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Yeah, not at all intending to discount your experience, but as you point out, something there seems off. If it's a full employment market, constant threats of firing don't seem like they could possibly have had much in the way of teeth. For really bad employees, certainly -- but if Jane the fry girl is working at about 85% of the capacity that you want her to, firing her and suffering at 0% of the capacity doesn't seem like an improvement.
Seems similar to how Jeremy Hammond was caught: they suspected that he was a particular IRC user, and correlated his login/logout times with actual comings and goings from his residence.
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Read the comments under TFA. Nothing was broken. The author was quick to write the article without understanding protocol first.
The site looks gorgeous and is perfectly readable in Firefox 25 on Ubuntu.

Also this looks pretty neat; I wasn't super interested in learning to use Sass/LESS or working it into my development cycle, but this looks like a good step towards not having to make much of a change while still reaping some nice benefits.
> Why so smug?

Yeah, the alpha geek passive-aggression is a tiresome aspect of our industry. Usually that smug self-assuredness is worn down by harsh experience, but heaven help you if you meet a 40 year old alpha geek who has not yet learned that they too can be wrong. (I work with one, and he makes some shocking mistakes but cannot admit it, so when he launches at you with a holier-than-thou attitude, scorn and contempt are all that arise).

> What happened to good grace and manners

Exactly. When you're totally right and someone's totally wrong, if you want to effect actual change (assuming that doing so requires their coöperation), grace is precisely what's required. You can have all the technical correctness in the world behind you, but the moment you put someone's back up with your poor attitude, the chance of them rationally engaging with your argument drops dramatically.

I've had this argument before with some people on Reddit, and I received the retort "But who cares if I was rude, _they_ were wrong, I was telling them how to fix it!" ad perpetuam from one particular person who was astounded that no-one took his advice.
Not really. It's not my department. dsr wanted a clue, that's the best one I've got...
Yes, with gems like this one:

" We grew tired of “experts” too lazy to read the full documentation. "

When asked about a diagram. With their attitude, it seems incredibly unlikely they'll ever have a secure product.
so why didn't he go to starbucks or something to do this, I would have anticipated all this. I guess he was running out of time, and under the pressure he made a careless split second decision.
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I see your point because the fact he used Tor at all led them to him. But it sounds to me like he cracked under police pressure, otherwise they might not have had anything at all on him.
If someone started pitching IV Diet Coke as a cure for malaria, they'd deserve the ridicule and "elitism".
How someone conducts themselves in response to rejection can affect future opportunities.

It isn't uncommon to be reject a candidate for one job, but approach them about a different job that better fits their skillset. This can happen even year or two down the road if that candidate left a good impression with a senior person who hires people regularly.

Worst case scenario is that not only are you rejected for that job, but are considered not hirable for other positions in the future. Trying to prove someone wrong after they have rejected you for a position indicates that you do not respect their decision, and feel entitled to reconsideration after they already made their choice clear. It's disrespectful.

Keep your dignity, and maybe that job rejection turns into a valuable opportunity down the road.
So which efforts are leading the pack at this stage that I could recommend to my entire family who practically daily urge me to join them on Viber? Years ago I would have said Skype. Now I just don't know. I'm saddened because I thought Telegram looked pretty sweet and a serious new contender. Practically calling them liars after that much hard work is unfair.
And after reading that conversation, I can't avoid to feel sympathy for Telegram.
I'm in Manhattan but I'm only free after 5:30pm
If a project owner updates prod to a new beta of a point release right during the holiday season, that's entirely their fault, not the rails team who delivered something fun for people to mess around with.
As another poster pointed out, some people with low income pay a negative income tax. I guess it could be "lowered" but I don't think that's what you meant, or at least you didn't make it clear.

Do you have any evidence for the claim about efficiency regarding taxes vs minimum wage?
Why is McDonald's obligated to take in less profit? It has actual, not utopian, obligations to its owners (shareholders)
How hackable is it? If I want to install CM or FirefoxOS or something on it, how hard is it and how likely am I to brick the device?
npm install es6-promise for a shim
It's worth noting that ES6 actually does not run without compilation on every browser (and will not for a while) since it introduces breaking new syntax instead of stuff that could be polyfilled. For all intends and purposes it's a new language (it's like C++ to C). So maybe any other superset of JS would have the same chances.
Nice post! Thanks for sharing!
I'm talking about policies that might be thought of as tradeoffs: raising the minimum wage vs lowering taxes (for people on low incomes) or raising benefits.

What you are talking about is policies that (you claim) would benefit the economy in general and should be done regardless of how we deal with people who are currently on low incomes.

And inflation does not harm people's standard of living because real wages will rise or fall depending on the market. Inflation has some short term effects, but if nominal wages remained stagnant (which they haven't), that would be because the value of labor went down, not because of inflation.
How did you arrive at the conclusion that because someone is a Harvard student, they're at an intellectual pinnacle and more specifically, are the global 99.999'th percentile of tech literacy?
We pushed a build to RubyGems.org[1], so you should be able drop the github option now:

gem 'rails', '4.1.0.beta1'

We upgraded a few apps in our local Ruby meetup group lately[2], and it's worth mentioning that you might need to upgrade the following gems too:

gem 'rspec', '~> 3.0.0.beta1'
gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0.0.beta1'
gem 'capybara', '~> 2.2.0'
gem 'jquery-rails', github: 'takkanm/jquery-rails', branch:' fix_action_view_require'
(I'm not 100% sure about the last one, might have been fixed since I last checked)

I'll try to write this up in another blog post tomorrow.

[1]: http://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/4.1.0.beta1

[2]: http://www.meetup.com/vancouver-ruby/messages/61805312/

Edit: minor formatting fixes
The introduction of dollars is irrelevant...you're overthinking it. There is a banking system that deals with the money supply, but that's another (possibly confusing) matter. Wealth is not not fixed, that is the only idea you need to get for this. Me being wealthy, even extraordinarily wealthy, does not therefore mean that you cannot be. If you get this concept you're already ahead of 95% of the world in terms of economic literacy.
What about App Academy? I feel like this article does not address the business model of investing in the students until they get a job. http://www.appacademy.io
Interesting. Isn't Skype owned by M$ though.. ?
> I would turn the question around - what's wrong with a $11b profit?

Nothing, by itself, but in the case of McDonalds, Walmart and others who make massive use of minimum wage workers that profit is heavily subsidized by all of us as taxpayers since by holding on to that money and not sharing it with the employees we (taxpayers) now need to help fill the gap created between the cost of living and what those corporations are paying the majority of their workers.
>> are inexpensive

Low costs are critical to this piece.
I know which meaning of natural you are talking about and it would indeed include everything artificial, but I disagree that that is the common meaning of natural! I hear natural more often used to mean "not caused or created by humans". Isn't that the definition people usually have in mind?
>Inflation harms the poorest the most, by far.

I don't think that word means what you think it means. When prices go up, so does income. It has to because there are two sides to every economic transaction. Inflation often seems to coincide with declines in the real median wage because it's easier for your employer to not give you a raise instead than it is to reduce your salary. But over time it doesn't matter because even with no inflation if there's real wage decline you still have the same problem.
> Just adopt the best of those

You say that like everyone agrees on what "the best" is.
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Re sources of debt: there's the incurred costs from bootstrapping. I quit my job to start a company in August 2010, and didn't start paying myself a salary until June 2011 after we completed our angel round (though we charged expenses to the company from Jan - Jun 2011). I think my co received funding a lot faster than most other YC founders who bootstrapped for longer before getting into YC or raising an angel round.
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I don't understand what you mean by "all the things sovereigns have the right do do, which is pretty much everything." ?

Clearly there are laws, and the US government is bound to those laws. Are you saying that the US government can have people killed? Torture? And as long as the US legal system isn't there to intervene it is legal?
Heyyy, it was a joke! Cut me some slack. I did have to install _Node_ to get at _npm_ to get at _bower_ to install _bootstrap_ in a _Rails_ app so can we say I've used it by proxy? :)
What about it's obligations to the taxpayers it is soaking?
Incredibly disappointed that this is the first comment. I honestly expected more from HN readers.

The justice system is so disgustingly broke that we absolutely need dedicated, level-headed people to do these types of "social hacks" to prove it.

It takes willful acts of civil disobedience to create real change, to bring awareness in a way that's difficult to ignore.

Catching the bad guy is not the only thing that matters in law enforcement, but sadly that's what the militarization of police forces is creating: a system where the ends justify the means. You would not be so dismissive if you were the habitual target of police laziness. It takes a lot of work to catch the bad guys without breaking the rules.
Isn't the main benefit to Cavendish that it transports really well?
> These settings should NOT be stored at the file level, it
> should be handled by environment flags. I feel this is a
> fundamentally broken feature.

According to https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rail..., this YAML file is handled like every other YAML by Rails...it's parsed through ERB first.

That means, you can do something like

development:
secret_key_base: <%= ENV['RAILS_SECRET'] %>

And reference it with that `Rails.configuration` business.

With this, you basically get a nice little API for recalling env variables. Pretty neat!
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>>That is, if I am opening a new Wendy's in this area you're postulating, and the deal is that I can have generous profits despite a substantial increase in my employee's wages, why don't I offer $1 more than the other fast food joints in the area and steal all of their best employees?

This is what happens in every other industry. For example, at my company, we constantly lose customer service reps to a nearby company that pays $1 more. We could increase our wage and reduce turnover, but have decided it's cheaper to just replace. Not that I necessarily agree, but it's not my call.
Is there a drive that does the opposite? A drive that converts intermittent rotary motion to continuous rotation?

From the perspective of a mechanical watch, there is a component known as the mainspring. It is a spring that stores energy from either manual winding or automatic winding.

With manual winding, turning the watch's crown to wind the mainspring is an intermittent, rotary motion. Alternatively, with automatic winding, a rotary weight that moves intermittently (e.g., when the wearer's arm is moved) is used to wind the mainspring.

In either winding scenario, manual or automatic, the result is that intermittent, rotary motion causes energy to be stored in the mainspring, which is then subsequently available to provide for continuous rotation of the watch's mechanics.
I'm not sure what world you live in, but it certainly isn't this one. Judges are human. You go into court and decide to be a jerk to the judge? Guess what; you're walking away with a bigger penalty then you would have if you were nice. The judge did not go outside his authority as far as I am aware. He has discretion to go either way, and there are very good reasons for it(which is one reason that I hate mandatory minimums, but that's neither here nor there).

I'd be careful about assuming bias here. If a judge thinks that you deserve a larger penalty as a deterrent then that's not bias, he's doing his job. If he hands you the maximum penalty because you're his noisy neighbor then that's bias. I can't tell you what his motivations were.
I've been working with the framework almost daily and regarding your comments:

1.) Yep. I've gone from a jQuery-mostly front-end dev to being able to build full blown apps inside of 6 months. Not only that, the apps run really well.

2.) Incredibly. Even without the meteor.com service, it's super easy to deploy using things like Demeteorizer (https://github.com/onmodulus/demeteorizer) which strips down a Meteor app to a raw node.js app that can be deployed anywhere (that supports node, of course) in < 2 minutes.

3.) My favorite part about the framework is that the core devs have meetups/hackathons frequently to talk about progress on development, show off demos of pre-releases, and allow community devs to showcase their own work (if you're curious, I highly recommend checking out the Devshop videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeteorVideos?feature=watch).

Even if it doesn't sound like your bag of chips, at least do what the OP did and check out Discover Meteor: http://discovermeteor.com. It's worth the day or two it will take you to complete.
Thanks for the work, looks exciting!

In addition to taking the pressure off of the rails team/community a bit, now you don't have to postpone til the next great feature can be included. I'm sure that devs knowing that what is left out now will probably be there in six months will help their planning and decision-making processes.
That is certainly true. However, if I had said 'employment is not decreasing' instead of 'unemployment is not increasing' it would still have been a valid critique without being vulnerable to that response, however.
This is depressing. They closed the comments so they don't have to hear anything from their userbase. If this kind of problems happened in Mac, the bug would have been resolved for years.
Hi, my name is Julius and I performed the said benchmark while being an intern at FB.

Yes, we used opcode cache in PHP. I definitely don't consider myself to be an expert on PHP configuration. I used the default settings. I was obviously also very suspicious of the results that we got. To the extent, that I consulted a few people about what could be improved about the PHP setup. I remember opcode cache was the first thing I checked, since it's something everyone knows and talks about. It was turned on.

I will update the blog post first thing tomorrow (sorry guys, it's the middle of a night here in Poland, so don't feel like doing it right now).

Cheers.
Obviously the point at which a hostile government thinks you're a top suspect and interrogates you is the weakest link in the security chain. This guy had it comparatively easy: his interrogators weren't torturing him to death.
>> If there is $1 extra that the fast food owner is caching, why does no other fast food restaurant open in the area, offering $1 cheaper prices, and steall all the clients?

This is exactly the point of the dollar menu/value menu/whatever promo is going on at the time. They do exactly this. Also, fast food economics are basically "Get the customer in the door. Take their order. Do all you can to sell them sodas and fries. Break even everywhere else."
What about the Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 Broomstick?

And if you don't know what I'm talking about google it a bit.
this is a really odd piece from the Washington Post, as someone points out in the comments a few hours after the Post, it's wrong--he is in fact on the list. Second, the Post's author points out that Snowdon is also not in the Top 10 People Search List. Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, and Justin Bieber are also not on the list. Certainly makes me feel better about not making it.

What exactly is the significance of this? If it's just to report this naked fact, why bother--it's literally a few keystrokes away for most. In fact the author (Brian Fung) does have a point to make which is that while some people think Snowden is interesting, most clearly do not:

The final sentence of this Post:

"While the details of the Snowden saga may have gripped civil liberties advocates and Internet policy types — and although Snowden himself clearly thinks he's still a major subject of debate — the rest of the world seems to think otherwise."

"and although Snowden himself clearly thinks he's still a major subject of debate"? This clause links to a CNN article entitled "Snowden's open letter offers to help Brazil investigate NSA surveillance"
>>(Hint: after high school, nobody cares about your grades anymore.)

True for software developers nowadays, but some other disciplines like maybe scoring an accounting job at Charles Schwab I bet still checks that GPA.

Ya know what I want HN to do for a poll? GPA at school! Mine is awful, couldn't pay attention.
Check out this post for previous discussion and hype about the course https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6101815
What taxpayers is it soaking by not taking in less profit?
Because the hashes that are stored in the .torrent operate on that unaligned data.

In practice, what this means is that you can't verify that two files of the same name and size but at different alignments within the consolidated data stream are identical; you can't compare hashes, can't do anything without first downloading. This opens the door to mass poisoning of swarms without even having to enter them in the first place.

There are potential solutions (including providing a broader hash per-file, as opposed to per-piece), but my statement was only that it's not that simple, not that it's impossible.
The Harvard (non-guest) network is secure - you must connect to it using your Harvard web ID login information. Harvard can then uniquely identify all of your traffic. (http://www.fas-it.fas.harvard.edu/node/189)

I guess I should have written a paragraph's worth of inane blog spam to get my submission title used? I was trying to make this exact point in my original title. The title my submission was assigned is not the real title of the PDF either... seems very arbitrary.
Either income tax means the actual income tax you pay to the IRS, in which case it can be lowered if it isn't already zero, or it means income tax minus various benefits, in which case it can be "lowered" by increasing benefits.

It's not my fault that people are using different meanings for the term and somehow my writing is expected to be consistent with all of them :)

>Do you have any evidence for the claim about efficiency regarding taxes vs minimum wage?

No, I think theory is enough for this point.
There is no way to get this deal worked out.
They have the evidence they need and this is a serious issue. he will definitely face academic discipline charge against him from Harvard, most likely expel from Harvard University. Furthermore, there is no use of him for the FBI; when you when a deal you want to get some information out of him, or to make the processing faster. In this case, they have the evidence and they don't have to wait.

If he really wanted the exam to be rescheduled, the dumbest thing he could do is either break his own arm or pull the fire alarm somehow, or throw some stink bombs everywhere in the classroom. Those along probably will only cause suspension and minor criminal charge at worst. Though he'd be very careful with fire alarm...Now he probably can't get back to Harvard, after several years of stressful preparation to get into Harvard...

And for most jobs out there grades do matter, especially if you plan to go to graduate school.
Wow that video is cool. I'd love to see some design tools and open cad files for 3d printed mechanical computers
Many institutions & providers gather Netflow data (source, dest IP+Port, number of bits, flow duration) and store for a period of time to use in detecting DDoS, performance monitoring, and planning transit/peering. Correlating that with access to known tor nodes and you're done.
Usually I'd agree with you, but when it comes to offering a service that provides security, it is different.

Why? Because with any other service, the people using it are going to be able to judge whether it is effective. If Word crashes when I open it, or is buggy, I'll know that and I can choose to use something else.

But with a product that is offering security, there is no way for an "ordinary" end user to know whether it really works or not. As is shown time and time again, providing good security is freakin hard. So you'd better be on your game if you're claiming to provide that.

And honestly, if someone is donating their time to check the security of other people's applications, and all they ask in return is to be a little smug when they point out problems, I think that's a fair trade-off.
If you answer the second kind of question over the first, you're not an economist, you're a pundit. In all of my economics training they have repeatedly focused on asking positive questions (the first kind) over normative, the second.
Excuse me, I hadn't realized that people would contemplate letting five year olds play unsupervised with tablets...
I've never seen a grad school application that didn't ask about GPA.
By and large, if he tethered his cellphone and used Tor that way (or sit outside a coffee shop, etc), he wouldn't have been caught?
Those tech companies possess immense power and influence, both in lobbying and even more so on the internet with the people. If they really wanted to "push back", this story would be over in the summer. One Google could turn the tides completely if stood up for what it once believed. I see this sudden "reform" as no more than a show for the public.
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I think people are okay with it if police are friendly and polite, and if there's some benefit.

Mass breath-testing programme always get a few complaints, but I think they'd get a lot more if people realised how few drunk drivers are caught, or if police were rude. Blowing into a tube for X seconds is invasive, but sobriety tests (walking a straight line, touching your nose, etc) feel weirder to me. (I realise that in both US and UK neither of these can be done unless they think you're drunk, and GP post was talking about tests done with no suspicion of drunkeness).
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That's a good point, I didn't go to a public one but even then the fees were easily covered by working full time during summer and part time along side uni: http://en.ru.is/studies/tuition-fees/ (~1500USD).

Unfortunately my MSc in the UK wasn't that cheap like that; ~26K GBP (42 USD) still paid my own mobile bill then.
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