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programming since age 10. can do contract/freelance work (have done it many times successfully in the past for variety of clients/projects) and, among other experiences, was once a salaried staff senior software engineer for Orbitz in Chicago. wide variety of languages, platforms, tech stacks, domains. prefer Python, Java, C, Linux, Unixy & open source ecosystem, CLI's and backends. web dev. mobile. desktop apps. games. performance & scalability (and thus "Big Data"). tooling. automation. prototypes. startups. Read classic CS papers in bed at night for fun. Have designed and written my own software and brought to market. Python is my favorite language now but have had periods in the past where I did C or Java daily for many years. Experience as a startup CTO. Wrote a comedy novella and published that earlier this year. Maintain my own Rogue-like (on GitHub, in Python.) Written outline for a planned book on Software Performance & Scalability and writing the first few chapters is underway. I have a track record of solving difficult technical problems that either stumped or were missed (or, often, caused) by previous developers, and of Getting Things Done. I ship. I love agile and I love iterating. And transparency and automation.

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my email is there, and here in my HN profile
Dear God I hope so, but it's going to take politically-connected heavy hitters to care about it and I don't see that happening.

For instance, it's baffling to me that Ron Conway doesn't care about this issue, given his entire portfolio is internet startups. I think Arrington was right to call him out on that.
KDE has been around a lot longer than Ubuntu and will continue to exist for a lot longer. You mention the word "spiral" but I would say KDE has a lot more legs than you give it credit for.
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Nice post!

Another challenge on mobile is that most of the times images/ background-images aren't served at all. So as long as there is just text and style on your email this strategy would just work. The moment you decide to step-up the visuals, you'd start thinking why the hell does the world still use email at all?
As the /s was meant to indicate. :)

(Thanks for the links).
This is such a cool idea!

I'm a little confused about the pricing. If we sign up now, is it like a free 1 week trial? All of my projects are open source. Would you consider offering this service free to open projects?
This way they can cover both coastlines.
I took the Comp Eng version of that course (in contrast from the SE/CS version which is less hardcore IMO).

That course taught me how to make software.
I agree. Ruby is slow for certain types of workloads, but for many kinds of workloads it simply doesn't matter, and Ruby is fast enough.

For workloads that require super high performance, one can simply use something else... Java, Node.js or whatever. Now that Phusion Passenger supports Node.js as well, it's very easy to write some parts of an app in Rails, and write other (performance-critical parts) of an app on Node.js, and deploy them together on a single server with ease.
This is really fascinating, thanks for the post. I also have to add that you were a bit lucky to run into Joe. In my first job (big investment bank) there was too much politics and the only people I could trust (and who somewhat mentored me) were not only from different teams, but the managers of our managers were also different people.
So you have roughly, a 27% ROI for your first year -- which seems good.
Have you accounted for:
Income tax?
Property tax?
Insurance costs?
Legal risks: (i.e., you potentially in violation of law)?
Liability risks: (i.e., something happens to a tenant)?
Property damage risks (may be included in cleanup costs)?
Labor costs (i.e., your time)?
Property value appreciation/depreciation (could be a positive)?
After that is all taken into account, I wonder if you end up netting more from a passive investment.
"Maximum profitability" still needs a timeframe to judge against. Maximum in the next quarter? Next year? Next decade? Maximizing in short term may harm or prohibit maximizing profits in long term, which would be just as bad (or worse) for shareholders.
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Reddit uses an edge-cache for all logged-out content. They pass logged-in content.

A cached HTTP document in something like Varnish should take virtually no resources whatsoever.

HN is on Cloudflare but they might not be caching pages at the edge (they should).
This guy https://twitter.com/LiCharles1985/status/396322399198539776 reached out to the reporter, he wants to help the man and his daughter.
Why even bother making this comment? It's completely unrelated and somewhat juvenile.
Honestly, I agree.
I've dabbled with toy apps in 4 and have been very impressed with how smooth the change has been from 3 to 4. I haven't tried directly migrating a Rails 3 app so far (as 3.2.15 has been holding up quite well) but would anticipate it being far less of a hassle than moving from 2 to 3. AFAIK, Github is still on Rails 2
But you would notice being unable to use regedit or the like.

There's no point hampering removal once you're detected if you have a good mechanism for hiding or repairing the infection.
He's breaking the contract with the owners association that he agreed to on purchase. It lowers everybody else's property values and prevents them from selling their unit.
You did not. The OP was asking if you had a phone in the equivalent of "airplane mode" or just no service where you are, would Lockitron work? You have a mobile phone, which meets your criteria, but Lockitron would not work with SMS access, since you can't send an SMS. Would it work for smart phones? I have no idea. The page you linked to didn't say one way or the other (or if it did, I didn't see it).
there was a similar bug with windows 3.1 or maybe windows 95... if you moved the mouse during the microsoft splash screen, the system would crash and you'd get a loud BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP until you physically turn off the system.

it might have been the motherboard or mouse vendor problem, but an update to windows 98 fixed it on the same machine.
The Nexus One couldn't install ICS or JB because Google and HTC made the stupid decision to give the system only 256 MB of storage--relying instead on the "endless potential" of SD storage to store apps. <facepalm> I can wipe my Nexus One, return to a clean copy of Gingerbread and will still only have about 30 MB of space for apps. What a joke.
I said "a house for under $100K" not a one bed flat. The one bed flat comparison was in my first paragraph.

Where in the UK are you going to pick up a (small) house in a non-rough area of a city for ~£61k? Let alone the equivalent of Las Vegas.. (don't say Blackpool!)

As someone who owns property in the UK, has lived in numerous areas of it, and is actively looking for somewhere new to live, I hope I'm not too misinformed in this area, but standards do vary. I'd contend you'd find nothing as attractive as the Las Vegas pad in the UK at such prices though.
Could actually be a business opportunity: Propoerty management for Airbnb spaces.
Looking around for that animated GIF of a young Michael Jackson eating popcorn in the movie theater...
RAID over IP was a joke. I remember reading this story about someone flooding routers to turn them into a broadcasts to view the flow of packets over the network. I imagined the same thing, then said, hey with HDDs and broadcast, you could simulate RAID. I made a long stretch on that one.
http://blog.liip.ch/archive/2013/10/29/hhvm-and-symfony2.htm...

Doesn't look to be "an order of magnitude faster" - 200% faster in some cases - certainly nice numbers, but not a massive game changer for many (yet?).
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>We're required to defend at least half the world

No we're not. That's your opinion. Pretty sure the constitution doesnt say "Defend Europe and Korea."
When I was visiting Berlin last winter, I stayed at Airbnb flats and it seemed like a lot of the owners were doing exactly this. In fact, to your point, the city was, IIRC, about to forbid vacation rentals in certain neighborhoods. Berlin is rapidly gentrifying, there's a R.E. bubble going on, poorer people are being pushed out of the city, and this kind of thing intensifies that trend. I've no idea if cities in the US would be willing to step in and intervene if this became common here.
Yeah, they probably want to wait until Go 2.0 or something, before they commit Android to supporting Go (and support only 64-bit apps while they're at it, since from what I hear Go handles 64-bit much better than 32-bit anyway). So maybe in 2-3 years.

But I do think they should do it eventually, and move away completely from Java, because I think Java is a pain to learn, especially for new programmers who want to make Android apps. Being able to write Go apps for Android could make Android that much more attractive to developers.

In the meantime, this transition to ART apps, will be a huge benefit for users, as their apps will run better, especially on lower-end devices, which KitKat also addresses.
Stuff like this makes me sad. When I first used Airbnb three years ago, it was easy to find a real person letting out their room or apartment to make some extra money. Nowadays, it's very difficult to tell who is a real person and who is just like this guy: an absentee landlord for a place they've never lived in. It's an abuse of the system, and it's people like this who are going to get Airbnb shut down. Blame them when it happens.
That is one very big multi-tens-of-$billions and maybe more reason our allies are deeply unhappy about the extent of snooping.

If you are preparing a bid at Embraer, you may get the feeling the only ones you win will be the ones Boeing finds unprofitable.

The NSA has the data to rig the economy globally, and to rig politics within the US.

Who here is going to stand up for them and say: No, they wouldn't. They have too much restraint.
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A consequence of this could be that people who rent places out also use AirBnB's competitors. So this could perhaps help AirBnB politically, but wouldn't fully stop the problem.
You can put your music on YouTube.
Upgraded a pretty big Rails app from 3 to 4 a month ago, only took an afternoon.
Can someone highlight the goodies on this patch? Sure we can read the changelogs entirely but a little bullet list of the best changes would be awesome. :)
You and the parent you posted to answered perfectly for me.
Exactly what is the difference between what this person is doing and running an unlicensed extended-stay hotel?
Mine was simple: I did a middle-mouse-button paste of "init 6" into a root window of our main Solaris server that hosted about 100 users, mid-day. Boss shrugged it off, stuff happens.

But that's because it was properly configured so a reboot was smooth and didn't have any snags or affect other systems once back online. At another data center across the hall, if their main server needed to be rebooted (not accidentally!), it was 3 days of troubleshooting to get it back up. I learned that after the boss hired one of their admins - not surprisingly, a big mistake.
Whatever you say, bub.
I'm not sure that residential/commercial zoning laws in US states falls under the umbrella of general knowledge.
http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_374_2013_Veto_Message.pdf

That's his letter stating his decision.
I like how they spin it in Robert Morris profile on the YC page: "In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public." (http://ycombinator.com/people.html)
That's because the newer tech companies haven't had enough time to build a catalog of patents to rival older Microsoft, Apple, and so forth.

Do you really think Google won't do the same to younger tech companies a decade from now?
The mental picture of these people, huddled on a bumpy bus, in the middle of the night, being the only regular thing they can look forward to is incredibly saddening.

I wish there was something I could personally do.
I still think it's a halloween prank
No, I live in the middle of Lincolnshire. Cambridge is a relatively easy 2 hour drive though and GitHub only let me choose from a limited number of UK cities (at least at the time I set up my profile).

But yeah, Cambridge is ridiculously expensive. So, increasingly, though is rural Lincolnshire! I'm looking for a 4 bed house close to town and £250k is about the minimum for something decent. I suspect that would barely buy a nice flat in Cambridge though..!
Unless you look at the Indies.
No, you need a minimum amount of karma for the downvote button to appear. I think its at ~500 now.
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Same connector as SAS, but a different pinout?

Does this not scream "bad idea" to anyone else?
Buddy just asked a question that solicited an informative answer for all of us to read. Not sad.
this analysis that it is wrong is wrong.

basically he says, "this would be really hard, so it can't be real"...... uh..... not an argument.

then, he says, "i have a tool that can scan for this, so it could never avoid my tool".... again, at such a low level it could detect your tool or hide itself in one of the many other chips on the motherboard that provide data IO.

#DUMGUYISDUM
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No one should be homeless and freezing in this country.

I am really disgusted how we let people fall this far.

We should all be ashamed.

The comments on that article are even more disturbing but I am going to assume it is people trolling because they are in warm homes with computers so they feel comfortable being asses.
Sounds like an argument about the code which could have done without the word "stupid", but it is not rude at all. And it does not attack any person.
You speak with much certainty. As the original record was set over 25 years ago, surely there have been incidents of people trying to break it and "plowing over pedestrians", no?

I wouldn't encourage people to try this, but your statement "there will be a hundred other morons... who will plow over pedestrians" is hyperbolic. Especially since we can look back to the original record.
It was popular among geeks, and apparently it still is. That just means there will be even more demand for the early cards in the future.
I don't think it's a small minority. I'd say every 2 or 3 of 5 heavy computers users I know do this.

I'm not one of them (I do it, just rarely), and I've gotta say it annoys the hell out of me too. Totally unnecessary distraction is what it is.
This happened to me 5 or 6 times before I had the wherewithal to kick the habit.
Do you rent to the same people for extended stays?

I'm wondering about the amount of work it would take to clean up the room after each guest, and whether that would outweigh the profit.
L. Page's Raft - where people wear antennas on their head.
HTML Emails are a can of worms I always postpone learning about. It's a learned skill that takes time to perfect and more often than not if the design is complex I deffer to a more specialized developer.

I wish all email clients behaved properly and used their browser counterpart's engine.

Meaning, Outlook would use IE9 or 10 render engine, et al.
All I am saying is that it's possible

No, all you said is that it's plausible. Plausible != possible.
Average monthly revenue: $1,634
Rough monthly profit: $1,134 (after cleaning, bills and other expenses)

subtract $200 for the monthly maid service, $196 for Las Vegas' 12% hotel tax.

HOA fees, utilities, cable, and everything else is only $104 per month? Something doesn't add up here. (But I'm a botanist, not an accountant, so I may not understand something)
It's probably more because of the running surface in combination with the shoe, than the shoe alone. Using the same logic, our bodies weren't meant to run barefoot on concrete/tarmac for long periods. They're too hard.
FYI (most of) your links are broken
The badBIOS story is frustratingly short on details but this confused post seems to be making a lot of assumptions which add restrictions and then argue that it's impossible because of those guessed details:

1. He wastes time talking about “high frequency” as if it means radio EFI, which was never claimed and is an odd tangent.

2. Apparently at some point he actually read the original claims and realized that they were talking about sound and then makes the claim that this is simply impossible due to hardware limitations. See e.g. the running code at https://github.com/borismus/sonicnet.js demonstrating why this claim needed more than his personal assertion to be considered truth.

3. The main logical fault is the extended discussion about how limited the BIOS environment is, apparently under the belief that somehow everything must be implemented at that level rather than, say, shipping with different versions for various manufacturers which use that as a way to inject the actual payload into the OS. Put another way, what are the odds that someone would be competent enough to build any of the other pieces but not realize that you can do hardware detection and build a library of exploits for, say, common Mac laptops?

4. Claims about being able to catch this trivially by dumping the BIOS are suspect unless he's talking about extracting the chip and reading it on a known-good system — anything running on the suspect box runs into a textbook trust problem which isn't even acknowledged in this post.
Graduate of Waterloo Software-eng here. I paid back my OSAP all at once right after graduation with money I earned from co-op.
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Shock and awe, anyone?

On the one hand it's around 5% of the population, and unless you need subsidies, you can get policies directly from the insurers, and there are private comparison shopping sites.

On the other hand, most will have to pay more money, often a LOT more, often for worse coverage in ways they most care about, and this small fraction of the population includes some of the most influential. Maybe ... the rules of that seem to be changing, this could in fact be a good test of the recent Angelo Codevilla et. al. modern US ruling and country classes thesis.
Mitt Romney signed and endorsed the law. He was later nominated to run for President. If that doesn't count, then I do not know what would. Or is Romney one of those "RINOs"?
A tangent, but that brings me back to this again:

"Kickstarter cannot be used to fund websites or apps focused on e-commerce, business, and social networking."

It's a weird rule. This tool has business applications, no? (Also not, but still...)

More on topic, I'll bet these guys are going to have a wild and successful ride.

I think cross-platform support will be key, too (one of the consistent complaints about Pixelmator, as a semi-related example, is that there isn't a PC version available).
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Is it even available yet? I thought it was still in development
Where'd you get a copy of the contract he signed?
Thanks, so he vetoed it based on a belief that it went too far in restricting a right while not providing sufficients benefit in terms of gains in public safety.
I've always wished I could be comfortable having a frank discussion about this with my management (previous jobs - actually quite happy where I am for the moment).

It would be great to be able to say "hey I'm thinking it's time to move on" and have a reasonable discussion about it (exploring other things in the company, etc) instead of being concerned that they now consider me a flight risk and will start trying to find a replacement.
As a counterpoint - I would also like to point out that just because someone is "a well-respected researcher for 15 years", that doesn't mean everything they will ever say will be a quality statement above reproach or should be taken as fact at face value. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.#Mental_il...
It's not about user-facing features. It's about the damn API version! Fragmentation is a problem for users AND developers. With the news about the Galaxy Nexus, Google is basically telling developers to keep targeting old version of Android and avoid the latest APIs. As far as I'm concerned, the Android Support Library is the one true API.
If we could stop hiring amazing people off HN, I could probably break the habit, but right now it's pretty hopeless for me.
So .. we're all CS guys here. Does anyone have any idea as to how such a system can work? Just curious as to how they're making it work.
Profit in the reporting context refers to the annual measure of net income, so maximum profitability generally refers to the profit generated in a single tax year.
Volunteer your time, give of your resources, open your home up to a family in need. This list of things we could do to make a difference in someones life is bounded only by our own selfishness.
install pinfo , and you'll be able to read all the wonderful documentation instead of fighting with the GNU info frontend.
My 4S runs great on iOS 7.
OT - minor pet peeve: When did "responsive" become synonymous with "handle different screen layouts gracefully" vs "responsive to the user"?
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I am concerned because crazy people are messing with my constitutional rights. (are amendments rights?)

Edit: Dont you see what happened after 9/11 and the NSA. I dont want another repeat.
Maybe I'm wrong here. Looks like bladeRF and USRP B200-series have the bandwidth, sample rate, and data speed to do 802.11b.

Maybe some radio smartperson can clarify?
The only way to buy insurance would be to lie and commit fraud. Home owners associations also require insurance.
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Is moving a barge really worth the time and cost?
You won't be safe from bedbugs just because you're in a hotel.
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Nothing. I like it.