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Restrictive mindset?

Ha! I'm the one sharing the fact that I've creatively come up with ways to use a Chromebook that work great for me, and other people are saying that their world view will not change, and they won't even try.

I think you're pointing that stick in the wrong direction.
I've found one of the best ways to do the "stubmleupon" concept is to follow dozens of devs who star interesting repos (sometimes solely for that reason) and check your news stream often. I follow devs from a wide variety of backgrounds, which yields numerous libraries that I might not otherwise be aware of (and sometimes months ahead of HN exposure). One of the best things I've done with my GitHub account.

A solid example is: https://github.com/fogus
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By your response I think you inferred I had some follow up commentary prepared that I didn't (and don't) have. I really just want to know: What do you think would be reasonable compensation for the week of vacation spent?
> Two things, do you really think that most most people will think a fixubuntu site is a official ubuntu site?

Most? Probably not. But I think the potential is there for many to do so.

> The second thing, did you read my link about fair use? I think this pretty much falls into it.

Yes, but as you have not explained why you think it applies here, I don't know what you expect me to get from that link. I have already explained why this use does not seem clearly nominative to me†, and he certainly wasn't using the term "ubuntu" in a generic sense.

† For starters, using the Ubuntu logo as the site's logo seems extremely superfluous. Do you believe visitors to the site will now have trouble telling what Ubuntu is since the logo has been removed?
Crazy things you can plug into your iPhone's audio jack
Thanks for your efforts!

I run ifconfig and don't see any IP having been assigned--and we don't seem to have dhclient installed

I was going to host a webpage using netcat:

http://www.howtoforge.com/useful-uses-of-netcat
We deliver these emails in the user's time zone so you'll receive it at 9am local time and have something fresh to start the day with.
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang
I don't know. It isn't a breach of my employment contract so I would not be a very good source on this matter. You could contact them directly and see how they resolve it (or if they even can).
Ian Lance Taylor (GCC Go maintainer) replies with a bunch of reasons why that wouldn't make sense[1]. Even as a golang fan, I have to agree with him that maybe it's not yet time for Go to be a default language.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-11/msg00155.html
USPS doesn't even have a package tracking system. It's a delivery confirmation. The fact that they sometimes update the information when it passes a post office is completely optional, that's not the point. The only requirement is that it gets updated when the package is delivered and the postman is back to the office.
True Server Cost Comparison
Overview is in iOS7 and is exactly what the GP wants. Click the screen anywhere, then press Overview.
You have a valid point; although in the US you will have advocacy groups that can field convincing legal arguments if you are being tortured, prosecuted for espionage for whistle blowing, etc. But yes, in the US the mask is slipping more and more. I mean it's nice that when bad things go down we can point to the bill of rights and scream about it's being violated; even if it is cold comfort to the victims of official malfeasance.

But hey at least we aren't a 1000-year old theocracy with no bill of rights whatsoever. And our guarantees of freedom of the press, means that those who want to know about stories that Very Serious People don't want heard will hear about them; even if they don't break out into open discussion until long after the fact.

As to where is a good place to do business...?

It depends on what your business is.
Does not work in Safari on Mavericks using a rMBP @1680x1050 retina resolution. It suggests browser zooming be set to 100% which it is.
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Not only the benefit, but the responsibility. By mandating a certain "way" and ending the discussion, they essentially nip "the narcissism of small differences" in the bud. As the leader, this is one of the useful things only they can do.
Remote assistance requires no configuration. It doesn't do two factor authentication though. I have PuTTY which is pretty good at remotely controlling my OpenBSD machines. I don't use OSX.

That is correct. Nothing at all happened.
I tried the standalone Google Maps app on my iPhone after upgrading to iOS 6. I deleted it a few months later after it repeatedly gave me some BS error about the service not being available. This was on 3G and wifi. Googling for that error, I found people saying it would go away if I logged back into my Google account in the Google Maps app. No thank you, I don't want to have it periodically log me out and force me to log back in, which requires opening 1Password and typing my long-ass master password on my phone keyboard. That error kept it from showing any maps or directions. I opted to have sometimes-incorrect map data from Apple Maps rather than no map data at all from Google Maps.
They are very different.

Glacier takes hours just to get the listing of files, or start the file download.

Their pricing is very different. Crashplan charges per computer. Glacier charges per GB of storage and per GB of transfer out.
Managers have a bias to like and want to keep "their" employees, because they know them, because they are friends with them.

Even if Steve is objectively a poor performer, you know him; you met his wife; you saw pictures of his kids. He's a nice guy.

If you fire him, you either don't get a replacement (bad) or you have to interview 20 people to find a replacement (also bad). It's hard to hire - what if you choose poorly the first time and have to do it yet again? Easier to keep Steve.

Corporate problem: figure out a way to get rid of some of the Steves without making life too difficult for everyone else. Go!
Now that's an efficient use of CPUs!
thanks for the great references

i really needed some good resources on doing analytics in mongodb
Once again, that's very much like saying "the vast majority of work environments aren't designed for Email, which means that Email isn't suitable for the vast majority of work environments."

It's flawed logic. Work environments changed, and Email became nearly ubiquitous. In my experience, moving to browser-based workflows has really improved my workplace, and my ability to get things done, well, quickly, with my team mates.
That's some facepalm right here. That said, I do appreciate the reaction of the developer, taking responsibility for his mistake, starting remedial actions right away and discussing preventive measures for the future.
Well, there's still the atmosphere between us.
Switch to Bitbucket. It is easy to selectively disable history rewriting and branch deletion on a per branch basis. I've been told that Github can also do this, but you have to email them.
Depends. tarsnap restore times should be constant regardless of which backup you pick, since it's just downloading the relevant blocks. duplicity does full backup + diffs, so if your data changes quite a bit you can end up downloading a lot of data that doesn't land on disk. (i believe that's right, not verified.)
All that means is that they are hiring more than they are firing.
If I understand couch correctly, it will run all map/reduce functions on a DB after insertion, thus updating all views right away - except if a view has never been queried, in which case it would happen at the first query. I don't quite understand how mongo could do a better job there - do you mean because mongo's indices are less complex than couch views, so the updates after insertion are quicker? I guess if that's the case it would perform better in insertion heavy cases, but then again I could just not use many map/reduce operations in couch and thus reduce the insertion overhead.
software-as-spec is out of vogue now? I may have misunderstood, but I thought software-as-spec is the same thing as test-driven-development, which I could have sworn is still lauded.
In fact, with Amazon it seems they are not, that's probably what Molly Graham meant when she wrote:

> Facebook has seven performance assessments as well as a guideline for what % of employees should be at each level, however it is explicitly not a forced curve, particularly for small teams.

I think the author completely missed the point of the original criticism they were responding to -- the criticism was very specifically about the specifically required distributions in each category, within each team.

The author of OP, on the other hand, seems to just be making the case that there are reasons to rate some people high and others low, and all the tech giants do it! That's the proverbial straw man.
Standard Big 4 Consulting implementation. It provides value for a few years until employee realize that it's a lot easier to:

1. Get a job elsewhere
2. Hide in mediocrity because the effort to achieve a high ranking is greater than the reward by a lot.

In my personal experience with force ranking systems, is that it also drives politics within the organization. As an example:

I once was skipped a promotion because when we went to demo a unit the shipping department did a poor job packing the prototype equipment that I had just spent an entire summer building. Due to the packing job, a single RS-232 pin because slightly unseated causing intermittent behaviors for one of many features. It was still the most successful demo the company had ever given. So success we received a request for pricing the Military 24 hours later, which is unheard of. Despite this the Chief Engineer blasted me for the failure, and our inability to find the issue on site (mind you he was there too). When I brought this up at my review I was indirectly told by my boss that he didn't agree with my rating/rank but it was over his head. After that, I practiced both Items 1 & 2 but discovered that my new company also followed this practice. So it was a rinse and repeat to make sure force ranking is not within my new companies.
It seems illogical to discuss possible benefits of real malware.

I work as a malware and enterprise security analyst, and I can certainly see no current or future benefits to malware. I think the "cons" of them harvesting your email, banking, and social networking credentials, abusing your system resources to spam and DoS, and siphoning important information from your hard drive to a remote server certainly outweigh any incidental benefits that may occur.
This should be enforced at the switch level.
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Ask HN: Is a Bitcoin 2 feasible?
I'm curious, how feasible would it be to create a second currency almost exactly like Bitcoin (say Bitcoin 2) with the only difference being that its a new market (aka the barrier to entry for mining isn't so high)?

I haven't really been following bitcoin that much so forgive me if the answer is obvious. It seems that if Bitcoin can be successful (at least to the degree people are trading large amounts of money with it) then there should be copycat currencies popping up based on the same principles.
Even more so now that Android and OSX indicate at the application level what is impacting system battery.
I'm pretty ignorant of MongoDB so I'm genuinely interested in your response: How would you solve the problem in the epilogue, namely "a chronological listing of all of the episodes of all the different shows that actor had ever been in"?

Did Sarah model the data poorly ("We stored each show as a document in MongoDB containing all of its nested information, including cast members").

Or is there an easy way to extract that information that Sarah just doesn't know about yet?

Keep in mind the constraints in the article, for example: some shows have 20,000+ episodes, actors show up in 100s of shows, and "We had no way to tell, aside from comparing the names, whether they were the same person".

The last part seems like a really straightforward relational critique to me. If you don't break the actors out into unique entities then you can't compare them across shows. But if you do break them out into unique entities, then how to you present the show information without doing joins?
Docker Builder for Packer
Why wouldn't a tablet be suitable for this usecase?
You could try interacting with these visitors with a live chat tool. Real users will either minimize / close the window or interact with you. Bots will likely do neither.
Honestly? The mailing list makes it sound like GCC is so convoluted it requires an entire front-end implementation as a test suit.

I'm not saying it's true or anything. Just calling it like I see it...
this is why on Galactica all of their computer systems were completely disconnected from each other.
Multiple monitors. Windows 7. Just got a black screen in both IE9 and Chrome Canary.
The keyboard CMD+LEFT combo in WYSIWYG editors is a bug in the editor and the developers should be notified

I do not see any difference between google chrome and firefox when it comes to toolbars in fullscreen mode. The bars can be hidden from from View -> Toolbars / right click in the toolbar and choose which bars that should be visible
Many open-source news sites suffer from the same flaw. It's lazy to call something like this 'exploration' when you're re-hashing the same projects over and over.

Edit: sorry if I sound harsh on it. I think it's very necessary! But there needs to be more thought on how to find new and interesting projects.
Speaking of bitbucket, the Mercurial devs are working on a completely safe way to edit public commits that doesn't require something like force-push:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution

The lead dev for that project just got hired by Facebook (actually, almost all of the core hg team is getting hired by FB), and the feature itself is like 85% complete.

Soon we will have a safe way to collaboratively edit history!
There's no harm in that. :)
And by the way, no one ever won any prizes for pointing out that an analogy was flawed, if you took it too far.

I can have eight computers, and be working on the same document on all of them. Web-based document creation, for my workflows, is vastly superior to the old school way of doing things. And Google Docs is the best instance of it, for me, so far.

You'll try to destroy the analogy again, so I shouldn't bother, but once upon a time, you BOOTED your computer to a game disk. And people like you opined that people would never run their games from inside Windows, because the performance was BY DEFINITION worse, and why would you want to, anyway?

The cruft of a Chromebook is poorly designed web pages. And unlike other systems, which build their cruft in, Google has been keeping Chrome relatively clean - it's the minimum browser you need. The magic is they didn't build anything in.
You can definitely merge in Google Spreadsheets, is this a ChromeOS-specific limitation you're referencing? There are, of course, plenty of other limitations of the Drive suite.
VxWorks is pretty popular with space agencies (NASA uses it, as well as SpaceX. Curiosity and Dragon both run VxWorks RTOS). It has a 64-bit mode for Intel processors, runs on HRFS, DOSFS, and NFS, has IPv6 built in, and is POSIX compliant.

While direct attacks are a real threat, I don't see anywhere saying this was a direct attack. Not using an off-the-shelf OS could have mitigated the attack if it wasn't a direct attack.
How long till the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad ? :)
You're totally right! I'm working on it. Need to make the purchase page flow well with the site design.
No. The screens are fine. Your expectation is exceedingly high.

It doesn't make much of a difference at 2 feet away.

This is marketing carry over from high PPI displays on mobile devices where it does make a difference.
Aren't we well past the point where bitcoin mining on general purpose hardware costs more in energy usage than you earn by mining? I don't think that a model that has you earning less for viewing your site than the power company is going to be viable.
See where I said "as long as you understand what you are getting yourself into"
> When these companies started up, Java was the latest tool that gave tremendous productivity benefits over C++. Newer tools have arrived, now and Java is in the same place as C++ was.

Which languages/tools give tremendous productivity benefits over a modern Java stack? Serious question. I have done a lot of work in a lot of different environments and IMO for the big and maintainable things it's hard to top the Java ecosystem.

(edit: I do agree with you - it is ridiculous to rewrite enormous legacy systems. But I don't think there's a clear-cut order-of-magnitude-better replacement for Java yet)
But then... why doesn't Amazon always donate? Free PR it seems.
Everyone needs at least one frowning picture of themselves to post along with an apology. Props to Luca for the no-nonsense apology.
What efforts are you doing in the medical community to get them using your service?
The funny thing is, is that when you use Siri, Apple Maps seems to be more accurate. I can say, "Directions from home to 123 Main Street, Hometown" and the directions will be perfect.

If I type that same query out, I get "Directions Not Found." I don't get it.
Yes, but there were several waiting in the wings. In the early '90s lots of people were expecting a GCed language - Smalltalk or Dylan or Self or CL or ML or ... - to make the breakthrough and become a mainstream application-programming language. Many of them (including Bill Joy) were pretty unhappy when it turned out to be Java that made it big.
I wish GOG.com would set up some US-based banking.

I've stopped buying things from them, even though I want to, because my bank freaks out every time, due to "the high levels of credit card fraud originating from Cyprus".
I can remote into my home desktop right now. I believe with Remote Assistance, someone has to set it up on both ends, correct?

I wouldn't be surprised if your workplace is blocking Cloud Printing. That's a bummer.
Anything that isn't a ChromeBook that you can install either windows or Linux on be it new or second hand.

I'd suggest a second hand ThinkPad T series as that can definitely be stood on.
Ask HN: MacBook Air alternative for running GNU/Linux
Is there a lightweight laptop like MBA that is suitable for running GNU/Linux and gives 12+ hours battery with 11/13 inch display?
Thanks for the report; I see the problem. I'll look into fixing it, but in the meantime you can get it running by enabling WebGL in Safari (under the Develop menu, and if you don't have a Develop menu you can enable it in Preferences->Advanced).

Spoiler: Safari actually gets a very good score (relative to other browsers).
So two questions:

1) Do you think that the few times McD's was caught with underage or otherwise illegal workers represents all the times that underage and or otherwise illegal workers are used (that enforcement of the law is 100% effective)? My obvious assertion is that it probably wouldn't be reported in the news if it wasn't caught and that enforcement of labor laws is less than 100% effective.

2) Do you think we should have a legal framework that allows for underage sex workers? Because we already have one that doesn't allow for such an occupation by minors yet it's still a shockingly common part of human sex slave trafficking. It also caters to a type of client who wouldn't necessarily be affected by a prostitution legalization regime.
There are plenty of copy cat crypto currencies (+4 alliteration) already. But the question is, what value would a new currency provide over BTC? Mining difficulty is a feature of BTC in order to prevent all the coins from being mined before there is sufficient demand. IMO the market only needs one crypto currency and BTC is already the winner.
Lack of marketing I guess, not many users, and may be because people panic when they cannot immediately find the thing they are familiar with, for example OO hierarchies, dynamic types.
Plus I found it hard to understand till I got a rudimentary understanding of OCaML, and Haskell's typeclasses. So its not ready to be used by everyone.

To do something nontrivial with it you would need to be on the mailing list though.

@dllthomas as far as I know OCaML doesnt, by no standards am I an OCaML user, although want to get better.
My wife worked at a company that did stack ranking and that is exactly the way it worked out for her 5 person team. You also need an unusually persuasive manager to get more than one high rank.
Visualization of Senate Voting Relationships in the 113th Congress
Can Google Glass overlay its overlay over more than the small rectangly in the upper right corner? I thought not, but they seem to imply that it does (the overlay for the operating surgeon is provided by Google Glass).

I'm also slightly surprised that there are no focus problems: the Glass display is made so that it appears to be significantly further away than 40-50cm that you have between the surgeon and the operating field.
I did read (and comment a bit) on the 'Real World Ocaml' beta book, but I've already known and used the language for quite some time before, so I can't really judge which book would be better for a beginner. Take this with a grain of salt:

"OCaml from the very beginning" seems to focus more on teaching the language itself. If you've never used OCaml before then this might be the place to start.

"Real World OCaml" in addition to teaching the basics of the language has some intermediate-level chapters (dealing with json, S-expressions, asynchronous events, parsing), and some advanced-level chapters (GC, compiler frontend/backend). I definitely recommend reading it at some point.
We're debating the capabilities of a Chromebook. Using purely web APIs, I can upload a video to YouTube. Any other web page could use the same APIs, and then you're not in a walled garden.
There are more than a few already.

http://coinmarketcap.com/

New ones pop up every few days.

https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/40-new-cryptocoins/
Node Knockout 2013 Submission - #BrokenTele
Team Cheesebreeger's 2013 Node Knockout entry, play broken telephone over WebRTC using submitted tweets. Let us know what you think!

http://cheesebreeger.2013.nodeknockout.com/
Introducing DynoSrc- apply JavaScript patch files in browser
There is a website [1] with more informations and talks about "jank".

[1] - http://jankfree.org/
And ditto the reaction of the community. No aggressive denunciations or vindictive chat - just calm and helpful trouble shooting. +1 for the culture they have created.
There's an evil way to do stack ranking and a not evil way to do stack ranking. Obviously, Microsoft does it the evil way because Microsoft.
There are several other 'coins' other that do things very similarly to bitcoins but aren't necessarily the same. None of them, however, experience the same monetary value as bitcoins do. Here is a list of some of those other cryptocurrencies:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0