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What makes this "for developers"? Whats the difference if a sysadmin is reading this, or a Linux user?

Im surprised to see this on the frontpage, it is less than basics in anything any hacker worth its name can do.
I think it would be an interesting experiment to provide every inmate in a minimum security prison with a computer and access to MOOCS. Then tie their parole to academic performance to incentivize education.

It's possible that releasing more employable ex-cons would reduce recidivism.
I believe that the truth values of ethical sentences are subjective (actually, I believe that ethical sentences don't have truth values, but that's a longer story), so while I certainly have ethical preferences for how individuals and organizations should behave, I only approve of "enforcing" my preferences through my own social/commercial choices, rather than utilizing external violence (like government regulation) to enforce my ethical preferences.
A hackathon for young people (
The kids are burned-out
For some people, working at a startup is synonymous to working crazy hours for a few years and getting a big payout in the end. This is the compressed schedule that PG talks about in his essay. In such startups, there are multiple people (including non-founders) who take part in reaping the benefits of the startup's exit. Because everyone gets some benefit, you have the ability to attract better quality talent.

In a lifestyle business, there is the viewpoint where a non-founder is effectively working to support a founder's lifestyle. There is no promise of a good payout and at best, only a steady income with a predictable workload. For some individuals, this feels undesirable since you may end up with a less passionate, lower talent workforce due to the incentives you are offering. Also if the market opportunity grows at any point, you aren't well equipped to take advantage and you can easily get overtaken by a more mobilized, funded competitor.
"That's an awful dealership and you should never buy from there again."

Can you make that judgement without taking selling price of the car into consideration (discounts etc.?). Raising the dealers costs requires them to make it up somewhere. Now in a perfect world perhaps giving that level of service might get more business and they would make it up on volume. Or maybe not.
When I was attending university, there was a big problem with parking. So they built lots of parking space, more or less they tripled the parking lots. Net effect: there was still the same problem with parking, but now there was also a bigger traffic problem. On the other hand, buses were less crowded :)
I find the option to ‘save’ options in the URL much nicer. If I want to change my default language, safe mode etc. with Google, I need to enable Cookies. With DDG, I can save these in the search engine settings in Opera :)
Nothing To Hide? Good, Because You Can't.
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There are lots of places besides HN to talk about stuff like this. Every time we try to talk about it here, the level of civility on HN degrades. Sometimes just a little, sometimes by a lot. I assume that's one of the reasons that articles like this are discouraged by the site guidelines.

I flagged this post.
You can greatly customise the layout of the results page, and even store these customisations in the GET parameters, i.e. your browser’s search engine settings.
And I would disagree.

Doing the wrong thing for the right reason seems in general to be worse, at least in terms of outcome, than doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

Can you give any examples of where you think this isn't the case?
I think it should read "Web Developers" - those who may be less experienced in setting up a web server like nginx.
I'm also looking for open source projects that could use a hand. I have a years experience in Ruby and am interested in Clojure, going into fourth year as a CS major.
Interesting how this was flagged to death... Maybe comparible to the same sentiment that was present in the housing market in 2007: most dreaming of their "rainbows and unicorns" blind to the chains they just wrapped their necks...
Your moral outrage must have been even more intense back when Facebook actually was limited to certain privileged users (students at certain colleges).
Yeah, I really like tab groups. I can understand that they're not for everybody, but please accept that some of us really like them and have integrated them into our browsing workflow.
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In their defence, a lot of the social programmes in the USA are rather demeaning. Food stamps comes to mind.

But that being said; even in a country like mine, where there is larger 'social security net' (as I hear Americans term it) for homeless people, there are still those who choose to be homeless. But they are few and far in between, that I would not consider them a problem here (for public transportation, that is).
Hence the word "automatically".
For starter nginx's configuration, the h5bp nginx config [1] is pretty awesome, e.g. sending correct mime types, protecting hidden files, cross domain webfont, expires, gzip, server tunings all included.

[1] https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs/tree/master/nginx
When you comfortable with JavaScript, there is nothing can scare you in TypeScript.

The only thing is - to get a best you need to prepare. If you using some library, I should find (or write, or generate) proper definition file for this library (Interface). But when you get all together - you have a lot of happy hours of coding :)
SF welfare system is the reason there are so many homeless in that city.
First, that was the non-original version of Hushmail, and over a decade (of development of more capable browsers) has elapsed since the original. Second, the business model would then change to charging for email. Google does that for many services already; paid Google business apps accounts currently provide "no content for ads."
SSL encrypts everything in the url after the ? so GET or POST matters little.
Firefox button > Options > Options (or Tools > Options) > Security, un-check both "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries"

That will turn off the Firefox Safe Browsing features that come from Google.
What can you tell us about the quality of life for prisoners in TDCJ?

Where is the line between giving prisoners something to do vs giving them to much?

Are we working on ways to keep prisons from being "Criminal University"?
Government literally does nothing but enforce ethical preferences (all action decisions, government or otherwise, must be based on value preferences), so this is equivalent to saying you don't support the existence of government.
Absolutely amazing vertical take-off
In short, no, we are from all over.

Several things are going on here:

1. There are a lot of projects available nearly all the time. You could say "oh, so you work more for less and call that good" or you could say "it is a pain point of contracting to be forever negotiating a new project that will just end in days or months, to be renegotiated again. What if there was a pool of work always available and I could scoop it up as I wished and contract out for it under known terms"? Less money, but more reliable money when you are free to do the work as you can see the fire hose.

2. The pay goes up. Informally, we'll name/label "epic projects" and hand them to veteran contractors. On clean completion, I'll get a "hey, its time to talk hourly rate" email and will bump rates.

3. F U, pay me. I do, reliably. This is a big deal.

4. It is home brew code base PHP work, which does tend to be a bit cheaper than RoR or CMS work.

5. Interesting work. We've rolled our own custom warehouse software. Our own queue system. File and fax storage engine. Purchase forecasting software. On and on. Yes, there's rote work and yes things go wrong now and again but in general once you are up to speed you are going to get something cool. When you fight that dragon, you'll do so with the help of a lot of people who know more than you. So you won't be bored and you'll come out stronger.

6. Me. I'm GM but also a (middling) coder. A lot of people doing contract work HATE these things:

a. Here are project specs, they have no relation to how databases are designed or how software is built, but do your best. PS, we're not going to use a ticketing system or code versioning to reference changes, just email me.

b. Refactor? No, no money or time for that. Just get this feature in.

c. Idea? No, can't trust you. Code review before push? We don't do that, so you are dangerous.

I think (and hope) we do a better job than most here and it makes us sticky.

7. Picky. We are fairly picky when it comes to enjoying working with a fellow contractor or full time person. If they have the chops but there's not a click, we pass. Seriously. Even when there's a pressing technical need. This makes for a nice group with less of the usual software pain. People tend to take a project, then another, then kind of keep taking them as can while mixing in that $100/hr, 5 hour project when it comes along.

Works for us. Your experiences may vary. :)
Hah those guys are the worst. My next car was an Infiniti and the closest dealer was in Marin. I was always given at least as good of a loaner and they'd even reimburse me for bridge tolls.
I may be misunderstanding you, but sites-available and the conf files are usually two separate entities. sites-available | sites-enabled is analogous to using a2ensite in Apache without the automagic (you symlink yourself)
It's actually like a parody of privileged, selfish middle-class opinions about the poor. Sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x10QK0ND6A
It doesn't matter that you don't want the sports channel, if you think it does then you haven't understood the economics argument.

You're also an exception, and if the cable company tried to optimise for you (today) they would lose much much more than they would gain.
Libcrunch and CRUSH Maps
Pivotal Contributes Open Source Plugins for New Relic’s Pluggable Monitoring
I live in NYC, and perhaps German homeless are a better-mannered folk than out here. Should you ever visit however, here is a tip: if, on a busy day, the subway cars are all packed except for one which is suspiciously empty---avoid it. A homeless person is in there and likely soiled himself. The stench is overwhelming, and you don't need to be sitting next to him to feel it.
Just some anecdotal evidence, but drones surveilling citizens seems to resonate more with the 65+ aged members of society than does the recording of all internet & phone traffic.

Moments later, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) said drones were a huge privacy threat to Americans.

Yet, regarding NSA activities, Feinstein said on Thursday that the authorities need this information in case someone might become a terrorist in the future. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-d...)
Yeah, and your first born.
It is massively different. All of the ways in which technology changes law enforcement have the same problem. The primary protector of our liberties has been economics: the government couldn't afford to follow many of us. If we weren't mostly law-abiding citizens, LE would be easily overwhelmed.

But technology changes all that. Putting a helicopter in the air with a police pilot is a huge expense. Putting a thousand drones in the air is cheaper. And the benefit doesn't stop there. Computers can correlate data, follow individuals, listen in, eliminating the need for an army of support people. A few agents at their desks can lay out the overall plan, and software can implement "Big Brother".

But wait, there's more. As tech makes us wealthier, it also makes our government wealthier, while lowering the cost of drones, bandwidth, servers, software, etc. So in a decade, we could have perhaps ten thousand drones instead of one thousand. How long drones pick up cell phone transmissions for better tracking? After all, its publicly broadcast data.
'No Place to Hide' from Surveillance (2005)
That's the one issue I had too. I still have early adopter customers of mine who pay me $6 a month (minimum now is 4x that), and I'd never dare to change their original pricing.
Great suggestion, thanks @tszming!
No, it's pretty silly. It's effectively saying that the proper way to respond to strain placed on services by the homeless is to reduce the services the homeless have access to.

Pragmatism can still be wrongheaded.
Once there are as many Teslas on the road as there are 328/335's and Boxsters, service will be different from Tesla.
Intercom is an amazing product that's boosted our revenue and retention more than anything else we've done.

Love the product, and the founders are (from what I hear) awesome people.
... unless your Steve Jobs, in which case you get to stand on top of the mountain and tell everyone else how to build it.
I can't read the article on my Android phone because I can't resize it to fit on screen. So please remove the theme or fix it...
Automated Debugging for Arbitrarily Long Executions
It's interesting you say your first sentence there, because I was thinking exactly the same thing: Steve was always so good with words. I think that, combined with his impeccable taste for new product design and iterations, was his greatest strength.
This article is just fine for IDE-side development, but I would not recommend for anyone to use the version of nginx in the standard Ubuntu package manager. It traditionally is several version back missing important key features that you might want to take advantage of.
> It's no different than when the police fly over your house in a helicopter and look down.

It's at least an order of magnitude cheaper and easier to do. Thus, it will be much more prevalent.

It's like looking at how many people have printers at home when there are $50 inkjets out there compared to a world where the least expensive printer was $3500. And in which the consumables for the $50 inkjet were also less than 1/10 the price.

EDIT: I'm referring to the near future, not the present. Currently, drones are still quite expensive. It's like a time when inkjet printers were just developed, and only 100 were produced. Once production ramps up and the technology is refined, the price plummets.
It's fascinating to me that we have psychological effects of seeing all caps. Compare to a language like Arabic which doesn't have the concept of upper/lowercase letters. I wonder what linguistic effects they have that are specific to their language...
I think cable cutting will only continue. I know plenty of people who only care about cable for live sports. Everything else is either on Netflix or pirated. Surely the content producers would rather get a cut from Netflix than nothing from pirated content.
Think the arguments in favour of SVN over Git are pretty weak. For instance they cite the necessity for Git to copy the entire repo to every developer machine. But this is no longer true with the shallow clone feature.

In truth any VCS can only offer a strict subset of DVCS features. Anything a VCS can do, you can do in a DVCS whereas the reverse is definitely not true.
Cdist learned to configure Debian's alternatives
As the next big cdist release is approaching, here is the first gem 2.2 will contain: The type __update_alternatives allows you to configure alternatives on Debian systems, just like any other parameter of your system:

require="__package/vim" __update_alternatives editor --path /usr/bin/vim.basic

See https://github.com/telmich/cdist/commit/84f2ca0d1f59f3f2157d4350de65800a0a759459 for the introduction of the type
That first article was awesome. I found 2 things in my configs that were security holes :/
I wonder how many people don't take the bus because of the cost. I know that, even if it were free, I'd rather pay £-whatever a year to use my car than suffer the inconvenience and stress of public transport.
Hi, author of the article here. I'm actually not familiar with reload, but after reading this comment thread I'm definitely going to read up on it and make sure it's reflected in the article. Any suggestions of knowledge you want to drop is more than welcome!
Not much of a surprise, although calling your low level agents "drones" is bad management :-) More seriously though, the FBI and police have, since the 60's, had helicopters which they use for surveillance and initial investigation. When my father-in-law stayed at our apartment in LA he said he felt like he was back in Viet Nam (there had apparently been a convenience store hold up that evening with the suspects fleeing on foot). So having aerial things flying around and looking during an investigation is going to be pretty much a non-issue to most Americans I suspect. The DHS gigapixel camera in the sky ARGUS [1] was a bit creepier for me.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/06/argus_is_...
The onion was the only major newspaper to pick this one up.

"98% of US commuters favor public transportation for others"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-98-percent-of-us-com...
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Doesn't that make it even more important that research journals should be transparent and follow their own policies? If top journals were willing to admit mistakes promptly it would be much harder to claim that valid alternative views are being suppressed for political (or other) reasons.
Everybody make's mistakes!
Playing to the Californian voters who are currently pestering local law enforcement trying to acquire and deploy drones no doubt.
Yeah, I run nginx on both Ubuntu and RedHat boxes. On RedHat, the conf files go in /opt/nginx/conf ... there is no sites-avail/enabled
Except for at least one major thing:

ARGUS

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-free-speech-...

You can't reasonably do that with manned helicopters, it'd be wildly impractical. UAVs however are ideal for it. Particularly smaller, lighter, UAV helicopters that can hover in a zone for extreme periods of time recording everything in very high resolution. And over the next decade or two the technology will advance radically, enabling 24/7, simultaneous (the UAVs working in a grid tandem) surveillance at high resolution over all areas of every metro. It's not a question of if this will happen, but how soon.
Perhaps more relevantly, many of the programs related to homelessness (e.g., shelters) are both of inadequate availability and hazardous; homeless shelters are often, from reports I've seen, a trade-off where you get better protection from the elements in exchange for a higher rate of criminal victimization, compared to being on the streets.
>In the US, the toll money often goes toward expensive, politically-motivated capital improvements, not operation expenses.

There isn't a transit system in the US that isn't subsidized. What difference does it make that toll money goes somewhere else if subsidies come from general funds? Money is fungible.
You're correct, the audience is really just a matter of semantics. The reason we wrote this post, knowing that this is very basic stuff, is that we found that a lot of the tutorials we'd come across didn't cover the introductory process end-to-end.

You're just as surprised as we are to see it on the frontpage!
Maybe it's technically difficult now, but what happens when that technology inevitably improves? Once this becomes acceptable, what next? The "abuse of power" knob only ever seems to get turned in one direction.
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Videopixie (YC S11) Launches To Create A Marketplace For Video Editors
Oh man, I'm sorry! I totally dropped the ball on mobile - I'm going to push a responsive design right now. Sorry Justin!

EDIT: Updated, should work great on mobile devices now
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Transcript of Obama’s Speech in Berlin
> You were dismissive and insulting, saying that I and the vast majority of others have no principles.

I didn't say you have no principles, I said you didn't have a principled defense of the Constitution (or something like that).

So, does you just assume everyone who disagrees with you on politics is automatically insulting? People constantly argue about Constitutional issues and that's perfectly acceptable political talk. If you find that insulting, you're going to have a problem.

> you demonstrated what I was claiming right in the message I was replying to.

I'm honestly completely baffled. I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't know why you think I was "dismissive."
I don't see how food stamps are in any way demeaning, compared to, say, visiting an NHS hospital or living in council housing or any other social program?
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I'd say Python handles package management better than just about anything else, period.

Regarding "whitespace"... best stick with PHP or Perl.
Think of a suburbs -> downtown commute situation. Houston comes to mind here.

I believe that was the study. I'll have to go look at the source to be sure, though.

Speaking of convenience factor, I can't wait for self-driving cars in this regard. I know it's a topic change, but widespread autonomous transport will clear up much of our traffic problems. Indeed, humans are the weak link when it comes to traffic. Not roads, signs, capacity, mass-transit, etc. but humans. We're just not capable of coordinating our behavior in traffic.
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Our only choices are slavery[1] or autarky[2]?

[1] Most of us are effectively slaves to the few companies that distribute food.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky
You're asserting without evidence that FedGov had or has "wholesale access" to user data. This is a false assertion.

Google's legal brief filed yesterday cites the "PRISM" flap, and false allegations like yours, as justification for being able to lift the gag order. They didn't have as strong an argument two weeks ago.
If something is "Free" people will hoard it which will reduce its value and increase its cost to everyone. There will be massive shortages of available bus space. With a paid system, people are forced to economize--do I really need to pay to take the bus in winter 5 blocks to buy groceries, or can I walk? But if it's "Free," then people will not economize. The people who need the bus the most, to go to work or hospital or whatever, will have to compete for limited space with people who don't need to be taking the bus. In addition, alternative transit options that could relieve excess demand would be driven out of business (because who can compete with free?). So, the city will be forced to massively increase the cost of the program to meet demand, which would lead to higher taxes anyway, likely offsetting the nominal bus fees that were eliminated.
All other things being equal, just like with mortgages and credit cards and car loans and other credit products, there will be different options with different terms available from different providers. Including these guys: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21578670...
I want to see "Made in USA" on more electronic devices.