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The best method I found for getting a Windows 7 Dell to stop being stubborn is to restart the wireless driver.

Toggling the wireless power is less reliable than soft restarting.

Making the soft restart easy involves downloading the Windows SDK, to get a copy of DevCon, and then stuffing it into a scheduled task so that you can run it without a UAC prompt.

(I mean this more as 'surprise surprise it's the drivers' than as a defense of windows)
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Inbound messaging is always free with Nexmo- talk to me about it at katie.sullivan@nexmo.com
People don't know how CDNs work so it looks amazing.

Comcast and Verizon now claim that Akamai is indeed paying them. Perhaps the outcry over Netflix being extorted explains why these deals have remained secret for years.
A 15000RPM SAS drive would be an _extremely_ poor choice for this type of workload. Power hungry, hot, extremely sensitive to vibration, very low data density, and, of course, ridiculously expensive.
The economic system in the US in based on very, very strong property rights. This greatly skews the advantage from the ones doing the work to the ones who own the result of this work.

If US property rights were not so strong there would not be such enormous advantages given to those who produce proprietary software. This isn't as much an issue with open source business models as much as it is with US economic policy.
Looks like the juries out and many evidence still points to the total amount of calories in/out over the day is the only defining factor.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-truth-myth-eating-ni...
I have an interesting hypothesis: firm inefficiency leads to greater income inequality.

Think about it. Generally, smaller, newer firms are more efficient than older, larger firms. Greater firm inefficiency means that more older firms will be replaced by newer firms (whether by market position or outright bankruptcy). Average consumers can only invest in older, established firms, and, indeed, many 401k's are tied-up in stocks of 50+ year old companies. Millionaires, however, by being certified investors, can invest in many startups, a small portion of which will eventually become large, established firms in the future. This causes the rich to gain money, and others to loose it.

Let me give a (contrived) example. Let's say you wanted to invest in a car company in 2005. If you were an average investor, you may have put your money in (old) GM, whose stock is now worthless. If you were a billionaire, you could have split your money between Tesla, ZAP, and Project Better Place. ZAP and PBP are now defunct, but you would have made a boatload of money off of Tesla.
IANAL, but I was under the impression that prior art can invalidate a patent even with FITF if it wasn't an issue of contesting the ownership of the patent, since an invention has to be novel and publicly disclosed prior art would mean that the patent was issued invalidly rather than issued to the wrong inventor.
That particular text seemed to be talking about hard drives, not SSDs. Most SSDs support secure erase, unless the drive is defective in which case physical destruction is in fact required.

Extracting data from a fully rewritten HDD is completely unrealistic. (Formatting obviously does not achieve this)
>There are a few emulation stations kicking around (you can find them on Amazon) but nothing near this compact or with this good of controls.

I've found a DS flash cart and a DSiXL to do this job well enough for what the system is capable of emulating (up to GBA, Genesis, SNES). Not sure what the state of 3DS flash carts is. For ~N64/PS1 a modded PSP is a great choice from what I've heard.
My setup involves GNU Guile Scheme, Emacs, and the geiser extension for Emacs. I boot up my Guile application and it spawns a REPL server. In Emacs, I run M-x connect-to-guile to connect to that server. From there, I edit my source code files as normal. However, once I've made an edit, I press C-x C-e next to the region of code that I want Emacs to send to the Guile REPL and view the results. The edit/apply process repeats until I'm done working and kill the application.

It's a really great way to work. I've spent a good amount of time making this workflow work well for applications that run an event loop, such as a game or web server, by writing a "cooperative" REPL server for Guile [0].

I hope this makes some sense!

[0] https://gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Cooperative-...
The first laptop I got at my current job is now sitting unused because of unreliable wifi in Linux and Windows 7. Due to BIOS restrictions work just got me a new laptop instead of messing with trying to replace the card.

It's incredibly sad how shoddy modern wifi can be, and a testament to the importance of networking that flaky wifi can render a computer useless.
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Was that down-vote launched from the barricades you were manning? :)

Accuracy is independent of politics. Or, if you prefer to think of it this way, Know Your Enemy.
They can always download another copy onto a working drive.
If you get rejected from an angel at your seedround
To be a language means to be a way of defining thoughts in order to have them delivered to another.

With no constraints you could just write random rubbish (a bit like this). With the constraints of Java or C# you write code which does it's job, however a lot of work is in fitting your thoughts within the extensive syntax of the languages' constraints.

Clojure, or any other Lisp, helps in that the initial constraints it imposes are simple ().

Once you get a feel for the simplicity you get the feel for the power it brings.

It's a bit like wingtsun kung fu. Your brain is no way fast enough to react to your opponent fast enough to decide for example is this a hard punch or a soft punch. By that point the punch would have been received, restricting your thinking further. However if your body knows the language of wingtsun there is no thinking involved. Period.

Your body knows the language of interacting with another body so leaving your mind the time to make decisions. Your body has embraced the language and can rely on it to keep you alive whilst giving your mind the freedom (time) to make decisions or ultimate kill moves or be creative.

Another word for decisions is creativity. The cost of creativity is time. So embrace your language and be creative with your thoughts given the time your language allows. If you feel your language is asking for help unrelated to your problem then either you don't understand your language or the language is not a language at all and maybe another is better for the current context.

To sum this range in rubbish clojure:

(if (total-time > time-spent-defining-problem)
(ask-where-this-time-went total-time time-spent-defining problem)
:you-are-at-one-with-your-language-and-in-flow-my-friend)

Or think about:

(def time (apply + allthetimesyouspentdefiningclasseswhenallyouwantedwasafunction))

End of drunken rant.
we just added some official base instances. check them out!

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>If US property rights were not so strong there would not be
>such enormous advantages given to those who produce
>proprietary software.

Why? Can you elaborate on that?
Advertisement revenue. They do very good for themselves.

<tinfoil hat>

Recently movie posters, and Netflix what to watched lists make the front page with alarming constancy normally getting top posts by margins of 2-3x. I emailed support about this, to report that people were misusing the site for advertisement, and I got no response. I realize movies are popular, but an indie movie normally shouldn't be the most popular thing of all time (or even top 100).

I find it strange because normally their responses are very fast. I found a scheme where people were using a vote farm to push amazon links. The accounts involved were banned within 24 hour.

</tin foil hat>

But this being repeatedly ignored had me almost tempted to make a "vote botting as a service" website.
We've known that they are delusionally paranoid for quite a while. This is just another piece of evidence to prove that claim.
My current development machine is a MBPR utilizing the 2.3 GHz processor & 16 GB of ram with Parallel, Windows 8.1 64 Bit, and VS 2013 Professional without issue.

We chose the MBPR displays because we could pick them up the next day and didn't have to wait on the build time for the T440s. I cannot say I didn't really look at those, but I did and would have probably purchased those if we weren't on such a time crunch.
Everybody in the field is well aware of Rider. He's not necessarily the last word on the subject.

In the case of focus fusion, they're banking on extreme magnetic fields in the plasmoid suppressing x-ray production. And Bussard claimed that the polywell skirted around Rider's assumptions, though I don't know the details.

Don't know about Tri-Alpha, but they have a large and fairly distinguished staff of fusion Ph.D.s so I assume they've heard of Rider too.
Watchman – Execute a command when a file changes
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Pulling individual sentences out of their context tends to be misleading. Editing the cherry-picked parts is virtually guaranteed to be misleading.

Here, you omitted the phrase 'known terrorist' from the middle of the sentence you quote on page 22. This totally changes the meaning of the quoted sentence. Also, you chose not to include the following sentence which described how such a presumption could be overcome if the investigative body in question had credible information to the contrary. Finally, you overlooked the fact that 'nominators' in this context refers to other government agencies, relying on existing procedures for designation of someone as a 'known terrorist', and that said procedures form the due process in question. The point of this is to avoid bureaucratic duplication and waste. If the FBI sends the NCTC someone's bio and states them to be a known terrorist (based on facts in said bio), then it's entirely reasonable for the NCTC to take the FBI's information at face value unless it receives information to the contrary.

Such designation is presumptively valid in that situation because the FBI itself is subject to law. If different agencies of the executive branch are required to reject each others' conclusions by default and investigate every assertion de novo the outcome would be ontological paralysis. At such time as someone is detained and charged with terrorist the matter is handed over to the judicial branch, where a court serves the role of finder of fact. Essentially, you're demanding that trial precede investigation.
It is all on the release notes: https://github.com/AppScale/appscale/blob/master/RELEASE

We currently support 1.8.0 GAE features but we do add patches that are a part of more current GAE releases if they are bug fixes.
> "does this random laptop resume from sleep correctly?" Not really easy to automate that.

that's what rtcwake is for
> At this point counter rationales for x, y and z must be presented to excuse the suggestion of terrorism when there is none.

That's not going to happen. Should someone be wrongly excluded from the list (they turn out to indeed be an evil terrorist), then the bureaucrat who excluded them will lose their job (lots of yelling, angry meetings, uncomfortable situations, guilt, etc.) They don't want to lose their job, so no one gets excluded.
Indeed. I'm not surprised. A colleague of mine found that oil production platforms near the coast likely increase the retention of juvenile fish, adding habitat and thus increasing fish stock. The result was unpopular with some environmentalists. Seems that these seals seem to have discovered the same thing.
To smuggle in the devices he needed, he made them look like normal consumer items. He disguised his USB radio and TV receivers as regular USB drives, putting them into sealed plastic bags so they would look like he just bought them at the airport's duty free shop. He turned his old Fuji photo-camera into a radio and brought a MP3 player that could also record and receive AM and FM radio signals.

Am I alone in thinking that this guy was an idiot for pulling such a stunt, simply to document life in North Korea -- a country that imprisons and executes individuals for the most minor of politically incorrect transgressions?

If smuggling in a device masquerading as another device doesn't scream "I'm a spy, arrest and interrogate me", to such folks, I don't know what does.
It's funny because Elon Musk said once "I think fusion is probably not as hard as everyone thinks; I might work on that someday."

And when he does, he'll get it right. Since that's what he does.

Until he turns his attention to it, though, I'm skeptical.
I doubt any country could keep it to themselves. Even if we tried and avoided espionage, once it's proven to work economically every major country would ramp up research. (But espionage would happen pretty quickly. We didn't even manage to keep the H-bomb secret for long.)

I think the strife involved would be much less than we're having now from limited fossil supplies...and far less than we'll have a few decades now from climate change.
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I suspect many onlookers are going to misunderstand the intent of the rules that fill rulebooks like these. I suspect this because of ChuckFrank's comment which identifies problems and proposes solutions, as all we hackertypes instinctively do.

The thing is, when they say:

> create a 'nomination', 'verification' and 'implementation' process with their “originators,” “nominators,” “aggregators,” “screeners,” and “encountering agencies.”

And we all reel in horror at how bad this is procedurally, we must remember that they are not doing this to determine terrorists. They are doing this because if they do put people on lists and need to watch them (for whatever reason), and end up being very wrong, they need to diffuse the damage to organization level (which cannot be held accountable) instead of individuals.

In other words, its not about codifying who is a suspected and actual terrorist. It's about internal damage control so that no individual can be blamed when something goes wrong. I'm not sure the US Gov is entirely at fault here, at least not in a actually-tring-to-be-sinister sense. I think that most large businesses end up with these same processes for the exact same reasons. The only difference here is the topic, which is creepy as hell. But I think its working as intended.

(Business example: General Motors deadly ignition switch recall[1]. Their processes are set up to shift blame, not to locate discrete problems that trace back to discrete decisions.)

This is why Khalid El-Masri (See qeorge's comment) can never face his accuser. He was accused by aggregate.

It's processes determination by firing squad.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_General_Motors_recall
What carrier is your $22 pseudo-unlimited data though? I'm looking at some alternatives and T-Mobile's $30 unlimited seems like a decent bet. But $22 for pseudo-unlimited would still be a step up from AT&T's 300 MB plan that I'm on.
IRS Official Says Even More Employees Had Computer Problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FESP1h7IZM
Let me guess - bad product-market fit?
Godwin's law comes true alarmingly quickly on HN.
This, although let me add a slightly different reason... You also don't want your $3,000 piece of equipment to irrevocably fly off.
Peter Klein has some very interesting research showing there are limits imposed on organizations by the problem of economic calculation: http://mises.org/document/350/Economic-Calculation-and-the-L...

This is an application of Mises' work on economic calculation in socialist economies and why it is so problematic for such economies to allocate capital without squandering it.

At scale I think this affects companies like Microsoft which, as they grow, find it harder and harder to allocate resources without an internal price function. E.g., how many engineers do you put on infrastructure versus Xbox? The answer isn't obvious because you can't directly measure the profitability of the infrastructure team. When teams are small (such as in startups) the leader can kind of guess this stuff, and successful leaders do it well, while bad ones go out of business. Some companies try create internal markets to allocate capital but that has problems too, because it causes some level of friction in the process of how capital is internally allocated.

This is why I think Ycombinator's model is potentially very useful. Instead of a monolithic structure where capital is essentially moved between divisions based on the judgment of a single person (the CEO), there is a syndicate of companies which tend to produce goods that the others need, while still maintaining a market so that prices can be established and used as a guide for which projects should receive more (or less) capital.
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did you try turning off bluetooth? weird, but it worked for me on OS X to make connecting to wifi much faster.
The first thing that comes to mind is: While the time-spent entries I enter are usually exactly what ends up on invoices, on occasion, this is not the case. An entry might get edited (text description of work done, or even amount of time spent), or deleted, prior to generating the invoice and sending it. The concern here is that if clients are notified "too quickly" about time spent, updates would cause confusion, or there might have arisen certain expectations from the client that would end up not being met.
I'm running Archlinux from a flash stick on a cheap Haswell Celeron. From BIOS to chromium/wifi on is about 20-30 seconds. And I'm using connman so it could be faster with directly using wpa_supplicant/dhcpcd. On Windows it took up to two 2 minutes. So it is definitely an issue with hardware and drivers not Linux in general. Also using old hardware (including old wifi dongles) is a recipe for headaches. A cheap Haswell laptop or a desktop coupled with Linux friendly wifi dongle or a card should work fine.
Browse Google Earth with touchless gestures using an Arduino
I run a number of Capacity Planning projects for small businesses. It's really not economically feasible for them to determine all of their constraints to the nth degree, so I usually start with two figures: What is their perfect world, 100% Capacity / utilisation rate? And then what happens if we subtract 20-30% of that for 'Uncontrollables' and use that as the Real World target.

There's a bit more science behind it than just that, but the end result proves accurate and practical. Losing 20% doesn't sound like much, until you realise that's 1 day per week for every full time employee that we conclude will never be efficient for any decent length of time.
> If they are terrorists (criminals) and the government is not prosecuting them, the government is breaking the law.

Completely untrue. The government has the option, not the obligation, to prosecute criminals.

Also "being a terrorist" is NOT a boolean flag that some people possess and others do not. Some people who SAY they are terrorists are not. Most people who commit terrorist acts say that they are not terrorists. The government does not "know" which ones are terrorists and which are not. The definition of terrorism is very, very murky: we have declared that teaching conflict resolution is "terrorism" (under some circumstances) and that bombing innocents is not (under other circumstances).
Thank you for using a limited oauth scope for Coinbase. Had you not, I would not have connected to Coinbase.

I do wish that you had a transaction history more like Mint does. The balance only isn't too useful for me.
Mint does to, IIRC.
This logic is also applicable to engineers. Everything an engineer could potentially do has value, but you can't predict which project will turn out to be worthwhile. And without someone smart managing them, I'd assert there's a higher probability of that, which wastes everyone's potential.
'Optical fibre' made out of thin air
Yup, you could add "0. Make drive image for NSA" without altering the rest of the process. If you need that amount of security, you should probably destroy your own drives.
Oh, well that totally makes it okay, then.

EDIT, since bare sarcasm is beneath the level of discourse I try to contribute here: To the contrary, having a codified set of rules that are designed to deflect blame away from bad or negligent actors is exactly the wrong solution to this problem.

Consider the case of Rahinah Ibrahim; an FBI desk-pusher checked the wrong box on a form and it took her 12 years and millions of dollars worth of lawyer time to get that mistake, something a system like this is designed to entrench, to get that fixed.
What? While I can't argue with them being ridiculously expensive (because they very much are) why would them being power hungry, hot, and extremely sensitive to vibration even matter if they are going to be rack-mounted into an ISP's data center, with redundant power-supplies and a data-center grade cooling system to match?

The only possible issue of the ones you raised is low data density, but all engineering is a trade-off, 15k rpm drives get you better seek times, which would generally lead to the ability to support more viewers in a single box - not working for Netflix, I don't know how many users they want to support per-box.

It's totally possible that between the number of streams they want to support, and the total storage in the box that they've gone with SATA drives, but to pretend that 15k RPM SAS drives are "an _extremely_ poor choice" for an enterprise-grade storage system would be to ignore the fact that Netflix is making an enterprise-grade storage appliance - and that on the top-end, those appliances commonly use SAS drives.
Depends on the programs you use, and whether or not you're running a full DE or a bare WM. Most programs use Ctrl+X/C/V, Shift+Delete/Shift+Insert/Control+Insert, and/or highlight/middle-click in various unpredictable combinations.

I've found this to be less of a problem in modern desktop environments (especially KDE, in my experience), since most DEs nowadays feature their own clipboard/buffer management.
Dual licensing, like Trolltech did originally with QT, could also be a viable commercial strategy for certain open source projects, but that seems to be going out of fashion lately.
Your hope is misplaced. For if they do include the DOB they certainly ignore it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10725741/ns/us_news-security/t/-ye...
You are my hero. Thanks a lot, that was it!
Spyware, not malware. Unless they are somehow attempting to take over control of your computer or perform some other crime.
And another release of a software that is relatively niche and has only the version number in the release title, instead of any description of what new, exciting and valuable things the release brings; thus missing out entirely on the chance of making other people interested or excited about the software.

I really don't understand why software developers keep neglecting the easiest bit of marketing possible.
You could still have finance without interest. It would consist of lending money at interest based on a subjective estimation of the debtor's ability to repay. Like it used to be.

Insurance is harder to imagine...
Actually, we do need more photo sharing apps
This is neat! How does the data differ from http://www.binlist.net/? More current?
shame how the midi music doesn't work in so many doom ports
The Swift integration looks really neat. It's especially useful since organizations are likely to run it if they have an in-house or aaS OpenStack deplyoment.