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He was a true geek till the end.
> No people put morality over "success of other".

I disagree. When was the last time you took some money you saw lying around on someone's table?
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"Damn, your code stinks man!"

I have never happened across this bizarre piece of jargon, but I goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogled it, cheers.
> but Austria hadn't considered the "chain" of allied countries assisting each other

How could it not consider such a, ahem, small detail?
Your headline is extremely misleading. They are a public company and thus it is quite unlikely that they are lying about user numbers. That is a fantastic and relatively speedy way for a CEO to go to jail.

What they are doing is using your contacts list to mislead you into believing that many of your contacts are already on Linkedin. Once they get you to connect with yet-to-exist accounts, then they can legitimately spam your friends saying that you want to connect with them. Interesting strategy, but it will earn them some backlash.
> I use tmux with a script so that I can ssh into multiple nodes and broadcast the same commands to them all at the same time.

I sometimes need to do this with multiple VMs. I'm really, really not in favor of bash scripting, but I've found the following to suffice, without the tmux dependency:

for host in box1 box2 box3; do ssh $host 'command; command; command'; done

(This presumes you've set up ssh-agent or are using passphraseless keys and suitable stanzas in ~/.ssh/config; adjust to taste if not.)

I'd never heard of using tmux in this fashion before. Is it that the task sufficiently resembles a nail, or does tmux provide some unique benefit here?
Everyone is talking about the value of WhatsApp's social network to advertisers, but I thought one of the key points of WhatsApp was that it was a paid service and they collect no data on you specifically because they aren't interested in selling ads. [http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...] Should people who bought into the idea that they were not the product be looking for a new paid WhatsApp like product?
Once you've started making comments like that in this sort of context, you've given up the right to be considered civilised.
I had a traditional, i.e. one that wanted salary history and other non-relevant information, recruiter tell me during a discussion that person x at linkedin says you should provide this information.

This is when I realized that linkedin in not about professional relationship but about recruiting folks and that recruiters will find it most useful.

As I can find a job without a recruiter, linkedin's value to me is close to zero.
From tfa: "I built a few Hypercard based applications in the late 80s and early 90s as I was winding up my programming “career”."

That doesn't mean the author built something like Myst, though.
Depends on who's measuring. IE has over/about half of the browser market. Corporate cubicle farms are dominated by IE, as are aunt's, uncle's, and grandma's computers.

http://netmarketshare.com/
I can already see all the headlines when the first big accident happens involving a self driving car.
I wouldn't say it was a legal requirement (as a lot of such things have not been tested in court) but I've seen it in a few places, usually in the section about you being responsible for anything that happens with your account.
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I bought 'promote your page' from FB for a very local business and got likes from very suspect accounts.
Loved it, Hypercard was my first programming experience :)
App.net is not a twitter substitute, and I think it was a huge mistake for them to direct new users to the "Alpha" app which is a twitter clone.

But if you’ve heard of App.net at all, you probably equate it with a Twitter clone. It’s not.... “App.net is a social platform,” says the company’s founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell. “It’s your passport to a social network of great applications. I’m trying to get the idea across that you can bring your data with you from all these different applications.”

www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/the-great-app-net-mistake/
This girl scout is brilliant! I see bright future in front of her.
>The US economy is almost $17 trillion. Together, we're freak'in rich.

Well, if you ignore that fact that the vast majority of those $17 belong to astoninglishly few people.

In that sense, then yes, Warren Buffet and some family living in a shack in Mississippi are rich together.
Does anyone have a list of public companies (especially small ones) which are involved in AI? There don't seem to be many besides the big players.
Really cool to see this! I'm sure the effort required to make it open source will pay off in fostering an active technical community. Given the target market I'm sure you have many highly skilled users who would love (at the very least) to fix their favorite bugs.

On a related note, recently at http://paperpile.com/ we've been thinking about ways to help our users connect their reference manager with web-based writing environments like ShareLaTeX. We've had some ideas about how to do this simply and cleanly, but I suppose now we could show you guys (via pull request) rather than tell now. :-)
>Some people delude themselves into thinking that 5 hours a night is all they need and then sleep 14 hours on Saturday.

Oooh that sounds familiar.
Great work, James. I think I'll fork this code and give it look-see.

I manage the dissertation/thesis template for my department on github. The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates.

The problem I've found with managing it this way is that I'll invariably get a slew of emails from students throughout the semester wanting me to troubleshoot their LaTeX installs to make the template work. 99% of the time the problem is on their end, 1% of the time it results in something that actually improves the template somehow. It would be awesome if I could just point them to your service where a hosted (and guaranteed to work) version of the template resides.

Can I just shoot you a github link[1] to get it incorporated or is there some other process I should go through? (e.g., would you prefer me to send you a zip? I figure what's the point since it's already on github, but if you prefer that approach I can get you a zip)

[1] https://github.com/hootener/LaTeX-Vanderbilt-Dissertation-Fo...
I guess when people are saying that space operation costs a lot of money, they are referring to state program like NASA not google lunar...
Likely current infrastructure along with receptive local governments. Some cities/major metropolitan areas may have special contracts with ISPs to only allow them to sell service to their area. I know that Comcast has a serious hold of the Midwest with AT&T trailing behind and Time Warner Cable has the Northeast.
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Posts like these really wind my stack. Basically, your response to a perfectly deterministic, compile-time-optimizable strategy for resource handling is regressing to the runtime. Then hoping the overhead for not only zero-initialization, but the myriad of cmp's and jmp's and re-zero'ing for cleanup get optimized away by some data flow analysis handwavy; all of this explicit, manual labor in order to avoid the "ugliness" of RAII (don't forget any of those if's ;).

Exceptions in constructors are incredibly more useful than isValid()'s due to their composability. isValid()'s have to be checked and fail in the constructor body after the initialization list. This is why you're concluding that zero-initialization is the only way out of a problem that you're creating in the first place.

Try doing everything in the initialization list, and rely on nothing in the constructor body.
writeLatex.com offers a live preview and it's faster overall. I really hoped this would be a better alternative because I'm already a bit disappointed in writeLatex.com's performance.

An online version of Latex sure beats the hell out of setting up a local installation though.
Even still, there's a difference between random chit-chat and the bank representative looking into your transaction history and making comments on it.
What about a story of C and undefined behavior.
Then why didn't you put that in your post? It certainly wasn't obvious from your article or the one you linked to.

If you do start your own bank, you'll have to explain to customers what's wrong with the current banking system. Start elaborating the problems now.
It may not be quite what you want, but https://www.softcover.io/ is a platform which aims to let you write eBooks in Markdown/TeX and publish them to PDF/HTML and eBook formats.
I got an email from them last week about a job. I realise it's almost certainly a mass form email, but I was surprised, as I'm not someone people will have heard of; I work for a small software company and my name is on zero well known projects. I'm good at what I do, but not magical or anything.

It was in Switzerland though, and I'm not, my ethical qualms about working for Google aside (and I know I wouldn't be hired as I could never bring myself to lie about their privacy invasion, Google Glass being a stupid idea, Google+ being hideously invasive and useless, etc.).
The problem is that currying is useful for so many things that this is a bit like asking 'what is addition useful for?'

Currying can always be implemented just by lambdas, so it does not actually enable any new behaviour, but it makes a lot of things simpler - any time you want to close over values, it can normally be neatened by using currying.

Let's say you're making a 3D renderer. You have a list of vertices (points) in object space, and you want to transform them to screenspace by multiplying by a modelview matrix and then a projection matrix.

Without currying:

vectors fmap (\x -> multiply modelview x ) fmap (\x -> multiply projection x)

With currying:

vectors fmap (multiply modelview) fmap (multiply projection)
We'd love to start pushing forward on some reference manager integrations, so a pull request would be amazing! It might be best to have a quick chat about how to implement this. My email should be in my profile.
For what it's worth, the fact that WhatsApp is enabling advanced communications in poor countries for free probably liberates a vast untapped quantity of human capital. That's a much clearer value proposition than a lot of other startups (e.g. Twitter, which merely eases connection rather than making it possible for cash strapped people).

That said, I'd be a fan if Silicon Valley's venture capital got really into making escape velocity affordable for the average Joe....
So, for those looking to make synching easy, you can add this to .tmux.conf

bind S setw synchronize-panes

Without the on/off option, it acts as a toggle, making it a keystroke away.
We're talking space exploration, not going round and round in circles 200 miles away (OK with a bit of robot exploration on the side at a tiny fraction of the cost).
What an interesting career he's had.

I don't know how many fans of college football there are on Hackernews, but Bill's appearance on College Gameday on ESPN was a highlight of this past season, easily the best guest host of the year. He's still hilarious
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The population of Kenya is almost 50 million people.

It's GNP is $19.9B.

The population of WhatsApp is 50 employees!
We'd love to hear any things you think we could improve. And of course a pull request would be amazing as well!
The reality is that paid services are not immune to be shut down, for example after an acqui-hire. See Astrid, Sparrow and many others.

Heck, even services backed by a web giant like Google are not immune either, they can always decide to shut it down like they did with many of their services.
I think most complaints about bankers are that their profits are ill-gotten, not that they are unprofitable.
Idempotence by example: Looking up some customer's name and address in a database are typically idempotent (in fact nullipotent), since this will not cause the database to change. Similarly, changing a customer's address is typically idempotent, because the final address will be the same no matter how many times it is submitted. However, placing an order for a car for the customer is typically not idempotent, since running the method/call several times will lead to several orders being placed. Canceling an order is idempotent, because the order remains canceled no matter how many requests are made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence
I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!
> It just means that if enough people think the same way, the world is doomed.

True in the sense that if "enough people" believe the Internet's favourite scare-story of imminent-financial-collapse (growing in popularity ever since Y2K) then it will indeed by necessity finally happen ;)
Great minds think alike? Good idea on the diagrams. We are looking for a good project based designer.
Comparing WhatsApp to space exploration is unfair. Arguably both of them are equally useful/useless (depends on who you ask). But what about if all (or even half) that money had been spent to (i.e.) cancer research or something that would radically improve people's lives? I think that's the "utility trade-off" question one should ask...
WhatsApp is basically email, and we've had email for a while.
Maybe a haiku?
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That's no rebuttal, just an opinion.
Oh we got this huge app and are to lazy to do everything properly.
Actually, given that their purchasing power is so immense it actually changes what's available to every other burger maker in the market, that might be true.
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tmux new -s session_name

Then to reattach

tmux attach -t session_name

Read it as "tmux, attach to session_name"

Forget which sessions you have open? List them out!

tmux ls
I thought you had to be drunk to even consider Emacs.
I cross-post my Twitter posts to App.net with IFTTT. I'd like to use it more, but I'm not satisfied with any of the desktop clients, and most people I want to follow are still active on Twitter, meaning I need to follow both.

I still support the service and its goals, and hope it will still be around the next time Twitter does something user-hostile so there's an alternative for people to consider.
I was going through the list, expecting WWF, only to find that it's the last one there :)
"C developers tend to think on micro-optimizations and Assembly level before writing any line of code, even when it doesn't matter at all for the problem being solved."

Um, citation, please? Speaking as, you know, an actual C developer working in a company full of actual C developers, I would say that "bad C developers tend to think on...", etc. There are times when we need to use assembly and micro-opts, but trust me, no one ever wants to.

Though I agree that C++ would be a better language without the backwards compatibility constraint.
Exactly this. I've done/said inadvisable things while drunk enough to do so, and not even made typos. I guess the function of using a computer is just natural due to practice.
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Oh man, What About Bob? One of my favourite films ever.
They are not reporting these to investors as accounts. Every time someone that knows someone else hits the connect button, it gives LinkedIn another opportunity to spam that user on their behalf - pummeling them until they sign up. This is an aggressive (though somewhat scummy) growth strategy, not an investment fraud strategy.
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Facebook didn't pay it all in cash. They paid much of it in (soon to be) worthless Facebook stock.

And this is the problem with the comparison. To fund a space mission, Facebook would have had to either try to realize the value through another huge stock sale, or it would have to use up its cash reserves. The first option is essentially impossible. The second would lead to massive lawsuits as well as having a very uncertain outcome (you think a bunch of web designers could really build a rocket?)
Insert an anecdote about the carpenter and the quality of the back of the cabinet there.
Except in this case it matters a bit more as others pointed out already.
France has ghettos and rich people. How would you solve the problem?
I agree that having a human who specializes in your kind of business accounting will make your life much easier down the road. That was one of first things I did when I started my business. Better be safe than sorry. You so don't want to mess with IRS.
I wonder if there was a defibrillator at his workplace, and if so; did anyone know how to use it or even know where it was.
It's super-creepy. All you need is someone who has previously emailed or chatted to you via e.g. gmail to give their email address and password to LinkedIn to "find contacts". The seem to go about mining a graph they have constructed using various people's email correspondence/address books, even including contacts via a nameless email addresses you never provided to LinkedIn.

When I signed up I saw a bunch of people I had as contacts on a gmail account which I hardly ever use. I had NOT used said gmail account when signing up for LinkedIn (and no LinkedIn app etc.). They seemed to have somehow associated me with contacts for an email address I had told them nothing about by piecing together the contact lists of the small number of contacts I added on LinkedIn and linked the name in their address books to my unnamed gmail account. I simply don't trust them anymore.
I believe it was indeed VB.

Remember that HyperCard was introduced in 1987 or so, the GUI/WIMP era was just getting started. The learning curve of writing a Macintosh application was incredibly steep - nearly impossible IMO - but here was a way to make a simple point-and-click app that actually did something (write to a file, do some calculations, show information, even talk out the serial port, etc) with a minimal amount of lifting. My first paid piece of software was a point-of-sale application written in HyperCard. And it worked just fine.

VB was pretty much the equivalent for Windows, once it came along.
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Yes, we can ignore that fact. That was a given, right? There's plenty of money in the US economy that can be funneled into other projects. If there wasn't, KickStarter wouldn't exist, correct?
>Is it even possible to make a prenup that covers future windfills? E.g., a prenup that protects your wealth in a company that hasn't yet been founded.

Yes. It's a contract; you can do what you like within the normal legal boundaries (although certain provisions, e.g. child custody are likely to be thrown out if ever challenged).
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I also flagged it. How much an asset is worth and how much the operating costs are very different things. It was a pointless comparison. Launching a satellite is just a cost like taking a plane trip across the country. The end result is that both might provide you with information that could return value, but the actual trip is a straight expense.

I guess I could write an article comparing how crazy it is that [someone] bought a plane for [millions of dollars] when they should have known that there are many websites that will let them book a flight for [a few hundred]. Using this logic [someone] could have booked hundreds of flights for the same cost! If only they had known better.
You can still get them here in Texas.
Iraqi official: "This is a jihadist?".

Bounty hunter: "Yes, I swear. So are his wife and kids. I have them all in my care. Where do I unload them? Where can I collect the money?".
How else can people find out about stuff that matters?
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Why do other animals eat vomit then? That sounds hardly like some instinct which should evolve only in us.
Really, I hadn't heard that.

I was going off all the information that came out after the Colgate Air 3407 crash in regards to how feeder airlines treat their pilots.

I've talked to several CFI's who are moving into regional carriers and they report the same environments, i.e. high hours/low pay.

It sounds like maybe you're set if you can clear that hurdle and move directly to a "real" airline?
Luckily there is an ample supply of unemployed CPL-holders dying to take that right seat in an airliner (and sometimes even paying to do so).

(Disclaimer: I have a frozen ATPL(A) myself, worked for one of the biggest airlines and know at least 100 of mentioned unemployed pilots)
I've been using linux professionally since 1996 and might be convinced to create one if there's sufficient demand. How much would you pay for such a course?
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It is a dual license model. They offer a commercial license for those developers, who want to distribute their products as closed source (as it seems, exactly this is required by the Apple store).
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I've always heard that FedEx and Southwest are the absolute best employers for pilots, and the regional carriers (who I was primarily talking about earlier) are the absolute worst.

No real idea on how accurate that is, just stuff I've overheard in pilot lounges at airports :)
This may be true, but there's still a lot of value to being written up in TC because it can drive other coverage. Other tech news read TC for stories and look into who they cover, so it can provide a multiplicative effect for mentions. Also, it there's a specific site that you want to be covered by, you can go to them with a link of existing coverage. It's still a brand name in tech, though not as unique as it once was.
This post is next in the sequence of HN posts after a large exit: comparison with NASA's budget, cost of trip to Mars, etc.

Typical sequence:

- news of the large exit, submitted repeatedly
- hastily written blogs about why it doesn't make sense
- hastily written blogs about why it makes sense
- cute stories about the company's past: founder(s) living on Ramen, etc.
- comparisons with NASA's budget, Mars exploration budget, Gates Foundation budget, etc.
- and finally, breathless "news" about the slightest change in the acquiree's ToS or some such silly news
We need a better word for this than "semantic". We're just passing the complexity back and forth between the HTML and the CSS, and the only "semantics" or meaning that arise are to the author/editor. Users don't care, machines don't care, and I've never, ever seen a large-scale site design that doesn't involve some reworking of both the HTML and the CSS.
I flew a Seneca V (twin engine, semi 'amateur' plane) during pilot training which was equiped with an autopilot.

Really helps when flying in congested airspace or while performing 'complex' arrivals.
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Really? I find a quick scroll of the mouse wheel easier. Also when scrolling back a few hundred (or thousand lines), grabbing the scroll bar and finding where I want to be I find much faster.

I don't mind people who don't want to use the mouse, that's fine, but personally I sometimes don't run tmux when I know it will upset my scrolling and cut+pasting.
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Here's a good blog post describing how to use the "Send Hex Codes" for integrating tmux and iTerm: http://tangledhelix.com/blog/2012/04/28/iterm2-keymaps-for-t...
To me, its rather sad that we still have to rely on multiple third party apps for dependency management - something that a modern OS should have baked into its core branch.
See this discussion:

http://superuser.com/questions/343572/how-do-i-reorder-tmux-...

It kind of works in the end, but it's arguably a bit more awkward to use than in screen.
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