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Two things I would like to disagree with / clarify:

1) Just to be clear, the software dev club VP position is not a negative, just that it's not going to impress anyone. And honestly I can't think of situations in which it would. Co-founding a club in college, let alone HS, is very easy.

2) I disagree with the statement that "Most of the time you want strong soft skills and they just grow technical skills through the internship." Keep things in perspective. It's hard for a HS sophomore to impress on the soft skills side of the equation. I mean, even something that might be impressive to a college in admissions, like organizing a community service outing, is not going to be very relevant to a startup engineering internship. I actually think the way that you shine on your resume is to have extremely strong technical skills. If I know you have exceptional technical skills, I am assured you will be a useful contributor. If I am assured that you have exceptional soft skills, that still does not tell me how much you will be able to contribute. It's not like you'll be doing biz dev or sales. Looking through your github profile, it's hard for me to get a handle on your technical ability, which is why I recommend having a personal website with a visual portfolio (screenshots) of your projects and more detailed descriptions of the technical challenges and features of your projects.

I am not saying that you should neglect the soft skills side of things. Be involved in clubs. I cannot stress how important it is in the general scheme of things to be involved in something that requires public speaking. Club leadership is not public speaking. Something like theater or debate is. The payoff for those things shows itself in college admissions and in life after college when you have to deal with people and managers. As an intern you are not likely to face interpersonal challenges that require articulation and persuasion.
Whenever I see someone describing the steps they go through for port forwarding I always ask "Why dont you just use IPv6?"
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I think the same thing, and yet after asking around - and as you can see from the comments here - it happens far more often than you would expect.

It's amazing to me that this is not a futile exercise. Regardless, even if it were, it serves a healing purpose for the poster. Putting an attachment like this out there in the universe can be a big release, regardless of the outcome. People often write love poems without the intent to send them. Same idea.
The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)
It's not from Google. This is only a hackathon to come up with ideas to enter in the #ifihadglass hackathon. There is no official affiliation.

The website was not optimized for mobile; because of the time limitations (contest just announced, ending in a week) everything had to be put together quite quickly.
Yup, no way that that comment would ever start a flame war. Anyway, I might as well get us kicking off. So, how exactly does feminism teach people to hate men?
That's not necessarily true. I think you'll find a lot of $1300 laptops from Dell, HP, etc that are all of questionable quality.
Thanks For the Memories
Ah. Sorry about that. I haven't had a chance to test the lobby/random opponent matchmaking feature under stress, and it's not working as I'd hoped. You should be able to send the URL to a friend and play them, though. (Or open another window and play yourself to try things out.)
Most of drug R&D is done as basic research in universities. Drug companies do do research, but their marketing budgets are higher than their R&D budgets. A large portion of the research is looking for baldness-cure/dick/sex pills, along with a substantial sum spent on patent work-around research which isn't setting out to create anything new, just do the same thing in a new way to work around someone else's patent.

The cost of the drug R&D you are talking about (aside from publicly funded NSF/NIH research) is minuscule in comparison to the healthcare spending expenditures we are talking about. Device/procedure research is even less of a blip.
I'm reasonably happy with United out of the big airlines. They almost always have seats with extra leg room, and they have a hub at the airport that's 10 minutes from my house.

I mean, they're still an airline, and I've had problems, but overall they haven't been bad to me.
> Insurance companies need to know their maximum loss exposures.

Yes, but a dollar cap is only one way to do that.

In my case, my policy has no dollar caps, but of course it only covers reasonable and necessary care. I'm sure the insurer knows the probability distribution of expensive ways to die, so they still know their overall maximum exposure.
That's a bit childish and a little bit reactionary of you.
I feel like this is "common knowledge," so maybe I'm just missing something, but I'm not convinced yet.

Basically, what we're saying is that, first, there is a stage that cannot be accessed concurrently, and second, multiple threads may be waiting for that stage to complete before they progress.

So the downstream, waiting threads are either going to have to wait to acquire the lock, or they're going to have to wait for the producer to produce the data.

Either way, they're waiting.

If the critical section is really short and highly contended, you may not want threads waiting on the lock to suspend; you want them to spin, or to keep retrying (which is what happens in lock-free algorithms). OK, fine. Why isn't that solution just as good as having an extra thread to be the producer, and then waiting on the producer to produce more data?
>One of the things Apple avoids is $1,300 products that are conceptual beta-tests.

How about the original Macbook Air? That was $1800 and pretty much a beta test of the good Macbook Airs that are out now (slow CPU, slow HDD, stuck with 2 GB RAM forever).
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardfork_Wishlist

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/alt_ideas
We will be better served as a nation with smaller banks, we need to get over the concept of to big to fail.
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edit: c++ code.
Feminists are generally leftist and the more intellectual the more progressive/far left, generally speaking.

However I know some women that are intellectually dedicated feminists and they don't hate men. They love men. They hate the patriarchy.
Here's what you said:

> While lying requires intent, it does not require knowledge that the statement is false.

Explain how a person can possess an intent to deceive while telling what he believes is the truth.

Also, I chose the most common definition of lying for a reason -- it's the one recognized in courts of law. While under oath, if you speak a falsehood, but without realizing your remark is false, you cannot be charged with perjury. So knowing the most common definition, which is also the legal definition, would seem to be important.
Simple. Have the drone hold on to them for long enough that they explode before the others have a chance to return it.
One could argue that if a browser is your only environment, that you'll be spending the most time in, then why wouldn't you want the best option for running said browser? The way I see it, if you're going to be working in a completely remote/cloud capable environment, then a powerful, fast, beautiful screened machine to work from makes the most sense.

My current job gave me a Dell Latitude E series machine for work. I work exclusively in AWS. The screen on this laptop is so horrifically bad that I practically get sick looking at it. Compared to my personal (2010 era) macbook pro, or the Retina MBP's I've used at my last two jobs, there is no comparison. I'd much rather have a lightweight powerful little machine that I can ssh from and have some sort of IDE or text editor to work on my AWS projects then worry about a big bulky crappy laptop that is overkill for my work.

Obviously I realize this is MY current use case, however I'd be willing to be that the majority of dev/devops type folks on HN have a similar type of use case. AWS, Heroku, just about any PaaS, Saas, or Iaas, etc... would take advantage of a machine like this beautifully.

Oh and the last time I had an Air (right before upgrading to the rMBP), My use case? Chrome, Chrome, Terminal, RDP, Chrome. That was at a PC Game dev/publisher company where I administrated all windows based desktops, mac laptops as well as all servers of misc variety...

Sooo.....Is this machine useful? I think it is, and I am excited to check it out and may look to getting one.

One more thing, I too am one of the lucky Cr-48 owners and LOVED the concept. Biggest reason I hacked it to load ubuntu? SSH. Had the plugin existed back then? ChromeOS ALL THE WAY BABY!!!

/rant.
> So tomorrow everyone signs up for the free Hurricane IPv6 tunnel which is meant to be used by developers and administrators for system testing

The tunnelbroker service is for more than just system testing. It's meant to provide usable and stable IPv6 connectivity for people who don't have native IPv6. I've even hosted servers on it (nothing mission-critical though).

You have a point that HE is not going to want to maintain it if it starts costing them too much, but note that they have a very vast global network (both IPv4 and IPv6) and can reach most of the Internet without paying for transit.
Have We Been Miscounting Calories? - ScienceNOW
Two reasons. First, surface area. For an equivalent surface area, one rotor results in a much smaller craft than 4 rotors.

Second, precision machining. It is much easier to balance 1 set of rotors weighing hundreds of pounds than it would be to balance 4 of them. I'm guessing your typical quadcopter is too small right now for this to be a real concern.
>Move, Branch if Zero, Decrement

This is basically the canonical instruction for OISCs (one instruction set computers). Wikipedia describes it pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer#S....
Correct. I think this is a 170 MPG diesel (or, converted, 152 MPG gas) one-seat microcar with a plug-in option, and that's all. 152 MPG is an impressive research effort for an in-house microcar. I don't know why they need to junk it up with dubious claims. It's bad enough that the Volt does this miscalculation as well, right on its dash -- another great car with misleading claims.
The Colossal Cue Adventure. Can you solve it?
It seems a bit weird to be like hey, I would like to be your friend so I can get a job.
Same article 16 hours and 200+ comments ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256051
>You're claiming that because a plane ran into a building 12 years ago, it actually makes sense for an American citizen to kick another American citizen off a plane while lying about it.

No, I'm not. I'm claiming that there are words that shouldn't be said on a plane anymore. A building exploding didn't do that. Decisions from organizations and individuals created the catalyst for that change. But, that's a completely different discussion.

It's common knowledge whether it's okay or not. I agree: we as a society, should strive to be more open and accepting about using words. But, unfortunately, we're not all there yet.

The title is sensationalist and misleading. The photo taking clearly wasn't the problem because the author wasn't removed from the plane after taking the photo, they were removed after they said something they shouldn't have.

"Travel Author Irritated After Being Kicked Off a Plane for Claiming 'Not a Terrorist'" is hardly a story, is it?
Inside the PlayStation 4: A balanced approach to building a game console
"Multi-tasking was the problem of making a single core run multiple tasks. The core would switch quickly from one task to the next to make it appear they were all running at the same time, even though during any particular microsecond only one task was running at a time. We now call this “multi-threading”, where “threads” are lighter weight tasks."

I must have missed something.

Multi-tasking is multiple processes, which mostly have nothing to do with each other, switched in and out of the processor(s) by the OS, which do not share in-process memory or context. The programmer does nothing to make this happen, and normally has little to no say in it.

Multi-threading is a single process, where the threads carefully share context and memory, and they're all working roughly on the same thing; the programmer makes this happen explicitly, and usually fucks it up.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitasking#Multithreading
And doing the x509 fake-CA MITM type bullshit is harder with SSH than with SSL. (I've never actually seen an ssh proxy deployed in the wild; I've seen "you must log in via a bastion host on which we log/analyze/filter everything" used instead.)
I have a random 8-letter password memorized (includes uppercase and numbers), but I prepend the first 2 characters of the md5-hash of the service's/website's name. That way I just have to quickly open a terminal whenever I forget a password.

I recently learned about YPassword and I think it's a similar idea.
The icons took longer to create than the code. :)

I'm a front end developer and designer, so I can throw layouts together pretty quickly. I now use Typecast[1] to set a basic mood and find a header and body font, then for simple sites like this I skip Photoshop/Fireworks and do the ‘layout’ in the browser.

[1]: http://typecast.com/
It's worth noting that there is no relationship between a U.S. hospital bill and the actual cost of the service

If this is true (and I don't know that it is) then it sounds to me that the free market is not working in this area in the USA.

If it's not working then that may be because of supply restrictions because of limited numbers of places and/or high costs at medical schools and excessive restrictions on foreign trained medical professionals entering the US.

On the other hand becoming a doctor requires a high degreee of intelligence, high tuition fees and years of long hours as a junior at low pay while you continue to study and do further exams.
When you finally get to the promised land you have large debts and a relatively short career ahead of you. You also have rare skills and are a person who has delayed gratification to an extent that few others would be prepared to.
You are also in a highly responsible job and are likely to be subjected several stressful lawsuits during your career.

In a society where no limit seems to be placed on the earnings of sports stars and others in their early twenties, why should doctors be expected to restrict themselves to less than their market can bear?
Exploring the Abandoned Macy's Midwest Headquarters
I would have thought the big contribution to this kind of dynamic balancing would be the eventual ease of piloting it would give. It still might not make sense efficiency wise though.
The latter. I actually go on reddit, though I dislike much of it. Ironically, now I've been downvoted like crazy, but I did say something cruel.
The mobile web is broken — and Firefox OS will fix it
What's odd is making the assumption that all Mac purchasers weren't informed consumers. Your attitude reeks of arrogance and superiority (which seems to be common in the tech community).

>Most consumers are relatively uninformed, regardless of what they're buying, and loads of people buy things for no other reason than that they saw a commercial on TV and can afford it.

I have a few friends that work in creative at ad agencies and they would laugh at this.
The absolute best news about this computer is that it has a 4:3 screen, as it should be. This is the first 4:3 screen I have seen in a very long time. On top of that, it is a fantastic resolution. This is great news.
More info: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797
It sounds like a joke: Using Google+ or Twitter, tell us what you would do if you could brainstorm ideas for Glass ... Google+ applicants will likely be ignored.
This. Google is the perfect example of a company that runs primarily on Google products (GMail, Docs, etc) and even devs don't use their laptops for more than just ssh, remote desktop, and their browser (at least, in theory, they shouldn't need to). Plenty of companies that are in similar situations will find that the Chromebook Pixel is the perfect device for a lot of their employees.

That said, the Pixel is still a niche device and I don't think Google is expecting it to be more than that. There wasn't even any hype leading up to this announcement, just a simple blog post. That's not the type of thing you do if you are announcing, what you think is, a game changing device.
I'd guess that 99 out of 100 companies have excel, it's built into MS office and every accountant and finance person uses it.
Google Cloud now offers support
Oh, you're right. I was thinking of the double inverted pendulum.
Blender 2.66 released
I view it in terms of System 1 / System 2 learning. Podcasts are great for system 2-style learning, where you absorb vocabulary and ideas into your subconscious. Then, when you're ready to sit down and actually learn the stuff, you have a nice scaffold of familiar words and phrases with which you can put together in the correct order.
What do you mean by Vic Gundotra and Andy Rubin are alienating users? This is the first I'm hearing about it, do you mind elaborating or at least providing a source?
Not the issue though right? It about the FA telling a lie. She could have said "you know what, I don't feel safe after he uttered that word, I want him off" but she made up a lie.

I dare speculate she made up lies like that before, and they worked and the stories didn't end up on NBC. But not this time.
Recently my family got a dog. Love him. But his presence and awareness is very different.
The general consensus (at least in the UK) seems to be that modern diesel cars have a potential to be ruinously expensive when they go wrong, which they are somewhat more likely to do on account of the high-precision parts operating at high temperatures and pressures in order to provide something other than the soggy performance of yore. (The emissions stuff also doesn't help.) So you have to drive a lot of miles, to guarantee a substantial saving on fuel, before buying one becomes +EV. This has been somewhat borne out by my observations. Pre-Euro IV diesels seem to be a bit better. I don't like to sound like I'm pissing on people's parade but the reputation diesel cars have for being reliable doesn't seem to be quite so true these days.

The savings don't add up to a great deal compared to the cost of the car either ;) - the savings on fuel cover repairs and routine servicing on my second-hand diesel car, which works for me, but it doesn't actually add up to a huge amount per year. Maybe around £500, or $750. This is at UK fuel prices too, currently $8.20/US gallon for diesel and $7.80/US gallon for petrol, and I mainly drive my car round town, where diesels seem to be comparatively more efficient than petrol cars (though obviously it's not a great thing for either).

(Of course, if my car requires nothing doing one year, or less than £500 of stuff, then I'm quids in! - but this hasn't happened yet. Hmm... maybe next year?)
Why exactly is it terrible? The one bad thing I know is that you can only invalidate the whole cache, not individual resources, but what else?
The wikipedia article points out that some people have problems creating Spock's sign. Which made me think that if someone couldn't play Spock's sign, then that changes your strategy, which changes your opponents, which changes yours...

I need to dust off my game theory textbook.
While I agree with most of your points, I have to disagree with your last one. It is only a half-truth to say you decide how you live your life; there are many factors, such as socioeconomic status, where you live, etc...things you cannot in certain circumstances control that determine how you MUST live your life.
Nicholas Zakas on joining Box
Yep, it could. There's a lot of potential for realtime gaming of a more 'traditional' nature. Some guys have built a tabletop boardgaming environment called 'Roll20' that's powered by the same stack I used. They have 100,000 users already, and it's a lot of fun. https://www.firebase.com/customers/roll20-case-study.html
U.S. attorney: Criticism of Aaron Swartz prosecution is 'unfair'
Not quite the same thing as the air isn't actually displaying at 2560x1600. Well it is, but it isn't, anyway you get the point. It is more the graphics card and the scaling in core graphics. It isn't an apples to oranges comparison exactly as they both aren't doing the same amount of processing for an image.
"Is this the cultural equivalent of cleaning out the memetic closet to make room for new stuff?"
To tell you the truth, yes. I make a few rhetorical leaps to get an argument across. I realize Araabmuzik is hardly the first midi controllist ever, he's but a bump in a continuum.

I disagree though with the 2 vectors thing. There's a whole lot of things you can do with tonality with machines. And as for "Glissando, spicatto.." etc, well, I personally think the human voice will be the one instrument that will always be "in".

Point being, I'm most excited to see all the different vectors these machines invent.

And sure, technically we've been able to do this for decades, but it's usually been a hidden process in the studio. It's the crossover to mainstream cultural acceptance and respectibility as a performance instrument. When hardware instrumenalists move tickets, that's what's interesting to me.
I have to say I don't think Windows' Java situation is any worse than the mess that is gcj / classpath.

Install4J is free-as-in-beer BTW, but you do tend to get what you pay for on Windows, especially with virtualisation software.

Deleting open files is another different-not-better situation - I've seen Linux server apps resurrect entire paths due to open inodes that looked like they were deleted but weren't. That was fun to debug on a production system doing $millions a month.

Have you tried Qt or similar? Perhaps a script isn't the right answer if it needs to Just Work everywhere.
Just a note, but this is actually very likely to happen, at least somewhere.

They built a new Microsoft store at La Canterra mall in San Antonio directly across from the Apple store. I think it used to be a Victoria's Secret.
Or in this case apparently it turns flying attendants into power tripping liars.
Oh, man.

At my last job, we had a MySQL instance that kept falling over. It turns out that someone was dividing a table up with tons of partitions, and MySQL creates a new data file for each partition. The MySQL instance created several hundred file descriptors while trying to open each one of these files, and "mysteriously" crashed.
The Evolution Of The BEM Methodology
Ask HN: What does "Recent Grad" or "New Grad" mean?
I see ads for Data Scientist positions in the SF Bay Area that are labelled "Recent Grad" or "New Grad," from companies such as Khan Academy, Twitter, Netflix, Linkedin.

I was surprised, and somewhat discouraged, since I thought this was not legal, but these places are big enough to afford lawyers, so perhaps it's OK. But even if they can't come right out and say "age-limited job," there is a clear hint as to their intentions.

Has anyone outside of the requested demographic had experience answering these kinds of ads? Were you able to get an interview? What does "recent grad" really mean in this context?
Smallest Exoplanet found
Hey there, I'll ping npcomplete to answer this one. He has some thoughts on "item not as described" fraud.
Or simply stronger windows.