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It's abusive because he is passing the cost of cleaning the place to the user...

All costs of a business are passed to the consumer. Where do you think the money a business makes comes from? Sure, if there's a cost increase, a business can decide to lower the profit margin to avoid increasing the price, but the costs are still being passed on.

which in fairness should then be variable based on its usage

Why? When did it become wrong to charge flat fee for a service? The cleaning lady is also charging a flat per hour fee even though it's cheaper for her to do a single 3-hour job instead of 3 1-hour ones, is she being unfair too?

Nobody who offers a service can or should be required to charge proportionally to the costs. It's irrational to demand that.

That 'fee' should be rolled into the rental cost/cost of doing business.

I suggest he eliminates the cleaning fee and raises the prices by $35/visit. Apparently the morality of a fee depend on whether it's itemized.

He is using it to augment his profit

The nerve.
I've been musing about this since posting a comment yesterday and I'm leaning to a call of "No, not really", based on the "blur" in the image.

If this object was launched at escape velocity, it was doing at least 11km/s. If the camera had a shutter speed of 1/500 of a second, the object would have traveled at least ~22m during exposure. We don't know the ISO of the film, but something covering that much distance leaving a blur? Would it even leave a smudge? And with imperfect lighting, no less.

The slower the shutter speed, the less likely there is to be an image. Would a camera expert care to comment?

If you follow the links in the original article, you find more information at [1], [2], and [3]. It seems dubious....

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#Propulsion_o...

[2] http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Plumbob.html#Pasca...

[3] http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html
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The problem is that Apple still has a single digit or low double digit percentage of the PC market. And the only reason they can make it work developing their own ecosystem at that level of market penetration is by being a premium brand with high margins. Nokia's market share is currently at the opposite end of the market. Which is bad news for attracting developers, because developers won't want to target a small minority platform full of budget-conscious customers.
This is how I interpreted it as well. I was not offended by his reaction; perhaps I should have noted that in the piece.
It does require a near vacuum. At high speed, the tiny amount of air in the tube gets compressed to the point where it plays a significant role in the dynamics of the train's motion. So, both are true.
Oh no, so my power point presentation on the cloud won't save the world? What a cruel realization for someone like me, living in the startup world, constantly getting told how great everything I do is. What comes next? The realization that electronics, like the iPhone end up as waste, destroying the environment and its acid causes cancer to children instead of bringing them rainbows and unicorns? It sounds just as bad as the realization that Facebook and other, invade privacy and are used for bullying leading to depressions and suicide.

(Sorry for that sarcasm)

About technology and evolution of society...

Did you know that the neolithic revolution actually caused diseases, famines and made humans more aggressive, less social, less intelligent and lowered the life expectancy so much that it only recovered in the last centuries.

Considering technology to solve all the really big problems is naive in a world, where most new technologies come with new diseases physical (posture, various forms of cancers by new materials, radiation, ..) and mental (addictions, depressions, reduction of memory retention).

No, I don't want to go and live like the apes. I enjoy the comforts, but given all this it's just self-deception to think that computers with internet would solve more problems to people suffering from illnesses than any other tool, a vaccine or even a change in world politics.

Folks, I am a technology and information enthusiast, but please lets keep our help cool and not get emotional over the realization that people may actually need something else and that technologies have dark sides and that there may be many cases where the pros outweigh the cons, but it's not a general rule and shouldn't be the religious dogma of a technocracy.
Why would you care where people learned programming from?

If you know how to spot a good programmer with a real interest in programming, what does it matter where he started?

Only people who don't know how to spot or attract a good programmer fall back to big school names, and years of experience and all the rest of the fake stuff.
"I can't see why a user id could not be used as a salt though" thats exactly how people break crypto implementations, it seems ok but you dont really know. Don't just invent your own way, use the standard one.
Ran into DST problem when I had to build a Gantt chart in flash, project scope just so happen cross the time change while development. I ended up solving the bug but it wasn't fun on bit.
>> This is the extraordinarily naive libertarian position. Most people would not welcome a brothel as their closest neighbor for example.

That's different from just renting out your place to some random traveller. Besides, even if renting your place is legal, nothing prevents you from whipping up a contract that places some limits on how rowdy the occupant(s) can get.

So no, there's nothing "naive" about thinking that renting out your property being illegal is fucking insane.
Also there's an outburst in syria lately.
>> There are machines that can churn out limited qualities of the braided carbon fiber.

I'm guessing that's a typo and they meant limited _quantities_, but I'm honestly not sure (not snark).
Isn't there value in having a long global salt to make bruteforcing harder in case the database but not the server code is compromised, though?
It's not a mixer.
Are physicists individualists or collectivists
Yeah, and no child should be unnecessarily deprived of her father.
Yep. I haven't done much with AirBnB and its ilk but I do often try to go the B&B route rather than the-big-chain-hotel (or even the smaller not-so-chain-hotel) route. But, as you say, especially for business travel, a lot of the time I just want something predictable that meets a certain standard. I don't want to be concerned that if my plans change and I don't get in until 9 that there won't be anyone there to let me in, etc. I frankly just don't have the mental energy to deal with on-offs for the whole 1/3 of the year or so I travel.
That 6 pages, if you read it, includes the language, all functions, flags and examples. Its possible to digest it fully in a few minutes.

It is complete.
While I admit that using a framework instead of your own solution is a good solution, please note that that's not "zero work", it just passes the buck to the client. The framework's knowledge of the timezones still has to be kept up to date. For example, Israel used to have ad-hoc DST times changing each year and "...the unpredictability of IDT in Israel became frustrating enough that Microsoft Windows stopped trying to track changes and just made Israeli time be Greenwich Mean Time plus two hours (GMT+2) (and disabled the daylight saving option). This has led to various ad hoc solutions to the problem in Windows systems and other Microsoft software (e.g. Outlook calendar entries are often off by an hour when shared, due to the lack of IDT support)." [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Summer_Time
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Forget Twitter Bootstrap, if people cared what a site looks like - explain Craigslist..

You may want to rethink the ads on the home page. Text link below the banner center, remove the image boxes. You should be getting at least $3-4 per 1k imps. Maybe dropping the 'no ads when sign in'. Show ads to everybody, but very few ads. 1 per page, maybe 2, but that's it.
There was an outbreak in the USA in 2005 though no one suffered permanent damage: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/health/08iht-polio.html?pa...
In the UK the argument centres around road safety. This page (actually from Australia) makes at least one half of the issue pretty clear:

http://www.walk.com.au/pedestriancouncil/Page.asp?PageID=118...
I'll post to link to it on HN probably tomorrow (theoretically will be finished then...).

The main difference is you write the AI for one of your units, but that AI is applied to many units, so you must write an AI that can interact with itself.
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Think about it like this: Using a SHA256 + global salt is nothing different from using SHA256 with a different set of constants/initial values.
Having cancer tends to negatively affect one's quality of life. ;) But it's an interesting question--quality of life vs. lifespan. Imagine if there was no possibility of prolonging human lifespan, but instead we had the means to stop aging, say in a person's mid twenties to mid thirties. Having some 50 or 60 years time with your mental and physical faculties in prime, not having to rush, being able to take your time and learn and do practically everything you want. We would live like gods.
I wrote the same thing, with a much crappier user interface, last week. Mine includes Idaho and New Mexico as well:
http://healthcare.brianjcohen.com

My notes on that page explain why this is really not a great dataset. These aren't really price quotes, they're averages they've generated for various age ranges. And since deductibles, coinsurance rates, and copays aren't included, there's really no way to compare them on a level playing field (although this is a problem that healthcare.gov has as well).
The internet is not only facebook and youtube, but a general purpose communications network. Having satellite internet available does not imply it's in any way affordable for local individual or organization. Having terrestrial internet for acceptable prices would allow for a variety of uses that are currently not possible, some of them undoubtedly beneficial for health care professionals.
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Because getting time right is surprisingly hard.

I once went, "Oh, this time conversion function is simple. I should have it done this afternoon." About a week later I was still writing test cases that broke it.

Using a well debugged time library is worth it. Spend your cycles writing tests for it, if you must.
On the other front, these passwords are all encrypted (not hashed) using 3DES in EBC mode.

Something encrypted with by (single) DES could be broken within 7 days about 2 years ago by some bespoke hardware.

If Adobe have been using the same key for each part of the triple DES key then you can assume that bespoke hardware of several years ago could get the key within 3 weeks (3DES being ~3 times the work of single DES). With advances in technology this is probably down to less than a week.

Let's just hope that they used a full 168-bit key, rather than repeating the single 56-bit key, and that it never gets leaked.
They're still better than Yahoo!, who had 450K+ plaintext credentials dumped last year.
You could use a username too, right? Because <unique username> + <any password> should be unique.
There is also, what looks like efficiency is merely externalization of costs. It may be highly efficient for you to let your apartment on AirBnB but only because you are passing your hidden costs onto your neighbours.
You might be surprised at the priorities of the poor themselves. Internet access means knowing the market price rather than being ripped off by a middleman for your crop. Getting the market price might mean being able to afford indoor plumbing, but maybe a scooter comes first so grandma can be taken to a doctor when needed.

Curing malaria is inherently a top down priority. Acquiring communications is bottom up.

To take another example, providing a robot chauffeur maybe a solution to a first world problem, but cars kill twice as many people as malaria, so don't knock the robot chauffeur if he cuts traffic accidents by half or better.
And this is inherently wrong, why? People (of whatever their net worth) vote, speak at meetings, and talk to their representatives to try and pursue outcomes that they prefer. One of those outcomes may be maintaining a particular character for a neighborhood. It's complicated. Greater good for the larger city or whatever and all that. But I don't see anything devious about residents having a say in what their community looks like.
Weird that you should need to say goodbye. Shame you did not leave a forwarding address for where the nerd is supposed to go for the news that matters these days. Oh well.
To be exact, programmers should stop using their own password systems (unless - well, let's not go there :).

Writing them is actually an excellent exercise, and humbling one too. Especially if you show your code to some skilled hacker / security expert.
Search HN. There are plenty of discussion threads for c corp vs S corp vs LLC

In terms of invoices, depends on a client. Cut a contract, and work with them to specify what they would like. Protect yourself
A lot of countries in the developing world have existing health care resources, such as doctors or nurses, but managing them is a major problem in a state such as namibia or botswana where the population of a small city is spread out on a territory as large as germany. It helps if you can have a local, less qualified health care worker communicate with a remote specialist before either moving a doctor to the patient or the patient to the doctor. A medium to high bandwidth connection, eventually capable of video transmission helps a lot here.
I don't disagree with Gates. In fact, I find it very difficult to comment on his moral position at all, and that's what makes this such a fascinating discussion.

If you had a billion dollars, what would you do to make people's lives better? For most of us, this is like talking about what to do if you won the lottery: the stuff of daydreams, not reality. But if you really sit down and think about this problem, it's not an easy one to get a grasp on.

You could do immediate things, like feed them, vaccinate them, or teach them English. These are things where you pay ten bucks, you get ten meals. Easy to measure.

You could do systemic things, where you create a system that's then supposed to do things. Build a school, create a farm, build an irrigation system.

You could invest in systems, choosing winners over losers. Finance that business, support that government program.

There are other options, and it'd probably be interesting to go through them all one day. But at the end of it, you're left with the uncomfortable fact that thousands of other entities have invested trillions of dollars in making people's lives better and have very little to show for it. Entities much smarter than you, operating on a much greater scale than you can. Even if you're Bill Gates.

I'm not ready to give up and say the problem is intractable, but it makes me angry that so many snake oil peddlers, many of whom are politicians, sell the idea that these are solved problems; we just need the money. They are not.

So I wish Gates the best of luck. I'd probably bet on connectivity ahead of saving lives, because I think long-term it's more important for humanity to solve its own problems than to keep individuals alive, but heck if I'm happy with that opinion. And if I were Gates, I might just take us to task for that, as he's doing. Good for him.
… though as someone who's done conference reporting, it can get pretty exhausting fast (though for me I usually did the writeups that night and had to have them up the following morning. I used to go home after the conference and basically sleep for a day!)
Recommending that they should not do their own stupid things describes the things that they are doing as stupid. I am not interesting in debating how many angels can dance on the head of this particular pin any further, I don't even have a dog in this bloody fight.
The word you are looking for is: gentrification.
Middle class (by developing world standards) life is the most effective brake on population. Give people basic health care, Internet, TV, a phone, and literate daughters and watch the population growth rate fall to replacement level or lower.
Seattle[1] includes an attempt to sandbox Python. No idea if it's 100% covered, but they try.

[1]: https://seattle.poly.edu/wiki
What about for self-taught programmers? Should I bother trying to apply as an intern?
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1. Stock portfolio, news, charts
2. Hacker news (new & best)
3. Digg
4. Techcrunch
5. Mashable
6. Gmail
7. Facebook
Well, in that case nothing necessarily helps education. Even books or teachers, people waste so much time in school. I for myself must admit that I tend to think of HN as very educating. I get exposed to information that I'd never find otherwise and to opinions of people I'd never meet otherwise. That's certainly much more educating than a lot of facebook.
You ever think to ask your users with a survey to see why they came there in the first place?

Do you have some analytics to see what they are doing on the site? I mean is 60% of it searching for popstar images and then browsing from then?

Once you know this you can start to steer this firehose into a funnel.
Does anyone know the purpose of the self-assignment on page 3? (in the body of IsWriteCombined)

DWORD error = GetLastError();
error = error
"Immortality" is really about 1000-2000 years. In that time, accidental death will catch up with you.
> If the system incentivizes this behavior, can a publicly traded corporation even choose to ignore it? Would shareholders be able to claim breach of fiduciary duties if they did?

Corporate officers have wide latitude in determining what actions are in the best interest of the corporation.

In a case like this, the incentive to initiate Nuclear Armageddon for profit has to be balanced against the cost of making developers hate you and desecrating your reputation and standing in the community. It is by no means clear that starting a war in which all sides are susceptible to take heavy losses will be in the interest of shareholders.
Also, there are some nice fanless Mini-ITX boards out there with dual gigabit, which is all you need (plus a case for a board and a switch, of course).

M350 enclosure is popular and cheap.

It goes without saying such box will smoke anything you can buy of-the-shelf. Hell, even the anemic ALIX Geode gave a nice boost to my home network over the crappy Linksys I had previously (things are now snappy and 100% stable).
Using the same key 3 times would be equivalent to using 1 key and performing 1 encrypt operation.

It is almost certainly not the case that adobe is using the same key for all 3 operations. It's probably more effort to do anyways
Hm, this post is almost 3 years old, but Matt has been active recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon). Did he get a little account recovery help or was the password change not as random as he said?
Nice dog picture
This is a nice and funny picture of a dog that you will like!
What is the advantage of trying to sandbox native python code?

Why not expose a RESTful API and let people implement in whatever language they want and not have to worry about malicious code?
Actually, it would end with:

rm -rf $TMP

and never:

rm -rf /

Because that is not in the code.

Also, both:

rm -rf $TM

and:

rm -rf $TMP_

won't cause the issue (but yeah, potentially others).
According to their specs, it's 1/1000 of normal air pressure.

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf
Nice concept, but I'm a little unsure of two things: what is the difference between section and related, and what does the 1day pulldown mean at the top of the page?
EDIT: I wrote my post before I realised how old the submitted article is! Disappointing that the problems listed are probably worse today than they were three years ago.

> 1. Lack of a down-vote means vocal minorities are disproportionately represented. How many Hacker News users really want to see 5 stories about the TSA body scanners every time they log in? It doesn’t matter, because as long as 10% of them up-vote every story on the topic it’s going to flood the top page with them until they move on to something else.

FLAG. You only get limited flags, but FLAG THESE FUCKING SUBMISSIONS.

> Some people will say “they have flags” but flags are not down-votes, and even most people like myself who wish there were down-votes don’t use them as such. Flagging is for spam, trolling, etc. I may not like what you have to say, but I’ll fight for your right to not be flagged for saying it.

Flags act like down votes for submissions. In the absence of down votes flags are the only tool available for Submissions that do not belong here.

I'd agree that flags should not be used that way for comments.

> The community is full of ideologues to the point where the comments are most often just predictable talking points being regurgitated ad nauseum.

People need to downvote empty idealogagy. People need to down vote a lot more than they do. Perhaps it's a problem that only ten % of the site can downvote. I sometimes wonder what would happen if HN reversed the down / up vote privs - anyone can downvote, but you need 500 karma before you can upvote.

Anyway, sorry to see you go. Have fun, and good luck!
I have literally only ever seen this on HN.

(from the UK where m = million)
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Forgot to add, after you uncomment the subpixel stuff, just do a `make && sudo make install && make clean` from the `xenocara/lib/freetype` directory.

Also, repeat the same after each snapshot upgrade, as the X sets will overwrite it every time, naturally. Don't forget to keep it updated as well, with `cvs up`.
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I haven't really been a longtime user myself, but as far as I can tell (and yes, this falls under point 2) he is pretty much right on all points made.

Except 4 seems a tad too general, and going from snobbish to looking down on people is not always a one-to-one realtionship. I consider looking down on someone one of the worst evils and I am pretty sure I am not alone here (nor anywhere). At least I hope.
Hotels are regulated for fire safety, food hygiene, etc etc.

You can see how it's useful to protect society to not allow people to run unlicensed hotels?
Like those fuckers on forums: "Farewell fellow users, I know you'll all miss me a lot, /requestsban"
50-100 nights/year in good hotels is not for everyone. May I ask how you foot the bill?
Retaliation against the real parties in interest by the victims, destruction of the business reputation of anyone associated with this behavior and the reluctance of anyone else to implicitly condone it by doing business with them, causing outrage in Congress or the courts thereby spurring them to respond by making changes to the law that destroy the market value of a multi-billion dollar patent investment, ...
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The Galaxy tab 3 10.1 in those charts has Intel Atom Z2560. And transformer book t100 has Atom Z3740.
You are painting a fairy tale outcome, poorly based on reality. Even in Colombia, were there is high-speed internet connections the coordination, willingness and education to make a fruitful use of this resource is scarce. So it's not like "Give them internet and they will figure it out!", it's a lot more complicated than that.
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