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> Java development is for a specific type of programmer that will most likely work for large corporation and more often than not on some unsexy backend system.

There is always a rule to every exception. I am in startup that uses Java. We are creating medical device software that runs on Linux. We have a JavaFX application that connects to a PostgreSQL database on Docker. The application also uses an embedded Jetty server to expose a series of HTTP endpoints as well as a websocket. We use Jogl to work with OpenGL to render 2d graphics to the screen.

This is by far the coolest project I have worked on.
Eventually, it should be abstracted even further into something that looks like Heroku, but deploys your code onto serverless functions or containers depending on how your service needs to run. A nice, modular, microservice backend automatically with zero config.
I’d rather not have a straw at all than attempt to drink out of another cardboard straw. Those things fall apart and collapse before I can finish my drink, and they make the drink taste like paper. If straws are a matter of convenience, paper straws are certainly not IMO.

Coincidentally I think the last time I used a cardboard straw was at the Mumbai airport Starbucks. Maybe that was a test site for doing what you suggest.
Also this article seems to miss that you can take illegal money, buy hashing equipment and launder it via mining... I'm sure having crypto in the news has got more crime bosses' attention? Obviously I have no proof of this being the case.
Everybody tries this. In the beginning contributions are easy. After almost 30 years of everybody developing on the same code base nothing is easy any more. That is normal and can't be avoided.

I agree though, that it might be good marketing to claim that. Especially younger people haven't seen that 3-5x already so they still think it might be possible. Just like a 4 Hour Workweek, or that you could be Fluent In 3 Months in a new language.
This is great. I've been toying with the idea of using Dhall for various things and your post might just have given me the impetus to go actually do it!
Probably too late now, but xar already stands for "eXtensible ARchiver" and is a file format used on macOS in some package installers. It's notable for having an embedded XML "table of contents" that describes metadata of the archived files, so new fields can easily be added while maintaining backwards compatibility. (Compared to, say, the zip file format which does not even specify how to store Unix file modes.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xar_(archiver)
>There is a narrative that things like gun control, abortion, etc are subjective subjects. They're really not.

So, what are the objectively correct stances on these issues?
Another bonus - depending on your DB/driver, it may set this up as a prepared statement, so executions after the first one happen much quicker.
Selling reusable bags at $1 turns a $0.015 cost into a $0.55 profit - from a store's point of view. This scales quite nicely.
I had not been aware the the government had ever obtained access to the DNC server. I assume that will be a key piece of evidence for prosecution and for defense, so they must finally have it. That's good. Would have been better two years ago, but good that they have it now.
Python 101 Screencast: Episode #15 – The logging module
'A Quality Introduction To Fine Expressions In One Minute'

FTFY.
As others had said that is almost the case already, and it does give you the right to know the basis for an automated decision and have a human review it.
And you've got to remember that imported projects are just that. I imported one of my projects, took it for a spin, and as a result of that am still happily using github.
That's great, sorry that Amazon is screwing you this way. I'll direct my students to your Gumroad listing then.
> mining operations would continue for a while after they stopped making a return on investment

Marginal return. The ASICs could have been bought for $10 with the expectation of making $1 a year and paying out 50¢ for electricity (a 5% yield). Now it’s making 51¢ a year (a 0.1% yield). Not enough to make economic sense, but enough to keep running the rig; 0.1% is more than zero.

Broadly, I was pushing back against the author’s inchoate claim that “the continued growth in hash power demonstrates a strong, continued belief in Bitcoin by miners worldwide.”
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you need to provide more details to get any useful advice. but just based on what you have described, any db would do the job. add a caching layer and you have your low latencies.

again, what is the traffic and bandwidth load like? peak and average values? what kind of data are you planning to store? small values but huge volumes or the opposite? a lot will change based on your system requirements.
Python creaton Guido Van Rossum steps down after PEP 572
It documents a lot of the habits that get "normal" people to millionaire status. Drive "normal" cars for 15 years instead of buying fancy cars every 3 years. Clip coupons and shop wisely (2 for 1s, sales, coupons, etc). Live below your means generally. Save.

Basically the opposite of the SV mantra which is raise a ton of money for a shot at the lottery, live in the nicest apartment you can find/afford, eat out at fancy restaurants most nights, drive a nice audi or bmw, etc.
I agree to a degree but the issue that I tend to have with these sort of articles is that they don't present a viable alternative. The idea that you should just pick something and get really good at it (e.g. as presented in the book "So Good They Can't Ignore You") seems like it is going too far in the other direction and seems like it relies a lot on survivor bias.
Awesome work. Did your team evaluate creating a virtual filesystem that could process the SquashFS images without involving the kernel? Having completely independent executables that could run on _any_ system with zero additional install would be sweet.

To clarify - a stub in each XAR would act as a filesystem driver and intercept calls to open/read/etc, redirecting them to the internal data blob.

Edit: I see your comment below which answers this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524910
Yep, I think it means you can hire one "DevOps Engineer" to do the work of multiple sysadmins/dbas by using these cloud-based services.
I am using fasthttp[1]

1. https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp
> ...Or, don't tell your kids what they should do

I disagree here. Telling our kids what they should do is a good-sized chunk of a parent's job, all the way from "Don't touch that stove" to "Pick a public place to meet strangers from the internet." "Don't major in art history at a $30k/year school unless we win the lottery" is the same class of advice, and you can be sure my kids will hear it from me.
Have you looked into Habitat? It provides a similar result with a complete build workflow that works across technologies and platforms: https://www.habitat.sh/

There's a rapidly growing library of libraries and services packaged with it: https://bldr.habitat.sh

Its build artifacts can be exported to a number of formats including container images and tarballs, maybe a XAR exporter could be built: https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/tree/master/components...
The person you're responding to has no desire to enter any logical debate. Their entire calculus is that they need Trump to deliver what he's sold them on. There is no coherence to any two of their points, it's simply "any port in the storm". Any piece of information that might lead toward Trump not completing his plan is completely rejected on principle. Thus, even though they aren't going to answer your question, I can. There is no evidence that is going to satiate a troll. The only tool a troll has is to spread doubt.
> I'm not really interested in dropping thousands of euros on the latest gaming hardware.

> I'm probably going to drop around 3-4K on whatever replaces it.

...
>One could indict every major world power for foreign election interference

And yet the rest of the world still complains when America does it.

If it's a problem when America does it, it's a problem when Russia does it.

>Laws are meaningless if no one follows them.

Laws are also meaningless if no one enforces them.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you do blind tastings? Doesn't someone have to pour the glasses and therefore knows which is which? Also how do you figure out at the end, which was which? I imagine, one person pours, another rearranges, and then the glasses have a labeled underneath
Jepsen is an important sanity check on marketing. Easy to say in collateral you are "strict" ACID -- Jepsen proves (or denies) those claims. Some fun reports over there http://jepsen.io/analyses
Although the majority of what I do is in Python, I've taken to using Flyway for DB migrations.

A lot of what I do is using some of the more esoteric features of PG (think domains, custom aggregate functions, etc), so the ability to run migrations as direct SQL is great.
No. People read that article where it turns out people couldn't tell white wine from red wine and then think they can extrapolate that (very misleading) data point out through all of wine and spirits. They look silly doing that.

Some commenter can reliably be counted on to say something like this in any thread about craft beers. But you would have to have never had more than a couple beers in your life to think that someone couldn't tell a Heady Topper from a Dark Lord. There are a variety of markedly different beer styles, and within a style there are a spectrum of expressions. If you never drink beer, a Dreadnaught and a Pliny the Elder might just taste "IPA" (or, more likely, "super bitter") to you. But it would be pretty silly to argue that there isn't a lot more maltiness, sweetness, and texture to the Dreadnaught, and a lot more balance and fruit to the Pliny.

It's the same with whiskey. Even if you've never had whiskey before, you'll have no trouble distinguishing Four Roses from Laphroig. One tastes like burning frogs, and the other doesn't. With no palate at all, you'll still get the sweetness and wineyness from a Redbreast Lustau, even if you don't taste it alongside another Irish whiskey that wasn't aged in wine casks. Woodford Reserve does an old-wood new-wood comparison edition, same spirit, same mash bill, one in new wood and one in old. Even if you're not a whiskey drinker, you will have no trouble triangle-testing between the two.

Different whiskeys. Different mash bills, different processing, different aging systems, different aging environments. Different flavors. Not complicated.

This is, by the way, equally true of wine. Probably I don't reliably guess Syrah vs Zinfandel, especially with supermarket wine (I'm not a wine guy). But I had a wine flight at Alinea that blew my fucking head off and there is no way I'd have any trouble at all picking out that Pinot Noir from an A to Z I buy at the liquor store. Just as importantly: everybody can pick out a sweet Gewurztraminer from a dry oakey Chardonnay. The "studies" you're thinking about don't say what you think they say. People might not be able to reliably identify specific wines (or, more importantly, pick them out by price). That doesn't mean wines taste identical, even to novices.
> and are running outdated versions of both Java and Node.js

That does not seem to be true —

java version "10.0.1" 2018-04-17 versus "Java SE 10.0.1 is the latest feature release for the Java SE Platform"

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

— or not-very out-of-date —

Node js v10.5.0 versus 10.6.0 Current

https://nodejs.org
Africa: Meerkat Radio Telescope Inaugurated in South Africa
> if it gives me more privacy rights

Meanwhile, microsoft still defaults to collecting/retaining telemetry information from users of their software.
>Laws are meaningless if no one follows them.

The truth to that statement has to do with power and influence. The average Joe isn't gonna get out of a speeding ticket by saying everyone speeds.
I imagine the DNC refused FBI access because of the nature of the information, and the nature of the company asking for the data.

Any leaks by Crowdstrike would be something the DNC could litigate, and would also greatly hurt Crowdstrike's reputation.

The FBI, on the other hand, does have some politics involved, and to my knowledge there wouldn't be much recourse for the DNC if the FBI were to leak confidential information they had access to from the investigation.

Even if there isn't extra information beyond what was already leaked, giving the FBI access allows for a specific narrative to be put forth in a leak, even if it's just insinuations through specifically crafted misinformation. The FBI having full access allows for bad actors within the organization to provide credence to any narrative they desire, since official communication of information about the case would be delayed and likely restrained.

To my mind, it makes perfect sense that the DNC would refuse FBI involvement in this instance, given the option (which they were).
I’m in the mall right now for lunch. There is absolutely no store that I would come here for except for the food court for lunch and the movie theatre. We do walk around the Avalon regularly.
Fine, build your own package.

# dpkg-deb --build ./src/ mydeb.deb

Stick your dependencies etc in ./src/DEBIAN/control

Or just distribute a tar with your application.

I used to have to distribute a cross platform java progam. It was horrendous creating the MSI on windows. The linux and osx versions were trivial
Chip, thanks for sharing!

Could you have solved the same problem ("deploy apps with dependencies in a single file") using snaps? (snapcraft.io)
If states allocated their electors proportional to the popular vote within each state, the results would track national popular vote to within 1%. They don't, and rather use winner-take-all for game theory reasons... swings states weren't part of the original plan, and you can just as easily argue they're the true disaster for democracy.

Also, don't know what mob you're referring to... that NYC and LA would rule the country without the EC is another trope that's easily debunked.
It’s unfortunate that the worst of a community can kill a story just by acting badly. The most easily riled and offended shouldn’t be allowed to dictate what’s discussed on any site.
In 1850, the year California became a state, its population made up 0.4% of the country.

Today, Californians are 12% of the US population. It's just an accident of history that all those people happen to count as one "state" – if it were to join the union today as a collection of states of the same relative size as 1850 California, that would be 30 states. If it were to split into individual states each with the population of today's Wyoming, that would be 67 states.

So yes, the unit of federalism is the state. But the way state lines are drawn are largely an accident of history, so state-based representation feels pretty arbitrary.
I guess you have never seen what their Face API is capable of. They’re as good as anyone in this game.
I’ll give a non-technical answer: set up a legal trust. This is the typical way a person has their wishes carried out after their death.
Decentraland – building VR country
Shinjuku Gyoemmae in Tokyo had lots of grass and people sitting on it including from what I can tell Japanese people. Hiroshima has green areas along the rivers complete with park benches. Kyoto has Arashiyama but that is on the outskirts of the city. That has beautiful walking paths and benches. What I didn't see is people sunbathing. That doesn't seem to be a thing like it is in Europe.
I'd argue that is is. In their arguments against RAID5 ( http://www.baarf.dk/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt ):

> OK here is the deal, RAID5 uses ONLY ONE parity drive per stripe

In RAID-6 you have multiple redundancy, so the probability of complete failure can be arbitrarily reduced. However, most people go with RAID-5 because they haven't got enough disks for RAID-6 to make sense, whereas if you have loads (like Backblaze for instance using 3 parity out of 15 disks) then it does make sense.
Ask HN: Why doesn't hackernews have an AAAA record?
I'm trying to go IPv6 only and use some tech websites that I visit frequently. Many sites work, but many do not. Hacker News has no AAAA record. Why not? Can we get one added?
Obituaries are more detailed than summing someone's life up as a trivia question.
Burglar breaks into “escape room” business, panics, and calls 911
The indictment is a reminder of just how much data can be pieced together about a person's online activity, at least with considerable resources and seemingly proper court authorized warrants. From web searches, to emails, twitter posts, block chain transactions, all of it could be correlated together. The searching for specific phrases that then appeared in a text is particularly damning.

What I could not glean from the indictment is how they could possibly have identified these 12 people individually. The government must have some other sigint or humint for that? Will this ever make it to trial so that evidence can be revealed?
Except, if you need to pay rent and put your kids through college, shipping source tarballs is going to significantly reduce revenue for a small developer. (It's sad, but it does.)
As opposed to the US version, which is more akin to this episode of The Simpsons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VBiTHckkH8

"Thank you for calling the Parking Violations Bureau. To plead Not Guilty, press 1 now."

"Your plea has been [no pause] rejected."
I can’t quite figure this out either. The only thing that I would call meddling was their propaganda campaign. We shouldn’t care about the leaked emails. If the RNC had their mail spool dumped, Dems wouldn’t give a shit about this and would be saying that Republicans are just mad that they got caught.
A serious problem is when people assume that because the replication crisis in psych is widely publicized that it is exclusive to psych and then they dismiss all of the findings in the field. In my experience the replication crisis is rarely used to criticize method but instead used to dismiss research out of hand, whether or not it is supported by other research that limits the likelihood of error.

I think that psych should be commended for attacking this problem. As a field they are funding replications, which basically never happens in any other field. We don't even know what the "replication crisis" would be in empirical CS. Given discussions with ML people I'd wager that the "replication crisis" in ML is at least as dramatic.

Science is messy. But this is why we should defer to experts who have vision over an entire field rather than focusing on individual papers as conclusive data points.
More specifically, it's about price discrimination.

If you publish a price, you need to publish a price that's going to be palatable to your smallest clients. But the moment you do so, your most deep-pocketed clients will demand the same price. This could be disastrous, because those same clients also tend to be more demanding, so a profitable price for one client could be a disastrous money-loser for another.

If you're the kind of person who needs to know the price up-front, it's probably safe to interpret this as a way of saying, "If you have to ask, this isn't for you." At the very least, it's probably the case that you have a limited appetite for products where success requires significant assistance from support engineers to help you deal with all the critical details that typically aren't in the documentation for these kinds of products.
Damned if they do - damned if they don't?

If they supported its use: "Microsoft is back to its old ways and is untrustworthy."

When they do something pro-consumer & pro-privacy: "Microsoft can't innovate in the marketplace and needs to stifle innovation."

(Yes, I know it's a straw-man argument, but it's more to point out the general hypocrisy of such a comment.)
What you want is snapcraft.io
I have heard similar stories about Patrón Tequila, which is marketed as a premium tequila and definitely one of the more pricey brands. It was originally produced by the Casa Siete Leguas distillery. However, they moved production to a newer distillery in 2002 to allow for more mass production.

It was argued that the move caused a major decrease in quality and no longer deserves the premium price tag it goes for nowadays.

It's impossible for me to say if these claims are true since the move happened a while ago, but it is another example of consumers arguing quality differences in a product.
Microsoft has to play these games because Google and Facebook do. But if it disappeared overnight MS would still be in business... and they would not.
I dunno, I think there is a significant sentiment in the US that regulation is bad, period. There was the idea that Trump floated that was quite popular with his base that they would blanket eliminate 2 regulations for every one enacted.
Evolution of the Corner Store
Having worked at a large company that cares a great deal about COPPA, I've seen how regulation really can work for consumer benefit. I'm not sure if people appreciate how much COPPA cleaned up in child privacy. However, it's definitely hurt the bottom lines of small businesses that liked playing fast and loose with data.

The sudden commodification of facial recognition means most of the companies racing to fill business needs are startups. Large corporations like Microsoft are much better positioned to deal with industry regulation. This may be a self-interested, anti-competitive move on Microsoft's part, but I don't care as long as I benefit as a consumer, too.
I’ve just finished reading it. He comes up with a series of rules and backs them up with anecdotes though I don’t think they are thoroughly tested. But they do help you think about it more deeply. It helped bring these different ideas I’ve heard before into a more coherent form. Though personally I think you should follow what you’re interested in or suited to as it makes it a lot easier.
Trump is a traitor
Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood: The “Evil Genius” Behind a Global Racket?
You might be interested in these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_m...

Notably some of them like the Millennium Prize offer a reward of 1M dollars if you solve it. There's definitely still some absolute mysteries out there!
I should have put exodus between quotes indeed. I haven't followed the numbers lately but I figured the voice would have been louder than the action. Let alone the people who already moved back to GitHub.

But I have always felt I could never discover projects outside of GitHub. Partly because adding GitHub as keyword to your search often gives the best results.

On a project I work on I even push the repository from Gitlab to GitHub just for the exposure.

So a good alternative to GitHub being the de facto open source project discovery site would be nice. That said I don't hate GitHub and I'm happy I can find almost everything I need there.
It’s certainly not! The research paper now is from 12th of July this year, the brand new result:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...
To me, the AirBNB product looks ripe for crypto-disruption.
There used to be a used bookstore near where I lived (McIntyre and Moore in Davis Square in Somerville). They had a sign on the wall about the kind of books they wanted to buy. They wanted books in fields where it is hard to make a living. I always thought that was an interesting heuristic. I guess that's where the passion is.
Building HTML GUI's Online in Python
Again, any currency solves the confidence issue, even gift cards, not just cryptocurrencies. There's an entire black market exchange with other currencies already in place.