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My wife and I were accosted and robbed at knife point in Italy because, as the mugger put it, we were American and deserved it. The cops thought it was funny. A friend of mine was arrested in Egypt back in 2009. He spent a year in prison simply because he was overheard casually mentioned to his associate that he was a Christian. I have a coworker who told me about how his laptop was confiscated on his way through the LAX airport because he used PGP encryption for his hard drive and was a foreign national working for an overseas UAV manufacturer. The list goes on and on.
this article highlights a need I've experienced too: something to replace craigslist. That something is not AirBnB - short-term and long-term rentals are very different.

It's just not the rentals market either, every part of CL is horrible these days.
The comments found in that post you linked to is indeed a "breath of fresh air" to read through in the sense that differentiating opinions can still hold respect one for another.

Thanks for sharing this. I found it very encouraging.
Yeah, I'll admit that the old BBOS is a piece of shit. I have my Bold 9900, I love it and use it everyday, but I definitely do want what Android/iPhone/WP7 can offer.

What do you think it would take for you to try a BlackBerry again? What about your friends?
The real story here is the U.S. law — I'm a citizen and I must say, this is shameful. This read like a really bad Onion article.
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This is exactly what happens to people who come out fresh out of school. Something like $60K - $70K in the bay area looks like a mind boggling sum (when in reality most people who come out of top schools make $80K - $1XX K) compared to salaries in the mid west and they fall for it hook, line and sinker. I think the whole "don't disclose salary" culture harms the candidate and ultimately the company when one fine day their engineer realizes that he is getting paid much less than market wages and quits.
"I'm looking for $105k but your company is so awesome that I might just be willing to give up a bit in exchange for $AWESOME_PERK."
Good luck negotiating that unless you are in high demand. Also I don't quite follow your argument. The only disadvantage of disclosing salary could be the fact that the candidate is aware of how high they ca go in a negotiation. But if the job is well priced, that should not matter.
I personally like to know the range because I do not want to waste my time with low ballers or waste the hiring manager's time by expecting something that they cannot match.
first of all he was the one who made the judgment, I simply evaluated his judgment

secondly why do you keep saying that acting based on previously established patterns in one's life is a mistake?

how do you know I'm not a nobel prize winning sociologist, and that you are the one making the mistake
BBOS is a POS. I have a Bold 9900, love it, but only due to the hardware/form factor. The software is still shit.

But what about BB10/PlayBook? Have you used those? I think they're leaps and bounds better.
> There is no technological reason to fear the rail shipment of nuclear waste. It is not difficult to engineer enclosures that will withstand the most energetic possible train wreck.

Actually, it is difficult and there is considerable dissent over whether the currently used technology is safe enough or as safe as advertised. [1][2]

> And obviously they are well shielded for radiation.

They are shielded, but how well is another that is up for debate. I'm kind of hardlining it saying that any radiation is a problem - the containers are certainly not 100% shielded. Not finding any amount of radiation acceptable is where I seem to be losing most of the people who understand themselves to be pragmatic supporters of nuclear energy in this discussion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage
[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_(Kerntechnik)#Kritik_an_...
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The idea that Iran is a real threat to the United States and its allies is an Oceania-esque farce. Our country is in an economic war with China, being fought via proxy economic and media battles with Iran and its allies. This law is disgraceful.
LOL, fair enough. But based on what I've been seeing, they're not exactly lying down wounded, they're trying to get back up and fight.

But like I said, I may have drank too much of the Kool-Aid.
As has been discussed here before, the individual developers might not be bad people, this seems to be more of a management issue.

You can see developers replying on the nvidia forums regarding bugs, asking for bug reports etc.[1]. So you will probably be alright if you work there. If you go into management however... (gives you the evil eye) ;)

[1]: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=6ee372b9c78...
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There are quite a few of those scammy online auction sites that do "Unique bid auctions" -- same concept, just not restricted to prime numbers.

Since there is (possibly) a bit of skill involved, it makes it interesting from a legal perspective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_bid_auction
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There are mountains of evidence that BMI correlates positively with the incidence of lower back pain. I have no history of LBP outside of the context of using a standing desk. Further, most of the purported benefit standing desks is to prolong lifespan, and there's even stronger evidence that low-BMI people live longer, so the suggestion that I should gain weight and sacrifice a clinically validated approach to living longer in favor of something as novel as a standing desk is just absurd.
Do a large majority of people hate PHP solely because other people do so?
Sure, so they'll only ask for documents from people who aren't American citizens, and they'll identify them by...
He may be impressive, but he also sounds like an entitled baby boomer who thinks he should get more and more tuition dollars from young people in the name of "academic freedom."

Source?

Sounds like his entire complaint is about the BOV. I don't see anything in the letter that would give you a different impression about the professor's complaint.
I'll state up front that I have no familiarity with Csmith or compilers.

You can characterize a random test as a random walk through a many-dimensional space, right? And the problem is that a random walk will naturally spend more time close to the starting point? What if, when choosing the next step to take, you bias the options towards moving away from the initial state? Is it even possible to talk about 'away' and 'towards' in the state space?

Going back to the queue example, this would mean that if the starting load of the queue is 5, whenever the load is above 5, bias the distribution of enqueues/dequeues towards enqueueing.
You kind of miss the point. This is a philosophical argument ILLUSTRATED through OpenGL and a port. To quote, "thou shalt not break working code"
Sounds pretty uncomfortable to me.
I'm flattered! (Ditto to Thomas.)

I do lurk here a lot.
I've been using a diy standing desk for almost a year, and was in a cube that I repositioned to standing height for nearly 12 months before that. I don't think I'll ever go back.

I've posted this here before, but in case newcomers are interested in details for an inexpensive diy stand up desk: http://imperialwicket.com/diy-adjustable-stand-up-desk-for-u...
This segment was way too short, I was so sad to hear it end when I heard it in the car earlier today. There was so much more to say!
The expensive iPad is closed. The cheaper one is also closed.
> radioactive waste in general being hard to top in terms of pollution

What? It's extremely easy to top radioactive waste. Every single pollution tops radioactive waste since radioactive waste sits in a storage cask, and the other types of pollution go in the air I breathe. Your position makes no sense.

> I just happen to think waste from nuclear fuel is easier to "not produce" right now.

So instead you want more fly ash? Picking "don't make electricity" is not an option.

> what to do with it once it's there

Don't do anything with it, just leave it there. When technology improves, use it for fuel.

> I find any radiation exposure leading to death by lung cancer horrifying.

And I guess coal dust doesn't bother you? Or ozone leading to lung cancer? Or particulate matter (PM2.5)? It has to be radiation I guess.

> It is inherently a better idea to not use fuel in the first place ... you have to keep digging it up to keep it going ... crucial difference between renewable and fossil sources of energy

Not exactly. Renewable fuels are not actually renewable since you need to build the machine to get that energy, and that building material is not free. Nor is the land area free - I prefer to use land for other things, not cover the earth in energy harvesting machines.

You need to include everything when looking at an energy source, not just the "fuel".

> No matter how "little" fuel you need: on the long scale, it will fail with 100% certainty, eventually.

I think an energy source that will last more than 1000 years is good enough. And consider that we use barely 5% of the energy in uranium, and using that measure we have enough for more than 1000 years.

Use all the energy in uranium and it'll last 20,000 years. Then we can start using thorium, and we have even more of that than we do uranium. By that time we can start mining asteroids.

> how widely used this technology already is

Maybe I missed something but what technology are you talking about?
Norway generates 99 percent of its power through hydroelectricity. Its power is free in that there's no CO2 involved and no fossil fuels. Of course its not free; there's more to electricity than just generating it, but the prices seem cheap enough that the per capital consumption is three times that of other European states.

Norway happens to be a large producer of solar panels, too, so this example is pretty spot on.
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Except for the fact that she is a US citizen.
I just got my GeekDesk after a long and varied string of various sit/stand combinations. I opted for the small, frame only, and bought my own "butchers block" solid mape top - 48" x 25" x 1.5".

This coupled with an ergotron LX monitor mount and a humanscale keyboard tray is beyond fantastic. I can adjust everything, and I love it.
No. In fact, it's not much more than a cut and paste job.
It's funny, I gave my GF a Google Galaxy Nexus to use for the last week, to replace her crappy Bold 9700. Within 2 days, she switched back to her BlackBerry.

Me: "Sweety, why'd you switch back? The Android's a much better phone!"
Her: "BBM. And other stuff."
Me: "What do you mean?"
Her: "The phone is good for games and Internet surfing, but I found it really confusing. I couldn't get to my e-mails easily. And I really wanted BBM again."

Now, it could just be her stubbornness in not attempting to learn a new UI. Android isn't necessarily worse or better, just different. However, I think if RIM can deliver games + Internet with BB10 (which they can, just look at the benchmarks and the PlayBook) alongside seamless BBM and messaging, they've got a winner.

Whether it's a winner in North America is a different story. But internationally, where BlackBerry is strong, you'll see a lot of people upgrading.
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Thank you for the tip. I will explore their offerings. Have you had any problem with installing anything that you may need?
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I have wondered this as well.

During my recent job search I did not respond to any job postings that did not include tangible representations of what the compensation would be.

Two reasons:

1. Taking the time to respond to an ad, wait for a response, follow up to the response with an inquiry about the position's compensation, only to find out what is being offered doesn't fit with my needs, is a wholly ineffective use of both parties' time.

2. Witholding this information signals to me that the employer is unable to stand on its own in the open employment market and/or is attempting to establish a position of power from the get-go.

Some people love hunting and haggling - I do not. I find it no more desirable to answer a job ad without compensation listed than I would a used car ad that tells you to call or show up in person to find out how much the car costs. (But it's an awesome car, honest!)

I only sent out a fraction of the applications I could have if I considered every job, but the process was much less stressful and more productive than it would have been otherwise.
It matters when you start the clock.

At the beginning of the design stage? When the first prefab wall panel starts being built at their factory? When you break ground?
BMI is a misleading indicator in this case. It doesn't differentiate by body composition at all (e.g. fat vs muscle).

I doubt very much that adding muscle to an underweight person would decrease that person's life expectancy. Probably it would improve it (the health benefits of exercise are well known). Either way, it would improve his quality of life.
These are problems that can be solved in an afternoon, and then never repeated ever again.

You need to be using automation.

We have something like 16-17 servers, of which 4-5 are actually production servers. Every single one of them was provisioned, configured, and are pushed to via my code.

Everything from haproxy, to the frontend web servers, to the backend web servers, to the frontend assets, the CDN, the image server, the backups, our staging cluster, experimental cluster, databases...all of it is automated.

Do it once, do it right, do it in code, never do it manually again.

The idempotence is just so you can repeat the same job over and over if it fails halfway between without causing any breakage.
If your architectures are completely different, you're going to have to break some fucking code. That's just the way it is.
If the Skyscraper Index is predictive this is not a good sign for China's economic growth. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index
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It's enough work just to find people to use your product. Why waste any effort checking out competitors? They'll find you if they're significant.

One tip though: use http://usertesting.com to do head-to-head comparisons between your product and the competitors'. It's eye-opening, and money well spent.
What are the practicalities immigration/visa wise of taking a business to Israel as a non-citizen?
The user must know about overflows and act accordingly. Compiler behavior may naturally change based on optimisations since it is undefined territory.
Yep. Reminds me of how they proudly built a much faster bullet train. Did they really think the Japanese and French were holding back on speed because they were bad engineers?
And there goes my free time.
Hi Peter, we all have European passports, so we can head there for 3 months as a holiday without the need for a Visa.
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I bet people would have less of a problem with it if had been called "OpenGL SE" instead.
Ahh, for some reason I misinterpreted it as being where you'd chosen to make a more permanent base. Bouncing around countries sounds exhausting, though probably fun for the right group :-)
So much good stuff here. I was sad I wasn't able to go last week but the content, as always, is great.
It sure as hell was. Just way too early. Look at Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo and Veoh for some recent examples.

It was also a success for its shareholders, with a perfectly timed sale just as the dotcom bubble reached its final crescendo.

Not a good idea for Yahoo! though - but then again - you win some, you lose some.
This kind of coinage is a rather large rabbit hole! Once upon a time in 1963, someone asked: what happens if you take the Fourier transform of a Fourier transform? Well, a Fourier transform gives you a spectrum, so let's call a Fourier transform of that, a new concept called a cepstrum. So what are its bins, analogous to frequency bins? Let's call them quefrency bins, and the cepstrum is therefore a quefrency cepstrum. What's the operation when you modify quefrencies in the cepstrum in some manner other than uniformly, analogous to how one might run a frequency spectrum through a frequency-domain filter? Why, liftering, of course.
It's not very convincing.

For instance:

"What it really means is that radiation emissions to the environment from an operating nuclear power plant actually are lower than the radioactivity emitted from a coal plant through fly ash residues. That’s because the reactor vessel, fuel rods, and any radioactive waste on site are well shielded, whereas fly ash, with small amounts of deadly radioactive substances, simply is emitted into the environment."

The author appears to be saying, well, if you ran an un-shielded nuclear reactor and threw all the pollution in the air on purpose instead of containing it, then coal ash emits less radiation into the atmosphere. Well, okay, fair enough, but in practice we don't purposely take nuclear waste and fertilize our crops with it, and I don't think anyone's arguing for that.
I think hermanhermitage meant that backwards compatibility makes development painful for the library developer.
Even the VA Beach and Norfolk area is significantly different than the average southern stereotype. It has a medley of cultures, mostly due to the massive military presence there.

That said, I'm surprised the comments are so cordial. I agree with the analysis that the fact that it's mostly UVa alums/students and interested parties commenting contributes to the higher level of discourse.
It works for == -1, but not for < 0, which is a common way to check for error returns from UNIX calls.

Any decent compiler should warn that such a check is always false, but people don't always pay attention to that stuff....
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Don't miss seeing the animation toward the end of the video.
What would you add to this list? I only have a few days to get the right combination, find the right person.
Why is it implausible? Standing still requires muscle. There is some minimum standard of fitness required to stand for a fairly long time.

Being thin or having a normal BMI doesn't mean you're fit. It's just a useful statistical measure to find out the general fitness of a population. Youth won't help you either.
> Two women have accused Assange of rape. They have a fundamental right under law to due process. Assange is attempting to deny them this due process by evading the Swedish courts.

Where did this come from? Due process is a right of the accused. I've never heard of accusers having due process rights. After all, anyone can accuse anyone of anything. And prosecutors can just roll their eyes at them, if they want.

Just to be clear: I'm not saying that the accusations against JA are worth an eye-roll; I'm only questioning your assertion about due-process rights for accusers.

Also, I'm generally familiar with U.S. law, less so with English law, and very much less so with Swedish.
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From what I understand it's impossible to immigrate there and gain citizenship unless you're Jewish.
I'd understand if they were demolishing decrepit buildings and building new and better buildings. That doesn't seem the case.

It's plausible that none of what we have learnt so far applies very well to extremely large populations. I still find it strange and super inefficient.
Well if that's the case then more power (pun accidental) to them.

But can't they build a power grid and ship the electricity directly to someone instead of bundling it in the form of a solar cell?
When I visit a random website and they already know who I am, just call me Ted Kaczynski. I'll be in my cabin in the woods.
From past experience I know HN folks don't like to discuss the Palestinian Israeli issue but I wonder how you feel about the growing public discomfort with the Israeli states actions. Do you think it may cast a negative light on your start up? Particularly with respect to a growing call to boycott Israel as was sone in South Africa, regardless of whether you agree with such calls or not.
I have read this article just yesterday: http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/lowest-morta...

This is basically a reference point to support the opinion that was stated here: BMI is not the only thing that matters.

Take a look at the two numbers circled in red. The one on the left is the lowest-mortality BMI not adjusting for fat mass or fat-free mass: a reasonably high 27.4. The one on the right is the lowest-mortality BMI adjusting for fat mass and fat-free mass: a much lower 21.6.

I know this may sound confusing, but due to possible statistical distortions this does not mean that you should try to bring your BMI to 21.6 if you want to reduce your risk of dying. What this means is that fat mass and fat-free mass matter.
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I've been thinking about buying one. Are there any major downsides / regrets / things you didn't realize but wish you had?

My only major concern is whether my Humanscale keyboard tray can fit underneath—it's about 21.5" long and 5.5" wide.
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But Farsi is spoken by millions of people who are not from Iran, many of whom are United States citizens.

So no, it wouldn't make any sense. None.
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Great to hear that people who have actually succeeded aren't all delusional (I kid!).

I don't suppose you are trying again, and if you are, what kind of things do you think improve one's odds at success (which is quite different from the 7 habits of successful people stuff). I'm talking about increasing chances by an order of magnitude from 0.000001% to 0.001% (99.99% chance of failure still guaranteed).

I have a general feeling that you should time your entry and exit in founding a company correctly (for example now for the current bubble) - or survive long enough for that to no longer be an issue (in about 5 years to catch the next cycle - the latter is probably more common - pivots and all). You also need to work hard, but you must work hard on problems that are solvable and valuable (at least in the long term). For example working on VR devices right now is not a good idea, but give it 3-4 years, and we're talking.

I get the feeling that TIMING is by far the most important asset a founder has. Or I'm wrong (which is my default assumption).
The article showed the opposite. That there was no need to break existing code.
Not as of yet!
given the relative cost of a keyboard and an extra pair of monitors over the electric adjusting desk - does anyone just have a doubleheaded dual height system ?
so cool. started learning german :)
Just at the end of March. https://tv.slashdot.org/
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Ah can understand that, I think travelling the world is very powerful for us in many aspects. The most important one though being that we can discover which culture, country we feel most comfortable in, as opposed to where I'm born in, kind of related to this article: http://sivers.org/singapore
This article could have done with dropping the 'Why' from the title; it was more an exposition of a belief (and an observation from the field of psychology), than an explanation of the root cause of this overestimation.

Which, incidentally, everyone is susceptible to. It just makes people bitter when millions of dollars change hands because of it.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Unfortunately, failure is there too.
hmm, that's interesting, I believe we aren't bothered by the conflict at all, I don't believe it's something we will have to deal with.
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