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> We've had a long time to prove that using automatic updates to remove features is a recipe for disaster. In fact, I seem to remember a certain company using forced updates specifically to remove users' ability to install other OSes on their devices...

They didn't remove a feature... They removed an undocumented setting for an SDK that has warnings all over the place that the API is not final and to not release an app until it is.
Generally, sure. But it's still pretty easy to write garbage-generating Go applications that exhaust memory because the GC isn't compacting. In some applications this is a nobrainer: use a free list. In some others, like when you don't actually know what kind of buffer size you'll need, it's not so easy (although you could argue you should just fixed-sized chunks for whatever you're doing, and recycle those, but that's a lot of work.)

What I'm saying boils down to: Free lists are definitely useful, but the GC could be better.
Someone Stole My Idea
4 steps to bounce back from failures
Giant solar plane could stay airborne for 5 years, replace some satellites
I've always found it interesting that most people have really strong opinions on complex political questions to begin with.

For example, as a programmer, how do I know what the correct immigration level should be? How should I know if we should intervene in Syria?

Even if I follow the news, a few articles and news clips really aren't going to give me enough information to make an educated decision.
The balanced binary tree of Data.Map is nowhere near state of the art in terms of persistent data structures. Clojure (and Haskell's unordered-containers library) use Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMTs) which have a much higher branching factor (32-ary) than binary trees. In practice, this is a neglible difference from constant-time.
Ideally yes, but almost no sites send passwords as they are typed. The only likely situation where that would be a problem is if the site itself is compromised, in which case nothing can save you.
Oh man, imagine the heart attack the engineer who first got this ticket must have had before he realized it was a just a dns hijacking.
Pure FP doesn't have variables. It has bindings.
This seems like an unfair comparison. While people buy new Porsches and Jaguars when they need them I think a lot of people have been buying Tesla because of the novelty.

This doesn't make this any less impressive, but I am not sure that it is fair to make the comparison of a company which needs to generate novelty year after year (like Jaguar and Porsche) with an entirely novel company (like Tesla).

If Tesla was putting out yearly models than this would be much more news.
Thanks for this! This is exactly what I needed for my personal site.
He's built his software business. Radio show started as a hobby, I suppose. The thing is, he's very talented at constructing arguments. The presentation may seem a bit eccentric, but get through this. If he can't convince, I don't know who can.
You could tell physical gifts were a dud within a few weeks of their rollout.

Facebook should test its ideas better before full-scale rollout. Launch a feature at a few schools, test the adoption metrics, and rebuild for scale if it gets traction.

Of course, this assumes they didn't do exactly that. Can anyone within the walls comment?
What can a blind person do in IT?
How Apple's Healthy Advertising Emotion Enraged One Critic
That chart would probably be pretty big. Here's a description of the pre-reorg divisions.

http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/ourbusines...

And an incredibly brief and vague description of the new Engineering Groups:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/jul13/07-11on...
> pss: I am SO looking forward to canceling
> my amazon.com account!!! Zappos Rocks!!

I like this one
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Banks have a lot of overhead. Typically, they do not write their own software - they buy a package (and spend nearly as much time/money writing integration code, but that's a separate topic.) There's also mandatory costs -- SOX says you must have a disaster recovery plan in place, and you must conduct regular tests. You must have access controls in place, which includes things like mandatory vacation time for sysadmins and developers (so they can't write backdoors into the systems).

Customers not having access to their funds because of system problems is highly frowned upon by regulators, so high-availability with redundant computers + software is a given. Passing a SAS-70 audit is just the beginning.
I'm not a WC attorney but my brother is so take this with a grain of salt, but my understanding is that adjusters will work to evaluate you to determine the legitimacy of your claim. This goes for just about any kind of claim, but you can bet that if you are making a claim that can add up to hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars over your lifetime, they are going to expend some effort to make that determination. This would involve experts in the field evaluating you through tests and interviews.
But they didn't remove a feature. No where is it advertised that what the OP was doing was supported. There are plenty of warnings about how it's only an SDK preview though and that you should not release an app that uses it until the SDK is officially released.
Outlook wasn't originally part of the Office team's domain.. it was originally part of the Exchange team. Though I do think that Exchange's integration is second to none for teams, and that Outlook as an email client is actually pretty good these days, and integration with Exchange, and bundling with Office keeps it all afloat.

That said, there's no reason Office+Exchange couldn't be split off as a separate sub-organization together, separated from the larger windows org... possibly combined with webmail services (hotmail/outlook.com/office365), simply using an azure org for their deployment/infrastructure.

Hardware could be spun off as well, with "special" deals with a core windows team to be able to build on "top" of windows core.

The Windows org could be responsible for windows core, windows desktop os, and developer tools.

There, you could then have three independant organizations within microsoft that could utilize the core resources, while still having autonomy.

The office org could then concentrate on bringing their services to a broader audience... not worrying if their Office for Android would cut into windows slate sales... and the slate/devices team could expand upon their UIs instead of having to bind into windows core.. and the core team wouldn't need to build clumbsy desktop UIs that don't fit the patterns people have been using for two generations.
That only addresses the active display. What about storage? Do we have any official confirmation on that?
I never said that I consider my view objectively correct or superior... and never intended to imply that a contrary view would be deranged! Far from it; I explicitly recognised that mine was probably a minority view.

However the submission implicitly assumes that this option is right for everyone ("The one HR benefit that every startup should add"). I recognise that some people see it as valuable. Hopefully those people can also recognise that other people don't!

I also think the strawman of "Take disability insurance or live on the streets" is rather hyperbolic. The actual alternative is relying on social security disability payments and my existing savings vs an insurance-funded pension. Maybe I'll have to let my chauffeur go, but I'm hardly going to be sleeping in gutters if I take the former option.
Would you mind providing some examples? I can't really picture what you're talking about?
that happened to me. i was in great standing with my electric company (DTE, I've never missed a payment in the last 10 years) but because the previous tenant had not paid their bill, not only did i have to prove i was a new tenant, i had to put a huge deposit down.
That implies the site itself was hacked, when it was not. It appears the .ps domain registry was hacked.
"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."
To showcase Brazil crazy taxes: on our local eBay clone, a new F truck costs 250k USD Oo
It's totally true, and even when it's vitriolic and in the news I would probably just read the title and skip the article.
Congress to Hold Hearing on Country's Clashing Marijuana Laws
I can't think of any tech company in Google's league that matches them in terms of device openness.

The Nexus phones and tablets officially support flashing of custom ROMs.[1,2]

The Moto X will have an unlockable bootloader on carriers that allow it.[3]

Google gave a tutorial on how to root Glass (see the I/O talk "Voiding Your Warranty: Hacking Glass" [4]).

All Chromebooks have a developer mode that can be accessed using a hardware switch or key combination. See e.g. [5,6] for the Samsung ARM and Pixel Chromebooks.

Google even provides instructions for disassembling the Chromebooks ([5,6], at the bottom).

I don't think it's wise to ignore Google's history and extrapolate the future based exclusively on an SDK preview.

[EDIT: Downvoters, I would be curious to know your motivations.]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_rooting

[2] http://android-developers.blogspot.ch/2010/12/its-not-rootin...

[3] https://plus.google.com/+PunitSoni/posts/e6oQdFnLGiv

[4] https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/332704837

[5] http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...

[6] http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...
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Wasn't that exactly how it was before? How is that better, or worse?
funniness is about the couple sender/receiver, not an intrinsic quality of the joke.
Expect a bit of a spike in 2014 F-150s given Ford is changing it for the 2015 model year. Given some of the changes seem like downgrades to the core audience (e.g. lower payload and towing weights).
You outline a good approach, however filesystem is not the only state. Also you have RAM and network connections to deal with. The kernel people have been working on this using the freezer driver for control groups (cgroups). Their ultimate holy-grail type goal is portability to the point where "freeze on host A", "thaw on host B" is possible near-instantly for arbitrary code without issue. In reality, they may never get there. For now, the easiest way to reliably approach the issue is to use applications that can rapidly shut down to known consistent on-disk state, thus limiting the scope of state to block data.

Designing applications/services for systems with read-only root filesystems is a good way to enforce known location of on disk state.

The above is the strategy I am taking with a personal project used internally by my company which predates docker, works for arbitrary OSs and has far wider scope.

With regards to block data, I took a different approach to docker, namely using LVM2 LVs instead of aufs. The limitation of LVM2 LVs is snapshot is possible, but not yet snapshot-of-snapshot. That means whatever you want to spin up either has to be spun up slowly (ie. not from a snapshot) or has to be non-snapshottable when running (due to LVM2's snapshot-of-snapshot limitation). We opt for the latter, which requires that state is not stored within the snapshot-powered system. This is good because you can power them off without fear, like conventional PXE-style diskless systems.
I'm not completely following this whole healthcare reform. I do know that it's more cost effective for employeers of small businesses to use a SHOP exchange: https://www.healthcare.gov/what-is-the-shop-marketplace/

According to my current employeer they wont be able to purchase 100% coverage using the health exchange. So personally this is going to start costing me significantly more...

Edit:Apparently - our benefits consultant commented that it would be cheaper for individuals to purchase their own health insurance. I guess I will deal with that when the time comes.
Maybe just a little OT, but my grand-parens lived in an mountain valley somewhere in Eastern Europe and even though I was still a kid I remember that when they were bringing people in to help them with agricultural work (collecting hay etc) often times said people were not paid with money but instead with "days-worked".

More exactly, once person A had worked for you for
two days you had to pay back by working two days at her place, let's say helping her collecting potatoes or whatever, "number of days worked" was a sort of currency. And providing food to the hired workers was also part of the deal.

Obviously things have changed now, as even then (25 years ago) this practice was beginning to fade off.
Would add that humor to me is linked to being liked which is important in getting people to do what you want them to do or listen to you..

And being liked is related to at least two things [1]. One is having lots of people who want to be around you which can be an advantage (you can get people to help you and do things for you it's like being the "pretty" girl).

Of course it can also be a big distraction (you are funny and people want to spend time with you so you are less inclined to stay in side and study or hack at something).

In terms of someone listening to you humor is like an anesthetic that puts people at ease and makes them more inclined to at least hear you out (that is if they don't take you as being a complete goofball). And perhaps the mental state that a good joke puts them in makes it less likely that they will be defensive and opens them up. (An example is my wife who I can never get mad at because she is always following up with humor to anything that goes wrong.)

I could also stretch and add that being funny provides social proof since the group as a whole likes or appears to like the funny person giving advice.

[1] Strictly my observations over time.
I understand the desire to innovate, especially for many of the people on HN. But not having anything you need/want (i.e., you current tools meet your current needs), is a problem? Really?
Good job, butthurt nationalist losers ;-).
>> While people buy new Porsches and Jaguars when they need them

....meeeeh, nobody really neeeeds a Porsche, they just buy them for the novelty (of sportiness) one could say. I think a Tesla in certain areas (anywhere near a big city) could make a much more practical purchase than a Porsche...

edit: Also, 60k ain't what it used to be. Heck, you'll pay that for a 3-series BMW these days (335i).
this could have the potential to break the concept of facebook (though it has managed to do much of the damage on its own) in that it makes you unfriend people so you don't have a negative mark, and add friends you don't like or socialize with, and force you to talk to them, just to help your chances at a loan... seems like the only facebooks true purpose will be lost
Also, try and use your online banking through Tor. You might be using HTTPS, but watch as your account is frozen when they detect you accessing it from multiple different countries in a short period of time.

Tor is unsafe to use unless you understand how it works and use it selectively and carefully. Selectively and carefully is not a way I would describe the average persons browsing technique.
Wikileaks reveals Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian emailed with Stratfor
Bionic Skin for a Cyborg You
Docker applies similar concepts (change management at the file and directory level, a chrootable filesystem as the unit of delivery, atomic and revertable deployments), except it applies them 1 level higher in the stack.

Instead of rebooting machines into a new filesystem, docker spawns processes directly into them, using the sandboxing capabilities of the linux kernel. So you get a much more powerful and flexible deployment mechanism. But of course, you need a machine to exist in the first place, which docker isn't designed to do.

So OSTree is a good companion for Docker, because you need a machine to run docker. A good workflow is probably: pack the bare minimum on a physical machine, using ostree. Then put everything else into docker containers. That's the approach of new "just enough" distros like CoreOS.
Tutor reveals the Ivy-admissions madness of rich penthouse parents
It's a perfectly valid argument. However it is being abused to the point where it is considered the root for every explanation.
Yes, our children is the very first thing that we should protect but if you want it as a good argument, "think of the children" should start the discussion not end it.

For example, you want to tape everybody and then explain this away with "think of the children: we can catch child molesters this way". This argumentation works only for those who don't know any better. You take them for fools and thus you are not a good partner: you must have some ulterior motives.
I agree that this would work for debit transactions, but, my understanding is that the way ACH works, it would be rather difficult to accomplish this.
haha slow down... You should be really concerned about america's twitter users (actually the subset of twitter users that share pictures), not necessarily america's people.
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That link makes sense to me.

"Android contains Linux, but not GNU."

This quote from the article implies that it is not an error to refer to Linux without "GNU", since they are independent. In fact, it suggests that unconditional use of "GNU/Linux" are mistaken, since not all Linux implementations rely on GNU software.
IMO, a better way is to create technical solutions that force politicians and bureaucrats to change their lowdown ways.

The political game is obviously rigged against us. Our strength is the technical solution, not the political solution.
"provided" means a condition.

so in parsed order: 1. informed. 2. consent. 3. storage.
I enjoy inventing things and completing challenges. I think this trait is common among engineers. Unfortunately it doesn't make much practical sense in a lot of situations. I have entered Ludum Dare multiple times and each time I failed to finish a game because I end up spending the whole weekend writing a cool particle system or whatever. When I'm left to my own devices without planning, who knows what kind of thing I'll end up making.

The decision to invent should be made intentionally, rather than impulsively. If your goal is to have fun, then have at it. But if your goal is to launch a product, it's not prudent.
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Of course, thanks for the clarification. I'm not sure what it would mean to "hellban" an actual person as such, but I should have made it more clear that I was referring to the handle "losethos" rather than the human or humans associated with it.
Q: Setting User-Agent Field? (Lawrence Page - 1996)
I don't think he's a hard read myself. But I do think it is an usual occurrence that Spanish speakers find it hard to read, and I think it is because of the language mainly, and not because of the content. But because I don't think it is hard myself, and because I didn't make a survey, I can't say this is exactly the case for most of the population.
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It's worth stating again that wikileaks did not simply do as you say, and release, or if you prefer, publish the documents sourced from Manning without editorial constraint, at least until the cables were themselves public. The Iraq logs they certainly did. With the cables however Wikileaks published cables synchronously with their, to use their term, publishing partners. These partners were The Guardian, The New York Times, Der Speigel, Le Monde and El Pais. Initially Wikileaks only published cables that conformed with editing and redaction processes performed by The Guardian. After the insurance pass phrase was published in a confusion by someone connected to The Guardian and the cable file was compromised, Wikileaks published them all. This act received much criticism, but is far removed from an implication of unconsidered mass release. [1]

As to The New York Times spearheading anything, this is something of an article of faith. The Guardian has arranged this with the NYT to dissuade the UK government from a course of action that could result in a complete halt in reporting based on this leak. There is no first amendment protection in the UK. Strictly speaking, this protection is already provided by the relationship with the Washington Post. But the agreement with the NYT is designed to rebut the proposed intention of the UK government by deliberate journalistic revolt in symbolic union with the paragon of first amendment defence. Which is best exemplified by the NYT. A strategic expression of journalistic power.

The NYT can certainly be admired for its principles in joining in that defence, as it did in defence of Fox reporter James Rosen. Spearheading? Well we shall see.

[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cabl...
Hacking a registry is even more alarming.
A mac is very expensive, that rules that out.

I know Linux is just as functional as Windows is. Most people on this site know that, but we aren't the ones buying most PCs. Imagine your mom, dad, brother or sister who don't use computers like crazy trying to learn how to use Linux. If it's too different, "it doesn't work at all." Too many people are afraid to learn new things, which is sad.