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Yes, it does not take all that much courage to quit a miserable consulting or finance job. I should know! My advice to people in this situation, as I was myself ~6 years ago, is not to quit with the intention of "doing a startup". Just admit that you are quitting to go mess around for a couple years. Then try to enjoy that, and maybe something will come of it.
Overpaying to save some endangered species, and barely funding others
I agree with your sentiment for the need of nuance. The attacks though, as suspected by many, do seem to have been to work of ISIS: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35869254
It certainly beats using NodeJS.

EDIT: Yea, this was meant as a reference to the coreutils-in-nodejs post on the frontpage.
As always, we're very excited about this release.

We've added several features that are especially interesting for maintainers of large open source projects, such as confidential issues and the ability to subscribe to labels.

We'd love to hear your thoughts and questions.
It also appears to be overrepresented in the "can't comprehend basic English" category.
Then I imagine that keyword would be added to the static dictionary.
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Linux users tend to be aware of update contents. They read the changelogs, review the list of packages that will be updated, etc.

I've been using a mac at my new job, and a dialog box popped up today asking if I wanted to update. The options were something like "Not now" and "Update all". How am I supposed to know if I want to update if I don't even know what's going to be updated?
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Anyone know why Excel's giving me errors about circular references?
What are you talking about? Every framework has reusable modules. Perhaps you mean package management?
10 years later, Twitter still isn't making money
let's for a moment consider the economic issue OF THE FUTURE. we're spending our grandkids earnings on shit today with a promise to pay with interest sometime forward. anybody know a guy who was in congress while all this was happening? stop with the magical bernie economic mathematician nonsense.
I have the same problem. I couldn't think of these things on the spot for the life of me. So awhile back I googled 'Top Personality Questions on an Interview" and filled out prompts for each question way in advance, and then I review it each time before right before I go into a an interview. Made the rest of the process much simpler.
I have a diabetic friend who has problems with this - Tesco does a mixed beans in tomato sauce that I liked and recommended to him, and he checked it out and it was low enough in sugar for him.

Later, it jumped, and he was upset about the change, and contacted Tesco - turns out they change the mix for each batch based on the price of certain beans - if the sweeter beans are more expensive, they put in more of the others and add more sugar to try and keep the taste consistent, while keeping costs low.

It makes sense, but it is a pain for people with dietary restrictions (or just those trying to track their intake accurately).
> If we encourage the DRY paradigm in the whole development cycle, copy/pasting a function is just a further reach of such paradigm.

No, it's the opposite. The whole point of DRY is you don't copy/paste, you put the thing in a common place and have references to it.

Many SO answers are good enough to be libraries. But they should be libraries, not snippets that are copied and pasted. Fortunately we're moving in that direction - our library infrastructure is becoming good enough that it's worth releasing even small pieces of code as reusable libraries, and people are.
Notice I am not a patent attorney, and you should ultimately seek legal guidance. Additional information is based on information in the united states.

General information.

Most likely you will submit a utility patent. This must be novel, nonobvious, and useful.

The US is now first to file, no longer first to invent.

Software patents are difficult to obtain.

A prior art search is done before you submit for a patent.

You have one year to file if you have made your invention for sale, or publicly disclosed it without an NDA.

You can file for a nonprovisional which gives you one more year to file your provisional filing.

I am not aware of your situation, so I would suggest watching the IP video provided by the US patent office, look at the following link, and contact a patent attorney for a 1 hour consultation.

http://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/general-informa...
Would you say the same thing if someone asked about plane safety and then the plane fell?

Statistically, it's still highly improbable. Of course, Belgium and other NATO related countries in Europe currently face a stronger possibility of crimes of this kind but actually suffering from one is unlikely.
The "unique" experiences of something like having the best seats in the stadium or more immersive experience with a golf simulator would be awesome. But for movies, it takes a commonly social experience and makes it strictly solo. You cannot use a shared VR headset. You may experience the same thing at the same time (or similar since you'd be looking in different directions, most likely), but it wouldn't be common. Would you really want a date night where you sit on your couch and each put on headsets blocking the other out? A family night in, everyone trapped in their own VR headset. What do you do for guests?

Let's not even address cleanliness (honestly, one reason I have no interest in most of the 3D TV tech that came out, even if it offered cheap, passive glasses).

It's useful, and cool, but really only applicable when you're physically alone or wiling to be deliberately isolated from others in your physical proximity.
That raises questions about how much a company would have to do to qualify as a media blitz.
There's nothing particular English about "Boaty McBoatface" to my mind, it's just standard internet humor.
It's a signal of an immature/not quite baked thought process. Try spending a month on the beach sometime. It gets old.
The App Store is full of cooking apps that serve recipes. But we thought why just recipes and why not something that’s a bit more diversified, functional and serves more benefits. Do these apps know if the recipes they serve are actually good for a person or their family’s health? Do these apps serve to their required nutritional value? Do these apps know what should be their optimal calorie intake? Do they cater to a person’s/groups preferences of cooking such as likes, dislikes, choice of cuisine, or allergens and takes care of them if they are on a diet. Do they even know if the user has the items in their pantry to cook an xyz dish or if cooking it is within their days or weeks budget?

We surveyed all the top cooking apps and found out that they only serve recipes and in some cases a note pad to make grocery lists. Shouldn’t these apps be a bit more intelligent? After all they are helping to fulfill the most important aspect of our lives; “consumption”
To answer this, we made an app that’s smart and actually considers the end user as a person/persons by taking all the above factors into consideration. The app is called “eGrocer” and here’s what it can do. This cooking app keeps you fit by suggesting recipes in accordance with your BMR, a targeted body weight that you want to cut down to or maintain, your recommended calorie intake & nutritional value, your preferences (veg/non-veg/allergens), choice of cuisine and the items you have in your pantry.

The recipes (which btw will be more than 10,000) are generated also in light of your budget for cooking and you can further use this budget to make entire meal plans from within the app. (We will also be adding chef specific recipes which too can be filtered in light with the above parameters).

But that’s not it, the app also lets you manage your pantry by remembering what items were used up, and maintain a list of items you need to buy from stores present in your location.

In short, this is like an “App that lets you cook, stay fit and keep the kitchen clean”! And, it is for FREE!
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I read "why not?" as a rhetorical intro, similar to "now presenting!"

I don't think it was a question.
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It was semi announced that they planned on changing the recipe but at the time of the announcement that had not happened yet. It did no roll out until December and they did not announce that.

Of course from the articled submitted they said people were already saying that could taste the difference before the change was ever made.
There are already self driving cars on the road. And they seem to be outperforming human drivers. Could be marketing fluff, but The have a fleet of them driving around.
Statistics don't help those who die in plane crashes either. We're not mocking the victims. We're just supporting the original statistical argument.

Victims find no solace knowing they've suffered a highly improbably tragedy.
There are pro's and con's to studying the literature. The main pro is that you can avoid a dead end. The main con is that your ideas will be shaped by the literature (i.e., not as unique).

I tend to try to solve a problem myself first (this could be days or weeks), then look at the literature. If I looked at the literature first, then my ideas would look like the literature.

It's a gamble either way
I agree. But I often here the claim that we have enough hardware and now it's just a software problem. I don't think that's at all clear.
NYU must be third.
ISIS just claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Whoever thought of this must be a parent. This is brilliant, and exactly like changes you make when you feed picky eaters (and they probably know that they are a staple food for picky eaters).
Because pornography hasn't found any way to be available on Apple platforms?
From what I've read, Trump's anti-Muslim comments seem to basically be along the lines of stopping any of them from entering the country until some better screening measures are instituted, and worst-case, not letting any more in. However, he's been pretty clear about being interested in a more non-interventionist foreign policy, and our military involvement in the middle east is exactly what's created this monster. The establishment politicians, on both sides, by contrast, are warmongers like you say. I think they'll just make things even worse.
Your points are solid regardless. They're just not good criticism of what was created, based on his description.

Still, great ideas on your part.
This could actually be a way to cause some havoc. Leave nothing useful on the phone, but dangle it in front of authorities, making them go crazy trying to get into it. I'm sure this guy was not that clever, though.

What you describe is essentially how Touch ID works on newer iPhones, just with your fingerprint as the simple passcode. On a fresh boot, you have to put in your full passphrase, and every 48 hours after that. After you put in your passphrase, fingerprint unlock is available until either you turn the phone off, 48 hours passes, or fingerprint authentication fails five times in a row.

Unfortunately, the 48 hours thing isn't configurable, so it's not quite perfect, but it's pretty decent.

Certainly for me, it has immensely improved the security of my phone. In situations where I don't trust the fingerprint authentication (e.g. crossing an international border), I can just shut the phone off. Otherwise, it provides "good enough" security. Yes, there are potential attacks on the system, by copying my fingerprints and replicating it, but the five-attempt limit and the 48-hour timeout are good enough. For me, it's a vast improvement over what came before, when I had a passcode of 0000 just to satisfy some apps that wouldn't offer certain features unless a passcode was set.

There are some improvements I'd like to see. The timeout should be customizable. I'd like to be able to set up a "duress fingerprint" which immediately disables fingerprint authentication, as an easier alternative to turning off the phone. But overall it seems like a good blend of security and usability.
Also note that the dictionary is strongly biased towards English. Sure, there is some Russian, Chinese, Arabic (and probably some other scripts in there which I don't recognize), but there seems to be more English words in there than all those others combined. If you're compressing small documents in any other language than English, it might not be worth it to use Brotli.

Edit: They wrote this about it in http://www.gstatic.com/b/brotlidocs/brotli-2015-09-22.pdf :

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Unlike other algorithms compared here, brotli includes a static dictionary. It contains 13’504 words or syllables of English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Russian and Arabic, as well as common phrases used in machine readable languages, particularly HTML and JavaScript. The total size of the static dictionary is 122’784 bytes. The static dictionary is extended by a mechanism of transforms that slightly change the words in the dictionary. A total of 1’633’984 sequences, although not all of them unique, can be constructed by using the 121 transforms. To reduce the amount of bias the static dictionary gives to the results, we used a multilingual web corpus of 93 different languages where only 122 of the 1285 documents (9.5 %) are in languages supported by our static dictionary.
good lord .. he is saying its non-trivial !

Can't imagine software created by such companies to have stupid hardcodings like these..
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Administrator can add/remove reporting reasons for reviews and products and that's in settings section of admin panel
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What I like most about this article is that it's most definitely not a libertarian take on the issue. The author describes several benefits of a government involvement in legal drug commerce.

A non-libertarian perspective on drug legalization is important because everyone knows libertarians want to legalize everything. And most informed people know the libertarian arguments as well. And they've been known for many decades now. Clearly, the libertarian approach isn't swaying a whole lot of people.

However, when people who are not ideologically committed to small government start supporting drug legalization it becomes a more serious possibility because it means a broader coalition can be built to support legalization.

tldr: libertarians alone will never make legalization a reality, but libertarians united with progressives can be a force for change.
Does Facebook really need that to gain some more traffic ?
Blameless postmortems don't work. Be blame-aware but don't go negative
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The drug war was designed to criminalize black people and hippies
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Machine code sucks. For the love, how can we ever get past that?
> above $65,000 tuition phases in slowly, reaching full tuition only at $150,000+

Which is still silly. Who has more to spend/better opportunity to save? Two parents that make $75k each in Mountain View or 1 parent who makes $64,500 in Nowhere, Indiana?
Why not a simple spreadsheet of all of the websites in existence?
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Moreover, certain user accounts can also be deleted along with all of their contributions to the site (reviews, products, images, votes) That's all up to a site administrator.
And it's worth noting this is one of those places where the technicalities kill it. How major a change is needed to trigger a 'formula changed' warning? The reality is lots of products these days change on a batch-by-batch basis to reduce costs or use what is available.

Legislation forcing companies to disclose that something has changed in a more noticable (less specific) way, would no doubt just result in those warnings always being there, making them just as useless (I mean, maybe you could say 'new formula as of <date>', but again, people are probably just going to ignore it with that much detail).
Well Python and Panda has been making an R equivalent for a while now, Pandas. Pandas and other work has made a Python a good choice for doing data science work (Though I prefer R and started in Python years ago). The Pandas and Python Data Science developers have been awesome. Now the Python Community not so much (In regards to flaming R).
The F35-B is both supersonic and VSTOL [1]: very hard indeed, but done. Just like the Harrier, the F35-B probably doesn't take off vertically with any significant payload though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
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Entrepornography?
Could be useful given the choice of MIT license rather than a GPL variant.
No mention in this article of how you will handle to uglier parts of software development such as the debugging, the globals such as window, the browser inconsistencies? This seems much too early to make such a blanket statement.
Interesting. I assumed there could be an engineering way around the boom, but it's not my specialty. I'll have to settle for easier access to Honolulu and Tokyo. :-)
That is the first thing that came to my mind as well. Must have been the first popular internet voting campaign to go wrong.

And for those that do not know the story, Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (RIP) was very much a real person.
A prize for whom? The dead people?
Rewriting coreutils is neat, but a project I'd really look forward would be a strict POSIX base expanded with warnings or errors on valid but risky constructs e.g. echo -n. Even more so if it included a shell (with static analysis of useless uses and dangerous patterns). That would make writing cross-shell scripts much easier.
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"AWOL" is an acronym for "Absent without leave". My understanding is that expression of the perception that open source contributors are obligated to stay active in projects, is one of the reasons open source contributors burn out.

The person who left and the other contributor are in pretty much the same situation, shoulder major responsibility for the project or walk away and let it live or die based on someone else stepping forward.

Good luck.
The thing that makes the claim regarding vegetarianism wrong but correct with regards to islam is that the foundational book of islam portraits a mass murderer as an idol. Furthermore it proclaims totalitarian authority in some political matters. Ever heard of sharia courts?

That sets islam apart from vegetarianism, which we also expect a 11 year old to understand.

In fact, I also see similiar dangerous tendencies in christianity. However, these days it leads to comparatively few problems when compared to islam and thus doesn't need as much attention.
Sure, but the default Docker registry is public, and Docker encourages you to create and publish images without any mention of copyright.

The same argument applies to e.g. EC2 machine images, but AMIs are private by default.
You're conflating disease and allergy.
But it played out differently here. Kraft mentioned it; nobody blinked. They made the change and marked it on the box; nobody commented. That's a very different result than Coke's experience.
What's absurd about it? The process sounds perfectly feasible to me. If you can perform the procedure, then it will definitely allow you to unlock this phone through a tremendously tedious but entirely doable brute force process. Try five passcodes, reset, try five more, repeat until done. I'd feel sorry for the special agent(s) tasked with entering sequential passcodes until one works, but the process would only take a few days if done continuously, or about two weeks if you stuck to regular business hours.
Yeah, that's why I added "some sub-set of rules". There are lots of starting points, and a huge number of sub-sets of starting points, so picking the useful subset is itself an art that is very much helped by persistent trial-and-error.

Truth is I wish very smart people would "live for the endurance of life itself" and put aside their personal issues to expand the frontiers of human ignorance. And I wish that we, members of the more general culture, would put our petty judgements aside and give such people all the support they need in order to do this important work. Maybe even to the extent of a limited Truman Show (minus the broadcast) where the government pays nice people to be in the person's life, to give them love and encouragement, no matter what.
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But as I mentioned, the second argument to Clojure's filter is a function, and (> age 20) is not a function; therefore, this is not normal Clojure (or Clojure or at all). You'd have to replace the standard library's filter function to get the syntax you see in this article, which I doubt they are doing. therefore: not Clojure.
Sorry about that! I didn't assume someone would suggest having a mobile device OCR an ingredients label, versus looking up a UPC code tied to an ingredients list and groking for your allergies.

One is easy, the other is hard.
That is 100% untrue, even the flint water could be treated to be potable.
> Dynamo started as a document store

No it didn't. The original Dynamo paper doesn't even include the word "document" once! The title of the paper makes it obvious what kind of system it is: "Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store"

You should really do some fact checking on your statements.

Bigtable alone does not make an analytics system. You'll need a lot more around that.

I don't have a trivial use case. We use the jsonb data type in Postgres and have no upfront defined schema for metrics.

Postgres' jsonb can out-perform many of the open source NoSQL databases out there. Our system consists of a single digit of nodes that can handle hundreds of thousands of writes per second and as I mentioned already, billions of rows. A single CPU core can scan though more than a million rows per second. Is it the fastest that there is? No. Is it good enough for most people? Absolutely.
People in third world nations don't have any empathy super powers for people who are ethnically, religiously, or socio-economically from themselves either.
Maybe he's confused since Jeff Bezos's wife is named Mackenzie? Mostly joking..
I was just posting the video[1] on iPhone SE thread about the flourishing iPhone NAND Flash memory upgrade market in China yesterday. Incidentally, "NAND mirroring technique" is a crucial step in the process of upgrade iPhone NAND Flash memory. It's increasingly clear that what Congressman Darrell Issa questioned FBI Director James Comey about what exact steps FBI took to attempt to crack the iPhone 5C and in the U.S. House hearing was right on the money! [2]

The iPhone's NAND Flash is in BGA packaging and de-soldering / soldering aren't too much of an issue for a skilled technician (even Foxconn workers can do it!)

And did the timing suggest this "3rd party" in the far east? Sunday night in the U.S. is day time in the far east.

This is getting interesting!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11331044

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11249033
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