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by sbt 12y ago
Yes. 'Statistics' makes it sound dull. 'Data Science' on the other hand, now you have both 'Big Data' (so hot right now) and 'Science' (like how adding an X in acronyms makes it sound cooler). Margare
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Ask HN: Why would I want to pay with my phone?
63 points by sbt 12y ago|85 comments
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by sbt 12y ago
I've never donated money to a political organization before, but I started an annual gold membership with the EFF. Initially I was sceptical, because I don't want to meddle in US politics as a non-US citizen. But these are global
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by sbt 12y ago
I have mixed feelings about this roadmap. On the one hand it's refreshing to see that they are not pushing new features recklessly and rather focus on core improvements. On the other hand, I think many would agree that the language is
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The Hidden Author of Putinism(m.theatlantic.com)
3 points by sbt 12y ago|0 comments
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by sbt 12y ago
(1) Check whether the economist peddling this view incidentally has a lot of gold he needs to unload, or is running a shop or fund for gold. (2) Check whether the economist peddling this view incidentally is funded by the Russian government
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An Industrial-Sized Generator That Runs on Waste Heat, Using No Fuel(technologyreview.com)
2 points by sbt 12y ago|0 comments
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Trolls 2.0(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by sbt 12y ago|0 comments
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by sbt 12y ago
I think this is fairly common, my programming friends and I are in a similar situation. There are diminishing returns to programming skill. Instead of focusing on becoming a better programmer (learning more languages, frameworks etc) you sh
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by sbt 12y ago
Always dreamed of a site like this when I was a kid, still do, but now it looks like it's finally here! Nice work.
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Privacy Badger(eff.org)
231 points by sbt 12y ago|67 comments
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New US sanctions target Russian officials and companies(m.bbc.com)
1 points by sbt 12y ago|0 comments
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The Complete Coward’s Guide to Starting a Company(wallstreetoasis.com)
3 points by sbt 13y ago|0 comments
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Why we're in a new Gilded Age(nybooks.com)
6 points by sbt 13y ago|0 comments
105.
by sbt 13y ago
Yes this is exactly what's happening. They are turning into a holding company, this is just even more diversified than WhatsApp. FB's business model cannot justify the FB stock price, they are effectively using money people though
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by sbt 13y ago
http://i.imgur.com/OpFcp.jpg
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Dynamic Docker links with an ambassador powered by etcd(coreos.com)
1 points by sbt 13y ago|0 comments
108.
by sbt 13y ago
Looks great, but I had some trouble building this (Clang 3.5 threw stack traces all over the place). Would be great if there was a Vagrant box available to try this.
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by sbt 13y ago
This does not manage a server, it provisions a server. The whole point of configuration management software is to bring your software into a desired state from any actual state the server may be in. This rests on the notion that configurati
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by sbt 13y ago
There is some truth to what you are saying, but this is just one way of writing a CFEngine policy, and a fairly confused one. CFEngine lets you abstract classes that makes things much more readable. Furthermore, you can create explicit orde
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by sbt 13y ago
If this contains one great truth it's this > By The Time You Give Them a Raise, It’s Too Late. I have seen this happen often. If you get a higher offer from a second company, you will think that the first employer paid you below par
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by sbt 13y ago
I am interested in the BTRFS support in particular, it is clear that performance in FS is key. However, what I like the most about Docker is the ability to use layers and diff them. In effect, I want version control for images, because it a
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by sbt 13y ago
I agree, I find it difficult to see how Gates lurking around would be productive for Microsoft. A new CEO needs to establish their own direction and rapport among employees, but the mere presence of Gates could prove too much in the way of
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by sbt 13y ago
I also don't mean to put down the creators of this product, it probably has its use cases. But every time I see something like "SQL with the scalability of KV" (which happens a lot these days), it's like someone promisin
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (projects.eff.org)
2 points by sbt 13y ago|0 comments
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by sbt 13y ago
> Isn't it surprising that in a country that finds national IDs liberticide the problem of identifying people is being outsourced to a corporate monopoly? This was the core of the problem during all the Snowden leaks last year; A fr
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by sbt 13y ago
Yes, 4k LOC/months is standard, regardless if you write assembly, haskell or C. whether you work through a mill of bureaucracy or you are in charge of your own project. These 2k LOC/year coders must surely be unproductive.
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by sbt 13y ago
> Unfortunately, I don't expect the above to actually happen :( The problem is that the incremental cost to filtering additional material is now virtually zero. I'm not sure how this would play out in Britain, but I know many c
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by sbt 13y ago
If I was British, I would do anything I could to urge politicians and the public to dismantle this firewall. Our biggest problem, not just in Britain but in all countries, is that the public does not understand how serious this is at all.
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Facebook sued over alleged private message 'scanning'(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by sbt 13y ago|1 comments

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