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The head regulator was the former CEO of the largest offender in the financial meltdown. The two were the ones making the deal. Those few that passed it into law were taking money from that company and the other offenders in form of campaign contributions. The result was a deal that only benefited the offenders while doing huge damage to their victims and many investors who placed bets on a market direction where they failed.

Textbook case of corruption. Probably one of the biggest and most obvious I've ever seen, too.
This is way overdue. Unfortunately in Germany they don't touch VW executives at all. You could build the same cases here, but there is no political will.

Our corrupt ministry of transportation even sends out their reports on the VW fraud scandal over to Volkswagen and lets them review/amend/retract passages of their report.

You can't make that shit up. It's a disgrace to Germany and the EU that this company has so much leverage.
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I think my main reason for posting was to suggest showing the equivalent bash so it was easier to see what the tool did. I just threw in the "looks potentially great" as a little sweetener. ;)
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This is too bad, because Trello is much nicer than JIRA for everything I care about...
I'm in that boat... I only took up through Calc I originally and even that was so long ago that I've forgotten most of it. So I'm working on a self-learning plan to go through Calculus (equivalent to traditional Calc I, II, III courses), Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Probability / Statistics. I can share some of what I've been using.

1. The "Mooculus" Calc class via OSU / Coursera. https://mooculus.osu.edu/

I've found this to be useful, but the videos are all really short and the content is kind of "choppy". That is, it jumps around quickly, giving small nuggets of content, and doesn't flow super well. Still, there's some good stuff in here.

2. "Professor Leonard" on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/user/professorleonard57/playlists I'm going through his Calc I sequence now. This is basically a traditional college class, just recorded and put on Youtube. Flows better than the Mooculus class as a result. Leonard is a good lecturer and keeps things interesting. He has videos series on Calc I, II and III, Statistics, as well as pre-calc / intermediate algebra, etc.

3. Gilbert Strang's Calculus lectures on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9t-u87df3o&list=PLBE9407EA6... Pretty good explanations of Calculus concepts, at least up to where I'm at (somewhere near the end of the section on differential Calc, just before the stuff on integration starts). Strang also has a very famous series of videos on Linear Algebra, but I haven't gotten to those yet.

4. MathBFF's Youtube videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/mathbff Short videos covering specific topics: how to evaluate limits, how to use the chain rule, etc. Helpful for an alternative explanation of a concept you might need more help with.

5. Khan Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/ Everything from basic arithmetic up through Linear Algebra.

6. On Coursera there is a series of classes in a "specialization" titled "Statistics with R" from Duke University. I've done the first 3 of those and they've been very useful for both learning Statistics / Probability, as well as help ramp up my R knowledge.

I also have a whole pile of "dead tree" books I consult, ranging from traditional college texts (mostly acquired for dirt cheap at used book stores), to those high-school AP test study guides, to a bunch of books in the "For Dummies" series (eg, "Calculus I for Dummies", "Linear Algebra for Dummies", "Differential Equations for Dummies", etc.), and the like.

Edit:

I almost forgot. If you get stuck, there are various forums where you can ask questions / get help, like:

http://math.stackexchange.com (note, this is different from MathOverflow, which is more for research level questions and answers)

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/

http://reddit.com/r/cheatatmathhomework

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeworkhelp

https://www.reddit.com/r/askmath

https://www.physicsforums.com/
Its made by so called "coders". All it says to HRs is that they'll assign a number to each programmer so that they can compare programmers. HRs, as they often tend to be, make their jobs easier without doing work.
Open letter to Atlassian:

Trello are an amazing team and an amazing product, and what makes the product so amazing is how domain-agnostic it is. They refuse at all costs to add any feature that helps use Trello in one specific way over others (e.g. lists = stages in task lifetime, cards = tasks; lists = assigned people, cards = tasks; lists = dates, cards = events, ...), and that made Trello equally useful as a Kanban board, a CRM, or for a beer microbrewery tracking its different barrels and the stages of brewing they are at. The best thing about Trello is when you start organizing your board one way, then organically drift towards a more natural way to organize them, sometimes without noticing as you do. Trello is for processes that you're not sure yet about the right way to manage.

Atlassian is all about development team collaboration. Trello can be used for that, but not anymore than it can be used for brewing beer. Trello shines when you don't know in advance how you will want to manage a project. If Trello became a dev collaboratin tool, I would stop using it for dev collaboration because there are better specialized solutions for that. Keep Trello general. Please.
>Serving your customers well is entirely out of self interest

This general tenet starts to break down the fewer competitors operate in the market. Monopolization allows corps to capture supernormal profit and externalize as much cost as possible. When there's only one person that's got what you need, they can treat you how they want.

tl;dr: Comcast.
I didn't know anyone when switching to Seige. My guild basically disintegrated on Pacific server with most moving on to EQ, which I didn't really connect with.

But doing Seige solo for a bit somehow added to the fun. Really wish I had the time to get back into it!
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Oh yes, and nobody cared about the performance aftermarket (basically anything you do is going to violate emissions standards) until Harley started selling bikes already modified for "racing".

I dropped 20 lbs off a 330lb bike (and added about 5hp) by replacing the heavy dual exhaust with a single Ti/carbon pipe, and reprogramming the ECU. I'm sure the manufacturer would have loved to give me a 310lb bike that made more power if they could. (and before you ask, no it's not loud, I hate loud pipes)

Incidentally, the exhaust/ECU upgrade was done by the local shop when the bike was purchased new. Basically the same as what H-D was doing.

Anyway, what H-D got popped for is arguably less egregious than what VW was doing. They admit that the modified bikes bypass emissions requirements, whereas the unmodified VWs didn't meet the requirements and had to cheat to pass inspection.
This is the route I took. I'm a meat-eater and eat plenty of it (including pork, which someone else mentioned in this thread), but I decided to stop eating octopodes. It feels a little funny compared to people who avoid meat in general or eat all of it, but at least for now it's the only thing I don't eat.
Why is everyone so confused? Maybe because this entire narrative is build on vague ambiguity driven by emotional elitist rants displayed by the media. The politically connected media is being given cover in the form of bullshit reports and talking points from the rouge or politicized elements of the federal administration.

Stop the
I forked this on Github and changed the C code to be more idiomatic, i.e. using error codes instead of allocating a struct (!) and strduping an error string (!!) the way it was originally done. It causes the C version to perform significantly better than the C++ version.

Code is here: https://github.com/julian-goldsmith/excspeed
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Using analytic thought to problem solve? That's probably a pretty common definition. And most animals don't do that.
There is a Mercurial extension that allows you to use hg commands to interact with a git repo

https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
> You don’t need to run any script. You don’t even need to create a Let’s Encrypt account or install the certbot.

How is this done? Ie, to not need any account and still get new/valid certs.

And, on that note, what is the difference between having an account and not? Eg, how might using no accounts harm a production environment?

Just trying to wrap my head around that. Really cool UX for side stuff!

edit: Ah, looks like there is an account involved - it creates one, possibly using your email address. This makes more sense now.
What happened?

Was it afraid of you? I've never seen an octopus in the wild so I'm guessing it must be an experience. Would you mind sharing a bit more of what happened?
I would switch to a Google Phone as soon as an Airdrop-esque solution emerges.

There is nothing more pitiful than being offline on vacation and someone with an amazing flagship android phone can't share the videos with everyone. And then their phone predictably gets lost or explodes.

15 years in and bluetooth file sending is still horrible and basically nonexistent, Apple's airdrop is pretty amazing. That'll keep me in the Apple ecosystem for now.
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When I'm in a procrastinating streak -- that kind of low-grade depression that makes you dependent on having some measure of fun at all times -- I will set an e.ggtimer.com for, say, 20 minutes so I can get some work done in a day.

I usually get carried away and ignore the timer's end.
I hope they do address it, but they've been squirrelly about this topic in the past.

If I had to speculate, it is a calculated decision on WL's part to try and shift the organization's integrity away from Assange. Currently all trust in WL rests on Assange's existence which isn't good for the longevity of the org if/when he decides to retire (or meets his untimely demise).
Oops, I was lazy... http://imgur.com/Yf9Hz4J
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Sure, the client application can validate DNSSEC if it is using a DNS library that supports DNSSEC. Examples include:

- getDNS - https://getdnsapi.net/

- ldns - https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/

The application simply has to perform the actual validation itself (versus using another resolver).
> Optimize your code for testability

If you do that, the only thing you'll get is code that is easy to run tests
on. If you get somewhat good and composable code out of that, that's only
a vaguely related byproduct, and only because good code is usually easy to run
tests on, not the other way around.

Testability is by no means substitute for good architecture and thought-out
interfaces.
From the factory, the bikes passed the EPA requirements.

Harley also got into the business of selling folks new exhaust/air intake and race tuners at the dealership so folks could 'stage 1' their bikes and remap their EFI units. This results in failing emissions (usually). They settled, restricted what they sell post-sale and are tightening down on what voids factory warranties moving forward.
For a moment you had me wondering if there would be a way to use Hy and google's new Grumpy together, and then I dismissed the idea as probably utter madness. For a long time I've been pining for a Clojure-like lisp that can compile to machine code.
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13356318
Well, Comcast's oligopoly is largely established by the fact that rights-of-way and pole-attachment rights are monopolized by municipalities, which tend to approve only a single, or few providers. It's not a natural monopoly.
By comparison to C, though...
Incomplete models are incomplete. It completely ignores the ways on which the mentioned transport should take place. It ignores that you usually don't have one place from which everybody starts but multiple places to other multiple places.

And if you think about it, individual car mobility is this in practice. The ways are build by someone else but you can decide how and where to drive. And it kinda failed in many areas.
Sorry people for the missing punctuation marks and paragraphs. It looks like there is a bug in Hackers News that does not allow me to edit my post. Tried different browsers even. Update: It seems I am able to edit this one
Thanks for the link. The last two weeks of the course pique my interest esp. the "Introduction to Probability Theory" section. Is this apart of a sequence of courses in data science? It wasn't clear to me if this is a standalone course or apart of a larger sequence.
That's true of anyone.
This has actually been a very insightful response to me.

After reading your comment it now occurs to me that Docker and other container systems are actually a huge organizational tool. One issue I have encountered at companies is keeping the IT and development departments on the same high level organizational incentives to keep political barriers from coming up between them (and conflicts arising).

Containers can help keep everyone's incentives aligned because System admins can focus on the actual administration aspects of the systems and infrastructure (that devs do not need to be concerned about, like vnet layouts and whatnot) while devs can focus on the actual development and deployment without having to have everything confirmed and approved by the IT departments.
Where do squirrels live that humans don't?
When my twins (boy and girl) were two the boy started dressing up in the princess dresses that his sister got. We thought it was adorable but didn't push him one way or the other. The only negative is that he was pretty rough on them.

Now that they are three, this has morphed into him wearing his Batman costume from Halloween whenever he gets a chance--even though he's going through a growth spurt and the costume now has old man utility belt.

I guess maybe he just likes to dress up. His sister is the opposite, she will wear the same outfit day after day unless we make her change. Kids are all different.
Because those libraries have bugs, sometimes catastrophic ones. Sometimes they must update, due to API changes or other factors outside of their control. If your organization relies on keeping things static as a means to stability, one day that rule will have to break, and you may be pretty underprepared for it.
As far as ticket / issue tracking systems and wikis go their products are quite decent.

JIRA has its quirks but it's very flexible and customisable. Its UX is also quite ok for such a complex piece of software. Keep in mind they're competing with stuff like SharePoint and downright UX atrocities such as HP ALM.

Confluence is among the best enterprise wikis targeting end users (i.e. users not familiar with Markdown), too.
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https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/src/default/example...

Working on this - Dullahan which is a headless browser SDK based on Chromium Embedded Framework and hope to have something like PhantomJS working soon albeit using a modern browser rendering engine.
> microservices isn't "architecture".

Yes the 'no-architecture architecture'. It's very Zen. /s

> how it all hangs together

In case you are interested in rescuing :) young but promising talent in the field, next time you find yourself involved in a discussion about microservices "architecture", point out the realization of a single-node application per this approach, where every function is a process, and the call stack requires IPC, and the 'linker' is considered obsolete and outdated technology.
The new things you need to develop new features are far and far between

99% of web software written these days could fulfil identical use cases on an IBM 3270 from 40 years ago. You enter something into a form and it gets stored in a database. You enter something into a field and it generates a report. That's all Amazon, Facebook, Google, any e-commerce site are.

Sure it might be nice to use a new version of that new JS framework that all the twitterati are going crazy about, but does it deliver value to the business that justifies the risk and investment?
Also, they are part of the few edible maritime species whose populations are increasing (http://www.humanosphere.org/environment/2016/05/rapidly-chan...).
I've used http://lavagna.io for a while on my own servers, but recently I've started using and enjoying https://www.favro.com whose free version has less limitations than the free Trello version.
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Why then?

Because Trump won, and people saw this as a failing of the news to inform.

And ignoring for a second the assumption that a better informed populus would have naturally voted Clinton...

The finger was easier to point at hack "news" blogs than admit the organizations that are supposed to make up the respectable press outlets were all complicit in failing to focus on topics of good governance (candidates' positions, issues and suitability for office) instead preferred to focus on the horse race and reality show-esque manufactured drama.
I don't think its all that Utopian. An-Caps take a lot of care to make there institution prove against human weakness. There is also a lot of study into historical examples that explain part of how a An-Cap society would work.

I don't one can expect more from any group. An-Capism is as un-utipian as you can get while still having some vauge definition of an ideal system.

Most AnCaps happily admit that the assumed society would not be near perfect. In fact, I would actually say that it would probably not be that much better then what we have now.

I don't think the axioms are that special, its basic rational choice political science/economics that is applied in most AnCap arguments.
Thanks for that hint, I fixed the link!
I think I mentioned that HTTPS is on by default, didn't I? But anyway, yes it's very useful and a good practice.
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This may be true (but what do we know?). Animal don't solve problems for fun, though; those that they do have to solve, they solve pretty well, it seems.
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You also could run your own DNS resolver on your local device and do the DNSSEC validation there.

One example of this bundled up in a way that is easy to install is DNSSEC-Trigger: https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/dnssec-trigger/

More info in this blog post from Red Hat: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/04/14/writing-an-applic...
Yes, right. Maybe I should've mentioned that. But I didn't want to talk to much about the certs.
Thank you. For some Python introduction, you can have a look at the end of this page: https://github.com/rougier/Scipy-Bordeaux-2016/blob/master/i...
Regardless of seniority, every good manager will:
I think every single startup (even up to the size of Twitter) would pay $10 to set each new employee up with all of their online accounts with a single click. You could imagine several different profiles they can choose from. It would auto populate all the services (Slack, Trello, G-Suite, etc) and then the admin has the chance to take a quick glance and subtract/add any to tweak it. Once it's clicked, it instantly sends all necessary welcome and sign-up emails to the new employee. Similarly, it can revoke access to all accounts with a single click.
The problem is that sysadmins don't know everything.

> in the year 2015, pip went from version 1.5.6 to 8.1.1

The only releases in 2015 were 6.x and 7.x.

There were 8 documented backwards incompatibilities, 4 deprecated the previous year, and 3 documenting a couple bugs that were fixed several days after the 7.0.0 release.

These are the sorts of thing an aware Python developer will know.
Oh, I did not mean that. It is a shame it did not "win". There were other design choices I did not like, but I loved the way the filter worked.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354321
I once worked on an application that - no joke - comprised 5000 VMs each of which was running one "service" in a dedicated JBoss. It was laughably bad.
Anyone of particularly high quality is capable of finding work elsewhere without much difficulty, so high-quality employees are actually less likely to put up with crazy tirades.
I switched to iOS this christmas. One of the first things I did was try to google something, get infuriated by the crappy AMP user experience, get even more infuriated there was no way to disable it anywhere, and switch to DDG.
My experience with hg-git has been that it is not always a great citizen with git repos and it can cause something of a mess. (This is a few years old now, because like the rest of the world I switched to git; it may have improved in the meantime.)
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Just because Rothbard stop using the term does not mean anybody else did.

Etymological or historical are not actually relevant.

A name is a name, self assigned and people use it, many people now it.
I work in a lab (academic/genetics). We have a public facing website so when we develop tools they go there. So we're using: perl, java, R, python, php apart from the stuff we compile from c.

Stringy code thats hard to decipher can be written in any language I have discovered.

My take, Perl is kinda on the way out, though it was used extensively. BioPerl is a nice package.

Biologist like R, it pretty quick and behaves like they aren't programming. It can make graphs nicely.

Python seems to be the go to compromise. BioPerl is a really nice package. But people start to want to use it for big things and to get it performing adequately requires a lot. There is confusion from the researchers that scares them away: between python 2/3 numby, pypy. BioPython packages are pretty excellent.

If it needs to be fast and crunch large sets of data (fairly common) the tool is in C or C++. We should start using Rust..

We use Php (Silex) to deliver a front end and some quick database lookup and display. Its replacing perl for this.
Asimov isn't held in quite the same esteem as Shakespeare, but I can see someone writing a similar story with him as the time-traveler a few hundred years hence...
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I had taken the Ng course, which I recommend to get a basic understanding of ideas, but, the fast.ai course enables you to compete in Kaggle competitions in fairly short time.

Just watch the course.fast.ai intro/overview video, and decide from there.
In habitats untouched by humans, duh! Oh, wait...
So far, individual lawsuits have been brought and settled out of court. Due to NDAs the terms are not disclosed.

33c3 Diesegate (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjlHtLux9vc start around 14 minutes for European stuff.
Ships are also pretty efficient per ton-mile, so there's that.
You can use BeyondCompare. I just use vimdiff.
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