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Yes, I fire them. The form backlash varies a lot depending on the customer and how I handle it. I'm rather smaller than Digital Ocean (I recently dropped below 2000 customers) so I have something of a more personal touch, which usually helps more than it ought to help.

I also strongly select for customers who have some sysadmin experience (e.g. I turned someone away this morning who wanted a VPS but didn't want to authenticate with an OpenSSH public key) which helps a lot (but also vastly decreases my customer base.)

Worst case is when someone knowledgeable setup someone else on my service, then broke off contact; I'm now expected to step in and essentially be their sysadmin for $12/month. - That's the problem with unsophisticated users in a unsupported environment; they don't know enough to know if the problem is a hardware problem (which really is my responsibility) or a configuration on their own VPS.

but yeah, occasionally I get someone really, really angry. It's no fun.

My least favorite part of the job is firing customers who are the /target/ of DDoS attacks. I mean, if the attack is smaller than my pipe, I can tolerate it, but I've had customers hit with 10 gigabit+ attacks. Few providers can deal with that, so you are forced to get rid of the customer; It's really sad and messed up, because sometimes it's not even the customer's fault. Someone on the internet who controls a botnet doesn't like them. It's not fair that you finish the job, but there often isn't a whole lot of choice in the matter.

I have a whole lot less sympathy for people who allow their domains to be compromised and used in those attacks against other people.
I don't know what you think HN is for, but -- and maybe I'm completely wrong on this -- hacking computers is surely part of it. We also discuss every day computing as well, of course, but not exclusively. That would be silly and uninteresting.
Spiderman 2 is a decent recreation of Manhattan, but it is not exact.
Soon, California kids will have the right to delete things they said online
You used your search logic and tried to suggest that all do that (anecdote, logical fallacy). As a counter example I suggested that major computer companies with dozens of SEM and MBAs probably know better since they keep advertising for a quite a bit of money.
>>If anything is widespread, it's good old fashioned paranoia.

Well, you will see this as paranoia then: There were lots of people arguing like you that there were no bubble -- just until it burst.

For instance, this "everyone learn to code to earn money" thing imho indicates that it is highly likely that the programming profession will burst in a short while. Again. (The reason there is a lack of software people now is at least partly because everyone stopped studying computer science after the IT death.)

Edit: jonnathanson (and others) answers you better than me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6440516
Vagrant, Chef, AWS CloudFormation. Writing your infrastructure as code saves you a ton of time and headaches.
Same here, though I've been following JetBrains for a while. I wish there was some way they could port it to OS X without depending on Java.
Man, nothing inflames the religious like a critique of their favorite baby. It's exhausting reading through these comments that, no, the OP is a stupid liar and wrong and an idiot for not recognizing that iOS7 is the new benchmark of perfection and should only be talked about in glowing terms.
Much worse? or more in line with what most readers want: simplicity?

The 3 significant digits is the raw full-precision data, if you want to do more with the graph than get a brief impression. This in contrast to having to infer an approximation by following lines to a coarse axis and visually interpolating the desired values. Providing this data obviates objections #2 & #3.

Don't let the tickmarks, there or not, distract you from the zero. A favored lie in statistics is to conceal the lack (or off-the-chart) of zero, betting that the reader won't notice it having been dazzled by the dramatic angles on what (in many cases) is a rather flat data set. Default assumption should be the origin IS zero; if you're hiding the zero, ask yourself if you're really trying to lie to the reader. Marking the origin may provide plausible deniability, but most readers won't notice it - so act on truth, rather than concealing the lie in plain sight.

Comparison should be as natural as the context & form of the graph makes appropriate. If it's not suitably obvious, reconsider the graph type. If the reader wants more accuracy, a graph may not be the best medium - and golly there's the raw data.

The context should make the axis labels obvious and redundant. If it's not already obvious, reconsider whether the title or other commentary can be reworded to make it obvious.

Of course, all this depends on what you're really trying to tell the reader, and what form follows that function. If tick marks or labels or origin value is necessary, include it ... but whatever isn't necessary, drop it.
JVM security concerns are irrelevant when you are running a desktop application. You aren't running it as root, and you aren't executing arbitrary code as if you were running applets.

If arbitrary code is able to access the JVM on your computer, then you already have arbitrary code running on your computer.
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What do ppl in Silicon Valley plan to do once they hit 35 and are over the hill?
I don't understand why you say the article did not acknowledge it. From the article that's linked here:

> But this isn't a totally honest portrait of how many different books are available, because for books that are in the public domain, often many different editions exist, and the random sample is likely to overrepresent them. "After all," Heald explains, "if one feeds a random ISBN number [into] Amazon, one is more likely to retrieve Milton's Paradise Lost (with 401 editions and 401 ISBN numbers) than Lorimer's A Wife out of Egypt (1 edition and 1 ISBN)." He found that on average the public domain titles had a median of four editions per title. (The mean was 16, but highly distorted by the presence of a small number of books with hundreds of editions. For this reason, statisticians whom Heald consulted recommended using the median.) Heald divided the number of public-domain editions by four, providing a graph that compares the number of titles available.

Then, yet another chart, that tries to normalize by percentage of books published in that decade still available....

> But even this chart may understate the effects of copyright, since the comparison assumes that the same quantity of books has been published every decade...Heald and his assistants were able to arrive at a pretty good approximation by relying on the number of titles available for each year in WorldCat, a library catalog that contains the complete listings of 72,000 libraries around the world. He then normalized his graph to the decade of the 1990s, which saw the greatest number of titles published.
This is a huge commonly held misunderstanding of fractional reserve banking.

'The capital ratio is the percentage of a bank's capital to its risk-weighted assets. Weights are defined by risk-sensitivity ratios whose calculation is dictated under the relevant Accord. Basel II requires that the total capital ratio must be no lower than 8%.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_requirement

With $1 billion in deposits a bank may lend upto $12 billion under Basel II assuming a risk weight of 1.0

With $1 billion in assets and $12 billion in liabilities the capital ratio is 8%.

Where does the bank get this extra $11 billion? They borrow it from the Federal Reserve, unless they are lending it to another of their accounts in which case they just credit the account.
Have they added support for SOCKS proxies yet?

I'm currently using `import requesocks as requests`.
Linux doesn't seem to have problems with swearing in the source. I don't know why Nvidia would, either - the words exist for a reason and people use them to fill a conversational need, if you don't like certain syllables in succession grow up.
"But instead of arduously cleaning the whole sink once in a while, another alternative is cleaning and putting away your dishes away as you use them."

This is called the boy scout rule (or the campsite rule) - leave each piece of code you change a little bit cleaner than when you got there: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Bo...
Have you tried creating a G+ Page?
Visual progress is important, and it's currently done in the following way: when you complete a routine, it goes away, and it stays away until it requires your attention.

The second version will give you exactly what you expect: a historical chart of your progress, and also a nice surprise: a view to seeing how you're performing on all of your routines.
The biggest difference I see is that while I know many non-developers wanting to get into software, only those that actually become strong developers make it.

In the 90s it wasn't just that HTML was new, anyone that was "good with computers" was able to land jobs that paid stupid amounts of money for the skill set. There's good money and a demand for developers now, but companies are still looking for good developers, not just bodies with the right buzzwords on a resume.

And also mentioned in the parent comment: there's nowhere near the zeal from the general public. I don't know anyone in the non-tech world that thought groupon or zynga was a good deal, and almost everyone is curious how exactly fb plans to make money in the long run. Compare this to the dotcom bubble or the real-estae bubble and it is very different (I remember many people telling me in 2007 that I was foolish not to buy a house).
Nah, why OSX only? I'd welcome them porting it to LLVM Clang, so that we can run it on all platforms with more speed and natively. Linux ftw :)
Minors can de facto have arbitrarily large incomes from investments, although typically the investments are structured as trusts and are not legally the property of the minor.

Besides, child movie stars.
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No, it's not the same. Those late 90s guys were well employed. The current crop of wantrepreneurs are very often not.
You can get rid of the whole name reduction system. Which is hardly trivial. If you assume it, though, it's true that everything else is trivial.

Getting symbol tables, functions, environments, free and bound variables, etc, etc, out of the fundamental automaton, frees you up to design them right at the higher layer where they (IMHO) belong.

This philosophical argument has serious practical ramifications, I think, because it leads directly to the Question of Why Lisp Failed. Why did Lisp fail? Many people say, because it couldn't be standardized properly.

Why couldn't it be standardized? Because the Lisp way is not to start with a simple core and build stuff on top of it, but to start with a simple core and grow hair on it. So you end up with a jungle of Lisps that are abstractly related, but not actually compatible in any meaningful sense. This is because the lambda calculus is an idea, not a layer.

Basically the point of Nock is to say: let's do axiomatic computing such that it's actually a layer in the OS sense. The way the JVM is a layer, but a lot simpler. Lambda isn't a layer in this sense, so it doesn't provide the useful abstraction control that a layer provides.
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"Hi Guido [...]. You seem to have an awesome expertise on Python."
With this new JetBrains IDE, Unix toolset, Xcode, etc, OS X might finally become a strictly better C++ development environment than Windows. One can hope...
It's not up to you to give someone "a pass" or determine who qualifies for a service animal and who doesn't. There are professionals out there whose job it is to determine these things based on need. If you're not one of them, then you should keep your opinion about who you think deserves what to yourself.

Also, at a certain point, being rude crosses into being bigoted. Imagine if someone said a person didn't "look rich enough", or poor enough, or white enough, or black enough, or young enough, or old enough, or whatever other type of judgement based on someone's physical appearance.

To me this is akin to a cop pulling over a black guy driving a nice car and asking if he stole it. It's a person in power abusing their power because someone else has something that the person in power doesn't believe they have any right to have.

Finally, people who are bad at their jobs (like the flight attendants in this story) deserve to be publicly exposed and fired so that they can't cause inconvenience to anyone else who has the misfortune of getting them on a flight.
If he replaced "int * _counters;" with "vector<int> _counters;" he would have lost nothing and gained a lot of control. As for the pointer to the Snd object itself, in many cases it is sufficient to create object, not pointer, and pass the reference of the object, then in case of exception memory is always freed no matter how many ints he has push_back'ed and where the exception occurred. And if he really needs to have pointer, then he should create that pointer not in naked function that could return at any time, but make it a member of a class and delete the pointer in destructor. Then make that class as object, which will always execute its destructor, therefore always freeing the memory.
The grandparent post doesn't say that the story is untrue. It implies a certain amount of scepticism, which is probably warranted: Nvidia must have some amount of leverage to negotiate such terms with its suppliers, so if such terms do exist, it's because Nvidia has accepted them. Of course there are other factors they have to consider in those agreements, but that's a more complex story.
How do you do the sorting?

I've thought about doing something similar with the metadata of posted urls but obviously that might be ridiculously easy to game.
As a sometimes youtube troll, I worry that this will greatly reduce the entertainment value of youtube comments.
Ok, though I still believe "less is more". Also prevents my browser from doing anything clever, like enabling the browser extension behind my back.
They are both examples of discrimination, and I compared one specific incident to another, not the entire civil rights movement to this (and I'M the one setting up a straw man?).
Not sure what you meant by "I need once excused the behavior"...I typo a lot too so I get it (see my first post). What was that point you were trying to make?
As nknighthb replied, there is an Apple affiliated service location in Bozeman. Be glad you don't live in Butte, though, or you'd be looking at a drive to Helena.
Too bad as the target audience of Steam on Linux (mainly, a hacker who also plays games, and doesn't buy Windows licenses) I can't go with either companies products.

Nvidia is direly amoral in their completely asinine hatred of FOSS and their inability to contribute. I won't support a business with that mentality. They either grow up and play ball in mesa or I don't give them a cent.

But AMD has terrible performance and instability in both drivers, and they still have proprietary firmware. It is like trying to have ones cake and eat it too - "hey look, we have foss drivers, except not!" is not good enough. The whole point of foss drivers is not hiding anything from users, and having binary firmware blobs making their devices impossible to reimplement without reverse engineering defeats the purpose.

Then there is Intel, who just makes a foss driver as their only option and does it right. So my next build is using 4600 HD graphics and I'll just play minecraft and quake live rather than whatever shiny new shooter Valve brings to Linux.
BA still do that flight (under their cityjet brand). The real reason why they stop off in Dublin is because the runway at LCY is too short to take off with the weight of a full fuel tank.
True, but it'll probably be stupid cheap to fight them with high-energy microwave emitters.

We don't plan to fight calvary anymore, do we? And hence there goes dogfighting.
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I hope this works. As silly as it sounds YouTube comments used to really frustrate me. It was like reading through some of the worst and most stupid content humanity could come up with under every video. I eventually sought out a Chrome extension to block them. YouTube comments could generate great discussion if they're ranked/sorted etc. properly.
I meant in a similar vein to say, esoteric languages or subsests like jsfuck.com.

I see this is considered more art, and I would agree with that.

It appears as if it is a large art + learning experience, and I appreciated that after I watched the movie.

Not a lot of _novel_ ideas per se, but an interesting mixture of things.
Codex Seraphinianus of programming?

I think it's a true piece of postmodern art.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/
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I think it's interesting that medical science is finally catching up to the traditional knowledge that diet is the cause of so much disease and illness. The "standard American diet" is standard because it is highly profitable to certain well-connected companies and associations, not for its health benefits; together with the research into the toxicity of fructose, this could spark a radical rethink of what it is we're eating and the consequences.
Of course! But I'd say more like "was" - remote-controlled fighter planes have been around since at least the Airspeed Queen Wasp in the '30s (!!!), and those were arguably more complex to control remotely as the control systems weren't already directly run by computers. Plus the F-16 actually becomes more stable as its speed increases - at below-mach speeds, it's dynamically unstable and the aerodynamics are patched in by computer, but at mach speeds it becomes dynamically stable and will trend towards straight and level.
> You used your search logic and tried to suggest that all do that

Well no, I suggested that I do not believe I am odd in my preference for wikipedia links when I am searching non-trademarked single nouns. I did not suggest that nobody searches "computer" with the intent of buying one, so the fact that companies pay money for those ads is not a refutation of my point at all. Nor am I implying that I am correct because of a single experience, rather I am implicitly requesting that readers of my comment consider their own search habits. From what I see, I am hardly the only person that searches google expecting a wikipedia link.

You still haven't answered my question though, what exactly is your complaint? Is your complaint that a OEM doesn't have the top result for "computer"? You think that signals some sort of systematic manipulation? Why don't I see the same for "honda accord", or "lenovo", or "thinkpad", or hell, even "cars"? Why is it that what I am actually looking for (except in the particularly notable case of "cars"), always seems to be at the top?

And no, it is not because I am a "sophisticated user", I am typing fucking nouns and names into google, this isn't poweruser shit.
It's a great, insightful video.

So from a friend that was a major in the USAF flying fixed and rotor wing aircraft: the current UCMJ / ROEs requires an officer present for each and every kill decision. Period. If that doesn't happen, it's get-a-lawyer-and-court-martial time. Probably main US military isn't the biggest threat if the video's fears in the near term, there are too many people watching: it's any force of any country that doesn't respect rules of war.
a _2400 DPI photo of the fingerprint._

It needs a 2400 dpi output. This is not hard. 300 ppi source can easily generate a 2400 dpi output. DPI =/= PPI.
By multi-selection do you mean putting multiple things in the buffer? Because you can do that if you use Vim mode (using the standard multiple buffers of vim).
> isn't Nouveau 3D performance so far behind the proprietary drivers that nobody is going to be using it for gaming anyway (at least for a long time)?

Not really that bad. On Kepler+ cards it sucks, but I threw Nouveau on my old gtx 285 pc back before I realized Nvidia were anti-opensource assholes (tbh, just like Intel is with cpus) and it can run most games at 60 fps at 1080p as long as they are running at medium or so settings.

That has to be in context, though, since I was only running minecraft, darkplaces, doomsday, flash games, and humble bundle games like Torchlight and Bastion on it for my mother to play. But you can enable reclocking, and it does run ok, but it is around half as fast as the proprietary driver is in the same games at best.
As the others said, it's not that it's necessarily factually untrue, it's just a cop out. If the company cares about open-source, they can neogiate with suppliers directly and refuse to use components with incompatible licensing agreements.

The party line statement is structured to make nVidia appear helpless and as if the burden is upon the open-source advocate to get the component vendors to allow their code to go open, but this is not correct. If nVidia cared about open-source, they'd use their clout to make sure they got what they wanted.
Arguing what arbitrary period of time is "fair" is an exercise in futility, it just sets a precedent. If it's something that could be argued in the first place, it can be argued in the future, and be extended forever.

PS: I'm afraid copyright law is an aberration born from the need to enforce scarcity onto intellectual work so it's producers could fit inside a capitalistic society. Because of this inherent asymmetry, it's effectively binary, making any attempt to reach a "fair" compromise fail.
IDEs allow you to treat your entire project scope as one big ass open file. You can refactor, autocomplete, click-through, etc. in an entirely natural way that text editors cannot do (out-of-the-box).

This is a gross oversimplification, but it's how I sold a few of my friends on Jetbrains during their Apocalypse sale :)
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Good thing about karma. I've brought my kids up telling them the evils of Disney and their harm to society. Suck it Walt!
I think there's a big difference between making fun, sarcastic, or clever "trolling" comments, and making stupid nonsense pure trolling comments.
What good is a remote control tank if you throw a bucket of paint over its cameras. Pretty cheap way to render it useless.
Maybe I am cynical, but this seems more like a 'user privacy' PR stunt than Google actually caring about user privacy.
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>An aircraft is now just a mobile long-range weapons platform.

That same type of thinking was prevalent in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Its failings ultimately led to the creation of the Navy Fighter Weapons School, more commonly known as TOPGUN.[1]

Positive target identification sometimes requires closing within visual range of the target. As long as there's still a human in the cockpit, the necessity of pilots being trained and equipped for dogfighting will persist.

Even then, there's still going to be dogfighting in a sense, because one of the foremost advantages of autonomous figher aircraft is their ability to execute high-G maneuvers far in excess of what humans can tolerate.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Fighter_Weap...
I tried to like IdeaVim, but simple things like undo/redo were broken by the mix of vim and intellij shortcuts. When even the basics don't work...