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This map is based on income.

If you're a "poor" student who isn't working, but getting money from your parents or via student loan, you're not the same as a poor working person.
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Not to do any of that actually, it would be to take equity out of a property that is owned free and clear (just like all the other properties owned by the author):

> I own four properties free and clear. I have no debt.

> Not just any mortgage, but a cash-out refinance of less than six figures on a foreclosure I bought for cash, rehabbed and turned back on the market as a rental.
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The distinction between INCOME and WEALTH here is important, a distinction which the title/thesis of this article ignores.

The title implies that simply POSSESSING money (wealth) is positively related to happiness, whereas the survey could only support the claim that EARNING money (income) is positively related to happiness.

I would argue that income is a much better proxy for the value a person creates in the world than is wealth (though both are deeply, deeply imperfect). I would much more readily believe a survey which implies 'people who believe they create more value in the world are more likely to be happy'.
As opposed to what, putting him on "trial"?
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One of my favorite features.
NO. The Gates foundation's contribution to this initiative spanning several decades is not very significant.
That's what I have in my time system UIT (linked earlier). I renamed the days to nullday, unday, duoday, triday, quadday, pentday, hexday, heptday, octday, nonday. One nice feature is that if I tell you that it's 1st Unday today, you can see immediately that it's the 12 day of the year (since 0th Nullday is the first day of the year).
Unfortunately, that's basically the state of mortgage lending now. If you don't have an established W2, you can go piss up a rope as far as the banks are concerned.

It used to be that people in the author's situation could get a "stated income loan", in which you more or less say "this is what I make", and the bank doesn't (or can't) verify it. These sorts of loans were widely abused by loan officers prior to the housing crash to get people into loans they couldn't afford (of which they get a percentage, so their incentive to sell high-dollar loans was significant), and as a result the banks basically just pulled them all.

If you don't have verifiable income these days, you should expect a bank to not lend to you.
Poor countries and poor indiviudals tend to have low debt levels.
I think that once you attach a finite resource to time, you get an inherent feeling of counting down. For example, attach a battery to a laptop and you start to feel the count down (power left, rather than power used).

For us humans, we could associate it with energy left before sleep, decreasing account balance until next pay day, work days left until project end, pages left until book complete.

I do however like the idea of 711 opportunities to make cool things this year though.
Still one of the best books out there about getting a product out the door. (Showstopper--about the development of Windows NT--is another.) Of course, I may be biased :-) I worked at Data General for about 13 years. I started a few years after the events of the book but knew many of the people portrayed in it, including Tom West.
You didn't answer the question. Isn't this the definition of FUD? Maybe that previous report was the same thing.
Those are plausible reasons/theories for the claim, but not scientific evidence. In social science, it is not uncommon that plausible assumptions fail to obtain direct support from data.
My last job we were advertising and interviewing for a position that did not exist on the belief that somebody wanting job X could be talked into job Y instead.

I don't work there anymore.
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Yeah I did, I was just trying to point out a potential difference between being a rich country and happy vs. a small, politically engaged country and happy.
I could not agree more. The combination of decisions seems even weirder.

1. default request header on by default
2. support for deflation off by default

WAT?
I agree bundles are a pain in the ass. This is a bit overboard for some libraries and can have unforeseen memory issues
It's really just an thought experiment in understanding why events rise such as extreme materialistic consumerism and social envy: if all factors are irrelevant the experiment makes sense in explaining otherwise inexplicable consumerist behaviour such as that we might generalize from the lower socioeconomic classes watching reality tv.
I agree, work/life balance has gone to shit since the agricultural revolution.
Adam Bell (@b3ll) just hacked together a working, interactive prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub3OuEREu2c
Would be great an online version!
I clicked on it thinking it's some sort of content delivery network. After looking at the homepage, I still have no reason to believe otherwise.
His writings on foreign policy and economics is also incompetent garbage. One datapoint is his support for the Iraq war. But really why he still has a column in the NYT is a mystery.
I was recently informed by an acquaintance that "lawyer work" decades ago was mostly about being a low to mid level manager over a herd of paralegals who did all the work by hand. As the market has collapsed, lawyers do all their own electronic searching and often data entry by themselves... The market has crushed the profession.

Most likely that will eventually play out with doctors, probably economically enforced. Sure, doc, do whatever your medical judgement thinks best, if you want to work for free... but we're only paying on claims if your medical judgment matches "watson". So overproduce new docs for awhile to crater salaries, only pay claims if their work matches a computer model, and what we used to call a "nurse" will be the new "doctor". This also helps with doc-in-a-box facilities, which could now literally be a doc-in-a-box instead of a nurse-in-a-box or PA as implemented now.

Eventually, being a "pharmacist" will mean being the minimum wage drone who stocks a semi-smart vending machine, or maybe it'll mean being the minimum wage drone answering the 800-number support line outsourced to the Philippines.

I could see the same thing happening with accountants and HR and perhaps marketing.
Sorry, meant to hit the up arrow, but hit down by mistake. Why can't votes be changed? :/
What memory issues? const data can be mapped and unmapped on demand.
There are also diminishing returns for the average user. My mother would notice an SSD, but probably not another 4 gigabytes of RAM. Her computer almost never hits the swap partition.
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Actually, I don't think you can have a sensible humane time and a sensible scientific time measure use the same unit. For science you want every hour to be just like every other hour. For people, it's probably way more important that an hour is a fixed proportion of a solar day. I think it's best to just leave the scientists with second and strike out on our own for humane time.

I also have a time system that eliminates timezone conversion nonsense by being based around UTC, however to make that feel a bit more 'humane', I rotate the clock face so that local solar midday is always at the top of the face and local solar midnight is always at the bottom. You can see it here http://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/ if you're interested.
I think you're seeing intentional malice where really there is a lot of indifference at some times, and lack of understanding what it's like to start in this ecosystem.

Cocopods is PAINFUL to get compliant with ruby sometimes, but other then that, works for a lot of the problems you'll see. It is a leap though.
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I don't even understand why a 1 star review would automatically appear, and a 5 star review wouldn't. What possible justification is there for that?

Anyway, Google has a few ways they could fix this:

* Allow users to rate reviews. Amazon does this. Why not Google? Or maybe rate reviewers, and don't show any reviews from notorious idiots.
* Interpret the text of the review and check if it matches the score. Show those reviews that sound like they have something interesting to say. If any company can implement this, it's Google.
* Separate reviews by country.
Thanks a lot for you comments!

> Using MD5 alone exposes you to length extension attacks.

Since NoteHub is anonymous, my concern is not the security, but spam protection only. The Publisher Secret Key + signatures is just a mean to allow 3rd party tools post to NoteHub without captha. That's all.

> The fact that you're able to validate that MD5(password) is correct implies that you're storing passwords insecurely.

Absolutely, the only reason I hash the passwords in the web client and advise in the API to send hashes and not plain passwords is only to kind of protect users' passwords in the context of insecure transport layer.

> Consider switching your API endpoints to use HTTPS

HTTPS costs money. NoteHub is a free toy tool, a pastebin for one-off notes. I feel like, a fancy security would be an overkill for 99% of all use cases.
If you read the paper you'll find this:

> In our experiments, we observed five out of the six expected failure types, including bit corruption, shorn writes, unserializ- able writes, metadata corruption, and dead device. Surprisingly, we found that 13 out of 15 devices exhibit failure behavior contrary to our expectation. This result suggests that our proposed testing framework is effective in exposing and capturing the various durability issues of SSDs under power faults.

Spinning hard drives fail too. All drives fail eventually.
Scaling anything is hard to achieve, especially when you are also trying to build a business around an idea.

Scaling is usually a problem you solve after you become more popular. My original article about Meteor and Rails wasn't about handling twitter-esque type traffic.
Memory leak in Go http standard library?
So, did you file a bug with Ruby?
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1 - If a tenant loses a job and can't pay the rent, that contract isn't worth the paper its written on. You can't practically collect money someone doesn't have. Even if you collect a judgement, and sell it, you'll be lucky to get 20 cents on the dollar. Not even mentioning your time, court costs, and legal costs. Those may be recoverable, again, but practically speaking they're gone. The number of tenants who actually have the ability to pay and don't is, in my experience, very small. Few people wish to fuck with their housing situation.

2 - we just went through a rather unexpected bout of widespread unemployment

3 - the author appears to not have verifiable income streams (ex rent) with which to service the mortgage. If you are unaware, at least in markets I'm familiar with (and I have some familiarity with this), newly purchased rental properties rarely cover the mortgage + taxes + maintenance. You often expect them to be cash flow negative for some period. Which doesn't even begin to mention the risk of not finding tenants. Or the tenants not paying. And even in the latter situation, depending on where you are, it can take many months to forcibly remove them.

4 - basically, the author just switched from w2 to self-employed and therefore has no history with which to demonstrate his self employment is anything but a fantasy. If he had a year of demonstrable self-employment history, he probably would have been fine. His complaint, in general, seems overwrought.

5 - and again, in case anyone has forgotten, we just went through a bout of systemic risk due to banks selling mortgages people couldn't service combined with people overestimating their ability to pay. Therefore, even if he is stuck in the cracks, this is the price of insuring a lack of systemic risk to the system (for which the US taxpayer is on the hook), particularly when banks just demonstrated you can't trust them to properly underwrite mortgages.

6 - credit != ability to pay. You can get very good credit simply by taking small loans and paying them on time. In my experience, those two things aren't well related at all. Note you also may make $250k/year, forget to pay a small medical bill (which is easy to do), get sent to collections, and have a credit score in the 600s.

7 - in the history of tenants we've had to evict (thankfully very few, and not all for nonpayment of rent), several have had very good credit
I had the same problems.. I love Django and I want to use it for my real-time application but I just couldn't find a way to make it work. I've chosen to use node/angular/firebase instead and I'm very happy with my choice so far.
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If he owns them free and clear, why weren't they throwing off tons of income? This whole article didn't seem to pass the "smell test".
Yeah I doubt there's an agenda, I was being cynical just because there was a potential point to make.

It's almost impossible to find an article about countries overall happiness without discussing the Scandinavians at the top, so their absence was conspicuous. Add in the fact that the article is pro-capitalism / money making, and the US are at the top of their happiness scale... It's contrary to the usual message, so I thought it worth pointing out.
When CNN.com replaces what's gets piped into a 100 inch screen in your living room, yes.
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I'd be interested in beta testing the android app, but there is no email in your profile and googling turns up a lot of curry recipes.
We're already dynamically loading one chunk of third-party code: the app. Why are third-party frameworks any different? Presumably they would be subject to the exact same code signing and approval processes as the main app.
Rx was invented by Microsoft, so C# is a rightful first choice for Rx examples :). That code doesn't demonstrate Rx per se, it demonstrates how lambda expressions, extension methods, anonymous types, type inference enable a succinct backwards-compatible (to some extent) functional syntax in C#.
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Simple, elegant, and it eats an astonishing 12.5% of instruction bandwidth (4 bits out of 32). A branch will require less space as soon as you want to conditionally execute over 8 instructions. On top of that, for that is executed unconditionally (in practice, maybe not most of the instructions if you look at the binary, but almost certainly most of the instructions if you count ones executed multiple times)

So, a neat idea, but not for the long term, and certainly not for all CPUs. For example, ARM 64 ditches this feature (https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-an...)
Yeah, my sister lives right down the street from UCLA, it didn't strike me as having 40%+ poverty along westwood ave.
Yes, we need to share and celebrate this kind of news a lot more. Link to the UNICEF site for those who can't read the WSJ article - http://www.unicef.org/india/health_3729.htm
Useful information, generally good guidelines, but it very much feels like a book for managers to read, and run through the checklists when assessing those they oversee.

Generally, for a programmer, I'd say skip it. Or pick it up in a library and skim over it, and you'll get 90% of the benefit. And yeah, the whole thing could be condensed into a large blog post / small handbook and it would be immensely improved.
> I agree that getting out of loneliness is hard but it's not impossible.

I don't disagree there. My point (which I probably didn't really make) was that you can't have a recipe for it. Too much depends on the particularities of the person and their situation.

> I don't know how big your city is

I live in Munich, which for Germany is big and quite international.

> Don't get me wrong but your post sounds pretty negative

Maybe I focused too much on the bad stuff. I do have some friends, I do have the opportunity to go out from time to time. It is just that these relationships are superficial and not as fulfilling. Curiously, others do not seem to mind at all.

> Then, why don't you change them?

I am actually in the process of doing that even though, professionally, it is probably a bad move. I've been applying to different places and positions for some time now, unfortunately I haven't had much luck so far due to various reasons.
This map is more detailed: http://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-San-Francisco-Calif... (down to the block group level) and it has additional information, such as change since the year 2000.
I see a lot of options listed below but there really is no substitute for Salesforce.com. The basic editions are quite reasonably priced and Salesforce has more integrations than any other platform. Here is a great simple guide on Salesforce basics

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Why did you put trial in quotes? (Genuinely curious) I was under the impression that that's what we did as a society with people suspected of major crimes. Even Nazi war criminals, people responsible for the suffering and death of untold millions, were put on trial.
Or if you are actually going to perform an upgrade, consider a move to one of the more mature, stable, secure frameworks under Python, Perl or PHP.

Less Rails - less fails. Simple!
What does this have to do with Rails?
hahahaha.

good one.
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> Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Hein Donner was asked how he’d prepare for a chess match against a computer, like I.B.M.’s Deep Blue. Donner replied: “I would bring a hammer.”

Okay, but why not bring a gun to a chess match against a human? That would be an excellent winning strategy (cf. the Gordian Knot).
No, it's not.

From your quoted definition, "FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information." (Emphasis added.)

It is neither dubious nor false that SSDs without some form of capacitance, in order to flush outstanding writes cached in the on-board buffer to the NAND media in the event of a power loss, will (eventually) suffer data loss or corruption. To think otherwise betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how SSDs actually work.

I've known about this for years, and have taken extreme care only to use SSDs in laptops (with their built-in battery), hosts with UPS backup power, configured to gracefully shut down if mains power is lost, and/or drives that have onboard capacitors or super-caps.

This has, in practice, meant using only Intel 320 and DC3x00 series drives, though the OWC Enterprise class drives also have super-caps (if you're willing to pay that high a premium for your storage). The Crucial m500 drives appear also to have a bank of small capacitors, but I currently have no direct experience with them.
Copy and past the headline into a Google search. Paywalls generally don't block links from social media or search engines.
I also thought it might have been just 0 points, but his other comment in the thread still appears as [dead] for me. jacko0's comment now appears as normal, although earlier I clearly remember it was [dead]. icecreampain's still appears as [dead]. Anyway, it could be some glitch in the software, but the system is a bit strange anyway.
I suspect it's not normally allowed or encouraged, but I think it is uniquely relevant and appropriate in this case.
I'll consider it next time ;)
It's one of the parts that I kind of wish would/could have been kept under wraps. Publicizing how exactly we found the guy, no matter how exactly we did it, just doesn't seem constructive!
Then you could probably replace a dylib inside one app, with a dylib from another. If Apple codesigns all dylibs in apps, you could just submit a silly little app with a malicious dylib, grab the signed dylib from the appstore later and play games with third party apps.
My personal opinion is that either no symfony and no pux should exist.

There's no need to reinvent frameworks in PHP as PHP is the framework already.
There's no need to reinvent templating in PHP as PHP is the templating already.

If you require different productivity from a language just don't stick on PHP and make the right choice by using the most appropriate language for you. There's plenty out there.

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Willing to do an open source pen test on Huginn? https://github.com/cantino/huginn
This is basically Julian Day, which astronomers use.

But yes, any humane 'decimal' time system is just optionally giving names to different places in the fractions of a day decimal (I say 'humane' because days have varying lengths, and so should not be used as the basis for a unit used for scientific measures).

I still think naming the fractions might be useful (like 'satoshi').
A ridiculous number of sites use that header to determine whether or not they should provide content. Note they don't actually provide encoded content, they just won't provide the non-encoded content if you don't send that header. (I assume this is the reason for it; I have no inside knowledge.)
But why do things "near functional" when you have F# which is fully functional?
The quote from Erik Brynjolfsson in this article is also right out of the Unabomber manifesto on the dystopian future where machines make our decisions for us, and the masses are ruled by a handful of elites who have access to the control of these systems.
Indifference for small developers? Whatever you want to call it, I don't care. An indifference at times about how they control the app ecosystem? No.. Just no.
Income from rental properties is only as predictable as your tenants.
I only skimmed it (which is more than I like doing with gwern articles) but:

The base-rate predictor got 65% right by definition, the logistic managed to score 68% correct (bootstrap20 95% CI: 66-72%), and the random forest similarly got 68% (67-78%).

which doesn't really sound all that great.