skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real lesson is: don't depend on someone else's computer to perform the encryption process for you. If you do, it is susceptible.
putting the blog in a repo on GitHub will turn commits into blog posts ;-)
It's an intriguing idea and there's probably something to it, but what kind of shitty journalism is this?

> Needless to say, the Great Recession is responsible for some of the decline.

Yep, but somehow that's a boring assumption that doesn't gel with the authors' thinking so they just brush it aside completely.

> First, gas prices more than doubled, which made car-sharing alluring.

Because the cost of a car-share is somehow independent of gas prices? Really? (Gas prices may make people less likely to drive everywhere, making a car less of a useful purchase, making car-sharing more alluring – I'll grant them that.)

Then it continues with three examples of the "sharing economy", because obviously three examples is enough to declare a trend.

Sigh...
The SR-71 Blackbird's successor - twice as fast
The current challenges of building a Meteor app
They even mention that the vendor would pay for all expediting of permitting and such. Wtf is the city actually doing?

How is this even remotely something that a vendor would want to pursue?
Decentralized email, uh?

It's been attempted, but the issue of storage remains the most bothering. A mailbox can be pretty big and having it distributed over the network is difficult. Not to mention spamming problems.

Maybe some day we'll find the right formula. But I think the who-owns-the-private-key problem is a bigger priority.
Most people have children with the expectation of being able to feed them, and then things change.

You claim it's the most obvious cause of hunger, but do you have anything to support that claim?
“We just think nobody truly understands them yet.”

I don't think that's true. I think that auto manufacturers don't want to accept that millennials don't associate cars with freedom, independence, maturity, and sex in the same way that cars were viewed by previous generations.

At most they're a way to get from point A to B for most millennials, at worst (if you're a car maker) they're viewed as dirty machines that the world would be better without.
As a software engineer who just turned 40 and starting a new position in the coming weeks, I've been giving some thought lately to the future of our profession, and I'm wondering if we're at the high-point in the salary scale, and if we'll see average salaries decline from this point on.

The reason I suspect this might be the case is the combination of the popularity of programming, along with the tools which are making programming easier.

Every year a new framework/library is introduced which makes the challenging and time consuming work easier and easier.

Are we reaching a point where we have a massive number of programmers doing a job which takes a fraction of the time it took years ago?
If someone who I didn't know was banging on my window at 4:30am asking to get into my building, I'd call the cops.
> you benefit from faster IOPS

Yes, you do.

However, if a single EBS that backs the RDS instance lags out (as EBS volumes in AWS are wont to do), you lose the iops.

The key point is that as the number of EBS volumes you depend on goes up, the chances of this happening goes up correspondingly.

Striping EBS volumes works, but I would not depend on it for a production environment.
Out of everything in that survey the gender gap (page 6) strikes me the most. It's sad that it even exists, honestly. To see the continual increase in male salaries, and that fairly stagnant top end for females.. seriously!? For an industry that is trying to employ more female engineers, the trend sucks.

As articulated in the synopsis at the bottom, 'This disgraceful disparity lays bare the false — but cherished — belief that our profession is at its core a meritocracy.'
At the end of the day, this is what Google wanted, to push Internet adoption forward. If others want to compete, mission accomplished.
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Prediksi Skor Barcelona VS AC Milan 07 November 2013 – Laga ini sendiri akan menjadi sebuah percobaan sendiri bagi pihak AC Milan yang memang belakangan sama sekali belumlah dalam menunjukkan sebuah performa yang bagus.
Fuck yes, I would love to help do something like that. I'm not a statistician though, so I'm probably not very qualified.
If you don't mind, please drop me a line about which company you work for (or post up here).

I'm not on the job market now (necessarily), but am keeping an eye out for your kind of companies and would love to keep yours on my radar, if possible.

EDIT - My email and all contact info are in my profile.
The falsity of a given (prominent!) data point just puts the care and diligence of the author into question and plants doubt in the reader's mind. It doesn't imply the validity of an opposing narrative.
Don't know much about Dart. Is there a way for Dart code to call/use Javascript libraries? Like could I use D3 in Dart?
Another interesting tidbit is that the difference in rating between the top ranked player (Carlsen) and the World Champion (Anand) is the largest since Spassky-Fischer in 1972, when Champion Spassky was rated 2660 and Fischer was rated 2785--a 125 point difference!
First impressions through fscache and ceph
Are you noticing how hard it is to reason through the security model of Javascript crypto code? How many different interactions there are you'd need to account for? That's a big part of the problem, and it's a problem that simply doesn't exist in the same way for native code.
It is probably worth noting that this guy is probably somewhat biased due to being the founder of (as far as I can tell) a similar hire-people-from-me-I'm-not-quite-a-recruitment-agent type website.
What the hell is a "drinkup", and in what community is this term popular?
I think everyone feels most of these, or at least says they do. If anything, all the head nodding in this thread is a nice example of a Dunning-Kruger effect.
I've lost years of pictures twice now by relying on image hosting sites that eventually shut down. First was Lightbox7, the last I THOUGHT was Photobucket but that appears to be online so I'm not sure which that was. Both times it was infuriating and I don't recall ever receiving any warning when Lightbox7 went dark. Lost all of my high school/middle school pictures (I'm 30 now, this was a long time ago).

I'd warn you to not rely on any startup and to make sure your data, if its critical, is dispersed between different services, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Sky Drive. I've not used it yet, but you can sync files between cloud services via CloudHQ; https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox
Impossible to say; we've never been in a situation like this before.

Traditionally, a "reboot" happens when things get bad enough that people feel - rationally - that the risks and costs involved with attempting to force a solution are worth it. Part of the risk is the risk that others won't help, so once a real movement gets started it tends to be somewhat explosive.

However, thanks mostly to technology, things have gotten better on an absolute level even as inequalities have gotten larger. "A rising tide floats all boat" isn't true, but it's not entirely false either. Today, there's no real risk of starving to death in the USA, not for 99% of the population.

Time will tell if relative differences are enough. The situation is quite unprecedented.
If you're curious (like I was) about what officially constitutes their "city limits" (correct me if I'm wrong), I think it's all of this area:
http://www.turkey-visit.com/map/united-states/california/los...

Which is enormous.

You can fit St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Boston, SF, Pittburgh, & Manhattan inside of LA:
http://laist.com/2012/06/30/map_how_many_major_us_cities_can...

It makes me skeptical that $5 billion would cover the cost unless it was done by a vendor who could piggyback existing infrastructure ...
Amazon’s First Employee Disses MacKenzie Bezos' Review
Anyone interested in exploring car sales ideas in SF/Bay-Area? I have one for which I did a bunch of market research and it looks promising. Happy to explore more.
That's a good idea. I'm not the one to take it on, but could see myself being a customer.

Especially the month-to-month thing, I'd be all over that just because I don't like the commitment of owning a car although it's basically required where I live
@sashaeslami We started Plivo with a simple vision of helping businesses move to the cloud, use simple APIs for building Apps and not having to pay markups from telecom carriers. Our focus has always been to solve the Infrastructure problem.

This is the primary reason we want to allow our customers to have access to the best pricing possible (without crazy markups).

In some cases we may not be able to offer the best price, and hence we have Bring Your Own Carrier Model [1]

[1] - http://plivo.com/byoc/
> How so? Can you explain how you think Scala isn't sound/typesafe?

Because you can do casts, and it's not pure. It doesn't even enforce immutability. You know what? Forget about enforcing – it doesn't even make mutability or casts hard.
Look, Haskell is certainly not my cup of tea. Personally, I don't think the effort of thinking about my program twice (once in terms of logic and once in terms of types) is worth it in most circumstances, and pure functional languages don't support concurrent data structures which is what I deal with the most. But I do recognize Haskell's elegance, and if the elaborate type system is worth it, it's only because it can enforce many guarantees. I mean, the whole point of Haskell is that it supposedly makes safer programs. So you pay for the elaborate types (though some consider it a plus), but you gain safety. With Scala you just pay.

> Uhm, can you explain to me an example of a simple OO type system that is 'just powerful enough'?

Sure. C++, Java, C#. Almost all of the world's software is written in C++ or Java. The question is not which language has "the best type system" (and even if it were, Scala can't make up its mind because it's got three of them). A type system is not an end but a means. Practically everyone who deals with type systems agrees that they come at a cost (and Martin Odersky himself admitted as much). But the cost hopefully buys you something. It arguably buys you better design, and it definitely buys you safety. Well, Scala doesn't give you safety any more than C++ or Java, and as for design, it can't even pick one type system; a cornerstone of great design is that you have to make hard choices.
Duh, Mercedes Finance will happily lease you a nice, clean used Mercedes. Especially if it meets their Star Certified criteria. My first MB was leased from new for three 3-year lease terms; obviously terms 2 and 3 were a used car. My next MB was used and leased for three years. In all cases the lease terms were clear and fair, and the interest rate very competitive. Right now my car loan is with them and under 1%.

I'm sure that other reputable brands have similar programs.
Wise move!

FWIW, 100TB (approx 300Mbps continuous) costs us approximately $450/mo with a good quality host (Quadranet) with a good blend of upstreams. A cheaper host (Ubiquity) charge us about half of that. It's worth paying the extra for sure.
I am currently working in a team with people from three continent. It works if people are willing to adapt.
I'm saving this forever. Thank you for distilling my thoughts and feelings so well.
Please post a link to where we can go to help contribute to your benchmark work. Thank you.
> Because the cost of a car-share is somehow independent of gas prices? Really?

Zip car rentals include gas.
It's always weird to hear other GenY say this. At least for me, growing up cars were exactly all of those things.
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Most people have children with the expectation of being able to feed them

See already you're off base. Someone's individual expectation is not at all necessarily a "reasonable expectation". There are lots of gamblers in Vegas who expect to win big tonight... doesn't mean their expectations are reasonable.

but do you have anything to support that claim

What, like statistical evidence? No. I don't have statistical evidence that my car is parked outside either, but I'll still take a chance on it by walking to the spot where I left it earlier.
It's a turnkey monopoly for only 3-5 billion dollars, the upfront costs are fairly trivial when you account for the fact that this could be a business that will operate into the next century.

Also, they're free to sell telephone and cable television service on top of internet. I think a few companies have been able to grind out a profit on cable TV.
Scroll bars can look ugly, but at the least they should have a graphical representation that the page is scrollable. I also completely missed the rest of the website.
The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
A local company comes to mind, Lej et Lig (translated from Danish): http://translate.google.dk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev...

Literal translation: rent-a-corpse.
You pay about $50 a day, choose your type (van, personal, etc.).

They're mainly used when people move by themselves, have to take stuff to the junkyard and such.

The down-side is, typically, that you can get a lousy car (playground for lemons).

On the plus side, they have a thriving business, and been in business since 1995, so it's not a dead-end idea.
You said it. It just isn't enjoyable to own a car anymore. With all the added crap on-top there is no reason for my simplicity craving brain (even if it isn't true, we simplify to a point of making the process of simplifying complex) to desire the perceived complexities and costs of owning a new car.

That being said, I do own one. It's not new (10 years old now), it's 'cheap' to run (4-cylinder), and is purely for utility (4x4 for snow) as I live in a rural community. Even then, I take the bus between communities to commute to work.
There's a library to call JavaScript code from Dart, both in the VM and when the Dart code is compiled to JS: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/js-dart-interop/
When dart was released its authors asked for and received, some very specific feedback about syntax which they mentioned they'd be amenable to changing. Nothing has changed.

Much like android dart is controlled by a small group of engineers in Google. Where's the source code to the current HEAD of dart? I'm pretty sure it's not on GitHub. What features are planned for the next release? I'm fairly sure dart-discuss doesn't exist publicly.

Dark doesn't belong to the web developer community. No conspiracy theory needed, dart is built to suit googles purposes, which is fine. The only thing is expecting people to use it and think its a successor to JS, which, for all the flaws of JS, it is not.

Google know what a community developed successor to JS looks like. Optional strong typing in even MS typescript is more popular than dart. Get together with the community or dart will be he next GWT.
What do you mean by "native tethering"? I have free tethering on my TMO Simple Choice plan for all my lines - which all have iPhones (I gather the phone doesn't matter).
Yep. Every developer's greatest fear should be that so many new, young people are learning to code that the base salary will dive dramatically in the next 10 years.
That's why I want to start a campaign called "Don't code." Trying to prevent young minds for learning the trade.
I like being in high demand.
Early 20's, and every single one of those points resonated heavily with me. I don't think its just you being grumpy.
I'm not saying a gender gap doesn't exist, but the data you're looking at doesn't prove that it does.

It's well documented that women prefer other benefits, such as more time off and flexible work schedules (at the expense of base salary) more than men.
Amazon’s first employee, Shel Kaphan, has published a four-star review of Brad Stone’s “The Everything Store,” in which he recommends the book and criticizes MacKenzie Bezos’s take.

The PR wars begin! Grab you're popcorn.
You'd think so. Read up on W-8BEN if you don't believe me

You proved my point:

Foreign persons are subject to U.S. income includes:
tax at a 30% rate on income they receive from U.S.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw8ben.pdf

The burden is on the foreign person, not the US company. The US company can pay you as a contractor and not withhold any tax (just as they could with a US citizen 1099 contractor). The foreign contractor would have to file the W-8BEN (or not, since the US likely can't prosecute offenders in their home country).
Could you expand on how "Frankenfood" is causing hunger? From what I've read from the farmers that use Monsanto seed, they claim that their crops' yields are more predictable. This claim is backed by recent research: http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/02/do-gmo-crops...
This seems doomed.

"Come build us a super-fast network. You'll have to pay for it all. You'll also be required to sell access to your competitors (those guys that didn't pay to build the network) once you're done. We're also favoring companies that happen to be current cell network providers in the city (all two of you). Please respond to our RFP!"
A History of BART: The Concept is Born
It reminds me of how kids used to work for the parents on a farm or factory to help support their family. Maybe the burden has just been moved, assuming the quote has any validity.
It would be interesting to know why the gap exists.
Is it simply that males are typically offered higher starting salaries?
Do men typically try to get raises more (more aggressive at asking)?
Are women more satisfied with their salaries, where men are always wanting more?

Probably a lot of interesting, complicated dynamics that effect the gap.
My favourite approach to them tends to be scotch.

More seriously consider something like http://sphinx-doc.org/
Code is not static,your documentation should not be either.
Use one of those pouches that come with some earphones.
There's a line in the live version I have of Alice's Restaurant that your comment reminds me of. It comes after the usual:

And if three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in, singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out? They may think it’s an organization. And can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day walking in, singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out? Then, friends, they may think it’s a movement.

He says something along the lines of "And most of them would be too young to know what a movement was."
"See already you're off base. Someone's individual expectation is not at all necessarily a "reasonable expectation". There are lots of gamblers in Vegas who expect to win big tonight... doesn't mean their expectations are reasonable."

How should people make decisions if they can't trust their own judgment? You're going to one extreme and saying "lots of people are unreasonable". Ok, great. Lots of people are also very reasonable.

"See already you're off base."

That's just a fancy way of starting off the conversation by saying "you're wrong". No, he probably just doesn't agree with you. You should stop trying to frame everything in this objective manner. It's actually really obnoxious.
Everpix. They just needed someone on the team who was passionate about marketing. Whose gifts ran in that direction. I bet what they do next will be even better/hotter.
.minor: Scala does this at a Source level IME.

Which depending on your background may mean everything or nothing at all I guess.

Most Ruby libs would claim to follow semantic versioning. I think it's also fair to say there are a lot more mis-steps with compatibility on that side of the fence but I've not seen this argument used there that I can recall.

I mean, to be fair, your argument was "large enterprises". Which, means Java. And in that regard you're not wrong since binary compatibility there is a given.

Still... As long as you can clone and build the source (it's not like you're buying licenses for UI binary libraries built in Scala after all) I fail to understand why this is a bigger deal than say: String interpolation. Partial Functions. Function Lifting. Type Inference. Type Classes. Tuples. Pattern Matching. The list just goes on and on...

The question isn't "Is Scala ready to be the basis for closed source, licensed libraries" after all? If it were then a "we must maintain a decade of binary compatibility" might have a point. Otherwise it feels like a really hollow criticism. I mean, what actual Scala users out there actually want to see Scala 2.11's features put to death on the altar of binary compatibility?
And here we are 2 years later, TC39 is still nowhere in sight, Javascript is still, in the eyes of anyone with an ounce of taste, a terrible language for large scale development and Dart continues to iterate while offering all of it's advancements as it compiles to JS.

I honestly don't even care if Dart doesn't take off, maybe clojurescript or something similar will instead. But my god something needs to happen in this space because the JS standards body has spent almost 2 decades aggresively doing nothing about the many gaping, egregious flaws in Javascript. Its 2013 and we don't have lexical scoping as standard, but hey let's dick around in committee for another year packing in generators, etc, etc, etc.

I would honestly put a lot more weight in Brenden Eich's words if the state of Javascript and web dev wasn't so absolutely dismal and if he wasn't trying to crap on a project actually working to do something about it.
"Teams" are made out of people. Managers, engineers. Not all people on the team might have agreed.

To the much more important point, the development of important features stalled for AngularJS as the team was busy working on Dart version. This is the main problem.
> in starting families

the only part you lost me on. everyone i know considers the world far too precarious to start a family.
The Results That Sent Tesla Tumbling
>pure functional languages don't support concurrent data structures which is what I deal with the most

This is false, you were misinformed.

>Sure. C++, Java, C#.

C++ Has a good type system, IMO. The other two are broken. Literally, you can write broken code. Scala has a long list of warts, I just don't think you're listing any of them.

>Well, Scala doesn't give you safety any more than C++ or Java, and as for design, it can't even pick one type system; a cornerstone of great design is that you have to make hard choices.

This is just FUD. Are you telling me Java/C#'s type systems enforce more safety than Scala? Because they don't. They don't get variance right. Do you know what variance is? You ignored that part of my comment.
I used to have that view, but now I don't own a car, and I take device-free walks instead, which I think I actually prefer. I like looking at architecture, trees changing color, birds, whatever, while taking a 30-min walk somewhere. It feels less hectic than when I'd drive.
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>Why should travelers not be armed then?

One practical reason is that no one else can parse the motives of someone walking armed into an international airport until they start shooting or don't. At least cops and (maybe, maybe not) the TSA agents are supposed to have them, and be trained to use them, and trustworthy not to start murdering people.

So.. either everyone can carry everything they want anywhere they like and we all just hope for the best or else an attempt is made to restrict weapons only to those known (theoretically) to be lawful actors.
I'm not sure what you mean. Clojure's abstractions (seqs and maps) are completely compatible with Java collections and require no conversion in either direction, while Scala collections do.
Seems to me the real obstacle would be financing the operation. Finance shies away from used vehicles because they are much more difficult to accurately appraise, and without accurate appraisals you are assuming another (large) dimension of risk.