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> economically harmful usage-based billing and for that matter eliminate all the overhead of billing, marketing, collections, denying access to non-subscribers

So are you saying that feeding the whole IRS is LESS expensive than having an automated billing system that could track who is subscribed and who can enter a certain road? Because if it's not more effective, then, by the same token, why don't we also fund air travel with taxation? Too expensive to check tickets and deny access to free riders. It's better to just let everyone fly for free. Hell, you can say anything is more effective when funded by taxation. But that doesn't make it true. I don't understand why do I have to subsidize someone who uses roads everyday, while I use it once a week, for example. It's like as if I had to pay the same price for 1 airline ticket as the other person paid for 10. And while it may be a burden for a company to deploy a billing system, with government the burden is on the consumer: I have to fill all those tax forms and make sure everything is correct (or pay an accountant) - talking about some economically harmful activity, I don't like it when someone conscripts me to be a part-time accountant.

Your claims that government provided services are better because their production is more effective is not proven. Show me the exact mechanism. Show me how is it cheaper for everyone and not just for some? Can you demonstrate that the money spend on running the IRS is actually less than private enterprises would spend on the billing system? If you can't do it, then your words shall be called a speculation, not proof.
1) Support their opponent in the primary with enough to unseat them.

2) Send private dectectives to follow them.

3) Dig up dirt from their past.
The analogy is ok, but mostly fails because as a developer, we are not paid commission for each line of code written. Whereas taxi drivers have a very strong profit motive to act efficiently and quickly. I think your examples of why they would deviate from this believed behavior is pretty solid on its own.
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I would love to know the unit cost for each method.
Most of my panic attacks occurred immediately after a meal as well. I discovered a couple of interesting things:

* Magnesium Citrate tablets were able to stop or lessen the attacks, but only when they occurred after a meal. I suspect the laxative effect of magnesium is responsible.
* The only food that wouldn't trigger anxiety was coconut-based items, which I suspect has to do with coconut oil comprising mostly MCTs, which take less work to digest.
As I move further and further beyond 30 I encounter the assumption or at least question as to whether I am or am aiming to be a manager more and more often.

I've actually been thinking about whether I should try and remake myself in the same way for the same sort of reasons related.

For instance, bits like this...

>'...praise for doing things that would just have been doing his job if he were a managed person.'

...and...

>'It’s far better, unless you’re applying for a junior position, to start at 70 and get credit for everything you do know, than to start at 90 (or even 100) and get debited for the things you don’t know.'

Read as pure truth in my experience.

Coming off a period where my final title was 'Program Manager' my technical credentials seemed to be treated as gospel and an incredible bonus. Later, with a purely technical 'Engineer' title and no less responsibility those same credentials are heavily scrutinized and interviewers seem puzzled by an inability to fully categorize my experience.

I've come to think there's a lot to be said for and gained by properly managing titles / signals of status and managing the sort of interactions that are easy to dismiss or deride as 'playing the game'.
Building Sourcegraph, a large-scale code search engine in Go
By financing their opponent in the primaries.
A google for "japan government official website" turns up http://japan.kantei.go.jp. We can then use the ipinfo.io API to find out which network this is on:

$ curl ipinfo.io/`dig +short japan.kantei.go.jp`
{
"ip": "202.32.211.142",
"hostname": "No Hostname",
"city": null,
"region": null,
"country": "JP",
"loc": "35.6900,139.6900",
"org": "AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc."
}

We can lookup more details at http://ipinfo.io/AS2497. It looks like lots of different organization share this network, including Coca-Cola, and a bunch of universities, so filtering based on this network is going to get us what we're after. You can also go to http://ipinfo.io/countries/jp and see all of the networks in Japan. There are a few that are government related, but there doesn't seem to be a main or single network that the government uses.

Things are easier in the UK where you have http://ipinfo.io/AS29214 (Houses of Parliament) or Ireland where you have http://ipinfo.io/AS15806 (Irish Government)
It does copy the PC. Actually it just return from the fork call twice, one in the parent and one in the child, with different return values, the pid of the child to the parent and zero to the child.

See http://linux.die.net/man/2/fork for more details
I would think about adding a virtual host-based proxy. That way users could provide you with their domain(s), and you could forward traffic on port 80/443 for that host to the appropriate vm.
If the goal is the ability to have certain routes processable by different languages/systems you could achieve this with reverse proxying (from eg. nginx) [1].

That way you can leverage any existing language frameworks and run them as standard HTTP responders. No need to work with a queue (and add it to the stack).

You can still limit the HTTP methods each proxy responds to as well [2].

[1]: http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/reverse-proxy/

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8591600/nginx-proxy-pass-...
Only one ipv6 address? Surely you are going to have a /48 or larger why are you not providing more addresses?
Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Another thing: you have a problem with private monopolies, but when a government runs some business, like building roads - it's somehow fine? With a private enterprise, even if it is a monopoly, I still have a choice: I can stop paying and not use the service. Can I stop paying to the government?
Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC Web Application
Yeah, many of the questions I would have just said "Not sure" if I was asked and then I would google the answer.
Thanks, so php.net is not a tutorial that's meant to be from start to finish but rather just a reference?
I think this is going to be more common in the future. Not only for Wikipedia, but for every page that serves some kind of content.

Perhaps even sites like 9gag or similar could start out with some computer generated memes ;)
There's a lot of pre-19th century historical background here. To cut straight to the contemporary stuff, start at the question "Okay. How does that industry look now?"

> "we are having all of these discussions in America about inequality. Inequality in wealth. Inequality in voice. And yet no one’s looking at one of the main sources of that inequality, which was the overthrow of antitrust in 1981 by the Reagan Administration."
+1 for building stuff. As a fellow autodidact, I cannot stress enough the importance of proving that you can actually build maintainable software.

To put this in perspective: typically, a degree is seen as proof of some basic level of knowledge. XYZ University wouldn't have signed this piece of paper unless you had demonstrated the ability to pick up and apply (at least some of) the programming/CS concepts required to be effective in a professional development environment. As a self-taught developer, until you build something, you lack this proof. Once you ship some code, though, you have concrete evidence that you can point to and say "See? I know what I'm talking about!".

By the way, the big secret is that this is actually much more powerful than a degree; take advantage of it! If you can show employers that you can actually write good code, you'll have a huge leg up over the guys and girls that think they can just rest on their shiny CS degree (at most companies worth working at, that is).

Hacking on open source projects is great as well, because it demonstrates the ability to work well with others - something I found a lot of concern about during my latest job search.
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Exactly, I would have pressed the shrug button quite a bit here.

Oddly enough I did get the cat one spot on.
You clearly can use it but is there a good reason to use SQLite when you could use Postgres? I've just looked and it seems that Foreign Key constraints can now be enforced but I don't think that the type checking is as strong and there aren't the JSON capabilities.

SQLite is great and the obvious choice for structured data embedded in an application or on an embedded platform.
Comparing municipal workers productivity? You are kidding me?:) 8hrs * 0.01 vs. 6hrs * 0.01? That will solve the world problems!
How is it not voluntary? I started it. I knew upfront I could fail. Has anyone else forced me to fail?
> I guess forks don't actually copy the program counter so they'll have to go through main, right?

This is the way the fork syscall works on all Unices, the fork will start execution right after the fork system call.
The good news is that there's no good way that Apple can stop Android devices (or other devices with BTLE) from broadcasting or detecting iBeacons.

Glad to see that the source code is still available to fork.
I've been burnt by concurrent writes using Sqlite with Owncloud and multiple clients. Of course it may be the PHP connector and implementation, but if I remember correctly, it borked the database and Owncloud quit working. I had to re-set it up with Postgres.

But I really didn't know one could do concurrent writes with Python and Sqlite. I've always been very careful after getting burnt, so this is a good article. I love Sqlite and use it all the time and wish I could use it more. The single file format and lack of complex setup is pure joy.
I don't want him to speak for me even if he is right!

(But he is wrong.)
Thank you for the sunk cost fallacy reminder: because of it, I'm closing my browser tab after about 35 minutes. The premise is good and intriguing, but I agree with you that the movie is not very good, for the reasons you state.
A title II classification would be a huge deal. Not that people could rest on their laurels, but my sense is that it would be more difficult to undo than you are letting on.
> You fail to understand that DRM as practiced by Sony et al is just one application.

They created the term and they polluted it for good. Trying to whitewash it now serves no useful purpose except causing confusion. If you want to talk about concepts of protecting your personal information - just use another term, otherwise misunderstanding is guaranteed (like above).

> popularized usage of terms

No, it was you who tried to create your own interpretation of DRM which differs from what its designers put into it. That's up to you, but don't expect anyone to understand you.
It's called "Never relocate unpaid", and I posted it on HN a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8003073
And 30 servers handling the frontend! Even if they peak at 10,000/sec, that's only a few hundred a server/sec. And another 370 servers to do other stuff.
Oh, thanks for posting this! I'm the author (and one of the co-creators of Sourcegraph at https://sourcegraph.com), and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has here.
Automatic Build Numbers in Xcode
To bring this full-circle, this goes real well with the original article's idea that the GE system is highly coupled with the nervous system and psychological condition—it's very likely in both directions.
There is no such thing as non-GMO food, is my point.
I'd like to hear how they feel about the points pmarca made on twitter about this issue: http://gigaom.com/2014/02/24/marc-andreessen-says-more-net-n...
Bummer, me too.
The linked article absolutely shows that the applicant was told to arrive 5-10 minutes early, in this image embedded in the article:
http://peterk.co/content/images/2014/Jul/email.png

"Late arrivals will not be admitted, be sure to arrive 5-10 minutes early."
Is that penny the first human image on Mars? If not does anyone here know what is?
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>> "Experienced journalists aren't staying in the game because there's no money in it. The ones who do stay in it are one of three things: crazy, passionate about the job despite the compensation, or not dependent on the income."

You're right about this, but it's hardly news. Capital-J journalism, rather like fashion and other sexy New York industries, hasn't been a "real career" (e.g. one that will pay the bills) for decades. But it makes a splendid passtime for the children of inherited wealth.

Are you from the middle class or lower and want a byline? No problem---come to New York and live here without getting paid for a half-decade until we give you a real job (still with laughably small salary).
I think it's worth pointing out that "salaried employee" is not the opposite of "consultant". I work for a consultancy, and while we receive a steady salary twice a month, we're rewarded well for finishing early. I can't speak to how common this is as a practice, but I'd just like it to be known that being salaried does not necessarily entail a lack of concrete motivation to perform above the minimum.
> You produce 1 million socks a month and another company only 10 thousand. You obviously can't just drop prices on 10 thousands socks of yours, because that would still allow your competitor to stay in business

Except that with internet access, you can do exactly that. Any new competitor is going to have to choose to wire up a particular set of neighbourhoods with a particular 10 thousand customers in, and they're going to need a decent proportion of people in those neighbourhoods to sign up in order to make a profit. You can easily cut prices just for customers served by your smaller competitor whilst leaving them the same for everyone else - it doesn't matter that there's still demand elsewhere, because your competitor doesn't have infrastructure elsewhere.
It seems they've taken the movie down, was supposed to be up for 24-hours but given the response here, maybe they thought that wasn't a good idea. To be fair this wasn't the greatest audience for it, we're the type of people to pick things apart and we're collectively pretty clued on "hacking".

The production quality was good, the fact that it's an indie film is pretty cool. I think we're expecting too much from it, although given it's SF roots you'd think they'd target the extremely tech-savvy audience rather than the average movie-goer.

Could be an interesting weekend project. :P
I think this is a good thing, but ideally no bot would be required: if no article in your language, show all the facts from wikidata, eg http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q1339
The Battle Over Zomia
Why do you assume that it would be the growing company with a better offer? Takeovers are more often done with investment/debt.

Would the new competitor you envisage need to run their own?
Just to provide an alternate anecdote, I take probiotics fairly regularly (one to three in sequence every 1-2 weeks, or whenever I get out of whack) and have only had neutral or positive results. The flora in the probiotic is really nothing that shouldn't already be in a healthy gut, although of course you do want to be very careful as it's clear that your gut micro-biome is very important to your overall health. Just another data point.
Eric Cantor proved that you can't buy an election with money. Ideas ultimately are what count in an election, and to the extent that any good ideas are removed from the public realm with this scheme, we all lose. The last thing we want is the government regulating money spent on political speech - the corruption potential is absolutely enormous - hence the First Amendment.
Using something like hipache (or hipache-nginx or even some service written internally) you could probably cut down on your human interaction time.

Combine that with SNI hosting (unfortunately we would have to give you the keys for it)
I think this vicious cycle is one of the biggest human bugs around. It's a malfunctioning recursive negative feedback loop.
> "That depends on whether they're constrained by supply (couriers) or demand (customers)."

Treating someone decently and with respect is not a supply/demand equation. Your sentence is why everyone hates us. Are you rude to your waiter because he's on the short end of the supply/demand stick?

> "and choosing which couriers to accept based on how early they arrive for their job interview seems like an excellent metric"

No, not it doesn't. This is cargo cult hiring, no different than hiring programmers based on how well they can reason why manhole covers are round, or why one lightbulb is warmer than the next.

You can determine who is an effective courier and who isn't by having them deliver things. Just like you can determine who is an effective programmer and who isn't by having them write code.

This sort of "hiring by proxy signal even though the primary signal is perfectly testable" is endemic in our industry, and apparently isn't limited to hiring devs.

Tell people what you expect of them, and expect that of them. To do otherwise is shitty mind games no better than the classic Monty Python sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo&feature=kp

> "an excellent metric to use to attempt to differentiate between applicants you otherwise know very little about."

... and we arrive at the core of tech industry idiocy. "We don't have enough information to make a good decision" is answered by "Let's concoct logical-sounding but completely unverified proxy signals to make the decision instead of collecting more information".
This sounds like bitcoin!
I would rather have a bot written stub than nothing at all when I search in Wikipedia. Like it is mentioned in the story, some subjects are under represented while others are super saturated.
Technically, anything you can name can be represented by a single integer.
McDonald's knows this.
So where is the deletionist bot to counter his spam?
> "and not really something you couldn't find in any number of other resources."

The same should be able to be said about everything on Wikipedia, since Wikipedia is not supposed to have original research and should have a source for everything.

The "Why?" would then be "Because it is better to search for [obscure butterfly] and find a short list of fact than to search for that butterfly and find nothing at all."
The FCC has specifically asked people to comment on their proposal. Either they do care, or they're staging some very bizarre and pointless PR stunt because it really doesn't matter if anyone likes them or not.
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The advantage of Mongrel2 is this: http://zef.me/4502/message-queue-based-load-balancing

Message queue based load balancing.

Also dynamic load balancing without restarting any daemons.
Such a true statement. The sad part about this john is that many people leading the charge have no recollection of ACT 221 and they write off the people like us that do as haters or non-believers.
The sketchy entropy is only an example, and is a work in progress. Comments read "XXX Should be replaced with a proper entropy measure." and is only called if entropy collection via /dev/urandom and sysctl have failed. If the sysctl method is depreciated it does raise(SIGKILL). They also rearranged getentroy_linux.c so that the main function with the important comments is at the top in hopes whoever is porting reads it.

If you were porting this to a GNU/Linux distro, you can read their list of options and raise (SIGKILL) resulting in silent termination if that's what your platform decided to do if both entropy methods fail, or test for it earlier and fail. Since they are BSD developers they leave it up to whoever is porting to decide.
in fifty or so years when humans go to Mars

Is this our current expected timeline?
Maybe because it's not that clear cut.

A local train covers the same distance in 91 minutes (vs 81 minutes for this shuttle) but also makes every stop. A baby bullet train that makes roughly the same number of stops as the shuttle does the trip in 57 minutes.

Caltrain's baby bullet trains beat every other mode of transportation up and down the peninsula in terms of speed assuming you live by one of the stops AND the train isn't delayed due to the distressingly frequent accidents and mechanical failures.
yeah, I've gotten sufficiently used to nix that I always install some basic gnu utils on a windows box if I am going to use it. And typing ls saves a char over dir.
I can't help but wonder if what we're seeing with these really big-ticket military systems (F-35, V-22 Osprey, the Littoral Combat Ship, etc.) is pretty much the same thing that happened to NASA and U.S. space exploration with the Space Shuttle. Basically you end up with programs that grow into beasts that either deprive their competitors of oxygen or subsume them (into an even bigger program with even more requirements) and become both too big to succeed and too big to fail at the same time.
Ask HN: How should I handle an equity dispute?
I worked for a company that offered 5000 shares upon signing the employment agreement that vest at 20% a year. After I was employed for a year and 25 days the company decided to relocate and lay off some employees. There was no equity forfeiture clause in the contract in the event of termination. Furthermore the contract stated that in the event of a liquidity event all shares vest immediately. The company was purchased a few weeks ago. The CEO maintains that I am not entitled to any shares because although the signed employment agreement was executed by both parties I didn't relocate and and get on payroll until a few days after the employment agreement was executed. I had code written and meetings that occurred during the time he claims I was not an employee.

Two things --

First, does the date on the employment contract mean that I was an effective employee on that date?

Secondly, does the fact that the 5000 shares were assigned to me with no details as to what happens upon termination mean that I still own those 5000 shares?

The liquidity event (acquisition) occurred and other employees were paid for their shares. I reached out to the CEO and he stated that I owned nothing.

My thoughts -- I definitely am entitled to 1000 shares. Also due to the ambiguous (non-existent) details of what happens to the 5000 shares upon termination I think I may be entitled to be paid for those as well.

What are HN's thoughts on this situation?
One explosion (where no one died) is a bad thing, but it doesn't seem like a systematic problem.
You'll have to do better than "think about it" if you want your reasons to make sense outside of your own head.
I'd buy one but I'm out of town until the 22nd... let me know if they're still available.
Ah, but it's not a 1909-S V.D.B., which would have been the real big money option.
I'm happy to post excerpts of my employment contract if it would help the community gauge the situation.
It is pretty amazing. Especially at off-peak times, Sunnyvale to Oakland can take 3+ hours by transit, vs. 45 minutes by car.
The main problem with that, is that reverse proxying is push based, message queues are pull based.
Poor man's 1984 really; I felt no emotional link with the characters at all. It's a shame, it would be nice to see a take on 1984 with today's tech.