skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who knows what they do with the messages. They certainly weren't peer-to-peer encrypted, so for all we know, they were storing a copy "for later use".

Even if they weren't initially, they could have started storing them whenever they wanted without telling anybody or any other indication that they would.

Especially since the deal with Facebook, assume all messages to be kept around and linked with your profile.
That response is quoted in the NYT article: “The same rules will apply to all Internet content. As with the original open Internet rules, and consistent with the court’s decision, behavior that harms consumers or competition will not be permitted.”

Hilarious. In Wheeler's view, consistency means every large, wealthy corporation has an equal opportunity to pay extra for faster access to customers.
> should we be happy about the invention or mad because of another example of corporation grief?

Happy, no question. Medicine this effective doesn't come along often and bodes very well in two ways:

(1) a treatment that works but is expensive today will continue to work but be vastly cheaper within a decade.

(2) the fact that a real cure exists for this disease suggests we may knock out cures for other "incurable" diseases in the future.
>> OSF typically receives about US$2000 a year in outright donations and sells commercial software support contracts[2] and does both hourly rate and fixed price “work-for-hire” consulting as shown on the OSF web site [0]

[0] http://veridicalsystems.com/blog/of-money-responsibility-and...

ALSO

>> In a typical year the OpenSSL project receives about US$2000 in donations.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mailing.openssl.users/-P4T62...

Might have been in tweet as well but these were the only sources I could dig up ATM. Both were written by Steve Marquess.
Those three months are an upper bound, not a requirement. If you are fired, then it can usually be assumed the employer would rather see you go sooner than later. You can usually negotiate a shorter term.
Well, make some announcements when you start implementing #3. :)

For now, I'll stick with my git-deploy-over-ssh scheme.
Sounds close to indentured servitude.
> Things like this are better left to be mandated by the government.

Only if you assume the government is somehow magically immune to the same problems of asymmetric power relationships that you describe. It isn't.

Also, earlier in your post you say:

> You're making an assumption that human life can be valued in terms of money.

Which is exactly what governments that are tasked with rationing health care have to do. They only have a finite amount of the taxpayers' money to spend, vs. a potentially infinite demand for health care.
Wow. That's so surprising. He was such a great role model.
Dev here, can't believe I'm just reading this now. This is indeed a bug. Thank you based hackernews.
True, but I think you could say the same thing about git. It's a big bundle of binaries, and there aren't alternatives available that you can swap in and out. And yet, git is seen as the perfect example of the Unix philosophy.

People whip out the Unix philosophy the same way they do every other philosophy: whenever it supports what they already want. I don't think it's a valid argument anymore.
My vague understanding is that your blood stem cells are in your bone marrow.
They might want to check the Google Play Store, because all the links show nothing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifttt.iftt...
This is the "TempleOS impulse". The feeling of disgust with byzantine complexity, driving an impulse to start clean and chase the money changers out of the temple
It's not the poor or the rich that matter. Its the advancement of human race that matters. Just think of scientists being able to use their experience for ever in pushing the boundaries. We probably won't even have to be earth bound anymore and can expand to other planets due quickening of scientific pace.
In my opinion lot of "art" is pretentious celebrity culture for snobs. I went to a Warhol exhibition recently. It was basically a load of photos of a group of people like you would expect to see on some hipsters facebook page. But because of the name behind it certain people assume some greatness to it.
Why, oh why, did I ever learn COBOL? Just let me die.
Guess I contributed to one of those cash-cow programs when the Bank of America sent me back to get an MBA in Finance in the evening "executive" program. So maybe in the end, I was a net wash for my alma mater.
Ghostlab – Synchronized browser testing for web and mobile.
Reading 'corporation grief' as 'corporate greed' -

To play devil's advocate here for a moment, the drug development and approval processes are crazy expensive, and the pharmacos basically charge what the market will bear for each product, and spread the revenue to all costs - not necessarily allocated by individual drugs. IOW, drug A costs a little and sells for a lot, drug B the reverse, but the total revenue covers the cost and some profit.

At least that's the argument the pharmacos make in public. If this situation is not as it should be, someone should articulate what's wrong and how to fix it. E.g. patients can't afford something they're dying without, but if the vendors are forced to discount for some drugs or some buyers, how is the whole business to be financed?

I can think of arguments for and against various possible reforms, but won't bore you here. We do need something more specific tho.
No, he presents a valid problem, what if rich people would automatically mean smarter, faster, stronger (harder) people? It would turn the current divide between rich and poor into a chasm.

He presents an irrelevant problem. OK, what if it would? So what?

Right now, do you say "rich people can afford more medicine and thereby live longer, therefore we should not develop medicine for anyone, to keep things fair"?

Do you say "rich people can afford more food and live healthier, therefore we should do away with agriculture and everyone should be a subsistence farmer to make it fair"?

Do you say "rich people can afford more education about health, and thereby live longer. Therefore we should forbid people from learning to make it fair"?

De you say "many poor/working class people have to work as basically indentured servants to survive, therefore they are better off dead"?

No, you don't.

There is a rift between rich and poor.

It's better to have inequality and life, than equality and death.

Obviously.
Depth Mesh
Manual testing is what really confirms that your code is working properly. Automated testing verifies the conditions necessary for your code to pass manual testing. The real value of automated tests is for when you need (or someone else needs) to come back and change something.

I don't think static typing is necessary in that case, but I understand it has benefits in some situations.
> Generally the drug companies selling "important" but expensive drugs also run their own "access programs" to give the uninsured or other people access to the drug at a much more reasonable price. The whole pharma industry is about price discrimination.

Very true. I'm more familiar with the the costs of Cystic Fibrosis medications, but those are similar to this. Most people with Cystic Fibrosis take medications that would total over $10k/month at full price. This is something they do every month because the disease is not curable. However, with insurance, numerous manufacturer "access programs", and numerous private assistance programs targeted at Cystic Fibrosis, most patients pay much much less, often under $1k/year in total. Depending on the combination of medications and programs, these programs may cover all medication costs entirely.

It's all based on how much you can pay. If you have a lot of money (you need to have well over $100k/year income to be disqualified from many of these access programs) and no insurance, you're going to pay a lot. Otherwise, not so much. I'm sure some people fall through the cracks, but there's a lot of options out there for paying for these types of expensive medications. The more expensive the medication, the more likely there are access programs or assistance programs and the more likely they will cover a larger portion of the cost.
There are a number of gross oversimplifications here.

> What you want are equity stakes (control) of productive assets.

Productive assets are great, but valuation matters. When everyone is chasing yield and you are forced to overpay for productive assets, you are extremely vulnerable and stand to lose a lot more in the long run.

I'm not suggesting that you should have a mattress full of cash, but "I'm losing money if I leave my cash in the bank" is not a good justification for, say, chasing Momo stocks, especially at these levels. The risk of losing 1-2% a year is a different proposition than losing 10% in two weeks.

> You will not see interest rates go up if the Fed can help it, because to do so would provoke an immediate fiscal crisis.

You have to look at the yield curve. Short term rates are still incredibly low, but the 10Y has already crept up. Right now, it appears likely that short term rates will be kept at incredibly low levels, but long term rates will rise modestly.

If you don't consider the entire yield curve, you're liable to make bad investment decisions. For instance, a market in which the Fed is holding short term rates at near historic lows and allows long term rates to rise a bit would create an ideal scenario for mortgage REITs, which borrow money at short term rates and invest in long term mortgage bonds, effectively pocketing the spread.
I assure you we've debated this a lot before putting out that pricing. There is a way to do this and do this well. For us pricing docker hosting competitively is the best way to do it, especially for a startup ecosystem that is only just beginning to wake up to the potential of docker-based testing and deployment.
Here is a link to NAFV_P's album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/123873955@N07/
He is quite serious.

If you are interested in the corporate market, you probably will want to offer a special 'Enterprise' pricing plan that includes 'Enterprise-y' features at a higher price point [e.g. $249 / 250 repository minimum]
Having managed a fairly complex apache based web site (lots of rewriting to maintain various legacy url schemes, a few cgi bin apps -- lots of cruft) -- I do think Apache is more flexible than nginx. Traffic server is probably more flexible still. On the other hand, you could say if you take a routing problem, and you attempt to fix it via mod_rewrite -- you now have (at least) two problems! ;-)

There was a fairly recent comparison between nginx and apache2.2/2.4 (and uwsgi and gunicorn, I believe) driven by jmeter for testing that showed apache was a little lower on throughput -- but more consistent on latency (unfortunately I can't seem to find the link again). So while I think it is generally good advice to "just use nginx", I wouldn't write off apache based on how 1.3 used to behave compared to old versions of nginx.

I would normally advice an architecture where you have a reverse proxy in front of application servers (even if that means php with fastcgi) if you can, and when it makes sense. Possibly with ssl termination and/or caching (varnish) in front of that. I'm not sure that using nginx is actually any better than, say, HAproxy -- unless you need a static webserver in addition to your appserver. As always YMMV -- choose the stack that fits your needs.
No, the Canonical fanboys are following Mark Shuttleworth in accepting systemd as the future for Ubuntu.

This is a different set of people.
Not that Java doesn't have overhead, but quite a bit of the slow down for minecraft servers is caused by bad algorithms (N^2 type stuff) and data structures.
Asbestos abatement is pretty much a solved problem now. Which doesn't make it any easier or cheaper. The workers basically seal off the area with plastic sheets (tightly taped at the edges), suit up with respirators, and double-bag anything they remove.

Like the sign says - as long as you leave it alone, it won't create dust. Especially if it's been painted at some time, to seal the surface. So no Frisbee in the halls..
disappointed. not even a single free docker?
Someone I know had Hep C, had the treatment, now it's gone. The treatment wasn't pleasant (lots of extreme migraines, lethargy, etc. over a period of months) but it worked. They now eat and drink very carefully also, but more of a fresh leaves focus (salads, green smoothies) with some but low carbs and definitely not high fat. Doing very well after nearly 10 years. (They were in an initial trial)
NGINX 1.6 and 1.7 released (and version numbering explained)
Might try the old-school daemontools, even though the commands are a bit different, it might be less work to get something going.
I've worked with organizations where it would be impossible to get a $5 DigitalOcean box, while, at the same time, a $1,000 subscription for something would not be an issue. Enterprise companies would rather pay you a hundred times what you think is a reasonable price, if it can save them time.
Are you guys sure you hate Facebook for privacy reasons and not becuase it is Google's nemesis?, becuase when I see someone complaining for Facebook and is using an Android phone with a GMail account there is something wrong.
Again no, Canonical wants to sell services around Ubuntu, which will soon be based on systemd, by decree of Mark Shuttleworth.

Wanting to do that, it doesn't make sense that they would shill for Slackware at the top of the page.
As expected no Apple. I have always been fascinated how Apple gets a lot of developer love and yet is completely absent in most (all?) conference/event sponsorship, initiatives etc.
The grandparent of your comment said:

> Wealthy dynasties would continue to acquire wealth (because wealth builds more wealth), while one of the current rebalancing mechanisms (people dying without heirs) would be significantly reduced or even completely disappear.

Which means that in the context of this conversation, "wealthy" means the extremely wealthy members of society (the 1%).

If you define "wealthy" as meaning anyone living in the developed world, then maybe this is true. In the context of this conversation though, medical technologies are available to broad swathes of society. In countries with socialised medical systems, heart disease treatment which is close to the forefront of medical developments is available to everyone, regardless of means.

Extreme wealth will buy you better medical treatment, but only marginally. You can afford more experienced surgeons and the latest machinery and drugs, but within 5 years that machinery drugs will be widely available.
The most common pain point of a transaction-based system was that under heavy load (think stock market load, not @artsy) opening a position would hit a single bottleneck, which eventually becomes too slow given the amount of logic that needs to go into executing a single round.
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"Click here to launch the experience"

Its a bloody web page not an "experience".
You could pay the Nginx guys to help I suppose.
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Why is it that (nearly) every description I read about some random new Python command wrapper fails to get the "python" and ".py" out of the command examples, even in Linux?

I don't blame this particular offering, since I don't think release was actually planned just yet and any number of other projects have made the same subtle mistake.

Command Name Extensions are Harmful. Don't expose such an implementation detail in every example, lest everyone actually follow them. Use the "#!/usr/bin/env python" or whatever at the top of your scripts. And yes, you can keep the .py if what you have is a library, not just a command (but it's nice to then make a wrapper the doesn't expose the implementation language). And obviously in other OSes where the command extension can be omitted and still work this isn't such a big deal.

But in Unix/Linux, commands should be reimplementable in a different language without making some .(extension) a like, retained to keep from breaking other things that depend on it. Just say no :-)
Or just the first part. Educated residents are beneficial to society, even if they are not working directly for the government.

Furthermore, it is not obvious to me that the government has a use for all the the graduates of all the majors anyway; maybe the State of Tennessee could use a few hundred developers to work on sites and services that are provided/run by the state, but could they find work for all the CS graduates that universities in Tennessee can pump out? Society will value those peoples' skills, so their degrees are not worthless in any meaningful respect, but governments only need so many people in that profession. Maybe you could still hire them and have them do busywork, but that would just be an unnecessary waste of resources that would leave a bad gap in those people's resumes.
"Always wondered how studying Shakespeare feels for native speakers"

I wasn't going to chime in, but I think you need another data point. Also, I had assumed that collyw was pulling our legs - his original comment seemed so much like satire. But now it seems that he's probably serious.

Shakespeare wrote in Elizabethan English, which is a somewhat archaic form of Modern English. It is immediately comprehensible to any native reader with normal language skills, who can read English at a high school level. Not fully comprehensible, but there is no obstacle to getting the gist, and much more.

I studied Hamlet with Frank McCourt. We had no "translation" and didn't need any. It is helpful when starting out to have a glossary of the archaic meanings of some words used by Shakespeare in a different sense from their most common meaning today. McCourt needed to explain almost nothing - he confined his teaching to sharing his love of the work and simply insisting that we pay attention to the words on the page and think about what the author was getting at. He mostly refused to explicate the frequent sexual innuendo, preferring that we figure it out ourselves.

Studying Hamlet was such an immensely powerful experience of aesthetic bliss that I can remember sitting in that classroom 40 years ago better than most things that happened last week. And I discovered the inner genius of Shakespeare: a blending of his characters' states of mind with the texture of language. This is why the idea of "translation" of this kind of literature is problematic.

Don't close yourself off from these potential joys because it takes a little effort.
+1

"Things aren't fun/good/interesting if hundreds do it."

Pardon me if that doesn't sound a bit like the stereotypical hipster excuse not to do something - a fetish for being original. To each their own, but my goodness does that make my jaw drop.
i think i meant serializing (pardon my english), it's just a way to avoid needing a transactional database (which isn't that big of a deal, we're just trying to say that it's possible to build such a system with MongoDB - you'd be surprised how many times I heard "you won't be able to build a bidding system with mongodb, you need transactions")
You didn't really specify what you meant by clean URLs but, maybe this will be helpful to you or someone else.

I have a static site served via nginx, but I don't like seeing .html in the URLs.

It's a little tricky serving a static site without the .html extension because you may have a directory and an html page with the same name.

The way to deal with that is to actually use the .html extension in the file system but not URLs.

location / {
if ($uri ~ ^/google) {
break;
}
if ($uri ~ ^/y_key_) {
break;
}
if ($uri ~ \.html$) {
return 404;
}
if ($uri = /index) {
return 404;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/$ /index.html break;
rewrite .* $uri.html break;
}
}
Any decent Android alternatives? I only installed Moves this morning as well!
Is this the religious argument for systemd?
>>Maybe if people will start living minimalist lyfestyles and be more conservative with their spending, things can change.

I don't agree that a significant amount of low income people who can't afford college are having that financial problem because they live excessively beyond their means. I also suspect the reason a lot of lower income people are working full time jobs is just as much for health insurance as the actual paychecks.

What if University was free _AND_ health care & small apartments were supplied for those(and family) who qualify for excessive hardship and maintain high GPA?

Anything to raise the average education level of the population I think is a win, even if it has to come from the higher-income taxpayers... as long as data shows that indeed significantly more people end up with degrees.
> You say this as though the primary concern of human existence is economic equality.

It is; or, at least, there is no more important end.
I rushed to buy the 5S for the M7. I was disappointed with the results. If you look at the offering of M7 apps, they mainly deal with step counting. The actual activity recognition is dismal (stationary, walking, driving, etc.) I had a demo of this working the afternoon the 5S came out. To get really good activity segmentation you need to monitor the accelerometer, not the GPS. This boils down to a signal processing problem, which I have no experience in. Any volunteers to tackle that problem?
Exactly

The LibreSSL guys are much more willing to tackle the problems, remove all backwards compatible crud and modernize it. Because the things they are removing are jaw dropping: http://opensslrampage.org

OpenSSL looks like a mice nest
It is a lot to get into now, but here is a taste.

foo.com/index > foo.com
foo.com/ > foo.com
foo.com/folder/index > foo.com/folder/
foo.com/bar.html > foo.com/bar
foo.com/bar.htm > foo.com/bar
foo.com/bar.php > foo.com/bar
www.foo.com/ANY OF THE ABOVE TESTS > foo.com/*

other rules: Never add trailing slash unless it is an index file of a directory. Order: .PHP,.HTML,.HTM. Use h5bp/server-configs-nginx as a base. PHP-FPM should be fully supported and not exploitable by the foo.com/random.gif.php bug. 403 and 404 send to /404.html.

I am sure I am forgetting something, but that is a start.
I started as maintenance programmer. I learned from that and now I just walk away from bad code, unless I get resources to fix it.
Did you read the page? It doesn't advocate upstart.
Paul Krugman argues that there's too much money chasing too few assets. Combined with low interest rates we have a bidding war for anything that isn't Zynga. Even Greece has seen money pouring in recently because, really, where are you going to put $10B?
We will. But we won't be offering an enterprise plan while we're in beta :)

Sure we're sending a signal that we're not ready for enterprise folks. I can be candid in saying that we'd rather be the digital ocean of dockers than an AWS. at this point :p
Medoo 0.9.5 released – the lightest PHP SQL framework with big update
Has Cuba not got better cancer survival rates than many richer nations?
Instead of badmouthing them, contact them and see if they like the idea.
I just upgraded one smaller site to 1.6 to test the waters before doing it elsewhere.

So far everything works as expected.
It never occurred to me that other languages would have different hot-keys. Intuitively it makes sense, but damn I imagine a lot of programs don't do it so it must be a horribly inconsistent experience (I get angry when a program fails to support something like CTRL-W to close windows or CTRL-A for select all or the inconsistency between some using ctrl-shift-Z or ctrl-Y for redo).

I guess that's the advantage to the old Word Perfect approach of function-keys for everything (provided you have one of those nifty overlays that show you all the key-commands).
hey, thats awesome -- i think i sent you some hodge podge code & idea for a item build tool earlier this year

:P
Writing software is 60% understanding the problem, 25% understanding the tools, 20% understainding requirements, and -5% hacking the solution to make it fit requirements.