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Wow, these are so egregiously annoying I'd probably not take a job fixing online service security at Apple[1] if it were promoted through these techniques.

[1]: Pretty much either the best job or the worst job possible.
I just use DigitalOcean and don't think about it much anymore. They're reliable, flexible and cheap.

Also, at the risk of triggering your "sponsored by a company" radar, here's my promo code, which will get you $10 off:

https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9fad2cc71fbc
I agree that JSlint would catch this, but then againg that doesn't seem like a valid argument to defend JS in this specific subject.
Base CRM which got R&D in Krakow, Poland once made a billboard with this link http://notaplaceforyou.com/ just next to the office one of the biggest IT companies in the city (and some smaller).
The words 'really' and 'objectively' in your post give the reader the sense that you think what you see is the correct way of seeing things and anyone who perceives it differently is wrong and somehow lesser.

Hope this helps.
Nice 500 error...
Even more than just a PSMF, what we went with was called the Velocity Diet. A PSMF can be chicken or beef or anything else with lots of protein, the Velocity Diet is 100% protein shakes. It was thought up by T-Nation, but you don't need to use their products specifically. The forums at bodybuilding.com have a lot of people who have done it and reported back on their findings. It's really hard to stick to and you will get sick of shakes real fast, but what it all boils down to is that this is a heavily calorie-restricted liquid diet. Normally you would lose some muscle mass doing that, but this diet is supposed to keep most of your new muscle as long as you keep lifting throughout.

I haven't done it in a very long time, and the thought of drinking even a single shake makes me feel ill now. But it's possible to lose 20lbs in one month.
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This is owlsend (owlsend.com) re-branded after causing confusion with sendowl (sendowl.com). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154

I'm glad to see they fixed their logo so it isn't a blue owl.

I'm disappointed to see that they still haven't made it more clear that the $29 / month is a flat rate to use their interface and the end user still pays $1 / 10,000 emails to SES. If you send a weekly email (4/month) to 10,000 subscribers, you pay $29 + $4 = $33. If you send a daily (30 / month) email to 10,000 subscribers you'll pay $29 + $30 = $59. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070921
The Future of Consumer Tech Is About Making You Forget It's There
It is very refreshing to see MSDN publishing a sentence like :

"The internal Microsoft team has been focussed on Linux support"

I've never been on the Microsoft side of the great computing divide, but this sort of work definitely reduces my (old) antagonism to the company.
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> On a controlled network, why not push a self-signed certificate to the browsers instead of using HTTP?

Why should we accept the browser forcing internal networks to bear the technology costs (if not the additional financial/administrative costs) of securing for the public internet? Especially for services that might need to communicate with things other than browsers and might not want the overhead.
I hope the two groups are able to work out their differences. I would love to see some of the strengths of io.js transfer into Node.js from both a technical and organizational perspective. The io.js project has been surprisingly thorough. So far they have kept on a consistent schedule of updates, provided excellent transparency regarding their team meetings and working groups, and they have been very responsive to feedback. I still use Node.js (with the harmony flag) for my production servers in hopes that there will be a merger soon but I may be in a dilemma if it doesn't happen within the next few months.
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I would disagree with this point
>This indicates that BT is not technically better than a centralized model.

It indicates that BT didn't provide something that Netflix et al did require. I imagine that is something like maintaining control of all digital copies of a work as you went on to suggest. This is not a technical limitation but rather a business need. So BT may be technically better (I imagine in terms of resources required to provide content it is superior) however it didn't meet the business case as well as a centralised solution did hence BT doesn't get used.
Well, it's certainly a more constructive reaction than buying a fancy car.
So this is what it’s like to get your oil changed when you’re a dude
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In one case someone is prevented from using the service by experiencing emotional trauma.

In the other someone is prevented from using the service by a ban.

One of those is strictly worse and calling them equal does a disservice to the individual being bullied.

People can live without twitter and not suffer a lower quality of life. But being bullied can leave a permanent mark on your psyche.
Even more so when you consider the kind of dossier they had on him, they now have on everyone, by default
> However, I've also read studies that show the opposite, but the lack of rigurosity and the possible confounds that show up for both sides seems to render this as an open question.

This doesn't look particularly convincing, indeed (though studies about programming languages rarely are).
About the "Superstition in the pigeon" link:

Kind of painfull that you link to Skinner's (pretty much) only ill-done research; See J.E.R. Staddon for a nice refutation of 'the superstition in the pigeon' experiment.
Coral cache, for those having problems: http://hello-world.io.nyud.net/hello-world/
And not a google cache anywhere to show for it.
Hi Sean, having skimmed the presentation you linked to, Glitch's programming model seems similar to VHDL and Verilog, in that the "tick" is an explicit construct and statements are not guaranteed to execute sequentially.

I'm not experienced in VHDL, so I might be completely wrong here.

Did you take any design cues or inspiration from hardware design languages?
Yes, informal 'working for gold' has happened in quite a few MMOs where the grind is required to play.

However, many MMOs (Eve excluded) usually ban or restrict selling gold for USD.

mTurk and the up coming gig economy are legal ways to extract money right now, as a IT1099
I can't speak to why he isn't supporting that concept, but it'd likely substantially constrain growth.

Many current and potential users would simply opt not to pay. Others would cut down the number of accounts they maintain. And it would also potentially change the overall demographic of the user-base, even if the charge was nominal.
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Thanks, Noel!
Where are you pulling the info from? Regardless, this is something I didn't realize I wanted but have already followed the relevant ones. I don't like all the third party weather sites and usually rely on NOAA, but this makes it so I will see the radar in the morning. Cool stuff.
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It's great for quick feedback. It's less good when your coworker breaks the build on a less-used codepath because there are no unit tests to run.
I don't have and an't afford a lawyer. At te end of the year I will get an accountant to do my taxes. It sounds like you are running a couple companies under a single entity. I think that makes sense. In a best case situation any individual company would generate ~10k in annual revenue. Maybe the better ones would be 80k.

What did your lawyer say about liability. If one company got sued, couldn't they come after the assets of another because it is knly a single entity?
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Here's a little more detail about why PAZ: https://github.com/lukebond/lnug-talk-2015-02-25/blob/master...
We recorded an in-depth video with Luke explaining the reasons and whys behind the project, but it's not live on YouTube yet...(soon)
I'm not sure I agree with such a broad generalization as embodied in this article, but one of the most baffling things about the Nokia handsets deal was that Nokia was able to unload the legacy handset business on Microsoft. How did Microsoft's board allow that?

Secondly, Nokia corporation is alive and well and doing a good business in infrastructure and ecosystem (HERE) components. Time has passed quickly and Nokia's non-compete agreement with Mircosoft will expire in 2016. Do you think Nokia could start making Android and/or Sailfish handsets by then?

While it was a bad deal for Nokia to become Microsoft's vassal in the first place, in the exit from that deal, Nokia got as good a deal as possible.
> You can transport value across the world instantly, with no intermediaries. This is a major efficiency gain.

Only in a fictional world where my employer/clients pay me in bitcoin.

In reality I need to go to an exchange, convert to bitcoin, then go back to either the same exchange or a different exchange and convert from bitcoin, all in all I've gone through two intermediaries and paid two fees.

For one example if I did that on CoinMill they would charge me $2.59 over market for 1 bitcoin ($252~254 in value) and the same again when I convert it back to dollars. $5.18, that's approx. a 2% transaction fee. TransferWise by contrast (who really are super hassle free) charge $2.88 for one end-to-end transaction, so less than bitcoin(!).

So yeah, your argument is completely broken in the real world. Only in a fictional world where everyone uses bitcoin does it work.
Because even large trusts are still competing with each other. If the funding process within an organisation becomes too political, it will shrink. In general, a large corporate entity has good governance from the mere fact that it succeeded, it's good at allocating money to different projects and managing people. Governments are good at holding political power by playing through political alliance. Thus, I think they will tend to do a worse job in allocating grants. The process is likely to become more politicized than it would in a private organisation. There are of course exceptions, I am talking about general tendencies.

No matter who funds science, someone, even if it is the government, has to reason about the unknown unknowns when deciding what to fund and to which extent. The amount spent by the NSF is about $7B, which is a blip on the budget, and a blip in the amount contributed to private charities. The YMCA alone gets about $5B. The problem is that people just don't care that much about scientific research, and capitalism is good at producing what people want.
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It will become a proxy only for those people who allow it to. Which in general will be the older and less technically able generation who barely use the Internet other than to Facebook anyway. It certainly isn't going to replace Google and as usual with social media sites the kids will be looking to get away from the sites their parents use.
> Many of us in the community struggle with it. You're very not alone.

Very much this.
Yes, absolutely!

We had a case of this in Massachusetts this year in our governor's race. One of the third party candidates did so well during the first debate that all of the third-party candidates were then blocked from future debates. Of course, there's nothing exactly admitting that, but it seems like it could hardly be a coincidence. (In fact, the third-party candidate that did well was _uninvited_ from a future debate that he had already accepted an invitation to.)

Bonus: he ended up earning the minimum 5% vote needed to establish a new political party[0] in the state!

[0]: http://www.unitedindependent.org/
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Why should we accept the browser forcing internal networks to bear the technology costs (if not the additional financial/administrative costs) of securing for the public internet?

You shouldn't. Feel free to not those browsers.

Especially for services that might need to communicate with things other than browsers and might not want the overhead.

If you're not communicating with a browser - don't use HTTPS. It's not like you're prevented from supporting both protocols.
I wouldn't be so confident. Most viruses now are pretty stable and silent. They don't crash your system and they don't eat up all your bandwidth. They'll get you when you log in to your banking website or they'll use you as part of an attack on someone else.
I love the Venus photos that the Soviet landers managed to take. Sure, they're terrible quality, but they're currently the only images we have from Venus.

I wonder if, with more modern technology, it would be possible to design a Venus lander that could last longer than the short period that the Venera landers did.
I can only see (light)blue/gold, but I have no idea what would be wrong with my vision either.
Hence my point about the right-wing base being so mad. Winning candidates spew just enough "small government" rhetoric to get elected, then forget about it when in power.

A major problem is primaries. A slew of would-be candidates vie for the ticket, most of them being actual "small government" types, but the party vote gets split among them ... while a single "centrist"/"large government" candidate appeals to the left/centrist voters of the party, and garners more votes. If 70% of the party really does want "small government", with the 30% remaining wanting a "left/centrist" candidate, and there's 8 primary candidates, and 7 of them split the 70% vote into about 10% each, but the dissenting 30% minority all go for the "should be a Democrat" (aka "Republican In Name Only", aka RINO), then the "large government" candidate wins with 3 times the votes of any competitors. This has happened repeatedly, and is leaving the bulk of the Republican "base" very angry but with no viable alternatives that won't result in the Democrat winning thanks to splitting the vote on the way to replacing the Republican party.
My oldest radar.weather.gov bookmark dates from 2006. They had a flash animation up for much of that time.
The important thing is to do work that you find fulfilling, whether that be code or crops.

Best of luck on your journey.
In the end of the eighties I needed to replace the fancy patterns available in spreadsheet graphics on PC1512 (gem) by more serious patterns (the client was a bank). I have done a small visualisation program in turbo pascal to find them and I have patched the binary.
I agree that too many in the country don't exercise their right to vote, but I wouldn't take away their right to abstain. But, I mean, that could be solved by having an `abstain` option on the ballot itself.
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It really depends on the size of your micro services. If the services are small, then running each one (via some master shell script) shouldn't be an issue. If the services are large, then something like Vagrant would enable you to get a near-live environment fired up quickly and easily.
That may be true, but the more advanced one isn't nearly as funny :P
Algos didn't cause the '08 crash. The '08 crash was caused by a lot of bad bets on the housing market. 100% of those bets were made by humans chatting on Bloomberg or over the telephone.

Edit: No, child posts, you cannot make the leap that trend following algos are the same thing as modeling MBS risk (which isn't an algo...).
Cognitive Computing researcher here.

This system utilizes vector space and is based on a development at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:

https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/1234...

http://genopharmix.com/biomimetic-cognition/in_silico_cognit...

It's designed to mimic the process of human cognition aka AI.

It's fairly sophisticated as shown by its results.
thank you. I had tested it on ubuntu 14.04 LTS in VMWARE on my windows-7 Toshiba laptop. I had tested the array_sum built-in function of PHP by rewriting it as a PHP function. The performance of that function after the compilation as an extension is exactly equal to the performance of the built-in function.
> I am burnt out on having a “40 hour” work week that actually occupies the majority of my mental time.

This really resonated with me. I can't just stop thinking about this stuff just because I'm at lunch or at home if I'm working on a hard problem.
But I don't get paid for that time.
It might just be leftover from the early days of the iPhone, where AT&T, the original carrier of the iPhone in the states, complained about network congestion and bandwidth issues in highly populated areas.

I would think that AT&T may have asked Apple for some sort of limitation on non-essential services like this.
Apple's philosophy is generally not to expose a setting when a good default will satisfy 90% of the users. For something like this, where most people should have it disabled (being clueless about app sizes and data uses) and some power users might enable it, but clueless people will enable it and then complain about it, Apple will typically not make it configurable.

Not that I agree with their position, but that seems to be their approach.
Even if it would help that much the original issue with scalability still remains. It's not feasible for any individual to validate the blockchain. Maintaining a full node is going to be expensive.

So even in the best case it would be "Instead of scaling ridiculously badly bitcoin scales only horrendously badly".

A natural solution for this, if we really really want to get cryptocurrencies to work, would be to basically have a cryptocurrency per nation or so, with different PoW function to avoid shifting asics around. The only reason Bitcoiners want a person in Argentina to keep a Finnish potato sack purchase in their books is just to pump up the value of their 'investment'. Every solution made in relation to Bitcoin is made from the viewpoint that if it would make any current Bitcoin holders potentially miss out on global domination it's ignored. Even if it would actually work better.
That's actually the default, but you can specify a different module system if you like. https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/modules/
Good video on how modern day semiconductors are made, 1 hour, well spent
I notice you talk about gamergate alot, but have you dealt with anti-vaxxers,militant atheists/christians/muslims, or justin bieber/one direction/ taylor swift fans?
One wrong comment might get you targeted by the crazy amount of subgroups on twitter who do harass and bully people.
I actually don't use twitter, because it's too easy to get harassed by so many different groups who will bully you over tons of things.
I think twitter on the whole, is great study of human tribal behavior. The 140 characters, lack of context,followers, everything about the very core of twitter enables narcissism ,in-group/out-grouping, and abuse. I think its time twitter goes away.
Nice story, except the 2008 crisis happened in subprime mortgages backed securities, for which there were no such strategies. What you're describing sounds a bit more like the 1987 crash, which was linked to portfolio insurance strategies, which have far more insidious consequences than trend following (and have since then been deprecated).
This is no hobby level system. I've done side-by-side comparisons and they've got something else going on here that beats other systems hands down. You've also seemed to miss the fact that these guys are enabling the context to be controlled using any word.
There's a major difference in that I can easily use a non-dominant smartphone OS if I want to, but if some ISP doesn't cover my area, I can't use them no matter how much I might want to.

You're not necessarily wrong, but it's not quite the same.
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I agree with you. To anyone who's been paying attention there's a pretty palpable recent rush to encrypt everything (largely as a response to the Snowden revelations). There should be a genuine debate about the implications on social, political, ethical, and technological levels, but instead we only hear about the bogeymen of NSA spying (although, this is a legitimate concern). I'm a strong advocate of cryptography, but I think we need to come up with a way to speak meaningfully about it, instead of just rushing to encapsulate all human expression within cryptography.
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Ask HN: “getting rich quick” selling “get rich quick”, is this guy legit?
According to this guy, his last month income was $100K
http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/my-january-2015-monthly-income-report/
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That article takes the $5,822 million in "high speed data" revenue on page 39, and subtracts the $175 million in cost of "high speed data" on page 42, and concludes that TWC's profit margin is 97%. The author ignores the other cost components in that chart. But read footnote (a): "Employee and other direct operating costs include costs directly associated with the delivery of the Company’s video, high-speed data, voice and other services to subscribers and the maintenance of the Company’s delivery systems." The "delivery system" is the wires that carry the video, data, and voice services, and the operating costs for that total $4.3 billion.

Even leaving aside that egregious error, that calculation excludes interest, depreciation, taxes, and all the other numbers that must be taken out to get to "profit margin."
While there is a lot to be said against "financialization" in an economy, this particular outcome isn't a signal that things are getting worse.

I'd be more worried if several humans were significantly outperforming algorithms over a significant amount of time because that is an unlikely outcome in an honest market.

Automation will also drive down costs.
I've looked at those photos of Venus probably a thousand times. Still, every time I come across them I just stare at them thinking, over and over again, "This photo is from another planet. In space." Followed quickly by "Oh man, we're also floating in space" and then reassuring myself that gravity is doing it's job and we're not going to float away and we're pretty well stuck to the sun. Crisis averted.