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I've got a couple VT340's in storage, they have ReGIS graphics on them which is quite fun. It would be great if someone decided to implement ReGIS in one of the Linux or Mac terminal emulators because all those cool DEC BASIC games would suddenly work great.

[1] http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT340
torproject.org is blocked here, can anyone provide a text mirror?
Why does the default prompt have {git} and {lamb}? Is there any intro documentation?
That's what I sort of meant to touch on. Everywhere else in the country, the NIMBYs are usually ignored. (In New York it's like: "I don't want a bike lane on a 4 lane one-way street through a quiet neighborhood!" "You're dumb, we're building it anyway.")
I very much think broadband internet should be treated as a basic utility. however, I feel that "natural right" takes it too far. it's a very high bar to reach
Ah, I got the info in re: single branch from the comments on this blog post: http://blog.codebrag.com/post/72667221208/implementing-code-...

From the comment replies it sounded like it can only be on a single branch at a time unless you want to restart the app every time you switched branches. Does each developer run their own instance?

I'd assumed all of that post and the comments were about version 2.0, considering it was linked to from the 2.0 documentation "getting started," you can understand my confusion.

The FAQ only says it supports branches (not a word about multiple branches, unlike previous blog articles that took me a while to dig out) -- it makes it seem like 'sure, you can set up code reviews on a branch!'

The link to the blog from the docs page points to nowhere. I just found it by going back to the beginning.

I was also trying to find version deltas (e.g., what's new about version 2.0 from 1.x?), and I guess some 20 second youtube videos count but... if the code reviews are there, shouldn't there be documentation, too?

I haven't used the product; it looks kind of interesting... if extraordinarily light on the details. It gives me no incentive whatsoever to try it out - the only differentiating factor it has between the github pull request review cycle is the per-commit review (I still can't quite git over this) and the ability to heart a line.

If you have [wip] tags for larger e.g., refactors, how do you keep your single branch in a releasable state for production hotfixes? Does every commit kick off a regression test in jenkins? If a [wip] breaks your tests but leaves it in a releasable state, how do you know? If you did know and you needed to get a hotfix out ASAP for something else, do you revert the commit, or do you rebase to a known-stable tag? That just seems ... dangerous.

It doesn't seem like the most workable flow for a continuously live project. It might work fine for products that you can release a stable version of every couple of months.

"Because every commit gets reviewed" doesn't quite cut it for large codebases, even with small teams. Code reviews don't catch everything.
I wonder whether Erlang insome form could provide hard realtime guarantees. Something along the lines of LING.
This sort of comment is highly appreciated. Thanks.
On Monday and Wednesday I go morning surfing. For that, I try not to schedule any meeting those mornings. If I can't hit the surf, I'll try to sub for a swim at my local gym. On Thursday I'll do weights at the gym, and the weekends a hike or some tennis.

Also I cook every day so that helps control what I eat.
It's not really spray and pray if their firm is focused on this. They certainly seem accomplished.

> Our work includes representing consumers, municipalities and other groups in cases against unscrupulous corporations or individuals who attempt to subvert principles of fairness and equity in the quest for ill-gotten profits. We also work to protect the interests of intellectual property owners, whistleblowers and those seeking enforcement of human-rights laws.

>Hagens Berman was founded in 1993 by attorneys Carl Hagens and Steve Berman, with the goal of representing plaintiffs in class actions and multi-party, large-scale complex litigation. We have stayed true to that purpose and along the way have recovered billions of dollars for our clients, while winning the praise of judges and the accolades, and awards of our peers.
That's why GUIs and potentially always watching directories would be perfect for them.
Some of the Pages on the author's domain are blocked on Chrome (Chrome Detected Malware).

Be careful if you are not using a secure browser.
Yes, that is one explanation, but it's refuted by other evidence. (And the article covers this.)

The main problem with the argument is that our body does a great job of fixing errors - so why does that process suddenly seem to stop? Why not just keep on fixing errors. If you can fix errors for 40 years why stop there? Why does the process suddenly stop at that age?

It's not like there is a gradual accumulation of errors - it's no errors for 40 years, then suddenly error correction mode is switched off. Why?

It also just raises the question of why there is a reproductive age in the first place? Why does that stop? (For women anyway - it doesn't seem to stop for men, so the evolutionary argument fails there too.)

But the biggest argument against that theory is other animals. Why do they have different lifespans? The genetic machinery for all mammals is more or less the same.
Indeed. oh-my-zsh is a good way to end up with a shell you don't understand and is slow as hell.
The versioning is cool in and of itself, but auto-archiving to Glacier after an expiration date is a fantastic feature. The value-add on that is going to be really great for a lot of teams I work with.

What I'd really love to see on S3, though, is the ability to make partial or append-only updates without needing to re-upload the entire bitstream. As of the last time I checked this wasn't directly possible at the API level (it seems like most people store deltas and "reconstruct" the file programmatically when they need to do this).

This would enable an entire class of use cases that's otherwise not easy to do on S3, but which I think would be useful (streaming logs, sensor data, etc.).
AP launches a blog
Don't Be Evil should imply Have A Sense Of Humor.
There is an adventure game hidden in arcanist
So in light of this, which BTW is pretty horrendous when one sees it laid out like this, does anyone publish "best practices" for the everyday citizen? Maybe EFF?

On the one extreme (my guess: 98% of the population) one shares anything and everything on social networks, no concept of encryption, or VPNs, lots of sensitive info sent unencrypted over email, location-enabled smartphone, etc etc.

On the other extreme I guess is the snowden/greenwald approach, only even boot into Tails onto a laptop that has been inspected for mal(hard)ware, only ever use Tor, always use PGP, never unencrypted email, etc. Only problem is that the everyday person cannot interface with the rest of society this way (e.g. their job).

So what are suggested best practices? ... and let's be realistic, the everyday person cannot for example host their own email (although I wish the day comes soon when this is possible)
>His reply was yes, but not many. He mentioned a guy in Germany who goes over his books again and again looking for errors.

I call these types of people "moles" because I imagine they basically never see daylight. Thank god for these people. If I ever have the time and will power to study TAOCP it will be a very relaxed mindset, knowing that with a high probability I can be confident that the book, exercises and solutions are error free.
Yes of course, I completely agree. You're 100% right that I can make up any lie I care to and it's even easier if there's nobody to call me out on it. And I don't take it personally, it's not offensive.

My point, though, is that the notion that the residents of SF have any ability to sway the visitors to SF as to what they tell people back home is bogus.

>>I suspect SF is the same. People can visit anywhere in the Bay Area and go back home and credibly say "I visited San Francisco" even if they never actually stepped foot in the city proper.

>No, no they couldn't. Residents of SF are quite prickly about what is and isn't the city. You'd say you visited the bay area or possibly silicon valley not SF.

This second statement one I take issue with, made by coolsunglasses. What mechanism does coolsunglasses have to force me to know the difference between "bay area" and "san francisco" and "silicon valley"? How does he propose to regulate my speech such that I don't offend his (or others) sense of which areas are which?

I get that people who live in SF proper might get upset if someone said that. That is their right. But for the vast majority of the population (think "flyover states" and probably a good bit of the east coast) visiting anywhere in the bay area is just as good as the "real" san francisco. At least from a communicating-the-idea-of-what-happened perspective. And the folks in SF or the bay area not liking it doesn't do anything to make it impossible to say. Inaccurate? Perhaps. But uninformative? Not at all.
I think this is an understatement, if it gets certified it should be fascinating :-). When Blekko crawls the web when we find hundreds or thousands of different web sites using the same AdSense ID its a pretty good sign that the content will not be useful.
Terminology is what you might be looking for: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology
I think that poor people starve because the powerful keep them from living freely. Every person should have the right to set up a farm on unused land, but this gets complex in a modern society.

Therefore I subscribe to geolibertarianism. Use land taxes to implement a basic income.

But let's not spread lies about how we need jobs. We don't. We need houses, and food, and comfort.
Most of the NYC subway was built under a series of four contracts. Generally, these contracts involved the city designing and building (or contracting to build) the lines, and leasing to the IRT and BRT for operation. The four-track design dates to the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioner's original plan for the IRT. The IND was always built and operated by the city.
I really hope this comes to full light. I am an honest Adsense publisher since 2010 and got completely ripped off for $18,000. They waited until last day before payout as well, so all the traffic up until then for almost 2 full months was just gone. No answers from Google at all, just corporate firewall. They shouldn't be allowed to do this to so many people.
Overcoming the data deluge of Next Generation Sequencing
I'm afraid you have been brainwashed by the propaganda against this plant (actually a herb). It has been used for 5,000 years by men, women, and children, and in a way, humans have evolved in co-existence with this plant.

You need to do your own research as opposed to looking at government-funded studies which are only funded to show harm. Start with www.leafscience.com and take it from there.
It's an incredibly complicated document. A text mirror wouldn't do it justice. Try this though: https://archive.today/sibON
Exactly. I still remember this Onion article from a few years back being confused as actual news.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/world/iran-news-agency-duped/
I think the exact boundaries to use for comparison are really difficult to pick, and vary on an individual level. For instance, the superb connectivity of the public transportation makes me feel as if Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx (sorry Staten Island) are very much a part of NYC. I did not feel this way living in Mountain View; SF felt like a major chore to get to and a different world of its own. Plus it helps that the boroughs have the urban amenities I associate with a city that the suburban Bay Area towns like Mountain View lack.

So, while you might personally want to compare SF to Manhattan (which is totally fine based on what you value), when I think of my own quality of life metrics, I consider the NYC boroughs (excluding Staten Island) a cohesive unit that the SF Bay Area is not.
In fact, it can be even worse with rising property tax valuations. The home you've owned forever might cost you more in taxes a year than a mortgage would be in many places.
> [the US government] have no legal means of making me tell them what my passphrase is?

Exactly. There was a lot of back and forth about legislation in the UK that basically considered it contempt of court (or worse: impeding an investigation) to not provide encryption keys/pass phrases. Problem was, the government didn't have to prove that you actually had (access to) the keys in question -- effectively being caught with a usb key filled with random data could get you a year in prison...

If you think about it it's entirely unreasonable to demand encryption keys (to say nothing of how you would prove/disprove that the right keys have been provided, specially with stuff like hidden encryption partitions available...).

At any rate the (technical) problem with lavabit was that lavabit could technically sabotage their product in such a was as to gain/give access to user data -- a secure system would not.

The viability of both private (data) and private meta-data messaging have been debated a few times, but basically it's currently hard to beat regular email+gpg+mixmaster routing.

And as long as we don't have secure "web" crypto, the situation won't change.
It is anecdotal based on colleague's daughter. Sample size of 1, but I do hire mid level and its above that.
This is why the municipalities--in the United States--that have city-operated utilities should be doing this. In Seattle, for example, Seattle City Light is the legal owner or half-owner (with the local telco) of every utility pole in the city, along with ground easements for electrical service. Since Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities (the water and sewer provider) are two departments of the same city, they share the same easements and access rights. Tearing up a street to rebuild the street, reconstruct a sewer, or bury electrical wires is all done by the same entity, so adding in fiber conduits is easy as long as there is the budget.

Sadly, that last sentence is the kicker. "As long as there is the budget." There's no line-item in the city budget for building a municipal data network that covers the last mile (Seattle has a rather sizable not-quite-last-mile fiber network).
In particular, you can set this as your default for the Link color in the settings menu[1] found in the upper right.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/settings
I run a MacBook Pro (Retina), and love OS X... but I completely agree. At some points, running Ubuntu/Debian on various machines I've used worked better OOTB with Linux that Windows itself did, with far less "find a random driver binary around the web somewhere, on a companies unmaintained FTP server, that probably no longer works with the latest changes in Windows" faffing around.
Why iPhone Is An Unreliable Platform
Sort of, there are lots of standardized pipes and conduits which are spelled out in building codes. I've seen installs where the company doing the install just digs a 20" deep trench and unrolls fiber into it, and installs where they put in pipe and then pull fiber through it. I would be really pleased if, by having a known quantity of installs, we could get some work done a sort of standardized civil engineering plan. Part of the permit process with conduits is that the city requires the conduit not crush under some multiple of the max load the street is rated for (assuming its under the street). That involves some number of billable hours by a civil engineer and some test specifications from companies. If there are more standard versions of these things that can be pre-approved for a wide variety of situations, it will reduce the cost of installation.
No. Researchers use tricks to get people to answer honestly. For example: they ask people to toss a coin before answering. If the coin comes up 'heads' the person must answer 'yes' even if their real answer would be 'no'. If the coin comes up 'tails' they must answer truthfully.

The introductory text explains that there is no way to know if the person is answering truthfully or following the coin 'heads' rule.

When you get the results you adjust for probability of the coin toss.
I've had Arch running on the 53 since ever.

The only major gripe I have is with the apparently decreased battery life.

There are ways of extending battery life [1], but I'm usually plugged in when I work so I haven't played with it.

I also haven't tested Linux support for:

- GOBI

- GPS

- touchscreen

- multiple monitors

- printers, scanners, fax machines

as I don't use those things or they did not come with my particular CF-53 model.

Otherwise, the keyboard fn-buttons to adjust brightness, volume, etc work straight out of the box without any need for configuration. Wireless works better for me straight out of the box on Arch than on Windows, even taking into consideration the host of proprietary Panasonic wireless drivers [2]. Overall it's a very clean experience.

1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TLP

2: http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/computer-support...
We’re hiring account managers at 42Floors
You may be thinking…

Wait! What are you guys doing?! All job posts on Hacker News are supposed to be for hackers.

And you’re kinda right. I know the audience here are hackers. But hackers have friends that are interested in startups. And I bet at least a few of you get asked which startup your job-hunting friend should apply to. And at 42Floors, we like for every person on the team to be from the startup community. So, actually, the single best way for a candidate to get an account management job offer is from a referral from a hacker. (By the way, we offer $1000 for referrals...)

…So consider this one of those posts that you should forward on if you feel it warrants it.

So, since I need to make this compelling enough for you to forward to your smartest, self-motivated, awesome friend, here’s a little about 42Floors and what type of experience one would have as an entry level account manager:

42Floors makes it easy to search for commercial real estate online. We’re like Zillow for office space. We’ve a team of 16 and we’ve raised 17M from NEA, Thrive, Bessemer, YC and many others.

Our site is blowing up right now with massive demand that we simply can’t keep up with. We’re hiring as many account management specialists and sales people as we can – all entry level positions. Over the next year, we need to reach out to virtually every landlord and broker in the U.S. We’re going to build a really big team of people to do it, but right now the account management team has just 5 people on it.

It’s going to be an incredible experience for whoever joins the team right now. Not in 3 months, not in 6 months, but right now when all the fun company building parts are still to be had.

Startups are usually run totally flat and ours is an extreme example of that. There will definitely be people to support the account management team, but the best employees are those that are not only capable of figuring things out, but prefer it that way.

It doesn’t matter whether a candidate knows about commercial real estate or not. We’ll teach that part. And it doesn’t matter whether they have experience in sales or account management. We can help with that part as well. But they need to love all things startups. They need to be super motivated.

And if you know someone that are those things, tell them to apply to http://42floors.com/jobs.

Have them mention your referral and we’ll send you $1000!
> contribute to belly fat.

Do you have any references on cardiovascular activity directly causing a layer of fat growing on your gut?
It didn't have braille characters, but my old Kaypro 2x had a blocky, character oriented form of pixel graphics. (The rather fat pixels needed to be rolled together into a "character" that was outputted, as best as I recall.

It was enough to be able to display some chunky looking but workable fractal images. Somewhat similar to the time I generated the like on a Dec something or other and printed them on the available dot matrix printer.

Fun, if much simpler, times.
Recently, news was indicating that people were considering homes as an investment again. This is likely what is fueling these prices.

I guess, I would say, you should use your "gut-feelings." If something doesn't feel right, something probably isn't right.
My understanding of property tax in SF is that it is based on the price the house was purchased at. This means that the home you've owned forever has had a predictable tax based on that price, and only new owners you sell it to will be paying the higher cost tied to higher property value.
Wish I read this comment before reading that long article.
You might want to look at https://github.com/visionmedia/term-canvas
Would you be willing to share what the minimum/maximum is for a mid level?
I'd also say that 20% down on a first home is also rare. Interest rates are low enough that PMI isn't a deal breaker, and salaries are high enough to make it easy to qualify with 10%.
Finally! This will save us a lot of money as we wrote tools to do this, but it costs keeps increasing, especially when you have to scan the whole bucket.
Wow, that is a great read! Thanks! It definitely explains quite a bit.
Research to lose sleep over | Harvard Gazette
A character I missed:

⌧ clear

Also, 9 of the 22 symbols above are conveniently available in the Technical Symbols category in Character Viewer. You have to enable the Technical Symbols category first by choosing “Customize List…” from the gear menu at the top left. Character Viewer supported categories starting in OS X 10.7.
I am strongly in favour of legalisation of cannabis.

There seems to be a lot of anecdote in this thread so I'll offer up some of my own.

I have met many people, often in MH hospital, who have complex interactions with their mental illness and cannabis use.

Some of those people had a psychotic illness and self medicated woth cannabis and other drugs. (Some of these people said their illness was easier to deal with now they had been off cannabis for a while).

Some people probably had underlying psychosis that was brought out by heavy cannabis use. They had family history of mental illness; their cannabis use was on the heavy end.

But then I've met people who had no family history of mental illness and who believed that cannabis caused their illness. They felt that since cannabis can cause temporary psychosis it can probably cause long term psychosis.

And it wasn't just psychotic illnesses. I've met people woth anxiety disorders and depression who's illness was made much worse hy cannabis.

The illegality of the drug makes good quality research really hard. It also makes people dismiss research as government funded propaganda.

So, while cannabis is great for some people we need to acknowledge that it is peoblematic for an unknown quantity of other people and put in place safeguards - nonise by under 18s; helplines and treatment for people having problems.

Being honest about the possibility of harm makes legalisation easier.
Hyper V has no USB support (I've often needed to pass-thru USB for a VM) and unfortunately when I first tried it with Windows 8, Debian had a bug where loading the Hyper V client drivers would crash the installer.

Just a note, if you have VirtualBox or VMWare installed and you go to enable HyperV (on Win8), you may get a BSoD.
Jeff Barr and Werner Vogels are two huge reasons I'm such a fan of AWS. Jeff is very responsive on Twitter as well.