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Despite all the hate, they've done it and it looks rock solid. Great job guys!
I assumed it was RDP, but it is PCoIP. ChromeOS does not have that client software right now.
The author of the post also had a Reddit AMA recently, related to Facebook's usage of D: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_o...

Among other things, he wrote the book "The D Programming Language".
There's a such thing as "liberaltarian" you might be interested in investigating, but as I've gotten older, I think an attitude of anti-incumbency, "throw the bums out," is a healthy one that at least provides a benefit of fresh perspectives.
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You should also be able to generate an app-specific password for google music.
https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hl=en&hi...
What's the point of an interview like this honestly? It was just filler.
Thanks! We'll be working on fixing those things :) We've made it so it's easy to increase/decrease the accuracy, but the next thing we plan to do is to make the equations rearrangeable!
Agreed. One of the primary annoyances of HTML5/PhoneGap (as of a year ago or so), was that load times were slow and the UI wasn't as responsive as it should be. It never felt awesome to me.

For me, and maybe it's just me, I can build a much better experience using native code. I also can tweak some very small, but important details that HTML5 doesn't let me tweak.

If someone can create the same experience better, cheaper, and faster using HTML5, more power to them, but I can't, so I go native.

I haven't seen anything in the last year to say that a whole lot has changed. If anything, a lot of major projects have tried HTML5 and have "gone native". I realize there are plenty of projects that might prove the opposite, but when you are just one or two guys cranking out an app on iOS or Android, well you make the best decisions you can and move on.
The crux of the astrophysicist's argument lies in thermodynamics. Given the economic track we're on, the demand for energy will equal the entire output of the sun. Not merely the output of the sun that the earth's surface can capture, but 360 degrees' worth of electromagnetic radiation at 100% conversion efficiency.

I too recently thought that humanity probably overcome whatever problems the universe throws. But I don't see how humanity plans to "transcend" the laws of thermodynamics. The least far fetched idea I can think of is antimatter. But handling a substance that volatile somehow seems to me like a very bad idea.

You seem to be appealing to this notion that "There's so much about the universe we still don't know. What the future looks like is beyond our wildest imaginations."

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

Above is Isaac Asimov's essay The Relativity of Wrong. In a nutshell, an English teacher had expressed disapproval at Asimov's arrogance when he "had expressed a certain gladness at living in a century in which we finally got the basis of the universe straight." To which Asimov responded "[that the teacher] may be imagining that because all theories are wrong, the earth may be thought spherical now, but cubical next century, and a hollow icosahedron the next, and a doughnut shape the one after."

Humanity doesn't know everything. And maybe we never will. But at this point, we're pretty confident that we've gotten down the basics . I.e. Relativity may have replaced Newtonian Physics, but Newtonian Physics wasn't outright invalidated for everyday velocities. By and large, our scientific body of knowledge is logically monotonic. We'll augment our models, we'll refine our models, but it's unlikely we'll ever say, "Newtonian physics is, and always has been dead wrong. We have to start physics from scratch."
In addition to those characteristics, Zulily is on well-trodden ground. There are thousands of niche online retailers angling for the breakout Zulily got, or not - maybe they are OK in their niche.

There doesn't seem to be a simple story why Zulily made it. It may be mostly an execution play. Zappos II? Seen it.
Love tmux

Here is mine - http://dhaiv.at/dotfiles/ I use ` (backtick) as my escape key, that makes jumping between windows just a double tap on `

`+" to list all windows, really handy.

`+| to split vertically

tmux.conf for interested
https://github.com/ceocoder/tmuxrc/blob/master/tmux.conf
Yes I do sort of this, only I use CTRL+Z instead, works sweet:

# C-z as prefix key. C-z C-z will send C-z to application, C-z z cycles last window
set-option -g prefix C-z
unbind C-b
bind-key C-z send-prefix
bind-key z last-window
> People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable;
Are you talking about the bay area? I have never seen such an connection in a private home. (central and southern europe)
Consider making a goal you'd like to accomplish, instead of "travel." For example, "I'd like to climb Mt. $X, dive the Great Barrier Reef, or see a Broadway show in NYC."
I'm not missing the implication, because rooms don't have to be clean simultaneously. Bacteria aren't actually all that mobile - most transmission is from touch contact with surfaces (or patients, who are themselves surfaces). Major disinfection takes place when a room is vacated, and it gets done - there's no reason to suggest that a cleaning staff doesn't scale with hospital size.

What's far more important is the quality of the room disinfection, which again, is a property of the room, not the number of them.

As for dedicated teams, I don't see why such things couldn't exist on a city-wide basis if they were useful.

Because now all you've done is taken the same workload, and said "Now you need to deal with 5 different smaller hospitals, five administration schemes (two of which don't like you), travel time, etc. Smaller hospitals do do this, sharing their burden between them, but a dedicated team has been shown to perform better.

And for specialized high risk disinfection teams, you've now suggested both that rooms need to be cleaned simultaneously, and that having a team across town is A-OK. Pick one, you really can't have both.

The lousy and getting-lousier quality of American healthcare just generally indicates that hospitals don't put profits from economies of scale or whatever else back to real improvements in safety - though they apparent put a lot of money into meals to entice returning patients (fancy meals - visible, real safety - invisible).

This really isn't true at all. Because hospitals aren't reimbursed for hospital-acquired infections, it costs them real money, and there is intense interest in improving patient safety. MRSA rates have been dropping, antibiotic stewardship programs are better, hand-washing rates are much improved, etc.

Fancy meals might be visible, but a bad case of C. difficile will cost a hospital many, many thousands of dollars. They're interested in preventing those types of infections.

I know because I work with them doing exactly that.
I've never used Mongo... but if the author is adding support for this in the Node.js driver, then this CANNOT be real join support.

Because the whole point of a join is that it's on the server, not the client. In other words, if we need to retrieve 10,000 rows from table A joined to B, the join to B will add only a tiny speed penalty, because the data's all right there, ideally in memory.

But if the server has to send all 10,000 rows back to the client, who then has to send a second request back to the server for rows that match any of 10,000 ID's, that's horribly inefficient and not really a join at all!
>ETA: Actually I really think the idea of "work-life boundaries" is a useful framing to have alongside "work-life balance"

When I hear an employer talk about 'work-life balance' I hear "we expect you to be available all the time, but you can take comp-time in a less formal way when we don't need you." I think that is the standard interpretation these days.

"Work-life boundaries" sounds like something different entirely.
Why do HTML classes have to be semantic, and by semantic I mean describing the content encapsulated in the element? I never understood this mantra. It's parroted around and followed religiously, often lacking any arguments. It's not for users. Users aren't going to `view source` and say, "Look at all this rich, semantic goodness!" I could see their utility for search engines and vertical web crawlers, but beyond that, I just don't get it. I'm using OOCSS now and have abandoned strict semantic HTML class names. The huge benefit is that the CSS ruleset is small and maintenance is so easy. When you're using a grid system, for example, you don't have to look at the class name, and then reference that in the CSS (inspector helps, I will admit). You already know what's happening. It's a lot less to learn, and updates are much faster in my experience.
No, it isn't. Unless you mean that governments don't relinquish power unless they're designed to, but that's a big difference. Nor is it true that governments can't due anything well by virtue of being governments. What is true is that governments are complex (and thus difficult to get right) and usually have a high inertia. It's also true that individuals tend not to relinquish power, both out of self-interest and a lack of trust/belief in the other guy.
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> relational merges are done in parallel.

For merges which can be done in parallel I assume? For example:

SELECT * FROM a
JOIN b ON b.id = a.b_id
JOIN c ON c.id = b.c_id
WHERE a.foo = "bar";

How can a client effectively do the joins in parallel?

You cannot query b until you know all b_ids from a (unless you materialize all of b clientside which obviously performs terribly on non-trivial datasets).

Likewise you cannot query c until until you have the set of c_ids from bs (which as stated before are dependent upon the results of a).

An RDBMS can merge JOINs as it goes but to simulate that you'd have to do 1 query against b for every record streamed back from the a query. That also will scale terribly for non-trivial datasets.

As far as I can tell there are no docs for this feature, and the post lacks any technical details.
I think its a theme, and they just met.
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At work I use Windows->Putty->Linux->tmux, at home I use Linux->urxvt->ssh->Linux->tmux and Linux->uxrvt->tmux. When working on a Linux machine directly, I also use a tiling window manager.
A lot of C++ code essentially is 'C with classes': no RAII, no exception handling.
I keep seeing this or similar comments. A reply like this would almost certainly equate for many people to quitting their job on the spot.

I'm puzzled why so many people think everyone has this luxury.

There have been many times in my life where I've had bosses make shitty unfair demands, and while I would have loved to stick it to The Man and thrown off my proletarian chains the reality was I needed the damn job to pay my bills and quitting on the spot was not a sensible option.

These sorts of discussions remind me of times I've hung out with guys who've witness some sort of verbal altercation, with somebody then insisting that if anyone every spoke to them that way they would kick his ass into next week. But we all knew how easy it was to talk like a tough guy when it wasn't your ass on the line.

Yes, if your boss is an asshole then you need to figure out how to get to a better situation. But telling people to take a hike is not everyone's best career move, and having the option to make a bad situation a bit less onerous is a good thing.
I know that the VC and angel investor scene can be a bit harsh, but I never expected to find this kind of advice on Hacker News...
Hence she had the ipad mini, just 308 grams (0.68 pounds)!!
Best piece of tech satire in a long time.
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Reminds me about Opera Unite.
I'm just sort of curious how you folks are working around Javscript's lack of double precision or arbitrary precision for numerical stuff.
I met him pretty recently at Compute Midwest, super nice guy. He gave a passionate talk about the same things. The book is a quick and very interesting read, as a budding entrepreneur (haha ;)) I found it pretty inspiring.
I spent a bit of time trying to figure out why it didn't work for me. Then why I couldn't even do the usual echo -e ... to change my gnome-terminal's title. Turns out I already had a PROMPT_COMMAND set to echo the last command into the title which was overwriting my changes.
Whenever these kinds of useless and idiotic thoughts come to my mind (they often do), I think of the following quote by Steven Weinberg

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

The important part is to understand that this human life is a farce and it does not matter what you do or do not do. So enjoy this farce as long as you can and don't overthink it.
Thanks for the feedback. As relates to sinuses, is the theory that the infection is a product of food-induced inflammatory conditions that don't allow for proper drainage?

Because, some of my experience would suggest that it may be exacerbated by inflammation somewhat, but the primary cause is a persistent reservoir of bacteria. This could be a biofilm or otherwise dormant bacteria as described in the article. Actually, the latter is much more plausible as and, in all the time I have been dealing with this, no physician has ever mentioned that bacteria even have such a dormant state.
So that's why PS4 is using 70-90W idle?
Welcome to corporate America, replaying the worst team structures of the 80s and 90s. Seems the new fad is to have even more layers than before. Essentially, too many to make a good decision but enough to prevent anyone from taking responsibility when it fails.
As another commenter pointed out, you can recompile the .less files, excluding what you don't need. You can also use the web customizer in our hosted docs at getbootstrap.com.
TLDR: try to use Boostrap like Zurb Foundation is designed to be used.
I just found http://nanomsg.org/documentation-zeromq.html. If you haven't seen it, perhaps it can offer some comparisons for you.
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No, these aren't coupons you use somewhere else. Zulily sells the goods and focuses on stuff for kids and mothers. Also, they seem to pick quality stuff, not just anyone trying offload crap like some other flash sites. My wife uses Zulily all the time and really likes it.

Hopefully this IPO will enable them to ship stuff quicker though, that's the only major complaint about Zulily from everyone I know who uses it.
"King at the end of the meeting clarified that he never asked Oracle to bring in additional people – just better ones."

Looks like your Mr King sort of skimmed the book.

(From the UK: land of the millions of pound software failures)

PS: Oracle isn't the government people
Normally it takes getting into a higher tax bracket to force this type of conversion. :-)

The nice thing about conservatives is they don't believe in the power of government to do things right. The bad thing is that this sometimes leads to putting incompetent people in jobs of authority since the expectations are so low. ("You're doing a helluva job Brownie!")

On the flip side, the Democrats historically have wanted to put more competent managers in (not always!) because they believed that government can solve real problems. The reality is there's a limit to central planning, so lots of great intentions go awry.

Hayek [1] covers a lot of the theoretical underpinnings to this. It's worth reading the first two books, though be aware of the historical context. It was a time of competition against what appeared to be an unassailable centrally planned Soviet machine.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/F.-A.-Hayek/e/B000AQ6W60
Here is what we did to prove some demand for https://weighttracker.co. We had a minimum product (weigh in via email) and a simple landing page. We bought ads and AB tested the landing page. We learned we could get free trial signups for a reasonable price and got some ideas about headlines.

After solving some issues with the signup process, retention, etc. we've moved forward with mobile apps and are getting more traction and refining processes there. Progress is slow, but steady towards a working business.

If I were to do it all over again, I'd have a landing page with a sign up form and I wouldn't build the product until there were at least 100 people on the list. With a free trial or sign up form, you can probably AdWords or Facebook ads 100 people on your list for less than $1,000. Probably $100-500 if you don't overbid.

This also proves whether or not you can even remotely acquire users/trials for a reasonable amount of money. If you can't, you are going to have a lot of trouble scaling the business and it might not be a viable venture. $500 to learn that is a lot cheaper than dropping 100+ hours on a MVP.
Hold on there. Realism isn't ideological. One person's realism may be turning to conservatism, another person's realism may be pushing to systematically address failures in government to prevent them in future cases.
I refreshed it at some point and I achieved "Refresh Prince of Bell Air". Nice sense of humour, and ridiculous page header (and I mean that in the most positive way). So impressive. :)
Use the same business plan as everybody else these days – give the product away for free and sell the customer data up the river
How does that email script work? Here it is:

https://github.com/mrtazz/bin/blob/master/imap_check.py

This looks for a file at ~/.netrc

What is the format of that file? Google results can't find this being used for email anywhere.
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He didn't steal any money. He stole a crap load of information and credit card numbers were in there. They've extrapolated to a million dollars by adding all the credit limits together.
Funny, I'm a programmer, mainly because I wanted to cheat at video games...
Yes, the gold rush / pickaxe is a particularly literal analogy right now. It isn't the whole story though.

The problem is, we don't know the future value of BTC. You don't make money by mining BTC, you make money by selling mined BTC and there is essentially no cost to hold mined BTC. So like with all currency trading, it is speculative and a gamble.
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Mine looks like:

machine smtp_server.company.com
login user.name@company.com
password supersecret
In the words of Winston Churchill: "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."
Why is it not possible to write something about 'How is this Daily Deals site succeeding when Groupon is such a huge failure?'
The link is to the homepage, not the article.
I feel you, all my friends "love" traveling too, more like "love talking about traveling" tho.

I always think: "Do you know the implications of traveling? Not sleeping on your own bed? Bugs? Most people get sick for trying odd foods? (which is something I'm always down)"
oh another of those bounties programs... but maybe this one is different from the rest?

If you ever find any security issue don't expect to obtain a bounty from the big corps easily, and not even a "thanks". Once, the co-founder of one of the most important security companies told me "do not expect to receive a bounty without sending a minimum of 10 emails explaining the same thing in 10 different ways... average 20". It's a sad truth, and I think this means that usually legit critical security issues reports will not be properly rewarded because most people get tired quickly.

One year ago I discovered a session hijacking vulnerability on Facebook, the guy who respond my messages didn't even know what secure flag is. After asking me how to solve the bug (the solution was actually pretty simple) they never replied to me again.

With Google was the same thing: last year I found leakage of sensitive user information because of bad cookies configuration, 0 bounties 0 thanks.

Another bad experience I had with Google, but maybe a bit of topic (sorry): almost two years ago the gmail's cert changed for apparent no reason using a new CA, and it seemed that nobody else was having this issue (ie no mentions of this new cert on the web, googling the fingerprint returned 0 results) except me. I accepted this new cert on my laptop in my home; but then the "funniest" thing happened: when I connected to gmail from my university the previous cert appeared again, "it's ok.. nothing strange is happening here", but then when I went back to my home the new cert showed up again! my paranoid level went to over 9000 and immediately I connected through Tor to gmail (yup, the old nice cert was there again) and sent an encrypted mail to google's security team explaining everything, with the fingerprints and certs info, _including_ at the end of my message my pgp pubkey.
One week and a half latter.. I received an email from the "security team": they replied my message in plain text, my message was quoted unencrypted (!) and they asked me how I discovered this, I told them that my browser checks for every new cert. I also told them if it would be possible to not quote in plain text encrypted mails. Then, after two days I got a new email from them, again plain taxt, and it was pretty minimalistic "We checked out and the new certificate is ok" EOF no digital signature no nothing, wtf!
oh well... at least on the next day I connected to gmail in my home and the old good cert was there again :) (and the strange new cert never appeared again). A late Halloween story.
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I'm talking about being able to call into Go code comprising a shared library via some sort of C calling convention. What you're referring to is something almost any modern language can do, which is call a C library via some sort of library loading mechanism (ctypes, FFI, etc.).

You can see a recent proposal for shared library support in Go and some reactions here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/zmjXkGrE...

So unless what you're talking about has happened in the past few months, I'm not aware of true shared library support in Go.

Practically speaking, shared library support is absolutely necessary if you're looking to use a low-level language as a means of speeding up a dynamic language. Or least highly-desirable (you can use IPC, but you lose a lot of speed, which is often the reason why you're using the lower-level language in the first place).
Government only keeps as much power as its citizens allow it to.
I'm saying that the web has UX benefits as well. The implication of the parent's post was that if you value UX native is the only choice.
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