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Talking about illegal information is an inherently difficult task because illegal information is, as I see it, an illogical concept. With time, we can only hope that laws regarding information transmission loosen up.

Familiar with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime ?
Living outside of the Bay Area has consequences as well. For example, I'm an out-of-work developer currently living outside of SF, and I can therefore only really apply to positions that allow for remote work (which are much rarer than HN would have you believe).
i suggest you contact the guys in the story about a potential follow up project.
I've been speed testing my shitty (Time Warner, yay) internet lately and am getting fully 50% of my 15m/s that I pay a whopping $80+/mo (hard to disambiguate between the 'packaged' cost with TV). I once got a Comcast rep to admit that they basically were unconcerned with providing anything which is at least %60 of the level that they advertise. Unless the entire company is both mentally and physically challenged I seriously doubt that this represents a "best effort" class of service. This is go-fuck-yourself service that a dive bar would be embarrassed by.
Japan (Tokyo) is amazing, highly recommended. Can be a little tricky getting a software job with little or no Japanese though.
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Snappy Checkout has an icon to mark an item as shipped. Check it out here:

https://www.snappycheckout.com/images/itemshipped.png
People can get defensive of their own life decisions when they hear that other people make different ones. There's no harm in trying to live in different places. Sometimes you don't know what city is your home until you live there a while. And maybe you find that you're only happy when you don't settle in one place too long. Everyone is different.
Was there a typo in your message? Why would you be unable to afford a home that you could immediately put down a 33% down payment in cash for?
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Powershell ties in much, much better to the Windows infrastructure than any POSIX-like shell does. Managing Windows revolves around managing long-running services, and sending off requests to them which return rich data objects. This is an entirely different problem set from managing processes and files.

Modifying Windows to be administrable through a POSIX shell would change what Windows fundamentally is. I'm not sure that's a great idea.

Personally, I enjoy working with Powershell much more than I enjoy working with Linux in the traditional way (through a shell), and I currently don't personally own a Windows machine.

I don't think a shell is a very good interface for direct use; it's entirely non-discoverable past man pages. It's a great interface for developing reusable tools, though. I strongly dislike having to use it directly, preferring to develop scripts that I can access from my text editor.

As a developer, I think what you want from a shell is different from what a Windows admin wants from their shell. The Windows admin wants to manage the services they have installed; the developer wants to manage whatever files they have in their source tree. I don't think it's particularly terrible that Windows should be bundled with a tool for administrating Windows, rather than a tool for developing new software.
> Nobody who visit Trenton or New Haven comes back home and says "I went to New York".

You're stretching things. Trenton is 2 hours from Manhattan by car. If you stay in Northern New Jersey, you definitely "went to New York". I can get to Manhattan within 15 minutes from Hoboken or Jersey City. When you're that close, you're definitely part of the city.
His personal page appears to have a link to the "approved" ebooks (http://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-vo...).
brew install bash

… really.
That's funny, because I often make the opposite point about SF. Living in the Boston area, there are areas of Boston that are as expensive as SF (Back Bay, South End), but I can go a very short distance out of the city (Somerville, Medford) and find considerably cheaper housing.
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I hadn't previously read a description of St Louis quite like that - he makes it sound very appealing. Does anyone else have personal experience with living in St Louis?
Yes you can send messages to friends who are not App users.
Edibles do not destroy any organs.

Do you drink alcohol? Coffee? Asprin?
Why are you using Windows if you want it to behave like Unix?
There's a slider in the display settings.
I would say ease of use and the fact that you can send messages to non users.
> our Creator

There it is
> In my opinion I think the author did try to address the big picture.

Sure. But grandparent's point is that he did it backwards: first he made the changes he wanted to see, and then he demoed it up the chain and got himself in hot water. Had he first taken time to develop a thorough understanding of the situation and the environment in which it had origin, he'd have been able accurately to evaluate how best to take action in order to bring about his desired result -- or indeed whether it might instead be best, despite what had originally seemed to him a desperate need for improvement, simply to cultivate the detachment necessary to take no action at all.
You've hit the nail on the head. I have been in a very similar situation, using OS X for development on a Macbook Pro for 3 years also.

You are absolutely correct when you say that everything is 'not-quite-right': package managers are absent by default; Linux tools are sometimes hackily modified to work on Mac; additional tools have to be manually downloaded.

It's possible and the interface is generally fairly slick but everything feels like a hacky solution to a problem that is just not there with Linux.
This part confused me:

"My job is to go beyond correctness, to an analysis of such things as the program's running time: I write down a recurrence, say, which is supposed to represent the average number of comparisons made by that program on random input data. I'm 100% sure that my recurrence correctly describes the program's performance, and all of my colleagues agree with me that the recurrence is "obviously" valid. Yet I have no formal tools by which I can prove that my recurrence is right. I don't really understand my reasoning processes at all! My student Lyle Ramshaw began to create suitable foundations in his thesis (1979), but the problem seems inherently difficult."

There are formal tools to prove recurrences are correct.

First, any proof assistant like Coq or Isabelle could be used to verify recurrences.

Papers like "A Machine-Checked Proof of the Average-Case Complexity of Quicksort in Coq" show that this is not limited to just the recurrence, but can also be applied to programs and random input data. The Certified Complexity (CerCo) project does similar work.

Maybe I misunderstood what Knuth meant by "formal tools" or "recurrence is right". Here is a link to the abstract of Ramshaw's thesis:

http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=ht...
Seems like an easy scam to defer most of your compensation/take high equity at a startup, then do this. I assume the average 200k market rate tech employee remains more capable of successfully completing paperwork even when making 60k than most 60k earning people. Are there people doing this?
Just a follow up to your 95 percentile rule, there is a famous story of Google exploiting this (in the early days before they were flush with money) in order to transfer their data to a new data center on the opposite coast. http://www.dodgycoder.net/2013/02/googles-fiber-leeching-cap...
My usual fitness routine: Weightlifting for strength, 3 times a week. Hatha yoga at least twice a week. Bouldering whenever I feel like it (unlike the other stuff I don’t try to make bouldering a routine so if I feel like not doing it, I won’t). This seems to work good for me.

Also, not eating shit food, mostly by avoiding the centre of grocery stores and shopping at local stores and farmers markets as much as possible.
Same here. I run graphical software like Office and Photoshop on my 3200x1800 ATIV Book 9 Plus and haven't noticed any performance issues.
oh god, the 38. a bike would have been helpful, though I can definitely relate to commute angst.
I would be curious to see what other uses it has
Do you mean M-F period?
I don't agree. The strength of some parodies or hoaxes is that you use the companies name, this is important to make people think (I believe). Under your definition groups like "The Yes Men" would not be considered parody. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men

I don't want to go into the example you brought up with Foster Farms, you should realize that this comparison is pretty much flawed.
I never really gave DDG a shot until now. I tweaked the link color as suggested above to the DDG orange #C9481C (surprised blue was the only option.. had to use custom color and dig into your CSS to find that) and I think I'll give it a shot for at least a week. !bang seems to make up for any deficiencies (I'll probably be using !gm the most, for when I need directions).. right now things are looking great. Keep up the good work!
The flaw isn't so much that they trust those sources, because then which sources can they trust at all? The problem is that they treat all sources equally, and that once a few non-reputable sources cite something as fact, it will be hard to remove the entry from Wikipedia even if a few other, more reputable sources, gainsay the same. The 'rules' of Wikipedia are such that if you can get some consensus, even if that consensus is among a minority of disreputable sources, then you have a claim to the truth even if the entire world outside that consensus loudly proclaims the opposite.

And, if some idiot Wikipedia admin (but perhaps I'm repeating myself here) decides to stake his reputation on this falsehood, you are fucked. The falsehood may as well be written in stone at that point, as far as Wikipedia is concerned (cf Jimmy Wales birthday).
I encourage everyone to support RECAP and Operation Asymptote.

http://www.plainsite.org/asymptote/
And then you run into polyglot files which are valid for multiple types...
(I like your idea too, of course. This is just another approach.)

It's the same idea really. This is, after all, how it used to work. Then we got "tough on crime". The argument, from the courts themselves, is that they can no longer afford to operate on their tax-funded budgets.

By charging less people with fewer crimes maybe they can get back to operating on an actual tax-payer funded budget!
Huh? SF's population density is 17k per square mile. Only 60% as dense as all of NYC, but still extremely dense.

If you meant the SF Bay Area, then yes, it's not dense at all.

SF itself could afford a much better transit system, and, as the article mentions, the situation may actually improve in the next decade or so!
I've never heard of anyone moving to NYC to save on rent, ever. Amazing that it's actually possible coming from San Francisco... as someone considering the SF area (from DC) it's a little frightening. Seems as if $100k is almost bare-minimum to live humbly in SF
Well. Conveying competence is, indeed, a valuable skill. But the most it can do for you is to get you a seat at the table. What will you do once you've got the job, and it comes time to play the game?

And, while we're at it, why assume that the only possible reward for playing the game is the opportunity to keep playing the game? Isn't it possible that, in playing the game with sufficient skill and artistry, you can create for yourself the opportunity to do the work you joined that company to do?

...to be honest, I really don't know the answer to that last question at all. But it sure is an interesting question, don't you think?
100% agree. Its like the fine you get for a speeding ticket. Do they really think $75 is going to stop anyone from speeding? No, and they don't care. Its a revenue source for them so they keep it reasonably low and make up the difference in volume.

If they really wanted to stop speeding they'd charge $500 for a first offense. So maybe instead of giving those departments incentive to basically rob people--and, lets face it, that's exactly what it is--we fund them through taxes. That way they can focus on doing their jobs and not on speeding ticket quotas.
I work out 2 hours, 5 days a week via mix of core, cardio, toning, muscle.
While I'm working out, I use the time to listen to music, podcasts, re-listen to some movies/TV shows.
The key is to change your mental habits and build it up as a routine.
From http://www.axionpower.com/Technology:

"Our test protocol requires a complete charge-discharge cycle every 7 hours to a 100% depth of discharge. During testing, our laboratory prototypes have withstood more than 2,500 cycles before failure. In comparison, most lead-acid batteries designed for deep discharge applications can only survive 400 to 600 cycles under these operating conditions."

The interesting part about their batteries isn't the lifespan, it's the lifespan under 100% depth of discharge. You can easily get around 2k cycles out of a flooded cell lead-acid battery, but you can only go down to 60% discharge and you must carefully monitor the battery chemistry to get prolonged lifespan. Along with it's high current capacity, this would make it an interesting battery for renewable energy storage more than anything else.

It's too bad they don't have a solid datasheet for their product yet. I'd like to see their figures for internal resistance, self discharge and performance over typical operating temperature ranges. Until we get to see this data, it's hard to say if this will be a profitable product.
But if that were the case, then schools would simply be forced to pay higher wages for teachers. That, or teachers would be willing to travel further (perhaps in exchange for slightly higher wages).

In either case, the idea that a city can just "break" because it is too expensive for ordinary workers, ignores basic microeconomics.

The laws of supply and demand imply that wages go up to deal with lack of supply of certain professions. Whether that lack of supply is caused by a nationwide talent shortage, or a local high cost of living, makes no difference.
As long as you read the files before you execute them.

Otherwise some bad actor could write a virus / local exploit into their submission which will execute when you compile and run the file.
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Boston is a beautiful town and has a really nice climate (summers 5 degrees colder than New York, possibly the best fall foliage in the world). Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of progressivism in Boston companies. The people I like, and the brainpower in that city is immense. On the other hand, I've interviewed with 4 or 5 Boston companies in my life, known people who work there, and the set of people who've made it into management or founding roles and making decisions seems... stodgy, conservative, prone to create regimented, closed-allocation, uninspiring companies.

New England is unbeatable, though, except possibly in comparison to the Pacific Northwest.
Chrome has a ways to go before it fully supports HiDPI in linux, but in Firefox, all I did was set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.5 or 2.0 in about:config and everything scaled perfectly, UI and all.

In Chrome you can set the default zoom for pages, but you will have tiny tabs.
>The problem is, in the U.S. and I'd imagine most other countries, your business cannot be built on refusing to follow court orders to protect your clients.

What about churches offering confessional services? I know, that's a case where the law specifically protects the (priest/penitent) relationship. (Nor are they "businesses" in the conventional sense of the term.) Nevertheless, they are open about how they're willing to violate a court order asking them to (in their judgment) break the confessional seal.

Third caveat: if all you meant was that the "confession protector" can still expect to go to jail for this, that's still not a counterexample to what you said. But the point is that, unlike with Lavabit, the court would not shut down the entire church when priests violate such court orders, no matter how systematically they do it.
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Thanks. The money thing is tough. On the one hand, I do believe that the company had negative cash flow and was a few months away from closing the doors unless sales ramped up. On the other hand, part of the problem was that new upper management was brought in to replace the CEO who was not doing anything for the company and I believe they took quite a large salary, possibly enough to make take the company from positive cash flow to negative.

At the end of the day, the dev team pulled through and got product out the door, warts and all. This then enabled sales and other teams to get more clients on board and paying, which actually saved the company.
Many sites started requiring it to mitigate BEAST, CloudFlare included.
For me, personally: Visio and Photoshop
I just started one small thing that's improved both my fitness and my work life -- reading a technical book when I work out on the elliptical.

Right now I'm working through Lisp In Small Pieces. It's not easy to read and work out, but I like the challenge and it works well enough that I'll keep doing it. Plus it keeps me from getting so bored at the gym.
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The core problem is that people think that "jobs" are good. Jobs are terrible. Productivity, health, education, these are the things we want, if you really just want jobs take every unemployed person and give them instructions to walk around a football field all day for minimum wage.
No personal experience, but I know East St. Louis is regarded as one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S.
I think that's probably telling in itself. I've GTFO'd twice; one time was by my own choice, while in the other I had to be helped along by the organization a few months after I failed to follow my sensible instinct to resign. Both times, once I was finally out the door at last, I found myself feeling like a weight had come off my shoulders.

I could be wrong, but I don't see any way it's possible for that feeling to come along with a lurking realization that I'd made a mistake. (Certainly it never has in my experience, at least, and I've made plenty of mistakes.)
> (And I won't be buying Lenovo again, because I do not expect my BIOS to be password protected, and not be provided with the password. :-) )

Are you referring to UEFI? If so, what do you mean about not being provided the password? Doesn't it either provide an interface to put your own keys or at least switch to legacy mode?
It's not that gigabit is too much, it's that 100mb isn't enough. Pulling a file from a server at 10 megabytes per second is dreadful compare to 50 or 60
Here's another:
http://lithiumpros.com/how-does-cold-weather-affect-lithium-...
Not much. Actually, in Oakland prices started to take off in like late 2009 as professional investors moved in, betting on the rental market
I think that working with that many managers is too much, in a hackathon and in a 'real work' context. I work in a similar environment as well ie 15 manager meetings where only 2-3 people including myself can actually do the implementation (design, development). It's a pain in the arse and I wouldn't even participate for fun!

Hackathons are meant to be fun and as a way to innovate with cool new technology and learn technology. If managers want to work with 'innovators' (designers, developers) the innovators should be paid since they are providing a highly valuable service of showing the innovation process.

I wouldn't touch this with a 6 foot pole.
I second this. The people I met at GopherCon were among the top group for any community built around a language.

I spoke at length with someone there about Martini, and had pretty much the same take on it as Jeremy now professes. The stuff he did with the dependency injection was really solid, but as he admits, it is not very idiomatic. I applaud his new effort while maintaining the existing project that so many are using.
> And that's great... for Facebook.

Really? Because I'll bet you any sum you care to name that Facebook is just as riddled with internal politics as any other organization of its size in the field, Google specifically included. To believe otherwise is to believe that the people who make up Facebook are other than human.
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I'm currently doing the same. Left Switzerland about one month ago, and I'm now working from Colombia. Not that I couldn't afford living in Switzerland, but among other reasons, I felt like I didn't get enough value for my money there. Also, I love traveling, but as a freelancer it would have been kinda hard to just do that for a longer period of time. So I decided to combine the both.

I too felt amazing after quitting my apartment and getting rid of all the stuff. Now everything I own, fits in my backpack. Except my books, which are with my sister:)
Sure - it's like having a stopover at SFO and saying you've "been to San Francisco"... or at CDG and saying you "visited Paris." They're both 15 minutes from the city, too.
Money brings movement. If you can build an MVP and obtain some funding then you can get your tech co-founder on board.
Or at least, the thought of money will bring movement.
I'd wager you just aren't being clear enough. From what you just said, I have zero context as to why user B can see those changes. I can make a guess, because he's an admin, but it's just that, a guess based on the little context you provided about user C not being an admin and being unable to see the changes.
60 to 600 is a 900% increase.
How does Erlang's error mechanism compare to Lisp's condition/restart system (this question from someone who knows very little about both)?
The Sunset or Richmond or any other 'far' neighborhood is not Manhattan-like.
> No they can't. In general, such an act would be a breach of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.

The first sentence doesn't follow from the second.
Not particularly new news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsakey
You seem to be deliberately missing the point. Apple doesn't pre-announce products at all. Criticizing the way Microsoft did it is reasonable. Making a comparison to Apple while doing so is a little bit nonsensical.

If Apple were to get into the habit of pre-announcing products would they put detailed product data on the web? Would they allow for preorders, as Microsoft is apparently going to do tomorrow? Who knows? Not having to make decisions like that is part of the advantage of not pre-announcing products.
What was the last time you go to China?
It's against the license but OSX runs fine in a VM under windows.
Speeding tickets are a tax on affluenza, which I heartily approve of.
OS X is different from other Unix in many important ways that will affect you from day to day, so I wouldn't be too quick to congratulate Apple on making a Unix environment. If you want Unix, use Unix.
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just call his bluff.