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Chris - with Scoreoff, you can connect with your existing communities - your neighbors (we are building geo-fences for apartment communities), your colleagues, people from your college, etc - without any effort on your part. The argument is you don't have to meet complete strangers.

2) You don't have to join different groups (which is what people have to do on other sites) and you don't need to friend people (you can just use the communities). So it becomes that much easier to discover games/activities

3) It's free

4) It's very easy to create an activity and discuss things with people who are joining.

If you have an Android phone, please check it out and let me know what you think.
One of the best things about the Aeron chairs is that nearly every part is replaceable, so there's nothing to stop you replacing the hydraulics and reviving the chair.
"How they code" can be slightly answered by looking at the commit history of their code samples (Which they have on github / bitbucket / other site... right?)
I am really appreciate your drive and effort, thank you for the reply.

In my opinion, however, as I could gather from the writings of mr. Armstrong, (one of) the fundamental problem with JVM is that it lacks a process isolation, and when it crashes, everything crashes completely. He explicitly pointed out this in his thesis - JVM cannot provide fault-tolerance due to being a mere user-level multi-thread process.

As a person who had experience of running huge Java crapware like Business Objects I could tell that yes, it crashes and it crashes often, and when it crashes there are situations in which there is no way to preserve data integrity and plain re-installation is required.

I am also not quite sure about any superior concurrency constructs which aren't based on OS primitives, but I am not Java guy.

Go is a way of doing things without a VM.)
Presumably they're assuming most people going for a 2560x1440 screen are buying it for productivity software / readability where most of the software does not need all that much graphics performance.
Isn't a lot of construction work done by poor migrant workers who live in dirty dorms provided by their contracting company? I've seen this in much of the rest of the world, even in places like Sweden where the workers are often from the other side of the Baltic. I'd be surprised if the US was very different in this regard.
I'm looking for companies that pay very well for Ruby dev's

The answer you're looking for depends on two key factors:

1. What part of the world you want answers from.

2. What you consider to be "very well' paid.
Thank you a lot for your feedback (it’s very hard to get one). First of all, we certainly don’t want that our plugin will be used to track people. We hate that too. We are a very small startup so we want to start with clean programming. But I need to disagree with that novelty thing. There will always be things to dislike :)

I would really appreciate if could still answer to one question. Although you don’t want the product, can you see that there are people who would want this?
You first need to know how to draw a circle in any language, not necessarily 8086 assembly.

Bresenham's Circle Algorithm:

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

And this page:

http://www.crbond.com/graphic.htm
I don't know. This was really f depressing.
Ya, you are right, he was accurate in what he wrote. It just read oddly because there are buildings with more than 22 floors.
Why sort by floors? "Tallest" means height.
OK. I found the story weak, the characters relatively dull, and I don't really have any fond memories of any moment in the movie. There was really nothing that made me laugh. Note that I did not hate it, but I just found it very average.

And I liked many of other Pixar movies, some of which are among my favorites.
Why not just start going on interviews? If you really are that good, you will get offers and can see how much you will be able to make.
I'm not a doctor, but wouldn't slumping be an indication that your back muscles have atrophied too much from sitting down all day? No chair / back rest is good enough to prevent that from happening, and no chair will be comfortable enough if the problem is a weak back. In fact, the more comfy and supportive the chair, the more your back will weaken.

Go to a gym, spend less time sitting down, get a standing desk, that kinda thing.
Bryan Cantrill on Oracle:

"As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it’s very hard to get used to that idea. It’s like, ‘surely this is more complicated!’ but it’s like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity — that’s it! …Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah… you talk to Oracle, it’s like, ‘no, we don’t fucking make dreams happen — we make money!’ …You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ — lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle." [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
I'm.. not aware of any pronoun with multiple valid manifestations. Your comment completely baffles me. How is it in the slightest bit not a mistake?
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It's a teaser for their "Islands" project. In its core, it's something actually new (letting you interact with other sites without leaving search pages). However, in terms of presentation, it is indeed quite similar to google.
Is WebRTC better for real-time apps (drawing, games) than WebSockets?
There's nothing wrong with desktop software. Try Thunderbird. You can keep your Gmail address, just access it over IMAP. On Android, K-9 mail is a great client too.
A few maths jokes ...
There's a javascript testing tool that was known as "testacular". Well, cool pun bro, but the name was changed to "Karma" when it grew up.
Well tbh, I'd say it's more important he has a good memory; even if he's shit at writing, as long as he can either tell his stories for a biographer to write down, or write them down half-arsedly for a good editor to polish. In this case, I don't care about whether he's a good writer, but whether his stories are good; the rest can be fixed by others.
The best card trick I ever saw
Am I the only person that gets an SSL cert mismatch on this site?
This very-slow-motion footage of the Saturn V taking off is one of the more impressive pieces of footage I've ever seen. The entire launch process is described in detail, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPW7ZqtW5U4

Watching the entire launchpad engulfed in a fireball is crazy enough. Watching that fireball reverse direction and get /sucked/ down the exhaust hole as the F-1 engines quickly ramp up to that incredible 1.5M lb of thrust is, for me, up there with the photos of Sandia's Z-Machine as evidence that the Cool Sci-Fi Future has indeed arrived.
Somewhat related, I made a prolog library to make this kind of query few months ago. I didn't add the moves (yet), but learning Prolog with this kind of project is pretty fun !

https://github.com/arcanis/trivia.pokemon-prolog
How business accelerators measure success
They're going all cute with that name, calling web interface cocaine flow and clients cocaine dealers.
How Do You Explain a New Product Category?
Why do developers live by different rules at work?
Is there a oss to make a command prompt tutorial online?
Actually the best example is OS/400 mainframe system from IBM.

The kernel is a mixture of Assembly, C++ and Modula-2, with a JIT.

All user space code compiles to bytecode.

The kernel JIT compiles the applications on first execution. Afterwards the application is validated against generated native code, and re-JITed again if the bytecode has changed between executions.

So Microsoft's attempt was actually nothing new.
I just read through that link. What a nice list of naive points. Well, maybe I miss some context on the UK angle, i can make some comparisons with the german one.

The sweatshop warehouses, yeah. And you really think when you order a bokk by your local book store the people in the warehouse sending are treated any better? In this part of logistics, and I'm not at all proud of that, one of the easiest ways to cut costs (and everyone operating a warehouse will do that since logistics is regarded by most people as costs) is HR. The part of being ordered around by a computer, welcome to logistics in the 21st century. And that part is true for truck drivers, too. How are books delivered to your local book store again? If you think the boys and girls delivereing parcels for UPS and the like are treated any better, forget it. Most of them aren't even employed by these companies anymore, they are mere sub-contractors.

And at least were I live, the credit of killing local, independant book stores goes to big bookstore chains and not Amazon. Quite ironic that these chains are now trying to get a share of the eBook market using the same DRM techniques everybody is blaming Amazon for.

And this tax evading scheme. Hell I worked for big company that operated at the same site for more tha a decade before they payed ANY taxes there. The COO was quite sad they finally had to. Most european big corps are doing the very same thing with branches in, say, Delaware.

All that is not to say I consider all this to be good or even OK. It's just the way it is. Classical case of hate the game, not the player. But I don't think Benzos is troubled a lot by all this.
If we leave aside the name.

Do people see potential for this?

I saw a short presentation on it at the weekend at PyCon Ireland, It was above my pay grade but it was intrigueing.
Probably best attempted in somewhere like Siberia rather than Indonesia.
Symbian, BeOS, Windows and Mac OS X have C++ support for kernel drivers, just as info.
> Get reading in the philosophy of science.

Wait, what? You think sociology is science. That means it's you who seeds to find out science's philosophical underpinnings. Science is noteworthy more for what it excludes than for what it includes. The reasons for that are worth learning.

> To say there are more ways to understanding than one single method does not equal saying that all ideas are relative.

Yes, and I never said or implied it. This is (or was) a discussion of science, not a comparison of science with other ways of apprehending reality.

> ... and again an appalling straw man.

Yes -- your straw man. You've long since stopped paying attention to my views, happily replacing them with your own.
I'm very excited to see so much enthusiasm for TogetherJS.

We are currently building something similar and plan to release that next week. It has lots of similarities but we target a somewhat different market. Some of the differences, you do not need to write a single line of code and it will even work with advanced application that require sign in without sharing security tokens.

We plan to release Surfly next week, but people who are interested in trying it out can msg me and can get a beta account.
In my experience battery life is half in Linux (ubuntu to be fair) what I get in Windows. I don't know why this is but I don't tend to recommend Linux to laptop users because of this.
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Could you fit it the front wheel instead? Less work with the chain, and you can keep all your old gears. Not sure how it would affect the "drivability" though.
> People don't run random untrusted C and C++ code.

Yes they do. Every time they start their computer.
http://www.s2member.com/ for WordPress.
Meet the smart chopping board with a built-in screen and recipe book
That looks pretty slick:) Any good books you could recommend on the subject?
My point is that it is easy to escalate Java security issues to average Joe, while forgetting it is just the tip of the iceberg of all attack vectors a computer has, regardless of which programming languages are used.
Location doesn't matter or else I would have put that in the post

Very well is anything that people might consider "very well" that they're already getting. Or, an example would be, you heard Billy Bob Construction has a few Ruby jobs and they are paying stacks of cash
I actually really disagree. Google is incredibly simple, it's essentially a header, footer, an input field, three buttons and an image.. It's designed to be as simple (and thus attractive to a larger/broader base) as possible. Maybe I'm not being very insightful here, but it's like comparing two sports cars that are white and saying they're the same.
He "sold his business in Indonesia."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5im2jwahdq...
I find 4GB RAM isn't enough for dev. Especially if I'm doing web work and have to spin up multiple VMs to run my tests on all platforms. One weakness of the MBA: no upgradable RAM.

If I were buying again I'd get 8GB.
I am that good, I just rather see if theres any companies people have suggestions for before going out blindly and taking a chance of wasting the company's time and my own, if it's not a right fit off the bat
It is a paper for a well regarded Computer Science institution, not the opinion of the guy on the corner.

Do you want some kind of ISO/ANSI standard definition?
noonespecial, I have no idea who you are and why you think you can speak for me. Stick to the "I" next time you decide to bundle everyone here into a single amorphous mass with you as its speaker.
MOOCS - "may actually be costing students and colleges more"
3D Printing a working, mechanical Clock
Marketing more effective on iPhone users?

quelle surprise
Rule #0: Do not look for projects to contribute. It doesn't work for everybody and majority won't find anything they want to do and excited to do.
Rule #1: do not assume you have to contribute to open source project these days. It is perfectly fine to be a consumer.

Rule #2: avoid the idea that you must write code to get involved.

Rule #3: when you encounter a problem, investigate and ask for help, or offer help.

My first actual major contribution to Open source was Ansible. I rewrote the original hg module because the existing one didn't help me do what I had to do. I have fixed a few minor bugs too (e.g. pip module,)

I basically don't contribute these days because I am super busy with things.

You can contribute by teaching how to use library X. I did quite a few presentations on Ansible back then, taught people whatever fit my use case. Giving feedback is also a great way to help moving project forward.

I was using angular.js and I had an issue using angularjs in Firefox. I logged into irc and asked and then file a bug. I think the bug is closed because they don't have any way to fix that issue right now.... anyway, filing a bug is already contributing.
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Quite frankly, "here" could be anywhere that's not near the Bay Area.
Have you tried recently ? In the latest kernels the situation is not as bad as it used to be. I am not sure, however, how well the Bay Trail will be supported in that regard.
I learned this the expensive, hard way.

I had a studio in Paris that only had electric heat. 2 months after it started getting really cold I got the electric bill, $250. After that I shut off the heater at the breaker, bought a portable heater and a jug (20L) of kerosene for $80. That jug lasted 2 winters.
The US permits dual citizenship, without treaties, by default. If a person is a US citizen, it does not recognize that person's other nationality. This simply means that it's ok if you are American and French, but the US treats you as American, and ignores the French bit..

My understanding when researching my own dual-citizenship is that you do not loose your American nationality when acquiring another nationality unless it was your intent to do so. Some countries require that you do this as a condition of nationalization (and some make exceptions for marriage, previous family ties, etc). So if you acquired a second nationality in a country that required this, knew that it meant giving up your US nationality, and willingly did so, you would no longer be American. Whether or you or the second country mention this to the US authorities is a totally separate matter, which can result in some interesting consequences later.

So if you need to renounce your previous citizenship as a condition of becoming, say, Columbian, then you would no longer be American (probably). Seeing as though he became Columbian through presidential decree, I'm guessing Columbia didn't make him do this. So now he is a dual-national, but from the US government's perspective he is American.
Someone has to buy the stock from you; if you know that there are issues with the stock and they don't, that sounds like pretty much the same situation.
Location doesn't matter or else I would have put that in the post

Can't see your logic here. A "very well" paid ruby dev in silicon valley will be paid vastly more than a "very well" paid ruby dev in London.

A very well paid, permanent ruby dev in London would see a salary somewhere between £80k - £90k.

There are a number of decent Ruby contractors in London earning £600 per day.
I'm reading this on my $200 nexus 7, and I feel quite satisfied, thank you.
Grails.
Ask HN: What would you do if you've got to make $10k within a month?
Except getting a job with high salary. It could also be something in grey area. Since this is HN, it'd be more interesting to hear about ideas related to engineering and design.
surprised to see that this is the only mention of XBT in this thread.

Seems to me like square cash is comparable to the extremely low friction nature of XBT to XBT transactions, but with fiat currency.

I'm not saying square did this in response to bitcoin, just that it's scratching the same (or a similar) itch.
If I ever had the chance to interview people in the future, I'd like to ask why the contribute to those projects. I probably won't penalize anyone for being too involved with Open Source projects (like holy shit this guy claimed to be contributors to 20 projects...), but I will weigh his intentions. And yeah, I'd say it's easier and more helpful to contribute to projects you are already using for your work.
Its an unfortunate name
It's just legacy. C as infrastructure is good, C as a language is bad. There's a whole industry and millions of lines of code in visual basic, but I never met somebody who says that VB is good.

Is there a way to say "do this under spinlock"?

Is there a way to handle errors not mixing it with main logic? Not wrapping nearly every line with if/goto?

Is there a way to create a generic collection? No, linux list.h is not that: it requires manual initialization, it does not work with elements, but with their special parts, it's macroses requires logically unneeded information (such as 'member' in list_for_each_entry), and so on. And this is the best you can do in C.

C is too unobvious, too. Google for "wait4 backdoor".

C works, of course. It just requires too much boilerplate code and too much programmer resources.
The second law of thermodynamics is not that kind of trivia. It's probably the most fundamental law in science, the one that lets you derive almost any phenomenon if you think about it hard enough (e.g. there's a derivation of the law of gravity from it).
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Read bitcoin forums, asics aren't free money and plenty of people will suffer with a net loss. Even buying the ASIC is a risky business.
Regarding the name...

If lots of people started emailing each other, talking on social networks, etc about it, would that cause a corresponding extra amount of filtering work for the likes of the NSA?

If so, wouldn't it rather screw things up if we got loads of these like, Linux Bomb, Android Plot, OSX Semtex, Windows Terror and so forth?
"Where Yandex uses Cocaine
- Yandex.Browser
- Internal Yandex infrastructure"

Think they forgot to list
- the bathroom
Github, heroku, twitter, any major ruby shop consider to be big pay pretty salary. I think these guys pay minimally 90k USD. Just look at glassdoor.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...

This plugin makes it even better. "Cocaine butts".
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A powerful critique. As developers we have the ability to effect profound change. But mostly we funnel our expertise into better advertising solutions.

Our industry leaders (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) are all monopolies which pay little tax and employ anti-competitive practices to squeeze out competitors.

And few seem concerned with inequality.

Let's shape our companies towards something better.
The answer is not screen-sharing, it's making everything an API. The remote worker is responsible for her API, and no one needs to know or care how it works as long as it does.
Thanks for the explanation, it's very enlightening to someone (me) who's never used haproxy. For front-end load balancing, I've been using Varnish. Is HAProxy also better at http load balancing than Varnish as well as nginx, do you know?
Awsbox, a PaaS layer for Node.js
You're right, DKIM doesn't sign the message-id, which is the obvious de-duplication mechanism. What a half-arsed oversight.
Astrology, the anti-science loved by the élite
Does this mean that Siri can now answer questions about pokemon?
Banksy on Instagram.
Speaking of freaky coincidence: I went to this site, and it asked me my date of birth, before telling me how long I had left to pursue my dreams, on what happened to be my first experience on my 40th birthday.
I can confirm this. I did them as a "Freiberufler" and it's really not all that hard.
I beg to differ. The UK government (finally) has got its act together in this department. We're seeing the NHS's core "Spine" system being rewritten using open source software (riak/erlang/ubuntu + others) and we have the excellent http://gov.uk/ as well.
The Racket Programming Language
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The whole PC market has been a disaster. It's been like 6 years and PC makers still can't come up with a decent Mac Mini clone! When they do, it's more expensive, and then is discontinued in 18 months.

I think all those years of churning out bland clones made them lose their expertise. They can't execute on something like a Mac Mini or a high end laptop. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it appears that these are difficult problems that take competence.
The frontend should be. It is folly to handle things like the timeline update there, where it is time sensitive, rather than as a backend process that is not - nobody will notice if their timeline is a few seconds out of date. They will notice if it takes more time for the pageload to complete.