skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you've got to be careful not to make the mistake of incorrectly accusing someone of committing Lewontin's fallacy. Saying that race isn't real is clearly wrong, in the sense that people reliably fit into racial categories.

On the other hand, the other claim (race has no discernible effect on behaviour) isn't fallacious (at least if Lewontin's results are accurate). If there is much greater variance within populations than between them, then it is foolish to make decisions about people based on their race, as it gives very little information about them.
It's probably true that you wouldn't be imaging the event horizon itself for various reasons. I just mean it would be amazing to peer into the vicinity of a suspected black hole and see, as theory would predict, a black spot along with an accretion disc.
Can't reproduce, must be your client.
Just to clarify: Unlike a regular sailboat, you cannot sail against the wind with a solar sail. In space, there is no water equivalent to push off of.
Give it 5-10 years. They will have high speed internet cheaper than anywhere in the world.
The point is not that dev and production environments are identical, but that dev staging and production environments are identical. Your dev box can have whatever you like on it, but if it can't fake production behaviours, it's not going to help you catch and debug bugs in production. Of course there are limits. You could, it's perfectly valid, buy twice as much capacity in production and run it twice there. And use remote debugging tools. The point, especially with ops involved, is that your dev box is a snowflake and you want the least amount of manual configuration possible. It's not a requirement. Your app will run fine in production without it simply by testing in production. But few people willingly recommend that approach, even as pretty much everyone does it at some point or another. Even the best emulation of production won't prevent the need for debugging in production when a bug isn't caught before it gets deployed ;-)
Not owning assets is the entire idea of the sharing economy. Provided one doesn't get upset about someone else having more than themselves the conclusion of the article could sound just fine:

"But in fact we’re enriching the owners of whatever app or platform we’re using, becoming just a data point on the path to their payday while we age without assets. It’s their world, and we’re just renting it."

The argument against sharing economy isn't that we don't own any more. This was what many wanted from the start. It's that some models destroy other important economic frabrics (such as phantom scarcity created through empty airbnb flats). The argument about reducing workers rights and provisions is also valid. But one effect of decentralized digital labour is that unionisation becomes a more effective form of protection. So on this point, it will get interesting.
Depends on the adblocker. A simple hosts file is good enough and works everywhere, removing some in-app ads as well but primarily on web pages.
On monoliths, microservices and critical thinking
every single point you've made is wrong.
From that article:

"The Architecture Astronauts will say things like: "Can you imagine a program like Napster where you can download anything, not just songs?"

hahahahahhaha bittorrent.
Because I don't use iOS and changes to the web dashboard are guaranteed to be available immediately on my phone, not after they get around to updating the mobile app and getting the app approved.
The data has been available; acquiring it would have cost six figures until recently.

Details:
The loan-servicers have the same data and many have provided it to Black-Knight (LPS/McDash) for years. http://www.bkfs.com/Data-and-Analytics/CorporateInformation/...

While you mention that Freddie provided data from 2006, the loan-level performance data is even more recent. The original releases were just origination info and thus worthless by themselves for risk assessment.
Using Microservices to design for scale
You are the first person I've ever heard say that they hate responsive websites. Unless you're playing around with your window size, you wouldn't even notice if they adding responsive features to the dashboard. Sounds like you just hate poorly done websites.
"anything they wanted to be" might include options such as "be a parent" and, without question, falling wages is a difficulty if you want to be a parent.
Ya I could see that, however I should note the app is only a part of a bigger picture of products. I've also been developing it for the past 4-5 months but only started showing it to people lately. So perhaps now would be a good time to buy a dev account but I still haven't felt the big need. To each their own.
To add a couple of fun points about Haskell:

* QuickCheck!

Imagine you implement some function. As a trivial example, let's say you wrote a plus operator (spelled as (+) when not being applied). One of the properties it should have is associativity.

To check whether it is associative, you can write (in the GHCI repl):

> import Test.QuickCheck
> let associative op x y z = (x `op` y) `op` z == x `op` (y `op` z)
> quickCheck $ associative (+)
+++ OK, passed 100 tests.

QuickCheck just applied our "associative" function with 100 various random triplets and made sure that (+) behaved associatively in all the examples.

Now, the (-) operator is of course not associative, so let's see what QuickCheck says about that:

> quickCheck $ associative (-)
*** Failed! Falsifiable (after 2 tests and 1 shrink):
0
0
1

QuickCheck now spells out a simple example triplet (x,y,z = 0,0,1) which breaks the associativity claim.

This kind of testing is called "property testing" and is an awesome way to test pure functions that finds bugs far more easily (and more thoroughly) than traditional UTs.

For more "real-worldy" examples, consider QuickChecking that your URL parse function is reversible (build back a URL from the parsed components). Ditto with any kind of parser/builder or [de-]serializer.

Most pure functions are expected to obey various laws, and QuickCheck is a great way to verify they do.

* Parallelism annotations!

Sprinkling `par` annotations on your code (or replacing `map` with `parMap`) is guaranteed not to change the semantics of your program. It may speed up (due to extra parallelism) or slow down (due to extra overhead), but it is safe to throw it around.

* Type safety

No null dereference errors (though this is finally getting to some mainstream language).
Exhaustive handling of all inputs can easily be verified by the compiler.
Data types that describe your data precisely and yet more concisely declared than imprecise data types in other languages.
Advanced features allowing to use the type checker to get more compile-time assurances (e.g: Red Black Tree respects all the RB invariants).

* Expressiveness

The kind of abstraction power Haskell gives you is quite unique.

A nice example of this is shown in:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/05/program-imperatively-us...

fireBreath target = do
lift $ putStrLn "*rawr*"
units.traversed.(around target 1.0).health -= 3

This updates the game state by traversing all the units whose distance from target <= 1.0, and subtracts 3 from their health. This kind of expressive power is based on library-level abstractions (here, the lens library) with no language support or even macros.
So it's "smart" and costs $3,000. Are there public APIs or am I at the complete mercy of their software?
There are open source CRM/ERP systems available for free, no need to buy anything.
text unreadable in firefox 38

http://imgur.com/m93jmOU
Wealth and Generations
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try to track the authors down and contact them.
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nope broken for me too

http://imgur.com/m93jmOU
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i think the only thing that's clear here is you don't actually run a business, because you're pretty much wrong, or make incorrect assumptions, on every single point.

for example: i do know the background-check procedures my bank uses on its employees. it's in the fucking brochure they give you when you open a commercial account.
Yeah, but folks are talking about using containers for actual dev environments. Because you want to make sure everyone is using the same version of the go compilers, etc.
Spanish is rusty, but that looks like some pretty inventive solutions. I'd be interested to know how much more gain you do get from using the old DirecTV antennas.
I may be old guy but I never get it. Why do I ever need all this virtualization stuff? I just buy a server, install CentOS, install postgresql, create another user, install java, download&unarchive tomcat and write some simple bash scripts. Voila. Everything works, everything is protected, performance is superb and I can do all that within one day. Good enough to serve few thousand requests per second. May be not enough for Facebook, of course.
It's funny watching the Zenefits response: Bring in the yComb & Celebrity Investors (Jared Leto / Ashton Kutcher) to get public opinion on their side via twitter #ADPeeved and a Change.org petition. So far at least on social media there's not a lot of noise from impacted customers. Just negotiate an MSA, pay the fee, build a proper integration and perform better Risk Management in the future (like a $4.5B business should).
I still recall being impressed by the Enyo demo, especially when they resized the browser window and the layout would adapt on the fly.

This could have allowed what Google etc is only talking about, plugging a phone into a larger display and getting a more desktop like UI.
Ah, the good ole sneaker net. It seems likely the bandwidth of that network will far outpace that of "real" internet in Cuba for quite some time.
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I'm already using pound for SSL termination http://www.apsis.ch/pound/. Does Hitch provide any advantages over pound?
There is an element of truth in what you say, and yet it is not completely true.

It used to be that, if you wanted to make it as a writer, you got a job at a factory or a restaurant or something to pay the bills while you tried to make it as a writer. (It was called a "day job".) You wrote before or after work, or on the subway to or from work - all the time you could find, in fact. You didn't have much of a social life, because all your spare time went into writing.

And, reading the article, the author shows a lot of evidence of "not doing something". She expects to be able to make a living as a writer right out of the gate. (In fairness, she did have an actual magazine job at one time.) She's buying wine at bars and $8 coffees, and then she doesn't have enough money for renting an apartment. It's like she's paying no attention at all to what she's doing financially, and then she's surprised that she doesn't hit that well-moneyed point when she expects financial stability to appear.

So that's the element of truth in what you say. The not-completely-true part is this: An awful lot of good-paying, long-term-stable jobs have disappeared, and they aren't coming back. This makes it considerably harder for large chunks of the population to make it to that relatively-well-moneyed point of stability.
useful, one question, my schema is rather large and not all the models are on the screen, is there a way to scroll to the sides?
http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/alaska-airlines...
Highlights

* sec-medium bugs can optionally receive payout now

* The $3000 cap has been removed, 3000 is now the floor for sec-high and sec-critical

* Sliding scale for payouts based on the quality of the information

* Hall of fame - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/bug-bounty/hall-of-fa...
I meant C# is awesome so you just use it directly :).
I guess you used the C++ API? There's a C language subset available that has way more stability.
On the other hand, you have a constant accelleration towards the sun, so you can use parabolic orbits to move sunward (at least, until you reach Voyager I).
Yea, too bad xtranormal is no longer around.
Isn't Elastic Beanstalk what you need? I've never used it, but they support Java 8 and Servlet 3.
Well, this is a cultural norm worth resurrecting. There's something inherently better about reading with a pen in hand, as the work becomes both a stimulant for your mind, and a repository for it's reactions. This is especially true for something like Shakespear or philosophy (you need a pen to pick quotes out of Marcus Aurelius Meditations).

Additionally (and non-trivially for those with access to good ones) used book-stores heavily discount books with any marks in them; and yet, I find these marks are often (although not always) quite fascinating.
Thank you very much. I submitted one. I had looked for this or something like it and was unable to find it.
A seeming eternity ago I let Maven convert apps into war files that supposedly could be deployed into any web application server.

What do the new containers add on top of that (or other than that)? Only the option for more services (not just web app, but database, different languages, whatever)?

It seems odd having to worry about that kind of thing.
> New operating systems today tend to be just ways of
reimplementing Unix. If they have a novel architecture -- and some do -- the first thing to build is the Unix emulation layer.

> How can operating systems research be relevant when the
resulting operating systems are all indistinguishable?

> There was a claim in the late 1970s and early 1980s that Unix
had killed operating systems research because no one would
try anything else. At the time, I didn’t believe it. Today, I
grudgingly accept that the claim may be true (Microsoft
notwithstanding).

> A victim of its own success: portability led to ubiquity. That
meant architecture didn’t matter, so now there’s only one.
Linux is the hot new thing... but it’s just another Unix.

http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf
Wages being flat/declining is solely because compensation has shifted from wages to non-wage compensation.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRNFB

Things have been fine for workers.
There was a great multiplayer Dreamcast game called Chu Chu Rocket which I'd put in this genre.
An absurd amount of time can be a workable tradeoff depending on the purpose of the mission.

Historically, both thrust and delta-V have been sorely constrained on spacecraft. This is trading a lot of thrust for an infinite* amount of dV, which is a really valuable trade.

(*Practically infinite. It runs out when the sun stops giving solar pressure ;) ).
>It seems odd having to worry about that kind of thing.

It seems odd having to worry about things that aren't Web apps? Why?

Containers are also language-agnostic. .war files are only for JVM languages.
Crazy as it sounds but as some/many/most illnesses are psychosomatic just by making yourself believe you'll be healthy you actually will be. This is solid science not some mumbo-jumbo.
not really something you can complain about in a nightly browser. Looks fine in FF38.0 Ubuntu.
There didn't seem to be a lot of strong arguments for the points made in this article. Most of the situation the author finds herself in seems to be due to a poor economy in general (lower pay, rising housing, education and health care costs) and bad financial decisions (not saving up money, buying expensive food, etc), then having anything to do with the sharing economy and not owning something.

The author seems to be under the impression that prior to the sharing economy, there weren't middle men still taking a cut for providing vehicles, leasing (or subletting) apartments or providing other services/assets that were needed to do a business. The question would be whether Uber, Zipcar, Etsy, etc are taking any more of a cut than a a more traditional taxi medallion, a car dealership, an art gallery, etc. I suspect they are taking less, since they are transferring a lot of the risk of owning the property and running a business to their contractors.

I don't think owning things in general creates wealth. Making smart financial decisions does. If you own a car and are paying a good amount of money to park, insure, maintain and purchase/lease that vehicle and don't drive it enough to justify that expense., it may make a lot more financial sense to use Zipcar, Uber and other public transportation. Similarly it may make sense to invest in owning enough kitchen supplies to prepare your own food instead of eating out all the time (or it may not, it just depends on your situation)
> Google only copies system settings and list of installed apps, but not "sd card" data with local music, photos, apps' settings or data.

Automatic app settings backup (to google drive) is finally coming to Android M [0]. Third party solutions have existed more or less forever, though the best ones require root. For the local music/photos stuff, is it really that hard to plug both phones into a computer and transfer stuff that way? It would take maybe an hour.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/android-m-makes-anoth...
I like the fact that I know about a lot of these things, so that if a need arises I'm aware of what's out there and current. I figure when/if the time comes then I'll actually learn how to use them. I think it's just more of a perception that everybody else is moving forward and I'm stuck here in pragmatic land for my work.
Awesome, the mobile app Stripe has needed for years is finally here. I'm most excited about push notifications (new customers, charges), and a quick overview of transactions on the go. There have been entire companies (successfully) built on just sending Stripe notifications, now it is native in a mobile app.
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> How the “sharing economy” allows Millennials to cope with downward mobility, and also makes them poorer.

In the author's case, the cause of being poor is high expenses (student loan debt, mainly) and low income.

I dislike the burden of ownership. Sharing can decrease expenses - for example, living with a roommate. Change driving habits and suddenly you're not as dependent on a car. (I do both these things BTW - the 90% of after tax income I don't spend I invest.)

It seems like the author's perception of poor is "not owning her own primary residence." Perhaps that is a common perspective.

But redefine wealth to mean "controlling cash flowing assets" and I can see how the sharing economy, combined with creativity and planning, actually helps in wealth-building.
The problem is not that they "message themselves" (gross) wrong, but that they feel like they have to "message" at all. Sales & marketing mumbo jumbo has no place in devtools -- it is at best, obfuscation -- at worst, misrepresentation.
acceleration can't move towards the sun, but you can build up some velocity with this, and then use a slingshot to head back to the sun.

not very general-purpose, but sound in principal.
Have you ever writted a full story in regards how you operate the site and how users from the island are able to access it? I would love to read it.
Why some Civil War soldiers glowed in the dark
An Introvert Confesses
Having a modernized pause/break key on your keyboard can also be handy if you ever have to use software that acts stupid on purpose, like these "Safe Exam LockDown Browsers" that some schools and universities around here have started forcing upon their students. Software like this typically just run a timer or similar to make sure that only their windows are running in the foreground, but sending them a SIGSTOP stops this annoyance.
It wasn't until MGS4 before the Metal Gear Solid franchise got cutscenes which you could pause. Which was sorely needed because of how story driven the series is, and how long some of the cutscenes are -- I think the end of MGS4 was something like 1 hour, 30 min.
Why doesn't Zenefits just become a payroll provider? Is the an enormous amount of regulation around providing payroll services?
There's very little I see to comment on. From the article, emphasis added:

"the law essentially makes knowingly destroying or concealing any record"

In order to make their case, the prosecution will have to establish intent, and that's sufficient for me to establish illegality.
So workers are fine because they are partially shielded from the soaring cost of health-care?
So at what point do we as software engineers start paying attention to the outcomes of what we build for society?

A lot of people working in software are building things that, in the aggregate, disempower people and transfer even more power into the hands of the owners of capital.

I know someone who, fully aware of the consequences, is helping build something to replace many food service industry workers with robots. It's a direct transfer of wealth from workers to the owners of capital. I won't work with him, on anything, because of this.

Why are we building this world? What are we thinking?
Are you sure about this? If you have a sail in a heliocentric orbit, I would think you could increase or decrease your orbital speed based on the direction you deflect the solar wind, thus slowly increasing/decreasing altitude. I would assume it's possible to modify orbits around other bodies in a similar fashion.
So many of these consumer products and "IoT" deprioritize public APIs, it's a shame... They are missing out on potentially huge sub-communities.
In reality, though, these are the same types of services that have always been around—private drivers and taxis, hotels, rental car companies—but their services are sliced up into tiny bits and provided by underpaid contingent workers, which is what we are ourselves.

The "sharing economy" has always just been a PR term. I like Airbnb and Uber as services, but it's not a reinvention of human economic interaction. How does a "sharing economy" differ from a rental economy? How does a "sharing economy" differ from any market where people produce services for each other based on reciprocated exchange?
What is the advantage over just using nginx to terminate SSL?
As a The Guardian reporter summarized:

June 2, 6:03pm: Obama says he'll sign law banning bulk collection.
June 2 9:50pm: DOJ asks secret court for 180 more days of bulk collection

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) June 8, 2015