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It happens.

One of the interesting things is that I work for a company that for the most part is still small enough to not need badges for people to recognize other employees. We have largely resisted issuing badges with photos because of questions on how to do it while increasing security rather than decreasing it.
Can someone please build a Grunt GUI that I can drag-and-drop project folder to, to watch multiple folders?

Prepros is the closest software out there now, but it's not extensible like Grunt.
VAC has never been particularly effective. This check isn't particularly useful as it doesn't actually prove that a player is or has ever cheated. It's also trivial to bypass (`ipconfig /flushdns`) if you are an actual cheater who frequents these websites.

To be banned because you visited a website is also an abusable medium. Similar to the memory and window name scanning VAC and other similar anticheats have done in the past (or continue to do). You could historically get people banned by just doing stupid things, like having an IRC title that shows up in mIRC's window name that's detected or sending someone a message via any chatting medium that has a detected substring.

Imagine you just send a tinyurl link to your opponents in an upcoming tournament. Or just embed a simple <img> tag in an otherwise harmless webpage (display: none, for example) so everyone who visits your website has that domain fresh in their cache. This kind of "evidence" quickly becomes useless because it can be used for nefarious purposes, which is why it should never be used at all.

This is not only ineffective, it's dangerous. And it's an invasion of privacy since you can simply create a rainbow table of domain names, as other people have pointed out.

Come on, Valve.
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You could argue that he was fishing for the question. I'd rather not assume that when there's a perfectly reasonable charitable interpretation. But I see no evidence that he was "trying to raise a mob". His actions, as far as I can tell, are perfectly consistent with having good intentions: it would have been a bit rude, perhaps even cowardly, to just disappear, the question of why was inevitable (as you said), and he answered honestly. If a mob raises itself, that's really not his responsibility. Really, it's not. I can't see what he should have dinner differently.
The "Celebrate UberX in Chicago" event was "disingenuous and insulting"
The old classic: http://slashdot.org/
As I see it, the customer didn't get what they paid for. Instead of getting back a partial refund for what they didn't receive (4 beds vs 3 beds) they were refunded the fees that AirBnB charged - which according to AirBnB was because the host had already been paid out the rest of the money. Clearly AirBnB is capable of refunding this guy, regardless (or at least I'd hope they have more than a few hundred cash on hand for incidents like this...)

Ok, so customer didn't get what they paid for. Company takes a hardline stance & refuses to work with customer beyond telling them to buy an air mattress with the refunded fees. Where else does the customer have to turn at this point? The chargeback.

The whole point of putting it on the table and giving a 1 week deadline is exactly that it will hurt the business. You know it and they know it. Now suddenly they're not the only one with bargaining power in the relationship, so they might actually offer a partial refund of the actual rental based on the difference between what was offered & what was received. Or they might stick to their guns & fight the chargeback if they think they were correct in their initial assessment.

The chargeback is really like a turbo button - it boosts you up real quick past the grunt level CS people to actual decision makers who can and will do what they can to avoid the chargeback and maintain a positive relationship with you.
Big fan of kqueue() mentioned in the article. IIRC with sockets, it not only tells you if the socket fd is ready (say for non-blocking read), but even informs the number of bytes available to read which allows you write efficient code (i.e. not to some fixed buffer where you may need to loop in again to see if more data needs to be read).

Also I think for files/directories, you can listen for any changes that occur.

Wish this was officially available in Linux.
I believe most people start ideas because they feel the pain and think they can solve it.

Whilst it's yet to be seen how big the monetizable market for this concept is... the pain people experience is all over the world everyday.
Aren't a lot of sea navigators sailing between the north pole and magnetic north :) I suppose that will change though.
At Microsoft almost noone wears their badges on lanyards, most employees carry them in their wallets.

There are lanyards and attachments that sorta work this issue out, but in the end it comes down to training employees to keep their badges facing out. This somewhat works for Boeing.
OK, I'll bite.

- Why does the circle make it harder to see at a glance? This doesn't seem to be true at all.

- If you can't stop someone, you're not going to be able to read the number on the badge. I don't see any reason why your employee number should be on the front. It definitely doesn't enhance security at all. People faking badges can fake numbers too.

- I'm not sure about your points re: cost or smaller employers, I mean, sure, but I can't imagine that cost would be a huge barrier - more likely changing out equipment would be.

- Badget photo backgrounds probably need to be plain, but as long as it's a photo you can be reasonably recognised from, I'm not sure what it matters. Simply by growing a beard you can become pretty hard to recognise from your badge photo from 5 years ago.

- I agree that the employment classification is probably good to have on the badge, but only because of annoying BigCo obsession about it. In practice, I'm not sure why it would matter much. When I worked at a big company it was just a political tool to remind consultants they were inferior.
There are so many people dipping their toes into hardware now, it's great to see a course designed around the practical aspects for them.
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Even as a single developer, I find the effortless branching in git a killer feature. Even with the poor (from a human perspective) implementation of EGit in Eclipse, the ability to experiment in branches while preserving a "last known good" point would be hard to give up.

Add to this the effortless sharing and "cost-less" review provided make git a clear winner.
Its hard to say whether this disassociation is really good for anyone. Its probably a fair assumption that some exchanges have accounts at Gox to take advantage of their (formerly) higher exchange rate. If my speculation is correct Mt Gox while being dissociated may protect individuals, but could doom other exchanges if they have significant holdings there. Individuals wont know until its too late.
That really depends on your business. If you make an operating system, for instance, clean code is probably in your best interest.
To give you an idea of response times, here's a live AirPair going on now from someone that saw the hackhands post this morning and followed through to get Rails help with AirPair:

http://youtu.be/1Tp9_nFUhLQ
The most annoying issue to you, is that you click the wrong button, and it does what it's supposed to do?
We cache everything, but this simply takes care of not having to think about it. It might not be the best method, but it sure is the least troublesome/least cognitive load when things hit the fan.
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> We already have business cards or mobile devices w/ NFC if it's necessary to transfer the email address in a persistent form.

Probably not with NFC itself--it'd be somewhat physically awkward to tap a card on a lanyard around your neck against someone's phone.

But since a conference is exactly the sort of situation in which you want to leak contact information promiscuously, putting RFID chips in the cards would work well. Or just putting QR codes on them.

(Doing it with QR codes would actually serve a great double-purpose, if you got the app for it right: you'd say "hold still for a contact photo!" and then get a record of their face and their contact information, associated together.)
Full-bleed dye-sub panel ribbon printers aren't all that expensive - under £2k for a current model Evolis printer.

And most card suppliers doing 5k+ cards will offer card pre-printing services, allowing you to have sheets of [blue, green, whatever color] cards printed and die-cut, leaving you to simply print the photo and text.
OS X has had OpenCOLLADA built into QuickLook (as well as Preview) for a few years now.

That said, it can still be fussy with many scenes.
Ok, paraphrased : "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" - Walden

Not so very much different.
That's incorrect. They are downloading games that are clearly not Flappy Bird and driving those games up the charts. They want that specific mechanic or a variation of it.
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Yet that's what the OP describe. Remember, the edge was a "mountain" to begin with, you have some wiggle room. That's the observation that the whole paper is based upon.
On #3 it may be worth penalising those who do it during annual events like the Boston Marathon, Wimbledon, etc.

Accommodation is extremely hard to find and highly competitive at this time and the host should factor this in.

If it becomes an annual thing that hosts cancel and allow gazumping ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazumping ) then it will seriously damage the AirBNB relationship with renters as AirBNB will become an untrusted place for accommodation during such events.

It is so hard to find replacement accommodation during such events that the inconvenience is greatly multiplied.

(And annual things go for conferences too, SXSW for example)

I would go so far as to suggest that during events the relationship be inverted and the renter be given more weight than the host. Once the host has priced fairly, they should be penalised harshly for causing great inconvenience to a renter. The extra money during such events already more than compensates the host side.
They already use them - OP didn't show an example badge where they're used. If you have single-person access to secure areas, the white area around the background color will be red.
> As said earlier in the thread: Because of the North Star.

But that doesn't explain why north points up. It only explains why the compass rose points north.

As the article says: "These maps had no real up or down — pictures and words faced in all sorts of directions, generally pointing inward from the edge of the map."

So now you have another step: you have to orient the map. Why north at the top? Why not "orient" the map so that east faces up? Or west? Or south? The compass rose is just a reference -- you could face it in any way.

This is why the article comes up with all sorts of explanations and then finally says that it was just a convention established by Ptolemy. Because at every step of the way between the North Star and north-up, you could ask "Why this way? Why not the other way?" And then when that is answered, you could ask "Why?" again. And so on.

But when something is arbitrary, then there is no "Why?" to be answered. It's just arbitrary.
This isn't really true. You just need to configure a redirect from the naked domain to your serving URL, at www.

For example, my site (justbeamit.com), runs on GAE, but the naked domain simply redirects to the www.
I love it, but I have one suggestion: show the employee's name on both sides.

For some reason, I have a hard time remembering names (but never forget faces), so I often glance at badges to try and remind myself what the person's name is. It's always a bummer when the badge is flipped around and I can't tell who it is.
Damnit you guys, stop editing!
If you're in a small empty room in the middle of a neutron star, you will be floating weightless, but you're still at the bottom of a gravity well. Since it's the well, not the acceleration that affects time, time will tick slower for you.

(Don't try this at home.) (And if you do, don't touch the walls.)
Oh, thanks. When I posted it all it got auto-killed.
I think that goes too far. We have a context: the convention of reading with the letters facing up, orienting pictures with words, etc.

You want to see where a hand compass is pointing, you turn until the needle points ahead or 'up'; then you read off the heading (or the other way around). Not too far from that, to writing it on paper that way.
If it is a statistically rare event then offering a full refund shouldn't be much of a hit to you. If that's not the case then you should let renters know up front that there is a statistically significant chance that despite reserving a room, they may not actually get a room.
If you're using Chrome, there's a bug in recent versions that seems to butcher font rendering at random.

Try popping open the inspector panel, and the fonts will magically correct themselves.
I am glad that you app can be actually served as one packaged piece without download size having any effect on performance. In my case loading everything is slower then loading needed pieces when needed. I am not talking about loading each view separately, i am talking about splitting application into "sections" and load each one when context is switched.

And yes, what we do here does make sense in production.
Definition I come up with for prominent is "important and well-known".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prominent

And that is what the definition and typical usage for me (and observed by others) has always been. (Perhaps for a non american speaker it is different).
Is there a bulk license that Microsoft sells for a good price?
>You can sit there and tell me your company is worth $1B, but your equity is worth $0 until you can actually pay out on the stock.

Right, just like you're worth $0 the minute you don't have a job, and not, say, some value that is tied to how much you will be earning momentarily. Since you are worth $0, it only stands to reason that unless you can sign your next software engineering job within 2 hours, it is better to immediately accept any job in the city where you can start the same day, for example maybe a McDonald's will hire you for $6/hr. Since you are worth $0, of course you should accept $6, since it's infinite times what you're worth. It's like someone making $60K being offered a $10M job. Jump on it! /s

Meanwhile, here in the real world worth isn't "$0 until you can actually pay out". If you can't judge a team and startup, then by all means, this job might not be for you. But the idea that equity is worth $0 until it's paid out, is akin to saying that the next version of some product is 0% finished until you can buy it in stores, at which point it's 100% finished.

That might be useful to an outsider, but it's rather silly to someone who knows the situation more closely and is trying to establish whether it's worth something or whether they can meaningfully contribute.

Why did John Carmack join Oculus Rift, even though it's "0% finished" in the sense that you still can't buy a retail version in stores?

Because he takes the time to come to a much more reasonable valuation of company status and where it's going.

Your comment is no better than saying your exact worth is just your next paycheck, or that products are 0% complete until they're shipped, or that companies are worth $0 until an exit. Pure silliness.
I think the real answer is that human beings are reviewing the apps. (Machines now at least check for apps making private API calls and stuff like that, but that wasn't the case in the beginning of the App Store.) There are a lot of different reasons for rejecting apps, and there are a lot of apps being submitted every week, so it makes sense for violations to occasionally slip through the cracks.
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For a few years now, the QR code has become extremely famous and widely used by companies around the world. Following the same style from traditional barcode, it allows anyone to create a new drawing with the information you want.
The simpler UI is quite pleasant to use isn't it! I wonder if companies would benefit from holding internal '4096-challenges'?
"Bed Type" doesn't mean it's uniformly that type, it's sort of the max of the class, so it's not terribly useful. It would be nice if it was broken down by number of beds (it is on some sites), but that's more of a nice to have than the norm.
Yep, and VS isn't really "complete" without resharper which is a shame because the full versions of VS are already quite expensive.
Wow, that page led me to the fact that there is such a thing as centrifugal force... And all these years spent trying to correct people. Oh well, you live, you learn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere
Could your performance problems be closer related to http://news.rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-a... than the performance of Django or your code?
Everytime something C# is posted it's all about MS and why some like or dislike C# or .Net, rarely are the comments related to the actual article.

Personally, I think this new feature is cool, but I've come to realise that my visual studio freezes way more then initially, I think this might be because I've got a few addons installed (ex: Demon, Resharper ...etc) I wonder what will be the overall performance impact of this.
There have been several threads on HN about ultrasonic networking in recent months. One was a simple chat client, called Quietnet [1]. The other was malware called BadBIOS, which has the ability to communicate over hi-def audio [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7024615

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654663
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You can also compile from the cmd prompt with devenv .
Why does the circle make it harder to see at a glance?

I think I see what he is saying. It takes my eyes a moment or three longer to "digest" the person I am looking at in the concept examples, and to my non-artistic not-a-photographer mind, it looks like an issue of framing.
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Not that I'm aware of. I've seen classes labeled as "Fundamentals 1," "Fundamentals 2," etc. I guess just like any other class or course, a lot depends on the instructor. Don't let a bad experience keep you from looking for other courses, just inquire in advance what the course will be covering.
On OSX, many of them can installed via homebrew (I was just using mtr).
You are thinking of Peter Venesses (Coinlab/Alydian), not Roger Ver.
My point is that basic internet access is essential, but speeds above what are provided by basic DSL are a luxury. Its insane to regulate all cable providers when all you need is to subsidize DSL or wireless.

Unlike Norway, the U.S. is not an oil rich nation that has a culture of throwing money at infrastructure. It also has extremely pernicious rural versus urban politics. You regulate the cable companies as a utility, you'd kill capital investment in the networks.
Ooopsie. Deleted the word 'intended'.

Write for your intended audience and not people like you/your friends (or english professor). In our international/global economy the audience often extends to non-native English speakers. Simple words on e-commerce sites generate more international sales.

PS Morose is not "very sad" :-)
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As an aside, the tun/tap interface in Linux is a fantastic way to muck around with lower-level networking without getting into the kernel or hardware. Essentially, it creates a virtual network interface, except instead of hardware, data goes to your userspace program. You can then just do a read() to grab packets and do whatever you want with them, using Python, Ruby, or anything other programming language.

I wrote a prototype proxy in Go that can split network traffic over two Internet connections using some hacked-together tun code[0] and everything happens in userspace.

[0] https://github.com/erjiang/tuntuntun
There are always exceptions and outliers, and Skype is a good example. However, SAP? Never. It's a massively connected consulting shop, and they have always been. Their software is just incidental. There's no innovation there, it's Office Space meets House of Lies.
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Hi Brian,

Your cancellation policy, as well as others are not balanced on either side.

I'm a host -- and I've been a guest. Once.

As a host, I get to choose the verification level I will accept; as a guest, I'm basically forced to hand over my government issued identification to AirBnB (to "verify" myself)

Now, I'm sure that if this was pre-Snowden, there might be some justification for this; but given that AirBnB has already had over 10,000,000 million night booked with them, it seems fairly arbitrary to require guests to provide this information.

On the other side of things, as both a host and a guest I've had exemplary support from AirBnB; perhaps when you are dealing with Europeans, you are just nicer?

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>I was fired from MS for posting an image of myself online where my badge was clear enough to copy.

I won't ask you to go into any detail that you don't feel comfortable with, but is there more to this? Special circumstances? The above, out-of-context, sounds very... draconian. I'm really just curious.
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Yes, you could, but chances are that the provable upper bounds on memory usage or execution time are orders of magnitude above what you think it should take. Anything that produces a new value where you cannot prove that another value becomes unreachable (in which case the compiler could translate it to a destructive update) could trigger a garbage collection that might write half a GB of memory and takes .1 of a second (numbers may be realistic, but if they are, it's pure luck)
This is solid. I constantly remind my co-founder he can walk out and get a $100k+ salary somewhere else (I actually told him to go interview elsewhere - and I would provide a reference - just to prove it). By doing this it opens the discussion for why he wants to stick it out, and I'm quite confident by the aforementioned actions that I know I'm not wasting his time nor is he wasting mine.
Nah, I've actually written quite a bit about Heroku (I authored a book on it). The issue was us having complex problems with Django and our supporting libraries: we needed to have database connection pooling, we had to rip out the tastypie REST framework due to complications with scaling the user model, and a bunch of other stuff.

Heroku has always been great for us!

I'm always a bit surprised about the RapGenius stuff because their problem is not really a Heroku specific issue, IMO. If you're running code on Heroku (which uses random load balancing), you need to have a proper multi-threaded web server to serve requests concurrently.

In our situation, we were able to service many concurrent requests per dyno, and maintained very low response times (10ms or less), in most cases.
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And these points should justify an ugly badge?
> Pay market, or above, as soon as you can. It’s a sign of respect.

And just as importantly, the lack of a decent compensation/raise is a sign of disrespect. I also factor here places that expect their developers (especially young ones who advance exponentially at the beginning) to either stay at the same pay grade for years or suck it up with a 5% raise.
Already have this :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power