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The WP is reporting that removing him from the theatre does not preclude him from facing trial in afghanistan. But I also am not an expert the UCMJ.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/american-so...
Given the wonders of government efficiency, I'm sure they lose money on each one, while some private, well-lobbied company enjoys the juice. That's the worst part.
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It's only stupid if you aren't the one selling the solution ;-)
Not a great policy, but the article goes on to do a good job demonstrating how harmful the software patents have become.
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We have QA that does testing
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I'd like to see this method used against a cloud that discloses server numbers to see if it holds up. Seems like a lot of assumptions are being made.
I wanted to pipe in to say the same thing. For the longest time, I thought my Late 2008 15" MBP couldn't handle 8GB (chipset issue, I though). I figured 6GB was the largest, and I just stayed with the 4GB as it came from the factory. Then one day late last year, I realized that a) the Late 2008 15" MBP can take 8GB and b) 8GB of RAM was now VERY affordable.

It made a huge difference. No more constant thrashing of the HDD as it tries to manage a large swap file.
So all a terrorist organization needs to do is have some of its members who have yet to commit any crimes sign up for this program. There is no way the screening is 100% perfect - there will be some false negatives, and they can be exploited.

This type of program is par for the course for the TSA: introducing yet another layer of theatrics for no meaningful security benefit. The US civil air system is still no safer than it was in 2001, and that's a crying shame.
Right Peter, both good resources. I wasn't aware of badassjs before, will keep that one in mind for next time for sure.
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It's amazing how many of my friends dismisses the retina display, saying either it's not important or it's just a marketing hype. I guess it's really hard to put into words how good those displays are, it's really something they'd have to see.
Every time I hear concern that advertisers will suddenly throw all their money at Facebook instead of Google, I am reminded of my experiments at Facebook advertising and the 0.00[...]001% click-through rate I achieved after a few dozen attempts.

This notion is laughable. The notion that Facebook will look into the minds of my friends and determine the answers I am searching for is also laughable.

The fact is that the only ads I have ever (deliberately) clicked on IN MY LIFE are ads on Google, because they were the only ads that were 1) relevant and 2) timely. Facebook is nowhere near getting #1 and hasn't a chance in hell of getting #2.
My comment was in response to "avoid all the hoop jumping other distributions make you do in order to keep their package managers happy, while still giving you all the benefits". Personally, I believe those hoops to be a myth.
Sadly, I think this is an increasingly recent phenomenon (get off my lawn). It's kind of funny given the style and length of HN favorites like pg and Steve Yegge.
Yet another mistake Dish made - IMO, every iteration of Nagravision is end-to-end pretty poorly implemented.

At any rate, I was speaking more to the practical aspects than the technical ones. In the eyes of a DRM writer, a game needs to be protected for at least a few weeks (launch purchase window), and once it's cracked once, it's pretty much the end - the game is in the wild, and the damage is done, because what's being pirated is the game itself.

On the flip side, what satellite providers are protecting isn't really the content - it's the ability to display the content in at a certain point of presence as a stream. Public exhibition (bars, clubs) and live PPV fights are the big game for satellite encryption, not Joe Public (or Joe Pirate) watching his shows. They'll be available to pirates immediately after they're aired through other means (stations, screeners, stripping HDCP off of HDMI) anyway.

That's why I think the satellite game is easier - not technically, but practically. As a satellite TV provider, even if your DRM can be removed post facto, the benefit to the pirate is greatly diminished (and the downside to you, as well).
Well, the thing is that it complained about only one particular file which I didn't care and knew it was safe to --force on it. So, basically, you type:

foo -abc

And it tells you, "Can't alter file bar.conf".

After a google search you read, "bar.conf needs the --force switch to be altered".

So you're like, fine..

foo -abc --force

* Everything crash *

Next reboot,

"Press <enter> to get in the shell"

Me pressing enter.. and even the keyboard isn't working.

That's what happened.
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We have a caching plugin (which performs well under normal conditions). The problem is the server (or lack thereof).

We're moving over to WP Engine tonight.
Cheap VPS from prgrmr.com is a good start.
So how can I sign up?
"please consider dropping us a note"

People in the startupsphere (who in many cases have been doing things since, what, 2007?) fail to understand the amount of capable accomplished people there are that have never read HN or know who Arrington or Wilson or Graham are. In their mind these people simply aren't cut from the right bolt of cloth to work at a startup. I mean they don't know what the word pivot means and god knows they might actually waste time doing sysadmin work themselves on a server. And wow it actually took them like 10 or 20 years to learn what some young hotshot learned in 1 year.

I happened to mention sometime over the last year to my "go to" guy (who happens to run a security team of 17 at some major consulting company and who flys around the world on assignments so, um, I guess he knows what he is doing which is why I rely on him) anyway I told him he might find HN interesting to read. He took a look and said he had been reading PG's essays "for years" but never knew about YC or HN.
"Right now, we're dealing only with conflicts within a given field, but we could open Pandora's box and talk about the fact that λ is an anonymous function in computer science, but a constant that (partially) defines the stationary point for a given optimization problem."

And it also represent a null character in linguistics, empty set in some set mathematics, null-pointer in some computer science texts, etc.
"... The odds of beating 3 separate casinos, over a reasonable number of hands, even against a very low house edge, are quite small. ..."

what about the MIT Blackjack team? (I assume you're refering to Blackjack) ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXR5sKR3f-E&feature=rela...
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The description of his odds system did not make a lot of sense to me; especially in light of the statement that he does not count cards. Can anyone elaborate?

"Many casinos sell laminated charts in their guest shops that reveal the optimal strategy for any situation the game presents. But these odds are calculated by simulating millions of hands, and as Johnson says, “I will never see 400 million hands.”

More useful, for his purposes, is running a smaller number of hands and paying attention to variation. The way averages work, the larger the sample, the narrower the range of variation. A session of, say, 600 hands will display wider swings, with steeper winning and losing streaks, than the standard casino charts."
I very much doubt it's thorough at all and I wouldn't be surprised if that was mostly profit, ignoring government inefficiencies.

I signed up for Global Entry (the "backdoor" for this program, presumably with similar paperwork) sometime in early summer last year before this domestic flight security thing was available. My interview was a joke. I don't think they verified anything I put down in my application. The CBP officer just briefly glanced at my drivers license and papers and spent more time asking me if I wrote Angry Birds ("what is your job?" "I write iPhone apps...") while looking me up and down (it was a hot day, maybe a bad day to wear a low-cut summer dress). I walked out of there in 5 minutes with my angry birds/cleavage supported approval.

I fly domestic dozens of times a year and I consider this program to be utter bullshit on the part of TSA. I'm not really providing any more information than they can already discover by information they require you to enter for purchasing a flight. I'm exchanging a false sense of security at a cost I find stupid (even though my Global Entry app fee was free). I really don't know why people can't rise up and try to get rid of TSA security theater instead of being all excited that this kind of program exists.
For some reason, I expected the number to be much, much higher.

3 or 4 years ago, a Rackspace sells rep told us that they managed over 500K servers. Never knew how true it was, never really doubted it.
I believe Joshua Schachter started as a quant at Morgan Stanley.
They were counters. I meant the odds of beating 3 casinos without counting, which is that the article was claiming.
I install iceweasel from http://mozilla.debian.net/. As part of the dependencies for this iceweasel, the patched fontconfig comes through with the nicer font smoothing.
Great! Just impersonate one of these people and bring whatever you want onboard!

Is there's still a huge hole between security and boarding - you can go through security on one ticket (which could be totally fake) and fly out on another, which could be used to get around the "code on the boarding pass" protection...
Why would they do that? Precheck flyers have to go through a metal detector, which is actually harder to smuggle stuff through.
IIRC most SV VCs also have offices in India, China, and/or Israel.
Yes. If I need to find a module for a node project, NPM is the best place to find it. Many languages/frameworks have a centralized repository to find modules/plugins/extensions.

NPM's search isn't perfect (I don't think you'll find anyone who would argue that it is). The fact that it's all AJAX and isn't well indexed makes it even worse for the people who are google'ing a project. In a perfect world you'd be able to find projects easily however you want to. We live in a flawed world, and NPM's search does a good-enough job of helping you find a module, especially if you know it's name. You can complain about it not being how you'd like, but there's a workable, practical system in place now that you can use. I just don't understand the complaint.
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I sat in on an interview for a at that time current SCO Engineer. He told us about his current projects like getting Firefox running on their Unix platform. None of us wanted to work with him even though he had the skills we were looking for.
I can't be the only one who thought this was about Donald Trump before I clicked through...

edit: I am completely serious
> I install the infinality patched freetype stuff from the AUR

I proved my point right there. That's what I've been doing too and maintaining AUR-sourced patched core packages like that has been problematic: every once in a while you'll get a part of Gnome or something else demanding a higher version of freetype (which your patched version doesn't provide) and it either halts your update or forces you to get plain vanilla freetype.

And you haven't addressed the case of packages that don't use system cairo/freetype. BTW the rendering on your screenshot is excellent. Also I feel that this discussion is somewhat misplaced. :)
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hmm the commitment of watching the lectures live at a certain time is a bit of a negative for me
There is almost definitely a mechanism if he goes via the Hague, however given the American Service Members Protection Act, which allows the US to unilaterally invade Holland (no, really) should any US soldiers end up in court there, there is little chance of that.

Although as far as I am aware, the Hague has ultimately very few legal powers anyway unless the US refuses point-blank to investigate or voluntarily hands over the investigation to them.
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I've done this before, friend. Starting from scratch is indeed easier.

The point I was making was that he used unit tests to confirm his design (as a safety net) and not as a primary design tool.
Web components seems bizarre to me. Web developers are moving away from the multiple requests per page model, towards sprites and asset packaging. Web components seem like a step backward, especially given that all of the web frameworks have robust templating solutions.

Am I missing some key need here?
Around the office, when discussing the new iPad, many people have said "but it's just a higher resolution display," to which I replay "exactly, and it's a darn fine $500 display."
You misinterpreted and/or mischaracterized what was said. Paying attention to new software development practices has nothing to do with reading tech news. Additionally, your perspective seems grossly shallow.
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They could have just come and asked here.

You must have already have root but since they mentioned it's a Samsung phone then all you do is find a CWM/Rooted kernel tar and flash via Odin then do the steps below.

adb -d shell

sqlite3 data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

sqlite> update system set value=0 where name='lock_pattern_autolock';
sqlite> .exit

exit

Reboot from there and the lockscreen is bypassed.

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I agree - they state the following:

“You’d never lose the million. If you got to [$500,000 in losses], you would stop and take your 20 percent discount. You’d owe them only $400,000.” ... So when Johnson got far enough ahead in his winning sprees, he reasoned that he might as well keep playing.

I don't quite see how this makes any sense - if you get far ahead in a winning spree, the value of your discounted loss diminishes significantly... doesn't it? For instance, if you won $2 million, the discount is now $100k on a $2.5 million loss, which is only 4% (much smaller than the initial 20% discount of $100k on a $500k loss)
The article is clear on only one point, but it's not an explanation for his winning. That point is that if he loses $500K, he only has to pay $400K of it. I'm pretty sure that if you bet $100K a hand, and stop whenever you hit the first of +$500K or -$500K, and get a $100K rebate if you hit the lower number ... well, the whole plan would seem to have a positive expected value. And perhaps the same would be true even with a bet increment of $10K or less,

Second, it is strongly implied (without details being given) that he has negotiated rules giving him an unusually favorable expected value per hand -- either a very slightly negative one (which would explain why Tropicana is willing to keep playing with him), or perhaps even a positive one that they keep overlooking. The only rule I saw in there that sounds odd to me is "calling the hand" -- is that a recent twist to blackjack or something?
Details abound: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-06/goldman-secret-gree...

Greece wasn't innocent in this, but it's pretty obvious that Goldman took advantage of them.
I'd rather pay and go home to my family or use the time I would've stayed in line working and making money. But I do agree, it's all ridiculous.
It's pretty genius of Apple to dominate the most tangible spec: the display. And not just dominate it, but by all accounts, practically own the world-wide inventory. All of the other devices which continue to try [and fail] to out-RAM/CPU/GPU/battery the iPad just don't get it.

When you are holding the device and just looking at it, maybe trying a few apps - whether at the store, or trying out your friends - the display is the only constant that'll matter and it's the only thing that you can definitively and objectively compare.
Hey everybody! Guess what! John Gruber loves a new Apple product!

(Now let's all take a moment to recover from the shock of hearing this.)
If 'laws' prevent the reasonable trial of a mass-murderer, then there is no reason they shouldn't (and can't) be changed in an instant.
Good read. Netflix works well on my ps3, sgs2 and PC.
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I suspect (but have no evidence for) studios being able to get a lot more money selling the rights to another studio, rather than crowd-sourced single episodes.
In production ;-D

Take the fortune 500 approach. It's not a bug unless customers complain.
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'Protectorate', would probably be the preferred historical euphemism.
There are a lot of sites/apps out there that people want. Yet very few gain enough traction to be sustainable. It's not a meritocracy. It's not enough to just build something people want. The OP has valid concerns...
My biggest problem with the iPad has always been the 4:3 ratio when it comes to watching widescreen movies. It seems a waste to watch a movie on the ipad when most of your screen is black bars (and the zoom to fill is just a slap in the face because it cuts off a lot of video).
> I have never seen any half way decent developer write code for more then a few minutes without some sort of feedback, automated test suite or not

I do this all the time. Two reasons:

1. I can keep in "the flow" for an extended period of time. This is more important if the code is especially complicated. If I have to stop every few minutes to fix trivial errors, it's easy to forget important details of how everything is supposed to work.

2. Not having any feedback forces you reason about the code before writing it. It's very easy to fall into the trap of writing code, then waiting until it is tested to find the errors. Thinking before writing is the fundamental skill that TDD encourages, but you don't need TDD in order to do it.

> only the people out of college write code for multiple hours straight, then debug everything afterwards.

Knuth wrote TeX in a notebook and did not test it for a good six months afterwards, though I am not aware if he was out of college at the time.
Thanks for pointing this out — fixed.
As per footnote #2, the text on the Kindle application is not rendered by iOS and, as a result, the text is not rendered at a retina resolution for free.
I'm a programmer. I'm really enjoying CS 373 (Thrun's robots). I haven't done much Python but I haven't found anything too taxing.

The lectures are deceptively well-designed, with lots of (asynchronous) interaction. Try a course, you'll see what I mean.

The homework is a little more brain-stretching. It usually involves some code reading and intuition that was not served to you on a plate during the lecture. I have found them very valuable.

Often you are filling in some mostly-working code provided by the instructors. My only quibble is liberal use of globals, which violates some of my instincts about how their code works and causes me to spend more time hunting odd bugs than doing the actual content. On the bright side they usually provide some test harnesses so you're not dead in the water.

I've really enjoyed it so far. Signed up for Norvig and another one next time around.
The problem is these articles are low signal to noise.

You get the info on the subjects childhood, house, car, wife/husband, children, upbringing, college, style of dress, appearance, office, eccentricities, pets, etc, etc.

There's a lot of human interest element in these stories.

And of course the are paginated to increase page views for advertising.

Not that there aren't good articles occasionally in the publications you cited, but there is way too much "Sunday paper" in it.
This is as close as I could get.
Yes, if that's the best alternative. In practice no, because there are better alternatives (i.e. being a Wifi hotspot for 20$/day).

If interpreted broadly (any source of financial support), zero salary means I am literally starving to death soon. I'd do a lot of things before letting myself die. But in practice, the opportunity cost of doing your 1 cent job is just too high, even for desperate people.
"design and quality only appeal to a subset of consumers"… so this means what exactly? Microsoft isn't focusing on design and quality? Who doesn't care about these things? How can that possibly be a separating factor?

People have been repeatedly stating that "Apple risks losing its dominance based on its closed system" - and that has never materialized. Yet people still say it. VentureBeat keeps writing it. And if anything - Apple has proven the exact opposite.

Its iPhone division makes more money than all of Microsoft. That very division is based on the premise that people do care about design and quality. How can the author possibly ignore this?

I, for one, am hoping Apple gets a challenge in this space. Competition is good for the consumer and right now it's a one-horse race and Apple is completely crushing the competition by not even trying to compete. Think on that - they just push new products, and everyone else scrambles to try and differentiate themselves… and they fail!

Someday Apple will have competition in this arena. And of all the candidates out there I can see it being Microsoft. The company is quite strong and if Ballmer finally gets the boot - yes I can see a new wave of optimism and effort here. Maybe.

To suggest that it's in the offing right now? With what - a consumer preview of Windows 8 that no one really likes? I don't know how you can put your name to that article.
Does anyone know how and why Gruber became an authoritative voice for Apple community?
Steve Yegge and pg are more on-topic for HN.
It is a waste, but why are you watching movies on an iPad? That's what a tv is for.

When you're surfing the Internet, a vertical 4:3 screen is awesome. The reason I sold my android tablet and bought an iPad was because the 16:9 screen sucked for anything other than movies.
This is annoying, but I think using a 16:9 or 16:10 device as a tablet would make it so you could only comfortably use it one way. Not good news if all you do is watch video on it though.
Paid product companies don't get bought nearly as often, either. In a lot of ways it makes you an unattractive acquisition target.
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Regression testing is when you check that new code doesn't break existing functionality. It's preventative, not reactive.
Do you think that when a person you've been dating for a year says "I love you" and when a random stranger on the street says "I love you," that both are equally suspicious?

Logic. I like to see it on HN. It is missing from this conversation.
I can imagine how the meeting after this posting went: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3673462

Boss: "Gentlemen: The $1B investment in TSA nude body scanners we made is worthless. Suggestions?"

Tom: "We could monetize the old way, call it a fancy name, and pretend we actually do something extra, so that people still feel safe."

Boss: "Good idea, Tom. Get to it."
I think it's probably because he just kept trying so hard. There are other apple blogs, but nobody is quite as fanatical as gruber is. Also, despite the crazy amount of apple stuff he finds to post about, he actually does have a filter for crap - he doesn't bother with most of the more wild rumours or non-news like obscure patents apple filed for 5 years ago.

He's a blatant apple fanboy, but unlike most others he's not a stupid fanboy.