skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
usr doesnt mean user, it meant Unix System Resources, and a user of the system usually puts his stuff at home, what would you like it to be otherwise /users ? That would be describing the users of the system and not where their stuff is, and users are described in /etc/passwd together with their passwords, sort of.

/etc isnt called /conf or configuration because it contains examples, scripts and other small stuff as well, which is etcetera.

/var is for variable data like logs and pid files, not meant to be changed by the user directly

/opt sucks and is for losers who dont know about /usr/local or how to install stuff in ~

The Linux way makes much more sense than Windows or MacOSX way. binaries are in bin libraries are in lib, whats not to like?
If every hyperbole was met with pedantry then nobody would ever go fishing again, and HN would turn into the worst newsgroup you can remember from the 90s.
Braff pitched "Wish I Was Here" as a spiritual successor to Garden State:

> I was about to sign a typical financing deal in order to get the money to make "Wish I Was Here," my follow up to “Garden State.” It would have involved making a lot of sacrifices I think would have ultimately hurt the film.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869987317/wish-i-was-he...

Spike Lee isn't pitching the latest project as a continuation of Malcolm X
The last major news from AlgoTrim came out back in March 2012, when it announced that it would be powering a Photo Album app for Japanese carrier KDDI, via a JPEG processor it created that could improve JPEG processing up to six times vs. traditional LibJPEG standard processing tech used in Android devices. AlgoTrim has been around since 2005, and its flagship product, the Code Compression Library (designed to reduce the size of mobile device firmware) has been in use on mobile devices since 2006.

Didn't that Snappycam guy (John Papandriopoulos) do this much better?
http://docs.shopify.com/pos/about-pos/hardware/supported-har...

Here you go :)
Me != I
your marketing completely neglects your selling point, which is ethical games that won't scam the kid. You have to make a story out of that, and revolve your entire company around it. Otherwise you're not differentiating from the others.

Basically make the "organic fair-trade ethical cage-free" of apps.
They don't utilise https? Please tell me that isn't true.
I believe Spooky meant "trivially avoided" rather than "resulting in trivial damage."
the problem is not in the 32/64 reg.exe executable. It's that "32-bit simulated version of the registry".

Why do I need something like that? (I expect some binary compatibility, but we're just opening a can of worms...)

By comparison, most of the configuration files / registry equivalent info in linux are saved in plain text, and AFAIK all of them did not care about the 32/64 bit version of the executables.
Depending on your definition of the word "afford." I, personally, can't afford luxury items if I suspect that my bank accounts will, within the next year or two, amount to less than the cost of that luxury item.
Also, take a look at Tabata exercises. It's basically 20 seconds of HIIT and 10 seconds of rest.
10 minutes of it and you are sweating a lot!
This a response to a letter written by Norvatis accusing Government of India of discrimination towards Non-Indians.
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Yes, that is how science works. Its called the scientific method.

1. Make up an untestable idea where you don't even know the sign of the result.

2. Shame others into accepting it.

3. Celebrate science.
There are much worse ones. I seriously hope that the key is fake. You are supposed to Strongly Disagree with:

"When you are annoyed with something, you say so"
"When people make mistakes, you correct them"
"You are not afraid to tell someone off"

... and Strongly Agree with:

"Any trouble you have is your own fault"
"You avoid arguments as much as possible"
"You finish your work no matter what"

This is what the wicked stepmother would ask the candidate for a Cinderella, with the added benefit of being too insecure to leave her for Prince Charming.
I memorized it (well, ~85% of it) in 6th grade for an extra credit quiz. As a bonus, if we got all of it right, we got to be the ones to drop the matches into our experimental gases (H2O2 to make Hydrogen, Helium from balloons, etc). Needless to say, 6th grade me was more than willing to memorize things for the chance to use fire.

I still have most of the table memorized, which has been useful through various biology and OChem courses and my research
When groups designed to serve become self-serving control apparatuses, I think a company is deeply fucked. Probably irrevocably so, although I'd love to learn otherwise. It means people have forgotten the mission, and once that happens I think it's slow death by turf battle.

You also see this happen with IT, Ops, and software development organizations, not just HR. E.g., feature X is the company's highest business priority, but the DBAs don't like it and they control all schema changes, so they just say no.

In my view, HR's job is to help hiring managers find the people they need, and then to support those people when they're there. If hiring managers need help with making hiring decisions, then by all means offer them help. And if HR,or anybody, spots something that concerns them, they should speak up. But I think giving HR a veto is a clear mistake. So no, I'd say that tests just make this an obvious problem, rather than a subtle one.
If I remember correctly, their scripts automatically convert lower case letters to uppercase when you are trying to autocomplete typing with TAB. It only does it for the gobolinux-specific uppercase directories
Hey I'm no expert, and have absolutely no evidence, but do know that there was an issue some years ago where the Swiss were allegedly strong-armed by the IRS into lifting their privacy restrictions [1] and [2]. The story, as I remember it, was that Swiss banks had to share information about US depositors with the IRS if the Swiss wanted to continue operating offices is the US.

While I trust the Swiss a lot more than I do anything in or from the US, I certainly wouldn't bet my life on it.

The links below are what a quick search yielded. Not much time to dig deeper at the moment.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20080611115027/http://www.treas.g...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20060717203642/http://useu.usmiss...
Caring about magic numbers is a distraction from real problems, such as getting your software working.
Evidence based data analysis
I was sold the first time I saw "Clojure for lisp programmers". I consider "The language of the system" and the simple/easy talk two modern classics.
That is about the worst top-rated answer I've seen in a while on SO.
ahhhhh, so /usr/bin isn't the recycle bin...
It is irritating to hear claims that something can be done which has never been done.

Hardly irritating - that's my job, which I enjoy.

Sure, moon colonies would require enormous effort, staggering cost, and some new technology. The problem isn't the engineering challenge; we put people & equipment in a habitable box, and brought them back, using half-century-old technology. The problem is the cost far exceeds the payoff for anywhere close to the foreseeable future, and the scenery there is about as interesting as Death Valley (briefly compelling, but you wouldn't want to live there).
Maybe...But caring about magic numbers can also keep your software working properly.
FWIW... it's "WOW64" (windows on windows 64)
For the people who care about FOSS you wouldn't have to market that feature, just state it. Also, the people who care about FOSS are loud, and influence people who don't care about FOSS.

I think you underestimate the appealing to as many disparate influential groups as possible effect.
1) Absolutely not, there's no perfect way to figure out if someone is a good fit for the company.

2) I expect that the HR process is evidence towards whether a candidate is a good fit, but not as good evidence evidence as the estimation of future coworkers regarding if they would be a good fit. I expect that written tests by HR regarding personality would be approximately useless, and that the people who created them haven't measured their sensitivity and specificity.

3) I expect that would vary wildly case by case.

EDIT: To unpack 2 a bit more, I'm sure there are personality tests that would be fairly useful in these cases, but I also expect that actual researchers who are doing things scientifically and only promise what they can deliver would be at such a huge disadvantage selling to HR departments that I wouldn't expect any uptake even without competition from unscrupulous types who think they've got everything figured out and don't feel the need to scientifically test their methods.
Keyboard preference is something that takes a while to build and a while to undo, if you use just one. I have a few Matias tactile kb's (deep key travel) and a couple Mac aluminum wired kb's (laptop like key travel), use both simultaneously

(I also switch between piano, woodwinds, guitar/fretless bass and sometimes cello, which is Hors catégorie as far as the complexity of the left hand action compared to the other three
It's the price you pay for interchange fees. If only ACH had an instant verify and hold feature...
> > If "physique" means "photogenic," then yes -- they're pretty much unrelated.

> Where do you get your information?

You misunderstood me. I didn't mean that physical fitness can't lead to a photogenic appearance, only that they're not strongly correlated to a dispassionate third party, over all cases in the population. For example, there are any number of very highly paid, photogenic models who are not only unfit, but who suffer from anorexia and other ailments, and there are any number of people who benefit from a modest fitness regimen but who do not look any better because of it.

> So, people trying to get in shape and look good at the same time is bad for the fitness/health movement?

Ah, I just got it. You misunderstood me on purpose.

> Are you trolling?

I just demonstrated who's trolling. Being physically fit, and being photogenic, are unrelated, i.e. not correlated. That doesn't mean that one won't lead to the other, only that the absence of a photogenic appearance doesn't demonstrate a lack of fitness.

I can see you're not a deep thinker, so let me explain this more precisely. Let's call engaging in a fitness program X, and a photogenic appearance Y. The fact that X can lead to Y (and it certainly can) doesn't assure that outcome in all cases or even a majority, because the absence of Y by no means implies an absence of X.
Or they could be modestly conversant with the basics of criminal law.

The courts are designed to let some portion of the guilty go free: E.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation

For example, in any case where the evidence was obtained illegally, a person who is provably guilty may not be convicted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
That's true, and I remember there was some talk in the astronomy community about disposing of nuclear waste in deep space or shooting it at the sun. Although, if we can recycle some or all aspects of batteries (the non-radioactive parts, heh) that would also help with conservation of raw materials.
For me, the most poignant message in this talk is when Rich draws the contrast between learning an instrument, which no one pretends is an easy task, and learning a new programming language, which seems to be increasingly accompanied by "learn X in 5 days" type tutorials.

A performer who has already mastered one or more musical instruments will be better able to rapidly learn a new one, but a novice is going to need to toil away for years before they reach master-level proficiency. Similarly with programming, I think it is fine for languages to present themselves succinctly for the benefit of experienced developers, but I am highly suspicious of anyone who claims you can learn to program in less than, say, 2 years.

I also think this is something to keep in mind with the recent explosion of "alternative programming schools". You can hand someone a guitar and, in a handful of weeks, teach them all the cords for 10 popular tunes. That person can then find a street corner in the nearest city, set down their open guitar case, and play those ten songs in rotation and make some money...but have we created a new musician?
> No-one is "forced" to hire because of the Civil Rights Act, they are simply prevented from using race as a reason to not hire.

Investors are in the business of gauging likelihood of success.

As an extreme example, consider the following scenario: You are an investor during WWII. The Japanese are discriminated against by the general public, and you're considering investing in a company with Japanese founders. You're aware that the company will face significant difficulties because of their race in this climate.

It's not unreasonable to forgo investing. The company's chances of success are significantly lower than they would be if the founders were white (in the climate of WWII).

Were you required by law not to discriminate, you would be forced to invest in a company you didn't expect to succeed.

Of course, you could argue that this isn't discrimination because the actual reason is based on likelihood of success rather than prejudice, which is the case for YC. PG argues that strong accents, which are difficult to decipher, are indicative of sub-par communication skills, and are therefore relevant to the success of the company.
I find these a lot with CSS - banishing them seem to be a major goal of LESS, SASS etc.

They also seem to crop up too often in JS / JQuery, particularly the manipulation of CSS.. where do you folks tend to find them?
> /var is for variable data like logs and pid files, not meant to be changed by the user directly

One would certainly never dream of keeping entire web sites in there!
Ask: What books would you recommend for PHP to catch up on progresses in PHP?
I have pretty good understanding of OOP, MVC etc. I mainly develop with PHP at work. I use CodeIginter, Zend Framework 1 without any issues.

But I have been looking at modern PHP frameworks like Laravel 4 and related libraries. And I am having tough time understanding big picture of things. Like when designing application where I should use traits, closures, etc

Perhaps I have been using older PHP too long and forgotten advanced OOP principles. I want to quickly update my understanding of OOP in modern PHP frameworks.

I tried Code Bright specifically for Laravel, but found it that it was more of how to book rather concepts book.<p>Is there any books you would recommend?

Thanks

Amer
How about using btsync and hosting your own cloud?
Enter doesn't submit.
Linux & OS X: encfs

Windows: encfs4win

Android: Cryptonite

iOS: Boxcryptor

Granted Boxcryptor isn't open source, but otherwise you get yourself a full encfs-compatible Dropbox stack.
Let's cut to the chase.

No-one has time to become an expert on absolutely everything. To some extent, we have to choose who to listen to, and then trust that they are speaking true. Anything else is completely unmanageable. So your argument, while logically correct, is not applicable. In the real world, we don't take the sex offender's word that our child is safe on its pure merits.

When someone with a long and vivid history of acting against the interests of the community speaks, it is on them to overcome the prejudice against them, not on us.
Me, too. I decided to wait until it came out, make an assessment on how much of it would be closed, and to what extent that could be worked around. If I could have trusted Ubuntu, I'd have been in for two or three.
Best: the subtle mis-prediction that there would be a 2014 World's Fair.

I think we have the Web today instead.
Actually it stood the test of time quite well. System directory names are lowercase, short and mostly-standard. Granted, there is the /bin/, /sbin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/local/bin/... stuff, but at least /home/ directory is standard and applications really use it since forever, as opposed to Windows (apps saving user settings to registry, IE6 saving bookmarks to its "Program Files" dir - not sure how it is done now).

One could argue that someone who knew Unix 30 years ago could still use command line in today's Linux without much problems.
I'd be very wary about carrying a book of flashpaper in my pocket.
Once the software's working, and has been for several years, and it has become unmaintainable because lax guidelines let this stuff through, this sort of thing becomes your real problem.
Do these inventions just have to be complete or in widespread use?

Smart glass is done and has been for a long time. See Transitions Lenses or Speedglas welding masks. I realize it's cost-prohibitive to scale, but there's also SAGE windows, which use liquid crystal to block light.

I'm not sure what qualifies as an EL panel, but LED panels have gotten crazy bright and cheap and are being used more and more.

I count the conveyors in airports as 'moving sidewalks'. :)

I agree Moon colonization was a fail, but to be fair we could colonize the moon, but why would we want to?
Man, I just bought the ZTE Open to play around with Firefox OS for $80. I should have just waited and bought the Nexus 4 for $200...
I have a pretty short commute(5km) and live in Halifax but with some good thermal underwear, gloves, jacket I was able to ride all winter except for about 20 days. On 23 mm slicks too but I'm getting something better this winter.

Gear makes a big difference.
Thanks - uhm... so... since I won't see that message, I still need to know whether I'm now in line for being considered as a beta tester? ;-)
This is a bad link. It takes you to "Boston EMS radio traffic offers inside look at response to Boston Marathon bombings"

The correct link appears to be http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2013/08/28/uber-sued-again-ove...
Or would fewer have pledged? I'd be willing to bet there were a substantial number of people who pledged in order to convince Ubuntu that there was interest in the phone, but knowing that they wouldn't have to commit funds to it right now (at least not permanently.)
I'm fairly certain that there is a lot about DNA that we do not yet fully understand.

Plenty of room for spider fears and bird songs.

Apparently the word "memory" is unsettling to some, but it still seems appropriate to me.

If DNA can grow 10,000 different regions of a brain, why is it unreasonable to think that it could also pre-populate some of those regions with patterns that we can access as memory?
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pff, more like "͉̮̽̌̾ͨ̅ͪ̔͟P̫̣̟̩͓ͬ̀̇ͦ̍̾r̢̟͚̭͍̰̈́͂̀͌͌ͅö̬̩̩̼͔͡g̻͈̜̘̥̣̯ͣ̆̊́͑̈̑r̜̅ͪ͂ͩ̈̽̆̕ä͙̯̹̼̭̽ͮ̄ͨ̋͞m̸̥̝͓̥͉̣̎̊ͬͩ̄̌ͨͅ ̷̣ͬ̎̔F̰͍̠̾̅i̪͖̞͓̝̬ͥͅle̞̘͇̲̳͍̐̎̾̾̉͑̚s̲͍̓̂͞.

HN should too, :p. Put it in http://eeemo.net/ to see what I mean.
Agreed. All of the top 3 answers focus on the numbers being directly used in code which is not the real reason why magic numbers cause problems.

They are bad because of not being explained. A number directly used in code is not magic if it is properly commented. Granted, explaining it by making it a named constant is very often better (reusability), but a literal number that is merely commented is not "magic".
@davidw said a computer with no apt-get, so I'm assuming he's talking about the MBA while using OSX. If he booted into a different OS, he'd have apt-get.
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Talented developers are in short supply in the core tech industry. Outside that, the world is filled with "programmers" and "analysts" struggling to find jobs in enterprise IT and niche-market product development. Post a job to craigslist and you'll be drowned in resumes.

My suspicion (never having seen one of these tests) is that it's being used in these situations. I doubt Apple or Google are going to start using them any time soon. My guess is your advice is pretty bad for the people facing a personality test.
Unfortunately there are many biases that stop people from realistically assessing themselves.

One good trick is using the "outside view", deliberately tricking your brain into ignoring all the special details of your situation and looking at the typical case instead. For example, "how long do you think your classmates will take to finish their theses?" vs "how long do you think it'll take you to finish your thesis?" Studies show that asking the first question yields a much more accurate answer to the second question than asking the second question directly :-)
Social Media Monitoring vs. Social Intelligence
Dude, your girlfriend may have been too immature at that point to realize what the right answers to Unicru were, but it's really obvious what the interviewer wants to hear after getting some life experience with assholes: bend over, don't complain, smile, etc...

I never got such a test, but if I did, I would try really hard to score 0% just because fuck you. Funny thing is that the capable guy being exemplified in this article probably did just that, after all, if you answer randomly the score will be higher than 1%.
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Because doing so is one of the many measures you can take to ensure your software is (and stays) easily maintainable. Getting your SW working is only really one stage of a product life cycle.
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1. Not sure that is a requirement.

2. I bet we could figure it out. Again don't see any reason why it is not possible. Very little research has gone into that particular problem which I think is the main reason it has not been done.
495/21.5 = $21.63. That seems to be quite a bit above minimum wage, although I'm sure the hours on the clock are more than just flight time. But, if you factor in the atmosphere of the job with hopes to make 6 figures after five years, I'd say it is a pretty fair trade off.

Plus, I don't know too many pilots who have a boring day on the job or who get sick of seeing the world, so that's an added bonus as well!:)

I agree it is low right out of the gates, but you don't fall on top of a mountain.
Looks very nice - should be pretty easy to fork for feature toggles too.
Nope/Not as much. That was a mid 1990's issue. Rwanada under paul kagame has made some really good strides in development. Raising coffee and tea prices have helped the local economy to a great extent. I agree problems still exist but they are not show stoppers.
How to build a 3D City in 256 bytes with Canvas 2D.
HTTPS doesn't matter. Without client-side decryption, you are forced to give the server your password so it can decrypt the file for you.
The thing I like about standing desks is that they encourage better behavior than a sitting desk -- they're not by themselves anything like a panacea, but it's a lot harder to be completely sessile when you're standing up. The style of working at a standing desk, I find, is conducive to taking short breaks, walking around, even moving to a chair to sit and read or think.
I just have a Numbers class I import into all my projects:

public final static int ZERO = 0;
public final static int ONE = 1;
public final static int TWO = 2;
public final static int THREE = 3;
public final static int FOUR = 4;
....

(jk)
Heh, I get the joke in the name. Thing about it...ab testing...
> Trying to muddy the discussion with irrelevant speculation about people's motives is totally unnecessary

In an ideal world, where we all had an infinite amount of time to research any and all items of controversy in their entirity, I would agree with you.

In this hyper-specialized world, where we basically look to others to do the research and summarize for us, motives are extremely relevant and it is the height of naivety to pretend otherwise.
It's the industry's term. I was very tempted to headline the whole launch as "Shopify: First POS that's not a POS." but alas..