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> the housing situation in cities like NYC and SF is so competitive that landlords don't really need to adjust their policies to get the tenants they want

This bothers me to no end, I'm continually amazed that the standard of apartments in SF is so very, very crappy. You're charging several thousand dollars per month, yet the stove and the fridge and the in-apt washing machine is either 20 years old or the cheapest shit you can buy. And since the market is the way it is where most people don't care about these things, this is what you get. :-/
I don't see how Laravel lends itself to "rapid prototyping" than any other framework. Sure, Symfony2 or ZF2 has best practices on how to do things, but at the end of the day it's just MVC - you can skip any best practice you want to just get something done. This isn't unique to Laravel.
It means that any competitor isnt guaranteed access to the line that is already provided. This makes sense as your local loop (in the internets case) may be fiber optics, may be coaxial cable, may be telephone. So if you get FiOS, comcast won't be granted use of the fiber by law, they'll have to get verizon to agree to use of it in a separate contract.
Joining and querying efficiently on relations is probably the most obvious omission.
Agreed, Symfony2 is great, but I see it being used more in an open source project capacity. Working on it at a company where time frames are key, rapid development is huge. Plus, laravel is far more intuitive and I can ramp up new team members much faster.
So we're admittedly not hardcore storage experts, but we did a lot of experiments and iterations until we arrived at the current storage, and it seems to be performing quite well for our needs, and much better than previous iterations. We're happy to learn better ways of data storage/access for time series data though.

RRD Tool: expects samples to come in at regular intervals and expects old samples to be overwritten by new ones at predictable periods. It's great because you can just derive the file position of a sample based on its timestamp, but in Prometheus, samples can have arbitrary time stamps and gaps between them, and time series can also grow arbitrarily large (depending on currently configured retention period) and our data format needs to support that.

InnoDB: not sure how this works internally, but given it's usually used in MySQL, does it work well for time series data? I.e. millions of time series that each get frequent appends?

KairosDB: depends on Cassandra, AFAICS. One main design goal was to not depend on complex distributed storage for immediate fault detection, etc.

InfluxDB: looks great, but has an incompatible data model. See http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#prometheu...

I guess a central question that touches on your iops one is: you always end up having a two-dimensional layout on disk: timeseries X time. I don't really see a way to both store and retrieve data in such a way that you can arbitrarily select a time range and time series without incurring a lot of iops either on read or write.
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That's my (rather depressing) understanding.

I still dream of a non-profit or municipal cable plant, serviced by multiple ISPs. The last mile is a natural monopoly, and we need to stop pretending otherwise.
I have a couple friends who work at landfills here in the Bay Area. It's pretty appalling how wasteful we are. Like the guy in the article, they found stuff that is brand new and simply returned by the customer, discontinued items, and plenty of lightly used items. There was so much stuff, they were giving it away to friends, which is how I ended up with an electric dog fountain and a battery operated pet nail trimmer, both new in box.
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Is that supposed to be funny? Maybe he went all "autistic" too? Perhaps he types like a "Jerry's kid"?

Grow up, and behave like an adult who actually takes care in choosing their words.
Isn't last mile unbundling a bigger deal than Title II for ultimately delivering better broadband service? Common carrier provisions are obviously very good, but excluding the possibility of last mile unbundling seems like a bad thing for the longer term.
I wouldn't say their market is disappearing because I don't ever think the need for pen and paper will ever disappear. It's definitely shrinking and there's market adjustments occurring but I don't see them ever going away.
Cool visualization! I especially like the way you could split the views
You appear to be quite against this (judging by your other posts on the matter). The fact remains that the current system is not going to hold, and that left to its own devices will end up with a bunch of walled gardens and other issues.

I agree that it is wise to be wary of regulation in this case--but honestly, I think it's time we at least experiment. The market and regulatory forces at play have basically forced themselves into this position.
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The supply room at my work is stocked by Staples. That might be a bigger business than their retail stores. We even use reams of printer paper as monitor risers.
Personally I find the Facebook placeholders quite distracting. You still have to wait around for something to load, and scrolling down to see something that has loaded means you just have to remember scroll back up again if you want to see what was going to be there.
Take a look at phabricator's source code, which was originally developed in house at facebook but is currently open sourced. It's not using any of the big MVC frameworks, but it's very well written (despite using PHP 5.2 compatible only syntax) and I think a good example of a well designed PHP codebase.
Regardless of your current state of mathematical sophistication, learning more linear algebra always helps you as a developer.

You might get something interesting out of learning category theory and Haskell.
Hey, are you open for visa for interns? I went through application instruction and found my expertise aligning with the tech stacks.
Why would the state want to take on the complexity of dealing with the situation you described, just to encourage "currency competition"?
First, 1 L = 0.001 m^3. A liter is one cubic decimeter. 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1 == 0.001 .

Humans use more fresh water than just the quantity that they actually drink. You also have to include the quantity used for sanitation, personal hygiene, and recreation. Even discounting non-household use, a single person can easily clear 100 L (0.1 m^3) per day through their water meter, without even trying.

Go read your water bill some time. Divide your metered usage by 30.5 and restart your calculation on a new bar napkin or envelope. That gives you a multiple of about 26, if the whole planet consumes water like American households, and agricultural and recreational uses are completely ignored. Use that same 10% figure, and the whole Amazon could be completely consumed by only 18.2 billion people.

That's just one river, but it is the one with the most water in it.
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Death threat hacker who fooled police is jailed
I personally learned the importance of open networks the
hard way. In the mid-1980s I was president of a startup,
NABU: The Home Computer Network. My company was using new
technology to deliver high-speed data to home computers
over cable television lines....But NABU went broke while
AOL became very successful....While delivering better
service, NABU had to depend on cable television operators
granting access to their systems....The phone network was
open whereas the cable networks were closed. End of story."

A person can't go through an experience like this without having it fundamentally affect their worldview. I wonder why, with all of the coverage the lead-up to this decision has gotten, I have not read this story before.
I've never seen it work. Then again, in the trials I've been involved in [many, I suspect, by HN standards, but few compared to a practicing criminal attorney], nobody has ever been acquitted, for any reason. (At least in these cases, it wasn't because the system is rigged against them -- it's because the U.S. Attorney in the district where I worked is very politically visible, and tends only to take slam dunk cases to trial.)

As for why he didn't plead out: who knows. It's possible the government didn't want to give him much of a deal, given the high profile of the case, and their apparent mountain of evidence. Occasionally, the government actually wants to go to trial. It's also possible that Ulbricht was either desperate to be exonerated or, relatedly, had a somewhat deluded sense of his prospects at trial (either through self-delusion, or through an overly optimistic lawyer). Some people insist on their day in court, no matter how ill-advised, from a practical perspective, that may be.
So as someone who has been lightly following the debate, and is not familiar with the FCC's process, what are the next steps to actually start enforcing mobile and landline broadband as Title II? I also wonder how long it will take for the reclassification to become enforceable, and how long the existing companies will have to "become compliant".
Same here. It almost seems to good to be true. I don't want to sound gloomy doomy when this is excellent news, but I can't help but think what are we missing. I keep waiting for the "but...".
Disclaimer: MS employee/don't speak for the company etc; Yes, SDET has been (at least in my division and those I talk with) dissolved and integrated into SDE.

I raise an eye at the parent-parent post not because of the impact this will have (certainly some of the concerns stated here echo strongly with me) but that it's been a relatively recent change and I'd be skeptical that you can attribute any recent failures to this specifically, things just don't move that fast.

As to seeing how it pans out, it's certainly up in the air. As a former SDET there's a big wall to climb of making testability performance security etc. part of the first line of thinking alongside design and implementation.
This looks much better than what I feared. I'm glad they're just not regulating it under Title II, but are modernizing it:

For example, there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling.
I really like Laravel, it makes getting things started easier. I am glad I finally have a good way to manage my assets from within Laravel so that I don't have to deal with all of that myself every time. The only thing I find Laravel lacking is Web Socket support and every time I tried to implement something I would basically give up and switch to Node.js. Is there anything that can get web sockets working in Laravel?
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You could also check out Kotlin. It's not as strongly functional as F# is but is still pretty nice, sort of a better C# for the JVM. For desktop stuff, JavaFX works OK.

That said, I'm glad MSFT is now competing in the open source/x-platform desktop app space. The Java team can use the extra competition.
Until Amazon offers same day delivery everywhere, office supply stores will have a market. People will always be running to the store at the last minute to get supplies for a project due the following day.
This is all pretty great. For the first time in a while I feel optimistic about the future of the open internet. My only concern is a small detail: "These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services."

The specification of 'lawful content and services' seems a bit ominous to me. Does this imply there may be ways to monitor/limit/restrict internet traffic? To use his example, would this language be used to describe the open phone network?
The original post describe a healthy lifestyle, not just eating a few vitamins, but exercise, sleep and others.
These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services

of 'lawful content and services'. I don't mean to ruin a good thing, but is it implied here that ISPs may become the gatekeepers? I don't want what happened to YouTube (automatic content blocking because it's "unlawful") to take place with the general internet. One of the most important aspects of the internet, in my own opinion, is an unfiltered, uncensored stream of data.

I'd be very cautious about what shaping we permit to our network traffic. Laws are fickle, knowledge is power.
I think it tends to do with the marketing. Lots of hand-holding walk-through tutorials and help people get "rapid" prototyping with laravel, moreso than the actual code itself. And, to an extent, when you present yourself as being good for "rapid dev", that's what people will associate with the framework. (by comparison, zf has never promoted itself as allowing for rapid development, AFAIK).
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Wireless last mile might be an option if the FCC actually opens up the 3.5ghz "innovation band" : http://www.fcc.gov/blog/35-ghz-new-ideas-innovation-band
I've seen this result from various reports over the years. It's always sad to me to see that education is consistently (okay, with rare exception) the bottom of the barrel on these measures.

Of course, teaching high school doesn't require PhD-level math and reasoning skills, but rather some equally rare classroom management and motivational skills. I'm less concerned about high-paying tech skills drawing away potential teachers as I am about high-paying managerial positions drawing away the people with the skills really needed in a classroom.

I think being a teacher is much more analogous to being a good manager than to being a good engineer. Take a group of people and get them to focus. Yeah, a high school math teacher is expected to be able to explain single-variable calculus, but there are two components there: understanding it and explaining it so someone else will understand. I definitely find the former much easier. And in elementary school, you just need to be reasonably clueful about arithmetic and science and history and English, not to be able to write a dissertation.
> that they disclosed him as a witness at the 11th hour

Yeah, that bit makes me suspect it was a deliberate strategy.
Did you check out deep learning. http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/tdunning/strata-2014-anomal...
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Yeah, we got a Protonet Maya some time ago and it's been pretty much a paperweight + expensive wireless router so far. The software is ambitious but ultimately useless.

Funny enough, our biggest boost in communication came from starting using Slack. That thing is amazing, and getting creative with integrations is awesome. It's a somewhat important part of our workflow now.
I agree that it's extremely depressing. I think we actually need to go farther than unbundling on the last mile, though. Ideally, where possible, we ought to go farther than just re-using existing copper links and instead set things up so that we can more easily and cheaply deliver FTTH.

This net neutrality victory is something to celebrate, but we need to keep the bigger goals in mind for this to not be suboptimal longer term.
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seems like a five minute script using FullContact
libgdx also uses robovm for ios, but prefers gwt for web. since its 'just java' desktop and android dev comes free.

If you're into build *gl based guis it's a great cross platform toolkit in disguise (especially with scene2d).
Meteor -- the JS framework -- uses something much like this, which they call "latency compensation". It's a core part of their ideology. Data is prefetched or given default values that give the user at least something to look at until the actual data is fetched with AJAX.

Beyond just using spinners, Meteor will populate the fields with client-side cached data that might be a little old, and then when it receives a response from the server it updates the client-side DB with the new data and refreshes the view. If the data hasn't changed at all, the process can be completely transparent -- just an instantaneous UI update.

Because the Meteor framework encompasses both the client and server side, this can be "abstracted away" from the app developer. The abstraction isn't perfect of course but it makes it much easier to implement these kinds of ultra-responsive Web UIs.
I just turned 40 and I get a lot more wound up by incompetent workmates or similar things than I did 20 years ago.
Do you mean these two things?

http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent#relationships

http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent#querying-relations

> EDIT
and this for making them effective

http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent#eager-loading
Before digging into converting the backend to Prometheus, you may want to have a look at their actual persistence method. What worries me is that they are still storing one metric per file, and are copying data from one file to the next to perform checkpoints or purges (which is admittedly an improvement over whisper's method of thrashing back and forth across a single file).

They have the code to do in-place method of appending chunks, but in my admittedly brief foray through the code I could not actually find any use of it.
My guess is that they are using human operators, and they probably have a retrieval squad on standby in case they lose contact. The regulatory issues I couldn't begin to guess.

The goal at this stage would be to validate the business model and to collect flight data and get a sense of the operational requirements. If it works and they want to develop an autopilot, they will then have all the flight data, landing zone choices and issues, and trained operators to consult.
Congress only needs a simple majority to prevent a bill from being passed in the first place. It will never hit the President's desk.
It wouldn't have been so monumental if instead of locking everything into Direct3D they'd used OpenGL instead. Here their own lock-in mentality will eventually bite them hard. If MS will outgrow their dinosaur lock-in approach, they can start supporting GL-Next on all of their platforms when it will come out.
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Yeah. I am so deeply oppressed by the matriarchy they're even affecting my language choices ;-)

You get the idea though. To be gender neutral, I should swap dick for arsehole.
So Western karma and Buddhist karma can be a bit different, as the West has adopted the term it's become the Western version of the idea. And Buddhist karma is a bit different from Hindu karma. I haven't found a fully consistent use of the word across Buddhism even. But one common theme is that you shouldn't be ascribing the suffering of others to their karma.

Overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Buddhism

Theravadan view:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/kamma.html

Soto Zen view:
" We say, result is—will result immediately, not later punishment. To do something is already punishment. That you do something is already punishment. Not later." (edit: I may be taking this out of context....)
http://suzukiroshi.sfzc.org/dharma-talks/october-1968-9th-ta...

Secular view:
http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/karma-and-its-f...
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I think the most likely possibility is that the telcos attack this to the point where it gets de-fanged or turned away entirely. Part of congress is already mobilizing against this movement.
I worked at Office Max in high school and had never stepped foot into an Office Depot, when I eventually did it was like this uncanny valley feeling because it was so similar to Office Max and yet it clearly wasn't. When they announced the merger it didn't surprise me at all.
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Yeah, while normal aircraft seem to have plenty of regulations and training involved, the nature of the 'piloting' is of worthwhile concern. As was just the case over in Washington DC, even a weather event can have drastically unwanted consequences. It's one thing to say "Oops I crashed my drone on the White House lawn" and quite different when it comes to "Oops I crashed your X/Y/Z product into a group of children playing outside."
Does anyone know how these services stack up against each other? I use CodeClimate and it rocks, but I'm curious about how the others work.
I am doing this too, with Macdonald's "Linear and Geometric Algebra" and "Vector and Geometric Calculus" along with "Networks, Crowds, and Markets" and "Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics." It's slow going, but very enjoyable.

The most interesting side effect I've noticed from doing this is a dramatic improvement in my ability to focus. I had been suffering from a general scatterbrained, distracted feeling for a while before I started. I think it was due to the way I consume content online, trying to follow too many interests at once. I set aside about an hour a night to work on these math courses and within a couple of weeks I noticed that my focus was greatly improved. For that reason alone I'm counting this project as a major win, regardless of whether I master these topics or not. Having something to study seems to be extremely valuable for general mental health, at least for me.
Shameless plug: This looks quite similar to FnordMetric, which also supports labels/multi dimensional time series, is StatsD wire compatible and supports SQL as a query language (so you won't have to learn yet another DSL)
FUSE / sshfs?
What do you mean? It's everywhere, but like the author said, 'in a perfect world', really, most of the time you don't notice it.

'we' use angular on our project and it does this by 'default'.

i.e. the HTML/CSS always loads right away while the dynamic content is loading in the placeholders, which in turn are the elements themselves that will be used.

This article seems dated, 2000? I haven't worked on an AJAX app since that time, at least one with pinwheels and white pages...
>In a very narrow and technical sense

This is the sense in which a lot of people parse language. The whole point of correctly using language is that readers don't have to jump through hoops to understand what mistake you made and why you made it (i.e. what you actually meant), which ultimately makes communication easier.