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Not to mention that they've yelled tyranny! at every minor administrative tweak, regulatory change or appointment for the last 6 years...

And then, when something like this comes up, that actually does threaten our rights, crickets? Not only crickets but cooperation from the least cooperative congress possibly in history? What the fuck, guys?
Dude, I'm finding this hilarious. 69 years to prove that something is a fluid? I picture two really old scientists watching the tape, only to have one of the old geezers turning to the other to spill the sacred words: "Told you so".
Did the executive branch ask for this authority explicitly, or did Congress decide in it's own to grant it?
The empire never ended.
Thus creating a closed loop ecosystem that grows increasingly stale.
What does the word "unreasonable" really mean in a climate of fear?
Don't understand why they have to use the most expensive power. Even people in wealthy countries cannot afford living on solar, but the poor have to. I am quite sure there are more and better options.
I have top disagree on point 2. One a question is deleted by a moderator you can only bring it up in meta. You can't vote to undelete anymore (maybe other moderators can?). For anyone who has powers gained through the points, mod's deletion is final.

And that's sometimes very annoying since those deletions require only one person. No voting, no double checking. Delete-happy mods can definitely abuse it.
Apologies for nit-picking at punctuation, but occasionally it matters :-)

"Twilio is over-billing ..." = Twilio is charging more than they should.

"Twillio is over billing ..." = Twilio has given up on billing. It's so over.

Just my personal bugbear - but sometimes it's worth getting this sort of thing correct. Apologies if this is just a US/UK difference, also (I'm in the UK).
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Scrum is not what it used to be ...
Here's a crazy thought: Let's get outside the West Coast bubble here and think about this in a vastly more practical manner when it comes to population density and distance between urban cores.

Every time I hear this project spoken of, I have to hear people who live in the Bay Area talking about "SF to LA in half an hour"

I think what would be much more sensible would be "NY to Boston in 15 minutes" and then extending it to Philadelphia and DC. Where would the line go after it hit SF? Portland and Seattle? Denver? The populations of these places don't support the cost of the infrastructure. The east coast makes much more sense for this project.
Sure.. but you can't hijack it, redirect it to another location, then crash it into a populated area.

You could perhaps... stop it?

And if you really want to cause havoc messing with trains, you go for cargo trains filled with hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic chemicals.
Ask HN: About Computer Science Testing
I am a college student who has recently been discouraged by some of the exams in one of my computer science courses.

The problem that I am facing is receiving mediocre grades (C- through C+) on my first two exams. Though I feel I grasp the material and understand the concepts I have not done well on the testing.

On the other hand I have gotten near perfect grades on the projects.

I am wavering between encouraged and discouraged and don't really know which is appropriate. Any insight would be appreciated.
I think they're pushing their Exchange ActiveSync in place of IMAP. Although I've heard rumblings it will be "coming soon", but with MS, "soon" usually means a few years.
I often find very much useful information in closed questions on stackoverflow.

What annoys me is karma-farming questions.
That analogy is just fantastic - although the uncle is also the local judge, so can't be prosecuted, but he keeps sending other people who do the same as him to prison.
It's the thing that wants to change the way it's always been done that has to justify itself, not the other way around. What does the systemd journal give us that's worth throwing out decades of knowledge and muscle memory?

That's how modern systems are developed. That's all the justification you need, really. Define the use cases you and your CADT buddies considered as "modern" and everything else as "legacy", then you can say "That worked fine in the 1970s, but modern systems don't work like that anymore."
If you want to influence someone, it helps to understand their motivations. I can't conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNS4t5UCBfI. That's what.
Mistakes like this really suck, but I have no doubt that Twilio will make it right.
The web portal of my bank has a link ‘cancel’ next to every direct withdrawal which lets me cancel the charge immediately (at the cost of the people charging me, of course).
What really surprises me about all this, is given the sign, what person would possibly use valet parking, over the less expensive and no searching lots farther from the airport, if they had anything to hide.
How does this threaten an American citizen's rights? This is lawful under the Constitution.
Rob, best of luck to you and the Twilio team while fixing and recovering from this incident.

We've been with Twilio for years and have received excellent service. Billing issues are always serious, but its nothing compared to a call routing issue, and when it comes to call routing Twilio has been flawless. I'd much rather call my bank and discuss an overdraft fee then call a client and explain why their calls were not routed properly.

In the years we've been with Twilio, we have not experienced any significant downtime. Compare that to one of their main competitors that experienced eight consecutive hours of downtime during business hours earlier this year, and I'm confident we're in good hands.
Ask HN: Any development teams in need of free ops help?
I am launching a site next week to teach developers how to do operations, and vice versa (openstack, puppet, chef, salt, ansible, docker, vagrant etc). Along with this site, I have a not-so-baked plan in my head to eventually offer consulting services (retainer based) to small agencies, startups, and dev teams. A "Don't worry about your infrastructure. Ever", type of thing. Are there any small dev teams (3-7) out there, that have a need for this service, that would like some "free" help? Free in the sense, that I would like to pick your brain, see what your needs are, and try to identify patterns among the groups, so that I can sell/market more effectively.

If you would like to contact me: anthony@makerops.com
Expert opinion is useful; aka, constructive.
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Wind towers are much less effective in high humidity, since water doesn't evaporate very well.
The Brits are good engineers, and, compared to American juggernaut companies, specially in the defense and aerospace area, they manage to make innovation with very little.

The US military spent millions all through the 1960's upto the late 1980's for a successful VTOL aircraft. Along came the brits with fractions of the budget with a great product the Harrier GR-1.

There are some great arguments here, specially the savings in weight from Oxygen by pja.

But I want to ask something different. Even if there is a slight chance for this idea to succeed shouldn't we/they invest in it anyway? Making breakthroughs in jet engine design takes years and extraordinary amount of effort and money. If the government doesn't take the risk, long term innovation would be very difficult. Plus even if it doesn't reach its intended goals many side technologies are generated even from a failed undertaking...
Yes, think in tablets and how many "history cycles" required. The context of the idea is extremely important.

The lesson? If you have a rough idea about how the future will be in some domain start to build today. The difficult part of this is knowing what to build. For example, you need a fancy rich UI for your application but there are no components for that so you start building your own GUI library BUT at the same time juggernauts like Adobe, Sun, Microsoft, and Google try (in different technology eras) to move forward with Flash, Java, Win32, Silverlight, WPF, and HTML5.

What is the correct decision? Waiting like a Confucian can be the best option.
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Yep. You are truly underestimating how lazy I (and others) can be. And besides, being able to have support to turn to is quite a bonus: I don't want to be the support guy for this sort of stuff.
There is always the IRS, but of course no one in the government, let alone the IRS, would ever use their position to stifle freedom of expression. Oh wait, Congress is having hearings today on that.

They are already doing what your claiming they cannot possibly do. Its time to acknowledge that there is very little they cannot do, or worse are doing that we still haven't found out
Japan has 99.97%
I've seen this happen many times.
I imagine something like the Ask* subreddits (with smart, but firm moderation) for programming would be good: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience

Moderation is strictest at the root, and you can collapse all the trees with a link near the comment form. However, the discussion is the best part. It's where smart people share their knowledge, and other smart people add on to what was said or offer different takes. But you can stick to the root for the Stack Overflow style straight answers.
You burn the bridge because you want a moat between yourself and these people.

Having humility when your job is in demand is good, but most of the practices indicated in the article indicate recruiters that are either unhelpful or actively harmful.

For example - there are recruiting firms who will submit your resume without telling you where, and play it off like it's common practice (which it is, but only among assholes.) This puts you in a bind where if a company recieves your resume through another source, they may have conflicting legal obligations attached to both sources, causing your resume to go in the garbage. Many recruiters do this, but plenty do not. Only work with the second kind.

The other checkboxes indicate carelessness, trawling, spamming, and other less than great features. Take it or leave it, but ask yourself if that's the kind of person you want to work with.
I seem to remember Elon Musk getting a question about SABRE at a post-talk Q&A a while back (probably in the UK, perhaps an inauguration ceremony of some institution), but now I can't find it. He was skeptical and had some constructive things to say, but I'm not a physicist so unfortunately I can't remember the specifics. If anyone else finds it, kindly reply with a link!

EDIT: Found the video, but haven't yet found the specific time of the question. My connection is a bit slow, so jumping around in the stream isn't going so well. http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/view/211

EDIT 2: Found it. Elon's reply is at 48:55.
Link is just a crappy sign up page, but I agree with the vast majority of comments here that some really great questions that would have been useful to me have been closed. So good to see some competition coming up!

As an experienced Android developer, for example, most of the questions I see that aren't closed are simple things answered by the docs. The things I see that are closed are things I actually myself have trouble with, like which monetization solution to go with.
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Whoa, this is really awesome!

For those that don't know, airbreathing engines are MUCH MORE efficient than conventional rocket engines.

Not only in terms of weight saved from not having to lug around too much O2, but also because of the way it works inherently.

I decided to make a space game once, with real world stuff on it, and settled for the Triton engine for my game spaceship, I did lots of research about rocket engines, and I was very sad when I compared them to airplane engines and it was clear how better they were, and yet useless in space.

But I never had this idea of mixing both... It sounds so awesome that I cannot describe it.

Also it allow some sci-fi stuff that is frequent but so far very broken (that is small fighter spaceship planes hybrids that can enter and leave atmosphere at will, that for now were usually handwaved by the author to explain that it has some weird super efficient rocket engine... with this tech that sort of stuff is less improbable)
So I went looking for some examples, link to a discussion on a law blog site I like : http://www.volokh.com/2012/02/02/jones-the-automobile-except...

Within the original part of the post are two cases which seem to indicate cars receive less protection because they are less private than homes.

Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 153 (1925) and California v. Carney, 471 U.S. 386 (1985)

Still in this case, who is inspecting the cars, the valet? What qualifications does he have? If it is the valet, do they become an agent of the state while doing the search? I am still concerned about liability, whether from theft of items in the car to the valet being injured by something in the car.
Thank you very much for that.

We came up way short for you this morning - committed to making it right.
Gmail definitely has IMAP.
Science isn't about "told you so". It's about rigor, about completion. It may seem hilarious because of the length of time involved for the experiment to complete, but what if the results hadn't been what we assumed? Science is the only enlightenment we have, and to dismiss the outcome as obvious is to climb back into the dark ages.
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How are they different? Both the article and the wikipedia link you gave mention they are similar experiments. It seems they are the same experiment to me.
Now you are jumping to conclusions.

It depends a while lot on your search skills I guess.
Either it makes sense to have the kind of company you speak of in your area or it doesn't. If it does, start one and you have found yourself a nice niche.
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62 people are 0-10!?
Not sure if I'm in the market, but I'm interested.

bt@brand.io
To be fair to the BBC, what they describe is the test setup that has actually run, not the design of the full engine - which they haven't built yet.
Quora is bad at/does not specialize in answers involving code/math.
Always insist on them providing the company name. Most won't provide this without a fight, because they're either paranoid of other recruiters scalping their leads or they feel it's the only leverage they have over you. The ones that do give the company name are either naive or trustful, in the latter case, they deserve some attention.
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Sort of the opposite in my opinion - you can tap + hold on iOS but closing a window and going back to the previous one is way more of a pain than cmd + w on my computer.
Or the moderators are just doing a bad job. I have the same experience as him.
It is interesting that you think "report as duplicate" is rarely used. It seems to me that it is very often used. In fact, it seems that it is at times used more liberally than it should be on questions that aren't really duplicates.
Since we're already nitpicking, "overbilling" (without the hyphen) is probably better.

https://www.google.com/search?q="overbilling"
vs.
https://www.google.com/search?q="over-billing"
I have a somewhat related question: How do you best present yourself at a career fair?

I did pretty well last year by being friendly and trying to show my passion for programming. This year, I'll be attending the Reflections | Projections Conference [0], and the companies I'll hopefully be talking to are on a completely different tier. What's the best way to make a lasting, memorable impression, especially if my school isn't particularly impressive? Do I mention my prior internships or side projects? Something else?

Thanks for any advice!

[0] http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2013/
Nevermind all the ways our "water drinking habit" bites us back.

We are omnivores. We need vegetables AND meat to be healthy. I think what you meant to say is it's another way our overpopulation is biting us back. If we didn't have so many people we could still have normal herd sizes.

(Granted, it's likely the prevalence of said food that led to overpopulation... oh nevermind.)
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Then the other one would have said it. Everyone enjoys being proven right.
They're similar, yes, but they're aren't one and the same.

GP is pointing out that there are two experiments underway.
Maybe you accidently switched regexes and html parsing around. But using a regular expression to retrieve data from a webpage is not an example of over-engineering. It would be a good example of a quick-and-dirty solution. If someone used them it will probably result in a discussion about the limitations of the approach.
It appears to be part of a rural electrification program for areas not currently connected to the power grid. The alternative would be a classic grid-building effort [1], but those aren't necessarily any cheaper, especially in mountainous areas. There's been some movement in recent years towards small-scale non-grid installations instead, e.g. in Jordan [2].

[1] Along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

[2] http://www.uob.edu.bh/uob__files/458/vol1/6.pdf
Yeah, I've asked questions and found within 5 mins people are rushing in to change the wording and tags and so on. Pity they do not spend more time finding answers.
I'm from the US and I also originally thought the headline was saying something along the lines of "Trilio [has ended the practice of] billing and suspending accounts". When I clicked on the article I realized that they were "over-billing" instead of "over billing".
Not just any number. It's the number of whole orbits you've made around the sun since leaving your mothers womb.
Not a single person was confused by this, including me, a British dude sitting in the middle of London.
In I.T. and offer from a recruiter is not necessarily are real job opportunity and more than likely not. Recruiters like to fish around and ad you to their inventory.
This question can lead to quite a long list of answers. I've posted several of my blog posts about job search here on HN over the past couple years (http://jobtipsforgeeks.com), and I write extensively about job search and career tips specifically for programmers and tech pros. I've been recruiting engineers for mostly startup and small software firms for 15 years, and I've run a Java User Group since 2000. During my career I've worked with thousands of job seekers and hundreds of companies, so I've managed countless job searches for engineers.

I recently released an ebook 'Job Tips For GEEKS: The Job Search', which is a step-by-step guide to most of the things you are asking about. It starts with the decision to start a job search, what strategies to consider and pros/cons of each (recruiters, posting resumes, emailing to online posts, and more random approaches, etc.) , implementing those strategies, how to protect yourself from recruiters, resume structure section by section, interview tips for phone and face-to-face, keeping metrics during the search (to track success/failure), talking about money, negotiations, balancing multiple job offers, refusing offers, accepting offers, counteroffers (including what recruiters are trained to tell you), and how to keep bridges intact after the job search.

It covers everything during the process in about 150 pages. I made a quick one page with links to buy and a link to a free section - http://jobtipsforgeeksbook.com.
Isn't the from the same creator? You can imagine the same bad moderation practices that squelch useful discussion will be baked in an encouraged.
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Thankyou.

I detest stack exchange sites with a peculiar passion (I'm usually pretty relaxed about most things). Seeing incredibly useful and important questions closed for this very reason, and others mutilated by "gods" who have the right to alter questions as they see fit fills me with rage. I only end up on SO as a result of a google search, and I haven't bothered contributing for years.

Even worse is superuser ~ a couple of down voted questions and comments and you get banned for life, with no recourse. I don't know what kind of Nazis run that shop.

My 2c
* avoid badges/karma/superpowers. It just creates an ego cult that is responsible for much of the problem. Wikipedia has this problem with elitist editors who think consensus amongst themselves trumps wikipedia's own rules.
* Have a system of encouragement to improve poorly worded or duplicate questions. But any changes/closes/holds must be approved by the question owner.
* Maybe think of a different name for the launch site. I'm not sure its possible to "reclaim" a word with so many bad memories attached.
Most other energy sources involve vast infrastructure for ongoing operation. Oil requires processing and shipping every gallon, electricity from large generators requires long wires, coal must be transported, etc. Economies of scale keep such vast complex infrastructure cheap and functioning.

Solar panels, while expensive to manufacture, can be put in a box, carried to the point of use, and left to function on-site indefinitely with nigh unto no maintenance.

Other options? Check out http://www.biolitestove.com - a very recent development of a wood-burning stove featuring a thermocouple electrical generator and very low emissions.
- systemd isn't relevant to the discussion. Fedora already uses systemd (and the journal)

- why in the world would you attack a person for writing software and lobbying for its usage? Even if you don't want to use it? I guess you could attack half of HN in that case

And finally:

- the linked thread is a proposal to remove a single package from the default installation of all Fedora distros. The package is still available for installation, just won't be installed automatically.

That's the topic. Not the person behind the proposal, not the software that is already running on all current Fedora systems. That's just not the point.

I'm a systemd fan, not that happy about journald/journalctl (mostly, because I'm not yet used to it and really just use journalctl -b or journalctl -f, which .. gives not enough benefits to make it 'nice' for me). So - should I insult Lennart, call for his 'removal'?

It's low, because it distracts from the technical subject. Imagine your next proposal at work would lead to a 'Can someone please remove pbsdp' comment. Is there _ever_ a time when such a statement is acceptable? Would that count as taking part in a discussion?
This is, interestingly, a good reason to use a credit card (and pay it off in full every month) rather than a debit card. With a credit card, you at least have a layer of insulation between your bank account and an erroneous charge.