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OK this is how it works on squeeze etc.:

apt-get install ntpdate; /etc/init.d/ntp stop; ntpdate pool.ntp.org; /etc/init.d/ntp start
Anyone else find it odd that the day the facebook email change scandal broke, they announced Sandberg was their first ever female on the board? Really looked like they had a distraction press release in the pipeline for exactly this scenario, and they popped the top as soon as there was backlash.
Of course. Work with any government bureaucracy and you'll notice it pretty quickly. Entire divisions can be filled with good, bright, well-meaning people, yet that division can still churn out crap work product. How is that? An organization's culture and the way incentives are aligned can quickly override any pockets of talented individuals.
This is kind of lacking.
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This might be OT, but that guy sure has some weird ideas about how to build a website.

Why are the images lazy loaded? There are like ten small images per page. It also doesn't revert to img tags in the absence of Javascript.

At one point on the first page he needs to show something with a fixed-width font. This also requires Javascript, when obviously CSS should do.
> Whoever figured it'd be a good idea to INSERT[1] the leap-second instead of just slowing/accelerating time... <censored>

That would be the IERS organisation. There's going to be a vote in 2015 to abolish them entirely.
Funny, I thought the place to be right now would be "boycott Facebook". Where can I go to find that?
I extremely disagree with you, a boycott is the perfect weapon again a big brand like apple. People just tell others about it, and it's just really bad for their image.
"...instead of being nice..." There is the problem. Apple is a business, it doesn't exist for altruistic reasons. Neither does Google, no matter how vehemently they say that they do. As others have pointed out, there doesn't seem to be a boycott on Google for their part in the attempt to gain an import ban of the XBox or their support of the alleged abuse of FRAND patents, both by their newly acquired subsidiary. Apple are playing the same legal game as Google are.
Why is such a trend on Google+ relevant?

As much as I would like to embrace Google+ as a Facebook alternative, Google+ has still a very limited audience – and, of course, a very Android-focus audience …

EDIT: Downvoting my comment just because it isn't enthusiastic on Google+? Comm'on!
High rates of Linux server crashes during a leap second day?
That's what github is doing so nicely with pull-requests: you maintain authorship of your fixes (it's even cryptographically secured,) and the entire process is visible and documented on the project's source home page.
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well this is fitting. lost ~4 hours yesteday trying to compile ffmpeg properly to work with newly enabled codecs and kdenlive - errors on errors on errors - with very little resources to help out. what a mess.
How to win any game on hackerrank
To win any game on hackerrank is very simple,

If you haven't played it, Play it first.

Step 1 : Choose a number "56"

Step 2 : You'll be asked to select/choose a number of candies between 1 and 5

Now, you goal should be, Whatever number you choose - total number of candies should be divisible by 6.

so, since n = 56

you answer = 56-?/6 = valid result.

If the number of candies you choose is 1, Then 56-1/6 = 55/6 => not a valid answer as it should be entirely divisible by 6 without any decimal points.

If no. of candies you choose is 2 then, 56-2/6 = 54/6 = 9 which is what we're looking for.

Forget whatever number computer chooses, Your goal should be always get the final number to be divisible by 6.

Sample challenge here.

challenge 23

Playing a game for N: 23

How many candies do you want to pick?: 5 (23-5/6 = 18/6 = 3)

Your move: '5'. Computer's move: '5'. Remaining candies: '13'

How many candies do you want to pick?: 1 (13-1/6 = 2)

Your move: '1'. Computer's move: '4'. Remaining candies: '8'

How many candies do you want to pick?: 2 (8-6/6 = 1)

Your move: '2'. Computer's move: '1'. Remaining candies: '5'

How many candies do you want to pick?: 5

Congrats! You won the game. Now go ahead and play for more candies. Enjoy :)

Let me know if you already knew this or if i screwed it up...

Screenshot of Another challenge : http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/6531/hackerrank.png
Has anyone data on the price development of Apple SSDs?

Since newer Macs doesn't allow for an SSD change, the initial SSD price is very important. I suspect that the fact that you have to max out your SSD on purchase if you want to use your Mac for a longer time, SSDs in Macs have actually become more expensive.

In the past, you could buy a Mac with a small SSD or even a HDD. After one or two years, you could replace your small SSD or your HDD with an up-to-date SSD and could usually benefit from lower storage prices …
This is a nice feature. But if this is the only thing keeping someone using Chrome over Safari, then fear not: iOS6 is introducing this feature for Safari in the coming Autumn.

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#safari
I genuinely doubt Carmack is the only competent coder at id. Some of the really good ideas in here might be made up by others!
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It's all about your audience. Here are my last 30 day stats for jellibug.com, which appeals to a younger crowd

1. Chrome - 40.49%

2. Safari - 28.66%

3. Firefox - 19.41%

4. Internet Explorer - 7.91%

5. Mozilla Compatible Agent - 1.46%

6. Android Browser - 1.00%

7. RockMelt - 0.40%

8. Opera - 0.33%

9. Opera Mini - 0.13%

10. BlackBerry9630 - 0.07%
Do you realize that most of the serious Amazon outages of the past 2 years have had multi-AZ effects? Either due to the root cause, or control plane, or load.
Protip: Don't track statistics on your blog.

Little controversial, but this is the first time in my life I actively care for a blog I've created. And the reason? I don't care about the statistics.

Previously my main priority was getting traffic. I became obsessed with looking at statistics to see how much traffic I'd gained. I spent far far too much time looking at statistics, when instead, I should have been doing, what I hope I'm doing now. Writing content that I will want to read again.
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I think suggesting that nobody is hurt by ridiculous injunctions like this is a bit disingenuous. Firstly, consumers are denied the chance to purchase a product that exists; it's been made! It's ready to ship! Sure, you might not want one, but it's certainly possible that other people do.

Something else an injuction does is robs a manufacturer of any time-to-market advantage that they may have had releasing the product when they were actually trying to do so. Holding sales back by even a month can mean the missing of critical retail periods throughout the year. I'm not even arguing either way about the validity of the claims behind the injunction here -- if it turns out they are in the wrong, then they should certainly pay damages to Apple based on how much damage that they caused by doing the wrong thing (i.e. profits from sales).

How much the target of an injunction benefits from being allowed to sell their product is concrete and measurable. How much Apple benefit by preventing a competitor from placing a product on the market is, in stark contrast, essentially unknowable and thus difficult to compensate for if Apple turn out to be wrong.
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Thank you guys.. since yestartday night i was working on it.. searched lots of places.. some of servers were going down and some were working great.. never thought this would be the reason.
They expect to sell 20,000 cars (Model S) in 2013:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120509/AUTO0104/2050904...

It could take quite some time until market demand for power outlets will become significant.
If company behaves indecently (like Apple does) it deserves to be boycotted. The fact that it's influential is even a bigger reason to boycott it. Influential crooks are more dangerous.
Or just do both. You can have a main blog and a tumblr account, have a personal blog and do guest posts on other blogs, or even write both kind of posts on the same blog.

A couple years ago, getting RSS subscribers was the holy grail of blogging. But these days, people find your content via Twitter or HN anyways. So there's much less risk of losing your audience because you wrote a personal post that didn't connect with your readers.
I also use Softlayer and have a pair of servers with Adaptec RAID cards. Checking up on them they were not affected.

Having looked in to it, it seems our server admin decided to install OpenNTP to replace the standard NTP daemon. I'm not sure why he did that, but it seems OpenNTP just ignores leap seconds and compensates after the fact just as if your clock had drifted a second out of sync in the usual way.
Which newer Macs do you have in mind?
I didn't know Google+ had trends?
Don't forget Microsoft actually show a browser choice screen when you install windows now. OEMs usually disable that and force a browser on you which doesn't make them good people.

Personally, I'm not sure the term 'socially valuable' applies here as you're giving over your details to a nagware tracking and advertising company at heart. If it was Firefox, I'd agree.

I'm happier to use IE over Chrome as Microsoft have features like tracking protection lists built in and a tough stance on tracking.

I'm happier to use Firefox over both though.
tl;dr

We waited for stuff to come back up. Our relatively simple application required far fewer servers than more complex services with millions of users.

We're awesome!
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FWIW, Blossom does that kind of thing for applications (I'm the author).

https://github.com/fohr/blossom

I'll be giving a talk later this month at Throne of JS in Toronto.
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Yo say it like you hate having an option to have either. I like options.
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They are independent IF you buy them in advance. If you wait till an actual outage then it's too late.
My multi-AZ RDS also failed over without a problem. The site was down for 5 minutes though, perhaps due to ELB problems.
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Most people will visit the page, scroll down a screen or two and leave it since they're not game programmers.

So, just speculating, he's no stranger to bandwidth spikes so perhaps the approach employed significantly saves on bandwidth during these periods, ultimately whether it's a conscious attempt to save or just a webdev quirk I don't know.
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From the Wikipedia article on Leap Seconds:

> Because the Earth's rotation speed varies in response to climatic and geological events, UTC leap seconds are irregularly spaced and unpredictable. Insertion of each UTC leap second is usually decided about six months in advance by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)

I don't see how applications could make unix second <-> day conversions without downloading a map from the IERS, if leap seconds were included.
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What are some ways I can earn online ($200-$300)? Just enough to buy a new PC.
My current specs are:
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I've been using this PC for the past 10 years. The only games I can run are outdated and I've played them tonnes of times. I can now hardly run current games like minecraft (playing for 6 months) and warband. It has become increasingly frustating now.

So, HN please help me buy myself a gaming PC. I'm all for online jobs recommendations but being in a non-US country has made it very difficult. I've tried most of the programs but all of them were unsuccessful. My goal is to get $200-$300.
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Who are some of the best interactive ebook devs that can code my iOS ebook?
I've been getting strung along and shafted by a programmer on Elance for 7 months now and paid out over $2500 for him completing milestones for work. Even still I don't have a finished product and I've been thinking to just call our relationship a loss and start over. I have all the assets completed for a fantastic iOS interactive ebook (with animation pngs and voice & music files) and want to know if anyone has recommendations or success stories with app developers. <Thanks for your help!>
No, there would be continuity breaks at the beginning and end of the window where the smear occurs if purely linear. I think the goal here is a kind of "ease-in-out" transition.
Great post. I think one of the most interesting aspects of this is payments.

Throughout the history of the web most services and content has been free to consumers and support with ad revenue. But on mobile consumers are much more willing to pay and it is almost completely frictionless.

I wonder if in the next few years we will start to see more and more apps using the subscription model. If Facebook was started today as a mobile first business would they charge for the app outright, charge $1 per month, or use in-app purchase to charge for extra features?

NB: I first posted this comment on the blog
If consumers want the device they can simply purchase an Apple device. If Google did indeed violate the patents in question the features the user want are available in Apple's products.

You mention first-mover advantage ... that is exactly what patents are supposed to grant, you invent something cool, you get a patent on it, and then YOU get exclusivity on that invention for X years so you can recoup your costs of R&D.

If company Y owns the patent and company X clones it and sells it for $50 cheaper company Y is now disadvantaged even-though it spent all of the money researching and developing it in the first place. Apparently the Judge agreed that company Y is in the right and that company X should no longer be allowed to sell their widget until the lawsuit is settled.
i was downloading the test with my 33.6k modem. back then, in germany, flatrates where not yet common, so i did not want to fall in the trap and waste alot of money playing online.
i remember that some phone provider was having a "free internet" day (you could dial in for free if you where able to get one of the limited spots) and i was up 5 in the morning before school to play a free round of quake 3 test... good times.
I write a personal blog because I want to get an idea out of my head. It's almost a pathological need to put it to paper or bits, or else it festers inside and distracts me from what I want to do. This post here is here because of that need.

Other ways I deal with this need is carrying physical notebooks and a pen just about everywhere I go. Sometimes I turn them into blog posts. Sometimes I turn them into stories. Right now there are about six game ideas and four business ideas in the notebook next to me, as well as dozens of proto-essays. My blog likewise has almost twice as many "draft" essays than published posts.

This wasn't the norm for me two years ago. If you were to give me a page and a pen then, it would be blank for months. I made a decision to make it easy and effortless to write down ideas and thoughts. That meant carrying around a notebook and pen to many places I went. I also started doing stream-of-thought notes to try and jog my noggin when I was first starting out.

The takeaway here is to just get started. All my early stuff is garbage now, but it served as a good first wave to get me in the habit of writing.
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Yes, Lua is a prototypal language too.
Well you can't argue with that. But what says you can't build a successful business around the web? Why can't you build a successful business with a desktop application?
It is not broken.

First read Steve Yegge's excellent article on the Universal Design Pattern to understand why prototypes are really useful and natural http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/universal-design-p...

Then try to understand that prototypes are more natural in a dynamic language because they are completely dynamic. Classical inheritance is generally static.

It might help using a language that has less syntactic confusion than Javascript, Lua is the best known, or Self or Io.
To save you the trouble, it's a stream of content free fanboyism and witless photoshoppery. Every single comment would be downvoted to oblivion if it were posted here.
What is Tony Robinson doing on a Question Time panel? Shouldn't he be narrating second rate history programmes?
When the camera pans to the audience, ever so often you see people smile and smirk. Am I the only one to whom this reaction seems strange? Is there something about Tony Robinson you have to know to understand it, or are they simply not taking him seriously?
But arent sites smart enough to redirect to the mobile version even if the requested url is the same?
The slide-to-unlock in Galaxy Nexus is quite different from the one in iOS. I thought patents were given based on a certain implementation of an idea. And yet Apple still won the injunction with that alleged patent infringement.
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Give Opera a try. It has an inbuilt "accessibility layout". Black text on light green background, big font, fixed width.
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You're not going to change a judge's mind by protesting. But you are going to change Apple's nonsense lawsuits if the negative PR keeps building up against them. And that's what these boycotts could achieve if they become large enough.
Having a patent to a feature does not necessarily mean you implemented it in your products. And besides, what if I want the extra features that Galaxy Nexus has?
> If consumers want the device they can simply purchase an Apple device. If Google did indeed violate the patents in question the features the user want are available in Apple's products.

This statement is only true if (features that violate patents) == (all features of the product), which is obviously not the case.
You can (build a successful business with a desktop application).

I think the degree or pace of success will be different for a mobile, desktop or web app. I also think that an app that's on all three will be more likely to succeed than one that's only on one or two of these.

A couple or so years ago Microsoft had this vision of being on every screen or something. I'd never heard anything that made more sense as a vision statement from a tech giant. Then cloud came along, and they dropped that vision for the Azure/Office 365 push. That was a mistake.

[Edit] To be clear, Azure/Office 365 weren't mistakes - they were/are good. Dropping that vision statement was the mistake.
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The injunction was actually based on the unified search box patent only.
Try to win a few projects on https://www.elance.com or other freelance sites. Bid only the minimum price if the project isn't too large (until you get more experience and projects under your belt on the site).

There's also http://fiverr.com, and you can sell almost any type of service you can think about for $5. Check the ones that already exist for inspiration.
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I've had exactly the opposite experience, Samsung denied warranty coverage on a Nexus-S, on the other hand, I've had Apple give me a free upgrade (30 to 60GB) for an iPod classic ~5 years ago, because the lock switch was broken and they changed the keyboard on an out of warranty MacBook about a year ago.

I've bought 3 Apple laptops over the past 4 years because I've had really bad experiences with Dell and HP laptops in the past. From broader perspective, both our experiences are insignificant.
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Well dont buy from Samsung or HTC then, youre acting like Apple, Samsung, and HTC are the only options.

Theres many other companies like Asus or you can even go with Windows Phone which is pretty awesome these days, the main con about WP (it has no apps) that everybody says is pretty much invalid now since it had about 100,000+ apps.
The depressing thing about this is that people will notice that email doesn't work and then use fb messages even more. I mean, how many people are still with one of the major banks, only a few years after their greedy behavior caused so much harm?
I tried fiverr.com but none of my projects gets any buys.

Not sure about freelance though, will it work without any programing experience?
In vlfeat there is a strong focus on the algorithms, since it is mainly developed by a researcher for his own research. This is the reason of the "weird" object-oriented interface.

Keeping the "status" of the algorithm in an object gives the following advantages:

- The interface encourages cleaner code: computer vision algorithms often come with many parameters. One has to use his own data structure, or many variables or constants to keep them in memory, and then call a function with a very long signature. This produces not so clean code, and the long signature could lead to mistakes in the parameter values. Using an object with get/set functions make easier to define in an iterative manner the parameters and call the function in a clean an less error-prone way.

- Many computer vision algorithms are iterative. For this kind of algorithms, having an object representing the status of the algorithms allows to stop/restart/continue it easily. The possibility to check the convergence of certain algorithms is vital in computer vision (SVMs for example).

You are right when you say that implementation details shouldn't interfere with the interfaces. But vlfeat doesn't have a general "extractFeatures" function, it implement different famous algorithms. So it makes sense to assume that if one uses SIFT, have a basic knowledge of how it works and prefers to exploit it at its best (in the documentation you can find basic information of any algorithm anyway).

So I think the two library are different, libccv focus on those developers that want to use computer vision algorithms without a deep knowledge of them, while vlfeat requires the developer to have a proper computer vision knowledge, but gives more power to him.
It did reach Reddit's front page...It's currently on 7th place.
I use a similar process to this in my infrastructure - I use Puppet to configure instances, then a Fabric command to create new AMIs based on these Puppet configurations.

This gives the best of both worlds - version controlled configuration files, and an automated process for making new AMIs. Instances also boot quickly, as nearly all of the configuration is baked-in to the image.

Using EC2 tags gives you even more room for automation here.
Don't know in the US, but in Germany it is a criminal act afaik (ianal). Looking forward to the EU investigation into this. Maybe Facebook soon joins Microsoft in having to pay a billion euro fine?
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