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>That's a pretty narrow interpretation of "does not have a processor". Keyboards and mice have processors. HDMI adapters have processors. Wireless transmitters and receivers have processors.

Damn. Is it really possible that you cannot infer what I meant by the "processor" from the context?

>Linking all those processors together requires - you guessed it, a processor.

Wrong. There is no "linking" required at the device. Each of these can communicate independently..

And the solution involving pi is adds unnecessary overheads and limitation, which will greatly degrade the usability of this device.
Since I had no idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,170,000 in 2015), and parachuted to an uncertain fate.
Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified.
The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history.
I don't think it's that extreme. Bankers don't know what pounds are, or don't know what pulling is?
> how in the world are they going to pay for a child for 18 years?

How could you possibly infer that to be a problem via a plain reading or even an uncharitable reading? Having money in the bank account doesn't help your kids as much as having a house in the right neighborhood.
I was really hoping the end to Mad Men was Don Draper being DB Cooper. It would've made for a much better ending.
and the steady stream of people getting kicked off because their (perfectly real) names look weird to anglophone americans.
What is the definition of "part of the OS's boot sequence"?
In the factorable.net paper[1], a test system didn't generate 192 bits of entropy until 66 seconds(!) after boot. The problem was apparently exacerbated by Linux not mixing the entropy into the /dev/urandom pool at all until that threshold was reached, but even if it started doing so immediately, standard server processes like ssh would still start up long before there was enough entropy to make urandom sufficiently unpredictable. Sure, this is something of an extreme case... and as mentioned in the paper, there are various tools used on Linux to save a random seed to disk, so maybe the OS should ensure that happens before it starts any other services... but software that responds to an easy-to-make configuration mistake by silently behaving insecurely is the polar opposite of good security design.

The right answer is Linux's new getrandom syscall, whose default mode "blocks if the entropy pool has not yet been initialized", but thereafter acts like /dev/urandom. But on systems where that syscall is not available, I'm skeptical that using /dev/urandom is sane design.

[1] https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.conference.pdf
I find it disingenuous to see properties such as equidistribution or low discrepancy being described as 'quality' of a generator. Yes, they make certain Monte Carlo algorithms converge quicker. No, they are not closer to a truly random sequence than a CSPRNG is. The goal of a CSPRNG is to be indistinguishable from true randomness, and a predictor is quite obviously a distinguisher. But so is a statistical test, or any 'nice' property that makes some algorithm behave better.

By the way, I think I've said this before, but I'll say it again. I really dislike the usage of the term 'CSPRNG' in these discussions. A CSPRNG is typically understood to be /dev/urandom---an algorithm that not only generates a long sequence of numbers, but also harvests entropy and tries to achieve forward and backward security. But it is also sometimes overloaded to mean a stream cipher, which is a conceptually simpler construct, and also able to be much faster. Stream ciphers can definitely compete in performance with things like Xorshift.
Much safer to never give the TV network credentials.
Summary: maybe they should try not being poor.

If I am to take this to its logical conclusion, I guess there are entire nations, indeed probably most of the human population, who you think should just not reproduce.
It can be a lot easier if you focus on longer periods, eating healthy over 2 days is much less effort than trying to pick ideal meals you could have unlimited quantities of.

Try unusual things regularly. If you find yourself really enjoying the taste of something odd, it's probably because your missing out on a nutrient it has.

EX: If you eat animals don't just eat fat and meat, liver pate for example can be a really good dip.
Or people would find new ways to make a new class to be abused/used.
Steve Jobs, the child of two Ivy League students? That would in no way qualify under "you shouldn't be having kids if the only job you can get is McDonalds or Yum! Brands".
FWIW, I rather like it. It definitely stands out. The impression I got was bold, edgy, clean, opinionated, terse, not necessarily friendly. Not sure if that's the sense that you'd like to impart about the language.
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So I just launched JoinTheBox.com

I want to generate revenue through press and media but have no clue is my press kit Good?
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Facebook bears the burden for the exact same reason that it provides free food, bikes around the campus, pretty lawns, a barbershop, etc... because it wants to retain fickle employees. It's not a moral statement.
Hey corporate experience of 17 years and most of them were fortune 500 companies. Unless you want to be inventor or world leading scientist ... you don't need anything. Do avg in college join a big company in simple position work your way up (smart or hard whatever works for you) and use your common sense you will become evp/coo if not a ceo.. none of the college shit matters in companies which is were you will end up...
Too right! My favorite crash-course in the realities of names is "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"[1]. I think any programmer whose work deals with any kind of personal information should google "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About" and read all of them (gender, addresses, etc.).

[1]: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
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And like I said, plenty of those types of products exist to solve that problem...

http://hauppauge.com/site/products/prods_hvr_external.html
http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/

...what I was describing is the problematic issue with CableCard and the DRM problem: the inability to run a trustworthy OS (i.e. non-Smart-TV-solution-that-spies-on-all-your-viewing-habits) to process encrypted QAM and the like... ATSC solutions are aplenty, some of the best are the Silicondust hardware.
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see if you like cooking. it makes eating a hobby you do every day with the side effect of nutrition. it can be frustrating at first but as with most things the key is patience and consistency.
Yes! I have lazily been waiting for something like this to come along and hopefully bump out metapost. Maybe this has already happened and I am out of the loop on that though.
There are a very high percentage of foreign-born parents all over the Bay Area. Last time I checked, for example, more than 30% of the residents of Alameda county were born outside the US.

One factor, in my opinion, is that for a lot of immigrant parents, their success in education enabled them to move to Silicon Valley. Education changed their lives and, many would say, in a hugely positive way.

So they apply that same perspective to their children's education and expect the kids to have the same educational experience they did.

The problem for the kids is that what it takes to succeed in the US is different from what enabled their parents to get into the US in the first place. It's not clear to me what the implications of that are, but boldness, innovation, insight, team spirit, leadership, and a lot of other desired attributes don't get discovered by students because they have no opportunity to allow them to emerge.
I have no idea why this was downvoted. The whole point of Soylent is to be the only food you need, if it's deficient in any way it should be shouted from the rooftops for the unwary.
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Yes, getrandom(3) is good. It's just a patch for a broken architecture, though; the right answer, architecturally, is that userland services (like sshd) should not be started at all until /dev/urandom has been seeded.

To put it another way: /dev/urandom is effectively a service that can be in a "starting" or "started" state. When you, as a service, depend on another service, the idiomatic thing to do is to teach your init/supervisor daemon about that dependency. Then, instead of your service coming up and sitting around doing voodoo to your pipes/sockets to try to figure out whether your dependencies are up, your supervisor can just delay starting your service until it knows the dependent service is up.

(Or, to get really clever about it, you could just make /dev/urandom itself a socket attached to a "service" whose job is to, on startup, do a blocking-seed of the "real" /dev/urandom device, and thereafter become a dumb pipe over to the "real" /dev/urandom device. Then all your services just block on reading /dev/urandom [the socket] the first time, with the first one of them to try reading from it in fact causing the reseeding to happen. Socket activation!)
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If it weren't a market segmentation strategy, just like limiting the RAM capacity, then there'd be equivalent 'server' chips for most current 'desktop' feature sets and vice versa. However that is clearly not the case, both in my own shopping experience and in the experience of Jeff Atwood (this is in fact something he complains about in this very article).

ECC would require running and connecting a few more traces, but that would /surely/ be offset by not having to create as many layouts or source/stock as many parts. In the past AMD used to have a competing/selling point of /all/ of their CPUs supporting ECC ram. Today that is not the case, as they too have mirrored (colluded?) Intel's market segmentation strategy.
True. But every language has gone through this issue. Node is particularly vulnerable to weak prng seeding due to relying on forking to support multiple processes. Am I that old and grumpy to expect people to be aware of the history here?
I know what that is!!!!
i wouldn't even call a machine without ecc a server or workstation. more like a consumer device that's been given a job it can't do.
>Now, the industry largely knows that it is industry speak for "2-3 weeks vacation but up to manager discretion."

Funny, because neither company I've worked for has that unspoken policy. You should come in and dictate the actual culture to us since you know it so well. I don't need to tell you the companies of course, since you're already well acquainted with them obviously.
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Amusingly, bitpay told me I wasnt eligible to use their services because I vend electronic cigarettes. Too risky for them... not too risky for my cc merchant though.
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Then quit and take a lower-stress job. Once you're at that point you can afford it (in fact most people in that position these days could just quit and reduce their living costs, maybe not even that). I think that's what GP was saying.
Agreed, I like the design. If you're here checking out the programming language, you're up for an original experience I'd say. I don't mind clicking 'about' to learn the minimum, and dive further on various sections...looks clean and I enjoy that. Personal opinion obviously.
One of the crappy things is, for example, the way LG chooses to approach this. My guess is they're just as bad as Vizio with their new "WebOS" TVs (disclosure: I own one, started reading disclaimer - they send all activity to LG proper as well). Opted out of everything thinking I won't watch any OTA or cable on the TV anyway since it's a media room panel, however I did want to use the built in Netflix / Amazon from time to time instead of having to provide another box in a minimalistic A/V setup.

Problem is... As soon as I tried to fire up Netflix the app on the TV needed an "update". To get the update you have to agree to all ToS. Complete and utter BS approach to forcing customers into a path of least resistance.

It's also hard to get a premium panel (I was specifically looking for 4:4:4@60Hz) without the "smarts". It boiled down to price vs features vs requirements and thus I ended up where I did. I ended up revoking my acceptance of ToS and biting the bullet to use an external device for streaming content... Unfortunately I don't think most people care, or if they would they don't realize they should in these scenarios. The unfortunate reality...
lol really....

i've been incredibly busy over the past year or so, I'm sorry the project hasn't gotten much love recently :(
.... wait what? I mean, I fully assumed this was happening, but your post implies a certain public acceptance of that that I did /not/ expect. I'm very, very intrigued...
is this like every day? Isn't that really depressing to eat the same thing all the time?

I guess if you had like 4 or 5 things to rotate it's a lot easier to deal with, but every day a turkey+avocado sandwich...
I think it’s time to link this thing again: Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy?

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Rea...
I you want ids without collisions you should use a monotonically increasing number instead (or as well).

I would concatenate utc time in ms to the random number.
Do you plan on retiring?

Who's going to produce the goods and services you intend to purchase in your retirement?

First world birth rates are already low. Under your guidance we'd have a demographic crisis like you wouldn't believe.

Sure, there's immigration, but I don't see why your rule doesn't apply to poor people in other countries.
He could have done that when he was 19 years old. Obviously....OBVIOUSLY.... Zuck, and Facebook, are what they are because he doesn't agree with your views on his life.

How do you know he wouldn't regret stopping work now when he's an old man? You have absolutely no idea. But we can take an educated guess by the motivations and choices he's shown in the past. Which were, to keep working and building his company. Because he probably enjoys it.

My grandfather grew up dirt poor. He built a small real estate business on his own, and continues to come to work every day and he's in his 90's. If he was forced to "take the rest of his life off" not just 20 years ago, but even now, he would without question be less happy as result. He enjoys working. Many people do. Especially those who are founders of businesses.
I went to Ithaca High School in upstate New York which I think got this right, at least more right than a lot of other places. The freshman and sophomore classes were like Carolyn describes in that they had lots of homework and I felt very overwhelmed. However as I got in to the higher level classes homework became optional. Most people don't believe this but I actually had an AP Calculus course with 100% optional homework, I didn't do a single assignment the whole year. The reason our teachers gave for this was that it was teaching us manage our learning, something that would become crucial next year in college. Of course, this puts a huge emphasis on the test since it's almost 100% of your grade, which is stressful too. But that felt a lot more fair to me. Our teacher gave us concepts that he was expecting us to have mastered by test time, great lectures on those concepts and homework containing problems which were similar to what we'd face on the test. The rest was up to us.

In my opinion this system really works, I was already a strong math student coming in but this class solidified my love of it and I wound up majoring in Math. People have a certain cynicism about topics like this, because on some level it's a zero sum game. Everyone wants to be above average but that's clearly not possible. I don't think you can completely remove this stress, nor should we want to, it wouldn't be preparing you for life if we did. But we can substantially reduce it with different teaching methods and I fail to understand why these teaching methods are beyond considering for most high schools.
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I think you're overestimating the 'issue' of this degree. People get into programming without CS degrees, without technical degrees, without any degrees.

If all you knew was, say, Processing then something more would probably be helpful. But you have experience in one complicated technology (and I don't think Unity is really any less complicated than your typical web stack) and a popular, widely-used language. You're ahead of the game and perfectly qualified to start looking for your first programming job.

You're right that you might have a hard time getting past the keyword-filtering recruiter or HR department but those are lousy ways to find a job anyway - look for smaller companies where you can get in touch directly with the people doing the hiring, get to know people in the business who can introduce you or put your resume in the right hands for consideration, etc.

This isn't to say that there's anything wrong with expanding your portfolio, your skill set and your professional online profile. But it's not a pre-requisite for programming work - on paper, at least, it looks like you're all set.
If only rich people had children we could eliminate the human race with in a (few) generation(s).
Odd that the text (presumably OCR?) version is pretty much garbage. What happened?
Yes, and that's just one of the loopholes. It's a problem with the current crisis in Europe. They want a better life for free and are known to get many children.
I can't b3liwv3 I just read that entire thing drunk on a Friday night
Once in awhile, I just yearn for the good ol' days of ActiveX.
if you're looking for ARM/Android, look for a unit with a Rockchip RK3288 processor, and 2GB Ram. that'll be plenty to run Kodi without problems.

if you want Intel, go for one of those Intel NUC boxes, they're small, cheap, and can boot OpenELEC (Kodi distro) if you modify the bios.
Properly wash genitals after intercourse for example, which requires hands and the right soap since the skin down there has a different pH. Washing feet before going to bed anyone?
wow that makes me want to apply at facebook
This was many, maybe more than 10, years ago.
Tutorial useful for me.

Minimal website great.

Like IO, I guess.
You're clearly an expert on humility.
Default PRNGs primary use case is generating session ids for websites with upto 1000s of simultaneous users, not for assigning UUIDs.

One should use a combo of a sequential component and a random component. When you have multiple servers, make them combine a sequential component, a unique system identifier and a random number. In this case, you can now use the faster PRNGs which will also give you speed while ensuring uniqueness.

Another takeaway from this problem is that the usual method of Multiply-and-floor has a serious flaw of using only the highest bits which may not be good enough for the default fast PRNGs. A better method is to carry forward the remaining bits from the floor using a modulo function. The default fast PRNGs rely on all of their bits and simply throwing away a big chunk is not going to help. Multiply and floor might be more useful in a scenario where you are using better PRNGs. Even then, they are slower and it is not wise to simply throw the hard earned randomness.
Apparently to be a non-mediocre company on HN the company has to have zero revenue but use the cutting-edge technology stack.
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I watched the video most of the way through. Sorry, this guy is as full of shit as the all the others.
Some of those are fun, but auto-rolling back a customers db based on an email with the word "help", that's insane.
> Unless you were trying to argue that their costly training makes them worth more than other people.

I would imagine they are to the company that is launching them.
> Stop your crying

Please edit incivility out of your posts to HN.
or just use UUIDs which are designed for this exact use case
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No no no ... don't lift another project's website directly, it's tacky and will make your project look second-rate.

Why do you insist on dominating the thread like this anyway? For my money, "reply to every replier" users are in a dead heat with "horse sense theory" users (like the one at the top of the HIV thread earlier, always followed w/ reams of "aw shucks, thanks!" replies) as the top nuisance on HN.
> the CEO is also an employee and he could have done this more privately

Nope. One, it is impossible for somebody of his prominence to take two months off work and not have it be noticed. And two, his point here isn't to take two months off. It's to signal to every one of his employees that it's ok.

One of my current boss's best habits is going home on time. And occasionally he'll go home early when he's worn down and unproductive, saying, "Man, I'm not getting anything useful done; I'm going to go home now." Not only is this a smart thing for anybody to do, but it's great in a boss because it gives everybody implicit permission to do the same when necessary.
Making oatmeal in the microwave is cheap, healthy, fast, and requires just one bowl.

1/2 cup oats + 1 cup water + pinch of salt + ~2 minutes on high. Optionally, add sugar, butter, milk, and/or fruit.
Job's biological father came from a wealthy background. He and Job's mother met at University of Wisconsin (not from the US, but pretty sure that isn't Ivy League). The mother was working as a TA, so she wasn't wealthy.
I would argue the opposite: maybe...just maybe...fast food jobs should still pay a living wage.
I feel I should hand roll my own extensions from copies of favorites that I no longer trust (dead mouse, etc). Is there a good tutorial out there for this?
I will probably get bored of it, but the sandwich is also a sweet spot in terms of preparation time vs healthiness. It also depends how much you like avocado. One avocado over two sandwiches is a lot, and I select avocados carefully for optimal ripeness.
The point is --- there was no real need to even mention this on an FB post! the CEO is also an employee and he could have done this more privately.

He could have, but doing this publicly sets an example. There are a lot of companies where employees are officially allowed to take leave but in practice face disdain from their coworkers if they do; having the CEO publicly take such a leave helps to provide social license to everybody else in the company.
The kids bust their asses, all day and late into the night, and it's still not good enough. They watch their peers get the top grades, top scores, and top admissions.

The parents bust their asses at startups, working late and weekends in their tiny rental, and it's not enough. They watch others their age and younger striking it rich with their acquisitions and IPOs.

(of course, both are doing just fine, and amazingly well compared to the rest of the world. But the toxic mentality remains)
Well, sure. At the cost of effectively exterminating people who weren't privileged enough to afford to continue their bloodline.
Do you have to be married? Is it for anyone whose partner has had a child or only for your own child?

Like, could you, in theory, have a baby making rotation of 3 "girlfriends" with 4 months of paternal leave each per year for an eternal vacation?