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You are assuming that money is the motivation for people to get jobs. I'm an older developer, and I definitely have my favorites of past co-workers. We're all established enough financially that the extra stress and pain of consulting doesn't sound good to us. Same for doing a startup -- just not the lifestyle we are after. But being able to settle down, spend our working hours with people we have grown to love, whom we know work well together, working on a shared vision for a company, and staying there for years, watching our work have a positive influence on the world... that sounds pretty good.

It is a question of where your ambitions lie - if you have already accomplished your financial goals, already written software that is used worldwide, already done the startup thing, and still want to code instead of going the management or investor route... why would you not pursue something like this?

Admittedly, Stripe is a poor candidate for this... nothing against them as a company, but people in my situation tend to look for work that has meaning on a charitable level -- environmental, education, health care, or other such areas where we can really make a difference in the world would be appealing.
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> Talk about your project
This not only should help you to focus by thinking about it. But also give feedback and social pressure.

I am feeling pangs of horrible boredom just imagining being seated next to someone following this advice at a dinner party. Ugh.
Tom Whitwell's post isn't arguing for obfuscated pricing. His argument is that pricing is subjective, and the actual number itself is largely irrelevant from the perspective of an individual consumer. Pricing can still be clearly defined and emotional at the same time. This is the basis of the psychology of price anchoring.
Many of the comments here are overestimating what's required for this to have an impact. Driverless trucks only need to cover some large percentage of the driving currently performed by humans to be major economic changers.

For example, let's say they can only run during daylight hours, in conditions other than rain and snow, only on long-haul routes, and humans will do the "last-mile" piloting on local roads.

Now let's suppose that for routes that fit those parameters driverless trucks end up taking over 40% of those kinds of routes. That's huge. It would absolutely transform the economies of all the states that are looking for truck drivers here. http://media2.policymic.com/bf05a1c9e6b8a55095f8b4726e30b52f...
A moment ago the discussion was about requiring /affirmative/ consent at every escalation. But your example is "is the person giving moderately subtle-to-overt signs of non-consent."

The example of "affirmative consent" I've been presented with generally include explicitly verbalizing requests for consent, so as to preclude things like reading body language, because... well, that's where things go awry.
Maybe because JavaScript encourages bad habits? It's a very sloppy and undisciplined language, esp. with its loose typing, crazy coercions and wildly inconsistent semantics. This language has far more "warts" than any other programming language in wide use today. Jeff Walker calls it a "minefield": http://walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/02/javascript-minefiel...
No worries - Ranger would run on the "attackers" machine. You have to specify the delivery method (wmiexec, psexec, smbexec or atexec) which Ranger utilizes to access the target machine and execute the attack.
That too! I'm not located in either of those two countries, and I can only imagine how atrocious options over here will be, with a start like that.

I also prefer watching movies in original language, because even professional dubs are often terrible; it wouldn't surprise me if they offer limited language choices as well...
I really like tt-rss (http://tt-rss.org), self-hosted. It doesn't have the social aspect that Google Reader had, but you could use pinboard or something for that. The tt-rss web app is pretty good, and the Android client is excellent.
It's £3.49. How much cheaper do you want it to be?
> just another entitled bunch of aholes who think they can do whatever they want all around the globe and they actually have means to do so

I think that understates things a bit - I'm not aware of any other group in history that has freely wrought global havoc for so long, torturing, killing, trafficking in drugs, destroying lives, destroying whole nations...

Honestly, they are terrifying.
Perhaps I'm too old, but calling something to manage command line packages "Pearl" is quite confusing when most operating systems come with perl preinstalled.
Production that, I'm pretty sure, they sold to some German network for more than it would bring in on Netflix itself... gotta love economics!
I don't remember about the saves actually, but the feeling is completely different. While on most Syndicate missions you could actually exchange fire and back off / reevaluate, in this game any action causes more people to hear you and join in. That means you need to either sneak around the whole time, or be prepared to take 10 enemies at once. And even sneaking around is hard because of cameras.

It wouldn't even be that bad if you could replay the whole mission in 5-10 minutes like I remember from Syndicate. But in SR even walking around feels super slow. It's just not the same kind of action. You sneak around for 15 minutes, take out guards one-by-one, then suddenly you're spotted by the last remaining one and reinforcements come out from the building right next to you. You lose the whole squad, try again.
To my understanding, multi core on a single package (CPU) is much simpler to schedule. There are performance penalties if you schedule work on a package that has to access memory that is not directly connected. A NUMA-aware scheduler should not make this mistake.
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You are correct, I was making that assumption and should not. I tend to think money on HN posts but not as much on, for example, r/programming posts. I suppose I'm more susceptible to indirect marketing than I like to believe. Damn.
I'm not sure this kind of disgusting behaviour can ever be justified.
How much time can you save by using software for display ad creation?
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This type of system reinforces what William Gibson so vividly described in his essay, 'Disneyland with a Death Sentence' [1], published in Wired more than 20 years ago

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pe...
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It was a horrible disaster. But, 30 years after the accident, this article is trying to get readers using punchy headlines, like "Children are still being born with severe birth defects". I would have expected a BBC article to be a bit more objective on such controversial conclusions [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
Of course they can. When you sign up for GA, you get asked

Do you want to share data with google to improve our products?

Do you want to pool aggregated data for benchmarking?

Both are unchecked by default.

Or do you think that google will access the data without permission? In which case, what do you base your opinion on?
Oh yeah, that's a good point I hadn't considered. I supposed it remains to be seen if enough people use it that (or another) way to make it a profitable endeavor.
certainly inlined and very likely optimized away altogether. Better to keep it that way, with a comment. Once the problem is fully understood, there may be room to enable it again with a more meaningful heuristics.
What's facebook got to do with anything? I have never used an RSS feed and never felt the lack (though I have only a vague idea what it is).

My not using RSS has precisely nothing to do with my facebook account - and your attempt to diminish others usage of t'internet by saying "ugh it's those fucking drones just using facebook" is pretty arrogant.
>The difference is uncertainty. With pizza, you know pretty well what you are going to get.

Two counter-arguments:

People buy enticing stuff off of supermarket shelves all the time though -- things that they are not certain if they'll like them.

Lots of people who have bought and generally like an app (or so they say), still complain for its price on boards, even if it's comparable to a beer. E.g. they ask why a $2.99 app isn't $0.99 etc.

So it's not just "uncertainty".
It is in their interest to snoop on your personal life and habits, but it's not their right
> No rape involved, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who would say otherwise.

I know many people who could consider responding to negative or neutral signalling to be 'coercion' and either 'rape' or 'rape-like', including both of:

> Maybe she did something to really turn him on and they wound up eagerly jumping each other. Maybe they had a heart to heart talk and he decided that even though he wasn't eager, this would be really special to her and he went with it.

Agreed on your views regarding all of those situations though.
Mac and Windows means 'universal compatibility'? :(
> In truth though, you get what you pay for, always

This is completely wrong, but it sounds nice.
Indeed. I find the binary view of self-driving/driverless/robot lorries somewhat narrow.

Furthermore, a lot of these sort of technologies have already made it into lorries and cars, just commonly called 'driver aids'. Such as radar controlled cruise control, lane control, etc.

Most of lorry hauling takes place on motorways, where the process can be easily automated. Only when trips from the origin to the motorway and the motorway to the destination could remain in control of the driver.

And moreover, this sort of technology could be fitted to lorries very soon. Fully automated self-driving lorries are still decades off. Partly of all the minor quirks and issues, but mostly because once more than 50% of the actual lorry driving is automated, there will be less urgency for it.
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I got an impression that this is not that useful for development due to very weak networking support.

For example I use a single docker installation in a VM to test several unrelated projects with all of them providing a web server on a port 80/443. I do not want to remap ports not to deviate from the production config. Instead I added several IP to the VM and exposed relevant containers on own IP addresses. Then for testing I use a custom /etc/hosts that overwrites production names with VM's IP addresses. This works very nicely.

But I do not see that something like this is possible with "Docker for Mac".
The main problem there is that local non-static variables get placed onto stack. Stack space is allocated by generated code by just decrementing stack pointer without any explicit calls to OS. On typical modern unix, only few pages of stack are actually mapped and kernel handles page faults on neighboring pages by allocating more stack pages. Because it is possible that function needs more than one page of stack space, there is more than one such "magic" stack page, but still there is some finite number of them (othervise there would be no way to distinguish between accesses beyond the end of stack that should grow stack and accesses to random unmapped memory). Thus if you allocate some ridiculously large things on stack and access them in the direction opposite of stack growth, you may get segfault (accessing these structures in "the right order" is by no means sufficient for this to be safe because there are things like red-zones, signals, other local variables...).

This is true only for first thread, other threads have fixed stack size specified on thread creation (on Linux it's 8MB by default), but usually even thread's stack pages are really allocated only on first access.

On UNIX if you really want to bump stack by arbitrary amounts the most portable way is to preallocate your own stack of sufficient size and then use that (either by abusing sigaltstack() or via makecontext()/setcontext() or possibly by creating new thread). But generally, having large local variables is not exactly good idea.
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Trello is cool but I'm not sure that it suitable for family tasks sharing.
FamilyInSafe is better because you can create some grocery list, share it with your family members and discuss it via chat. All in one app!

By the way, you can get instant notifications when your loved ones visit some places. For e.g. shop or pharmacy.

Hope you'll find our app useful.
From what I understand this mostly effects servers and not desktop systems because most desktops don't have NUMA. I've noticed that Linux servers typically run on par (usually better) than their windows counterparts when it comes to performance.

Could this be an indication that Windows could also be suffering from some similar bug?

Once this bug is fixed in Linux it could supposedly improve performance by up to 30% in some cases. Linux is already performing on par with Windows (and this isn't really debatable), so does this mean that this patch help Linux out-perform Windows by much wider margins now?
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I really like good jokes. But it's not that good:)
And even

> "well, we only got the rights to broadcast on TV, so we can't stream the show online in this country".

Is horrendous. Because then you wind up with 10 different streaming services, all charging you the same (or more) as netflix.
For all I care it can be a million pounds, I probably won't use it either way. My point is that it's not a competitive price. For around £8 you can get a Netflix or Amazon Prime subscription (don't quote me on that, I'm not from the UK, but a few pounds don't weaken my argument, I believe).

These subscription-based services offer unlimited content for a month, whereas these £3.49 give you maybe 2h of entertainment. I'm just saying I don't believe it's a great business model in this day and age. I remember iTunes allowing you to rent movies for similar prices years ago, but that never became very popular, did it?
American stoves transform kWh-energy to BTU-energy. This does not just happen 1:1, like elsewhere in the world, where stoves just waste kWhs. Quote American Physical Society: "There are generation efficiencies, limited by the Second Law of Thermodynamics and design practicalities". This is quite amazing. Free energy rules.
> Isn't NUMA how multi-core CPUs work still?

if you have > 1 socket, then yes, otherwise no.

Edit: added verb
Should be tagged with a date of 1993, it isn't immediately clear what timeframe this was published other than after the "late 1980s".
> with lower cost of living are expected to take lower pay than locals while doing the same work and offering the same value

DO you also think it is weird that people who live in incredibly expensive cities like NY or SF should get paid more money then?
"Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll ... Only 15 percent said torture should never be used ... The Reuters/Ipsos poll included 1,976 people. It has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 2.5 percentage points for the entire group"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-torture-exclu...
Also:
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Yup, sold to Sky.
What it is all about is at the end of the article:

"Make your existing iOS Objective-C code that has Accelerate framework APIs calls work on Windows 10" using Intel's contributions to the "Windows Bridge."

It also seems the marketing name of the software is misleading: it seems it's the software that just the Windows developers could need even if it's called "for iOS." The GitHub project name is still WinObjC.
It's not like the UK government isn't trying. The whole "Northern Powerhouse" and such.

The basic problem is that people, by and large, want to live and work in London rather than Manchester (which is I think the only credible competitor to London for mega-city status right now).

Building Crossrail isn't something where you can just sort of pick and choose where to drop it. London transport is horribly overcrowded already. If it doesn't keep up with demand then it's not like everyone will just say, oh well, we'll all just move en-masse to a different city. If that were going to happen it'd have happened already. Instead they'll just keep packing in like sardines and feel miserable.

The UK already borrows huge sums of money. It's only cheap because so many countries have been or are printing money to fund public spending, which means it's not really anywhere near as cheap as it looks.
I found the advice to be quite a mixed bag, but um, having just turned 42, the OP knows very little about being a developer after 40. The article is about what he learned as an under-40 developer.
Netflix doesn't carry all movies, and rarely streams recent big budget ones. Typical rental of a recent (or obscure) release from the convenience of wherever you happen to be is typically about $5, the price you're complaining of.

Nice to see a major studio delivering their goods practically direct to viewers. About time! The licensing wars are irritating.
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So you lost 30%*x% of sales, to what benefit? Did it hurt you to have window shoppers growing your mind share?

Your story sounds like a classic case of chasing bad metrics like conversion percentage instead of bottom line.
By that logic, universities shouldn't be able to kick someone out for being disruptive repeatedly or getting bad grades. No?
One question (I didn't read the article, but it just popped in my mind while thinking of driverless trucks).

Is anyone working on driverless trains? If not, why not?
I understand that the impact would be less huge, but at the same time the problem domain is arguably more tractable.
In my hometown we have a fully automated underground train line which has been working flawlessly (i.e. no accidents) for almost 10 years now, but according to Wikipedia it looks like ATO (Automatic Train Operation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_operation) is currently deployed only for urban transport, while proper railways, even the Japanese ones, seems to use only ATC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_control) which from what I understand provides support to a human driver but still needs one to operate.

(edit: typos)
The only reason I subscribed to Netflix was that it was the best way to get Warehouse 13, which I really wanted to see at the time. For now Netflix still has enough content to satisfy me, but the idea that the library is so much smaller here in Germany than in the U.S. was never to my liking .. Greedy companies force Netflix to block customers, customers pirate content instead, all loose. One would think Hollywood learned their lesson, just as the music industry did, but it doesn't look that way. Maybe one day they'll find out that the correct solution if you ran against a wall is not do it again and hope that the wall falls, but to go around it.
Well, this risk is the price you have pay to work in a better country. And anyway, most probably they would have some time (in my case, up to 45 days) after the contract termination to find a new job, so it's not that tragic.
I didn't know this movie, interesting
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Amazon, Playstation Network also allow you to rent films at this price point, they seem to be doing OK. You're simply not in the target audience.

Netflix is not unlimited, it is a buffet where you might not like what's on offer.
Sidechannel leaks against mobile devices.
£3.49 is about standard for pay-per-view
I suspect more people watch specific films rather than just have them on as background anything-but-the-silence-of-my-brain fillers. If that's an accurate suspicion then the Lionsgate approach isn't so odd.
Marketing is education, and advertising is art, which is fun and useful. You think people work at, say, McDonald's, because they like cooking?
UPS and Fedex raise their rates every year in January with a figure that far exceeds inflation or other indexed costs.

https://www.lojistic.com/pdf/UPS-Fedex-General-Price-Increas...
They're being submitted to conferences, which are often considered better in computer science.
Heh. The only game that I currently play in Steam is not even a Steam game, but PCSX2 (a PS2 emulator); I only need Steam for the Steam Controller.
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Agreed! I think this also cuts to the fact that data doesn't win arguments. Data + time spent studying and understanding data wins.

Most people can't or don't want to take time (it's inefficient). So they make decisions based on estimates / stories / approximations / biases / gut and the world keeps spinning.

Which means your goal should be to most accurately frame your data in terms of their stories (translating as much or little as they require).
Looks like you are right Intel QuickPath Interconnect is similar to what AMD was doing with HT.
Well, that is actually what a movie ticket costs here, and the obvious alternative has a way bigger selection for free. That is the competition. When I see the news how well blockbusters do in the movies, I think studios should just put up older titles for free. E.g for an upcoming Hunger Games you should just release the other parts and generate hype, turning home video from a direct money stream into pr.
That's also a perspective I hadn't considered, but it doesn't explicitly say anywhere that they'll publish newer releases right away, and then there's the localization thing where UK gets a grand total of 11 movies. That's still in stark contrast to Mr. Packer's statement, which promised “commitment to remain at the cutting edge of innovation in delivering content to online audiences around the world.”
I wonder if that had been worded as American citizen, instead of suspected terrorist, if the results would have been any different. Even so that is still too high of a number of people who are ok with torture.
Yelp? Google Local?
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>What is the economic model to use driverless trucks?

Road goes to more places than train tracks.

You dont really need more than that...
Also good luck reliably even finding the title in all the horrible kinds of html floating around out there.
This is huge. The biggest reason for me to not store more content on dropbox, is that it always comes with the trade-off of taking up space on my local drive (128gb) as well.

Sure there's selective sync, but that's an all-or nothing approach.

I like the way Google approaches this with their Google Photos service. X most recent photos are stored locally, and everything else is pulled down on the fly as you search/browse for them.
Affirmitive just means "yes", getting the other party to say it out loud helps if you're really that bad at body language and non-verbal communication but is not required.

As someone else stated, if verbal consent was what was required, they'd call it "verbal consent" not "affirmative consent". Affirmative meaning, from a plain dictionary definition: "saying or showing that the answer is "yes" <He gave an affirmative answer.> ".

Again, the history and context is people being raped who did not "fight back", and it was held against them, and people accused of rape who said in their own defence that they didn't think they were raping the person because they didn't do anything to stop them. That's not their responsibility, it's yours to get "affirmitive consent".
It is coneviable that circumstances could exist where the use of torture would prevent some greater evil. But the only proper place to make such an argument is in court as a defense against prosecution. The act would still be illegal and should still be illegal. The disgusting thing is trying to pre-approve illegal acts ahead of time and using that as a defence.