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The problem is that a very versatile connector (lightning or usb) is also used to make something as trivial as charging a battery. The UE rightfully wishes to standardize the battery charging part only but that means either adopting a standard connector which would be a regression for some constructors or split the functionnalities in a transparent way from the user POV.
New users find Git difficult because it has extensive hidden state. The effect of "git commit/diff/reset" is completely dependent on the invisible state of the stage/branch/history DAG.

A competent user always knows what "git status" will output. But novices don't even understand which hidden state they must keep track of.
Makes me wonder how much hacking of postgres source code it required.
Ask HN: What new technology in 2014?
Hi Hackers!
What new technology (language, framework, etc. ..) you have proposed to learn in 2014?
I try to, surprisingly it's quite useful even outside of this small use-case. Evernote or OneNotes clipping functionality is perfect for it. Give it a try, even if only for a few weeks, it's super useful IMO!
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can you elaborate on why you think git is hard?
Does this fallacy has a name?
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By 'hidden state' do you mean that Git doesn't easily show the user where they are in the process? Is something like sourcetree a good solution?
I think it is the job of the advisor of the student to guide him in the choice of conferences to go to or journals to publish in. He should know the truly important ones in his field, and be able to make a judgment of the quality of a conference or journal based on familiarity with the work of the organizers/editors and other participants.

Everybody can put up a conference web page: It is completely hopeless to expect to be able judge the quality of a conference by what they claim on their web page, as the scam ones will be the ones boasting with their internationality and prestige, while the actually prestigious have no need to do so. The same goes for journals. I regularly get "calls for papers" from scammy journals that claim to be world class journals, but which are essentially a money making scheme (usually using some open access author pays model).

Of course, I agree with you that the requirement of having your bachelor's or master's thesis published is idiotic, and driving students into to be victims of these scams. The universities need to stop this practice, and the advisors need to guide the students who have something that is truly worth publishing in their choice of venue.
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Yah, that's sloppy and won't happen again. Sorry you had that experience.
Not EVER presenting one customer's data to another customer is a basic part of any business involving multiple customers. In our case we store the UserId in every database table along with the other data, and validate that against the actual logged in user before returning it. It's why I was so horrified at a bug in Cyrus IMAPd replication which occasionally overwrote files belonging to other users.

And it's why you are wrong. Giving the same data back to the same user (holding their blocks) would be fine - but allowing customer data to be read by other customers, for any reason, is bad practice in any area of business.

In many sane jurisdictions, the practice when selling something is to factor the cost of eventual disposal or recycling into the initial purchase cost. This is required by law, for example deposits on drink bottles which can be redeemed by returning the bottle.

In your case, the honest thing to do would be to factor the eventual cleanup of data from the disk into the initial purchase cost of the service. So the cost to provision a VM would include the wipe cost.

Pointing out that you don't do that is a community service. Congratulations to the author of the post for noticing the issue and bringing it to everyone's attention. Now we can all make an informed decision.
I'm not quite up to speed on how bad the UK's and US's electoral systems were at the time, but a lot of the British Empire had universal suffrage, e.g. AU, NZ.

Germany had tiered suffrage until the 1918 revolution.

"This distribution meant that a first-class vote had 17.5 times the value of a third-class vote." and "... one result of which was that the industrialist Alfred Krupp was the only person able to vote for the electors in the first class in Essen."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_three-class_franchise
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Exactly -- I've found SourceTree and the Visual Git Reference (http://marklodato.github.io/visual-git-guide/index-en.html) very useful to teach beginners.
Unlike most folks, I know who you are (I am not far removed from your social circle from prior employment) and you'll have to try that on someone else. I would encourage you to formulate a substantive point, for once, and seek a rational discussion on this with me but I know from experience that's not Coda Hale Style.

Last year I donated more than your annual contribution to Shanley's Gittip on causes for hunger and urban outreach, too. Since 2010 I have done a 50/50 split between my own 401(k) and hand-selected charities, and my 401(k) contribution is currently 3%. You can do the math. So, you can't hurt my feelings by tossing your big bad salary at another salaried worker in the industry in SF instead of, you know, helping people that need it.

Finally, between you and Michael Church I just can't use Scala any more for fear of remembering that you exist.
Some countries, like Japan, have addressed this issue by separating infrastructure from service. One company owns the network, several other companies provided the internet access.

This creates a competitive market between service provides (competing on price, service quality, and customer service) while removing the high costs to enter that market.

Infrastructure, as opposed to service, becomes the regulated market.
> women are more risk averse.

When was the last time you did something as risky as get pregnant?
Don't even get me started on the quality of the advisors... :-(
Note however you can't use emacs-server/emacsclient with the GUI over a SSH connection and tmux. With remote sessions and emacs you really have to choose between long start-up times and terminal-only editing.
As if Thatcher should be quoted on economic matters.

Not to mention that exactly the same is the problem with capitalism -- you run out of "other people's money" and you get an overproduction crisis.
For graduates, as a percentage, it's down. That's all I've seen numbers for anyway.
Unfortunately because it is not taxed at the personal level, it does not need to stay out of the country and makes it very easy to bring back in the country. This may also depend on the financial institutions and regulation over reporting of large wires, but there are still ways around it. My point was that they can get around these laws so easily due to it being taxed at the corp level and still argue its not avoidance.
>There was something about those big, boring corporations of the 1970s and 1980s that actually gave female hackers more acceptance than what startups have offered.

Yes: a 9-5 job mentality and a lack of emphasis on nerdy type hackers doing their thing.
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Operating on the boundaries of norms is also prequisite for becomming vastly successful company (maybe not actual prequisite but one of ways):

Youtube - let's just allow people to upload the videos, we'll worry about angry mob of copyright holders when we earn enough to lawyer up and create some bogus/overzealous tech gimmick to calm them.

Google - let's copy the web to our servers, and publish snippets of it to anyone who asks. People won't notice copyright violation and accidental breakins to insecure parts of the web as long as we are useful and huge.

Zynga - let me addict you to giving us your money with a help of this virtual cow and other game mechanics I just copied off my competition.

Facebook - why don't you show us all how rich you are and where your kids go to school.
HN Request: Photos of famous entrepreneurs, but barefoot?
Odd request I know, but I kind of think it's cool.

Particularly trying to find photos of when they were young, maybe in their dorm years.

e.g:

Jobs: http://i.imgur.com/PjxCxU1.jpg
Zuck: http://i.imgur.com/epR7kjc.jpg
That is also true, but it is a matter of perspective. I am writing this from the UK where we don't have aircraft carriers or indigenous launch capability anymore. There is a time for national prestige but there is also a time to be pragmatic about what a nation can actually afford.
A friend of mine approached this team with an app idea he had. They discussed the scope and these guys did give an estimate of 3 days.

Then, bizarrely enough, they said they wouldn't be able to work on the product because they 'don't have a working android tablet'. Very strange response/excuse indeed.

This is certainly a clever way for them to advertise what they have on offer on HN - but there seems to be a difference in the way they are advertising their services and the way they are responding to proposals.

Would like to hear from people that ended up working with them.

Edit: my friend was also asked by these guys if he as any 'friends in bangalore than can lend them an android tablet'... I'm not sure what to make of that!
> I humbly submit that you have no idea how it feels to be gay

It was a bad example, which is why I included partially, and I apologize for my poor thought there. I was only identifying with having no choice in a situation and then having vocal groups attempt to vilify that situation.

I am certainly not claiming that I experience any hardship that gay folks do beyond that one. Please don't assume I'm in a bubble, either; I married into a Mormon family and experienced that intolerance firsthand as I fought against it.

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It's happening. You think they developed scruples after LOVEINT or whatever it was they called it? Have people forgotten Hoover in your country?

It is guaranteed. There's no way it's not happening. Maybe not everyone, but many people in the US Gov't have dirty laundry. And some of that laundry has been discovered. And some of what's been discovered has been used for blackmail.

I've never been more confident of any opinion I've ever held.
Git absolutely fails at the claim of being good for remote developers on slow links. If the network drops during such an op, feel free to enjoy starting from scratch.
Technically, Bitcoin is legal in India
It's already not a problem. Look at all those wallets on mobile phones: they never store the whole history and yet the keys they keep are completely safe.
> It can easily be extended.

Indeed. Just like the Netherlands where 2013 saw the introduction of the "one time crisis tax" (eenmalige crisisheffing) which constitutes a 16% tax on wages, including bonus, over EUR 150K.

Now, for 2014, the "one time crisis tax" regulation has been prolonged. One time, promise! ("Eenmalige crisisheffing eenmalig verlengd")
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I like GUI Emacs because you get more colors. 256 isn't enough for beautiful, subtle shades.
What happens to the wealthy when revolution comes?

Can you illustrate us?

I am from Spain, in 1936 we had a civil war and a million people dead. The country got devastated for decades. And the wealthy, which was much better prepared and organized, won.

What you call plutocrats are only a very small part of the population. I also have family from eastern European countries, and communism was the worst thing that happened to them. There they had plutocrats of the public with more power than any capitalism could give(they could ruin your life or your families in an instant as everything was controlled by a selected few).
The problem with encryption at that level is that trim no longer works as there are no longer any zeroed blocks - so writes are slower. Also there will be more write applification as every write will cause a block to be erased.
One argument you might make is that the democracy peace theory is really just the Anglosphere. As Bismarck put it, "never underestimate the fact that Britain and America speak the same language."

You wouldn't imagine a civil war amongst a homogenous culture. I wonder if the Parliamentarians/Royalists or the Unionists/Confederates were more culturally different than the Anglosphere cultures are today.
This is my feeling as well. I get that anonymous death threats are an issue, but the counterweight is not made any more palatable by that fact. I also agree with grandparent about anonymous misogyny, but not that one group is less troubling than the other.
It's an education gap. A step-by-step site with shell and corresponding diagrams of high-level behavior might help.
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Until very recently there were serious problems with putting LVM under any sort of concurrent load. Making more than a few snapshots at the same time, for instance, was asking for trouble. I say "was" - I've got no idea if these problems were fixed. You just don't have those problems with file-based images.
Kindle Books are cheaper in India? This is news to me. How cheap are they exactly?
This seems to boil down to a criticism of the staging area, so it is strange its purpose is never clearly explained in the paper. The reason why the staging area exists, is, I think, that for larger teams working long term on a code-base, it is crucially important for the version control history to be very, very neat, with logically separate changes in separate commits, with very clean commit messages for each change, with the right changes going to the right branch (eg. you don't want to commit a change that can go live immediately to a branch that's going to be released in 3 months) and so on. That's also why git makes rebase such a big deal, I guess Linus spends a lot of time getting people to use the VCS right even after the changes themselves are more or less right, and thanks to rebase and the distributed model he at all is able to do corrections related to version control and branch/release management before changes enter the main repository.

People aren't really good in remembering about those things up front, that's why Git introduces the staging area, so that you can work as usual and only after you are finished with whatever was occupying your mind you can consider splitting your work into nice commits, which can be quite a task in itself to do right. If you remove the staging area, and want to incrementally build up a few commits from the changes you made, you end up having to pass in again and again a lot of parameters to the commands executed, first to git diff, then to git commit, and it's easy to do a mistake and diff something other than the changes that will actually be comitted in the end.

A lot of people, especially in small teams, use version control very sloppily, and then get confused about conflicts, changes are hard to track down in history etc. Remember that Git was build for maintaining Linux, which has an absolutely huge number of people working in parallel - in this case you really, really have to care about using the VCS tidily, actually understanding its concepts very well, and not just churn away commits, or you will just fail to integrate the changes correctly. So, frankly, while I like the general discussion in this paper and its approach, it seems to me a bit confused with respect to Git, I wonder whether the authors have any experience in doing long-term software development in a team and especially doing software integration and in using a VCS for that purpose. Once you have a few people, or more than one team working on a project, a few testing servers, and a few different release branches, the concepts in Git do make a lot of sense.
Seems to be going quite slowly. However, I would think getting a good Scheme implementation as the Emacs default is probably the single most important feature. All Emacs is, after all, is a Lisp interpreter.
The article wasn't about the first class experience, it was just the first few paragraphs to set the stage.
There are probably many that are garbage.

That doesn't mean that the majority of masters/PhD papers aren't scientific and intellectual achievements the likes of which aren't often found outside academia or the upper echelons of industry (nobody else can justify the risk profile of academic research). It also doesn't mean that the aggregate value of the results is small.

Many/most papers present useless (to society) results that only appear meaningful when viewed in a very narrow light. Again, that's not really a problem: just like the startup world, science has a very low yield of very high value results. Scope-narrowing is actually a method which allows us to avoid unjustly punishing legitimate null results. A feature, not a bug. Also, what appears to be narrow scope to an outsider might be of incredible importance to someone who has a better sense of perspective. Many of today's most important innovations would be impossible without thousands of yesterday's "useless" results.

You aren't crazy, but you are missing the big picture.

To work around paywalls, try emailing authors, visiting /r/scholar, making friends at academic institutions, or getting a side-job that will permit you journal access.
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> NK implodes and tries to blow up SK and .jp along with it (australia?)

I certainly wouldn't want to live in Seoul if (when?) that comes to pass but wouldn't be too worried even in Japan - it's a good 1000km, and I don't think NK has the tech to get much precision at those distances. Certainly they don't have stealth missiles which would be able to evade JP's considerable number of aegis equipped vessels. They could likely do some damage but I doubt it would be catastrophic.

As for Australia, I wouldn't be worried at all - that's well into ICBM territory, a whole different technological level and NK have never demonstrated anything even close. Not to mention Hawaii is actually closer to Pyongyang than Sydney - if they really can lob missiles ~8000km, why not go for the Great Satan himself?
> That people are reading this subthread and finding common cause with this right here...

...is indicative of the fact that mentioned people have tweeted a link to it, bringing a predominantly sympathetic crowd to attempt to kick my ass in the comments. Including you. I can read Twitter, you know.

I can't understand the rest of your comment. Can you rephrase your disagreement and point out what you take issue with? It would also help if you didn't refer to my opinion as bullshit, or at least provide some specificity on what you find to be bullshit about what I've said.
as someone who is interested in this, any chance you could pastebin it or something for those of us that can't get past the paywall?
"Just throwing a fit of incredulity doesn't help any arguments because the other side usually feels the same way about you."

Just as this massive exaggeration makes your point similarly difficult to take seriously. But you seem to value snark to strangers over actually relaying any sort of useful information so I'll leave you to that. Cheers.

edit: oh hey, what a shocker, a quick look at the first page of your posting history reveals literally no actual contributions and a bunch of snarky one liners. Give this guy a round of applause for these rock bottom contributions everyone! Bravo!
They're recovering faster than the UK, for example.

By what metric(s)? If you're talking about GDP, Britain is now managing significantly better growth than France and expert predictions seem universally agreed that it will continue to do so next year.

As point of curiosity, though not necessarily claiming any causal relationship, the top personal tax rate here in England came down from 50% to 45% earlier this year, after the new 50% rate introduced just before the end of the previous government turned out not to raise as much extra money as predicted. Meanwhile, French GDP growth has stagnated or reversed since mid-2011.
It's awfully hard to discern a point in this rambling comment.

But I'm not sure what the commenter expects. They and other HN commenters constantly complain about "liberal arts students against the 1%", but they're the ones who chose to go into a field which the market rewards for poor and ethically questionable work.

Yet they're the same people who scoff at and disparage people who achieved financial success in a much more challenging business. The author claims her success was because of privilege, not because of choices she made or didn't make.

Ultimately, we have to confront the fact that not everyone can be a tech slave. It's easy to hire "app" programmers, so if you choose to study that, it may be because it's a gravy train, not because it's your choice. Welcome to the free market.
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I sign up for a lot of these, but am only interested in the material offered, not actually taking the course. Because of this, there are courses I never revisit, I just sign-up to save them for future reference.
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> In general though, opening and closing emacs all time is the wrong workflow to use with emacs.

Depends what you are doing. When I'm remote I almost always have an "emacs --daemon" running. Remote admining a custom server ends up with me editing random .conf files in multiple tmux windows. Emacsclient is heaven sent in that case—it pops up faster than vim, with all context already there.

For coding, I tend to run a GUI locally and just have a bunch of buffers open. I still do server-start/emacsclient so the occasional random git command that spawns an editor just pops open a new frame instead of launching a whole new Emacs process...
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I shave in the shower using nothing but water.

I will report back to you if something goes wrong but so far so good. It's been five years.
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When ATT and Verizon are allowed to set up their toll booths all over the internet, it's not really the internet any more.

"That'll be $60 for the gas. Oh wait -- where are you going with that gas? Boston? No problem. That's $40 extra if you want to go more than 25 miles an hour."
Looks like a UI bug, credit card number is mandatory only if you want relationship dropdown value as credit card.
You are threatening to "proclaim that the tin foil hat brigade has now thorougly infiltrated HN." based on one single post made by one person in a community of thousands? Did you go to a school specifically to learn how to create logic this poor?
This sounds very similar to the contract workers for flextronix and other east and south East Asian Contract manufacturers using many layers of hiring agents to source their labor.
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Ask HN: Design for frontend developer
In spite of the "PHP developer" title in my CV, recently I am becoming more and more "frontend-oriented". That's perfectly fine, because I love frontend. The only thing that's keeping me uneasy is that almost every frontend developer position out there also requires considerable experience in UI and design in general.

Is it a trend now? Are frontend developers required to learn design? And if yes, then which books/courses/articles would you suggest?
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