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I don't understand why a large structure is automatically an eyesore. It doesn't emit smoke. It's mostly pretty quiet. Are windfarms uglier than, say... a nicely constructed bridge like the SF Bay Bridge?
A castrated male cat, obviously. /s
So, "10,000 hours" as the be all and end all of success?

Yeah, I can see the BS in that.
'cracker' has been used in this context since at least as far back as my first computer, an Amiga 500. I got a lot of games from a bloke called "Norm the Cracker"...
Yeah, if your app happens to be the same on the frontend and backend.
But Russians sometimes call the "ugly mass of concrete Soviet-era architecture" French style... And well, as a French, I can't claim they are wrong about that :-/
> please accept our enduring, deeply felt gratitude.

Sure, but would 'apologies' have been out of order too?
> Rooftop solar as implemented today is not sustainable, and is a regressive tax.

So are electric cars. Both are solvable problems, and will be solved as adoption increases.
MicroG does implement the GCM client! I've been getting push notifications through that thing for several months.
China tycoon moves jobs to US, citing high taxes at home
I've been using Cloud 9 a bit to give my girlfriend coding lessons. Once she acquired a base set of knowledge, I started giving her "assignments" where I'd describe the program she had to build in comments.

When she has an issue, I hope onto the collaborative workspace, and we either chat using the in-app function, or do a Skype voice call.

For collaboration, it is great. The environment is pretty slick as well. I haven't used it for a "real" project yet, though. I'm not quite sure how the collaborative functions would work with a VCS, for example.
It's not necessarily that the FSF spends a lot of resources on this page, but that Stallman appears to spend a lot of his time and resources on the issues that are repeated throughout this page (or the whole "Philosophy" section of their website). In some ways, it's good to have someone like Stallman around to remind us that there is another way to look at some of these things, and to push the political debate.

One of the biggest issues in my mind is that the GNU camp likes to expropriate words with established meanings, then attempt to categorize everyone else's use of the words as inappropriate. However, that is only a part of the in-fighting which tends to occur between the "free" and "open source" software movements and helps to marginalize them in the eyes of the layman.
The Washington Post sure likes to prognosticate despite a dubious track record. The world will never be fair so long as people are free to choose differently.
This mmaps (with PROT_EXEC) the file then returns an offset void pointer from the mmap. You then cast the pointer to a function pointer.
I've read a few of these and agree. Zero to One, I really enjoyed this when I read it. Sapiens was also fantastic, I want to re-read it.

I also got Grokking Algorithms this year. I already have a few denser algorithm books, but I really liked this one for the basics. I bought it as a refresher that wouldn't be as dry as reading CLRS, and because I've been recently helping a friend who is beginning a CS degree.

> Mastering Selenium WebDriver. This is probably the only good book on Selenium among so many bad books on this topic.

I have to work with Selenium a lot, and you're right, there are so many terrible books and articles about Selenium. I'm going to look into this one, thanks.
I'm not a fan of opaque baseband firmwares either, don't get me wrong, but what's the alternative? Not for the DoD, I mean for union organizers making $50k a year -- people who aren't going to get murdered by Mossad, but still need to authenticate and encrypt their communication channels. What device would you recommend?
It's a reasonable nit, but that section is just background and rotors are introduced farther down. Rotors are unit elements in the even-numbered subspace of Cl_2(R), and that subspace can be shown to be (ring) isomorphic to the complex numbers.

Personally I find the formulations for geometric algebra to be simpler than the formulations for equivalent concepts using matrices and linear algebra, in the situations where they exist.
> A true libertarian is inherently against large corporations

Wouldn't that limit the freedom of the owners/shareholders to grow their corporation to whatever size they want? And who gets to decide how large is large? The government?
And his opponent had said even worse things, and committed even worse actions against the practice of information security. If hackers are scared of Trump, they should be downright grateful that Clinton didn't win.

And I say this as a member of the info sec community who most certainly did not vote for Trump. There are very few politicians in the US that could be considered "good" for hackers, present administration included. Trump hasn't said or done anything that our current government hasn't already said or done.
"If we put all economics aside, it's obvious the web should be organised this and this way..."

What I'd really like to see is decentralised web proponents (of which I'm no longer one) put out some ideas for how their model is going to support economic activity of any interesting kind. Yes, selling advertising by centralising eyeballs is shit, but show me something better.

The alternative is to either wait for capitalism to finally be over (spoiler alert: they're planning another season, starting January 20), or to get a second gig as a gardener to fund my web habit.
Ukrainian Power Company ‘99% Certain’ Blackout Result of Cyber Attack
> Time passes. A truly stunning insight.

completely unnecessary sarcasm.
Why not when it's someone else's money that is gone, and even better, your continued success is basically guaranteed since you have a network now that you can call on to join as an "advisor" or that can get you another pile of money to burn on a startup? Who wouldn't relish a position in their career with very few real consequences?
I really don't think it's about money or lack of empathy, as you imply. SV is largely liberal -- witness climate change efforts. If there was a clear solution, I suspect they would back it with their money.
I'll add another recommendation for Tufte's writings on the Challenger explosion. It should be required reading for all engineers. People who criticize Tufte for oversimplifying miss the point entirely. It's not about analysis, it's about communication. It's one thing for domain specialist to have a complex, multi-dimensional understanding of their specialty; extracting a relevant summary for non-experts is something else entirely. If you've ever been in a meeting where you had trouble getting your point across, you should read this. Make diagrams like Tufte does to get your point across, make more detailed ones as backups if you need to dive deep into details.

http://williamwolff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tufte-cha...
I actually just learned today that Riot (the IM app) is not related to Riot (makers of hugely popular video game League of Legends). I thought the occasional mentions I was seeing of "Riot chat" meant that LoL's mobile chat client was gaining traction among people who don't play the game.
Which is why standardization is just as important, if not moreso, than openness in making sure things stay secure. Such an attack is made a lot more difficult if you have a second toolchain you can use to verify things, and even moreso if you have a third.
There's a lot of brutalist architecture which is actually delightfully human scale. I love the good stuff and hate how 'brutalist' has become a synonym for 'domineering and brutal' to many.
it's not like you can search videos by their content

Err... yes you can. It's trivial.
SaaS are not new. I used to work for one here that has been going since 1998.

Though as someone who would like to found a SaaS one day, I wonder what I can do to prevent potential customers seeing me as unreliable. Stories like this do not help.
Author here. This first part is simple by design. It's targeted to those getting started in the field.
Many -- probably most -- ultimately very successful companies had near-death experiences. They aren't usually written about. Apple's near-death in 1997 is well documented. Tesla's is described in Ashlee Vance's biography of Musk. http://foundersatwork.com/ has firsthand stories about some others.

They would have become full-death experiences if the CEO had said, "Hey everybody, we're near death, just FYI". So in the alternative world where company deaths are always announced well in advance, far more companies would die. Probably not a better world.

I don't know the story here, but in most cases there was some deal on the table that would have saved the company but fell through in the couple of days before the announcement.

Regardless, the right thing is to have enough payroll in reserve for an orderly shutdown and transition plan for customers. It's not clear whether that's happening here -- I hope so.
Probably because the "hacker" population you are referring to has gotten diluted with posers and the sort of people who easily give in to mass hysteria.
The level of independence of children after they get out of primary school is largely a function of wealth and cost of living (for university). In places like Brazil, I would expect more people to live at home with their parents. In the US now, as compared to the 70's, say, it's also true. In the 70's, when you graduated from HS, it was very rare for kids to stay at home. There were usually enough opportunities for them to get jobs and be independent.

For me, university was cheap enough that I was able to work and pay my own tuition. My parents helped a little with housing in the first 2-3 years, but everything else I provided. Almost everyone I knew back then was in the same boat.

Unless you're talking an affluent area, where kids can come out of university with no debt and very useful degrees, what I experienced in the 70's is much rarer now.

So, Brazil and the US, with the middle class both hit pretty hard in the recent decade, is entering a different phase.
How robots are making humans indispensable
The laws of nature are different in this context, but you have to follow them with the same diligence with the same harshness awaiting when you fail. In games, it's not what is logical or mathematically correct. It's what feels correct.
google bundles ranking with crawling. if I just want meta data about a set of sites that's different. Also, if your talking real-time web post-date(time) is pretty useful data for a feed.
I loved Way of Kings. Definitely recommend reading the second book in the series as well, 'Words of Radiance'
Congrats! Great problem to solve, would you mind sharing some architectural decisions or technical details about how you plan to tackle scalability?
Most of that piece is contemptuous rhetoric, like "the simple sentimentality of a somewhat sclerotic fat woman" from the OP but without the more interesting analysis. It takes the worth of doctors of his time for granted, mentioning tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy: at least the former was much overprescribed then, I don't know about the latter. A chiropractor won't offer to remove any organs you're not sure of the use of. (I've never seen one myself.)

I do like older manipulative writing for being more obvious to us, because we're not quite the target anymore. A kind of vaccine.
But those food delivery services would employ part time wage workers.

This problem is usually sidestepped by the argument that teachers, policemen, sanitation workers, etc, can't live in the communities they serve and that that's fine as a result of a wider services market, better transportation etc, etc, etc.

But at some point you do have to concede that most of the people driving their beat-up 1996 Hondas to bring you fresh sashimi aren't valued in the six figures - and you have to acknowledge and design for it.
> I'm no fan of Trump, but the unfounded and apoplectic reactions from the likes of Matt Blaze, Swift on Security, the grugq, Jon Zdziarski, halvarflake, netik, kragen, etc, are batshit crazy.

Well, someone is clearly reacting incorrectly. Maybe it's Schneier, 2600, Matt Blaze, Swift on Security, the grugq, Jon Zdziarski, halvarflake, netik, kragen, etc. And maybe it's you.

Which side it is, is currently up to everyone to decide for themselves. But I know who I trust more.
Through Google, yes, but you can't bring along your own push notification delivery service.
I'd recommend Scala(JVM, .js, Native, season to taste)
Had a similar-ish experience once -- meeting the hiring manager for coffee, knowing this would be a prelude to a standard onsite interview (which I was fine with).

And it was a very productive discussion. We talked about a lot of some pretty high-level stuff, both technology-wise and business-wise -- possible failure modes in their fraud detection process; customer acquisition strategies moving forward, etc.. Not in a fuzzy, "whatever" way -- but in a serious, analytical way. You know, high-level, adult stuff.

The weird part? When I got the schedule for the interview (btw several more hours in length than the "couple of hours" we had initially talked about -- but we'll let that slide for now), the first thing they wanted be to do was come in at 9 AM for a session on "logic problems" -- you know: pirates, gold coins, poisoned wine bottles -- for a whole hour.

To which I wanted to say, "Wait -- didn't we just have a conversation in that cafe demonstrating exactly the level of critical thinking skills you're looking for (arguably at a much more nuanced level, in fact), and applied actual, real problems -- not silly, made-up puzzle problems?"

But of course I felt too shy to just come out and say that. So made up some excuse about "accepting another offer", instead.
Ask HN: How would you invest $50K?
If you had $50K to invest, which would be your entire equity, cash money, how would you invest it?

It's your equity so a HIGH risk would definitely be considered. Looking for creative advices, not boring banking stuff...

Similar question taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13223818 but with 10% of the money
I should make a startup called Trampoline. Other startups pay me insurance premiums and I hop in with a team and salaries for ejected employees to keep doors open for however long they paid for after a crash. As part of the customer SLA they cite Trampoline and the duration of post mortem life being paid for.
I'm not sure All Seasons is such a great portfolio...

It's way overweight U.S. Treasury bonds (55%) and underweight stocks (30%). And what's with 15% in gold and commodities (which produces no interest or dividend income)?
I'd like to point one thing: ever since I started getting more interested into etymology, I've sort of fallen in love with words, and came to see them as much more alive and powerful than before, and I've started to care much more about their weight, their truthiness, their application, etc, so that I'm precise, and of course I also started getting more annoyed when I see them malapplied. I sometimes think that nothing made me feel smarter and sharper mentally than etymology(like the same effect history, logic, philosophy has, but maybe a little bit more fundamental), the confusing there is not just "this is bad!", if you're using confusing words your thinking gets less clear, lies pass through, making sense of things is harder, more error-prone, etc. When you start to notice things this way, a lot changes. And we sort of have to defend ourselves from the tonnes of bullshit we're shot with everyday. So, yeah, I think this shit is real. Of course changing your vocabulary entirely can feel a bit extreme, but still, KNOWING words are loaded or confusing, or just marketing, or plain lie, plain propaganda, plain politics, is useful.

RMS of course cares much more about truthiness than he does what others think of him(and he was right before, remember it?). If one puts 'self-awareness' above 'truthiness' in their mind, it's no wonder they'll think this is weird, eccentric, etc. The cool thing about Truth, though, is that it's way above vanity and opinion. The former scratches the later two, the opposite, not so much or not for very long.
So it's cheaper to make glass here and sell it to the automakers as close as possible. No doubt transportation costs will inevitably eat up any windfalls you can ever get from cheap labor. So when in doubt build your factory as close to your customer as possible is my take on this article.
How to build your whatsapp
I don't think I've ever achieved 99% certainty about something involving computers connected over networks.
if the end goal is investing anyway the risk should be the same, your house is not completely risk free investments considering the crashes. and getting %5 out of rental is not that risky! not much more than your home.
That's a better fit for Scala imo. ScalaJS is great as is, and I'm sure a wasm Scala backend would be amazing.

Rust is way too low-level for that imo. It works for Emscripten because of legacy code, but Rust is still ways off in that regard (i.e. adoption).
So did Megaupload.
Are R and Python really your only choices? Basic competency in machine learning is on my todo list, and I don't relish the thought of using either language.
Right? I work for a major tech company and can get a subscription delivered to the office if I wanted to, paid for by my employer.

I feel like a lot of independent hackers (as well as government officials) don't realize that hacking and info sec in general can be (and currently is) a completely acceptable enterprise occupation. If hackers were being rounded up and sent to jail, I can count at least 4,000 people at my company who would be missing Monday morning. And that's just the number of people connected to my Slack team, which is not mandatory to join.
If we're going to celebrate failure can we at least fail with respect, humility, and maybe even a tiny bit of class?

The word "sorry" does not appear in this post. Instead of apologizing to investors, users, and employees for letting all of them down the CEO writes a contentless self-aggrandizing post.

The CEO also doesn't bother to thank anyone despite being literally and metaphorically indebted to investors, users, and employees for getting as far as they did. [Update: there was "gratitude" - my mistake; sorry]

Besides the self-aggrandizing "we did it first" tone of the whole post, here are a few more parts I'd love to see future farewell posts skip:

> it’s often the pioneers who end up with arrows in their backs

Unless your point is that you were a company who tried to take what wasn't yours and was punished for it... this phrase is awkward-at-best.

> I called these “Friends of ClusterHQ” by the sobriquet “FoCkers”

The use of "sobriquet" doesn't make your adolescent play on words classy.

> The big successes are literally impossible without the many failures. Take a moment to think about that.

What a ridiculous thing to tell your audience that includes employees looking for jobs, investors out of money, and users without a service they may have depended on. Out of those 3 groups only investors care about such things. The other 2 groups are collateral damage to your hubris.
What's the advantage of this over pushd/popd?
Read it first as algebraic geometry, was confused that I understood some of the words.
There's a library called versor that might be handy for folks that want to use geometric algebra in programs.

https://github.com/wolftype/versor

https://github.com/weshoke/versor.js/
What did you find to be better than indeed? I would have thought it a safe bet since it aggregates from many sources.
I would personally invest a small portion of the money(about 5k) in Bitcoin. Bitcoin value has been rising recently. If the trend continues,the value will double mid next year, and triple by the end of next year, so you would have made 10K with your initial investment. But keep in mind that Bitcoin is volatile and such investment is considered high risk investment.
Just look for a manufacturer with a decent rating on Taobao/Alibaba/whatever, a decent product range and website. It's not that hard.
I don't see any data about where people are from in that link. Just where they lived most recently. A good way to become homeless is to move into an unstable housing situation in a far away place with high rents.
Given how often it comes up, you might be better off using Erlang\Elixir for concurrency sake.
8 Tools That Shut Down in 2016
Oh-- my comment wasn't about the simplicity of the first part. (In fact, this is a great tutorial, thanks for posting.)

My comment is about the approach of using supervised learning to map directly from images to category labels.
Good idea -- start out in a less challenging urban environment.
And then you find out that fire retardant in clothing is an actual thing and necessary.

The clothing is cheap for a reason not just licensing costs.
Is the hardware storing the data in-datacentre too? I think that was the key thing.
> Signal - while certainly can be setup/hosted by anyone else separate of OpenWhisper - leaves some to be desired in the actual self-implementation details; just not enough tutorials out there.

That is the problem at hand, that Signal _does_not_federate_. You could modify your Signal app to connect to your own server, but then you would not be able to talk to anybody else.

For the record I prefer usability and walled-garden-security instead of federation, even though it hurts to admit as a long time FOSS user.
The number of people in the area is greater than the number of homes. No amount of income redistribution can possibly fix this. If you rent a room for a homeless person, you are just going to price out the poorest person who can currently afford a room. The only way to fix this is remove people or build homes. The first option is better for the landed gentry, the second option is better for the nation as a whole.
> It's not batshit crazy. It's the responsible response.

I think it's batshit crazy. He's not sophisticated enough to understand how to manipulate currency (he delegates everything, not discusses or strategizes like Obama). Without strategy, there's nothing to hide from. Nobody has ever addressed stenography (although that was a big thing in the 90s), so what kind of headway from a noncommittal populist is there to be had? Fearing Trump is misunderstanding the situation. How hackers manage that, is a constant source of amusement.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-...

one thing that I remember, we are not talking about $100,000. I can see your point that giving that much money to a homeless people is a bad idea, but giving them $300 a month is better than food stamp. giving them $2000 a month is better than a shelter! and so on
None of those 'lies' have anything to do with assembler. C deviated from regularity for the sake of convenience in some cases, and now we are stuck with those bad decisions forever.
Eh, that sounds like a 'no true scotsman' argument -- if the building doesn't suck, it must not be brutalist!

Some of my favorite brutalist buildings are libraries, somehow it works very well for the kind of very public building a library is. And the best definitely feel human-scale to interact with (often _especially_ in the interior plans, which you can't get from a picture really), and are more visually interesting than a big rectangle. I don't think anyone said if it's not a big rectangle it's not brutalist!

Here's one I'm fond of:

https://library.ucsd.edu/about/us/geisel-building.html
Between Mencken's day and today, there was a book titled Hollywood Babylon, with the expectable content.

We're probably into solid Paleolithic territory by now ...
AFAIK original Arduino hardware is not a copyright design, and has actually been improved upon for most deployments (ie. made cheaper) in China, eg. by replacing with cheaper UART chipset.