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> Good point - however, keep in mind that bug fixes would need to be made in two places.

Only if the bug actually occurs in both implementations. This does happen sometimes, so it's indeed good to keep in mind - but my experience experimenting with these kinds of comparison tests hasn't borne this out as the more common case. YMMV, of course.

> Not only does it mean the maintainer needs to grok two pieces of code, but they may have to determine if the original code is providing bad truths.

I find automated comparison testing of multiple implementations to be extremely helpful in grokking, documenting, and writing more explicit tests of corner cases by way of discovering the ones I've forgotten, frequently making this easier as a whole, even with the doubled function count.

> Hopefully there wouldn't be many places where this type of testing would be required as the low hanging fruit is often enough: however keep in mind certain industries do optimize to ridiculous degrees - and in some of those industries optimization can happen first depending on the developers [well-seasoned] intuition, and can be a frequent habit.

I don't trust anyone who relies on intuition in lieu of constantly profiling and measuring in this sea of constantly changing hardware design - I've yet to see those who've honed worthwhile intuitions drop the habit :). Even in the lower hanging fruit baskets, it's frequently less a matter of optimizing the obvious and more a matter of finding where someone did something silly with O(n^scary)... needles in the haystack and where you'd least expect it.
He means that you can't just easily remove Glass when you are doing things like entering public restrooms or a movie theater. Sure, you could bring along the special screwdriver and sit their unscrewing it, but I don't think that's practical in most situations you might want to remove Glass from your head.

You can remove your glasses, but many of us who wear glasses can't easily get by without them. So, that if we really want to wear Glass in public attached to our glasses, we have to bring two pairs of glasses with us everywhere.
Coin is a hack, it's a neat solution to an annoying problem which is going to disappear for other reasons, and it shouldn't even work.

It shouldn't work because US credit cards should have some second form of authentication on the card (chip+pin) like is in place in Europe. I'm sure this is coming, and it will (and should!) break Coin.

But even this isn't the interesting part... both of these systems will be destroyed by models like Square.
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I work with a mostly blind woman and her seeing-eye German Shepard service dog. Amazing dog. All the puritan whining about dogs assumes its a standard issue frat boy bringing in his basset hound, but the puritanism melts away like ice from a blowtorch when its the blind lady instead of some frat boy antics.

All the stories about poop everywhere and people getting bitten and fighting amongst the rabble remind me of when my kids were toddlers. I wonder if I could bring in my kids, as long as the poop ended up in a bag and they don't bite too many people.

It seems more than a little ridiculous. Instead of "working" for 12 hours a day but spending half of it Fing around with your dog, why not work 8 hours and go home and play with your dog at home? Or if you're only "working" for eight hours but spending half of it playing with dogs, why not honestly work part time? Or why not just work at home, or flex time it to the max, or whatever? It just seems the most complicated possible solution to a simple problem.
And site seems down :-)
I think it's just a usb stick with a bootable Linux OS on it? If so then honestly $7 is kind of expensive for that. I can get a USB stick for $5 and that's with postage from Amazon. I would think that in bulk and for charity you could get the prices down a lot more.
Right.

"Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/10/how-many-americans-act...
typical. you have to be an idiot to use facebook in any way
well hello there little bobby tables!

http://xkcd.com/327/
Eve Online is a place where you literally see people grind away to make money for a living, but you don't care because you are working some angle against their trades while battling effing pirates gate camping at Amamake. No one really shouts racial slurs in anger, more disinformation or propaganda while shooting the shit. There is power alliances you cannot reckon with, there are trolls you cannot defeat.

Boring bits for certain professions aside no other game gives you the depth EVE Online does. Spreadsheets rule everything around me.
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I just wish I could actually understand what he's talking about half the time!
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WHAT!? NO!
Sigh... that's a really stupid idea. And what else would you want to revert to what time exactly? Give Wrocław away? Maybe also the tri-city? And get some of the Turkey instead? Isn't the worst part of Polish history about other countries annexing parts of it when there's noone to protect it? Yet you propose to do exactly the same thing here.
Oddly enough it works perfectly fine in Chrome Version 33.0.1750.46 beta-m but it doesn't load in Firefox V 24.0, V 25.0 or V 26.0 so something is wrong with the page.
It seems to load the iframe but instead of loading the whole page it just loads some widget div with nothing in it.
Yeah, because passive aggressive people who do things out of spite are great in a workplace. Instead of bringing roaches as your pets or rage-quitting maybe you can take it up with HR first, or god forbid your coworkers, especially if the reason is allergies (you didn't specify)?
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EVE Online and Star Citizen both happen in space, but they're not a lot alike aside from that; the former is a point-and-click tactics 'n strategy simulator where a "skill" is something your character eventually levels up and becomes able to do whether you've been playing the game or not, and the latter is (will be) a first-person joystick-and-throttle space flight simulator in which things like combat and trading depend on the skill of the actual player, rather than an updated modern equivalent of rolling a d20 to see if you can beat a number on your character sheet.

Also of note is that Star Citizen is helmed by the same person who was the driving force behind Wing Commander, which all of us space combat sim aficionados remember fondly as the game which got us into the hobby -- a hobby which has been experiencing a severe dearth of new titles for most of a decade, now, more or less. Given all that, it's not terribly surprising what happened when Chris Roberts showed us a pre-alpha video of the game we've been dreaming of playing for most of our lives and said "Here's the game I want to build. How much is it worth to you to be able to play it?"

(Sources: I've had friends who played EVE Online, and investigated the game fairly thoroughly a while back with an eye toward possibly getting into it; I've donated $140 toward Star Citizen so far, and will probably buy another ship or two before launch.)
The article implies that a change to Google's search algorithm leading to a decrease in organic search traffic to businesses could in turn cause an economic downturn because the company that gets the click instead might be too small to fulfil the sale. So the big company loses the sale, and the smaller company fails to complete the sale, and the economy spirals because there's only lost sales.

What the author doesn't seem to consider is if the smaller company fails, the sale still happens - the buyer will move on to the company ranking number 2 (the big company) in the search listing. The cost of business has gone up, admittedly, but arguably that improves the economy by getting more capital flowing around rather than harms it (dubious, but the entire premise of the article is dubious, so nevermind).
Muslims find dogs offensive, so I doubt you could get away with it.
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Please explain!
And if you dont want to explain, please show some code? This sounds really interesting.
"The $7 PC to bridge the Digital Divide and provide Personal Computing to 5 Billion people all over the World."

How is a flash drive a "PC" ?

Interesting idea, though... definitely solves the problem of people having to know a lot about security to benefit from it.
Is the voiceover on that video computer synthesised speech? If so it must be the best I've ever heard...
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why cant they just send an old fashioned text message with a pin code... then use that pin code to open the door.

messing around with bluetooth sounds complicated
You can unscrew the Glass device from the frame, but the right leg is shorter to accommodate it so it won't sit on your face properly.
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If this isn't ironic, I don't know what is.
I did something similar few months. I've been developing webapps using django for a while now. But my frontend skills (html/css) had always been very rusty. I decided to improve it by building a personal website without using any frontend framework or doing any server side development.

It was an interesting exercise. The output is here - http://archisman.com/
I expect backbone forces you to follow good principles such as separation of concerns (data-model from UI code etc.)

However, it's still possible to follow good principles using your own design and JQuery, which means you're tied into one less framework and have more flexibility.

If you're developing with a small team, or on your own, then maybe you're disciplined enough to go down the more flexible JQuery route.

If you've got a larger team, then maybe you need the more rigorous constraints of a framework like backbone to make sure everyone is coding to a sensible structure, and you don't end up with 5 design ideas merged together in one big mess.

That's my thoughts anyway. Frameworks can offer essential constraints to help avoid a mess but they might be an unnecessary burden of constraints aren't required.

If I was doing a project on my own. I'd use JQuery and unshackle myself from a higher level framework. If I was working in a team, I'd favour the safety of a framework to prevent too many people doing things their own way.
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I think this is it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colortiger...
I'm involved in rabbit rescue and have 7 at home. Once in a while if I'm taking them to the vet I'll bring them to work with me in carriers. Coworkers come from all around to fuss over them, and the rabbits love it. They're closely supervised and used to being handled.

One day during an important meeting the CIO picked Earl out of his carrier, a tiny 2-pound grey netherland dwarf who knows he's cute and rides it for all it's worth. She spent the whole meeting with him in her lap -- Earl probably thought we were all there for him.
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Network bandwidth and disk I/O may also bottleneck more significantly, depending on the application.
According to man 7 signal, killpg works for this
What are the ethics of human-robot relationships?
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Do you dislike dogs? Are you allergic? I get that you are saying you don't want to work in an office with dogs and would find it unacceptable, but explaining why would be helpful!
Panflute Hero, RaspberryPi powered music hack inspired by Guitar Hero
I smell a DEF CON talk coming...
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I should have expanded it on a bit as the information isn't in the recode link.

The left leg is normal length, the right isn't[1] as it needs to allow space for the device to fit in, due to this even if you remove the Glass device from the frames you'd need another pair of glasses on you anyway to wear instead. So you're looking at a pair of regular glasses, your Glass glasses, and if you're like me and it's summer time (or you live somewhere less miserable than England) potentially a pair of prescription sunglasses.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/28/5352592/google-glass-presc... "Unfortunately, these new frames won't really work without Glass. Because the right stem is shorter than the left, you won’t be able to wear them comfortably on their own."
Yes, but I realize this is horribly politically incorrect because everyone has a right to reproduce, even if its at everyone elses cost. It seems especially if its at everyone elses cost.

In another post I bring up the excellent point that the proper solution to the 11 hours in the office problem isn't making the 11 hours more bearable by Fing off for several hours per day, but perhaps only spending 8 hours in the office per day. Or less.

My wife did half days at home for almost a decade while the kids were little. They trusted her to work at home during an emergency at 3am, so leaving work in the afternoon to pick up the kids at school then working at home from 3pm till 6 or whatever was no big stretch of the imagination, even for "big corp" "dilbertian" management. This is obviously only applicable to cubie/desk jobs not manual labor.
Well, if you enjoy that then have fun with it. But I don't think you should bemoan the fact that most of us find other things more interesting.
Nope. Everyone's posting "in character."
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Couple of things:

1) www.hnsearch.com had three sort options: relevance | date | points. It would be great if the new search also have all three options.

2) Please make your legacy style exactly like the old one. That style matched HN style perfectly. Right now there is an extra line which links to the HN thread (we are used to clicking the comments link for that) and the way comments are displayed feels not right.
> Why doesn't the US implement chip-and-pin?

The consumers don't implement chip-and-pin because they don't control ANYTHING.

The retailers don't implement chip-and-pin because they buy their point-of-sale terminals from some supplier and they choose the cheapest one, which only has a magstripe reader, not a chip-and-pin reader. They're not losing any business this way because everyone's card supports magstripe readers.

The card issuers are actually kind of interested in chip-and-pin, and have been for a couple of decades. But there are some serious problems. The cards cost more, and it's not fun to shoulder that expense without some benefit. Worse yet, the chip-and-pin cards are harder to use (you have to memorize a pin) and that loses customers. A couple of experiments with more advanced cards (notable the American Express Blue Card which had some SERIOUS advertising money behind it) have been abject failures.

But this is all about to change. The rate of credit-card fraud by organized crime has finally reached the point where the credit card companies realize that they MUST act. While some of the cost gets pushed onto merchants, the majority is absorbed by the credit card companies and that's cutting into their profits. They can start issuing chip-and-pin capable cards, but it won't help because there aren't any reader terminals in the US. So they've found a way to fix that problem: by pushing the cost onto someone else.

Starting in late 2015, any card-present transaction done with a chip-and-pin capable card (or chip-and-signature which will be used more heavily in the US because of that usability issue) which is found to be fraudulent will be the liability of the merchant, not the credit card issuer, if the merchant had a magstripe-only card reader. This, they hope, will finally change the US infrastructure, motivating major retailers and mom-and-pop small businesses throughout the country to spend collectively 100s of millions to billions of dollars on new card reader hardware.

SOURCE: I work for one of the top US credit card issuers.
Ask HN: are w3s certificates useful?
http://www.w3schools.com/cert/default.asp

Should I take the certifications from W3, or is just useless? how many among you have one?
The first library I did for my compiled experimental PL was a HTTP server, pretty similar to what you describe.

I wonder about the performance and reliability of libraries like those (Go's http package, Ruby Sinatra/WEBrick, etc.); if they can be used in production.
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> I don't want to be operated on by a stressed-out doctor who's at the end of a 36-hour shift either.

Good point.

> That's why profitability is not my only concern.

It isn't mine either; I wanted to point out that even in the most selfish, profit-focused world imaginable, there'd still be an argument for blurring work and play for at least some types of jobs.
Absolutely. Those are healthy parts of a clean shutdown, which is what SIGTERM was really asking for, isn't it?

InnoDB is designed to recover gracefully from a SIGKILL, too. The journal task is "saved" for later. That's why they tell you in DBA school, "don't use MyISAM tables. They're not safe." Because if they received a SIGKILL or power outage at the wrong moment, writes could have been lost. Amiright?

What you don't expect is for a process that receives SIGTERM to fail hard, and require an expensive journal recovery or suffer some unrecoverable data loss as a result.
Nokia's Android phone might come with 4-inch display, 5MP camera, Google Play
If you add marketing, shipping, employees etc - the cost is actually extremely low.
> They could allow occasional work from home.

They do, the post was written by somebody working from home.

And their business is manufacture and retail of microcontrollers boards and breakout boards. Most of the job is either R&D creating electronics (require expensive, usually shared, physical equipment) and handling the production and sale of their manufactured equipment which requires being on-site.

> No instead they create The Dog Policy, the Dog Agreement and The Dog Tribunal Management.

That makes sense. When you've got 5 people and 2 dogs you can handle it informally, when you have 150 people and 45 dogs you need a bit more structure to it. Reading the timeline, the alternatives were basically implementing a solid framework or banning dogs altogether.

> In my previous job colleague was bringing dog sometimes

It was one colleague doing it sometimes. Not a third of your colleagues doing it regularly.
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I thought the same thing, though i'm quite sure it is a human speaking.
A true shame, I used it to research everything before buying. I guess we should click on Google ads to be "good" netizens
That's cool. I tried setting up a linode server to host my own sites and FAIL. I'll tackle it again when I've got more time. I'd like to do this using erlang or elixir.
> Why would you think people would view you as a retard?

In the past, I have been classed as dumb by many different people. The term "intelligence" is hard to define, especially these days with lumps of silicon and metal being used to predict the weather up to five days in advance and simulating nuclear detonations. Because of this it is very open to interpretation. The closest I've got to a reasonable definition is nicked off Greg Chaitin, a researcher in information theory:

Furnish an intelligence with a block of data, if the intelligence can compress the data, it has achieved some understanding of it.

When it comes to writing basic programs, I'm most experienced in C. Something simple can easily turn into 600 lines of drunk double dutch.

> There, if you have difficulties to express yourself, it's just a matter of interview training. I am sure you will do well.

Unfortunately, I hardly ever get interviews. I have trouble getting a minimum wage job. The last interview I attended I mentioned writing a C program to determine the positive square root of two to fifteen decimal places without resorting to the standard library. As soon as I started trying to explain how it worked (just successive approximations then squaring the answer to check it), I think I blew their fuses.
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Palestine can claim all it likes: their government offices are not physically located in Jerusalem, and the location of those offices is what a Search user needs to know.
The sovereignty claim (who controls a solar system and it's station) generates an in-game bill that needs to be paid by the corporation owning the system. In this case a Pandemic Legion holding corp in Nulli Secunda held the system. Enough money wasn't in the right wallet division, or the auto-pay glitched, and when the bill came due their claim dropped.

When sovereignty drops like that, it's free game to claim the system and station, generating a free for all frenzy. In this case it was Pandemic Legion's staging system with a good deal of their forward staged assets stuck in the station that they can't access until they retake the system and station.

Honest mistake or glitch, who knows. The corp CEO is claiming on reddit that it was a bug and petitioned it to the game developer CCP to have the sovereignty rolled back, but it's kinda hard to tell what's truth or just PR spin. CCP doesn't roll back losses like this often (I think it has happened like once or twice that they've rolled back sov)
As a long term employee at PayPal, it has always amazed me how much of the bad rep we carry is because of the abstractions we bottle and sell as a company. Money, banks, credit, identity, regulation, fraud, cash, etc. are all loaded, fragile and complicated systems on top of which online payments is built and it is a very different problem as compared to sending and receiving e-mail. Money itself is thousands of years old and is not an invention of the internet. It is done differently everywhere and the sheer number of middle men involved is expected but still mind blowing.

A good payment system has to fix the leaky abstractions below it someday somehow, to be really great.
I've found that if I don't change my pronunciation but correct the word when it's underlined blue it gets more accurate, I'd assume Apple does a certain amount of training based on it, but I think most people aren't willing to train it too much.

I like using it when I'm cooking though, so it gets a lot of "Add a timer for 25 minutes" "Remind me I need more tomatoes tomorrow" and so on.
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From what I can gather it was no glitch, just someone forgot to pay rent for the station which let anyone claim it.
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Be serious. Courts usually take a very pragmatic view on this and take intent and context into account. HN linking to the Gawker story is seen differently than piratebay posting magnet links, even though the level of indirection is higher in the latter case.
I think there's an important difference between starting from scratch this way, and trying to transition an existing, say, hundred person company from scratch to this policy.

Presumably at the interview it's pretty obvious what's going on, and people ought to be fairly self-filtering about this. Diversity is good, right? You ought to be matching the company to your needs anyhow.
Well, it's clear he says one route is more optimal than another.

It's not clear techies actually donate checks, however.