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Yeah, as the boss he does have some responsibility. And he sure as hell is responsible for his own actions.

You just don't get it, do you? If you don't ask for explicit consent, and rely on mixed signals to evaluate consent, if you get I wrong then you are still responsible. That's the personal responsibilty of the one initiating the unwanted sexual advances.

I don't care if she stripped down naked and paraded up and down the bar. This doe s not give any man the right to engage in unwanted sexual activity. Full stop. A court of law would find the same, and in fact there are quite a few surprised men who have found this out, to their cost.
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Is QR code reading really going to be a thing? Can we please figure out a better way to interact with phone<==>world than to force data through the camera?

Maybe Bluetooth LE.
>>engaging in a thousand small acts of self-preservation and defense of turf, because of all of the overlapping jurisdictions and poorly delineated lines of authority.
Agreed - troubled, oft-compromised. I think you may be overestimating the power of an oversight board ... in the end, I guess I seriously question the training and motivation held by those in the security guard profession.
Newer cars no longer need 3000 mile oil changes. Most cars with synthetic need an oil change every 7500 miles, BMW's for example only need an oil change every 15k miles.

3k would be a waste, the oil is practically still new at that point.
Either your comment is dripping with sarcasm of hidden depth or I wandered off news.ycombinator by accident for a second and have stumbled over some fine /. style flame-bait or you are trolling or you are unimaginably ignorant.

On the off chance (though I find it hard to believe) that it is ignorance it may be of interest to you that this site runs on Linux. So I guess you'll be leaving our piece of shit forum now that you know.
You've gotta preface this with "spoiler alert"
The point of the study is that these cases are a minority, and that it works to initially assume that the money will be used to buy a jacket.
Join a Linux User Group or find someone who can help. You need hands-on help my friend.
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People just call this spaghetti for superficial reasons, they don't see objects and they don't see current PHP practices used in 2013. But it is readable and maintainable code. We're out of context, and there is nothing there to assume lack of quality. Some people mistake code with literature, objectively speaking this is not bad code.
I'm going to repeat this yet again, in the hope it gets through to you, or someone else who might be under the strange misconception that unwanted sexual advances by a man to a woman is the personal responsibility of the woman:

If you do not have explicit consent, and you misunderstand the signals given by the woman, no matter what the perceived provocation: it is your responsibility as to what happens. Your failure to understand you've stepped over the line into the realms of sexual assault has nothing to do with the woman.

If a man gets it wrong, he cannot say that it is the fault of the woman. The woman may have given out some mixed signals, but it was the man who initiated the contact, and it was the man's responsibility and duty to ensure that the woman was ok with what is happening.
Exam board contacts Jewish school over censored GCSEs
He didn't even want a deal. Shark Tank has become free advertising for some.
I had a similar experience in Boston a couple months ago with Budget.

Waited in line more than an hour just to get to an agent, and when I finally got up there, I discovered what was taking so long: they had no cars available. They had only one or two people working returns, so as fast as they could process cars back in, they were sending them back out. For every person who got up to the counter, it was taking 10-15 minutes just to get them a car.

I was traveling with my wife and nine month old daughter. I had requested a car seat when I made the reservation, but, no surprise, no car seat when we got out to the car. Not only that, but they didn't even have any car seats at all - the manager had to go to another car rental agency and get a seat from them.

The whole thing from start to finish took just short of 2 hours.

So yeah, next time I travel, I'll definitely see if Silvercar is available. Even if we had to bring a car seat with us, just shaving the hour in line would have been been very welcome.
In Ancient Times, Industrial Light and Magic was on Usenet, and maybe the Internet, via a system named dagobah.

I worked in a computer graphics group that used artist names, like vermeer, escher, davinci, etc. My system was bonestell. In another group I was in, we used names of dances, like bolero, foxtrot, tango, etc. The guy who suggested bolero was thinking of Bo Derek, but I took the idea of dance names and ran with it. My system was tarantella, which was hard enough to spell that people stayed off of it.

At home, I don't follow a pattern, but I have used names from "A Wrinkle in Time". My first quad core linux system was called tesseract and my Windows box was camazotz. I've always like the names of the earliest computers like ENIAC, EDSAC, UNIVAC, etc., so I named my Mac Pro prozac. I've considered naming my two raspberry pis colossus and guardian...
probably the cheapest route due to NSA subsidies
I agree! This is why I've long argued that companies should be required to pay a portion of their employees' paychecks in nontransferable vouchers. If parents want to blow their I-Bank or Google paychecks on MacBooks, cocaine, and hookers, after responsibly buying jackets and healthy food for their kids, that's their prerogative. But the first $n0,000 should be paid out in restricted vouchers to make sure they provide for their kids first.
Are you sure about that with Japan? The visa-free entry (at least for Americans) allows business.

> A visa is NOT necessary for US passport holders visiting Japan for a short-term stay of less than 90 days with the purpose of tourism and business.

http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/travel_and_visa/t...
I would, except that I don't use iOS.

Then again, I carry my air on me everywhere I go, so I'll never, ever be editing spreadsheets on my phone. Seems like an odd usecase to me, though.
Holy shit. That is chilling. I wonder how many of them were innocent.
In addition...

The simple fact that someone came after those people to check what they did with their money, for the purpose of the research, probably influenced the result (at least if they knew or suspected that beforehand). If they said they would use the money for business, but then instead spend it alcohol and gambling, that would be very embarrassing.

If on the other hand, a program like exists this for a long time and everyone knows nobody will check what you do with the money, abuse would become very likely, imo.
The code looks pretty clean. I dig the two-tab spacing as well, but perhaps that was done after the fact.

Anyhow, not sure if this makes any difference or not but i'm curious as to why true PHP constants are not used, and instead regular variables in all caps like $PARAM_INT are used. Anyone know why this might be?

I ask because one of you PHP-gurus might inform me that there are certain use-cases where a true constant is not wise.

An example below:

param_get_slashed(array(
'feeduser' = > $PARAM_INT, //debug: gets feed for user here
'err' = > $PARAM_STRING, // returning from a failed entry on an orientation form
'error' = > $PARAM_STRING, // an error can also be here because the profile photo upload code is crazy
'ret' = > $PARAM_INT, 'success' = > $PARAM_INT, // successful profile picture upload
'jn' = > $PARAM_INT, // joined a network for orientation
'np' = > $PARAM_INT, // network pending (for work/address network)
'me' = > $PARAM_STRING, // mobile error
'mr' = > $PARAM_EXISTS, // force mobile reg view
'mobile' = > $PARAM_EXISTS, // mobile confirmation code sent
'jif' = > $PARAM_EXISTS, // just imported friends
'ied' = > $PARAM_STRING, // import email domain
'o' = > $PARAM_EXISTS, // first time orientation, passed on confirm
'verified' = > $PARAM_EXISTS)); // verified mobile phone
A Smartphone Charger That Sniffs for Malware
The reason they want to be free is to work on what they want. If someone starts a nonprofit that they expect to be their life's work, they've achieved the same result (though perhaps with a bit more risk).
For sports fans -- historic player names for a particular team.
Like the Phillies..
ashburn, bunning, carlton, dykstra .... incaviglia.
Apple's "Beacon" technology is way more interesting than QR codes.
Yeah, it is a problem. Sorry. I should remind myself not to do it when I'm giving talks or being interviewed.
You're much better finding a room somewhere further in Long Island and taking LIRR to the city than the E train!
I'm totally with you. QR codes are awfully cumbersome to interact with. If phones had an infrared receivers that might be another option.
It's not a bug. The submitter deleted it.
We reached a point where it was just becoming painful to keep track of them - what a server did and where it was located. When you only have a handful of machines at one location, it's not a big deal. But once that number grows, and especially if spans multiple data centers, cute or geeky naming schemes tend to fall apart.

"Wait, was Magneto the master DB or the NFS server? Did we move DB off there? Is it in Atlanta, or San Francisco, or Phoenix?"

Eventually we reached a point where we had a spreadsheet mapping hostnames to architecture functions and physical locations. We realized that, even though our naming scheme was cool, it wasn't going to scale much further.
> Asana is complex. Too complex... I've witnessed a roomful of highly skilled, intelligent people scratching their heads and shouting over each other trying to accomplish simple tasks with Asana.

As a user of Asana, this is strange for me to read. What did they argue over? Asana has projects, and you put tasks within the projects. If you want you can use sub-headings to separate things within a project. How is that complex?

Asana has actually been the one project/task management tool that I've stuck with. In contrast to you, I'm baffled how anybody manages to use Trello productively. Different tools for different people I guess.
I am, and I've given my reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6538740
The hostnames I develop with are like "imdopsjpl741", difficult to remember. I prefer names like "rover" and "elephant" but can understand how that could be worse for the server farm ops people.
tinkling?
Apple Reportedly Cutting iPhone 5c Production as Chinese Gray Market Prices Drop
I run Ubuntu daily, on hardware like yours, and have had none of your issues. Weird.
Agreed. It reminds me of one of the lessons of capitalism--how Henry Ford increased the wages of his workers so that they could buy his cars, thus benefiting them and himself. He did so because he didn't have a sufficiently large body of consumers for his goods. This is seen as an example of how capitalism is ultimately motivated to uplift all people to consumer status.

The problem is when the chain of supply and demand grows longer and longer (i.e. covers more distance in terms of culture, national borders, multinational markets, etc), as it does today. In the modern era, what if Henry Ford's factory was in a third world country? There would be no shortage of first world consumers of Ford's products, so in that scenario there is no capitalist incentive to raise the workers' wages. Especially since the first world consumers are buying the products for the very reason that Ford is paying wages impossibly below first world pay scales.

This scenario is also not without precedent, for what it is is the isolation and exploitation of one population in favor of another population, which is a colonialist scenario (as opposed to a Marxist scenario where classes are stratified in a single society). In such a scenario, nothing capitalistically motivated will come to the aid of the exploited population until a very long chain of supply and demand has been unwound.
I've always liked C#, and even like Visual Studio to some degree, but I would never develop it for anything other than a hobby application.

Why?

Windows.

I'm not going to be tied to a an entire ecosystem like that. If MS was serious about being developer friendly, really serious, they would not tie developers to Windows. It might not make the most strategic sense, but in the day and age of the cloud and big clusters of no-cost image spinups, Windows doesn't make sense.

And, no, Mono is not a real alternative. There's too many good languages and frameworks to be fiddling with Mono in production.
I will say, sound issues I've had with every OS I've run, Windows Mac and Linux. Sound drivers are shit in general. Your other issues are completely valid, though I've not had issues like that for about three years now.
There are so many beautiful serif typefaces; I wish I worked with more suitable content for their use.
I live in Cambodia (Phnom Penh) and over the last few years have seen many expats move from Thailand to here due to the relative visa situation (very difficult in Thiland, very easy in Cambodia). Cost of living here is about the same as Thailand. The number of decent places catering for westerners has increased dramatically over the last few years. Local people are very friendly. I reckon Phnom Penh an awesome place to live.
As I understand it, the idea of a voucher is that the for-profit entity receives the money after the end beneficiary does, which wouldn't affect how much the end beneficiary gets. What are you talking about?
I probably would have felt the same way as you even a year ago. But then it started to feel like I was always waiting to be "effective" and never actually doing anything. If every human on this planet who could just adopted one other random person on this planet to look out for, wouldn't the world be a much better place?
Measurement-induced collapse of quantum wavefunction captured in slow motion.
Very few gamers would switch to Linux just for one game. We use Windows, not because we like it especially - hell most gamers I know, use Mac OS X for their professional work - but because it's on Windows (or consoles) all the games are. I predict Steam Machines will become a big hit tho, if the controller is as good as I hope.
Exactly! Big companies can learn a thing or two from this.
Whatever. That hasn't been an issue for me in literally years; even my unsupported AMD APU with a weird wireless chipset worked on first boot (though I did install my own drivers for better performance). I've had more issues with Windows and drivers in the past that Linux for the last few years.
I guess because I didn't know those were that cheap - I'm out of date on this stuff and remember BT3.0 SoC's costing a lot more.
its still about 93mil too much.
Ok, but IMO HN isn't really the right place for politically charged blogspam like this.
In recent years, I have preferred "read it later" services to traditional bookmarks. I delete items once I've read them (rather than building up an archive), and have went from Instapaper to Pocket to Apple's Reading List, each of which was an upgrade in UX.

That leaves traditional bookmarks mainly for select "reference" resources like API documentation.

For whatever reason, I have a strong dislike of "junk drawers", even when they are digital, and like getting rid of things.
Is The Microsoft Board Headed For A Steve Jobs Moment?
This article has little content in it, and I can't even parse which side of the debate you're trying to stake a claim to in this follow-up comment, though you seem to be very firmly on whatever side that is. Regardless of which side that may be, though, it seems appropriate to ask you if have more evidence than the word "preposterous" and some scare quotes around the word "fact".

You really need to work on your political rabble-rousing.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic here - I do have a tendency to sometimes overcomplicate the way I express ideas, but I'm not certain that particular sentence is exceptionally overwrought.
Creating New Habits
Care to share a few? :)
Terminator-style self-assembling robots
I am confused on a few points myself. Granted I am the much quintessential Windows user but I have explored alternatives over the years in the realm of Linux. I must say picking up Red Hat at Fry's was indeed fun, but part of me wanted that boxed copy of Windows for Workgroups I saw nearby even more. The OP talks about bloated and forgive my ignorance but I though one of the most vaunted features GNU/Linux was it's user customization features. So why should Ubuntu really matter, or any distro. Why not give the user something easy to work with regardless of bloat or extraneous features as they can mature in knowledge and alter their OS to their hearts content.

I am not trying to say one is something over the other. I'm just saying I use Windows and have for years and for my needs, cost and all, it really seems to fit the bill. I have used many flavors of Linux over the years but I rarely find it compelling enough to move beyond LiveCD or Pi usage.

tl;dr Does distro matter, can the user not just customize at some point?

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This is my favorite one. For extra awesome, you can use the atomic mass of each element as the last octet of the device's IP address.
Braveheart is a good example but my favorite example is Remember The Titans, which went so far as to have a player get into a car accident before the championship game when, in fact, he played in that game and got into the accident after the season had ended.
You're making a very cogent and compelling argument for why health care should not be funded or mediated in any way by the state.
In the (un)luckily case you have to speak... I memorize word by word the first 2 minutes of the speech, which is usually who am I, the table of contents, and the begin of the first slide (it may seem trivial, but it's often where people judge and classify you as someone to be listen to or a dumb).

This makes me confident that I won't say weird things and completely loose everybody. At the same time, this is enough to get the body relax and used to the audience.
Sounds like you're using a motherboard that isn't supported, TBH.
Really? Any data to back that up?

(On a side note, a "large bag of cocaine" sounds like a business investment, investing in the highest return commodity available to the investor... not that I condone it, but it is somewhat different from what I assume you intended, namely buying recreational drugs for personal use rather than providing for one's children).
Same holds true if you're a drug lord. Why would you want legalized competition from well-capitalized above-board businesses?
The users of the servers need never be burnt by the cutesy names and can remember them easier. So it seems not so clear cut what's better all things considered, especially as the ratio of users to operations folk increases.
So do you think that's what's more important it's not that bookmarks are wrong it's that the UX is terrible ? Or is that reading stuff later is actually what you want to do most of the time with bookmarks ?
Another way to do this would be to have a Basic Income that pays out to minors separately from their parents, but into an account/card that, for minors, is restricted to certain products/services (somewhat like how foodstamps work, but more generally toward childcare/food/clothing/education-type products.) The parents would have power over the child's account, just as parents do today, but only given the same restrictions.
There's always the risk that one of the recipients will become so successful that they start doing this themselves... ;-)
How will they lay blame to a damaged vehicle? Car rental companies have become viciously aggressive at forcing customers to take responsibility for damage, and it falls on the last guy to drive it. I'm embroiled in a false claim with Enterprise now.

Better buy the supplemental insurance if you don't want this monkey on your back.
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94M for 50 people? Organizations like Mozilla has 900 employees and the operation is probably around that. 94M that's almost 100M or 0.1 billion.
> In related news, longtime Kleiner Perkins partner John Denniston has resigned to lead a Bay Area nonprofit called the St. Vincent De Paul Society.

Perhaps this was drafted poorly, but it gives the impression that this organisation is local to the Bay Area only.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul is an international charitable organisation. In Australia it is sufficiently famous to be known by the diminutive "St Vinnies".
It's all dependent on vendor choice. Nothing says they have to use GTK, QT, or any other multi-platform windowing toolkit, and if they do, nothing says that they have to build and distribute Windows or OS X versions of their software. It's just as easy to say "Windows apps written in QT are really easy to port to Linux" as the other way around. If someone writes their own code to address X11 directly, Windows wouldn't be able to run the software without an X Server, which requires the installation of a bunch of other crap through cygwin and would still probably have performance issues (that is, it'd be very much like using WINE to play Windows games, but probably much crappier).

A Linux exclusive can be made, and running an unauthorized "Windows port" can easily be made to exceed the technical skillset of your average gamer.
It's clear now, thank you!
> The war on drugs is certainly bad. But I still believe there are drugs that should be prohibited.

Let's be clear here: a legal prohibition is nothing more than an ultimatum. It's a threat of punishment - "if you use heroin, and we catch you, we will lock you in a cage".

If you're opposed to people using heroin because it's harmful, can you explain how making people serve prison sentences and have life-long criminal records in addition to being heroin addicts somehow reduces the amount of harm that they suffer? Because, from where I'm sitting, it seems that the solution you offer to the harm caused by heroin and meth is to do even more harm to people, on top of the harm caused by the drugs.
If you think enjoyment is a prerequisite to doing a job, then there are several people working on crufty "enterprise" Java-based systems that would love to benefit from your crusade.
This is clearly an incredibly polarising and sensitive issue - have you seen the (9000+) comments on the blog post? Despite the fact that he specifically says that mothers who work aren't doing anything wrong, that seems to be the first issue that people defend.
Yes I do. I use Kippt. They even have a google chrome extension.
I can see mapping physical location to hostname being a problem though, especially in a virtual environment.

Even if you're not doing any of that, it only takes one move and you have to rename your systems, a process that is varying degrees of tricky.
As a couple of reddit commenters point out, the user agent string that bypasses auth (according to the post) can be read backwards as "Edit by 04882 Joel Backdoor", and one possible Joel is CTO Alpha Networks, whose thttpd this appears to be.

I've no security expertise, but this seems cataclysmically bad!
I don't think it's that different from the situation we have here in America. A lot of people are working low-wage dead-end jobs because they their kids or siblings need to eat. With only a little bit of extra money those people could stop working their jobs, learn new skills, and get better jobs.
Yes, it has quirks! Yet I'll choose Excel over Word when I have a choice (e.g. lists, things in tables). Word is generally frustrating. Excel is generally a good experience.
It's all about state of mind. People who actually want to make a living, start businesses, create wealth, and live responsibly VS those who just want to be parasites. Attitude is what matters...