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Depending on your needs, Bitnami [0] and TurnKey Linux [1] offer preconfigured batteries-included VMs (among other options) that might lower the barrier to entry. (I'm not affiliated with either, but have enjoyed using Bitnami's stacks.)

In particular, I have found Bitnami's Jenkins stack to be helpful for quickly spinning up a prototype and focusing on Jenkins rather than than installing+configuring databases and other stuff. I think it took me about an hour to be up and running with Bitnami's Jenkins VM, including download and provisioning time. It then took me quite a bit longer to coax Jenkins into building my stuff correctly.

Installing and configuring databases and other subsystems may eventually be necessary depending on scale. For my prototyping and learning needs, I've greatly benefited by working with self-contained VMs like Bitnami's. It's an option to consider, at least.

[0] http://bitnami.com/stack/jenkins

[1] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/jenkins
I assume this was numbered as a bitmask so people can represent their choices as a single integer?
"The migration started in 2004, when the Gendarmerie was faced with providing all its users with access to its internal network. In order to save money, the agency switched from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice. Then the agency rolled out Firefox and Thunderbird in 2006. Finally, in 2008, it switched the first batch of 5,000 users to a Linux OS based on the Ubuntu distribution."

They started the transition to FOSS in 2004, which means planning began even earlier: That's more than a decade.

They have transitioned approximat 7000 users a year to Linux for the past five years. They still have a significant fraction of their desktops that have not transitioned.

As an enterprise, they not only have state level funding but funding at the level of a security/military organization.

In my opinion it would be a mistake to ignore the scale and pace at which the transition was made. It would also be a mistake to discount the way in which the character and culture of the institution facilitated the transition - corporations don't have enlisted and staff officer cadres.

Sure there is no longer conscription, is not as if a gendarmerie can just quit for a job elsewhere in the industry if they prefer OSX.
That's easy to say, but hard to actually do. As much as I hate spamming mailing lists, it's not like I'm going to spend two days carefully specifying answering rules for every autoreply message target in my Outlook that I must use at work. So, the burden of doing that properly is on Microsoft or company IT to make sure who will get the auto reply, while all user can and has to do is to tick a check box and type an actual message.
Depends on how the shares are measured.

The ones that use web sites logs are for the total of the devices in use, for example.
obligatory xkcd - http://xkcd.com/927/
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink has some reasons. One reason is explicitly "Fewer people will complain that Firefox is a memory hog and that Mozilla ignores memory usage". Even if complaints are technically nonsense, addressing complaints is still important.
Is there any evidence of these two events actually being linked, or is it just the fact they both happened, and therefore must be connected?
it is probably simplest to have words that most people use like male and female and something...

The simplest is a text field with: "What prefix would you like us to use?" The End.

There are no assumptions, no assignment of labels, not one bit of imposing your cultural norms on anyone else. The hardest part of getting over biases is acknowledging that you have them.

Learn some sensitivity, please.
This site seems kind of... low on content?

Am I missing something?
It's also economically in our best interest to keep feeding the pandas.

We're contractually obliged to China to feed pandas in the National Zoo — if a panda dies due to American misconduct, we have to pay them $800,000. See http://qr.ae/N5H14 // http://web.mit.edu/mherdeg/Public/smithsonian-panda-agreemen... .

I'm not sure how feeding the other zoo animals would qualify as "essential", but for pandas there are diplomatic (and monetary!) concerns.
"Your ad here" is one thing, but "your ad in this person's life (which we track for you and report back)" is another thing.

The ad space seller arranges a stealthy introduction between ad space buyer and Dave user. Without needing permission because Dave "agreed when he started using our free service, that we could change the terms at any time, do stuff in the background to keep the business running etc" a silent on-going relationship is established without Dave being reminded of that persistent connection.

We now have default permission granted to contact list and personal details when installing some apps. I hope the rumored Android 4.3 selective permissions control per app is true.

What a great day for privacy that will be when we can stop apps bullying their way into our [contact list + internet access] when that isn't needed for the app to work.

The marketing-programming that is entering apps, whereby an impolite, unchecked persistent tracking, ad placement, additional purchase persuasion spamming and infiltration of our private data is happening, you don't need a tin foil hat to justify a few concerns.
Too often we forget that the coolness factor has benefits in itself. People want to use it. That really makes a difference.

Visibility throughout the studio and its tactile nature are important too.
> It’s literally off the chart!
-- I hope they are better at writing JITs than making visualisations.
Can you please elaborate a little bit more on the key similarities/differences/drawbacks between Dropbox and a home-hosted DAV server? Thanks
Isn't there an option in IIS to have your web apps pre-compiled ?
Chrome did a variant of this (at least) the last year. Not sure how comparable. See WebKit bug 94240 for example.
Still a desktop app - there you go!
I'm already using it (just customized it a bit to match the colors at work, and reintroduced the images).

The UI is now nicer, especially the black background output and larger inputs.

Thank you for your work
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In practice, "catastrophic" here refers to cost, not medical severity.

That's a symptom of another problem, but it's true. A broken knee in a car accident can cost $100k or more, which could be financially devastating for far longer than it takes for a full medical recovery.
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You've missed the point. This is not about those that live healthy lives as nightowls, but those that do not. Can we attenuate the differences among the owls to figure out why some are unhealthy and others are not. Furthermore, can we figure out the attributes that larks have, that on the whole seem to make them healthier than owls. Then, maybe we can adjust the lifestyles of the unhealthy larks to have them lead a healthier life.
Don't want to log in, sorry. See no point for them to see my account if I want to use the thing in view mode.
Because they are completely different image formats for completely different purposes! I'm so tired of these articles. PNG vs JPG, Animated GIF vs video, Flash vs HTML5. These things have barely anything in common!
Heh, I nearly forgot about Service Call -- thanks
I had a ZX81... nearly put me off for life
http://rdn32.com/2013/07/28/how-i-got-into-programming/

When I visited the Centre for Computing History (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/) I noticed that as well as having games for their collection of 1980s home computers, they also had developer tools. Having read about Ian Bogost's "A Slow Year" (for the Atari 2600) it occurred to me that making new games for old machines using "period instruments" might be an interesting exercise. What I had in mind was games that would never have been written at the time, but that would have been technically feasible.

That's as far as the idea got because, er, I'm not a games programmer. As close as I got to an actual idea was that perhaps it would be possible to write a Tetris clone for the ZX Spectrum. Can anybody think of something better?
Sort of... There has been a lot of talks about merging the two bodies, and some steps have already been made towards that goal by the current administration and the previous one.

It's not unthinkable that distinction and separate chain of command would eventually go away in the next decade or so.
> A bit of trivia, which makes the title actually wrong: it's "Gendarmerie Nationale" (which is a military corps, handled by "Ministère de la Défense" ~ DoD), not "Police Nationale" (which is not a military corps, under "Ministère de l'Intérieur" ~ DoHS).

Well, since 2009, the Gendarmerie receives its budget and orders from the Ministère de l'Intérieur. It's not a police force stricto sensu, but their missions are those of a police force.
Is it time to switch back to Firefox from Chrome? I remember when I originally switched around Firefox 3.5.x Chrome was much leaner and faster. Has the pendulum finally swung back the other way?
German original: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/ilija-...
Which you can still get while asleep, which possibly compares well to people who work all day in only artificial light in big buildings.
AdWords introduces cross-device tracking, total conversions
YouTube defaults to HTTP as well. The security threat is pretty minimal, but an evil captive portal could sneakily grab your signed-in Google email if they wanted to.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it costs us money to shut down the government, what with all the disruptions. Less efficient.
From the tone of those comments you'd think that NASA threw a party with tax-payer money and didn't invite the tax-payers. Sad.

- http://www.stars4space.org/Benefits.html

- http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html
@jasonlotito did great job saying what I'd already planned on saying. I'll just add that it can be easy to write off signs, or to say you can cope with it, especially when one is successful.

I was surrounded by clear ADHD cases growing up. They were more-or-less bouncing off the walls and constantly getting in trouble. I knew I wasn't like "those kids". But the inattentive types—those that can't focus or tend to hyper-focus on one thing to the detriment of others—fall through the cracks because they're not acting out. And, if they're otherwise high-performing, they'll be able to pull through their work with the occasional forgotten assignment or scheduling snafu. Teachers, bosses, even the affected themselves seem to think just need to concentrate harder and they'll do better next time.

But, telling someone with ADHD to concentrate harder is like telling someone nearsighted to squint if they can't see the chalkboard. And it's not a flaw in their character anymore than myopia is.

Anyway, I don't know your life or backstory, just that seems pretty familiar to me (tried pomodoro, thought of/started on a similar system before abandoning it in graveyard that is my ~/Projects folder). If any of this has struck a chord, I've found that simply changing my work circumstances have helped me immeasurably. Two years ago, I was working at home and left to figure out every choice and solve every problem in a pretty open-ended project. I'd spend hours reading papers, tutorials, and blogs with little to show. Now I'm in an office with an open floor plan and a team working toward a common goal with a time constraint. Medication would probably help me even more, but I exercise quite a bit and am wary of side-effects. Therapy would probably be even better, especially because, while my organization and execution at work has gotten better, my own tasks are about where they were before.

If you're interested, I found "Driven to Distraction" by Hallowell & Ratey to be a pretty good reference (although, if you get through the whole thing, you might not actually have ADHD).
Just open any SVG map from Wikipedia at full resolution... Guaranteed browser hang.
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> Whilst it may be asynchronous, people do have an expectation of a reply within a reasonable time frame - hours to a few days depending on the relationship.

Not at all, unless frequent contacts are expected in which case you should be warned through other channels.

> You end up wasting time waiting for a repsonse when you culd have immediately sought assistance from an alternative contact.

If you need fast turnaround, use a fast turnaround transport. That's what instant messengers or phones are for.

> It's not spam. It's polite and helpful.

I completely disagree, especially when the numbskull using out-of-office replies can't be arsed to turn it off for mailing lists. It's spammy, impolite and unhelpful.
> As an enterprise, they not only have state level funding but funding at the level of a security/military organization.

Which also means that they're procedural and bureaucratic in a way that can make the term "enterprisey" sound like euphemism.
The theme at this year's JavaOne was (once again) The "Internet of Things" (IOT) and the community keynote address was by Freescale's CEO who proclaimed that the price of an Internet connected (or connectable) uC would need to be about $0.30 (US). At that price point, I can see a world where everything is Internet enabled. Of course, the devices we were discussing were all running Java.

Tessel looks like another implementation that attempts to bring the same technology to another demographic. Their fancy new system (the developer doesn't touch the Lua parts), should have a broad appeal and running NodeJS provides a lot of room to extend the system in the directions needed.

I see a couple problems with IOT and another that's more specific to Tessel ... if these problems have been addressed, perhaps I haven't noticed! Tessel is based on Javascript, but there is no standard for interacting with hardware (performing I/O) in Javascript ... I think the eco-system would be healthier with a whole slew of companies like Tessel, but is anyone working on this standard? The IOT problems are more social (since we have uC that connect to the Internet today). 1) Are we ever going to take the security of devices that cost pennies seriously enough? You might not care if your water heater is rigorously protected when Internet connected, but a few thousand of them that are programmed to turn on at the same time is an issue for the power company. 2) Do I want everything around me to be that "aware". Privacy can be lost in little dribbles and we've seen our increasing power to correlate this data into your identity.
A particularly annoying aspect of employer-tied health insurance is that it's a hassle even when you do have continuous coverage. If you start your next job literally the day after leaving the previous one, you may (unless you get lucky with the providers aligning) no longer be able to go to the doctor you've been going to for years. You'll have to choose a new doctor, in a new location, get records transferred (itself often an adventure), re-fill dozens of pieces of paperwork, re-start prescriptions, etc. It's a huge pile of bureaucracy, and that's among the best cases, where you actually do have continuous coverage.

If you were actually in the middle of ongoing treatment at the time of the job change, it's a particularly big hassle to get everything handed off properly.
>That this has anything to do with some petition he signed at some point seems a bit far fetched.

That's an understatement - together with Juli Zeh he's co-authored a book about the surveillance state, has published numerous essays criticizing the US in Germany, he also didn't sign that petition, he _co-initiated_ it.
So WP seems to be taking market share from which seems to be almost exclusively from "Other" (presumably Win Mobile and BB).

iOS and Android are largely either growing or holding steady (varies by country - Android could be seen as flat lining but then you look at China where it had 9% growth which suggests that might be a bit of a premature accusation).

So, we seem to have a market place with three players - Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

The question is can the market support that or will there be a drive to a single platform?

Personally it feels I can do most of what I do without worrying what device I have in front of me or what it's running and I don't think twice what device someone else has before e-mailing them, sending them a document or whatever. The days of having to use something similar to someone else to be able to interact seem long gone.

So it seems to come down to whether any particular platform can remain profitable for it's owner, for device makers and for software developers. Right now the answer to that seems to be yes for Android and iOS and maybe for WP, but it doesn't feel like there's any reason to believe that there's any inevitability about any of them dying out.
The ACA adds minimum coverage guidelines for those plans, and also requires that they are available to folks with preexisting conditions, including pregnancy.

There are legions of stories of insurance from reputable companies (BCBS, etc) that fail to deliver value when they're needed. Theoretically, ACA holds the issuers to standards that guarantee service.

In combination with all of the above, this ends up being more expensive. There are other causes as well.
This is why it's important to oust both parties. Even if you think only one of them is the real problem while the other isn't so bad, if one of them remains, most people and media will remain stuck in the old Us vs Them culture. The system and everybody in it is toxic. They all need to go.
Where the fuck is my +1000 upmod wand? This is one of the most appropriately witty comments I've seen in quite some time. Thank you.

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Most of the people link their time representation to space. People do not apprehend the digital representation of space the same way as the real space. This means that for some people, it is faster and easier to feel the time represented by a physical object than the same digital object.
As an experiment, I took two vector art files I had, one very simple (a flat icon design) and the other very complex (a texture for a 3d model with lots of drop shadows and non-linear gradients).

The SVGs in question were 6kB and 568kB in size, respectively.

At 25% size (around 256x256px) the PNGs were 13kB and 30kB respectively.

At 100% size (around 1024x1024px) they were 60kB and 266kB respectively.

I scaled the complex image to 200% (2048x2048) just out of curiosity, and it became 841kB, roughly 28x the size of the smallest, which uses 1/64 as many pixels. It is interesting that the complex image seems to approach size growing with area at the high end of resolution. Of course, this is a sample of 2.
OP, there's an official account for those threads (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring). I assume the official thread will be posted soon.
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Latex symbol handwriting recognition
"some issues resolve themselves" is not true. What you really mean is, "someone else resolved the issue."
Windows 8 is not Windows Phone 8.
Potentially yes if the compiler is not configured (at build time) with the same options and the same optimization levels are not used when building the source.
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If image decoding is asynchronous (don't know - guessing it is already?) and you decode them when they get near to the viewport and not just when they become visible, then it should always be decoded by the time you scroll to it and yet never jank the page. Scrolling a long way really fast probably means there's a small delay while it decodes images, but surely that's worth it to save gigabytes of memory?
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Because it fails to render certain sites and that makes for a good conversation point? :)
Ask HN: Hacker side of Insurance Exchanges going live today?
I'd love to hear from anyone that has been involved in the development of these new exchanges. One of those posts on the technology stack or high scalability posts would be great. I've read so much about them and the influx of people their expecting, and I'm tired of the major media spin on their flaws. Would love some first hand material out there, but I haven't seen anything.
how do scanners normally work? i would have thought simple ones check hashes. if so, it's no different...
Of course not. My goodness, next you'll be wanting to see the source code on voting machines. How can we have a proper country if we let people know how it works?
Is it really hard to do? Wouldn't it be enough to have the server always set the right MIME headers for messages from a mailing list? And then have the vacation mailer not send any out of office replies to mails from mailing lists? This sounds like a problem with a technical solution.

From the Sieve vacation RFC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5230#page-8

Implementations SHOULD NOT respond to any message that contains a
"List-Id" [RFC2919], "List-Help", "List-Subscribe", "List-
Unsubscribe", "List-Post", "List-Owner", or "List-Archive" [RFC2369]
header field.
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Nice! It is always nice to do something that provides support for others. If those you support also are those that have the fewest opportunities, the better. If you like to do this in your everyday work, then check us out, as we are constantly hiring developers.
"Do keep in mind though that writing JS for the web is one of the few instances today where an app is expected to run flawlessly on several completely independent implementations."

This is indeed a hard problem, and is precisely why the ECMAScript specification exists. Whether it's precise enough in all instances is another question. In other realms, the same problem is faced by Java, and there the implementation is split into the compiler and the JVM. Breaking it into two pieces at these boundaries has advantages - compliance suites can test that the compiler generates valid bytecode (the Java equivalent to native machine code) and further test that the JVM behaves as expected with known bytecode.
As a cyclist and mobile phone user, i find this idea entirely unattractive. I'm therefore interested to hear that you feel differently. Could you perhaps explain what it is you like about this? What problems does it solve for you?
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Gotcha, jumped the gun I guess ;)
Photos of a historic windmill in Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Yeah, this is what I was expecting based on the phrasing of the title.
She wasn't banned. One of 65,000 people who signed it was barred.
It is conceivable that his entry was revoked because he signed the petition. But that is speculation from a journalist who is publicising her petition. It is more likely that she hit lucky on publicity coup.
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In Poland you cannot give children foreign sounding names. So unless we are talking about foreigners visiting,then it does apply to everyone. Like I don't know a single person to whom that rule would not apply.
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Exactly. This product seems like it was invented by someone who has never used a bicycle or a mobile phone.