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Dell wants to become a "cloud" company. Get a free computer, pay for the virtual instance.
You can also check Tuts+ free tutorial about ST2. It contains a list of interesting plugins (most of them mentionned in this article) alongside others I find quite useful.

https://tutsplus.com/course/improve-workflow-in-sublime-text...
Plug one into every screen you have. The network is the computer.

Only it didn't end well for those guys...
Node.JS Is Stupid And If You Use It So Are You
Just like with anything else, the execution is what it all comes down to. Distributed teams are easy to mess up and hard to get right. If you're betting a sizeable chunk of money on some company and you are incapable of evaluating whether or not they have a distributed team that functions well then you should probably stay clear of it.

I've seen spectacular results and spectacular failures in distributed teams, it all depended on management, selection and processes in place to keep things moving. Mess up any of those and you won't be able to run a distributed team, but then again you probably won't be able to run a local one either.
The only way fiat currency fails is if the global economy goes so far down the tubes that gold isn't worth anything either, compared to nonperishable food and bullets.

Take a look at a GDP graph of the 75 years prior to fiat currency and then the 75 years afterwards. It goes from a severe jigsaw into much smaller oscillations. This is because fiat currency allows for counter-cyclical monetary policy, which was universally understood to be a good thing until Obama was inaugurated, and will once again be a universally good thing as soon as we have a different president.
It's more like an astonishing piece of propaganda ; )

Meanwhile drones are happily killing lots of people on other continents and that is ok.

Because the state has the monopoly of violence.

And it is slowly trying to disarm its own citizens as to be sure that the day people realize they're governed by an oppressive government they won't be able to do anything about it.

How many deaths in 2012 due to complication related to obesity? How many due to guns? How many due to road accidents?

Find your priorities and pick up the good fights. The ones taking away the only thing preventing a dictatorial government from being impossible to revolt against ain't one of them.
s/weapons//g

hmmm..
thorium reactors would still produce unmanagable high level nuclear waste (tho not as bad, not as much), and would still open up significant weapons proliferation vectors, both material and capacity. As for safety, these designs merely substitute one catastrophic failure mode (meltdown) for another (volatility of the continuous onsite reprocessing)

inarguably, thorium designs offer stepwise improvements to the major disqualifications of catastrophic failure, unmanagable waste production and WMD prolifertaion. But I'm concerned that we should judge the nuclear industry on its present day detriments and hazards, not the promises of future designs.

there's a big thorium mine down the road from me - well, a big rare earths mine, where the dominant product is thorium. They're planning to come and bury all the (enriched) thorium back on site after extracting the lucrative rare earths. I read that as a pretty clear indication of the state of the market. (incidentally, and as far as minesite impacts go, the thorium mine is going to be at least as hazardous as a comparable uranium mine)

When Chernobyl went off, we were told don't worry, it's an outdated design, the new reactors would never do that. When Fukushima went off, we were told don't worry, it's an outdated design, the new reactors would never do that. Who can guess what they'll tell us when Indian Point goes off?

this is an industry that has consistently over-promised and under-delivered. Remember "energy too cheap to meter"?

by their deeds, not their words. let's try to manage the industry by the realities of today, not the promises for tomorrow.
The near future is fission. Fission reactors are compact, dense, cheap, and actually work.
That's... really interesting, actually. Has that argument been heard in any court, do you know?
Is it not? The Linux Mint wikipedia page seems to indicate that it is a fork of Ubuntu.
LOT aircraft are registered in Poland, so they shouldn't have problems with the FAA.
FAA airworthiness directives don't apply to all aircraft, only to those that are US-registered under certain categories.
One of the conditions in the original ban was being able to attach a bayonet. Which just seems ridiculous. So you have an otherwise legal rifle... but holy crap you mounted a knife on it... bad bad bad. WTF?
Did President Obama just order the government to study video game violence?
Ontario Court Rejects US Demand for Full Access to Candaian Megaupload Servers
Maybe, if they can get access to a suitable display, keyboard, mouse.
Looks like a good time to short Boeing.
What PR agency does the poster work for? Their 42-day old account has many many submissions, all for mainstream publications.
SublimeREPL should be on this list. It's an interactive repl inside ST, much like emacs inferior lisp mode, for any language with a repl.
Canada (United States of America) v. Equinix Inc., 2013 ONSC 193 (CanLII)
(1) We need to do something.

(2) This is something.

(3) We should do this.
Yeah. I'd like to see guns categorized into three main functional categories.

General (bolt, rimfire of all types, shotguns, probably lever -- and suppressors)

High rate of fire (semiautomatic, particularly semi with detachable magazine -- semi with 5-10rd integral magazine might be general or general+). Fully automatic or burst might be considered HRF+. (there is honestly not a huge difference in performance in most plausible civilian shooting scenarios between a semiautomatic rifle and a fully automatic rifle. Outside suppression for movement, I've never wanted fully auto, including when the weapon I had was fully auto -- except for fun, or if it was mounted on a vehicle). This should include both imported auto and post-1986 auto. 922(r) should also be removed.

Concealable (centerfire handgun, SBR, SBS, AOW)

Have a licensing scheme for purchase and possession, but not registry of individual weapons within that class. If you have a HRF license you can buy any number of HRF or General or General+ all at the same time without reporting anything other than "HRF or lower" during the purchase. It's unclear how HRF and Concealable interact (maybe revolvers or fixed-small-magazines only if you only have a concealable license).

It's unclear what level of training, background checks, etc. would be needed for each. I'd be inclined to raise the purchase/possession requirements for handguns and HRF weapons to the same as concealed carry permits are today in many states, with an actual course of fire, 1-2 days of training, etc., but there would need to be a requirement that such training be reasonably accessible and straightforward.

It's acceptable to me if it takes 3-6 months and ~$500 to get a license to purchase HRF weapons and concealable weapons, provided basic rimfire weapons, shotguns, and bolt-action rifles are available with essentially an NCIC and <$25 fee on top of sale price.
I've updated the title to indicate that it was written 3 years ago. How have things changed?
I guess, but "one of these" will fit in your pocket.

Why exactly can't you take your laptop on a public bus?
Somehow I doubt handguns and rifles offer much protection against drones. Your thinking is muddled and you seem kind of paranoid.
Fascinating books then earn [publishers] less money.

Apparently fascinating but ultimately tediously unreadable books are the money-spinners but you'll probably need to use a new pseudonym (or be famous outside of writing) to sell copies of more than one book.
DHS: Malicious virus shuttered U.S. power plant
> magic

Sounds as rational as the ancient aliens guy.
So this means you hire people for specific tasks, and when new task comes, you fire them and go looking for new people for the next specific task. seems like a very good strategy...
Modulo SNI, of course.
Again, avoiding the political angle for the most part, is anyone else absolutely astounded that someone as intelligent as The President would say something like "If even one child’s life can be saved, then we need to act."?

Using that logic could lead you could justify almost anything. There are literally thousands of things we could ban that would certainly save at least one child's life.
Here's the calculus from the legislator's perspective: regardless of what you pass, no one will know for years if it worked. In that case you might as well do something dramatic that provides you with a big victory lap and a resume item for your next election.

Gun violence is a complex problem with many variables and to really fix it would require a lot of research and carefully structured legislation. Much of it probably wouldn't work the first time either, so there would have to be some experimentation. That's not appealing to most politicians.
No because you're just teaching them something doesn't work (yet).
Has Ayasdi turned machine learning into a magic bullet?
The article being discussed is one source.
Nice app, and well done for a weekend project!

Try converting this to a menu-bar app (see http://flexibits.com/fantastical). Let's face it - this is more of a utility that needs to get out of the way rather than "app" that sits there and takes up space. :-)

Try having a all-screen notification when the time is up (see app "Timey" in App store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timey/id414792604?mt=12)

Combine these two features and I'll happily pay for this app.
Are there guns that <i>don't</i> look frightening? It really just depends on what side of the gun you happen to be standing.
If you bring Sublime into a unix environment, please make it add line endings. This is what vim and emacs do by default. https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/Newline-at...
I think this reveals some of the root of the problem. The interviewers have no incentive for hiring good or great people ("superstars"), but absolutely cannot let crappy applicants inside, under no circumstances, under the risk of losing their jobs.

So they just don't care if you are good at what you do, if you can learn fast, etc -- all they care if whether you are not shit and can certainly fulfill the specific requirements for the job they were instructed to fulfill.

How to change this? Well, one way would be to get people interested in the applicant's abilities and long term capacity and commitment. It's good to find this kind of people inside a company which are not in the higher ups.
Another alternative would be to attach the long term success of the applicant to the ones responsible for hiring somehow. Those are all very difficult problems, but ones that can be managed with good will and commitment from the guys inside the company.
First off, not sure how your company does it, but I've had companies ask me to interview when I wasn't even looking, and then not extend an offer. So interviews are not always to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Second, the gist I got from the "color of the wire" question was it was an analogy for asking someone to write code for a linked list. It's banal and been done before, so it seems ludicrous to ask, but many places use it as a FizzBuzz filter. I can think of very few places that would actually pay someone to "fix the wiring distributor cap" (write linked lists).
Virtual reality bliss?
Actually, Aaron only need to look at what happened to Kevin Mitnick. Aaron will no longer be able to work his life's causes.
Haha, until we run out of the materials needed to print paper money...
"Astonishing bit of HTML5" in that it's choppy and does things I don't want?
Because curl and a command line with 13 "arguments" is so much easier to use than a website.
FAA Grounds Boeing’s Dreamliners
It is easy for the attractive to say that; like most traits, people don't like to believe dumb luck helped them. It makes a much better personal narrative if it was their own hard work. That doesn't mean it's backed up by any fact.
I suppose it makes sense as a bargaining chip which will be left on the table, but there's a risk it will actually pass, right? My impression has been that the 1994 AWB did real harm to the image of gun control. If I'm a Republican legislator, can't I actually threaten to vote for it?
I have no qualms with what Suster writes here. At the same time, I've encountered a number of very powerful counterexamples that gives me pause.

- 37signals: Renowned for its strong company culture, 37signals talks often about how having a distributed team is a competitive advantage because it allows them to hire the very best fit (excellence at work and culture fit) without regard to location.

- Singly: Up-and-coming post-Series A company. I've gotten to know them because they use my product iDoneThis (http://idonethis.com) to replace their daily standup. Neither their CTO nor their VP of Engineering works on site in SF and they are an API company! Yet they have an extremely strong engineering culture, and much of it revolves around a no nonsense approach to work and zero tolerance of meetings, and that's facilitated by being distributed.

- Ravelry: They've not only built a tight-knit team that's distributed, they've built a ravenous community and fan base with their product (2M+ users). They've said that because they're distributed, that makes them work extra hard on communication and making work fun.
Here's an illustration I saw in my local newspaper. Other than the collapsible stock (which makes the weapon easier to conceal) and the (separately regulated) high capacity magazine, pretty much everything is purely cosmetic.

http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2013/01/08/2020087609.jpg
Or for that matter, for pistols, "Magazine that attaches outside the pistol grip". That seems to be entirely design preference. What extra danger does one style present over another? It's like they looked at a TEC-9 and said "now, how can we ban this particular gun?".

Or "A semi-automatic version of a fully automatic firearm". Is that to ban guns that are easily modified I guess? Is that necessarily an easy thing to do? Seems you could be more to the point and ban guns that can trivially be modified in such a way.
I'm so tired of all the IB hate. IB is a tool, and it should be used when appropriate. Sure you can't do everything in it, but for 80% of even "complex" views, things can be done significantly faster in IB.
Doing all UI creation and layout isn't faster and more "hardcore", it's ignoring a tool that has been around longer than OS X and iOS that was literally made for the job! Have fun maintaining that mess of UI layout code!
AP ammo possession is the most likely to pass; no one really cares about that.

Mag limits are less likely than AP ammo. I honestly have no idea how likely or not they are to pass. I'm pretty well hedged :)

AWB seems hopeless, both because it's clearly cosmetic and ineffectual and because it would have a higher cost to implement.

Also, I agree the long-term trend is anti-firearms, mainly due to immigration and urbanization. However, the trend within firearms is from shotgun/lever/revolver toward "America's Rifle" (AR-15), military style accessories, tactical training, etc.

I also think if you took a direct 100% popular vote right now (or especially the day after Sandy Hook), 50+% of people would vote for banning all guns. A majority of people would also support confiscating the assets of the richest 1%, etc., though.
If you want to read Hacker News whilst inside Sublime, check out my plugin: https://github.com/dotty/HackerNews-SublimeTextPlugin (or alternatively, search "hacker news" in package control).
I'd rather have invested that $35 into the stock market. Going by the dow jones from 1933 to today, that $35 would be worth over $9,000. That's the proper comparison to gold.
This directive will allow the airlines to have DER-type people give permission for pilots to fly them to their home. This happens a lot with airplanes with issues.
Getprismatic is so completely engrossing and addictive for me I just stay the heck away.
I really don't think so. I've definitely never heard of it, but I'm just a casual observer.
I think the only thing 'preventing a dictatorial government' is an educated and informed electorate. If we have that, we never have to revolt...
sublimelint (not Linter) also has a decent wrapper around Go's checking.
Thanks Jason, I'm looking forward to results too :)
I find the magazine thing kind of funny. Even if we can't quite print guns yet, a magazine of any reasonable capacity ought not to be too hard. I'd be a little surprised if it hasn't been done already.
> The ones taking away the only thing preventing a dictatorial government from being impossible to revolt against ain't one of them.

Amen. They can have my Twitter when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
> The only way Linux could experience an upsurge in popularity would be through a mass increase in consumers' awareness

This is definitely not true. The following scenario seems to be quite possible: Due to the various problems of Windows 8, developers massively revolt and most applications are either written to older API's, or use cross-platform environments like C#, Python or Java. This essentially changes the Windows API from a moving target to a stationary target; as a result, Wine catches up -- it reaches near-100% app compatibility, perhaps with the aid of a donation from a philanthropist, Google, or some other player. OEM's recognize the cost savings possible from avoiding the Microsoft tax, and with good software compatibility now possible, they start selling discount models with Linux instead. Microsoft stops issuing new licenses for Windows less than 8 to try to pressure developers to port their stuff to Windows 8 by forcing customers to upgrade. But the move is too little, too late: The customers revolt, and since the alternative is already out of the bottle, people jump ship en masse due to lower prices and Windows 8's shortcomings.

Is this a particularly likely scenario? No. But it seems plausible, and it's not due to crapware, or consumer awareness about anything other than price tags.
maybe.. depends on if I have time the day of the meetup. I'm in dtc
The author is confused.

1) While renting a car you are paying.
2) Interviews are for getting PAID.

It is buying versus selling.

The buyer will be cautious, try to get the best deal.
The seller will be sweet, nice and somehow sell it.

So, we should ignore this post.
The President knows his proposal will never pass the House - hell, I doubt it's even going to come up for a vote - and he knows it sounds good to his base, who has no idea what an assault weapon is and doesn't get that actual 'assault weapons' (as opposed to scary-looking things they don't understand) haven't been legal for civilian purchase since 1986. This is just political theatre, an attempt to look like he's doing something while actually doing nothing.
It's worked intermittently for me in PHP but overall it's really buggy.

I've had some luck using the branch version which you can grab here: https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel
If you are able to live with less than 50 mA, you can power the thing off an HDMI connector.
I think a shotgun would probably be most effective against drone aircraft, and there has been little to no discussion about changing how shotguns are regulated.
> 1. http://cdn03.cdnwp.thefrisky.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/...

Sexism aside (since it's hardly specific to gun culture), that actually seems like pretty sincere marketing for something whose main real selling point is that it makes a very loud noise.
For everyone using SublimeLinter - I'm curious if you've tried sublimelint (the parent project) recently and if there's any reason you chose SublimeLinter over it.
1 line of code in marketing speak.
If "the only thing 'preventing a dictatorial government' is an educated and informed electorate", then we're screwed.
Because it isn't, science is a strict term... this is a challenge for psychology/psychiatry and neuroscience(best hopes) as whole and it's not one or two weirdo proposing it... it's being thrown in it's face and begged for even by the people ~there~ itself.

Of course there's good willing people there, but there's also the 'Big Pharma' issue, the 'lets put 4 year olds on drugs' issue, a past of it being used to reinforce biases(against homosexuals, for slavery, as argument to lock state-enemies in Russia, Nazi Germany).

Also, normally when it's scientifically proven isn't it like "done, next question" and then they actually answer the question? They didn't got there yet it seems. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Disclosure: Yes, I know there's situations so extreme need 'anything that helps', I've seen it in my family. With me, a bipolar 'diagnosis' and drug prescription got me 4 seizures that could have brought lasting damage, even as the dosage, the psychiatrist later confessed under my pressure, was already multiple times lower than what was considered the minimum, but he wouldn't admit having any responsibility for it, which led me to doing my own research and finding documented cases of seizures and even deaths as consequence. Anyway, gave the FU(metaphorically) to this, kept reading, making sure it was informed/not-in-denial, 3 years, not a problem, but I still have to hear about how I can't swim, box or "shouldn't even drive", this sort of stuff.
I don't think posting the same information again and again is welcome. The people who might be inspired to debate it simply can't have a discussion about it every time it appears - and it goes beyond wanting to engage with the community and share something and becomes an attempt to manipulate. I'd certainly encourage tokenadult to stop posting it.
From the article:

"The New York Fed stores the German gold without cost on the theory that the presence of foreign gold supports the dollar’s status as the global reserve currency."
?? if it's that good, shouldn't it be your primary way of getting the contents? :)

I find it quite good too. So it looks as though I'm coming back for it more.

Then there's this HN....
An astonishing bit of HTML5 that doesn't work well on the latest version of Google Chrome, unfortunately.
Heck, CPI inflation gets you from $35 to $600.
the educated and informed electorate is a key thing, but not the only thing that prevents a dictatorial government. The constitutional separation of powers combined with presidential term limits really help, too.
Want To Be CEO? What's Your BMI?
Correct, engineers get a portion of the fee that we charge employers.
I think we're way beyond any kind of disarmament situation, but a drone can certainly be considered to be a handgun of foreign policy.
I did limit myself to the non-political issues. Political problems need political solutions. I'm personally more interested in the foundational problem of do they even work, technically and economically. If not, that eliminates the need to consider the political case at all. And the political issue ends up sort of circular; we can't build them, because we can't build them, because we can't build them. Not interesting to me personally. YMMV (no sarcasm).

The whole private vs. public issue is really obscured by the extreme, extreme regulation surrounding the entire area. I suspect it's overkill, while at the same time I can't deny one does not want to live anywhere near an unsafe power generation facility. (I did start to say "nuclear reactor", but it's more general than that, really.)