skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The [Iowa] primary highway system makes up over 9,000 miles (14,000 km), a mere 8 percent of the U.S. state of Iowa's public road system." [0]

So while laudable, it would be very nice if North Carolina followed suit with its ~79,000 miles of maintained roads (largest of any state) [1]. But I doubt that would happen, my friend at NCDOT says the culture emphasizes building new roads (or the ones that get wiped out by hurricanes out on the outer banks), and change intersections in a manner that borders on the whimsical.

We like to build roads in challenging places, it seems [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Primary_Highway_System

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Highway_System

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Highway_12
I think the pushback can be summarized by the fact that there are more moving parts with a microservice architecture. Harder to test, more things that can break, more coordination for deployments.

Are you referring to mashups in that the application is using external APIs? I'd say that's similar with the difference being you don't have to coordinate the deployment part. With mashups you still have the testing challenge and reliance on another system to be running that comes with a microservice architecture.
> Germany Deserved Debt Relief, Greece Doesn't

Consider the source of this article.

> Germany was much better positioned to put creditors' generosity to good use than is Syriza's Greece.

Some would say that Greece was subject to financial violence; hardly generosity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-perkins/economic-chaos-lo...
Check out nix / nixpkgs. :-) That's the closest to Brazil IMO.
quick side question, what software market have avoided becoming commoditized?
boot2docker is not connected to Vagrant, it speaks directly with Virtualbox. Maybe watch out in the boot2docker github repo when they gonna update it https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/979 My advice also: Avoid the official docker installation. It will downgrade your Virtualbox 5.0 pretty sure!
Each DD-19 has a capacity of 2.424 x 109 bits so that a
maximum mass storage configuration could hold 9.7 x 109
8-bit characters.

Is that supposed to be 10^9?
> I see, that you don't know the German internet customers.

I see a lot of people complaining. I haven't had the pleasure of signing up for 'wired' internet, rather, relying on 3G data access

> Internet usage is also rising in Germany and things like Netflix, cloud and other (legal!) broadband services

Yes, I know about those, Netflix just got there, so let's see what happens

But still, Internet services are not as good as in Ireland for example
As usual, a fix-it team does 80% of the work in 20% of the time for 5% of the money.
This is that time of the year when I have to forget what I learned last year and start again.
> Why are we not talking about Dr. or Prof. Collins here? Or Mr. Hunt?

The article does actually refer to "Mr. Hunt" twice, not to take away from your point. People are calling for Dr. Hunt to be reinstated, but also for Dr. Collins too, no doubt? The article does not say either way.
A "few"... it's almost 10 years old.
As someone who does not uses Azure, what is a Data Lake? Is it like a Cloud but liquid?
As far as I am aware the Medallion fund is not in any way publicly available. I believe it's an exclusive fund to a small number of investors who are involved directly with Renaissance. It would make a lot of sense to it's success as not having to scale past a certain point allows them to avoid a lot of uncertainty when taking models live.
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When I was studying EE, a professor said on this subject that about 20% of the transistors in a chip are used for self-diagnostics. Manufacturing failures are a given. The diagnostics tell the company what has failed, and they segment the chips into different product/price classes based upon what works and what doesn't. After being deployed into a product, I assume that chips would follow a standard Bathtub Curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

As geometries fall, the effects of "wear" at the atomic level will go up.
First of all, data scientists are in very high demand today. Probably one of the hottest market. I'm no fortune teller but I don't see any reason for that to change.

Second, I find that it's really really hard to learn data science just with online courses. And even if you could learn as an autodidact, it would be very difficult to get the legitimacy and be taken seriously without a degree.

You could, without a degree, join a company that does data science, try to get a foot in the door to work with their team, learn in the trench and get a real position as data scientist.
Fair enough. I have a home office; used it for years, even with 3 youngsters. Closed the door, they (mostly) stayed out. It works good enough!
I started using Betterment because I thought their UI was pretty.

Yes, I realize they take fees (although I get a special deal for reasons despite having a smaller account). Yes, all things being equal, leaving my money in a Vanguard Target Fund would probably result in higher gains (heck, my 401k is still in a Vanguard Target Fund since it's set-and-forget).

But the Betterment UI makes putting in more money as simple as typing in a number and clicking two buttons -- so I feel compelled to save more ($50 here, $100 there). And that, to me, is worth the 0.15% fee that they charge.
More like the benches with dividers so they work for their intended purpose but not for sleeping.
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This is but another call for ternary computing to be brought into the mainstream
Those gravel roads also need some upkeep, though.

I also grew up in Iowa, and the difference between the gravel roads I took to get to my friends houses there, and the gravel roads we have here in AZ is night and day.
You are assuming a normal distribution of failures. A sufficiently evil company would design their failure curves to be as flat as possible until the warranty period expires and then rapidly increase to 100%.

The practice still makes no real long-term sense though. What do you do after `warranty_period` expires and no one wants to buy your products anymore?
I have to agree. Why showing the team works for a lot of startups, I don't think it works that well in fintech when dealing with other people's money. Especially when founders look young/list 0 financial experience.
Raising those rates would have very little impact for retirees as many are in the 15%-25% marginal tax brackets as it is.
This has to be the 10th submarine piece I've seen about healthcare.gov.
That is a pretty accurate read on it I think. Fowler's been discussing similar data and findings from their research [1].

[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-trade-offs.htm...
Most amazing team I have ever seen! Incredible CEO and magic CTO!!
Unfortunately, my healthcare options are still tightly coupled to my employment.
Speaking as an old, I think youth is part of the answer. One of the things I have to really work at as I get older is unlearning the things that used to be true. Given the pace of technological change, younger people have an advantage in that they have less to unlearn.

> Start-up culture and tech trends just don't work at the scale of government, for much the same reasons massive corporations move glacially.

This is good example of an old truth that needs some unlearning. Old corporations move glacially. Some new ones work differently, though.

Government can also work differently. The folks at 18F and the US Digital Service are demonstrating that in ways both large and small. Indeed, when I was looking at a USDS job, a White House advisor told me plainly that agile, iterative approaches were clearly better for government because they were much more effective at risk reduction than producing piles of documents ever could be.
It would be some array defined on the angular $scope object, presumably instantiated when an angular directive/controller is instantiated for a component. I'm guessing that's roughly analogous to "this.props" in the react example, though I'm not very familiar with react.
Or it may not be too much. My whole university year was required to use some
unix variant starting with the first semester, where we learned C (so add
memory management and pointers arithmetic to things to learn, and I didn't
even start with mathematics we were taught at the same time; computer usage
was not the only totally new subject for us).

Of course I agree that it's not an insignificant load. Learning how to write
programs at all is difficult enough, and what I propose is just adding
learning new environment on top of it. On the other hand, a shell server with
compilers and editors already installed may be a good start. This way students
get stable environment which already works, so they can focus on learning how
to use it instead of struggling with administering it.
> "you can't beat the market in the long term"

Without cheating that may be true.
Not a 'fictional' entity; a legal construct (perhaps multilayered) that groups ownership of real assets and/or obligations of real people.
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My startup offers poor healthcare choices; I went straight to the federal exchange. $500/month for two adults in their early 30s, excellent deductible/copays (no subsidies of course on a tech salary). Have you checked if this is a possibility?
10.9% since October 2013. Risk tolerance level 10.
If you use keep alive and your server/load balancer doesn't have overly aggressive connection termination policies, I doubt re-connections every 60 or so s will be a major throughput hit. Regardless, you are always going to incur latency overhead by sending data over TCP relative to just sharing memory.

What I am more worried about with microservices is the data serialization overhead. Transforming data to some encoding that is robust against version changes (say using protobuf) can be quite costly on both sender and receiver, especially in languages with relatively slow object creation (e.g. python). This is highly application specific, but I'd love to hear others' thoughts on this trade-off.
I don't think the diameter of a DNA strand is 2.5nm...
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Greek government insider tells about five months of humiliation and blackmail
Disqus announces Channels
See, democracy can and does work.
If FIFA licenses their event to be broadcast in public, then as far as I care they haven't sufficiently protected the broadcast. They can't sufficiently control what happens in the crowd, not consistent with other rights which are superior; and, at least for that particular instance, anyone ought to be able to record it with their phone or whatever. That may not be what the law says, but that's the law according to me today.

What problem are you trying to solve? Preventing the rebroadcast of a live event to an area where FIFA has secured exclusive distribution rights?
Please can people give examples of what they're using lambda for. Everything I've seen has been really basic (like image scaling), but most things I think of require a database.
I agree that most of the demand requires software innovation , but there are other good sources of demand, for example:

1. AI - variety of applications, both for consumer and business markets.

2. Telepresence. If we can get the real feeling of "being there" to telepresence, at a price point that's attractive for the consumer.

3. Simulation. Currently it's a complex process ,mostly done by experts. If it can be a tool for regular engineers , and maybe further down the road - for combining that with some sort of genetic-algorithms , maybe there's potential for a huge demand increase.
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If you're in the 15% or 25% marginal tax bracket for income, you're in the 0% or 15% long-term capital gains tax bracket (respectively). That's a 15% or 10% tax hike, which is much more than "very little impact".
There is nothing fictional about the ownership of a fraction of a profitable enterprise. This shouldn't be more difficult than the concept of negative numbers, or any other useful non-physical concept. Ditto for options or any other construct that has a mathematical or market-based value.
Our advice is based off decades of Nobel Prize-winning academic research on best practices for long-term investing.. And as an SEC registered investment advisor, we serve as a fiduciary to the 401k plan and avoid all conflicts of interest. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about how the 401k industry operates today: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/401k-conflicts-hurt-nest-egg/...
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I went back to look at this and noticed from your comment history you are a lawyer, so disregard my comment about getting one on board. :) I was going to show your app/site to someone but noticed it is now locked down and just has 'private beta'. Is there an open site with info or a demo for someone who wants to look around?
Do Bitcoin Startups Stand a Chance in Argentina?
That said, why do you think your robo advisors will be better at this than Vanguard's target retirement funds?
What We Learned from React Europe
Do these studies control for carb intake?

A pretty huge collection of studies I have show that a low-carb diet, high in fats (saturated and unsaturated) is hugely effective in reducing bad LDL and increasing good HDL and LDL.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzEPvoDPVTV5SzJlSHV0Y21rZ0k...

When I was a neurology professor at a highly-ranked Children's Hospital, half the staff was on a LCHF diet.
Hedge funds adding value.
There are several plausible hypotheses.

My personal favorite is, "They trade on non-public information, and use a complex trade algorithm for the purposes of plausible deniability."

Another is, "They got lucky."

Another likely one is "The reporter did not calculate average annual return correctly."

One that I find dubious: "They actually are that good at investing."

For giggles: "They are using hedge funds to launder drug money."

I'm sure there are other ways to explain it, but that return just sounds way too good to be true.
> This team managed to do what they did because they were outsiders brought in specifically to fix a high-profile fuck-up.

This is true. But having recently talked with a number of people at 18F and the USDS, I think the enormous scale of the high-profile fuckup is serving as a great example to persuade people that things should be done differently.

For example, note that the government is trying to change the purchasing processes that drive heavyweight methods and delivery of monoliths:

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/01/08/creating-a-federal-marketplac...
Seems like a small amount to raise from a heavyweight VC like Khosla and super angel Ashton Kutcher. I would imagine trying to compete against GitHub and GitHub enterprise would be a capital intensive thing.
The “I believe Republicans hate poor people.” is an example I took directly from the article and was not me stating my own opinion.

I agree that "I think" is also an acceptable way of indicating that you are giving your opinion rather than facts. The author seems to be indicating however that opinions should be delivered as statements; which changes the meaning and impacts the potential outcome of reasoning and discussion.
There are a lot of challenges and opportunities with web apps that you do not have in the same way in other UI environments.

Can you suggest a few others? I don’t see how the issues that arise with the example you gave are any different to things like parsing command line options or acting on shortcuts in native UIs.
Presumably, ceteris paribus, companies do attempt to design their failure curves to be as flat as possible. Otherwise they are wasting money on components which will survive longer than the whole product. (There is no One-Hoss Shay (http://holyjoe.org/poetry/holmes1.htm))
I always used "I feel like" interchangeably with "I think". Never felt like (there it is again!) it would shield me from having to defend my opinion. I would still do so.
> The fab (silicon manufacturing company) gives only a 5 year guarantee for the smartphone/tablet chips (with presumably some allowance).

I'm not sure that bodes well for smart watches selling at 4+ figures.
> Then this would be an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to the executive

And yet this is what we seem to be experiencing in this case, where the IRS can make a policy interpretation retroactively to the tune of $6 billion for a single taxpayer. Your source indicates that congress allows the IRS to decide tax policy, but since tax evasion is itself a crime it seems to indirectly violate the ex post facto law prohibition.
Humor is now punished?
The fiction is to believe that 'a legal construct (perhaps multilayered) that groups ownership of real assets and/or obligations of real people' is an entity.
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The age of unreason
>There is nothing fictional about the ownership of a fraction of a profitable enterprise.

Please read more carefully. I never claimed any such thing.

'fictional' modifies 'entity', not 'ownership'.
I pay less than what I'd get on the federal exchange (employer subsidizes), but the service sucks. I wish employers would allow you more freedom in choosing an insurance company, but still subsidize your healthcare costs, whoever you choose to do business with.
And more importantly, the artist/architect has been paid for their work.

I have this conversation with artists sometimes. If I buy a print, yes, you retain copyright, but I expect an exemption when I post a picture of my print on Facebook, hanging in my living room. On the other hand, many artists want to retain the copyright of an original I purchase - which I usually disagree with. I can offer an exemption to my copyright which I purchase with the work that allows you to continue to sell prints. But if I'm going to pay a hefty price for an original work of art (or architecture) I expect to own it, copyright and all.
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> And, hedge fund folks aside, long-term capital gains are also the taxes that apply to retirees drawing income from years of investments. Raising those rates would cause serious problems for folks who have already done all their financial planning and investing

Raise them prospectively based on the date of asset purchase, starting some specified time after the date the change is adopted. Problem solved.
Linux Foundation Ranks Security Risks of Open Source Projects
I applaud the accomplishments of these people. But I don't like the narrative because it is misleading. Lets change context with a nice metaphor and reframe the discussion...

"how a team of immigrants helped bring in a strawberry harvest"

The success of this team is based on a relationship between two things:
1) eagerness to prove one self
2) willingness to suffer pain in order to prove one self

Having worked with a number of them, my experience has been that building things from scratch in big bureaucracies (that aren't software companies) is basically impossible. To much group think inevitably destroys the scoping process.

The teams that have impressed me in big bureaucracies tend to operate in the following manner:
-take/buy something off the shelf that meets 60% of the requirements
-use a team of seasoned project managers and engineers who have seen the darkest gloomiest bloodiest field of battle to incrementally patch and beat that software into the inflexible mold of their bureaucracy

This strategy usually works surprisingly well, but it is like comparing steering a slow moving container ship to a speed boat. It's part of the reason that the agile SaaS market is so successful and profitable.

I first went to work with an organization where a planning meeting was discussing a new feature. Because of my startup culture experience I asked a PM after the meeting "this sounds cool should I whip up a prototype tonight". The project manager laughed and said "this feature set is on the roadmap for 2014 (two years out at the time), we wanted your input but you should be focusing on your existing ticket pipeline". When you consider the scope of the organization the things that they were doing with their core platform was pretty incredible.

That being said it drove me personally nuts, and I quit.
That is a terrible comparison.
This is also an example of open source working, in general. Bug found in one project, applied to other.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
A similar thread was posted ~1 year ago by gillis and a year before by illdave.
I think it's time for 2015s version.

If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.
"I agree with you that people have inalienable or natural rights."

Great. So what's your reason?
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Honestly, I've found black box testing at public boundaries of a system gives the best payoff vs development time, especially if you can make them run quickly.

Most issues seem to be catchable with this, and way too many unit tests end up becoming 'change detector' tests, where you test tautologies about implementation details.
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Why not the ETF version (VTI) of VTSMX that has only 5bp ER?
LOL; you are right there. I was of course I young wreckless driver at the time. Depending on the road condition, visibility and area speeds on gravel probably should be anywhere from 25 to 50mph during good weather.

Both gravel and blacktop are lower cost options that can be used in low traffic areas though. There are certainly large stretches of very low traffic high maintenance roads all over Iowa.
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Sorry, but that's just plain wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration

At the scale of your house wiring the effect is not so noticeable but for integrated circuits it is definitely a factor.

As for your house wiring, if it is really 70 years old you might want to worry about the insulation, not the copper.
PITA uses radio waves to steal encryption keys
As stated, two big variables are clock rate and feature size, which both effect mean time between failures (MTBF). Being more conservative increases this metric. I know from working in a fab that there are many electrical inspection steps along the process, so failures are caught during the manufacturing process (reducing the chance that you see them in the final product). Once the chip is packaged, and assuming that it is operated in a nominal environment, then failures are not that common.
That's a good question, and we want to make it clear that we don't touch any of the employee's money -- all investments are held in an SIPC-insured secure trust account by one of the nation's largest third party custodians that deals with billions of dollars. And no matter what happens to us as a company, our customers will be able to continue to use the 401k plans we've set up for them.

That said, we do think youth has its advantages, esp. in a stodgy industry like finance -- some of most exciting fintech companies were started by young founders (ex. Stripe, Betterment, etc.).

The last startup I co-founded, I was at for 7 years. I plan to be at this one for 10+.
So presumably, there is a 75% chance that the Medallion fund will lose money (hedge fund = zero sum) for the first time ever, during the next few years. I don't think this interpretation of the maths is correct.
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A bit old, but still relevant -
http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf

I'm no expert on the topic, but it seems to me that if heavily loaded trucks are causing a disproportionate amount of damage they should be taxed at a rate which allows for proper maintenance of those roads.