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Right now, if your study group corresponds to either HTML/CSS, Javascript, Python, or Ruby on Rails, you can propose a new hangout in one of the above Google Groups and invite people to join the hangout for the topic/tutorial you're interested in reviewing with others.

In the near future, though, my hope is that a platform will replace the Google Groups and make the study group creation process around supplementary resources (besides the ones I picked to experiment on, that is) much easier. Can give you updates on when the beta platform is up if you join the mailing list or send me a PM.
Yes, but a lot of those have strong bilateral ties to the EU. Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are part of the EEA, which means that this becomes law there. Switzerland has a ton of bilateral agreements, so this law should be expected there as well. Monaco, Mentenegro and San Marino have Association Agreements as well. The EU's reach is a bit bigger than it looks like.
Interesting take: "leveraging development capabilities to simplify and automate traditional operations tasks". I think of it as the opposite: leveraging operations discipline to improve development processes. We're talking about identifying bottlenecks in the development pipeline, for example manual testing, and targeting those for automation in order to elevate system throughput. This is the application of Lean manufacturing concepts such as Kanban to software development work.

I guess it's both: development applied to operations, and operations management applied to development.
I think the $15k references a gyro stabilized camera rig. The stabilization is the hard/novel/neat part, not the playback speed.

Playback speed is the UI feature people notice, but it wouldn't be interesting if the image weren't stabilized.
For what it's worth when talking about things like consumer regulations talking about the EU is often not the most descriptive term, I'm not 100% sure about this topic but I'm fairly sure this applies to the entirety of the EEA, which is the EU + Iceland + Norway + Liechtenstein.
Ah nice, thanks for link. Doesn't show up in search yet.
I still don't get it. What's wrong with using a lisp as the underlying architecture? This should be an advantage.
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that word predates card's usage; i think it was le guin. ..but yes, i do the same thing every time there's a heading that mentions it.
The US and Canada didn't fall prey to the oil curse because neither nation had an entire economy built on oil production. Both were well diversified long before Colonel Drake poked a straw in the ground in Pennsylvania.
>But once you get into heavy use, alcohol starts looking pretty bad

Well, you can die with heavy dose of water too. Actually not even that heavy, people have died drinking like 7-10 liters.

>The side effects of moderate use of pretty much every controlled substance are pretty much insignificant

Yeah, but the research shows moderate use of alcohol not only doesn't have bad effects (even if insignificant) but it even has significant (measurable) beneficial effects.
Couldn't Scraperwiki release a tool which allowed anyone to scrape Twitter and have it upload the data back to Scraperwiki? Would that get around the SLA?
Hi Julia! A few questions:

* How much is Zidisha levered?

* A 10% default rate is very high. Can you get this down?
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Quote: "Much has been written about the devaluation of degrees and the evils of grading in higher education. As a society, we’re clearly reeling from the consequences (44% of college graduates are underemployed)."

Oh, don't bother to try to produce evidence for a cause-effect relationship between grades and later underemployment. A few minutes' thinking about employment and statistical principles should have made you realize that roughly 50% of people are underemployed, for the same reason that 50% of people are below average.

We'll be abolishing grades and degrees the same day we abolish any difference in workplace compensation:

1. Under the new program, a company's janitor and president will make the same amount of money.

2. People will say, "Wait -- why should I try to hard? What's my incentive?"

3. A brilliant theoretician will then say, "I have a great idea! Let's reward cleverness and productivity by giving clever, productive people more money!"
it's easier to extend the editor with emacs-lisp than vimscript is the main advantage. But yes, vim isn't bad as a text editor either. I use both.
Well, if the other company is doing something bad, it wouldn't be difficult. Actually, to provide some sort of an answer to my original question, we had sort-of this style of marketing with domain registrar, i.e. "hey, we don't try to upsell you crap, don't support SOPA and definitely don't shoot elephants for fun!".
Or maybe the reason why nothing like oldversion.com exists ofr web apps is something else. Like:

* Apps are update because of security fixes.
* Open source web apps aren't viable[1]

[1] https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-ap...
Their lawyer needs to go over that very carefully to find that out.
Author here. I'd like to clarify that my use case involves talking to devices inside a factory (i.e. LAN) that are expected to be physically connected/disconnected on occasion. The devices are speaking a text protocol, and my goal was to expose a console UI for occasional manual debugging of those devices. I consider it to be good UX to detect network issues persisting for more than a certain duration, but unfortunately the text protocol does not support heartbeats. So given those constraints, TCP keepalive seemed appropriate, especially since dropping a connection a little to eagerly is not an issue here.

Edit: I'm saying this to clarify that I'm not recommending TCP keepalive for most scenarios.
I think that one should expect data about their online activity to:

+ Disappear if persistence is what you would prefer.

+ To persist if disappearance is what would you prefer.

+ To be tied to personally identifying information if anonymity is what you would prefer.

+ To be anonymous if you would prefer it to be bound to personally identifying information.

vBulletin deserves credit for being a slight improvement over Usenet. There's a reason StackOverflow, Reddit, and even HN don't use it.
they probably wanted to push it out as soon as possible because time lapse is being added to the camera app in iOS 8.
Yee, the proces is very simple. You can simply arrive and you have six months to look for work. Once you get a job you just need to register with the police (you make an appt a couple months in advance and then he visit takes 5 min) and get your tax card (same visit, takes another minute). AFAIK all EU citizens can do this, no special work visa required.
nicely explained, thanks :-)
Dude, those are really good examples! I will reconsider my opinion immediately! Not. How do you even write that shit with a straight face?
Yes, they exist. But compare the dollars and hours poured into encouraging females to go into male-driven fields. I have noticed a relative paucity of anything purporting to be focused on men.

I understand that men have the advantage in general, but in specific fields, this isn't the case. My (male) cousin is in nursing school right now; >80% of the class is female, and he regularly gets teased about being a male nurse.

Heck, the movie "Meet the Fokkers" had that as one of the central jokes: Ben Stiller is a male nurse! Haha, isn't that funny?
vim? I don't understand why manually punching cards isn't good enough for you.
> "exposed via a json-over-http protocol"

Sigh. The use of json format is not necessary or sufficient make the service "micro".

There's this thing called "content-negotiation". IMHO, Any http web service framework worth using just does it. This means that the "xml or json" issues are fixed before they start. Unless you really want to have that trouble later.
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I was able to get some people who were apprehensive about git on board after finding SourceTree.
I'm not sure what bootstrapping overhead you're talking about. You can do a knife bootstrap to bootstrap nodes, not sure about puppet.
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Which of the uncontroversial historical facts I posted is causing you the most personal anguish?
DANE should solve this eventually; in the meantime I have a hardcoded smtp_tls_policy_maps which I've populated with domains that I frequently email and which the logs show support TLS.
Great work guys! So glad to see seamless migration added!

Congratulations to the team
I think a good chunk of the reason why people use Sublime is because it looks so damn good. I was hoping this would too, but I guess that's difficult with a terminal-based editor.

Also, anyone know which (if any) of the patched Powerline fonts [0] have the hand unicode icon? (It's slap's icon, and it looks ugly without it.)

[0] https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
I think Apple should build the basic hooks so that package manager like CocoaPods is possible but a better solution will emerge if the package system is handled outside of Apple which is likely have a huge legal that prevents healthy ecosystem.
Unfortunately there is a rise in spammers recently.

Have you emailed sales@sublimetext.com?
It is quite common in games, and this article is from the perspective of games. Crunch for one or two weeks certainly can be effective, even if a little tiring, but in the games industry a crunch of three months is in many places a short, light crunch. It could be hard to understand a critique on crunch if you haven't experienced a bad one, but really try to imagine eighty hours a week for six straight months. That might not be common in general, but it is happening in games companies, and I've been through more than one. After you've done that a few times, honestly, its hard to hear someone talk about a one or two week "crunch" and take it seriously. I don't mean that to be demeaning or belittling, my point is that it can be hard from any side to see the other side's point of view. Crunch times in games, among other industries, are sometimes really, really awful and take away very significant amounts of time from people's lives and families.
Health care is super authoritarian?
> I think most people would agree that the US republicans & democrats could engage more constructively while maintaining ideologically distinct positions ...

Yes, absolutely. My point was that compromise doesn't require that the parties share values or show mutual respect -- history proves otherwise.
> Then people are "increasingly" using it incorrectly. Europe is a continent, the EU is a political alliance.

Well, it's exactly the same as with America (the continent) and United States (a country). You can either argue that both calling EU Europe and USA America is wrong and we should stop, or accept that in both cases, people can figure things out from the context.
Why does it need cosmetic changes? There are a few actual bugs to sort out first.
We actually don't set any interest rate. Zidisha charges a flat 5% fee per year the loan is held (for example a $100 loan held for three months would cost $1.25). In addition to that, we allow each lender to choose the interest to receive, if any - up to a maximum cap of 15%. If the loan is oversubscribed, the portions with the lowest interest are retained. The average rate chosen by lenders is around 5.5% per year, but there's a lot of variation, as borrowers with the longest positive repayment histories tend to attract lower interest rates.

Yes, this is true direct lending. In fact it's more direct than Kiva Zip, because the latter uses local organizations called "trustees" to help vet borrowers, and the trustees frequently post content in place of the borrower, especially outside the US. Zidisha does not use trustees or any other intermediary, and the content in the loan profile pages is written directly by the borrowers. You can view a sampling of the sort of comments our borrowers post here: https://www.zidisha.org/microfinance/testimonials.html.

Our best recourse against default is prevention, as it is very hard to collect a loan once it has become delinquent. Most of our credit risk protection happens at the application stage: things like a referral program that incentivizes borrowers to invite only trustworthy acquaintances to join Zidisha, machine learning tools to detect fraudulent accounts, and a credit limit progression system that incentivizes members to maintain high on-time repayment rates.

We spend a lot of time on fraud protection, but the most frequent cause of default at Zidisha is simple financial hardship. We're lending to a demographic whose income is not only low but also erratic, and lacks substantial savings, insurance or government safety nets. A big part of our credit risk protection is recognizing that reality and accommodating it through mechanisms like allowing borrowers to choose their own repayment schedules and adjust their installment amounts up or down to adapt to their financial situation.
One constraint for Oasis.js when picking a technology was the compatibility with IE8. So we use modern technology everywhere we can, but we have to find a way to polyfill them for older browsers (mostly IE8/9).
Are you really surprised that a tech demo is more impressive than a polished app you can run on your smartphone right now?
That's not how trolling works. "lol i trolled u" isn't particularly constructive nor funny.

Additionally, I notice you've been asking for upvotes on Product Hunt too, which may explain the ranking: https://twitter.com/ElissaBeth/status/504279550428450816

Additionally additionally, you're indirectly asking for upvotes on this submission via the "vote-from-the-newest-page" trick: https://twitter.com/ElissaBeth/status/504309786960482307
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The Cheese Slicer and Black Metal ofc! :)

On a more serious note, we're only like 5 mill people,
and while we don't rock the nobel prices I think the oil has pushed us more towards engineering than theoretical research (for better or worse..).
Agree our Universities should be better than they are - it's apparently hard to get funding for something that isn't directly applicable to oil, subsea or salmon.

But you probably use lots of stuff designed/invented in Norway without knowing.
Example: Do you use a GSM phone? GSM was invented at a Norwegian University.

Lots of research for subsea-technology, oh, and we're pretty good at ship design stuff - dating back from the viking age until now (x-bow).
Techy stuff: Energy Micro, Nordic Semiconductors, some parts of Atmel, Opera, FAST, etc.

Most of the oil welfare fund is invested abroad - all over the world (reduces risk and avoids inflation), these days heavily geared towards green technologies / energy.
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I'm pretty familiar with the lean methodology and I'm a bit confused how you could use it to scale up to 100MM/year losses. If they had a repeatable and scalable business model, surely they should either (1) be making money or (2) have that 100MM/year make them tremendous money fairly quickly (as they scaled up so soon, clearly the got the evidence of profit very quickly, which should mean a one or two year turnaround on investment, tops, given their timeline?). Clearly this isn't happening, as far as I can tell, because they're still losing money.

Your point about lean and cheap is fair but a bit confusing in context.
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Apple seems to not want to get into the prosumer market because it is a tiny fraction of the size of the general iPhone/iPad/Beats consumer market. The buzz about future Apple products seems to be about things that could achieve that sort of scale. (TV, watch, something video game related, etc)
This is golden. Adding this to my quotes file.

It's really true. Scams are just the extreme end of ways-to-profit-somewhat-legally spectrum of business models.
I think the picture is supposed to be generic, but it kind of looks like Florida and Cuba.
It gives you a tool to fight the disease - the company committing fraud

In what way, exactly? And why couldn't that be done if the behavior was simply considered fraud, which is should obviously be?
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> To learn Nix you need to learn both how to write shell scripts and how to write Nix expressions. How is that better than just learning Scheme, which is very trivial to learn the basics - and for most packages, you don't really need to learn much because you can reference other packages - it's really just like a configuration file.

Except that as a Linux admin, you probably already know how to write shell scripts anyway, and you'd be rather hard-pressed to manage a Linux system while never once having to write or read one. There's also a lot more information on writing shell scripts than Guile scripts for various common purposes.

> scheme is the only language you'll need to be able to fully drive your OS.

With a different DSL for each use, meaning you have to learn the restrictions of each DSL anyway.

> You can do anything from the shell too (which nixpkg can invoke) - you can even invoke guile from a shell script.

That's true, although in Nix's case, the derivations map directly to the source, as Nix code itself can't call out to anything (only return derivations which might) - and in theory, the build could then happen in a sandbox, making it even more likely that the result would be the same.

We might not have reproducible builds yet, but Nix is closer to having them than Guix if somebody wanted to make a research project out of it.
Yeah, formalizing thoughts into models, and then testing them to validate or invalidate them is sooo idealist. I wish scientists would only rely on common sense and holy books, trusting their guts to do the right thing.
interesting. can you show us the link where the intent of the burglary or robbery was to take the cell phone?

I know if I was robbing a house, I'd probably be taking all sorts of things, and if I found a phone, I'd add it to the loot I was stealing.
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Seems like Comcast just takes issue with the term "cap" since from their perspective they don't "cap" at all, they just charge for overage.

The term data cap when there isn't a cap (i.e. you don't get cut off when exceeding) isn't really ideal. But it is the common term now.

It might just be better to call it Unlimited Vs. Pay As You Go data. Comcast's model is clearly what I'd call Pay As You Go or Pay Per Data.

But all of this argument over wording choice is unhelpful and won't really change the world no matter how it turns out. What does matter is choice, cost, and the ability to compare different ISP's relative data costs (i.e. no hidden cap/data fees).
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My problem is that while they fit the literal definition of compromise, they don't really achieve much. Those are barely ceasefires, and not much progress. So compromise without friendly relations does exist, it just really really sucks. The spirit of my criticism still stands.
There's http://www.startupschool.pl/ , something similar to Y Combinator. They're recruiting right now as well (29 hours left). I submitted my application a few weeks ago and got an invitation to the recruitment workshop in early September.
> wouldn't sell for a mere billion and change

Worth pointing out that's a lot of money -- if it becomes a large cultural force, they'll still get credit, if there's more money on the table... some people don't care about the difference in numbers that huge. So this takes a lot of variability off the table at a fairly marginal cost (no second giant yacht, etc).
Delivery robots delivering delivery robots.
No offense, but if your company's crunch time is so predictable, there must be a mistake in your scheduling. I've worked at companies where there is literally no crunch time, ever.
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here is a related lecture:
"Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY
Jesus, that's my mirror image.

+ My girlfriend makes me watch movies that she never watches. When the movie starts I get sucked in (a movie which I didn't wanna see in first place) and then she starts talking about something else. Trying to keep up both with the movie and her conversations drives me crazy. I talked about this with another two guys, which I like and respect because of their knowledge depth, both came up with same answer: Women (usually) do many things at the same time without paying attention to any of those things. They are able to watch a movie, talk to the phone, listen to the radio... All together.

I feel seriously deprived when I realise I can't do any of those things combined (without getting really, really angry).
> A good example of beneficial government regulation, for people who refuse to believe such a thing exists.

I don't get how people can hold that belief. It falls apart the moment you think about game theory for five minutes, or read up a Wikipedia article about externalities and tragedy of commons.
Companies like Kabbage (in the US) and Lenddo (Philippines, Colombia) use social graph data pretty extensively to predict credit risk. At Zidisha thus far, we're only using Facebook data to verify online identities of the applicants.
Real scientific computing needs high-bandwidth low-latency networks.
I really don't like people who steal software, but so far[1] we have one accusation here. Let's not completely destroy the accused right away based just on this.

[1] It would be unfortunate if this drama played out on HN, he-said she-said style. Although the eventual resolution of this will be very interesting and relevant to developers and entrepreneurs so I expect to read about it here some day.
It's available in the app store. You find it by searching Instagram then clicking 'related'. I couldn't find it with normal search.
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"Running undersea cabling is more expensive than running fiber optic cable across land"

I always imagined that the opposite would be true.
Come one, it's not that hard to do a yum install puppet or use cobbler for provisioning and install puppet along with the OS.
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Approximating numbers from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/18-ho... a petaflop on AWS would cost $20k per day. So considering hardware alone, this would be cheaper in 50 days. Once you add in power and cooling for this device, and the "reserved instance" discount from Amazon, it would take longer to break even. But probably not more than a few months.

Edit: it answers this in the article.