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A few different ones at first, but now I get the setuuid issue.
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I found both syfy miniseries more than acceptable, no?
I'm not sure I've understood what you are requesting, but your description reminded me of Qubes OS http://qubes-os.org/ (based on Linux and Xen).

From the "Architecture" page:

<blockquote>Qubes lets the user define many security domains implemented as lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs), or “AppVMs”. E.g. user can have “personal”, “work”, “shopping”, “bank”, and “random” AppVMs and can use the applications from within those VMs just like if they were executing on the local machine, but at the same time they are well isolated from each other. Qubes supports secure copy-and-paste and file sharing between the AppVMs, of course.</blockquote>

(I've never used it myself though, so I can't help any further).
>the most surprising thing about this list is that whoever made it didn't insert Amazon affiliate links into it.

They did, you just didn't notice them.
You really can't think outside of the box any more than that.

This is so impressive.
It's definitely a little odd. In one way it is just a matter of semantics: what exactly does the word "founder" really denote? But some may be asking whether I personally was all that important in the company's history. I can't judge that. All I know for sure is that I put my heart and soul into it especially during the first half of my time there, and I still feel a strong connection to the place (despite having left almost 12 years ago) even when they really get me angry, like with this sales tax thing. I'd prefer not to have to have a personal reaction to things like that, but there you are. As is pointed out elsewhere, Bezos was the only one who was really making strategic decisions, and it's probably still that way for all I know, though I participated in some. The idea to do a bookstore was his, though we were not the first on the web to do that. That doesn't mean I (and other early "participants") didn't have our own visions of where things ought to go too. When you do the engineering, hacking, and tech operations side of a startup, going from nothing to something, it's like it grows out of you and it feels like an extension of you. That's a different relationship from being the person with the idea who does the fund-raising and makes the big decisions. You need to have both.

At one point I'd say the company's "DNA" probably was influenced by me to an extent, but I've been gone for a long time, and it was tiny compared to its current size when I left, so it would be pretty surprising if any of that is still there. That's fine with me -- that's just how things work.
If most trading is based on algorithms, wouldn't the market become predictable?
Many moons ago i was recommended to read The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd with it being referred to has the often overlooked SF classic. It does occasionally squeak onto a list but is still sadly often overlooked :(

Also no HG Wells, Verne, Silverberg or Bob Shaw books on the list? Certainly would have War of the Worlds and A Time of Changes on mine.
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary

rPath's build system and rbuilder were made for this purpose.

http://susestudio.com/

You can spin iso's and vm images all in a web interface. (rbuilder has a flash interface. It's more powerful from teh command line but susestudio is really fast).

Red Hat/Fedora is suppose to have something (probably more than one) that's new and slick.
But the irony is that Harkonnen _sees_ himself as that sort of evil mastermind, when he's actually made himself quite stupid.
Of course, regardless of what I think about a preliminary study finding, all the usual analysis of any scientific study

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

should be applied here, for example noting that the study design is not experimental, and that the sample size is quite small. It would be interesting to follow up on this issue with more sensitive study designs, in view of the large number of homeschoolers in most English-speaking countries.
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For the Mac users:

Open Keychain Access in Utilities folder. Select "System Roots" and in the right-pane scroll down to Diginotar. Double click to open and expand "Trust". "When using this certificate" : "Never trust"

I expect Apple to remove them from the list any day now. But in the meantime here you go.
The "M-x <tab>" that kamaal is talking about is for editor commands. Similar to ": <tab>" in Vim. The difference being that all of Emacs' editor commands (even "move one char to the left") are elisp functions that are available from the M-x prompt.
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Received it. Thanks!
I agree, the original piece was a decent explanation of how to refactor some helper type code into a more Presenter like model. But he completely skipped out on the question of why it's a useful thing, and when it's a good fit. If that post had been by DHH or another Rails core member, we'd see it instantly picked up into the current cargo-cult trend of the month.

That said, I do appreciate Steve's work on finding ways outside of "the one true path" to simplify Ruby code, and hope he'll continue writing these sorts of things going forward. If nothing else, the discussion surrounding the technique and it's alternatives is extremely worthwhile.
For policies like this, your company culture and the examples leadership sets are going to dictate exactly how something like this, or anything else not explicit, is followed.

If leadership often takes vacation and doesn't do more than basic email checking, if that, then employees will feel comfortable doing the same and enjoy this policy over your standard "you accumulate 5 hours of PTO per pay period."

If leadership rarely takes vacation and when they do they're basically working full-time anyway, then employees will be frustrated because they'll feel they have to emulate the same.

And as I said, this goes for everything. I was briefly at a startup where the CEO would be in the office from 11am to 8pm and it drove me crazy. Every time I left work I would wonder if he thought I was 'slacking off,' because he wasn't in early enough to see when I got in, just that I always left before him. Some engineers just emulated his hours, but given my various other life commitments, that was impossible. There's a reason why "go home on time" is in a lot of CEO advice books.
So you want to be an entrepreneur, eh?
So we were able to handle an earthquake and a hurricane within a few days of each other with almost nothing to show for it, yet we get a few days of rain and everything's flooded and shut down. Good job nature.

On a related note, see you all there!
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The best example being Facebook, which has a major campaign to bring back the old Facebook every time there's a serious redesign. And then there's another redesign and many of those same people beg Facebook to being back that version they had complained so much about.
Why would it be ridiculous to make money from a ton of trades on $0.0001 fluctuations in prices but not fewer trades in $1 fluctuations? It seems to me that your argument applies equally to human day traders and machine trading, neither of them are really related to investing in companies except in terms of setting the price and the oft-cited liquidity that they provide.
Do you have savings that you are prepared to burn while your own service grows? How stable are these other consulting gigs? Those are important ?'s to answer, because they can frame your situation drastically differently ($7k monthly from consulting is FAR different from $200 monthly from your service).

Assuming the worst, though, I can't see a world where leaving $9800 a month on the table is a responsible decision. If, as you put it, your kids futures are "on the line," this is a no-brainer. Kids are not cheap, and they're not really something you can put off. I'd take the job and try to do consulting as well to save up a runway for your service down the road.
> There aren't lengthy, disjointed sidebars about what X means, or why Y exists. Instead, X and Y are woven into the narrative via context, allowing the reader to pick up quickly on what they are.

I feel Vernor Vinge has a good talent at this too. Apropos A Fire Upon The Deep (superb read) exposition is sparse and when required neatly woven into the story so that you almost never realize it's happening when it is.
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While I thought Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space was just ok, I really loved his standalone book Chasm City. I picked it up randomly at a book exchange and was blown away. The universe is fiercely imaginative and colorful, the dialog is snappy, the characters are flawed and interesting, the science is just hard enough to be vaguely plausible, but on the whole there's enough silliness for the book to not take itself completely seriously. The mysteries are compelling and the plot winds up nicely.

I highly recommend it over his other Revelation Space books--it's truly a brilliant, self-contained space opera in every sense of the word. It was the first book of his I read and I haven't since read something so brightly imaginative.
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Healthy quantities of vacation time is one of the reasons I'm still in public education after 15 years.

Teaching in a public school isn't the easiest job in the world (nor the hardest, probably), and not everyone has the personality for it, but I really believe that having a lot of time off contributes to my mental / emotional / physical health and helps me to be an excellent teacher when I am working.

In my district, we get one week off around Thanksgiving, two weeks around Christmas, one week around Spring Break, and ten weeks off in the summer. Plus most of the state and national holidays.

I know people often suggest that the U.S. should move to a year-round school year, but I'm not sure the ills in public education would be solved by more days in the classroom.
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Warns? I think that's awesome, but maybe I just love robots too much.

That, or people just fear things they don't understand, and robot traders are even harder to understand than human traders, I guess.
Not exactly, it might be deterministic but that doesn't mean you can predict what will happen without running it. Same as understanding the forces of a hurricane doesn't let us make very good prediction on it's path without using huge amount of computer power to run the simulation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
This looks like a great book, but I'm not sure it really represents a good way to learn how to design classes in Ruby or Python. It seems heavily biased towards designing classes in a statically-typed, non-type-inferring, java-style language. Programming in Python is a lot more about knowing when defining a new class (rather than using built-in types and classes) even a good idea to begin with.
Thought I might see 'Flowers for Algernon' on here.
FluidApp has its own problems.
> I'd also like to see effort put into exploring the CL conditions systems. Exceptions already made programming more robust, conditions give the developer full control over error handling.

In my opinion, almost every language I've worked with could be improved with a CL style condition system. (every language that already has exceptions could :P) I'd love to see a more popular language pick this up and run with it. Especially if there's been research/improvements beyond what you get in CL.
That's pretty clever then, what are they doing? Is it the _1-20 at the end?
Nice one. FWIW, on most days I work from 9:15am to 6:15pm. I do check email before and after as well, and sometimes do actual work after dinner to sync up with our US peeps (I live in Italy).

I took two weeks of almost zero-work in August, and take a few days off here and there for travelling/conferences as well.
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And pretty much everything else he wrote as well; mostly.
Pretty sure that's not "stealing".
I thought that the year-round model wasn't to increase the days in the classroom so much as get rid of the three-month gap(replacing it with several shorter ones) because students tend to lose so much knowledge during summer vacation.
I stopped taking this post seriously when I got to "objects > functions" (at least in Ruby). I think it may be an elaborate gag.

All I can say is, if I worked in a Rails shop and checked some code in that used a helper to generate the A-Z index of a collection of models, and my boss told me, "no, you need to move that code to app/presenters/as_dictionary.rb, because that's where I've been putting my code that presents our data as_numbered_lists and as_abbreviated_snippets and as_random_selectons; it's called the Presenter pattern and we use it", I'd look for new projects.

Also, "structured programming" isn't "Programming 1.0" to "object oriented programming"'s "Programming 2.0". That is not how it works, Steve.
As paradox as it sounds: I think you have a really great idea here but you would need to go the US or have a least a co-founder in the US to get it started with the right traction. You said it yourself: funding in the US was 16bn USD. Its also a matter of the marketsize: the European markets are still too tiny.
Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't seem to work in OS X's TextEdit application or in Chrome textareas.
"We don't have deadlines"

What? How is this even possible? Even if one doesn't set internal deadlines, I can't imagine avoiding integration commitments with any number of third parties, whether they be strategic partners, clients/customers, api/feed integrators, etc.
When I saw this on hnfirehose, I thought.. great, spam. But after having a look at the video, my eyes have been opened to a whole array of concepts I hadn't thought about before. I doubt this will be good HN front page fare but still, it was intriguing.
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Flash crashes and short term volatility.

Also "oft-cited liquidity that they provide" >>

This argument is farcical to the nth degree. When the average time for HFTs to hold onto a new position is less than 30 seconds, I'd say they're merely claiming credit for liquidity that was already there.
Yep, his associates ID is _1.
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It's one of the things that's always stunned me about the US - the 10 days vacation a year being a relatively common thing.

European law states a minimum of 20 days (which can include public holidays though often / usually won't). In the UK where I work 20 - 25 days plus 8 or 9 days public holiday is the norm, and 28 - 30 days plus public holidays not unheard of.

I seriously don't understand how people don't just go mad on so little.
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We're lucky that we're very self-contained (little product), and when things break we're usually able to fix them quickly (again, small team and little product). :)
"Time enough for Love" belongs very close to the top.
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So, if you are in a fortune 500 IT department, you should probably set up a honey pot to find people doing this now.
Can someone explain why "Design patterns don’t suck, Design patterns in Java suck"?
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In my country you normally get 28 days of vacations of which at least two weeks must be consecutive — that's by law.
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Same here. Current employer has a "take as much vacation as you see fit" policy and people take less than anywhere I've ever worked.

I'm thinking it some genius/evil HR ploy at this point.
Then under my plan if you bought 10 you would get the discount. When you get the cheap nearly at cost price so do the people who won't be doing good in the world. How do you differentiate them? What if I put in an order 1000 and hoovered them all up for in store digital signage? I am preventing 1000 kids from getting access to education and Raspberry gets nothing in return.

How do you solve this problem?
It would be nice if the code samples were colored or tagged according to language, since I know neither Go nor Lua.
How does this affect your accounting and total compensation? Is there a standard minimum at all that is paid out?
The headline is a relevant one, but the article seems to focus on dress sense and accent? Imitation of success stories occurs in every walk of life - it just happens to be Silicon Valley people in this industry.

It's quite possible to be unique and have your own voice even if you are inspired by dressing and talking like Steve Jobs.
You might want to check out TinyCore Lunux. In 10Mb ISO you get a functional image with GUI and thousands of apps in the repository including Chromium and Firefox that can run in as little as 39mb of RAM.

I run multiple TinyCore VMs in VirtualBox for safe browsing in the darker corners of the Net.
That statement is almost the opposite of true. The GoF patterns were invented to paper over the inadequacies of Java and C++ and make them behave more like languages like Ruby and Python.

I think Norvig's presentation should be required reading in order to obtain your Ruby or Python programming license:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/

Think of all the countless lives that could be saved.
Years of advancement or years of wandering aimlessly? It depends on the coders, of course. More often than not I've seen exceptions used for non-exceptional errors: normal errors best handled immediately by the code that triggered it. The use of exceptions there needlessly defers dealing with the error, passing it up the call chain to code that shouldn't know particulars.

Making both returned errors and exceptions available at least offers the opportunity to use the better tool for the circumstances. Both are very valuable and clear under different circumstances.
How about more modern science fiction? I loved the Golden Age series by John C. Wright, published around 2004. It's refreshing to read sci-fi where computers and connectivity are ubiquitous, rather than the old masters who didn't foresee the internet. (Stranger has flying taxicabs using magnetic tape for storage, a jarring juxtaposition to the modern reader.)

Golden Age raises some real philosophical questions, as good mind-expanding SF should. Suppose you have an adversary in some endeavor, and you have the technology to perfectly simulate your adversary's mind and predict what he will do. Does that simulation have consciousness? Does it have civil rights? What if it's forked? Very interesting stuff, grounded in real science (no FTL travel.)
24 yo from London here. That language is completely standard to me. I've been saying awesome with a straight face for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure it's the best way to have made the point.
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Of note:

1) OSX will not send any sequence when you press C-6 in Terminal.app. You have to press C-S-6 or C-^. I've never had this issue on Linux. Either C-6 or C-^ will work.

2) If you launch Vim with "vim file1 file2", the Ctrl-6 buffer switching will not switch you between file1 and file2 until you manually do it for the first time in that Vim session.

3) The Ctrl-6 switching is frame-dependent. The "previous buffer" is maintained locally between window splits or tabs in Vim, so you could have a vertical split that allowed you to easily swap between 4 separate files (i.e. 2 per side).
That's great in countries with poor employee protection, but in most European counties getting rid of someone is easier said than done.

You tend to need a very good reason, backed up with evidence and, unless it's a major major thing, you need to have worked with the employee to correct the behaviour.

In a country like that a policy which states "Take some vacation" couldn't be used to discipline someone because the issue is actually that they're conforming with it a little too much?

It doesn't mean good vacation policies aren't possible though. For instance you can have flexible allowances. You get, say, 25 days as a basic allowance, you have to take at least 20, you can take up to 30 but you get charged for / paid extra for the variation from your allowance of 25 days.

That gives people the flexibility to have either more money or a very generous allowance, while still being manageable.
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Care to summarize, or at least provide an outline of the concepts? A lot of us are at work...
Exactly my take as well. The organism needs to survive and 100% altruistic organisms don't. If they sell at a profit then they can grow and more low cost education can spread.
I worked at a small company where I was paid hourly and didn't even have paid vacation. The upside was you could take as much time off as you could afford. The downside was I couldn't afford much, though I did come into a little money from an outside project and managed to take a nice 4 week vacation. :-)

I think a hybrid of that approach could work, where you get X weeks of paid vacation and can take more as unpaid leave. That way, everyone gets the benefit of being encouraged to take a certain amount of time off, and those who want more can have it without other employees feeling like people are cheating the system. However, I asked about this at my current job and was told that unpaid leave was "strongly discouraged". I think there's also some risk of being seen as "not a team player".

But I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who would rather have more time off than money.
I also like how it runs separately from the standard Twitter servers. I can be logged into one account on twitter.com and another on m.twitter.com, and I've found m.twitter.com to be generally more reliable than twitter.com.
Funnily, "let" and "make" are the same word in Chinese.

In Mandarin, the words for "buy" and "sell" are the same phoneme with different intonation. To my untrained ear, they both sound like "my" -- but they mean opposites.
Puppy Linux might fit the bill if I understand what you are seeking correctly. http://puppylinux.org/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1100635

"Algorithmic trading has sharply increased over the past decade. Does it improve market quality, and should it be encouraged? We provide the first analysis of this question. The NYSE automated quote dissemination in 2003, and we use this change in market structure that increases algorithmic trading as an exogenous instrument to measure the causal effect of algorithmic trading on liquidity. For large stocks in particular, algorithmic trading narrows spreads, reduces adverse selection, and reduces trade-related price discovery. The findings indicate that algorithmic trading improves liquidity and enhances the informativeness of quotes. "
Parasitic HFT that doesn't actually provide liquidity is a consequence of rules that are designed to provide liquidity. Think of what you would "expect" if things were working right. Am I going to try to sell something at the exact moment a human needs to buy? No, I'm going to sell to a dealer who will hold it for a bit and then sell to a human who wants to buy. The dealer is purely algorithmic, so he may as well be replaced by a computer.

From the article "On the positive side of electronic trading, the panel said, liquidity has improved, transaction costs are lower, and market efficiency is generally better."

Relevant Monty Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
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This is awesome, thanks. Every day is a day to learn new stuff in vim. :)