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This is great. I'm actually in the process of buying a used car now and it's nearly impossible to get an appointment at a garage in SF in a timely manner.
Perhaps the time element is important in evaluating a workflow so I think what we actually need is a video.
Catching kingpins seems important for rule of law and the legitimacy of the government. Do you have any examples of when drug use was effectively combated by the policing strategy you described?
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Level 3 took me a while as well. It's a good learning opportunity. I haven't finished yet, and I suspect I'll learn some more as I do.
Strikes me that this could be an interesting acquisition target for Yahoo. They have the infrastructure and cash to support its growth.

Twitch also has the added bonus of already being purple, too.
Those specs are very high-end (cue someone dismissing that compared to their triple-SLI, etc) and it is hard to imagine that is at all commercially credible: that would be a $1200+ machine. The GTX780 alone is $700, the Titan $1200. Add that the notion of a living room media/gaming box using up to 450w seems oddly backwards.

After all of the talk about leveraging the AMD successes with the game consoles -- and about smoothing ports -- surprised to see nvidia only.
Most of us who work in banking IT, are lured in either by the proported larger salaries, or the opportunity work on big systems, and interesting problems.

The reality is a little less glamorous.

The salaries can be larger than average in some roles, but then again, as you will be working longer hours, your overall hourly wage will be somewhat less. Also, bonus? Interesting. You can work hard all year, deliver, be on track for a nice share of the pie, then bang! Some tard on the desk does a run of bad trades, or worse, hides losses, or the firm gets hit with regulatory fines, then bang - either a small bonus or more famously, a doughnut (zero bonus), with the promise that next year will be better. Just work as hard or harder, and maybe, just maybe, a bonus will come later. Maybe.

If you have ever worked in a competent professional IT setup, your eyes will bleed, your heart sink, your soul evaporate when you are exposed to the full horror of banking IT.

Sybase ASE - you will see schemas with 1000's of tables and many more stored procs - not because they are all needed, but because each one is a sticky plaster fix on the last sticky plaster fix. Oh, and almost nothing gets retired, it just grows like a slow cancer, consuming all that get near to it.

Offshore and nearshore vendor staff will "own" and manage and support the infrastructure, help desk, request system, application support and maybe even more. It will be hell on earth just to get access to one of your application log files to help troubleshoot why johnny-fucked-the-pooch trader tard tries to blame the application for his poor selection of trades.

You will watch so-called partners and peers travel with ease and get what they need, as they work 'for the business', on a business cost-code. You will be on an IT cost-code, and you will need director sign-off for a trip to the bathroom.

In short - the banks need IT, and they are basically fucked without it. But then treat it worse than the department that fills up the vending machine with coke cans each day.
The reason is because YOUR management, IT management seem destined to fuck you harder than the business ever would. I never knew people could stand or walk without a spine, till I saw IT management.
>that's exactly what we should be doing with false marketing claims, or else we end up with MongoDB all over again

Sorry, but I don't get the reference to MongoDB. What happened there?
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On the contrary i3 is the only one I've started using and stuck with. The configuration is simple, the commands not horribly difficult to use or understand, and it's pretty damn good at dealing with multimon, even dealing with randr display names natively.
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Campaign is irrelevant to actual government work.
When I interviewed at Mahalo back in 2007, I asked and they said they had about a year of runway left. I asked why they were hiring people in Santa Monica instead of in the Philippines and they said they didn't believe in offshoring. A year later they laid off a bunch of people and shifted them to the Philippines. Glad I asked.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/10/jason-calacanis-mahal...
TransferWise is a great way to transfer money internationally with low fees.
I use Mint 15 XFCE on all my machines, I did try i3wm and a few others (i3wm for a couple of weeks) but it always had a couple of silly niggles on 3 screens (cursor jumping back to the middle of the screen when I tried to move it to another screen drove me crazy).

I've found XFCE with the keyboard shortcuts (built-in) to tile to top,left,bottom,right,fullscreen work really well and fit my model of usage (which is mostly open new source file, split screen).
My screen displays what I tell it to? If it is a FairPlay/PlayReady stream or not. I wasn't talking about hdcp or other hardware/end-to-end drm. I don't think systems like FairPlay are going away anywhere soon. Surely it must be possible to make an open standard similar to FairPlay? It can't be all security through obscurity?
We're just talking about energy content right now, not damage potential.
I could take issue with this implicit identification of 'democracy' with 'issue-by-issue 50%-majoritarian direct democracy' (i.e. the idea that democracy is whatever a >50% majority in a referendum would currently show on each issue taken separately). Many countries flirt with some elements of direct democracy (Switzerland goes furthest, that I know of), but none go that far. So the implication that that's the actual true form of democracy is arguably a bit silly.

...And this is getting perilously close to philosophical wankery over competing definitions of the word 'democracy', which doesn't make for a very interesting discussion, so I should probably stop there :)
It doesn't just "query a database", it talks to a whole slew of 20-year-old legacy systems on all different platforms at a whole list of other government agencies. In the process of signing up and creating your profile, here are a few of the systems, all maintained and managed by other departments, that this website has to communicate with in real-time:

* The IRS to verify your AGI, family size and marital status

* The SSA to verify your social security number, SS benefit status and incarceration status

* The DHS SAVE system to verify your citizenship and immigration status

* The DOD, VA, Office of Personnel and Peace Corps to check if you're already enrolled in health programs through their services

Just to name a few, and all of which can be external bottlenecks the team behind Healthcare.gov can't control. You're seriously underestimating the complexity of this website. They've hidden it well!
I take it you two do have history, because I didn't really pick up on #2 and #3 from his comment. I would suggest that every time you say "docker is not just a fancy wrapper around LXC", mentally people assume that docker is probably little more than a fancy wrapper around LXC. Methinks you doth protest too much!

For #1, you've linked to a thread in which you claimed docker is more portable than LXC. I think you guys are arguing at cross-purposes here: you're saying that you're more portable because e.g. you abstract away the IP configuration (true), he is saying you're not portable because you're tied to specific kernel features (also true?).

I, for one, would like to hear more of Docker's benefits clearly explained (i.e. less shipping container metaphors, and more talk of IP configuration). I'd also like to hear more about the limitations of Docker (e.g. what kernel versions can I move containers between, on which kernel versions is it secure etc).

As for #2 and #3, those seem like non-fact-based arguments, so I'll let you and peter continue screaming at each other about who is more wrong on the Internet :-)
I gotta say I don't really get these articles. What's the point? Triumph in someone else's mistakes?

All this negativity is bad for your limbic system. Having your primary emotion driven via rage/anger or even fear is not a health way to live life. Cortosol and all of that, yknow?

Now, here in CA, the coveredca.com is actually really good. It does a good job, and it will substantially reduce my healthcare costs A LOT! By 50% in fact, and I'm not eligible for any credits/subsidies.

The ACA is hands down GREAT news for entrepreneurs. It makes covering yourself and your family possible and affordable. And when you go to hire those employees it is reducing costs there. You can get a platinum PPO plan in SF for $492 a month. Typically that plan would cost $1500 at trinet (employer cost).

I can also predict the minimization/irrelevancing of trinet too. It's primary purpose was to pool small business for healthcare in a handy package, but now that isn't as necessary.
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Have you considered i3? It supports fully floating windows separate from the tiling, and normal pop-up windows go straight to the floating layer. It's extremely handy (As what you noted annoys me a ton with WM's like XMonad). i3 can act just like a normal floating WM if needed.
My experience was a little different. Nobody I know thought that you didn't need copy and paste or MMS messaging.

The only case you mention where I saw a lot of koolaid drinking is multitasking, and that's probably because there is a kernel of truth in that case - it's tricky to do right without harming battery life or user experience. (That's only a reason why it might take longer to implement well, though. Definitely not a reason to leave it out of the platform permanently.)

The koolaid drinking about iOS products that bothers me the most is the claim that an active stylus isn't worth including. Anyone who's used OneNote can see the potential there. If anything gets me to drop iOS, this will be the reason.
"TWTRQ" up over 680% as investors thought it was Twitter 
It reached as high as 1,800% earlier in the day. The "TWTRQ" stock ticker is very close to Twitter's "TWTR" which has yet to have it's IPO.
In case you're interested, Xmonad has partial support for OSX: https://github.com/xmonad/osxmonad
When a stock reacts this dramatically to a chance event like this, it's safe to assume a good portion of the "value" that was lost was speculative in nature, which is not quite the same as losing real value.
I'm disappointed to see no comments here whatsoever that are addressing one of the central (and AFAICT unsupported) claims of this article-- that regular melatonin use can reduce the amount of sleep needed by almost an hour.

I have no doubts that melatonin is very useful for getting to sleep quicker, but if the reduced sleep claim is accurate, then it may move from an occasional use when needed, to a default use.

There are many melatonin users here- any regular users care to share their feelings/anecdotes (or better!) on this?
Agreed on your second paragraph. Tiling as a model is, imo, better for the general case than overlapping for all levels of users (and you can see the move by both MS and Apple towards full-screen windows as a really naive step towards that ideal), not just power users. I use i3 and I love it, but its mouse-phobia drives me nuts sometimes. I'd really like to be able to hold down Super and just frickin' drag a pane/container/workspace to the place I want it to be with the mouse. That's the sort of thing it's meant for.
Your reference to making lemonade from lemons seems to imply that the people who made it were furloughed. This doesn't appear to be the case. It seems to have been built by people working for a private company: http://www.blencorp.com/
Some questions from someone who likes the idea of a tiling window manager but doesn't quite see how it would work better than compositing. I'm coming at this from KDE. My top applications are: firefox, thunderbird, eclipse, sublime text, and terminator.

When I'm browsing, I like to have firefox in the middle of my screen. If it's stuck off to the side somewhere or buried amongst other tabs, I'm going to hate it. How do I make that work?

Eclipse is going to be full screen. I assume that's not going to be difficult.

Now with all that, I get someone asking me a question via skype. How do I get notified? Currently I get a nice notification via the taskbar. Do I lose the concept of notifications?

What about for widget-like things (cpu/network/etc)? Do people use conky or something like that in a tiled window?
i3wm was the only one I could even tolerate, and the one I used the longest. I had enough control to make toolboxes floating, and to size important windows correctly.

But at the end of the day it was a chore to use and just didn't add much value. I guess what you could take away is I want/need my windows to be sized & placed specifically the way I direct, and a tiling WM is the opposite of this.
I use "sort of" Tiling WM. I have 4 screens in portrait mode and always maximize windows across single screen. I never have to scroll or press alt-tab.

BTW: KDE and XFCE WM has some basic tiling support as well.
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The funny thing is that Windows 1.0 in 1985 had a tiled manager, which was replaced in 2.0 with overlapping windows.

Back to the future!
What can the government do with seized BTC? They don't serve any purpose as evidence, obviously (since all the transaction info is public record). Can they be auctioned off? Sold?
This would be great for me as a user. I am not a big fan of the android UX but they got the apps I want. So I can use Windows phone for day to day use and only when I want the app that windows doesn't have I can go to android. Of course having to boot would suck but maybe that can be made faster.
The problem I've always had with OpenVPN is that it seems to break down when you are behind the router running the OpenVPN server. I can get an 10.0.0.1 IP on the WAN but not on the LAN. I've asked this question in the OpenVPN forum, but never got a response so I am still using Hamachi. Still looking...
Very informative article
> You are making the same error he is by ignoring the possible "black swan", which, with every drug, can have dramatic consequences.

The black swan is a pretty useless concept at this point, because people like you will drag it out against anything they dislike. You cannot give any rigorous formulation or evidence for it, and the best you can do is drag out some old example like thalidomide.
A well-built native app will always be much better and smoother to use than a clumsy mobile site.
Good catch. We've updated it. Thanks for the heads up
Agreed, totally forgot about Metro.
I was suggesting that MongoDB's marketing claims initially went unchecked here and generally. It seems a lot of people assumed that others had done the due-diligence for them.

They started using it not knowing that it was not very concurrent, that the default transaction mode allowed data-loss, that it was slow when run in safe-mode, that it was not reliable unless replicated etc. (And these were all design issues, not implementation bugs). A lot of those people were pretty badly burned, particularly in the early days.
I don't necessarily agree the author. For example, if someone wants their privacy and wants to delete their Facebook account, when you search the account it should say the account does not exist. It doesn't say it's gone. It just say it is not found. 404 has a good security and privacy implication. For example, when you turn a repo to private and anyone tries to access it without proper permission should see 404 instead of seeing 401.
> What can the government do with seized BTC? They don't serve any purpose as evidence, obviously (since all the transaction info is public record). Can they be auctioned off? Sold?

Government seized real and tangible personal property is regularly either used by government or auctioned off, so I don't see why bitcoins would be any different.
well, not going to argue whether Lord of the Rings or the Dragon Tatoo Girl is a one or three separate books each.

Though "Hobbit" becoming 3-movie series would undoubtfully generate more money this way, so it seems Republicans is right on the money here :)
Ah, my information is a bit out of date (at least a year, maybe more?). Thanks.
Is the IRS still operating?
Microsoft admits its antivirus program will "always be on the bottom"
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Certainly an interest approach for hobbyist work. But, for commercial work Altium is well worth the price in my opinion.
I talked to dvito, he said he compiled it by hand, so he might incorporate your data into ours.
Prices are based on cost at least in part. But with logic similar to yours, ISPs for example explain why they charge crazy prices for normal quality plans, and charge "normal" prices for junk ones. "Willingness to pay" when there aren't better alternatives is quite a slippery basis for any conclusions.

Anyway, ask anyone if they prefer to buy and not to overpay, rather than rent. Just because someone devised an idea of renting digital goods for no reason except their own greed is not a reason to say that it's a good idea. It gives no benefits for the user and can be used as an excuse to drive prices up on purchases as you said yourself.
I'm actually more interested in the enclosure and its exciting to see that Valve is providing the CAD so that we can effectively fabricate our own. It'd be awesome if they just sold the enclosures and let us put our own hardware in. Nevertheless this is fucking brilliant.
> Something that's mathematically perfect fits that criteria.

No, it doesn't. A one-time pad still needs a source of randomness, and a guarantee no reuse. How certain are you that you don't have a backdoored RNG, or initialization vector reuse?

Or, for a fully general argument, how certain are you that we're not living in a computer simulation, where the Dark Lords of the Matrix can just lookup their logs to see what random values were generated for your one-time pad? Or if we go to that extreme, how can you be absolutely certain of the truth of anything - including mathematics - if said Dark Lords could be messing with our brain and memories?

Or more mundanely, how about this: a flurry of cosmic rays strike the RAM containing the message and by random chance flip the same bits that were set in the on-time pad. Tada, message decrypted.

I'm pretty damn certain none of those hypotheticals are the are even remotely worth worrying about. I may even be more than P(1 - 2^-512) certain that they are false. But it's still merely a very high, finite probability. P(0) or P(1) don't exist - you can approach them, but you can't ever reach them.

Any idea, no matter how crazy or out of place with our understanding of the universe could happen, at least in principle. Therefore if we want “never” have a meaning at all, we need to set an cutoff point where we stop caring. Obviously an appropriate value depends on the situation, but in this case I'm pretty sure that an appropriate cutoff is somewhere up of P(2^-512).
Eventually, you probably will stop relying on these things and do everything with the keyboard

I read so much about why Tiling is Great because the Mouse is Awful.

I think the mouse has its place. For writing code and text I have my hands on the keyboard—which means I also want to create and move windows with the keyboard.

But when I'm in a web browser, or a game, or any number of other GUI-centric applications, my hand is already on the mouse. Which means I want a visual dropdown for launching applications, and I want to drag and resize windows with the mouse.

I love my Tiling because it doesn't waste space. To me, Windowing is just silly; why would I ever want large swathes of my desktop empty, and applications overlapping each other?

But I don't understand the mouse-versus-keyboard argument. I want both to control my WM with both, because I use applications with both.
TOR - The Onion Router.

Would be a hell of a co-incidence if it wasn't a reference.
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None- I just reverted to 12.x and stayed there. Reading online though, some folks who knew what they were doing fared better though.
>> Having used a handful of insurance (health and otherwise) industry sites over the years, all I can say is that while all this criticism is no doubt valid, the bar is a lot lower than people might expect.

On most health insurance sites, the first page is splashy and nice and then the sign-up process looks like it was transported to the present directly from 2003.
The whole saga is fairly well documented. Go to any comparison of iOS and Android in 2010-11 and you'll see Google Maps for Android held up as one of the biggest Android advantages. Maps for Android had turn by turn. Maps for iOS didn't.

Apple was excited to partner with Google for Maps on the iPhone launch and it was excited to partner with companies like Garmin on expensive third party turn by turn solutions. Once it became obvious that free turn by turn nav was a fundamental OS level checkbox Apple was forced to rush out their Maps product.
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Nanosolar is bankrupt, and their assets are/were sold off: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Nanosolar-Thin-F...
drivebyacct2 has been dead for a long time, but he frequently makes insightful and informative comments.
Yeah yeah, work backwords from the user experience and find/build the technology to make that happen. Peachy.

What I want to know, is, where can I get a pair of those acid-wash jeans with the stark, black patches on them?
In other words, the U.S.A.'s national security interests bear little resemblance to those of Nazi Germany (I can't believe I have to type that).

Fine, I'll concede the singular moral uniqueness of the government of Germany from 1933 to 1945.

How about the Stasi? The KGB? The COINTELPRO-era FBI? The Star Chamber? These were all arms of governments as legitimate as mine or any other, and their aims were exactly that of every other internal security agency. The harm they did was not some sort of moral corruption, it can't be cured by being the good guys or on the side of the good guys.

These were evil organizations consisting of evil people because of what they did, not why they did it. An East German government without the Stasi is just yet another poorly run postwar client state. The Soviet Union without the KGB (and a few other atrocities) is just a large developing country with some ill-considered economic policies.

Post Church Commission America is just a better version of America. When the children of ex-NSA employees lie to their friends that their father left when they were young because the truth would be embarrassing, it will be a better America still.
I've worked with several hundred regional banks and credit unions.

One thing people forget is that there are over 14,000 banks and credit unions across the country, not including the top 10. The challenges of regional FIs is dramatically different than that of large organizations. (Note, most comments on HN are from large banking backgrounds, very few from the other 14,000).

FWIW, the two themes I have seen emerge are:

1) Regional banks outsource a lot of their technology, often times leaving them with the inability to quickly adapt.

2) The regulatory environment drives technology and has created a gun shy approach to tech.

3) Most CEOs of banks and credit unions tend to have some type of finance background as opposed to technology.
I prefer to walk around aimlessly, but I agree--sometimes just distracting yourself for a bit does wonders.