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> That said, a Spaniard on a thousand pound horse, wrapped in steel, on an open, unobstructed field, against people wearing mostly cloth armor, with stone or copper weapons, was effectively unstoppable

This is ridiculous. The problem was that the Incans didn't have access to (or had developed) the polearm (ie, spear axes), guerilla warfare or basic combat engineering (read: trenches/moats). 10 decently trained pole-armsmen could easily best an armored horse, and well-laid traps or ambushes could easily have netted them closer to 1:1 numbers. An occasional ditch or two could easily have prevented any charges, nullifying the mobility advantage.

More likely, the Incan slave/poor populace was split and easily co-opted by the Spaniards.
A Chevy/Ram 1500 or a F150 is a full-size. A Tacoma, Dakota, S10/Colorado, etc is a small pickup. I'm talking about the F150 mentioned, which is a full size pickup, which you're referring to as a lighter duty truck. Just want to make sure we're on the same page.

I did use hyperbole in saying that trucks are the most niche vehicle, but I'm using hyperbole to prove my point. Contractors, farmers, work men, yes they need pickups. A mom driving her kids to school does not. A person working in an office and living in the city does not. A person who occasionally pulls a camper does not (many SUVs and crossovers are rated for pulling the weight of an average travel trailer).

When snow hits the road, the first two cars to go into the ditch are old compacts (inexperienced drivers) and pickup trucks. Pickup trucks are inherently dangerous to drive, and the people you speak of (work men/women) tend to know how to operate (not just drive) a pickup.

I can agree to disagree, I'm just voicing my frustration at the number of $50k luxury pickup trucks I see driven by people who live and work in the city.
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haha as someone who has to cut quite a bit of grass each weekend in the summer, I totally sympathize with wanting to kill all the grass and plant some fake stuff!
We're not there yet, but with the advances in technology I think we'll see in our lifetimes, one could implement surveillance as thorough as most conceptions of God.
That is true, so the variables rise. You need to factor ambient temperature, water temp, electricity, etc. this day and age these should all be real estate database variables.
I think this kind of thing doesn't really fly on HN, but sure. :)
I got news for Google. What stopped me from rooting my iPhone was a pretty vibrant app store... that I would lose access to. Given that I already have multiple ways to do Netflix and Youtube on my TV, I'll root my chromecast and run something open that lets me do what I want AS SOON AS I POSSIBLY CAN.
Oh, I certainly understand that many rich parents think it does. I just don't think it is quite as pervasive as some claim, and I doubt that it provides enough of an advantage to really worry about.

There are probably bigger problems to tackle, like the wage gap in legitimate diagnosis rates.
sic is "Spelling in Context". (It's actually latin, but that's the mnemonic for the definition). So unless you're quoting something, it really shouldn't be used.
Sort of like your university calculus professor then?
I remember students changing seminars just to avoid a certain not so easily understood prof.

I have zero doubt that it affected peoples grades. They couldn't clearly understand what was being said, and were less likely to ask for clarification if they knew communication would be a chore.
Looks like a variant of Poe's Law.

> without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
There is this weird catch 22 where I always hear this book or that book or this or that article is a "must read" for a startup founder. But on the flip side, I also have no time to read it.
Old people generally don't need life insurance. Neither do singles with no dependents. Young married people with kids and a mortgage do, and it's pretty cheap because they're very unlikely to die during the policy term.
Sure it does. The summation sigma has a variable right under it. Though they like to call it the index of summation, it is a variable with assignment.
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Yes, it definitely would. What is your point?
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Thanks, I'll bring up that example the next time somebody tries to convince me that we need a law and the market can't regulate itself.
Amazon now provides a service to give you on instance keys: http://aws.amazon.com/iam/faqs/#What_is_IAM_roles_for_EC2_in...

Before that at Netflix we developed a service that would hand out temporary keys to the requestor when they presented a proper certificate.

At reddit we put the secret keys on the instance, which was bad. :)
For the exactly same reason, I gave up opting out as well. Well, played TSA.
Ignoring the 4chan aspect, Moot is archaic and won't be confused in everyday speech? Is English not your first language?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moot

One definition is of archaic usage, but the others, not so much.
It is an old language, which keeps getting bent to fit the new development practices. Of course it's not just a rock wheel, it has rubber around it.
Ask HN: What do you while the automated tests are running?
I work on a Rails app with a fair amount of test coverage with Cucumber. It takes around 30 to 40 minutes to run the entire test suite. While the tests are running, I usually check my email, HN news, Stackoverflow and Reddit. They don't seem like the best use of my time. Can you share some things you do that's productive?
That's not what redlining means. Redlining is when you discriminate against people based on where they live (or in where your loan will let them live), not on who they live with.
Just to be clear, this rule doesn't work for McDonalds - as it's an established brand. Their food is awful, but the place tends to be clean and tidy - with a toilet.
Interestingly, where I live, Burger Kings tend to be filthy and poorly maintained, with slightly better tasting food. They are also popular - so cleanliness doesn't seem to be a major contributor.
That's their loss.

Schumpter will have a word.
I am.Christian and believe God surveillance to be important. The difference is that I believe God won't do evil with it, since.God is perfect.
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I'm pretty right-wing generally, but I don't see any alternative between forcing everyone to pay for healthcare somehow, or having hospitals literally throw people out as soon as they are unable to pay. Nobody is willing to vote for throwing injured broke people onto the streets, so we're all going to be paying for it somehow, whether it's through mandatory insurance or taxes.
Think I have to take issue with the 'likability test' - that opens the door for rejections based on prejudices, stereotypes, conscious and subconscious.

Likability means nothing, unless your hiring a sales guy or someone going to be in the public eye. I know who on the team is adding max value and who isn't it has nothing to do with my subjective view of how cool they are.
As a budding coder, sometimes following PEP8 is harder than actually coding the stuff!
It would be better to have it not route at all if unencrypted and the Tor feature is turned on. The idea is anonymity. Having it suddenly use your real-world IP because it sees you aren't using TLS breaks this.
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> 2. Despite this, they still managed to acquire great "wealth", which the article defines as infrastructure and public works. This is not surprising at all, since historically even societies that had markets did not usually rely on them for civil engineering projects.

Wouldn't civil engineering be financed by payments in some sort of coinage, valued because of its use in markets?
Solution: market your insurance the way they marketed Virginia Slims. Send the message that "only women use this insurance". Then you can pocket the savings from having a less risk-prone clientele.
Nice try, Mark Zuckerberg
This was really interesting, but one thing it didn't fully explain was why the fact that ret imm16 was fastpathed would make it a worse choice for this optimization than repz ret. Excuse my noobiness, but can anybody explain that to me?
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Any other reasons you can add?
Must have been more girls at UPenn.
Maybe they're mean because they're forced to deal with unbelievably douchey assholes like yourself every day.
huh? All that says is that corporations enjoy the same protections from government that people do. It doesn't say anything about protecting people from corporations.
Afford? Yes. Willing, not really in this case. The fine is high enough to hurt, but low enough to be supportable if a country really wishes to violate the directive. Think of a ballpark in the order of 20 million euros per year (fines are paid until the directive gets transposed into national law).
Presumably Firefox would disable all add-ons, Flash, and possibly JavaScript if tor were enabled. Otherwise, yeah, all bets are off.
Because you don't always get to use an IDE and want your code to be readable? Just saying.
I've been using MS Sql from version 7, through 2000, 2005, 2008 etc, and I never saw that bug.
Fine. Let's call it "intelligent design" then.
Just FYI, you mean 'immigration,' not 'emigration'.
It's sometimes erroneously used instead of (!)
> With that said, yes, I think OSTree needs filesystem snapshot support

I'm happy with the fact that it allows admins to choose whatever they want at the filesystem and block level, the same as dpkg/rpm do. For example in a cloud environment, block level redundancy may be more easily provided at the infrastructure level for guests.

For those who do need redundancy, you're free to choose BTRFS, XFS+LVM, or hardware raid, whatever suits you.

As for the rest of your reply around the reboot-needed flag; it basically sounds like it's fairly manual, but maybe that's "good enough". I have a particular paranoia about race conditions though, so were I to design a system that attempted to do live update applications, it'd be a whilelist, not a blacklist as reboot-needed effectively is.
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I know you said that, but I disagree that it has a negligible contribution to security based on the distribution of skill level of potential attackers.

You are definitely right about my leaving the computer alone example. That was pretty absurd.
Indeed I did - thanks. I just remembered it was the version before 2008, as I left the company in the middle of the upgrade to that one.

The columns being renamed on views bit us big time. We had a large ERP package that we'd built numerous custom views on top of. Whenever we applied an update to the ERP package, it'd add columns and all our views would be borked.
Title is linkbait. This has nothing to do with your FICO score (what credit score tends to imply here in the US). Only some small startup lenders are doing this.

What a relief, since I deleted most of my facebook friends and left only two people on it. Although, from what I'm seeing, that could be a plus for some of these lenders!
If you think OSTree needs filesystem snapshot support, you
aren't understanding how it works. Or perhaps we don't
have a shared definition of "robust" - for me, assuming
correct behaviour at the filesystem and block layer, I
believe deployment changes to be atomic.

I'll put this differently; how can OSTree reliably get a system from StateSRC -> StateDEST without filesystem-level snapshots?

If the answer is that an administrator must define what StateSRC is every time they upgrade their system, I don't think that's a usable mechanism.

If it does it based on the live system (the best answer), then without filesystem-level snapshots, how can OSTree reliably define StateSRC? There's a non-trivial set of race conditions OSTree would encounter while attempting to create its own "snapshot" of the state of the system.

Having filesystem-level snapshots allows you to get an accurate view of the live state of the system so that you can then modify a copy.

With ZFS, snapshots are basically "zero cost". Or rather, they have very low overhead for the base snapshot, and you only incur additional expense from divergences in the snapshot from its parent.
Out of the box php generally works, which is often touted as a benefit. Personally i think if you can afford a server you can afford 20 minutes time for someone who knows what they're doing.

Every one of your examples tells me that you chose not to invest in those 20 minutes.

Here's a hint: there is a reason "developer" and "administrator" are usually different roles.
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Sorry for the long rant ahead.

This is anecdotal, but I find that in general a static, strongly typed language actually helps me when I am writing the program. One quarter of the time, I find that the code I just wrote doesn't make sense and end up having a conversation with the compiler and REPL until it works.

One important place where I find types help me is error handling. I typically prefer to have Maybe/Option, Either, or similar types for normal errors, and to have exceptions reserved for when the program enters an unrecoverable state and needs to crash.

There are also cases where a dynamically typed language will error during runtime, and where a statically typed language would have instead errored during compile time. It is possible to encode invariants into types, for example to force all red-black trees to be balanced.

I haven't found a case yet where such an error wasn't due to flawed reasoning on my part, and depending on the language implementation it is possible to optionally defer type errors to runtime. The language I tend to use the most also has an escape hatch to allow dynamic types if you want them (implemented as a library).

Regarding incidental complexity, in a Hilney-Milner language, most code can be written without any type annotations whatsoever, although in my language of choice (Haskell), it is standard practice to include type annotations anyway to help readability.

Encoding invariants into the code does increase the complexity, and you'll see most library writers strike a balance between complexity and correctness. If you go for an even stronger type system than Haskell's (such as Coq's, Agda's or Idris's) then it is possible to encode all invariants using the types, although type inference doesn't work as well anymore.

Static, strong typing is there to help the programmer, and typing a dynamically-typed language is probably easier. Haskell's type system helps automatic unit testing libraries such as quickcheck and hunit work better. Computer hardware doesn't care about types, but rather where the bits and bytes are and what points to them. Static typing is there purely for the programmer's benefit, rather than the computer's.

I can't say that writing software in a language that has a weak type system is anywhere as enjoyable, and I find myself having to debug my code.
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Wow, this is insane. I for one believe that prices should be transparent and secret pacts like these should be broken with (I am not normally fond of this phrase but I will use it here) zero tolerance. If there is a pact, the hospital and the insurance company both get shut down and both management teams get a speedy trial and get sentenced for life without parole.

This is absolutely nonnegotiable. Here I am, broken, talking about end-of-life to avoid my family from getting a big fat debt and we don't even know how much a hospital actually charges for a procedure?

Require all hospitals to publish their rates and shut down anyone who negotiates any kind of discount. We have to contain health care costs and these shenanigans have got to go.

I'd really like to know how the system works in single-payer systems. How does Canada government pay for health care?

I am sorry for the over the top comments but these secret pacts, if they are real, make me livid. OK, what can we practically do so we see the real cost of healthcare in our invoice regardless of insurance company we select? Is it even practical to expect to see costs up front?
An 8 year old is not a moral agent.

It's also hard to murder your grandmother without easy access to a firearm.
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Which is why I said

> Unfortunately they have little in the way of real control over ccTLDs.

Hopefully NTIA can empower ICANN (as the IANA operator) to better exercise security requirements against ccTLDs. Ultimately NTIA can pull the ccTLD from the root, which is a stick we could use increase the overall security of the internet, but I would prefer we find a carrot.
The story of Atahualpa’s Ransom (http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/theconquestofperu/p...) -- the king offered a ransom of gold -- seems to cast doubt on the claim the Incans didn't have money.
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Actually relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/303/
My aunt used to work at a school that did not have this policy in place. The principle had a debilitating head injury that put her in a coma; she is now unfit to work for the rest of her life. It was tremendously sad for everyone involved, but it has also severely strained the school financially. Under Massachusetts law, the school is required to pay a large percentage of her original salary now that she is disabled. Had they taken out an LTD insurance policy this wouldn't have been a problem.
Am I the only one growing tired of this fawning over Elon Musk? I want to see more articles about the technology and fewer human interest pieces
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I use my Ansible runs (which are much shorter, but still take a huge chunk of the day in agregate) to update my todos and timesheets, doodle ideas... and also to check email and HN. So it goes.

Of course, my Ansible runs are shorter because I try not to do the full run every time.
register globals didn't "make undeclared variables act like empty strings".

register globals imported request parameters from the query string and post body into the global variable scope.

having undeclared variables "act like empty strings" is related to non-strict variable comparison (== vs ===) and either silencing errors, or not displaying/caring about them.
He may or may not be. I think auctiontheory was trying to make a comment on Ivy League's quota systems.
"in the K10 family, the ret imm16 instruction is now fastpathed"

I understand that as follows: on the K8 both repz ret and ret imm16 were microcoded; hence, the shorter repz ret was preferred.

On the K10, ret imm16 got fastpathed. That made it the preferred code, even though it is a byte longer.
Some friends host a games night, which I expect nets them a good number of testers.

You could also just go to a coffee shop. The pitch I'd try: "Hey, I'm making a game. If you try it for 5 minutes, I'll buy you another drink." If people keep playing beyond the minimum, you know you're getting somewhere.

Personally, I wouldn't use IRC much, because then I can't watch people in action. I don't make games, but I regularly watch people using software I've made. Their words may lie, but their expressions and actions usually tell the truth.

You might also have people try a few games, with only one of them being yours. People like to please, so you can just say, "Hey, I'm doing some market research on video games; would you try these?" If they don't know which one is yours, you may get much better answers.
Worth noting that Letterpress is not implemented in UIKit, it's pure OpenGL (http://www.imore.com/loren-brichter-talks-opengl-tweetie-let...).
The TIGSource forums (forums.tigsource.com) are a good place to get feedback online, and has sub forums dedicated to both playtesting and devlogs. Quite a few well known indie games (Minecraft, Fez, Cube World, Papers Please) first appeared on the TIGSource forums.
I run the tests in a VM so that I can keep working on them while the tests are running.
Circa 1995: "I think researchers and computer scientists should come up with their own solution to display text and images that can't be exploited by bad people. I will never support the World Wide Web. Gopher all the way, baby!"

A bit tongue in cheek, but lets be serious - there is no technology in existence that can't be exploited by bad people. Tor is a tool, it can be used for good or for naughty or for boring. Like most every other online tool or protocol out there.
seeing as PHP users won't even accept that there are problems in the language design

PHP users can and do accept that there are problems with the language design (because of course they're the ones who have to deal with it), they just choose to work with the language despite these problems.
Fair point. Strange anyone would bother though, I always thought PXE was the best desktop solution... maybe for often-offline nodes or laptops.
No wonder he left, Canada is the worst anglo country when it comes to business (Australia only slightly better). US and UK are way better for anyone with ambition.
Nah, you just need a second FB account just for these purposes.
You will not, because that domain is blocked in every OSI layer possible in my local setup. ;)

But seriously: Yes, of course you would. They have to be pasted in clear text. There is no other way to do this.

But that's not the point. The point is that you do not get to use CTRL+ENTER in the first place! Unless, of course, you type in the master password, which Opera will forget after x minutes (zero if you want it to be forgotten instantly). So you have a windows of x minutes after I've used the password manager for the last time to do your "DOM hack".
What do you mean "don't always get to use an IDE"?

Do you work for north koreans or something?
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"Making race maps in Europe would get you shot, your family hanged and all your friends deemed social outcasts forever."

My heart bleeds for you persecuted middle class whites. Oh, the pain and injustice you must endure!
D.C over time would be a great thing to see.
The only decision you might want to fight is not being let on the plane, and this will only happen after a physical search, or you refusing to subject to one. In either case, the scanner data seems irrelevant.
Good call, I wasn't thinking of the F150 as full-size. Of course it is not the same class as the Tacoma etc, but my uneducated mind thought of the F250 as full-size and the F150 as "something in between".

You're right on needs vs. does not need. Just the other day saw a Volvo wagon pulling a little camper, seemed to handle it quiet well.

As for snow on the road, I'd throw in that SUVs are disproportionately found in ditches where I live (my coworkers and I suspect because they breed false confidence) but yes, pickup trucks are also notorious for throwing people in ditches. Many ordinary drivers are not very good with RWD vehicles in slippery conditions.

I hear you on the last part. It does grind my gears a little bit to see the shiny, never-dirty top-spec F150's driving around town. Not to mention the pristine super-duty trucks, although most of the super-duties I see around where I live are either beat to shit and full of stuff or hauling- a service life well-lived.
Although one could imagine a humorless person spending 20 years of his life building startups and thus becoming a useful advisor, despite not being particularly funny. Another possibility is that the humorless type aren't as interested in offering to help.
Will this make easier to make games like Letterpress?