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It's hard to compete with grocery stores:

1. They're local. Most people have a grocery store within 5 minutes of their house.

2. They're well-stocked. You have ten thousand products to choose from. Who could ask for more?

3. They're timely. If you go to a grocery store, it will take you a certain maximum amount of time - the amount of time it takes to go down each aisle once.

4. They're accurate. You picked every item. Your fruit fits your exact criteria.

With grocery delivery, you can be perfectly local, but your stock is identical and your accuracy is almost always worse. And your time window + the time it takes to pick the two dozen items you need will almost always be worse than going to the grocery store.

That said, there is a niche for this - the elderly and the very, very busy. To capture the second niche, you'll need to up your timeliness though and improve your branding on speed. It should take no longer to deliver groceries than it does to deliver a pizza.

I want my DiGiorno delivered.
Note that XML attribute values do need to be quoted, so this is only true for HTML and not XHTML.
Can the fish see the game? What if the fish were rewarded for winning? Can we train fish to play street fighter? How about rats?
There was just a Meetup on this in SF last night. I missed it. I'm hearing good things about it though and probably missed out on a good opportunity to see it discussed live.
I agree with the only skeptic quote in the article:

> If I ever broached this topic at a dinner party, my biologist friends would retort: “but the brain is warm and wet, good luck managing decoherence.”

There is some quantum coherence in small molecules in photosynthesis, but in a system of the size of the brain it's almost impossible (perhaps at 10^{-10}K?). The rest is only speculations. In other words http://xkcd.com/1240/
Hey there, the links works for me. Loaded very quickly, the server is doing fine. Could be a glitch, try again please?
Social skills aren't binary. You learn them before grade school, in grade school, in college, and beyond college.
Will version 217 make me tea and drive my car?
I just signed up and have only looked at it for about 20 seconds. Seriously impressed with the chords it has found so far. Great job! Can't wait to check out more later.
Respectfully: that "independent tools packaged together" line is repeated often - and it's just so much bullsugar. I run systemd in prod, on many machines, and am way confused as to why anyone thinks this is true.

(The rest of this post isn't aimed at you, chimeracoder - but you've made an argument I've heard a few times, and I'd like to address it at length, because this is where systemd discussions usually devolve into namecalling instead of actual discussion.)

Thinking of systemd utilities like unused kernel drivers - just harmless bits occupying disk space and never used until loaded - is simply an incorrect analogy. A client of mine is running systemd in prod, and I'm managing their system - so when I tell you this, what I'm saying is "whoever explained either isn't running systemd in prod on multiple machines, or is having a wildly different experience than I am." Ask whoever explained this to you if they are running systemd in prod! I would love to be wrong about this!

I feel like I hear this explanation (excuse?) fairly often, so instead of setting up a straw man, lemme flip the script here:

Could someone - anyone! - please point out a single distro or OSS project that a) makes use of systemd and b) doesn't end up building the same exact monolithic init.d re-implementation as everyone else running systemd?

Systemd could potentially be used as a suite of independent tools, kinda, I guess - but that's not what the devs are aiming for from what I can tell, and I've never seen - or even heard discussion about - systemd being used in practice as anything besides a monolithic init.d replacement. Most arguments to the contrary fall apart really quickly, with a simple question:

"How and why would you actually build this theoretical pick-your-own-utils-totally-not-a-monolith thing you're describing? Please show your work. Extra credit: explain why no one else appears to have attempted this, outside of the thought experiment that I've just proposed to you".

My guess is, like it or not, I'm going to be stuck using systemd-resolve (the DNS resolver) and systemd-timesync (the NTPD replacement), I'm guessing, because I want to use systemd-network, and the best case scenario is that my old ntpd and nsd daemons are going to have some weird issue working properly with systemd-network. What weird issue? Well, those old daemons had some quirk or other that really should have been fixed for interoperability's sake, and mumble mumble DBus won't connect for some esoteric reason, so.... they'll still "work", but the systemd-* replacement we've written works so much more cleanly and with less random flaky bugs , and using them will stop that weird hanging issue you're seeing, so....

Ugh.

(Again, sorry chimeracoder for the comment hijack. I have a lot of systemd angst, apparently.)
That's correct. We think the millimeter wave machines should be looked at in a similar adversarial study, but we don't have access to one for testing.
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I wouldn't worry myself with that. Since a black hole behaves exactly like a normal star at a large distance, the chance is very small, even if there are many of them. For example, when our galaxy merges with Andromeda there will be only ~1 star collision.

Normal black holes are really small, much smaller than a planet, which we can barely detect now. And those planets must be orbiting a star and in the correct inclination to be detected.
If you have any evidence for this claim, feel free to share.
Emily Short is a truly great game author, theorist, designer, and contributor to Inform7! She has won several awards for her work. I hope no one thinks of her as "forgotten".
I think you guys are going too fast :)
Ask HN: Any experience obtaining H-1B Public Access Files?
I recently saw a job posting from a company looking to hire software developers. It looked good, but their process smelled a bit off. I did a bit more investigation, and found that anonymous interview reports claimed a high difficulty, with zero offers. Anonymous salary reports claimed below-median pay and benefits. So I looked up the company on a specialized search site and found that it had several H-1B applications, most of which were software-related. One was a very close match to the job posting.

This gave me the seed of an idea. I could use the paperwork for a company's visa sponsorships to either automatically reject job postings as below my pay grade, or as useful information for the interviews and any potential salary negotiations. The law requires that companies keep a "Public Access File" at their primary place of business, to be presented on demand to any interested person. One required element in this file is the amount the company expects to pay for a position with a given set of job requirements.

But this particular company has so far been very evasive about giving the public actual access to their Public Access Files. It may just be them, and that I would have better luck formulating my new screening criterion using some other company's public records. I just want to look over some samples and find something I can easily use.

Does anyone have any experience with or suggestions about obtaining and using a company's H-1B Public Access File? I don't want to discuss the merits of the H-1B program itself. I'm mainly interested in the research potential.
The soldiers across the Empire came from all the imaginable parts of it. Going through the museums in Europe near to the former Roman camps, I've seen the statues of Egyptian gods brought or made by Egyptian-born soldiers or artisans, found between the statues of Mithra.
I was just speculating to my coworker about tying breeding to winning...
What songs? I'll check
Well given that its Street Fighter my best strategy was to always just mash random buttons.

I do wonder if he choose the fish at random or tried to find more active fishies.
Agreed. I've heard a big demand for a new version but haven't heard requests for many features.

Bug fixes are obviously good.

I don't think a mature editor should need constant development. Think about the major release cycle for something like emacs.
surely it is not the people who make hiring decisions (who already add bias to favor women over men)

That's not true, though. As much as people like to shout about political correctness gone mad, I'm yet to see any actual evidence of a bias towards women in hiring.

But then, I am debating this with someone who has the username 'pervycreeper', so I'm not entirely sure if I'm being trolled or not.
Seriously. His reasoning is "it's not monolithic, this one package has 70 binaries that do different things, therefore it is modular." Clearly, his understanding of the word "monolithic" is as poor as his understanding of UNIX.
At a previous job I traveled a few times a month. I opt-ed out each time or found a line with only a metal detector. After the new pat-down rules were released, I opt-ed out, got the new pat-down and realized that the pat-down was far more abusive and uncomfortable for me than the scanner. I now use the scanner.

Of course, the new pat-down rules were specifically designed to make the experience bad enough that people wouldn't opt-out anymore.
Black holes are relative. Inside you there is a black hole at your center of mass (its just that your event horizon is very far inside you). To things moving at relativistic speeds in relation to you, your mass is huge (to them), and you look like a black hole.
Minecraft has a very basic "electronics" system called redstone that allows you to create basic structures like AND/OR/XOR gates with various wire, torches (devices that power other things), switches and buttons. What they did is take this basic system and make a game that runs within the game using them.

There are some mods for the game that give easier access to higher level structures (single block gates, for example), so it may have used those but I can't tell from this page.
They removed these machines from airports in 2013 but are still using them elsewhere - prisons, gov't offices. So while you may not be able to bomb a plane, you can still take a gun into court. Lovely!
> Instead of shooting bullets, you're shooting portals. Seems pretty non-phallic to me.

What's phallic about bullets?

Are women not allowed to be interested in small arms? The Soviet Union deployed women as snipers to great effect in World War II, and the idea that only men could be violent and warlike is itself gender-biased to those who look at history.
What's with this insistence in finding magical properties in human brains? We are not special, or magical. And, most important than that, we don't need to emulate every subatomic property of an organic brain to create human-level AI.
Grocery delivery is getting quite popular in parts of Europe now, usually run by the grocery stores themselves (Tesco etc). They're popular with families, where making an outing to buy a week of groceries with two kids in tow after you get off work late in the afternoon can be a real ordeal. Made worse by the fact that fewer people own and drive cars here so you're lugging the groceries on a bus or by foot.

In the US it might not be as big a market due to a different lifestyle.
This seems rather odd from example 14:

// Boolean expressions need to resolve to either true or false, as no
// implicit conversions are supported.

I'm sure they have good reason for this, does anyone know of the rationale? I think I'd miss patterns like `if (arr.length) { ... }`
You disagree with me because you completely misinterpreted what I wrote. Potentially I think that the world 'correlation' is being misunderstood here. I implied nothing about the strength of the correlation. I only said I believe it to be a positive one.

I am not talking about "social skills" in terms of hello, please, thank you, etc.. I am talking about the soft skills of working in a team with other technical people to achieve a common goal, working under tight timelines, with pressure, and thriving under such situations. This is not an innate skill that you learn at a young age. I'm nearing my mid-thirties and still coming across new team dynamics.

By no means did I say that a degree means someone will perform well in such a situation, but in the absence of all other information, I consider a degree a positive signal in this regard.

Put another way, you are chosen to hire an engineer to work on your team. I give you two "buckets" filled with millions of people from which you can randomly select one person to join your team. You know nothing about these people except that in Bucket 1, everyone has a CS degree and in bucket 2, no one does. You know nothing else.

Which bucket do you pick from?

p.s. statments like this "If you sit in school and then go home and spend the rest of the night reading a text book and don't code any open source projects or make something for your portfolio" make it sound like you didn't go through the degree experience, because that sounds nothing like what most undergraduate-level educations are like. Sure there is theory, but it's a lot more hands-on than you're making it sound.
I hope it's enough. It's not like young hackers can easily disassemble/reassemble stuff in the real world like we older guys did.

And yes, you can take apart a cell phone or a tv or whatever. But the risk:cost ratio isn't nearly as favorable as it was for the previous few generations. The chance of irreversibly breaking it is far higher, and the chance you'll learn very much by just looking are much lower. Likewise, nobody's stopping you from wrapping wire around magnets to make your own memory... but it's not like that's a "thing" kids get exposed to now. But it's all there in minecraft.

(It's also seriously hard to find children's science kits worth buying as the culture of extreme protection of children have turned them into junk. This is one of the only frontiers I'm aware of that's open to children (without the guiding hand of a science-mentor) to learn and play and create in this way)
I wonder now if one could train chimpanzees to play the game successfully.
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That wasn't the case in my CS undergrad.
>(As a side note, consider editing your comment to remove references to the third rail.)

Not sure what you mean by that.

Also, to add to your examples of omitted names, Jane Jensen is responsible for some top notch games I enjoyed back in the day.
Oh my God wow. This is highly convenient. I'm in DC, and I saw the puzzling "corner store" option when ordering a car this afternoon. I'll relate how the delivery experience goes once I try it today or tomorrow.

I already get my groceries delivered, usually for free from Safeway or Harris Teeter. One of them will run a free delivery special once every two weeks, so I mostly restock on non-perishables, and grab fresh food from the Whole Foods myself.

But the on-demand aspect brings a whole new level of convenience. I'm right in their target demo, so if it works smoothly I'll be thrilled.
what's missing from "fish plays game" is some sort of reward for the fish. I wonder how clever they can get.
The phrase isn't wrong, though. The vast majority of FPSes involve you playing a man, shooting other men. Sometimes it'll include a woman, but only if she's very, very scantily clad.
Ubuntu's first bug “Microsoft has majority marketshare” was 10 years ago today
I don't know. If you have a CS degree, you will at least have passing familiarity with these things. Seeing them in practice or discussing them will at least stimulate some old memory synapses. Whereas, in contrast, someone without a CS degree usually would have to start at point zero.

I guess it depends on the sub-specialty of programming though.
FYI, based on previous discussion, by "trivial to adopt" he means "you can use it in your current browser and in a new browser if you remember your password." Which is reasonable, but I totally see why you think your own solution fits your own definition of "trivial to adopt." Domains are a bit different.

I see you plan to publish the source -- do you have a way that someone can verify what is running on their device, such as using common components so they can load the code themselves, or maybe a version that runs as installed software on a desktop computer? (This wouldn't be as convenient, but it could provide safety to the ecosystem if it could detect hostile clients.)

EDIT I wonder how much computational power it would take for an attacker to do a man-in-the-middle attack that recognizes each side saying "the code is 123" and change the voice to say "the code is 456."
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You're damning journald for things syslogd doesn't do either.

Syslog is not reliable. Syslog is incredibly falsifiable (journald is not). Syslog does not handle system crashes well either (pretty much the case where journald gets corrupted).

Syslog also doesn't capture application logs. Syslog does not hand over from dracut. Syslog guarantees nothing.

Don't present it as a step backwards when it's a step forwards, albeit with some warts. Even in its worst case, journald still provides more functionality and more security than syslog, and you can still use your normal syslogger
The thing coming from a shelled mollusc? Haha, I am so unbelievably stupid. Thanks for the remark. I will try to fix it during the next days.
I find this obsession with avoiding suits to be so tiresome. It's as though programmers are small children who get treats (like dressing down) in exchange for not being treated like real professionals.

It's a suit. It's simple. It's not hard to wear. It's not uncomfortable. Being afraid of wearing suits makes programmers look petty, juvenile, and unprofessional.

Yes, it doesn't have direct practical value, but human behaviour and codes of conduct are full of things with minimal practical value that we still go along with. Culture is complex.
5. They have loyal customers. "Brand X has bad produce" is knowledge handed down between the generations.

6. They have pretty low margins on a lot of their inventory.
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I used to opt for the grope (also never had a particularly bad experience), but kind of threw in the towel after the airports switched from backscatter to millimeter wave.
Just try swiping this 'unstealable bike'
Great advice. I also noticed a positive impact of the quality of my work when I started following similar behavior. I started by forcing myself to rise with the sun, instead of trying to stay up all night.
> Some countries are far below the threshold of implementing any of the pervasive monitoring and analysis programs the NSA has got.

They don't need to implement their own, they can just subscribe to the Monitoring as a Service program the NSA offers...
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The idea, from what I'm deducing, is to migrate Avahi (a Linux implementation of Apple's Bonjour zeroconf protocol) into the systemd codebase.
I bet it is doable in any other language with proper native code compilers.
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Exams made up part of our marks, but projects factored in as well. One could certainly achieve a passing grade while being a terrible team-player, but it generally was not a successful strategy.
tlogan that's a good point. will separate out our auth from our doc connect.

The class is once in a lifetime from the best organizational behavior professors at Stanford GSB.
I'm sure if you get an infinite amount of monkeys, they'd perform a Hadouken eventually.
looks like new generation tries their teeth at the same delivery problem that the previous generation tried 15 years ago :)

Considering that delivery by a full-bodied adult in a car is a pretty expensive thing, it can be solved either by hyper-optimization (incl. prediction), or by utilizing
new or untapped delivery resources like school children/dogs/pigeons/drones/automated cars/electronically collared and constantly video recorded low-offense prisoners/etc...
Look, one university researcher stands up and says "Hey I was looking for this conjecture, So I designed a single experiment and confirmed it!"

You wouldn't quote it as scientific fact. In fact they'd be laughed out of the journal. So why do we do that for defcon talks?
I am just starting to meditate more regularly. I am only at about 10-20 minutes before I get bored of it. I think it helps my concentration. It was difficult to find time at first for me to think about nothing. It seemed counter intuitive.
I think for two reasons: Food delivery is essentially rent-taking, since once someone begins to use it, they'll use it indefinitely (until a better service or format comes along); and secondly, I see grocery delivery as a way to trojan horse in to same-day parcel delivery, since if a person is delivering your groceries, the marginal cost of having them also deliver a package is tiny in comparison to the cost of delivering just the package.
UBER is reducing prices through both unfair and fair(ride sharing fr ex.) means.
UNIX never meant anything. z/OS is UNIX. Even the Single UNIX Spec never clarified anything other than "UNIX includes these things". People who rail about how systemd "isn't UNIX" never had to maintain a heterogenous environment of IRIX, Tru64, HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris. They're all UNIX. OSX is also UNIX. Guess how similar they are and how many design philosophies they share.

Coreutils has a lot of binaries that do different things. Is is monolithic? The GNU ecosystem and autotools barely function without other GNU tools which aren't part of the same project. Are those monolithic? Monolithic is a canard.
Hi,

Have you tried concealing things under a couple of inches of a biological material and wrapping that to the body (beer gut, pregnant lady)?

Specifically, I'm thinking a a few large chunks of ham, coupled with some transglutaminase to aid in the forming of a "meat shield".
And as a finishing touch, man made 2 fish fight eachother on Street Fighter and streamed it to the world in real time.

God I love the internet :D
And either way, if the "software engineering dress code" becomes shorts and sandals and you'd be looked down on for wearing a shirt and tie, well, you're still a conformist. You're just selling out to a different rule book.

I was a non-conformist in high school and much of my undergrad, but you'd probably never have known it, as I wore things which were comfortable (and happened to be inoffensive) rather than going out of my way to dress in the same uncomfortable things that all the other "non-conformists" wore to show society they didn't care, man.
I don't get it, can someone please tell what is going on?
Considering he tried to lie about it by claiming he got hacked, I wouldn't put a huge amount of stock in whatever he's saying now.
You can do it without command blocks.

Use an item sorter.

An item will stack with another item if they are identical, which includes NBT data. Using an item sorter you can detect this.
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"...while letting us safely modify content for each binary. Our custom tool allows us to create an unverified section of the binary in a way that is compliant with the Authenticode spec."

sounds like Condi didn't need much time for Dropbox to build a nice new home for NSA implants.

quite an intriguing attack surface for mobile malware...arbitrary code of Dropbox's choosing when combined with another 0day or two? no thanks.

this makes me glad i dropped dropbox like a bad habit.
People have been selling/giving away their Uber accounts too, IIRC.
I have no idea if this is technically feasible, but it sounds like a sweet idea!
Suddenly there are 1.90986 people in an average marriage.
I have not, but I will!