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your worship dies; and then, maybe, I'll be so dumb that I'll not say a
word until the end of the world, or, at least, till the day of judgment."

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life; moreover, it naturally stands to reason, that my death will come
before thine; so I never expect to see thee dumb, not even when thou art
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I suspect there are still a bunch of people unhappy with the dogs around, even with the tribunal.

We allowed dogs at our office (until we moved to a new building that forbade them). It was fun when there were a handful, but when there got to be about a dozen it was terribly distracting and only fun for the owners. I think most people are relieved we don't have them anymore.
It's interesting ,but the abstract lacks any concrete details, like feature size in nm. Does anybody has access to the paper , and can share such details ?
Dog walkers are a simple option.
Like others have said, on Android you can use App Ops, and if you're on 4.4.2, App Ops X ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colortiger... disclaimer: I developed it).
It still sucks that you're on an "open" platform but you still have to root/jailbreak your phone to keep your privacy.
Seems silly to have a dog if you're just going to leave it at home for 10-11 hours a day, 5 days a week.
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I am a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. I generally bill myself as the "&" in R&D, bridging the gap between academic researchers & mathematicians and mainstream software engineering. I.e. I can do a bit of classifier design, but most of my focus tends to be on build systems, automated test systems, parameter tuning, data quality monitoring and all the nuts-and-bolts stuff that most researchers don't want to be bothered with. I am way too OCD to spend my day producing "research quality" code, and too wary of BS for my output to be just research reports and academic papers. I prefer shipping product, if you know what I mean?

I lost interest in DeepMind when I could not figure out what their business was after a couple of interviews. (The startup that I was previously working for had just run out of money). More fool me. Heh.
>An exact real-life currency figure of the in-game damage is not currently cemented, but unconfirmed estimates put the amount at more than $200,000

Always wondered how much virtual money generated during a day and what is estimation for real $$. What percent of that $200k is real money?
I don't think it matters. As long as it's their siblings, parents and kids.
Sure, but I think it was clear from the post that throwaway092834 prefers to actually help people over being seen helping people.
It's a big obstacle to uptake only if you have a choice between direct debit and something else. Almost 100% of the time when an organisation has to use direct debit, GoCardless is superior to the antiquated incumbent solutions.
I really love dogs, but this is just nuts. Pets belong at home, not at work. A dog tribunal? Talk about a waste of company time.

I understand that in certain companies (with sky-high margins or money to burn) the line between work and play gets blurred more and more, but that's in stark contrast to the rest of the economy. I can understand that certain people outside of tech (who are struggling) are starting to get a bit restless.
>I love this because it should decide once and for all whether linking to "infringing content" is actually a crime or not.

That's already been decided, multitudes of times over many cases. Adding indirection to infringing material does not shield you from liability.
Just like your country annexed part of Czechoslovakia at the beginning of WW2. Some people never learn.
His point is that there isn't a difference in python: in both cases you're just changing labels, but in the case of integers they're pointing to immutable objects.
And where an internet provider not even included in the original case joined in only for the pursuing justice. XS4ALL has always claimed to be fighting for a free internet, with this case, they proved it to me.
This is just publicity whoring.
From memory, the Z80 and x86 don't have a reset instruction. On a 286+ you can fake one by triple-faulting.
One thing I always liked about couchdb, aside from its other merits or faults, is that it was designed to be a crash only service. Meaning that the normal, correct way to shut it down is just an abrupt halt of the process. This means that functionally there's no difference between a normal shutdown and a crash or a killed process. This is quite valuable for a service where data integrity is important.
No system I've been exposed to was defeated by a simple replay attack. You needed the shared secret and the click count (plus proprietary algorithm), which would be incorporated into the OTA message. Most LF systems are pretty low-bandwidth as well, and lock out quite quickly.
If this is not spoof, it illustrates well how startup turns into corporation.

They could allow occasional work from home. No instead they create The Dog Policy, the Dog Agreement and The Dog Tribunal Management. If someone has allergy or wants to bring his baby, they introduce another 10 agreements.

In my previous job colleague was bringing dog sometimes, I just asked him to keep it away from me (have serious allergy) and problem was solved.
Not to mention that some people have a dog phobia.
When I played EVE, I don't remember being directly affected by these things...I never joined an alliance, just sort of hung out in isolated systems and explored wormholes and tried not to bump into too many people..it was great fun.
It actually looks like a pretty cool game - the description reminds me of Elite brought up to today's standards. I can't help but think of this, though:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/online_gaming
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That makes me wonder why "eliminating unused sections" isn't a default, as it feels like the compiler is doing a lot of unnecessary work if it's generating 1.5M of output that actually has only 20k of useful stuff in it.
To be honest, I don't understand why anyone uses Windows as a server OS, except for things like Exchange servers. I'd probably not use HyperV because I'd only be running Windows in a container on a Xen machine with primarily linux VMs.

Any particular reason for choosing RHEL? apt-get is so much better than yum in my experience, and if you go with the support contract, you're adding $1,000-$4,500 to the cost of the server over 3 years. That's a pretty substantial bump that I'd rather spend on more RAM...
I just use the web app, when I use FB at all. The value/intrusiveness ratio is pretty low.
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I don't think CCP publishes any hard data on this, they keep information like the exact number of subscribers and the number of PLEX sold secret.

The real money values always thrown around in every article about a big battle in EVE are also rather misleading as most of the ships were not paid for with real money in my estimation. The big alliances have huge incomes from ingame sources from which they finance the big expensive ships like Titans and the ship replacement programs for the smaller ships for their members.

You also can't convert the EVE ingame money (ISK) into real money, or at least not in any CCP-sanctioned way.
Now what if you have a function that returns an int, which you want to use as the input argument to saveScore? You'd probably use a conversion function that returns a Maybe Score...
It's a nice problem we have that there are several programming games out there that I keep confusing them...my first thought was that CodeCombat was the $170K Kickstarter that ran into some drama last year...but that is Code Hero. Does anyone know how it's doing? This is the latest update I've found:

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/15/code-hero-one-year-later-m...

Its Twitter account hasn't updated since 2012.
> I understand that in certain companies (with sky-high margins or money to burn) the line between work and play gets blurred more and more, but that's in stark contrast to the rest of the economy.

I think that the blurring of the line between work and play is a Good Thing in some sectors, namely engineering/tech/creative jobs. Creativity comes out of playtime, not worktime.
The vast majority of players in the NCAA tournament have effectively zero chance of ever playing, much less starting and making millions, in the NBA. Consider the automatic bids that go to conference winners, the benchwarmers and walk-ons at even the top tier schools, etc. Remember, only 60 people are drafted into the NBA every year (not counting the rare players that enter through the D-league).

Edit: So, "yes" is my response to your question
Or allergies.
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> This isn't because C is more popular, but because it is a low level language.

I consider C to be high level enough to be reasonably portable and expressive, but at the same time low level enough that it can do a lot of things higher level languages can't.
Civil Law systems (e.g. much of continental Europe) make no distinction between licences and contracts, so the licences would still be enforceable under contract law in the absence of copyright law. This of course leaves the glaring exceptions of Common Law systems, such as the US, UK, India and Australia. IANAL, so I have no idea if it would be feasible to rewrite e.g. the GPL to work under Common Law contract law.
In that case, bullshit again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_smuggling
Soooo...HN (or whoever posted this) is now also infringing, since it's just more indirection? And anyone now linking to HN is also infringing? I think that eventually encompasses the whole of WWW.
I occasionally have to visit offices where a single dog is brought in - they always smell strongly of dog, and often the dog will come and "greet" me. I'm not particularly keen on either of these aspects and as such it really puts me off visiting. I would certainly put that high on the list when considering taking a job in such an environment.
The game's subscription model is actually implemented in such a way that you can have an item (a "Pilot's License Extension", PLEX) that represents a month of account time. PLEX can then be bought and sold by players in-game, at whatever price they're willing to agree to. There's a fairly active market for them, so a USD -> ISK (ingame currency) conversion ratio can be calculated.

Of course, there's no (officially sanctioned) way to convert PLEX back into USD, so such comparisons speak more to CCP's profits than anything else.
It's not just allergies. I'm partially sighted & have very little peripheral vision. Some people have brought their dogs into our office & there have been times where I have accidentally "kicked" the dog simply because I have not seen it on the floor (and was not expecting a dog there anyway).

I like dogs & don't mind having them in the office but I certainly think it needs to be made very clear where the line lies when it comes to "me or the dog" issues.
I presume this is a spoof.
Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around. It's really not an acceptable working environment.
So while I'm sorry that I interpreted your comment incorrectly as defending the "fraud prevention is hard so let's marginalize the minority" argument, I wanted to make sure that I expressed my dislike for that mindset before it took hold.

So you're saying you were in too much of a hurry to jump on his back to read what he wrote? At least put the apology at the top of your comment rather than at the end of all the excuses.
I'm not allergic to dogs I just hate them. This is totally unacceptable behavour by an employer.

If this is true I'd want nothing further to do with that company.
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It took me a bit too long to figure out that you weren't implying they use their dog as a toilet...!
Jita my dear, I miss you.

There was a period were some alliance set siege to the gates in. System time was slowed to the extreme.

Heavyweight traders dropped out, I ran my Minmatar craft about making enough coin to pay for several PLEX. After the siege profit margins slimmed back to their normal percentages.

Lovely game.
There is, almost at least[1]. You can go to their conventions in Las Vegas by paying with PLEX.

"Regular price is $200 but if you have 15 PLEX..."

[1] http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vegas-2013...
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One crime doesn't excuse another. However, a discrepancy between sentences indicates either that one sentence was too harsh or one sentence was too soft. It's a valid question to ask which is true.
The sad thing is that if Opera 12 is/was your favorite browser (as is mine), you will very likely hate Opera 15+, because it is the very opposite of everything that made O12 great. O12 was the most customizable browser and O15+ is just a mediocre Chrome clone.

Opera is actually doing their Linux users a service (albeit not on purpose) by not letting them see the travesty of a browser that now bears their name. I wish there was no Opera 15+ for Windows, at least then I would keep the hope for more good versions, instead of knowing that the best browser has died.

By the way, there is a project to create a free browser inspired in O12- - http://www.otter-browser.org/
Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I did say "one or more models in the factory," i.e. not 100%, because you clearly stated you didn't mean that. I just thought it wasn't completely clear that you weren't both talking about compromise in the factory. I guess I misunderstood you.
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I was wondering if this would be legal (I'm in the UK). Obviously they don't have an issue but we have pretty strict equality rules and I'm not sure culture would be a valid excuse to allow such exclusion.
It's not just dependant on traffic, other factors include:

o How deep the page request is (as Apache cascades it's checks down the directory structure, so /article/year/month/day/page.html could look for a .htaccess file in 4 different locations before even reaching /.htaccess.

o The IOPS of your storage (super fast SSD, slower NFS server, SAN? etc)

o And whether your host OS has done any file caching (dependant on if a file exists and if it's been modified outside of the OS, in the case of network mounted file systems)

So the only way to know precisely would be to benchmark (a basic load test should suffice). However if you're running a blog on a VPS and you occasionally have articles hit HN and other aggregators, then disabling .htaccess (amongst other free tweaks) could be enough to prevent your site getting DDoS'ed offline if/when you hit the front page.
Some very large companies let people bring dogs to work - Mars being the one that comes to mind. If you wouldn't like it then I guess it means it's not a place for you to work.
I presume this is a spoof. Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around.

Are you serious? I once worked for a company where a cat was living on the premises (belonged to the lady who was cooking lunches). That's still one of my best workplace-related memories - both the cat, and the fact that lunches were pretty much "home made" food.
Yep, switched from my custom mutt+offlineimap setup to using the FastMail web interface entirely a while back - and I very rarely miss it. Sure I could filter my email a little faster having one SSD all to myself rather than sharing IOPs with other users, but it's still plenty fast enough for my needs - and if it isn't, then I know it's time to get better hardware or find something to optimise in the code, because other users are feeling the same pain.

(optimising the code can be the tiniest things too - I stripped a misguided optimisation just the other day, for about a 10% speedup in some very common operations. Just removing a flag single test as every character was appended to a buffer - even though it meant having to potentially do a malloc and memcpy in the degenerate case - is a win overall in our tests)
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First encouraging the copyright infringement, then profiting from it, does not speak in Gawker's favour.

In my (European) country a kid was convicted and fined for copyright infringement for maintaining a list of links to pirated movies. It all depends on details and interpretations, and the analogy and logic you provide may not apply in a court of law.
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I played EVE for a while; actually as part of one of these giant corporations. I'm not sure how fun it'd be without being in one, as they tend to insure you against battle loss and it takes long enough to grind the space-mining-simulator even with their support.

The other thing I remember is that these "Battles" were extremely frustrating, and very long lag-minigames. e.g. get instruction over teamspeak, everyone targets a ship and if you are lucky within the next three minutes your UI will respond and fire a shot before you randomly got targeted and exploded instantly (this was server lag, as the client would run reasonably smoothly). Even giving CCP advanced warning about where we expected to have a battle they said there was "nothing that could be done" and basically refused to acknowledge that there was a problem.

That, plus the fact that living in the UK generally meant operations were extremely late nights, meant I dropped it.
the interesting counter though is that people end up being more likely to be "stuck" with something they really don't like, and get to have it happen in slow motion (see the gripes about gmail).

I wonder if that that makes it easier or harder to convince people to use alternative software
In slightly related news, $37.5M has been raised in pledges for a space simulator that still has yet to be released: https://robertsspaceindustries.com.

There has to be something about space that makes people toss money at videogames.
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Agree with you about enterprise being a more exciting space. I think the appeal for me comes from the fact that enterprise clients are a lot more likely to pay for something useful than consumers.

The company I work for is currently building a corporate travel booking system. There are hundreds of competitors out there, but all of them approach the problem from a financial system integration perspective. We try and take the "consumer" approach and apply it to a corporate environment - building products that look like a consumer product, but has all the backend functionality that a corporate would need.

So far it seems to be working!
The interesting thing about Benford's law is how widely applicable it is. Most sets of numbers you come across in your life are likely to follow it, or at least have leading 1s be more common than leading 9s. As such we should definitely be considering it when trying to decide which rounding rule to adopt in the general case.
"If a process doesn't respond reasonably to SIGTERM, then you should consider removing it from your filesystem."

That's an overreaction. I've seen programs refuse to respond to SIGKILL for reasons out of their control, like getting stuck in an NFS transaction or other "unusual" filesystem and the kernel being unable to process the SIGKILL. "Listing a directory" is not exactly a crazy thing to do.

And no wiggling out by saying "well, that's the kernel, not the process", the process never gets a chance to "handle" SIGKILL, so it can't really screw it up, either. Arguably, all such failures are the kernel; the kernel should not expose any sequence of calls that causes SIGKILL to fail, and over time they tend to be fixed (I haven't seen this on my modern Linux machine in a long time, even playing with some funny stuff), but it has happened and will probably continue to happen as new stuff comes out.
"Some serious incidents took place during this time, like bites. Most of the bites were workers from other companies onsite to do their normal rounds, like delivery drivers. Fortunately no serious injuries ever materialized [...]"

What are the insurance ramifications of all these dogs? I'm astonished that the fact that dogs have already attacked people at SparkFun didn't cause them to rescind the policy of allowing dogs. Just how serious does a bite have to be, anyway?
I love dogs, but I also have an allergy :-)

I believe that type of stuff is covered under Workplace Safety Regulations. If company allows dogs on premises, allergic reaction would be treated as work related injury. Probably too expensive for most companies.

Also I would be careful before putting "Must love dogs" as a job requirement. Unless you run pet saloon its in the same category as "Must love girls" requirement.
Did you consider taking that position to its logical end before proposing it?
The problem is presumably getting everyone to agree and move at once. Same problem with all the early 90s Internet protocols. Chip n PIN really messed up though, it was a big opportunity for change.
IANAL, and I'm not sure about US law, but this could be a problem for any laws against disability discrimination, if a dog allergy is counted as a disability (it could be, the UK legal definition is pretty broad).

On the one hand, I don't think the law should be heavy-handed about this. Nothing wrong with variety, and smaller companies should be able to try things.

On the other, its not people's choice to be allergic to something, and maybe that shouldn't prevent them from taking employment where they are otherwise a good fit. And what about if an employee develops a dog allergy? Do they have to quit, or does the company ban all dogs?

A tribunal to sort out these issues seems like a really good idea, and hopefully will find a way through these issues that preserves the culture. Kudos to Sparkfun for trying!
If someone tried to bring dog to my office, next thing I will do would be to ask permission to work from home. If that doesn't work, I'd look up for another job. If that doesn't work, I'd buy rats and cocroaches, and bring them to work with me as "pets". But, there's no way I'm going to sit in the office full of "nice dogs" and pretend that doesn't affect me.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I am not allergic to dogs and yes, I don't like pets, but I also don't mind having dog or a cat around when sitting in friends house. But, I just don't feel safe in a presence of dogs, and there's no way I would be able to do anything useful the whole day except watching over my shoulders to make sure the beast is not somewhere near me. Whoever wants to impose that kind of feelings to me is making me bad, regardless of his intentions.
I think it's okay for the topic of conversation to move from this particular money laundering case to recent money laundering cases in general. It wouldn't be reasonable for BTCKing to use the HSBC case in his defence, but that's not what is happening here. This is a discussion about a news post, it makes sense to widen the discussion to include other related news topics.