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Any cheap old laptop works just as well if not better if you just want to use ssh into another box!

I personaly snapped up a nice Asus netbook with built in 3g modem, wifi and bluetooth and cuts a lovely battery life.

But a nice cheap chromebook is probably the best option for most unless you can find a cheap netbook of comparable use.

Though ironicly none have beat my old psion 5mx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5) for battery life and that can do ssh as well, sadly though IRDA and serial are not the cutting edge comm's standards. Have been a few that come close, but just not jumped out at me.

That said I'm still awaiting for something of that form factor with some modern love.

That all said if Mr Linux Linus is happy with a chromebook as a dev machince, then they must be doing something right, though a Chrome pixel just for SSH would be fiscal perversion on my budget.
"and who exactly adjudged that, that they don't have this right?"

Those who manage to escape the concentration camps and leave the country.
Will it have "supergluten" ? :)
Back when I was a consultant on the road, we'd talk to the sales manager at the nearest Hilton (most of us were HHonors guys) and negotiate a group discount for the team. Even in metro areas we could generally get below $130 a night with perks thrown in.

Plus, they'd book all our reservations for us. We just cancelled the weeks we didn't need as we went.
hotels.com - Huge catalogue, fast to use, good photos, and TripAdvisor rating right there on the page.

They also do great cashback on Quidco regularly, and have their own loyalty program, so it's usually a great deal to go through them.
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It's almost impossibile that anyone on HN noticed this.
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I had a Show HN that made no headway on the frontpage (like 3 karma then it disappeared into the depths), but I posted that same link, relevantly, as a comment somewhere in the middle of the thread and it absolutely blew up. It's now my highest starred repo on Github and I started the phone interview process with Hulu because of it. Don't underestimate the comments here. A TON of people browse these posts too.
Mostly using http://www.google.com/hotelfinder/ which aggregates a lot of different sites.
Olav, there were eight bugs filed and no explanation. I came back to the bugs irregularly to see wether there was anything new in terms of explanation.

Then this trainwreck happened and people were asking questions.

So I thought it worthwhile to add what I knew. I don’t think I disclosed anything personal. It was strictly technical matters relevant to the bug at hand.

So why did you ban me with a false accusation?

If anything the "removing type-ahead search from nautilus" bug should’ve taught the lesson that an information campaign works better than outright censorship.

When that bug got attention Jon McCann came in, explained, and then made a full blog post[1] to expound the directions they were taking. I still didn’t like it but I was satisfied with the explanation.

Stop digging in and realize that just slightly amending your policies and interactions with users would fix everything.

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2012/08/01/cross-cut/
My friend made this table of contestants advancing to round 2 of Codejam by country.

I found the Indian proportion interesting. Even with those cheaters less than 3% advanced.
Whenever looking for hotels in an area I check the TripAdvisor reviews. I usually end up trying to call the hotel and booking directly, but recently TripAdvisor has been slowly rolling out pricing info directly on the hotel page from Expedia, Orbitz, etc. so I used that a few days ago when I booked a room for last night.

I believe this functionality has been completely rolled out in the mobile (iPhone/Android) app if you want to check it out.

(Disclosure: I work for TA, but in a different department. However, I was a TA user before I joined the company, and continue to be one)
https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=777
I don't usually book in advance unless I know it's difficult to find a room in a specific area. Last time I remember booking a hotel, it was through Agoda.com (it's pretty big in Asia AFAIK).
I wrote an emulator for a Prime minicomputer (1975-1992 era). The Prime had built-in instructions for process coordination via semaphores. So when a process issued a WAIT instruction to wait on an event (semaphore), the microcode scheduler looked through the ready list to find the next eligible process to run. At the end of the ready list is the "backstop" process, the lowest priority process; it is always ready to run. The backstop process would look through other scheduling queues (just a semaphore with a list of processes waiting on it) for processes that had exhausted their timeslice, give them a new timeslice, and execute the NFYE instruction to put the process on the ready list. The NFYE instruction would actually switch to the new process, because that process had a higher priority than the backstop process.

There was a periodic timer process on the Prime, that ran at the highest priority. It was used for things like waking up driver processes periodically, in case an IO device was hung and didn't interrupt like it should have, and for waking up processes that were sleeping until a certain time passed (sleep call).

I think it was advanced for its time. If you want to read more about it, here's a link to the Prime System Architecture Guide:

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/prime/doc/DOC9473-2LA...
He's been complaining about GNOME for a long time. I guess either they got bad enough Xfce looked better, or he figured out how to get Xfce to do what he needed. https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/WTLyn7dqYoR https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i
And the first comment on https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/KygiWsQc...
In incognito mode of course!
Haha but seriously, the last few times I booked I did it through cashback websites like Quidco. Laterooms.com which is my prefered booking site also offers cashback via quidco, so it's basically win-win.
A post that estimated how many HN visitors block Google Analytics would be useful.
I'm curious if there's a lot in it for them; for example, if you book through some third party, are they paying 20-30% in fees to the booking site to get you in the door?
You're confusing "intelligence" and "wisdom". Wisdom is, without a doubt, based on age. It's something that can only be obtained through years and years of experience dealing with people, places, and situations in the world. While you may have more intelligence than an 80 year old Korean War vet, I don't think anyone would believe you have more wisdom.
I had no clue this existed.

Google really has too many services for their minimalistic UI these days...
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What a lovely idea, just goes to show that homelessness is not all down to drink and drugs as people believe. I know as had some wonderful conversations with homless people myself and very easy thru no fault of your own to get into such a situation.
I'm a student, so I spend less than 5 nights a year in a hotel (usually to/from internships or conferences). If I'm driving, I don't pre-book, I just show up and get a room. If I'm flying, I'll use Hipmunk to find a cheap place and book there. The last two nights, I was driving and picked the hotel closest to McDonald's so I'd get a quick breakfast before hitting the road.
If someone else is going to be paying for the hotel, I let them choose and book it so they can choose how much they spend.

If I'm paying for myself I check hotel aggregation websites, and check prices directly with hotels I've stayed at before or that have been recommended to me.
Naming in hard. It's one of the two most difficult things in programming: naming, cache invalidation and one off errors.
Zim - http://www.zim-wiki.org/
Something tells me (crazy guy that he is) that Branson was all to eager to lose this bet. ;)
Side question, rant. I love the syntactic side of list or dict comprehension (in python) and often use them but as soon as I have to debug or expand the functionality, I have to slice them into for loop. And then I hate myself for being lazy/clever and more and more, when I start typing a = [, I hear an internal voice: wait, aren't you being wrongfully clever one again?

I am the only one?
Interesting, but I wish the author would decide if the name is spelled Vivian or Vivien. I also wish the author had said why she was so important, as I know nothing about photography.
maybe it should give them little reminder shocks periodically while the magnet is emplaced? If it's exclusively for disabling it in emergency situations, then a tingle every couple of minutes would be the least of the patient's worries.

I wonder if it's possible to do that safely without requiring additional electrodes (because shocking the heart itself is probably a bad idea, unless necessary)

Edit: Or maybe just a little piezo disc or something; "Oops, daddy's started bleeping again."
If only 10% of one of the accounts of the concentration camp escapees is true, then NK is in the same cluster as Syria and Congo in terms of treatment of its people.

Its reasonable to assume that the right to not have your malnourished six year old daughter beaten to death for stealing a few corn kernels is one that homo sapiens everywhere find worth fighting for.
> This is the best advice you will ever get here or anywhere else.

That's rather presumptuous.

> Please call your mother for those of us who no longer can.

What do my family contact habits have to do with people whom I've never met?
"A monads is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
I wonder if those quack 'magnetic wrist {pain reliever,travel/seasickness preventer} bracelet' things are strong enough to affect it?
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I was literally saved by booking.com

Case in point: lost my flight (because of airport issues), this was a sunday evening, so no one at the airport to help you book a hotel.

Grab my phone, booking.com, search for hotels at that airport, ok fee, etc, gets a taxi there

Night of sleep saved.
For a minute there I thought you were talking about Kim Jong-un, but it turns out he's 28.
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The whole point is that they DON'T get to live anywhere close to how they want. The slightest dissent or disobedience is met with vicious punishment or death. They can't leave, even if they want to. Ongoing starvation is normal. They act odd at the football game because they never go to football games and have no idea how to act; most there likely were told "attend or die". If they "like" this it's because they at not allowed to know any options.

You know that recent news story of three women rescued from 10 years brutal captivity? North Korea is that on a national scale.
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While indeed the story as told sounds like I am promoting copious reproduction, really one child fulfills the meaning of the parable: Many if not most of us operate at a very low level of effort, and succeed to some degree regardless. Having a child (which really is a surrogate for "having a reason to pursue success", which to others might simply be intrinsic drive) seems to make many focus the effort and improve efficiency.

We didn't expect our third child, or the fourth for that matter. That's life though, and I'm a very roll with it sort of person and am extremely pleased with how things have turned out.

Of course I am speaking from a very privileged position of happening to have the right sort of mind at the right moment in history in the right situation where I can talk about pissing most of my time away and still achieving what many would consider a lot of success. This obviously doesn't apply to all careers or all people.
Last time I checked, drug dealers only accept cash or valuable goods. Drug dealer would definitely get a good life though.
Regarding the caste thing, had some more thoughts. Django Unchained plays with this. At first, you don't know where Stephen fits in. Is he a slave who "knows his place"? But he's so disrespectful! Gradually you learn that he has carved out a special role for himself at the expense of others.

There's lots of room for talking about knocks on the door, and who fears who in Pulp Fiction too.

Thinking about North Korea is interesting because the media coverage is so slim. What can I trust? Maybe I'm just living in a personalised version of the Truman Show. But the closest we have to a knock on the door is fear of economic strife, and very rare but overhyped incidents of domestic terrorism.

> why there haven't been a popular revolt, against
> the government, if people are that oppressed

Revolution is a rare thing.

I assume North Koreans have to deal with twisted language as well, and they're not allowed to talk to one another to work out their ideas. Marxism is filled with weasel words like "permanent revolution".

Imagine how your brain would work if you had been born and bred on a diet of astrology, and taught that even discussing interpretations of what the people with guns say will have immediate, dire consequences.

Most of history is dictatorship and compliance. What we have at the moment feels normal because it's what we know. But really it's a special exception to everything that has come before, and the reality for most of the people who are alive even today.

I'm glad you challenged the post, I didn't have a bunch of these ideas an hour ago.
I`ve read that doc, and it looks like you are right. Now i`m even more courious how they measure single hit reading time.
This is a great way to test the assumptions many people make about the homeless. I can imagine this being the start of an awesome non-profit. Donate to the homeless with transparency with what they do with your money. The service could also report on the population as a whole and segment by interesting factors to look for ways to maximize the impact of the money given.
When you insert this in the first line of your script

#!/bin/bash

The specified program is run. From that point on, the bits you're executing in that script are 'bash' no matter what the shell you called it from is.

I've been running zsh on my local system, and happily writing [bash, csh, perl, ruby] using this trick.
Thanks for that, Ed almost shamed me into calling, I'll still call since its been a while but at least I won't open with "Happy Mother's Day!"... to be followed by a confused silence.
Postbox. Like emailing yourself without the duplicates and with added editability and great search.
It seems odd that the designers of such a potentially life-critical device would choose a method with such potential for accidental triggering for such a function.

I guess it's a tradeoff between likelihood of accidental triggering vs not having the capability to disable it in a genuine emergency due to lack of equipment.

Then again, if your paramedics/hospital don't immediately have a (strong enough) magnet on hand, you're no better off than them not having the special disabling-device. I guess magnets are cheaper, and don't require batteries, but is that a sufficient reason to use such a signal?

Even something like requiring a varying magnetic field at some fixed frequency (and of a high enough power to not trigger on RF/spurious EM) would be much less likely to accidentally trigger, and the disable-device could be an electromagnet driven by an oscillator.

Any other ideas why this method might have been chosen?
Being a contrarian will make you look interesting in some cases, ignorant in so many others. You should be a little more informed about what's happening in North Korea and about how exactly their people have "every right to live as they want".
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I'm not sure of the point either now. It was kinda late at night to be fair.
I'm not quite sure how that answers DLays points. Care to elaborate?

He/she was pointing out that people the children, and childrens children of people who are deemed enemies of the state are not free to live how they want.
Nice one Twitter... I almost fell for it and thought they'd done a super cheesy vid... PHEW!
Also known as the difference between finishing a mario game, and finishing a mario game with all stars / 100% completion. Those levels are vicious.
Can you point me to a reasonably mature and efficient implementation of such an algorithm for Go or Java? I only know the Azul one which costs thousands of dollars per server per year.
So creating a wood pointing stick from a table leg during a PPT about Derivatives is not an important skill intersection? I beg to differ.
It also has a much more powerful, but also more complex type system.

To be precise, it's type _inference_ of Damas-Hindley-Milner + Typeclasses that poses the most gotchas. (Plain vanilla DHM is just ML. You can hack Haskell without class, but you can't get the class out of Haskell.)

Experience with Prolog helps, since a form of logical deduction, generally speaking, is what's happening behind the scenes. You could think of the compiler as applying AI to figure out the types. This kind of AI is magic when it works and baffling when it barfs.

One way out is to skip the AI entirely and annotate all the types by hand. Now the compiler only has to check types, not infer them. When it stumbles over imperfect code, the error messages become a lot more decipherable.
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And how would we know about that popular revolt? I know you're busy answering everybody's replies... but I'd like to add, stating the obvious, that I strongly doubt there's any society with millions+ people where "they live as they want", with "they" = "they all". It just so happens that I can if I so desire read the American Chomskies but not his North Korean counterparts, who, I feel (without proof), must exist.
It depends, whether this is the case with NK as well. As it is, they are indeed subject to a fair amount of our interference, Ideas, or whatever you call it.

But the fundamental issues of a country are poverty, education, shelter, etc. Why?

Well, if you are hungry, a lifetime of servitude to psychological brainwash, would not turn the millions of years of instinct. If that situation worsens, people across North Korea would have been angry, even if they don't express it immediately.

This anger, increases overtime based on atrocities caused by the government.

But imagine, America coming in to NK, in the name of liberalizing the people, and causing more death, famine, and stuff in the process, which is not avoidable.

It would be too easy for the great leader to propagate, and even easier for the people to accept, that all fault lies with America and its allies, thus causing a failure of attainment of objective, i.e to provide people a way to better life.

The war against NK, if it exist, is at the base level. Organizations like RedCross, UNESCO, and others have to be pressed upon.

Not more economic sanctions, and threats to a society, that understands very little about your intention.
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Erm.. propaganda is a very powerful tool, when combined with extreme violence it is easy to oppresse a great number of people.

Your argument that "Given north koreans haven't revolted, might mean they don't mind", would be similar to saying "Maybe the jews didn't mind the holocaust, else why didn't they just overrun the prison camps"

You seem to just be trolling this whole article. There are number of accounts of how bad NK is from people who have escaped the country. There are a number of independent media groups who have made very compelling unbiased reports of what is happening in NK. There are a number of journalists who have been imprisoned while reporting in and around NK.

That coupled with the very public (false) propaganda that is produced by NK itself. Paints a very compelling case that NK is ruled by a single family that is controlling the entire population through miseducation (propaganda) and violence.

Could you show some evidence that suggests it is just media hype?
I find it to be important because it documents facets of the early 1950's and 1960's that we would have not otherwise seen.

It is a very good look back in time
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That's very much an uncommon special case, though. You don't need that to use ARC, and rarely come across it.
Great question. I learned them through osmosis over many years of looking at them in other people's code and tinkering myself. I don't remember ever going through a tutorial or reading a book. Probably not the best way to learn them as it definitely took a long time to have a good grip on them and I was missing important pieces for a long time. For example, it was only relatively recently that I learned that you can turn off "greedy" when using .* by adding a ? after it.
Yeah! Those idiots trying to get food on their plate that is healthy and without side-effects. What on earth are they thinking?

Do you really find it odd? Nowadays, if you're not a chemist, you have no idea what you're eating. So it is only natural that people react by avoiding everything that is unknown, unfamiliar, or even seems unnatural.

That's perfectly normal behaviour. What IS NOT normal behaviour is sticking your head in the sand when 1 in 2 get cancer.

Who do you think is looking out for your well being? The companies selling you these things?
Yes, they overclocked it.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/13/ouya-nvidia-lovefest/
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I am not sure I actually see myself doing development on this hardware. Maybe it is due to the type of work I am doing now and the requirement of the sheer amount of data/services running locally. But I wouldn't mind using this essentially as an operating environment with a few tmux sessions open.

The more that I tinker with OpenStack and generally setting up virtualized services I am beginning to be sway towards never necessarily needing to buy a desktop machine again.

Up until a few months ago my machines sat around just to collect dust. But I see a future where a Chromebook style machine can easily connect to a VPN with an OpenStack cloud powering development. Its actually quite damn easy now if you invest the time.

The only reason I do not do this now is that I have been unable to find a machine with decent enough resolution and great battery life. But I've told myself that my next laptop (right now a 15 inch MacBook Pro) will be something significantly smaller.

I just hope that the retina displays catch up with the rest of the industry.