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I really liked the idea of registering through the CLI, really smoothly done!

Since you will probably iterate new versions fast and update, may I suggest embedding an update checker into the program. Atleast until you get properly setup in the different distro repo's.
How to fix government procurement
Doe you not mean swath or swathe rather than swatch? (Genuinely curious I think this might be a locality thing)
That's more than logical, considering that thousands of respectable gentlemen were serving decades in GULAG.
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Poking around a bit, I can't see much that this adds beyond what you can do with the Linux kernel, except where it basically breaks virtualization containerization. If you care enough about workload performance to break the strong statement of separation that virtualization affords, why not just run unvirtualized in the first place. The rest looks a lot like LXC+cgroups.
Ahhh - thank you. I just couldn't figure out what I was missing haha
Or change your name to an alias.
It'd be a worthy challenge, perhaps involving an electronic and/or laser guidance system. Edit: I'm not advocating this and I don't have the skills, but based on what I know about Burning Man attendees, I'm predicting it will happen.
Add a String format one, then is set!
how I remember it, crackers used the term before the warez groups did. it meant having a crack for software on the same day it was released.

in warez it was a folder on the ftp server that would list all the latest releases from that day, to save you from navigating all the /pub/whatever folders over your slow 14.4k connection and so that the distributors would only have to grab from one place.

and somehow in this history the pronunciation changed from "oh day" to "zero day" and was re-appropriated as an infosec term.

edit: just read the definition in OP, it is hilarious.
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Some of us aren't using Safari. Or a Mac. I know, it's a crazy world out there ;-)

(but yes, I have a plugin for that, but the rest of his site is great and readable, it's just that one thing)
The reviews are where the real fun is at.
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Yet another reason why nationalization of government functions is a bad idea. Much easier to move to a new state than to a new country and there are very few things beyond national defense that can't be handled by a state or local government (public works, education, health insurance/care, first responders, disaster response, etc.).

That isn't to say that state governments can't screw things up also but at least the damage is contained and state and local governments generally respond better to their constituents complaints/needs than the federal government.
The modern Soyuz are pretty good though - 'soft landing' engines reduce the speed at impact to less than 5 feet per second (!), and there's shock-absorbing seats.

Archive.org link due to government shutdown in the US:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130928200146/http://www.nasa.go...
They look like convenient additions... but I'd be reluctant to add so many category methods onto a Foundation class. Especially for un-prefixed methods.

If a future version of iOS adds an -sum method, for example, you'd better hope it has the exact same semantics as yours, otherwise if the system calls -sum expecting its implementation to be used, bad things (or worse, bad things with no apparent cause) will happen when your implementation is used instead.
Haven't tried it yet. But the key would be sharing individual passwords with the right people - not just having a shared vault where it's all or nothing.
The benefits of facebook? What, that they're holding my relationships hostage behind a wall? Again, the lengths that users are going to so that they can use a basic utility without being manipulated and taken advantage of is ridiculous.
Other happy T430 user here. You forgot to mention the stellar keyboard and trackpoint. And yes, it's very easy to disassemble. On the other hand, it is a full laptop, not really an ultrabook. But I wouldn't trade it for Apple hardware.
I cannot wait until we get founders / decision makers at these social network companies that have to hide from an abusive spouse / ex so that safety of users might be somewhat of a priority.

The "well, don't use it" response is utter crap given how many real life functions are being tied into these social networks.
Not much stability with the current Congress.
I'd correct the category. Also, NSString is not going to change. If it does, it will be rewritten extensively, most probably obsoleting this category.
Still don't have a clever implementation.
And now I'm probably on some watch list.
Can't wait for the influx of friend invites of people i barely know. The feature was great to keep my profile hidden except to my close friends.
Where can I see his original name?
So the fact that it's slow helps yeah, so I imagine slowing it down even more would help even more. And I totally get the tension between doing something cool and removing everything that isn't strictly needed. I'd still get rid of it completely (ie make it based on a user action instead of automatic) but that's just me.

It is nowhere near as bad as a blog I read where the guy had a rainbow background explode out of his profile picture (that scrolled with you) every few seconds. I couldn't even get one paragraph through that one ;-)
I would be horrified that people have to go to those lengths to preserve privacy but then again, we're dealing with Facebook. I'm barely surprised, all I can think of is "That's a good idea. Why didn't I think of that?"
> A theoretical performance penalty, which, in practice, you just right there told us was a non-factor, right?

Not theoretical at all. Connection pooling will make the initial connection time a non-factor, but it will not make the SSL performance penalty a non-factor.

According to the 1st graph and the data in the table below it, even with connection pooling SSL still reduces performance by 50%-75%. That's a very big penalty.
But all of your friends still mention you, post pictures of you, and tag you in them. You'll have to delete your friends too.
I've worked with users that are anywhere from 15 to 85. You've hit on a lot of key issues. Sometimes they ask questions like "What's a browser?" and then you have to remind yourself that the average middle America user is so far from the demands of a silicon valley user.

Disclaimer:
We make a solution in this space. http://eversnapapp.com

I'm curious to get your thoughts on it. Well written piece.
"I haven't read the book;" - I think we can stop reading the book review right about there.
I wonder why MSIE has made a comeback in the last two months. a 4% increase is quite a lot.

As a web developer I hope the trend does not continue.
You're repeating Tyler Cowen's Libertarian Vice:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/08/the...

Large projects fail or run over budget because of organizational failures: poor goals, lack of accountability, internal gridlock, etc. Nothing about that is specific to government – and if we wanted to change that in the United States we could reach the level of, say, Scandinavia if we were willing to make significant cultural changes.
Just piling on, if you're looking for a good mechanical pencil, I use a Pentel Kerry mechanical pencil and it's probably the best mechanical pencil I've ever used. Granted, my experience to date has been with whatever is on the shelf of the local department store, but IMO it's a great pencil.

http://amzn.com/B0006SW6YO
There are efforts to recruit men as teachers, nurses, therapists and other female dominated professions. There are efforts to recruit women in construction.

Garbage collection is seen as an undesirable job (for both men and women) so I don't think there are efforts to recruit anyone :).
I submitted a pull request adding lots more security as well as BZIP2 compression for efficiency:

https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg/pull/3
If you really want to get on the NSA's list, pick up this Thermite Kit:

http://www.skylighter.com/mall/product-details.asp?id=2540
Blog entry is dated today. Seems like a strange coincidence. I'm with parent on this.
I bought a laptop from microsoftstore.com recently. They have a good selection and their sale items undercut Amazon by ~20%.

Not being able to try the device in person is not great; you might be able to go to a physical Microsoft Store and get the same prices.
I used to fill spiral notebooks with code back in the 70's. This was back when I'd have to go to the "computer center" to use the actual computer.
The fact that dc was originally intended as basically the Unix system's bignums library http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch08s02.html#id2... helped to open my eyes to this. I think you could talk about this idea of Unix as "big Unix" and the narrower understanding of Unix programming, dominated by the C APIs, as "little Unix".

Little Unix took over the world, while big Unix collapsed under its own weight due to things like portability/versioning hell, robustness problems due to faulty tools and text-parsing errors, performance issues and so on. (Partly this was a success catastrophe, of course, for example in how the popularity of Unix resulted in a profusion of different Unix userlands with varying interfaces and bugs.) Also little Unix was more comprehensible from, and more portable to and from, the world of PC (MS-DOS/Windows/Mac) application development, where the environment is more or less the kernel's/OS vendor's APIs. The fact that clearly many more people have bought or read K&R http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131103628/ (with its very little-Unix perspective) than /The Unix Programming Environment/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/013937681X reflects this divergence, and also surely helped to create it.
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At least on the 360, your Live account payments are not going to hosting any of the servers (at least not the ones that you pay for). Any actual game servers for 360 games are paid for by the developers of the game (and run independently of Microsoft).

How this changes for the xbone remains to be seen.
I thought this way too, then I moved to London and took around and European real estate, and now I think maybe it's just the future.
Awesome, thanks. The whole time I was reading the WSJ piece thinking, "What's 'affordable'?"
I mean, it's just rocks from the ground right? "Radioactive Ore Sample (NORM) Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials"

amazon comments are gold though.
Nearly all of my friends use Facebook for scheduling events. If you can tell me how I can convince them all to switch to another service, I'll delete my Facebook account.

Ideally, this plan will also work for when that service becomes a burden, so I can continue asking my friends to switch to new services.

Also, I know I could just talk to my friends more often, and ask them regularly if there are events they've forgotten to invite me to, but that will make me sound needy and pathetic, much like someone refusing to own a telephone, and instead showing up at their friends' houses unannounced, just in case they had something to communicate.
Best oxymoron ever...'Facebook privacy settings'.
Why are Texans so sensitive? I would never make fun of a Texan in Texas. I only do that when they're seen skiing in jeans in New Mexico.
So real question: I've changed mine a while back and removed all the vowels - not machine readable but still human recognizable. At one point they did have my actual name and I imagine they still do. What is to say they don't tune their search to include previous names used on a profile?

I also remember last time I changed my name I had a hard time getting around their validation. Any hints on how to defeat that check using an alias?

I just checked and it seems they have also limited the number of times you can change your name. Apparently I only have 4 changes left.
If you read the code, you'll see that it's mostly C wrapped in Obj-C methods. It also uses the Accelerate.framework (which is optimised to the hilt and very fast) for matrix multiplication.
I don't think they know what "permanently" means.
Amazon has no tax exempt status.

It merely has no obligation in most jurisdictions to collect sales tax on behalf of the local taxing jurisdiction. Those purchases aren't tax-exempt; it's just that it's the buyer's problem to comply, not Amazon's problem to comply. That many buyers "forget" to comply does not make them exempt. (And Amazon is not exempt, rather they never had an obligation in the first place.)
The citations don't actually support the theses [1], so they make a pretty poor foundation.

[1] An example that Chabris points out: "The Law of the Few."
Next you're going to tell me that some woman didn't win a $100mil lawsuit after dribbling a few drops of lukewarm coffee on herself and that's why we need reforms that restrict lawsuits on defenseless corporations like McDonald's.
> "...Just don't forget to go back home."

Or at least, if you're staying, I hear Dallas is lovely. Or Fort Worth. Or Houston. Or San Antonio. Or Corpus Christi. Anywhere but Austin really. Austin sucks. Stay far away.
> Are there efforts to recruit men to become elementary school teachers on the scale to promote women in STEM field? Are there efforts to recruit women into construction and collecting garbage?

If there aren't there should be.

The world is magic. Programming is amazing. Building houses is an incredibly powerful experience. Learning from someone who looks like you and knows more than you can be transformative. These are experiences that every person deserves, and any person of any race or gender, should they be interested in these experiences, deserves a shot at them.

Any time we see a phenomenon breaking down along gender or race lines, when skin color and genitals are not involved, that's a red flag that people are being excluded for silly reasons.
Actually, I might add some protection around this specific case.
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Good Guy Internet Archive. Serving government websites while their servers are "closed".
Wouldn't use uranium, because as another poster mentions it's more a novelty and there are better materials you could use, but you could make your own cloud chamber to observe radioactive decay with the naked eye. Makes for a really cool science demonstration :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewTySxfTQk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber
Methods are often added to core classes like NSString. For example, in iOS 6:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General...

And you changing the category won't help the versions already out in the wild. Hopefully, automatic updates will mitigate this to some degree but not everyone will turn them on.

There are workarounds (like prefixing methods with a pseudo-namespace), but they're all a bit ugly. Might be worth considering though.
Is 'category' like a extension method in c#?
Another possibility is that people bought their houses before the prices rose.

As an extreme case of this, my girlfriend's house in Denver could sell for $850-900k. But, it's been in her family for years, and the original price when her grandparents bought it in the 1910s was <$10k.
Test your geiger counter, it sounds like. I think that's about it.
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Cats like milk. Milk comes from cows. Cows moo.

Therefore all cat owners are racist.

(Since we're clearly on the subject of specious reasoning)
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The time of your access doesn't matter.
How many orders of magnitude do you think you are out?
This experiments show the evolution of bacteria that become resistant to antibiotics in laboratory :

http://v6.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=24goih4&s=6
Accelerate.framework contains a heavily optimised version of LAPACK and BLAS.

P.S. libccv is cool!
I like Mike Monteiro's perspective: we have to give a hand up to the people who have been held down.
Chimeapp.com?
10 (and afaik 11) are good browsers, I can't complain about them. I have yet to fix anything specifically in 10.
Well there are similar tablets, I think the one below was around $250:
http://tabletrepublic.com/forum/android-tablet-reviews/voyo-...

You would have to find a case + keyboard though.
That boils down to reading purely for pleasure, in which case fiction may be more effective. The whole point of non-fiction is that it should NOT be fiction, which requires intellectual honesty.
There are many gradients of inequality, and only one true equality. Anything that isn't true equality is inequality.

Is giving a helping hand to disadvantaged minorities an exercise in promotion of equality? I don't think so. So is it a bad thing? Not always.
After watching a YouTube of Adam Savage proclaiming the joys of the space pen, I went out and bought one of my own.

Great decision.
Super! Are you motivated to do more like this?

I'll donate $100 to you if you want to continue with NS+Ruby classes.
What is a stalker going to do with access to only your public profile data?

Your stalker already had access to that from every tag and mention of you anywhere on Facebook.
I'm not sure what to make of this, if indeed it is true. One or more of:

1. China keeps a tight reign on its populace, or at least on popular opinion.

2. China needs to employ a whole lot middle-management types.

3. It's cheaper to censor debate that it is to have debate.

4. Censorable debate isn't necessarily or even very often criminal in China - if the USA censored something, the author(s) would likely end up in jail.

5. This is the future of The Rest of The Internet.
That is one of the things that really, really, really bugs me.

I want to tell my friends "don't ever put up pictures that include me on facebook" but I can't because it's too big of a request at this point, and I'd end up being too much of a dick if I started making that demand. I really struggle with this. Facebook, that evil behemoth, has won big. I really just wish that it would get hacked or something so people stop trusting social networking sites. Come on blackhats, do your thing.
I see more and more friends just completely changing their name on facebook (myself included).
Useful post simply for bringing attention to HSTS; of which, I've never heard.
Desirable jobs don't need to recruit, because they are desirable.
> painstakingly vetted for their impeccable ideological purity

You watch too many Hollywood spy movies :)

> turned hyper-capitalist overnight

What happened in the 90s had little to do with capitalism, though some may argue it did :) It was mass theft of state property (with a fair amount of murder) out in the open among chaos and disarray.

First, there was the gang of "liberals", who heroically put an end to the Soviets and stole what they could on the ruins of the collapsed Empire. Then in 00s with Putin came the KGB gang, who took away the loot from the "liberals" and put private sector under control. They recently ousted the opposing military gang in a big embezzlement scandal. They're the ruling elite at the moment.
That is farcical. If something is thrown in the air, you can demonstrate the force of Newton's constant, thereby definitively demonstrating gravity. Actually calculating the gravitational constant with precision is the only difficulty there. Nothing about this is assumed. Which back to the point, is nothing like the assumptions of hereditary lines in the so-called "fossil record".
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Nate Silver on the U.S. government shutdown
The average government employee is beyond useless, and sadly the few who are good get a bad reputation and also a huge workload dumped on them by the majority.

One of the engagements I get called to once a week involves dealing with some gov employees. It had the odd property of continuing when the shutdown hit, so its the contractors and no gov people. Productivity on the project is completely unaffected. Half of the workforce gone, no change in productivity. There are certainly less meetings, so that's nice.
If you refrain from using Facebook for anything but receiving event notifications, you solve that problem while avoiding most of the harm.
I have a Yoga 13 and won't recommend it. The WiFi chipset is horrible and can't keep a connection to many routers, and the keyboard has a terrible flex to it that makes typing annoying. Otherwise, it's a great little laptop :)
You could move some of the words around and it would make just as much sense.
> The inference is that today's news on gov't waste is also potentially a "myth".

Kottke didn't say it, but I will: it sure sounds like a myth to me the way you are phrasing it. I haven't seen any news today on government waste. Is that the news articles you have going on in your own mind?

Sorry, this type of comment is not very popular on HN, but I felt I had to bite here. Despite the effort of some politicians these days you can't just use unqualified "government waste" as a throwaway line, assume everybody knows what you're talking about despite citing nothing specific. And when folks do try to come to you with something specific, it's quite challenging to come up with things that are universally considered waste.
I'll jump into this touchy subject. The reason why there are not efforts to balance the other fields you mention is because of the "position of power"/"social prestige" of said jobs.
I don't think anyone can debate that due to complicated social/economic issues, but significantly sexism/racism, the history of USA shows that jobs with power/prestige are usually held by white males. Oprah Winfrey crying at Obama's speech wouldn't of happened if Obama just became the first black garbage man. It was about the power/prestige of a black man being USA president. Sexism pretty much puts women as teachers & nurses and "men"(or society in general) is apparently fine with that. Road maintenance, garbage collection? Those are low-prestige & physical/dirty work. That's for minorities & men. Society(sexism) probably prevents most women from even considering those jobs and the few that do, I'm sure are greeted with an insane amount of inappropriate jokes/comments.
Now, since positions of power/prestige tend to have a much greater impact on overall society, having some balance in those positions will help make products & laws more diverse to reflect the diverse society we're in. BTW, this is why I find it ridiculous the concept of exclusively men making laws on abortion.

Anecdotal: When I was a kid, I had to take some kind of "development" test to see if I was generally progressing properly. I failed that test, the results stated things such as "No solid understanding of reality vs fantasy". My parents were livid. They went to school to complain. Turns out, a lot of parents were complaining. Also turns out, all the complaining parents were foreigners. And it also turned out that the questions on the test had a heavy assumption that you were an american child with american parents. I didn't know what a pizza was when I was a kid; that's one of the questions I bombed. My parents never got it for me; at least not yet. The school ended up having to put the test-questions through some kind of minority/foreign-parents verification process and re-do the tests for everyone.
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Is it racist to recruit Black's and Hispanic's in Tech? Asian's in Hollywood, Politics, and Sports?