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> Oh, and your sketch is wrong. The two lines labeled "R" aren't the same length.

lutusp's diagram is the arachnoid one. His labels are correct, it's the datagenetics one that has apparently incorrect labeling. The dashed red line is not R in length, but R + h, which is not clearly indicated though the apparent intent. The dashed line should stop at the circle and change color or something to indicate a second line segment.

That said, you're correct. Ignoring the person another similar diagram is here:

http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/atmos_refr/horizon.html
For the record, I dislike tracking, but I like seeing the other side once in a while.
Can you guys clarify the process for non-profits? Not just the application, but the entire YC experience. What's different?
I don't know anything about Scottish politics, but as a generality, it looks like most larger cities vote Yes while the smaller towns have people voting No. Can anyone with insight explain why that'd be?
Error Reporting: How to Use Loggly to Report on Errors and Exceptions
Key is "whole" thing. If curved, a 4 cm ball (say, cue ball?) would not be visible at all.
Twitch already rolled out their own ContentID-styled system, pre-acquisition.
Virtual Reality and Hallucination
I guess they haven't made it clear because while this is how it works now, but they don't want to set any expectations of that not changing for the future.
Commish is pushing back against a re-draft? Safe to say he wasn't hit with the auto draft bug then right?
Indeed it was. Here's the unofficial spec in case anyone is interested. http://www.gamers.org/dhs/helpdocs/dmsp1666.html
This is what the article misses.

I have a 1992 machine that's online via a SLIP connection. That's a good analogy to his collectible cars. It's not a risk to other network users - it's from the "not safe to share floppies" era.

If your precious '87 is dropping odd parts into the road, creating hazards to other drivers, no it's not acceptable either.

The difference between the two is that without vendor patches, it's exceptionally difficult to maintain XP-era software to a standard where it's not at risk of polluting the network.
VMware has a strong GUI focus for the majority of Sysadmins and Virtual Admins that use it.

That said; there is a huge command line, shell and APIs available for power users, for people who want the next level of certification from VMware (VMware Certified Advanced Professional) you need to know how to do common GUI tasks via CLI and troubleshoot via CLI.

There is a surprising amount of tools under the hood, but if you want to compare it to something Linux based I'm going to speculate that it isn't as extensive.
"That rule is only in place because India does not have enough consumer protection laws. In case of credit card fraud, the consumer is screwed. Neither the bank nor Uber will own the responsibility for the fraud.".

So what should we do? Instead of ensuring that consumer protection laws are improved and banks+law enforcement agencies and made answerable; let us make the consumer's life tougher. I am sure that it is always easy to make laws that can control sections/units than to control masses.

Now let us see if it a slight inconvenience to the consumer of there is a bigger picture behind. All these security measures (such as two factor authentication, chip based cards etc etc) involve costs. So who is going to pay for the costs? Would RBI pay for it? Would the banks pay for it? I do not think so. It is going to be the end consumer who is going to pay for all this.

If you do not believe me, read this article on timesofindia (titled: Banks seek to cap free ATM use at 5 times per month), you would realize that you would need to pay in case you took out money from your account (from your very own bank's ATM) from an ATM more than 5 times a month. What does this mean? I need to pay for taking out MY OWN MONEY!

So let us get real! Look for solutions for betterment of people in reality and not just in a phony manner!
Thanks for the heads up. We'll pick up a Surface and fix this.
It's a joke that is probably only funny to me. Because I am the authority on who I am, adding (officially) is superfluous. Sorry for the confusion.
Typically a -like doesn't imply a port, but rather a game inspired by .
Hi Danny, thank you for providing more insight into the hiring committee and for correcting inconsistent behavior.

I absolutely agree with you there is no correct solution. Maybe I missed an obvious edge case or didn't articulate my thoughts, but I thought I was doing well enough to at least make it to the second question.

Google was my 5th-7th onsite that month and I had gotten decent at interacting with and reading my interviewers. Usually when a interviewer decides to reject me I can see it coming. But with her...it happened suddenly and I was very confused.
You have an interesting definition of "stable government" if North Korea is one. They're one death away from complete chaos - if Kim Jong-Un dies, it's probably all-out civil war.
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If the machine is behind a router and one is using something other than IE to surf, what is the problem?

// icp - who would gladly use win2k (the best Windows) if possible.
As someone who also has a degree in philosophy (specifically, philosophy of language as it relates to math) analytic philosophy, mathematics and computer science share a lot of common ground. Even the best natural language processing algorithms can only really come up with a probability of the intent of the sentence; this is often not enough for a programming language (which by necessity requires precision to be repeatable).

Nouns themselves can take a number of different meanings (specifically proper nouns and names) depending on context. Communicative languages often don't distinguish between equality and identity; a critical distinction in computer science (i.e. I can truthfully say "I've eaten at same restaurant 3 days in a row" if I ate at 3 different McDonalds locations on consecutive days). These assumptions about identity and equality are not the same from language to language (or even generation to generation, as you discussed). Context is also an issue; we often discuss things in ambiguous contexts which often require clarifying questions from a human. We may have effective communication between humans, but misunderstandings are common. IMO, language is an effective communication tool almost specifically because it is imprecise: we fill in the gaps with our own experiences and it mostly works out.

Overall, I don't think EWD was saying that natural language programming would be impossible; just that the effort required to program in it would likely be more than learning a symbolic programming language. The computer would need to ask so many clarifying questions to reach the level of specificity required for computer science that it would be a very arduous task. Rather than making computer programming more accessible, natural language programming would make it substantially more difficult.
There's got to be something more than language on it's own. Surely, you can't just leave your kid with an audiobook - or the TV on.
This assumes that it's game publishers where there's a copyright problem, which given the recent Twitch muting of copyrighted audio, is probably not the issue that most people are concerned about right now.
Kevin Kelly Interview with Jaron Lanier about Virtual Reality (1989) [pdf]
Having actually done research in this field, I feel confident in saying that you are wrong about the state of consensus. Here's a decent overview of the ongoing debate (assuming you are aware of what Skinner and Chomsky's theories involve): http://www.simplypsychology.org/language.html
> for now
Oh god.

I'm a developer for a fantasy soccer, football etc. site and this is my ongoing nightmare. Fantasy sport provides some interesting challenges as a developer, but the fact that you are operating with deadlines and windows outside of your control and server loads that vary by a factor of 5-10 in minutes is... challenging.

If your site stumbles at the wrong moment (and we have on several occasions) you are basically screwed. You can't call FIFA or NFL and ask them to delay the event for a few hours while you put out a fire, or finish developing that new feature.

I can feel my stress level rising even as I'm writing this...
RavenDB as a Sink for Serilog
C99 and C++11 have several compliant implementations, as does ECMAScript 5 (javascript).

The benefit of a spec is not so much that all implementations are necessarily completely compliant, it's that you know what the behavior is supposed to be so you can implement to the spec and work around any differences in implementation. Plus, you can report bugs without them being closed as "by design".
It's not zero-sum. It can be a sound investment for the company and also beneficial to the employee. The company shouldn't tout its good working environment if it positively impacts the bottom line? That's an odd stance.
Thanks for your opinion. SEO score is based on Google PageRank, CitationFlow (MajesticSEO), TrustFlow (MajesticSEO) and number of unique IPs linked to the page (MajesticSEO). This calculation is based on SEO competitiveness of the first 10 Google SERP results.
> I find it impossible to imagine any security threat to a flight where the passengers are packing and willing to defend themselves.

I suspect the number of people who would carry is smaller than you imagine. I own some handguns, have had a CCW in the past, and I wouldn't carry on an airplane. I'm not opposed to it, I just don't see a reason to do so. Same as I don't see a reason to carry in my eastside Seattle suburb neighborhood when walking the dogs: it's probably the smallest risk I'll face all day. (Granted, I walk two pit bulls so a hand gun seems kind of redundant. <g>)

My second, and largest objection is having a bunch of amateurs of varying abilities shooting in an environment where people are packed in like cattle. The singular time I have ever even considered drawing a handgun for defense, there were people in the area behind the potential target, with a non-zero chance of hitting them were I to miss. Too risky, found another way to resolve the issue. On an airplane? The background behind the target is almost guaranteed to have innocents. I might trust combat-experienced military personnel to take the shot, no way would I trust someone who has only put holes in paper at a shooting range with no adrenaline coursing through their veins (a group which would include myself).
If you use this service (or anything similar), you deserve to get dumped. Women aren't dogs that you "keep happy" by buying them things. And gifts aren't something you can outsource without losing everything that makes it valuable.
Theory: Something some imagined synergies with gaming to the Amazon FireTV Console. But none of the micro-consoles have really succeeded with gaming.

Does anyone have statistics on whether FireTV is doing better with gaming that OUYA? Does anyone actually use the gaming features?
> So if I'm on a train and it stops at the border, and a uniformed government official comes in and asks to see my passport and then starts asking me immigration questions, the perception is not "this is an uncontrolled border, just got a random check that could have happened anywhere in the country". The perception is not "oh, this officer can't actually deny me entry".

If you travel in a foreign country, you might want to make yourself familiar with the usual regulations.

> The ticket checking by rail crews does seem to be an entirely German thing (again, other countries' rail crews just had a list and marked which seats had been checked, so even if another crew or crew member came through later they didn't need to repeat it),

You can easily see that this does not work.

> identification-obligation

I fail to see a problem with having a passport.
Bye Bye Glasses Displays that “correct” your vision
What to Wear in London
New app asks for founder's gender. Should have much better data with this class on the number of female founders and percentage of total. Also should have better data on number of technical female founders.
I had suspicions of foul play involving surveillance-related stories getting buried in the past, but after a discussion with dang, I think it's quite plausibly just a difficult topic to moderate with the tools that are available on HN. [0]

If no automatic moderation was applied, the front page would be filled with surveillance stories--many of which contain no real new information. So there's an automatic penalty. And it appears there's not a moderator who's following the surveillance story closely, so it can be difficult for them to determine what's newsworthy.

The system is clearly somewhat broken, but I don't think it's due to bad intent. You can help by flagging stories that add no value, and you can email hn@ycombinator.com if you see a major story that is being penalized unfairly [1].

I think the mods are trying, but the system here wasn't really built to gracefully handle a topic that the community is so passionate about like this. Or even to communicate what's going on with moderation. I know a lot of us here naturally speculate about systems and like to get into them and improve them, but I'm fairly convinced that the best approach, at least at the moment and outside of new moderation tools, is an email to the moderators when stories shouldn't be penalized.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8059068

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8065601
It's not bad at all. I've watched a few seasons of Downton Abbey, Battlestar Galactica and a few others using it.
Odoo : A new “Avatar” of OpenERP
>> 'Questions that have "tricks" in them basically never fall into the latter category.'

They also leave a bad impression for the candidates: You feel bad for not getting the answer, or you feel the interviewer was trying to trick you, or that he's trying to show off.

I'm firmly with the original post - I have been jerked around by the Google interview process twice now, and I'm just not interested any more. Your process sucks.
China is busting pot farmers from space
Reddit's actual policy is that excessive self-submission is verboten. If you're actively participating in reddit threads, self submission is OK - their guideline is no more than 10% of activity.

http://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

(The self-promotion rules have also been relaxed recently on a case-by-case basis within specific subreddits.)
Also, watching a game is a good signal that I might want to buy that game (or ones like it).
Well that's all dependent on the caged's perspective, right? I worked long hours when I first joined Google. I wasn't at all unhappy about it though.
Reddit actually says "Feel free to post links to your own content (within reason)." http://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette

See also "What is spam?" on http://www.reddit.com/rules which says "OK: Submitting links from your own site, talking with redditors in the comments, and also submitting cool stuff from other sites."
Don't really agree with this. Being able to configure a new instance quickly and easily is useful no matter how large you are. For that matter, so is being able to spin up an isolated environment on a dev box as fast as you can start an editor.
What are you using for forum software?
Great application, please create one that can be run on Linux and Windows machines as a service and monitoried using such a beautiful client software.
Twitch is a great marketing platform for games/new games and this opens up the ability for Twitch/streamers to monetize through Amazon referrals.

For now, Amazon is selling physical copies, but seems reasonable to reuse their content delivery infrastructure for game downloads in the future.
I kind of disagree with the article and would like to be able to use natural language. The fact that computers are currently too dumb to understand English is an issue but not the one the author seems to be going on about. One of the reasons I like Python is it reads rather like English making code easy to understand and one of the main reasons for Lisp not really taking off is its reading so unlike natural languages makes it hard to understand. The comparison with maths seems false to me - many mathematical concepts express very badly in English and elegantly in mathematical symbolism - complex numbers, path integrals and all that. There seems little with that kind of complexity in computer science it's all add this, write this to the database, draw this on the screen etc.
And cheaper labor too, which is why I moved to SF. :/ Vancouver has one of the highest living costs : income ratios in the world, it's worst than SF.

The problem with Canadian start-ups is the venture capital investment access part. There is a bit of a dutch disease where investors are more interested in resource extraction vs. risky software startups. Which wouldn't be too much of a problem if your planning to bootstrap.
Based on earlier reports of Justin.tv's streaming architecture[1], I'm going to say no.

Granted, that article is old, but I think a pretty serious investment in physical infrastructure has been made by Justin.tv/Twitch. So I'm more willing to believe they're still leveraging some variation of this architecture rather than AWS.

[http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-vid...]
It's definitely worth checking out. I've been using Amazon Prime Video as much as Netflix the past year or so. Probably more, actually, because of the ability to rent/buy movies that aren't available on Netflix or Amazon's free video selection (which doesn't seem to be far off from Netflix now).
Telcos have been charging for that forever. Most of your normal "landline replacement" VoIP providers do not. I suppose it was only a natural progression though for Comcast to charge for it, since that's kind of their MO.
They really didn't specify what "abusing" means, so I don't know how you could infer that from the article.

For all we know, a person who is an abusive user means a person who holds multiple leases on separate apartments where a no-sublet clause is in the lease, and rents all of them out simultaneously (pocketing the difference over their rental rate) while providing no further services other than a key drop.

They also drew a pretty clear line between the time when (a) "we banned some users we considered abusive" and with (b) "the state of New York asked for information pertaining to a subset of our users in New York, which had a substantial intersection with our banned list from (a)".

It's also clear from the article that they don't know what criteria were used by NYS investigators to select 124 users for closer investigation.
What is it you're trying to say? That because you choose not to use Amazon Primes' included streaming that it is, what?

Or was that just a very strange anecdote about your person usage of their services?
How is it even fair that half of you had to auto draft then?
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Check this out https://www.glasswire.com/userguide/#Remote_Monitoring. We're considering Linux monitoring also.
Amazon FireTV is already my favorite way to watch twitch streams.
Turkey is the shittiest name to call Thrace, Anatolia and North Mesopotamia. Thrace is the european part, Anatolia is the asian part, and North Mesopotamia is the middle eastern part of this country. And majority is the influenced by persian & middle eastern culture rather than European.

I'm saying this as somebody grew up there. You have to ask the experience of those who actually experience the discrimination, not speaking on behalf of them. Where else in the world we have racists burning houses belong to minorities alive in 2010s? Even last year, a singer couldn't give a concert to the Turkish people there because she couldn't get a visa. If she gets visa, she may not pass the border since all the officers ask you "why are you in Germany?" and if you say you wanna travel they keep asking "travelling where?" "shopping what?" "studying what?" Now even celebs bring newspapers to show the officers to prove that they won't stay too long there!

It's a fact that being a middle eastern or being from a middle eastern influenced country let you face different attitude everywhere in the world. I'm saying this as an atheist guy who had to face it.
Amazon already sells downloads. They aren't a huge player in that space, but they do have a foot in the door.
It's Little Snitch for Windows? Love it.
Pivotal Tracker is Down
WhatsApp Reaches 600M Active Users
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8221344
The power of two random choices (load balancing)
What is "vote every 24 hours and show your support" about?
I think you missed Dijkstra's point. Why don't we use "natural language" to reason about mathematics, physics, logic, or even the structure of language itself?
I have an Android tablet, but not a smart phone. I'm not hugely careful with what I stick on there, but I think I've only shared my contacts with stuff like Hangouts and Skype (where the explicit purpose of the app is to contact people). I increasingly leave my cell phone sitting at home (mostly because I don't care about being reachable, not because I'm worried about network location pings). I take it with me if I'm going to be away for more than a couple hours.

As far as not using analytics, it's a combination of not caring (as an example, I run (maybe I should say jog?) regularly but don't time myself) and distaste over the way the data is managed.
Airbnb tried to fight it but they lost.

The fact of the matter is that most Airbnb listings in NYC are illegal, and pretty much everyone I know that lists their place on it is aware it's against the law. They do it anyways.

Airbnb is trying to cooperate as best they can without giving up too much of their users privacy as they need to get laws changed here in NYC (and other cities) if they want to keep operating in these markets.
if someone believed half the comments, you'd think humans have not the slightest clue what each other is talking about.
Celebrate the Work Men Do at Home to Normalize Co-Parenting
A Month with the iPhone 5s: Impressions from an Android User
> The Canadian agency boasts that its analysts took less than five minutes to identify “vulnerable” devices in the targeted network.

Curious, I wonder if the vulnerabilities are just there because bad software, or if the CSE has 0 days against those devices..
Amazon is in the music and video industry. Twitch already has content ID. Amazon is pretty much Google-level evil plus sweatshops.
> too Linux-platform-dependent,

Can you expand upon this? Not even Unix dependent, but precisely Linux? There's no hope of getting it to work with, say, homebrew on Mac OS X either?
I understand this is a meta comment, but why is everyone (including the blogger) using the word bureaucracy? When did Google turn into a government?
Was watching and the level he loaded was definitely a Doom one. Looked like the WAD was in his assets.
Beautiful indeed! Only tiny stray semi-colon: "Our Windows network security monitor also looks for; domains or IP addresses..." I wouldn't mention it but for that fact that attention to detail is clearly important to you judging by the design of both the site and the app!