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There are a lot of moving parts in many complex systems, and occasionally bugs arise which people who do not build complex systems for a living ascribe to huge amounts of malice and not, e.g., a mis-transposition in a SQL query or a missing tab in a file compiled by a temp hired by a firm four degrees from OfficeMax.

For OfficeMax, the most important takeaway is probably "You should encourage your employees to apologize and demonstrate empathy, and you should give line managers a BatPhone to the CEO's office because this is certainly BatPhone-worthy."

(I once worked as a customer service telephone operator for a large office supply store which is a direct competitor of OfficeMax. I'm quite aware that their call center receives, minimally, several hundred calls a month from people who have sharply different takes on consensual reality than most of us do. That said, I also remember the two keys I'd need to hit on the phone to get the Vice President on the line, and I'm absolutely positive that if I had escalated that call in that fashion my boss would have said "That was the right decision.")
Three letters in their name.
Typo? wta.org
I've mainly 3 problems with 3D-movies

1) For some reason, when I watch one, the first 20 minutes or so my left eye feels "numb". Hard to describe, just unpleasant.

2) I wear glasses, and I can't wear contacts. Clunky 3D glasses don't work for me, and some theaters don't use polarizing filters so there's no clip-ons

3) This seems to be related a lot to how a film is edited, but there's an effect that makes everything on screen look like miniatures (as in tilt/shift photography) to me. It's not the same in every movie. Avatar = good, Hobit = soso, John Carter = very very bad.

Sidenotes, yeah, the picture is darker. And somehow the movie does indeed feel "smaller", those effects don't bother me much, but they don't help.

Consequence: I don't buy a 3D-TV, I don't buy a 3D-Beamer, and if I can avoid it I don't go watch a 3D-Movie. Unfortunately, I like going to cinema, and sometimes cinemas only have 3D screenings, which is annoying because then it's a choice between not seeing the movie in a cinema or 3D (both bad options).
For some reason, this particular story of hit me hard. I'm rarely affected by human interest stories.

Maybe because it's the quintessential example of the tension between abstract systems and conscious life.

If this kind of thing isn't enough to get people to take technology and business ethics seriously, I don't think there's much preventing the rise of a sociopathic society.

Computers, engines and rats != people.
>> OfficeMax said in a statement that the mailing was a mistake and that it was using another company's mailing list.

Why are they using another companies mailing list? What's wrong with theirs?
No, I understand it very well. Blub is whatever language you are using that isn't on the top of the power continuum. As of this point in human history, LISP sits at that end of the spectrum (all of this is directly from PG-- if you have issue with it, please read more of his essays). I've already mentioned 2 essays but he has written books on it as well.

In short, PG makes it clear in his writings that LISP is the most powerful language we have as of yet and he even puts forward the idea that it might theoretically be the most powerful language possible (due primarily to its syntax being a human-readable [and morphable] representation of an AST).
You're missing the point. OpenBSD is the oldest, most popular distribution with a fanatical devotion to clamped down, secure-by-default software. You'd think that people would be more understanding of the need for this now.
and UCSF professor Denny Zeitlin, a top notch jazz player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMf-Ztg0GYM

http://www.dennyzeitlin.com/DZ_Unlockingthecreativeimpulse.p...
> But it doesn't matter to many of the daily users of the Mac what Woz did they just want a product that is great that solves a problem that they have.

You're implying that the only thing that people care about is the end result; the product that rolls off of the assembly line for their use. If that's the case, then they equally don't care what Jobs did.
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Listing and filtering directory contents in Java NIO.2
Or if you aren't using sea water, that is ;)
Oh yea, I completely agree. There's no reason to be afraid of the terminology. I was just suggesting that Combinable seems a closer fit than Appendable for the general case (although, as you and others have pointed, even it falls short).
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Great feedback.

-GPX support is top of my list of TODOs.

-I like the USGS topo / OSM idea. I'll have to do some investigation to see how it compares with Google Maps.

- I agree that a bibliography is a must. This is also something I would have gotten for free with MediaWiki. The reason I didn't build on top of that was, basically because I wanted to have complete control over the end result. Writing the code was the fun part for me. That being said, I wouldn't completely write it off.

- And I did write one scraper already for wta.org, but was unsure about whether that was ok to do or not...
I like it a lot. No hikes in my area(Minneapolis), and I'm not enough of a hiking buff to know anything(though I would like to be). However, beautiful design and good functionality to it.

You say no paywalls or ads- what if this takes off? Just curious what you'd resort to.
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Except when it's automated, as the top comment said, it gets dehumanised. Presumably there is a real human being reading the obituary and cross-referencing, who would be sensitive enough not to include that information.

This is disgusting.
US tech firms make eleventh-hour attempt to halt tax avoidance reforms
That's not even a T-Rex..

Original: http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon_illus... and there's also a printable PDF to make your own.
I'm guessing that companies are using all sorts of things, including newspaper articles, to be able to identify target markets. That doesn't bother me too much; once information is online, there's very little you can do to stop people from seeing it, and making these associations seems like a logical step.

That said, there are two major problems that I see here:

(1) The lack of a European-style law allowing people to find out what information a company has about them. The recipient of this mail should be able to ask Office Max what information they have about him, and they should be required to provide it, as well as say from whom they got the original information. Saying that they bought the information from a third party is a cop out.

(2) Some programmer, somewhere in Office Max, did an incredibly stupid JOIN, or the equivalent for whatever database they were using. I can't imagine what the possible reason was for displaying this sort of thing, and printing it out, but displaying that sort of "rationale" field is a huge no-no. In this particular case, it completely traumatized the parents, who had already gone through an awful experience.

It seems incredibly obvious to me that Office Max should apologize to this family. Whatever it takes to fix this, they should do. Free merchandise for the parents seems cheesy, but perhaps establishing a scholarship in the daughter's name, or something to help grieving parents, or to prevent car accidents, would be reasonable.
The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness
Funny thing. I actually have a scraper for wta - https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/blob/master/scripts/scr...

I haven't seeded production with it yet because I was a bit unsure on whether that was ok to do. Maybe I should send them an email...
"Apple must..." (And why it rarely does.)
Does anyone have an idea how they are spending $20 000 on electricity?
That's a problem I'd love to have. I think the best way to keep a site like this going is through donations, but honestly have no idea whether that is feasible or not.
Now imagine his Daughther/Son was killed/raped. It actually crosses the line twice.
How a 3D printer gave a teenage bomb victim a new arm – and a reason to live
To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
Well, who would really want to fund their compile farm of obscure vintage hardware if all they're really interested in is OpenSSH? Even if OpenBSD went bust, somebody would pick up OpenSSH eventually, without all the Vaxen and SGI machines and what not.
The funny thing about this round of 3D is that it isn't a bold new venture for cinemas. It's a sign of stress. Cinema ticket sales have been in decline for over a decade now [1]. Just as TV stole away the everyday crowds from golden-age cinemas', ever-improving home theater quality and video gaming are steadily chipping away at what remains.

When TV started stealing business from cinema's, Hollywood's response was to use new technologies to give cinema patrons something TV's of the time couldn't. Hence, widescreen aspect ratios became widely adopted and, later on, the first wave of 3D, stereo, surround sound, etc.. TV technology stagnated and an equilibrium was formed that stood until home video came along and started disrupting things.

Today, the second wave of 3D is an attempt to tear people away from their hi-definition, audiophile-grade, surround-sound home-theaters and drag them back into cinemas (at double the normal ticket price). It will work, for at least a little while, until 3D becomes ubiquitous even amongst relatively cheap home video displays. At that point, 3D may very well die another death because Hollywood might not be willing to tolerate higher production costs (and limitations of the technology) for a gimmick that doesn't bring in enough extra cash. What will likely determine the longevity of 3D is if those costs will come down faster or slower than the sales-boost tapers off!

The next obvious step for viewer immersion is virtual reality. If VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift or what Valve has been secretly working on take off in the next few years and develop a large enough user-base, there's a remote chance that we might see some movies developed for them. Cinema's might also introduce VR rooms, making Hollywood investment in VR films more likely. These might be entirely on-the-fly rendered machinema that allow users to walk around freely inside the film, or pre-rendered films that place the viewer on a rail with only the ability to move their head to look around. Gimicky, yes. Highly unlikely to replace traditional film, yes. It could happen though, as one more way to boost sales.

[1]http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
>Jobs was good at recognizing when the right time to bet on a technology was. When you are filthy rich, you can turn this talent into a license to print money. When you aren't already rich, it just makes you the average person on HN.

Hahahahahaha. Yes.
Presumably, User wants to include your library in their open-source BSD release. If that is the case, what they're asking is correct since a work extending / modifying a GPL licensed code needs to be released as GPL as well. That is the main difference between GPL and non-copyleft licenses.

They could distribute their code without your library, as you say, but that would require more hassle from the end-user, especially if there's some configuration / integration process that is required to make both work together.
What a unique and fascinating perspective. Realizing that I have no idea how the rest of the world lives makes me want to travel more. The vast cultural differences between parts of the US are mind-boggling on their own. Really makes you wonder how our actions are so predicated off of what we understand about the world.

Can you imagine Bill's current day to day involves helping the worlds poor thrive and create societies. And he's retired. What am I doing with my life, haha.
they trade/change boots at that convergent stomping point (i.e., use a new wallet address)
> you incorporate them into the initial design (for example, build the OS with Unicode support from the start)?

Clever ass people tried that. That's why system using UCS2 as core (Windows/Javascript) sucks at handling iOS Emoji icons, and MySQL can only handle 3 bytes UTF8 by default (unless utf8mb4 explicitly). The reason is that UCS2 was "good enough" during the designing stage of those systems.

Even the most clever ass design on the planet can not cover all cases. You have make trade-offs at some point.

> You can have 3 teams working on Intel, AMD and NVIDIA drivers simultaneously, since they don't really overlap

You are so wrong this time. Do you know the power-saving technology allows you to switch dedicated GPU to Intel integrated GPU? Well that driver support sucks in Linux because of people like you think "well how on earth would Intel and nVidia drivers overlap?". Turns out it's a huge difference between you can use your laptop for 10 hours vs 3 hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus#GNU.2FLinux_supp...

In general, people without deep software engineering experience make super clever-ass decisions and fail spectacularly. Because building software projects is absolutely not like assembly a car with so many standardized parts and modules. Another metaphor is that in physics if you have a problem with lightening, you can't change how the sun works. In software engineering you can. Read the book The Mythical Man Month, as well as this one Dreaming in Code. You can see even experienced developers fail miserably at not-so-large software projects
To the girls of Hacker News: I am a female founder who codes. Here's a blog post I wrote reflecting on PG's essay (guess I had too much to say for the comments section):

http://susieye.com/2014/01/20/to-the-girls-of-hackernews-i-a...
My theory for this is that Google is essentially a functioning welfare state which is geographically co-located with a dysfunctioning welfare state. If it weren't the Google bus it would be the Google food kitchens, the Google social insurance, the Google healthcare, the Google subsidized apartments, the Google free education, etc etc.

Nothing so frustrating to hear that your dream polity has been realized in your town and you're not invited.
>and yet it is completely tasteless designwise. what an ugly, ugly car.tesla is doing it right.

On the bright side it doesn't catch on fire. </snark> Keeping aside the snark, it doesn't look that bad. The low price tag and the comparable look of Prius makes up for it. I think Nissan and Telsa are competing on different demograph within the same market. Nissan is going after people who think of cars as a utility and are looking to save some $$ on their daily gas expenditure. While Tesla is going after the people who prefer luxury, style and trend.
I tried to follow the links in that article to primary sources and was not able to find a single one (though the article links to some blogspam for the Business Roundtable study).

A search for the title of the original study did turn up this meta-study:

http://www.danzpage.com/Construction-Management-Resources/Ca...

It has various narrow (i.e., really industry-specific) results that suggest you can have 6 week sprints of 50 hour weeks and gain productivity. Nearly all of it applies to construction.

Overall, I'm still not understanding why people are so confident that 40 hours is the True Answer across all industries and all people, as is commonly asserted.
Tell this to a person blind in one eye and unable to perceive depth.
I don't even drink tea, and I have an electric kettle. In case any guests want tea. It's the "done thing", as they say.
Our customers pay us $millions/yr to help them compete vs. AMZN
If I would have known I'd hit the front page of HN, I would have added more content :) But I agree, there is plenty of good information already out there. For photos, I can probably find Creative Commons versions on flickr. I've already asked about a few and people are surprisingly generous.

And good point about The Narrows. I should have that info on there.
The slightly over-simplified version goes like this:

OpenBSD is for firewalls, specialized routers, traffic management, and other internet-facing security applications.

FreeBSD is a reasonable general-purpose server BSD. It was among the first to have support for "really big" filesystems, but Linux has since caught up a bit. ZFS on FreeBSD is pretty rock-solid though.

NetBSD is intended to run on everything. Even toasters (http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php).

There's a lot of overlap, and advocates for each will probably point out other things their OSes are good at.

In general, Linux has won the race towards user-friendliness. The recent systemd thing has caused (or will cause) the BSDs to fall even farther behind, because it is fundamentally incompatible with BSD (see point 15 on http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html), and more upstream software will begin to develop dependencies on systemd.

And, in general, Linux enjoys a greater amount of developer participation, which makes it faster-moving.

But, in general, the BSDs have produced more stable operating systems ideal for set-it-and-forget-it servers.

I have to regularly work with Debian, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD systems (and irregularly work with just about everything else, even the occasional Solaris). OpenBSD and FreeBSD kick the crap out of Linux when it comes to managing network traffic. But, for my personal machine, it's gotta be Debian.
Rule One of Management: First, Do No Harm
Honestly, any article that says something like "it never will" is setting itself up for failure. Writing a commentary on current technologies is fine, but implying some knowledge of the future and what is possible is just ignorant and obviously motivated by feelings outside of presenting a true and unbiased article.

The technology isn't perfect, but to say that it will never "work" is just ludicrous.
Nice.. I had no idea!
Woz has been very, very generous to Jobs.
As pretty the site is, i'd love for some info on the landing page. Maybe have a few blocks of text when u scroll down? A few FAQs maybe, like how can i find a hike? Who can contribute? etc etc. The single "Name of a Hike" search bar is a bit daunting. It expects me to know something (which i obviously don't). Maybe consider making the "Discover" Page part of the Front page? Or maybe make it THE front page?

But, still a pretty cool site
the mortgage payment would be at least £200 less each month because of my large deposit. interesting stats though, thanks.
It's been covered before in the many HN threads on this issue. Search is your friend.
"You're wondering what advantages he has?"

No, I wasn't. I don't pretend to know anything about this student. I suppose I could put him into a box and make a bunch of assumptions based on the obvious stats, but that's not how I view people. Every individual has their own life story. So, when I see a woman, a Hispanic person, etc. I don't see a victim or someone who's disadvantaged. You have a different view and that's fine.
I think that it'll speak volumes, not just to the bereaved parents, but also to the employees of Office Max, if the CEO were to demonstrate a true, deep apology. Corporate culture is an important thing.

This is the sort of thing that's serious enough for employees to work on Sunday to fix. My impression, from reading the article, is that they'll start to take it seriously when they get to work on Monday. That's already two news cycles too late for them to undo the PR damage they've done to themselves.
I am shocked that no one has recommended Contextual Electronics yet.

Dave Jones runs the best EE video blog on YouTube (EEVBlog), which also has an excellent forum associated with it. He co-hosts an EE podcast called the Amp Hour with Chris Gammell. Chris Gammell has been putting together a video course on learning how to make hardware for about 6 months now, and session 1A starts tomorrow (the 20th). I highly recommend you sign up (I did!). Check out some of his YouTube videos to see if you think you'd like it (search for Contextual Electronics).
Smoking is Worse Than You Imagined
There is an argument that "shared pain" is the foundation of community within a city.

And by avoiding the pain of commuting, the shuttle riders raise the ire of everyone who does have that pain.
Honestly, the number of people who have at home experiences even close to cinema quality or "audiophile" grade is incredibly few. Most people have average priced HD TVs, a cheap bluray player and maybe a soundbar.

The people who own the systems that they've meticulously picked out and spent thousands on will go to the cinema no matter what, because they deeply care about the media and are willing to pay to see it early on the big screen. It really comes down to people just not caring about seeing movies, and has little to do with the at home equipment.
No reason it can't be both. One usually leads to the other.
I did a write up o how I snuck into tech a while back:

http://jisaacstone.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-get-job-in-2-...

Some points of differentiation:

I did not finish any projects in any sort of demoable state

I did not build a network

I didn't really have a plan

The most important bit is this:

> Learn relentlessly and without excuses

There are enough people hiring that you really only need to demonstrate basic competency and apply for every jr or entry level position you find. Eventually you'll find a place where someone is actually looking for ability.

Tech is as close to merit-based hiring as you'll find outside of actual trades.
How would you know that? Someone could easily spread the coins across many addresses.
> It is a free country, right? People are still free to live anywhere they can pay the rent, right?

That's true, if you're white.

http://www.propublica.org/series/living-apart

http://www.urban.org/publications/410821.html
Cool. Not a lawyer but I think that if you are not copying the main content (just the metadata) AND putting the source in your bibliography you should be okay.

Also one simple way to try to raise money for the site is to use affiliate links to Amazon for any [e]books in the bibliography.
I have an electrict kettle and not once though of it as a "tea making device". There are dozens of reasons I might need boiling water and it's most often used for making coffee.

Another good use is dual-core boiling. When I need boiling water for cooking, I put some water in a pot and turn on the stove. But I also put water in my 2 kW electric kettle and will have boilng water within a few minutes.
This site looks great for inspiration, but for me the most important thing when planning a hike is being able to see updates on current conditions (e.g. is the trailhead accessible? Is there snow on the trail?).

One of the best-implemented hiking sites in my opinion is hikr.org, though the information I need tends to be on local sites like wta.org or nwhikers.net.

In addition to submitting trip reports to wta.org, I keep a record of my hikes at https://zenobase.com/#/buckets/u07qih0a27/. It's a more general-purpose service, but I can filter by any combination of region, hiking distance, duration, season etc.
Ask HN: Cheap Cloud storage for my app
I am building an app which will allow a user to edit personal videos and upload,share with her friends. Users will be uploading videos to my servers. I am looking for some cheap options for hosting user videos...do you guys know of any cheap options?
I am currently at a cafe writing on my iPad, but given that you have just tapped me in the face with an Internet glove, I am going to walk back to my apartment so that I can access a machine which will let me do image editing. One moment please.