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> One is punished for success via taxes, fees, fines, etc. by the "have nots"

Care to explain that more, the tax system certainly does not punish the haves; it in fact rewards them. By the very nature of the marginal utility of money, the current tax rates hurt the have nots far more than the haves. The burden is quite simply not equally shared by all, it is born mostly by the have nots.
Exactly - if they support and test LXC now, and the market demands Docker a year into the lifecycle (RH generally don't add features between major releases, so it'd have to be worth it for them), it's still doable as it's a userspace addition.
Oh, cops certainly do have the right to tow your vehicle and take you to the next police office, where you spend maybe 2-3 hours of processing. I can tell you, it's a boatload of bureaucracy and they won't let you out until it's all done.
Quotes of any person's speech aren't normally written in quasi-phonetic slant-accent jibberish.
Ah. If as you suggest he was offering hyperbole from the other pole as a thought exercise and not expressing his preferred translation, then that was lost on me and I apologize.

That said, I still think the comment fails. "haves and have nots" is only arguably hyperbolic because it's cliche, but ignoring cliche connotations it's just plain dryly accurate because the discussion is effectively about a resource: Money.

paul_f's proposed hyperbole makes a jump from "has money" to "has a work ethic", which is what I find wildly invalid and offensive. Even ignoring opportunity and circumstance for a moment (which I put aside so that I can avoid getting into a Randian snowball fight), it still ignores the existence of two people with equal opportunity and circumstance, but unequal tendency/desire to optimize for income.
A good friend of mine in the music biz had this to say, in response to my questions:

"They absolutely don't pay every artist the same amount. Besides the fact that per-stream rates are almost meaningless because they vary month-to-month as Spotify's own revenues fluctuate, I would be willing to believe major labels get a higher payout as a result of their equity positions. And with that, it isn't too preposterous that Atlantic (via parent WMG) would have brought Led Zeppelin exclusively to Spotify on special terms such as a minimum per-stream rate, some free extended term advertising to artificially boost data figures, or something entirely more enticing. And even if Spotify is, in fact, paying out an equal rate for Led Zeppelin streams, it may be that Atlantic received a nice advance--or even a debt-free bonus--as an incentive."
The word you're looking for is metonym.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metonyms
How far away do you think is the release?
Yep. Or BSD jails before that.
"Hard to believe that these talks are conducted in secret behind closed door"

"Hard to believe"? Maybe you should start believing "conspiracy theories" a bit more.
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here is my manifesto: react to everything and you're slave. create reactions and you're ruler. balance action and reaction and you're a master.
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Actually, providing basic income will eventually mean a large number of people simply choosing to not work at all. That may be a good thing or bad thing, I don't know for certain and I believe it's one of those things that might be good for one area but bad for another.

My natural inclination is that such a system will create a huge incentive for a percentage of people to willingly choose to be unemployed for most of their lives. If the amount isn't enough as a "living wage" amount then people will either adjust to make it work for them or they will clamor for the powers that be to increase the amount given to make it "livable". I'm sure it would soon become a "right" of some sort.

I'm not saying that such a system would inherently be a bad thing, but it has to be designed with that outcome being considered and the consequences it implies.

If by countering the centralization of wealth you mean take from Paul to give to Peter, then you're just trading one problem for another.
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I paid for an annual subscription to their web design classes and thought they were horrible - I've subsequently found free resources that are much superior, like Codecademy.

Maybe some good managers could have helped by taking the unpopular stand of "guys, this sucks, we need to do better."
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I agree with most of that. I was actually planning to write a much longer post but ran out of time. Perhaps I'll elaborate with another post next week.

Thanks for embellishing some of my points :)
haha, yeah that was my thought exactly :)
Yeah, I have been doing some research for an upcoming screencast, and this type of idea is called Operating system-level virtualization [1], and there is a fairly good table with the various OS's and their take on OS-level virtualization. E.g. Solaris Containers, FreeBSD Jail, OpenVZ, HP-UX Containers, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtuali...
unique_ptr is not a replacement for Java's GC. It simply doesn't do the same. shared_ptr is much closer, but at the cost of reference counting, which, if you start using it excessively, is much higher than cost of Java GC.

I agree that if your memory management is dead simple and you are fine with using only unique_ptr everywhere, C++ solution is superior. You obviously don't need GC, so why pay for it. Probably C would do just as fine, assuming you have some static analysis tool to find all the forgotten free calls.

However, there are some domains where GC enables completely different ways of programming. E.g. lockless concurrency / immutable structures / functional programming etc. Poor shared_ptr performance and scalability is prohibitive in those areas.
" How can voters influence outcomes when regardless of the principles and/or promises of who gets elected they end up getting the same policies?"

They can't. The whole thing is a lie, a farce, a theatre. We don't live in a democracy.
"80 percent of those taking the university’s MOOCs had already earned a degree "

Why is this being taken as evidence of failure?!

MOOC provides self-service re-training, self service continuing education, ability to investigate subjects outside your original sphere of study for the love of learning.

X fails to replace college, for which many decent substitutes exist, thus is a failure.

Vs x unlocks pent-up demand for post college education, for which few good substitutes currently exist, thus is a resounding success.

Sadly, the thing most evident in these articles is a lack of critical thinking and analysis of competing hypotheses: things that are supposed to be taught in college.
New to me :)

What I recall from a while ago is finding systems with just openjdk and having to install the 'official' version manually. That could have been Fedora though.
> The Btrfs file system is now supported.

Nice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Features
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Sounds like Stockholm syndrome for technologically lacking times :P

If you appreciate music at all, you will appreciate it whether you can get it instantly or wait weeks for it, the latter being an inconvenience, though one filled with anticipation, stress, and excitement.

Spotify is the best thing to happen to music since forever!
Good article--major problem for dev environments!
That actually makes sense. There are chemicals that look like water when in a bottle that can be used to make explosives. (Not easy, but remotely possible). They do not freeze like water.
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Without a closer inspection, I'd say it's perfectly plausible that the gun pictured in the article would be capable of discharging a projectile. Perhaps it's quite obvious when you look at it up close from several angles, but that was the TSA employee's point... it if was being used to threaten someone, they wouldn't necessarily be able to take the time to examine it...

As an example, here's a gun that's very similar in size to the prop, that is quite capable of killing you (and four of your friends):

http://www.impactguns.com/data/default/images/catalog/535/na...
I went to go add a Homebrew formula for the name 'when', but it seems to be taken by this command-line calendar app: http://www.lightandmatter.com/when/when.html
Yes...so why are pilots "gate raped" (their term), while TSA agents and other menial employees are allowed to sail through security?
The argument is not that surveillance is evil or causes totalitarianism, the argument is that given a legal system wherein anything one does can be interpreted as a crime and a panopticon, the laws will be selectively applied to individuals who have personal conflicts with government agents or ideological conflicts with the government itself; the extreme version of this being some future totalitarian government that has ideological conflicts with nearly all citizens.

It's a matter of the additional power granted to the government... in exchange for what? An insignificant decrease in the likelihood that I am killed by terrorists?
lol yes....... how reasonable. ahah when i saw the title of the article all i could think was "click comments to tune in for the most amusing flamewar this week" but so many of these comments are like "so... its 23 characters.... why not?!"

comeon peopleeeee, a bit of an arbitrary internal standard, no?

i understand the point about "CONCLUSION: it doesn't matter for a few strings!" but.... comeonnnn it must matter on some level, otherwise why is Rails such a pain in the ass to optimize? these things must add up...
What is the difference between this and 'while true; do cmd1 && cmd2; sleep 1; done'
Write once, run anywhere kind of thing.

Accessing native functionality is actually not easy. I'm sure they will be addressing this at some point.
Yes. They are not getting jobs. They can't get jobs because there are few jobs and those jobs aren't going to the long term unemployed.

But, to get UI you MUST be looking for a job.

So, they are fruitlessly searching for jobs they know they won't get solely to get the cheque. They will stop wasting their time once there is no cheque.
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Thank you, that's pretty much perfect :)
This kind of 'well if it doesn't explicitly mention race it can't possibly be stereotypical' belief is nonsense. If I go 'oh me so solly!' everybody is going to know I'm stereotyping Asians (specifically, Chinese/Japanese) people.
If you want to retain staff, you can't reduce their pay. So, if retention is a priority, you are stuck with those salaries.

The question becomes what you pay new hires. On one hand, the prevailing salary is much lower, and the company can save money. However, people talk and new employees will eventually discover the pay disparity which will kill morale.
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Man, I never wanted to swear more than right now. You're a truly awful person.
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My favorite part of Spotify is the "Related Artists" link. I can click on it and see that Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Pink Floyd, and Queens of the Stone Age are somehow related to Led Zeppelin. This starts me on a very cool journey to discover music I might not have heard.

It is like Wikipedia - click on an artist, then a related artist, then an artist related to that ... Great for road trips and long coding sessions. I can get a sampling of a little bit of music history without having to go to a record store and search through bins of records. Don't get me wrong - the record store was great, but this is better.
From what I've read those areas are like boom towns of old, they are having an influx of people moving there for jobs. Often to the detriment to local communities, according to locals.

But picking up and moving is not an easy thing, especially with family. Speaking from experience by moving my family to three different states spread across the lower half of the US because of work, moving can be a difficult and expensive thing to do. Most of our current debt is due to moving.
You may be a paragon of merit, but some of us have merely been fortunate in our gifts and circumstances and long-tail events.
Historically, North Dakota hasn't been a fun place to live, and it has lost population to other states during most of my lifetime. The oil boom is a new phenomenon there, and the "cities" near the oil fields have few fun places at which to spend the money earned by the oilfield workers. This may change over time if the oil production and natural gas production is sustained, and infrastructure development continues there. So an early comment of mine for more details.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072755

P.S. The cities in Minnesota mentioned in the article that was submitted to open the thread are not particularly close to North Dakota and are not tied to the petroleum economy. They are college towns and rather pleasant to live in.
> ensure there is an alignment b/w the organization's high level strategies and the individual contributions being made

In my experience, that's something that managers say to justify their existence that has no real contribution to the work being done ;) It's all euphemisms for command-and-control, which isn't generally necessary.
"That 70% is split amongst the rights holders in accordance with the popularity of their music on the service. The label or publisher then divides these royalties and accounts to each artist depending on their individual deals."

So maybe Spotify is dealing with the labels/publishers (Atlantic has Zepp) to cut this special deal and perhaps allow them a bigger rev share?
yes, but ATM there is lack of documentation:

http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2013-Decemb...
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I don't understand how what you just wrote relates to your key quote: "rdrand in ivbridge not implemented by Intel."
Yep, I've seen that quite a bit. For example, one guy walked into Barnes and Noble, asked for a job application, they said they weren't hiring, he said it's OK, he just needs it to get his UI check.
> I read this as "A two inch gun was taken because the TSA agent followed procedure over common sense and logic".

This defense fell apart the moment the TSA agent said "If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not." In other words, she graduated from blindly following protocol to being an idiot.
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I disagree with your points:

| It's not trying to target power users. They would learn VBA.

Most of our users know VBA and prefer not to use it. (Programmers who've ever tried VBA are familiar with its downsides; I won't go into them here.) Python is a significantly more productive language than VBA; our clients can typically write programs 10x faster in Python than in VBA. More importantly, a large class of programs that are trivial to write in Python using open-source libraries would take months or years of development time in VBA.

| It's not trying to target data processing. People who care enough would use a library like xlrd/xlwt.

xlrd/xlwt are very good for a subset of what DataNitro does: specifically, static processing (input and output) of Excel files. They don't support more complicated use cases (for example, building an interface to an external data source for non-technical end users, or a spreadsheet that runs analyses based on user input).

| It's not trying to go after big industries like finance.

We have a number of users in finance.

| It's easy to interop outside of excel and from within VBA

I wouldn't say it's easy, especially for people who haven't done it before. It'll certainly take more than two hours to figure out, at which point the license has already paid for itself.

| most hedge funds and banks have their own solutions already.

This is true, but internal solutions are frequently less flexible and harder to use than DataNitro; at the least, this makes them unsuitable for work done by non-developers (e.g. quants). It commonly saves developers time as well.

| This is specifically targeted to the casual people who want to do some in-Excel scripting but don't want to learn VBA.

Given the option, most people prefer to use Python over VBA; this is true even if (in fact, especially if) they know both languages.

| In that light, the product seems way over-priced (and probably should be in the $5-10 range) and unlikely to ever be used in a production setting.

DataNitro is used both in production and as a prototyping system by a number of firms.
I really want to like Intellij since it is so much more responsive then Eclipse, but I can't for the life of me get a working scala set up in IDEA or in the community version. Eclipse might still be a bit of a sloutch, but it works.
Agreed that Active does not equal succeeded, I was just seeing that in the list, there are companies that have already failed/closed without being listed and should not be counted at all.

While the success = 90% rate isn't on that page, they've said it in presentations and it has certainly been reported / misreported in the press.
"They will stop wasting their time once there is no cheque."

Will they really? Would you take your family out into the streets?

I suspect they'll double down on their efforts and possibly take a job that they suspect was "below them".

For the rest, it's off to the welfare line.
I think that banning of antibiotic use in livestock generally focuses on the preemptive addition of antibiotics in feed. Antibiotic additives are associated with increased weight gain for the animals, as well as letting feed lots put more animals in denser quarters while keeping disease rates down. These direct economic drivers are why industry has fought the regulations for so long - despite the long-term detrimental societal health costs. It's pretty much a classic case of an economic externality needing regulation.

Edit: here's a reference link
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-...
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What's the difference between this and the bash '&&' operator? Except for the timebomb flag, I don't really see any difference. Please correct me if I got this wrong.

The '&&' operator, as in which ruby && echo 'found it!', triggers the second command, if the exit code of the first one is 0.

Also good to note, the '||' operator triggers the second command only if the exit code of the first one is different than 0. As in which ruby123456 || echo 'could not find it!'.

EDIT: typo.
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Hip angle is not the issue, or at least, it's a secondary concern. The main concern is spinal flexion. You want to be sitting with a neutral spine, regardless of hip angle. You'll start to get issues like bulging discs and strained muscles if your lumbar spine is in flexion for long periods of time.

Problem is, most sedentary people, especially men, do not know and cannot feel the difference between hip flexion and lumbar spinal flexion. When you ask them to touch their toes, they keep their hips mostly extended and flex their spine instead. Very bad.

Strength training (particularly powerlifts like weighted squats and deadlifts with proper form, as well as assistance movements like back extensions and good-mornings) can help strengthen the muscles of the lower back, making it much easier to keep your lumbar spine neutral while sitting.
I'd hazard:

- Lack of motivation/initiative. It seems far away, it seems risky, etc.

- Afraid of the cold
So, do you say that physical laws in this space, may not hold in another space? That there is one or more variables, which control at which set-point our physical laws (the instruction tape) are begining and ending?
And if you're considering Paxos, PaxosLease[0] is a nice, fast variation that's much less complex to actually implement in a production setting, and doesn't require co-ordinated clocks (clocks only need be consistent—monotonic—locally).

It's amazing how far you can get with a reliable leader election protocol in a distributed system. We're getting to the point where all of the other stuff is just picking specific algorithms with specific tradeoffs, much like you do today in a non-distributed setting.

[0] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.4187.pdf
> How long can people use the excuse "I can't afford to move", when you can't afford not to?

For this post, I will be a hypothetical long-term unemployed person.

Moving to even a low-cost area is going to be at least $1000 for deposit on an apartment and utilities, plus the first month of rent. I'll also need groceries and transportation or gas.

Keep in mind that my credit, assuming I even have any, is maxed out because I have already been using it to supplement my living expenses and job hunt for the past few years.

I can't afford to move, and that is not a fucking excuse.
>> But Nutt fundamentally failed to understand that a glass of wine with dinner or a pint after work - how most people actually drink most of the time - ARE inherently safer than pills.

That depends what's in the pill, and how often there's a glass of wine, and if it's only ever one pint. Which I doubt.

Binge drinking is a very popular passtime here in the UK and is very dangerous.

Do you not think that when Prof Nutt makes these sorts of calculations they take this stuff into account? Or do you think he just pulls it all out of his arse?
If it turns out that the universe that we observe is just a projection from a lower dimensional space then this could radically alter the way in which we interact with that universe.

Things that seem to be coherent in our space (the things we observe - electrons, people, solar systems) may not look at all coherent in the source.

Similarly, coherent structures in the source may not be at all coherent in our space.

It might be that, by fiddling around with this theory, we could work out the mapping from the source to our space. If we could do this we could conceivably interact with this space in completely unimaginable ways.

Imagine superconducting levitation as perceived by someone from the stone age and then go up another few levels...

n.b. by 'our space' I mean the higher dimensional universe, the hologram. By 'the source' I mean the lower dimensional space that the hologram is projected from.
The refrigerator seems like the only real substantial load. I looked that up, and while it'll draw over 1kW when starting, the continuous load is something like 200W for a modern one. Nothing else is in my house is going to approach that. I'm not going to be running desktop computers during an extended outage, and laptops will add a negligible impact. In colder weather I'd want enough power to run the gas furnace, which I imagine is not a ton. Lights can be kept to a reasonable minimum, and you'd want LED bulbs available for all the lights you'd use during an extended outage anyway, and so also won't be a whole lot. Thus: a few hundred watts.

But let's say you need 2kW. (That's not quite double what a normal car can put out, from my quick research. Typical car systems seem to top out around 1200W, give or take.) The Tesla would be able to provide that no problem, of course, but! It'll only do so for about 22 hours before you run the battery all the way down, at which point you have no electricity and no transportation and no way to remedy either until the power comes back on. If you really do need 4kW then your Tesla will last you half a day, which is just about useless. If your needs are low enough that the Tesla battery could last for a couple of days, then you can run off a regular car too.