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The call to Stripe.charge.create is blocking, in the sense that the server can't start processing a new request while it's busy waiting for a response from stripe

Would this even be an issue if you're using e.g. Apache (multiple threads) with mod_wsgi?
Windows or Mac only, pass.
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I work on mobile applications at an investment bank so the rich can fiddle with their money from their diamond plated iPhones. Does that buy me a ticket to hell?
> I expect better from Krugman.

You're kidding right?
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But that's the thing. In healthcare, we do find disparities in terms of things like race/ethnicity/national background, social standing and sexual orientation.

If you are born in the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead, you are likely to live eleven years longer than someone born in to a family in the much poorer Somers Town/St Pancras area.

If you are a sexually active gay man, you are more likely to contract HIV/AIDS than if you are a heterosexual. If you are an Ashkenazi Jew, your children are more likely to suffer Tay-Sachs disease.

If you are setting medical policy, you will sometimes need to target particular communities for intervention and prevention.

These factors should never be used as a reason for providing lower quality of care. But if an observable trend exists that is causing a particular problem for people in a specific community, it should be permitted for considerations of minority status to be taken into account for deciding health policy.

Like, I'm okay with the government spending less money and effort telling childless people to vaccinate their kids than the money they spend telling parents to. I'm okay with the National Health Service putting a free condom dispenser in gay sex clubs and not doing so in primary schools.
My "favorite" feature is the case class airity limit of 22. Is that ever a fun one to discover the hard way.
Actually, I read a book a while back by someone who was in Argentina when it crashed. He said people were using small lengths of gold chain as currency.

Regarding bitcoin muggers, that would be quite difficult if you take elementary security measures. Your life savings don't go in your phone wallet, they go in a paper wallet that you keep in a safe deposit box.

Enforcing lending regulations is easy: don't follow the regulations, don't expect any help from the state if the borrower decides not to pay you back.
Well, I find it quite interesting to know that even the Ottomans enjoyed anal sex

Seriously, why the hell is this sort of things on HN?
Others have mentioned ZFS. I'll add that my experience is that FreeBSD changes things less often and keeps things more compatible when it does (e.g. network configuration still uses ifconfig, freebsd hasn't adopted any experimental init system and is unlikely to until one becomes proven stable) and is thus lower-maintenance.
If it was a legal issue, everyone would be scared of shipping not open graphics drivers as well.

Richard Yao from Gentoo summarizes it quite well (http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?79312-ZFS-On-Linux...).

I don't think lack of manpower has been the only thing preventing it. I think idealogical issues are the main factor.
The $110 trillion is the 1%.

The 85 or whatever have ~1 trillion pounds.

(These figures are from the articles, both the Guardian story and GP post link, but nice guess)
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The question then is, is this (c) a part of the merit? It seems to me that not entirely so. If this is part of merit then inheriting a factory is also merit of the person who inherited it, which contradicts my intuition.

Of course, knowledge as such is in public domain, which is a state of affairs I am perfectly happy with. But I guess I can imagine a system where it isn't (just like factories of dead owners are not becoming public domain), so I cannot be completely ignorant to the issue of who owns that knowledge (unless I want to be really poor).
Please ban comments empty-linking to Wikipedia articles.

At the very least demand they contain, say, ten characters of contextual wording to discourage this lazy kind of argument.
Thanks, that's better than your first pass, though I'm still not buying the story. My social engineering effort worked though.

I'll freely admit I find this confusing. And that's with having studied this shit in school and worked in the financial industry (in trading no less).

There are a number of methods of getting inside or around the order book, most of which involve breaking rules. But the regulators aren't even playing catch-up, they're so far behind.

HFT is very time sensitive, operating at or within the 250 microsecond window -- that's the time a light beam takes to travel 75 km. So one way of jumping in on the order is being, say, a few thousand km closer to the exchange than some other trader.

As to limit orders (and you really haven't explained how the order book avoids this), by beating others to the trade on both sides of the order, the HFT can get in and spin the equity, taking a cut, or stealing your trade (you look to buy at $100, seller is at $99.99, HFT buys at $99.99 but finds a buyer at $100.01).

The point is that by inserting themselves between other traders, by virtue of speed, HFTs skim a proft. It's small (and was enabled largely by decimalization), but can be made up for in volume.

The saving grace is that the HFTs are up against one another (at least until they start colluding), so they're weaving complexity traps against one another that wear down the advantage. Though there's the risk of more flash crashes and other disasters resulting from processes they barely understand themselves.
It is FUD. Gentoo is choosing to ship the modules:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?79312-ZFS-On-Linux...
It's been a long time since i've written any asm, but I just did this. You're almost correct; 0x3866 contains 2 pieces of information, 38 and 66. so you should end up with 0x6638
Do they mean full postcode or just the first part though? Both are called postcodes.
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pulse-audio has been a mess from the beginning.
It's not inherently a problem; it's relatively a problem, given that swapping shares around each other creates no value (i.e. nothing of use to the world has been created), but the rich could instead blow it all on actually creating something or rather, paying for people to do work that leaves the world more actually wealthy (by which I mean, not "has more money" but "has more value"; Bill Gates stumping up cash to help wipe out Polio will leave the world phenomenally more wealthy, but with the same amount of once-owned-by-Bill-Gates cash in it - this is an extreme example of how to do it, but with the very rich it has to be extreme, because unlike poor people, the very rich simply can't spend a significant amount of their money feeding themselves and having a room redecorated and going to the movies).

Also, would it really be so bad if the stockmarket was less speculative and the benefit from owning stock was expected to come in the form of dividends? Everyone would have an incentive to make companies reliably, long-term profitable instead of prone to boom and bust.

Edit to answer the below: Yes, that cash does come from some very wealthy individuals, and what they're doing there is paying for people to do work that leaves the world more actually wealthy (hopefully - if the business crashes and burns when it turns out the world doesn't want shoes that are also electric bananas no new wealth was created). They're hoping to get a lot of that new wealth for themselves, true, but lots of it goes elsewhere too. They're not just swapping shares around; they're actually paying people to do things.
Cellphones are very common in third-world countries. If a currency works on a cheap smartphone, most of the world's poor will be able to use it before long.
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I can't speak for much of the other languages beginners environments, but ruby's was excellent. codeschool, codeacademy, railscasts, stackoverflow, and an 11 week developer "boot camp" in Boulder were my leg up. Most important thing is to try to find a mentor! In person or online, pay for one if you have to (elance.com). There are some things a mentor can tell you in 10s that might take weeks to figure out without help. Stackoverflow is not kind to noobs.
I bet these are the features you're not using yet:

git checkout -p

for discarding hunks from the worktree, and

git reset HEAD -p

for unstaging hunks from the index.
Yes, that's what happened to me as well (vacation in France, some time ago). I was shocked. There was no protection if I lost my card.
I've spent a few hours reading the history of Pixar (it's controversial as to what role Jobs had, particularly around the "founding" - which he really wasn't) - and while I've come to the conclusion that Steve Jobs had very little (if any) role in actually running Pixar, he appears to have had some "catalyzing" effect - Issacson never really dived into that aspect of Job's personality - it might be his negotiating skill (which was epic), or his reality distortion field (which I think even Jobs fell under the influence of) - but from the very start of Apple, he just believed in a series of realities, and did whatever he could to change things so they came true.

Now, he didn't always win (most memorably in his ejection from Apple by the board), and sometimes this egomania had catastrophic effects - from his personal life, and most likely to his own health, where he refused to accept other people's opinion of what the best course of action was. You can argue and shape some people minds, but ultimately you can't win an argument with nature.

It may very well have been the case, that without the bad, there could never have been the good - they were inexorably linked.
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no sheet. Of course, they do it to increase the number of business opportunities for US (and all other) companies. More people who play the game means more workers or buyers, means the economic show goes on...
Missing from the article was a discussion that the SD-HD conversion was driven by a different form factor... the mere presence of a flat panel widescreen as a way to show off someone's willingness to spend money.

4K isn't going to have that major (primary?) draw because it'll look exactly like a HD screen when its shut off.

Aside from the whole "not improving the gameplay or the experience" thing.
In theory a donation of $1 in the US is exactly equivalent to a donation of $.70 or so in the UK. But psychologically it seems that people are much more willing to donate more and get money from the government.

(The other thing I've wondered about is how much of the US's charitable donations are simply tax fraud).
"And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time."

Nothing more need be said, really. This is the very definition of character and integrity.
That's a mighty flexible set of moral values you've got there.

The people NM was violently active against were also, as it turns out, acting violently against him, in the name of an absolutely abusive system.

And when he emerged from a 27 year captivity, he forgave them. Instituted and oversaw a peace and reconciliation process. And worked to heal rifts. Which is why he is absolutely revered around the world.

The same cannot be said of Ulbricht's actions and motivations.
The most powerful git feature John Kary just learned about.
These linkbait headlines drive me crazy.
Actual definition:

haptic: of or relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception.

Smartphone and console definition:

haptic: buzzy fingers

Something is, indeed, lost in the translation.
> Sadly (speaking as one) - technologists are for the most part fungible, you can swap out one for another.

The willingness of members of our profession to believe and repeat this bit of absolute nonsense is one of the primary reasons our industry is such a shitshow.
You're right. But are we better off? Stolen money from Creit Cards is refunded if I'm correct. Stolen money from my Debit card is not refunded. I am to blame...
Cur.to/hackernews
A social network aggregator based on topics. Just type cur.to/[anything]. Example: cur.to/hackernews
It's pretty useful, but it's also fairly easy to end up with an untested commit that doesn't really compile.
What usually works for me when I end up running around my code:

1. Force you to start coding, I mean just write something, start solving an issue

2. Because I hate leaving something unfinished, I usually follow up with a pretty good session. My main problem here is that 90% of the time, I start feeling like I need to play again, hate myself, and realize I don't even have time to play because hours are gone.

On the other hands, sometimes just going out "refresh" you and you are good to go again. I have friends in another city (friends who aren't computer related at all, none of them know the first thing about dev), I sometimes go spend a week with them and I don't use a computer or internet and I don't need to.
The only reason CoreOS is interesting is because most Linux distributions are bloated beyond belief.

FreeBSD is not bloated, and as such doesn't need something link CoreOS. And the things that etcd does can be accomplished in numerous other ways.
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Missing the forest for the trees.

Taking the two most populace countries:
- China per-capita income, in 2011 dollars:
1984, US$432
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This is a great way to understand Git, thanks!
The idea of putting regular policemen in special attack forces seems like a disaster waiting to happen to me.
Google and Yahoo! are hiring. They get you well-above the salary range you are targeting. While it is not fair, when you said "php" experience, I thought ... wait is this a script kiddie or someone with a CS degree. This is unfortunately a rap that php has. Do you have a CS degree? Know other languages? If you are in fact a guru level php dev, you should consider applying to Facebook as they still use php last I heard. Best of luck!
When the American West was growing up, the trendy thing to do was enshrine laws into one's constitution or city charter allowing for direct democracy via ballot proposition: every election day, there's a bizarre slate of proposals to consider, and any that receive 50+% become the law of the land. This even overrides the decisions of the legislature or courts.

One result of this system is that in California, the needs of the few, or the one, outweigh the needs of the many. Don't want to pay high property taxes? Pass a proposition locking in all existing homeowners', and let the future generations get screwed. Do you live in a tall building next to a parking lot, and you're afraid someone will build there and block your view? Pass a proposition forbidding it! Worried that lack of tax revenue will keep you from getting a raise at your government job? Pass a proposition mandating a certain level of spending on your special interest.

Everything is arranged to prop up the established ones. Seniority is the most important thing you can have -- most statements at public hearings begin with, "I've been living in this city for 34 years, and I think..."

For other examples of status-quo-preserving red tape, google [CEQA] and [SF discretionary review].
Or perhaps just a rare disease/disorder and some other data-point would be enough to de-anonymise some data. It'd be like a massive sudoku ...
So this is basically trying to fix the problem that bit coin just does not scale very well.
Instead of using Colored Coins, I could just as well use dogecoin.

btw, are there nice shibe that could help me get started with some doge? DUCHVurpx2s7s3VnXWFtcvodRatoEL2ccv
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Why even mention the super rich in that sentence?

Building a personal app for Bill Gates shouldn't make you feel guilty.

Being a net negative drain on society through your profession should make you feel guilty regardless of circumstance.
You must be too young to realize that Krugman is too old to use the word derp.
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You are not expected to feel „white guilt”. You are expected to acknowledge the privilege you have, to avoid its abuse, and to avoid perpetuating that state (though of course keeping awareness of the costs and benefits of such actions - nobody benefits if you just burn all your money and remove other privileges by bodily harm, for example).
"... selling records can actually put the artist in debt."

Yes, of course. It's no different than startups - if you take on $500,000 debt to start your business (a.k.a. make an album, promote the album), you will be in debt until you sell enough product to pay off said debt.

The best venue for artist to earn money are tours and merchandise.

A good new year's resolution for us all is to "Stop talking about stuff you don't know about as though you have experience with it."
Note libnftables was just renamed to libnftnl http://www.marshut.com/imyzmp/libnftables-renamed-to-libnftn... A later, higher-level library will probably get the name libnftables.
Awesome I'll take a look.
The important thing to note is that we are all apparently working to benefit the super-rich. In fact, your options to the contrary are pretty limited.
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Why no do it and just ship whatever you have after 4 months?
I use mostly the terminal, but when doing more advanced stuff like interactive adding, rebasings or cherry picking, SourceTree is my main tool.
Most of that revenue is from selling EVs to Daimler and others. But it does look like you are right about the 2010 number being off..

Tesla celebrates 1000th roadster: Jan 12, 2010

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-celebr...

Full Year 2010 Results
"Tesla delivered its 1,500th Roadster during the [4th] quarter."

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-motors...
There is no issue with non-free drivers, since they are explicitly licensed by the copyright owner to be redistributable by anyone and they explicitly installed/enabled by users, so Linux's license is also satisfied.

ZFS could be shipped in a similar manner to drivers, by requiring explicit user action to enable (I believe this is what Gentoo are doing). However, it makes a lot less sense for a filesystem, since the switching costs are much higher than for a graphics driver.
If I only ever read my news from sites like torrentfreak, I too would think kim was an awesome, super guy. It's not hard to diversify your news sources...
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We already do. Take for example the basic virus scanner.

The whole anti-bodies system works very similar to hash scan method currently used today. Until adware/virus/worm gets marked by a hash (from the providers database) the scanner really doesn't care.

The major failing of this system is unlike the real world (or possibly like the world with the advent of genetic research) you have a lot of very smart people continually attempting to defeat the status quo system. Nature luckily, doesn't have the malice or know-to as a much of dedicated hackers.
People have published papers on breaking bitcoin anonymity. It wasn't trivial, but over a long period of time they could identify people with decent probability of being correct.

Zerocoin will completely fix this.
Who says that visionaries can't be egomaniacs? And, in the case of Jobs, who says that he could have been an effective visionary without being an egomaniac?

I don't think I worship Steve Jobs, nor do I think he's a hero. But I don't think anybody can second guess what he accomplished in his many careers. If it had just been the Apple, we could have ascribed that to Woz. Or the Macintosh, we could have suggested Raskin was the key, Or Next was all about Avie Tevanian, or Pixar was all about Lassiter, Or iMacs all about Jonie Ives, or iPod all about Fadell, or Apple 2.0s resurgence all about Tim Cook, iOS was all about Forstall, or the iPhone/iPad...

But, there's a common thread to all of those creations - and yes, behind all of them were massive collaborations of incredibly talented people, lead by inordinately brilliant designers, engineers, and architects - but in the center, unreasonably demanding and pushing, was Jobs.

That's all I think we need to give him credit for, but no less.
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> Turned out to be a contract-killing, drug-dealing, law breaking psychopath.

Libertarians like myself generally don't have a problem with the drug-dealing and law-breaking part. The contract-killing is unfortunate, I agree.
Interesting post. Right now I am where he was when he started. I want to learn Android programming. Every night I spend 1-2 hours working through a Java book or an Android book, or one of the Coursera Android courses. Progress is slow, but steady.
See if they have a book or other project to publicise.
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http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/

It takes a lot of gullibility to be a fan of that guy...
Well, I've got to be able to use git on Windows, Mac, and Linux, the last two possibly over SSH. Is there a GUI that would work well in all those environments? Someone just mentioned tig, which might be able to do the job, but I haven't tested it out yet.
He means if I type 'Seattle, WA' then what is the 'search radius' around Seattle that I will get for hikes?
Heck, most of the interesting stuff in the Jobs bio was sourced from this site.
On DigiKey I can find a bunch of PID controllers in the >$200 range. I suspect that the $30 figure comes from a discrete package that made economic sense long ago when one had to use op amps and tuning pots to build a PID circuit. Even though microcontrollers have disrupted that market, the ancient PID controllers will stick around in supply warehouses as long as the machines which used them need replacement parts. $30 (or $200) could be significantly above the original manufacturer price if the parts are no longer manufactured but are still in demand. If one has only ever heard of PID controllers as "the semi-magical black boxes used to solve control problems" then one might make the mistake of only looking through the purpose-built controllers rather than looking for the cheapest uC.

As for your separate note, I noticed that inconsistency as well. I never figured it out, although by that point I was ~70% sure the whole analysis was botched so I didn't spend too much time thinking about it.
A fair point, thanks.
Is GCC 4.8 a quirky mess?
Fortunately git also makes it fairly easy to test only those changes that you've staged:

$ git stash --keep-index
$ <compile/run tests>
$ git commit
$ git stash pop
I find the opposite, that the most adult and mature folks I know are interested in fulfilling their social responsibility.

They may not be interested in the straw-man version you've proposed, but your definition is not the end-all, be-all of what "social responsibility" is.
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And this is how pretty every command in darks works. So it really encourages you to commit small and independent patches. And after darks will easily do its magic.

Want to revert some one week-old change?

darks rollback -p "That change name"

As easy as it gets
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