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I don't mean to offend you but I watched your promo video and it just screams FUD.

Basically scamming not tech savvy people out of their money?

Your product has nothing to do with what's a firewalls job and yet you claim your product is better and cheaper?

Also if someone has access to your microphone and webcam they probably have a trojan on your box. So I don't see how a your software product could prevent a trojan from simply enabling it again. And no you can not protect against that in any way. Which is exactly the reason why people (including me) put tape over their webcam. Because a trojan can't rip that off.
It's about 16% in Finland.
Presumably to aid in debugging- that's why I do it with native languages...
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Just curious, what do you use Erlang for? I can think of neural networks as a possible use case but I don't hear much in the way of that.
Simple google search, first article:

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/features/12-hea...

Anemia, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease (many of them), Cirrhosis, Dementia, Depression, Siezures, Gout, High Blood Pressure, Infectious Diseases, Nerve Damage, Pancreatitis

Also: Obesity, and likely higher risk of falling or other blunt trauma, it's really annoying to those around you, and it's a waste of money.
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That was a contrived example.

The shell sets up the pipe and file redirections for each process in the pipeline, then lets them go. It has no control over when the child processes read or write. It could be a race condition, but it's written in such a way that it appears that the file will get truncated before it can be read virtually 100% of the time.
High relative to what? Automobile accident deaths per 100K have dropped by more than half since 1980, and by nearly a third since 2000. Even in absolute numbers, they've been declining pretty steadily for many years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
Ouch. It looks like Dart is using Blink's IDL, not the spec IDL, for generating bindings to JavaScript, so it's only really guaranteed to work in Blink...
AMA: I help you kill your apps.
I tried to make it guess Sauron, but to no avail.
Yea I'll fiddle around with the placement of that, or maybe just make the popover be showing the first time you load the site.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but assuming you're not...

But first, 5 drinks in 2-3 hrs for men vs. 4 drinks in 2-3 hrs for women isn't that different. Second, women on average weigh less, so that contributes to the difference as you mentioned. And third, there are other ways alcohol affects men and women differently.

Edit: Just saw the 15 drinks/week for men vs. 8 drinks/week for women which is a larger difference. However, to call USA Today 'sexist' because of that is kind of out there. These numbers aren't just made up out of thin air: for example, http://www.icap.org/PolicyIssues/ExtremeDrinking/tabid/91/De...
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My father drank way too much throughout his adult life and now he has what is effectively dementia, please reduce your consumption of alcohol, the physical impact of alcohol abuse does not compare to the impact that it will have on your brain. My father can't remember what happened a few minutes ago and he will die alone, because of alcoholism. Please don't underestimate the impact that alcohol will have on your mental health and your relationships.

The real danger with alcohol is that unlike hard drugs (heroin, cocaine) the destruction takes years and it's very possible to trick yourself into thinking your consumption is fine by leading a normal life alongside the alcoholism... until it's too late, and then there's no turning back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakoff's_syndrome
I'm working on a plugin system for HTTPie (the user-friendly cURL replacement)[1]. It will allow things like displaying MessagePack responses, or rendering images directly in the terminal. [2]

[1] http://httpie.org

[2] https://twitter.com/jakubroztocil/status/462173042626801664
I'm just getting back to http://fndout.com after a year or so back building products with and for others.
It's hard to believe now, but some day this will all fade. I go days and weeks without even remembering that I'm a convicted federal felon. Today I only really think about it when I'm volunteering somewhere and it's time for a background check, when I think about travelling to Canada, or when I see a firearm I wish I could own. I've passed a half-dozen background checks and been able to volunteer without a problem, I think I could travel to Canada now but there's a chance they would deny me, but I doubt I'll ever get firearm ownership rights back.
I'm working on this on the side with a few friends from college. It's a place to upload photo-based disassembly guides:

https://www.takeitapart.com
Thanks for the tip about AnyVan. I wasn't aware of it. Now I'm in Germany, but I see that they have German presence as well. Very useful to know!
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> patent - why would someone do that?

It's usually to protect their idea, so they can use it in a product or business venture. There's some good information on patents and the way they are used on Wikipedia.
>> I suspect, the salient fact that the CDC is leaving out is that many, if not most, of these are from car accidents.

"About 1.7 million people died from short-term causes such as crashes or accidents, compared to approximately 800,000 who died from long-term health causes like cancer or strokes, according to the study."
There were rises in real wages from 1980 until 2000 - but they weren't in all the places they were looked for. You had large populations of high-wage earners wiped out - steel, autos, that sort of thing.

In 1980, being an IT worker was basically a $10 an hour job.
I suspect that what you understand the word free-climbing to mean is not what it actually refers to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_climbing
Could you share your data regarding sweden ? Because a rough google search tends to indicate otherwise :

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hiivxsweO-A/TevbWlBTyoI/AAAAAAAAA8...

http://shaneleavy.blogspot.co.il/2011/06/economic-growth-tre...
just my opinion but the login wall totally kills Quora.just saying.Not going to log into that stuff just to read an answer.

And the UI/UX hasnt been updated for years.Doesnt feel modern.

Just my 2 cents about why i dont use Quora.

Could have been a great tool to build E-Reputation for engineers.
Very cool! I think detailed examples like this are much more conducive to getting a feel for a language when you're just starting out than the typical "sift through the official docs then build a Hello World example." I'm going to set aside some time to work through this (and then go through the official docs.)

Kudos for the Simpson's references; that's one of my favorite episodes :) I look forward to more of these.
Nice site. Will use.

One tip... am on Firefox 20 using Linux.

I arrowed through a few themes, but after checking a demo am having trouble backing out into the main menu. It keeps sending me back into the same demo when I "back button" out.
Extending the Swift language is cool, but be aware of how extensions work
I think this has to do more with the amount of glucose in the judges brain.
They don't. A full OTA stream (with no auxillary channels) is 18 megabits/sec. You'd need to transcode into something like H.264 before sending it up.
Good reminder I think that we should never pressure anyone to drink. Whether for health, family, religious, personal, or any other reasons, there's absolutely nothing wrong with choosing not to drink alcohol. I enjoy a drink now and then, but I get quite upset when people pressure others to drink.
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Well count the building tags and you got a rough population estimate for any area.
I've often wondered why we can't replace alcohol with a less damaging recreational drug. We could take a tranqilizer like valium, make a dilute solution of it, add flavoring or whatever it takes to give it alcohol's 'kick' and end up with an acceptable substitute. This isn't to say that valium is 'safe' but it's far less toxic to the body than alcohol.
Looks like the parachute failed to deploy cleanly.
Headline should be modified to indicate that the study was carried out in the USA. It's not generally applicable to the world population, or necessarily to all high-income countries.
In comparison to Java, for example. Java specifies integer and float semantics exactly, including what happens for things like over/underflow and division by zero. C leaves too much to be decided by the compiler writer or ABI.

Buffer overflows aren't the only problem C has. For an interesting discussion and examples of bad behavior that C allows, please take a look at [1] (especially part 2 of that series) and [2] (yes, some of these are compiler shenanigans; the problem is that the C standard allows the compiler to go crazy).

1 - http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

2 - http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213
I've pretty much resolved myself to slowly drinking myself to death, I'm pretty sure I'd have killed myself due to boredom or stress otherwise.

Hopefully maybe getting out of my current field (devops) and going back into school (have a CS degree to finish) will help a bit.
Are there many funds from Vanguard or Fidelity that are regular participants in Series D/E rounds of funding? Or do you mean that an entity like CALPERS can invest some amount in the various VC funds? In the latter case, I think its been shown that VC as an asset class (invested in that manner) significantly underperforms the public market.
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You can watch the air density as it falls, it was so still at the highest altitude.
Did the article mention if the investors were the same as earlier projects or not? Not that it really matters, the fact that they successfully built a 50m startup is likely enough to get 200k from a lot of people.
Strictly, 100% confiscatory rates would remove personal economic motivation. There may or may not remain other motivations.

Which isn't to say I favor 100% (or even exceptionally high) tax rates, merely trying to be precise.
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Why Google Cardboard is actually a huge boost for virtual reality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexibility_(engineering)

When I am designing a PCB that uses a part that a) is either hard to source b) will be EOL or c) has a capability spectrum I design a pad that is the union of two pad outlines. It isn't always doable, but it makes putting in alternative packages into the same PCB a whole lot easier. One cannot do that for that the entire design, but simple stuff like supporting a 1206 and a 2512 at the same time, or a 14 and 18 pin version of a part.
Wouldn't it only be rational then for overachievers to cease efforts once they've achieved twice what a typical worker would? That'd cut out a ton of productivity.
Alcohol and obesity are related. Someone who is a heavy drinker is increasing their required calorie count by 30-50%. If you take in to account the glycemic index these are very expensive calories.

Choices are: exercise really hard (marathon training) or starve yourself of normal food. Most will end up overweight instead. I'm not convinced either of those three choices are healthy in the long run.
Obesity alone is not the cause of those deaths; it is just another symptom. In fact, when fat is stored subcutaneously, there appears to be little to no increase in mortality, and, for some (middle aged women at least), it is actually protective. The real disease is metabolic syndrome, which affects both thin people and fat people. It is a constellation of disorders including abdominal weight gain, fatty liver disease, high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, and high blood sugar or diabetes.

Metabolic syndrome is the killer (often leading to cardiovascular disease, liver or kidney failure, blindness, amputations, and, perhaps, dimentia/Alzheimer's [the studies on this are early and not yet cinclusive]), but our society is so focused on weight that thin people automatically assume they are immune to it and everybody carrying any extra weight is assumed to have one foot in the grave. If you eat like crap (a sugar-laden, high trans fat diet of processed food-like substances), you are at risk unless you won the genetic lottery (and those genetics may just buy you time, not immunity).
Prohibition is not the only alternative out there. For example, tobacco was never outlawed but now many countries place heavy taxes and advertisement restrictions on it. Overall its become a much less acceptable habit than it used to be and cigarrete related illness has gone down.
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That doesn't make sense, the data from that fake tower won't be used in court.
> They're patches to try to prevent the same thing from happening again.

Prevention by regulation IMHO creates as many problems as it solves because it punishes everyone involved, not just the guilty. I'm more in favor of prosecution (for fraud or insider trading, for example) as a method of prevention (where you just get punished for breaking the law after the fact).
lol @ going to college so you can stop drinking. Only the engineering department... :-)
Yup, the login wall is a major PITA. Enforcing that for people who simply want to read the content is a mistake IMO. However, Quora made the decision that it would force enough signups for it to be worth it...not sure I agree, but they have more data available on the issue than I do.
What are the "limitations of ALGOL-like languages"? As Turing-complete languages, they probably do not have actual limitations, rather, they suggest a style of programming which may be more or less applicable to particular problems. Functional programming, depending on how pure it is, does have limitations, notably avoiding mutable state.

You can claim that it's interesting that there are these two approaches, but the quotation you gave was definitely condescending, because it flatly states that one approach is better than the other, despite the widespread success of the latter. The argument that it's good to abstract as much as possible from the machine is interesting, but to me it is by no means obvious.

I don't really see the relation with fractals. Although it is an interesting quotation, the relation of fractals to real world phenomena is often very dubious.
That case has been talked about a little bit. http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-1-4614-4462-6
Mostly for network services and sometimes for network clients.
No offense taken, appreciate the input. It's a matter of perspective, like most things. If you are indeed infected with a Trojan that simply re-enables your microphone and webcam after they've been disabled, the software is designed to inform you of that. I don't know of any firewall or anti-virus program that does that, do you? That being said, this certainly isn't a replacement for firewall or anti-virus protection, it just does a better job of making it easier for non-technical users to easily disable and re-enable their devices.
I'm porting an Android app to iOS with no prior knowledge of Obj-C. It's a load capacity calculator for yarders used in the logging industry.

Dealing with the differences between Java/Android and Obj-C/iOS has been both interesting and frustrating at times.

https://github.com/Brabon/Mobile-Anchor-Capacity-System
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Hey thanks for this man. Yes Korsakoff's is something I've worried about, and the symptoms are terrifying. However, the cause of Korsakoff's syndrome is a vitamin deficiency, and it's easily avoided by an informed alcoholic who maintains a decent diet.

In this case I feel like a hopeless addict trying to rationalize his addiction in any way possible, but people who want to drink REALLY want to drink, and they will find any rationalization available. There needs to be unassailable reasons telling them that they shouldn't, in order for them to be effective.
I usually browse the docs when starting with a new topic; the dartlang website has tons of stuff (and the articles are usually kept up to date), it's quite easy to get started.
I'm working on a library to provide the same capabilities of the STL but in C:

https://github.com/Anilm3/ARC-Library

I don't have much time due to my job, but it's quite a lot of fun to work on it.
Personally? To just restrict it to professionally, I've worked a few places using Erlang. One for providing resource discovery to the rest of the internal systems, one for a financial matching engine and currently at Heroku for the routing layer and the logging layer(https://github.com/heroku/logplex).
Not only can pension funds like CalPERS invest in VC firms, but they do, often by design --- they have asset class requirements that militate for VC. Entities like CalPERS are actually one of the engines behind VC funds.
> If you're terrified of exposing your secret key on your mobile device (which is frankly the most secure device you own), just cut a new key for it.

The mobile device is the one most people have the least control over in terms of software (which can be both good and bad) but is also the one they are most likely to lose in a shady part of town.

I agree with the rest of your post though.
Cool project. It shows the power of Tor hidden services here: you can have peer to peer communication regardless of either side's network topology. It just needs to connect to the Tor network and you're good to go. (And yes, Tor can connect through "fascist" firewalls, as the configuration itself puts it[1].)

If you think about it, it's dead simple to make: run the tor binaries, run a netcat binary that listens on a certain port, and configure tor (two lines of config) to run a hidden service connecting to that netcat port. Then read the generated hostname file for the .onion address and display it to the user. Reverse thing on the other side.

nc -l 1111 < super_secret.rar
echo 'HiddenServicePort 1112 127.0.0.1:1111' >> /etc/tor/torrc
echo 'HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/' >> /etc/tor/torrc
service tor restart
cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname # share w/ friend

I don't mean to say that OnionShare is not useful, OnionShare to the above script is what Firefox is to Lynx (to take an example). I just mean to say that it's interesting how easily this can be done with just five commands.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#FascistFi...
The problem is that there is little will to prosecute people when things go really wrong. In terms of domestic politics, Arthur Andersen-ing a company and putting thousands of people out of work is untenable. And in a globalized economy, you don't want to develop the reputation of being the country that puts rich people in jail.
I go through that quite a bit lol because I've made the conscious decision not to drink ever (I don't care to spend the money on it nor do I care for the taste). But my vice is drinking soda heh... darn sugar!
How do they know they are getting your website? Do you care if their ISP is injecting banner ads and messing with your layout?

If you are just serving up hobby projects and personal stuff, there's probably no economic benefit to hosting it yourself anyway.
The point is, that requiring an add-on, either this one or Hacker News Enhancement Suite is not the right solution. it's too easy to implement to keep the comments system here as-is.
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This is why so many networking companies sell to Cisco, and why Cisco's business strategy depends so much on M&A: Cisco's great asset isn't IOS, but instead that it runs one of the world's most powerful enterprise sales operations. If you sell network equipment, the basic concept of comparative advantage almost guarantees that Cisco can do a better job extracting value from it than you can.
Patent trolling is the final stage of the evolution of a software or tech company, before dissolution or death-merger.

E.g., Sun, SCO, Wang.
No, just two end points to draw a negative correlation between that keeps going today. It isnt hilly. So the introduction of SOX as an explanation for decreasing IPOs is BS.
I remember asking my father why he never drank alcohol. He said, "My dad (your grandfather) and three brothers couldn't leave it alone, so I figure I wouldn't be able to either. If you are wise you will do the same." I'm 46 and never had an alcoholic drink.
How much does it matter if you lose your encrypted PGP keyring on your fully-encrypted smartphone in a bad part of town?
Since Python is easy to grasp, it will be easy for others to adopt it. R on the other hand has a very steep learning curve.
So, I just downloaded the app, and I would love to know how you managed to get this app approved by Apple. In app subscription not using Apple's IAP? It seems to me this won't last long if you ever get a competent reviewer. Either that or I'm missing something?
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What's Quora's business model? Maybe I'm just missing it, but I don't see any way for them to make money. No advertising. No premium accounts. Anybody know their eventual plan for revenue?
Neat map.

It appears religious activities to some extent correlate with TV watching and negatively correlate with reading.

I'm sure there are other interesting correlations that can be pulled as well.
I guess nothing is complicated if you can do a hand-wavy dismissal of one side of the argument.

The local school tax rate is X% that's how it always worked (or supposed to)[sic]. School administrators and parents saw an opportunity to increase school expenditures; so they they invent all sort of excuses to shift the story and make it look more complicated than it is.
The challenge here is that you've then got to get other people to use the appropriate PGP key(s).

If a key has multiple subkeys, are they all used in encrypting a given message?

That's an aspect of PGP/GPG use I'm not clear on despite >15 years use of it.
>if you're being sarcastic

what's "sarcastic"?

>there are other ways alcohol affects men and women differently.

sources please?

:)
Especially when there's a certain bias

If person died from diabetes, but drank, this goes into the "alcohol deaths" count, even if the person would have suffered from it without the alcohol.

Same thing for smoking. Yes, there are people who die of lung cancer without smoking or being exposed to specific carcinogens.

And of course everybody dies, but if the person has a heart attack at 80 and drank it is likely it will be considered an "alcohol related death"
If you can find me, a regular worker, a way to buy into Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, a16z, etc. I'd be quite happy to hear about it.

Also, I don't know where you work, but in Canada, tech workers usually aren't awarded a retirement fund, but rather, matching contributions to an RRSP, which is an retirement savings investment account that I control. So once again I'm out of the growth investment game. I'm assuming a 401(k) works on the same basis...
The title says "makes Silicon Valley", not "makes Silicon Valley hardware engineers"...
I'm tryign to recreate Ticket To Ride boardgame in Clojure w/ Neo4j https://github.com/mattdeboard/ticket-to-ride

Work stress over the past week or so has forced a break though
Equity, directional. Using trade king right now but no tech developed. Once I prove out my model works, would look into the tech side. Using excel right now.
>San Francisco is well known for its transformations, the most recent one fueled by tech money that has seemingly scrubbed much of the city clean.

Well if this is to be taken literally, it's laughable. San Francisco's thoroughfares are littered with garbage, the city smells like piss, and its public transportation is third world at best. I can't imagine what SF was like before the latest "transformation"!
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