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Sorry if I wasn't clear: my comment wasn't intended to be seen as a commentary on serious journalism, nor was it a commentary on the quality of journalism practiced by the subjects of the article, etc.

It was a commentary on Americans' perpetual Chicken Little mindset, and the way that feeds and funds a theatrical press, and the circular nature thereof. Everything is portrayed as being impending doom incarnate, whether it's by news outlets, marketers, religious coalitions, irreligious coalitions, etc.

America has over a fifth of the world's economy, the most military might in history and therefore control of the waterways the world over, the best breadbasket-and-navigable-rivers combination on earth, and yet every few days there's some new bogeyman around the corner that will end The Republic in a fortnight–especially if you change the channel now!–as if the winds aren't currently about as fair and the seas as following as they could reasonably be.

The Shutdown really didn't threaten any of those things in any practical terms, nor did the Boston Marathon bomber, nor did Aurora, nor did Anna Nicole Smith's offspring's paternity or whatever staged shock was programmed for the latest awards show.

Investigative journalism is wonderful. Enabling the emotionally manipulative theatrical tactics of any political entity is not investigative journalism; it's being the press arm of politicians (without even invoicing them for the help), which many, many news sources-of all stripes–are more than happy to do. Yet strangely, they continue to be held in esteem, mostly because they've always been held in esteem. (It gets worse when one's own team is the basis for most of that esteem.)

If journalists want to change the world for the better through journalism, as opposed to just maximizing ad rates and helping get their team elected, then they will only do so if they're more interested in being journalists than they are in making any particular argument, or seeing any particular outcome.

But how anyone can look at this endlessly breathless coverage of every last thing that bleeds, blows up, or politicks, and not see how utterly contrived most of it is, is beyond me.
...the motion sensors (that turn on only after you lock it) notice it's moving without your knowledge.

Is there any reason that "locking" doesn't render the device immobile? I realize someone could still carry it off, but most thieves would be more reluctant to steal a device they have to take apart and hack before using, than one they can literally just ride away.
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Mirra 1: $895 incl. GST
http://livingedge.com.au/shop/216-mirra-chair.html

and Living Edge has specials on from time-to-time.

I personally love the Embody… waiting the 14 week delivery time was not so fun though.
Much less if you consider the life of the chair will be many years :) Also, the cost of Physio in Australia.... Well worth the price tag in my opinion.
It's true in the USA that a disproportionate number of people bicycle as a sport, because we've marginalized it as an athletic activity. The market of people who would bicycle if it was less effort (or safer, or more convenient) is huge.
Ok thanks, makes sense.
Well that's a drag. Guess I'll hold my breath that Lenovo doesn't completely gut their line and comes out with something decent. Though reading a few reviews, that Asus doesn't look to bad.
Err...

If Indonesia uses thermal power then using the electricity generated from it has little negative environmental impact.

Additionally I'm unclear where anything is "making profits from cheap labor". The miner benefits from the low cost of living in Jakarta, but making that out to be a bad thing is like complaining that housing in Kansas isn't as expensive as New York.
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I'd like to say I got to where I am, so I'm leery of just spending money.

But if it was based on our success...
As my salary increases I would start paying a % of my yearly.
This would be a long term relationship.
We both want continual improvement.

Based on Entourage, this could be 5-10% of yearly income.

Generally I like the idea. Coming out of college, there was a lot I missed out on. And a lot I'm looking forward to doing.
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Very doable: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_C7_Chromebook

What's even more intriguing is that you can now flush the firmware on the 2012 model and it becomes just a regular PC that you can install windows/osx/linux in the regular way with no faffing about. Hopefully the same will be done for these new models.

Arch on an HP Chromebook 14" sounds for $299 sounds awesome to me.

http://johnlewis.ie/pre-built-coreboot-firmware-for-chromebo...
Seconded. When I started my business I was sitting on a pretty ordinary Staples cheap-o office chair. Within a year I felt like I was eighty years old -- my back was killing me, especially when standing up or sitting down. It felt like how it must feel to be Grandpa Simpson.

I eventually bit the bullet and bought a better chair (a Steelcase Leap -- see http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-office-chair-is-the-st...) for around $850. Man, it hurt to spend that much money on a freaking chair. It felt like ridiculous extravagance. But it wasn't long before my back pains were completely gone.

If you make programming your profession, you're going to be spending most of your life in two pieces of furniture: your bed and your desk chair. There's lots of places where it's OK to cheap out, but don't cheap out on those.
I love my Embody chair, but i have to say my Filco mechanical keyboard made an even bigger difference. Perhaps it's just that many offices have halfway decent chairs, but few standard computer setups come with good keyboards these days.
You can always go to ftdna.com and order the 111 Y test -- you can also talk to the project coordinator for your haplotype and for $800 or so do a walk-the-Y to sequence many kbp of your Y. The base test is much cheaper and would at least indicate if you're in the same ballpark.
You wore out the keyboard in only two years, and you're willing to call it the best laptop you've ever had? You must have quite the collection of laptop repair horror stories.
I thought electric bikes are illegal in New York??? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/electric-bikes-...
This is fixed.
Seems like this post caused a pile of rapid signups (thank you !)
Seems PayPal blocked the account for a few minutes...
But its back on.
Thanks
A lot of the ugliness comes from their "bold" color choices, the all black Embody looks quite good: http://systemsofficefurniture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07...
If only people would search before posting...

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=togetherjs&sor...
Writing is like a hard disk. Before that, everything was volatile RAM.
That's a good point, but when I think of the typical code for non-range-based for loop it looks like:

for (vector<string>::iterator i = data.begin(); i != data.end(); ++i) {
ofile << *i << std::endl;

}

which makes it pretty clear what types we're dealing with.
> "So you think that all the younger, healthy people who either didn't have insurance or had it but paid extremely low premiums aren't going to largely offset the added costs?"

Nope, I don't think that will happen at all. Because: competition. If young people are suddenly paying higher premiums than is actuarially appropriate, competing private firms that happen to mostly serve a lot of young people will have a windfall bonus, which they will in short order find ways to compete away until there aren't any excess profits to be had from the young people to subsidize the old people.

Remember how under airline rate regulation, planes tended to fly half-empty and meals were free? Stuff like that. Firms will waste money on really expensive real estate next to universities, on gyms, on salaries of doctors and admins that specialize in young-people problems. Meanwhile firms will do everything they can to subtly discourage old people from joining up and to make the service old people get as mediocre as possible while still staying mostly within the letter of the law.

Companies that used to be especially good at providing service to the old (albeit for a higher price) will tend to go broke, being replaced with companies that are really good at getting the laws bent in their favor and cutting corners.

The cost to provide care to the young will rise through "improvements" the customers don't value as much as they cost; the cost to provide care to the old will decline through degradation that's not worth the money it saves. (Until eventually 3:1 is actually the correct relative valuation of the service provided.)
Fixed :-)
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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45 MB is ridiculous. Opening the App Store and browsing the front page only takes 100 or so.
A thousand times this. I never got so far into Linux, but I did run a Linux desktop as my primary system from about 2006-2010, and switched back to Windows because I got sick of fighting with it. I still run Linux on my work boxes because it's a much better environment for the development work I want to do, but I hate dealing with the maintenance. This is anecdotal, but here are a few issues I've run into within the last year:

1) This week Ubuntu updated something in the graphics system which FUBAR'd multi-monitor support for both myself and my supervisor (we have quite different hardware setups).

2) Support for suspend/resume is flaky, and has been for years - I'd never know whether either would work after a distro upgrade, so I always cold-boot Linux.

3) Broken network drivers on the install disk for Debian Testing around the end of last summer - I forget the workaround (if there was one), but I had trouble installing it on two different (very vanilla) systems.

If I did more dev work at home (and had $1000 to burn) I'd probably buy a Mac, but as is my Linux VM on Windows setup works fine.
I've seen this, too, but Scala's complexity does become more manageable with time. Slick seems to make a trade-off for a very nice API, at the cost of complex underlying code — which you sometimes need to understand when you want to use Type mappers and such.

There's several Scala libraries that are on the border of "too clever". One is Play's Iteratees: it's a really nice concept, they take a few days to wrap your mind around. Trying to get a Java programmer to understand them borders on a lost cause.
That's one approach. Another one attempted sometimes is to go the other way and move the networking stack into userland as well. Depends on your bottlenecks etc
> What does it mean for Bitcoin to be "broken?"

It's pretty intuitive and I'm sure you know it: People being able to break the rules. Eg: create coins out of nowhere, move coins that weren't theirs, slow down transactions, unstabilize the market, etc.

To say that it's not falsifiable is a bit of a stretch. It is falsifiable, we just don't know how to create the model you are looking for. Maybe it can't be done [with crypto]. Maybe it wasn't a competence of Cryptography to begin with, and we need an entirely new field (I know cryptographers have tried in the past, but to me this seems different). Don't you agree that Bitcoin involves too many disciplines to try to simplify it into a cryptographic formula? Something that breaks Bitcoin could even simply come from Economics, and your crypto model (if you ever find one) would be useless.

Or, there is a cryptographic model, has been proven secure, and we just don't know it because its creator[s] wanted it to stay secret.

Let's try with an analogy (you can attack it or say why it's bad). Your ship is sinking for some reason, there are no emergency boats, but you find out something that might be used to stay afloat. You hesitate, because you don't have physical proof of it like you did with the ship (an expert created the drawings, calculated the forces involved, etc.). But then you see a lot of people using it and it's working fine. The more time it passes, the more certain you are that it works. That's empirical evidence, and it drives a big part of scientific advancements.

So maybe once each field is validated individually as thoroughly as possible (crypto components are being used correctly, the correct distributed computing techniques are used for scaling to the moon, the economic variables are chosen correctly -Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to mimic gold-, the right incentives are given to miners and hindrances to attackers -Game Theory-), only empirical evidence can be used to finish the test.

If by breaking Bitcoin you can silently steal millions and safely cash out (one hell of an incentive in my book), yet no one does it, I say it's secure enough. Not in a cryptographic or <individual traditional field> way, but in a pragmatic way. It just works.
Not 1080p, unfortunately. And only 2gb ram on the WiFi only versions.
It looks a bit like the Steelcase Leap. I spend more time in my chair than in my bed. The Leap chair cost more than my bed.
Very depressing how most of this is marketing.
> more people use Windows and Linux than Mac OS

Web developers are a small segment of all people who use computers.
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Just getting something above "don't suck" seems extremely hard. I have a Dell Vostro 1510, it was basically the cheapest Dell laptop with available discrete graphics at the time I bought it, haven't had any problems. My wife used it to do CAD stuff, and it was fully worth the $700 or so we paid for it. While not "extreme gaming level", the modern version of this doesn't even appear on the dell website anymore from a quick glance.
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Shouldn't HN automatically remove duplicate links? I was surprised to see this on front page again.
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That's what society sees him as. And what society thinks goes to a certain degree, because if society was advanced enough to see him otherwise, we wouldn't talk about ethnicity in general.

One of my favourite quotes, from a friend of mine (though I'm sure many others have said it), "We're all beige"

In the end, everyone is mixed, everyone is human.
The price tag.
The active stylus on the Venue might be the selling feature for me, which it looks like the Encore doesn't have.
And if your team culture is "let's be interesting creative people with zany hairstyles and really unusual hobbies" (not my team, but I sit beside them), then someone who is passionate mainly about checked exceptions is probably going to be a bad fit.

I used the arrogant douchebag as an example of why a great programmer who doesn't fit a team's culture is going to drag down the productivity of that team - how they don't fit that culture can obviously vary.
I would add only a single thing to this list: make sure to do your due diligence on potential clients. Look them up and see who they are before you accept work with them.
> If Indonesia uses thermal power then using the electricity generated from it has little negative environmental impact.

Thermal as in burning fossil fuels, not geothermal.
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Agreed, A good keyboard makes all the difference; clack on brother.
Isn't that the idea behind the word "premium"? This seems to be very similar to the "we can't find any programmers to hire" chant of Big Business -- nobody can find a decent laptop at the price they're willing to pay. Because the price they're willing to pay is ridiculous and below-cost, especially when all the other laptops are loss-leaders and the premium models make up the difference.
You are completely correct. I got Upton confused with Islip.
The Wikipedia page actually agrees with you, more or less.

See the "MRCA of all living humans" section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#TMR...
FWIW, I have the original Mirra and don't like it all that much. The seat is too stiff, and ends up cutting off blood supply in my legs (yes, I know about edge adjustment, no it doesn't help). I'm scheming for s Steelcase Leap now, but only time will tell if it's better for me, of course.
In 2007 I was in the midst of uncovering a pump and dump scheme while communicating with the SEC (who were incredibly non-responsive and incompetent).

While trying to learn more about white collar crime, I uncovered a website, sharesleuth.com. The owner was writing stories on stock fraud/white collar crime, and we exchanged a few emails.

A few weeks later I found out Mark Cuban was backing him, and short selling the companies he found to be fraudulent. Cuban was doing this for two reasons: #1 To bring attention to white collar crime and #2 If the SEC wasn't going to shut down the companies, he might as well make money while doing it...inevitably bringing it back to #1. It looks like he was successful in drawing their attention.

A previous Wired article on Sharesleuth: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/mf_shares...

X-post from HN thread on the pump and dump I uncovered:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5236372
Uh...yeah...20mph isn't 25km/h even if you are in the EU. They could use an additional sentence there.

And worse...where does that leave Canada? Or any other of the 98.5% of countries that use the metric system?
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Do you have any reference of wolframalpha using SPARQL? I don't think they are using similar things.
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Your edit is wrong; this is exactly what people mean when they say email marketing. Opt-in are the only kind of email products allowed on major email marketing platforms like MailChimp or Exact Target.
Do we have to discuss the name every time somebody chooses something controversial? Yes, you're right; it's a controversial choice. What else is there to say about it? We do this every time.
Well for what it's worth, I don't think it's a new meme, it's probably as old as libertarianism itself.

I'm glad your argument isn't about how the government is supposed to represent The People "at least in theory", I find that one rather funny given how people of my stripe are usually accused of only thinking in theory.

As much as I want to, I can't convince myself of the aforementioned meme wholesale, there must be some counterbalance or we'd all be slaves. But I want people to break out of what at least seems to me to be the notion that while private companies are selfishly motivated, they can invent the institution called government that's free of perverse incentives and selfishness just because they think society needs it to function.

Your point about nationwide approval of the government versus specific approval of companies is a good one. Consider some counterpoints: 1) the politicians need not pander to everyone, only those who care to vote. 2) expanding on the reluctance to bother voting, there's reluctance to be informed, since your vote had miniscule chance of effecting your life. It's known as rational ignorance, Bryan Caplan has a lot to say about it if you're interested in looking it up. In contrast, choosing one company over another always has immediate effect.
As a Nigerian, I'm offended. You know, other countries scam too!
Supporting C++ is pretty interesting. Are there comparable hosts providing C++ hosting?
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I work in an office with a bunch of broken Mirras that have all failed by the plastic shearing off near the shoulder mount point. I wonder if they fixed that bug in the refresh - Might even consider picking one up for home. That said, I still find HM's cloth lined chairs (Aerons and Embody) more comfy than the half poly ones.
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yay. I was just looking at learning lua to do corona development
I'm pretty sure when they say "29 inch" they mean "700c". It's the same bead seat diameter.
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Haha, I always like the allergic reaction where one guy pulls a strawman. By the way, you ought to read Losing Ground on the negative effects of the Welfare system. ANd this came from a guy who wanted to sum up the positive effects of it in the first place, who ended up being shocked by the data he gathered.

http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Ground-American-Social-1950-198...

Come back after reading.
I don't see any way to back these things up... Only two OS's? Sticking with DO. Somebody talk me into this.
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Agreed. It's fundamental to address the "whys" and "whats" in addition to the "hows."
Honest question here.

How do you use backups on DO? I use salt stack to manage state on all my servers. The only server I care about would be the server that manages salt... but creating a one-time image of the OS and saving all the salt files in a git repo is enough of a backup for me.

As for databases, I have a script that runs and stores them on S3.
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My point was that, if you don't like the operating system and are going to use a different one, why pay a premium for the hardware when you can get substantially better performance for the same price from any of a number of providers? Because the Macbook is sexy and that's worth paying the premium?

Don't get me wrong, the MBP does look nice. And plenty of people are clearly willing to throw lots of money at Apple for both the real and perceived benefits of the premium price. But if performance per dollar is my concern --and I'm forgoing the operating system, one of the "real" benefits IMHO-- numerous other competitors blow Apple out of the water.
You need to leverage "the channel".

Basically, from what you described of your software (E-commerce for SAP ONE) - it's not out of the box software.

You'll need someone to do integration, training, support, sales, etc.

You can either be a direct seller, and do all of those things inside your company, or partner with consulting companies/agencies/system integrators that will resell your software, and then add services and support contracts on top.

Don't try to sell directly to customers - you can't afford to reach them, and you can't afford to be in sales cycles with them.

Instead, make it worthwhile for consulting companies who already have these clients to resell your solution. They'll be your real customers!
That's not how it works at any bootcamps. Reasons #1,2,3 you mentioned can be somewhat filtered in the application process.