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No it isn't hard, however, you're probably using the wrong tool for the job, and have constructed your problem based on managerial input rather than mathematical formalism.

And for the final nail in the coffin you're probably asking your program to do something that violates the known laws of the universe in regard to the speed at which information can travel.
Well, there sort of is a right to live exactly where you want for the rest of your life. It's called buying the property. There are very few exceptions to this (something about property tax, and prop 13 mitigated that pretty well).

Note: comments to the effect that buying property is a big risky deal should pause and consider what that statement imputes about what the landlord offering the place for rent happens to bring to the table
Perhaps the source is the article itself (i.e. he was contacted by the author)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias

Basically the moral center of our brain, by default, views her leaving as a choice, and you moving as a choice. Rather than her staying vs leaving as a choice. Looks dumb when you parse it right, feels right when you parse it wrong.
Just got bit by Delaware's corporate name-check service. It only runs during EST business hours. I just want to query a database to see if a name is already taken, thank you..
Of course, the giant div! I use those all the time.
Effective focus groups aren't up-front or honest either. Effective experiments don't tell the person what the experiment is.
Think of it this way: she was renting a room in the house, except as a courtesy to each owner she would to come in through the garage.

New owner decides he's tired and wants her out. If he suddenly claims the room to be an "inlaw apartment", then it would be illegal. Now he can start the process to evict.

Legal loophole.

[Update] The timing is suspicious too, since these units could be legal soon:

http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-in-law-units-law-c...
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Ah, yes; how dare she be evicted for threatening to burn the building down, refusing to pay rent, refusing to attend court summons, complaining about her neighbors for having the temerity to turn on a sprinkler, and turning her home into a disgusting pit? Clearly those are all natural rights of tenants, and the landlord should have just accepted her with all her quirks when he bought the property.

Come on. It's sad that she got evicted, but to imply in any way that the tenant is blameless seems ridiculous. You don't get a free pass to be an asshole just because you're old; you're still obligated to try and work with the system.
I guess I was more hoping for some old facebook photo of some semi-famous Japanese PI.
Here is one:

Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America:

"The Senators and Representatives...shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same...."
Given that the alleged torture they would be trying to cover up is widely regarded as happening under the previous administration, I see no reason why Obama would be directing their staff to cover anything up. It's much more likely that the folks who stay around across administrations would be responsible, since they have more to lose.
The empathy deprived Randian hordes that flock to these stories on HN to display their superiority over those less well off than them make me physically ill.
Lets say that I was once struck very hard in the head by a frisbee, and the moral center of my brain now causes me to believe myself entitled to live in Malibu.

Wanting something is not the same as deserving something.
I guess it gives you a free maintenance window every night.
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Ist was stable for a long time now.
> Is this supposed to be a privilege, getting out of the car in potentially inclement weather and messing around with flammable liquids?

Way to be hyperbolic. Why not let the customer decide whether or not they want to do it themselves, rather than choosing what's best for them?

And surprise, surprise: in the 48 states where customers are free to choose, they overwhelmingly choose to pump their own gas.
Here's the thoughts of substack on this issue. I use npm and bash scripts.

http://substack.net/task_automation_with_npm_run
Good idea, but their server seems to be overloaded right now...
Now that she knows she was spied on, maybe someone has a bunch of dirt or possible blackmail from those communications. She has benefactors based on her decisions.

In a decade all these spy programs will primarily be used for government tracking and business/corporate espionage, strange they thought Congress would be excluded. Either that or she is taking a lead on this to squash it as a false enemy of it.
That additional cost is probably gas tax, so instead of going towards paying a group of people to waste their time doing something trivial, that money is going to pay for freeway maintenance, etc.
I love that I can get no response from GitHub.com, head over to HN, and find an eight-minute-old post confirming that it's down and linking to GitHub's status page. Cheers!
Ah. My error, I was thinking of the Tri-Cities for some reason.
But they at least tell you that it is an experiment. Maybe we need human-subject ethics boards for marketers.
> Then you'd be happy to know that in addition to having full service, Oregon's gas prices are ~$.40 per gallon cheaper than California's. Full service doens't seem to be resulting in dramatically higher prices.

And now you're being willfully ignorant. California has a variety of other regulations that lead to higher prices. But that doesn't change the fact that Oregon's gas-pumping regulation also leads to higher gas prices.
Digital Ocean or Amazon EC2. Now get back to work.
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What if she was just "renting a room" and the new owner simply labelled it an "inlaw" as a legal loophole?

[Update] I didn't see the pic. Yeah, it's clearly in a different building, so an in-law.
There was never any question if the unit was illegal. Everyone involved knew that it was (hence my absolutely minimal sympathy for everyone involved, except perhaps^W the cat.) The new owner did not declare the unit to be illegal, the city did.

(edit: I definitely feel sorry for the cat.)
Well, Kenefick is what I was actually thinking (same effect, though).
I like having a home chef prepare my meals. And it was cheaper for me (opportunity cost-wise) than cooking them myself.

I don't understand the objection to laws against cooking for yourself at home.
Who says scripts have to be ad-hoc? They can be very well designed and tested. In fact, in some ways I agree with the parent: simple well tested scripts are a very powerful and often underutilized tool.
I like how you can read an article that details all of the ways in which this woman was a terrible and destructive tenant and then say "Oh yeah, she was definitely evicted because the asshole landlord wanted to flip the property".
No. No Free Lunch Theorem means that there is no algorithm (that is programmed with no awareness of any specific search space) can be successful in ALL search spaces (problems).

But 2048 is a highly-structured search space. Even with random opponent, the opponent's choices are constrained by the game's rule structure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
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That's exactly how I feel. These days all I'm playing is TF2, Minecraft and Starbound. All on Ubuntu.
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> So the public voted for a representative who would curtail torture, but the representative they voted for was a liar.

They're all liars. All of them. Even "your" representative/Senator/guy you backed for President.

Lying is the only way they can get elected.

Would you have voted for anyone who campaigned on not prosecuting torture, but prosecuting Aaron Swartz to death? "If elected I will support any prosecutor who hounds Aaron Swartz to suicide." Because he does support Carmen Ortiz.

Would you have voted for anyone who campaigned on increasing surveillance, foreign and domestic, to the limits of technology?

Would you have voted for anyone who campaigned that "I will support the programs and personnel that cause drone strikes to target, inadvertently or otherwise, weddings, houses, schools and other facilities where innocents and children are killed.

No.

They take all those things, say the opposite (especially if the current occupant is doing those things), and then double down when they get in.

They lie. Oxygen goes in, and lies come out.
What's the story with using logos for integration (SendGrid, AWS etc.) without actually supporting them? Is it not possible to get into legal issues there as it's quite an effective boost to the site to make it _look_ like you're associated with very reputable sites?

Or.. just something to worry about when people come knocking? :)
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I think she is likely representative of the kind of undiagnosed mental illness evictees often have.
it's the same way at the Rutgers web registration software. It's actually a pretty nicely done web app, but it is "unavailable" at night.
> Still a citizen of Germany, she has the option of repatriating to her homeland, which has a free program for nationals wishing to relocate. She’d be able to get off the plane, connect with social services, and get subsidized housing and medical coverage.

What the hell? She has to threaten and insult people around her and was living in an illegal building, yet has the perfect option open to her.

EDIT: And before anybody says anything about her giving up her life - by the sound of the article, her life consisted of insulting and fighting with all her neighbors. Logically if she had friends, she wouldn't be living in her car - her friends would have helped her out.
Right, I found this amusing:

"I hope by now you’ve seen the irony here. Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars! That’s how broken our system is."

Our system is so broken that most new corporations are formed in a company with _no_ space available for your business or for you to live, only a person who sits and answers a phone for a few thousand or hundred thousand companies to prove an 'office location' or whatever wording.

Delaware doesn't care because they get some taxes, what you'd really call a payoff for being a tax protector.

There were pretty heinous problems with the situation at hand before OP opened his web browser.
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> It's not easy for people to just pack up and move. What if you've lived there your whole life? What if your friends and family lived there? What if your job was there?

I've done many things I didn't want to. It's part of being an adult. Then again, nobody makes me eat my vegetables.
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There'd be some interest, but it'd be hard to be credible without a ton of money behind you. What party were you thinking of affiliating yourself with? That changes potential strategies dramatically.

In any event, though, it's not the best way of fighting this issue since it can't make any difference for more than 4 years.
>she simply wasn't interested in changing anything and that just doesn't work when you have to move and have to change your lifestyle

not interested? or not being able to? it starts to look like a diagnosis (as an extreme illustration Rain Man comes to mind). It is not a big stretch of imagination to allow that after 20 years of being in the same situation an elderly person may lose ability for "changes", just like many lose ability to bend and reach the floor or make a split. Brain is just a biological organ and there is a lot of information around about it losing its "flexibility" with time.

Basically the society is very cruel to its members who lose the ability to function above specific level, be it physical or mental abilities.
It was the same for me when I was project lead for Gaim/Pidgin. I was lead for something like 6 years and I eventually got tired of the hate.

Sure, there was plenty of praise, too. But the harassment eventually became annoying. It hit it's breaking point when someone folks managed to figure out my cell phone number and would call me at all sorts of hours (3am once!) to "tell me about their ideas."

I changed my cell number but it eventually happened again.

Most of my interactions with users were positive, though. But, the various legal issues, hateful folks, and my day job suddenly taking more time I decided to give it up and pass it on to someone else. I had already become mostly observational/maintenance on the project in my last year there anyways.

Slight digressions aside, I was fairly young when I got with the project and it was surprisingly to me how angry some people could be for no reason at all.
tl;dr: Use buzzword bingo. A lot.
Maximum number of chars permitted for the password of a Google Account?
Only some repos down for me.
Apparently it's a problem with their ISP?

http://www.benzinga.com/news/14/03/4383055/developer-code-ho...
A lovely game idea too. Wonderful commentary on surveillance states.
You can't transform your lifestyle like that overnight, especially if you value your current one, which it sounds like he did.
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We live fancy experiences through apps, movies, games and other medias, but even the greatest websites are wasted by an ugly and useless and omnipresent canvas: the browser top-bar. And the fullscreen modes are so badly designed that we are forced to bear that top-bar.

In this article I tried to explain how I'd love to experience browsing the web. Does it makes sense to you?
Why would I rewrite my game from scratch if I was using Unity? I just compile it to a native Linux binary, tada! Native Linux support.

I think you might be misunderstanding what Unity is. Unity doesn't take some game and wrap it like Wine. Unity is a full game engine like UDK or Crysis. It compiles to Native Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, XBOX, Playstation, Wii, and many more I can't think of right now.

Nothing is a wrapper or emulated/simulated/whatever-ulated. It's all compiled natively for each platform.
Right now, the website of the company (http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/) redirects to 127.0.0.1
Did you failed to read I was a DR-DOS user?

I use computers since the early 80's.
That is not a fair comparison. California's gas tax (including excise tax) is higher than Oregon. In addition, California requires a more expensive blend of gasoline. A better comparison would be to a state that has similar taxes and gasoline requirements. As a bonus, the availability of refineries is a significant factor in gasoline prices.
Surprised nobody is talking about how Homejoy is killing it with the exact same model that exec pivoted too.
Or the older one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7382272
It's amazing how so many people refuse to accept that out-of-control housing prices are due to artificial scarcity, and that the solution is deregulation, rather than even more idiotic rent control and eviction regulations. David Campos is now trying to enact legislation to penalize Ellis Act evictions.

More than two decades after the USSR collapsed, and people are still clinging to socialist ideologies.
As mentioned in the other comments it's not consistent nor always supported. And you can do the multithreading only by sharing already rendered fbo's.

In D3D it works as OpenGL display lists would, except with arbitrary commands. So you have multiple threads composing the scene and then a single thread just issues few commands to replay the command buffers created by the other threads.

It would be rather simple to implement the same in OpenGL as we already have the display list concept, even if it originally was made to reduce the amount of glvertex3f calls.

"complete lack" was maybe bit of an exaggeration, however in practice it is true.
"I pictured how people play," he says, as he taps his iPhone and reaches his other hand in the air. "One hand holding the train strap."

That's the main insight.
I really hate articles like this.

Excerpt:

A look inside her Volvo is enough to curdle a stomach of steel: trash bags are piled high in the back seat, open packages of food topple into a litter box full of cat feces, door-sides are crammed full of half-smoked Pall Malls and prescription painkillers.

I am homeless. I do not live that way. Not everyone who is homeless chooses to live in filth. Plus, earlier in the article, it talks about how she did "odd jobs" to support herself in Europe and lists "delivered flowers to prostitutes" as one of the odd jobs. Seriously? They could have just said "delivered flowers." Whom she delivered them to seems like gratuitous "color" for this story, just something salacious to say that has nothing to do with this issue at all.

I was evicted. I lived in fear of eviction for 18 months. I have a serious medical issue and I did stuff like remove carpeting without my landlord's permission. I knew it was coming. I was willing to accept the consequences as the lesser evil compared to what my medical condition is supposed to do to me.

The real issue common to both my situation and Inge's is that America has some real issues with housing stock, not just illegal in-law units in San Francisco, but all kinds of issues. This article is highly unlikely to get people to talk about that issue and highly unlikely to get anything done about that issue. That is not something either landlords or tenants control. I was not impressed the lame management of my apartment whose incompetence promoted mold growth in my apartment but, honestly, I would have evicted me too for the things I did. But I also had compelling reasons for what I did. Blaming landlords and tenants and pitting them against each other does absolutely nothing to improve a situation like this. If anything, it makes the problem more intractable.

We need to figure out what does work to foster an environment where affordable, decent housing can exist without it being artificially rent controlled and nonsense like that. The need for rent control tells you there is something very wrong with the policies, laws, and so forth. There is a climate we are trying to fight against. And rather than change that climate, we just vilify people who have no real control over it.

Sigh.
Exactly. I have no idea what these guys were thinking. They raised the stakes from losing their job, to going to prison.
Not that this is a good reason, but one possibility is that the backend could require human interaction. Perhaps when the form gets submitted it gets automatically sent to a printer where a person manually files it. I could see a process like that showing up on http://thedailywtf.com ...
> Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

The ones that got caught were probably extraordinarily renditioned.
> That additional cost is probably gas tax

California's gas tax is ~$.70 per gallon, Oregon is ~$.50. Now granted, California has roughly 3x the miles of roadway that Oregon has...[1] This probably explains why California's roads are atrociously bad and Oregon's are relatively pristine.

[1] http://blog.cubitplanning.com/2010/02/road-miles-by-state/
> All writing on business and/or productivity flirts with the prospect of being a negative ROI time investment since it keeps you from doing business and being productive.

You seem to have overlooked that this writing was posted by a PR flack, and got Facebook on the front page of a popular website.
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Easter is on the 20th of April this year. You will miss the boat completely!
Good points — there's definitely a place for a write barrier. It may be that a simple write barrier, while not as efficient for this use case, might be generally more useful.

For your second point, if you take my initial "write B depends on the completion of write A", and extend it allow arbitrary kernel commands to depend on others, then you could still do that, (delete B depends on write A), however, things are probably too complex at this point, and a simple write barrier is better.
Agree, funny how most comments focus on the money aspect of the conversation. He wanted to feel socially responsible again, did not like the impact that his game had on people's psyche / addictive behaviors and pulled the plug because of it.
To be honest, I didn't realize that npm could be used as a task runner, but now that I do, I'm wondering what all the fuss about Grunt is. Why bring in yet another meta-tool into the chain if npm (which is basically a requirement) can handle task execution already?
The scam only works for those scared into removing themselves. Since the scammers have already admitted they gave away info anyway... there is no reason to trust them or give them money.
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