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Verifeyewear Approved by the Opticians Association of Canada
When it comes to buying a new pairs of glasses, using the internet seems like an easy and affordable way to shop.

This can lead to issues with seeing properly as pairs sold online are not ‘verified’ by an eyecare professional. VerifEyewear is the ONLY online eyewear company that is approved by the Opticians Association of Canada (OAC) because it goes through the process of ensuring the pair of glasses you order online will actually fit properly and match your prescription when you receive them.

“The Opticians Association of Canada (OAC) recommends all Canadians consult a licensed Optician when purchasing eyewear,” said Robert Dalton, Executive Director of the Opticians Association of Canada.

VerifEyewear is the ONLY company that ensures the pair you order online has been checked by an Optician. When you order a pair from VerifEyewear, it is delivered to an partnered Optician near you so you can have a proper fitting before you take them home (all at no additional charge).

Eyewear is a medical device and people should not be taking chances when it comes to buying their glasses online. This was the reason VerifEyewear president Paul Faibish created the company.

“The online eyewear industry is risky for consumers because there is nothing in place to guarantee your prescription is accurate and that the fit is proper,” he said. “The current online purchasing process cuts the optician out of the equation resulting in increased errors and returns. We have worked with the Opticians Association of Canada to ensure that glasses are checked for accuracy by a professional before you receive them.”
www.verifeyewear.com
I personally cannot tell you since I haven't ever got a job on there. However, I have found ones on Elance and Guru before. In terms of finding a small job, it would usually take me between 5 and 10 hours of looking around and submitting "Proposals" to find (get) one job. Sometimes it has taken me 3 days to find one. This is while ignoring anything under $20 per hour.

One of the things I've found is that small jobs often become much larger. For example, if a client merely wants a bug or glitch fixed in an existing system, doing a quick job will often get you more work from that client (possibly months' worth).

My average rate in terms of charged fee on those sites is around $22 per hour, so nothing special. At the same time, I'm relatively new to freelancing (despite being relatively experienced at programming), so maybe I just haven't found my groove yet or built enough of a portfolio. The competition in terms of how many people you compete with over low-paying jobs is mind boggling. Having an uncommon niche can be very useful here, which is one of the reasons I recommend using feeds with filters since it can allow you to see any new listings in your specific niches. Overall, being a jack-of-all-trades is a bad idea in freelancing since there is too much competition. At the same time, clients often expect you to be experienced in a cornucopia of areas.

One more piece of advice: Avoid clients whose businesses are obviously based on flawed value propositions. That is, avoid clients who think their product idea is good when you personally know it's not. Freelancing is similar to investment in that you don't want to get involved working for someone who doesn't even know what they're doing in terms of running a business or starting a startup. It may give you work in the short term, but it's going to run dry before it gets you anywhere interesting. This all is assuming you have enough experience to recognise obviously flawed product ideas.
The brain's miracle superpowers of self improvement
There's no single or authorititave reason published (that I could find), but these two quotes may explain:

> Infrastructure exists. To change it all would
> require a really good reason.

and

> I hear about how wonderful the branching and merging
> is in these other products...but that is NOT
> something we wish to be doing (see the presentations
> on the OpenBSD development process in the "papers"
> section of the website). Our model is "all
> development is done at HEAD", if something is
> committed, it is supposed to be better than what was
> there before (which in some cases, may be "nothing",
> in which case, the bar is more "it is in a state
> where at least the group can work on it").
Meet 'QUBE',The Smart WiFi Enabled Bulb which can display upto 16M colors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614837
How Balloons Pop [video]
180KB is comparable to a medium-size image.
The Go Community Code of Conduct
I disagree with the premise of this article. I don't care if the sun is out when I have to wake up or not. I dislike doing something incredibly dramatic like changing what time it is and having to force myself into a different rythm because some people might or might not be happy that now there might or might not be more sun in the evening.
When did the government do that? They offered the subsidy to any business who could build a viable electric car, not just to Tesla. It's not instead of private investment, in fact there's quite a bit of that with Tesla, but rather "more is better". It's a classic subsidizing of positive externalities, a basic role of government.

Are you pretending that there haven't been incredible subsidies around oil, gas, and the whole infrastructure which was built up to support the ICE? The government investment into electric vehicles is quite paltry by comparison. I hope I'm in the middle of an economic discussion, not a political one. To me it seems like the subsidy was well thought out to achieve stated strategic goals and appropriately sized -- enough to materially effect the decision making process of what to purchase, but not so much that you basically can't afford not to buy one (e.g. "cash for clunkers").
14 day is a very short window. I was mortgage shopping for over 2 months recently.
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Black hole breaks records, swallows up scientific theory
In microgravity fluids get redistributed throughout the body. The upper body and head get comparatively more (as opposed to normal gravity), which causes immune problems (swollen sinuses) and increased pressure in the eye and blood vessels around it, sometimes headaches and other issues. Microgravity is not a must for the Mars trip, however.
While what you are saying is very true, recent developments around systemd seem to have changed a few people to target linux-kernel based systems than the BSDs.

As the autoconf files suggest, a lot of GNU software was written in the most general way possible, targeting even the macos/osx/windows/aix/hpux etc.

In this age of easy virtual machine installations, it seems odd that software authors of popular software are not targeting at least the BSDs.
That's essentially how Tor Hidden Services work. The private key is used to generate the public key (and the hash of that key). The hash is the onion address used to access the hidden service. Quite a clever combination.
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I am not sure you can claim with any authority that what you learned in first grade sabotaged your ability to understand abstract concepts.

My son has neither developed a solid understanding of the concepts that common core emphasizes nor a more mechanical ability to manipulate arithmetic expressions.

My anecdotal observation is that most kids at that age are not quite ready to absorb many of the concepts emphasized.

Instead they require gaining some familiarity of the basic elements of arithmetic and what they represent before pulling them apart more.
It's a common question. As you correctly noted in the changelog, the vast majority of features have been placed in the open source version. The commercial product has gained great visibility and adoption but open source NGINX is very core to our company. In fact, development and feature releases to open source NGINX have rapidly increased since the inception of NGINX, Inc (the company) because it can support the development efforts :)

(disclaimer: I work at NGINX.)
> Nope, it's a full web app -- if you mean the desktop client, that too. Adobe Air was Flash/AS based. And that's not a just a po-tay-to/po-tah-to distinction.

Either is a bag of shit sitting on my desk, whatever the consistency of the contents.

> Yeah, especially since it includes a full comparison matrix type chart with the benefits and changes from the new stack.

The "handy chart"? Or do you have something better in mind than that piece of typical meaningless marketing lip-flapping reformatted as a chart?
This project was inspired by Magic-1[0]. The construction is entertaining to read[1]. And it is used currently as a web server[2]. What a very fantastic project!

Quoting from the project history:

In the beginning....

Magic-1 really began during a lunchtime discussion with Ken Sumrall at Vito's Pizza in Sunnyvale, CA sometime in the Spring of 2001. I was complaining to Ken about how as a compiler writer I was woefully ignorant about how CPU hardware really worked. I hadn't taken any electronics classes in college, and was only vaguely aware of what transistors, resistors and capacitors were. Ken recalled an old series of magazine articles by Forrest Mims on building a very simple CPU from TTL parts, and suggested I read it. Over the next few weeks, I tracked down those articles, as well as Mims' "Understanding Digital Computers" and a textbook by Albert Paul Malvino, "Digital Computer Electronics."

I read them all, and when I next had lunch with Ken at Vito's I reported back that it all seemed much clearer now - so much so that I thought I could even build a CPU myself. Then Ken said, "well, why don't you?".

Why not, indeed?

And so the Magic-1 project began.

[0] - http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

[1] - http://www.homebrewcpu.com/construction.htm

[2] - http://www.magic-1.org/
Sometimes I wonder if this stuff gets added initially because of the need for manufacturing testing. And then some nitwit VP of engineering, decides having it installed in production would be super for some deranged reason. And no one can tell him no because the management culture prevents pens from throwing sh*t back upwards.
> That you keep resorting to ...

I am most certainly not resorting to psychoanalyzing libertarians. I just said that I believe libertarianism is a perfectly logical conclusion for a reality that (to me) seems alien to the one we actually have. One notable (though far from unique) example is the libertarian concept of freedom of choice: It is perfectly reasonable for an idealized person, but at odds with our experience. Countless psychological experiments have shown that it is quite easy to restrict people's effective choice with nothing more than simple manipulations (with varying degrees of effectiveness, yet all fall very far from violence or even the threat of violence), yet libertarians insist that this does not constitute an actual restriction because their idealized person can somehow choose not to fall victim to those manipulations, even though the actual number of people who seem to be able to do so in the real world is small. Other examples include libertarian notions of people's motivations (again, perfectly reasonable yet at odds with findings), libertarian ideas of how power propagates in society and more.

It is therefore not interesting to argue with the libertarian ideas -- they are perfectly reasonable. There's no point in arguing with the desire to build winged bicycles if their inventor assumes a weaker gravity or greater human strength and stamina. The problem is with the premise. Libertarians insist that our findings are inapplicable to testing their premises, yet fail to provide evidence to support theirs[1]. So I think generalizations are very much in order, because this puts libertarianism itself in a (large) class of utopian ideologies, all of which share quite a bit in common[2].

> if you're an example of the average sociologist or anthropologist

I am neither. After getting my math degree I briefly entertained the notion of becoming a historian of medieval Europe until I realized academia is not where I want to spend my time.

---

[1]: Some would gladly provide supporting evidence from approximations of libertarianism, yet discount counter-evidence on the ground that it is only an approximation.

[2]: What sets libertarianism apart from some is its idealization of some things we know quite well, and so some of its followers share the ideology but not the premise or the goals. They root for the ideology precisely because they want the very same results that many (like me) believe would be bad for most people, because they believe they will be among the few who will benefit. This, too, is common among some utopian ideologies (like social Darwinism). But it means that you can find some libertarians who describe their utopia as something that sounds almost like communism (no one has too much power over others), while others describe a jungle where they (so they hope) are at the top of the food-chain. This divergence of vision is actually rather unique.
>At the time of writing we are spending around $15 a month to keep the service up. If 75 people donated 5 cents a week, we'd be sustainable. - 27/10/15

And yet I'm pessimistic it'll get that funding. I just don't know if it's possible to make money writing software like this.
Simulation of Two Planets Colliding
You might want to raise issues for these: https://github.com/hmngwy/weblog.sh

I don't know why they don't like to that from the front page.
A bad situation, but a good (and timely) response.
> With the odd exception of the continental US - I guess the terrorists will never strike at home!

It's not that the travel advisory thinks the risk is actually lower in the US, it's that the internal US security is outside the purview of the state department.
PS4 remote play for the PC coming this Wednesday but it’s going to cost you
"It was intended to provide the system service tag to Dell online support allowing us to quickly identify the computer model, making it easier and faster to service our customers."

Yeah, right. There's no other way to identify the model other than loading a root certificate with the power to certify any site as any domain. They expect people to believe that? Are they incompetent or corrupt?
I don't think it was installed with malicious intentions. It wouldn't make sense to leave the private key inside anyway
When people say linux, they don't care what kernel they're running - they mean GNU/Linux that has a reasonably close interface to that of a typical UNIX machine. I agree with Stallman &co. that the name "Linux" is imprecise, but you shouldn't pretend you don't understand what people mean.
What about Launchpad?
> South America has always been geographically stunted compared to North America.

I believe you are very much mistaken unless your definition of "geographically stunted" and "has always" is different than what is generally accepted.

The facts show clearly that prior to 1492, Central and South America were where the larger, more organized, more sedentary, more productive civilizations were. That's why the Incas, Mayas, Olmecs, Aztecs, were all NOT in North America. So any theory of "geographical stunting" would need to explain what changed in the geography after 1492.

> Without the cooperation of the natives, Europeans could get nowhere.

I'm surprised that anyone would believe this "cooperation" of the natives. I have a simpler explanation. "Natives" did not cooperate willingly. Instead, through our vastly superior military technology, we imposed "cooperation" on the natives in Central and South America, while in the North, we imposed something completely different as already explained above. In the Central and South American region, we setup political and military structures to preserve ourselves at the top and keep the entirety of the other population at the bottom and also to prevent their escape. That was the defined purpose of the encomiendas. We wanted to do the same in the North but could not. North America escaped this fate precisely because the native population was far too sparse to enable viable encomiendas. So our corporations had to find alternate ways to gain profit, and that turned out to be, by enabling and giving rights to the settlers/colonialists. That difference is effectively the primary cause of what has given rise to the vastly different fates between the 2 regions.
Yes you are right.

Scripting time however can be massive, take for instance this hs.fi (Finnish daily), they have 354kB of JavaScript, but scripting time with Skylake 6700K is 1.13 seconds of the page load. With Q6600 it was 3.5 seconds.

With latest chrome it's easy to measure scripting time as pie chart. Go to "Timeline" tab of developer tools and hit F5. (just few releases back one had to do it manually by starting timeline and stopping it.)
Personally, I completely ignore them.

I think the main reason they're issued is political: it shows they're doing "something" and if there is another attack soon it gives them political cover.
Evidences (for example, leaving the private key) suggest that they are incompetent.
For those from Java world wanting to write client-side, there is obviously also GWT[1] and another interesting option is TeaVM[2]. Interesting part of TeaVM is that it translates bytecode, so I guess it could do Scala as well. But I've never used it, so cannot recommend really.

1. http://www.gwtproject.org/

2. https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm
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He'd build the the Abacus 10000BC using advanced wooden disk and stick technology.
Software Freedom Conservancy Launches 2015 Fundraiser
There was this interesting book by Mark Russinovich called Trojan Horse that dealt with the exact scenario. There was malware that got around the digital signature by altering the file in memory before signing and uploading to the email client.
There is no possible way this is the true reason. Any developer with cursory knowledge regarding the CA trust system would scream with rage if this was given to them.

This oozes management trying to cover up something dirty with enough corporate speak until anyone technical gives up, leaves, or gets fired for attempting to burn the place down.
Ah right. Close enough... it's been a long time since I've seen it. I really should watch it again.
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You might internally scream but you've got bills to pay and don't want to get fired for making too much noise about it. Sad but true.
> does anyone know why the functionality there requires a wordpress.com account (or rather, are there any efforts towards being able to self-host that part?)?

The list is long: http://jetpack.me/features/ (probably half of those require the connection)

Examples include stats (a pain to scale on shared hosting), related posts (also known to kill database servers), site uptime monitoring, image CDN (including on the fly thumbnailing), and so on.

It basically provides the things that you probably don't want to self-host. You get some of the scaling of WordPress.com while being able to do your own thing (plugins, custom theme, etc.).
One Command to Mesos with Docker Compose
CENTCOM May Have 'Manipulated' ISIS Intel, Officials Say
Radiation is less of an issue than what it's made out to be. Indeed, only solar flares present dangers, but they travel slowly and there will be at least a day's notice for the crew to seek shelter. The entire spacecraft can't be shielded from a solar flare, but a smaller part can be. That could be a room (pantry) in the centre which houses the food and water supplies, lining the outside.

Microgravity can also be avoided at small costs by keeping the last upper stage tied to the main spacecraft with a long tether. Rotate that as a counter-weight against the main spacecraft (and the spacecraft itself) to give the crew a ground to stand on.

Psychological issues are certainly a problem, but there have been comparatively long or longer sea voyages in the past, so humans can survive isolation. And the crew won't be random people stuck together, they'll be rigorously selected based on psychological criteria.

Manufacturing-wise, the main ingredient is a heavy-lift vehicle on the scale of Saturn 5, capable of lifting at least 100 tons to LEO, preferably 150 tons. Life support is not insurmountable either, although we've seen in the past that NASA needs a better focus at estimating danger (Challenger, Columbia). But, all these enterprises are risky. If your objective is to avoid it, then you never go anywhere.

You can find this and more in Zubrin's book: "A case for Mars", if you're interested.
there was never a time when nginx supported sni and apache did not.

Nginx requires an openssl version that supports sni -- that was added in 0.9.8f on Oct 2007 (if you compiled openssl manually to enable it), and was enabled by default in 0.9.8j on Jan 2009.

Apache supported SNI using mod_gnutls since 2005; and in 2.2.12 (July 2009) using openssl.
That time that Albert Einstein told Marie Curie to ignore the haters
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Back in March I made version 1 of ineedaresu.me in about 5 hours between class (v1 can be seen at ineedaresu.me/old). I didn't even intend on posting it online until some people on Reddit encouraged me to. After that it got pretty popular!

After 8 months I decided it needed a refresh. I built it from the ground up while learning some AngularJS. It's now much faster, has much more customization options, and is much better looking (in my opinion)...

I put the site up ~10 minutes ago after a short beta test with some users - now I'm looking from feedback from some pros!

Let me know what you think!

(I know some of you will dive in and judge my Angular Skills.. just a warning they aren't super good yet).
I agree. So I will just focus on building the core app then!
"We thank customers such as Hanno Böck, Joe Nord and Kevin Hicks, aka rotorcowboy, who brought this to our attention. If you ever find a potential security vulnerability in any Dell product or software, we encourage you to visit this site to contact us immediately."

That's something a lot of companies could learn from. But besides that the whole reason why they did it seems a bit thin, as if it needs a root certificate to get to a device tag.
I had my fair share of being forced by higher management to commit insecure code, obfuscations and encryption security theater despite vehemently protesting. They seriously don't give a single shit. For them it's acceptable risk.
Or editorilizing C-hash
Analysts Accuse CENTCOM of Covering Up Cooked ISIS Intelligence
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I only see innuendo, no "debunking".
Christ that name is still bad. They need to drop the Visual Studio part. You don't even need Visual Studio to use it.
In a car this road scares the crap out of me. Personally I'm not convinced that it should even allow two way traffic as the road is frequented by large 4x4s that almost always enter into the oncoming traffic lane.

Its narrow, has no run off and the hill climbing driver is faced with a close call with incoming traffic or a slip down a steep cliff with no barrier.

Sheer lunacy.
> This certificate is not being used to collect personal customer information.

That's a very strong statement, which a sizeable percentage of Hacker News readers could probably disprove in minutes.
That sounds pretty reasonable. I'm anti-spam to the point where I never even want to send anything to my own list!

I think I was more shocked that I actually had that many sign-ups because I never really monitored it. Now that I read about startups here, it seems that 30k signups can actually be a pretty big deal when getting something off the ground.

Thanks for the reply!