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Ha. 1971? I used to occasionally drive by one in Kirkuk Iraq that is featured in the old testament.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Gurgur

It was the safest route between two of the bases we frequently traveled between, but the sulfur smell was horrible.
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In the Opera Next version I'm using this is enabled/disabled with a checkbox somewhere. Fairly sure it was disabled by default though.
You ever try JFS? I standardised on it for all my machines a few years ago and it's served me very well - fast fsck and no corruption so far. Bit long in the tooth now but that's no bad thing for a filesystem.
A lot of local citizen groups have tried to do this in small towns in the US but typically what happens is Verizon or Comcast comes in with a big budget Ad campaign rallying against it. Of course their plans usually involve using the cities tax dollars but the basic idea is the same.

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Meta: Hmmm. Wonder how this discussion will go?

HN readers skew young, so a fair guess would be that HN mostly has the politics of the young demographic. I know a lot of the SV-types are of the same U.S. political party. Whether or not that skews their decision-making is beyond me. Since funding in general is just herd activity, I'd bet it did.

Having said that, I've always heard that there was a strong strain of libertarianism in the hacker community. The Thiel fellowship comes to mind. As a libertarian myself, I'm too close to the subject to judge. I suspect, however, there are a lot of Ayn Rand fans who are either out in the open or too clever to make their opinions known. Just a guess, though. (And I count those guys as separate from just the libertarian folks)

As for myself, out of the statist/capitalist debate, I like both sharing and trading, and I don't see why we can't have both. I think the sharing folks tend to be mushy-headed at times, and I think the trading folks tend to be hard-asses. In my mind, most of the huge improvements in our species, including language, society, government, and the rest, are based on freely trading things. Having said that, most of the things I hold dear -- family, friends, goodwill, living a decent life -- are based on sharing. I don't see a conflict here. Many do. [insert long discussion about how MSM and the net makes money by splitting us up into little groups and having us fight each other]
Reduce buses 10x, remove subway and other urban infrastructure and you are almost there :-)
Read the article twice and quite a bit suprised that the author did not touch at all on the fact that his acceptance and welcoming into the Berlin scene could be to do with this success at Heroku.

By all means, Adam is most certainly an exceptionally talented individual and his personality and drive must have contributed to his success in Berlin.

However not even touching the subject that he had such a warm welcome might be related to Heroku and therefore not freely available to everyone seems quite an oversight.
This is stupid. Bemoaning that a research project is junk because the average consumer can't use it misses the point of a research project. A lot of scientific and research equipment can't be used by the average Joe, and has very little implication on their lives.

The reason it was posted here is because in Computer Science more then any other field the line between professional and research is blurred more then ever.
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I'm the author of this article. If you want to know how things turned out, here's a follow-up / debrief from a few months after the first one:

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2014/05/08/three-months...

The second one is less about my personal experience and more about Berlin, including profiles of startups and investors I got the chance to meet or work with.
"I’m Adam Wiggins, hacker and serial entrepreneur. You might know me as cofounder and former CTO of Heroku."

Read it in the voice of Troy McClure?
If it was "forced", then she would have had absolutely no choice in the matter. It probably wasn't physical, as we've already determined. It likely didn't involve any sort of risk to her job outside of her control, as the original commenter clearly says, "She quit in her 3rd week."

It probably was the typical, purely-verbal, friendly coaxing that oft persistent Americans can engage in. That's what I'd consider "pressure". Aside from a brief and harmless verbal interaction, nobody is coerced into doing anything.

You may have to say "No" a few times, since they'll try to convince you to reconsider in a friendly manner. But they'll respect your decision soon enough.

It's really no different than going to a market in a developing nation, and having to fend off street vendors. They can be persistent, for sure, but there's absolutely no obligation to buy from them, and any interaction with them is almost always totally harmless.

I think this is "incident" is probably being misconstrued and totally blown out of proportion. Had she better understood American culture, and had she merely said, "No, thanks!" a few times, it would've been settled without any hard feelings.
People seem to get really angry if you suggest that NSA surveillance is less important than Facebook/Google/etc privacy violation, even though very many people have experienced negative consequences of Facebook/Google/etc privacy violations.
So how are "page ranking, search results, and cached data" inherently evil? These are some of the basic services that make the web as we know it work. Also, energy consumption? My understanding is that they were doing quite a lot to meet their needs with renewable sources[1][2]. I hardly think that qualifies as evil.

Sure, there are times and issues we can point to where Google has failed their motto. You could make an argument that their mission to "organize the world's information" is evil when it is carried to it's logical extreme, or at least empowers evil. But this comic is not making those points. It's just grabbing a bunch of old headlines, some of which aren't even relevant.

Though I confess I never really "got" Doonesbury. It's rarely accurate enough to pass as a political cartoon and rarely funny enough for the funny pages.

[1]: http://www.google.com/green/energy/

[2]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/20/us-google-windpowe...
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if you were to enter the US now, would the police/fbi arrest you?
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Wow! –that's one awful interface. Just let us look at the bloody thing, without trying to be all fancy with your pop-outs and animations, which just waste screen space and leave us squinting at a postage stamp sized section.
I wish it were possible for civilians to file reports against drivers and have it be taken seriously. My understanding is that, unless an officer witnesses the violation, filing charges is at the discretion of the district attorney. Even with video or photographic evidence provided by the civilian, charges seem to very rarely be filed.
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There's discussion of that in the comments [1]. It looks like it's referring to the storage capacity.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/...
There does seem to be a Python option below the fold.
W'll have to wait and see, but I like the way he makes using iOS even easier.
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A cubicle farm is not an open office. An open office is like a cubicle farm without the cubicles.
Citizens of states that are party to the Schengen agreement can travel to any Shengen country without a visa for three months at a time out of every six. I have implicit Schengen status (US citizen) and as far as I know may travel within (Schengen) Europe without any particular permissions, certainly not from the Germany authorities, whoever they might be. In fact, spy agencies aside, the German authorities don't even know that I'm here. I got an entry stamp on my passport in Paris, and did nothing on arrival in Germany (TXL) other than collect my baggage and get a taxi. I'll get an exit stamp in Copenhagen on the way out.
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Storage energy, not cost per unit of production. For example, to store 1 MWh, it would cost $250,000 to build the storage. That cost would be amortized as suggested below.

Since solar and wind are still very small parts of the energy production industry, it's not clear what utilities will pay for pure storage (at least, not the last time I checked). Places like Hawaii, where the PV concentration is very high, might be interested.
> Don't you find annoying the lack of quick access to search/navigate/execute/copy-paste mechanics via mouse click?

Yes, which is why I've written some acme emulation for vim twice. (Incidentally, I was working on that yesterday before this link was posted: https://github.com/fmoralesc/plan9-for-vimspace I have to improve the button 2 functionality, and chords are still not supported, but I'm on it. A plumbing system is planned, although I'm not sure if its best to reuse plan9port's plumber or reimplement it.)

> In Acme, all text is hypertext.

Exactly. Which is why, even though I am a serious vim junkie, I love acme so much.
My guess, something like Docker. It only matters if you can break out of the Linux container.
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Doesn't the standard IQ (I know, I know) bell-curve indicate that the majority of humans are less intelligent than the most intelligent? [1]

I suppose the question is how much less intelligent does the majority have to be for the world to look like Idiocracy? How likely is that to happen, given the communication tech and education options that are emerging?

EDIT: [1] Fair point, riffraff. Actually quite tough for me to rephrase without spending significant time on it (I'm clearly not in the minority...), how about: "the most intelligent humans (by IQ) are naturally in the minority, as with any natural distribution/bell-curve, meaning the 'less intelligent' majority already dominate, as in Idiocracy, and by definition they must always continue to do so". That's a mouthful, but I hope the point is clear enough.
Because google claims to care about the wider web not just its search product. This breaks the web.
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I work at a venture capital fund so I've seen internal salary data from a number of tech startups as well as from recruiters in the space. I also used to run a developer recruitment startup which gave me access to a lot of internal data from hiring companies.

While it closes the gap with fintech, top devs at hedge funds can make £200-£300k (I have friends who are in this range) which it's hard for any tech startup to compete with.

FYI. AngelList are now operating in the UK and are ramping up. @andychung is their guy on the ground here.
The increased traffic load can be mitigated by smart routing of cars through multiple paths.

Plus they could be connected to each other to effectively tailgate each other. The first car can tell the following cars to break at the same time.

Cars in congested areas can notify others coming up to lower their speed to ease congestion.
Raspberry pi + Node.js + socket.io = PiTank
This is an issue - private friends should not have you as "public" friend in their friend list. It makes it not private.
I think Google should invest in creating more https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland in the world
Doonesbury is not calling Google evil for these things. They're pointing out that others have, fairly or otherwise.
The once mandatory "visitors chair" in every workspace and most people had two or three.

Folks younger than a certain age miss out knowing the social etiquette relating to visitors chairs, such as stacking "stuff" or coats on your visitor chair is anti-social and very strongly frowned upon. Also it was socially acceptable, standard even, to simply walk into someone's cube and sit down in their (visitor) chair and wait till they could talk, especially if you were (currently) working together on something.

Also "back in the old days" we had intentionally unreservable conference rooms scattered about. So if you needed 6 people on the spur of the moment you simply walked in to the nearest empty room, confident no one reserved it because it was un reservable.

This is pretty much how things were in the early 90s or so. Honestly I don't think I could handle the constant interruption and infinite distraction of an open office, which makes me think about a startup or something; I just can't imagine working in a "modern" office environment. It just sounds horrifying to productivity, like a prison yard or a doctor waiting room or something. Creeeepy.

As a parent when I need to get stuff done at home, like if I'm working at home, I kick everyone out of the room and work in peace and quiet. I never, ever, invite seven neighbor kids over and hand out toy whistles as a gift and nerf toys and then sit in the center of the maelstrom and try to concentrate. Nobody who "works at home" sneaks into a day care center with their laptop to concentrate on their finest work. There's a time and place for that kind of stuff, and its not the workplace.
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Or you could just use multiple partitions on a single scratch disk (or even a ramdisk). A great way to get familiar with the workflow and tools without going to a lot of effort. This is how I first experimented with ZFS.
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Curious that in their references-section GNU qsort is linked to http://opensource.apple.com/source/emacs/emacs-41/emacs/lib-... (via a url shortener). That is from emacs source tree hosted by Apple, instead of something more canonical like https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=stdlib/qsor...

There are some differences between the two, I'm not sure if the changes are anything beyond cosmetic.
In Firefox 29+, you can activate Menu bar which is ~20px high if you want that draggable handle: right-click on an empty space in the top row (not occupied by a tab), or a "+" button, and tick "Menu bar".

I'm also using [Win]+[Shift]+arrows for moving between multiple monitors like others suggested.
Like an unlogged table that's only not crash safe. I think GP was talking about rows actually not being written to the db during normal circumstances. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what GP is asking for.
Like anything taken to the extreme open offices are bad for you. I personally have worked in an open office and a semi-open office (where your team is in a part enclosure/room with a door). And I much prefer to have a semi-open office rather than a private office.

A private office for me would totally kill any social interaction I have with anyone. A semi-open office keeps it private on the team level.
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Care to explain more about n.3?

"I read recently online that Berlin is welcoming superstar American techies with open arms, which, of course, would be true of pretty much any startup community."

That's probably an exaggeration, they have lots of superstars from other countries to hire, and are kind of "skeptic" about the American way of doing business
just being a bit more controversial, is open source software a bit socialist in nature?
I think that is your [country you reside in] or social circle perspective. In my country and social circle, suggesting that would simply be outrages, like saying gay people shouldn't be able to get married. I live in the netherlands.
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It is a shame they don't have a video or an animated gif of this dynamic object.
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In Arch, failing to regularly update breaks your system. Also, regularly updating your system will definitely break it at some point (bleeding-edge dontcha know). The official position is that it's your own damn fault for upgrading or not upgrading, as the case may be.

Arch is broken by design.
Agreed. Who you are has a ton to do with how successful you are in whatever your endeavor is. He may believe he's just an average joe, but that is far from the case.
I think you can be just a pragmatic capitalist, without embracing it as an ideology. I guess you're still "being a capitalist".

Similarly, I'm pretty sure that there were plenty of powerful members of the communist party in the Soviet Union that simply saw it as the best opportunity they had.
The article attempts to list various reasons why Einstein and Morgensten showed no interest in the flaw. I'll propose a fifth:

- Einstein & Morgensten understood that the constitution is enforced by a set of institutions, beliefs, incentives and interpretations, not by an algorithmic execution of its rules. As such, Godel's point was irrelevant: of course the constitution didn't preclude the US from becoming a de facto dictatorship, and Godel's loophole would probably not be the practical way to go about it.

In the context of politics, it's a curiosity.
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Distributed systems are really hard. This line has been endlessly parroted and, also, endlessly reproven. They are really hard.

The major reason why they're hard is that your standard reasoning toolbox is insufficient. Understanding distributed systems means being aware of a much larger state space and how things like special relativity impact it (I'm being a bit flippant, but not actually inaccurate—message latency is not poorly modeled by special relativity). Most programmers use reasoning methods like operational modeling (single threaded), guess-and-check, and unit testing. These are simply completely insufficient.

If you want to model full distributed systems you might want to use something like algebraic topology. It's a useful tool for understanding the entire state space of a system and its valid transitions. It can be used to prove Paxos or Raft are correct. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/33762/...

Another method is to simplify a whole lot what a "distributed system" is and hope to find a more analyzable model where more standard reasoning tools work. CSP is one of these. It's a simpler model where some of the reasoning tools of regular formal languages can be used to understand its operation.

The upshot is that CSP won't be as powerful as you could imagine possible when building a distributed system, but it'll be massively more manageable so long as its sufficient for your goals. It's, as such, formed the basis for some popular distributed tools like Erlang.
Before the Internet, how would I ever had acquired a copy of the anarchists cookbook in rural England? I did know the book existed, and I am sure I would have tried some of it out if I could have got a copy.
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Unbelievable.

>Swartz was NOT facing anywhere near 35 years in prison.

You know why people keep using that number? Because that's the number the attorney's office itself used in its own press release. That's why. But OK, let's be reasonable here. I'll fix it:

>"Compare that to the $1 million fine, up to 35 years in prison (followed by 3 years of supervised release) Aaron Swartz was facing"

There fixed it. Happy??

I'm sure from your armchair perspective, you can find nuance in saying that he wasn't __likely__ going to get 35 years, instead, he'd get a quick 7. Yet, I think if you're in that position, you may still be looking at that 35 or 50 year number. The sentencing judge could have made an example out of him as well, no? It's not like never happens. And of course, the best outcome is that he's looking at 7 + . Justice!

Of course this raises another relevant question. Why is it that prosecutors like to load-up on charges to get their nice maximums? Is it so that their office can do those great press releases extolling how tough on crime they are? Or maybe to bully the defendants into taking whatever deal they cook-up in order to get another notch on their conviction belt? If you think 7 years (here's your nice, reasonable almost-a-decade number, happy?) is what the law calls for, why not charge him for 7 years?

>If he had taken the plea bargain that was on the table, he was facing a few months.

That's right, he didn't, and then the prosecutor loaded up 35 years of charges and pulled the plea bargain off the table. Because why? To teach the next guy to not be so uppity and force them to cow-tow to prosecutor demands?

Ridiculous.
Go to https://www.facebook.com/me/friends, click on the pencil icon, select edit privacy.

Yes, it makes zero sense that this is the only privacy setting outside of the whole privacy tab in the account settings.
I don't really think so. If I was working on a game for years, only to find out someone broke into my network, planted keyloggers on lots of my computers, and stole all of the source code for my game, I'd be interested in arresting the perpetrator as well. The game was practically Gabe's second baby.

Plus, there was no way Gabe could have known that Axel was 1) truly apologetic or 2) wasn't the one who also published the code publicly. And even if it was known, the fact that he shared it with friends showed that he didn't seem to care that much about protecting it.

That being said, I do work in the security industry and understand that Axel's motivations weren't evil or anything. Gabe still did what he should have done.