It's kind of like saying that using a rotary phone UI on your smartphone would have been okay, because we've managed with it just fine for a long time back when we had rotary phones.
As a counterpoint, here's what I expect Sterling and The Intercept might argue:

Sterling unsuccessfully raised several concerns, including criticisms of Merlin, internally with the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee. Getting no results, he turned to external whistleblowing through a Pulitzer-winning reporter.

This is in keeping with Thomas Drake's behavior - after being punished for attempting to use internal whistleblowing, he went outside the government and was given a minimal suspended sentence akin to what Sterling might have expected.
Because making public the knowledge that our government is illegally surveilling the entire population is in the public interest. He tried to stop violations from within, and when that was ineffective he used the only other recourse he had.
> Go find me a house for sale now that's less than 10 or 15 years of an individuals salary.

There seem to be a few houses in San Francisco for sale now that are under $600k: https://www.redfin.com/city/17151/CA/San-Francisco/filter/so...

Raising the limit to $1 million, which is less than 10 to 15 years of many tech people's salary, greatly increases the number available.

Note I've set the filter to only include houses. It excludes condos, townhouses, and multi-family dwellings.
I agree the data should be open, I just don't think Uber, or anyone else, should attempt to piggyback on top of it.

Pushing other peoples' cars around does sound kind of fun, but I hope we'll have something better to do than frustrate commuters.
Again, only speaking from my personal experiences and what I have witnessed.

There is no winning move. You have to have enough social sense to accurately "judge" your bully. You could judge wrong. You may make things worse for yourself. When a bully has no problem getting physical (and has more friends than you do to back them up) is is harder to deal with than the "Disney-like bullies" that I mentioned.

Best case scenario is a caring adult with enough authority gets involved. Even then, sometimes getting an adult involved makes things worse. Got the other kid(s) in trouble? They might beat your ass to get back at you.

>If the goal is to get them bored, would "playing along" help? What if you laughed with them at their insults?

Could be seen as taunting them, resulting in a beating.

>What if you immediately curled up into a ball at imminent violence

Beat you anyways? Might take some of the fun out of beating you until you curl up in a ball, but beating you to a pulp could be its own fun for them.

>Just do nothing then? (the advice I gave, and it is also common advice)

They may continue to escalate until they get a rise out of you. If it was jeering and teasing before - it might escalate to something physical.

My solution was to drop out of school (remove myself from the equation) and go on Independent Study. It is very similar to being home schooled and I didn't have to deal with anyone. If I'm not around to bully/beat I can't be bullied/beaten. This option isn't always open to people, especially parents who refuse to let their kids be "home schooled" (because the stereotype only "dumb children" get home schooled and their child isn't dumb!)
Are you for real?

Welcome to politics, friend. This is how the game is played. This is not shocking news to anyone.
incorrect. `await` is a reserved word only in async contexts, the UI thread event loop still runs while `await`ing.
Seems interesting. Kind of like a travel agent but then again not. Let us know when you try them out.
Yeah, laws, acts, and shit suck, right? Because they weren't written by me, especially, by your tally. Maybe if you folks would stop worrying about being "put on some list" as if that'll happen because you say "Snowden should be pardoned!" What about the list for us good people that say "Snowden should be tried and jailed!" Don't you want to be on OUR list?
Snowden's Boss Shares Lessons Learned
What I don't like about this is the requirement to buy back their share after a fixed term (it looks like their longest term is 10 years).

That makes the contract behave like a short position. If the price of my house starts to rise rapidly, I need to "cover" or risk not having the cash when the term expires.

It's like being long and short in my house at the same time.
Cover your costs includes mortgage and food in this context.
Meetups are different. Usually I never go to lunch by myself, but if I was it would be cool to have table to sit down at.
Link for the lazy: https://www.amazon.com/Object-Thinking-Developer-Reference-D...
Yeah me either... I think the poster above is projecting their own thoughts and feelings onto others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Then you haven't been paying attention. It's a fairly common story: "I used to get wound up and react to bullies, but as soon as I stopped reacting, they got bored and stopped."

It matches most of my experiences with bullying, although mostly this was in the form of bullies trying to start teasing me, and giving up in disgust when they couldn't get a rise out of me. But I'm also aware that my own experiences were fairly tame, and not at all representative of other people's, which is my point.
I disagree that Manning deserves a pardon, because she was significantly more (read completely) careless. Not only about the content of what was released, but the manner in which it was released. Comparing Manning's actions to Snowden's is naive at best.
Appreciate you putting the unpopular opinion.
How id he a traitor. What did he gain from this? Stop. right there what ever you think he gained is nothing compared to what he lost. I don't think he should be publicly pardoned because it would send the wrong message to copy cat idiots but I would not call him a trator
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Did you just compare murder to whistleblowing?
i'm not at lyft, but i've been looking into introducing this proxy in our environment to replace haproxy in smartstack (http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/) and so have thought about these questions a bit.

#1: the cost of local proxying is very small, on the order of tenths of ms. it's going to be hard to distinguish against the backdrop of the broader network latency. also, in our environment we've been thinking of only running the proxy on the client end for now, to make the migration easier.

#2: as with haproxy, you leave the existing connections handled with the running proxy, and new connections are taken up by the new proxy. unlike haproxy, envoy actually supports live config reloading, so you don't have to pay that penalty on every config change

#3: multiple connections are multiplexed, but i'm not sure how you specify priority to the proxy. do the docs specify a mechanism? i imagine both requests are served in parallel, in no particular order, and the data is buffered for the client.
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Politifact recently evaluated a former CIA officer's claim that "waterboarding works" and found it false:

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/may/24/tod...

"While many top officials defended the CIA’s use of waterboarding in the past, there is no irrefutable evidence the practice provides results. Experts said there are few historical accounts of success, and even those are suspect. Meanwhile, there’s scientific proof that a technique like waterboarding would affect brain function enough to make any prisoner’s statements unreliable. They may say anything to make the waterboarding stop, and could actually be physically unable to provide any cogent intelligence.

"Wilcox didn’t provide concrete proof and experts say virtually none exists. We rate the statement False."
Alexa Shopping.. I think that means you have to order it via the echo rather than online.

I.e. "Alexa, order me an Echo Dot"
I believe the reason why people tend to restrict the cluster access to just a handful of people is because - at least for now - these tools lack proper ways to control access to specific resources by specific groups of people. I mean, there are ways to do that in Kubernetes today[1], but the setup is kept as an exercise to cluster operators.

I don't know for sure, but this is less of a problem in some distributions, such as OpenShift[2].

Once this problem is solved, there's no reason to "shield" the cluster from devs.

[1] http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authorization/

[2] https://docs.openshift.com/enterprise/3.0/admin_guide/config...
YMMV, but I don't think it is. It's still running and probably gets decent ratings, but it's not water cooler talk like it used to be, it's not must-see TV among teenagers and twenty-somethings like it used to be, and in many years there haven't been any episodes that were the focus of national attention (like "Best Friends Forever" or "Trapped in the Closet").
Maybe the bullies are truly the lonely ones, and use bullying as an outlet to hide that. Food for thought...
Ask HN: How to get rid of laziness to read?
I always have some 10 tabs open in my browser. I feel like reading the article, but it ends up in the pile of open pending tabs. Those tabs will be open for some days and new articles take place of the old tabs. I feel like I am being greedy with choosing the articles to read, but laziness engulfs my desire to read. How to overcome with my laziness? Suggest some hacks or workflows to tackle this!
However, if people emboldened to get their 5 minutes of fame for releasing some really juicy confidential or top secret info that has nothing to do with [your list here], this is the WORST possible outcome.
Or just develop for the web.
>The internal mechanisms actually work, if you use them.

Seems there are numerous examples of people going through proper channels and then getting retaliation[1]. Also, Snowden was a contractor, so was not covered under the whistleblower protection act as government employees are, so could not talk to members of Congress.

Thomas Drake complained internally to the designated authorities: to his bosses, the NSA Inspector General, the Defense Department Inspector General, and both the House and Senate Congressional intelligence committees, was labeled a troublemaker and then charged with (of all things): willful retention of national defense information, obstruction of justice, and making false statements.

> Do you really think all 600+ members of Congress would have turned him away? Being the Senator or Representative that brought that info forward would have guaranteed re-election...

What about all the members of Congress that already knew about it? Why doesn't the same logic apply to them? that's 20+ members from both sides of aisle. At the end of the day, the proper channels have no obligation to do anything, it can go up the chain and decided things are better left unchanged, public non-the-wiser.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake
NDAA authorized indefinite detention.
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This is the kind of thing I was interested in when I made Googley Eyes [0]. Googley Eyes makes a record of whether the pages I visit do or do not send info about me to Google. Of the 11,571 pages I visited over the last couple of months, Google knows about 52% of them.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googley-eyes/
I'm in agreement. Despite what I might think about their cause (I support their cause), I can't get a bead on who actually is behind the site. The site is constructed in a very non-transparent way, a very scammy feel to it.

I have found that the ACLU links from their site to the Pardon Snowden site. Interestingly, Human Rights Watch does not link to the site, but seems to have their own petition (maybe connected?) and that's as far as I went.

Even with that bit of confirmation that this site is legit. I am not that promiscuous with my information.
Sort of. REITs typically buy tranches of real estate. They might own entire blocks or office developments or they might own parts of those properties. These deals are typically at least seven figures.

More recently REITs have begun buying up multi families in cities that have historically been owner occupied (typically by immigrant and other marginalized people).

You can see the direction they are moving. Point has done the math and concluded buying single family houses and condos is too risky as a landlord but buying a share of one with generous terms isn't.

Ultimately these shares themselves will be tranched and packaged as CDOs that the big REITs can buy, Point being the facilitator.
Here is a well produced oxford style debate between qualified debaters on the topic. I found it very enlightening and hope everyone gives it a listen. It's available as a video or podcast. http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/snowden-was-jus...
It's not that nasty if you have non-carpeted floors and a swiffer. Living somewhere warmer (no salt, snow, etc.) helps too.

I don't have orthopedic problems, but I've found that I'm generally more comfortable by the end of the day if I'm wearing shoes at home vs barefoot or slippers. This is especially true if I spend a few hours in the kitchen standing up to cook, etc.

Additionally, where I grew up it's odd/rude for a visitor to remove their shoes or be asked to remove their shoes. Different strokes and all that. :)
> " in the fact that they are not afraid of making breaking changes if they truly benefit the platform, something which I don't see MS doing anytime soon."

MS have made plenty of big changes recently, .NET Core being a prime example.
It says available starting October 26th here in Austria for Prime customers.
If you've got equity and decent credit, most banks right now will give you a HELOC at pretty low interest rates. Which makes you wonder if this is going to be more for the subprime market.
Yes, and it looks like Medical CPI is a lot closer to other sources that I randomly looked at:

* http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/11/12/388... - Around 4% per annum since 2010

* http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/health-insurance-premium... - Around 4.5% from last year

* http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2016/jan/2... - About 6% increase for ACA plans from last year

There can be all sorts of reasons why your premium went up faster than this: 1) your plan is atypical 2) you're living somewhere or in a demographic that is atypical 3) your insurer didn't increase your premium for awhile, and then lumped all the increases at once.

Just like if you live in the Bay Area, you're going to see annual housing price increases that are large multiples of what the rest of the country sees...
The trick is getting your neighbor to call your wife Alexa, to trigger the Dot to wake up and listen.
I'm trying to point out the slippery slope of adults offering this kind of arguments to children. I wouldn't tell it to my kid because I feel it would be the wrong thing to say: "Here's a piece of advice that might work in the schoolyard, but it's wrong in life overall."
You know what can be even better ?

Car with a driver. Flexibility + you get to do other stuff besides driving.

But I guess affording that means more work and stuff.
Then it would work better, although you could still get false positives from neighbors' appliances when your windows and their windows are open. That, however, is completely beside the point.

The point is that the audio pitches aren't outside human detection and don't have distinct enough patterns right now. Changing pitch and patterns would require appliance manufacturers' support, at which point you might as well go with mature, well-defined and well-implemented solutions, such as WiFi connectivity, rather than defining and implementing your own protocol based on audio pitches and patterns.
There was first some drama when an earlier post was labeled "How Hacker News saved an innocent man from life in prison" (it got flagged for being an attention-seeking exaggeration). Then followed "I freed an innocent man from prison. Hacker News failed him." which wasn't well received (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958567)
Generalized reasoning in strategy games AI is an especially difficult problem for machine learning. IRL, top StarCraft players routinely model their opponents mental states and psychology to create an edge.

So perhaps it's worth pointing out, that this paper specifically addresses a sub-problem of Starcraft play, micromanagement ('micro') [1]

The game engine runs at 24 frames per second. (As an aside, 'frames' in this context likely does not map to physical FPS of the display).

>We ran all the following experiments with a
skip_frames of 9 (meaning that we take about 2.6 actions per unit per second).

The research team found that attempting to move at a superhuman pace (eg one action every frame), resulted in a subpar performance and hyper-parameterization indicated 2.6 to be an ideal action per second.

In context, this translates to an APM of 156. Or, roughly half that of professional Korean e-athletes. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromanagement_(gameplay)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions_per_minute
You must be thinking top 1% in the world. To be in the top 1% in the US, you need more like a $450,000 income.

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/
COGS is going to be ~60% of revenue. That's the royalties.

Gross Margin = Gross Revenue - COGS.

We're down to under $160M.

Spotify has (or had) 1600+ employees. If these were US (CA) based, we'd estimate higher, but since Europeans are relatively "cheaper", let's call it $75K/employee all-in (taxes, benefits, etc.). That's probably light, and doesn't take into account rent or data centers or any expenses, and that costs them ~$120M.

That leaves $40M for "everything else". Assuming that their employees are indeed "as cheap" on average as guesstimated above.

Conclusion: they are surely losing money.
Nerd is mostly == IQ still, I think you mean geek.
Absolutely 100% agree. Its why I went with Apple Music after the death of Rdio. I had a horrible experience when i had a 90-day trial. I stopped using it after a week and even canceled my subscription early. It was awful. That was a few years ago and I'm sure a few things improved, but still the free desktop version annoys me. During my trial, this was back when you had to create a playlist in order to listen to the whole album. Who had that idea?! Ever since then Spotify has always left a bad taste in my mouth.
The pardon itself could undermine "business as usual" at NSA, because it would embolden others with knowledge of NSA crimes to alert the public.
25-50% of my 60-100 claims used to be denied every single year, I'd fight all of them and win. I had no claim denials in 2014 and a handful in 2015 with the same insurer. Pre-authorizations which used to be denied or delayed all now magically go through in 1-2 days.

For example, I needed a specialized MRI, doctor orders it at the hospital, approved in one day. Before I do it, I find out that the allowed amount is $30k, insurance will pay $27k and I will be responsible for $3k. Before insurance would've fought me tooth and nail on this. I eventually find a place that that tells me they'll bill $1.2k to insurance but can't tell me what insurance will allow. It takes them three times and two weeks to get the insurance approved. My final copay ends up being $55.

While healthcare has always outpaced consumer inflation, I have noticed a massive increase in the rate for hospitals and pharma, while my doctors are all actually being paid less than 5 years ago. In 2010 my doctor would get $100-120, now he gets $55-75 for the same visit. Meanwhile a simple blood test that would be $2 at my doctor or would have been $15 at hospital is now $50 at the hospital after the ACA. I think there's a lot more kickbacks and bribery going on.