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I had to install kde as I couldn't get matlab working in xmonad. Found out about this fix only recently.
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It's using the storage in an RString struct that isn't otherwise occupied by the RBasic info:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/8f77cfb308061ff49de0a47e82...

Note the `as` union. The `heap` version has three VALUE-sized entries, so RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX is calculated accordingly, with the -1 to account for the null terminator.
Will this increased building activities cost less than the current housing market rate?

If a new property costs $500k to build, as a builder you would need to at least cover that cost. I can't imagine that this helps the poor unless it's government sponsored.
Weird, I have the exact opposite feeling about git integration. I'm okay with the Egit functionality but I always use the command line with IntelliJ because the git support gives you no way to interact with git's staging area.
The entire premise of that paper is misguided. It's fairly common for large providers[1], e.g., BT, Sprint, T-Mobile, to use several of the non-Internet-connected DOD /8s for management addresses, once they've exhausted RFC1918.

[1] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Feb/319
Flipboard raises a $50 million series C
The only way to access Silk road was through TOR
Possibly because they have by far the most corporate shuttle traffic in the city:

http://sfist.com/2012/09/25/behold_the_secret_corporate_shut...

Sort of like calling a tissue a Kleenex, I suppose. The shuttles for other tech giants pale in volume compared to Google.
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Google is the biggest web company and Eric Schmidt likes to make a lot of newsworthy statements.
I'm dubious that there's any practical impact to using urandom with Shamir.
This is what passes for intellectually gratifying on HN these days.
I have to say using 'native' tools sux big time.

Lets hear it for 3rd parties!
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Yes, I have CentOS 6 on a Thinkpad x200s with hard drive encryption enabled as my work machine. I find it stable and quite fast. I may leave that machine on CentOS 6 and put 7 on the 'play' laptop.

My point was giving a choice of desktops is a new departure for Red Hat. Remember that they employ, or have employed, a number of the Gnome developers, and that I gather Red Hat has been a major sponsor of Gnome in the past.
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> A great manager (who may also play a part as an individual contributor) can channel & amplify an organization's creativity and innovation. S/he will also ensure there is an alignment b/w the organization's high level strategies and the individual contributions being made.

Yep, this. I work in a place that after a merger got rid of the creative director and replaced it with an "everyone is senior" approach. While it's nice on paper, we have no accountability, no one to set or drive standards, and no review process other than client sign-off. I think we would benefit greatly from a Director or VP or some sort of management that could authoritatively say "this is what we're doing and this is how we're doing it".
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Red Hat Announces RHEL 7 Beta
Pretty cool!

Are you in Harlem? Please start posting HTTPS-everywhere and TOR tutorials on your facebook page.
It means we are all Flatlanders.
From the article:
Update at 11:00 AM EST: Digia has contacted TNW [TheNextWeb] to say that “some last minute technical issues” have delayed the launch until December 12. Downloads are now expected to go live at 10:00 AM CET (4:00 AM EST) [9:00 GMT], or about 22 hours later than previously planned.
This is huge news for 17 year old me.
Update on Railscasts?
Figured I'd ask the HN community as some may be more in the know, but is there any word on Ryan Bates getting back to work on Railscasts?
I don't think these strings ever sit on the C stack, except maybe if some C code/extension is being really clever. The standard representation for variables is a tagged pointer as far as I know, so I would assume that is all that goes on the stack. This optimization probably just saves another level of indirection.
I suspect the TSA monkey wanted her own gun, so she stole it.
How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science
No one uses I2P because it hasn't been deeply studied. No one studies it because no one uses it.
Not about this stuff. Also "newsworthy" is your definition, I don't think it's accurate.
It does, it's fully responsive.
I believe the complaint is because the header sticks on the top so when you have a tiny screen then you can't read much.
well for those of us who didn't go for an MBA

ensure there is alignment... sounds a lot like messages from top to bottom

and channel an organizations... sounds a lot like keeping their teams happy.

I'm sure the distinction is important to you but not so much to the rest of us.
Hi Colm! I'm following you because of your FANTASTIC UI/UX post on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-resources-for-learnin...

I feel like you're actually understating your case here, burying your point about generativity in something that sounds a little trite, like "The Journey Is More Important Than The Destination".

- Amateur designers solve problems as-is.

- Good designers solve the meta-problem of how to solve problems. They assemble generative assets, insights and aesthetics that have utility beyond the immediate situations.

Designers don't JUST solve problems, they build systems that keep on giving. Teach a man to fish, etc.

The journey is more important than the destination yes, BECAUSE... the destination is a moving target, and the hero needs to know how to deal with unexpected setbacks, trials, etc.

Sorry, rambled on a bit. Didn't want your great point to get misunderstood. Hope I didn't just make things more convoluted, heh.
The tests are not (and should not be) the end-all-be-all criterion of success for Moocs IMHO. many people audit classes, to much benefit. also, even in 'real' classes, some of the smartest people only are paying attention the part they don't know...or perhaps only the key bits they require. Moocs are important moreso if they are <open>, theire purpose should be <transparency> not accountability. Educational institutions that receive public funds should be required to open their coursework for public audit. The credendial and the test are likely to decrease in importance once this is done (which is one reason we can expect pushback).
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Because one is more likely to happen than the other.
Why thank you, how very Buddhist of you. :)

EDIT: ... to assume so much.
Not to mention young recently graduated lawyers and doctors make shit for money, and newly minted lawyers in particular are facing much weaker than expected demand in the market.

"Making smart choices" doesn't always pan out. I don't think one can easily accuse someone who studied hard, disciplined themselves, and made their way through law school of being shortsighted, but here they are facing unemployment or dramatic underemployment.

Ditto traditional fields of engineering. Lots of people who studied hard, planned ahead, worked hard, and then fell into the massive collapse of manufacturing in this country.

It's nice to know that the crazy "improv political theater" from that one guy has some bearing in reality, though.
Not much to do with Christmas, but ashamed to admit I didn't really consider number nine (your phone attempting to connect to past networks, but handing out the SSID while doing so)!
"However, our efforts in this area aren’t entirely focused on file systems, those will be announced at BlackHat 2014. In our project we look at timing attacks from the perspective of their application in nosql databases and key-value repositories, granting the ability to extract data from tables in a manner similar to SQL injections but without actually using them."

Good for Blackhat 2014!
When I was at Google, you pretty much needed to be in MTV to get a good shot at the most interesting projects. I'd argue that if you want to have a career there, you should go to the main office where your hallway serendipity is more likely to involve people who can actually bring you into a career-making AI project (instead of typical drudge work). Of course, it's different for everyone, and I was only there for 6 months, but if I were to do it over again, I'd work in MTV. I'd also advise everyone, regardless of traffic or weather, to show up in the physical office 5 days a week.

To make remote work work, you need a culture where in-crowds and promotions and ladders don't matter (they'll always exist, but some companies give them more weight) and where people are pretty much assured that, even if they never get another title bump-- because those things happen less when you're not in-person-- they'll continue to get work that they're happy with.
There's nothing like the fiery, strident rhetoric of a manifesto to get one's heart pounding.

"Application requirements have changed dramatically in recent years."

I mean, if that doesn't make you want to lose your chains, I don't know what will.
As posted on another thread:

And people wonder why we need LGBT+ activism still....

It is worth baring in mind that this incidentally will affect a lot of people in Europe and North America. India is a primary area for companies to outsource not just their technology to, but also entire business processes. This includes HR document processing, which will result in personal information clearly relating to LGBT issues being processed by staff working in a culture hostile to LGBT people
That's a fair criticism :)
I assume you mean ref counted smart pointers, not all smart pointers are ref counted.

Java's pointer might be faster than shared_ptr. But, in Java, all objects are held by pointers. C++ gives you more options. It's not like we're going "Damn, I just can't figure out the ownership here. I'll just use shared_ptr and be done with it" every day. In my experience, usage of shared_ptr is quite limited.
I don't think that this is new (other than 1.7 being the default now) unless they are using something other than alternatives: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Ent...
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I disagree. The current volunteer-only military service means that only people with that mindset join in the first place. If there were compulsory military service, that would mean everyone else, regular people with no desire for glory/etc would be in there too. Look at what happened during Vietnam. There was such drastic anti-war sentiment specifically because anyone could be drafted.
Weird.
Flagged a hotmail addy I rarely use as having been compromised in the Adobe breach, but I don't recall ever using that address with Adobe and when I plug it into Adobe to reset the password for it, it says that they have no account associated with that address.
I want to do something like this for Bitcoin transactions.

Are there any links that would help me?
i'm going away from apple products as a developer due to apples fierce decision to not let me decide how I want to use the hardware I bought. No bitcoin, can't run a live USB unless it contains OS X.. all bullshit. Looking to offload my Macbook Pro and iPhone 4 as we speak and going back to linux + droid. Have been a LONG time apple user but their continued hostility and undercutting of developers ideas at the expense of developers is crooked.

Anytime someone comes up with an extremely good app.. It magically becomes part of iOS leaving that person high and dry. Done. With. That. Shit.
Actually, the people doing the work have more in common with the have-nots. What, you think the average engineer at Google can afford a house in San Francisco? No. The $100-150k engineers will soon be priced out to make room for the product managers and startup executives making $250k while working 11-to-3.
This talk by Jonas Bonér (one of the Akka devs) covers the motivations behind this well: http://parleys.com/play/51c0c876e4b0d38b54f461f6/chapter0/ab...
When directly talking to hardware, C is enough. Noone is saying Java is fine doing low level stuff like device drivers (IMHO wrong tool for the job, and C++ is wrong, too). I was refering to database systems or other software that is very close to system, e.g. application- or web-servers. In this area Java is excellent choice and performance-wise it often beats C++ because of superior concurrency support. And you can always code the low-level pieces in C, if you really need those unsigned arithmetic or bitfields.
How does this work if Spotify supposedly pays all artists in the same way?
The use of antibiotics in food stock should be banned completely. Saving a few cents per pound on meat isn't worth the damage to our antibiotic stock. Wanna give antibiotics to an animal, fine, but now it can't be used for food.
Every time he says something about privacy or drones, it hits the front page of every news website. That would be newsworthy. Doesn't really matter that he hasn't said anything on this issue, just as it really doesn't matter that Apple is not the only tech company using Chinese manufactures that have histories of employee abuses. It is what gets attention.

Google has some sins of its own. The airplane fuel deal was seen as a sign of taking advantage of the taxpayer. It is a big company and will make headlines in this regard.
And you thought the iPad bouncy was bad...
No other host has grown faster than amazon, so it probably is a great thing. The reason DigitalOcean can continue the fast growth is in a strong part due to the community it has built. DigitalOcean is an unmanaged service that provides a vast amount of educational resources to its users: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ The DigitalOcean community is comprised of its articles, a question section, and an IRC channel. The difference between DigitalOcean and other "hosters", is that DigtalOcean, as an unmanaged host, has set up an ecosystem that allows the users themselves to set up, scale, and maintain their servers.
Ruby is a general purpose scripting language that can be used for web development (rails, sinatra) but is often used for different purposes (puppet, chef, vagrant, shoes, ...).

And even if you'd assume web development as the only purpose, there's a lot of strings that are shorter than 23 characters: Header for request and responses, form fields passed by the client (usernames, passwords, ...), field names passed in hashes, table and column names, template and file names, URLs or even the occasional, totally rare string in a json structure. It's an optimization with major gain and little loss.
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This is very exciting. I know until it gets all the government certs and rubber stamps I won't be able to use it at work but if it is out the ball can start rolling as they say.

Here is the list of all the detail (tech notes):

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...

You can see updated and deprecated packages as well as issues so far in beta.
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The average RN salary is $66K. However, that's just the base salary. Most RN's work some night shifts and some overtime, which can very quickly push that above $100K. In most of the US $66K - well over $100K is a lot of money. It doesn't go very far in the valley, though...
No apology necessary, just a typical online missing-a-few-blanks-and-filling-them-in-ourselves event. :) It's true that Android has the ability to 'side load' and it is off by default, but phones and PCs are different animals. So, it's better to compare it to Windows which permits running even unsigned apps by default, though it does black the screen and show a warning box with a big red exclamation point.

Realistically, I think the Mac laptops and desktops will continue along the 'consumer' line of thinking in terms of features and functionality. Apple will likely set Gatekeeper to Mac App Store only by default within the next release or two of Mac OS X. Users will be able to change it, of course, but it will still have the desired effect of making publishers feel like they have to sell through the App Store and give up 30% of their revenue to Apple (and also abandon many of their pricing models since the App Store doesn't support variable upgrade pricing, unfortunately).

Most Apple users won't even know they can get apps outside of the App Store at that point, similar to how most Android users don't know. Similarly to Android, of course, there will be some power users that know and make use of that feature. Most Mac OS X users will be completely unaware of the fact that any of this happened or that their options have been limited, though, the same way most iOS users are unaware Apple prohibits third party browsers (unless they're just a skin on hobbled Mobile Safari), SMS clients, etc.

Personally, I disagree with the path Apple has forged the last few years. They make pretty good hardware and were the first company that really 'got' mobile music (and the fact that it needed good hardware and software - both on the device and the connecting PC). I have an original iPod Mini I got and later hacked a 16GB CF card into and ran Busybox on. I even have an old Mac Classic sitting in the closet that I'll pull out and put shufflepuck on at some point. But I likely won't buy anything from Apple ever again at this point. And I won't develop anything for a platform whose owner operates the way and has the level of control that Apple does. Both of which make me a bit sad.

Glad you like PortableApps.com and it's helped you out. We're still chugging along. If you're so inclined, give it an install to your cloud drive (Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, etc) and you can run your apps from there and sync them among your Windows machines. You can even run them under Wine on *nix or one of the Wine equivalents on Mac (CrossOver, Wineskin, WineBottler, PlayOnMac).
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Okay, you got me. I'm actually an NSA agent trying to pursuade you that Hacker News ISN'T the NSA.
I was not able to make them compile. Presumably the answer is yes; alas, I was not there on that glorious day.
My first reaction to reading this? If you follow this design in the way that they say, you're going to wind up with a confusing mess with no visibility into why your buzzword compliant application is dog slow.

Very carefully thought out and pervasive monitoring is an under-acknowledged but utterly essential part of Google's recipe for success.
Very interesting list. There's room for user voting and discussion, but how do you make it so any individual or person doesn't game the system?

Also since the list is exhaustive, what am I expected to do with this? A one time use? Or whenever "I'm looking for a tool" type of situation?
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Or technical product owners, who in lots of companies, especially large ones, are "promoted" into management roles simply because they are directing traffic and coordinating activities of the technical staff "beneath" them (The folks also contributing to the product they govern). There are a lot of ways to deal with this that don't involve flattening the whole org.
> I think this opinion demonstrates such a completely bullshit, narrow, entitled, and ethnocentric view of the world it blows my mind.

Well you can safely unblow your mind. He used a stereotype broadly applied to a group, but lazy people do indeed make up some portion of the "have nots". Sibling comments show measured, thought-massaged responses that correct the GP.

Let's not combat bad generalizations with hyperbole.
Each String in Ruby has their own encoding. But by default, it is UTF-8 these days.
I wonder why they didn't make cut-off optimization points at 33?

When programmers don't know in advance how long name/email/input/whatever field is going to be - they just use the magic "power of two" length :)

So 32 (or 33) in this case would be more reasonable.
I'm so confused about what exactly this is. Is it common that parents don't know who is taking care of their child?
Thanks. I was not aware of that etymology resource. Interesting that it started out as a racial slur, then became something much less serious, then again became something more serious.
This all sounds rather terrible for Ruby, doesn't it? It isn't so much that the short string is faster (though I'm left unclear whether it itself is on the stack/heap, though given the GC nature of Ruby and practical considerations of the language, it must be the heap), but rather that the cost of the short string is also added to the long string in the heap (assumed) allocation of the RString (which becomes larger and thus more difficult to malloc).

If this is intended to sit on the stack, which I find highly unlikely (especially given the timings that seem to be the delta between one malloc and two, and would be much more significant if it were a stack allocation versus a heap allocation. This is not comparable to small string optimizations for the stack in C++), maybe. But otherwise it seems like a poorly considered hack.

The string type could as easily have been dynamically allocated based upon the length of the string, where the ptr by default points inside that same allocated block. If the string is expanded it can then be realloced and the string alloced somewhere else. No waste, a single allocation, etc.
> Because I'm not? Or are you just knee-jerk assuming that because I dare to raise any comment at all, I'm opposed to the general idea?

No where in my comment did I offer any judgement against you or your character. You're the one making assumptions.

> Don't assume that ending the war on drugs will free up some large, discrete sum of money that you can go and promise away on "sweet social programs". The money saved (of which there will be plenty) is in hundreds, even thousands, of small pools across all levels of government, all of which are perpetually money-starved, and it will be gone like dew on a summer morning before you'll get anywhere near it.

I assume nothing beyond the fact that the current system is massively expensive and demonstrably a net negative on society. My opinion is simply that the current system is worse than doing nothing at all and my philosophy is always for there to be less government intervention in people's lives than more. Therefore, my preference is that we end the war on drugs as I believe this is a better situation than we are in today.
I hope I don't ask for too much, but would you be so kind and please give all us the chance to understand what you mean? I have not the references that back this up, could you add these?

(I am not biased. But I know two people working at SAP (at ^high positions), who I "think" are nice people.)
the majority haven't been looking for work.. I was long term unemployeed.. I sent out a minimum of 10 resumes everyday until I got a job.. it paid shit, but at least i was no longer on the tit of america.

The problem with long term unemployment is the same issue I ran into the other day on an elevator.. One girl asks another girl, "did you get a job yet?" the girl responds, "Giiiirrrrrl, da gubament gonna give me 2 hundred dollas a week, why i gonna get a jerb?"

Get em off the tit and get em working or they starve and die.. either way win win for us all.
Does the plugin version also support remote profiling the way Netbeans does?
I know it's kWh. EE, so I get it.

Don't know where you live but "a few hundred Watts" would only power my computers.

I keep a couple of deep cycle 12V batteries fully charged in the garage. We typically use them as power sources for chargin LiPo's for electric model aircraft at the field or to power the glider launch winch. A nice side effect is that the are available for emergency power if ever needed. I still have a 4 kW propane generator because the 12V batteries are simply not enough. I say this from experience not conjecture.