skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LSD is widely understood to be benign when used in a controlled setting (even recreational aficionados' discussions of it focus heavily on the importance of establishing a safe context under the rubric of 'set and setting'). However I think it will take another 15-20 years to see it legalized; drug warriors will harp on the crazy-making potential while paranoids will dredge up fears of gubmint mind control - both of which have roots in reality, since LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic that can lead to confusion or injury if consumed in excess or carelessly, and since the CIA did experiment with psychedelic drugs on unwitting subjects back in the 1960s.

Even limited rescheduling allowing medical treatment would be a good thing IMHO, but the reality of the US medical system is such that that the <$5 dose of LSD is likely to be dwarfed by a $3,000+ bill for clinical oversight and additional fees for administrative compliance with drug scheduling protocols.
I'm thankful that our industry is full of opportunities, but that's not because of recruiters; they're just middlemen. The opportunities still exist without them. If there weren't so many recruiters doing a less effective job of matching qualified candidates with available positions than the candidates could do by searching on their own, there wouldn't be so much ridicule and hostility towards recruiters.
In your world, helping a friend (or a stranger) is like killing somebody? I'm glad I'm not a part of that cult.
Mo,

Having recently purchased a home, and piled rocks, loose stones, bricks and the like next to my window laden front entryway door, what lock do you recommend I purchase?

Bear in mind, I don't want anything that my neighbors will understand, or industry experts will look down on. As a technophile, I want to walk only the bleedingiest of edges, employ the most futuristic of tech, and employ the bare minimum of common sense.

In fact, if it could be expensive enough be the target of break-in, so much the better!

love,
shmoo
Pitch yourself based on what you've done, not who you are. Saying "I'm a software architect" is a red flag for "I'm incompetent and can't actually write code", saying "I built this software system (which you can see at this URL) from the ground up" or "I led a team to build this software system, and here's why it's hard" communicates exactly what you can do.
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But in context of mass surveillance we are talking about a power and capital intensive system for producing that secrely kept knowledge ("intelligence"). It hasn't been about breaking crypto, just stick and carrot to get cooperation from infra providers and then building systems to refine it all.

This'd is not about to become accessible for the average citizen.
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... That only works because there's a human driving the browser. I've yet to hear of a concrete example of how this would apply to API clients.
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Well with Dropbox you know that the government can request any data presently or previously in your folders. With btsync it doesn't seem to be so easy because data isn't stored centralized, but there are some potential leaks. Still better than Dropbox.
> I'm sorry, did you just suggest something SOAP-like with more features?

I suspect that where you seem to have read "more {modern features}" but ultramancool meant "{more modern} features".

That is, I think the intent was that the features of the otherwise SOAP-like thing would be more modern than the features of SOAP, not that SOAP-like thing would have more features than SOAP and that those additional features would be modern.
http://moarvm.com/contributing.html

Hope to see you on #moarvm. :)
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I have to disagree: There certainly are people who can keep (very) large systems in their minds and refine and extend them, but they are very rare and most of the people who might call themselves "Software Architects" are not.

It might be said that the definition of "size" for a computer system is exactly the degree to which it requires "architecture" to make it.

Under that interpretation one way to try to become a "Software Architect" is to study large systems and how they succeed or fail at their intended purposes.
I think this is still a matter of terminology unless there are legal agreements of exclusivity in place. The recruiter/job seeker relationship can also be long-term (though I agree it usually isn't).

I've been in recruiting for over 15 years, and some people that I first interacted with around 98-2001 didn't result in any placement ($) for me until the past few years.

Part of the reason this type of experience is rare is because most recruiters don't have much of a specialty, so if they get a position seeking a specific skill set they may be unlikely to get that same mix again. Therefore, the candidate becomes somewhat 'disposable' and can't be worked with for future searches. If you have a specialty, which I've had for years, almost all candidates may be a fit for a future position.

Your example about termination could be valid in some cases, but a recruiter who treats candidates as an agent will get the same level of trust. An agent isn't likely to expose that info - whether a recruiter exposes all potentially negative information probably varies by individual.

I think the difference between recruiters and agents is non-existent when we are referring to solid 3rd party recruiters (good clients, excellent reputation, valuable relationships), except for in rare circumstances like you mention (hiding information about your talent).

I would love to see more of an agent mentality for recruiters. But someone has to pay for that, and the lion's share of work in tech is done by salaried employees and not consultants. Consultants know and accept that their $200/hr rate will get eaten into a bit if they use an agent.

Will someone making 200K a year pay a fee to an agent during a job search? How much should that representation cost?
Welcome to the fray. I kind of like that there are so many JavaScript wrapper languages turning up. It allows for cross-pollination of ideas and hopefully in the long term those that work the best for people in practice will establish themselves a niche.

That said, I don't think this is the one for me.

I think I would lean towards halfway between Spider and JavaScript

I'd prefer to keep some bits from Javascript

* function instead of func.

* bracketed if and while conditions.

* no list comprehensions (but I could just choose to ignore).

* no ranges (unless only in case conditions)

* not sure about # for int div.

From spider I'd keep

* Default parameters

* splats

* ?

* ??

* * *

* logical operators

* for loops (but bracketed)

* extends and super.

and I'd add sugar.js http://sugarjs.com/ as standard
As I understand it: provision of liquidity is not a function of intent. Liquidity is a property of the market, not of a trading strategy. Some strategies (happen to) add (sell) liquidity, and some remove (buy) it.

The term "front-running" is terribly misused in these discussions (I can't tell from your short comment if you were, though). You "front-run" someone if they reveal their trading intent to you, and front-running usually involves an agency problem (ie, your broker and their responsibility to you as a client).
As an end user:

I can combine GPLv2 (eg. linux kernel) and BSD licensed code, and distribute it.

I can combine GPLv3 and BSD licensed code, and distribute it.

I cannot combine GPLv2 and GPLv3 licensed code, and distribute it.

As an end user, I like BSD licensed code more.
To me, an "evergreen" story would be one that has been posted multiple times throughout the years, always getting significant points. That's more of a squishy definition, through, which means it will be a bit harder to write a script to find. (Need to pick a number of submissions, number of points while taking into account inflation, and do some URL dupe-checking.)
I wasn't criticizing your post. I was spelling out the name, because the tension between "Simple ..." and "... too complicated" amused me.
It's estimated to take between 6 and 14 months but still not guaranteed to produce enough current to recharge the lander.
Managing that much money must be an enormous challenge since there are so few places where you can put a substantial amount of it.
"Some light contrast enhancements have been made to emphasise certain features and to bring out features in the shadowed areas. In reality, the comet is extremely dark ­– blacker than coal. The images, taken in black-and-white, are grey-scaled according to the relative brightness of the features observed, which depends on local illumination conditions, surface characteristics and composition of the given area."

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/High...
I don't think that's quite true. A lot of languages are a mix of designed-for-humans and designed-for-machine. They do aim to be higher-level than machine code, but it's quite common to have design decisions at least partly driven by considerations from the compiler side as well. Not necessarily only designing for efficient execution (though that is one); other design-for-machine considerations can include ease of parsing and ease of compiler implementation.
awesome work by the Science Exchange Dev team. look for some upcoming blog posts about the experience redesigning the core order experience in Ember.js.
Chrome is dying
New York City is building 10,000 Internet pylons for free public Wi-Fi
GPL continued: "and because we came up with all these crazy rules, you'1l probably come across other free software (including ours) whose rules you can't abide by while playing by ours, so you're not permitted to do much to remix and redistribute these two code bases... sorry, you may not! but you're still free! ehehe! you're still free because you're a user and if you're trying to exercise the two or three freedoms that are relevant to developers and distributors, your freedoms no longer matter! you still have these freedoms though, even though you may not!"

And if you still want to exercise these freedoms, you're like, you want to kill people ... that's crazy!
For Edit 3, I think you might have included the wrong link. That's a very short video that shows only the setup of the trick. Maybe this one would be better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hHgEa0CAdU

And while we're at it, is there any reason the videos emphasize the flip to show the face of the cards as they are being laid out? If they are going to do this, it seems like a much simpler and direct way to do the trick.
I assume you refer to this:

> [LOW] confirmed: When registering, http traffic for creating new user on loopback http://127.0.0.1:8888

And I wonder the same. Didn't really get that one, but yeah you may be right that they mean it should be https. I guess the risk is when an application can monitor loopback traffic, but you can only do that with special permissions or if you're root. The former case is exceptional, in the latter case you're pwned anyway and your keystrokes aren't safe either. So yeah, I don't know. Https might do a little bit extra... but I don't know.
I'm afraid it may be a compromise that allows the left to trumpet forward progress in immigration reform, while allowing the right to give ground in a way that doesn't involve any compromise on their core opposition to immigration from Mexico and Latin America.
9.8 micronewtons is the correct way of saying one milligram of force.
I think I got one of these a few months ago. A recruiter at "an executive search firm" emailed saying my name "was mentioned in connection with a CTO/SVP Eng brief" they were trying to fill, specifying that "It’s a confidential search". Which at the time I assumed just meant they couldn't mention the company name, but then in an (unsolicited) followup email they told me the company name, so possibly they did mean they were trying to keep it quiet.

The kicker is I'm a junior dev not long out of uni, and not qualified to be CTO of a ham sandwich. If they were trying to keep it quiet, they were doing a pretty terrible job of it.
Nice!
I started on something like this a while ago: https://github.com/vinodkd/betterscript.

You have a slightly larger goal - a better js with some useful syntax from other languages/efforts. Mine was just a better javascript.

But: I did have a module syntax. No plug here, btw; feel free to borrow any/all syntax and kudos for getting it done:)
However the thing to remember is that most businesses aren't throwing the kind of cash that they can pay a programmer $250/hr.

I disagree with this. In fact, one of my largest side job customers is a trash company and I can give you an example of one of the projects I worked on.

For every job he does, there is a variable charge both from his supplier (another trash company) and his customer.
Original state was that he had a bookkeeper that he paid $70,000 per year that calculated, recorded, charged and followed-up on the revenue and expense of this variable charge for every job.

I came in and modified his dispatching system to do all this work in a fully automated way. This did two things:

1) Eliminated a $70,000 per year (salary) bookkeeper that all in was probably costing $100,000 per year with benefits, 401k, medicare taxes, social security taxes, etc.

2) Increased net revenue for these variable charges by $100,000 per year. With the bookkeeper formerly doing this all manually, she was only catching a small percentage of the revenue but paying all the expenses. (Because guess who was the squeaky wheel in this transaction?)

What is a $200,000 per year bottom line improvement worth to the average small business? There are many ways to evaluate this. Small businesses often look at payback period. A good payback period for a project is typically considered one year or two years. If that is the case, then the project is worth $200,000 to $400,000 to the customer.

Now consider that the whole project actually took me 45 hours that I billed him at $200 per hour for a total cost of $9,000. His payback period is now SIXTEEEN DAYS.

More sophisticated small businesses as well as almost all larger U.S. businesses will consider the time value of money and actually calculate an NPV and IRR for the project. In any way that you measure the profitability of this project or similar ones, the reality is you could charge $1,000 per hour and still make it a "no brainer" for the client.

There are plenty of unique need transaction-based companies that are in the same boat. And honestly that's why I'm moving to value based pricing. Hourly based pricing is asinine. I should get paid based on the value I bring to a company, not the amount of time I spend sitting in a chair typing.
I was just at Øredev in Sweden a couple weeks ago. Rob spoke about Angular 2.0, and the disagreements about direction were pretty evident in his talk [1]. The video is online now.

[1] http://oredev.org/2014/sessions/angularjs-2-0
I really like my Crazyflie and I've been meaning to use it with my Spark Core. So far I've controlled it with a Leap Motion controller but haven't had time to finish the controller entirely mainly because of time[2].

Also, the word "drone" has negative connotations in the media that FliteTest[1] cover here.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMe0J-mTtLM

[2]: https://github.com/jonalmeida/hack-the-north-crazyflie
DMT is easily tolerated by the body and only lasts 10 minutes. There's no hangover type effect and it doesn't last hours. It's also infinitely more intense, with an overwhelming sense of love and comfort.

LSD is like riding a bicycle but DMT is more flying in a spaceship that actually travels through dimensions. There seems to be a much lower or non-existant risk of a bad trip. (Unlike the version you drink, which can take you to hell and back.)
Google to test-fly balloons which transmit Internet over Australia
I think you're being a bit too harsh by repeating that the author's analysis is flawed. Like Wikipedia, it's good enough. It gives an interesting overview of past submissions without trying to be perfect.
Supposedly they handle all of that as well, but the tradeoff didn't make sense in my case.
Not really. I'm sure they're happy they don't have to pour so much R&D into engineering ever-growing core switches.

They're quite aware of the trend towards decentralization. Where Facebook et al lead, other's will follow -- and Cisco will be right there to take your money to give you what Facebook has accomplished.
Are Nomads already living in the future
Recruiters aren't here to offer anyone opportunity or employment. They're here to make a big commission off of hiring a high-salary techie, and can be very pushy in achieving that goal.

"Hey, I realize you're not probably looking for a job, but I'd really love to connect with you to talk about finding a new job! We are an early-stage startup that's funded by <name dropping goes here>."

"You still haven't responded to my email. Just wanted to make sure you saw it! We have a super-great culture and are working on big problems using fancy technologies and you should feel privileged just to be hearing from us. You know, if you aren't looking for a job, you can also give me contact information for your friends so I can hassle them as well."

"Ok, you still haven't responded to me. I hope you don't think I'm spamming you because I'm not. I understand that you're probably happy at <current employer>, but could you please just give us a chance? We really need you."

I should add that it's not just recruiters doing this stuff. In fact, startup executives do much the same thing, but also add an "I'm the CEO and I chose you personally! Don't you feel lucky?"
Heh, if you want to go absolutely bonkers you could go with a lockitron/august/Haven on the interior, multi-point locking system in the door, an Abloy Protec 2 or EVVA MCS for your primary lock, and a Drumm Geminy Shield over that. (the Drumm shield is a lock to protect your lock.)

Remarkably, you could probably make it all happen for just north of 1k, or less if you are willing to do much of the labor yourself. Of course you'll have to wait for your smart lock to arrive, but you can rely on the mechanical locks in the meanwhile.

And any mechanical security enthusiast you invite over will be absolutely floored by your setup.
Well, what happened in the past doesn't really explain why they still refuse to support them today. I really hope mandatory status of Opus in WebRTC will push it into QuickTime framework and it will mean implicit support by Apple everywhere.
I associate 'bouncing' with a certain amount of elasticity. If the comet's surface is much harder than expected, I would expect the lander to be smashed to bits.

Where is the flaw in my thinking? Is this to do with it being very small forces exerted over a long time period?
Move fast and break nothing (video)
if it sounds too good to be true...
So if I understand this right, there's probably a backdoor in it? Honestly though, I doubt that you can keep the NSA and FBI out of your system. If they want in, they'll get in, and there's nothing* you can do about it.

Having said that, we do need these kinds of solutions without the back doors. Why aren't any software developers from countries where mandatory backdoors aren't a thing building stuff like BTSync? And does anyone know which countries those are? For example, i live in Belgium. Were I to build such a thing, would someone show up on my doorstep and force me to backdoor it?

(*) nothing that is reasonable, only paranoia and extreme lengths will suffice.
I love Postgres, but it's CSV support is NOT "top-notch". If I could skip more than the first line, or skip "comment" (#) lines, it would be top-notch. It is however better than MS SQL Server's.

Mentioning PL/Java and Windows support in the same article is kinda silly, since PL/Java hasn't worked on Windows in years and is dead in my mind. I'd say 15% of extensions don't work on Windows.

The author also conveniently neglects to mention upsert.
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It would be perfect if only they open-sourced it.
I'm no security expert, but when I saw they did that whole "easier sharing" thing over e-mail that raised a major red flag for me. It seemed quite obvious that many of the previously secure systems would now be broken by that insecure e-mail sharing system.
“We’re trading less using algorithmic trading now than we did some years ago and are doing much more trading in large block sizes to avoid pattern-reading.”

Interesting... given that large blocks are what HFTs feed on.

How exactly is a party suppose to drastically increase supply / demand for a stock without impacting price?
the code has more guarantees about its freedom. it's not about what you can do with the code, it's about the code itself.
But often it is the opposite. Say, it is backend app and users are sales agents. There appears to be need for them to have a button like "send email number 4 to client" which is standard pre-composed email with few variables defined by user. And later on somebody comes up with idea that when this email is sent there should happen few (up to 20) other things in the system, they all are linked to this "send email" action, but none of them is that major and well defined as creating an order or something like that, but more like "this object linked to this order should appear now in two more queues, also few requests to external systems are made to notify somebody that this user did that thing on that time" and so on. It's hard to decompose that because this email was really the most obvious and thus the key action, the most natural description of what happened. Business logic of backoffice apps tends to get really messy and there's pretty much no way to avoid it completely. Sent email actually is somewhat simple case as everybody knows what email is. The real problem with that kind of apps is that there's a lot of atomic (from users perspective) actions that actually are a hundred of seemingly unrelated other actions linked in one with some "name of that specific business procedure" which is traditional for your users but pretty much meaningless for a layman. There's just no way to define what happened in terms of "order created" and such: only some magic spell that defines this particular business procedure completely.
So? Spotify pays $5,210 per million streams [1]. It would take an individual artist about 8 million streams to make a mere $40,000. A band of 5 artists would require 40 million streams for each person in the band to make a $40,000 salary.

That's jack shit. It's not enough to be a meaningful revenue stream for any artist at any level. It's not enough to help, support, or incubate indies. It's not enough be a drop in the bucket for a mega star.

[1] http://thetrichordist.com/2014/11/12/the-streaming-price-bib...
Wow you usually don't see $21M and "seed" in the same phrase.
When wireless worlds collide
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Milli-Newtons :-)

The comet[1] that Rosetta is orbiting has a mass of 10^13 kg and an orbit semi-major axis of 518,060,000 km. This gives the comet a Sphere of Influence[2] of roughly 62 km.

What this means is that within 62 km or so, the comet is the dominant gravitational body, so orbits of 16, 20, and 30 km (in the video) are perfectly reasonable.

The orbital period[3] of the larger 30 km orbit is around 40 ksec or 11.1 hours.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimen...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence_(astrodynam...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period
The gravity and forces we're talking about are tiny. The craft hit the ground moving slower than 1 m/s and then bounced up over 1km before landing again. The forces involved with something moving that slowly and stopping are minuscule.
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