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Low level cruise employees ... are paid ridiculously low wages

The service staff work for tips. No wages. No benefits.

I was shocked when I first heard this. I asked around, a lot. Everyone confirmed.

I personally hate the cruise ship experience. The master/servant dynamic makes me very uncomfortable.
It's called Android ;-)
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https://github.com/cznweb/deluge - Server for DynDNS/request tunnelling to arkOS nodes
https://arkos.io/deluge

^ is in the works
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Sparkling: A lightweight, embeddable, extensible C-style scripting language
How so? I thought on specs they pretty much trade evenly blow-for-blow, aside from Sony's unknown chip frequency and the GDDR5 vs eSRAM?
You can always create functions that refer to the private element:

MyObject.prototype.id = function(){return this._id;};

Which gives you: leagues/{{ league.id() }}
It's possible, but also keep in mind that the 360 chip was a custom PowerPC, that had high manufacture numbers. It's entirely possible that the little-endian functionality was somehow broken to save money or otherwise.

But the point was originally about what the Xbox360 runs, and before that, how it affected development. Not about what the silicon in a particular chip in the 360 has the capability of doing.
Yep. If technical merit was all the mattered, we would all be using Xerox or Symbolics computers today. Those were some really smart guys. But you can't sell things no one can afford or needs.
You ask them politely to unblock it. Then if they refuse you ask impolitely. I wonder what right they have to do it.
Luckily enough for them, turning off the Amazon search lens can be done through a GUI, and not just shell commands...
Don't use 1.2.0 until it's reverted or write a getter.
Tongue in cheek look at DevOps and the Enterprise
Using R and other non-Java languages in MapReduce and Hive
If I could SLEEP in a Google Driverless Car that would be awesome. And there's no real reason it should feel like car seats, if there's a more comfortable design.

On a Friday night, I could order a car from my phone, hop in, fall asleep, wake up in destination city on Saturday morning. On Sunday evening, I go home, waking up on Monday morning right outside my office. It'd be awesome.
Given that the name I use for G+ (and HN) isn't one I'm ordinarily known by, having any metadata which tracks back to me that others could find is a definite negative.

I've got my reasons. I prefer it this way. It's beyond annoying that Google keep insisting on trying to link various accounts and/or grabbing my personal data. And the harder they pull, the harder I push back.

There's nothing that's changed my impression of Google, in a negative way, so much as using G+ and observing the commentary of its leadership (Eric Schmidt in particular, but Vic Gundotra and Larry Page as well). Yes, some individual Google engineers do tend to give me hope, but I'm seeing the fish as increasingly likely to have been rotten from the head.

That the company appears far preferable to Facebook I'd freely concede, but talk of damning with faint praise.
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Can you give us some backstory on how you acquired a single letter domain name, please.
These are particularly cheap because they are

1) Per person for a 2 person room

2) extremely last minute (< 30 days out).
Super fast, better than any SQL database or MongoDB.

Datomic (free and pro) has an "in memory" version that I used when developing my Clojure application. Makes firing off test-cases super simple and nice.

I used fixtures (edn) for the schema and for example data as well.

I would reload/dump/interact with the in-memory database in my REPL directly. Quite nice.

You can run a test instance (free/dev, which uses H2), that's no big deal to setup either, same as running a local MongoDB or PostgreSQL instance. Ease-of-configuration is on par with MongoDB but with sane defaults. It "just works".

I use environment variables for configuration, so the default Datomic database is just an in-memory instance, but I can point it to a localhost free instance easily.

Whether I use a free instance or an in-memory instance depends on whether or not I need the full transaction log. Typically no, but the migration toolkit I'm working on requires a persistent database so the defaults there are different for testing/development.

I'm seriously in love with a database that has a embedded and "real world" modes of operation with parity in their functionality (except for the log).
Isn't this the system Microsoft is using that has created such huge problems for the company? There was that Vanity Fair article recently that talked about what a mess the product teams are at Microsoft. It blamed the stack rankings in part for creating a hostile environment where nothing could get done. Nobody collaborates because they want to come out on top of those rankings, and some even go so far as to sabotage their co-workers to stay atop the rankings.

I seem to recall the article suggesting that the only place stack ranking ever worked was GE.

Sounds to me like a recipe for disaster.
The worse thing from all of this, is that now we will not have any permanent The Onion records, nor an archive.

Paper beats Silicon.
The writing on the site is creative and funny and the tag line at the top is to the point which is great:

"Replace anything you want
in your social feeds with things
you'd rather see, like cats."

Rarely do you see something like that which is so easy to understand.

One thing I would do (in addition to [1] below) is to have other words quickly replace "cats" perhaps by striking the word "cats" and overwriting with the new word. People get the joke with cats but it's probably not a bad idea to intersperse some serious stuff (right their in the tag line) as well.

[1] The word "rather" as others have mentioned needs to be distinct in typography so people understand it's the branding. Bold, different typeface, different weight, a graphic etc.
> You can probably make up for it by having tons of RAM on your PC's video card.

You can't "make up" for having shared memory unless the developer is just using it to pretend that they have a machine with like 6 GB of vram.

Of particular relevance is the fact that the PS4 has cache coherent shared memory. Which is a separate ball game entirely.
I have a name which is 100% unique in the world. There are no other people with my combination of first name and last name. Not in my ØÆÅ country. Not on the planet. None. Not making this up. It's a unique one. Certifiably.

And Google has the balls to ask me to create a Google+ URL with lots of numbers and gibberish added? What? They can just seriously fuck off.
It wasn't supposed to be only until GE turned around. It was meant to be a permanent fixture in their HR policy.
I'm going to go with the opinion of the open source lawyer ('DannyBee) on this one, in favor of the random message board commenter who appears to be quoting Wikipedia.
One thing that still bugs me about QR code error correction is the lack of support for codes with inverted color schemes. Unless I'm mistaken, this feature should be relatively simple to implement (ie. checking for two patterns) yet most of the applications I know fail at reading an inverted code (ie google goggles).
Nope, but I do frequently go outside, does that count?
Virtually all consumer-level ISPs in the US explicitly disallow running any sort of persistent listen server as part of their TOS (Terms of Service). The "right" they have to do it is that you agreed to the TOS at signup time.
Problem is that none of those distributions, except for the bloated mess that is Linux Mint, has adequate support for PPA's.
Hence, I'm sticking with Lubuntu.
Remember, these prices are per-person. A room assumes 2-person occupancy.
Whatever you are doing is likely not as important or helpful as you think it is.
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Several of the 'no' examples were correctly scanned by the 'Google' app for iPhone. This was a wonderful tour of some of the capabilities of QR codes.
I would on the contrary take it as obvious that any CEO of a competing company would take the iPhone as a threat, and anticipate and plan for any possibility, just from having looked at history and seen where Apple went with for instance the iPod.

I think this video very clearly shows how Ballmer managed to not take the iPhone seriously, and that has everything to do with why Microsoft made mistakes and were slow to respond from 2007 onwards. The same thing happened with the iPad as well. From everyting he said, you could see that he regarded them as toys.
This reminds me of one of my favorite papers http://graphics.cs.ucf.edu/ekhan/project_ibme.htm
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My read is that with the situation Yahoo is in now, that's exactly the type of manager they want to let go. From their perspective, those are the managers who don't listen to the directions they're getting from executive management.

It's hard to turn around a company if you tell people to do something and nobody does it.
Hmmm... is it just me, or did anybody else read that and feel like nothing there really supported an assertion that "bootstrapping is overrated"?

Maybe it's just my own biases leaking through, as we are currently following a bootstrapped approach with Fogbeam Labs. And I most emphatically do not agree with (apparent) implication mentioned in the article, that seems to state "if you don't raise cash you are only building a lifestyle business".

IMO, it all comes down to timing and necessity. We will raise money if and when we need to. Our identity isn't tied in being "a bootstrapped startup" for perpetuity. It's just a strategic decision that makes sense right now. And if we reach a point where it's apparent that raising money is required, we'll do it. But if we can achieve our goals without raising outside money, then why would we?

The interesting thing, to my mind, is this: If you start off with a bootstrapped approach, you can go raise (or at least try to raise) anytime. But once you raise, there's no going back. And the thing is, it's not "go big or go home", it's "go big on our schedule or go home". Big difference, IMO.
The fact that he is/was [if you read his blog .. thats "was"] a PUA invalidates his experience/findings/credibility?
Haha. I admit, I went a bit over the top with the piracy and stealing bit. Given that a large part of the blogging/pageviews based crowd is very pro-freedom, I doubt things will change. But you can't be very sure. Sadly, money is very important. You go from "I'll do what I like. Money is secondary" to "Money, money, money" very quickly. That and corporations owning content farms running on clicks.
In other news, Google can do whatever they want with URLs they own & control. To think that your long number URL is any less safe is equally as amusing as thinking just because they give you a vanity URL, it's yours forever.

Google will do what they like with any Google-owned property.
Piui can't connect from phone, desktop is ok
Thanks for piui, it is just what I was needed to be able to control my piface from the phone.
I got it working and I can use the demo app within a browser in a computer connected to it. However I can't manage to get a phone to show the demo app:
1. On android it disconnects to the access point saying the connecion to the internet is slow
2. On an iphone it says it is not connected to the internet, so it cant show the app
I confirm that if I dig @raspberrypi piui , the dns server shows the correct ip and that the iphone connection shows the raspberry pi as DNS server
Any clue what can I try from here ?
Thank you
"There are always naysayers, always conservatives. If you listen to them, no progress can ever be made."

Did it occur to you that perhaps some of these "conservatives" learned a painful lesson the type of which you have not yet encountered?
Ultimately, I was about to go through with it anyway until I realized that doing so would require me to register a phone number with my Google account, which I have so far avoided. That requirement was the final straw.

Absolutely understandable.

For those who have accidentally been opt-ed in to this scummy Google behaviour, you can still opt out: https://www.google.com/settings/phone

You might still need to go to your profile afterwards and delete the phone. You should be allowed to. Seriously though: Has it come to this? Do we need to treat Google like Facebook? Expect the worst at every turn?

As for Google taking a turn for the worse...

Am I the only one thinking they are literally fucking up every thing they do these days? I had the (dis)pleasure of re-visiting my Google Apps console this week. What used to take 30 seconds-done, now took 2 hours of Googling and experimenting until I realized that the new Admin-console was simply broken and couldn't do what the old one could do. It's completely dysfunctional.

Let me re-iterate that: The main product Google has to enable services for paying customers doesn't work any more. Now it just lists already enabled services. That's it.

When did Google get so utterly lost? One thing is PR, which is something they obviously still need to learn proper. But breaking their own services? Isn't there a single soul which still cares about delivering at Google?

What the fuck happened?
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Doesn't that go against basic survival instincts (lizard brain) at the very least?

It's a form of tribalism and I'd argue that tribalism is the king of "lizard brain" survival instincts.
Also finance machine learning guys making $500k/yr (so I've heard). That also might be HFT.
The other versions within the Ubuntu family also connect to Canonical servers.

I see connections to "...golem.canonical.com" in Etherape when using Lubuntu 13.10.
OTOH, most startups don't really need a great tech team.

Exactly what highly technical problem is Evernote, Airbnb, Snapchat, or Twitter, or Facebook solving?

I mean really deep technical problem like the news feed absolutely will not work with out some sort of huge breakthrough in AI, not that deep learning is 5% better than an SVM. Look at how well something simple like the points*timedecay system than HN uses for ranking works.

Fuck, even Google was a 20 year old algorithm.

We're building CRUD apps on what 20 years ago were $75 million dollar computers, not putting men on the moon with pocket calculators.
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That is SO annoying. Can't they just show us the info, without letting us buy.

Google really sucks at this geo stuff. They turned off access to Google music (my OWN music uploaded!) today abroad. It makes me wonder who runs their geo department.
Most of those distributions have mechanisms comparable to PPAs for similar functionality.
Sucking at it without losing enthusiasm.
Heh - spoilers for Cat's Cradle.
Load Balancing Multiple CDNs
Even more curious is that if Peter Kollman (referenced below) hadn't died of cancer, he would likely have shared this year's Nobel Prize for molecular dynamics:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v233/n5321/abs/233550a0...

Whoever said there are no second acts in America was crazy.
Thanks! It'll be here before you know it :)
I agree, the 'we have the best team ever' marketing is for investors. Or there is a big implicit disclaimer of 'for the level of difficulty we are working on'.
What resort did you go to? Mind if I ask what the approx. costs where?
Both of those situations seem like they would set up massive lawsuits down the line.
When selecting a transcendental filesystem, I usually go with φfs. It just looks better.
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My company does the same thing, and I can tell you exactly why managers don't refuse things like this.

They only exist to serve those above them. The entire purpose of their existence (and pay) is to do what they're told. They know it. Their bosses know it. It's inconceivable that any of them would do anything like you propose, because that goes against how they got where they are in the first place.
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Are you sure they were coin-op? Everywhere I've ever seen them, they were free. They were definitely in a ... well, I don't know what you call the newspaper distribution boxes, but they were in one (presumably to protect against rain and such), but they were always free to take everywhere I've seen.
CEO's make shit up all the time. They have to convince the world that they're the next best thing, so they say stuff like that to give others confidence in their, and their team's ability.

Don't underestimate the power of confidence.
what is your build process? (angular noob here)but I would assume your dependency resolution takes care of this.
(this sounds to me like build vs real issue)
Might be due to locality. I was a fan of the Onion a long time ago, from their website, but it wasn't until I moved away from podunk Memphis, TN and into the DC-area that I ever saw a print copy.

Not surprisingly, they're pretty pervasive (or, I guess were is more correct now) in the DC area, which is somewhat amusing as DC is the target of so much of their humor.
Well that was a pretty mean thing to say. Not everything needs to be a cure for cancer or fix peak oil. We need some room for leisure. If the author had fun making something that provides him with some cash, I don't see what the harm is. That just leaves more easy "real" problems for people like you to go out and solve.
I actually like a lot of the UX, at least for the content that I consume. I enjoy viewing content in some of the photography and photo sphere groups, and for this a one column layout would be too wide without scrolling quite a bit more.

Now, that said, this is more casual consumption. I don't care if I miss a post or two due to your chronological post issue. I also imagine there are a number of people like me when it comes to this.

Clicking the tag and having it inline is a nice way to see if you actually want to lose your current context and go to the full tag browsing mode. I also like this.

The image at the top? Nice way to not lose screen real estate on first load. I find it fun.

So, obviously we have some differences of opinion, and some of it may just come down to the sort of content we consume/create, but count me in the group that actually largely likes the interface.
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I think it's a great idea as well. Would like to see jqLite come out as well and be a separate project. Then those using jquery don't pay for jqLite, and even beter, for a quick landing page I'd be inclined to use jqLite naked for a nice tiny footprint.
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Datalog has been revelatory for me and my coworkers.
The Double Life of a Hungarian Politician
This Google bashing on HN is really getting ridiculous.
lets hope graphene is real :)
We have an internal blog at my company, which is an admittedly small telco. People often post honest thoughts, which are often complaining about the company.

You would think of all companies that could trace a DHCP IP to a logged in user it would be a telco. Not so.

Things are so dysfunctional around here it would take a week to attempt to do such a thing, and it wouldn't be accurate. There are so many other things going on it would never be a priority anyway.
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Let me rephrase "google is afraid of facebook" because it obviously leads to a lot of falses.
Google would like to keep the marketing money that goes to Facebook back at Google.
> But I could duplicate the entire thing in about a day with inotify and rsync. The scaling is mostly on Amazon.

No, you could duplicate a narrow piece of Dropbox's functionality in a day. You could not even get anywhere near duplicating the product and the service in anything less than months.
I'm sure you can see the issue with the Upworthy-style title, though.
Note that the suggested benchmark (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/benchmark/) is a slightly modified version of the Hive Benchmark. Both of these are just 3-4 tables total and 4 very basic queries. I recommend looking at something more realistic (e.g. TPC-DS, TPC-H, etc).
Tl;dr I like to whine.
A symptom of the acqui-hire culture? If the CEO sells the team, he could sell the company
As someone who recently had little choice but to start using 7, I can say that the differences between XP and 7 are vast, many, and annoying. Some can be fixed with Classic Shell, some by a few choice changes to settings and appearance, but some are just features that were removed.
Google Analytics is for websites viewed in browsers. This is distinctly for apps. The tracking is by means of an SDK compiled into your mobile app. They serve entirely different audiences.
Microsoft’s anime Internet Explorer 11 promo is really rather weird
This is a symptom of degraded infrastructure and dysfunctional energy policies. It is not a smart move considering total resource efficiency.

It's like how you see lots of individual bypass solutions in countries with bad infrastructure.
I disagree. When I explained git (as best I could) to a friend I drew something similar, though less detailed, on the whiteboard. It helps to see the different spaces an the commands that push files between those spaces. I found the visualisation useful in this case.
I mean at this point Yahoo is an anachronism, they might as well go all the way with it. Perhaps this will accelerate the inevitable and we can all just be done with it.
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They do it so frequently I'm surprised they have any feet left!
I'd wager that the most manipulative people in social settings are people with the most neediness but least experience, self-esteem, and emotional stability. And those are things most people wrestle with to some degree.

Since I imagine most guys come to the PUA community because those traits relegate them to a life of loneliness and zero ass, I would think that their real goal is to transcend those traits altogether and to become better people. It's what PUA nirvana must be.
It's great. You can store the offset in terms of pi too
It isn't even soft realtime. Go read up on what soft realtime really is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Criteria_f...
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> The first 2 employees we hired were people that we have previously lived/worked with

lived with

at this moment, this early, I can predict I'm reading "wise" career/entrepreneurial advice by a 20-something, at best, most likely

I stop reading
This is what makes it difficult to compete with Apple. These types of prepayments allow Apple to negotiate favorable deals for components that the manufacturer will happily sell at razor-thin margins. In order for the competition to produce an equivalent product on a hardware level, they would have to be willing to accept much lower margins than what they have. And there's no guarantee that they'll sell as well, making the investment in those materials risky.
A good example is where I have a list of items which is filtered by a select[1]. I have the select wired up to the controller with a two-way binding and the controller watches for changes to the binding and filters the list accordingly. Maybe this isn't an idiomatic way to do it?

[1] http://plnkr.co/edit/ykfblPHlwkBJyMeObFyV?p=preview
those verification texts work when sent to google voice numbers, for what it's worth (plenty of other similar systems break when you give them gvoice numbers)