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I am using my throwaway to post this. HN user virtuabhi had sometimes ago put this very clearly[1] what tptacek exactly is beneath all his blabber.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7431307
Is there any precedent for ToS agreements not being allowed to be "one-sided" as Google AdSense's ToS is claimed to be in this lawsuit? Or more specifically, any previous cases regarding the legality of "We can close your account for any reason & keep your account's funds" clauses?
Look in Fremont. Mediocre suburbia and no downtown, but decent houses and schools
Tell us something surprising that you discovered [about your business/customers/problem domain]. Telling them something about your hobbies is at best not helpful and if "that sh*t will literally get you killed" a huge negative. Full Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with YC, but have successfully pitched investors.
Sometimes Erlang standard library code is not the prototypical Erlang development code. For example file_open() is a library function returning an error tuple since it is one of the obvious results file_open() will return.

Now in your code it depends on what you expect or what your guarantees are. If this is a library that expects to open a config file to that is always there, well then a match is better and if it doesn't work an exception is thrown, report written and maybe your process gets restarted.

But now imagine your are writing a configuration file parser. Now you code acts like a library so the input file not being there is a common case and maybe code above needs to decide if it should blow up or not on it.

Anyway that is my amateurish understanding of it. Maybe someone who knows more can chime in and correct me.
Thanks, this is helpful. My background is in games, but I have a wider array of skills; I guess I just need to learn to position them as a service I can provide to solve a company's problems.
> Gnome 3 is pretty close for HiDPI

Until you connect a non-HiDPI external display, where everything will still be scaled up by a hilariously huge factor of 2.
He may not have known. It's quite possible for a company to provide services to customers it can't explicitly identify. Rather common, in fact.

Levison might still be gagged from disclosing certain information he knows personally or which was disclosed by government requests for data. In which case, pointing to an external source of verification could provide him with legal cover.

Consider it the equivalent, if you will, of parallel construction. Knowledge acquired via one route cannot be disclosed unless you can point to an independent path to coming by that information. Though the nondisclosable means might inform your search for unencumbered sources.
I loled. :D
When that third child is being born the second child is already beginning to reproduce (if you reproduce like Yeast). Clearly, that second child is more important because it has already given you a grandchild when your third child is still in the process of being born. That second child has already resulted into two offspring, and counts for twice as much.
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If you're trying to decipher a poem, well that's a different purpose than just trying to find the meaning of something. That doesn't mean that the post you are replying to is wrong. Most people using a dictionary are not trying to interpret the deeper meaning of poetry.
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The "js" in the URL led me to believe this article was about Javascript and its object notation ^^
Google picks up incredible visual translation app Word Lens and makes it free
Ask HN: what r some of the innovative content marketing tools that can be used?
For eg. we have started using snip.ly for integrating our message/call-to-action on any VIRALable content. can you suggest similar tools that can allow us to reach to our TG better?
6 STEPPS to get more word of mouth
Facebook Button Lets You Ask Friends About Their Love Lives
The included pdf has this link cited:
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/01/proceed_and_pe...

Pretty interesting and funny.
Don't count on it bursting.

It's just as likely to go sideways for a decade or two with devaluation only due to inflation. Japan is the best example but Australia never had a major crash and seems to have rebounded again.

Maybe if there was another DotCom crash it might take the real estate market down with it.
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is it meant for aspiring startups only? can an already established startup apply?
At least we can also name Dianping and Tudou were established before or at the same time as their western counterparts (Yelp and YouTube).
I go to the gym every day. I've found that I have to drive to the gym straight from work as, if I go home first, I somehow never make it to the gym.
He probably would've been called dishonest and accused of peddling snake oil. That whole conversation was, fortunately for him, buried under the "government is going crazy with power!!" story; he's a nerd hero who is sticking it to the man instead of just another crypto shyster.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this can easily be copied with existing applications and/or some customization. Opensource Android application : https://code.google.com/p/notify-me/

App for displaying notifications http://growl.info/ (you have ports for Windows, Android, ...) (GNTP Protocol)

PS. http://www.notifymyandroid.com/ has been a popular app for a long time on Android :), it also includes Zapier integration (which can be convenient)
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The Dell XPS 15 [1] weighs around 4.5 pounds, has a higher-resolution display than a Retina MacBook Pro, a comparable i7 quad-core, 16 gb ram, etc. It also has excellent Linux support (source: I have one that I installed Fedora 20 on and everything worked without any tinkering).

There don't seem to be any other options comparable to a MacBook Pro for hardware. In particular, very, very few laptops that aren't enormous and heavy have a quad-core processor.

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-15-9530/pd
To me that WAS true. Nowadays i don't pollute my local environment with services and servers and run all of it in project specific linux VMs (through vagrant mostly). OSX more or less only runs my editor, terminal and browser, something which Windows could also do pretty easily.
I believe tilde notation is meant to bridge the gap between a pure mathmatical behaviour analysis and realistic expectations when using an algorithm. Analysing an algorithm and determining that say for 2x input size expect 8x resource usage gives more information that would otherwise be hidden in big O notation.

http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/41analysis/
HP Zbook 15 with Ubuntu here.
Boot to an empty desktop: 15 seconds, typing the password included. I timed that days ago out of curiosity.
Resume from suspend to RAM: maybe 2 seconds to the password prompt, plus all my programs are open and in the state I left them before suspending.
I never tried hybernating to disk but I bet moving 16 GB of RAM back and forth to disk wouldn't be as fast, even to SSD (I got a dual disk system SSD+HD).
compare to your 401k contribution:

http://paloaltofreepress.com/palo-alto-city-employees-to-rea...

"The city’s pension contribution for police managers will be $59,903 on average, according to the proposed budget. Police officers pensions are the next most expensive, costing $42,688 each, followed by firefighters pensions at an annual average cost of $42,289, and fire chiefs pensions at $41,828."

This 40K+/year contribution is what allows to pay those 200K+/year pensions.
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Not via the US legal system. The US might be able to influence processes elsewhere.

However agents wouldn't be restricted by US laws and regulations either: they could simply operate to obtain the access they felt necessary to acquire the information they sought.

One of the scariest things about state surveillance actors isn't their capabilities (though in the case of the NSA and a few similar agencies elsewhere this is no doubt substantial), but their impunity. In the US, under very, very broad provisions of the so-called USA-PATRIOT Act, access to tremendous amounts of data on virtually the entire population is provided, with full legal cover. Outside the US, legal cover is reduced, but so are legal restrictions. Agents can operate with reasonably little personal risk via electronic means to gain access, or interdict and retool equipment if sufficient backdoors don't already exist.
I wonder if the Lavabit author would be amenable to e.g. a kickstarted with the goals of

- open-sourcing lavabit
- making it ready for instant deployment e.g. using Docker

A kind of "just add a VPS" platform...
If the Red Queen hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis) is correct, failing to mutate (e.g. via long lifespans and continued reproduction) would be an evolutionary disadvantage. I don't know enough on the topic to have an opinion about the accuracy of the hypothesis, but it's something to think about when you think about this topic.
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Scroll down a bit on https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreBl... for a rather interesting indication that Apple really -are- making an iWatch...
Scientists "Herd" Cells In New Approach To Tissue Engineering
The mentioned paper, "Galvanotactic control of collective cell migration
in epithelial monolayers," published in "Nature Materials" is
unfortunately pay-walled and I haven't found any other copies:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat3891

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v13/n4/full/nmat3891.html
The East Bay cratered, out in Pinole and Bay Point was way worse. The house we used to live in lost about 2/3 of value in 6 months.
> If the desktop had built-in awareness of the issue tracker

And that's where this lost my vote. I don't want my desktop to have built in awareness of my issue tracker. My desktop should have no concept of what an issue tracker even is. Simple tools that compose well to offer complex functionality in the Unix philosophy. Not monolithic design which tries to anticipate and integrate with my development workflow, because it will inevitably get my workflow wrong. I like having these tools as standalone applications, because that means it is very easy to switch from Jira to Redmine, or from Git to Mercurial, or from vim to IntelliJ. I want my desktop to know about serving, resizing, and refreshing windows. I want my web browser to know about rendering html. I do not want my display manager to crash because we upgraded the bugzilla version on our server.

I do have problems with OSX, but they are primarily the result of not having any decent package management system, and is a discussion for another day.
"It is good to be the king", specifically to have the monopoly on violence.
Electric scooter design that makes a hole (sic) lot of sense
You can rely on moonlight just about 5% of the nights, because of the monthly changes in moon phase, and nightly change in position due to earth's rotation.

I am skeptical about the plants too, and like your calculations. But the numbers you have chosen seem too harsh.
Strictly speaking this is true, however you can add more base stations with lower transmit power so the shared media is shared by lower number of clients. This is what is already done in urban areas with smaller base stations.
That only matters at a specific moment in time, but if you take a slightly longer view that 3rd child had an enormous impact.

> That second child has already resulted into two offspring, and counts for twice as much.

Only for one generation, but we care about many many generations. 10 generation down the line the slight difference in timing makes no difference.

But the increase in number made an enormous difference.

You really need to sit and run some numbers and you'll see you are mistaken.

Maybe your intuition will help you if think of it as a steady state - babies in (born), babies out (die), rather than thinking about one moment in time. In a steady state the timing make no difference (because you've already waited out the time) - only the number matters.
Again, prop 13 distorts things a lot here. Mobility is very restricted for people, as the taxes go sky high for older owners when they sell.

Still, until you can reasonably pay a mortgage on 2 incomes, pay for kids, medical, and insurances, then these bubbles will continue. Rent? Sure, but rent also has to make sense. You can float on credit for a long time, but eventually people have to have a future for your market to exist. Otherwise, they'll just move to Tuscon or Denver. Similar people and climate (not lots of snow for months on end).
It's fantastic how articles like these trot out figures like '$80k a year!' as if we're all supposed to be shocked and appalled that someone is making around what it costs to have a decent home and raise a family. I guess we really do need to pay our greedy firemen and teachers less, they have had it too good for too long making a decent wage and deserve to go right on the scrapheap with the rest of the trash in this country that we've already convinced to work for peanuts. Not that they had a choice.
I am also the odd one out, also with a System76 laptop. :-)

You might try Cinnamon for a DE. I've found that it's not the same if you install the Ubuntu packages, it's best when packaged with Mint. But I bet you'll like it a lot more than Unity. Window buttons on the right and everything.
Possibly derived from the Usenet habit of putting an "Ob" footer reference to a piece of pop culture, to demonstrate hipness.
Repeatedly updating S3 files on a stream that produced a lot of updates (e.g. 1-second-resolution server logs) would get very expensive, very quickly!

Something like that might work if you only periodically rewrote the S3 file (e.g. once an hour). But it's still much less efficient than just allowing delta updates.
The problem is not to peer or not to peer. The problem is WHERE to peer.

I work for a european ISP and the problem we have is the location of the peering. Big content providers will happilly peer with you in, say, Palo Alto or Miami; but they will refuse to add a peering connection in Europe. Why? because today the problem is about WHO pays the Intercontinental route (which limited and is expensive bandwidth).

Level3 is known in the industry as a pioneer for bit-mile-peering agreements. This means you have to sample the origin and destination of the IP packets and make some calculations to know how many miles the packet has traveled and pay / get paid if someone dumps long haul traffic to a peer. Getting to this is complicated with current tecnhology and many companies are refusing to peer with Level3 because they don't know what will happen with their business with bit-mile-peering agreements.
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Ask HN – Preparing for my first internship?
Hi HN,

I'm a CS student who has managed to land his first summer internship at a company that develops networking hardware.

I will not be aware of my team/role until my first day though, and I haven't worked at a corporate environment before. Given that I have about three weeks until it begins, what can I do to prepare for my internship, speaking from a technical perspective?
You'd have to run erlang directly on the hardware without an intermediary OS and you'd have to schedule the individual erlang processes using pre-emption and by giving them priorities. You'd also have to add a ready-list per priority.

After all, as long as BEAM is running as a child process of a host os that is not hard realtime you can't guarantee much of anything.
(2) I don't want to update my whole operating system to update applications;

There are some popular linux distros out there that have rolling updates so you never have to reinstall the os.
I think it's great that police officers, teachers and gov't employees with seniority make six figures with pension in some of the better unionized municipalities.

Their work provide a valuable and concrete service to the community. I think startup enthusiasts on the other hand are kind of like starting a band, providing entertainment/art for an audience and for the performer to satisfy an itch. Life is a finite thing which makes our chosen paths speak for our individual/subjective values. We shouldn't be green about other people's financial or personal success, but should of focus on ourselves and embrace the rewards and consequences our choices make.

I think that's what makes a Computer Programmer so exciting. You can either choose to work for a startup and be a rock star or you can choose to work to work at a regular company or gov't with good life balance and benefits; and/or save your money and good planning to retire at mid-50's.

I must admit, sometimes it does feel like I didn't have the choice and have been dealt with a bad hand. But I think how lucky I'm to be in US where I can eat really delicious taco's, watch free TV shows/movies and chillax with peeps and other things I enjoy without being rich.

Ofc, there's a lot of social pressure to earn more for your family and for yourself, but I think relationships in general should focus on empowering the other person than imposing with money, expectations or guilt. And being upset with what other peeps make is just my own projections of my own insecurities.
Next time anybody says developers are too expensive, ask yourself how much they would have to earn to get $50K in matching on their 401(k).
The info is pretty sketchy and three years old.
Nothing apart from TNW. would you recommend any other mediums?
I used to run my own mail server and just configured it to use . instead of + for the wildcard. Now I'm using gmail for my domain and just have a catchall rule that forwards it to me.
As with most things I think the truth is somewhere between both the events you've outlined and the events Levison has outlined.

It's not mutually exclusive, nor unlikely, that it did take Levison 11 days of searching to try and find an attorney who knew this area and was available AND that the DoJ wanted a much swifter response and grew impatient as the delay put the evidence at risk and so perceived the delay as stalling.

I agree with you on your subsequent comment that I'd rather trust OpenPGP with encryption, but on the sequence of events... there's nothing to say that both sides are not true at the same time, and that all motive/reason behind the events on the timeline are open to subjective interpretation.
Video drivers are still unacceptably bad on Linux. Docking, sleep etc fail for no reason understandable to even experienced users. I use Linux at work because it's still better than Windows but dream I would have a Mac.
What ever became of Microsoft's $150 million investment in Apple?
Really, the article left out that HUGE issue. If you grew up in the Bay, you are very very familiar with this. I am surprised how many commenters here claim to live in the Bay, yet don't understand property taxes in California. It's a major issue in the state, not quite as big as water rights, but still major.
11 nines durability!

I don't think I've ever seen that before. What does that work out to in terms of data loss?
> Clearly, that second child is more important because it has already given you a grandchild when your third child is still in the process of being born. That second child has already resulted into two offspring, and counts for twice as much.

Well, to pull the idea from my own other comment... a child+grandchild pair is not twice as good as a child even if all you care about is that specific moment in time). It's 1.5 times as good, because a grandchild is only half as good as a child.

And (as ars says) once all concerned have died, the timing offset is of no significance whatever. However, for the impact on your total representation in the world of the present (no particular present), which does have significance... see my other comment, where you're still quite wrong. The Euler-Lotka equation values all members of the population equally; that has no relationship to reality when you're talking about (in your own exact words) "how many copies your genes make of themselves".
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The excellent book "C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software" by David Hanson as well as "A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation" by the same author are both written in the literate programming style.

I'd definitely say it's unpopular, but hardly goofy from a pedagogical point of view. C Interfaces and Implementations is such a beautiful book and the literate programming style really compliments it well.
I'm not ashamed to admit it. I use OSX over linux because it's prettier.
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> It's not a serious productivity platform.

To whom? If your customers are Mac users, it sure is.
Yeah, I did. Now, I use Linux. Normally stuff like this launched me into an existential crisis. "Oh, God, the stress! Why God!? My world has a MAJOR thing to worry about -- misleading people maybe or something like that."

I'm not quite as much a coward. I think I had good reason. Cowardess is not a virtue. God loved King David.

Damn, I look awful. Oh well. I've become a freak hermit-- don't know how to smile, anymore.
Should you get paid near $80k a year for the next 26 years when you are not working?

I also think it should be adjustable depending where you are living. Do you live in the area and so plowing some of that money back in to the local economy? If not there should be a reduction.

England is reducing some benefits for those who live abroad and thus not spending money in the country.
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Dynamical retrieve and assigning user roles (Symfony2)
Interesting, I thought no government were competent enough to make this happen. Clearly I was wrong.

Once the last mile is owned by the government / building / land owner. They should be able to choose what ever ISP they have without being locked into any one of them.
Some quotes of Knuth on functional programming:

"Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style."

"With 1 or even 2 hands tied behind your back it’s hard to do anything dangerous."

I remember looking this up once and couldn't find much. I guess he figures everything that can be written in functional style can be written in imperative style so why bother.
I'm not talking about a script injected tag, just a normal tag which doesn't block CSSOM. If you put them right before the closing body tag you address both the CSSOM issue and the DOM blocking since the DOM has already been processed.

I understand that async also enables quicker execution of the script. What I don't understand however is why anyone would use script injection when you can just put the script tag at the bottom of the page to avoid DOM blocking.

What am I missing?
> Seems kinda silly to think that "socially accepted" drugs make someone more rational than the non-socially-accepted drugs.

If something is socially acceptable then more people will try it because of group pressure. That's why I don't consider those to be as bad as stronger stuff. But in principle they are the same and alcohol is stronger than most soft drugs that are permitted in the Netherlands. Still doesn't seem to be outlawed in many places though...
Haha, funny. A lot, but it was worth it. $175k.
Why? Because... he's a politician?
I think a lot of it isn't actually genuine bewilderment. I've met developers who don't understand the point of a GUI when command line is "so much faster."