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Most of the LPC17/18 family have 512k to 1 megabyte of on-die flash memory.
I've used it for a few projects. If you're using it as an only source, keep that caveat in mind, but it's a good starting point.
If you do it, it's rape. If they do it, it's a search.

If you do it, it's theft. If they do it, it's a tax.

If you do it, it's torture. If they do it, it's enhanced interrogation.

If you do it, it's terrorism. If they do it, it's freedom fighting.

If you do it, it's counterfeiting. If they do it, it's quantitative easing.

If you do it, it's a mafia. If they do it, it's a government.
I thought the segmented stack was the key to having hundreds of thousands of userland threads. It seems pretty farfetched (though not impossible) that realloc'ing the entire thread stack when it gets too big.
I actually have a friend who became an NYPD officer (!!!) at some point last decade.

Ask him if he's got any crazy stories about stupid shit other cops have done. Then ask him why he hasn't reported them for doing it.

That's the real problem, a very real application of "one rotten apple spoils the barrel." The problem isn't so much the individual police who violate the public trust (there will always be bad apples as long as there are humans involved), it is all of the others who turn a blind eye to those violations.

Those cops who never commit any overt violations but let other cops off with a free pass are the ones responsible for eroding public trust because they teach the public that it is an "us vs them" mentality. As a privileged white guy 99% of the time your interactions with the police will probably be just fine, but even you never know when that 1% bad apple is going to show up, but you do know his buddies won't do anything to hold him to account for what he might do to you.

I think you probably understand this to some extent, referencing "the thin blue line" (the documentary of that name actually turned the phrase on its head), I just wanted to spell it out for anyone else who might not be familiar with the ironic definition of that term.
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A number of people have commented that they are not surprised by the police actions in this case, because they are likely corrupt. I'm right there with you in most cases, but I simply can't wrap my head around what kind of outcome here would have made it worth all the trouble for the police involved?

After the SECOND probe (there were six total probes, two x-rays) I'd think most people would be convinced the guy wasn't hiding anything. Even if he was, we're not talking pounds of drugs here.

The police involved, and anyone that went along with SIX probes and two x-rays, and still were not sure this guy was innocent, are far beyond "corrupt", they are simply insane. Corruption generally comes with some kind of substantial payoff. What could that have been in this case? I'm really baffled by this, and scared. Only truly crazy people could allow this to happen, much less support it.
Further down the thread there are several alternatives to segmented stacks brought up.
For any sale there will be a buy and vice versa.

Well, yes, of course, and I think everyone here on Hacker News is aware of that. But the transaction may not occur at the price you desire. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is still an important idea for investors to keep in mind.
I'm interested in something like this for high-end CGI and graphics work. Being able to use a macbook air with a big workstation back end in the cloud would be a dream. I know there are render farm solutions that big studios use but realtime access to lots of computing power from anywhere would be amazing for freelancers and smaller studios.
Bitcoin is only valuable because it can be converted into real tangible goods. If government makes it hard to impossible to convert bitcoins into goods, its value will plummet overnight.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/16/212585522/chi...

Apparently they're ending the practice next year.
Can routinely work 16+ hour days

I figured you couldn't be serious about that
It's times like this that make me ever so thankful for a robust and free press.
"For a correct definition of the expression the anxious inquirer has only to turn to the tight-trousered, brief-coated, eye-glassed, fancy-vested, sharp-toes shod, vapid youth who abounds in the Metropolis at present."

I submit that this definition is as true today as it was in 1887.
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Dear HN : Stop it.
Tonight's observations :

* If you do not think Lavabit met your security needs please host your own, don't call BS on an ally for vanity metrics or some agenda.

* If you think Angular is a good pair with Dart use it, otherwise don't.

Words :

I raged hard via IRC today regarding fellow co-workers arguing the subtleties of PHP frameworks (yikes!) and we all know it's a futile battle.

Bottom Line :

Build amazing with whatever you know and be proud - I've seen seasoned developers argue a month whether controller or model... just build the damn thing and STFU!

HN knows what's news and what's whoring / propaganda / spam.

I'm sure you'll blast me to oblivion - but you know I'm right.
Of course.

The watch is something people are used too. The glasses are a new idea.

Insert citation about people wanting faster cars here.
Why would government want a piece of the bitcoin pie? They already have the entire pie in terms of control of the money supply. If anything bitcoin is becoming an existential threat to one of the main pillars of government power. I predict terrible things for bitcoin going forward.
And mine lasts ~40 days (Philips Xenium X130)
And yet, we will say the same thing about those ten centuries ahead of us.

I try to think of complaining as a way of thinking "how can things be better?"

People are complainers and always will be looking ahead to something better, our striving is what caused us to have all these advances in the first place.
It must have been a response to something though. My idea was that legislation tends to have an impact on investors pyschology. Even things not related to legislation, such as how talk of the Federal Reserve possibly discontinuing QE in September was visible in markets.

A dramatic rise like the graphs show must be a result of something serious occurring in the economy (global or otherwise). Any hypothesis are welcome.
This is one of the first public numbers I have come across on salaries in SF startups: $ 1,168,710. This is for a team of (in the end) 7 people, in about 2 years (started with 3 people).
Let's say an average of 5 people. That comes down to $ 117K/person/year. Is that average, or above or below? I know some startups in Europe, and in Europe half of that would be common.
Possibly. I couldn't get any conclusive answers when researching this originally. It's complicated enough that you'll almost certainly need to find an expert in the subject to help you or do the filings for you. (in my case it wasn't worth the few hundred dollars to follow it up)
Why so many times?

Why wouldn't you just stop at the X-ray? Is there some method of hiding drugs that wouldn't be very obvious in an X-ray? Ignoring the morality entirely, did they actually gain anything from that? Was there someone who could of hid narcotics past the first 7 steps?

What's so powerful about this story is it doesn't seem to make sense. I want to know why. What on earth motivated anything beyond step 1? Step 1 was bad enough!
I'm not well-versed on the applicability of the Constitution to property abroad owned by American corporations, but my guess is that the NSA can make a credible argument that because the wires and the bits are overseas, they're allowed to tap them, especially if they take measures to filter out any data of American origin in the pipes. It's a reasonable presumption that the origin of most of that data is foreign.

Yes, the companies in question are American, but Google and Yahoo go to great lengths to take advantage of the legal distinctions between operating in the U.S. and operating abroad, especially with regard to taxation. It seems a little disingenuous for them to claim now that in this context, we should ignore the distinction between operating inside the U.S. and operating outside the U.S.
Yeah but they're pretty unique for obvious reasons. I heard some pretty cool stories about Suitable engineers working from interesting places.
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This is missing the point. Bitcoin's value is completely derived from being able to convert it into tangible goods (well, basically cash at this point). They can easily make this conversion next to impossible for the majority of people. The fate of bitcoin rests completely in the hands of various governments, and I don't think its future is bright.
I'll put a link on The website to this form... I think this is a great place to start.
Ubuntu's usb-creator-gtk works fine for me. I do agree it's disappointing you can't just dd it.
"lock the bastards up!" is how you get this kind of situation in the first place; making everyone so afraid to put a foot wrong that they'll do what the person with the badge tells them.

Not to mention that destroying a professional career that takes ten years to start on one misstep is harmful to the medical system itself - why is the slogan always "lock the bastards up" and so rarely "train them better"? The former is a post-facto lose/lose, the latter win/win.
Time to end the war against saturated fat?
For what its worth Flickr gives you 1 TB for free now. Thats what I'm using.

I have friends that are happy with the smugmug app that uploads to a private album..
I'm a big fan of Mozilla and the Go team, but do recognize this is something Dlang's Walter Bright criticized from the beginning. As I assume all parties know much more than I do, I wonder what reason both languages chose this route...
Or is white.
Or is rich.
Or just hasn't had the chance to be on the wrong side of an enforced law yet.[0]

[0]http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.asp...
I disagree with the "electronic" part. That disqualifies Charles Babbage's early mechanical computers, not to mention all of biological/chemical computing.
The scary part about this is that this wasn't just a single rogue cop. Several physicians, nurses, a judge, a radiologist, and at least one police officer - any of whom could have put a stop to it - participated in a state-sanctioned rape and found nothing wrong with it.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke
I wanted to comment on the other comment, but those people were getting abusive and had to stop there.

>>My father used to work for ISRO too, from '74 to '97.

This is comparing Apples to Oranges. 1974 India had such a dismal technology scene, ISRO would have looked like India's technology paradise back then. What were the opportunities for technology folks then? Trying settling down in Europe or US, if you can't the next best case scenario is work at BHEL, ITI, BEL and ISRO sort of companies. The next alternative was to work at a assembly line, and next is open a small time grocery shop.

I see this tone repeatedly mentioned how some one's dad had so much from ISRO at a time when India was in deep clutches of socialism. Technology imports are tightly regulated by license raj system. Any comparison between Government firms and private firms from those times is totally meaningless. Because the very concept of a good career in a non-government firm was non-existent. So its not at all strange that people working in ISRO had a good career, because frankly what exactly was there apart from the government firms.

We are talking of times when the Ambassador was the only car in India, a telephone connection used to take years to get, and getting a current account in a bank required police verification. And the term private firm was synonymous with a TATA owned company.

By these standards, ISRO is the best career option you could have in those days.

There is no way you can compare that with IT companies today. Not with the kind of technology infrastructure, or even working conditions, or the compensation and benefits.

The scenario today is the very exact opposite of 1970's.
It sounded cool until i read the post. 2Mb for the free tier is garbage.
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Stupid internet. Breaking satire.
This isn't an issue that's particular to police. Go into a restaurant and have an average meal? The waiter isn't going to start harping on how crap the chef is. Call up tech support for your five-figure software? They're not going to dump the devs in the shit for your problem. Presenting a unified front to outside forces is usually necessary for employment, and something that we do innately as humans anyway. Given how thoroughly whistleblowers are destroyed, it's hard to fault someone for not calling a colleague out on relatively small matters.

Edit: I don't mean the article when I say small matters
Testing this out, looks like generating secret key through API generates three keys, encrypted, readonly, and readwrite, and I can see when I plug in an encrypted key to one node, I can see encrypted blobs are being populated from other nodes of all types, including other "encrypted" node.
I didn't use demeteorizer for https://lawyermatch.me, but after making a meteor bundle you just get a node app anyway, so deploying to production didn't really hold any surprised in store for me.

Related to production-meteor, I guess phusion passenger supports meteor now, does anyone have experience with the pluses or minuses of passenger over node/forever + nginx? LawyerMatch has been a way for me to test new tech to begin with, so I'm interested in giving passenger a try for a production app...
It's very hard to do for remote jobs. An appropriate salary is relative to the country you live in.
Every step is just more evidence that the people involved were riding high on a power trip, which is why they absolutely need that power removed from them.
"Winning and losing apply to everything in life" is nonsense. As well say winning and losing apply to nothing in life.

Certainly learning to lose is probably a good thing when you are a youngster, but "everything in life" sounds miserable to me, and perhaps only reflects your worldview, and is not in fact an absolute as you suggest.
Unless your a large bank "too big to fail"... Or give any serious punishment to for money laundering.
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Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6279918

This is the explanation of pg that says his accent indicator is the only one he's willing to talk about. There was a long discussion and many posts and comments on several posts about this topic, and pg explained his position on the matter more deeply on: http://paulgraham.com/accents.html
Oh come on, it's not as simple as that and you know it.
The difference perhaps lies in the amount of people who it took to create this interesting artifact: 2, quite a bit less than your examples.

Of course, you could easily argue that Fabrice Bellard is the software equivalent of a master watchmaker, and some of his creations would certainly be on par with this!
Sadism.
The kinds of top chess players that participate in the supertournaments we're talking about are extremely serious about every game, even if they have no chances in the tournament. Their ELO rating is equally affected by every game in the tournament, and their ELO often determines which tournaments they'll be invited to next.

Their personal 'career records' against other players in the field are also very hotly-contested. Nobody in the top 20 would give up a win or a draw against anyone else in the top 20 without a very serious fight.
As a hirer, I'll always ask what they make now. But I'll also ask are they happy with that salary.

There's no point using it as a basis if they are not, but if they are, it's a good starting point.
Have you ever been on the other end of an office who "knows" you have something on you?

I have.

I was pulled over in Dallas, TX because my tag light as "out." He made me step out of the car. When I did, I looked at my tag light. I was not out. I told him. He then changed his story to it was "too dim." (It was the factory light in the factory casing, etc. All stock.).

He then asked if I was okay with a search. I told him no, so he called the drug dog.

Drug dog hit on my car on the third time around it. They ripped my car apart, threw my laptop on the ground, let the dog crawl all over my interior. This entire time my car was running. They kept me there long enough to run down 3/4ths a tank of gas.

After they found absolutely nothing (I don't do drugs outside of caffeine and alcohol once a month or so.) the dick head started trying to rip off my fucking interior door panels because he knew there was something there. He started with the one on the opposite side of the car that the dog hit on.

The other officer talked him out of it and they let me be on my way, but then I had to spend the next half hour picking my shit up off the side of a 6 lane interstate at 10:30 PM in the fucking dark, praying I didn't leave something behind or get hit.

Cops are are worse people on average than a random group of the general population. "Domestic violence is 2 to 4 times more common in police families than in the general population." [0]

[0]http://www.purpleberets.org/violence_dv_extent_problem.html
I think you may be confusing two different types of people. The idea, to me, of making $xxx,xxx while working 40 easy hours a week (manytimes fewer) and spending the rest of my time with money for my hobbies and lifestyle sounds great; I feel like I'm beating the system. Mundane tasks are the price you pay for that. There may also be people want to press that button 200 times, but they're a different group.
Thread with more than 200 comments discussing this 2012 article from a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4421897
Suspension is not nearly enough. They broke the law and should be prosecuted.
Please dispense with the bullshit specious equivocations. This forum warrants a higher level of discourse than that.
To add another data point, I'm not on the YC list but I am part of the Techstars and 500 Startups lists, which are similar (I have several friends who went through YC and we've compared notes.)

Surprisingly, the lists have similar threads--lots of threads like "Who should I use for health insurance in NYC" or "Do you have an experience with X company/VC/investor" or "Looking for an intro to an X person at [huge company]."

Both 500 and Techstars have brought on in-house devs to change from a standard email list to a dashboard where you can subscribe to topics you're interested in to cut down on noise.

Both are pretty active and the founders and leaders participate. Techstars in particular gets some great responses--Brad Feld often responds to emails asking for a VC perspective on an issue, for instance.
They also need to be imprisoned just as any other group of rapists would.
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Surely "Well, it's not as bad as Stalin" is the very epitome of damning with faint praise?
Theres slight graphical issues when I view the website in portrait mode on my monitor (icons are in the wrong position).
Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hmm... maybe you want to use Clojure? That would be a good reason not to use Scala. Or Elixir/Erlang? There are two god reasons not to use Scala.

Not to mention rxJava and Camel.

Oh, and let's not forget the most important reason of all. It's too hard to change! So just keep doing whatever you are doing. You will be like the old COBOL developers who just faded into the woodwork.
I believe the canonical answer to questions of that type is Mu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)).

This article purports to be a YC founder's recollection of YC. Pointing out that it's not is not simply an ad hominem.
What on earth motivated anything beyond step 1?

Pathalogical certainty of guilt.

Once you have that then the only possible answer is that you simply haven't looked hard enough yet, if you give up then you are letting someone get one over on you and you know they are lying no matter what the damn machine says.
How is it specious? It seems fairly dead-on accurate to me.
Visually too noisy.

The bouncy "learn more" button gets in the way, and gives a cluttered feel to the front page. I can see you want me to click on it, but I think it's too much. (Real user testing may prove me wrong on this point). Maybe have the arrow next to "Learn more" pulse gently instead.

The text on the first screen uses hard-to-read colours, needs proofreading ("with others at who are at"), and badly needs rewriting. Too many words. Too many "platforms" (they're a kind of shoe, aren't they?). Takes far too long to communicate the benefits. Here's my rough rewrite:

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Share it live!

See photos of what's going on around you. Hook up with the people taking them.

====

You also need some much, much more exciting content for the phone screen mock-up. What am I missing out on by not having Muro?

Stuff below the fold is pretty good but, again, rewrite. To be honest, you suck at copy. Either read a book about writing copy for the web, or find someone who can write it for you.
Not a price you desire, but always a price you approve of. (Barring margin calls and similar complications.)
I'm just not convinced software is that impressive, I've seen 12 year olds write 'complex software' (at least to me), they didn't sure need a lifetime of knowledge and skill to do that.

Hello world might look complex on the wire when you think about the bits, but you didn't build any of those complexities yourself. This guy also didn't have the Internet to copy/paste from.
About the second case, it was likely due to time spent on matching unicode digits, as per the reasoning for this stackoverflow post,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16621738/d-is-less-effici...
So, like X Windows in the browser, then?
Over the past several years, this has been bothering me more and more, too.

If it's "we did this horrible thing, but made some money" or "we did this horrible thing, and locked up some terrible bad guy", then at least there's some kind of logic to it. But we keep hearing these stories of: someone in power does some whacked-out stupid mean shit to someone who's in no position to resist. And it goes unchecked and unpunished?...

I don't mean to be hand-wringing and preaching to the choir here,... but yeah -- I'm baffled and scared, too. I think there's a streak of American culture that enjoys hurting people just for the sake of hurting people.
The forced X-rays are grevious bodily harm, too: every X-ray damages your tissue, which is why doctors ordinarily only prescribe them where the medical benefits are judged to outweigh the risks.
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