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You have awful situational awareness and empathy skills. This is not the time nor place. Unfortunately, people tried to politely inform you, but you kept at your personal rant.

Many of us in the sidelines have survived cancer, have cancer, or have close family dying of cancer. There is a time and place for personal soapboxes. This is not it. Have some compassion.
Perhaps if you want to learn profanities? I've been on a few foreign language servers with text-based messaging (Enemy Territory) and all requests for help with slang terms has always met with attempts to deceive me:

Me: "slt, ksk c'est 'putain de merde' svp?"

Pierre: "In English that means 'airstrike'"

TLM: "MDR"

... or something along those lines.
To James's suggestion, I'd add Beck's Extreme Programming Explained. At this point the book is pretty old, and we've learned a lot since then about how to do things well. But as far as seeing the roots of it, I think that's still a good resource.
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So now that you've had an hour to see me in action, answering questions, what's your question?
You can also use http://www.bluestacks.com for debugging/testing your applications.
Then you haven't lived in enough places. I can look up and down my entire street and tell you that maybe 1 house could a married couple + 6 extra people, 4 of them being kids.
An empty building, used by nobody but costing the government money, is not useful to anyone except the people receiving the money. So I guess in that respect, if the money is going into the local economy, it's a really poor form of stimulus.
wow, thank you for posting this. I learned something new.
This isn't reddit where you have to be ashamed of trying to make money or promote your hard work.

The thing people should avoid is only commenting to promote their stuff.
The General Services Administration (more specifically the Public Building Service) is responsible for maintaining the federal building portfolio and leases for itself and other agencies. You can see all GSA-owned buildings from here: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104797

However, many agencies manage some or most of their buildings (VA, IRS, and others). DoD is completely separate.

Property disposal (or renovation) is further complicated by historic preservation requirements as well.
Saw the "CSAIL" domain and I expected steps 4-20 to describe how to attach an electric motor, some actuators, and software to automatically direct the chair to a specific monitor based on facial recognition from the webcams in each.

...but this is pretty cool too.
As someone who was diagnosed with cancer back in August at the age of 33, I can relate, thankfully, it was easily treatable, testicular cancer that by all appearances had not spread. I literally gave my left nut to get rid of it.

That was the only thing that really bothered me too, having a, at the time, 8 month old daughter who I might not get to raise. That of all things was my greatest regret and fear.

I had terminal life insurance already to cover loss of income and pay off the mortgage, etc. I'm not saying this to you, nothing you can do about it now, but people if you have a family you care about that relies on you for their well being in anyway, even if its just child care, and extra income, etc. Get some life insurance, insurance is for exactly this reason, highly unlikely events, but events that are financially devastating all the same.
If it's relevant to the discussion, I don't see what's wrong with plugging your link. Others will upvote or downvote as necessary.
In theory yes, in their specific case they are a lot happier. Moved to a warmer climate, their neighborhood has a lot of people their age and they have many new friends and enjoy it. They still come back and see the old friends & family often enough. Overall a great decision, but definitely influenced by the fact that paying for the house they had owned the last 30 years did not make sense for 2 people - and there aren't really cheaper options in the area.
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Comprable price to netflix now. It would be nice if, as part of the increase they would make kindle lending library and streaming video sharable with a limited number of house hold members like netflix does or even offer this at a small price increase. We have both but the prime is currently in my name, my wife can share the shipping so it doesn't make sense to get a membership for her just to use the other features though she would like to.
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Interviews with interesting people, pulled from Reddit.
This article?

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10545306/nba-most-conspira...
The stuff I see here in the US is nothing compared to what happens in Europe -- people incite revolution, no one seems to know who's in charge, and governments attack their own people in broad daylight!

Your generalization is as meaningless as mine is. The USA is roughly the size of your continent and its land can be governed by any number of rules and regulations, depending on where you are.

For every Texas, there's a California. For every Germany, there's a [Ukraine|Greece|Spain|...].
Here's a chance for Microsoft's best ever product to be even bestest!

It looks awesome. Actuaries will love you guys.
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Because the odds of a healthy 30 year old dying in the next 20 years are slim, they can collect $30/mo from lots of guys like me and pay out to the very few who die in that term.

And, yes, they likely make money on that money while it's not being paid out.

Here is an actuarial table that lays out the likelihood of dying and how long you're expected to live at every age.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html

So, say they collect $7200 from each healthy 30 year old male (when they signed up) over the 20 year term. They just need 70 people to sign up in order to pay out one $500K benefit. Many fewer than 1 in 70 people who sign up will die during the term.
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Yes. That's my point about news sources. If you're surprised at this building waste and unaware of many others, then you might want to branch out in your reading.

Or is this another red herring like earmarks that amounts to a few billion here and there?

I'm not sure if you're just trolling me here, but I'll bite. The problem with earmarks isn't the total that they add as a broken-out line item. It's the corruption of a system that creates you-scratch-my-back incentives for passing unnecessary legislation.

The cost of earmarks isn't the line item. It's the cost of the entire boondoggle law that wouldn't have been passed without the back room incentives.
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This is 1000 times more interesting AND useful than Uber. There are concerns with variable journey time, but after a few days of using it, you'll get a sense how long it'll take.

I don't care if it even takes longer than my current commute. I'll definitely use this if it means I get a seat, or am not in a uber crowded bus or subway. That's assuming they don't operate like a normal bus and squeeze as many people in, of course.
Same here, after reading that article a while back I've been working on way to sit like that while still being able to see my monitors well. Please post to HN your setup when you get it done as I am be very interested in how you would pull it off. Thanks!
Heh, I literally just biked over the University Bridge.

If you think that's old, you should see what our transportation infrastructure (stop lights, loop detectors, etc.) run on.
What's the thinking behind your light setup?
(ignoring the creating the developer account)
- create certificate(s)

- create provisioning profile(s)

- hit refresh in Xcode and hope it pulls in the profiles you want to use (maybe only an issue if you're a member of multiple teams)

- modify build settings

once you've done that its simple but there is definitely a setup overhead with Xcode and devices
Wow that is surprising actually given the great recession. Good info.
> if it's so easy, how come nearly every school in the world offers some sort of foreign language curriculum yet after years of studying the given language 99.9% of students will not remember anything past counting to 10 and 'how r u'-type phrases? seeing is believing but not in this case.

How many of them really have the incentive to be efficient? Maybe as long as the students are learning something, that is enough. I can't imagine that a large swath of Germans are going to form a protest ten years after graduation and proclaim that "my subpar Italian ruined my life", or something like that. English has been very useful for me, but I feel like I've learned most of it from the Web, video games, movies, other pop culture ... it's hard to tell how important it was at this point, though.

Most teaching is variations on "throw information at your senses until something sticks", and the input is reading, doing exercises, discussing. There's nothing about specific mnemonic techniques, just read it and hope that you recall it. In elementary school, they told us to remember 50 English words by trying to write them down and reading them, reading them and then trying to recall them, rinse and repeat. This technique is laughably inefficient compared to trying to associate the words with something, like associating things that the word sounds like or remind you of, perhaps in your own language.
If you want a sort of CoffeeScript experience instead of Java you can also go with Xtend [0]. It's supported best in Eclipse but I do find the cleaner syntax a bit more pleasing to work with. It's only transpiling to Java so you can even mix it with Java while updating an existing codebase or for whatever reason.

[0] https://www.eclipse.org/xtend/
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Thanks very much! To be clear, my company is incorporated in the US, and we don't and won't have an office or subsidiary in Japan. On the off chance we do end up with Japanese clients, I'd anticipate them paying the American company, and not me directly.

I'll definitely save this information and look into it so I have some context and questions when I finally end up working with a tax preparer.
I call bull on this one, fella; I think you're a bit ignorant on this matter.

I'm federally funded, and have been for the better part of my career. The paperwork reduction act has nothing to do with physically reducing paperwork, and more in reducing the work burden to the public.

It states that every form has to have a justification tied to your guiding principle, and that the public should know how difficult the form will be to fill out. In other words, if the OMB says that form 1014a(1) should only take 15 minutes to complete, it's up to your office to ensure that is the case, if you created that form. As far as physical paperwork - it only adds a couple of lines to document headers, and in the case of enormous institutions, it's listed on their main website or main document to avoid adding it to the rest of the documents.

The paperwork reduction act is usually the brunt of office jokes when it pops up on paperwork, because most people have no idea what it is and it sounds funny, and because it may add a line or two. I'm guessing you've seen that disclaimer and went from there.
You do realize that all of those capabilities are available in XCode?
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I'm not sure if it has changed since I last made an ios app a while back, but there was a fairly large amount of security certificate provisioning and the interface for it, at that time at least, was unintuitive.
I've been playing with Prismic.io during this beta period and think it looks like an awesome product with great potential, but I just can't bring myself to actually use the writing side of it for any length of time.

Is there a way to turn off all the skeuomorphic design elements? Paper background? Lots of sliding panels, it's really hard to navigate around and very busy, even on a big screen. I think they need to completely cut it back and simplify, and I'd use it in a heartbeat.

The API based separation is a good idea for real sites (vs blogs), I think it will catch on and is a much better design than the all in one CMS design behind things like Wordpress, Drupal or Ghost.
I wonder how this applies to other markets and domains. As well cod it be used to find irregularities and cheating?
The value proposition for Amazon Prime has sunk quite a bit in the last year. More and more products have multiple listings: one that's not Prime eligible, and one that is Prime eligible but costs more. So, that two day free shipping isn't free. Plus, living in NYC, a large percentage of the two day free shipping items just get sent USPS anyway, so I'm not getting anything extra.

Amazon's Prime video service is similarly less of a value than it should be. Unlike competing services like Hulu and Netflix, you can't watch Amazon Prime videos on your Android phone or tablet (who cares, it's just the #1 mobile OS, right?). Amazon's logic is to force you to use their proprietary tablets that are based on Android but don't support Google's app store or Google's services, meaning that a whole array of Android apps aren't compatible, including big ones like Google Chrome and Firefox.

I'm ditching Amazon Prime at the end of my term in two months as a result.
According to a simulation in[1], If employed at scale, such system would have a mean order time of 5 minutes,a mean wait time of half a minute and a mean ride time of 1.5x of a direct trip.

[1]http://www.floating-content.net/~esa/pub/files/jokinen-fists...
> how quickly it was becoming a major chore to change the trivialest of things

This was more than likely just bad design on your part. GlassFish 3.12 support Java EE 6 which supports a lot of POJO based development - between your mention of abstract base classes, factories, and J2EE (which became Java EE over 8 years ago) I have to wonder if you used a lot of legacy APIs and design patterns.

> Also I made the unfortunate mistake of using JavaDB/Derby as the datastore

Derby is neat for an portable in-process relation db but no one in their right mind uses it for a large or high-performance db. But most db changes should be isolated to your persistence layer using Hibernate/JPA so changing database vendors shouldn't have caused a big change in your code unless you had to redesign your tables for some other reason.
And then we could use some of them to create new hackerspaces :3
Nice, but the rest of the cluttered and chaotic setup would provide me with endless anxiety.
~200TB/day is entirely within the room the NSA's budget allows.

You don't need to record all phones in the world if you have the metadata of all calls in the world. The NSA or another spy agency could record only calls that match a given pattern: place from which the call originates, who is being called, time of call, previous calls made or received by the line, when the line or phone was purchased, whether this phone's call patterns resemble another phone's call patterns, etc.

They wouldn't achieve 100% coverage, but efficacy would probably be 99%+.

I would guess the problem with this kind of semi-targeted collection is processing power to decide who is a target and schedule the line taps.
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I'd love this. If American public transportation fans would stop fantasizing about trains and instead do what really works for most people -- buses -- then we could have things a lot better.

I've been waiting for years for a service that dispatches a nice bus to ride in on my way to work without me having to walk/drive to a bus stop and hope the schedule is right.

I'd accept a modest increase in the commute time if I could read/sleep/play/watch TV for the duration of the commute.
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Seeing as there are more lawyers than ever with more influence in Washington than ever, do lawyers have any motivation to fix this system? It seems to me with taxes, patents, immigration, regulation, healthcare and criminal justice the laws are purposefully hard to follow precisely because the lawyers who wrote them like it that way. Do you believe there are too many lawyers in this country (we have the highest per capita in the world by far http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_in_the_world_has_most... ) and if so what can we do as a tech community do to replace most of them with simple laws and web applications?
Definitely still showing up for me.
This article is kind of all over the place. I did find one idea in it to be pretty powerful, though:

> An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures.

It made me think of a world where instead of Facebook being a monolithic app, it were instead a sort of service bus connecting interactions people made through a panoply of social apps. Want to share links, there's a dozen apps that do that. Want to post notes, there's fifteen apps to choose from. But Facebook is the glue that connects them all together, that wires the users of one up to all the others.

I dunno how realistic that idea would be, but it would certainly be more fun than a world where there's One Social App and the only features you get are the ones it chooses to give you. Oh well...
Fuck this beggar, fuck his family, fuck Disneyland, and most of all, fuck Wil Wheaton.
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It has changed. The certificate is created and provisioned to the device automatically by XCode.
I think Microsoft does Dynamics NAV development in Denmark. NB NAV is their mid-range ERP application - nothing to do with Navigation!
I had a similar thought regarding omnibus renewal of regulations, but it's a technical problem that could be addressed.

Perhaps by introducing another reform I would like to see: make it trivial (maybe through a petition?) for U.S. citizens to sue the government to get laws repealed. I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that, which some exceptions, you need to be actually harmed to have standing to challenge laws on constitutional grounds.
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That's a tricky problem to solve. I work with the NYC government on some projects, and they actually do seem to keep pretty decent track of all of the city's properties (at least, my experience with this is with the tax and finance people who assess every property in the city annually).

Empty space is generally not fungible. A vacant upstairs floor of a police department couldn't be turned into elementary school classrooms, for example. But the NYC government owns a lot of properties, and rents space from private owners, and there are definitely inefficiencies that could be eliminated. Tracking all of this would be a fun project to work on.
The altitude of the "ground" varies by thousands of meters:

https://www.google.com/search?q=highest+airport+altitude

Although, I guess you could just check if the landing gear is up. I'm sure there are corner cases I can't think of, but it seems like that would pretty much cover it.
"How can Bob and Marie say that AT&T's records about them are "their . . . papers, and effects . . ." when they didn't record that information, they aren't storing that information, and they don't even have access to that information?"

I agree with you on this, but I don't agree that means it is no longer protected by the 4th Amendment. That information is AT&T's "papers and effects", so collecting it without a warrant is a violation of AT&T's 4th Amendment rights, not necessarily Bob and Marie's.
I haven't thought about that; I'll work on either puppet or salt soon, and add a role. Things will get quite meta :)
I think the error here is a common but artificial distinction between "existing features" and "new features".

From the point of view of a well-run Agile team, there's just work to do. It all gets managed through the same process. One queue, one team.

In my last team, we created a rule that when you finished something, you'd just pull the next card at the top of the stack. You could ask for help as needed, but it was your job to see that card through to completion. That forced us to cross-train. Which was certainly fun. But it also really helped us to make better software. It was very consistent, both on the surface and under the hood.
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The best feature of MultiTail is that allows following original file names by specifying '-f' flag.
Really useful for switching automatically to the needed file after log rotation.
If you are not a member of multiple teams, this is all unnecessary.

The point is that the original comment is flat out false.
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If you have two parallel organizations that interact tightly but have no power over each other, you end up needing a mediator. This usually ends up being project management, or "the process". This is where you get the mixed bag in companies with mediocre talent levels -- usually they don't have anyone who understands the needs of both the engineers and the business. The level of process usually either chokes the engineers' productivity or ends up not giving the business what they need.

Again, it's possible to do, but it takes talent that understand both the business needs and how to manage a development organization (note: this is not the same as knowing how to code.) That's rare to find through a corporate HR process.
That just allows for new earmarks and stipulations with an increased possibility of corruption and more influence from vocal special interest groups on a regular basis.

It's counter-intuitive, but sometimes inefficiency is the safest course of action. Not necessarily the best, but the safest. And not always, I need to stress that again.
Please don't post this garbage here. This is off topic.
Curious how Target/Walmart would feel about that. Do you have any initial feedback? Like sibling comment from aarondf, I would also be confused as a customer.
Amazon Prime Raises Prices
"Coming Soon: Buying Games - The Game

Earn point by buying games! Why are you playing the game you just bought? Play me, the game about buying games. Buy another game! You should just start another game if you're going to buy stuff in it! You shouldn't play those games, it's a waste of time! They don't give you Buying_Games_the_Game_POINTS!"

I know it's an exaggeration but, as you can see, I'm not a fan of gamification.
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Meh. The call itself, and the data about the call, traverse the telephone network. The data about the call, the metadata, is being logged and stored. Yes, by the time it gets to an NSA storage device, it's no longer "meta," but at the time the human made a call and generated the metadata, it was metadata. This is the tag we've chosen to stick on it. That the tag maybe should change doesn't really change the privacy implications, and would only serve to confuse the conversation to a populace that already doesn't seem to care.
I would use this for reading technical documentation (e.g. drupal.org), but a number of such sites force https.
It was that issue, but a different article, about an alleged point-shaving operation involving the University of San Diego.

EDIT: Correction noted.
Doubt many people will read this, but an update:

Dropping internet connection does occur on WiFi and is not fixed in the iOS 7.1 update.
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> Labor also moves relatively freely in the US.

Well, this is interesting.

It is true that it's much easier to get fired in the US. It is also true that social mobility is less, compared to many other rich countries.

Easier to get fired + less social mobility = yay, freedom.