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> I'm assuming you aren't an American because I have never heard the term "works bomb" before.

Funny, I was assuming the same about you... I am American, and so is everybody that I have ever known to play around with them. If you haven't heard of the term that is fine, but I do not believe for one second that you could not think of a more appropriate term than "IED".

> "It's also funny because on the first link from google[1] (below the youtube video) it clear states: Warning! The Works bomb is illegal to make! Don’t do it! The information below is purely for educational purposes (such as research papers) and may leave ... crucial steps."

Yes... and? What is your point?

> If you think IED has no emotional baggage

The opposite actually..

> Just 1 idiot speculating and saying the words "cherry bomb" cost me 3 hours of questioning by police.

So do you think that had to do with the term "cherry bomb" being used, or with the suggestion that perhaps you were responsible for vandalism?
The implementation has not progressed at all since 1999, when Harlequin folded. It doesn't do defunctorization, so probably can't compete with MLton on performance (but it does have an IDE including a REPL, unlike MLton). It's much closer to the Definition than SML/NJ (of course): once we have the compiler running again I'll be interested to use it on the MLton corner cases. And certainly the SML/NJ garbage collector was occasionally a subject of light-hearted mockery among MLWorkers. But as I say, I don't expect x86 performance to be all that great.
While this is a point worth making, another is that there's also little to no vetting or editing required to publish "information" on the web compared to getting it into a book and into distribution.

Of course the latter isn't perfect and comes with its own evil hegemony and other assorted issues, but the point is that there is so little barrier to entry to posting on the web that praising speed in and of itself ignores relevant and important issues.
I baffles me.

Ironic typo. How is an accidental shooting equate to murder? Manslaughter maybe, but it only escalates to that level in a case of negligence.
It's the slow move from the Operating System to the GPU code; most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help. I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game developers more towards the Windows platform?
It's probably at least as interesting to realize that a "CEO/Founder" feels there is no room for a middle class, even if he's based in Sacramento.
Perfectly fine description of what was done! /s

Edit for your edit: Pictured: A man about to detonate an IED behind his friend's head: http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/025/942/iFF/shuttersto...

"A bomb is a bomb" and the law apparently does not care about intent when an IED is involved. Somebody please send that man to jail.
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>feminism the activist movement which has the rather more immediate goal of liberating women from the threat(s) of physical violence which apply to them specifically //

So are you saying that suffragettes, say, weren't feminists; or that they weren't activists. Your claim that feminism is primarily about protecting women from men trying to commit violence against them is bunkum.

Feminism is about promoting the rights of women.

Equality of opportunity is a finer cause IMO.

This comment, http://stronglikebool.com/post/2013/04/10/No-I-Dont-Want-a-T..., on the article is fascinating. She wants what people are railing against - the opportunity to discriminate sexually against those who are around her just because she likes it that way. Can you imagine a tech firm that had a "men only" event? To answer her question - I don't find it wrong at all just as long as she realises it's sexist. Sexual discrimination is a natural part of the human condition.
Surely if you were going to intentionally cause harm in such a way you would save yourself a lot of trouble and just throw Drano at the person.
>There's a definite relationship between the length of time I expect to own or use a product, the country's reputation for products of that type, and which of the two categories it falls in.

Same.

How I intend to use (entertainment vs work) the product and the implications of its failure (annoyance vs injury) factor as well.
You would think, but I've noticed that on HN specifically, the comment pointing out that a stupid argument is forming--if it gets in early enough--tends to be both highly upvoted, and the end of the argument. One reason I like this community.
But how would a dangerous task affect the entire pool?

Also, I don't know if there should even be "important actors". Like in Erlang, we want to let it fail. Important data should be kept in a shared data structure that supports good concurrency, not in actor state. Like I said in the post, I don't think every aspect of the application should be modeled with actors.
Your "sane jurisdiction" might not be the same as others. Personally, I don't think experimenting with explosive devices on school grounds is any more appropriate than having a gun on school grounds.

I don't mind zero tolerance laws within reason. If a student forgets their hunting rifle in their car and tries to do the right thing I'm ok with giving them a pass. But a bomb is a bomb - hard to spin that to 'I didn't know any better'.
Particularly if we end up with Facebook, LinkedIn, and similar services continuing to grow and provide facilities for more and more types and volumes of institutions, in which case it may well be a lot more than just profiles on third-party sites that are ignored by things like this. We might gain ten sites that add 10% to the actual size of the non-porn Internet... in which case this would be even less meaningful.
One area where hardware authenticators work really well is where you want to split access to an account, or have some accountable/logged procedure for it. You put the physical token in an envelope and in a safe/put it in the control of a finance person. Tech people have the password, but need to request the token to do logins.

This also requires having role accounts which aren't able to reset authentication settings when logged in, though, to really be good (or else you just disable tokens on first successful login).

Also works well for paranoid people who don't trust their phone, or people who log in only from a phone/tablet and thus where MFA is really one-device-authentication.
but... smoking at school is not allowed so it doesn't really matter how you describe it. Oh... unless maybe you were just conducting an experiment... then it would be ok... I guess?
This is one of the most useful posts I've seen on HN. Thanks!
I can't believe it's not bilinear!
Well then in that case lets arrest all of those delinquent smokers for attempted arson.

The issue here is proportionality of response (and, local to this particular thread, the use of absurdly loaded language to exaggerate the nature of an offense in order to justify disproportionate responses).
Hey wfunction

I believe we know exactly what the matrix is, based on the hyperlink structure itself. It's updated and displayed on the vis here based on that, too.

btw, David Austin's article on PageRank is highly recommended : http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank
I think it will work out well, but I am keeping track of the costs and will do my best to measure my return.
Nowhere did I say this is the only way. Just that it reminded me of it.

Can you suggest a better system?

If not, I like his way of thinking and I wanted to share.
That's a great write-up that helps a lot. Thanks!

I do wish every explanation of such things explained the syntax better. I still have to keep checking what P(A | B) and P(A & B) mean. You say the hard part is applying the equation, but the first "hard part" is learning what all the symbols mean!
I will do my best to keep the blog up to date with text, maps, video, and pictures so stay tuned!
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PC game developers could hardly be wooed any further in that direction. A game being released for Linux two years after Windows is hardly an imminent threat.
Landline and Mobile phone numbers are differentiatable

They aren't. At least not consistently- the UK (where I suspect you might be given you use of "mobile phone") prefixes them all with 07, but in the US and Canada there is no such difference.
Or consider using this?

https://github.com/Softmotions/ejdb
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Amazon AWS has the best security of any virtual server provider I've seen, by miles. There might be specialty providers (e.g. FireHost) which are good dedicated server offerings, too, but I haven't evaluated them -- it usually is "AWS, is it good enough?" and then if no, directly to a cage, do not pass go, do not collect $50k.

AWS also has the best first and second derivative on everything related to product; they were essentially crippled crap in 2006, and have turned into a viable option over the past years, without slowing down. Compared to the level of innovation in colo/dedicated hosting (~zero per year) and openstack, AWS is amazing.

It's still inferior to a good on-premises or colocated environment (mainly due to technical limitations in the virtualized environment; AWS's policy is top-notch commercial standard), but that may not matter for you. AWS pricing and performance is also worse in a lot of ways than dedicated hardware, but may also not matter to you.

A lot of the big cloud/dedicated hosting companies have decent security (SoftLayer, Rackspace), but aren't as good at AWS at policy or technical security. The sketchy VPS providers are miles below the middling standard set by companies like Rackspace.

Linode is solidly in the "sketchy VPS provider" realm. A bit better for availability, and not likely to actually be attacking you themselves, but not a responsible choice for anyone who cares about security from everything I've seen.

PaaS, in practice, is also a good solution if you care about security but have no skills or budget. While Heroku has its own set of problems around price, performance, and availability, it's more secure out of the box than a badly configured/maintained AWS deployment of your own, or a badly configured on-premises/colocated cage or dedicated servers.
Sweet. Now hopefully they bring DOTA2 over next. That game will lead to a ton of Linux switchers!
I had some schedule constraints on both ends.

My grandson's first birthday before the trip, and my UW graduation after, in close proximity to my daughter's high school and college graduation (she did her last two years of high school in a "Running Start" program, so she gets her HS diploma and her AA degree more or less simultaneously).

I also need to leave some time to write up a nice report since this trip is also an independent study for my Master's degree!
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> Really? I mean, it would've been OK if she did this in the middle of a cafeteria during lunch? And, yes, much of chemistry is highly dangerous and that's the reason it is done in a lab with fume hoods and safety equipment.

When I was in school stuff like this did happen in the cafeteria, though to my knowledge it only involved Mentos+Coke and no household chemicals. Kids would do it specifically to make a mess or prank other kids. But that's all it was, a prank, not a terrorist act.

Occasionally kids would mix household chemicals together outside to see what would happen. Families that hunted routinely had guns in their cars too. Nobody freaked out, nobody died, and the world kept spinning.
Funny - I switched to an Apple keyboard a few years ago because I found it much more comfortable to have a keyboard with shorter key travel.
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There was no argument, whether "stupid" or not. You're welcome to start one.
I guess that's another drawback to zoning laws in the US. Density makes a lot of creative things possible in cities that are harder to do in the burbs. Of course, the upside is possible negatives aren't all concentrated together either.
Again... there does not have to be an "all or nothing" situation. There is punishment less than felony conviction. I don't believe this girl is a felon and I don't believe she should go on without consequence.
That sounds great. I'll be in China/Hong Kong for holiday and it seems like I could fix some broken devices there :)
Excellent! Looking forward to this. As of 17:28 PDT it does not seem available.
We're getting awfully close to an upper class imposing lifelong penalties on lower class members for stepping out of line. A felony is a lifelong handicap to the working class.

How much longer until we're (figuratively) cutting off the hands of orphans for stealing loaves of bread?
Again with the Alexa-worshipping.

Twilio's rank is really low for a company with that much name recognition/revenue/employees/valuation etc and is actually great evidence that Alexa is a terrible indicator of B2B success. And Zendesk's number is skewed because they use their domain to setup customer service portals for their users. 99% of that traffic is going there to submit a ticket to some other company and could care less about Zendesk or their product offerings.
wow! Thanks for sharing your experience. I will make sure I get up often.
most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help.

Do they? In what sense?

I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game developers

Like create a games console that uses PC components and makes porting much easier?
> Landline and Mobile phone numbers are differentiatable,

I'm not sure about this in a world with number portability.

> email address and website url are differntiatable too

Yep, we do this already.

> auto-import feature LinkedIn/Facebook/Google, that searches for the contact's

We'd like to pull in social data. It's not trivial, though services like FullContact.com can help.
Fair point, but I would argue that "known" and trusted organizations, such as Khan Academy or Coursera, backing a given instructor or set of materials constitutes a form of vetting. It's not like they pick their material out of a hat, and they're all fully aware of the potential repercussions of publishing quackery.
I know it's just a dream, but why can't we build one here? Maybe if one of those hackerspaces took off...
<replace 'here' with any location>
I'll admit the license issue is weird, but really–since when is $25 or $90 expensive?

I purchased the Isotope commercial license a few months back and I actually bought the Packery one today. I'm not really concerned with the nuances or semantics of the licensing.
Nice! I'm going to go with this keyboard based on your recommendation, because I also just switched to Dvorak and it's great to know that this keyboard worked for someone typing on Dvorak layout. Thank you!
Because you don't have a consumption downstream industries?
I did some research, and I think at this point I'm going to go with this: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. :D
Most Americans would call him poor (or retired) and Beckham rich.

The social signifiers Americans would recognize distinguish between the main groupings of people who work for a living: working class, middle class, and professionals. On either side of that are the rich and the poor. Take a poor person, give them a lot of money and they become rich. Their interests, habits, or speech are irrelevant.

Some rich Americans who happen to have inherited their money distinguish themselves from outsiders through affections related to clothing and habits. The vast majority of their fellow citizens would not even recognize most of what this group regards as markers of group status, any more than they would be able to distinguish between this or that gang sign.

America's original sin is slavery. Skin color was a quite simple way to distinguish between castes, so there was no reason to develop the mannerisms that became important in Britain. Someone studying acting in the UK will likely spend a tremendous amount of time on voice, so they can navigate the complexities of representing a variety of classes. It's not accidental that Americans are more noted for a much more inwardly focused "method".
Regardless of Linode's previous screwups, I welcome this change and I hope more hosting companies to offer 2-factor authentication soon.

For anyone installing the Linode's recommended Windows App "Authenticator", WARNING, it does not work! I was locked out! I then used the Microsoft's Authenticator app to find the right token.

Do not logout without verifying it works first in an incognito mode. Better yet, save the secret key temporarily to your PC.
Amazon fresh seems to only be in Seattle at the moment. :(
But I did hear that Apple keyboard is horrible for your wrists. I've been using the apple keyboard with my iMac for a few years and then recently I started noticing wrist pains. Correlation is not causation, but just to be on the safe side I'm going to get a more ergonomic keyboard.
> "How is an accidental shooting equate to murder?"

Zimahl, minutes after making the above comment: "a bomb is a bomb"

How is popping a soda bottle equivalent to a brick of C4?
haha first person shooter on a Wacom? Must be a sight to see, can you make a vine? :D
I think the charges are ridiculous. But I also think Hacker News can do better for content than hosting a link to every change.org petition that comes by, as the great majority of change.org petitions are a lot more ridiculous than this petition. And even when the petition urges a sensible position, the petition is almost never the best means to achieve the desired result.

From the Hacker News guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

This story has been adequately covered by the TV news and by news outlets all over the world. The petition doesn't add any "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" value to the Hacker News community.
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It's not only zoning laws. Houston (where I spent a portion of my childhood) is a large city with no zoning laws, and yet is exceptionally sprawling.

Suburbanism in Houston ends up being propelled through a mixture of:

1. Land availability, transit, and culture. There is a ton of space, it's flat w/ no natural geographical constraints, people like to live in big houses in the suburbs, there are freeways, and there is barely any public transit to speak of. So people live in the suburbs.

2. Contract law. There are large, privately developed suburbs where the developers require purchasers to agree to contracts governing their future use of the property, as a condition of sale. Suburbanites don't want a metalworking factory next door, so if you're developing a suburb, you get better sale prices if you can assure purchasers that that won't happen. So you do so by adding contract conditions. In a typical Houston suburb, your deed will have conditions attached, in which you have signed an agreement that neither you, nor anyone you convey the property to, will: subdivide the property, redevelop it into anything higher than 2 stories, redevelop it into a house that takes up more than x% of the lot, operate a commercial or industrial establishment on it, or lease it to tenants. This de facto introduces something like zoning via private contract law. So if you really don't want zoning, you'd have to actively suppress private-sector zoning, not only repeal governmental zoning.
> The task of a good manager is to run an employee up to the point of the Mental limits and make sure all those other limits are at 5% so they can maximize the employee output.

I find it ironic that you describe the very real negative effects of burnout, but then describe a recipe for inducing ... burnout.

May I suggest that you read Tom DeMarco's book Slack? It specifically addresses what I'll term "operational fallacies" like this regarding knowledge work, and covers making an organization more effective (doing the right work) vs. merely efficient (doing lots of work) by adjusting the character and pace of work.
The only reason this story is news is because, based on the info we have so far, it's appears to be a grand hypocritical overreaction. A kid mishandling a BB gun is arguably just as dangerous, or more so, than a kid playing with small amounts of household chemicals outside and away from others. The former killed someone and was not charged with anything, the latter harmed no one and gets felony charges.

The only difference is fear. People are not afraid of BB guns, but if you frame Drano+aluminum foil (from what I've read of the ingredients) in a small water bottle as a dangerous explosive or as a terrorist act, people will overreact and impose absurd punishments.

The hypocrisy is the most relevant point of all.
It's funny: when I saw this on HN I thought they meant the intro to the original Unreal. I was actually more excited to see that than what was presented :(
TechShop, there is very little software industry there. It's an industrial town, and there are/were parts of it that are off limits to foreigners. Sure, you can source parts to every gadget and machine you would want to build in Hua Qiang Bey, but there is no tech "scene", for lack of a better word, not many locals using their own wares to make new stuff. It's an industrialist city geared toward exports.
You will need to speak Mandarin. I was in Shenzhen (for an academic conference) recently and hit the electronics stores, all of which are staffed by folks who pretty much exclusively speak Mandarin. That said, it was awesome just to wander around, even by myself as an english-only speaker. And the train system is super easy in Shenzhen, like Beijing.
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Very cool! Sadly, in the US at least, I venture to guess that each generation (~5 years) of 'hackers' arrives less mentally connected to circuits and more connected to graphic design.

It wasn't -that- long ago you could buy a solderless breadboard-equipped ISA or PCI card and easily cobble together your own custom PC hardware project. Countless hours of analog fun too!
I think you misunderstand that people who create software products also provide APIs to their product, both online and shrinkwrapped.

There are literally as many APIs out there as there are software products.
If a spectrum of measurement seems to generally fit a problem-space, but you're having problems putting names to the categories you've got (or the converse, everything you try to categorize seems to straddle one of the lines), you've probably sliced the spectrum up at the wrong points.

In this case, I recall an article (a chapter from a book, actually) that distinguished five or six separate social classes which exist in the US, and went into incredible detail about what makes someone fit into one or another of them. They felt pretty natural, both less politicized and easier to recognize by mannerism/belief/dress.

Ah, found it (the source was down, but I had a copy saved): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47375701/An_Anatomy_of_t...