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Read Microsoft Zen of PM: http://microsoftjobsblog.com/zen-of-pm/

Source: Was a Microsoft PM
I can't remember if Xcode asks for admin privileges or not when you install it...

...mind you, I guess that doesn't matter. If I unknowingly had a hacked version and it prompted me for my password at install, I would enter it.
Seren and Fradow you are right, checked again now. Seems like the Italian site is still in the process of introducing the booking fee, while for the majority of the trips you can still contact the driver directly.
This all makes sense now.
One should of course verify its integrity BEFORE installing it and letting it replace spctl.

The real question is whether the spctl tool displays "Apple" in case of a valid (relative to generic CAs) certificate issued to "Apple". Hopefully that's not the case.

Another risk is a specifically designed executable capable of compromising spctl.
But in the case of the farmer losing his 'farm', you would need to continue supplying free food for the lifetime of the farmer to truly replace him.
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I don't think that kind of hostility and deprecation is ever justified. The worst part is that he publicly defends his way of dealing with people online and sets a terrible example.
Sometimes you dont see the flaws in a business idea until it is practiced for a while. In Groupons case it was an idea to easy to copy and businesses who though they were get a short deal. I thought it was worthwhile to try out.
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Another good choice is F#. I started off with Haskell, but there was definitely a steep learning curve, so I eventually found my way over to Erlang. Erlang's great, but its not for everythng. Now I'm working with F#, which is pragmatic, and has the support of .Net libraries.
I build statistical models for banks which help assess the risk of a loan. Effectively, my models will get converted into the grades (A, B, C, D, etc.) mentioned in the article. The strategies (second chance, family guy, safe haven) are generally consistent with experiences from the portfolios of most financial institutions.

However, I am skeptical (prove me wrong) of the statement in the article - "Lenders get a return on their investment that is typically much better than traditional Certificate of Deposit or Saving Accounts". In finance terms, I will be surprised if they have a higher RAROC [1] as compared to large banks. If they really do, then congratulations (you will put banks out of business in a few years)??

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-adjusted_return_on_capita...
Just put a copy elsewhere and surreptitiously edit PATH so that the malicious one gets picked first. No need to delete any files.
I think it depends on the business. Someone up top mentioned it was a great way for them to try scuba, sky diving, etc. That's not the sort of thing you necessarily see a lot of repeat traffic for. Not sure.
It's a difference in cultural expectations. As I found out recently, putting one's feet on the table is considered rude in Germany.

If you come from a culture where picking your nose in public is impolite, then it might disturb you to see someone really going at it. In the US, using the middle finger is generally considered rude or offensive, but the act on its own is meaningless and not especially prone to damage anything.

But acts do have cultural associations, which is why putting feet on a table, or window frame, may disturb others, even if it doesn't disturb you.

Personally, I have no problems with foot-on-frame.
This is the reason I am pushing myself towards simpler solutions, even if I end up losing some functionality/connections out of it. The added cognitive load of dealing with managing all of these services is becoming really painful.

Yes, I may not have push via the cloud to my latest iGizmo, but at least I don't have to worry that I forgot an important calendar, todo, file, or chat message on one of 5 services that mix and match between what they offer.

Org-mode can run calendar, todo, notes, habits, journal, etc.

Chat is where I still haven't found a solution. Switching to XMPP/SMS semi-exclusively is probably the next step.
I'm planning on one because I'm currently working on some play around side-projects for learning. Hoping to start one that I hope will earn me some money soon, and I plan to build a small version of it 24 to 36 hours and show it to my *intended customers, and also looking to start off another one before the year ends.
Thanks for the link. I only new the speech from this mix, which while different in style, also gave me goosebumps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe5wW-g6FgU.
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Even better - a small "context" link you can hover and get the context right there on the front page.
I'm not sure crippled is the right word. I think limited might be a better choice. Redhat seems paranoid about patents and lacked the particular curve necessary to build bitcoin / ethereum without first building openssl.

I'm actually mildly surprised there's not an unofficial "spin" that addresses these IP-related limitations the way various distros like Mint address various Ubuntu pain points.
yes, but I don't own a windows license so I can't test it. linux is free so I can.
I liked Fedora. Since release 21 they are really stepping up their game in terms of quality. But I can't see myself using it in any foreseeable future. I'm just enjoying rolling release distros (Arch) too much, that going back to Fedora would felt like 2008 again...
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It seemed more noteworthy to me that 8chan got sold to the same person. 8chan is infamous as a community too objectionable even for 4chan, with ongoing controversies involving child pornography, swatting, organizing harassment, etc...

I fully understand that 4chan is the bigger ticket item in this, but that only makes it more confusing to me that Nishimura would want 8chan, let alone offer money for it (I could understand if 8chan was a rider, like he had to take 8chan if he wanted 4chan, but they were owned by different people, so that seems unlikely).

I'd like to see some guessing as to how this is expected to affect 4chan (and 8chan)'s day-to-day/culture, but I'm skeptical of anyone's analysis/insight if it leaves out the black sheep 8chan in all this (as is the case in the NYT article here).
It's mind-blowing that anyone would subscribe to an F or G round in the first place. That they would do so despite the obvious scammy nature of the whole thing is probably criminal, at least if they were managing OPM.
I was designing a many-sensor system back in very early 2011 and we wanted to go with AVR, but couldn't. They didn't have enough memory, enough flash, enough IO, enough anything, even on their $20 chips.

Then we found the STM32F lines and got chips that were dramatically, objectively superior to the AVR32 chips in literally every way, for about $3/piece.

I still feel like I must have missed something for there to have been such a gap, but the project went great.

So, I think there may have been more to it than marketing pitch about portability.
Ongoing stability leaves a lot to be desired with Fedora. The utter disregard for bug reports and general aggression towards pushing untested bleeding edge broken updates with no equivalent of Ubuntu LTS means I'll stick to Ubuntu for a long time. I even donated to them recently.
>> and for a long time some companies have been allegedly selling microcontrollers at a loss,

So why aren't companies rushing to build 40nm commodity mcu's like infineon did ? it should cost almost nothing to make an mcu that way.
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Ask HN: Social Justice vs. Individual Liberty
In political philosophy there is a debate over these two core values that are at the basis of the main political ideologies. You can't have one without violating the other, for some promoting social justice is more important and for others promoting individual liberty is more important. I'd like to know if this is something you HNers spend time thinking about when thinking in which direction you want to take your startup company, your career and your overall impact on the world we live in.
Wow that's not terrifying advice at all. /sarcasm

If you expect someone to run their own git & ci server, is it so hard to give them a couple of dot-point instructions:

- create a .list file with these two lines: <blah>

- add the GPG key for Apt

- run aptitude/apt-get update

Sure enough, you're already listed on curl|sh (http://curlpipesh.tumblr.com), which also includes a link to the https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/install page which has a "manual" tab.

Even with "manual" selected, you still insist that people should make a http request to your server, to generate a .list file, even though the only variables are local variables, which you send as part of the request anyway: distro ID (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, etc) and release codename (Wheezy, Jessie, etc).

The most ominous thing to me is that you send the result of `hostname -f` to your server. Even bigger WHY!?
This is the same strategy the US pursued after WWII. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal was a major proponent within the Truman administration of encouraging private American development of sources in the Arabian Gulf in order to preserver American production for use in a future war in the event we could not secure foreign supplies.
A specific and very efficient pruning yes.

I have updated my algorithm (when I worked on the step-by-step visualization process, I realized that sometimes it was doing worthless extra steps), then it is faster than the first version. The new version is online. You can also upload your own puzzles now.

For 16x16 TetraVex puzzles with 23 different colors, it takes, for about 80% of them, less than 10 milliseconds on a regular computer with no parallelization (I use two instances: one on a Surface Pro 3 and another on a EC2 t2.micro).

For the others, it takes about 100 to 200 milliseconds to solve.

Then, IMO, it takes 'almost' the same time to generate a solution than to check it.
I would think that in mass manufactured products AVRs are actually more common than Atmel made '51s, and for the whole '51 market Atmel seems to be mostly irrelevant as most '51s you see today are various highly integrated special purpose SoC's from mostly asian manufacturers.

I've not seen anything that can be called "consumer electronics" that contained Atmel made '51, while I've seen some such things with AVR's (probably most often with mega169). In various low-volume industrial stuff there are heaps of Atmel made '51s, but only reason for that is familiarity (and to lesser extent AVR-compatible ISP).

Another thing is that Atmel is prone to supply chain problems. In our case it meant that we had redesigned the same device three times, first design was based on mega8, which in late 2010 we found was completely unavailable in any non-prototype quantities, thus we found that our distributor had cheap inventory of AT89C2051 and went with that (with all the development pains that are inherent in non-ISP '51) and on last major revision we went with MSP430 (G2253 IIRC) and didn't have to change anything due to supply problems for 3 years.

In any case I believe that for many uses of Atmel microcontrollers the familiarity and avaiability (like mega8 being fifth of the price of PIC16F84 in unit quantities in ~2007) were the major selling points.
What about mindfulness? it is by far the most well known form of meditation among the general population.
in 2015 I'm not sure there is much of a difference between the two. ;-)
CentOS is the "long term support" version of Fedora. RHEL / CentOS 7.0 was forked from Fedora 18/19. It is supported for 10 years.
You don't have to hack gifs to do this. The ability to indefinitely stream frames of an image (of any format) is part of HTTP.

I made a live png view counter for funsies with this idea: http://drewgottlieb.net/2012/07/29/real-time-user-count.html
Am I understanding this correctly: the devs who downloaded Xcode from an unknown source disabled gatekeeper to get it to run?

That's unbelievably stupid dev behavior, if true.
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This is great to see! I don't know if it was inspired by runhaskell, but it does appear to be similar. I have to say, this kind of tool is something I have come to feel is incredibly helpful and important for my dev workflow.

I spend most of my time developing in statically-typed, compiled-to-machine-code languages; obviously, one of the major advantages of more dynamic or interpreted languages is the ability to rapidly prototype. This type of tool allows me to quickly prototype something without losing all the power, control and other benefits of my languages of choice (in particular, Haskell these days).

Things like this make me more amenable to python by the day! Keep up the good work!
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I actually hate notifications and turn them off on just about every app that has them. They are attention grabbers that often take me away from other important tasks at hand.
I think it does, the first thing it needs to do is "Install Additional Components" (the updated mobile device framework)
We spend 115 hours a year trying to find something to watch on TV
I think this[1] does what you want, unless I'm not understanding your problem description. AFAIK you are correct about protocol extensions not holding state. So I don't think you can implement the `var serialCode = generateSerialCode()` with just a protocol. But you could do it with a protocol + base class.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jayrhynas/49945331e41314fc3ede

Edit: I just realized that with this method, the protocol extension is useless, you could just define `move` on Robot. So protocol extensions can give you a mix of abstract & default methods but if you need to inherit state you need to use a base class.
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> You don't have to drive?

They're saying you don't have to focus on driving. On a train you can watch the scenery pass and not pay attention to piloting your mode of transportation.
It's several orders of magnitude safer, for one thing.
I think it was a feedback loop. More often then not, Groupon's provided no return business, so you'd continue to lower you expectations about the people who were buying them.

I'd compare it to how hotels will sometimes give you the worst rooms if you booked through an online site that gets heavily discounted inventory.
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Even if you say "it's fixed now" the fact that this problem existed for 6 years. (SIX YEARS! screams internally) and the handling of it "we'll close this ticket WONTFIX if you discuss patents here" is so terrible that it's shaken my perception of RedHat in regards to Fedora.

CentOS was packaged and shipping (I know it wasn't redhat owned, but they are binary compatible, right?) with the elliptic curve options enabled.

I'm still running Fedora 21 on my machine at home, I've been using Fedup to upgrade since Fedora 17 and it's still working! but this has caused enough doubt about their intentions that I may end up replacing my distro.
Your scrolling social sidebar is obscuring the text, BTW.
It could also vary widely based on whether or not advertising was a business's greatest problem. If your biggest problem was that not enough people know about or had tried your restaurant, Groupons probably did a lot of good.

If your biggest problem was that your food wasn't really that great or your prices were too high or you were in a terribly inconvenient location or your staff was unbearable, then getting more people in the door doesn't really help anything in the long run.
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> How does he/she become target? How does IP address gets exposed?

Call of Duty.

No I am not kidding.

The majority of the DDOS attacks we see targeted at Residential customers, are because said Customer was running their mouth / being an AHole in Call of Duty, and they pissed off someone with access to a botnet, etc.. The other is people gambling for real money and they start to win, so someone else knocks they offline so they won't lose. As for how they get their IP, not really sure as I suck as those games, but I've heard it is pretty trivial to do so.

-Patrick
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Please rename? The current one gives no idea that it's a data store until AFTER you see the association with SQLite.
Yes, I did mean the Ars article, my bad for not clarifying the context - and thanks for the additional commentary too!
I got a groupon(or similar) for a straight-blade shave. The guy was using replaceable blades, was obviously using and old blade, and absolutely tore my face up. Nicks and blood everywhere. When I didn't give him a tip, I could tell he was upset.
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So it isn't just me!

I used to beat myself up for being so low-energy that I couldn't even find something to watch on TV.
Glad that my findings match yours !

I think it does beat a C.D. from a risk/return perspective. It's probably higher risk than a C.D. but returns largely compensate for it I believe.

To me this is possible because the Lending Club is desintermediating a business that was traditionnally 'high margin'.
My experiences with Groupon mirror your own. Whenever my friends and I would show up to a business with a Groupon, we would be treated with bad attitudes, worse service and just general reluctance when the exact opposite should have been true. I mean, that is the entire point of Groupon right? To promote a business -to spread the word on the street about how great your restaurant/bowling alley/pub is.

Sadly, it has been my experience that a lot of the businesses that sign up for Groupon don't know what they are getting themselves into and as a result, take out their frustrations on customers when they can't break even for the month... which is, I think, a fatal flaw in the human psychology aspect of the business model. I'd rather just pay the sticker price and enjoy better service than have to deal with all that.
> Do you also read OpenSSH and Bash source code looking for security exploits?

I don't personally, no. But I'm confident that there are experts doing so, and that when they find an issue, it is publicized and fixed quickly, because it's considered an extraordinary and urgent event, and allowing it to continue unfixed would be unacceptable. When MS shipped virus-infected CD-ROMs, nobody thought it was unacceptable, or even abnormal.

However, if you're confident enough in Windows' security features to run without anti-virus software, that's fine. My sense is that the vast majority of Windows users are not. But the vast majority of Linux users are.

> Quantity != Software X that user won't do without.

You're going to have to give specific examples, because I just don't see this as a significant issue that users who don't want to hose their systems have to deal with on Linux. I've never come across any software I needed as an ordinary user that I couldn't find in my Linux distro's package manager. (As a programmer, I have, but that's a different case.)

> I can install whatever software I want under $HOME

Which comes under the heading of users who want to hose their systems. If you don't want to hose your system, just don't do that.

(As an aside, I think you can actually lock down executable permissions in $HOME with SELinux. But I haven't tried it myself.)
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When LoRa will be deployed, it would probably be a much better solution than wifi.
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> but this says that <2 years of experience is better than longer

When you say better, do you mean risk or return? First of all, you are looking at the variable in a "univariate" sense,i.e, the relationship of the default rate or return by the categories of this variable. But their internal model is multivariate - there may be other factors influencing risk or return which is not obvious in the univariate dimension. It also depends on the power of this variable in predicting risk. And finally, lower risk may mean lower return - you just need to find the efficient frontier :) - http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientfrontier.asp.
The text is horrible on this page. :(
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This is one of the motivating factors behind Prsnly. I know many people, myself included that turn off push notifications (or don't enable them) where possible. I'm trying to see if a notification-less system will help make more meaningful experiences take place. I want people to take their time back and get back to the real world.

edit: question: Does having your notifications turned off make you feel better when you discover content or interact with an app that otherwise would have pushed a notification?

I feel the internet used to be about discovery
Great article. I think this is an issue that always deserves more serious attention.

I also think it's admirable for someone to do this kind of research, take pictures, and write about the experience for the purpose of educating others.
Red Hat is a multi-billion dollar US corporation. They are absolutely a target for every crappy patent troll out there, and they do have to take this stuff very seriously. Plus, even discussing a patent causes wilful liability.

If you don't like it, change US law.
> Their biggest problem is the inability to achieve profitability on $3 billion in sales after so many years in business. They still have $1.1 billion in cash however

Doesn't this just mean the investors would be better off winding it down and investing the $1.1b in something that is profitable, or at the very least has a higher ceiling? It doesn't seem all that likely that the latest round of cutbacks is going to turn this into a profitable company and even if it does, the scope for profits is very limited. As you say, they've been going for a long time and nothing is really getting better. Even the 2.5% you get from the S&P 500 would be a better use for that billion in cash.
Driver writers care about latency, program DMA devices, set up memory factors (RAS/CAS, bank addresses etc) and bus width is visible there. Also atomic operations were done with bus-lock - a 16-bit update took two bus cycles! So the high and low parts could be non-atomically updated.
If your website is well-coded and administered, does CloudFlare offer any performance benefit? (leaving aside security for now)

If a page is static, then CloudFlare can cache it. But if you set your cache headers appropriately, and use efficient serving code like nginx, I imagine serving static content is pretty darn cheap.

If a page is dynamic, then how can CloudFlare really speed it up? You don't want them serving stale pages to users. So it has to hit your server every time, in which case the user might as well hit your server. In that case, I don't really see how CloudFlare improves things.

Am I misunderstanding how CloudFlare works? It seems like if you follow typical performance tips like [1] then most of CloudFlare's benefit is eliminated.

I guess [1] does tell you to use a CDN. You can save end user network latency for cached static pages, since they cache them in multiple geographic locations. But if you have a simple site with 1 .js and 1 .css file per page, and compress and minify everything, I wonder if it's worth it.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596529309
They downloaded Xcode from somewhere besides Apple. How much more clue do you need about their stupidity.
One of their future business plans is/could be to replace your low performing ads with their higher performing ads in far-flung locations you're not optimizing for.
Since the recent innovation of middle-out compression there's been a lot of activity in this space.
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"Can you subscribe?" "Should you subscribe?" "You ought to subscribe."