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As an alternative opinion, I try to minimize the amount of time I spend on both social media and news. I appreciate long form writing, but I'm no longer willing to invest in reading without the expectation of something of value learned or perspective gained. It's a shame, but my reading list is already too long and there are certainly worthwhile articles I can be sure my time is well spent.

Apollo has a page on how to have your data removed. Simply request it by emailing support@apollo.io or remove@apollo.io.

https://www.apollo.io/legal

I think it's easy for teams to feel this way depending on the mechanics of who's running standup. One of the biggest values I see for standup is talking through what you're working on. This opens communication with other engineers, especially if they default to working in isolation on their projects (even more so for remote engineers). I can't count the number of times we've had actionable changes to direction from just 5 minutes of standup that result in code reuse, uncovering unknown unknowns, etc.

With a ton of assumptions, mainly that you have an existing data or analytics pipeline, a simple in-house experimentation framework could take on the order of weeks rather than months to build.

A/B/n testing is certainly not dead. It's more likely Optimizely failed to see enough movement from their free plan into their paid tiers and in an effort to streamline/focus/cost-cut they're dropping the free plan.

This is interesting because Optimizely was in-part responsible for commoditizing A/B testing in 2010/11. Previously, it was a thousands-of-dollars per month product.

Assuming they're smarter than their surroundings.

Smart people will end up working with equally intelligent people to the point where they're no longer "smarter", they're now just average.

Seems to remarkably decrease latency (380ms -> 109ms). Running some tests:

    # ab -n 400 http://nlb-34dc3b430638dc3e.elb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
    Time per request: 108.779 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

    # ab -n 400 <public server via ELB>
    381.933

    # ab -n 400 <public server via ALB>
    380.632

    # (for reference) ab -n 400 https://www.google.com/
    190.536

    # (for reference) ab -n 400 https://sandbox-api.uber.com/health/
    107.680

If you're wiling to terminate SSL, this looks like it could be a solid improvement.

I'd vote for DNS-over-HTTPS or similar tech. Encrypting domain name resolution should help mitigate a gateway or proxy (Comcast) from knowing or blocking sites you visit.

He's pushing to lower the cost of tuition[1] rather than challenging the financial model.

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[1] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-114s1373is/pdf/BILLS-114...

If you guys don't know the author (Shaun Gallagher), he's a pretty awesome guy!

He's also the author of http://www.correlated.org/

Generally. And only because I see other companies doing this sort of thing. I'd like docker to be a solution here, but we're not quite there.

Neat. Just be cautious as docker containers aren't yet secure.

https://docs.docker.com/articles/security/

It would be better to handle your errors through try{}catch{} rather than using phantom's onError as an exception seems to force an exit.

https://github.com/sotownsend/BooJS/blob/master/lib/boojs.rb...

I threw together a similar implementation in bash with this change:

https://gist.github.com/spence/30d5aa383fec6be8e51e

Looks like

    ./phantomjs-repl.sh
    > missing
    ReferenceError: Can't find variable: missing
    > window
    [object Window]
    > console.log('Hello')
    Hello
    undefined
    > !jquery-1.11.2.min.js
    Loading jquery-1.11.2.min.js ... done
    > $('<span>Hello</span>').text()
    Hello
    > ^C

Inevitably, someone will add something NSFW, so use with caution.

Could just use a search db (e.g., elasticsearch) depending on the structure of your data and the aggregations you need.

Agreed. Evernote has a beta version you can try, and it's still missing this feature.

http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2014/06/23/evernote-mac-5-6-be...

He argues that time is constant, that natural laws vary within time and space, and that this leads to mean our existence cannot be calculated or precisely described by a set of mathematical expressions because the constants we would use to describe the future are not constant, but rather another set of variables.

I can't see how this makes the future any less knowable[1]. It just adds more state.

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[1] Obviously, we can't predict the future as we haven't the resources or the current state of everything. Naturalism just states that were we to have them, we could predict the future.

For $25, you can buy a "I (heart) Potato Salad" hat[1] which appears to infringe on the tightly enforced[2] "I (heart) NY" trademark.

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[1] http://www.zazzle.com/i_love_potato_salad_mesh_hat-148005376...

[2] http://iheartguts.com/extra-special-guts/ (via http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-87-i-heart-ny-...)

It should really work off of an account (similar to how Apple ID works), where the owner can remotely shutdown a car.

I'm surprised it doesn't work like this.

It usually makes sense to vary a single dimension when comparing metrics; not two.

From the article:

> China used more cement in the last three years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.

It seemed strange to exclude years from the 21st century.

From 2011 to 2013, China consumed roughly 28 times that of the U.S.

From 2002 to 2013, China consumed roughly 15 times that of the U.S.

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http://www.ficem.org/boletines/ct-2013/presentaciones2013/1-...

On a Mac, you can press Shift+Option+LeftClick > A/V Stats on any Netflix stream to see the video bitrate (and a whole lot more). It's the "playing bitrate v" value.

Also, the test video is strange. http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70136810

Reminds me of Subspace (now Continumm), which is surprisingly still active. Last I checked they had a couple thousand active players.

http://www.getcontinuum.com/

OpenSSL heartbeat bug patch (CVE-2014-0160):

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/731f431497f463f3a2...

> A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7557825

A forum discussing plates like these: http://forums.officer.com/t124675/

> Those are just as useless, they actually make me want to stop the car to see what the person is trying to hide...

1. What is the political leaning of the national news network who stands to lose the most viewers if you were to take a percentage of everyone's audience? Fox [1]. Will they call your network neutral?

2. There seems to be an inordinate amount of money pouring into campaigns to discredit the sort of thing you might focus on (e.g., climate change[2], which is seen as a liberal idea[3]).

3. Less seriously, it was sub-text'd from Colbert's "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." [4]

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[1] http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/cable-a-growing-medium-reach... (2012)

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-c...

[3] http://www.conservapedia.com/Global_warming

[4] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Liberal_bias

Unfortunately, if you wanted your new "liberal" news network to affect a larger audience you'd need a think-tank to help "propagandize", else you'd be discredited by other motivated interests.

Testing it out:

  > git commit -F message
  Try 0/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = 3650e08c9e1ecbbeec83daf7a959e3edcf15bd4f
  Try 100000/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = 3952f7d5035f5e88f66aa5c70e5cc11fdd734852
  Try 200000/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = 51c910f5d535c515a04796eb7c7a70cbd2325599
  Try 300000/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = d70c3e64b1d963461a6ee2f518c613483b979d68
  ...
  commit id = 313378458f8c4fb53c808f4b0bae5bf71ba5e23b
  [master 3133784] 1337 Test Commit
   1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

https://github.com/spence/git/commit/313378458f8c4fb53c808f4...

Originally submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7417548

Just enter this in the address bar (may have to manually re-type "javascript:")

> javascript:void(delete window.console);