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Very few pilots are blind (sorry for the joke). Much like public K12 school teachers, they know Exactly what they're signing up for and are cool with it (or they wouldn't have signed up...). Folks outside might very well be amazed at what they agree to, at the staggering difference in their own compensation schemes. That doesn't mean the participants are ignorant.

It would be like claiming a school teacher would be surprised at having to spend a lot of time with children, or claiming a pilot would be surprised to learn he would be expected to fly an airplane.

What you're really asking is why people outside the organization are completely frozen out because they refuse to participate in the compensation model and should big brother intervene in a conformist manner to make the compensation scheme "more normal" for a self selected group who do not want it.

Its much like "you can't be a MD without working 36 hour shifts" or "you can't be a (real) programmer without working 120 hour weeks in open plan offices" it freezes out a large segment of the population, and that's just kind of how it is. Obviously the vocational skills of doctoring and writing programs have no inherent need of abusive working conditions, but that is the industry standard and those participating like it and there's no shortage of applicants, so...
It sounds like the latter with a lot of shock and awe about the mathematical probability of authenticating the party who generated the source documents.
The near field 1/r^3 is defined by r and the starting point for how you define r is the radius of the coil used to generate the magnetic field. The average human body isn't much more than a foot thick. Putting a 12" diameter and thus 6" radius coil in a bit of padding and wearing it like a backpack isn't out of the question especially if it's only for a few hours to charge up every day. Or built in to your bed.

That's not to say that what's been discovered here isn't a lot better than a big-ass coil. Just that the idea you couldn't get wireless power into the body is wrong. People have been using subdermal inductive charging for insulin pumps for years.
You don't need to write it all yourself, though. There's nothing wrong with a loosely-coupled collection of libraries that are hand-picked to do the task at hand. Add in a dash of abstraction, and you can even change those somewhat easily.
I enjoy doing web development on my MBP it has everything I need Microsoft wise for work email and Lync. Terminal is great to work in and connecting to a remote server is a much better experience than in windows. Plus you have most of the unix commands you a already familiar with. I can easily create a new vm of whatever I need anytime I need to.

http://modern.ie actually has some VMs you can use to test IE 7,8,9 etc on OSX, or even linux and windows. That pretty much sealed the deal as far as windows dependencies. Although I am still stuck with a corporate VDI for some work items.
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Exactly, which is why someone should ask the question, "Why would that represent audio recording?" Is the NSA still fumbling with fishing the tape through the spindles to record all our phone calls?

They should have just depicted an analyst sitting there with headphones and a pencil (with manual sharpener on desk) writing furiously.

I guess the intended audience for this article is all 50y.o.+ and/or people who have worked in some recording facility's store room 10 years ago.
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I definitely agree. The question I have is if it is worth paying for a verified certificate? It is $250 for the certificate and if it does not really count towards anything I would rather take the course for free and then go write a Linux certification instead.
well, everything is a choice if we start going that route. the idea is to differentiate the intention behind the choice. if the intention (conscious or not) is to hide behind being busy then it's a problem. if you're actually pursuing something other than pretending due to fear or similar limiting reasons, it's not
Ensure has a lot more sugar than Soylent, doesn't it?
...but they're Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Knowing that this idea is nearly a decade old, and still not even briefly mentioned in passing by university accounting professors, is a fairly good indicator of the lack of value had by the idea. Whereas if it were generated in the past year, we may be on the bleeding edge of acquiring and employing this knowledge -- beta-testing it before experts in the accounting field have had a chance to review that code.
I don't really like the trends of laptop hardware these days, so my preference and yours differ greatly. I use hardware that's a few years old and is known to work well with fully free GNU/Linux operating systems. Shiny new tech (which usually requires proprietary firmware/drivers to function) doesn't appeal to me. There's this push to make laptops so unreasonably thin that they have to solder everything to the board and remove all user servicability to do it. I use a Thinkpad X220 currently and I am happy with it.
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it doesn't look like vulcan supports HTTPS, so it's a no-go for anything serious. Here's a post on my confd/nginx/docker setup for zero-downtime using etcd. http://brianketelsen.com/2014/02/25/using-nginx-confd-and-do...
I love the "HexII" hex-dump format he links to, it's so much less cluttered than the traditional one. I'm definitely going to have to try that out the next time I'm picking apart some binary file.
How else would he fight that pun?
Also: affordability stops if you actually want to fly the thing. Most of these jets will typically be ~ $1000/hour to fly just for fuel.
There are benefits in the develop and test on one platform (test again and) deploy on another. That way you naturally create portable software.

Also the difference between the developer's desktop and the deployment machine may be significant even if both are Linux there might be differences between the libraries and utilities so using a Mac doesn't necessarily make it harder.

Use what you are comfortable with. Having used a Linux desktop for a while I've switched to OS X for the moment, I spend less time setting it up and trying alternative DE's. I also develop for iOS so I need it for the moment. I am glad Linux is there if OS X development direction doesn't suit me in future and I have Linux on my home server which is what I would use if I wanted a current GCC.
It's interesting to see the disparity between the comments here and on the post. Nearly everyone below the line on the post is a Linux refugee that's pitched up on a Mac. Here, not so much.

For my part, I have always had a deeply-rooted and entirely irrational hatred of Apple products. OK, the retina screens are nice. Trackpads are usable - but I hate trackpads anyway and always carry a proper mouse around, so no win there. (What happened to those little joystick-type thingies that used to stick out of laptop keyboards, anyway? I liked them.)

But I'm just about old enough to have mostly owned and used desktop PCs. And those desktop PCs have all been custom builds. I'm typing this on a slightly ramshackle Lenovo laptop, which is obviously not a custom build - but I can take the back off it and fool around if I so choose. I've never used particularly outre specialist components or anything; but in some fundamentally irrational way, having, in principle, an absolute say so on what's inside my computer is important to me. Apple's entire business model is antithetical to that. And while I see plenty of satisfied Apple customers among my friends and family, I also see them forking out endless money to Apple support for trivial fixes because of it.

(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. :-) )
Was it a good conversation with the doctor? I.e., did you discuss whether the bike riding would simply aggravate the inflammation or if it would cause damage that would make the condition worse? Did you discuss aspects of your working out that would especially aggravate it? If not, maybe talk to some more doctors.
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Many people using HN have English as a second language.

It's useful for them to be aware of idiom that might cause trouble. That's not telling people to avoid it. It is just giving them extra information.

The real reason for avoiding "off the reservation" is that it is an Americanism that doesn't have much use in other English speaking nations.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned one of the key components of busy-ness for the average worker: unemployment. Labor force participation is down even though productivity for the average worker is historically way up. Owners of capital get can more done with fewer workers today than ever before for many different kinds of businesses, so it is not surprising that people work harder and are busier while more folks are finding themselves unable to find work in traditional ways.
For most people maybe, but I'm code slow so it's like Mt Everest.
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Ask HN: Should StackOverflow lower the rep amount required to comment?
Hey Everyone, If you don't know. StackOverflow requires that you have 50pts of rep to be able to leave a comment on someones question.

So for example. John Smith has posted a question about a PHP error:

"Hey guys, i'm getting an unspecified variable error on line 66, can you help me?"

To which my comment would be:

"Could you please post the some code?"

However, having less then 50pts makes this impossible. I then have to leave it as an answer, which not only seems to anger everybody on SO for not being a proper answer but also isn't what an answer section is used for.

So, What are you thoughts about this process? Do you agree or disagree? Care to elaborate?
And one of the reasons why I built the library in the first place. Thanks Koen for Framer.js, it's awesome!
>Oh-My-Zsh

No, I like bash (or fish sometimes) with my own personal configuration that I fully understand. If I were to switch to zsh, I would just use zsh, and not a giant bundle of stuff that someone else thinks I need.
Very fun! Now I really want to get a Rubik's TouchCube and port this to it.

EDIT:
You could extrapolate this idea to different geometric shapes too, to achieve unconventional time-signiatures. Of course this would also limit/increase the number of of beat samples, too.

Pyramid would be 6/8 or 6/4 with only 4 samples, whereas dodecahedron would be 5/4 or 10/8 with 12 samples. That could be fun. Using the center as a beat as well could give 9/8, 7/8 and 11/8 for pyramid, cube and dodecahedron respectively.
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You don't have to choose, nowadays you just use Homebrew for anything that might not be built-in.
The question wasn't "union faction" versus "shareholder faction." It was about individual factions within the union.

The default behavior for any organization is to crush minority opinions. It takes active and continued effort to keep minority voices alive.

(This is also a problem on the shareholder side, of course. I've personally witnessed minority shareholders get completely shafted to benefit the 51%. And to be clear, the existence of the problem on one side does not ameliorate or justify the existence of the problem on the other side.)
Inline diffs are good for small changes here and there throughout a file. They are pretty worthless for large changes to a file (eg. heavy refactoring).

Bitbucket (and probably Github, too?) uses inline by default on pull requests but has a button to show a side-by-side and another to see the actual file.
Thats really interesting. Thanks for sharing! What proven options have you looked into?
Apple refuses to update bash (and other GNU software) because they use the GPLv3, so all OS X users receive GNU software that is horribly out-of-date. Apple ships Emacs, but it's version 22.1 from 2007, and the current stable release is 24.3.
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cannot make my own Google Drive or OneDrive client

Could you elaborate on this please? "can't" as in "it's too much work" or "can't" as in "impossible for some technical reason".
Even if it solves some optimization problems well, it's not worth $15m. You can come up with the same solutions by spending far less money on way more CPU power. Plus it's a black box which has totally proprietary content you are not allowed to investigate based on some magical functionality. High on the PT Barnum Scale.
I don't code in C# but it would be interesting to surround the code in just a block instead of a try-catch block and see if the same behavior is evident. If a plain block is still slow, then maybe branch prediction gets overwhelmed with considering having to unwind the stack all the way to main and dealing with open streams and objects on the stack.

edit: I don't know byte code or machine code well so my description of what happens unwinding the stack is probably wrong, but my point is just that it's simpler for the CPU not having the possibility of unwinding the stack beyond the code section OP called out.
If your project is on .... then its dead to me.
I have pretty much the same opinion as the OP. Linux is in dire need of a DE that is at least on par with its internals. What strikes me is that what's good about linux structure essentially pre-dates it. I wonder if the open-source community is up to the task of making a breakthrough in this space. I'd love to see a large scale DE project take shape around, maybe, a metaphor or a concept that puts linux in reach for casual users while still pleasing developers alike. I'm pretty sure high profiles in the UX and dev communities would happily embark on the project and give off some of their time.
I was actually expecting codebrag to be doing code review as a service. << that would be interesting
I think I need it on my phone to perform live with!
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more the Linux environments pursue the same goals as OSX and Windows, the stronger the backlash

Indeed - people want an alternative, not just a replication with a different license.
My miracle cure for back pains has been riding a bicycle. Not hunched over on a racing bike, but upright, on a high saddle, preferably with no hands. Suddenly all your posture-related muscles have to work hard to keep your balance. While they can slouch while sitting in a chair or car, or even a bit while holding the handlebars, when you're cycling with no hands, those lower back and side muscles get a serious workout.

I have no idea if this is good against every kind of backpain, but it has helped me in a few instances where I woke up with a lot of pain. Riding a bike like that for 30 minutes completely fixed it.
As a passenger, you might get on a plane with a senior crew. Your pilots have slept a full 8 hours every night for the last week and are fresh from spending a four-day weekend with their families. The captain has been with the airline for 20 years. The first officer has been flying this type of airplane for 10 years and could do the entire flight by him or herself if necessary.

Alternatively, you might get onto a plane with a junior crew. Your pilots are exhausted from being on the last day of a four-day trip. Each night they've gotten a 9-11-hour "rest period", but that includes waiting for a shuttle to the hotel, riding the shuttle to and from the hotel, showering, eating, and possibly trying to sleep at an unusual hour. Perhaps they've slept 5 hours each night. The first officer joined the airline a few months ago. He or she has some simulator training, but is struggling to stay ahead, mentally, of the airplane.

Get rid of the unions and every crew would be exhausted, underpaid, and undersupported. You can't trust corporate management. Source: centuries of observation.

Pilot salaries aren't that expensive. A pilot logs about 40-45 flight hours per month (the guideline is 40, but that doesn't include takeoff and landing) for a total around 500 per year. Since length of flight and passenger count are correlated, and since we're talking about the highest-paid pilots, we can assume an average passenger count of 150. That's 75,000 passenger-hours per year. For a $300k pilot, we're talking $4 per passenger-hour. That's nothing, compared to the price of a ticket.

The reason airlines are so brittle, and suffer when business cycles go against them, is that they have enormous fixed costs while being in a commodity business. Also, the bulk of their profit doesn't come from leisure travel but semi-discretionary business travel (hence the premium paid for airline tickets less than 14 days in advance, and for business class) and that goes away quickly in a downturn, now that videoconferencing is an option.
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OS X has everything an end-user needs already (iLife apps are best of breed on any platform and come for free !), that's the beauty. For the rest there's the seamless App Store.

Now for hackers, you already get a long way with the built-in BSD commands, but one word : http://brew.sh
I kinda see the gamification point. That's pretty ... okay, I suppose. I do like how you can 'like' a given line. Might be even better if you could like a block/set of lines/function/etc. That little heart to the left is about the only thing I see about it that sets it apart from traditional pull-request-as-code-review.

Unfortunately, codebrag is single-branch only, and triggers reviews on commit. That's a little ... weird. That's how a team I was on did code reviews about seven years ago. But we were also using SVN at the time.

SOP these days is issue a pull request, the PR gets reviewed and when it passes muster is merged. I don't know anyone who does per-commit code reviews.

I guess you could set it up to track commits on your stable branch, and when merge commits come through from topic branches you can review then. But that seems a bit backward.
There was a thread on meta.stackoverflow.com about this earlier this year: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252133/50-reputation...
Thanks for the positive feedback guys!

The Go community overall has made me a better developer, and I'm so excited to see where the community takes the language in the next couple years!
I'd say that our two main differentiators are:
* a clear "to do" list: you know at first glance if there are some commits to review, and the review process is made as simple as possible, not to get in the way of the development process
* code likes - let the author know that some code is good, you like the design etc. Helps to make the reviews less negative, and in the future can be a great knowledge base!
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"I'm under the impression that the Googles and Boings and NASAs of the world want to get their feet wet in the field despite its infancy."

And note this is invariably trumpeted loudly as in current production commercial end user applications. There are obvious financial / stock market reasons for these wild claims. But if you clear away the PR haze, the field is actually in the earliest research mode.

By computer analogy, whats going on in reality is the first ENIAC has been partially wired although it doesn't work perfectly and may in fact never meet its goals and may or may not ever have any direct effect on anyone, although existing unit record equipment manufacturers are watching nervously. The analogy of whats being presented by PR as a completed accomplishment is Zilog having shipped their fifty millionth Z80 processor and the living rooms of America are stuffed with "1980s home computers" which pretty much did have at least some effect on everyone alive either then or later.
Localytics uses MongoDB in production (extensively), this talk (http://www.slideshare.net/andrew311/optimizing-mongodb-lesso...) is from 2011. But I sent a tweet to their CTO (@andrew311) and they are still using it ;)

Cheers.
- Are you claiming that this machine will run Linux well? If so, you're missing links to back that claim.

- Are you claiming that the specs match a 13" MacBook? If so, you must realize that it's possible to have a poor experience even with the same technical specs.

- I haven't heard good things about Lenovo's non-ThinkPad laptops. Has this changed recently? Do you have something (a review perhaps) to backup the idea that anyone should seriously entertain this laptop as a legitimate choice?
I think you must try Cinnamon [http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/]
Surely there should be something you can do to challenge an unconstitutional court order, or when you think an unusual court order is interpreted in an unconstitutional way. But how do you challenge that? Can you challenge a court order at all?
I've been following this for years-even before I discovered my biological family is Lytton, the one and the same. Yay me!
Can't hear it on my desktop speakers either. A dirtier-sounding bass drum would solve this problem, but I don't know if the 808 has one.
Well, much of Apple's philosophy is that they pick great defaults for you. How come you haven't tried OS X ?
If by working the weekends you mean seven-day work weeks on a regular basis, I strongly believe you were doing the right thing.

The health of your employees is a much bigger priority than business or development. They're not human resources, they're people with families and loved ones and the need to have a day off. Unless you were on the verge of curing cancer, there is no reason to work people like that.

You were in a bad situation - it sounds like there were huge problems with upper management - and you did the right thing. Unfortunately doing the right thing doesn't guarantee success. No doubt you made a lot of mistakes too - I've been there and it hurts - but that doesn't sound like one of them.

To me it's a sign in your favor that the team left after you did - if you were the problem, they would have left before you did. I don't think you can expect them to be happy when they're working weekends and (what sounds like professional developers) are doing manual data entry for weeks on end.
The communication protocols war raged in Europe from 1983 to 1992. Most governments opposed internet technology, backing instead nascent ISO networking standards. CERN’s decision to migrate to internet was heavily criticized by TCP/IP opponents.

In Geneva, the very first meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Network (CCIRN) was in May 1988. This committee was the first attempt to harmonize the inter-regional operation of the emerging world-wide research network.

The second meeting took place in October 1988 at a summer resort in Western Virginia, sad and grey this particular autumn. The Americans turned up in force. Bill Bostwick, from the Department of Energy was the Chairman, Barry Leiner from the Department of Defense and Vint Cerf were present. The European representatives were thin on the ground: a German and British representative plus Francois Flückiger.

In 1991, 80% of the internet capacity in Europe for international traffic was installed at CERN, in building 513.

From 1985 to 1988, as CERN's first official "TCP/IP Co-ordinator", Segal was responsible for coordinating the introduction of the Internet protocols within CERN.

This router was one of two installed at CERN in 1987; they are thought to have been the first Cisco routers in Switzerland and possibly the first in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ciscosystemsrouteratcern....
I would add BitTorrent Sync to the list. Yes, wait until they opensource the code, but once that happens it seems to be a better option than the businesses listed in the article.