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It's funny how Celsius gets grouped in with the metric system, even though it really has no benefits over Fahrenheit.

http://www.ericpinder.com/html/celsius.html
Is it me, or does DUBIA look fantastic?
Was that -40 F. or -40 C. ?

<grin>

Now -40 K., I'd like to see that!
Good point. Something like

Arrays.sort(arr, Concurrency.LEVEL)

might have been more flexible. Do I want to use the GPU if available? With which priority should it run, max. performance or more as a background task?
> Should it also be illegal for the UK to teach Imperial units?

Yes. It's a waste of children's time (and there is a massive market failure in education, so laws are the only way to make changes).
I don't think you can blame the UK for the imperial system: that goes back as far as Rome at least.
Is it a coincidence I never heard of "Excite"? Probably not.
Site seems to be under heavy load atm.
This is my first kernel module, which 'fakes' your system uptime:

http://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/uptime/

Personally I think people should be encouraged to hack around with the kernel, rather than be afraid of it, how else can we learn?
But you're going to be indexed in such a database whether you like it or not because several European countries are already busy building such databases via their intelligence agencies, and the ones that can't afford it have all been striking deals with the ones that can to get access to it.

This "right to be forgotten" conveniently does not seem to apply to governments, only search engines. So from a democratic perspective it's lose/lose.
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Probably now, since it's starting to concern you.

I know the feeling of wanting to tell people when you hit certain milestones. It's not bragging about money, it's validating your success at something you work hard on.

But now that it's working it's sort of like your friends telling you every raise they get.

Also, some people will get weird once the numbers get above a certain amount.
It reminds me when we moved from national money (Franc) to Euro in Europe. The conversion rate was something like 1 Euro was 1.67 Francs (IIRC). I don't remember how long it took for the shops to remove the dual price tags, and when people stopped using converters or doing the conversion in their head. I decided just to forget about Francs from day one of Euro.
Well, I am not in US, so I don't even know what is INC and LLC. But I voted for "Yes - a startup i founded".
It's the standard in Japan at least.
This is my point. That line was in a satirical tone. I see the american education system doesn't cover that.

Throwing money at a few schools will just mask the fundamental underlying organisational, logistical and philosophical failings of the system.
Well, the costs vary depending on a lot of factors. The prices are based on my experiences here in Switzerland.

I've been thinking about adding selections for country and rate, but in the end, I didn't have enough data and decided to keep it simple in the first version.
However, I'd be very interested to hear from other developers around the world what they think about it.
Interesting comment on that word cloud:

"Wonder what their victims word cloud would look like? "Mercy" "Please" "I'm begging" "I want my Mommy!" "Help""
Right - fixing it in that case means "do the same as thing as with Joda, but do it with slf4j and logging instead".
Akka doesn't have native coroutines / lightweight threads, it relies on regular JVM threads. it does reuse them for Actors but it dons't do the same things as Qasar (user level threads via bytecode instrumentation).
I'm a big Scala and Akka fan, but thought it's worth noting.
Great, let's see them
What is special about the US is that it has a huge population that uses a single set of units of measurement. Europe had zillions of them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ell) units, often multiple ones per country.

In some sense, the metric system was a blessing, as it was foreign to all countries. Countries would never have switched to, say, the German standard of measurements (counterpoint: they did just that for paper sizes)

And the UK started metrification in 1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_of_British_transpor...), but has not completely switched to metric yet; it still uses miles for road signs. Because of that, I wouldn't say the UK managed the switch.
It still doesn't make much sense here though. I assume that where you are the speed limit is in km/h. Here it's mph. No matter what I have to know how fast I am going in mph so it makes no sense to bother knowing what I'm doing in km/h. If they changed all the signs to km based speeds (overnight) then I would probably do it but more likely I would remember where on the mph gauge the common km speeds and use those anyways.
Yes, all his code is available at the github repo linked at the end of the page [1], and .pde is a Processing file.

[1] https://github.com/blackencino/SimClass
Some constructive criticism, is very unintuitive, there are no explanation steps or visual tutorial, also the starting template is too simple just a hello text a more advanced starting template would give more info on how it works, I tried dragging some elements but I got lost and I ended up with http://imgur.com/haRtVXS
I started a company (LLC) for my own app business. It's not a startup, but it's not contract work either. I make apps and sell them on the App Store. It's been profitable for nearly six years now. It's just a regular business or "lifestyle business" for some. There should be an option for that. Startup implies a focus on growth and getting funded.
I could be wrong, but I thought WinPhone tiles aren't interactive? Tapping on them only leads to the application, they are otherwise read-only.

The designer here is suggesting that the tile contain specific interactive elements (quick reply, play/pause, next song, etc).
Didn't they usually have 2 air gaps with acoustic transmission in the loop, though?
So, now that RenderMan is free for non-commercial use, what do people consider to be the contenders for best-in-class free software for modeling, animating, lighting, etc?

If you wanted to set up an all-free environment to learn, what's the list of software you would use?
Sure, feel free to email me whenever. Email is in my profile!
I haven't got that far yet, but only one of the five statements I've read has made any kind of apology, and he was already in prison at the time he committed the crime for which he was executed (running over a corrections officer in a stolen truck while trying to escape).

Also surprising to me was how many murders were committed for very little potential gain: theft, escaping from a police officer while under arrest for a petty crime; there's less headline-grabbing evil than I expected here (though there is its share); it's mostly just a mixture of reflexive stupidity, greed, and violence.

All in all quite an unsettling read.
Sony vs. George Hotz was a civil case in which the CFAA played a small role compared to the numerous other statutes invoked, and that case ended in a settlement.

What we are talking about in this thread is the supposed criminalization of security research. If you're trying to get someone to take the other side of the argument that security research is needlessly legally risky, you're probably not going to find many takers. There is a world of difference, however, between being sued and being imprisoned.
Remote consulting. I setup a C-corp. 3 Full time offshore employees. Still have my day job as a full stack enterprise developer but what I am getting to learn about running a business and helping people 'produce their best' is phenomenal.

I look at my role as a really strong conduit between client and my team. I can speak both their languages and since I am a developer myself and the team is so small, I can point to the exact changes done or required to make something happen. My current client loves this.

Biggest hurdle - finding clients who have the need and budget.

Just posted this if you would like to offer suggestions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7821974

(Btw, I am a long time lurker, occasional commenter but first time Ask HN poster. Stupid question - Does anyone know how to make a post appear under 'Ask'? My post appears under 'New' but I can't see it under 'Ask')
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Social Justice Hackathons?
Hi there,

I am a graduate student taking a capstone class to finish my M.A. in Journalism. As a part of the module, we are putting together a magazine, called Bellwethr. I am the assignment editor of a story on Hackathons for the magazine's technology section. The focus of the story is on Hackathons or coding groups that are putting their energy toward social justice/social change. Ideally, if such a Hackathon or coding group exists, I would appreciate it if you could link me to any relevant websites, as the young woman writing the piece is trying to find a few more sources to complete the story.

Thank you very much!
Founded 14 years ago (profitable since 2002, ~$8M EBIT in 2013), sold most of it in the past 6 months (in 2 steps) and will be retiring soon. Does that count?
Inc. stands for Incorporated, and LLC for Limited Liability Company, two methods of creating a corporation to protect you from liability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_%28business%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_company
Tufte is only one perspective. And he's irritatingly preachy at times. Hell, this is his favorite website:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=33.769373434837...

Are the folks at NOAA non-poseurs? Is the height of design just to vomit all the information on a single canvas, because Tufte thinks "our eyes can handle it?"
What about the right of the employer to know who they're about to employ?

If someone claims to be an expert in a certain area which you need but are not yourself an expert in, it would be very useful to be able to search their name and discover that things they wrote about the topic have been discredited. It'd be even more useful if you could find unflattering opinions about them written by their peers: perhaps it avoids a very long and messy employment of someone who will then be difficult to fire, but who doesn't know what they're doing, potentially crippling your business.

The guy you're looking at would probably love to make the criticism of his work unfindable whilst simultaneously leaving behind the bits that make him look good. But why should he have that right? Employers have needs too.

For what it's worth I quite agree that the existing framework for getting things removed from the internet (by going to the source) works well enough, but that's not what the court has now created.
> What would I be doing if I had someone pick it up and drop it off? Probably watching hulu, or going to a bar, or I don't know, wandering around looking for entertainment. When i'm doing laundry, I am actually living, doing something transformative and applying myself to a life skill that can only improve with time.

I'm not sure I see the difference. Plenty of hobbies involve learning and improving at that hobby.
Thanks for that suggestion. Is free consulting something many attorneys provide? I've just been going by my own research instead of consulting with an attorney, because I assumed the consultation would be costly.
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If you parachute onto land, you're probably going to have a bad time. But better than no rockets and no parachutes.

However, I expect they will usually pick a coastal landing site where the "no power" trajectory puts you in the water, but where the rockets and/or aero lift can put you on land. Unpowered capsules have a pretty good ability to adjust downrange just by changing attitude (look up the Soyuz "ballistic descent"); the powered Dragon 2 would have more options.
Beauty and the Bleak
Ask HN: How do you get readers for your blog?
How to get regular readers ?
I'm highly biased, but I think our project, http://Clara.io, is the least hassles for learning the basics. But it is more limited than the other more established programs.

http://www.blender.org is the primary desktop open source solution.
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>Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.tdcj.state.tx.us

I hope we did that.

>Try reloading: www.­tdcj.­state.­tx.­us/­death_row/­dr_executed_offe­nders.­html

Wow, chrome actually thinks that out to google.com. Sneaky.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us...
"realistic" is the killer word, which opens your question up to entirely too much interpretation.

Toy Story was very realistic for the time.

And I think people are routinely generating CGI that looks as nice as Toy Story... they just don't have as good a writing, acting, etc.
Shouldn't a bottle of pop or beer prioritize a sensible number of servings (1,2,etc.) over a round number of units?

It's not like "I need 42 liters of beer for my guests, how many cans is that" is going to be a common thought process.
I like that you mentioned foresight and cooking infrastructure. Many people don't realize that making home cooked meals consistently throughout the week actually takes quite a bit of planning and not everyone has mastered this art... probably why the creators of Soylent felt there was a market niche for this product (easy, affordable, and "healthy?").

These are exactly the shortcuts and "cooking infrastructures" we're designing for busy people and families at Meal Garden (http://www.mealgarden.com). If healthy rated meals can easily be procured or prepared we wouldn't need bandaid solutions like Soylent.
as an 'early access' price, is this considered a discounted rate with plans to increase later?

A few questions.
Did they do any cost/value testing with potential customers?
Who is it for? customers who do this every week or every 5-6 months. The price suggest the first.
"...does not mean that it will catch on."

Said every country, ever, that switched to metric successfully.
Akka is a library not an extension of the JVM so it would not be able to provide native features to Java. I didn't know that Quasar did more. One is able to write much better concurrent code with Akka than with vanilla Java but I think you can still run into threading issues where Java makes this unavoidable, like when playing with audio.
I think, even, when the US is changing to the metric system, the bigger problem will still linger around (and when I have hope for the the metric system, I don't have any for that):

How on earth can we make the British driving on the "right" side of the street.
I really liked the Swype keyboard on my Galaxy S, but I got over it. With any of these keyboards, I still naturally delay anything longer than a status text/email/tweet for when I'm back at my computer, or even iPad (part of it's having enough screen to see the email I'm replying to, or the other sections I've written).
Dell's UP2414Q was on sale for $765 a couple of times this month. It's a smaller screen, but has really great color. Details from Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dell-up2414q-monitor-rev...
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No, you've misread the story. Nobody is being threatened simply for observing vulnerabilities. Instead, people are discovering vulnerabilities in popular software, and then exploiting them across thousands of machines to "prove" something everyone already knows: lots of people are vulnerable.
You mean 0°C?

What makes no sense is your hyperbolic rejection of metric.
The execs didn't miss the obvious. The excite CEO and others acknowledged that the Google's algorithm is much better. They were worried that its so good that people won't stay on their portals. They just could not figure out how to monetize it so they passed.
I would say in most cases: no.

Due to backwards compatibility concerns, no existing Java APIs that may currently return null can ever be changed to return Optionals instead, so nulls need to be dealt with regardless. Also, there's technically nothing stopping an Optional value from actually being null itself, or from developers calling Optional.get() without checking isPresent(), just like they might currently use a reference without checking for null.

I personally really wish jsr305 had been adopted in Java8, and their existing APIs retrofitted with these annotations.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/java8-option... describes Optional, and compares it to how in Groovy, the safe navigation and elvis operators allow you to write code like this:

String version = computer?.getSoundcard()?.getUSB()?.getVersion() ?: "UNKNOWN";

With Java 8 Optionals, this instead becomes:

String version = computer.flatMap(Computer::getSoundcard)
.flatMap(Soundcard::getUSB)
.map(USB::getVersion)
.orElse("UNKNOWN");

which is not only much longer and arguably uglier, but also forces developers to suddenly have to worry about applying lambdas using flatmap vs map, where conceptually you're really just dealing with method calls.

New languages like Kotlin solve this much better in my opinion by introducing nullable vs nonnullable types. While Java can unfortunately never adopt this due to backwards compatibility issues, @Nullable and @Nonnull will do most of the time, and hopefully we'll see operators like ?. and ?: in future versions of Java.
Check out this old comment I posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7031842

I described a hack my old employer (a law firm) utilized to accomplish the NY LLC publication requirement. Pretty cost effective, total was $519.90 to organize/file the LLC with the NY Secretary of State and complete the publication requirement.
Not just OSS, though, if you read the history of new products or discoveries the same pattern regularly occurs.
>'I always assumed that technology like that would find its way into more applications, but I'm constantly surprised it hasn't.'

Many years ago, I was working on a large project for an organization nothing apparently consistent between half a dozen systems with tens of thousands of users each except names. Naturally, those names were full of exactly the kind of variations you're describing.

When I went looking for a solution to do exactly what you're describing I ran into solutions that were both vague about their functionality and expensive. Like you say, pretty niche - it seemed that everyone was used to selling very specific 'solutions' not a library/API.

I ended up hacking together a very basic script to accomplish the same. It took days to run thanks to my non-existent coding skills, but the accuracy was pretty good.

What it couldn't line up was solved by later decoding and discovering correlations between the long forgotten conventions used for unique IDs in the various systems.
Secure random generation is exciting, especially for endpoints.
I don't think @NotNull/@Nullable go away completely, but the use of optional makes dealing with nullables much easier. I think this is a much cleaner ways to deal with possible nulls:

public ImmutableMap<String, Long> getSessionTime(HttpServletRequest request) {
return Optional.ofNullable(request.getSession(false))
.map(s -> ImmutableMap.of("lastAccessedTime", s.getLastAccessedTime()))
.orElseThrow(IllegalStateException::new);
}

If/When HttpServletRequest is updated to support Optional it can return it directly instead of the caller having to do it, and that is when Java will really see the upside.
You have an additional speech mark at the end of that sentence.

> "Help""
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We here in Ireland decided to move away from dual use of units (miles and km) to just km a few years back. Sure, we're not a big country, but we also have more road per capita than anywhere else in the EU at the very least. Given within a relatively short amount of time, the use of miles for non-trivial distances practically disappeared. Now it's only used in colloquialisms (e.g. "it's a few miles away") or for familiar distances (e.g. "the graveyard is a mile that way"); anything else is km, and sooner or later we'll likely be using km everywhere.
This sounds like a pretty legitimate, forward-thinking question. I am interested in other people's responses.
So the USA is the largest country still not using metric?

Not something to be proud of.
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The pint glass is a perfect fit for 500ml of ale. If you tip it into the glass with a modicum of care, you end up with the head not quite reaching the top.

(Of course, had we switched to 500ml glasses, leaving ale in 568ml bottles, we'd be stuffed. A point to bear in mind if contemplating a piecemeal transition.)
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dreamhost....
Yay, no ISP in my area is HD verified! Wait, booo!
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Yes - I have an INC or LLC for a life style (not high growth or no intent for funding) business
Congrats davidu and opendns on making bold choices and thinking about users despite millions in revenue you could have made.
> I'm not sure why you seem to think that
> "akin page zoom" is not the proper result,
> what else you expected?

It is not what I expect because it does not affect the browser chrome. See a screenshot of my current Firefox:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/461223/screenshot.png

Notice that the i3 bar at the top has the font at the correct scale. The page itself too (via devPixelsPerPx). Chrome elements such as tab names or the URL bar are at less than half the correct size and barely usable without a hack plugin (I use Theme Font and Size Changer).

Everything other than FF or Thunderbird scales correctly. The X server is set to 210dpi and GTK reports the correct density too. It is firefox that is misbehaving.

This is FF nightly (34, I believe), so way way after FF 22. It is not fixed, and it is not a loved bug. Time will make the bug bite the developers and by then it will be fixed, I'm sure.

Edit: Here's a second screenshot, this time witout devPixelsPerPx, showing FF completely ignoring the system set DPI:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/461223/screenshot2.png
But it shouldn't be all or nothing. For example, although most of the world uses the metric system, I think in aeronautics they still use feet to measure altitude. US could migrate to metric independently of the aeronautic standards.

Additionally, I don't think that changing tooling should be a priority. Even in the countries that use metric system, we use nuts and screws measured in inches. They are usually called 1/4, 1/2 and so on ignoring the "inch" part. Also, in Venezuela, letter is the standard paper used, not A4.

I think a good solution would be for the US to use metric to measure most of the things people and industries interact with (distance, velocity, weight, volume), but you can keep the old measures when convenient.
You are straining to take offense.

Some women have criticized Ms. Cyrus's image-transition as cynical and self-destructive – see for example Sinead O'Connor's "open letter" [1]. Those women might appreciate, rather than take offense at, a sly nod to the accelerated, commercial nature of Cyrus's sex-it-up-for-a-buck makeover. The review's throwaway line, to the extent it expresses any viewpoint at all, can equally be seen as embracing one particular feminist critique of sexualized-marketing.

So if some people find a word choice "offensive" based on a simple checklist of dos-and-don'ts, but others find the same phrasing a usefully vivid and possibly even progressive turn-of-phrase, which side should have its preference respected in future writing? Do we take a majority vote? Does one iota of declared offense, from the most easily-offended, always win, ensuring gray committee-vetted prose from here to eternity?

[1] http://gawker.com/everyone-needs-to-read-sinead-o-connors-op... – One of O'Connor's points is: "The message you keep sending is that its somehow cool to be prostituted.. its so not cool Miley.. its dangerous. "