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I don't completely disagree with your sentiments if your advice is at a young single person seeking entry level employment.

Otherwise, this comment "Just swap jobs already!" and "Trained monkeys." isn't really fair to many.

I moved within 5 miles of my current job, but many commute in. Reasons vary but many with families can't afford to live in this community. It is a beach city and is quite expensive.

Many jobs are downtown and the school district is not as good. Living near a good school district is more important to many than a short commute.

Many want a huge house with a giant yard on a meager salary. They'd rather commute 2 hours a day to live in a mansion than commute 10 minutes to live in a condo.

Some switched jobs. It took me a couple years before I was comfortable moving near this job. I needed to sell one place and buy another and had to be confident in the position before moving.

If they are married, both need to commute somewhere. Finding two good jobs right next to eachother is difficult.

Also, there aren't as many telecommuting jobs as you postulate there to be.

Finding another job may be difficult once a person is too comfortable and have a multitude of responsibilities. Switching jobs presents a risk many are not willing to take with a mountain of bills to pay every month.
Seeing my College in the top 3 is promising :)
Aye aye, coupled with Modernizr, it should solve (most) use cases.
I'm still looking for a very simple system that would let me do a live redeploy with a blocking database schema migration in between.

For that I (think I)'d need a system that will:

* start off with X nodes live in the load balancer

* trigger redeploys on half (or so) of them

* when half of the nodes have been redeployed, block and perform the database migration and trigger redeploys for the remaining server

* after the migration completed switch over the load balancer to the now updated half of servers

Is this something that you could orchestrate with Serf? Or am I looking in the wrong direction here.
That kind of solution is part of the problem. Resistent bacteria are normaly outcompeted by non-resistant ones, except when there is antibiotics on the enviroment. As a consequence, the mere act of keeping something always sterilized (as well as possible) helps the resitent bacteria growth.

But, of course, you can't avoid keeping a hospital sterilized.
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Yes, but shutting it down smacks of censorship/abridging free speech. Or, at least, that's the argument that you hear.
A substantial amount of what people call "corruption" in American politics is instead two cherished principles of American society being fundamentally at odds as a result of our representative system. We want everyone to have an equal say in government, but we also want people to be able to freely express their political opinions.

Why is it wrong for an environmental group to be able to draft a proposed law to give legislators something concrete to work with? Why is it wrong for an industry organization, which usually knows way more about the specific industry than the lay public, to educate legislators about their industry? Why is it wrong for a rich person to buy media time to convince voters of his views?

These activities aren't inherently wrong. They're not inherently corruption. We might not like the consequences resulting from these activities. Often, we just don't like the people engaging in these activities. But as long as they're directed at convincing people (either voters or politicians), as opposed to giving out personal benefits, these activities aren't corruption.
Apart from Thunderbird and mutt - what good email clients are around for OSX that support PGP?
The alternative to US control that we want of course isn't UN control. I would even go as far as to say that this article is attacking a strawman. What we object to is the "control" part of "the US controls the internet", not the "US" part.

If China, or Russia, or Australia, or France, or whatever other country was doing what the US is doing now, we'd object just as much. Or if the UN was in control. That's not the point. What we want when we object to US control isn't foreign control, it's no control.
> They are purposefully inserting themselves into a stream of information

to implement a feature that's impossible to do any other way. They have a justification for doing this.
The first building block, STUN, is implemented over here: https://github.com/ccding/go-stun
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>What if I believe that Google (hence the NSA) already has access to my Gmail? What's the cost to my privacy if it's already lost?

Can I have your gmail and password? If not, why not?
I know this isn't the point of the article, but:

> developers focus on useless UX features

This is the number one reason I have personally delivered poor quality software.
Hmm, should I see a list full of logged meals the first time I visit that site?
There is a saying you may have heard before, "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions." Intent doesn't matter at all, because someone will inevitably figure out a) how, and b) why to take advantage of it for nefarious purposes.
I think they came up with the wrong use case though. What you'd really like is to have a gengeneered bacteria that extracts gold out of solution and can live in salt water. And some phytoplankton or arthropods that eat the bacteria and concentrate metallic salts in a kidney like organ. which are then collectable with drag nets. All new gold mining industry :-)

One wonders though if there are plants in the Sierras that would be similar processors of dissolved gold.
Is there a Colorado > Berlin movement starting? Am planning to visit there for a good month over the next year. :)
This is going to sound seriously snarky, but I promise it's not and I am asking a genuine question out of curiosity:

Why would this help you fix your diet when all the other ways of tracking anything (notepad, the above mentioned spreadsheet, journal etc.) apparently hasn't?
Great tip, is there a link on the current homepage? So that other people can also get a quick access to it?
Exactly.

This is also the reason they released Mav for Macs going back to 2008. To reduce the support burden of previous OSs
Yes, I did the same thing. I was trying to resize her star makeup for a bit.
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Another way to think of this is that you're creating a time-based trial, but on a "clock" that only ticks down while the user is getting value from the product.

(Not logged in ⇒ trial never expires) = no surprised and pissed-off users.
That excerpt is taken out of context but to respond to the point you make: that's why there are income-based caps to how much you can invest as an unaccredited investor.
Wow... pretty damn neat
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Wow, it even says right there that if you forward or reply via a different account, the full content remains in the message (of course!). I'd imagine the same thing would happen if you moved the message from a folder in one imap account to a folder in another imap account. Nice.
Somewhere on a cover event when they launched LADEE, someone asked that, which they answered the receiver had to be within a spot with a (radius or diameter, I can't remember) of 3 km on earth
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> Where was this rule when greedy banks sold them expensive mortgages ?

Uhm, the government encouraged much of the mortgage lending you're referring to. The loans themselves were artificially cheap. Unfortunately for borrowers, the houses were not.
This is the related video: http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=23510
Good point re point of failure. If LinkedIn doesn't put a lot of resources into the proxy servers, mail delivery could be very slow or fail completely.

I"m still impressed with the creativity from a technical standpoint.
Interesting. My PhD research is on precisely this topic-- nutrition diaries + machine learning for identifying the effect of foods on people with chronic illnesses, such as Crohn's or MS.

I think this site is a good idea. It'd be even better if you could add in amounts and somehow standardize the entries. Even better still if you could break foods down by ingredients.

Also, if you get a few users and want to have someone analyze your data in super cool Bayesian ways, email me!
Maybe the solution is to have the procedure in a place that is a hospital. You'd want some environemnt that isn't shared by other sic people, and is only sporadically sterilized.

Yep, I have no idea how to actualy do that. There are all kinds of issues, but I'd guess that you can solve nearly all of them with tech.
>Why so? Because there is no better political system—the constitution, separation of powers, civil society and citizens—than the United States today that can protect liberty and free speech.

We may pass the low bar set by China and Russia, but each of these claims needs a citation.
Sure, but the main power and beauty of evolution is a direct result of the fact that it is an optimization algorithm. The fact that such an algorithm could just happen is astounding (although possibly inevitable, if universes are common and varied).

If I come across as cynical about this, it's a response to the way evolution as a process has been fetishized by people who don't understand it. People look at the application of evolutionary algorithms to solving difficult problems and conclude that evolution is smarter than humans. But evolution's power really comes from its dumbness. It works without understanding the problem, and so it can be used to solve problems we don't understand very well. But when we learn how to model a problem intelligently, we're generally able to crush the results of evolution.
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100,000 phones a week? Big deal. Just over 5 million a year. If we're comparing to Apple, Apple sold 125M last year [1].

And 52 different version numbers. Support must be a nightmare, if it even exists outside of just "we'll give you next week's version".

These must be pretty minor changes if they're happening every week. How many of them are being passed through rigorous QA? I'm curious how many of the batches are just tossed due to a small error?

And man, would it suck to order a phone and then have it be obsolete within a couple of days of having it be delivered.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57540705-37/apples-fiscal-...
Apple doesn't offer ios updates for free to sell more idevices. They do it to keep every single device relevant, and able to run the latest apps.

It reduces their support burden and increases the value of the app ecosystem, however small its contribution to the bottom line. Yeah it only generates a billion on revenue, but it also DIDNT EXIST 5 years ago. That's a crazy growth curve Apple could replicate in the OS X world if they play their cards right.
Yep, it can be pretty challenging to deal with: http://sitr.us/2011/07/28/how-mobile-safari-emulates-mouse-e...
Linux on the Desktop is like owning your own Cessna. It's not something that you do unless you have a very good reason to. You need it for work (crop dusting)? Great, it can accommodate you. You need it because you have an exceptional use-case (live in Alaska)? Great, with some effort it can probably be adapted to work there too. You need it because you have an unquenchable thirst for power and control, or because you yearn for freedom? Yeah, it'll do that too. Do you need it because 20 miles is too far a commute to walk every day? What the hell are you thinking? Just get a car; the advantages of a Cessna are of no use to you, it can only be a hassle.

The flying car is a fool's errand. For people who need airplanes, or want airplanes, airplanes are still here. For people who just need a car, there is no good reason to make that car fly. If my mother asks me what kind of car she should buy, I don't tell her to buy an airplane. If she asks me what sort of computer to use, I don't tell her to run Linux.

The downside to a bunch of suburbanites commuting with Cessna's should be obvious. The downsides to a bunch of "suburbanites" trying to casually use Linux are admittedly less obvious, but still present if you think about it. How much money do you think Microsoft and Apple spend on customer support? The community sure isn't going to take up that slack, and I see no reason to think that companies like Canonical are up to that task (they can't even handle their current (skewed technical) user-base (see: other commentators in this thread). In practice, unskilled users put additional pressure on volunteer developers. Non-technical users are not free; they come at a price.

I love Linux on the desktop, I've been using it as my primary OS for more than a decade now. The flying-car/'Year of Linux on the Desktop' dream though? I've been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and turned the t-shirt into a shoprag.
The only problematic part for me has been that the setting "Store draft messages on the server" reverted back to being on. When enabled, it ends up generating hundreds of autosave messages and repeatedly trashing them.

But Mail.app seems to be working exactly as it used to otherwise. I use an IMAP connection to Gmail, with a full local archive and over 54k messages. Maybe I just haven't run into the problems yet? I don't use smart mailboxes; perhaps that's where all the trouble is.
No -- it's freeest when NOBODY controls it.

Support darknets.
Welcome, and congrats on the new gig! I actually spoke a bit with EyeQuant before I moved here—cool product, and seems like a great team too. I'm a designer at ResearchGate now, and I'd love to meet up at some point. Get in touch! (Email's in my profile.)
My standpoint on enriching lives was in case of producing.

Every startup is producing on a non-tablet (pc or laptop), perhaps they make things for tablets, sure.

My words were poorly chosen on the part of "enriching lives" through consuming, i agree.

Take off the last 2 lines of my sentence and it would be more clear what i meant.

A tablet is for consuming, not for producing. (taking pictures and putting a filter on it in 10 seconds is not producing, but consuming)

Every startup is producing things. 0% of the startups are producing their app/webapp/... with a tablet.

A tablet is created to consume, not to produce, that was the point i was trying to make :)
I hope HN had a follow button too :)
It occurs to me I'd have a much less negative reaction to what you're doing if instead of calling it a "free trial", you called it "first month is free" (like landlord rental deals), or "will refund your money in the first month if you aren't satisifed," or something like that.

Now, these end up being essentially the same thing, but if you marketted it like that would it hurt conversions? I don't know. But if it _would_ then it would definitely make me suspect that many of your conversions are accidental, and accidental conversions are the shady part, right?
I think I wasn't clear. I mean, send 5 textured polygons to the 3D hardware, with various darkenings and offsets on one texture (which if nothing else can be done via lighting, but there's probably other easier ways), and let it do the blending en masse. Instead of using shaders and blinding it to what you're doing, it may be able to render the polygons much faster, on an optimized path. And it may not. But it's worth a try.
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You can try it free for 7 days, who knows if it is tied to an ip address.
Sure you can. The court has deemed the risk to be: he can release the code, and he can use channels or means that obfuscate that he released the code. If he announced it, and it were deemed criminal (theft or whatever) charges or civil suits would be more easily brought against him. If he wants to avoid that risk, but still release it, he (by the court's judgement) has that capability.
-He lost me at the phrase "onboard new users"- ;-)

edit: I rescind my comment, I'm not adding anything useful to the discussion here. I still hate the term, but I guess there's not anything better.
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I often wish there was a good way to do email "apps" like this without giving away the keys to the castle.

I'm just not comfortable giving my email credentials out when access to my email is effectively a skeleton key for the rest of my accounts via password resets.
i guess i'm too old for this kind of thing, but i wonder if it would be better to base it somewhere outside the us. would people interested in this kind of project who aren't us-based be more inclined to visit in that case?

(chile is one possibility, but i may be biased ;o)

but anyway, looks like fun...
No, it's not a "F U". He created something, he made it available to everyone to download, build, use and extend. On top of all of that, why would he have to apologize to the world because he doesn't want to hear about feature requests from non contributors at this stage of the project.
Thanks for the reply slavio.

- It seems that no expression template machinery is being used? Hence, it might be too slow for most basic operations for us due to creation of temporaries.
- Does not have support for n-dimensional views. You can only get a view upon contiguous rows or columns. ( However, I might ignore this if the first point is settled )
- No vectorization support etc which you get with other libraries like Eigen/NT2 among others.

I might be wrong on some points though.
seems the posts self destruct after 10 minutes?
No it is not, because:

- It has real strings

- Arrays don't decay to pointers

- It has reference arguments, which avoid pointer usage for records and out arguments

- Requires explicit casts for type conversions, instead of implicit type casts

- Provides region allocators, which allow to release a full block of memory in one go

- Has real enumerations that don't decay into ints

- Allows writing generic code over arrays without requiring the developer to manage a separate length variable

- Has proper memory allocation constructs instead of requiring the developer to know the size of memory to allocate

Finally, there are other languages in the Pascal family, that provide safety, while allowing for C dirty tricks done explicitly via a system/unsafe package which provides much fine control over the use of said features.
So, this browser is source based?
Most of the time they don't even do the thinking part, they just buy bulk patents from others on the cheap.

They have something like 50,000 patents, only a very small fraction of which they came up with internally, most were bought.
A third entry for that day's exercise level would be great, though difficult to fit in as a rhyme. Meals/Feels/Wheels? Meals/Feels/Burnt Caloreels?
Umm...rabies pretty much is curtains. If we miss the postexposure prophylaxis window, the fatality rate for rabies is indistinguishable from 100%
I couldn't disagree with you more about drivers that work on Windows breaking. MS actively tries to keep driver compatibility between releases. The Linux kernel developers actively try to break the binary drivers. This means that once the manufactures stop supporting the hardware, you have to worry about the drivers not working on the next kernel release. Case in point my Radeon X1950 can no longer run the catalyst drivers in Linux and I'm instead stuck with the buggy and slow Gallium3D drivers. In Windows 8, I can still load drivers written for Vista and run modern games like Star Craft 2 and Crysis 2.

If Valve can improve the driver situation, it will be a huge win for Linux gamers.
Edit: typo
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> Because there is no better political system—the constitution, separation of powers, civil society and citizens—than the United States today that can protect liberty and free speech.

Spoken as only a sheltered American could believe.
Wow this had me laughing quite a bit, I love this community <3
I am willing go give away everything for now and just have support for basic arithmetic operations, creation of sub matrix views ala numpy for the time being. I will be able to do the other operations via Eigen by creating a view over the native array. I hate the idea of creating an array of arrays though.
Yeah, but after that window closes, our treatment options for rabies are essentially Hail Mary, "Well, it's not like it can get any worse..." level treatments.

That's not a big deal in the U.S. because rabies is quite rare, but in the developing world it's still a thing.
First new gTLDs delegated (NS records in the root)
I had to force quit my browser. I guess my old Core 2 Duo isn't up to chats anymore ...
Not having email indexed for searching isn't a good solution, IMO.
Replace "huge Gmail user" with "huge email user that happens to use Gmail servers as the host" and you can begin to see the trouble. It shouldn't matter which IMAP client you use. If there's trouble in communication between Mail.app and Gmail's IMAP servers, then one of the two parties messed up. If there's a regression in Apple's Mail.app, it is a big deal if you have an established workflow with any piece of software. Likewise if Google is making it harder to use your IMAP client of choice, it's a big deal. Users have established patterns and they're hard to break. Hell, just re-syncing my whole email archive into another client would take days (Google throttles batch downloads aggressively, and I don't always have internet connectivity when I need access to my email archive). Nevermind learning a new user interface.

When software regresses, users will complain.
Think of it this way: if a person won't tell a lie that person is always truthful. But if a person will tell the truth, that person may or may not always be truthful.
I thought it was interactive at first too, but it didn't stop my curiosity.