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Firstly, that isn't true. Huge numbers of people learn to write code as part of a degree that isn't CS - for example, if you want someone to develop a GIS startup you'd be better off with a geography graduate who can write decent code than a CS graduate who probably doesn't have experience of GIS.

Secondly, if you hear "startup" and think "developers" then you're ignoring at least 50% of the work necessary to make the business a success, all of which can (and often should) be done by someone without a CS degree. There's a lot more to tech than writing code.
Can someone please explain why the price has been increasing? I haven't properly followed any news behind bitcoin lately...
Cool! If you've currated the sources that could make it easier. You should take a look at feedly [ http://feedly.com/ ]. You could learn from their UX, and maybe improve upon it. I currently use them on my browser and my phone(android), and I enjoy the experience and control.

Good luck!
If you are discussing trade secrets on WeChat or Facebook Messenger I feel like you are doing it wrong. Any 3rd party communications service should not pass due diligence.
Residents aren't the ones with cars. No one in this area own a car.
Long ago I did some contract coding for a company that processed donations via credit card. To my amazement, we had to watch out for people trying to donate small amounts to the Red Cross. Why? Because people with a list of possibly-valid credit card numbers would use small donations to brand-name charities as a way of validating credit cards.

It made me long for some sort of professional association that kept track of naughty uses of technology. It's easy to think only about the happy path. But there are all sorts of unsavory people out there: abusers, mobsters, thieves, authoritarian governments. Once I know how they think, I can defend against them. But keeping up with how they think has always been a challenge for me.
Confidence also doesn't necessarily imply competence. Who hasn't been confident in some solution, which turned out to be a terrible idea due to factors that we did not account for that were beyond our knowledge and experience?
Washington DC did this http://dcgis.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=...
A good tech lead actively works to minimize occasions to exercise his role as deadlock breaker. But you can't eliminate that need. If you do then the first time you have a deadlock will be a disaster and you may find that a well functioning team has now turned in a massively dysfunctional one.
What was XML-RPC attempting to solve?

That's an excellent question! To answer it, we need to rewind to the year 1998. Nobody had ever heard of JSON (2002) or REST (2000) or SOAP. If you wanted to do remote procedure calls, you needed to use Sun RPC or Corba or another binary RPC stack. Some of these required tens of thousands of lines of C code to implement, and I don't even want to think about the security issues.

Basically, XML-RPC was trying to be REST+JSON before that was a thing. It had already been implemented for most scripting languages, but one of my consulting clients needed a C implementation to interoperate, so I wrote xmlrpc-c in a couple of busy weeks around the end of 2000, I think.

Back in those days, XML had a very clear 30 page spec and XML-RPC had a 2 page spec. If you want to argue that I was wrong to use C to implement 32 pages of pretty good specs, or that I was wrong to use the best off-the-shelf XML parser of the day, well, I agree. But I think we need to demand more from our system languages.
One of my former bosses did that, already more than 5 years ago. He used to be full-time programmer but was more on the business side. Seemed to work out pretty well..
Hearing feel-good stories makes me wonder what would happen if a schizotypal (generally summarized as a "less severe schizophrenic") person such as myself could take them and still receive benefits. Maybe it will just be the final tip into a psychotic break.

These stories often make me think that they are merely catered to people with either "acceptable" mental illness (depression, anxiety, etc) or people who have no mental illness. Anyone else may as well not exist in this worldview.

On another note, I find it quite amusing to read the HN stories here of how their experiences went with psychadelics. The descriptions presented seem understandable to me and I feel I've experienced such things in my day-to-day existence. I'm not quite sure how they are profound, nor how they make someone more open-minded, intelligent, etc.
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also at no point i say that docker is based on lxc or uses it...
Officially, OMR is a meaningless title, like LLVM. Similar to LLVM, it once stood for something, but then we realized that it didn't actually match the project's 'charter' quite as well as we had hoped... but had grown fond of the name (also... finding new names is super hard).

Original definition was 'Open Managed Runtimes', but we can do more than just managed runtimes with OMR technology, and so that seemed to sell it short.
Homelessness shames us all
same, lost my father two weeks ago.
"If I had to survive on a French salary, there'd be no way I would choose to live here."

Based on this, apparently not.
Your experience could serve as limitation to your view of the world. Younger ones without the baggage of experience, has greater chance of discovering new approaches. Due to this, population with changing generations, might be more intelligent than one without these clean slates.
Wow this will give even non-libertarians a pause.
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> I'm also curious how this will bump up against EU privacy laws

Waze has location settings set to Always, so I guess they won't care again.
I commute from Tribeca to the WeWork Charging Bull via Citibike along the busiest [0] and one of the best separated bike lanes in America. I do have to deal with lots of tourists walking on the bike lanes (which might be improved with better signage), but I still feel incredibly privileged to have such a pleasant commute.

Within the Financial District, the solution is to de-prioritize cars and make more room for people. The initiative of closing off FiDi to all through traffic and sharing streets equally between people, bikes, and cars [1] is incredibly promising, but was poorly marketed and executed. I rode along the streets with my 7 and 9yo sons and we had cars honking at us, even as we moved at a reasonable speed.

[0] http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/10/19/at-riverside-park-look...
[1] http://www.streetsblog.org/2016/06/16/new-twist-for-summer-s...
> Wow, didn't know that. Good thing I usually block root access.

Edit: Ah, my bad, you meant your SSH config, I misunderstood.

I assume you're talking about blocking the document root of your web server, because at least on stock Ubuntu, you can't 100% block the root user from accessing anything (e.g., on Linux, a logged-in root can always use CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE to override permissions). Among other things, that's why a rooted Android phone can access apps that even the app developer doesn't want them to.

Here, they're talking about setting up an ssh key for the root user somewhere that the ssh server is aware of. They certainly won't put it in a directory like a document root such as `/www`. Probably they put it in `/etc/ssh`.
love it, good overview over all functionalities of htop and easy to follow

Good job.
As someone a bit out of the loop, how is the whole block size debacle evolving?
It's amazing how well the historical bitcoin pricing curve[1] matches the Gartner hype cycle conceptual curve[2]. One of the criticisms of the Gartner curve is how unscientific it is but at least in this case the behavior matches pretty well.

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25z...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hype-Cycle-General.png
> If you can't afford downtime

Only a tiny fraction of businesses can't afford downtime. A lot of businesses claim they can't afford downtime, yet don't insure against it, and don't invest enough in high availability to be able to reasonably claim they've put in a decent effort to avoid it.

In most cases I've seen of businesses that claim they "can't afford downtime", they quickly balk if you present them with estimates of what it'd cost to even bring them to four or five nines of availability.

> A system that can't tolerate downtime probably has an on-call rotation and these triggers ought to be reasonably fast.

A lot of such systems can still run up large enough costs quickly enough that it's a major problem.

> If you can't react or can't afford to react, you probably can afford some downtime / data loss.

I'd say it is the opposite: Those who can afford to react are generally those with deep enough pockets to be able to weather an unexpected large bill best. Those who can't afford to react are often those in the worst position to handle both the unexpected bill and the downtime / data loss. But of the two, the potential magnitude of the loss caused by downtime is often far better bounded than the potential loss from a crazily high bill.
After launching several SaaS with a $1 trial and such, this also happens there.
I am curious. Did you really find his claim "offensive"? Or was it simply incorrect and over simplified?
I spend pretty much all of the time on my work computer inside of a FreeBSD virtualbox VM, and very rarely do I ever notice that I'm not running on bare metal. If your machine has the horsepower then it should do just fine.
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A real great scam recording is the following: A "maid"-sounding voice answers, pretends to not understand for a second, then says "oh yeah I'll go get them". In the background there's a TV and people talking. I've had it happen to me twice, and it was effective on keeping me on the line, despite not having a TV or the woman not sounding like anyone I know.

Margins in telecom can be super thin. Diverting, say, 1% of traffic to fake answering could mean increasing profits by 10%. If the scammer doesn't go overboard, users won't complain. They'll just say "the wires got crossed" and redial.
Another possibility is to keep a dedicated phone for Uber. Turn it on only when needed. Not sure how practical it would be, though.
you know it's interesting would you consider "Hey, let's meet up at Joe's for lunch" a meeting?
>"I don't think "fad-like" is a logical conclusion just because the amount of research is continuing to increase. This just seems more like typical human advancement and dissemination of knowledge."

I mean that the direction things are going it will eventually be discovered that "everything is correlated with everything else"... in hundreds of years. Why not just assume that to begin with? Take it as a first principle. Instead what we care about is measuring the quantitative relationships (what functional form, etc) between various factors.

Also, I just now looked at the paper. I cannot believe neuroscientists are still getting away with this. There is not a single scatter plot. Let's look at the highlights:

- Gut microbes promote a-synuclein-mediated motor deficits and brain pathology
- Depletion of gut bacteria reduces microglia activation
- SCFAs modulate microglia and enhance PD pathophysiology
- Human gut microbiota from PD patients induce enhanced motor dysfunction in mice

So I expect to see scatter plots of:

"# of gut microbes" (or "% pathogenic microbes") vs "motor deficits"
"a-synuclein levels" vs "motor deficits"

"# of Gut microbes" (or "% pathogenic microbes") vs "brain pathology"
"a-synuclein levels" vs "brain pathology"

"Gut bacteria levels" vs "microglia activation"

"SCFA levels" vs "microglia activity"
"SCFA levels" vs "PD pathophysiology"

"# of human PD microbes" (or "% human PD microbes") vs "motor dysfunction"

You can see the entire project was designed around seeing if there is a correlation, which we should already assume is true. Instead we should be looking at those scatter plots, so we can achieve the useful goal of discerning the relationship between various biological phenomena.
The risk you take on when the mediator role doesn't have practical experience is that no consensus will be reached. Or worse if that mediator is empowered to break a deadlock he'll do so badly because he doesn't have enough context to make a good decision and not enough time to come up to speed in order to make a good decision.
Source-specific IP Multicast support on the open internet, which probably needs some serious magic to make it feasible on core routers, if it is solvable at all.

Some shabby server in someone's basement could stream data to millions. CDNs would no longer be needed.
Unfortunately I don't think that the retention aspect will be revoked - no matter how much it's detested - but I do believe the only way that the government will tighten access is when a few people inevitably leak at best embarassing data on members of the political class.

The lack of technological literacy amongst the populus and the utter contempt which the government has towards privacy and anonymity is very disheartening.
There you go
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
I do pretty much all of my development in a VM because it's easy to manage and control development environments. It works very well, but I'd make sure that you have a fairly powerful machine.
I've found that tech leads grow organically as a team grows. The go-to guy who knows the products and the tech, and to whom everyone go with questions, if they also have leadership skills and like to help other, ends up falling into that role almost by accident. Whether it becomes formalized or not depends on the organization. I don't think you need to inject a tech lead role onto a team that hasn't already informally started using one.
No, I'm 'jumping' to my memory, because I worked 5km from Google roughly 16 years ago when the practice started, and I remember specifically reading about how Google decided to introduce lunch, specifically, and it was a calculation. I wish I had the reference.
Three big causes:

First, home bathrooms are reliably single-user. Some people are deeply uncomfortable with the idea of sharing a bathroom with people of another gender (though exactly which people they would not want to share with is a complicated question). Interestingly, this seems to be a bigger deal in the US, where our stalls are shoddy and easy to see into.

Second, cleanliness. Mostly, home bathrooms stay clean on a system of "if you make a mess you'll get yelled at". That's not viable in public settings, so gendering helps ensure that there are clean toilet seats for those who need to sit on them. Again, not totally effective, but relevant.

Third, most public and business bathrooms have a bunch of gendered additions which aren't present in homes. Urinals, hygiene/contraceptive vending, and (controversially) changing tables are the big ones.

For a sanity check on that list, think about the public bathrooms that aren't gendered. Single-person bathrooms are often marked male/female/family/disabled, on the grounds that they have a toilet, changing tables, and cause no particular gender issues. Similarly, porta-potties are usually unisex, whether or not they include a urinal. Again, they're single-user and generally filthy no matter who uses them.

So there's a bunch of reasons. But the third - the most objective - doesn't actually require gendered signage. A "facilities" list would be more useful and effective for those issues. The second is a bit ambiguous - gender doesn't seem to be the strongest predictor of bathroom hygiene, and there are options here. The first is the strictly gendered one, but it's actually quite complex! For all the concern of "gender identity doesn't make a person look like they fit here", "gender assigned at birth" is no better at ensuring "only people who look like they belong here". The ways to achieve that would be subjective and probably inconsistent between complainants.

Reasons for signage, then, but not necessarily for gendered signage.
I have 35 years of programming experience in many varied things (and currently iOS Swift). The changes of Google hiring me is 0. The chances of Google hiring a bright young guy willing to stay at work 14 hours a day I expect is pretty high.
I have some performance numbers from my original talk at RubyKaigi [1] [2].

Still a ways to to go, but we've built out a reasonable foundation to start with.

[1]: http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewGaudet/experiments-in-shari...

[2]: http://rubykaigi.org/2015/presentations/MattStudies
The problem with Theranos isn't microfluidics and labs-on-a-chip, since lots of other people manage to use that successfully.

Rather, the problem with Theranos is that a small amount of blood from an extremity surface won't necessarily be representative and is easy to contaminate, so you can't get reliable data from it.
I'd assume they are talking about the typical practice of disallowing ssh logins as root (instead logging in as a user and then using sudo for administrative tasks)
Oh please, Manhattan has always been a tourist destination. That is not new.

The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Grand Central, The Statue of Liberty, Central Park, 5th Ave, Rock Center. The high concentration of tourist sites predates the "Disney-fication" of Times Square which was too seedy for many years to be a tourist destination.

That old trope about French hating Americans is a bad stereotype. As a long time visitor I can tell you this is simply not true. People in London, Paris and New York get annoyed by inconsiderate people whether they be local inconsiderate people or inconsiderate people from abroad. And there is no shortage of inconsiderate residents in any of those places.
I did a project at work in a Linux VM due to the limitations of the Windows file system. It was great, especially taking advantage of being able to make snapshots of the system at times.
I have to admit I was (and am) anti-ubuntu, because of stuff like this from Mark and Canonical, but for a while it was the only distro that just worked with no problems on my work macbook pro, so I succumbed for practicalities sake. Now that I am working on my own projects full-time, I have switched to fedora on my desktop.

My main reasoning as a sysadmin for distro choice goes like this:

For server, debian, centos, opensuse. For a business that has strict support requirements, debian can become ubuntu, centos can become rhel, and opensuse can become suse.

For desktop, it's generally preferable to me to be running in the same ecosystem as the servers you are supporting in the majority. So if debian on servers, debian for desktop, but being sometimes less reliable on desktops, ubuntu makes a good replacement. If centos on servers, fedora on workstation. You get the idea.

Of course you should pick what works best for you, the point being here to this longwinded comment is that, if you don't like ubuntu but like the ubuntu base system, I suggest you pain your way through debian instead, which is a much freer distro, but often doesn't hold your hand nearly as much either.

Remember, Stallman was/is right.
Slim is lightweight, and somewhat similar to Flask or Bottle from the Python world: https://www.slimframework.com/

You can also lighten Symfony's footprint: http://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-2-8-symfony-as-a-micr...
Consider API's etc.. A lot of businesses have needs where putting CloudFlare in between would be just as likely to block legitimate use. I love CloudFlare, and use it a lot, but it's not a panacea.
If you do it with Vagrant it's not painful at all because you can then make easy directory maps to access the files. I've done this for years.

Windows 10's WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is pretty amazing though. If you're only doing command line stuff, you might be able to get almost everything you want done with that instead. I managed to configure mine to run my tmux and vim configurations, get Ruby running, and install the Ubuntu version of Vagrant to provision some DigitalOcean machines. It all worked relatively easy.

The only stumbling block I ran into is that the Bash shortcut doesn't drop you to a login shell, so my .profile wasn't executing. From Powershell, start bash with --login or append --login to the Bash shortcut, and everything works pretty darn well.

But if you're gonna go the VM route still, just make sure you have tons of RAM. My 4gb Surface doesn't do a horrible job, but after the summer Windows update, I feel the pinch more than I used to.

Hope that helps!
yeah it does.

The cool thing is that it does learn your usage patterns, so depending on the time of day, you'll see different apps in your launcher - so I rarely have to input letters and search for different apps. When I do have to do a search, the letter recognition is good enough where I can do it with one hand and I get what I'm looking for 95% of the time on the first try.

I have a OnePlus Two with a 5.5" screen which is pretty big, but I'm still able to use it one handed pretty easily.
That's what I meant by hypothetical though. How many people are scrambling to build global tree viewers that would only include the sparse data you would get by importing all the publicly available data sets?

The interest in such data is going to tend to be local or be forced to take into account the nature of the data collection (and thus benefit from directly accessing the curated source data). An example of the latter would be an academic analysis; to pull data from OSM, it would need to start by determining geographic areas with good coverage, or the results would be utterly meaningless.
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State of Venture-backed Startups. Just to be clear. It is a specific subset of the larger startup picture.
> Elective services like dermatology and cosmetic have managed to keep prices in line with what people can afford to pay out of pocket.

I want to mention one very specific thing about this though, these services are very different than other medical services not just because of the difference in insurance markets, but also because unlike many, many procedures they are elective.

The health market is so interesting because one of the normal recourses available to market participants normally, that is doing without, is not available in certain situations int he health market.
Heck I work on a AS400/iSeries/IBM i or whatever they are called.
Well just because they have access to some data doesn't mean they use it. Your ISP gets all of this data and more, and if you want you can setup CF to have anything really secure pass through their servers encrypted so they can't see it, and there are a variety of options for less-secure stuff (including a scenario where CF can inspect SSL encrypted information without needing direct access to the private keys so you can only allow them to inspect specific things).

But how do you run a service like cloudflare without having access to the data? Short of efficient fully homomorphic encryption it's not possible.

And from your analogy it sounds like you have issue with what they are putting behind the "paywall" not that they are doing it? If this is the case I understand where you are coming from, but I still don't really agree.

The web and the physical world aren't analogous, forced "checking" and blocking are 2 completely different things, and treating them as separate features doesn't set off any alarm bells in my head.
Probably not poised. At best ITER might show some interesting results, but it's not a cost effective way to build a power plant.