skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're investing in an index fund against the S&P you're more or less going to track the stock market, which (historically) has been at or around 7-11%. This is not 'unproven' since the S&P 500 (in its current form) was created in 1957. That's a lot of years of data.

An index fund (as a rule) has extremely low fees. See Vanguard.com for an example. If you have more than $10k in a Vanguard index fund your fees will be .05%.

If you're thinking about how you did this year you're thinking wrong: stocks are a long term investment, not a get rich quick scheme.
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It is indeed sarcasm.

This is one of my pet peeves on sites like this, the assumption that if a story was discussed once then everyone for all time can just refer to the appropriate thread and heaven forbid an alternate thread pop up. It's as if having a different discussion at the same time or at some point later by people who have not heard of the story before and most likely have no clue the previous thread exists is a serious problem.
> The future will be a bad time to get into car parking.

Perhaps, this will be the case in the long term. However, until then perhaps we could implement some sort of price surging where rental costs of parking space skyrockets when demands get high. Uber is doing the hard work of making price surging palatable. Everyone else just needs to ride on their coat tails.
We've used (and still use) dyn for some things.

What they do unfortunately is charge you for the queries but there is no way of knowing which host has exceeded the limits query wise. When we first started using them they stated that even though we were exceeding the limits according to how they measure "not to worry you won't get charged". Of course perhaps 1 to 1.5 years later they now do charge (email out of the blue one day) and constantly try to bump us to a higher level service. [1] All this for a few zones that use to run comfortably on a 2 servers that we had many other things going on as well as DNS. (Now they claim we get 2.5 million queries per month but there is no way to determine exactly if that is true or for what host, ie foo.domain.com vs. www.domain.com is causing the excess queries).

[1] Which is more than paying the overage charges which is what we do every month.
I like being a passenger in a nice car more than in a crap car, so owning a nice self driving car would be a bit like having your own chauffeur and time to do other things while enjoying your car.
We've been hearing about computer tech coming to everything, even our coffee pots for so many years now. Who knew when it did, it'd be DRM. Keurig thought that was the way to better coffee, apparently. This has become idiotic. There appears to be someone at every corp that thinks this is a good idea and presses it. No downside, and huge potential upside. Until there is a negative, it will proliferate.
>cannot field a DDOS-resistant DNS server, who can?

Its tough to do. DNS is a dumb and ancient protocol from the "lets all be friends" days of the internet. Its a bit more complex than installing mod-evasive and calling it a day.

DDOS is currently an unsolved problem for many popular protocols and services. Blaming just Rackspace seems unfair. Last week in was Namecheap. The week before it was someone else, etc. DNS DDOS is just a non-trivial problem to solve.

This should also be a reminder to have more than one DNS provider in your domain record. A backup nameserver from a different provider saves you and your customers a lot of heartache.
While some schools will allow Americans to go to college for free or for only a little money, they aren't going to put them in a dorm, feed them, and give then other living expenses.

I'd imagine even with free tuition, I'd imagine Sweden is more expensive than going to your local state school. And you can't get US financial aid or loans for foreign school.

People always compare brand name American private schools with public school in other countries. But America has public schools.

You can do your first two years at community college for near free. You can live with your family, work part time at McD's and have more than enough money to pay for school. Even if you don't want to work, poor students can afford tuition with Pell Grants, and middle class students can cover it with Stafford Loans.

Then do your last two years at a state school, which are often in cheap college towns. In a state like Illinois, you can do 2 years in community college, and then 2 year at UIUC--a world class university--for only like 30k in tuition for the whole 4 years.

It wouldn't surprise me if going to Sweden cost 30k more in living expenses over that period, especially if you live with your family for the first 2 years.
It's easy to blame 'large hosting provider' and suggest going with 'specialized provider', but isn't stuff like this really leapfrog between hackers and the good guys?

Sure, service X might be able to block a 50 foobit attack but what about when the next vulnerability is found and they can launch 500 foobits of DDoS?
I had been looking for this too. Amazon CloudDrive (Prime Photos) does a pretty good job (at least on iOS). Free for Prime members. My only complaint is that the uploading choices are either automatically uploading all photos (which I don't want it doing) or selecting photos one by one. I would like an album level option to upload all photos in an album.
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One of my thought was if I had a "test fail" button (probably one-time) I would be so happy :)
I mean when I turned all that notifications on, I'd like to know how I'll get the Twitter alert. PM? tweet? From what account and what it will contains?
SMS. Is it even do the trick for Russia and what inside? (Yes, I got welcome SMS later).
Even email would be great because then I can turn my gmail's filters by sender and subject.

Than I come up: why actually I should bother Monitority with that if I could just down my server for a moment and get all those stuff with actual data?

And know what? Maybe this is because I'm a lazy ass like all developers, but after couple of days I still have no clue how alerts looks like.
Here's why I dropped out of the big league
I agree that it's hard to relocate, that's why I stated "if you can". Some can and some do leave the places where they grew up for reasons of unhappiness with the policies of their gov.
Wow, QML looks... really nice. Has anyone used it to deploy cross-platform apps to iOS/Android? What was your experience? Biggest drawbacks?
The problem in the system is not the layers of obfuscation and flimflammery. The problem is that too few people are willing to not only question authority, or even just peer pressure, but also to defy it outright.

As long as dilution of responsibility exists, that problem will remain intractable. When someone follows an unlawful order, both the person that issued it and the person that obeyed it need to bear the responsibility. And to support that, then when someone refuses an unlawful order, that person has to be shielded from retribution and retaliation.

And if someone tries to blow the whistle on unethical behavior, they shouldn't be imprisoned for life or be forced to flee to Russia.

You're not going to cultivate a culture of individual responsibility by pardoning everyone who should have plonking known better than to kidnap and torture people while thumbing their nose at due process.
It can't mean nothing.
> C:\

> 000D

It's expecting Unix newlines, and is confused by Windows' \r\n.
The Rap Genius licensing issue that took until 2014 [1] will be interesting with Google going after this space. Since Rap Genius seemed to get off the hook [2] with Google "easier" then others.

I imagine Google can offer better terms and/or soft-velvet glove (traffic) then Rap Genius.

I only bring up Rap Genius, because they seem to have taken over (admirable) as the foremost lyrics site.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/business/media/rap-genius-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957463
Build a blog, that is straightforward enough and simple to implement in all of those. When you're looking at go, consider gin:

https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/
I must either listen to really shitty music, or incredibly obscure music because I don't ever get lyrics when I search for lyrics of songs I like.

some examples:

birthday massacre rain lyrics

katatonia forsaker lyrics

five finger death punch wrong side of heaven lyrics

draconian she dies lyrics

Patrick Reza Take Me Away lyrics
There was one itty bitty spot in the entire middle band of this continent that people could move to and wouldn't be able to vote. So hundreds of thousands of people did. Still confuses me.
Actually, I think that unlike "total LoC in project" "LoC in function" might be a useful measure, since this it frequently measured against "How many LoC can I fit on my screen?" Also, this method isn't using absolute LoC as a measure of anything, and isn't trying to measure the amount of work being done. It's looking at how often the LoC in a function increases and decreases in order to identify a specific feature that might be indicative of problematic code bases: functions that grow monotonically over time. I think it's a good assumption that, for a given function function, change in LoC is positively correlated with change in complexity.
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In a way you are right, but I know quite a few exceptions. Also remember that the cost of living even in a large Italian city is much lower than in SV, NYC or Boston. In terms of professional recognition things are definitely improving, but again you certainly do have a point.

Source: lived abroad for many years, took a remote dev job to be able to come back to Italy.
One order of magnitude, I stand corrected :)
Agree with your points.

"you have to change nameservers at the registrar"

Would add that that this is also one of the reasons not to use your registrar for DNS, as a generality.
It actually looks like a car that would fit in well with the overall design motif of The Oatmeal.
Given that as far as I know, roads must be extensively mapped in advance of a self-driving car going on them, there is a nice bonus of doing self-driving cars exclusively through Uber at first. Uber can know the exact route the passenger wants to take in advance, and only send cars to passengers whose routes are already mapped. Furthermore, they can choose to only send them out when the conditions are good (no snow, etc. assuming conditions are still a problem when these go into fuller production). A nice way to roll the cars out incrementally without some of the problems they might otherwise have...
Student loans can't be gotten rid of through bankruptcy.
This was published in January, and look at all the Mars mission stuff that has popped up since. I wonder what a follow up would read like? I'm guessing they're using his Mars algorithm?
It's a valid and appropriate comparison, given that the OP is essentially promoting the Nuremberg defense.
This reminds me of a FACS machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_cytometry#Fluorescence-act...)
Do you have to be married to be in a loving relationship with someone for 50 years?
Such people rarely change their beliefs. You don't hate them, but you're not enabling them with your friendship either.
We banned sending kids up chimnies, we banned sending them down into the mines, but we missed the gross evil of rotting their brains with java. Just two dollars a day can help rescue these kids from a life in eclipse or netbeans and show them a world outside. Donate today - some poor souls are already on their first proxyFactoryImplementation classes and need your help right now!
LOL what a phatetic response, after a attack on the first amendment.
Wondering what one of these sites might look like? Checkout one of our Open Source projects, SimonSays, here: http://simonsays.onsimplybuilt.com/
> It is not the style of DPNK for them to pull the plug, that would make them appear weak to the outside world when in fact they did invent the internet and have superior everything on everything.

You misunderstand. They broke backwards compatibility with our puny Internet v1. It's progress, baby ;)
I'd really like to know how the U.S. "knows" North Korea is responsible for the attack on Sony and if there's any credible link from U.S. government to this attack of North Korea.

Goodness. It could be the same organization behind both. Instigation.
I wonder how to do this with engineering that requires deep knowledge. At my work we have SoC designers, layout, analog designers, board layout and firmware among the engineering departments. I don't think we can even rotate within the engineering departments as everything is so specialized.
I agree that LOC is a lousy productivity measure but I think think it could be decent health measure.

The distribution of method line counts looks like it's a power law. In code bases I've looked at there are way more methods with one or two lines - the distribution tapers down to the couple of large methods we all have in our code. My guess is that the coefficients of the distribution tell us something about health. I've seen some very good code with distributions that taper down very quickly.

No, I really think you have to separate LOC as a productivity metric from these other uses.
Yes that's what I meant, thanks.
Really happy to have seen this pop up. I'm a huge DFW fan. This is a stellar listen.
Any simple game usually does the trick: snake, Yahtzee, black jack. The rules (requirements) are well defined. The pieces (UI) are well defined. That way you can focus on actually implementing the logic in the language/framework of choice. For websites, pick your favorite restaurant and make it. Borrow the text, pictures, etc. and just focus on the code that creates it and not get off on a rabbit trail doing images in paint.net or making up items.
The oatmeal wrote about it:

| Google's new fleet was intentionally designed to look adorable... By turning self-driving cars into an adorable Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots, Google hopes to spiritually disarm other drivers. I also suspect the cuteness is used to quell some of the road rage that might emerge from being stuck behind one of these things. They're intended as moderate-distance couriers, not open-road warriors, so their max speed is 25 miles per hour.

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car
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Any article and ensuing discussion that degrades into who is or is not behaving like Nazis in less than 2 hours is one that should be removed ASAP.

Edit: I don't give a shit who is "right". My point is that any discussion that degrades this badly should not be here. Go somewhere else to discuss this stuff.
The Folly of Mars
Train Your Model of the World
Sites on Rackspace servers, DNS through NetSol (not that they are good or bad, but it wasn't RS). Didn't realize anything was going on until seeing this article.
I think the author's advice is basically to take out a leveraged bet on the stock market.

>Sure, that is simplifying it a bit. Obviously, the stock market doesn't return 10% every year on the dot.

He mentions this as an aside but it's very important to consider the time period he invested in. Below is the continuous return for S&P500 in a 4 year period:

End: 1848.36 (12/31/13) Start: 1115.1 (12/31/09) Return: 13%

End: 1426.19 (12/31/12) Start: 903.25 (12/31/08) Return: 11%

End: 1257.6 (12/30/11) Start: 1468.36 (12/31/07) Return: -4%

End: 1257.64 (12/31/10) Start: 1418.3 (12/29/06) Return: -3%

End: 1115.1 (12/31/09) Start: 1248.29 (12/30/05) Return: -3%

End: 903.25 (12/31/08) Start: 1211.92 (12/31/04) Return: -7%

End: 1468.36 (12/31/07) Start: 1111.92 (12/31/03) Return: 7%

End: 1418.3 (12/29/06) Start: 879.82 (12/31/02) Return: 12%

End: 1248.29 (12/30/05) Start: 1148.08 (12/31/01) Return: 2%

End: 1211.92 (12/31/04) Start: 1320.28 (12/29/00) Return: -2%

End: 1111.92 (12/31/03) Start: 1469.25 (12/31/99) Return: -7%

End: 879.82 (12/31/02) Start: 1229.23 (12/31/98) Return: -8%

End: 1148.08 (12/31/01) Start: 970.43 (12/31/97) Return: 4%

End: 1320.28 (12/29/00) Start: 740.74 (12/31/96) Return: 14%

Hardly the no-brainer the author makes it out to be. In fact, only half the returns were positive. Maybe it's unfair to consider a 4 year time period, although that is what the author states. The 10 year returns still don't look great.

End: 1848.36 (12/31/13) Start: 1111.92 (12/31/03) Return: 5%

End: 1426.19 (12/31/12) Start: 879.82 (12/31/02) Return: 5%

End: 1257.6 (12/30/11) Start: 1148.08 (12/31/01) Return: 1%

End: 1257.64 (12/31/10) Start: 1320.28 (12/29/00) Return: 0%

End: 1115.1 (12/31/09) Start: 1469.25 (12/31/99) Return: -3%

End: 903.25 (12/31/08) Start: 1229.23 (12/31/98) Return: -3%

End: 1468.36 (12/31/07) Start: 970.43 (12/31/97) Return: 4%

End: 1418.3 (12/29/06) Start: 740.74 (12/31/96) Return: 6%

End: 1248.29 (12/30/05) Start: 615.93 (12/29/95) Return: 7%

End: 1211.92 (12/31/04) Start: 459.27 (12/30/94) Return: 10%

End: 1111.92 (12/31/03) Start: 466.45 (12/31/93) Return: 9%

End: 879.82 (12/31/02) Start: 435.71 (12/31/92) Return: 7%

End: 1148.08 (12/31/01) Start: 417.09 (12/31/91) Return: 10%

End: 1320.28 (12/29/00) Start: 330.22 (12/31/90) Return: 14%

Picking stocks as the author alluded to will probably make the actual results much worse.

I think it's generally irresponsible to give one data point and an oversimplified statistic about average annual returns to financially vulnerable students. Especially considering that the authors approach would essentially be a levered bet. Tax implications aside, if you're paying 3-6% interest on your loans, paying them off is a guaranteed return. Compare that to the appropriate risk-free benchmarks and you'll see that it's definitely a smart decision to payoff the loans as soon as possible.

Few notes, returns calculated are continuous compounding although I don't think student loans are continuously compounded. Also, I chose year end dates for convenience, although I'm sure if you took other dates, your results would vary greatly (but that's sort of my point)
There's nothing proving it was an attack sponsored by the United States gov't or even a response.
The FBI's summary analysis is here: http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-so...
It wasn't great, though for 2000-era mod_perl code, it was decent. It had a lot of solid ideas that predated the Rails-wave of web development, but they could have used a lot more polish.
I didn't move here, I was born here. I work here for a private company that has no relationship to the federal government. My home is here.

The apathy about this issue is what confuses me - what harm would it do to allow DC residents to vote? What reason could you have to oppose DC citizens gaining the right to vote? The argument that federal government workers should be forbidden from voting is incredibly hollow - the vast majority of them reside outside the city. Also, this is tantamount to saying "Park Rangers in Idaho shouldn't be allowed to vote," a position I have never heard put forward.
Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777811
When you vote for the lesser evil in a 2-party oligopoly, you are blameless for anything that party does that you disagree with. You made the best possible choice.
It gets old very quickly and becomes painful and then you just stop caring for the most time, only occasionally flaring up with righteous indignation.
First off, stop being a disingenuous ass.

But I'll go ahead and say that I think torture by the authorities is worse than murder by the authorities, especially if you include all the knock-on effects of trying to justify it.
You didn't say anything of the sort. There was literally not a single conditional in your post.
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> In my original book for kids I used the Eclipse IDE, but for the new book I’ve chosen IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, which is also available for free.

I think there is a fundamental problem with learning your language if your choice in IDE is a real factor in your learning.

> But no worries, kids won’t need to learn to write FXML manually - they just drag and drop UI controls on a canvas and Scene Builder generates the FXML.

Are you really teaching them programming at this point?

The provided example jumps wildly from really basic things (and inaccurate imagery: http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/Teaching-Kids-Java/en...). Inheritance is glossed over even though it's probably one of the most important concepts in Java next to interfaces. I spot one paragraph trying to define six vocabulary words and in the very next paragraph you're talking about memory models.

You finish up the first excerpt with a really poor analogy about manufacturing computer games.

The second excerpt is almost entirely about things that aren't really programming.

I popped open the edits and in chapter 10 you actually tell kids to go to StackOverflow if they have problems. This is definitely a book about Java, but I see very little programming.
IIRC, the reason they have strange requests is so they know the crew actually went through the list and fulfilled all requests. Asking for only red M&M sounds silly but if you see a bowl of red M&Ms in your trailer, you know the crew was more likely to be diligent with the other requests. Those other requests being sound equipment and safty measures.

The point wasn't to have red M&Ms, though they taste good, it was a test to see how well the crew followed instructions.
I'm sorry. If this were France?
Very nice. If you want to reduce the shadows for sorting browns, try backlighting the chute so that shadows can't appear on it. Basically, turn the chute into a photography light box.
I'd push back on the dog in a cage analogy.
I think it could be argued that we've narrowed our communication mediums for purpose of effectiveness and efficiency. Also affordable ubiquity.
I would argue it's more like limiting a fish to water rather than a dog to a cage.
Not to say it can't be improved in light of today's tools though.

Great talk overall, a lot of interesting insights!
People are writing about it, trying to lift moral. LOL
That addresses my complaint, but doesn't solve the problem. There will always be residents of the District of Columbia - it's a city. Just like San Francisco or Chicago. The federal buildings make up a tiny fraction of the land area - the rest is private businesses and people's homes. The people who live in those homes should be allowed to vote.
> I think most likely a DDOS by a random part

Agreed, but I would think a DDOS would be observable from the neighbouring (and even not-so-neighbouring) networks/systems.

Reporting an attack based on Dyn saying "under duress/consistent with DDOS" is just shitty, shitty journalism.
It's not online. Perhaps you have been misled by a fake copy?
The biggest problem when your nation tortures people is you've trained people to torture; you've created institutionalized psychopaths. What do you do with them when their mission ends? Are they properly supported back into society or just dropped like most vets? Do the go home to become nightclub bouncers or security guards at your kids school?

That's why we have to clean up this mess.
At the same time, the blood draws for this study are looking for things your average clinic isn't going to do for a walk in. And unlike the system in the U.S., or another country, this isn't being done for the patient's health specifically, but rather for research, so there is no subsidy, either from insurance or the government health system.

Basically, we have no idea how much it would cost.
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If java had a program notion, that'd help a lot.

class MyMain {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println( "Hello World" )
}
}

How many unnecessary concepts are there between the beginner and something interesting happening? I count at least six...