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Information has value.

Posting everything under my username doesn't create sufficient value for me. Managing my real-name profile is of some interest, and I do this to an extent, though largely it involves keeping my real name (or well-established) userIDs limited, while conducting most of my online interactions under various pseudonyms. These give me freedom of movement and expression and some freedom from tracking (though I'm under no illusions a dedicated national actor would have trouble finding me should it choose to do so, nor, quite likely, others).

What I've observed having been online for several decades is that most people seem to go through a lifecycle of online activity: early exploration, a wide-open persona, and often, starting once "life gets real" (usually somewhere in their 30s or 40s), either a withdrawal or a far-more-managed persona. I can point to numerous "public figures" of the 1990s whose online profiles are vastly more constrained: Jenny of Jennycam, Eve "pi girl" Astrid Andersson, Philip Greenspun (actually fairly active), Xeni Jardin, and many others. Even those who are still active are much more ... controlled in their presence.

If you're in your 40s or older and have a significant online presence, odds good are you're in marketing.

Even the principles in social networking have ... limited exposure. Sergey Brin's most recent public G+ post was February 20, 2013. Larry Page posts something banal and/or product-related once or twice a month. Page's wife and girlfriend (may they never meet) have been conspicuously absent of G+ since news of status changes (not posted to G+) broke in August. Curious in the case of the girlfriend who's in Google marketing ... but has been posting of late to Twitter.

Yeah, life has a way of getting real.
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> Individuals have to band together to accomplish things because at some point one individual isn't enough. In democratic society such a banding, supported by the people and for the people, is called a government.

Individuals who band together to accomplish things can also be called a corporation.
You ought to look elsewhere so you can realize you dont need to know 309 namespaces and 11,417 types to build a modern website.

I did .net for 8 years, and for a long time I used to take on freelance projects. There came a point where I could get the same project done part time in django or rails in 2 weeks that would take me 2 months to write using ASP.NET, nhibernate and an elaborate domain layer with everything split up in two projects.

If you wanted it to take anything less than 2 months then you had to start compromising and using some idiotic ms rolled ado datasets and any self respecting .NET engineer wont stoop that low.

With django or rails, I write clean, pragmatic, domain driven, and test driven code that is best of breed. It does not take 10 years of fiddling with an API to become productive with it - it would take maybe a month once you take the plunge. And for what its worth, I can care less about getting maybe 1/10th of the raw performance that I would get with the CLR because scaling the app layer is the easiest part anyways.
The elegance of immutable local variables is interesting, and it can be argued that functional programming style can lead to more robust coding.

However, there is an orthogonal advantage of immutable (or persistent) data structures, namely simplify sharing of state in concurrent programming, and this works well regardless on where the "handle" of a data structure is stored.
I've talked about it a million times it seems like. Short version: Quebec's health care system harms autistic children in Quebec. We were on waiting lists for years to get any care whatsoever. Going the private route meant north of $30k a year, none of it offset by the prices we already paid for care. This still required a 1+ year wait.

First 2 weeks in Pennsylvania resulted in more care than we got in the more than year up in Quebec fighting for anything for my son. My wife, a Canadian who was afraid of the US health care system before, loves it now. State/county helps to cover the cost of care for our children.
Right. And we the people don't want other people turning our apartment buildings -- our homes we live in -- into hotel rooms with the associated noise, security, privacy, and sanitation issues. That's why we have these laws in place.
If the argument for posix sh is that its 70k, I'm not sure thats a pro or con. I compared the runtime of a perl script versus shell doing pretty much the same thing, and perl was much faster because there was significantly less fork/exec going on.

Sure the executable is say 70k versus dunno 5 megs for perl lets say. In the end, if you're that constrained for memory, you should be using c not shell or even perl.

My aversion to shell is more related to finding, and eventually having to support, 20k shell "programs". They are inevitably always brittle creations with no tests or even design philosophy behind them. They nominally were cobbled together to fill a niche. From which I'm impressed they work, but inevitably they fall on their own petard. I've rewritten most of them with some scripting language and reduced their complexity by orders of magnitude and made them easier to use as well as orders of magnitude faster. Stream/pipe processing isn't the only way to skin some cats, despite its simplicity.

I guess I just find the "I know i'll use shell" behavior to really really end up being its own detriment in later use. Shell may be turing complete but things like spaces for example really make using it easily and simply very much a losing proposition compared to say tcl.

I'm not against shell, its a great glue language, but it just seems to get over used in some domains.

Eh, time to go drink I'm rambling aimlessly now.
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There are other issues, in many jurisdictions being a legally zoned hotel requires things like sprinklers that the average AirBNB lister might be unwilling or unable (in the case of a renter) to invest in.
Just look at the one figure in the paper and you will see.

Because your final layer is positively encoded, that polarity trickles down through back propogation. I also think the positive weights thing is to do with the way features normally work. It makes sense to look for corners, not anti corners for object detection.
Congrats on your surgeries.

We waited for more than a year to get any care (which we never got). In the US? We had appointments set up before we moved here.

> While the quality of health care varies from province to province

Quebec can rot.
Seeing as he wrote the first version, was involved in the updates, and spends a lot of time promoting GPL, I would assume his views have a large influence in how it is used and perceived. GPL mentions software quite a few times and the preamble states "licenses for most software and other practical works". As I mentioned above, Stallman does not consider art as a practical work.

However, I am not sure how a judge or a lawyer would interpret the word practical work.
Plenty of organizations in the US have bake sales to raise money. People donate baked goods and they are sold to the public for a profit.

These people don't want to open a hotel, they are doing it illegally because it is easy money without having to do all the hard parts. No pesky tax forms, no regulators sniffing around, no employees to have to pay payroll taxes to. I'm guessing he probably hires some illegals or homeless people under the table to clean the place and pays them in cash. That's like saying all drug dealer want to open a store, and would if drugs were legal.
Manufacturers are heavily regulated and have intensive quality control. Local compounding pharmacies do not necessarily live up to the same standards.
Comments like this make me wish I could +2
Because I hold the belief that they do know, down to the PowerPoint slide, what resides in Snowden's Cache.

Why? When it happened, they almost certainly didn't. By now they may have restored all their backups to that point of time, and recreated their network to see exactly what he could have possibly taken, but beyond that it seems likely they don't know..

I'd imagine they are slowly working out what documents he has. Everytime a new one appears they go "oh, shit" and look at what other docs were nearby.

They have probably checked multiple times a few critical documents to see if he had access to them.
Yes, really, a smiley face. Relax. It isn't my dissent that's suppressed.
Done and done.

I may only be a poor college student, but the fact that my $10 just became $40 towards Archive.org compels me to donate.
Take a shot with Treeize (https://npmjs.org/package/treeize) for better json. Seriously.
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zsh was only in I think 10.4 or 10.3, hard to tell anymore as I don't have any ppc machines to install any old os's on any longer.

Just giving historical context, not trying to say anything about markeshare or anything. Apple seems really willing to change shells is basically all my post amounts to.
The SAFE looks great. But one question is, shouldn't SAFE holders have the right to veto a dividend?

While this would be sociopathic behavior, what would stop this from happening?

1) Start company
2) Raise 1 million dollars on SAFEs
3) Distribute 1 million dollar dividend
4) Dissolve company
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US telecom market is mostly a duopoly (AT&T + Verizon) with sprint and Tmobile fighting at the margins. Combine with a profoundly uneducated user-base (when it comes to phone technologies) makes the job of the numerous MVNO's (straight-talk/simple-mobile etc.) much harder. Most people I know, even many who work in the tech industry, don't quite understand the concept of buying a device and a carrier plan as separate things.

This situation is not helped by the fact that the carriers have steadfastly refused to standardize on wireless technologies. Even the two GSM carriers (AT&T and T-mobile) have never agreed on the same set of frequencies for data... so eg., AT&T HS(D)P(+) devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, iPhone 4) didn't quite work on T-mobile and vice-versa. The regulatory agency (FCC) has basically been either helpless or complicit and maintaining the status quo.

Things might get a bit more competitive with LTE (with more standardized hardware etc.) but there doesn't seem to be any incentives for the big carriers to stop this effective collusion to start a price war. T-mobile seems to be breaking ranks in some ways but I haven't really seen a pricing strategy designed to pull the crowds yet even from them.
Here's the backstory on what was lost in the November fire: http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-plea...
I've received far more than $50 in value from archive.org. Total no-brainer, especially with the 3:1 match.
"Unpopular opinions" can change. There was a time when sexist, racist, and homophobic ribbing were de rigeur in society, entertainment, and business. They still are in some political circles. You might have friends, neighbors, or associates who turn out to be murderers, inside traders, political rebels, questioned for terrorism, whistleblowers, accused of partner battering, or of immigration irregularities (all drawn from my direct personal experience). It wasn't so long ago that a prominent political figure was accused of "palling around with terrorists".

Moreover, with profiling tactics, implicit signals can be leaked of your preferences and habits (isn't that precisely what all the heavy marketing support of all these "social" sites is about?). Subject of a current HN item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6871033

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/shameful-pr...
A cleaning service is not necessary for most people. (Admittedly, "most" = me in this case, but do you have a better argument?) And even if it were necessary, I don't see why it should be tax-subsidized. Lots of true necessities, like food, aren't.

To contest your second point, people should work where they are most productive, and the government shouldn't deliberately subsidize inefficiencies. Taking care of kids is work, just like working at a retail store or writing novels, and the government shouldn't subsidize one or the other.
I agree with you. I'm not sure this is the optimal way to discourage diamond purchases.

I'm not sold on your idea either though.

What do you think of this: thediamondpledge.com, where you make a pledge to support humanity by not buying diamonds.

For every diamond you don't buy, you get discounts to alternatives.

not sure if it will work, what are your thoughts?
Try to learn vim in earnest and you will never want to even open Visual Studio ever again.
How does Knex compare to
https://github.com/brianc/node-sql
I've been using Insteon for a few years now (insteon.com). It's like x10 done right. There are acknowledgments, grouping, security, 256 brightness levels, extended commands, wifi+power-line communications, and a 6-byte namespace (for no collisions).
Which austerity would that be? http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/apr/25/uk-publ...

That slight dip in 2009? Gosh, cut to the bone there.

And all those other countries that didn't try this super-austere austerity, they all had hunky-dory 2009-present economic performance, right?

Honestly, I think those desperate to disprove "austerity" do protest too much. "Austerity" is not going up to 47.7% of the GDP in spending from 41%.
When failure isn't seen as acceptable, or is at least perceived as shameful, people become reluctant to try once and very fearful to try twice, let alone a third or fourth time. This has historically been one of the cultural reasons that has held back the European tech scene.
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good point. argh.
Speaking as someone on a work visa in the US, I can tell you that their requirement is generally 12 years of experience in the field, with each year of higher education (in that field) counting for 3 years. So a 4-year degree works, as does 2 years towards a degree and 6 years professional experience.

With a decade or more of experience, you might just qualify for something like an H1-B and apply for permanent residency while there.

Of course, perhaps you are already in the US and wanting to leave for elsewhere...
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Why aren't device drivers typically open source?
Just the question in the title. I'm curious because most hardware manufacturers don't open source their device drivers (Nvidia is a good example) but they give the drivers away for free - they make money by selling the hardware. It seems like it would be in their interest to open source drivers since users could adapt their hardware to operating systems / flavors the manufacturers don't have the resources to support, increasing market size. Users could even find and fix bugs with the drivers, and submit patches back to the manufacturer. Does anyone have insight into this?
I don't understand. When sweep frees an object, it invalidates the "next" object of the previous object in the linked list, breaking the traversal next time a gc() is called. Doesn't the linked list have to be patched? (e.g., keep track of "prev_object" and set its next to unreached->next before freeing unreached)
Could be that they're too valuable to pay to leave. Could be that the thought is that enough will want to leave regardless, without incentive. Paying severance generally includes some terms including non-disparagement, so not offering a sep could backfire if there's particularly juicy dirt to dish.
That part of the IRS site is not on Akamai's secure network. Its for HTTP-only sites that don't care if a user gets a scary browser warning before clicking through it, and getting to the site with a mismatched cert.
And that's great! It really is. Except for when you take into account all the other people who aren't so fortunate. That's why I have no real problem with the cultural aversion to that "hard work"--because somebody ends up at the bottom and being at the bottom means they get screwed.
HN is just a basic web CRUD. Something you could build in many languages without much trouble. You don't even need to write code due to the amount of free web discussion boards available. What sets apart HN is the community. That is the hardest thing to develop.
It is inefficient 'cause it is corrupt

Corruption contributes, but you're utterly clueless if you think all inefficiency will go away with corruption. For starters transportation infrastructure is poor, fuel is much too costly, people don't have the facilities to cook. Just throwing rice at kids won't work. You need vegetables, you need clean water, you need stoves. All of this is just not there. If you'd been to a village you would know people still cook using firewood and a three thousand year old stove design, they don't have easy access to drinking water, they're utterly dependent on self-grown vegetables. They don't have refrigeration or electricity. Fixing all this will cost serious money on top of organizational and logistical skills which simply aren't there at the scale that is required.

There are states like kerala where all of the above problems have been solved in past.

Bullshit. Did you even try a google search for malnutrition in Kerala before making this claim? Kerala is better than other Indian states for sure, but it's nowhere near the levels of a developed country. The communist government and associated land reforms have a lot more do with Kerala's successes than "reduced tolerance for corruption". Which isn't to say Kerala is less corrupt than the other states, it's just that you have the causation the wrong way.
This horribly written article confuses two types of "lefties". There is a populist left and an elitist left. The former can be broken down into various shades. The later hardly a camel's hair removed from the elitist right. Sadly most of the populist left are just as much puppets of their elitist masters, as are the majority of the populist right to theirs.
adding Assange and Snowden to Bush doesn't exactly make anything better.
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which means that if you're in the US and your employer offers matching for charitable gifts, you can leverage your donation even further.

For example, if your employer matches your gift 1:1, donating $100 turns into $800: (1+1) * (1+3) * $100 = $800.
He sounds like quite a competent, intelligent "college dropout". Do you think him being a "dropout" means much?
This field really interests me.
I believe there was a recent discussion about this on HN, I couldn't find a link though. If I recall correctly, it's due to drivers containing trade secrets and being very specific to proprietary hardware.
Exactly the trouble we are in today, because it is nearly guaranteed that this happens?
I would personally: Sign up for startup digest austin, email a coordinator at Capital Factory Austin & potentially cold email 5-10 companies there and then let it go from there. Look at AngelList (angel.co/austin/jobs), StartupHire (www.startuphire.com). Also check out Austin venture's portfolio careers site. If you're looking to be a Sales Engineer at a startup - it will be a bit later stage as early stage generally only need strictly engineers or sales folks (eg: hunter salesman). Good luck
Is it possible to use more than one device to control an outlet? As far as I know, Bluetooth devices can only be paired to one other device at a time. If that's the case here, then the outlet is tied to (for example) one phone -- but I might have a couple phones, tablets, and computers from which I'd want to control the outlet.
This is a pretty cool resource:

http://www.scratchapixel.com/
I thought Asana was started by one of the original Facebook guys? Was it bought by MS or did it begin as an internal MS product?
I'd actually created Bookshelf after seeing a lack of good support for SQL abstractions in javascript, especially comparison to other languages and frameworks.

In terms of maturity, Bookshelf & Knex are still definitely young and a work in progress, but fairly mature in the sense that they are both heavily inspired (and in Knex's case, mostly copied) from the excellent Laravel PHP framework's query builder and ORM. Bookshelf also adapts different conventions I found useful from Backbone.js' Models, Collections, and Events - I'm also aiming to eventually make the libraries usable outside of Node (webSQL or otherwise).

I've been looking to take the best from other languages' data interfaces and try to adapt them into a few great packages for javascript, as opposed to completely re-inventing the wheel.

Some of the differentiating features include eager-loading and nested eager-loading relations, the ability to constrain those relations[1], polymorphic relations, a distinct separation between the ORM and the query builder layer, and until recently transactions (which from what I've heard, sequelize has begun to add to the library).

Some things that Bookshelf doesn't have out of the box are explicit typecasting (hooks exist to handle this if you need, but most times the db takes care of this for you) or validations (IMO out of scope for Bookshelf/Knex, but something I'll have incorporated in my next database package), and static finder methods `User.find(1)`, `User.findOrCreate({...})` - easily added but these will also come in the next package in progress.

Bookshelf aims to be a simple Data-Mapper, rather than a full out Rails ActiveRecord style ORM... This is something that will be a different project entirely which I'm actively working on building out. Sitting atop of Bookshelf, it will include scopes, validators, callbacks, helper methods, etc.

[1]: https://github.com/tgriesser/bookshelf/issues/69#issuecommen...
Seems not. Fuck you.

Not the OP, but don't take it personally. When someone's building a side project, there are so many things to do, and making using of an existing authentication system is fairly reasonable in the interests of time and effort vs value.

Of course, you have a right to your privacy, but you don't need to be so rude.
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And don't have carpets. Also, less stuff means less dust. My mom is a clean freak (also a scientist), and most of her rules have to do with the amount of stuff in the house rather than how it's kept.
Agreed. There are plenty of other options for hosting Meteor apps though (http://modulus.io, http://digitalocean.com, etc.)

And Telescope does have a simple read-only API, as well as an RSS feed. Depending on the features you need I could probably extend it (or you can submit a pull request).
Or you can just throw money at the problem, and hire a cleaner.
I don't think I agree with your characterisation of the extension. It's a switchboard that happens to have predefined blacklists focused on ad/privacy, not an adblocker. AdBlockPlus doesn't let me do what this tool does, nor does Ghostery.

I do think one should be able to ditch/modify the blacklists though, without forking the repo.
When you call some political leader a "butcher" you lie, because he actually doesn't work in a butcher shop and doesn't have a license?

I linked to the wikipedia article about necklacing. Did you find any factual errors in there?
I must second the Dremel as a good gift idea. It is the one power tool that I use weekly. Its a saw, drill, sander, and more in one. I use it for many different types of projects. Bought it in the year 2000. Its still going strong.
> Seems not. Fuck you.

What the hell is the matter with you?
I totally agree. Would have liked to see more of the data used, the information gained and the the methodology used.
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Is this a charitable donation in Canada?