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You know, maybe not.

We don't guarantee that effort equals reward anywhere else. You can go tilt against windmills all day, everyday, and find that either because nobody wanted them tilted (hah) or simply through poor execution, you can't make a living at it.

Why does some work deserve a hundred-year monopoly on anything like it, but other work does not?

Why does designing a chair deserve it, but designing a website UI (not the content) not?

And if building a Web UI out of standard parts (ie legs and cushions in the chair metaphor) does deserve protection, when do other people get to use a slider in combination with a dropdown, or whatever my minor innovation was? How long do I deserve to keep the world from using the standard toolbox just because I was first?

The process of invention, and the domain (chairs, programming, UX design) seem obscure and complex to the naive viewer and yet obvious to other practitioners. Unfortunately our system is based on asking people who do not work in the field what elements deserve protection.

That's what protected slide-to-unlock.
First, a nitpick that the FCC makes regulation not legislation, and it could do this under existing authority. Second, I think a fine solution would be to force open the buildable source including all drivers and firmwares upon EOL. If top-down security updates will stop, then all components must be open source at that point.
And in a way it's saner than if you blamed over and over some people who still work 5m from you, even if they deserve it; and we all have stories about that kind of people.

You often needs to be more subtile with them (x) than blatantly calling on their bullshit every time...

(x): I mean to try to influence them so they progress so your life is better, not to shit on them
The syntax is consistent and works fine, and I'm not sure that changing the syntax so it looks like some other programming language is a good use of anyones time and energy
Being careful with downloaded software might be one thing (even though there isn't any indication that there is any of that going on right now), but not visiting the site? Did SF ever did something justifying that?
Another +1 for NSIS with older / elderly customers. I've also had success in that respect, and the NSIS support for custom DLLs let me extend NSIS to improve usability. (My products have to be installed in the plugins folder of dozens of different commercial programs, the DLL support lets me detect that automatically for my customers.)

I also like InnoSetup, and its Pascal scripting is certainly more straightforward than the NSIS Assembly-like coding, but NSIS has served me very well.
It is possible.

There was a subsequent 350m round in November so that means dilution for everyone.

So that, coupled with liquidity preferences for the venture investors, could mean he didn't get much.

He likely does have cash as well as shares in Walmart from this deal, but I doubt he made "millions" from this, and it is entirely possible he is close to breakeven (just as possible that he has a six figure amount). But we don't have any transparency from this.

This is the kind of gambling the society puts you on a pedestal for, so don't worry too much about the bet. Its a "good" one.
Stdlib – The Standard Library of the Internet
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Honestly curious, how? Did you stay on Income Based Repayment forever? Get multiple Doctorates while deferring payments? Refinanced multiple times? Most US loans have 10-15 year payment plans so something unusual happened in your case.
A ticketing system may not be "safety" critical, but its malfunction can cause tremendous discomfort and financial strain on people's lives. Being stranded far from home, missing an important event, or being put through hours of incredibly stressful situations is inexcusable.
If the technical debt is in areas that you will very rarely go back into, then it could perhaps be considered low-interest, compared to technical debt in high-churn code paths.
My dad worked for the phone company for his entire career (late 1950's to early 1990's). He had some interesting stories about going into rural areas in the early 1960's and seeing how "universal service" was implemented in the 1940's and 1950's. The most common way when there were only a few service users down a side road was to hook the phone wire up to a barbed wire fence heading that way and use the earth for neutral. It worked but it meant if a farmer closer to the road picked up the phone the line past their house went dead.

I wonder what kind of bitrate you could get nowadays with barbed wire?
This is how it should work in my view. You just need managers that are disciplined and don't tell you to not clean up old code because of deadline pressure.
Pedantic and pathetic. I clarified what I meant by money, wealth.
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By way of contrast, the National Transportation Safety Board does a pretty thorough investigation of aircraft crashes and records results in a public database [0]. The software industry has, so far, managed to avoid this level of scrutiny and liability. The jaded part of me says that it will take a crisis to get software to be taken that seriously, but the crises so far haven't been large enough.

[0] http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/index.aspx
It's not so complicated, it's just a book written by and for salesmen intended as sales advice.

It got more popular than that, because the basic premise of the book is that it's a good idea to be genuinely interested in others, and that the best way to get people to like you is to like them. Which is actually fairly insightful.

I'm a basically a leftist bomb throwing communist and I think the book is pretty uncontroversial.
Understanding the Scale of Walmart’s Jet.com Purchase
I've got a place in rural northern california and we don't get cell phone coverage, no where within a 20 miles, and of course there is no broadband. The forest service doesn't help put in towers, the rural telephony program only supports landlines, which don't reach out here. Easy process of putting up both cell phone towers and microwave repeaters would be huge. What's now is that the government makes it very hard to do, but it should subsidize it instead.
> and it's simple to disconnect and reconnect yourself with 2 or 3 wires

Not always. I helped debug some issues with our HVAC at our last office, and all of the thermostats were connected to the HVAC system via an ad-hoc wifi network. There was pin-based authentication, but it was easily googlable.

I can only see this kind of control becoming more common as HVAC manufacturers start looking at this as a way to impose DMCA restrictions over furnace installation, maintenance, and 3rd party controls. John Deere is paving the way here.
I think qualcomm or anybody would have hard time justifying how rooting prevention (which actually already has some place) helps here.

I hope this trend also eventually brings us proper no-bullshit free and open-source firmware. As long as there are organizations to request some sanity from vendors.
Ask HN: Cheap E-ink panels for Home decor
Does anyone here know of places I can get cheap E-ink panels? I'd love to hang some around the around the house showing around some pictures/motivational quotes/weather displays/vector graphics etc.

I do not want to use full color LCD/LED panels because of its power needs. I'd prefer a battery-operated wireless solution.
In your church, maybe.

In a country where logic reigns, it depends.
sigh. I know there are those in the Python/Pypy community that thing everything should be done via pip; not the system manager. Others say we should have system packages (and they make elaborate systems that check for new python packages they use and build them with fpm).

I really prefer the system managers, but what if things don't get new packages in a timely manager. When I was on openstack security, we used the Cannonical repos since they updated faster than the Debian repos, but some major exploits would be left out there for half a month (which lead down the path of; do we want to run our own CI-builds so we can deploy CVE patches immediately).

This isn't even getting into the issues with Java/Scala/Groovy projects that could have jars with exploits embedded within the project (most OS packages let projects keep their own jars, instead of using a set of system jars. Gentoo tries to use system jars, but oh boy is that it's own crazy mess). There are lots of programs that embedded C/C++ libraries for stability/error reporting (I'm looking at you Firefox/Libreoffice) and hence there are scanning tools for finding these embedded libraries with security issues (some guy did a talk on this at Ruxcon 2012 I believe).

TL;DR It's turtles all the way down.
The 4 part LBJ book series by Robert Caro.
Sorry, I missed responding to this.

His point was that there are many many many more students who don't make it to IIT, and feel that not going to IIT has led them to not be confident in their abilities.
Your point is well taken, I agree.
Depending on where it lands, and how it interacts with the Mars environment, a large number of microbial spores can land on Mars without causing any problems.

Given that what you're saying is possible, but not probable, it totally makes sense for NASA to take precautions to ensure that they don't destroy the Mars ecosystem through their Mars landings.
https://jet.com/about-us - the photos shows there is a small army for Indians in Jet too. So do the "few smart people left here" want to jump over Jet now ?
If you can get line of sight, microwave works well.
There may be another angle to this: Netflix does not publish viewership ratings of its shows, but there have been a few attempts by various companies to infer the ratings by traffic analysis. Encrypting the traffic makes it harder to do so.
Guess who is on Walmart's board, and likely voted when the acquisition discussion was happening.

Our very own Marissa Mayer.
We also have Kevin Systrom on teh WM board.
Look, I'm a big Bitcoin enthusiast, but Bitcoin isn't easier than traditional banking.

I sent ~8 checks at the beginning of the month without doing literally anything, because they were set up with automatic bill payment. When I get paid it goes directly into my account, again without me doing anything. Unless you're going to claim that Bitcoin is easier than literally not even thinking about getting paid or paying my bills, ease of use is not really a selling point for Bitcoin.

There are real reasons to use Bitcoin that aren't provided by traditional banking. We don't need to persuade people it's easier, especially since it's not easier.
They only use it for fixed line systems, not cell phones or microwave. Those are the ways people actually want to get connected in rural areas.
> It's not usually core, it's all the plugins by authors of unknown provenance and skill.

This is otherwise known as an active developer community and is a good thing. In any open library ecosystem, it's ultimately up to the developer to carefully choose and vet third-party modules. There isn't any substitute for that.

The alternative is a tightly controlled standard library, but that isn't npm's stated goal. Such a controlled, curated, audited standard library is, however, something that could be built on top of npm, but obviously not vice versa.

So npm being a circus is, in the grander scheme of things, a good thing. Novice programmers will necessarily produce novice code.

edit: if it wasn't clear, I completely agree about the security risks of this project.
I dunno. Even if "all" the first generation can do is freeway driving (and let's say, not even urban freeway, just "easy" rural portions of freeway) that seems like it still would make the vast majority of long-haul trucking jobs vanish -- just by definition of "long-haul."

If you ship something from New York to Chicago by truck and it takes 14 hours, maybe the first and last hour or so are getting in an out of the source/destination cities. That leaves 12 out of 14 hours where the truck can drive unattended, eliminating the need for about 12/14 of the truckers (or their work hours) that drive that route.

It depends on what proportion of truck drivers today mostly do long-haul as opposed to short haul. I have no idea.
I've actually been planning to write about it (the actual algorithm, or at least the basic concepts there) and put it up for a while now, but finding time for writing is pretty hard....

Here's my best shot at a short technical summary of the concepts that are relevant and how they come into play:

1. Product information: You can easily give a score to how much information (in the information-theory sense) and interest in product gives on the random variable that describes what that user is likely to buy. This is easy and straight forward.

2. Purchase characteristics - Instead of looking at what a user is likely to buy as one complex random variable. It's much better to split it into a set of variables, that can be easily filtered\sorted by. Price range is one, but things like style preference are more complex. You'd want to know how informative each product is in relation to each of these.

3. The more difficult problem is figuring out how to effectively split this huge random variable into useful and simpler random variables. This is probably the most interesting part of our research, and where we've had the most use for deep learning.

As for an example: I'd probably look to the second page to find a good example. If we already know a user is looking for relatively expensive high-end watches - which products do we show them that will teach us about other things (specifically optimize on information on other aspects that aren't price)...

I hope this is clear enough - I really should at some point write this down more clearly...
No, they both support at least some imap servers.
Tor itself is already a prime target for hackers. There are plenty of malicious exit nodes as is; as for nation-states, the cost of entry into polluting the Tor network with your own circuits to probabilistically deanonymize users is low enough as is that you'd be stupid not to do it. By the same logic, torservers.net shouldn't exist, or ipredator's massive exit.

Tor has a fair amount of relay bandwidth; Mozilla running exit nodes adds strength to where the bigger bottleneck is. There isn't a lot of personal risk in running middles or guards to the common techie; an exit node with abusive traffic can get your house raided in the United States [1] and Germany makes you responsible for traffic on your IP [2].

They have the legal and personnel resources to be able to deal with abuse complaints from bad actors, and should, for the sake of the network they support.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/seattle-police-raid-home-privacy-ac...

[2] http://www.young-germany.de/topic/live/your-digital-rights-i...
The AST you get from any of a wide variety of parsers, of which esprima may still be only the most popular of many.
A monopoly must necessarily limit supply to increase profit. That means that turning away potential customers--even customers that spontaneously appear without advertising or recruitment--is an essential part of the business model.

Refusing to install another DSLAM means they can sell space on the existing ones at a higher price.
The mother uses it all the time to get the latest Lotto numbers.
Canada? Australia? NZ?
This is one of the benefits of using a container-based system like the one we designed for https://tonicdev.com . On Tonic, you get the same conveniences displayed here (actually better since all the packages already exist, so no install-wait time), but the entire development process happens in a container. Once you're ready to move on, you can download the project with shrink-wrap to get identical behavior, but until then you can more freely try whatever you'd like.
Genuinely curious: what sorts of results have you achieved by employing fear?
The main value is escaping the constraints on plugins and gems you are able to use with Jekyll on GitHub pages. Don't remember of the top of my head but I believe it's pretty limited.
Seems to have happened on both the share-site links on the page, sadly.

And sadly, seems that the torrent isn't working [for me].
It has to open and read a .js file already, it can certainly turn that into the representative AST for said file and then use the data from that. It will be slower, but it will also be more accurate and less likely to turn up false positives or miss things.
This might just be a question of workflow optimization. Have you considered waiting to do the installs until you've paused in writing code anyway, or using your editor's shell command execution capability (if any) to fire off these installs and let them run in background while you continue to work?
They all look like kernel code/driver bugs to me, meaning there will likely be memory layout and config variations much more significant that you'd see in baseband code which might be a lot more duplicated across devices.
It's been a few years since I've actively used it. If they added the feature, fantastic. I recall looking for an email containing "dog" and search for "dogs" and couldn't get a match.

It's unlikely I'll be switching back soon, if for no other reason than I'm prepaid on FastMail, but how is searching over large accounts now? I found with more than a few GB of email, search would take upwards of 20s. I had to get very aggressive about deleting messages to keep the search time down.
3 days isn't enough time for all the meetings. But 5 days of 6 hrs might work. 28 hours of meetings and 2 hours of coding.
> Functional code can create significantly fewer objects

Immutability means the number of individual objects explodes.

It also means those are easier to garbage collect, so you can have several different algorithms acting on different time-frames, alleviating the problem for the slower ones.
Cheapest e-ink you can get is probably buying used kindles or other readers :/ (Some kindles have been hacked, Sony made some with root-able Android, so you can even use the other parts of the hardware)

Individual panels are still expensive, and large sizes are even more expensive, if you can even get them.
This is a really interesting idea. Probably the older Kindles are the single largest users of (black and white at least) e-ink panels. To what extent are they rootable and reflashable?
If you do get this working please do write up your experience and follow up with some after photos.
I bet that's not the reason people think you don't like them.
It's a project management methodology, not a software development methodology. Some of these gripes seem not to be accusations of the method but actually the application by whatever organization.
Wasting Code vs. Recycling Code
If all the stakeholders are happy, the solution is good, right?

Or perhaps not all the stakeholders really are happy?
That's what a trademark is for. To keep the knockoff from being confused for the original.

And it does it without making the essential features unusable by others. A trademark would let me slide to unlock, just not slide a little apple icon..
>To disqualify one of these sciences because it isn't hard, you need to explain why don't also disqualify the rest of them.

All of them should be disqualified as well, with the exception of astrophysics which IS a hard science. Who said it isn't? Just because you can't directly observe from nearby a remote star to falsify your hypothesis etc doesn't mean you can't look at its energy emissions, radiation shifts due to speed, gravity effects to nearby bodies from its mass and volume etc. And a lot of astrophysics stuff related to composition of matter, nuclear reactions in a star, etc. are just plain physics. Not to mention when it cames to planets in the solar system, astrophysics very much can go (send probes etc) and gather empirical evidence directly.

History is no more "scientific" than economics -- both are ideological battlefields, where each thing is seen through the prism of the current preferences in each practitioner's era and circles.

Regarding palaeontology and archaeology both are full of BS too, but in the spectrum of hard vs soft sciences are closer to hard sciences than economics or history are, mostly the parts dealing with description and taxonomy of findings rather than their wild theorizing.
Ask HN: Mouse or external touchpad
After reading the article about RSI, I started setting up my desktop setup. I'm long time laptop user. Most of the time I'm using keyboard, but sometimes a "pointer" is useful (web).

Which one you find more convenient and better for development?
I would also have mentioned Uruguay, Finland, and Norway as developed countries that are pretty green on the map.

Edit: although it looks like a way to be a green developed country by this ranking is largely to have extremely uneven population density.
Relative Accused of Raping 2 Boys

Article from: Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) | June 14, 2003

Albuquerque police have arrested a man suspected of raping two young male family members.

Jeffrey Dylan, 30, is charged with four counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor, Metropolitan Court records said.

The mother of the boys, ages 4 and 5, told police her 4-year-old told her Dylan had sexually abused him May 25, records said. …

https://business.highbeam.com/2872/article-1G1-103396858/rel...
I'm not sure how this could happen as one shouldn't be depending on the directory structure in the node_modules/ folder anyway. Do you have an example of where this might cause issues?
Do you seriously believe young workers think about the old ones, or about themselves becoming old workers? If loyalty begets loyalty (to which I agree), I would expect it to appeal to those who understand what loyalty is all about.
Young generation was told they will have 12 jobs over 40 years of career, and looks like they have internalised this.
You can think of synchronicity as the most basic form of backpressure. The goal is to avoid flooding the target when source sends at a too high of a rate.

But that was a quick fix. Eventually I implemented something else. Notice that in my case there was a also a bug, so it wasn't just due to normal hardware limits.

One other simplistic hack I found is to force the source to send every Nth message synchronously. Say it sends 10k messages as a cast, then if target is too slow and has queued them up, source sends 10001st as a call So it is forced to wait for target to process them before sending the next. (Sorry reverting to Erlang/OTP terminology here, cast mean send without acknowledgement, call means wait for a response).
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So, best case, with proper type annotation and a really good optimizer, you get the performance you would have had with plain old mutability? Pardon me if I remain unconvinced that immutability is solving the problem adequately.
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Disagree. How about a simple "devices selling in excess of 500 units must have security devices updates provided for four years from the first date of sale"? Legislation doesn't have to be onerous.

Automobile manufacturers are required to produce parts for a certain number of years in support of their vehicles...
Whatever happened to those productivity gains we got from the 50s and 60s? The ones that were supposed to make it so we could work two to three days a week?
My private and my business emails run with FastMail and I am very happy with it! I also use the DNS for some smaller projects and it works like a charm. Thanks for that.