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Speaking for the Bay area, public transportation here is shockingly bad, even for something as routine as getting to the airport. For someone living in the valley to get to SFO (about 40 miles), a taxi can cost anywhere from $50-$80, and the public transportation alternative takes anything between 2-2.5 hours, 1 bus, 3 trains, some distance walking with your luggage, and about 15 bucks. Oh, I forgot to mention that trains are once an hour, and there are a total of 3 distinct operators for the bus and train systems who are totally uncoordinated with each other.

Not surprisingly, most people who value their time prefer making a 35-minute drive at their convenience, and paying about $12-$18 per day of parking.
I think it depends on how you mount your clipboard/drives on rdp connect. To get it right with windows you just check the share clipboard/share drive checkboxes and off to the races. With rdesktop you have to throw the -r flag and mount a clip board and then the -r flag and mount a drive. Not sure about other Linux clients but I'm sure there's a similar option in all of them.
Yes, and that's the GPs point; that paralysing fear outweighs the logic of the situation. Indeed, I'd suggest your own comment about being able to mitigate a car accident is a prime example of our difficulty with assessing the probability of risk (you may have more control of the situation; but that does not reduce the probability of you being killed by a car).

Many many things could kill us suddenly and without warning (even heart failure!). We are disproportionately scared of some things (eg flight) because they "seem" scary, and are blasé to actually risky things because they seem familiar.

And excellent book on this is "Risk; the science andpolitics of fear" which uses case studies and real data to examine this phenomenon.
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Interesting. So you're saying have an extra seat reserved for minorities only, and the minority on the seat must have the appropriate qualifications. That way no one is disadvantaged by the new system.

That's actually a great way of doing things and i'm surprised it's not used more.
I think it's just a reflection of the underlying transaction facilitators (CC processors vs Bitcoin exchanges). The CC processors charge the % + fee, and the services that build on top of that tack on their cut. MtGox charges a % cut (I forget what it is, but it's below CC rates by a lot) and so you tack on your cut on top of it to end up with a lower cost than CC processors.

I really do feel that MtGox will move to a higher fee schedule as Bitcoin volume increases, so it'll be interesting to see the convergence of Bitcoin fees vs CC/Stripe/Paypal fees and how processors reconcile the two and balance growth (driven by lower cost) vs immediate profits.
In most of these links he argues, true to form, that a certain stimulus proposal wasn't big enough. But nowhere did he actually say how big he thought it should be.

The closest he came was in your first link, in which he demonstrated how one might theoretically calculate an adequate stimulus size. Yet this calculation depends on first choosing a value for the Okun's Law coefficient, and nowhere did he say what he thinks it would be. He just picked an "optimistic" value for the sake of demonstration. This single ambiguity easily gives him a few hundred billion dollars in wiggle room.
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We've killed an awful lot fewer people with drones than we used to do with aerial bombing, even since the start of the 'war on terror.' It's like the difference between sniping and heavy artillery.
That's a horrible comment that deserve being down voted into the ground.

Not only is it a strawman argument, but it also reiterates sexist claims about women. At best, your comment gets ignored and worst, the comment will work against creating gender equality.
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I work in a related industry (film) and you're mostly wrong here. The work itself is what keeps people in the industry, and the work is genuinely more fun than other jobs I've had for a number of reasons.

- You're expected to always be on the absolute cutting edge in an extremely fast moving area, computer graphics.

- The ultimate goal of the projects is to make images that are so appealing, people will pay money to see them projected on a screen. This is fun.

- It requires extremely high levels of creative and technical proficiency, and to do really well ideally you'll have components of both.

- You work with people who are extremely passionate about what they do, and not what it might pay them. This does actually make a difference.

Now there are definitely significant down sides, but it's not that people are brainwashed into thinking they enjoy their work.
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You're right but that's precisely the point -- what matters to your safety is the probability, not how much control you feel you have. Yes, you can do more to mitigate the risk of being in a car accident than to mitigate the risk of being a victim of a bombing attack. But even if you do all you can, you are still more likely to be in a car accident than in a bombing (and thus, rationally, should be more concerned about the former than the latter).
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When I work with C#, I use a debugger all the time. Learning how to attach a debugger to a running process saves a lot of headaches in the long run.

On the other hand, when I work with Python, I rarely had to use a debugger. Python's grammar is so simple that simply reading through the code is usually enough to spot most errors.
I think we're better than this.
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I'm not dismissing the problem at all. I personally haven't seen it, but I've heard about gender inequality in the industry. I'd be pissed if I found out my female colleagues aren't making what I make for the same work and skills. You probably aren't going to believe that, but frankly, I don't care. It's the truth whether or not you believe it.

I'm not claiming to represent the tech world at all. I'm just some dude with an internet connection. And I'm not accusing her of going "off her meds" but the tone of her article DOES seem mentally unbalanced (to a degree) in some places, which is why I drew the comparison. She may very well be the epitome of being mentally balanced, but perhaps her passion for the topic came across in the wrong way when she wrote the piece. Maybe if she'd written it in a way that didn't try to vilify white males (or anyone other than the people who actually take part in the discrimination) I could've taken it more seriously, but she didn't. As a result, I don't take THIS ARTICLE seriously, but that doesn't mean that I don't take the issue seriously.

If there's a specific issue - REPORT IT to the appropriate authority and make sure it gets dealt with. I'm entirely in favour of equality, but don't try to get it by stomping someone else down. Instead, try to lift yourself up. It may be far more difficult, but you also have a whole lot more credibility and respect when you do it that way.

Regardless of all other points, if my previous post (or this one) offended you or anyone else, I sincerely apologize for that. It was absolutely not my intention.
Was JavaFX DOA? I've never seen or even heard about it being used for anything.
I feel your pain. It sounds like your colleague really likes his hammer and now sees all problems as nails. What you were doing was a little experimental probing of a possible line of enquiry. Basically some stuff on which TDD has nothing to say.
It works differently. This one works by magnification of tiny changes (colour, movement, etc)

See also: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
As yet, there's no indication that this is foreign terrorism. Remember Oklahoma City.

There's been no claim of responsibility, and it seems like these were not suicide bombings. These are interesting data points.
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The webcam framerate should be at least double the heart rate to get an accurate measurement, not the other way around.
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I think this is what happens pretty much everywhere. People just carry on.

News media gives us a rather distorted image of how things stand. I remember when living in Beijing during the Kosovo bombing campaign in 1999. The Chinese naturally took great offence for deaths in their embassy.

CNN was day after day showing video of violent anti-US demonstrations outside US embassy in Beijing. Foreigners were warned of sticking their nose out. I took a walk in the Sanlitun embassy area. The closest thing to a riot I saw was an overweight woman walking her poodle. The demonstrations were well organised in front of the cameras, without causing disruption elsewhere. They were mostly over in a day; CNN just kept replaying the same footage for a week.

Chinese colleagues were clearly angry, but they also just carried on, as always.
Terse, but extremely helpful and well formulated. I'll print these out for further reference ;-)
I'd add
4) Continuous integration testing doubling as operations monitoring. I know that this doesn't "really" qualify as testing, but from my experience, it's far easier getting bitten by components not working together than from a screwed component alone. The key here is monitoring and testing business parameters from end to end. It doesn't help you finding out where the bug is, but it lets you know early on if there is one.
I'm no expert, but hopefully by abstracting out different services from your core app and making them available through some connection protocol (Thrift, a message queue, http, whatever) you can more easily scale up and scale out systems that become hotspots, and consumers of that service will never be any the wiser, since they only interact with it through the published API.

Looking at it another way, when I talk to the GitHub API, I have no idea what sort of database I'm ultimately talking to. Their interface abstracts away all of that complexity. Each request they receive from me might be handled by a different machine for all I know. It makes no difference.
This is why I am trying to build a non-profit news site with no adverts. I don't believe there is a real way around the corrupting influence of trying to maximize clicks when there are ads.

My site is looking to bring in the underused resources of think tanks, academics, NGOs and partisan blogs to put flesh around the bones of the core journalistic reporting on politics and economics.

As the old proverb goes "small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events and great minds discuss ideas". We can select against people (celebrity) with classifiers, and surround events (broadsheet news) with deeper discussion of ideas (policy, research, philosophy).

However, if you don't have ads you don't have money. So my project, http://igg.me/at/jkl/ , is largely unfunded. You can see a very basic prototype here as well: http://jkl.io
CISPA Is Back and Headed for a Vote This Week
06:15 < gkmngrgn> hello, i forgot my password and linode's email reminder service doesn't work. i checked spam box but there's no email from linode.
06:15 < shmoon> ryannn: can you give him the password?
06:15 < scottymeuk> shmoon: damn you, you beat me to it!
06:23 < ryannn> shmoon, sorry I only have the sources on my server
06:23 < ryannn> db is on my desktop
06:24 < scottymeuk> ryannn: so your not in this to do large scale damage, only after a few clients?
Its all about perception. I like Facebook Home ads. Its creative way of communicating the idea about app instead of just listing out all the services. I am not saying Chrome ad is bad, I lik them both, but Facebook ads got creative edge.
When bias (like gender, or race) is so prolific. It is institutional change that is required.

You are arguing, just make it a level playing field and the hardworking woman will eventually show up. But that takes generations for change to happen.

In a lot of our eyes, that is not good enough. Change needs to happen now. Quota systems may deny an opportunity to a deserving person (as the quota is full). But it is morally equivalent to being denied an opportunity due to some other kind of bias (i.e because you are a woman).

So really, quotas is just a new (not prejudicial) form of bias. The only difference is, it will eventually change the whole system (for the better). Where as prejudicial bias just makes the system worse.

I would say that by keeping the status quo (i.e. 90+% men in tech) you are poisoning the system.
It certainly beats the prior poster in 1939 of "Freedom Is In Peril Defend It With All Your Might".
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And isn't this the case?

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Hi,
I'm looking to replace my ageing 13" 2008 MacBook unibody. The budget will either get me the standard spec 2.6i5 rMBP, or a 2ghz i7 MBA with 8gb ram. On paper it's a no brainier, get the pro. But having read about screen lag I'm not so sure. Plus it will spend 90% of its time hooked up to a monitor, so is it worth it? Is the screen lag that noticeable to make the 10% of the time I use the flash screen? No point suffering UI lag if I'm using a non retina monitor all the time.

I also suspect that I'd use it at a higher res than the 'retina' 1280x800.

If the Pro didn't exist, I'd get the Air without a worry. The higher res screen than my current one is great, plus it's fast enough without a doubt. Various geekbench scores and other measures place the upgraded Air on a par with the Pro. And the ports are plenty for me.

Any thoughts?
Is there a demo link for this application?
Having been spoilt by the calibre of Microsoft debugging tools earlier on in my development career it's one of the very first things I get working when approaching new environments/languages. It's especially helpful when learning a language as experimentation is often a lot quicker than RTFM.
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Honestly, I would be surprised if more than 1% of OkCupid's user base switched to BitCoin.

Back in the 90s, the nerds dominated online dating. Same story with the Bulletin Board Systems of the 70s (The Matchmaker) and the punch cards at Stanford in the 60s (Happy Families Planning Services, used on the IBM 650) for the purposes of online dating. Today, it's much more pervasive with 75% of singles in the U.S. having tried online dating. Most of the women I've talked to on OkCupid are not technical, and when I setup a fake account to see what types of messages girls would receive, none of the people who initiated contact were hackers.

I still don't think the mainstream understands what BitCoin is, or why it's valuable. They hear things like "anonymous" and then wonder what they'd need that for, not seeing that the earliest users of BitCoin were hobbyists, hackers, and Silk Road members. If anything, hopefully this will push people to become BitCoin users, assuming the sign up process is easy enough and the price difference is enough to make them switch.
Wait it out? That's what every rogue trader says. Or they double up. Someone on the other side will be asking for their money.
I'm pretty sure he has the ability (and even makes a game out it[1]). What Schneier is saying is that U.S. citizens should not let the country's policy be dictated by panic blown-out-proportion reactions to imaginary threats.

[1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/sixth_movie-pl...
Wait a second.. you consider a provider giving data from your VMs to another random customer a SMALL issue?

Maybe you don't have anything of importance on your VMs, but plenty of people do. That data could contain credit card data, passwords, etc, etc, etc. It is very much a large issue.
Standard practice. It's really limited support. The Eeebox's video decoding hardware I bought just a few months ago isn't supported by silverlight and probably never will be, which makes watching HD streams on netflix nearly impossible. That's just going to get worse.
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I used to think so too, then I stopped trying to use it for everything and started treat it as a DSL for just writing IO heavy asynchronous web services, and now I'm much happier.
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If you think that, I didn't explain myself very well. What I'm suggesting is that people are (moderately) well aware of the relative probabilities, but fear a predictable lack of control. This is entirely rational; you can be scared of something without necessarily expecting it to happen.

so to take the driving example, it's very possible that you could be hit without warning, but you can also conceive of many situations in which you do have some warning and can swerve to avoid danger or suchlike. People may even underestimate the risk by being overconfident in their ability to react, but the fact is that if you drive a lot then after a while you'll have experienced a variety of close calls or even been in some minor accidents, and you can weigh the risk of many different driving situations.

On the other hand, most people have no flying experience as pilots. So if you're a passenger in a plane and it becomes apparent that the plane is going to crash, there's nothing you can do about it. No matter how remote the risk of your plane crashing, if it does fall out of the sky then you are almost certainly fucked and there's nothing you can do to improve your chances. I know that if I fly somewhere the journey to and from the airport on the ground is statistically much more risky than the journey through the air, as I will be in much greater proximity to many other vehicles on the ground, my vehicle will have to go through numerous complex maneuvers and so on, and if freeway travel is involved an accident has a much higher likelihood of being fatal due to the speed involved.

But if I had to be in a crash, I'd far rather be it be in a car than a plane; I've been in/at the scene of car crashes before and they strike me as rather more survivable. So I'm not more scared of flying than driving, but I am more scared of a plane crash than a car crash.
That is refreshingly sane. Sadly I fear that there will be total overreaction by the government and the media.

The only proper reaction is take care of the survivors, bring the responsible to justice and then cry for the dead. Do not assassinate them - bringing them in chains in court is much more humiliating.
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Your procedure already requires booting out of live cd, and then uses "unix way" that might be easy to screw up for less advanced people, so using G4U simplifies it substantially, does the same good job and by no means is a 'overkill' ;)
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I agree. I think that's an improvement that needs to be made on DO's side, though. I could certainly "map" them to human names on my side, but that's not going to be consistent, IMO.

I've sent them this feedback. :)
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Affirmative action are troublesome, and its good that someone are directly speaking against it. There are all from social to statistical problems, and those problem need to not be ignored.

Take Sweden education system. In the 1990s, they thought it would be a good idea to encourage minority groups by giving them an bonus when applying to a area of study where the applying individual would be a minority. It was a very simple rule, and it backfired, got scraped by the early 2000, and declared illegal. What the Swedish Education board found out was, that in 90% of the time where a applying individual would become a minority in a class, it was a white male trying to enter a female dominated area of study. The concept was scraped short after, with statements that the initial goals was not achieved, and that affirmative action was found as counterproductive to the concept of education. The second part was also reaffirmed in the courts and is now made illegal.

There are also much better alternatives to affirmative action which has been proven to be effective. Outreach programs works. Just a few months ago, there were a article describing how they reached around 50% or above female speaker participation through just doing outreach. They even made it a large point that they did no distinction what so ever when picking speakers, and the only work towards equality was outreach.

There are also social studies. We need more of those. As a scientific society, we should even demand it before listening to anyone arguing about problems within this society, and more importantly, when the discussion turns to causes or suggested solutions. If we do not demand it, those studies won't happen, as there will be no pressure to do so or money invested into it.
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And that is exactly what is wrong with TDD - the sheer dogma involved in a insane statement like that. Throw out all the code - tests weren't written first!

It doesn't seem to matter much that the end result will be the same if you write up some tests for that code, or if you throw the code out, write tests, then just write the same code again. If the tests didn't come first, it's not TDD, and now we can't follow some holy procedure.

Pure madness and everything that is wrong with TDD is summed up in that simple statement: "In TDD you would throw it away and redo it".
Was that really his game plan?

1) Buy $1B in Apple shares.
2) ...
3) Profit!

If you have $1B to spare, it seems like there are a lot better ways to make money.
That wears off pretty quickly. After about 30 mins in the air, to quote Frankie Boyle, you are just in a tin can full of other people's farts.

I hate flying. It was once exciting but the airport drudge and being packed in like cattle just kills it now.
Presumable this is their subscriber list and they are the moderators.
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Don't overthink the joke.
Yea, it was pure PR BUT I am a big believer that data analytics are underused in industries all over the world that could be making huge improvements.
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Since the Retina display sounds more like a hassle than a feature for you, I'd recommend considering a non-retina MBP: either a new machine or a refurb.

Unless you specifically want OSX, another option is to get an X-series Thinkpad.
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Aah!, the self-fulfilling nature of paranoia.
Previous HN discussion about that concept: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992748
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