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> The default in ELF systems is to export everything that's not file-static.

...and then import them all again, even when they're in the same file, which I think is one of the most bizarre aspects of the ELF mechanism - I can certainly see that it allows the extra flexibility of overriding functions, but I've never thought "I'd like to be able to easily replace any function in my application with one from a library". I don't imagine it's a common use case, since on Windows it would be the equivalent of having a PE import itself (is this even possible?)
Andrew NG predicted a way back before google predict with different data set.
I'm running my girlfriends portfolio page on a Pi, nginx + mysql + php / Wordpress with a caching plugin.
Works quite well if the pages are cached (which most are), admin stuff is quite slow.
Yes, this works just fine.
Buy a wireless charger, trust me it is worth every single dollar (not that expensive for a cheap qi charger on ebay anyway).

I have one at my workstation at home and one at work, and never have to find the cable to charge my phone. Which also mean I'll never wear out the charging socket :)
Discreet = careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage. Discrete = individually separate and distinct.

This one always gets me, especially in a mathy/technical audience that should have seen "discrete" mathematics or photons or something before.
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This - backup verification - is one of few outstanding features that I will be adding shortly.
thought many improvement happened, developer still prefer to use 2.x and the eco system take long time to adopt 3.x. "who tie the bell to the cat"
Yes, it is faster.
I'm nearly certain that running BART for longer hours would reduce drunk driving, and therefore save lives. The trouble is that BART's ticket prices don't capture enough of the value created by not being killed in a drunk driving accident, so they don't do it. The obvious solution is policy providing more public funding but requiring them to be open longer.
I think inductive charging will solve a lot of that. No need to find plugs if you can just put the phone and watch on the nightstand and have them automatically charged.
Great application ! It's functional and beautiful.

As a little experienced developer (still a student), I find you Work in progress page very interesting and full of useful tips and information ! Moreover it shows all the work done on this app (especially concerning the UI).

You have a lot of concerns about the UI design, do you have any books or online resources concerning application UI that you really like you'd want to share ?

Thanks
Why Europeans Don't Refrigerate Their Eggs
> Every system call must go through ntdll.dll or it'll stop working on the next major upgrade, which will scramble the system call numbers.

Wow, really? So you can't make system calls from assembly language on Windows?

> It places fewer constraints on the kernel and lets you implement 32-bit-to-64-bit system call thunks entirely in userspace, completely avoiding a major class of security vulnerability.

Well, there is VDSO. What kind of thunks and security vulnerabilities are you talking about though?
Tired from all these REST API client library wrappers? Purest is one for all
Per install, with progressive discounts based on total volume.
I haven't worn a watch in about as long either. Watches with sensors and displays do have niche value though. Look at Garmin and Suunto sports watches. Very useful for certain sports. I own a Garmin, but even then I only wear it when I need it.

I can't work out wearables though. Google glass seems to have stagnated technology wise. And all the watches seem like attempts to beat Apple at shipping a device first based on speculation.

The sensor route might be something. But even then you are talking about multiple devices due to form factor, power requirements and the simple fact that you cannot take all measurements from a device on your wrist.
> "You can't improve what you don't measure," sure, but the wrong things are being measured and the incentives are wrong and the consequences backwards.

A direct corollary: you get what you measure. Nothing more, and nothing less.

In education and humans therein lies the problem. When all effort is expended towards hitting metrics, only the chosen metrics will be improved. Everything else is left to degrade. If you add the incentives to punish for not hitting the targets, of course you get cheating. A little at first, but when the improved goals are now set based on false data, you encourage a more systematic cheating.

One aspect of problem has been already witnessed in Finland, the country of supposedly superior education system. University staff are well aware of this but can do nothing about it. If I had to guess, I would say that the administators are simply divorced from reality.

I don't know if there is much cheating going on. We may not be that far down in the drain; what we do have, is a constant pressure to over-achieve. There are teachers and professors who all say same the same thing.

I wonder what happens when the researchers and teachers will get punished for not meeting their >100% performance targets year-over-year.
I didn't wear a watch since 1999 (Thanks to Mobile Phones). Started using LG G Watch since Google I/O.

Its pretty useful for day to day things.

Mostly:

1. Check who is calling without taking phone out of pocket.
2. Look at email to see if I want to take my phone out and check email.
3. "OK Google" is cool to quickly check next meetings etc..

I think most people who sound negative (I used to be one of them) did not use a smart watch.
Pebble only needs to be charged once every week. I think that's acceptable.
Oh man, I was really hoping for a better CPU. The current one is just so dang slow.
This system could be used together with speech recognition (Siri, Cortana, etc. personal agent) to automate tasks and write little apps on a mobile device.
If they can make VR contact lenses, I'm sure they'll be able to make very light prescription glasses with a screen component. Google Glass already only weights 50g, according to the wiki.
Possibly (I wasn't aware of that), however I'd prefer something a bit larger in scope, taking in the larger application and even the architecture.
I can't type wearing a watch, so not met. Sry.
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> wearing watch trend is going down drastically

Is it? I am wearing a watch, but I have no idea about the direction of the trend. Also, even if it does go down I'd expect it to go the way of the vinil. Would not be surpirsed if wearing watches will become fashionable again soon.
Ask HN: How to regain access to my dedicated server?
The story:
We are a team that uses a dedicated server Ubuntu 9.10 (don't say a word... "updates are for the weak"...) And the guy who was responsible for being a "sysop" recently disappeared into the abyss of dark sorcery of some kind or just watching cat videos on youtube. However he did not leave us any credentials to access the server and we need to ssh into it...

So far:
I managed to find credentials to our server supplier from where I got the ips and ports we are using...
Got a account for Lantronix spider KVM

I've got a working ftp account which has reading access to everything... From where I was able to see in /home directory some users...

Any input on what my options are?

P.S. All of this hustle to start the apache
no comment!
There was quite a stir in the ingress community last weekend because there was a sort of "launch event" in Montreal for the iOS app, but the app was not released yet.. Good to see it's here at last.
People drinking in urban centers are more likely to walk home drunk (since they can). Urban centers are more dangerous for pedestrians.

People drinking in remote areas are more likely to drive home drunk (since there is no other choice). These drunk drivers will come in potential contact with fewer cars, but generate a lot more miles for the statistic.

While the quoted statistic is true at a literal level ("you are 8 times more likely to die per mile walked drunk than mile driven drunk"), the intuitive implication that you'd be safer using your car is not. And that, of course, is not even considering the safety of others.
How do you get 20%? The area difference between a circle with a radius of 1000 vs 990 is 2%.
The only thing I can imagine wanting one for, if it's small and light enough, is tracking progress while I exercise. Essentially a more advanced GPS watch with a heart rate monitor. Maybe you could put those zombie run games and stuff like that on it. And music ideally, if you could do wireless headphones.

Aside from running or biking though, I have zero desire to have my email and such even more in my face than it is on my phone. Any time I'm going to interact with it for more than 5 seconds, it's going to be preferable to pull out my phone, which only takes a couple seconds anyway.
Detailed technical guide for the Raspberry Pi Model B+
"There's a reason education sucks, it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners, now. The real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying,­ lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.

You know what they want? Obedient workers,­ people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club." - George Carlin

There's your answer to why.

The answer to how involves more details, but it basically has to do with pacifying the concept of critical thinking from our education system and all facets of american culture, and replacing it with rote learning. It's a lower form of intelligence, which is great for passing arbitrary tests and producing the obedient workers who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.

The best thing you can do for a child is teach them how to think and learn for themselves. Grow their critical thinking skills and get them into programming or engineering. Teach them empathy. Oh, and buy them a bitcoin.
If Apple sells one, I'll buy one. Unless it's really crap, which is possible I guess.

I don't care what features it has specifically. If there's something useful for me I'll get one. Will I end up wearing it full time? Who knows.
I have been consciously using Google Now on my Android phone more and more to add notes, send messages, ask for directions, find out where I parked my car, find out the world cup scores, track incoming package deliveries, catch up on Tour de France news, etc.

The more I use it, the more utility I gain from it, but the more I find it a pain in the ass to pull out my phone (perhaps while driving, or walking, or cycling), unlock the phone, then go "OK Google. Take a note. Remember to look up details of Facebook mobile like button." or "OK Google. Message Tom mobile. On my way, see you soon."

Now knowing that there are Android wear devices out there I think "damn this would be so much easier with a watch." I'd really like to buy one now, but I think I'll hang out for the Moto 360.

I doubt there's much utility in a smart watch for those that don't utilize Google Now to the fullest.
Great list. Created a PR for gosquared, datadog and rsync.net as I couldn't see them on there.
Still multiprocessing is experimental phase for various use case :(
There are lots of little embedded projects the Pi is great for, check out this for some inspiration: https://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi
I think the question is whether the intervention from Washington actually made things better.
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plus better mounting.
Have them fixed the broken USB system? (USB and Ethernet share the same bus problem)
More interesting to me are the statistics on drunk walking deaths. According to freakonomics.com, it is more dangerous to walk drunk then to drive drunk. I'd like to see those stats with the DUI stats.
I can run python on it. Yes, I'm aware of http://www.pymcu.com/index.html , but they're cheap enough for projects and familiar enough for people vaguely familiar with Linux that it ends up being a good combination for lots of fun projects. It's probably overkill for >90% of things people use it for, but usability is the big advantage.
This is great idea!

We need more people experimenting with alternative OS ideas, some of them sadly lost, and less UNIX clones.
My understanding is that the Raspberry Pis are intended to be used in education. The front page says: "We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn how computers work, how to manipulate the electronic world around them, and how to program."

That said, I use mine as a simple NAS for backups.
I stopped wearing a watch way back, when I strap it on my wrist for formal meetings , I feel uneasy.
Ya, I could go for something like that. Watch first, smart second. Not some giant-screened monstrosity.

Although personally I have almost all my phone notifications off anyway, so I would probably use it as little more than a regular watch.
There's a darwin award for a security guard at (I think) a TV studio who decided on christmas eve that work was too hard and instead spent the night sleep in front of one of their microwave transmitters. I believe they found him dead and cooked right through in the morning.
While I like the idea of a three day weekend, aren't you addressing a difference problem? The swedish experiment is seeking to increase productivity and decrease the time employees spend being sick. You're trying to compensate for a distruptive work environment by moving a large part of your workday. It would make more sense to address the things that keep you from doing your job effectively. If you're correct, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that you could work 8 hour days, four days a week and be just a productive and allowing a three day weekend.

The issue is of cause that in many large companies some people jobs are more or less defined as keeping you from doing yours. The owner of a Danish consulting company once postulated that: "Many larger (Danish) companies could fire all of their CUSTOMERS, and 40 - 60% of the employees would still have a job to do." - His point being that a large part of the workforce isn't in anyway related to providing services or products to the customers. Having worked for a large telco, I wouldn't be surprised if he's right. The point is that a portion of these people, which doesn't really produce anything will eventually do something that distrupt the "makers", because they need to make their presents known.
But there was still a fairly short window between common availability of wifi and Edge and the iphone. Especially when you consider that the iphone was probably in development for several years.
What would your insurance company say if you said "well I knew I forgot to lock the door, but I sent the command and I know it locks itself eventually"? It's cool but not really a mass market product.
> Then there’s the matter of having a $300 gadget strapped to my wrist, which creates anxiety of its own.

And plenty of people walk around with a $5000 autonomous machine on their wrist from Switzerland. It is those people who will never change to a smart watch.
Wol Wantok, Ken Campbell's project to promote Melanesian Pidgin English (specifically Bislama, according to Wikipedia) as a single global language ("wol wantok" = "world one-talk"), on the grounds that you can learn it in an afternoon.

[Edit: more details.]
A review of the new Raspberry Pi B+
Questions about "No Child Left Behind" exist irrespective of cheating scandals.
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Look for remote (telecommute) jobs. Our (tiny) company is 100% remote, and people work whatever schedules they want (as long as they're around for an hour on Monday afternoons for a weekly meeting). The tradeoff is we have to try to be available to help out in our off hours if something urgent comes up, but that doesn't tend to happen often.
HTTPS, of course, but that puts you at the mercy of the site operators.
I want a ring with a laser projector, possibly into my other palm. A watch is too big and heavy.
The issue even back then, was data portability. We should do this not only for selfish reasons, but for capturing our history, our discussions and knowledge sources that don't exist anywhere else for history. A small example, tonight I wanted to revisit my comments at the 2010 World Cup that I did at Television Without Pity 4 years ago - But NBCUniversal decided to shut down the site and kept the recaps, but killed the forums, and over 10+ years of TV discussion is lost. So I bet we'd like peeps from the year 2064 to be able to see our Facebook pages to at least understand some of our day-to-day lives for historical reference. Will it be there?
The problem is that it's too slow to be used as an actual development computer, so you have to write your code on another computer and then copy it over to the pi.
Running Linux in embedded projects is still super useful. You can use pretty advanced software like speech recognition (PocketSphinx, etc.), image processing (OpenCV), and more to make cool stuff that would be miserable/nearly impossible to implement bare metal on a fast CPU. Even networking heavy or UI heavy projects would be much easier on a machine that runs a real operating system.
Thanks, and, no, I don't, sorry. It's just a matter of observing how other people do it and then improving upon it by good old trial and error.
Having to learn German and French at middle school and deeply hating those languages because of all their inconsistencies I was surprised how regular Spanish was when I traveled to Guatemala for a course. After three weeks it could talk and understand enough of it to take care of myself.

(Unfortunately this was almost 15 years ago and I didn't maintain my level.)
[ANNOUNCE]: Codesake::Dawn v1.2.0 released
Author here. I've got the new hardware on my desk, so let me know if you've got any questions about it.
I'd rather use an OSS solution but pay someone else to host and maintain it, that way if they shut down or whatever I can just copy my data and worst case run it myself.
That's not even the most interresting part. If the point of the Smartwatch is to make up of the marked for phone and tables being saturated, what will they do when the watches reaches the point that phones are at now? Cars? Not likely, that would just move profit from the classical car makers, but generate new consumption.

Perhaps at least some companies need to start think about a business plan that does involve ever growing consumption.

No, I don't want a Smartwatch, even though I'm sure it would go great with my non-smartphone.
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I just released Codesake::Dawn version 1.2. Dawn is a source code scanner for security issues designed to analyze ruby written web applications.

It supports Rails, Sinatra and Padrino and it has 180 security checks in its codebase.
Now I'm working to integrate ruby_parser gem and to add in depth ruby code parsing and understanding so to spot also custom vulnerabilities introduced in the web application.

Now it can spot just vulns introduced by the libraries version you're using in your Gemfile.

It would be great having your feedback, here or in our Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/codesake-dawn

Thank you
Paolo
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Check out sshfs or similar user-mode filesystems to make the Pi look like a drive. Cyberduck is another tool that has a decent file explorer UI around SSH/SFTP and is cross platform.

If you're writing C/C++ you can set up a cross compilation tool chain to write and compile code on any Linux machine. It's a pain but there are lots of blogs posts and guides on it.
Do it. Connect with other families to share educational experiences and social time with too.
This is a great place to start then! https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
Such nerd link-bait.
Yep, this was the comment. It made it sound like the product was in use for a long time and functioning well.
My buddy has a pebble watch and I actually think it's pretty cool. That being said, I have two major problems with smart watches:

1. I'm looking for ways to get disconnected these days; I don't want another gizmo that tracks my existence and pushes useless information at me. The article nonchalantly throws in how the smartwatch is gaining traction from SV due to its potential as yet another platform for people to buy stuff on , as if making a customer's life better has somehow become an afterthought. Why don't companies even pretend to care anymore?

2. Most importantly, automatic watches are amazing and one of the coolest things about owning a watch is marveling at the intricacies of it. There's a certain 'magic' missing from digital watches that I hope future smartwatch makers learn to replicate. Things like IEEE 802.15.4 give me hope that there's a way to bring these two worlds together.
How long would it take you to solve world hunger?
Britain ≠ Europe. In Denmark most supermarkets refrigerate eggs and some don't.
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Well, yeah, we all have a cognitive bias in that we've never had to comprehend a scale at 10^35-10^45 before (that's my belief graph btw).
This isn't a good idea though I've heard, don't you bypass some important components for power safety in the micro USB power circuit?
These kinds of checklists tend to reveal the bias of their authors.

If I were authoring one I'd have a bunch of stuff in there about understanding the hardware, performance, caching, power consumption. How the compiler produces the instructions that actually run on the machine. A bunch of the how's and whys of the various OS designs and how that affects the problem in front of you might go well in there too. And so I reveal my bias and I'm probably overlooking something quite important that's your particular strength that makes you really great in your programming niche. At least I'm aware of it, which neither of these guys seem to be.
Well if that's the plan, then I'm looking forward to seeing how small they can make the Raspberry Pi Master Compact.
In France eggs are not refrigerated. Also the refrigeration can cause condensation, and water outside of the egg can cause the infection.