skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is exactly what the end of net neutrality looks like

Probably yeah. We can party thank the ignorant mob mentality of the Internet for it. Over the last year or so we've heard nothing but gloom and doom about how terrible the end of net neutrality would be but hey free unlimited streaming music? That sounds nice. Why didn't pro-regulation folks mention that part? It's almost like they were intentionally misleading people to further their best interests? Maybe exactly like those ISPs who realized it was in their best interest to break into a new market of companies with multi-million/billion dollar profits who are willing to pay-to-play?

> nearly impossible for startups to break into new markets

What's the point in pretending these startups don't have the exact same motivations as ISPs or even other services who opt to pay for the 'fast lane' to improve their service? Everyone is out to maximize their own profits and since the ole' economic ladder has a few broken rungs we know the average consumer isn't going to magically have more money to spend anytime soon. This has always simply been a debate over who gets to take the money.

> only the ones that T-Mobile has approved here.

If it's all doom and gloom then surely it will create a great opportunity for new players to jump into the ISP market and provide 100% cap free / 100% net neutral / 100% SLA 24x7 guaranteed speeds to consumers. If the issue is as one-sided as we have been led to believe then perhaps companies like FaceBook wouldn't be prioritizing their billions on WhatsApp or maybe Apple wouldn't be spending billions on Dr. Dre? Maybe instead they would be investing money into jumping into the ISP market? If the top 5 major tech companies in the US banded together and invested even 10% of their revenue in the ISP market this would be a non-issue. So why don't they? Turns out they can make more money buying Dr. Dre and their motivations are exactly the same. Money... Good.
Didn't J2ME have a certification process? That was still a hot mess to develop for.
Sharp Demonstrates Ultra-Efficient Solar Cells
Handling Chrome’s Extra Security for Using the Microphone in Flash
I think I would like to try this. Seeing it done twice has really got me interested in this. I think the key is that you're held accountable for how you spend your time due to the screenshots.

Reminds me of how a guy hired someone to slap him when he got off topic while working:http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigsli...

I don't have a Mac, so I guess I'll have to build the screenshot/webcam stuff myself this weekend.
This article is very biased. One thing that's missing is the key fact that Argentina knew exactly what it was doing when it issued this debt: agreeing to pay it off no matter what. That is why it agreed to the most onerous terms possible. Otherwise no one would have lent them the money at the time. This is exactly what they agreed to.

If you run your country's finances like a drunken sailor, you should eventually expect your access to credit to be cut off. The government of Agentina has had ample opportunity to sober up but just can't resist buying another round of drinks for the entire country before every election. The Argentinian people deserve better but keep electing incompetent leaders.
Those goals are not strictly related to volunteering though, they can be accomplished with exchange programs or tourism (if done through local tour guides). The main issue with voluntourism is that it does not promote sustainable growth in the communities it is trying to help, and therefore is not a good long term solution for the problems it is trying to solve. Not to mention taking jobs away from local workers who could really need the money.
Alloy: a language and tool for relational models (2012)
End-to-end Internet of Things cloud platform
I am disagreeing with the article, because I think it's very highly slanted. "Someone with a skill that can be sold for a couple hundred dollars an hour is better off doing that, and then donating their wages to hire at least ten people for ten dollars an hour.", for example. Because people that actually earn a couple of hundred dollars per hour are just not that common - it's arguing from an extreme outlier. The median full-time wage in the US is something like $42k - half of full time employees earn less than this, which works out to ~$20/hour. And only 1/3 of Americans are full-time employees.

The arguments about charities not wanting to be swamped by the unskilled are fair points, but at the same time, charities still do need unskilled hands. They just don't need crazy amounts of them. The article should have been more about the imbalance in skill requirements, not that charities basically only want experts in the field. And even then, you don't need to be a ten-year expert to be skilled enough for a lot of the things a charity work requires. One week's pulling cable would be enough experience to really help out with ghshephard's example above. Sure, a professional netadmin would be better, but a few days cable-jerking would have made someone baseline useful. Likewise team management skills can be very handy in managing the unskilled hordes, and it doesn't take anything like 10 years to gain those kinds of skills.

Taking the article on its merits, no-one would be able to volunteer until their late 20s, which is clearly an absurd concept.
One of the first thing your DevOps team is going to do as you grow is make sure that employees don't have unrestricted access to the production DB / console access / root on the production web tier, since down that path lies madness.

This comes down partly to policy and partly to tech. The policy, disclosed early and often, is that misuse of customer data is an instant firing offense. Google, Facebook, etc have indeed terminated people over this, often literally count-the-minutes after the fact of the misuse became known to other people at the company.

Tech-wise, it's spiritually similar to other security measures. You lock down access on a need-to-have basis, you log the heck out of extraordinary requests for access, and you audit those requests.

e.g. Many companies will eventually develop a Use The Software As User X feature. At some, this requires you to a) be logged in as a privileged employee, then b) click to activate the feature, c) write an explanation why you need access to User #12345's account, and d) checkbox that you have receive #12345's consent for this. (I know some companies that skip D, largely in B2C.) When you hit submit, that logs it to the DB and fires an email to the audits@ email address, which goes out to 5 different people, or pipes "Patrick just logged in as #12345 because [chasing down display bug -- customer reports unescaped HTML in the message window, can't reproduce on staging or with own account]" into your team's HipChat/etc channel.
The RAS syndrome strikes again.
Soon they will announce a "laundering pro" tier that sends you bricks of $100 bills.
Air Conditioner? Wind? Water? Heart?
I should note that I've been using CLI stuff for... oh, 8 years? I can't really point to a specific date when I got comfortable with it. I just, got better at it and grew more comfortable with basic tasks as I went. Then I'd fuck something up (apt-get remove gnome-common, I believe was my first big mistake... that was a fun night learning to fix that :)) and be less sure of myself, but learn from it and grow.

But you don't have to be totally comfortable. There are a lot of things you need to do from the command line. But you can use GUI as much as possible and script away the rest of the things you're uncomfortable with. It would be pretty easy to write a Python or Go wrapper around some commands and have GUI's with buttons to do common tasks.
Will this likely kill the overall bill?
Not to mention taking jobs away from local workers who could really need the money.

Jobs that aren't currently being done? Is it really a stolen job if it wasn't being done?

Another problem with foreign aid is that if you don't actively manage it yourself, corruption can very easily divert it (and regularly does). At least by sending in the kids, some of it actually gets spent on the intended target. Maybe the kids made a shitty house that has to be rebuilt, but hey, at least now the bricks are in the right place... and now there's a job for that local worker you wanted.

My point is that the article has an extremely simplified view of what's going on. There's a number of interests and angles at play here, not just the 'veiled selfishness' that the author is painting of the volunteers.
Wow, we must be having two different discussions. I don't disagree with your last comment. In fact, not a single word of my comments have anything to do with the internet, and, in addition, my original example predates the web by a good ten years. I only object to your making blanket statements about it being "unethical" to <insert absolute statement>. That is hardly a relativistic bullshit argument. In fact, entire fields of human study are devoted to the intricacies of the edge cases of such "embarrassing arguments." If only ethics could be reduced to predicate calculus.
Ha! Wouldn't it be lovely if having a "background" in CS actually made you as knowledgeable as Phillips thinks it does?

I've got a CS degree and 10 years of industry experience, and I'm still at clueless as she is and probably more.
The best way I have heard it described:

"If you make a splash in the pond, Apple will help make bigger waves for you"

You can't expect Apple to feature your app out of nowhere. Create your own word-of-mouth buzz, be featured somewhere and create your own community following.

Also, I've never been able to verify this and I believe there is an incentive system for Apple reviewers to submit 'Best app of the week' (e.g. editorial vetting)

Beautiful and intuitive apps always have a better chance. The Apple ADA winners set a very high bar.

https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/
Totally true, ars. I came here to nerd-rage that, no, a GIF is NOT “literally a sequence of idependent images.” That is NOT what makes common video formats use less bandwidth, and I thank you for making this clear.

One thing you can do with video that you can’t do with GIF is programmatically describe motion — shift frame to the left, for example. GIF, you’d have to re-draw it all.
No investor would accept exchanging a bond in Argentinian courts: the courts in Argentina dont have the same independence that the US court would do, so it would very likely screw over investors.
Internet Explorer team and Production I.G realeases a free 3D web game
Based on the anime Gargantia, and uses WebGL. It's open source.
https://github.com/turbulenz/gargantia_editor
Based on the anime Gargantia, and uses WebGL. It's open source.
https://github.com/turbulenz/gargantia_editor
Ultimate Guide for Docker APIs
US college offers athletic scholarships to 'League of Legends' players
Storm (Liquid Web) also has a bare metal product.
http://www.stormondemand.com/servers/baremetal.html
Not really... it's about the same amount of work whether it goes to Google Code or GitHub. The teams that have an easier time of it are those that are using Git+Gerrit internally, since a public release is as simple as `git remote add` and `git push`. A number of teams continue to use tools like https://code.google.com/p/make-open-easy/ with varying degrees of success.
I've really only seen 2 core approaches to this:

1.) Free Access to everything. You trust everyone and hope it works out right. This is the simplest solution, but offers nothing to prevent someone violating that trust.

2.) Lock production down to a trusted team. Typically this is done with a full dev / ops separation. Dev build the site and test, Ops run it live and have access to the live database. You trust 3 people in ops fully and no one else. Locking down production often entrenches rivalries between dev and ops, and makes debugging performance issues a PITA as dev typically don't have access to the dataset that is exhibiting the problem.

I've seen both work and both fail, and neither protects you from a trusted employee screwing you over.

What I have seen work rather well though is audit logging. Logging all access to the key systems and periodically (and randomly) auditing access. I've seen this done at the db level, system level and app level before. Basically the story is not that you will be prevented from doing something you shouldn't, but if you are that you will be held accountable for it (typically on the spot termination). However to be effective the company needs to be able to take the high ground and be consistent. This won't work if someone (co-founder, manager) is doing a similar thing and getting away with it.

As long as the data isn't high value (Credit Cards, etc) enough to make the opportunity cost worth it, knowing you will loose your job provides enough to make most hesitant to break the rules.
yep. it give out all google autocomplete suggestions
According to the article

It is one of the rare fractal structures discovered in physics, along with KAM tori.

What are some other examples?
Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ request
What does it mean to agree to pay off no matter what? And how was that written in the bond issuing?

Every debt has in its nature the possibility of default, and owing 120 billion dollars would be giving up the next 10 years in exports just to pay that single debt, out of 7% of holdouts in one of the particular debts.

Always have to weight pros/cons for every decision. There are several scenarios: Argentina would pay the 1.5 billion for the hedge funds, but if that means having to pay 15 billion extra, it would be virtually the same as defaulting.
I think it's the other way around - real mode has the 640kb limit and protected mode gets you a 32-bit address space.
No kidding, take quarters from washer, put back in change machine, extract cash, take cash to bank.

why wouldnt people have change machines?
There are no 'disks' in an SSD
Yes, fine by me.
I would be annoyed if a SaaS didn't auto-renew by default. And I'd also be annoyed if I had to send an email to cancel it.

An alternative I also like is just to add account credit for metered usage.
Taken from the behind the scenes blog post: http://www.inear.se/2013/07/cube-slam-behind-the-three-scene...

Try for yourself with the ?dev querystring.

Some of the settings also bind to a key. In the game, try to select thedifferent cameras by pressing 1-5. Or press E and H to preview the explosion/heal effect. Or perhaps stresstest the physics by enable God Mode in the menu and press “Create Puck” or hit the P.

The mirror effect is also using a render target of it’s own. You can try the effect by pressing “M” in the game.

Full list of cheats can be seen here: https://www.cubeslam.com/cheats.html
What drove you to make this? It's really cool but very niche
So... I can order lots of things that aren't legal tender over the Internet?

Why wouldn't they want to send you $20 in quarters for $27?
The Senate will consider the bill in the next month, and will have the ability to introduce amendments. Ultimately, both houses will go to conference if there is a substantive difference between the proposals, and it will be reconciled.

So it depends on whether a Senator introduces amendments to FY15 Defense Appropriations that will affect this portion.
Thanks, that's super helpful.

While we're not big enough yet to have a dedicated dev ops team to implement the first things you've described, the logging approach is totally realistic. I especially like the idea of having a bot that monitors extraordinary admin actions and pipes them into the group chat.

Thanks again!
RAM, SSD and HDD, all have penalty for random seeking of data and benefit from pre-fetching sequential data into faster memory.

But the latencies are different, especially between the 1st two and the 3rd. Cost per MB are also very different between the three. Are you saying that a few orders of magnitude doesn't make a difference to determining optimal caching strategies?

The differences we do have in SSDs have been solved by the SSDs internally remapping blocks to facilitate even wear, and by "trim", which now all major operating systems support.

Totally doesn't address what I refer to above.
Critical phenomena, like phase transitions, are essentially defined by fractal like properties. Scale invariance in systems near a phase transition inspired the technique now called renormalization group. It remains a central tool in statistical physics, but isn't really in vogue at the moment. Kenneth Wilson won a Nobel prize in 1982 for his work on RG.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization_group
The Internet's Missing Link: Tools for Turning Talk Into Action.
> As a Pandora user, I am not excited by T-Mobile investing its resources in Spotify

Pandora is part of T-Mobile's free music streaming program.
Worms live longer when they stop eating
Cool Stuff. Hand picked.
If you willingly buy the Fire Phone and let Amazon collect the data, this isn't an "invasion" of your privacy. Rather you have opened the door wide open, set out hor'dourves, and asked Amazon to come on in.
How does this work? Are you scraping job listings directly from companies job pages and updating it in real time or what? What filtering options are available?

I dislike that I have to sign up to get any info about how the product works.
It is a must pass Defense Appropriations bill. It won't get killed.

This also is the first time that the NSA lost a vote.

Just want to thank sinak and everyone who deployed https://shutthebackdoor.net/ on dime.

Internet based activism is starting to have an effect.
Functional Composition With Monads, Kleislis and Functors
Say you want to calculate distances from origin to each point in array, and keep only these greater than R.

Using fors and ifs:

var origin = Point(0, 0);
var R = 100;
var result = [];
for (var i : array) {
tmp = distance(array[i], origin);
if (tmp>R) {
result.append(tmp);
}
}

Without currying (nobody would write it that way):

var origin = Point(0, 0);
var R = 100;
result = filter( map(array, function (x) { return distance(x, origin); }),
function (x) { return greater(x, R);} );

With currying it almost reads like SQL:

var origin = Point(0, 0);
var R = 100;
result = filter( map(array, distance(origin)), greater(R) );

It's useful for functions that you predict will be used many times with one of the arguments the same. Yes, it's just syntactic sugar, but it sometimes makes code clearer (especially when literal function syntax is as verbose as in javascript).
There are gaps in my knowledge, but my understanding is that to address 32-bits of memory requires the use of a "DOS extender". The reason being that DOS is barely an operating system at all- It never provided any 32-bit support but support was possible by monkey patching over part of the operating system in memory. This was possible because DOS had no security measures preventing such horrifying endeavours.

Anyway, I see no reference to a dos extender here so I don't know how it could be anything other than a 16-bit program.

If the author of this framework is looking for a dos extender, I think HX seems like a good choice: http://www.japheth.de/HX.html

unlike other DOS extenders, that provide idiosyncratic apis for allocating 32-bit memory, HX imitates as much as possible standard windows apis, and is able to run some windows applications in plain DOS- including, strangely enough, DOSBox.

(I have nothing to do with HX by the way.)
How are you learning your Chinese? What methods are you using and teaching materials too
Are we to believe that passing laws will prevent intelligence agencies from doing certain things? It would seem to me the passing of laws just enables someone in government to say "fixed" and then the intelligence agencies continue doing whatever it is they do.

I'm not suggesting we shouldn't push for new / changing of laws, but does it really alter the trajectory?
Congrats Bethany! I am a long time Beeminder user. You guys work hard. I think your tool is amazing, although, I have my ups and downs with it. :) Very proud of you! Keep it up! I owe you a long email with thoughtful feedback.
I am learning RoR and Bootstrap.
Settlement in SV anti-poaching case challenged as too lenient
Massie has a strong ally in Rand Paul, so he and Wyden on the Democrat side will be champions of this against the usual GOP hawks and Democrat Senate leadership.

We have enough liberty-minded Senators to get this done if public opinion is behind them. I'm pleased with the strength of the support so far, but the old guard will fight this tooth and nail.
Blood-pressure + or - sinus-congestion?

Maybe some people begin to sub/consciously listen for their phone to buzz, vibrate or make a sound and notice the noise of air, static noise, computer fan hums, blood traveling inner ear?

Their utilities run @ 50hz. Maybe there's a conflict with older and newer products manufactured from other countries?

Maybe doppler radar.

Maybe dead air space.

Maybe they're not used to the sound of silence.
Slow.

Clap.

Bravo!

I'm presently resisting the urge to add support for ArnoldC as
a scripting language in ed(1).
Altshuller is amazing, I'm surprised he is known outside of Russia though.
Ruby is a dependency for SASS, that'd be the only reason
Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: Review and meta-analysis
This is more a Shufflepuck Cafe[1] clone than a Pong clone.

Also note that this is sponsored by Google; I couldn't find the credits but apparently (from other comments on this post( there were three separate companies involved in making it. You're comparing the Ping clone you make for a quick technology test to a thing polished to perfection by a bunch of people.

ALSO let me note that EVERYONE starts from scratch. You're never going to be a master if you give up now; make lots of mistakes and try to not make them more than once.

1: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9pUmfxM9h54
Tyler Cowen's perspective here rings true:

> Most likely, this means creditors have a stronger incentive to be holdouts in the first place. I take that to be a negative and welfare-decreasing. If creditor rights were weaker up front, as I would prefer, it would be harder for nations to over-borrow in the first place, and ex post less of the cost of that over-borrowing will fall on the taxpayers and citizens of the poorer citizenry.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/06/wha...