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Awesome! Please note that despite its popularity, ifconfig hasn't been maintained at all for the lady decade and breaks on some networking configurations. No distributions use it - they use e ip command iproute2, which I see you also cover.

Ifconfig is still part of Unix parlance, so I think you're doing the right thing by covering it, however I'd lead with the current tools, and then show ifconfig later, to prevent newcomers from unexpected surprises later on.
Counterpoint: black people.

The federal government subsidizes Chicago's public schools to the tune of $1 billion. You think private charity would be so generous to a district that's 90% black or Hispanic? You're out of your mind if you do. Whites fought, violently, for 100 years, to keep blacks from integrating into society. When the courts desegregated the cities, whites fled to the suburbs to avoid having to integrate, leaving the urban decay that is a major target of welfare today.

The history of race in this country is an unavoidable prong of the welfare debate, and it really undermines high-minded notions of how great a system of charity could be.
Backing up config.txt does not make sense. "sync" alone might be sufficient.
The Brady list includes many incidents of types excluded by the OP's data source, including gang-related violence, incidents that occurred in non-public locations such as private residences, and cases where fewer people were killed.
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The most important thing to consider when starting an app is what the landscape will look like in one or two years, or more. I'd bet on Android over Apple and Windows, but a fork of Android could beat them all.
Armadillo has recently flown the Stig and Stiga rocket quite high with succesful recovery.

Since they have the landing and low speed part pretty much covered, they're now looking at the high speed and altitude problematics.

The Stig lands with a steerable chute.

High speed stability, drag and turning for powered landing are a nasty problem field where testing is hard and expensive. Interplay of aerodynamics in a wide speed range, center of gravity shifts and everything else.

Burt Rutan's SpaceshipOne solved it elegantly with feathering: the descent was safe and easy. The mechanism could be troublesome though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXKQ0v_YPWw
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I think that piracy should be a non-concern at all. The first barrier is getting a product out there that someone, anyone is actually using. With the massive over saturation of the app stores, and the "if it is not on the first page it does not exist" mentality visibility is much bigger problem. If you have the audience from somewhere else you may be able to make them install an app. But otherwise - with the current incarnation of the walled gardens this will be a tough one.
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The other thing is performance. It's almost impossible to get the same performance as the ELB at similar cost.

http://blog.rightscale.com/2010/04/01/benchmarking-load-bala...
Re: the first para, definitely. I still get emails from recruiters (probably left something up on an old CV site I've since forgotten about), and every single one up north involves PHP and MySQL. The more imaginative roles include a bit of jQuery.

I've never received offers for anything else.
I know several people who've picked the AR-15 for home defense and shooting paper targets. It's a very popular rifle.
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I thought Heroku was committed to building out more robust handling after the last AWS issue? Rather disappointed with Heroku's uptime solely based on articles I've seen on HN.

I'm not a customer of Heroku, I've stuck with Rackspace the last 5 years because they are located in San Antonio and I'm in Austin. However, many project I've worked on the last 12 months use Heroku for production.
Agreed, but there has to be some filter. You can't just say, "I don't see the value in crystal healing, I must not understand something here." Sometimes, you do understand enough.
ARM CPU's outsold Intel CPU's in volume well before tablets and smartphones started using them.

If I remember correctly, projected volume of ARM CPU's for this year is in the region of 3 billion units.

The smartphone and tablet market is not even near being the majority of ARM CPU sales. So I don't think ARM will despair over Intel's designs just yet.
I think you missed the point: I agree that using assert() is good for declaring invariants - but it is used only at debugging (as the quoted text says). If you don't turn assert() off at production (NDEBUG) you are in a deeper problem.
The main thing should be that assert() does not replace if() or other conditionals (say for testing successful scanf()), and moreover, assert() should be used in a textbook when teaching debugging - not when teaching the basics of programming (likewise, only a very advanced student-driver is taught how to restart a stalled engine while in 60mph motion on the freeway - not a beginner one).
Or the hatred of other languages and frameworks? JEE (or J2EE as it is called in the article was truly both bloated and difficult to configure before adopting the "convention over configuration" ideal. But it's a very pleasant way to develop applications now.
Normal levels?

Do you mean levels of murder in peer countries where you've decided to not exclude the "innercity slums" that exist there?

This is actually a serious issue - please treat it as such.
All any statistical twst can do is give you a probability. Nothing can be "proven". In any event, the possibilities are not "random" and "not random", e.g. We could be seeing a poisson distribution with a very small copycat effect.

What is pretty clear is that the US has an obscenely high rate of gun violence, which is what we ahould be debating. Several thousand children die each year, and nearly one and a half Sandy Hook's occur each day.
The law of the unintended consequences, very normal for politicians.
As far as I know, this is only the second turbopump fed liquid rocket to land vertically, after DC-X (that became DC-XA).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

This is important, as in practice only turbopump rockets have enough performance for orbital uses. If it can routinely and safely land vertically, then it's very easy to build a reusable first stage out of this.

If everything works out, a reusable Falcon could fly every few days: Ideally you'd just refuel and go again, like an airplane.

In this first generation though I expect a lot of maintenance and handwork by lots of people every flight.

This will require a whole ecosystem too: low maintenance satellites that can be slapped on the rocket and launched at any time. Otherwise very flexible operations too like low overhead range and radar tracking sevices, safety zones etc.

If the rocket can abort and land in case of problems, and demonstrates good safety by flying a lot, then a lot of safety criteria can be relaxed, which should enable better flexibility.
Very well :) After all, the more the merrier :D
If you count higher education, over 50% of California taxes go to education.
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No, but tablets and smartphones are starting to affect the PC market. Desktops are dying, and laptops are stagnating.

For a lot of people, a smartphone or tablet is sufficient to meet their computing needs. Especially with ability to connect a TV and keyboard, and a number of small ARM based "mini PCs" starting to arrive.
It's simple: if you intend to sell the app, build first for iOS. If the app isn't something users will use daily, just use HTML. If neither of those are true, build for Android and iOS with iOS first.
No entrepreneurial economy would exist if there wasn't a government to streamline the organisation of many mundane things such that the entrepreneurs aren't bothered by them. No entrepreneurial economy exists without a police force, a fire department and an influx of capable employees.
Two years is long enough to build for all platforms...
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"There's no table of contents."
Really? Did you look at the top?
There's a high rate of gun ownership and little violence or gun crime in Switzerland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

So if you're sincerely asking what differences other than gun ownership might be preventing violence, that'd be a good place to look. Time Magazine just had a good piece on the cultural differences that lead to a safe gun culture there: http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-...
I recently recycled my old notebook and took out the hard drive before recycling. Just a few days ago, I noticed videos getting added to the automatic camera uploads folder. These were not from my camera and strangely were of women undressing taken secretly outside windows. When I went to dropbox.com, it seemed that these files were added from the notebook I recycled.

I reached out to Dropbox support but got no response yet.
One "master" process that keeps a pool of worker processes created by forking itself.
Sure it doesn't.
The Apache documentation has a nice overview:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html

essentially it forks before a request comes in, the master process pushes requests to an idle "pre-forked" worker process. Works pretty well under Linux with pretty light processes - pretty badly under windows nt where processes are much fatter than threads.

The main process tries to maintain a pool of idle workers so there is no need to wait for a fork before an incomming request is handled.
Ask HN: Are you familiar with Data/Data Processing/Management?
I have a few (private) questions for someone who has experience in the data field, whether it'd be data processing or data management.

Can I email you?

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I think his comment was more along the lines of, "Who will dig the ditches?" I'm sure HN's response is, "Robots, if all goes as planned."
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You are asserting generalities, while your arguments are based on your current government spending money inefficiently. If you would stop arguing in generalities and instead try to address the actual problems you have (which is not the height of the tax!), you may actually achieve something.

As your own numbers show, European governments have succeeded in organising education much more efficiently than your government. This is a counterexample to your general assertion.
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This is my first rails app :).

In a country like india where per capita income is just $1500 getting branded drugs sometimes for the poor or middle class is out of reach.

India is a global hub for generic drug manufacturing. So i made this app to help people find generic and low cost drug based on same composition hoping it will help people find drugs based on same composition by price.
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Thank you. Does the NRA not consider the (effective) ban on machine guns a violation of the second amendment?
via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/libjs-html5-application-fram... [Check out www.functionn.in for more web resources to keep you functionn.in']

Contains a bunch of JavaScript libraries which allows you to develop components separate from project then integrate them into the main one without needing to use JavaScript.

Looks like an interesting project. What does HN think of it?
The SRBs were generally recovered bent or squished. There was actually a machine to bend the stack segments back to round.
Hugely pissed. My SSL site has been down since 10pm EST last night. It's a huge traffic day for us as well. Damn those AWS and Heroku jackasses. No excuse for this nonsense occurring almost regularly. I'm done with Heroku for good. You'd think AWS and Heroku would figure out some kind of way to handle it when AWS-East goes down. But I guess Heroku is too busy overcharging people to care. /rant
There was an SSTO proposal from the 1970's that did involve building a huge splashdown lake. That proposal also used vertical landing, however. (The craft was so large, landing gear would've been prohibitive, so the whole thing just floated.)
One key fact to observe is that crime without guns in the US is also very high. The US has a stabbing+bludgeoning+poison+etc murder rate of 1.8/100k, which is still higher than murder by all methods in most of Europe. I.e., Americans just like to kill people.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

One possible cause is demographics - more than half of our murders are committed by a demographic group making up only 10% of our population, and this subgroup is very uncommon in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_St...
I can't find the article right now, but there was recently a game developer that was crippled by piracy. Essentially the online part of the iOS game was swamped with pirate users, and there wasn't enough funding from real users for the servers to be sustainable or even worthwhile.
Outrageous if true, though I'm inclined to blame Expedia's incompetence rather than intentional misdirection...

A bit of a shame because I've found Expedia to be pretty decent for booking flights (though that's mostly by way of comparison with other sites; most flight booking sites are jaw-droppingly horrible...).
I see Expedia as no different from traditional middle-men (travel agents). If I search a flight+hotel deal on Expedia, I can always get the exact same price by booking directly with the airline and hotel, and without the potential hassles described in the article.

Perhaps it's naive, but I feel safer booking direct, because then if I have any problems, I'm dealing with a first-party and it's harder to be given the three-way runaround.
I actually found the author's comparison to a poisson distribution with a mean of 2 a bit disturbing.

Why should americans expect an average of 2 mass shootings a year? What the heck is wrong with that country that you can expect TWO mass murderings a year?

If you compare the statistics to a poisson distribution with a mean of say, 0 (you know, like most countries, you don't expect ANY mass shootings in a year AT ALL), then you cannot claim randomness any more.

The premise is what bugged me the most - that a mean of 2 is acceptable
The general public is mostly ambivalent towards windows phones because it's just too late for Microsoft to be involved. It's nice that they saw the light and now believe design and usability are important but everyone already thinks of the smart phone world as being owned by iOS and Android.

Microsoft is famous for saying, "developers, developers, developers", but no sensible developer will build for Microsoft when network effects are already so well established. Microsoft would have to build something at least an order of magnitude better than Apple to get the world's attention and they haven't been capable of that for many years now.

Any life left in Microsoft comes from the inertia of people depending on Office. Even their latest OS got little more than a shrug from the world.
Seems a bit surprising given the general need for cooling ... wouldn't colder climes be preferred?
Where can this be changed? Is there a minimum Karma threshold?
It's not a great choice for home defense, however - it's actually quite bad at killing people. A nutjob with a couple of 5.56mm holes can still stab you a bunch of times before he bleeds out.

A shotgun is a far better choice.

Fun fact: the reason the military went with 5.56mm is that killing power is less important for the military (wounding a guy takes him out of the fight, as well as 1-2 of his buddies to take him home), while ammunition weight is a big deal (lighter ammo = less for a soldier to carry).
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Similarly, it's interesting to me that Microsoft users will tout things like hardware in their devices. No iphone user mentions hardware because they don't care.

Is the device and its ecosystem a great experience or not? That's ALL that matters.
The parent comment is introducing a new variable which may or may not be useful in, as you suggest, providing targeted approaches to reducing deaths by firearms.
It still flies in te face of convention which still treats a whole country as a whole country, in the perhaps naive assumption that by averaging the nations stats you will be able to get a good comparison of what the average citizen puts up with an thus providing a ground for comparison with other average citizens in other nation-states, regardless of their level of development, or even, indeed, if they have 'inner city slums'.

And all that is leaving aside the matter of whether the statement is actually true, as questioned by a number of other threads
Mental health services were available and the killer made use of them.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732467720457818...
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One thing I learned on a trip this summer is that Delta will charge an extra fee to change tickets if they were booked through expedia.

I don't know if other airlines do this too but if I'm flying Delta it is a motivator to book directly. Which I'm sure is the point.
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A classic "small business is mad" blog post. It even contains the a quote about how much money they spent on their business, "We put all of our money, time and heart into making it work," as though that's a criterion Expedia uses when deciding how to respond to customer service inquiries.

I'm also surprised that the links broke and Expedia's "IT department" said they'll "never" be fixed. That doesn't really make any sense. I can't help but think that the images are hosted by the hotel itself and that they broke the images. I don't know. The story sounds plausible but unlikely to me and has all the classic "crazy person" literary features. (Some sources to back this up would be good: emails, screenshots, etc.)
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Interesting to know. I personally avoid Delta, United, American, and a few others if at all possible. My main airlines are:

Virgin America

Southwest

Alaska Airlines

In that order with JetBlue mixed in somewhere in there. Helps to have a narrow set if you are racking up air miles and I've had HORRID experiences with the others. I only take them if I have to now
I'm confused as to why so many comments on the story are stuck on the very few lines regarding taxes. The vast majority really leads back to his Mom's abilities to seek out ways to provide for him and then putting him in front of opportunities that eventually helped him become who he is.

If she had not been so active in putting him in the right places at the beginning, his life would have been vastly different.

But I can't place where he advocates higher taxes or the misuse of tax money.
More like: launch to earth orbit (dropping the first and second stages, that land at spaceports for shipping home and refuelling), dock to a larger ship (nuclear?) which carries them to Mars, un-dock in Mars orbit and make a powered descent to the colony there. And then do the whole thing again backwards.
Just to bring this to something technical and marginally less depressing than discussing mass murders on HN on Christmas, 5.56mm got a lot better with the 75gr TAP and 77gr Sierra OTM/mk 262 vs. M193 or M855 ball. My HD long guns are a tricked-out Mossberg 590A1 and an M1A 16" .308 carbine with 180gr ammo, though.

I mean, the military even manages to make 9mm ineffective. LC 115gr 9mm FMJ is maybe 10% as effective as my Speer Gold Dot 124gr +P JHP.
How did you deduce this?
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Correction: It appears I'm wrong and you're right.
I just don't think this is going to happen. Look how late it was before MS considered getting serious in the smartphone game!
Now despite all the praise on WP8 and the Nokia devices (HTC as well), they still seem to be making very little headway. The reason why Samsung have fared so well is because they could focus on hardware (copying bits of the IPhone design initially) while Google's Android team polished the software. I don't believe they have what it takes to make a great mobile OS. This is not their forte.
Same, the API was down but we had no issues with our apps.
The thesis of the War on Drugs is that we can expand police power, persecute minorities with impunity, give hand-outs to well-connected industries (pharma, alcohol, tobacco, prison operators, etc.), and generally terrify the population into submission. There has never been any other goal, all the way back to cocaine first being made illegal a century ago.
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Possibly also the drug war, which is quite connected with violence, race, racism, poverty, urban/suburban/rural migration patterns, public health, human nature, geography, immigration, expansion federal power, military conquest, etc.
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First of all they have a well-deserved reputation for bad customer service.
Google the words “Expedia bad customer service” and see what comes up.

Yes.

Anecdotal I know, but I've used Expedia twice, and will never use them again.

It took a year and an offer to take the case to court before they issued a refund, and the second time they just screwed all the bookings up with no apology or comment upon complaint.