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Well it's probably that they have other issues to figure out, because it's working damn well for Starbucks.
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Where I live, there are some bicycle-friendly roads, but if you need to commute by bicycle you are probably going to get some road segments with absolutely no paved shoulder. So the smart thing to do then is to have a mirror, and if a car is coming up behind you and another one is oncoming (two-lane road), your best bet is to hit the gravel.

Also, there are some stretches of road where bicycle clubs seem to frequent. What they do is get a large pack of people, and end up blocking traffic on a 5-mile stretch (they purposely take up the whole lane, probably safer that way I guess, and when there is a bottleneck instead of moving right they take up both lanes). This ends up instilling a large amount of hostility in drivers, so when they see a loan bicycle they tend to be very aggressive (I've had water balloons, even beer bottles thrown at me before, even though I was far right of the white line).
Indeed. To be precise, I should have written that the lack of X in a function's type assures you that the function does not cause X effects.
Sure, I appreciate the advice. I was considering switching the front end of my site over to bootstrap for compatibility and to save time (its custom css/jqueryui at the moment). Maybe I'll create a clone of it in bootstrap and see how it goes before making a decision.
That's an abort(). libmkv encounters an invalid file, throws an exception, vlc exits immediately.
I like the idea of moral offsetting; making a donation to an equal rights organisation to counter the money you spend on the movie.
Crashing does not mean exploitable.

Moreover, it does not crash 2.1.0-pre1 and a work-around has been published (remove the libmatroska_plugin.dylib)
Yet the UK has successfully obtained convictions for failing to hand over passwords - and the UK legal system hasn't yet been compromised to the level of ignoring reasonable doubt.

The majority of people who receive such notices hand over their decryption keys. Because the UK requires such notices only be made after consulting with specialists - it isn't like some random cop makes the requirement on their own. Those specialists can determine things like the likelihood of the "I forgot" defence working.

It should be fairly easy to come up with scenarios where claiming a forgotten password is unlikely. Especially if it is a case of the key being used regularly, for instance whole drive encryption, or one key for all email encryption. Then they're not claiming they forgot the key at some point - they're claiming they forgot it at the very moment the police came knocking. Because otherwise they'd have to claim they've been sitting on a bricked computer, or unusable email account. Which becomes even harder if you can show emails having been sent from that account up until a certain point in time.

Remember criminals tend not to be the smartest cookies running state of the art encryption with deniable characteristics etc.
None in particular, just the general concept that you are responsible for all the parts in the end product, even if not made by you.
Adobe fixes Flash Player, Shockwave and ColdFusion
I posted it above, but here's that essay if anyone is interested: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
So if I had the inclination to live out a Cowboy Bebop fantasy, that would be completely possible?
How is the West Coast tech-company lifestyle that different from the East Coast financial-company lifestyle, other than the difference between flip-flops and a suit? Both seem to involve working hideously long hours in an unstable job in an expensive city.
The issue on the screenshot is an unhandled exception in the MKV plugin of VLC. It should not be exploitable, and has already been patched in months.
Most of those 'nice people' will not be affected by this, given that they were paid a flat salary or wage for their work.
The UK did away with S44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 precisely because there was backlash against the mass use of groundless searches.
What was especially galling is that the UK has pretty broad search powers anyway based on reasonable suspicion, so anyone choosing a S44 search was basically admitting they didn't expect to find anything.
> Not to mention that in Android, Chrome IS the IE.

Really? Don't most Android phones ship with a different default browser than Chrome?

My wife just purchased an S4. It came with a Samsung specific browser. I thought that was fairly commonplace.
I think docuwiki might be a good solution for you. It's easy to set up and quite flexible.
https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
I completely agree. Google+ was meant to enhance all of Google’s products, adding social features. What Google seem to be doing is the opposite.
> Crashing does not mean exploitable.

I realized what you meant after I posted that comment, so I deleted it (but obviously not before you replied). However we do disagree on the meaning of "exploit". If a file causes an application to crash, I consider that an exploit. It may not be arbitrary code execution, but it is exploitation of a denial of service vulnerability.
I don't know, how many women work for Valve? It's not public or easily googlable information.
Or use pattern matching.
http://www.mobileye.com/markets/oem/oem-launches/volvo/volvo...
Spreadsheet view of Charging Stations in OpenStreetMap
having done 40 man raiding in wow, you need to repeat a helluva lot of commands constantly to keep people on their toes. similarly so with pvp, but that's more about making sure your partners are always on top of what's going on. things get insanely hectic.

No it's still not ok to stand in the fire. DONT STAND IN THE FIRE!
Is there another design pattern that is so universally appealing to clients but reviled by developers than the carousel? I don't like them either but honestly, it's such a great idea theoretically...we're all accustomed to the pattern of a box with moving images, since at least e 1960s...and we also know the frustration of cramming a variety of content into a screen size worth of real estate...so why wouldn't a web carousel work?

Unlike other flawed design patterns, such as horizontal scrolling or a reliance on mouseover popups, it's hard to assert, without referring to "studies", why the carousel is just bad in a way that doesn't sound like I'm only stating my hoity-toity developer preferences.
Antoine from exoscale. We have a "regional" approach to cloud computing, with 3 positions: datacenters, operations and company status/funding all exclusively from Switzerland. It is written in our Terms.
Oh, yes, we agree on that. Which is why we patched FFmpeg for the SWF issue.
FINALLY! ahem...excuse the enthusiasm.
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Ask HN: What would you do with Better.com
Have a friend that owns better.com and we are coming up with ideas to develop the site. Also in the market to sell if the offer is right, but would rather develop it.

Would love to hear what HN thinks and your first impression of the domain/ideas
I am maintaining Gmvault (http://www.gmvault.org) and unfortunately I have the same issue. I get frustrated because I spend most of the time supporting users. It is good but I have plenty of ideas that I would like to implement in subsequent versions and I do not progress.

I would like to attract developers to help me. Which channel is the best in your opinion to do that ?
I use Github so the source is available and the open issues are also public there.

Where would you advertise the need for help to be sure to find some somebody ?
Er, but that's not the same 'a', it's two different bindings with the same name, and you should get:

foo.hs:3:9: Warning:
This binding for `a' shadows the existing binding
bound at ...

when you compile with -Wall.
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Did you ever read the sequels? Society only judges Ender favorably in the short term.
Offline maps is what's kept me on the Nokia Symbian platform for so long. There are quite a few places in the US with poor or non-existent cell coverage and those tend to be the places where I really need access to map data.
Yet http://secunia.com/advisories/52956/ calls it "Impact: System Access" and "Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code."

Why wouldn't we be upset about that or call that a "lie"?
NN/g are well-known for developing methodologies for usability testing. They promote tests with only a few people, e.g. see http://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-wi...
Orson Scott Card more than "doesn't like gay people" and he has done far more than simple boycotting of movies. He has gone out of his way, time and time again, for decades, to support legislation which is discriminatory. Ironically, now he wants people to be tolerant of his discriminatory actions. Sick irony!
I have the same problem with ctrl/shift Insert, but I'm very happy with select-to-copy, which on Linux doesn't conflict with the ctrl-c/ctrl-v content (they're separate clipboards).

I miss middle-click to paste and select-to-copy where ever I can't use them.
Physics has more than just the Schrödinger equation. My undergrad PDE course helped immensely in my graduate level physics qualifying example. One question was on the heat equation and the other an E&M problem, both in a rectilinear coordinate system.

With a solid foundation in second-order PDEs, it's a matter of setting up the boundary conditions and solving for the Fourier series. The boundary conditions were superimposeable combinations of simpler forms, so it was mostly a matter of determining the correct Fourier series for those forms, then simplifying.

The OP probably didn't understand the distinction between ODEs and PDEs because of a lack of experience.
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> I don't even care who's right about the vulnerability, threatening legal action in a case like this is so beyond the pale

At some point, you need to make them react. And the only way a small open source project can get an answer from a big company is usually threat to attack their wallet.

Sure, it might have been not the best thing to say, but I don't know how else we can make them react on the various issues that have been going on for years with Secunia.
It is misleading. It is a surgery center. They do not do complicated abdominal surgeries that require post-op hospitalization.

If you concentrate of endoscopy, elective orthopedic surgeries, and outpatient surgery, the infection rates will be much lower.

compare that to colon and pancreatic surgery or complicated thoracic/lung/heart surgery.

I give them credit though for cutting their infection rate from 0.3% to 0.001%

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There's a big difference between saying "Gay marriage is bad and people who support it should feel bad" and "A government which allows gay marriage must be overthrown by any means necessary." The former I can ignore, the later not so much.
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I don't really care if you call it a lie or not. I care that you attempted to invoke the legal system over a dispute regarding a vulnerability. I also care that you, by your own admission, lied.

Even if it were indisputably clear that Secunia did, in fact, knowingly lie about the vulnerability, I would still hold you in infinitely greater contempt for that sickening display of hypocrisy.
On my android phone? Not yet but I want to in future. On my previous phone, a nokia N900, I had downloaded the whole world.

When you're in the wilds of Australia, and go days or even weeks without mobile signal, it's invaluable. Without this I may need a dedicated GPS device.
>inability to make a heterogeneous list or even have tuples of different kind in it

Neither of these is true. Both heterogeneous lists and tuples (indeed any data structure) are possible in Haskell; all thanks to algebraic data types.
Damn right! When I was in college everyone knew that despite Commonwealth College (the honors program) offering merit scholarships, you didn't want to join if you were in STEM.

Why? Because they imposed a minimum GPA requirement (which started at 3.2/4.0 and went up over the years), also additional coursework requirements (you had to take a certain number of "honors courses") and a thesis requirement.

Now, maintaining good grades and doing an undergrad thesis isn't that bad. Maintaining good grades and doing an undergrad thesis while also filling your honors coursework when your department's cooperation with the honors program is in its infancy and the honors college thinks only humanities subjects should count for the Special Honors Sequence, THAT was the problem. Please note that yes, you had to do a Special Honors Sequence and an Honors Gen Ed.

The result was predictable: people would try to "dodge out" by doing the easiest Honors courses they could get, because Honors courses usually had nothing to do with your actual degree focus.

Thus, I have been through a seminar about a neurologist working on African baboons, and another one about Judaic bioethics. My honors thesis had to be classified as an Independent Study, along with much of the undergrad research work I did, and without that stuff I would never have filled my honors requirements without screwing over my Computer Science requirements.

The "merit aid" bureaucrats are often not only complete idiots, but operating on a basic assumption that Merit Means Humanities.
Yes, they want more money from higher paying insurance. But if they were to officially have a menu of prices for different entities (self pay, insurance A, insurance B, etc), that'd be against the law. So they come up a "catch all" number, and they grab as much as they can get from each entity.
Having produced one classic work is easily enough to lift one to the level of "one of the greatest living science fiction authors" - remember Sturgeon's Law.
laced with hate-speech

This is like the made up term "homophobia". Just because I disagree with you and use my free speech to do so, does not give you the right to assume my opinions are coming from negative attributes. On the contrary, I care deeply about the future for my children.

lots of older couples, infertile couples, 'normal' couples get married

And they certainly can get married and consummate. It's unfortunate they won't be able to have children but perhaps they can adopt. I do not think same-sex couples should adopt, because this kind of terrible things happen[1].

Why do you keep making it?

This is the first time I've posted about gay marriage on HN.

I cannot imagine what kind of marriage you are describing, but it is not a marriage of joy and commitment.

Any parent will tell you: children are the greatest joy and a huge commitment. That is exactly what I'm describing.

[1] http://rt.com/news/pedophile-syndicate-russian-boy-481/
Can someone please advise what is the most cost optimal way running MongoDB on AWS ? I am bootstrapping/coding/testing and all these options make my head spin. My web application would be running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and they would be using the MongoDB.
I guess that we talk a lot about how a leader is not the same as a boss, and how people should lead and not command. It seems that Valve have created an environment that make leaders, well, to lead and to make decisions...
Does any of this remembers "Lord of the Flies"? (Of course, without all much drama, and being able to leave it)

Of course, the risk of that kind of approach is that there's no really a way of make external decisions, as there is no way of disrupting the spontaneous organisation (because there's always going to be some organisation), so consensus with "the group" (meaning basically the leaders) needs to be reached. And that can be very difficult.
This really has very little to do with the AMA.

This is hospitals vs outpatient centers(who can do the easy stuff much cheaper than hospitals can)
> I care that you attempted to invoke the legal system over a dispute regarding a vulnerability.

No, over defamation that they did in various public reports. Not about a vulnerability.
Carousel is a bad practice.
Like all open source applications. I use OSS exclusively for development. I think the only OSS GUI app I use is Sequel Pro (which is actually quite good).
as..... ?
I use ConEmu as well.

I like the tabbed interface and the way it does select/copy/paste (close to the Windows way) in the CMD console. And, it has some pretty cool support for the FAR Manager.

Here's a nice writeup by Scott Hanselman: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ConEmuTheWindowsTerminalConsol...
> it might have been not the best thing to say

Aside from the fact that it was socially unacceptable, do you realize you could have exposed yourself to legal attack?

I don't know what rules are typical in Europe for declaratory judgement actions, but in the US, Secunia would have basis for filing against you to have their speech declared non-defamatory.

If you don't have a lawyer to do it for you, don't threaten legal action.
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There are tons of alternatives to Google Maps, maybe not as complete but decent enough. Just switch to one of them and that's it. I'm using MapsWithMe.
Actually, it gets worse.

Nepotism and cliques are bad, but worse is when the behind the scenes/informal leaders are able to make someone else look like the leader, and that person ends up being the strawman for whatever doesn't go as planned.

In places like government you get all sorts of oddball organizational dysfunction, as you generally have a top layer of politically appointed leaders and lower stratums of career/professional leaders who usually cannot be removed and may or may not play ball with the leadership.
No you are perfectly right. VideoLAN members and VLC developers are volunteers.
I've got a sense of what you're talking about, but could you give explicit examples? That would help make it clearer.

(I know that some of them will be massive spoilers for those who haven't read the book!)
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Thanks for the link! That explains their sample size. I don't necessarily agree with using a single tester though, the numbers in this post speak only of averages, which means you can still get a bad seed.
This is totally ridiculous. Working on a movie which has absolutely nothing to do with the author's admittedly terrible views is equivalent to being a Nazi?

And they're now morally culpable for everything he's ever said? Seriously?
I also suggest trying Kizomba. Whole new interesting experience.
Illegality is not immorality. While in this case, I don't think piriting the movie is an effective means of civil disobedience, there are certainly many instances of people retaining (and possibly gaining) the high moral ground during illegal activity.
What you think is inane is the part of testing that actually tests math skills.
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Osmand for android will let you download the the OpenStreetMaps maps for states or countries for offline use.
with amazon you're paying for software, not hardware. big difference.
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My approach has been that if it is easy to do, I had darn well better do it.

To illustrate - since I was a teenager I realized that the war on drugs was manifestly wrong. I chose not to participate in any aspect of the war on drugs as best I could. When I was fresh out of college, most forms of employment required a drug test. So I did it, reluctantly, but I felt I could stand on my principles as a pauper or compromise and live a reasonable life.

But once I had FU money in the bank, I felt that it was my obligation to refuse all future drug testing because the cost to me is now practically nil. Since I can pick and choose the jobs I take, it is my moral obligation to never compromise again.

A corollary to this approach is that anyone who shares my ideals and chooses to give up the comfort of an easy life for those ideals deserves an enormous amount of respect because whatever character flaws they may have, they are "walking the talk" more than I was willing to.
According to wikiquote, the sentence before your quote is "Our swollen budgets constantly have been misrepresented to the public."

It's not in the name of a perfect society... there is simply huge money in fear.
I'd think they would employ dedicated instances which they then subdivide to keep their customers as isolated as possible.
“Scientific Discovery Is Not Valuable Unless It Has Commercial Value.”
Yes. You're free to rename second a to b. The point I wanted to make is that it's the same getA, but anyone reading the code should understand that result binded to a and b will be different.
… at least it isn't <blink> ?
Publishing private emails is probably illegal too (it is in Germany, in France and Italy)... And claiming a POC is 'arbitrary execution' when it is not... We go that road for a long time, you know...

I would prefer spending my free time working on VLC (which I do usually) than having to deal with those things... Especially since we still have no vulnerability POC...
Remember to buy something every so often in those places, don't be a laptop hobo.
Are you living in a cave? The opinions that I am espousing are fully supported by huge modern nations such as Russia. I just gave you a link showing the government's unanimous support of bills banning gay propaganda. So why do you assume I'm a troll? Does it shatter your fragile world view to realize many intelligent and sane individuals are against gay marriage, so you have to imagine me as a joke?

That's what this whole news story is about. A dignified and successful author is against homosexuality, and the progressive community can't handle any opposition to their views so they tar and feather their reputation. So much for tolerating other viewpoints...
exactly. The only reason Amazon is now lowering its price is due to competition. If not for competition they'd keep prices stable or even try to increase it. (like they're going to start doing with books)

Just one reason competition is generally good for consumers, even though on a macro level one could argue that competition is inefficient.
Extensible heterogeneous lists are hard in Haskell, but that's because Haskell chooses to encode extensibility through type-classes rather than data heterogeneity.

It could very well be that most programmers just don't like programming that way, and thus Haskell sucks.
The first thing that comes to my mind is how this can be used to easily convey cryptographic protocols :)
That's a pretty good list, thanks.
I can see the immediate appeal of the idea.

However, Bitcoin is obviously still going to be the most popular one for a long time, simply because it was the 'first-to-market'.

Without enough adopters, interest for secondary cryptocurrencies might naturally fade off, not to mention it might not be profitable for any exchange to keep trading them.

From a quick look at https://btc-e.com/, it seems most of the value is placed on Bitcoins and Litecoins atm, both which crunch 'meaningless' tasks as @leashless mentioned before me.

Another important fact to add is that there is an upper bound for the total amount that can be mined for these currencies.

This further provides them with value, ie.: they are somewhat scarce resources, not unlike gold or other precious metals.

As for prime numbers/Primecoin, I haven't looked at all the details, but I believe there is an infinity of Cunningham chains?
Surprisingly, this is the only Google service I did not want to go away. My wife and I use it frequently every work day. She is an animal control officer here in Houston, and Latitude is the way we keep in touch with where we are. The job is dangerous enough that I like to know her current location frequently just to make sure she is alright. She's on a windows 7 OS phone, I'm on an android... so a lot current-day applications are out of the question. Maybe it's time I code my own location services for us that would be more accurate, frequent, and private.