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I hit a few timeouts, and checked @HNStatus as instructed:

https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/467743685015126016

> Currently fighting what appear to be some rather aggressive spammers.

I'm not sure how I could help, or if I could help, but I'll certainly offer to help.
CS student searching for accommodation
I am a computer science student from Germany and will be working in Palo Alto for three months, however, I have a problem, I am not able to find accommodation which is in line with the budget the company gave me ($1000). I have been searching on airbnb, but haven't been able to find anything that's in line with the budget without having to rent a car to get to work every day, which would also be too expensive.

Can you recommend a place I can search for other than airbnb, or even better, a place I could stay at? Best location would be anywhere between Palo Alto and Mountain View.
I recall reading a while back about an attempt to extract sound from the groves in ancient pots that were spun upon a potter's wheel. My recollection is that the attempt was unsuccessful, but wouldn't that be something to be able to hear sounds from potentially thousands of years ago.
>I'd argue that it's precisely because of this decades 'gold rush' that a cultural shift has ensued towards nerds being the new cool.

The nerds that (rarely) make it to the cultural spotlight are not the stereotypical nerds. More someone like DHH or some similar guy with charisma.

Treating those that made it (and are older too) as special in some dedicated articles, profiles etc, is not unique to our age. It happened with Einstein, Feynman, etc, heck even back to Edison, but it didn't mean nerds had a better time back then.

We don't ever see the equivalent of 18-yo Linus Torvalds or Woz, or some awkward introverted nerd as any kind of hero or role model. And I know from experience that most nerdy types had defficient social skills in high school / uni, and most still do outside of it.

Do popular people in real life hang around with "Sheldon Cooper" types?
Feel Like an Impostor? You’re Not Alone
With font awesome, you are automatically using all of the icons however most sites likely use about 1%-5% of the total available icons. That means using font awesome is an unnecessary bloat on most sites. It would be nice if you could download each icon as a separate SVG (maybe you can, I didn't see how).

I prefer to find the SVG elements I need and base64 encode them directly into my CSS. That way you only include the assets you are using, minimize total KB and network requests. There are two tools I use to help with this:

1. https://github.com/svg/svgo (node)

2. https://gist.github.com/mrinterweb/11303706 (ruby - I wrote this one)
There are a few hacker houses around there, but talk to your employer, the budget they're giving you is completely unreasonable. Show them evidence you can't possibly live there at that price, and they might take that into consideration.

I would also say you don't literally need a car to live in the Bay Area. You can be organised and use a bike and Caltrain, which is what I did.
The other responses are discussing remote work but it sounds like you want to do short time contracts involving on-site work. If thats the case, yes its possible and yes its what I currently do.

I think the most important thing is to have a solid network of recruiters to ensure a steady stream of jobs. Over time you should be able to carve out a niche and get more work organically but at first you'll be relying on recruiters to keep your pipeline full.
Isn't it off by default?

I like the physical click way better, in any case.
Landmines and ordnance are not just a problem in Kosovo, the rest of former Yugoslavia still has its problems with contaminated forests and agriculture areas.
Xmonad user here.
Sessions are wonderful. I can run one just for xmonad as a job (I like to hack that config quite often ). Another just for my VPN script (which puts out I/O stats every few minutes).

And per project, I'll have a few. Say I have one where I have one shell for compilation, one for version control, and two for testing. Give each one a prefix for the project, and I've got all that separated out. E.g.: Two projects: foo and bar: foo-compile, foo-git, foo-test-a, foo-test-b, bar-compile, bar-git, etc..

Now, I have clean shell histories (and scroll buffers) for each. I can ssh into each one as I want, and reuse my terminal windows. This latter bit helps keep my already-complex-enough window setup manageable.
When I was in college, I worked for the IT department. While there's politics and bullshit no matter where you go, the politics and bullshit in Ed IT was not that noticeable where I was.

Furthermore, the profs were always happy to see me coming because I fixed their broken stuff without pointing any fingers.

It was heaven.
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You have to make sure that somehow the person storing the erasure codes can't first deduce the original data, and then from this regenerate the erasure codes. Maybe that is not a hard problem?
I think you'll find this ted talk interesting, as it explores that exact idea:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_shape_shifting_dinosaur...

It's also pretty entertaining to watch
Tech companies still hate the FCC’s net neutrality plan
There must be. I just watched his talk and they a video capture device setup on it.

Perhaps you have to wait a couple days for it be processed and uploaded.

Good talk Bob.

tx
If you're interning, consider joining the 2014 Bay Area Summer Interns Facebook group (link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1378139645766413/).

There have been a number of posts by people looking for housing and/or roommates, including some in/near PA and MV.
>I did read How to Win Friends and Influence People in Jr. High, but it taught me little about how to hold a conversation. Even to this day, I don't actually know how to go about gaining social skills or what those skills actually are.

Here's a few things I picked up along the way:

1) Regarding small talk, don't be afraid to talk BS inconsequential stuff. Not every conversation has to be productive or have a deeper meaning.

2) As you say, everybody in a conversation has to feel included. If someone from in your company is not familiar with a subject, narrow it down and provide context, or drop it.

3) Avoid being too preachy and teacher-like. It's OK they don't know X fact, even if you feel everybody should know about it (e.g someone not knowing who Bob Dylan is or that the web is not the same as the internet). Also, unless they look deeply interested in you explaining it, they probabky are not.

4) Laugh at other people's jokes, even if they are not that good. Put in a few jokes yourself, especially some that don't require special knowledge. Not all jokes have to be inside jokes (something we nerds usually are guilty of).

5) Empathy trumps everything. Try to feel the other's pain. Discussing thermodynamics or Haskell is good, but if the other guy is currently concerned about his health problem or just had a spouse abandon them, talk about that too. That includes conversations between nerds too.
"If you want to use the forthcoming portable LibreSSL, you need: [...] modern C string capabilities (strlcat, strlcpy, asprintf, etc)"

This could lead to some fun arguments, since the Ulrich Drepper rejects the idea of strl{cat,cpy}: http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053.htm...
It doesn't matter whether a country is rich or poor, but whether people are rich or poor. And the USA has a lot of poor people.
>This is a nerdy thing to chime in, but: that doesn't establish a causal relationship. Attractive people might simply have more self confidence, which leads to more money and success with the opposite sex.

It doesn't matter if it's causal or not, the fact that the correlation exists is enough to show "good looking people have it better".
Need a rope launcher then. Or a potato gun. Or a shotgun.

But I assumed for shooting paintballs and pepper spray that it was flying lower and slower. I guess the point is these don't seem they would be too terribly hard to disable. I might be wrong. Guess we might find out in few years.
I'm not sure it's Google's job to.

Or rather - even if Google figures out how to index these pages, why should every other consumer of web content have to also figure it out when it's the fault of the content itself.

i.e. don't break the web.
It should be available from https://www.youtube.com/user/osbootcamp/videos at some point in the next few days.
I'm glad to see the spirit of Eric S. Raymond writing being kept alive.
Hollywood, Branding and the Brutal Aspects of Business
https://github.com/LeviBotelho/LearnAngular/issues/12
It's a good development but to say that these companies "have our back" is an overkill. Most of them don't really care, I probably would just count on twitter from that list, and I'm not so sure anymore since this happened: http://allthingsd.com/20130830/twitter-general-counsel-alexa... interestingly this was right before the IPO.
Edit: I've mismatched deps and imports, indeed that could be useful. Disregard my post.

If I select a function from autocomplete, its dependencies should be automatically added to the project without any fuss.

For the point, that that post makes, this one is at least available if you use IntelliJ with Java or Scala.
From the BBC article:
Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants, and seven tonnes heavier than the previous record holder, Argentinosaurus.

According to the Wikipedia page about Dinosaur size[1], the biggest (and longest) dinosaur is Amphicoelias fragillimus (at 122 tons), not Argentinosaurus. So, won't this new dinosaur be the second heaviest?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_size#Heaviest_dinosaur...
it doesn't matter what a something really is when its zealots come.
We agree. I wrote:

"You have to do careful study to filter out which cultural values remained immutable over time, if any at all. Ask the first ten employees to leave a successful company why they left, and many will answer “the company changed.”

You have the benefit of retrospection with those companies - In year 1 or year 5 it was (likely) far less clear what the company would look like in 50 or 100 years.

It is also a matter of perspective - as an outsider to any organization the perceptions we have of culture are different than what it's actually like inside. 3M in particular has gone through many cultural changes, including the ones that led to peaks in innovation (see: http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/3M-Company/Infor... on McKnight circa 1950s) and low points (see http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-06-10/at-3m-a-strug... McNerney, circa 2000s).

So we're talking about two sides of the same kinds of coins - yes some elements are stable, but it's hard to sort out what they are, and it depends heavily on whether you are an outsider looking for examples, or an insider actually trying to get something interesting done.
Would having one cellphone number and then using a service to purchase DIDs and have them forward to your main number work better for you?
NXP Plans Car Access With NFC and Bluetooth BLE
Technically its not an internship, since I already work for the company here in Germany, but I'll see if I can get into the Facebook group.

edit: I got accepted into the group, I will see if I can get help there, but thank you very much so far!
Rats (and dogs) still seem to be "state of the art" in the detection of chemicals.

Both the rats and the dogs scale very poorly, though. Maybe training rats via AI would improve that? Human labor in Africa is cheap, so automation doesn't really save wages, but it could improve how much you know about the reliability of the rats, and thus you could train more numerous and more reliable rats.
Rackspace brings Morgan Stanley aboard to evaluate its options
In startup we gamify operations: 3 infrastructure failures, and ops team are out.
Is there a reason we're looking at last months survey instead of this months?

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/05/07/may-2014-web-se...
Mostly, see my response to mnem.

Also, tmuxp is python instead of ruby, and it gives you an API to interact from your python code with tmux.
Down-Vote Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback
The hard technology in JWST had to do with the cryocooler, which was needed to cool the infrared detectors to just a few degrees Kelvin. (Of course IR is the whole point of the mission.). The cryocooler was unique in several ways, including sheer size and a complex routing throughout the spacecraft bus.

There is no basis to compare the hard technology in JWST to the hard technology in a space interferometer. They are two very different beasts.
We seem to be in a rule 34 period for shoving shit in the blockchain.
That's 14 years ago. Is Drepper involved in anything anymore?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrichdrepper not Red Hat anymore, apparently.
Original paper: How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior
http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1429
Martin Fowler is still relevant?
I started doing something much simpler: When working on a project I just create .todo files anywhere it makes sense. This way I can view, edit, add, and remove them very easily with simple shell commands.

I just enjoy the simplicity of `echo 'remember to test the milk' >> foo/.todo`.
IntelliJ does it with Python and other languages as well, although you have to explicitly hit Alt+Enter -> "Import this name".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gnomes_plan.png
Absolutely. My point was it has been studied, by anthropologists, for years, but our field has great hubris of inventing everything for ourselves (this hubris has some advantages of course, but when it comes to reusing existing knowledge it's a big disadvantage).

A minute of of google searches would reveal papers and books about the anthropology of work, including office work and even studies specific to modern tech work. There are even classics in the field, such as The Psychology of Computer Programming, by Weinberg, which despite the title, has many elements of anthropology in it - a book published in 1971.
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What a wonderful article.

I'm not allowed to forget a lot of this pain. I teach programming, so I see it anew every semester.

And of course I still experience much of it in my own work. So, yes, let's deal with these issues better.

One little disagreement. In the "What?" and "Why?" sections the writer present some ideas for debuggers. While these are good ideas, I prefer to think of the inadequacies of existing debuggers as motivation for good practices: modularity, loose coupling, unit testing, etc. Certainly, it would be nice (say) to be able to examine the entire state of a running program easily. But I would rather code in such a way that I do not need to.

So to those who would write the World's Greatest Debugger, I say, "Good for you." But even better would be to turn your efforts to producing languages, libraries, frameworks, and programming environments that make such a debugger superfluous.
Why I push for Python
That's a good idea and all, but you know what would be better than two touch panels? A button to turn them off!

With screens bigger than your hands and accidental touch detection being as bad as ever, a simple button to turn off the digitizer would make a lot of people happy...
The budget your company gave you is absolutely, ridiculously not possible.

We're talking you can't even rent an illegal laundry room closet for that pricing. You need to show your company that you definitely need more.
> We'll also have brain-machine-interfaces that allow one to 'memorize' copyright media. How does the government/society plan to control our memories in the future?

We can memorize copyrighted media now, without needing brain-machine-interfaces. I have hundreds (probably thousands) of copyrighted works memorized. My memory is not perfect, but it retains enough of these works that if I were to recall them and write down my recollections and distribute that, I would be infringing their copyrights.

I don't foresee copyright law needing to be or actually being changed in response to the development of more efficient ways to get copyrighted media into our brains, such as brain-machine-interfaces.
Why? How is that a Google problem, when you use voice as your backup password system and you're not securing it properly?
Yea, it's really tough -- I currently have Sonic in Alameda and do not want to switch back to Comcast, but at the 4/1 speeds I'm currently getting it makes it hard to work from home.
This seems particularly useful for very small touch screens, assuming you can comfortably hold the device without miss-clicks.

Perhaps a smart watch could even have its screen on one side of your wrist, and a "touchpad" on the other.
Can you expand on this? Do they have a past history of conflicts?

If not, this project would certainly benefit both *BSD and the Linux community. Although the LibreSSL team is currently concentrated on just targetting OpenBSD, the cleaner code base should make porting easy enough that the work in exchange for a cleaner, more secure and easier to debug code base will be worth it.

It would serve the Linux foundation to keep with a more secure implementation than OpenSSL.
>You're doing harm by spreading misinformation.

Blame AdaCore. I based my statement on the information on their website [1]. They certainly try to convince people that you have to buy GNAT Pro if you want to build non-GPL compatible software.

Based on the other comments here, it seems it is actually possible to use GNAT, with an alternative FSF runtime, to build non-GPL compatible software without a license. Great, however AdaCore certainly likes to keep quiet about that possibility (for understandable reasons). Also as a potential user I would be worried about the quality of said runtime, given that it probably has no serious users and very little manpower behind it.

[1] http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-gpl-edition/faq/#licensi...
That's true for pulling functions from other installed namespaces, but to my knowledge you can't install a library in the same way (eg search for 'parse html', drag a result into the editor, get Beautiful Soup added to your virtualenv and imported into the repl).
Well, it was WONTFIXed in 2004, which is just ten years ago: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178

Maybe it's worth reheating the debate?
How about instead of a 1:1 touchpad on the back, which could have problems, Put a trackpad on the back of the phone, but have it just be a small square. So it wouldn't be a "full-fledged" touchscreen, but a small touch sensistive section. You could also have a discrete capacitance detecting sliver on the side of the phone so that it's only active if you're physically holding the phone. Clicks would happen using a button.
It's of limited use though.

The only game as far as I'm aware that properly makes use of it is Tearaway, but even then it only appears in a few places and was kind of awkward to control properly.
So let me understand this. The government wants to have everybody to have fast internet, regardless of the ability to pay for it. The government does not have the clout to force the taxpayers to pay for it collectively (e.g. by raising taxes) so it tries to make providers to pay for it by building out. The providers don't go for it, so nobody has fast internet at all. Yeah, sounds logical, I don't see any easy solution for it.

Except, you know, for the government to stop being control freaks for a minute, let the people that can pay to pay, and as the cost of basic service eventually and inevitably drops have more and more people enjoy it. Of course, that means that somebody who doesn't have any money wouldn't be able to enjoy the fastest broadband service available on the market, so if it's absolutely imperative everybody would be equal - the solution is always the same, the lowest common denominator.

There is an easy solution, you just should be willing to see it.
Were you using Chef inside of OpsWorks? I'm curious about what problems you're having.

I'd think that hooking the configure lifecycle event on your cluster layer in OpsWorks would work just fine.
Nice blog post.

The internet is an echo chamber.

I'm happy DHHs keynote brought some sense back into the discussion. Fowlers and Becks comments are great, too.
I'm not sure what your point is. You say the creativity resides with the employees who make the film, but my point is that the creation is only possible through their aggregated efforts and there is nothing wrong with pooling their collective effort on a for-hire basis and assigning the copyright for the result to a commercial entity with shareholders.

Your pottery analogy is broken because it doesn't reflect how a film is put together. Imagine, rather, a giant sculpture that requires the collective efforts of 100 potters.
No. If I shut down my laptop, my hard drive is encrypted and keys are no longer in RAM (modulo a cold-boot attack, but that is only really useful for <30 minutes after shutdown without preparation).
Oh, that issue is even more complicated. For one thing, Switzerland isn't in the EU, but they benefit and depend more than they'd like to admit from trading with the EU and from highly skilled immigrants they don't have to pay to educate. So they do have certain treaties about free trade, and mobility of workers is an important condition in these treaties. In breaking the treaty, there will be at least some consequences.

Also, the opinion about immigrants in Switzerland seems to be very complicated. People seem to both feel "We have to much immigration", but they don't want to get rid of the immigrants they know and depend on. For that matter, they think there are too many Germans in Switzerland, on the other hand their economy extremely depends on those immigrants.

The government will be hard pressed to find enough immigrants they can get rid of without serious consequences and even antagonizing those voters who voted for the restrictions in the first place.
It looks like the trend of search engines becoming more like recommender systems will continue.
Yeah, the site has gotten substantially better over the past year, and especially in 2014. The unmasking of the fearless moderator was a brave decision, and seems to have been highly positive.

Maybe 2009 was better still, but the site is immensely better than 2-3 years ago when the front page was full of 10 identical stories from fluffy blogspammers most of the time.
Ah, I didn't realize this is what the parent was talking about. That's pretty damn cool.
I think they're doing a wonderful job of moderating the comments and submissions, as well. Duplicates are down, and discussions seem to be trending toward the informative and useful.
I went over my ISP bandwidth cap twice before I realized OSX was doing this in the background. For people with limited bandwidth allowances, this isn't a good option.
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As someone who used to be in a similar role (not with HN), the best you can do (IMO) is continue to use the tools at your disposal to report spam, vote up thoughtful responses, refrain from engaging obvious trolls, and, of course, contribute interesting links and knowledge yourself.
In Linux you can find those functions in libbsd.
Republic Wireless has 4G unlimited everything plan for $40/month. I don't buy it because I'm fine with 3G for the phone - viewing HD movies on the phone is not my priority. I'm sure there are even cheaper ways to get basic wireless connectivity. Of course, if you want to watch netflix in HD 24x7 while running a torrent exchange and a game server, that would not be enough. But we're talking about basic needs, right?