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I'm disappointed that there's no discussion about whether Fitbit aids or hinders purposeless walking. Under what circumstances is it primarily a motivator? Under what circumstances is it primarily a distraction?
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On most modern OSes, the OS will generally know. Though I find "app for document type" models largely broken.
Media firms are making big bets on online video, still an untested medium
Why are you telling us that? It was never your choice to make. And that's the problem.
There's a TED talk (aaaaand legitimacy already questionable) that argues that our brains are built for movement. I find this fairly plausible; it feels like a lot of movement activities correlate strongly with better brain functioning.
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Do you have any advice for kids who code? I am 14 years old and I started programming when I was 12. I primarily write open source software.
I think it's interesting how he compares Haswell to his 32-bit Core Duo.

Haswell: 1050 cycles / 80.7% CPU time on his microbenchmark

Core Duo: 940 cycles / 58% CPU time on his microbenchmark
I took computational investing on coursera, which seems to have some overlap with the contents of the book. Course involves building and back testing stock trading strategies in python.

https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1
grep is a that good even for for c++ or dynamic mojo. Java is statically typed and has many ides and tools that understand code structure.
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Its would be kind of like rich politicians from privileged background deciding how the rest of the unwashed masses should live their lives. Oh, wait...
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On the other hand, it's interesting that the root of the issue (according to your examples) are not that the companies are doing evil things, but that people are intolerant. Would privacy be such an issue if being gay/straight was no more interesting than your shoe size?

Because it's clearly not about control of all information about yourself, but control of very specific pieces of information about yourself that are culturally deemed private, which can be identified and accounted for.
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My preference for DI is Declarative Services in OSGi. OSGi is a nice specification for creating modular Java systems.
Moved to Southern California 4 months ago, but grew up and lived in New England before that.

I'm an all seasons kind of guy. Sometimes you just gotta put more clothes on. And gloves and a hat. Also boots. Winter walks can be the best walks.
The logic of this split to makes sense to me - as long as people associate foursquare with checkins rather than discovery, it'll be hard for them to go head to head with Yelp.

But it's odd that they'd create a new app around checkins and continue trying to associate the foursquare brand with discovery. Wouldn't it be easier to keep foursquare as "the checkin app" (how people already see it) and create a new brand identity for "the discovery app"?
Forked != out of date. Android code is still Java code. you just compile to Dalvik bytecode instead of jvm bytecode.

If you think that's wrong, fine but that lawsuit had nothing to do with bytecode.
Also, they may own it as a trade secret rather than as a patented process. Or, further, it's possible that code that John is working on now is a derivative work of code owned by Zenimax. We won't know until the facts come out.
I bet this is comparing regular middle class busy bees to rich people with a lot of land to wander about on. But sure, why not.
The article talks about graphene oxide. It probably has completely different properties.
Linus says about page fault overhead, not system call. I understand this is a much different thing. On x86 page fault raises an interrupt. For a system call there is an instruction designed for fast control transfer to avoid costly interrupt
Jetty + Jersey that Dropwizard use is old (couple versions behind) AFAIK.
Or the cigarettes that used to be obligatory for cyclists in the Tour de France (opens the lungs . . .).
It surprises me that both the linked post by Guy Morita [1] and this one describe that they not only got detailed feedback, but that in both cases the problem was with the idea. I've always thought the idea was the least important thing, as almost everyone changes their idea, and attributes of the founders such as determination were much more important. Does YC simply limit their feedback to the idea?

[1] http://alchemist.svbtle.com/our-yc-interviews
Oh no. Not on your life. It would be better for the entire world if Linus had a heart attack rather than rewriting Make. Make is already unusable; git-style make would be an abomination.

Can you even imagine reading the man pages of all the different git-make commands? The syntax?

I hope Linus keeps contributing to humanity and doing what he's doing. He's obviously a great engineer, and if he works hard, he might undo the wrong of releasing git into the world.
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I like tabs. They needn't be to specific pages, however. And I hugely dislike horizontal tabs -- tree-style tabs (available as an extension on Firefox) give you additional cues of position and nesting, and can show far more context even in a busy browser session (and all my browser sessions are busy).

A bookmark doesn't retain where you are on a page. Only the page's location.

Bookmarks also don't relate to your current browser session. I usually organize mine by topic. For current task work what I want is a stack or other less-organized list that I can skip back and forth on.

Firefox's session restore was configurable. I'm a few revs back on Debian (24.4.0), so I'm not sure what all's changed recently.
How is this data useful to someone building a web application? I have used several of these frameworks ,alteast the jvm based ones, and I can tell you that it is like comparing apples to oranges. Case in point, Wicket, which I have been using for several years, is a component oriented framework with a rich ready to use pre-built components. If on the other hand you are using netty, you are left to reinvent pretty much everything . Based on your configuration, it may be that wicket is returning the response from cache. Compojure and wicket serve different business use cases.
Focus on doing things that matter, not stupid apps/games. I started coding when I was 12 as well. Great age to start!
I'm definitely susceptible to that too. I wish I could say I manage to do this every day but somedays I wake up and go straight to the computer, start reading emails, and get sucked into work from there. Or start reading Hacker News.
People should really stop using pastebin to post leaks, I'm pretty sure there's still a timing-based SQL injection to get at least the user's IP
Quasar is an open-source library made by us

Quite enjoyed the article until that got jammed in there.
> Why would anybody shop at a store where the operator states they might arbitrarily call the police on you?

Why indeed, but that's not what's happening here. Regulation requires reporting in specific situations, like large cash transactions. It's not arbitrary on the store's part, and it's going to be the case across the board in the US and (I'd imagine) most of the developed world.
Think about that. Most people don't know anyone who has died from exhaust, but almost everyone knows someone who has been involved in a crash. We might not be sufficiently afraid of cars, but I think rating the danger of crashes above exhaust is reasonable.
It's rude to talk about politics because it becomes a divisive issue.

It's often worse with smart people. It's similar to my ideas on how people want to do hiring[1], since I've witnessed this pattern in person dozens of times

1. I am a smart person.

2. I have political idea X.

3. Therefore, other smart people should also have idea X.

4. If they don't, they aren't smart, or I need to spend a lot of time fixing their ignorance.

I'm not blind enough to exclude myself. I have lots of beliefs that I think are true in things like the economy, health care, and so on, but lots of smart people disagree with me. They might be right, and it's easy to lose track of that.

For lots of people, politics isn't about finding the best policy, but rather about signalling group status.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515489
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Absolutely correct.

The amount of walking I do now after moving to the bay area has changed my life. Yesterday was particularly busy, I walked 5.8 miles, about 22k steps and 900 calories according to Moves. Most days, though, just walking from trans to office, walking to lunch, then trans to home is about 1.5 miles per day. It blows my mind that before moving here, living in the suburbs, there were literally days where the most walking I did was across the parking lot to my car.

Whenever possible I ditch the office in favor of walking during my weekly 1-on-1 meetings with my team. Getting out of the office for 45 minutes is good for everybody involved.
I've had employers make me sign contracts that strictly forbade moonlighting and anything I developed while employed there belonged to them. I no longer work there, and don't sign agreements like that anymore, but they exist and aren't terribly uncommon.
I'm Algerian, from Algeria (North Africa). I'll start a movement bitching about how there are not enough Algerians in Silicon Valley, and how it is unfair and xenophobic, and how companies must start programs and what-not to include more Algerians. Start paying teachers to teach Algerians to code, but not pay them if they teach other nationalities. And I'll sue because most people working in Silicon Valley are American.

Who cares about the fact that there are less Algerians that Americans in the U.S. Or the fact there are less Algerians than Americans in Silicon Valley. Or the fact there are less Algerian Engineers than American Engineers in Silicon Valley. I mean, who cares, right? It's just wrong and everyone is whining. Why not whine, too. It's trendy and hip these days to be a special flower.

This is exactly what

Tptacek, with all due respect... There's no amount of rhetoric fu that would make the unwillingness to face reality overcome, well, reality.

Most women don't pursue tech. Most people in tech are males. 1+1 = Most people working in tech will be men.

Anyone would agree on that if it were on another issue, but since it's women it is about, and people don't want to appear sexist if they ever even question the main points, they all jump on the White Knight train, wear their Social Justice SWAT Protective gear, and smash anyone who disagrees.
This article should have made better points about why this is a "dark" side of airbnb. It's vaguely attempting to motivate existing laws and pointing how airbnb does not respect those laws. Since when are we supposed to be automatically in favor of rent control policies ?
For immutable you can just use public final fields. I assume GP must be talking about fields that are mutated but only by the object itself, where outside code needs to be able to read but not write.
This is an idea that I've been thinking about for a while now. One of the issues I couldn't figure out how to overcome was the need for more electricity as people get a taste of how electricity can change their lives. Since installation of the solar station is subsidized and the villagers are essentially only paying for electricity they use, unless what is being paid is more than the maintenance cost of the solar station there is no more money to expand the capacity unless you get grants from World Bank or other entities.

How do you make this a completely self sustaining model where expansion is built in to the model without charging the users more money than they can afford? Can you charge the power users more money than the basic user? e.g. if basic user is paying $10 to use X kilowatts and makes $15 in income from that electricity, then the power user who uses 10X kilowatts can be charged $140 under the presumption that the power user uses that extra electricity to generate an income > $150 for themselves. The profits can then be put back into expanding the solar station capacity.
Math. Students pretty much don't read their textbooks from algebra through calculus. And it's even sadder when you get a student in PDEs or abstract algebra who acts as if reading their textbook would reveal their illiteracy.

This is probably because you can get through many early math classes just by listening to the lectures.
Hmm, what you write makes no sense.... even if Google would use Oracle Java, we'd still be stuck with devices running Java 1.6 JVMs.

Having a different implementation doesn't change the limitations imposed by out of date VM running on a device.
>But the modern Java developer uses Gradle...there are quite a few things that are quite, though not very, common, but still require dropping down to imperative Groovy.

This is the first time I have heard of Gradle, but why would I use a build tool that requires me to learn Groovy. If I already know Java I wont be learning something new just to build a Java project.

I find a lot of development tools/frameworks make me learn B just to get started with A, its really frustrating for someone with limited experience IMHO.
I've updated the app to go ahead and generate a new citation when you change styles. This happens pretty quickly, and this saves the user a click. Thanks for the feedback!
>>What I've found is many people like to complain about a lack of privacy, but are willing to make no real sacrifices to get more of it.

The point is that you should not have to make sacrifices for privacy.
Just grep for "extends InterfaceBeingUsed" and you'll find the implementation just fine.
> Especially since Google hasn't updated its Java language much lately

Yes it has. They recently added Java 7 language support.
This also reminds me of the quote from Heinlein:

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
Asking the ad people doesn't confirm anything. They're obviously not going to confirm any of this if they are still working at Google and have NDA agreements as the author did. Also he made a new account as an added measure to protect his identity.
There was a poll on HN that just confirmed that this is in fact true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7672910
(Mill team)

Another interesting aspect of the Mill architecture is that protection and translation are separate. The cache uses virtual addresses, and the TLB sits between cache and main RAM. The TLB is much bigger and slightly slower, so simply doesn't fault nearly so often.
tl;dr: "disallow root login entirely, everything else is bad" is cargo culting.

I said "impractical", not "impossible". Of course I can use sudo. But it's more work. I require root access a lot. It adds up quickly.[2]

And I hate typing passwords/passphrases. In fact, many of my passwords I can't remember. I've got an SSH agent for that, which reduces passphrase entry to yes/no (tab-space/space, actually).[1]

Also, I prefer my normal user account not to be a sudoer at all.

Besides, please consider that disallowing root access actually only gets you protection against root password guessing anyway. The "stolen key + passphrase" scenario in a sibling subthread is so absurd I felt the urge to bang my head against my desk. Sudo won't help you there either.

[1] Now please don't suggest "passwordless sudo".

[2] And there is another inelegance: /home is usually on a different partition than /, so your way will involve an additional copy. If /home is even large enough to fit that file.
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I think you are productive on pen and paper mostly because there is no internet connection. (Probably why GRRM is so productive on an old Wordstar).

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Scrivener also focuses you on a process. You can think about characters, locations, events and how they fit together in word or notepad if you want.
I've always been a walker, and I always thought I was alone in doing this. I probably started when I was in middle school. I'd walk around the neighborhood or more often my parents' sizable yard, never for exercise, even if I got that coincidentally, but only for thinking.

Even in college, whenever I wanted to get away from other people, I'd walk around campus, often at night. I wouldn't be going anywhere in particular at all.

I haven't really walked in months now because I can't. I live in a major city where one must make a planned effort in order to get to a park, and even then the park is liable to be crowded, which has a deleterious effect on the great solitude of walking in nature. Walking in a city is just thoroughly unlike walking in nature.
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This would be an amazing way to troll your friends (or people you hate).
You should be skeptical. Many Android projects don't use Gradle. Gradle itself might be stable but Gradle issues are at the top of every single Android Studio release notes.

When that stops happening I'll start thinking about Gradle.
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“[It] was the most stressful time of my whole life,” Sayman says. “It will help me as an adult in the future because I learned how to be [stressed]. Now I understand adults completely.”

This quote makes me want to drop everything and walk off into the forest.
I always remember Netscape with it.

In Portugal we only got to have access to the Web around 1994.

Before that most of us could only afford BBS connections.
Disconnect[0] is often touted as a more privacy conscious alternative. I haven't investigated it thoroughly, but it's open source so you can look into it yourself pretty easily.

[0] https://disconnect.me
I am not putting a value judgement on big data, but I don't think the author's experiment is true to her objective. Instead of testing how easy it would be to opt out of using Facebook or Amazon, she tried to hide something from Facebook and Amazon. She is basically trying to get the advantage of digital life without the downsides. The experiment would have been much easier (and closer to the normal opt out suggestions) if she quit Facebook and made her baby purchases in person from brick and mortar stores with cash. Sure that is an incovenience, but isn't nearly as much trouble as trying to censor your communications with everyone online or trying to launder your baby purchases through multiple anonymous payment methods.
As someone who regularly enjoys walking the local conservation areas everywhere he goes, I am always amazed at how empty they always are.

To be 3 miles away from a few million people and only see a handful of others out enjoying the same fresh air and excercise that I am is quite distressing.
It's gotten a lot safer - as long as you're in Manhattan you're pretty much fine unless you're drunk in the wrong spot at 3am.

I hear you on vacation walking. I never understood guided trips when there is so much fun to be had with random adventure. Similar to you I enjoyed both Japan and Australia quite a bit.
Get someone you trust to build it for you is my current solution[1]. I'm not really up on the plans for binary patches other than they are signing stuff now.

Also, BinpatchNG was mentioned at one time.

1) http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release
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