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BTW, has jslinux been open-sourced yet? It wasn't last time it made news.
Since everyone uses the one line of bash to just start their favourite complex network utility, I'll also contribute mine:

while true; sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start; break; done;
Although there are definitely logistical problems with this approach, I've had a couple of jobs now where I wish I would have been able to "try it out" for a couple of weeks. Having done so, I never would have accepted the offer (saving me a lot of frustration and a couple of large relocations).
> And it says: "Plugging in an electric vehicle is, in some cases, the equivalent of adding three houses to the grid."<p>What? Really? It couldn't possibly be that! Anyone?

I'm a former NASA electrical engineer, and I can tell you it's so. A charging electric car requires an enormous amount of energy, and a suitable charger will greatly increase household power consumption for the duration of the charging cycle.

The Tesla model S has two battery types, let's use the larger battery for this example -- it has a capacity of 85 kilowatt-hours (KWh). Assuming 25% system losses, to fully charge this battery requires about 106 KWh. That translates to 8.83 kilowatts for twelve hours.

8.83 kilowatts at 240 volts requires about 36.9 amperes. A typical household's electrical system can handle this current level if it's been set up properly.

Okay, so for 12 hours each night, the electric car requires 240 volts at 36.9 amperes to top off its battery. How does this compare to a normal household's power usage? Here's an online reference:

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3

Q: "How much electricity does an American home use?"

A: "In 2011, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 11,280 kWh ..."

An annual usage of 11,280 KWh divided by the number of days in a year gives 30.88 KWh/day. Compare this to the daily energy required by the electric car -- 106 KWh. The bottom line is that the electric car's power usage is about 3 1/2 times that of the remainder of the household, and a household with an electric car uses 4 1/2 times as much power as a household without an electric car.

Returning to the original quote:

> "Plugging in an electric vehicle is, in some cases, the equivalent of adding three houses to the grid."

That's just about right.
You can actually write a web server in pure bash, with no netcat, using /dev/tcp (bash magic).
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirecti...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-using-bashs-built-d...
If the cyclists had gotten out of the way, could he have been charged with Attempted Murder?
Just to add to the mix, a great restaurant review: http://www.london-eating.co.uk/review-comments/123446.htm (more comments here: http://aroundbritainwithapaunch.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/take-...)
Uh look, this is a false equivalency. Nobody is complaining about the brilliant immigrants who are founding companies.

People are upset about using immigrant labor as price competition to depress wages and capture middle class income to be transferred to the wealthy.

We all see this all the time--companies hire legal immigrant labor or import H1B's to pay 80% of the prevailing wage, meanwhile a massive and unnecessary management structure compensates itself lavishly.

This is a classic "commons" problem. It's advantageous for any individual company, but when everyone does it, it leads to the tragedy of the commons. In this case that tragedy is the collapse of the American consumer. He's being attack by high health costs, food costs, energy costs, regulatory burden, grift from financial institutions, education costs and he has no more money to spend at Waltmart-- the guys who caused the problem in the first place.
Why would/should I care? Honest question, I don't know much about the affiliation programme.
Just got back from watching the movie. Kutcher does a really good job channeling Jobs. A couple of scenes were over-dramatized, but overall it was a very watchable movie. It got off to a slow start, but after that it was well-paced and kept my interest. I enjoyed it and will probably see it again.
Think your analogy is wrong. He had a gun and knew there was a chance a bullet would come down and hit somebody. He still fired the shot.

There really is no excuse for speeding. I think the figure of 30% of fatal car crashes are down to speeding.
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This isn't one of those situations. This guy ruined his life by ending another's. Even without the tweets, he'd probably be facing 10+ years in prison.
I like this because Bukowski's first purchases when he "made it" was a BMW and a house in a nice neighborhood.

I'd write more but, as you say, we only get one chance at this and we're living in the best time ever.
"Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno" had me cracking up pretty hard.
He seems to speak of the supervisor of the packers as someone who is above the working life, but the fact is that he is trapped for life as well, he just happens to be trapped one sport higher on a very long ladder.

I figure this being trapped is a sentiment a lot of people share, although I know of a significant minority of people who enjoy their jobs and lives, even after 30 years of "paycheck slavery".

The whole story reminds me of the song Factory by Bruce Springsteen.
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Actions have consequences. 18 year-olds can understand that.

This wasn't a freeway where he was going 80 in a 75 zone. It was a normal road with intersections and many other road users going the speed limit or below. It's simply idiotic to drive 80 there, and it's very easy to accidentally kill someone when you're going that fast. (You have no time to react.)

Driver's Ed is 6 months of you being told this every single day. He knew it was dangerous. He did it anyway. He killed someone. That's murder.

(Personally, I think 40mph is way too high of a speed limit for roads like this. 20mph would be a much better. Car/pedestrian collisions are much more survivable at that speed, and cyclists can move in and out of traffic freely. But 80mph is just fucking insane.)
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Michael L. Anderson, an associate professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley, predicted that the cost of the entire project would be closer to $100 billion.

Keeping the same assumptions as the paper [1], if the cost goes from $6 billion to $100 billion, the amortized cost per ticket goes from $20 to $333 (!). As pointed out elsewhere [2], the capacity is extremely low, less than 1/10th that of the high-speed rail proposal (7.4 million vs. 95 million riders annually).

[1] http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...

[2] http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy...
I'm not saying what he's doing is OK, but do we know the context of this?
I'd like to think that most people on HN don't worship business so much as to exalt even those based on dishonesty & intellectual incompetence.
The aforementioned CERT guideline:

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...

Skeptics should note that the real-world example on that page is from the Linux kernel, where this style of goto is used heavily for error handling.
I make it a point to blog about my suckage every day, so that if I ever get successful, there's a nice big chunk of evidence of how a person can suck before getting good at something.
Side note: The people who chose to hack on the less-sexy Android OS are also extremely employable right now. I've had to turn down enough work this year that I could have employed three other Android programmers full-time, if I'd had them on call.

I learned Android on my own time, because I liked the idea of a Linux-based phone OS. Most of the jobs I've gotten have been EXACTLY because I've been playing with the right technology on my own time. OP is right on, and VexXtreme is making noises like a mediocre developer who has a chip on his shoulder.
If you are amused by this you should subscribe to /r/wtfamazon over at reddit.
From the trailers & preview material I was worried the movie might be deceptive. Specifically the scenes with Woz and Jobs in the parking lot and later in the office. In an interview Wozniak said the parking lot conversation never took place and got the underlying feelings incorrect. That made me jump to the conclusion that the preview's portrayal of the office scene where Woz leaves Apple would be equally misleading. In context it is actually much more believable.

I was surprised by the technical accuracy (ha, what do I know?) and so I feel much better about recommending it to people who show interest.

There were parts that I enjoyed more than Pirates of Silicon valley, but also times when it felt long. Music was used to okay effect, but also drawn out.

Movie Spoiler: There is no recent history portrayed in the film.

Edit: A couple more thoughts.
Contrary to the inaccuracies between Jobs and Wozniak mentioned above (and as noted in the linked article) the movie did accurately give Wozniak credit for doing the engineering on Breakout (and getting shortchanged in the process) which I felt was important.

The movie only really covers Jobs at Apple, a bit of University and family, so if you are interested in NeXT/Pixar/etc. you may be disappointed.
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Skilled immigrants don't have much of a voter base, and the current set of US leaders don't seem to be very far sighted.

It is also pretty hard to even conceive of a good crisis that can force change.

So, yeah, pretty much a waste of time.
No, but being registered with a certification body does for example the IEEE (http://www.ieee.org/). Just for interest sake, would you apply your same logic to surgeons and pilots etc?
It's a presumption though to assume that the conversation will be happening over there. Or it seems to me a little lofty to suggest that a discussion should take place amongst those people. I get where you are coming from, from a springboard perspective - allowing people a forum for chat, but the thing is these chats could be happening all over the place.

In the good old days, there was usenet... and it felt nice that there was only one place to discuss say a particular subject - and meet with those interested, and specialists within that realm. I couldn't stand the scurge of online forums as it scattered the conversations all over the place. And you also end up with the same conversations and realisations happening in different places. This could be negated if you did a little online homework, and posted a link to someone elses comment that perhaps was inline with yours. Kind of like a +1. But hunting down other comments and trawling through forums isn't efficient or particularly easy so I guess this isn't really that practical.

Anyway the point is that these conversations are happening elsewhere all over the place. So how do you seed/promote the piece and the ensuing conversation in the first place? And how do others know where the conversation is taking place. You could possibly provide a search for backlinks to your article.

It's kind of a shame that everyone doesn't have their own blog, and within their blog they just make a comment referring to what they've read elsewhere, and that link becomes available to read somehow from your article. This could be handled by the browser alone, it could do this by default - in a 'Elsewhere' panel for instance, by doing something like searching for backlinks etc. Pingbacks go some way, but they could be quite distracting.

I'm not sure how eternal HN comments are. Not hosting comments yourself puts you at the mercy of others.

Plus I'm not sure how polite any of this is. Hey myself and others are coming over to your place to discuss matters.
I wonder how many more are founded by children of immigrant parents. My YC batch felt 1/3 immigrant founder, 1/3 child of immigrant founder. Quite the overrepresentation since they each comprise just over 10% of the population: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/foreignborn...
This seems a bit of a generalization, or dare I say, a romanticization. It's supposing you know the motivations driving a group of people whose only shared characteristic is that they weren't born in the United States. In many ways, it's as much a generalization as the "people that rant against immigrants in general".
> He was only 18 years old and he was speeding. Murder is a bit of a stretch.

The reason it became murder is because he was found to be boasting about his speeding behavior online, i.e. it wasn't episodic or unintended. He meant to go fast, he planned to go fast, and an 18-year-old is an adult with adult responsibilities -- whether or not he is ready for them.
Something Larry Ellison seems to be failing at as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bj239x9aJ4
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I was a heavy power user of Facebook for a couple of years, spending lots of time crafting witty status updates, getting into extensive arguments and discussions. It became like a game- I lived for the Likes and Shares and the red notification at the top of the screen.

I didn't realize how bad it was until I finally disengaged, deactivated my account. I've been off for about 2 months now and I feel like a different person. It feels vaguely like quitting smoking- you don't realize what "normal" is until you're away from it all.

The greatest thing is witnessing my thoughts enter a "longer wavelength" where I'm not so obsessed with being witty and clever all the time. I have more time and space to work on actual problems. It's great.

Hope this was useful or relevant to someone.
I understand where you are coming from, but I think that at this point the interpretation of @foo as an idiom for not addressing but merely mentioning a user has permeated most online cultures.

Those who really do not know (yet) will quickly understand from context.

All in all, I think @foo is less confusing than 'foo, and will spare you questions like in this thread.
You've signed a contract with your employer to provide that help, you are not doing it for free.
Its not clear that they have "won", in an endgame sense. But if the NSA has commandeered the internet ("for security")... The logical conclusion points to (/seems to be) the course of history is nearing at an inflection point.
This is the kind of comment that makes me look down on CoffeeScript programmers. I mean, really? You thought Coffeescript invented destructuring bind?
> Murder is intentional killing ...

No, that's not how murder is defined. Murder can include the result of a reckless indifference to the safety of others.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/murder

Quote: "The precise definition of murder varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Under the Common Law, or law made by courts, murder was the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. The term malice aforethought did not necessarily mean that the killer planned or premeditated on the killing, or that he or she felt malice toward the victim. Generally, malice aforethought referred to a level of intent or recklessness that separated murder from other killings and warranted stiffer punishment."

I draw your attention to "to a level of intent or recklessness", evidence for which which the defendant provided to the prosecution by boasting about his speeding behavior online.
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By the way, going from any of the listed products to the recommended products yields a flurry of facetious reviews certainly worth checking out.
Are we going to have a movie about Norman Borlaug, Dennis Richie or Douglas Engelbart as well? What made the movie industry pick Jobs as the topic? I honestly don't understand it.
This deserves a subreddit.
One thing I always find, even when dealing with USCIS, or press, or really anyone regarding this matter, is that only very few people truly wish to make it difficult for immigrant founders to stay in the country. In fact, I have never met anyone that gave me the impression that they didn't want me around. The problem is that immigration law is slow moving and the adjudicators at the USCIS need to follow it to the dot, even if it was written before a lot of the technology we use today was invented and the world was a much less global place. And now they are rolling the issue of startup founders and high skilled labor into the massive immigration reform, where it is likely to fall through the cracks or even be used as a bipartisan bargaining chip/concession.

Personally, I think a great way to level the playing field wrt starting businesses for immigrant founders would be to allow all holders of employment visas a grace period during which they can stay in the country after they quit their job. This grace period could depend on the type of visa, your degree, your income (read taxes), the time you spent in the US, whatever. Then you can start a business without first having to secure your own presence, which is very difficult (because you don't yet have a real company) and expensive to do. A similar arrangement exists for study visas and is extremely effective in keeping college and grad school graduates in the country after school.
You work to pay for what you want. If you want less, then you can work less. Those millions of Buddhists are very happy to live in a capitalist world.
It describes most technical people who are also introverted and spent most of their lives with minimal face-to-face social interaction.
Probably only when their lives, loved ones and assets are at risk. But those with more are probably less likely to be in the thick of it, when the peasants revolt - and start to kill each other.
That's demonstrating an HTTP client, not a server. I don't think there's a way to make /dev/tcp accept incoming connections.
Because "America" is part of the nation's actual name, and the only part that isn't a modifier. What else could you call Americans? Unionized Statists?
>Many professions enjoy employer paid continuing education.

Lawyers who work for a firm? Maybe. If they work for themselves, they're stuck paying the bills; continuing education is required in many fields, and yet it's not always reimbursed.

>Staying up every night committing to Github in hopes of landing a job is a terrible terrible thing.

That's never the "right" thing to do. The right thing to do is to commit to Github because you want to.

>16+ years of formal education down the drain (or 30+ years of work, if you're older), unless you adhere to some arbitrary standards by IT blogosphere keyboard jockeys.

OP wasn't talking about arbitrary keyword standards. You're tearing down a strawman of your own creation. OP was just talking about whether a developer actually could code, not filtering based on exact keywords.

To your comment: Some domains DO take way more work to learn than I would be happy hiring someone with no experience in them. I'm not talking about the fancy JavaScript framework du jour, or experience using a particular database, but actually different domains. Like kernel programming. I wouldn't touch a Java developer with 10 years of experience at enterprise Java for a project that involved kernel-level code. Or game programming. Or Android app programming, even; most Java developers would still take months to get up to speed on Android, if they ever managed adapt to the Android way of thinking at all.
This is the coolest idea I have seen in a long time. I really really really wish you the best success!

I signed up for the beta, and can't wait to try and use it to hook into alerts. I look forward to calibrating ambient frequencies that correspond to things like message rates or queue sizes. Imagine if you had a teapot boiling sound if a queue backs up. Of course you want to go tend to that! Brilliant.
If youth reduces culpability, the driving age is too low.
No, it's not.

Knowingly engaging in behavior that risky — driving faster than any posted speed limit in the entire United States of America on residential streets is egregiously risky — and thereby causing someone's death is textbook murder.

EDIT: phrasing.
Didn't see that earlier - and there's only one listing. $413?? More like $143K.
Most of the excerpts on RottenTomatoes seem reasonable, but that said I'm a bit surprised the rating isn't higher.

Jack London in Oakland had about 30 people in attendance at the 9pm premiere.
Wrong!

echo, true, false and [ are builtins in bash and are in the binary. You can even do TCP/UDP through bash by using the pretend redirect files /dev/(tcp|udp)/$host/$port.

curl or wget exists on most systems by default in a minimal installation now days, nc does not, but if you run a normal installation you will get it though.
No, that was mostly from personal experience.
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Hype and a huge cult following. These make the movie much easier to sell.
For what it's worth, Countermail claims that under Swedish law this cannot be done.

"The privacy laws in Sweden are much different than US and UK and many other countries, nobody can force us to store passwords, IP-addresses or decryption keys."

https://support.countermail.com/kb/faq.php?id=74
A related topic -- I wonder how many young drivers realize that, reaction time aside, it takes four times the distance to stop a car at 80 MPH as at 40 MPH. Four times the distance, not twice, as many people think.

The reason? A moving mass has a kinetic energy equal to 1/2 mv^2 -- note the squared velocity term. I think this is something that young drivers should be taught. Older drivers learn this by experience and acquired instinct, but young drivers, especially those who don't learn physics or mathematics in school, may learn it the hard way.

Reference: http://arachnoid.com/conservation_of_energy/#Kinetic_Energy
What's notably lacking from this perfect interview is mention of referrals. I've had the best of luck with referrals as the managers I've worked with have never felt the need to "burn" me and could give an accurate assessment of the roles and responsibilities I have in my current job.
I watched that. Here's my take:

Fiance: I am and will continue to sleep with other men.

Bukowski: You fing w*re [kicks].

Relationships are hard. While I don't agree with physical or verbal abuse, I think in this case Fiance probably hurt Bukowski more with her words than he did with his kick. It certainly didn't seem like he was kicking her because he "thought it was funny to kick women".