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This is a very reasonable and logical arguments over this sensitive issue.

It's not about if someone wants to be homeless, if there is a simple choice between shelter and homeless, people will always prefer shelter. But if the choice is between working hard with a shelter, and live carefree and homeless, the answer will not be so clear.
I don't really get it, are they only using the magnetic strip and not the chip on the card?
I got my boss to let me try out Go after proving that I could solve problems that we were currently struggling with.

I also agree that you don't need to hire new devs. I've taken two programmers who've never used Go (mostly university languages) and taught them to be productive in a matter of days. Both consider Go to be one of their favorite languages.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/333789309779996673/photo/1
That's not the problem. Making people agree to it is the problem.
The real downside of go is that it didn't exist when Java arrived. It would have made a much better intro to CS language than Java. Then Android wouldn't have decided to use Java because so many new programmers used it in school.
People are probably more afraid of losing their jobs. They also probably think it won't happen to them.
That's great news—it also means she has great insurance... not everyone can afford that.
There are already a couple coffee shops and at least one fairly nice restaurant using iPads and Square this way in Boulder. I can see a lot of reasons why this could be an effective strategy, with benefits on all sides.

One thing though: while e-mailing myself receipts for business dinners is a nice-to-have feature, I am curious to know more about the privacy implications (probably wouldn't take but a moment to find out).
I'd agree with you if he'd used the unsubscribe link they provided with every message!
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It seems like the focus of the article shifts around. Are we talking to affiliates or entreprenuers in gerneral? Nope, now we're talking to the entire U.S. population. Suddenly we're talking about how kids need to be taught about money? In an article about delaying gratification?

There are some good points to be found in the article, but they're only brushed over. The lack of focus just makes the article longer while undercutting the usefulness.
Even when you make great, easy to understand documetation, people are fucking lazy. That fact keeps the most of people in our support department employed.
To steal somebodies culture (like in recording it and putting it in a vault while aserting copyrights) is as bad as stealing ones land, maybe you should debate this with victims of cultural theft.

Monopolies, which are constructs in law to favor friends of rulers, are never morally justifiable.
Growing food and constructing buildings won't solve the problem either. We have plenty of both already.

Motivating the self-absorbed, indolent masses to legislate away homelessness is the problem.
I think he means that prime factorization is unique (which is true).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmet...
right up near the top: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
it wasnt the only option. naval blockade, starving them of critical wartime resources like oil/rubber/many others would have also ended the war....
Whether or not we consider that "spam" is a semantic argument. I do, because it litters my inbox and pisses me off. I recognize that people may want to distinguish it from bulk email from entities that you have no prior relationship with, but to me, that's immaterial.
>Distributing money indiscriminately devalues work and effort.

This is a poor understanding of the concept. The idea behind a Basic Income Guarantee is that it is received equally by every citizen in the country. It's an idea linked to Negative Income Tax and other like proposals, and shares support of many with a more libertarian/economically conservative bent.

In most areas of North America where Basic Income experiments have occurred, the overall workforce does decline, but in very specific ways: mainly with single mothers and teenagers. Mothers choosing to stay at home with their children, and teenagers graduating high school are more positive impacts on the society at large than the greater retention of wealth by the highly motivated.

Wealth can only be created in societies, and therefore the overall health of a society should be of paramount concern to those interested in creating wealth. While I do not advocate for many socialist principles, a certain baseline ensures the society remains sustainable in the long term, thus allowing its members to grow wealth.

Both too much (Communism, socialist Europe) and too little (Argentina, Venezuala, the US) will lead to inevitable social collapse and the reduction of wealth (or the ability to create more) for all.

You do not live in a self created bubble.
I've never been to Helsinki. But perhaps the lesson there is that Finland too has much to learn from the UK safety net, and not that the US doesn't have a problem.
I looked into Erlang in some depth, and found its concurrency ability was due to shared-nothing modules (which smalltalk also has), which I think you refer to with "messaging". Race conditions can still occur, which I guess you include with "not all of them". Plus, in Erlang this was found to not address all concurrency problems, and so a software transactional database is included as standard.

Looking at the details, I don't think general concurrency is a solved problem. Looking at the results, if it was, we'd have much better utilisation of multi-core architectures by now than we do. For example, 32 core x86, clocked ultra-low, for extraordinarily low power consumption.

Actually, another issue is that message passing might work better with cores with their own RAM, so the modules can work independently.

I think there's a huge amount of kool-aid around concurrency "solutions" - functional programming, erlang, and now Go. Because concurrency is so valuable, if Go really does make it trivial, we it should quickly dominate all other languages. But it seems to me that concurrency is still a hard problem.
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Square asks for the signature on the iPad whether you buy a printer or not as far as I can tell.
Having moved to teaching after 10 years of software development, I can definitely relate to this post. I love how researching how to explain something has really made me understand concepts on a much deeper level. I appreciate things I never appreciated when doing pure development, and it's driven my hunger to learn more as opposed to learning enough to get a task done.
Well, yeah, because Go is compiled, not interpreted. It's GC isn't as optimized as Java's, but for straight computational speed, it's pretty comparable to other compiled languages.

It just isn't a drop-in replacement for Java because it doesn't live in the same space. It does, however, have a similar feel as Python, especially with slices (except Go's don't copy data) and first-order functions. It's a completely different feel though than Python.
Depends on the outcome that you want.
>> I think Go is a great language and works in most of the spaces where Java lives, except maybe GUIs, but Java was never any good at that anyway.

Eclipse is the world's most popular IDE it's written in Java, Minecraft one of the most popular Indie games ever made was written in Java. What gives you the impression that Java isn't good for GUI's? It's great for GUIs and it's cross platform from the start.
If you RTFA, it looks like it isn't even doing a GET, its doing a HEAD request.
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You can NOT have a single domain of expertise as a programmer, and be a great programmer.

You have to at LEAST have a good base knowledge of both programming, how to solve/codify problems and solutions, AND the domain knowledge of the problem you are trying to solve. Almost no programming is providing programming solutions for programming alone... the vast majority come from real world business needs.

Yes, there are some domains that are programming tools.. languages, platforms and frameworks... and many programmers focus on that, which is why there are plenty of options. However, that alone will not make you a great programmer.

I've spent most of my career doing contract work, because I absorb domain knowledge like a sponge, and enjoy it... I think my most productive time was in aerospace e-learning. It meant becoming a domain expert in e-learning, as well as the subject matter for the content of the e-learning. Now, I'm not a jet engine mechanic, and have no inclination to be, but being able to create a simulated interface for some of those systems was really enlightening, and I learned a lot about sheer engineering from that experience.

I've also had the chance to learn about systems security, and business processes in other positions... Not to mention providing a clear user interface and experience for interaction along the way. I love to learn, and have never enjoyed traditional education. Programming has given me the opportunity to learn in more depth about more subjects than a typical person does in several lifetimes.

If you aren't learning in this industry, and are only focused on programming, then you will be continuously behind... then again, there is plenty of work out there for mediocre code monkeys.
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When the poor have no money they can't pay entrepreneurs.

When the super-rich have all the money, the super-rich drive up the cost of living. The middle class then must directly serve the interests of the rich in order to get enough profit to afford the higher cost of living.

It quickly becomes uneconomical to sell anything to poor people.

It's a poverty spiral. Uneducated families just get more uneducated without state intervention. Rich families just get richer, driving up cost of living, cornering markets to destroy the free market, and making the poor families poorer in comparison.

When are we going to wake up from this Randian dystopia we're creating??
Can you try it again with some less "fuck" in it? Maybe I'll finish reading it that time.
It's an interesting article, but this title is ridiculous. The notion that a startup doesn't "matter" unless it does $100M+ in yearly revenue is just plain wrong.
I think that is a very generous analogy.

The test drive is in the company of a sales man. Its the same as being in the show room. The equivalence there is being logged in to the website. One is engaged with the business by mutual consent. So, the A/C example is like getting a pop up offering support or advice while being logged in.

Leaving the show room is the same as logging out. The engagement is over. You do not expect A/C instruction or helpful wesite hints.
You just need to remember that a small number of people are just not going to get it. Mostly truck drivers that are dead tired. That water screen does the trick because you're not expecting it. Signs, bumps, and noises are all common to highway driving.

In Boston a few months ago a coach bus had the top ripped off going under a 10ft bridge on a road that truck/bus traffic is banned from. The driver hit several low bars and signs and plowed onward until the bridge cut the top off. Several times a year this happens on Storrow Drive, despite all the warning devices as some drivers just can't be reached.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/02/...
There is no redistribution. Everyone is entitled to the same benefit, just like they are entitled to fire protection.

Over a certain amount of income earned however, the benefit becomes negligible.
But long term , those kids, who will face the huge struggle ,will be those who'll change the system and make history.

So let them be.
I think failing a business is good life experience, especially for programmers, since the starting costs are relatively very low.
Well channels can get pretty exciting at times, but they are so easy to work with I don't spend much time on them.
But does it accept Bitcoin?
Do some market research before giving up.
This still doesn't solve one of the big CAPTCHA issues. Do look at this USENIX paper in [1]. It's still possible to offshore manual CAPTCHA solving to places with cheap labour at extremely low costs. I don't know how common software solvers are, but my impression is that the technology there is only so-so.

[1] Re: CAPTCHAs – Understanding CAPTCHA-Solving Services in an Economic Context http://static.usenix.org/events/sec10/tech/full_papers/Motoy...
Buying an iPad stylus makes it a little less awkward than asking the customer to sign with their finger.
There's likely some space left between actual tunnel height and truck height limitation (for safety), and clever driver's incentive to go through the tunnel (if it's a nice shortcut) might be stronger than any kind of sign.
It's all obviously dependent on your plan - but many plans do in fact cover 100% of a mastectomy and reconstruction. Which of course makes financial sense to them if the same plan requires them to cover substantial amounts of cancer treatment and the patient has such a high risk profile.

I'd need to find more sources but for one this is Aetna's policy, which it seems like Jolie would fit under due to family history and the results of her genetic testing.

http://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/200_299/0227.html
One way, which is admittedly heavy-handed, is already available. If you go to Help->Troubleshooting Information, there's a button to "Reset Firefox". https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi... Hopefully future releases will automatically detect problems in individual subsystems and give you more fine-grained control.
> (And forking all of your dependencies is an option, but it's not quite that simple. In order to get truly reproducible builds, you have to mirror all of their dependencies as well, and patch all of your forked versions to fix their imports.)

It's not only an option, it's a practical necessity to freeze the dependency tree locally so you can run a rebuild when someone's knocked the remote repository offline. Doesn't everyone do this?
I'm a bit surprised they went for that cheesy white plastic look. That seems like it would stand out in most retail stores. Stainless or black is much more appropriate.
just call it what it is, another instant messaging network, that does nothing but simply use the net and your data to send messages under guise of a crpytic ridiculous PIN number/account. Can't we just stick to contact lists of people's names and emails and IM that way..none of these 'numbers' (phone, pin etc).

Meanwhile MS/outlook.com announces interoperability with gTalk...aka XMPP.... and the open net pushes forward.
When I look at my Inbox, emails from companies (1) who got my email address directly from me, (2) include an unsubscribe link that doesn't require me to "login", and (3) honor the unsubscribe request ... are the least of my problems.

We can disagree about whether Weebly's tactics are effective (I imagine they might be, for their target audience of less-technical users), but I don't understand the anger. This is very minor on the scale of email "abuse" that happens to all of us daily.

Use the unsubscribe link.
Thank you, this graph is actually very motivating
Hmm Summly may not make a massive dent in the US economy. But it mattered to some folks.

There' may be hundreds if not thousands of tech startups which don't "matter" because they end up as failing, an acqui-hire or minor exit. But in sum each of those startups have created jobs, paid taxes and added something to the economy.
I assume the market is just people who are using homegrown versions of this, and $300 isn't that much for a nice upgrade.
I predict legislation saying that certain self-driving vehicles cannot be unmanned. This benefits the truck driver while still maintaining a reason to have one. Besides, someone will still have to fill the thing with diesel.

In the long term, though, you're most likely right; truck drivers will have to find new careers. However, said legislation combined with what I believe will be slow adoption due to high cost should give truck drivers a decade or two to migrate to other jobs.
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If you don't control it, treat it as virtually public. I do that with Skype, Gmail, Google Docs, iCloud stuff, Evernote, Dropbox etc.

Don't trust it if you can't encrypt it with a private key.
It really was exhausting. I'd be up so late doing my own work and preparing for class, I'd get up 15 minutes before class would start, and drive. I'd park my car in the Professor's parking lot to avoid looking for parking so I could get to the class on time. Only once was my car towed. :)
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An other fun one is "2m40" (after the tunnel's height, of 7ft10), on the tunnel de l'etoile in Paris: http://www.2m40.com/ (in 2009, a truck crashed into it every 10 days and there were bets on the time the hanging sign would last)
The Square Stand actually includes a USB hub to plug the printer, cash drawer, and barcode scanner in via USB. It's much simpler than setting up everything to talk on the network.
Putting unsubscribe links in unsolicited emails is not a bullet-proof vest; it does not remove their responsibility to avoid bothering people.
I've always found the Metro UI as a total waste. A lot of people argue that you can just ignore it, because the desktop is still obviously there. This is partially true. But given that you can't disable the hot corners, and the full screen start menu completely interrupts whatever is on the screen at the time you pressed start, I've found that I, personally, am less productive with it. Plus it totally trips my OCD.

I've resorted to just using the Windows 7 explorer on top of Windows 8. Speed improvements and latest software, without the unneeded touch mode that my desktop will never use.
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Down with the data center: can a peer-to-peer swarm replace cloud computing?
Oh, man. Been in America--in the freakin' Castro district--for 19 days and already making generalizations?
See you on the other side of this discussion if you loose your wealth and your job for whatever reasons. You'll enjoy beeing jugded by your own words.

Empathy and social justice are crucial for any society that wants to be respected. You are proposing barbary. Social Darwinism.
Coincidentally, many of the twenty and thirty somethings in Japan who didn't manage to score a stable, well paying corporate job (due to the economic downturns of the 90s and 2008-current period) -- which is at times said to be upwards of 30% of the male population in said age group [1] -- have been expressing their despair at their financial situation and grim economic outlook for their country and collapsing social security systems and have exclaimed, "Why would I want to have my hypothetical child suffer an even more grim fate than I have?"

A tragic mixture of having perspective, intelligence, and (relative) poverty.

[1] I say "male", because even in this day and age, female unemployment is much more socially acceptable than its male counterpart.
Will this help them figure out that they need to fix memory leaks?
Science is broken. It's just this site is redonkulous.
I agree with that. It's just that this was a somewhat new and unexpected variety of depravity.
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That's a pretty cool idea.

I'm still wary about the whole concept of letting the customer access the POS interface. What's to keep the customer from subtracting a few items off the tab while the barista is away and working?

Flipping the case over and letting the UI switch into a "signature capture only" mode might be a nice way to solve that.
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And what do women without insurance, money, and BRCA mutations do?
Interesting, here in Germany literally everybody I know uses WhatsApp. Especially the non-tech people. (Well, everybody under 45. Those without smartphones are excluded, of course)
I think truck drivers are more or less trained to ignore everything but the last-resort sign. Near where I live, there's a small bridge (railroad on top, road crosses below) with not enough height. It has some limit on vehicle height that is posted on the streets quite some distance away, so that drivers can choose an alternative route. Of course the bridges always will be higher than the posted limit, taking account inaccuracies of the actual vehicle height and movement during driving, so drivers take a certain amount of leeway for granted.

Now I've seen them back out after having touched the posted bar in front of the bridge and having (almost or actually) touched the structure countless times.

Probably with the consecutively more noticable signs in the video, it's made such that the later signs trigger just at slightly bigger heights than the earlier ones, to avoid scaring drivers that made it through the earlier ones un-warned. So I can see that a driver would try testing the later ones, just because he's pretty sure that he might fit, eventually.
On the other hand, given a genetic risk factor so potentially life threatening that it warrants having body parts preemptively removed, you might think twice before reproducing.
Solid beam is an excellent idea as last recourse, from a structural POV since the vehicle is going to be destroyed anyway it's better to destroy it before it damages the tunnel itself.
But it's not the manufacturers that are bothering me. I applaud the wave of innovation (even if it is misguided most of the time) in form factors that Windows 8 has spawned. I've always liked the idea of a tablet with a keyboard dock that would turn the computer into a workstation. Meanwhile desktops and laptops are still selling just like they always have.

What's bothering me is the constant complaint I see, every bit as misguided, on every single post related Windows 8. It's the same as on every post related to a Google product, the only thing people talk about is Reader and how they don't trust Google anymore. And the biggest problem is that I'm hearing people who don't read tech news saying that so-and-so told them Windows 8 was only for touch screens and they can't use it.

The misinformation campaign is so massive with Windows 8 that I have to believe it's coordinated somewhere. All I want is some legitimate conversation about a subject I'm interested in, but it's completely drowned out by useless and baseless complaints. Every time I see a post complaining about Windows 8, I now wonder if the person is a mindless parrot thinking they're cool for hating on a popular subject or if they're paid by someone. Who? I don't know. I don't care.

We get it, you think it's cool to say Windows 8 is only designed for touch screens, even though that's a load of shit. It's been over a year. Either find a new talking point or just shut up and let the conversation move forward. It's not the bean counters. It's not the manufacturers. It's you that I'm pissed at.
It's fascinating that even after presumably reading this HN discussion, you would still write things like "reducing the frequency...by roughly 25%" and "we were emailing a bit too often", followed by things like "email volume...is now much lower" and "non-annoying as possible". Lots of people here are trying to tell you something that could help your business, something that has very little to do with the precise number of mails you're sending, and you don't seem to be seeing it at all.
So what, many PHP apps don't check for the HTTP type, and even less Perl/other CGI scripts.

Never rely on your environment to differ between the various HTTP methods for you.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

Methods can also have the property of "idempotence" in that (aside from error or expiration issues) the side-effects of N > 0 identical requests is the same as for a single request. The methods GET, HEAD, PUT and DELETE share this property.