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There are a huge number of test flights as part of integrating and certifying new parts. Or even just new algorithms. After passing simulation, want to make sure this new cooldown algorithm doesn't make the engine explode? Apply it to one of the 4 engines and go fly around for a few hours to simulate production load.

So this was probably a test flight that was going to happen anyways, just pick a clever route and now you have a huge promotional thing too!
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Also, this is Node.js compatible - CasperJS is not.
next time you should host youre site on appengine... :)
This looks nice, but there are a lot of sugar libraries over the webdriver protocol, its the smallest part of the problem of real browser testing but it has lots of solutions, the real problems have almost 0 choice.

What I really want is a selenium server 30MB, firefox speaks the webdriver protocol natively, I dont see why a proxy server to a browser needs to be 30MB (40 including chromedriver?, it pretty much needs to launch browsers and proxy requests, the project that launches the browsers should probably be its own project for that matter.

If anyone can point me to a project working on that, I would highly appreciate it :)
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Thank you for introducing me to phantomjs, just the thing I need.
It's so easy to manipulate those numbers. For example, in my 22,000 seat Google Apps domain, we have a 25 seat license for GQueues. .1% of my users use the product, yet GQueues could legitimately call us a customer. For a business productivity tool, that's ... stupid. However, about .1% of users also use engineering design tools from Cadence. Totally different situation there, given the use cases. One should always take these numbers with whole mines of salt.
Patrick's description isn't "good on paper"; it is a spookily accurate reflection of reality thorough enough that I, the Cliff Clavin of Hacker News, was unable to come up with a single thing to add to it, despite the fact that he is explaining my business model (I co-founded, co-managed, and co-scaled the consultancy I co-operate today).

The basic exchange between consulting management and labor is one of risk for upside. The returns from a consulting business can get very lumpy. An employee's income cannot be. They're promised a salary, presumably at market rate (else why take the job), and everything else is the company's problem. Hit a dry spell, employees keep getting paid, and principals don't.

At a well-run consultancy in a hot market (say, software security), there's not much incentive to squeeze employees, because recruiting and retention are expensive and because when you lose a consulting employee, it's often to companies that happen to be fierce competitors. So for instance, if you were instrumental to a deal here, you'd be eligible for the same kind of bonus compensation that the sales guy who closed the deal would be eligible for.

There's room in every business model for unscrupulous managers to somehow cheat employees. But if this million dollar contract you talk about was so clearly the product of your ability and execution, why did you need to be employed by design agency to deliver it? Why did you settle for the promise of a "bonus"? Or is it that, if not for you, some other consultancy would have won the deal, and also not given any of their employees a million dollars as a result?

We've lost team members who moved on to start their own firms. Chris Rohlf, now of LeafSR, was one of our all-time best consultants (and is one of the all-time great vulnerability researchers). With a few years experience running his own shop successfully, and dealing with all that entailed, I know what he'd tell you about whether he had a square deal at Matasano.

Not for nothing, but: if you're at a point in your career where you feel like you're make-or-break for million dollar deals that you yourself could close, maybe you shouldn't be working for a consultancy, and instead be running one.
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My local library has neither broadband nor toilet, but it does have power, and is always quiet. Crazygringo has described my days well, but I also have to coordinate my library time. There are paid workspaces nearby, which would cost about £150 per month more than the coffee shop, which I'll probably try out soon for a month. Working from home I certainly can't do in the morning at least, as I need the ritual of the 20 minute walk to "work". I believe Rene Magritte used to leave home in the morning, having kissed his wife goodbye, would walk around the block a few times, then return home to work.
For the codebase is dark and full of terrors.
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The HN effect.
Zynga are actually "well known" for having a hybrid model and running the steady state games on their private cloud - http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Zynga_Cloud_Case_Study:_The_journe...
Good PR for Nokia, it was a lovely company but I don't see how they are still relevant in this time of Android and iOS.

The Windows phone, while not terrible, is completely eclipsed by the forerunners which have cornered the smartphone and tablet markets, using experience to guide them.

Windows mobile seems to still operate under the illusion that they can dictate how you use your phone, which would work, if they'd been as ubiquitous as iOS has become.
Doesn't sound real. Maybe it's fictional piece writen out of sheer creativity of that guy or for promotional purposes?
Je parle en connaissance de cause ;-) I am not saying the project is wrong, far from it. I think you'd agree that France hasn't got the best fiscality or entrepreneur spirit compared to what you can find in the UK/US.
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It's very difficult to imagine an American company doing this, especially in the face of declining revenue. American corporations have a ways to go when it comes to treating employees like human beings rather than resources.
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Interesting way to do a/b testing
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> Both of those companies made prudent decisions about their brand trademarks by not treading on anyone else.

Actually Apple ran into some trouble with, say, there already being software called IOS before any of the iThings existed. They've been to court over it a few times.
It is more about the approach that keeps them there. i quote-

"Part of what makes Google such an amazing engine of innovation is their internal technology stack: a set of powerful proprietary technologies that makes it easy for Google developers to generate and process enormous quantities of data. According to a senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google, Googlers work and think at a higher level of abstraction than do developers at many other companies, including Microsoft: “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement”
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Scott,

Good to see you comment positively on this.

Does he share your views on openness? Does he listen to the opinions of forward-thinking Microsoft devs?

Do you think he'd read Hacker News?
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That is cheap. I'm in west London and looking at £360.
Nothing in their road map: http://amon.uservoice.com/forums/189097-general

They state its free in the BETA period so I'll give it a try. Pricing looks good too. Monitoring memory on an EC2 instance is tricky at times.
Ah, there.

Another programmer matures, having the same epiphany that every other decent programmer does at some point in his career.

Welcome to [career] adulthood, it's nice of you to finally join us :)
whatever casperjs is as compatible with nodejs as this stuff.This stuff uses selenium,it's not a stand alone solution.
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Seems like t-mobile has problems with routing to that data center / network segment ?!

Doing a little research on some internal tooling, I found an IP close to www.viclone.com (5.135.96.195), namely gemclotures.com (5.135.96.102) that is also unreachable over t-mobile's 4g connection (tried it myself).

They're both hosted by OVH.
I find that can be a quick way to think up solutions without problems!
After checking the docs, it seems the fast syscall instructions force the GDT to be laid out in a specific order. Since the segment values (selectors) are really offsets into the GDT, it makes sense that they end up being the same.
Very interesting concept! I registered, and will keep an eye out for when/if you guys add languages that I speak.
I wonder if it's an error on my end, but my profile says I'm in Arrifana, Portugal. I can only seem to change my country of birth, which for the record isn't Portugal, so I wonder where that is pulled from.
Tim Worstall believes they may have come out ahead on the deal overall: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/30/google_motorola_mobi...
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> For me it is very hard to see what Dylan brings to the table. It's nieche is already filled by more popular languages.

A dynamic language with native code compiler and language features suitable for both application and systems programming.

Plus being a Lisp like language with a more friendly syntax for those scared of parenthesis.
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The main problems with Yucca Mountain were that the site wasn't really suitable (permeable geology, nearby water table, seismic activity). Unfortunately, the best sites for such a long term storage facility would be in the northeast under a geologically stable mountain made of impermeable granite, but those sites were removed from consideration by congressional fiat a while back.
The problem is that game mechanics aren't really copyrightable. Pac-Avoid was likely removed for its obvious trademark infringement (oh, the irony) but you can get away with some pretty blatant ripping off by changing all the copyrightable assets.
Comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl is...

Perfectly valid.

Neither were failsafe. Where failsafes existed, they were disabled.

Bad things happened.

...have delivered decades of power with no problems.

Yet. The externalities are brutal.
As mentioned in the blog post, this pull request is an ongoing effort. There are still changes that have to be made.
My end goal is the expansion of human consciousness; I think there are many paths to that route. Mindfulness. Writing novels. Making art. Music. Advancing communications technology. Space Travel. I'd like to see the world become kinder and happier in my lifetime, and to explore its curiosity.

So as long as I'm doing anything in the service of that, I feel good.
I was thinking that too. It is my humble opinion that dtrace will knock strace out of its socks.
The article says that they cover the 90% of the energy from renewables. It’s not vey clear if it’s the 90% of the electricity or the 90% of all the energy requirements, where they should include cooking and heating. (Let’s forget about gasoline and diesel for transportation.)

The Eigg island is part of the Inner Hebrides. According to Wikipedia, in this group of islands, in August the average hight is 15.7 °C (60.3 °F) and in February the average low is 2.2 °C (36 °F). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Hebrides#Climate . From the article:

> On days that are really sunny - or, more likely, really wet or windy - Eigg Electric has a useful way for dealing with excess energy. "We have heaters in all the public spaces on the island, the two churches, the community centre, [the shop and café] down at the pier. So we put free heating into these buildings to keep the island's costs down and to keep the infrastructure of the buildings dry," says Scott.

So, probably they don’t have air conditioning (or they don’t use it very much), and they are using a traditional no renewable energy source for heating.
Is this a pun on the name, or a genuine critique of the source code?

As having a quick scan of the source code, it looks very well written! Especially for javascript, not many people can write javascript well.
It is not targeting "100% clean energy". It is targeting "100% clean electricity". In Scotland, many times more energy in the typical household is consumed by non-renewable gas and oil, than by electricity. The 2020 target for renewable heat consumption is only 11% because that is a far more difficult and larger problem.
I'm pretty sure it's a Game of Thrones pun :)
Definitely a pun, the "Night's Watch" is from Game of Thrones.
Snarkiness and sarcasm aren't the best way to get people to take your arguments seriously.
The places vary both from one to the next and from hour to hour. The coffee shop closest to me is large, and has a kiddies play area. In the afternoon it is unusable, overfilled, screaming, chaos, but from 5:30pm to 8:00pm closing time it's silent, everyone is reading or working, and it's very pleasant. The next coffee shop along has business meetings and bridge players in the morning, but the afternoons are quiet. There is coordination overhead.
> Code running in 32-bit protected mode can't access 64-bit instructions or registers, of course, but that's a different issue.

That's what I was referring to - in 16-bit realmode you can use 32-bit registers and addressing modes with prefix bytes just like you can use 16-bit operands or addresses in 32-bit mode, and in protected mode both 16 and 32-bit segments can coexist in the same system. But it looks like 64-bit is completely isolated from that, although they could've used some other prefices, enabling access to 64-bit operands (including the extra registers) and addresses from any mode, and also allow coexistence of 64-bit segments with existing 32- and 16-bit segments. Then x32 wouldn't really need to exist; it would just be a 32-bit segment with instructions that use 64-bit operands.
I don't think I've ever been in a home in Scotland that has air-conditioning.

A lot of people here think that 10C is the temperature you start wearing shorts and t-shirts (this is actually to be observed most Aprils when temperatures soar from the ~5C average we get over winter to the ~15C average we get the other 6 months).
So, probably they don’t have air conditioning

Erm no. Air conditioning is not common in UK homes. What's much more likely is heating. I can't imagine a home not having heating in this part of Europe.
It could also be referring to the classic https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenight...
You did, although perhaps inadvertently.

You may want to watch your terminology in the future. In central and eastern Canada, the term "West" exclusively means Alberta (although Saskatchewan is now sometimes included, too, due to its recent Alberta-like petroleum boom).

British Columbia, while geographically more to the west than Alberta, is typically just called "British Columbia". The Yukon is not considered to be "West", either. It's referred to as "up north" or "the territories".
You need heating though. That costs money.
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Very interesting. Is there one that lets you go into 16-bit mode too? ;)
Nice - although I wish they would fix the bugs in those libraries, too.
While I am not sure how well Nokia ran its technology strategy, I completely respect their views on their employees and the society. I think they were one of the earliest companies to think of how to recycle electronic waste created by disused mobile phones.

Also, this article makes me think of the IP stockpile within a company in general. While most companies tries to cash in from their research work, what Nokia has done is to enable the creation of hundreds of startups. I hope more companies emulate such models to help advance the state of the art rather than gather dust in vaults.
FiOS business lines explicitly exist to allow companies to run their own servers and most good companies that self-host build their own hardware. It's not a "franken-rack" (clever term), it's pretty common industry practice (google even builds their own server hardware). That's why you hire 2 or 3 guys who know what they are doing. Hell, I barely know what I'm doing and I've probably helped cobble together half a dozen such setups over the years.

In some industries, designating some office space for your "server room" and building it out to data center specs is pretty common and surprisingly not all that expensive. I'm surprised by both that lack of can-do attitude here on HN as well as the basic know-how about it. I guess the demographic here skews towards young-hip-cloud-framework-I-don't-know-how-to-do-anything-for-myself-everything. But it wasn't all that long ago that buying some empty 1u and 2u cases, and sources parts from the local hardware shop, installing them in racks that you bolted to the floor of your server room, that you fitted out with redundant backbones, industrial a/c and enough amperage to blow out the transformer down the street was what people actually did and it's not that hard. Hell, one of the points of RAID was to enable companies trying to save a buck on such setups to exist in the face of very expensive enterprise class hardware disk options.

(edit) and this is exactly what they did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155165
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As European, I have been always put off by the work conditions there.
Excuse me, based on which experience or do you claim that it was bad code? Based on which experience do you claim that there should be more comments? It looks to me that you don't have anything to support what you say, and I'd appreciate you showing me the opposite.

Have you actually ever programmed anything for Linux kernel? What have you programmed that would be relevant and give the weight to your (for me dubious) claims?
Different Unix systems take different syntax for specifying the section. Long ago I learned to say "man -a read" and just get _all_ the "read" pages, scanning for the ones I want (and sometimes learning about things I didn't know were there).
You are not downvoted because people think it's a "rant against Koudetat" but because what you are stating in your post is completely wrong
Both wrong; from the site:

"Nightwatch got its name from the famous painting The Night Watch by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The masterpiece is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam - The Netherlands".

http://nightwatchjs.org/guide
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He's not talking about climate change; he's talking about heat sinks so your nanobots don't literally vibrate themselves apart before doing anything useful.
I agree, the comparable layoffs in the US would be the thousands of Motorola layoffs after the Google takeover. Haven't really come across anything coming out of them like in the story.
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Thanks. I am sure there quite a few IPs in that range probably belongs to OVH. I think the problem is on T-Mobile's end as some of the other people complaining about 504s were not hosted on OVH.
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You three should get together for the game :)
Do you mean that, before asking for a monthly fee, Koudetat never asked for equity instead?
(can you tell us more about the Koudetat+ new name? I thought it was to differentiate the two models)

As for the third point, do you mean it's easy/common to do business in France without 'Crédit d'impôt recherche', 'JEI', 'Accre' and the likes? Or are you saying that tuition cannot be subsidized in France (formation professionnelle)?

I've looked at Koudetat/The family before. Back then, I thought 'YC-like, without the seeding part', but maybe I didn't get it.

Please note that it's not easy, even for french people, to understand the Koudetat/TheFamilly duality (but it's become easier with this fee-based business model).
There are multiple ways to look at this. In one respect, you could say that this generous "easing redundant employes out the door" policy hurts the company and the employees still in place as it diverts money that could be spent keeping the company in business by refining existing products and developing new ones. If the company goes under, everybody is hurt. And if you're not careful, your employees that can help the company the most may try to get laid off in order to fund their side projects.

On the other-hand, morale must be terrible at places like Nokia and Blackberry right now. Programs like this help the company as it creates loyalty and helps keep good employees in place as they know that there will be assistance if they do get laid off. But once again, it could create or hasten a death-spiral. Employees can see that these layoff programs are expensive so they may bail out to get theirs before the money runs out. Tough times. Touch choices.
Well shut the front door! Alcohol blamed on death? Would never have guessed that...
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(Not a C person here, but I'll ask anyway)

What should I use instead of these things if they're so dangerous?
I'm pretty disappointed then :(

Fiscality has never stopped anyone starting things. Issues actually appear on the long run only.

Comparing US versus UK versus FR is a non-sense if your ambitions are global. You can start anything in France. Money is cheap, Engineers 3x less expensive than UK or US. And there are plenty of people unemployed looking for a great purpose. It's a wonderful play-field for someone ambitious.
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There is also http://www.graphdat.com/ for another light weight server monitoring (first server free!)

While both are great, I think New Relics value is in all the application details you can get for "free"
This is equivalent to the server monitoring of the New Relic platform, but not the application monitoring side of things, which I think is what most people pay New Relic for.
Careful modern designs can give you a "zero-heating" house - even in the North East of Scotland, which is a fair bit chillier than Eigg:

http://www.ecbcs.org/docs/Annex_38_UK_Aberdeen.pdf

[I own a property that is at the other end of the spectrum from a "zero-heating" house - we have parts that are effectively impossible to heat, so we don't even try.]
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The threshhold where instead of the nuclear power the uranium would have been mined for, they use coal power instead; and pollute aboveground reservoirs for future generations?
Many of the man pages for the function say "don't use them." OpenBSD let you link against "strcpy" but screams at you if you do.

Also, what's pickle? PS: don't type "man pickle" into the google, you won't like it.
Hardly anybody in Scotland has aircon.

Most likely the islanders use oil for heating - that's what most rural places in Scotland have to use anyway.

Housing stock in scotland is often old and very poorly insulated. Although it is very rarely chicago-style cold - once per decade it might hit -20C - it is cold enough consistently enough that heating is used for a good 9 months of the year.
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How do you mean? strcpy and friends aren't buggy - they work according to the spec, and you can't just go and change an API that literally billions of lines of code depend on. You can only provide new, better alternatives.

If you mean the buggy software that uses the unsafe C APIs (and is not careful enough), then, that's exactly what those posters are about.