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Movie rights for distribution in Tonga might just be cheap.

Maybe Netflix only has licensed to 640 movies with no sex, gay people or drug use? Or maybe movie studios don't want to license their content that might make them look sleazy to Arab nations? Just guessing.

Or maybe it's very lucrative to sell exclusive movie licenses directly to the Emirates?

Edit: Looks like the current Tarantino movie is playing in Dubai, so probably not a content thing.
Well the last statement is tautologically true, but yeah. Key Escrow is also impossible to enforce in user space (JavaScript), so unless you only allow signed everything, there will always be workarounds.
I studied this topic a bit in a Food & Culture class last semester and this is the first time I've heard of mutton flaps or turkey tails being a likely culprit with regards to obesity in Pacific Islanders.

My understanding is that most experts put it on (a) the introduction of high-sugar/starch/carb processed foods (after all, isn't that where most experts pin obesity now?) and (b) the "Thrifty Gene" theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrifty_gene_hypothesis
The knit pattern (tees are not woven) only affects the ratio of stretch per direction. Shrinkage is much more a property of the fiber and fabric processing, like prewashing.
I've used this for years. It takes a bit of work to get it working well on a codebase, but I find it worthwhile.

Refactoring often involves moving functionality between header files, which can mean fixing up the includes in a large number of other files. IWYU makes this a lot easier. IWYU does require the code to build before it works, but this can usually be easily gotten after a refactor by making one header file temporarily include the other.

I have, a couple times, modified templated code so it wouldn't confuse IWYU, as that is easier than maintaining pragmas correcting IWYU in the files that call the templated code.
To add just a bit more:

When assignments to variables happen in the context of a procedure call it's preferable to use registers for performance reasons since memory access (even cache) is much slower by comparison. Unfortunately registers are a limited resource, so we would like to reuse them when a variable, though in scope, isn't "live" or in use.

This whole area of optimization is called register allocation and the optimal solution reduces to the graph coloring problem which is NP-complete. As a result there are a myriad of approximation algorithms with knobs to turn to spend a bit more complexity for a bit more accuracy. This patch appears to be the turning of one such knob.
> You hire different types of people when you're pairing full time

Yes, extroverts, specifically. :)

Even if you've been close friends with someone for twenty-five years (as is the case with someone I pair with for some problems), there's still a fair percentage of your thinking that will have to be focused on social stuff: putting expressions on, conversational behavior, avoiding asides that take a second to think but would require a minute to explain, etc. These are things that tend to occupy the same mental space as where I am thinking about the context of the code I'm writing, and while pairing can bring back some of that contextual thinking in the form of the other person, the bandwidth is so much lower that pairing seems useful mostly for learning, or for sharing a problem that I've already struggled with (so that my deepest thinking about the problem happened while I didn't also have to run sociability at the same time).
Make yourself familiar with the sanitizer tools from gcc and clang (asan, ubsan, tsan, msam). They can help you find many types of bugs.
I don't really like Apple's philosophy all the time, but they get this right at least, that both the hardware and software matter, and it's enough of a win that I basically use their devices+software in any category they are present.

What is keeping everyone from figuring this out?
Can he get compensation for all the bad things that he endured because of this trial (lost job, was not able to work because he was banned from the internet, etc..)?
Thanks brudgers, I'll make one ;)
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There it is, half of those things absolutely terrify me, but they're also exciting. But then that's kinda the thing with new technology isn't it? There was a time when trains were exciting and terrifying machines (and they probably still are).

Honestly, adveillance and order automation seem like they'll be useful. And abused. People hacking into celebrity fridges, script kiddies ordering toner and other very shady things on the ORM side will inevitably happen.

I will however plead the Stallman on ownership-to-rent. DRM on Keurigs and usage timers on light bulbs just feel underhanded. So opposed to that. That's an entirely different argument though.

Well, I kinda get consumer IoT now, but I'm still confused why people are going on about it like it's the best thing since sliced blue-tooth. Guess I'm not imaginative enough.
Guess I'll be the old grumpy paranoid man at the end of the road that never showers and orders his own ink.
GeekTyper – hacking simulator ;-)
That is a good showcase about how massive caloric surplus leads to obesity no matter the source. They are almost on keto.
16 January 2014, published before the latest revision of the statute about federal funding for primary and secondary education.
But the kicker is that he said it would only cost ~50 to ~60 cents.

But in fact will cost you $3,000!

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2005/12/09/2796/rumsfeld-p...
Death March by Ed Yourdon literally changed my life--I quit my job not long after reading it, moving on to much better things. Rest in peace, Ed.
I read a lot of computer books after college, many of which Ed wrote, edited, or wrote the foreword for. As a fan of Code Complete and its book recommendations, I suggested that Ed add it to his own list of "cool books." He replied promptly and agreed.

Although I didn't read it from cover to cover, the chapters I read from a borrowed copy of Structured Design on coupling and cohesion had a big impact on me.
Yup. It adds an extra identity verification layer, whether your script is served over SSL or not.
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Because they spend all their money on TV commercials and magazine ads!
I love that the 2nd diagram (about Redux middleware) has Richard Ayoade's character from the IT Crowd in it. [1]

[1] http://40.media.tumblr.com/e7e5983f39ff02fd5dfdf27a37719c42/...
simple dereferencing and assigning a value of a field in a structure to a variable means the structure is now borrowed and you can't reference the field nor the structure until the variable goes out of scope; please, for the love of all that is holy, prove me wrong!

This is only partially true. If you hold a mutable reference to a field in a structure, you can't get a reference to the entire structure. (Think of a mutable reference as a read-write lock, because that's what it is, just at compile time / type level instead of at runtime.) However, you can get a mutable reference to other fields in the structure. And an immutable reference to a field (analogous to a read-only / shared lock) does not prevent other immutable references, so you can totally get a reference to the structure while a reference to one of its fields is outstanding.

Here's an example of this on play.rust-lang.org: http://is.gd/ySSsex

That compiles and runs with the extra scope around the mutable borrows. If you comment out that scope, then yes, it won't compile.

My experience, coming to Rust from C++ and C, is that a lot of real-world C++ and C code is imprecise about mutability and shared references, and relies on the programmer not doing anything particularly weird. It's true that in this example, nothing would go wrong by omitting the braces because the references g and h aren't actually used. But in larger and legacy codebases, it's very easy to forget the mutability rules that were in the head of the previous programmer. So directly porting C++ code is going to be annoying, but that's mostly because the hard work is figuring out what was implicit in the C++.
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Author here, just noticed this submission. Happy to answer any questions. (You may also be interested in the discussions on Proggit[0] and /r/golang[1].)

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/426zsv/pipethi...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4261he/pipethis_sto...
I've stopped buying 100% cotton t-shirts because they shrink so much. polyester/cotton or tri-blend last so much longer. Also, I find them more comfortable to use (cotton sticks to the skin when it gets humid).
It's users books in last month, shuffled. When I get more data, I will implement more meaningful things.
Culture. It permeates a company.

The CEO of a hardware company has often risen there from being a junior HW engineer or researcher. Same story for managers 1-2 steps down. They are often not competent to hire competent software people on their own. So how could they begin to change their company, even if they wanted to?

I think it's asymmetric though:

1. Software people realize and accept that hardware construction is complex.

2. Many hardware people actually do seem to think that software construction is trivial in comparison to the what they do themselves.

Especially in SV I also sense a sort of resentment from HW engineers that SW people nowadays often get paid a lot better. ("For creating dating apps.")

(One difference between software and hardware is that hardware people often have much "higher" academic credentials - quite a lot of them have PhD's. Great software people often don't even graduate from university. I could see how this could make the hardware people think less of the software people.)
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> 90% of web users are on Windows, where there is no sudo.

This argument is becoming increasingly specious.

Firefox is the default browser on Ubuntu, where there is sudo. So do you acknowledge that it is consistent to keep this preference in at least the linux version of FF?
The article is actually about drinking Soylent, if anything it strikes me as one of those thinly disguised "fitness" blogs that slides in an affiliate link, or tries to make money off ads.

Furthermore it has nothing to do with shopping / living frugally, it's basically "buy soylent".
What's the reason for generating 2 versions of each fragment shader (SIMD8 and SIMD16)?
You're right, the root of the issue is with the buildpack and we could fork it to have a "stable" environment. I wrote dokku as a shortcut to encompass these types of PaaS. For now we'll be using tomcat and a war package, dokku is really interesting but there are too much unknowns on our end.

The marketing website of puka is only in french right now (this will be our primary market), but the application itself is fully translated in english. You'll find a link in the top right corner "Accéder à l'application".
Worked at DeVry briefly on a gig way back when and Ed was on-board...brilliant R&D mind...Bell & Howell most definitely got their money's worth...

Had lunch with a few of us coders one day--he paid--and kept us all mesmerized by laying out paths we could take to keep our talents in play on a business level...turned out to be sound advice...

Considered him amazing...one of the most pleasant and "giving" men I've ever met

RIP, Ed...
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That's kinda where I as well think the interesting stuff is going to go down. Self driving trucks and automated loading/unloading? Oh boy.

But if I start raving about that people think I'm crazy.
Wait - it is soylent? I thought he was making his own version.... I no read goud.
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His photos are indeed worth look...amazing multi-talented man...possibly one of the very first polymaths I ever met in person...
massive MIMO, beanforming, more frequencies, fast switching between channels.
Content is not an issue in the UAE actually. In cinemas nudity and sex scenes are cut, but DVDs etc. are sold as is. Could it be that a single company holds all distribution rights for the Arab World?
https://diy.soylent.com/recipes/keto-chow-104-master-rich-ch...
I think a lot of Canadians identify with being "lower class", as you put it. For many, it is not at all shameful to shop at Walmart. Walmart has been ingrained in us for so long, and we have such a small population (the population of all of Canada is less than that of California alone), that there is not really a market for another big box retailer. Walmart is just fine. Personally, none of my friends or family ever commented on having been to a Target. I never went to my local one either.
It seems like you're projecting your own bias onto those who disagree with you. What makes you think the GP is young, childless, and well-off?

I oppose this, and I certainly don't fit your preconception.
I agree that "chance to pursue other opportunities" is bullshit. But there's a real difference between "fired" and "laid off". Being fired and being laid off are two distinct ways of leaving a position. Being fired vs. laid off can impact your eligibility for unemployment as well as your hiring prospects for the future. [0] If the distinction is relevant to the unemployment compensation system, I don't think you can wave it away as a euphemism.

[0] http://jobsearch.about.com/od/firedtermination/qt/fired-laid...
I wonder if a growing industry will ever again set a single day power generation record. Seems rather likely.

It might be more interesting to report when a new record is not set on the expected schedule.
I met Ed while at digg.com. Good man, enjoyed his books, and followed his photography on flickr. Makes me sad.
The problem I found is in the US there is a class system of those who despise Walmart as being for the "commoners".
In Canada the stigma is much less to non-existent.
Walmart pays more, has the same insurance for all its employees, and does not actively promote "anti-union" videos to new hires.
I have a few of those, they are expensive but nice, I pick them first from the stack, LIFO.
I'd say that his book Death March is also important and worth a read. A death march project doesn't have to be a corporate or government one that's too big, disorganized, compressed or underfunded to succeed. A death march can also be a startup that has a year of runway and 9 months of development needed even if everything goes right - because releasing your product the day you miss payroll still leaves you dead.
Ed Yourdon's early books with Peter Coad on object oriented analysis and design together with his book "Death March", had great influence on me and on my career. I'm saddened to hear of his death, but celebrate his life and his contribution to our field. My thoughts and best wishes to his family and those fortunate to have known him.
Totally. I'm actually re-doing all of the docs on this stuff right now, I hope that the next iteration will maybe make it easier to grok. We'll see!
What do you think about http://www.networkworld.com/article/2866286/microsoft-subnet...

I suspect the culture still exist today.
I hate how overused the word "hacking" is right now.

Not exactly related but I thought I'd throw it out there
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The LibreOffice project has been using this a lot to refactor a large, ancient codebase. They've also developed a lot of Clang plugins, which can be found here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/compilerpl...
I know someone that's made a career working at Walmart and he isn't happy there. The big complaint is there is no staffing, so he's dealing with a million problems in the store while being the only cashier.

Pay and benefits suck too.
It's not easy without credit score, but there are definitely options. For example if you're in the Bay Area you can get a credit card from Tech CU: https://www.techcu.com/Personal/Global_Members/CreditStart_C...

Also, if you've got an Amex card in your home country it might be possible to use it to get another card in the US: https://www.americanexpress.com/global-card-transfers/united...

In addition, you can also apply for a secured credit card (e.g., from Capital One) which will help you to get a credit score.
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Did you see an improvement in your credit score?
Not many, actually they all worked with web stuff(RoR,Javascript) and elastic search, while I was working with Microsoft Asp.NET and other web stuff.
4 points!!!

Edit: 0 points next round :-( fuck that game.
Roku (and I believe the newest [or perhaps next] Apple TV) provide a unified search interface where, from the main screen, it will search all the services and provide you a link to whichever (or however many) services provide the searched-for title.
I'm probably dropping my Netflix subscription when the VPN-route fails (seems to work for me now oddly enough). It is silly to expect customers outside of the US to pay a slightly higher subscription fee for a significantly smaller catalogue. The Netherlands hasn't got it as as bad as Poland, but still our catalogue is only half that of the US.

I am willing to pay, and I understand that regional licensing is a complex topic, but I am often interested in the older films and series. It is great that Netflix is rolling out their own shows world-wide, but without the VPN-route it feels like I am subsidising a catalogue I cannot access myself.
While I've definitely seen some of those thrown around, this is the best description of the situation I've personally read: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/
Created a visualization of the country data:

http://gk2.sk/netflix-content-by-country/
I spend something like $6/day on food. No need for 'hacking' or subsisting on nutrient paste - just buy groceries like rice, beans, meat, eggs, corn, potatoes, etc. and cook them. I recommend a pressure-cooker as a great way to cook things without you having to stand in front of an oven.

Buy a ham for $20 and it'll last you a week. At least the ones I buy, you turn on the heat, stick the ham in the oven, and come back in 4 hours.

If you're like the old me and are constantly eating out, I recommend saving yourself a couple tens of thousands of dollars and cooking something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10940455
For shipping I don't think it would matter much but for in-store displays it helps to show the front of the box to customers.
It doesnt even describe the rarity without a mean and standard deviation
>As prices rise, so must BI, or it's not BI.

Well then you need to include that in the cost. You can't look at current costs and current tax revenue.

>As a basic argument of production, it's basically been proven that work disincentive is not actually a thing

Saying "this does not lead to a work disincentive" is a very different argument from saying "this leads to a work disincentive, but that's a good thing". Make up your mind. Above you argued that work disincentives were perfectly fine, and are the intended outcome, and anyone who doesn't like them is a monster that wants to enslave people. When I point out that there's a legitimate concern that production will go down, and possibly enough to make BI unviable, you turn around and say that there's no disincentive.

Also, "one guy here argues something, while quoting extensively from many people who disagree" is by no means a "proof" for that side. It's an argument. When there's an economic consensus, that would be closer to proof.

I also have a problem with this:

>However, if, as I have suggested elsewhere, the UBI is financed in part by eliminating middle-class tax loopholes (without changing marginal tax rates), Dave’s income would increase by less than the full $8,000 and he would reduce his annual work by less than 13 hours

This is saying that increasing someone's effective tax rate will increase the number of hours they work. That seems wrong, even if marginal rates are fixed.
In Denmark, it was 42% for all of 2015; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Denmark
The other problem is that athletic-fit t-shirts are hard to find these days.
Why the poor do better on these simple tests of financial common sense
UNOGS probably uses a list of all countries in the world and maps that to the Netflix catalogue. I doubt the Pontifex's Netflix catalogue differs from that of Italy.
I can't seem to scroll the homepage.

Latest stable Chrome. Windows 10. Touch screen. Scrolling using mouse scrollwheel as well as trackpad gesture.
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Reminder that this has nothing to do with "free speech," and that celebrating the outcome of the trial for that is flawed reasoning.
I see your point, it makes sense. But I have to note that in gulp (at least) you aren't restricted to plug-ins. You can use "generic" npm packages, as long as they output a stream (e.g. browserify).
CFIUS reviews M&A deals only on national security grounds. That's why the details of the proceeding are usually classified.

If this were an anti-trust or inversion issue, then it would fall onto the DOJ to bring up an action and we would be able to get more details on the resultant proceedings. There's no point in DOJ asking CFIUS to do what they themselves can easily accomplish.
> to increase the amount of poison gas entering the environment

Come on, it's not like VW cars were emitting hydrogen cyanide. They were emitting excess pollutants, not poison.
Cure53's report details a complete bypass of WebSign as implemented, as well as stern warnings against relying on a non-security feature for security.
Co-author here. Yes, this UI is showing metadata extracted from the syllabi (namely, text assignments). Not the documents themselves, which, unfortunately, we're unable to make public for a mix of copyright and privacy reasons.
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Doner kebabs are a pretty popular drunk food in the UK and Europe. They're a bit on the fatty/greasy side to be much to my taste while sober usually.
Nice. Depressing as well if you look at the catalogue sizes.
Only you can see your links, not anyone else.
I noticed the article said that 100g of mutton flaps is around 400 kcal.

If the average Tongan can or will eat 1kg of mutton flaps per day (like the article says) that's insane and definitely a cause of obesity. (Or, at least should be.)

I lift weights 5+ times a week (for about an hour) and if I ate over 4,000 kcals I'd be obese too.

I can't imagine that average Tongan exerts enough energy to make up for eating 4,000 kcals worth of mutton flaps.
Utterly false dichotomy. You can innovate from a safe job(tm) as well (not that any job is safe in an age of at-will employment). The difference is that in exchange for a lower payout for success, one gets a much higher payout for failure, a sort of UBI if you will.
The mutton flap angle is bullshit. Here is the real problem:

> According to Soakai, it's not unusual for a Tongan to eat 1kg of mutton flaps in one sitting.
The case needs to made that we're at this stage. And high unemployment is a result of the financial crisis, not over production.
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The article title on HN should be changed to "3 months on DIY Soylent". Maybe it's just me, but I feel very misled.
I don't understand why Orloff is so excited about giving customers the ability to easily lock and unlock their credit card. As a customer, that's really not very valuable to me. I'd rarely use the feature, and it likely wouldn't save me any money, since I'm only liable for up to $50 of fraudulent charges (and haven't paid anything at all each time my number has been stolen in the past).