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> A serious problem with this approach is scaling.

Stack overflow runs off one SqlServer. Do you think your app is going beyond that? If yes, maybe this approach will not work for you. If no, you are in the 99,99999% of all other sites/apps that are not as big as SO, FB or google and you can use this simple way to make your site or app.
You touch upon a couple of very important points here - removing barriers and the stigma.

What we're trying to do here is just provide a completely independent person to talk to. They're able to talk to them about anything and everything and none of that information will come back to the employers. Why do this then? By offering this, people are able to work out/unravel any problems/goals/challenges they've got. The hopeful result is that this private chat will then provide a focus, a decision and a more fulfilled human.
A first class API for cross-document communication is something that has been sorely needed for a long time. I've solved this problem in the past by treating LocalStorage as a page of shared memory and using it to create a publish/subscribe event system. I'm sure the same concept can be used to create a compatibility shim for this API.
Is that a joke? "Turn your head and cough" isn't a testicular cancer screening. It's to search for signs of inguinal hernias.

You don't really have a doctor girlfriend, do you? :)
I don't think this is an article about people who work.
I bet there are a few common "patterns" to rust ownership, and equally many pitfalls and rookie mistakes when one fails to pick one of these patterns. It becomes extra hard if you approach Rust from a Java/Python/C# perspective where the slightest bit of allocation/RAII and mostly even thinking of the stack feels completely alien. You have to learn that and Rust.

I'd love to see a kind of rust ownership tutorial in which you are asked to address a simple CS problem where these patterns occur in Rust. For example, many seem to find it hard to write a factory type. The next problem could be a doubly linked list and so on.
This was my indirect way of asking for examples :).
Plenty of examples, although they all tend to be higher-scale considerations that might not apply for your small business or side project:

1) You have "friends" or "friends of friends" modeled in Postgres, but then you realize that you want/need to do more social graph stuff in particular, so it makes more sense to use a graph database like Neo4J

2) You're saving a ton of activity data in postgres but your site is slowing down, and you realize you don't need the archived data, so it makes more sense to use something like Redis for that chunk of data

3) You're saving a ton of log data but the storage of it is going way up, and you're only querying it for big data / data warehouse purposes, so it makes more sense to use something like Cassandra

4) You're wanting to write a new feature set that relies on existing normalized data but would require new complicated queries and joins and business logic to deal with it, plus you're running into scaling considerations, so it makes more sense to convert to a reactive event-based system, such as micro services consuming a kafka topic, where each micro service has its own dedicated repository

In each of those cases, if you have used Postgres combined with sprocs, it's much harder to transition than if you had coded to interfaces and relied on your db in a dumb sense.
That's a very ambitious take on this problem. It is pretty cool (and definitely more secure) to run OpenBSD but you can probably get most of the upside by slapping OpenWRT on the consumer router you already have. A $50 WDR3600 happily handles several VPNs, custom VLANs, an IPv6 tunnel, exotic routing, an external drive, and a Samba server while doing the typical SOHO router-y stuff, like wifi.

BTW Running my own name server has solved a lot of weird slowdowns I used to experience when browsing the web or sshing. According to namebench[1], my router doesn't even crack the top three when it comes to response time so I used to have it forward queries but in practice, after it warms up, it's more reliable and delivers a smoother experience than either my ISP or Google.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Implementing a ray tracer in Minecraft
Work begins on KDE Plasma 5.4
Does Soekris have any competition in this space? Any time I check I can never find any viable competitors. Soekris seems to have hit the "IDA Pro sweet spot," AKA unbelievable product priced just low enough to scare away any new competitors.
You're on to something with this. A browser extension that ran as a local app and made it very clear that it was local would be very attrractive to me. The only worry I would have would be over whether it would eventually grow and grow like the bitcoin blockchain. I lost interest in both Bitcoin and Dogecoin not because of the basic concept but because I got sick of hosting multi-gigbyte clockchain files, and the binaries were so poorly designed that they don't even give you an option of where to store your blockchain files in a config screen, and just stick in in a subfolder on the boot drive where the software was installed. Sure, I could get around that, but the thoughts that run through my mind when I find myself unexpectedly running out of space on my boot drive are a) life is too goddamn short, and b) if they didn't make that very basic thing easily configurable what other problems am I going to run into?
> It would be far, far cheaper to decrease pollution than to build airtight seals around every living space

But it could be cheaper for the inhabitants of a few living spaces to build airtight seals around their own living spaces only than to contribute to the cost of decreasing air pollution worldwide, something you suggest might happen when you say...

> Or the rich/powerful will live in expensive, isolated structures while everyone else suffers

A city's residents and a country's citizens tend to act in short-term self-interest, and taking part in worldwide pollution control is a long-term solution that gives up a lot to developing countries like China and India who expect the developed world to bear the greatest costs because they've already reaped the greatest benefits from polluting and causing climate change.
Introducing Surface
IANASpy, but my understanding is that even someone with clearance can't just look at whatever she wants. So we probably want to give a mole an arbitrarily high clearance, and just make sure she looks at top secret fake documents we've cooked up for her.
A while back someone posted a cool simulated annealing post of this[0]. The app seems to be down, but the code is there in case anyone wants to take a look.

[0] http://toddwschneider.com/posts/traveling-salesman-with-simu...
Personally I like to get a consumer router and put OpenWRT on it. It used to be a lot harder but it's gotten a lot more simple and effective. I have a few reflashed Netgear WNDR3700s but there are probably better ones out there that are pretty cheap too.

It takes more research and work but it's more simple than having to install everything onto a clean OS install.
This seems orthogonal to internal implementation hiding, especially if the "API" is not a public library API, say, but an internal one.

Then again, contracts about who can modify what data are also part of any public API; historically, there have been plenty of (quite decent) APIs that have returned pointers to internal structures that have limited lifetimes, in languages like C that don't enforce lifetimes at all.
Save money on power cost for one! If you installing pfSense consider small booksize or itx case.
“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” a short story from the book “Tomorrowland”
Funny, those were the same two I noticed.

The document says it was written shortly before Python 2.5, which came out in September 2006. So it's probably about 9 years old.
Handy resources for finding and attending conference and events for growth marketers. Both the big events such as TNW and WebSummit but plenty of smaller and specialized ones. Missing events can be added (per request)
Really? I always thought that was not possible in LA. I like living without a car and having a semi-urban house with a backyard. Is that possible in LA? I seriously would love to live somewhere like that.

I do iOS dev work, so I considered SF, but maybe 20 years ago...
to expand, DB functions are usually:

* hard to test

* code is harder to maintain

* vendor specific

* often written in very weird programming languages
People want this? How many people?
It seems like the Bay Area's creative class made a similar migration to LA a couple of years ago.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/210-they-got-the-neutron-bomb-...

http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/04/03/priced-out-san-francisco...
Artists and other creative people enjoy their work. That doesn't mean it's not work, and hard work.
Perhaps I should add a provision, then, that states that if you know you yourself or those associated with you will be harmed in the process of cooperation in a fashion that outweighs the need to bring the offender to justice, and you have at your disposal other means to help bring the persons to account (ties to hacktivist resources, or some other form of "non-traditional" justice such as vigilantism, etc), then you also have the option to take action in that way.

In other words, the moral obligation is at its root to eliminate the threat to society, but in a way that keeps others from being brought down with that person.

Yes, this is all hard to untangle, especially in today's American and European legal systems, but as more and more people are arrested and go to jail for fighting for what they believe is "right" for human society, the more aware those in power to make changes to those legal systems will be, and hopefully will move to see that change implemented sooner than later.
I'm using an ASUS RT-AC68U with totally open source firmware, supported by asus, with timely updateds to fix security issues. It's a 802.11ac. I really recommend it. Works very well.
a little bit for everybody is a lot for nobody.
and please make the bookmarks unguessable and private.
I want to sent moderately private letters, that where already "written" in the library :)
I like your theory, but do you have any first hand knowledge or is this just logical reasoning?
> Some time late in the 21st Century or early 22nd Century humans will realize that great mass transit can really make life more enjoyable, and that'll be a 15 minute commute.

Nah, the second phase of the Expo line will be complete in a few years, and the purple line will be finished long before then, too. Won't be quite 15 minutes, but should be under 25.
More people than those wanting community pods.
Yes it matters (at least to me), i was confused initially if it would be some browser for the iridium sat network.
Because you were both condescending and longwinded while missing the point.
No argument here on that note :-)
Okay, what is the difference, then? And what are the most important consequences?

Let me venture a guess: could it be that Erlang realised this idea of message passing better than Smaltalk ever did?
Unless I read something wrong, the proposal was to add static typing not strong. Dynamic vs static, and strong vs weak are two different things, although the exact meaning of strong vs weak isn't really settled.

Many people already consider ruby to be pretty strongly typed. It's definitely already more strongly typed than javascript.
The idea, here, would be to make MRIs both cheaper, safer, and less trusted for their predictive power.

Imagine if you could get an MRI the way you currently get a blood pressure test or ultrasound or x-ray. Imagine a simplified MRI machine in every GP's office 40 years from now. Imagine the machine having a networked software layer integrated that doesn't even allow the raw static-image data out to the doctors, but instead just reports out weighted-average feature-change velocity heatmaps.

Presumably, the only people getting an MRI done every year now are the ridiculously rich, who could buy an MRI machine of their own, and a hospital wing to put it in. But the theory behind getting one isn't bad. It's just scarcity, and the effect scarcity has on the level of trust we put in the few samples we can beg, borrow or steal.
That's a very valid question. I genuinely encourage people to answer your question.
Actually, soekris were pretty good but they are kinda outdated. I just got an apu1d4 from pcengines[0] and OpenBSD works like a charm on it. Half the price, much more power.

[0] http://www.pcengines.ch/apu1d4.htm
That requires that you work somewhere that you'd want to live, though. A few hundred thousand people work in midtown manhattan, but it would be a miserable place to live. The subway isn't great, but commuter rail is pretty pleasant.

Commuting 10 miles each way in LA traffic is definitely the worst commute I've ever had!
How do I tell the difference between a real headhunter and a lower tier recruitment agency?
Saturated means that you've filled (or can fill at will) the time you've allotted and targeted, not 100% of your possible time. e.g. 100% of 50% of available time.

>he never claimed to have a continuous stream of $30k/week projects lined up, those are words you're putting in his mouth

He claimed it was his so-called "rack rate". His standard rate. Over a year long period. The prior year his "rack" rate was 20K/week. He didn't say "I put out a ridiculous rate and wouldn't you believe it this one guy bit!", but claimed that it was a ongoing day to day rate that saw continued success. That was sort of the whole, rather odd, basis of that part.

Extraordinary claims, as they say, require extraordinary proof. Yet we don't know a single client, or a single project, that paid these grossly out of the ordinary rates, and I can tell you that I don't know a single organization that would even consider such a rate for an individual freelancer (respected consulting shops -- the sort that you hire because no one ever gets fired for hiring them -- with armies of bodies yield less on their contract). People can wave their hands and say that it's because it saved so much but that sort of argument leaves me agape, wondering if a bunch of people just discovered the business world.

It just doesn't work like that.

I have absolutely no fundamental reason to believe Patrick a "bullshitter", or to accuse him of being so. On the flip side, I have absolutely no reason not to consider that he might be. Because it turns out that a remarkable number of people are -- particularly when they're trying to get attention for something -- somewhat aggrandizing. And we all know how important signalling is, and how if you act the part, maybe, the myth goes, you'll become the part. It plays a part of quite a few HN front pagers.
> Had Clang existed when Apple were implementing Obj-C, they'd have used that, there'd be no open source Obj-C frontend Microsoft wouldn't be able to do this without considerably more work.

Ah, OK... So you mean if NeXT hadn't based their 1980s effort on GCC, i.e. if there had been a decent BSD-licensed C compiler back then.

It's worth mentioning that this was a long time ago, before a fair number of HN readers were born, and also at a time when GPL vs. BSD licensing likely wasn't as much of a topic as today. Comparing GCC with Clang when we're talking about things that happened in 1988[1] just doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

[1] Per Wikipedia's article on Objective-C, the year that NeXT's GCC changes happened.
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Currently I'm the lead full-stack web engineer on a major media site that's an isomorphic Javascript single-page app run on Node and React.

I'm just looking for part-time remote work. I love picking up new technologies and getting things done.
In 1996, Hejlsberg left Borland and joined Microsoft. One of his first achievements was the J++ programming language and the Windows Foundation Classes; [...] Since 2000, he has been the lead architect of the team developing the language C#. In 2012 Hejlsberg announced his new project TypeScript—a superset of JavaScript. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg

For better or worse, he influences with his C# syntax ideology now TypeScript and indirectly JS/ES6.
I'm not sure size is always an advantage when it comes to communities. There's always a certain vibe to places with limited users that I'm really hooked too. Generally, I think we should give up the idea of gathering everyone at a single point/protocol (federated or not). People will always chose different ways to communicate. But the ones that really matters will, eventually, be were you are.
I actually had to check whether this paper was for real, because the breathless tone (too! many! exclamation! points!) and unsubstantiated or self-contradictory claims made it look like a blog post in academic-paper disguise. Sadly, it seems to be "for real" in the sense that it was actually presented at a conference. Does anyone happen to know whether EDBT is a serious venue, or just a small group of inbred academics who either want an excuse to hold a conference every year or just don't like the way the world is changing around them? Has anything noteworthy ever come from there?
What I am saying is only a celebrity programmer can keep a job where he or she is producing less value than his or her salary. This math won't go away just because you did not do it.
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Tesla’s Powerwall Event: The 12 Most Important Facts
> One of my high school students who was an ex detective

I read this many times. Can you expand on how a detective ended up as a highschool student? Sounds like a fun story.
Obtain a quality education.
> The Balkans is probably the most genetically diverse region in Europe.

Following the theory of the selfish gene, maybe it isn't surprising that hey hate each other.
I could not fall asleep for many years, 10 years ago I started doing Taoist Tai Chi (http://www.taoist.org) and after some years I noticed that my sleep had gotten better especially falling asleep seemed easier (it also cured my 25 years of back pain :)

I still struggled when my business had problems with either employees or projects, most of those sleepless nights are gone after we started using the timeblock method in the company (http://timeblock.com), the trancperancy and honesty is what makes me sleep soundly now!

(Spoiler, I am the inventor of the timeblock method)
My former company (US based) HR department told me that they will confirm a salary $ number with a yes/no if asked. I told them I did not want this to happen, but they stated it is their policy to confirm.
Sounds like a stereotypical startup opportunity, a problem exists, hard to solve, outsource the minefield to a TaaS (therapy as a service) provider to rake in some corporate contract money.

I don't think its totally out of class as a startup idea, fundamentally you've got a matchmaking service (more or less) and a scheduling system and a billing system and maybe do it online in video conference or something. How to monetize is not entirely clear. I guess you could bill the company one full "screening" therapy hour per year living off the skim of not every employee using the entire hour and most people having a mandatory ten minute talk along the lines of "all is well" annually or whatever while some people end up taking the whole hour (or more?). This is probably not the only possible business model and probably not the only monetization model but it is the first one I thought of. I used dental services as a model for my theoretical therapy model, hang out on a regular basis with the dentist for a short appointment and most of the time he has very little to do for most of the people, but he can schedule a follow up for real work or a referral if the checkup finds a problem.

I suppose there would be interesting conflict of interest issues where the insurance company paying the therapy bills would probably prefer more unhealthy untreated people for financial reasons so they'd actively discourage hiring a company-wide screening service like this. Or, if it can be proven numerically that early diagnosis saves treatment dollars, I think we have an obvious endgame strategy of being bought out by a (mental) health insurance company.

Like most startups the idea is free and not worth much, it'll all be in the execution. It would be interesting to research the competition, the successes, and the failures. It seems like an obvious idea, the past must be full of failures in this field?
If I recall correctly this book has an interesting section on polygraphs and a lot of other inaccurate methods and folklore around detecting lies and deceit:

http://www.amazon.com/Detecting-Lies-Deceit-Pitfalls-Opportu...

It was really interesting when I read it, though it's a bit old now, so I'm not sure how much of the material needs to be updated.
Just because science has not figured God out, does not deny His existence.

The big question of science is "How ... ?"

The big question of religion is "Why ... ?"

The two solve different problems and could coexist without so many animosity on each side.
So, at one end, we're moving stuff out of middleware and into the database, and at the other end we're moving all views into the client.

Imagine if SQL returned javascript readable sets of tabulated data... If it did, then you could completely remove all processing on the web-server.
> the false positives are so high that we are crippling many of the agencies that rely on them.

Even worse than that, it selects for people who lie with impunity without any visible or emotionals qualms about it -- basically it selects for psychopaths.
CloudSense Wants to Make Every Appliance Smart
Is it a real company like Michel Paige - and reputation in the industry.
Merlin FTW
Remember that there's currently a backlog, I think right into June. Obviously Apple could have created that artificially to drive consumer interest, but it's still a datapoint.
err its a reference to the war of 1812-1815 - give its the 200th anniversary this year.

Its about the fact that dual nationals get taxed by the IRS
And to the people sounds perfectly sane, and you sound crazy.
Other ways to use Python on Android (and iOS): http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-using-python.html
Are you familiar with Friendica[0] and the related RedMatrix[1]? Not quite what you're after, but close

[0] http://friendica.com/
[1] https://redmatrix.me/
I think when someone verbally says "I heart New York" their intent is to invoke the popular-culture graphic as an aide to their point, a (possibly completely) different usage from the more natural phrase, "I love New York".

I don't really think of ascii art as a form of basic ui function though...