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My husband was watching a CNN news segment about the missing plane earlier today on the TV. As I overheard the program while I was on the laptop I couldn't help but notice the absurd amount of times the news anchor kept saying "officials speculate, we believe, analysis probably indicates that...,"

There's too much focus on speculation to keep this relevant in a 24/7 news cycle.
my friend, what you have just described is society. This is why everyone has to step on everyone else to lift themselves up, out of fear of becoming one of those marginalized people.
Was your username inspired by the nuclear test program of the same name? I can't imagine that combination of words being accidental.
Yeah that is madness (10k per month), especially considering that this is saving on top of housing costs. Ie. usually people save in the form of a mortgage (at least the largest "savings" are for housing).
Judging from her posts, she's the kind of woman who likes playing the victim and enjoys generating drama. The tech world seems to be full of them lately, how sad. Part of the reason is that nobody wants to call them for what they are, for fear of being accused of sexism. (Good thing I don't give a damn what you think.) Github is a better place without her.
Well, the question is still is Missing Malaysia Airline Plane MH370, Where It Disapear ?

http://feedingnew.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/mystery-of-missin...
Thanks for this, you've just put your finger on something that's been bugging me about a lot of the recent Mt. Gox / Bitcointgasm discussion. Actually, it raises the point further that if so many people who claim to know what they're talking about can confuse Mt. Gox's position (fraud, incompetence, insolvency, bankruptcy) with fractional reserve lending, it makes me strongly question just who the hell actually knows what they're talking about.
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Also, I believe one of the Chinese state papers essentially called the Malaysians out as "backward" a couple days after the disappearance.

Can't say I blame them as the majority of people on board were Chinese nationals.
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I am not talking about how I end up searching the container. I am talking about the syntax. Besides, how a container is searched should be abstracted away in the container's implementation and the algorithm should be documented.

Compare this syntax:

> if (std::find(v.begin(), v.end(), 123) != v.end())

To

> if (123 in v)

If in is an operator and overloaded by std::vector, then it's easy to implement.
Please do not wget files over HTTP (no S) and just run them, as the example script does. Have the script run the downloaded file through sha256sum and check the output matches what you expect.

I know that was only an example script, but we don't want to be encouraging bad practices here.
put alternately, it taints actual fractional reserve banking

Hardly: it simply reveals the speakers utter ignorance on the subject.

FRB has its challenges (which deposit insurance and central banking are largely meant to address). What Mt. Gox was doing was in no way at all FRB.
> pilots don't care if their plan UIs take 5us or 5ms to update

Hard real-time doesn't mean "fast", it means having guaranteed upper bounds on response time. In order to get those guarantees, uninteruptable code paths need to be short and critical parts of the systems need to be simple, which often also leads to fast response. However, the difference between soft and hard realtime systems is the guarantees.

A soft real-time system that has a 5ms mean update time but has a 1e-6 chance of taking 10 seconds is much less useful than a hard real-time system that has a 15ms mean update time with a hard upper-bound of 50ms.
From the profits earned off of other borrowers. Like banks do.
Same way you don't get back the exact serial-numbered dollars you loan (deposit) to a bank. It's not the _identity_ of the bitcoin which matters, it's the value.

If you want a lockbox, get a lockbox. If you want a deposit account, you're storing and retrieving fully fungible and interchangeable entities.
It will be tough, believe me.
Steam typically has 25-50 percent the price of console games.
This is really secondary to the actual real value these things would represent. Yes, they must be limited in supply, just as money must be - money would be useless if it grew on trees.

Your comment really only deals with the inflation rate of hashcash, which is a nominal thing and can be discounted in the presence of efficiency.

As I explained at more length in a comment on the post itself, the value of these things is a function of the dirty spammy goods they represent. To quote myself...

> Just as money is "stored labour", hashcash would become stored mail order viagra.
>What's next - calling everyone who disagrees "sexist"?

If you disagree then you are automatically labeled as one of the obvious sexist rapist rape apologist pedophile neckbeard supremacist spermjacked nerd sperglord virgin libertarian losers. They can't possibly be wrong, so if you disagree you must be one of the hell bound sinners of the most dire nightmare.

>"Avoid editing what you want to say in your head, and try not to worry about being wrong."

This is very sexist of them. Their implication is that males are stupid and don't ever censor themselves when they work to be good leaders - that they are only gain leader status because they say every dumb idea they have, and that saying stupid things shouldn't have any consequences.
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Judging from your comment, you're exactly the kind of guy making the tech world a shitty place for women.

You "don't give a damn" because you don't have to give a damn.

http://www.checkmyprivilege.com/
* puts tinfoil hat on *

In two months there are EU elections.
Plus the hijacking in switzerland shortly before this...
Sound convinient.
Abstraction != encapsulation. The point is about the node, not its contents. What does the node mean as a metaphor? What is it's idea?

Language is a very powerful technology that nature evolved for us. We could not have this conversation with graphs or paintings...we need words! Many programming problems are also best solved with words, though you could definitely wire something up the old fashioned way.
>But I don't see Tesla's CEO fighting back against paternalistic governmental meddling that artificially raises the price of gas cars while producing artificial revenue for Tesla

Tesla is benefiting from government intervention much more directly. I'm surprised that nobody else has mentioned this yet.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/20...

Elon Musk is a hypocrite and no friend of free market capitalism.
also Afrikaans is the only other Indoeuropean language without noun genders!
The real login page is on a *.google.com domain, of course. But this phishing scheme is on a different domain, namely https://googledrive.com/...
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You can do a lot with them. What you're talking about is doing things to them.
so wait.
are you saying encryption… encryption was invented after 1970?
Ergonomic devices would help, but you are wise to back off a bit on those activities. To me a dream keyboard would be Microsoft 4000 with softer keys, and most importantly, with the number pad split.
Three things, in order of significance:

The value this creates/old methods it replaces wasn't communicated as concisely as it could be. This should be in the first sentence or two.

Check out fiverr or voice123 and get a professional voice recording. Polish = trust, and trust is important.

The lady in the green with the sign has no legs or feet. This is not a big deal.
Note that in a secured loan, the security is rarely for the full amount of the loan (mortgages being a notable exception). Usually it covers only a fraction of it, but it's there to increase the borrower's "skin in the game". Rules also differ on whether or not the security itself is acceptable as discharging a loan's obligations (e.g., in Spanish real estate lending, if the property itself isn't sufficiently highly valued to pay off the loan balance, the borrower _remains_ on the hook for the balance, this is usually not the case in the US, where most mortgages are non-recourse loans.). See also "deficiency judgement".

In both secured and unsecured loans, the debt itself is the security, with a portion of the interest being attributable to the risk (default) component of the loan.

As for money supply, bank reserves are included in M2 which is used for inflation calculations, so I'd argue that yes, fractional reserve lending does increase money supply, as commonly used.
You don't know how to take a snapshot, then delete it?
> I wonder if the added complexity makes it a net win or loss for safety? I guess a win, since that's what they do.

The chance of one or more of the systems failing actually triples (OR), but the chance of all three failing (AND) decreases, which is what redundancy provides. Basic probability.
> A huge advantage of using a configuration management (CM) tool is that they're "idempotent". Idempotency basically means that you can run the directives over and over again safely.

They're idempotent only as long as the configuration stays the same. If you removed this "apt: package=XXX state=present" line, XXX is not going to be magically uninstalled, but you may have a nasty surprise the next time you attempt to provision a second server with the same configuration and realize you're missing a runtime dependency. That's what I find fascinating about NixOS/NixOps: you can describe the entire state of the machine in a single configuration file (if you use the declarative style of package management). Of course, it won't help you if:

- you already have a large number of non NixOS systems

- you need many packages not present in NixOS

- you'd like polished package management (the Nix package management still has a way to go before it reaches yum/apt ease of use)
One of my favorite bits of commentary on financial matters comes from that. Some laconic British commentator was referring to Nick Leeson as "that chap who made money hand over fist for Barings Bank, until he didn't".
legal proceedings works - just that it is really really expensive. Justice is expensive.
"Simple enough is almost always correct". "Too simple for the problem domain" is almost always a synonym for "build a heap of absolutely terrible and verbose pile of complexity on top of the 'simple' system". See also sysvinit.
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>> Politicians will counter that gas taxes are unpalatable for political reasons
What does that mean (in plain language)? Why should people accept it as an excuse for not choosing the more efficient solution?
I always thought that algebraic functions are not guaranteed to be defined given certain parameters. It's just that perfectly algebraic functions don't throw errors, they silently return +-infinity. Like the asymptotes in `tan x`.
It seems to me unbelievable, that in an age in which the governments of many countries can figure out the exact location of a single individual in order to assassinate them with a drone, we've somehow lost track of something the size of a jet liner, crossing over international borders. I guess we'll know if a nuclear missile is headed out way because the issuing country will give us a warning call? Why is it so hard to pinpoint the exact location of this plane?
When it was suggested that you repost this as a "Show HN" in the other post, I'm pretty sure that it was implied that you title this something like "Show HN: AngularChat". :)
While I understand that if the choice were between the OpenBSD fork of Apache and nginx the only sane choice would be nginx (the OpenBSD fork is silly). But, I see people making the argument that nginx is "more secure", which would fit into the OpenBSD mindset. But, the reality is that nginx and Apache both have imperfect security records; Apache is pretty damned good on the security front and has been for a decade or more. Also, nginx makes it much easier for a sysadmin to screw up their security...including with some example configurations that are commonly found floating around on the web.
You forgot "creepy stalker", you closed-minded male chauvinist ape.
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The most common reason I've had to do this is that I've exhausted RAM and swap, and the system is disk thrashing for spare pages. In some setups, Linux does not like to OOM a process when it really should. (That's adjustable, by the way.)

Also, you don't need to go all the way through it. In my above example, MagicSysReq+RE or MagicSysReq+REI is enough usually. E and I are for sending SIGTERM and SIGKILL, so all the processes are now dead, and we have plenty of RAM. Sometimes it does take a bit of waiting: the system is disk thrashing. That said, you can then just resume, though you'll likely need to switch to a VT and restart X and other things. (But you get to keep your uptime.)

There's also F, which invokes the OOM killer, though I often forget about it.
I'm using Chrome on Debian and I'm getting the same thing.
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It's not like you would just automatically get more money because you speak another language; you have to go work somewhere where they need you to do so.
Strongly disagree. Often complexity in your implementation is necessary to present a simple interface to your user.
This is absolutely irresponsible. I've read somewhere that the Chinese are very critical of how the investigation has been handled by Malaysian officials because it basically seems to be a mess.

Given the state of the investigation, it is totally irresponsible to claim a highjacking and also irresponsible to then report it without putting this into context.

Poor relatives. They are now proabably getting their hopes up.
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I've upgraded XP machines with 2GB of RAM, and they were able to run 7 just fine.
Your edit almost made me eat my comment, but I will go further: there's nothing risky about manual memory management, as long as the compiler and/or runtime prohibit you from accessing memory you didn't allocate, adding null pointer and boundary checks (which may need runtime support to get the size of an allocated memory block) where the compiler cannot guarantee that you only access memory you allocated.

The reverse situation, garbage-collecting systems that do nothing to prevent you from dereferencing null pointers or going out of bounds, is just as dangerous as C.
Maybe you don't need to do it in software? If you get LCD with LED backlight, you can turn it on and off from arduino or even external device itself. It would have nanoseconds of latency (it depends on length of cables now).
If you need software solution I would propose C/C++ and linux, if you use library which handles high resolution timers, it's rather easy to achieve sub 1ms latency.
be able to write 1000 line of good quality code. have seen enough code to know what good code looks like.
able to learn how to use a new api without any help.

although the best way is to get a friend with good coding skills to recommend you.
In my experience (playing with ansible, on and off, for quite a while) limitations or bugs in the tool often lead to your ansible scripts to become .. shell scripts.

The more raw/command/shell modules you have to use, the uglier the whole approach seems to me - and maybe not worth the trouble in the first place. If it can't be done 100% 'right', should I bother?

I put my efforts on hold so far. Ansible improved greatly (especially the documentation) lately, but .. it still feels cumbersome and hackish for my usecases.
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You really should have a beer w Adam Back sometime; he's one of my favorite people from the cypherpunks golden age.
Still, blimey.WAt abt this.why are all new cars black and they dont get dirhee
You definitely win points for working over pure SSH, I love tools that do that. (Which include 'fabric', 'ansible', and similar.)

Me? I like perl and I decided I'd write something that just executed "primitives" locally. Then setup a flexible system of pulling them from git, via rsync, etc.

My tool is largely ignored, but modelled after CFENgine 2.x, and is here:

http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/
I'm not sure about that figure. The price of a console-available, AAA game on Steam seems to keep pace with the prices of the big-box stores and specialty retailers for the first 6-12 months. The major differences seem to be the availability of the game years after release and the ability to provide front-page notifications of deeply discounted older (or critically panned) games.
Close, but not quite.

We interview people at all levels of experience, many of whom can't program their way out of a paper bag. Happily, those generally don't actually get hired.
As someone who posted adverts for $10/hr coding gigs around Redmond and got decent applicants, LOL @ $200,000 figure.

However your other expenses are near the mark for a 'student' lifestyle, but a little on the low side...

Congrats to you if you currently save at that rate.
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Are there VPS providers that offer NixOS by OOTB?
Then so much for graph based programming?

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/gremlin-a-graphbased-prog...
Thought you guys might sound good-willed. The arbitrary devaluing comparison of "arts" aka "enough good musics" out there, kind of craps on what good music consists of.
The disk may lie. The 's' will get the OS to send everything out to the disk. Actually writing it to the platter (or flash part, or whatever) is at the disk's discretion.
UTC most certainly does not have DST. Many people use GMT as a synonym for UTC, and in that sense, it doesn't either. Britain goes to "BST" (British Summer Time) during the summer. From Wikipedia[1]:

> Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which later became adopted as a global time standard. It is for the most part the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and when this is viewed as a time zone, the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United Kingdom, such as the BBC World Service, the Royal Navy, the Met Office and others particularly in Arab countries, such as the Middle East Broadcasting Center and OSN. It is the term in common use in the United Kingdom and countries of the Commonwealth, including Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan and Malaysia, and many other countries in the Eastern Hemisphere.

> Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972, Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Zulu time) was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

> In the United Kingdom, GMT is the official time during winter; during summer British Summer Time (BST) is used. GMT is the same as Western European Time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT
I think the training you child recieves is an interesting combination and I don't want to criticize you on that. What I want to add are some observations I've made in the past about myself and others around me (so purely anecdotal).

I speak three languages fluently and a bunch of others to varying degree. I also hold a PhD in Physics. What I've noticed is that my brain manages very well if I have prolonged periods of intense "sciencing" and it also works well if I take some time to learn languages.

However, if I try to do half a day of thinking about algorithms and then half a day of language learning, I will get a headache and slight nausea! Might be that this only happens to me because of some "manufacturing error", but I've tried it repeatedly and it invariably happens.

This has lead me to form the following, highly unproven, high-level working heuristic about the brain: The brain might be just like the rest of our body. You can train to be a weightlifter, or you can train to be a marathon runner. If you do both over the course of your life, you can become good at both, but you'll probably never become the worlds best at any of the two.

If you do intense training on both without a resting period in between, you'll hurt yourself.

So that's my weird theory, for what it's worth.

That said, I think your child has a lot to gain from the broad knowledge he receives. I can tell you from experience that this is the age of interdisciplinarity, and it's a lot of fun.
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I use (my own tool) Slaughter for configuring about fifteen servers. The vast majority of configuration changes are:

* Upload/update a configuration file, and if it resulted in a change then restarting the affected service.
* Append a line to a file, if it is missing.
* Search/replace a pattern against a file and do something if that resulted in a change.

So yes, add the ability to install/remove a native package (be it a .deb, .rpm, or whatever) and you've got a lot of power.

http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/
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Apache is very modular.
You enable what you need.

Apache's biggest problem is that it isn't cool and hip anymore. It's config file is too easy to understand.

Good {
thing
we = have;
nginx;
}

Phew!
Sadly, the user's TZ isn't available to JavaScript. This is why so many sites have you input that as part of your preferences.

You can get the local time with JS, and you can get UTC, and from those two you can narrow it down (you know the current UTC offset, but that's it), but you're not going to get a single answer.
It isn't about what people should accept, it's about what they will accept. Voters aren't rational, and they're more likely to kick up a fuss about fuel taxes than vehicle taxes because it affects more of them in the short term.

Maybe taxes on vehicles are more likely to be passed, and not much worse than taxes on fuel. In that case they may be worthwhile as a compromise solution. They're certainly not a better solution, though.

Holding politicians to account for not being sensible is laudable, but more important is to make noise. Demonstrate that voters are rational in a way that they can recognise, and they might listen. Voting isn't enough, it just gets lost in the noise.
Any time you're using malloc() you run the risk of running out of memory, which is a very very bad thing for a safety-critical embedded system. Statically allocated, fixed-size things are good, as are algorithms that are designed not to require O(n) space to perform their processing.
> That area is saturated in complex radar. Diego Garcia houses complex radar and satellite communications systems and who knows what else that is still classified.

Taiwan has a radar system that has a range of 5500km [0]. It was originally developed by the US in the 80s. Note that even though Taiwan is ~2500km from the last known position, it only provides 270 degree coverage. I'd assume they are firmly pointing at China and Korea, however from Diego Garcia the last known position and suspected locations are right in the field of view if looking towards China and Korea.

[0] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/taiwan-radar/
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