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I'm tired of bouncing in and out of health coverage when I leave companies and move around. Can anyone recommend a good, affordable personal health plan that makes sense for the wandering hacker lifestyle? Are there any progressive, forward thinking startups addressing this niche?
Only for overriding parts of libc, which already cannot be 'unexported'. The article's main beef is with internal program symbols also being made indirect (AIUI a patch adding a new visibility option was landed in gcc years ago that more or less automatically fixed this up, but I may be wrong)

Edit: rushing out the door here, last sentence was referring to this: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
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`tmux` is great, but am I the only one unable to use `$ vim --remote file.txt` accross panes in `tmux`?
But I don't think the effect on casual users will be exclusively what the blackout-proponents are hoping.

Interestingly, you are right. At the moment emails to info@wikipedia.org (they are handled by volunteers) appear to be about roughly 50/50 for and against the action.

I haven't seen a "for SOPA" comment yet - most at "Wikipedia shouldn't be political" and "So why are you punishing me".
The bar doesn't work yet. I added a message to say so. I agree that without the bar and any other catching content on the first page it's hard to guess what the hypermove does. For now, it only has a messaging application and an "aspects" application. The bar is meant to be cli-like UI for the whole app.
that's done on the PS3 and i hear it isn't easy to write efficient programs for it.
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Thats a very naive view - laws are often drafted by lawyers / polaticians - and what makes non corporate actors in lobying any better or worse they are just lobbying for their constituents.

With your model extremist churches or other organisations could lobby to reduce employment rights for women/LGBT etc. For example returning to the 50's wheer women who got married had to resign like they did at one compnay I used to work for.

A company with progressive views on employment issues say Google would be banned from lobbying against this.

And you would have od position where say the UAW could put their views on a bill concerning the Auto industry but Alan Mulally could not - not teribly fair.
What were Tom's arguments? It would give better perspective than just his conclusion.
I was in the same place using Drupal primarily. I found excitement by joining a startup company. Startups typically need to build web apps that are so customized that it doesn't make sense to use a CMS. I found writing code at a lower level really helped me learn a lot more and captivated my interest. No longer was I having to play by the maddening rules of the CMS. Its more challenging but more rewarding and helps you learn whats really going on behind the surface. I would roughly equate coding in drupal to using windows where they try to hide the 'insides' of the application from the developer. You are learning more about the CMS's API and not the underlying processes. Using a lower level framework (rails, django, express) is more like unix where it is more transparent and easier to customize but demands some real understanding. Or just not using a framework at all is nice but can burn a lot of time. Everyone should build their own atleast once, but after that let the frameworks to the boring stuff and stick to coding the fun stuff.
I think that given the millions of Kindles sold, the one meager blog page of complaints that dates from '09 is pretty much testament to how good a job Amazon has done with their product and service.

*Disclaimer: I've had 2 broken Kindles (of 5 in the extended family) to date, both replaced without question.
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Just curious. How do you know the relevant person to contact in Google (or for that matter any big company) ?

EDIT - I'm genuinely curious. Other than the sales people etc. I could'nt find any relevant details.
You mean like google came out about bing copying their results? http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...
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He then went on to say

"I am told that this posting was in fact made in a personal capacity and as such any suggestion on my part that it represents an official position of the OSMF board is incorrect and should be disregarded."

Drama ahoy.
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I actually worked on the St Genis side and ate at resto 3 a lot...I agree it's bad, but it's still much, much better than the DESY canteen. There are no words...when I lived in Hamburg, I used to eat PausenBrot from the vending machines rather than visit the canteen. And CERN's resto 2 in the summer is lovely, I think! I always put on weight at CERN.

CERN staff members may not be encouraged to do extra hours, but all students and post-docs (and a lot of faculty!) that I know must work 60+ hours a week. (Do you know anyone in physics that works 35-40 hours a week?) Partly because they like the job and partly because the competition is so fierce. At DESY, we worked 10am-10pm most days and people were on their computers at home. You're right that your compensation does not depend upon hours worked, but a lot of the time your reputation and the number of publications do - without reputation and publications, you don't get your next grant.
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You're making the assumption that the president is against this legislation aren't you?
I've managed to contact a few different organizations in a few different ways.

I'm no fan of Microsoft (check post history), but when I found that a large volume of 419 spam was coming through Hotmail some years back, I looked up their main switchboard number, called, spoke briefly to the receptionist asking for the VP of the related unit (I'd looked up his name). She transferred me to him. He picked up on the first ring. I explained the situation briefly, we spoke for a few minutes, at the end of which he said he'd put me in touch with the guy who could fix things. Fifteen minutes later I was talking with him, and we exchanged information over the next few months as I helped him plug his holes. I am still highly impressed by the professionalism demonstrated at all levels. I'd also worked with Microsoft to resolve a GPL compliance issue (again, directly contacting the appropriate VP) again with minimal fuss.

A southeastern US university IT contractor who's private business was spamming me (and he was denying it) ended up with a series of emails escalating up the academic food chain, ultimately to the university president (.edu websites are, or at least were, wonderfully information rich). I eventually got the response I had hoped I'd get on first contact.

Another issue involving AOL at which numerous attempts to contact them failed. I ended up somewhat crashing (well, I did wrangle a late invite for a brief presentation) at which I presented data, including some which indicated AOL's little problem. Their chief postmaster was present. We talked a bit.

More recently, Yahoo have had issues in severely restricting mail delivery rates to Yahoo's MXs, even for long-existing, SPF/DKIM compliant MTAs. I'd gone endless rounds with their helpdesk and had repeatedly emailed (with no response) their CTO. So I sent a group email to a roster of their top (C-level and senior VP) staff, again with some data indicating issues (pflogsumm delivery stats showing hours of delay) and an introductory text "Gentlemen, you have a problem". That finally got a response in the form of a "Yahoo concierge" who spoke with me a couple of times and sorted the problem (and also promised a review of policies in general, in case anyone else is having issues).

Just a few anecdotes of different ways to get a company's attention. There's no one-size-fits-all approach, so be flexible. I generally try a direct private contact first, but ... well, if that doesn't work, I've got a bag of tricks I can pull out. Public shaming can work, but I'm willing to give the benefit of doubt first.
sigh I like how you conveniently left out what ACTUALLY happened. http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...
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Generally I've had no issues getting meetings, at least with a staffer, of my congressperson.

On a sidenote, does a group that focuses on gov't relations and PR exist that represents what would is largely the consensus HN community interest - i.e. making the case to elected officials and the public what sort of laws would improve prospects for technical innovation. The EFF focuses largely on digital civil rights, but that certainly isn't the only realm where Washington, Sacramento, Albany, etc. affect us.

Thoughts?
That's especially true as the SATs are not very challenging... Anyone with a decent math knowledge can get a 800 on that part. There's no way to discriminate the very good students from the truly exceptional ones.

Also your high school level isn't very representative of your overall intelligence.
What advantages FreeBSD offers over Linux so that for the next installation on EC2 one would consider running it instead of Linux? (question is not rhetorical)
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Provide actual facts for a start. Currently they are just pointing the finger without any kind of explaination as to how they came to their conclusion.
The first post complains about Amazon asking for 50 bucks to replace a Kindle outside the warranty. People will just complain, no matter what you do.
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FWIW, if you disable JavaScript, that test.wikipedia.org page isn't blacked out.
that says they didn't copy results by looking at google directly, but by watching users that use google.
With the number of IE users, the difference is only in how they achieved it, not whether they did it.
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"The board of OSMF are making mountains out of tiny pimples here. It seems that they want this to be some sort of organised corporate malfeasance on the part of Google which is why they have tried to link it to the recent Mocality incident where there was indeed clear evidence of such behaviour.

"The reality in this case is that there is no evidence that this is any different to the numerous other incidents we get all the time where users either accidentally or deliberately make bogus edits. The only difference in this case is that there happen to be two accounts (though we do not know if that is two people) and the user or users involved happen to (presumably) work for Google.

"That is the sum total of what we know, and on the back of that, and without approaching Google at all, two leading board members have decided to reveal personal information about two of our users."
In a case like this, that is a bit tricky. This could be Joe (or Jabul) Random Googler in India on a lark. Or it could be something organized, probably at a small level.

Contacting someone in Google Maps might help -- this would at least be a business unit that has some interest in not generating ill will. Google IO is a conference with lot of Googlers. There's a presentation about Google Maps, and if they aren't the right people to talk to, you could probably ask them who a good contact would be: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/designing-maps...

That'd be my approach.
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Some of those seem to be people who damaged their kindles then got upset that Amazon wouldn't replace them for free? Do they have the same approach if they crash their cars I wonder...
I agree capital investment generates wealth. Unions represent one means of distributing (not re-distribuing) that wealth - ensure that the labour used to transform x into wealth get a larger share of pie so they can for example afford schooling this increasing the speed of wealth creation.

Unions get credit for distributing wealth to the workers faster than owners of capital would do, and for defending individuals against exploration ( and the point isthat without unions (or other organised collective action) each of us is an explotable individual)

As for the bad things, I just ask what I would choose to do in that situation. HN top choice is start up a competing foxconn that treats workers better. But I fully understand the other thought process:

if the other guy has an army and enforces discipline it would be foolish of you if you thought individual spirit and the invisible hand were going to be any damn use

so for my money unions are just the more militant end of a spectrum that has co-operatives and workers collectives
somewhere in the middle and Cadbury on the far end.

All of the spectrum is about how to distribute the new wealth being generated. It does not all have to go to the owners of capital ( frankly I feel the term Capitalism is misnamed. I would prefer unimpededmarketpricesignalling but is suspect it won't catch on:-)

[edit: can't spell on iPhone plus went off on a tangent. But I would be very interested if anyone knows of research on effect on blue collar wages of the massive influx of illegal workers into USA. This is something the UK as an island has little of.
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GPUs today already routinely have 500+ cores and are doing quite well. There are very few real problems with these visions, they're realizing themselves as we speak.

Of course SIMD is not the same as 1K fully independent cores but they're both valid interpretations of parallel computing.

That kind of architecture only lends itself to a certain class of problems but they're a good indication of what can be done to circumvent the interconnect limitations.

A typical GPU hides access to slow resources by doing more computations.
And with good version control practices, there's really no reason not to remove any code you don't _really_ need right now.
I experience the same mental block around people he described. So much that I aggreed for a schedule offset, pretending a better fit for managing a team; in fact as soon as everybody left, my focus and creativity came back in a second, as if my mind was suffocating their presence and now could fill the room.
As an investor you help create something that didn't exist before. Maybe something cool or interesting or important that you think should exist. Maybe something you desire to own as well.

Sometimes the rewards are worth more than the investment, sometimes the personal value of contributing to something worthwhile is enough. People volunteer their time and donate their money to things beyond helping sick children and the poor.
> The game is different in PCs and Microsoft has a different position on lockdown there.

This is because of the anti-trust action against them. Everyone remembers the Navigator part of the case, but there was also the case of them preventing Hitachi from releasing machines with BeOS installed as the default operating system. By the time Be was awarded damages, they had run out of cash and shut down.

So don't think it's because MS perceive the game as different; it's because they lost in the courts. And I would imagine that any of the vendors would do the same if they could, regardless of architecture.
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Back before I was an iPad convert I went through not one, but two, Kindles that had broken screens (they used to be really flimsy if you didn't have a bulletproof case) and Amazon dealt with it perfectly. Amazon never asked any questions and always immediate shipped off a new kindle and return packaging in both cases. I was completely stunned.
Kickstarter's guidelines specifically say

> Offering financial incentives, such as ownership, financial returns (for example, a share of profits), or repayment (loans) is prohibited.

If they ever claimed pledges were "investments", that was dishonest and I think the SEC could actually prosecute them for it.
Mine was replaced as well. Had serious physical screen damage which probably would void the warranty of most products, but they took it anyway. I actually called asking if they had special offers for former users and they offered to replace it. And I had 0 book purchases to my name at that point, all I had were downloads of my own.
Having dealt with the Google interview process and declined to continue: Maybe that is the typical process, but for me the experience was a long series of ridiculous questions that went into details about stuff that it makes no sense for anyone to memorize, and where the interviewer didn't seem to understand when I pointed out issues with the questions. Frankly, if that guy had worked for me, I'd have wanted to "manage him out" (and if I'd taken the position he would have worked for me).

The recruiter agreed with me, FWIW, and got the results thrown out without me even asking, and I got the distinct impression that she and many other recruiters at Google are extremely frustrated at the how the technical interviews are conducted. In the end I couldn't be bothered, as I wasn't particularly interested in the first place and had another offer on the table (took less time from start to finish than it took Google to arrange the first phone screen).

Anyway, my recommendation to anyone that interviews at Google and think the interviews are unreasonable: If you want to continue the process, detail any issues to the interviewer, and give them a chance to fight your corner. Chances are good that they will as long as you give them ammunition. Of course that assumes you actually do know your stuff and isn't just trying to sneak one past them.
Or just use a CSS black curtain.
I've programmed probably only four or five serious projects in my lifetime. I've seen that—as I learn more about software architecture—the quality of my code increases, but my output decreases.

In a certain way I miss the early days when the thrill was just having something work, despite being ugly on the inside. Nowadays I'm constantly refactoring code to make it more elegant, extensible, and maintainable.

I often go back to an interview with Charles Eames, he's talking about Industrial Design, but it applies perfectly to software design:

Is design ephemeral?
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Some needs are ephemeral.
Most designs are ephemeral.

Ought it to tend towards the
ephemeral or towards permanence?
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Those needs and designs that have
a more universal quality will tend toward permanence.

http://blog.gentry.io/eames-design-is-a-method-of-action

I constantly try to keep perspective of my work in terms of who needs to maintain it, how often it needs to be maintained, and its lifetime. When I think about it in these terms, then I can keep on being crappy but productive.
A surprisingly large number of companies have a 'great deal' with the tax man behind closed doors whether in US or elsewhere. Published corporate tax rates are, admittedly anecdotally but from good sources, not representative of what corporations actually pay.

Understandably, a company providing jobs and infrastructure investment in the local area can always strike a deal.
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Yeah, I know the guy who runs the wiki, he's a really cool guy and has been doing this for a while too. The whole wiki is fascinating if you're into that sort of thing and have some spare time.
I'd really rather everyone use the correct status codes (503 indeed being the correct one here) than try figure out what their SEO impact may or may not be. I'm quite sure Google understands HTTP.
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Those are examples of problems that exist within the space of mathematics and number games we created for ourselves. Computers as we have them now are great for those.

However, when interfacing to the real, non-exactly specified, incomplete information world, "good enough most of the time" is not only fine, it is all you can hope for. For example, robots that need to navigate rough terrain, or in living orgamisms at the nano-scale, or communicate in human language.

There is a huge class of things that simply cannot be addressed with the current "correct" model of computation because they are not well-specified to the lowest level in the first place.

Computers, in other words, needs to be more like brains. Yes, this does give up certain advantages, and safety guarantees. But it does not give up everything. People have trusted their life to animals and other humans, for example, for all history, even though they are far from perfectly safe and/or compliant...

(and even now, it is "fallible" humans that control the technology, so you could make a point that nothing is lost, as it was never there in the first place)
I remember early in my career, before I had the chance to really build an application of any major size, I was given the opportunity to look at the source code of an application that I used frequently. I always felt like it was built by geniuses working well beyond my skillset, but once I saw the code, I remember thinking "that's it?" It wasn't the flawless work of art I imaged. It seemed like something I could have probably written myself.

The same thing when I started learning music. First every time I saw some one playing an instrument it looked like work of geniuses. When I started playing myself, I can now realize it is not that great after all.

Well, like they say.

Nothing is as good or as bad as it originally seems.
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JFTR there seem to be some issues with the Phoronix benchmark (mostly missing patches). Have a look at http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/11/29/baremetal-vs-xen-vs... for an updated benchmark within a PVHVM environment