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Lot's of Shops use Ubuntu, yes. However you could also use CentOS or Fedora to be more flexible then with RedHat, especially when it comes to costs.
'Mostly' you don't need the Enterprise support, however without any paying for it we won't have Fedora / CentOS in the future. ;)
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> In one year-long intervention that included lean, overweight, and obese workers, the 36 total participants lost an average of 3 to 7 pounds.

Now, that's a useless statement if I've ever seen one. The arithmetic mean is pretty much meaningless if the group varies that much.
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Sounds pretty much like the startup weekend experience I had as well. I pitched and helped built team and the site (am a developer) but the business guys behavior just put me off so much that I walked away (he basically changed my idea ...a pivot ?? and had the team build his one)...then they rode our second place success and hired other devs and got something going again...I dont rue them their business success but he should not have joined our team if he wanted to build his idea ...I sometimes wonder if nice guys ever finish first in business :( My experience on that weekend is one of the reasons I dont go to startup weekends anymore...but it was a good lesson and learning experience for me...not something I could pick up from a book
Indeed. I think knowing about science is probably more useful and relevant to the majority of people than trivia. That can be used more generally to distinguish scams and fearmongering from important issues.

That more than a couple of percent knew the inventor of the Polio vaccine was a surprise to me. Is he a popular hero in America or something?

Also, height of a sound wave? Don't they mean high of a graph of a sound wave? It doesn't really move up and down except where it's travelling upwards or downwards.
What is the most worrying aspect of proven-unhackable kernels is that eventually these projects will be used to prevent people from modifying their system.

Proven unjailbreakable phones are the wet dream of the mobile carrier industry - finally no piracy anymore and no way for users to get rid of bloatware.
Actually Active Directory already ran on Linux. Samba4 has support for AD up to 2008 R2. Currently I don't think ADAM is builtin yet, but SAMBA4 is already in a good state, however it still misses a good GUI, (you need a MS OS to configure some stuff, like GPO)
There was even some Unix in Windows itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
> but as a default (when the user doesn't express a language preference),

I understand your viewpoint, and think it's noble. But you might want to tweak your parenthetical comment. In practice, I and most others do express a default language preference, which is sent as part of the browser's HTTP request. In my case it's:

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5

which means it's ignoring my preference. And I'm fine with that. Language is a mess. Look at Switzerland, which is labeled with all four official languages, or the three languages of Belgium. Yet South Africa, which has 11 official languages (and 11 official names - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_names_of_South_Africa ) is labeled only in English.
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Still, when two writes of a Perl program is less code and time than one write plus one modification of a C program, Perl still looks good.
I live on a 48-hour schedule. Yesterday, I had trouble getting my 16 hour sleep. Normally, I sleep 16 hours, like a rock.

I have a dentist on 9/19/2015. I don't want to fuck that up, LOL.
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I think it uses Python as frontend and compiles 6502 assembler from the code. Generated assembly can be easily edited to overcome problems.
Young folks today also use the word "n----r" in a similar way; are you okay with that extremely racist word becoming an everyday insult?

In other words, just because a certain group does it, doesn't make it right.
Nobody told you? Oh.
That's why the whole credit card system is insane.

1) It's a pull instead of a push. Anybody with your CC details can attempt to charge it. Bitcoin model is much more sane.

2) There's not even a "approve the charge" option.

3) The cartels controlling the credit card systems charge insane amounts of money for transactions, attempted or real.

I really want Bitcoin or some other alternative to succeed.
Yup, yet another band aid to cover for a wrong turn in the late 70's.
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I'm not going to disagree with your generalisation there. However with Halifax, specifically, you input your debit card details as authentication when resetting your password / sending user name reminders. And since user names are non-memorable (the one assigned to me was a 9 digit integer!), you can find yourself using the user name reminder feature on Halifax more regularly than you'd normally expect.
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The EU is introducing a cap on credit card interchange fees of 0.3%, and 0.2% for debit cards. This is expected to lead to much lower fees for merchants that accept credit cards (and ultimately, consumers).

The new regulations apply from 09 December 2015:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/credit-and-debit-card-fee...
While the advice in the article is funny, on a deeper level the author seems to argue that program text is a rather basic representation that often obstructs insight into the semantics of the program.

The quest for other program representations is still open. The state of the art uses text as "storage" format plus an IDE that does some semantic analysis to help the developer navigate. Many of the ideas mentined in the article (navigation, coloring, auto-format) have been integrated into IDEs and editors.

With almost 20 years of research between the article then and now, what semantic techniques are you dreaming of in your development environment? What are you missing? What feature would greatly improve your productivity (but is possibly too costly to implement by yourself)?
It is practical enough to autopilot UAV.
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Actually, BMI _is_ a terribly useful metric (and it's unfortunate bashing, nowadays, is an echo chamber phenomenon in fitness circles around the web).

The study this is referring to has a small-ish n (36), so, no big deal here - it seems that they took body composition measurements (among many others) without a significant overhead, they even built a lab within the premises of the corporation they were doing the study in. And they got very rich data with it (although the difference in body fat didn't reach significance, others such as waist circumference did).

But imagine that they were doing a different study. Something like a cohort, longitudinal and distributed: studying various corporations which use standing desks during a long, long time (a decade?). This would imply many different people collecting data in different context and different times (and, effectively, bothering even more people). Building labs or ensuring similar equipment across the different sites would be very expensive and laborious - not to mention error-prone! Just imagine the overhead of getting body composition indicators - even something simple as asking people to measure their waist, but during a decade across N sites.

In this kind of large study, a seemingly simplistic but nonetheless standardized (and, in a way, normalized) indicator such as BMI is an extremely helpful tool. Imagine you want to do an analysis not by weight, but by by "obesity" ranges, or check if "obesity" status changed: getting body composition is nearly impossible, but using the BMI pre-established ranges (lean, normal, overweight, obese) will actually be feasible (you just need height and weight!). And yes, although a bodybuilder will be considered overweight or obese by BMI, remember this is a study with a large enough n - edge cases will eventually average each other and BMI will hold true for the sample. The BMI will be a cost effective (and feasible) solution to analyse something more than weight changes.
I have been doing this for about a week. I don't actually have a standing desk though. I just put the 24 inch display and my small mechanical keyboard on top of my tower cabinet (Which is already on a table). This set up places the display at my eye level and the keyboard at just below chest level. So I don't actually have a place support my hands, and I just go 'hands down' after typing something. And typing on the keyboard at a little below chest level feels really great. Because you don't have to bend your wrists up, while typing, as you would need to, if the keyboard was a bit lower (as shown in the pictures in this post).

It actually feels great. (I have a chair on stand by though). The biggest advantage I can see is that, it is easy to take a break and move around, when you are already standing.
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When I first saw a whole stack of low latency C++ Win32 based servers running on Windows supporting an interest rate trading business back in 2004 I was amazed. Talarian SmartSockets was used for interprocess pub/sub between servers. There was no COM. No thread pools, just a handful of threads in each process executing distinct code. Very clean async design. Back then Linux didn't have lightweight threads, IIRC. I think this is the kind of thing Windows Nano might support. Is that what you had in mind when you look forward to Windows as a server OS?
http://www.backofanapkin.co.nz/ is a brilliant idea for this sort of pre-company-formation thing -- at a minimum it forces you to spend a few minutes thinking about what happens if things don't work out in a team/project/idea.
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Also I need recurring payments. Not sure if those would be possible with ELV / iDEAL.
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North-African countries have better exchange rates for BTCs in the local market than the USD one. (because of capital flow controls). I suspect the same for other third-world countries.

She probably takes 10-20% more with BTC than with bank wire.
10%?

Perhaps a small Mom & Pop store that has tiny volume.

Any company of decent size would be paying significantly less than that in practically all circumstances
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Which is exactly what you would expect in a communist regime with a neutered press.
can't even understand someone goes to work on a handshake deal with strangers. Have problems doing this even with friends. Once money is involved even friends can act strange...
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...until someone develops a hardware exploit and starts selling kits. Which is already happening for many devices, by the way.
I don't think claims are more measured. It is more detailed, yes, but claims are still extremely strong.

"Integrity means that data cannot be changed without permission, and confidentiality means that data cannot be read without permission." seL4 claims both. I think "unhackable" is a good enough summary.
Ben Silbermann is the cofounder and CEO of Pinterest, and a two-time YC alumni.

Shouldn't it read instead "[...] and a two-time YC alumnus"? Just saying!
Some other sad things, from the top of my head:

- Besides a web app, we must also create mobile apps, and they usually don't share much code. It would be much better if apps could just run HTML and Javascript instead, and still be integrated like native apps are now.

- Every web app that is deployed now is not guaranteed to work X days into the future. In fact, it often breaks. We need better guarantees for this.

- Browsers are incompatible in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

- It is way too complicated to write a web-browser. The number of abstraction-levels combined is too large. Security problems are therefore unavoidable.

- On the front-end, React is a suboptimal solution because it requires O(N) time and energy for simple O(1) updates. We need smarter incremental computation techniques.

- The primitives for the web (HTML+Javascript) have been created for novices, instead of for developers. However, even novices can't read the W3c specs, so it doesn't really help anybody.
I also had something like this happen on a site I built for my wife's work's site, a Boys & Girls Club[0]. I had a donation button that let people make an open donation to the club. It's such a tiny site with little traffic, but apparently the SEO must be decent because somehow it got targeted by people appearing to come through Brazil and Poland.

Suddenly one day, hundreds of donation attempts. Checking the failed transactions, the script was trying $1, then $2, etc up to $22 then starting over, each time with a different number. About $200 in successful donations came through before I caught it.

So I just shut it all down for now. I'm not really sure how best to fix it. The club has no money and already complain about the transaction fees they get charged per swipe (and those are all pretty standard rates in the U.S.). Being a non-profit, they expect a lot of stuff for free, and unfortunately won't consider paying for an anti-fraud service. Even PayPal takes too big a cut.

Realizing that this wasn't a helpful comment, just a "me too." It sucks. Oh well.

[0]: https://salembgc.org
In germany there is a saying: "If you work independently, you are always with one foot in jail". It is not unreasonable either, because I know of accountants and laywers (ie: people who do this all the time) who sometimes get lost in the jungle of regulations and decrees (European, National, Subnational, Communal, Branch of work, Union/Worker-regulations etc.). It is also no uncommon for some regulations, depending on the type of work, to be mutually exclusive.

I live in germany and I am willing to be independent in the mid-term (~ 2-4 years), but I have major doubts about doing it here...
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A quick test searching for "WAMP protocol" works just fine (wamp.ws is the #1 result) and isn't too hard to type. Without "protocol" the OP site drops to #4.

I did not log out of the Google mothership so perhaps my results are skewed, but I also haven't heard of the WAMP protocol before. :)
> This new view of Pluto’s crescent -- taken by New Horizons’ wide-angle Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC)

Since this is a multispectral image it might not look like that to the human eye. I like this version better though!
If you don't think this is the tightest shit ever, then get out of my face!

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Whatever you may think of Crimea status, people in Crimea use Russian language dominantly. Why would you expect names not be in it?

This sort of behavior you're demonstrating is exactly what contributed to recent Ukraine troubles.

P. S. In Italy, cities in Sudtirol - Alto Adige marked in both German and Italian. That's responsible behavior if you want examples.
I see no mention of the fact that lots of people who swore by treadmill desks also started swearing at them after about 6-9 months.

The problem is that your head is supposed to move when you are walking. When you are working at a computer, your head has a fixed point that you are trying to make stable. This is simply untenable posture and causes all manner of problems.

I wonder if that kind of problem holds for just standing, though.
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Heh, my bank just disabled RC4 (and enabled TLS1.2 by default) due to Chrome refusing to open the website. So I guess something good came out of it.
Hey veb,

This fraud would have been easy to detect if there had been any kind of detection system in place. But I had no fraud checking, captcha or 3-D secure, as I hadn't expected there to such a "fraud wave".

Those payments didn't feel like necessarily coming from a bot, as there were time delays and for many purchases they even filled in the questionnaire. It felt more like someone had a pile of numbers they were entering manually.

My form made that easy to do, as I had tried to eliminate any field which wasn't absolutely necessary.
Ideas and concepts are not usually considered intellectual property, and cannot receive protection or be assigned ownership.

Barring any agreement otherwise, the code's copyright belongs to the individual developer who wrote it, though in the case of software projects this may get a little weird when multiple developers write and overwrite each other's code.

The following is speculation, because I've read up on the finer points of copyright laws as applied to purely digital property, but by sharing the code the developer has obviously gave the person he's sharing the code with implicit permission to work and use that copy of that code, although, again barring any prior agreement otherwise, he should also be able to rescind that permission as he chooses.
Does ad blocking herald the end of the free internet?
I honestly think the "gnu/linux operating system" model is in its final phase of life.

Kernel ABI stability has brought forth options like running docker containers on FreeBSD and Solaris/Illumos/SmartOS
Standardised workflows around "containers" are breaking down the need to care what your container is on the inside. Imagine running statically compiled Go binaries that have been compiled against s CloudABI tool chain deployed to CloudABI native hosting with maximum flexibility.

I've got a notebook full of details about "Linux compatible" system designs. Throwing away the Linux kernel for fun and profit! It's closer than you think.
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I thought all anti-vaxxers were idiots. Then I married one
...as you should... the surface temperature is -229 degrees centigrade.
They've missed the liberal use of dependency injection, triggers, or anything that can create a side effect of an event without being documented in the function being executed.

Much fun to be had there. Even just setting up PostgreSQL partition tables can defeat the most diligent maintainer (as they suddenly find RETURNING id_column fails everywhere).
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OSM's default road colouring is actually about to change: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/173...
As an European, I'd suspect of bias if they weren't!
Mind you - at the other extreme I've had someone invest £25K in a startup based on a handshake who turned out to be utterly brilliant and a complete gent.

He only looked slightly sour when he saw we'd stuck a copy of his cheque up on the wall.... :-)

Of course, people like that are rare - but they do exist.
This is the setup (Recurly + Stripe) the article is complaining about though, it doesn't protect well against fraud.
I'm confused by the 0.4%. Who was intended to own the other 98.4%?

> "contracts aren’t allowed from the event"

Isn't this kind of conflict pretty much guaranteed then?

From http://startupweekend.org/about/firsttimer/:

> "How do teams address the issue of IP/ownership?
As with any startup, the team decides. Startup Weekend doesn’t support or take part in the signing of any legal documents at the events themselves, and while Mentors with legal backgrounds are often present and able to give general advice, they are not permitted to give specific legal counsel.While it doesn’t hurt to be clear about your individual expectations from the start, we’ve found that teams who don’t spend time addressing this issue until it actually matters (i.e., there is a tangible product to have ownership of) are much more productive and successful than those who do."

Oh, but it's more "productive" during the weekend. OK...
This wouldn't be necessary if you at ycombinator treated all people equally to begin with. Instead of doing that, you introduce discriminating "open office hours" in which some people are not allowed, based on their race.

That's some grade A idiocy.
2 questions:

1) Pre-weekend: why would you only accept 0.4% equity? Given there was nothing but the idea the company was worthless. So why wouldn't the guys building it demand a much higher slice?

2) Post-weekend: given the company was basically just the code at this point, the devs could have just said "no" to this guy and set up their own company. Why wouldn't they have done that?
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In my experience the proxy environment variable (contrary to most other environment variables) must be lower case, i.e. “http_proxy”. Therefore:

http_proxy=http://proxy-server.example:3128/ some_command
Not yet. But there may be in the future. Many things proved impossible have shown to be possible in the past.
>As an hybrid kernel

I must ask, what exactly makes the current NT kernel a 'hybrid' kernel ?
In that case BMI gets misused a lot. The bashing comes because whilst it may be useful on a large statistically significant population it is nearly useless at an individual level. One can take two people of identical BMI and one can be actually very fat and the other very slim.
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RE: Polio - I suspect this is because most Americans do know who the other options (Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein) are. This may be reflected in the fact that the most obscure of those three (Marie Curie) is also the one with the most incorrect guesses.
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Yeah, that was an over-simplification by the fasctodesign author(s). "No changes" doesn't mean quite the same as "no significant changes".

"The 18 participants in the intervention group showed a reduction in weight over a 3 month period but did not show any significant changes in body composition" [1]. It's a study with a small n, it's normal to fail to reach significance in some variables.

[1] Brittany T. MacEwen, Dany J. MacDonald, Jamie F. Burr, A systematic review of standing and treadmill desks in the workplace, Preventive Medicine, Volume 70, January 2015, Pages 50-58, ISSN 0091-7435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.11.011.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743514...)
And they are partnering with CyanogenMod to get it on their phones/tablets.

Is Microsoft doing an IBM-like refocusing?
That's quite clever.
What I was thinking too. Maybe BSD would have suited them better?
Those "hills" look like clouds to me (in 3rd image), the shadows appear to indicate a gap between the object and the surface.
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The title is very much clickbait. A few cells possibly living inside the body, during gestation either as a fetus or as a mother, ar enot another human living inside you.
For anyone wanting to skip the chain of crap articles and derivatives, those are the sources:

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/305/305ra146

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/09/16/caffeine-ni...
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Can't you just assume the highest tax rate and pay that on every sale so you don't have to guess the country? Seems like it would save everyone money for a small business like this.
It's a black and white photo of rocks and ice.

It's interesting that it is Pluto, but photo of the year? Why?