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Make sure you offer Windows Server. While to many of the guy's on this bored windows is not a necessity, for many enterprises or in-experienced users, windows is a must. Get your hands on Windows server 2012 R2 at the least.

I know all of my customers are very cost conscious and AWS and Azure's variable cost system scares them (Forget to turn off VPS, surprising amount of traffic all of a sudden), possibly bringing VPS's back to a fixed monthly cost that can compete with the big guy's?

I know I would personally love the heck out of a simple yet powerful UI, AWS is powerful but the UI looks terrible and is intimidating to a new user. Azure's UI looks fantastic however is lacking many easily features such as scheduling servers to go up and down, creating backups of data disks and VM's, etc(Instead relying on runbooks and Azure automation which requires them to become scripters).

Offer a year long free tier like AWS, a small 1 core 1GB RAM vps running a linux OS. This feature will bring many curious eye's your way, and while it may seem like you are throwing away your product, truly free will attract the eyes of many potential clients already indentured in AWS, Azure, DO, etc, who would have never bothered to spend the time otherwise.
It looks like a nice test framework, but it doesn't appear to help at all with the really hard problems you face with testing C++ -- isolating the unit under test for separate compilation, and the development and inclusion of mocks/stubs.

Anyone know of a really good (preferably simple and pragmatic) C++ mocking/stubbing framework to go with this?
Shortly after 9/11, vehicles entering the airport car park were searched. Methinks it ended as formally extending the "security zone" to there proved untenable.
It's probably trivial for congress to classify your rocket technology as a weapons system and forbid export.
I can't understand this author's spin. The memo -

http://coffman.house.gov/sites/coffman.house.gov/files/docum...

is a request to NASA for un-redacted information about the SpaceX failures. They're not asking for an investigation or delays (as far as I can tell), they just want disclosure. How is making failure information public going to slow down progress?
There is whole lot of what we do not know about kids and effects of reading at various ages. There are also a lot of unconfirmed myths about it. To make it even worst, most studies on very young kids (babies) dealt with language deprived kids and not normally developing kids.

You will not be academically successful if you can not read well and reading a lot of books makes you better reader. Parents who love reading and read a lot lead to kids that love reading.

Depending on what exactly you mean as good intellectual start, the effects might been much less proven then we like to believe.
I don't.

And there is a lot of people who WANTS to be connected with GOOOD --> honest and good recruiters
> Will it work for WiFi as well? It's protocol agnostic, so it could work in unlicensed spectrum as well. The issue is that you don't have complete control over all the other transmitters, so you can't coordinate them.

http://akbars.net/how-steve-perlmans-revolutionary-wireless-...
Although I agree that you can end a sentence with a preposition if you want to, your sentence is still grammatically wrong. What you wrote is equivalent to "...it's not okay with which to use a preposition to end a sentence." Maybe try "a preposition is not an okay thing to end a sentence with."

Edit: My version is equivalent to "a preposition is not an okay thing with which to end a sentence."
That's normal and a feature. Mouse pointer is driven by hardware input and rendered independently (was a hardware overlay in the old days) and is soft realtime (hopefully). Because the window manager is a normal process, operating asynchronoysly, the window frame will lag a bit (depends on system load), and the app contents even more (this can't be avoided, even if the WM/compositor was realtime). Making the window frame wait for window content is broken by design.
Are they going to evaluate based on number of upvotes?
Can you explain a little why reflection is important in GUI development?
Considering the horrendous dropout rates of most MOOC platforms this might be a very good way to incentivize students to "keep at it".

I don't think a high drop rate for MOOCs is a problem in the slightest. They should be evaluated like any other funnel on the web, where even 1% can be a good completion rate, rather than like paid lecture courses.
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Can that be used to avoid the "pat-down" for those who cannot go thru the metal detector for medical reasons (metallic implants)?
nope :D
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I think we'll see a variety of solutions appifying different aspects of education that work best, while minimizing bureaucracy and barriers to entry. MOOCs are a clear progression from the university system, but it's also increasingly clear that a human element is needed in personal education.

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Really appreciate you taking the look. The site is still very much up, could you try reloading the page?
In this situation, "foo" or "bar" or both should not depend on baz, but have it as a peer dependency. There is nothing broken, just a very specific case not so easily identifiable, but very easily fixable.
Good for you! My Dad did the same (donated kidney to a stranger) about 5 years ago, and still feels very happy with the decision.

It was hard for me, because there's a non-zero chance that I'm going to lose a couple of years with my Dad because of this. I'm glad he did it though, because someone else's Dad might get to live because of it.

I assume you're undergoing counseling before the operation. If you decide you don't want to go through with it that's totally fine - the fact that you're considering it at all is amazing.
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That's a tough question. One of the most appealing things about the Feynman lectures is the breadth and how self-contained it is. I don't think there are really good analogues for that. The closest thing I can think of is one of the monster first-year physics tomes like Halliday and Resnick. That will teach you much of the basics (large chunks of Vol. 1 and 2 of the Feynman lectures), has huge numbers of problems, but it is of course less fun. It is also probably comparably or more expensive.

Going much further than that gets tricky, because you will usually need more development in math in concert with the physics. The omnibus "engineering mathematics" type books will cover a lot of it but I don't really like them. Boas's Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences would be something I would look at. For more detailed looks at electromagnetism and quantum mechanics, I (and many others I know) really liked David Griffiths's textbooks. The Feynman lectures make an excellent supplement to these for the different perspective and interesting physical insights.
Here is a study from Chess:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17201516

Admittedly though, most of my source is from individual informal research on domain specific experts to determine commonalities between them. What I found was common among them was that they were working on some core concept of the field, or the practice itself very early.

I would venture to guess there is a longitudinal or statistical study out there somewhere which gives more quantifiable information on the question.
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Except SpaceX is a defacto government program considering its funded by the COTS program (and other pork/favors) and its main customer is going to be the USG.

Also, the corruption works in SpaceX's favor. You have to be some blind free market type to believe that Musk isn't using the system for his benefit via the typical favor/donation system that rules Washington. Why would he leave the bed of gold we spin for him?

Space contractor in the US is a sweet gig, and Musk knows it. He's not going anywhere, especially over a over-politicized minor bump in the road such as this. This blog posting sells ad impressions and gives people their 2 minutes hate against $other_political_party, but to guys like Musk its meaningless and if it does have a cost, its washed up in the cost of doing business.
I learnt how to program before learning English. Most of my colleagues aren't really fluent in English, and yet they can write code.
If that's one of the 10 most appealing things you can come up with about working for your company, I don't want to work there.

The same goes for ping-pong.

Besides, it's been years since I walked into an office that didn't have a coffee machine. Coffee is at most a couple hundred dollars of initial investment for a machine plus pennies per day for a decent roast. Free coffee should go without saying.
I look at the clear stand-out stars of the world and it is undeniable that the vast majority of them started working on some aspect of their talent between 4 and 6.

The development of a standout isn't generally talked about unless there's a story to be told, so while you will hear the story about the kid who started young, cute pictures as evidence, you won't hear about the ones who didn't (unless it's so late that it, again, becomes worthy of a story).

Further, isn't that logic vulnerable to a dangerous survivorship bias? For every Woods or Perlman, how many kids grew to absolutely hate an activity because instead of it being fun or developing, it became the hangup of a parent expecting their child to be an extreme exception? How many simply weren't standouts, so they spent much of their youth forced to do an activity that they ended up being merely average at?
Hi, thanks for all the feedback. I love the bookdepository.com user experience with the live updates. We'll be working on this as we get closer to the date!

Auto detection of location is proving to be a bit tricky - we're seeing a lot of votes clustered around internet exchanges in places.
Since they don't say whether each line represents the same number of people, I would guess that an outlier line is just a smaller sample.
Should I accept a job offer from Google?
I am an experienced C++ developer (in my forties), with lots of experience (and interest) in high-performance/distributed systems. I have a stable and reasonably well-paying job at a financial services company in NYC, where I do moderately interesting things. I like the company I currently work for more than I like Google, as I am not happy with Google's active role in eliminating privacy on the Inet.

On the other hand, my current company has no engineering career path - you are either an engineer or a team lead/manager, and I don't want to go there. Google, on the other hand, I _heard_, has solid individual contributor track, which is quite appealing, as I am keen on staying sharp/up-to-date (and being paid for it).

I also heard from a Googler, a more junior guy though, that Google on the inside is not as great and shiny as when looked from the outside - too much boring old code maintenance with tight deadlines, too little quality engineering (in his group, at least), with limited opportunities to move to a more interesting project.

Any comments?
Pretty interesting thought. I don't use reddit much, so I'll take your word for those comment sections being of poor quality. It would seem there might need to be additional UI/UX work to navigate back-and-forth type discussions but I don't believe it would be insurmountable. A UI that focused on the top level comments with expandable threads, would seem to leave the initial experience nearly the same but with the "deep dive" available to those who wish to partake.
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The bundled executable could just be a web server that serves HTML files to your browser on localhost:8080...
Lots of people are posting highlighting how pointless airport security is given the ease with which a terrorist can bypass it by e.g. blowing himself up in the security line, targeting buses or shopping malls, making weapons from stuff bought "air side" etc.

As this hasn't been happening (despite how easy it would be for a terrorist to do), the only logical conclusion I draw is that the entire terrorist threat is so unbelievably overblown it doesn't warrant even thinking about when it comes to evaluating personal safety. I mean, how can it not be, given how easy it would be for a terrorist to just stroll in to an airport departures hall with a jacket bomb and detonate himself yet the closest we've seen to this is one lunatic failing to ignite some powder in his shoes and another idiot burning his crotch.

I think the real answer is that you can probably count the number of truly dangerous terrorists in the world on two hands. The rest of the current crop are nothing more than brainwashed amateurs who spend their time wreaking havoc and misery in isolated parts of the world that no normal person would ever have occasion to set foot in. This article from the FT makes a similar point: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ee2a8412-2923-11e4-9d5d-00144...

If I was a black man in the US I'd be much more afraid of looking at a cop the wrong way than being caught up in a terrorist outrage.
He seems to say that the doxx published is a 2011 one.
Right when the guy in that last video said 'sugoi' is about when I said 'oh shit' and crawled under my desk. The amazing thing is that I sat at my desk for about 30 seconds beforehand wondering when this 'rather large' earthquake was going to start to slow down rather than escalate.

After feeling a lot of them, you start to be able to guess their distance and severity based on the P-wave vs S-wave timing of what you feel. It's kind of like counting seconds after seeing lighting until you hear thunder except you have 2 components:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_wave
If these consumer-level devices are $100-200 a pop don't you think that would be prohibitively expensive for a decidedly smaller audience?
What really really bugs me about this case is how little money he got. I mean, come on. Judges earn a pretty good living, this guy sold his soul and thousands of real people for a bit over a million. Incredible. I can see how some people might be tempted to do something as bad as this for 100's of millions (they obviously still should not do it, it is just as bad in every other way). But a mere million dollars for the lives of thousands of people? That makes a human life worth < $1000 per head to this judge.

I have similar feelings about how cheap politicians are to bribe.
Should have been life.
Fortunately I only ask people who understand that it's a joke.
Conversely, I've never managed to complete a Coursera course that was on a schedule. And I've failed more university course than I should have, for the same reason. I'll usually buy textbooks on my own and combine them with online resources to learn on my own time, and this has worked out better than almost any class I've attended.

The only exception to that is when professors took special note and allowed me to work differently. I once had a Java professor that instead of working through the weekly goals and quizzes, allowed me to pick a large project to work on over the course of the semester, and he would give me goals from the regular syllabus that I had to meet, but they weren't part of any strict schedule like the other students. Things like polymorphism, using an SQL database to store data, etc. I ended up making a tool for managing player stats and notes for a D&D campaign. It was both the most fun, and most informative course I'd ever taken. However, I understand it is unreasonable to expect a professor to split their time and attention in such a way. Especially if every student wants to pursue their own individual learning style.

Courses with a strict schedule are obviously effective for teaching a majority of people. But that doesn't mean it works for everybody, or even that it is the most effective method for that majority of people. I'm very excited to see an institution try out an alternative way of structured learning.
It should be noted that this is a year old news.
I'm not a really vindictive person, but I'm so glad this guy is going to jail; hopefully for the rest of his life.
I disagree with you.

Many of the careers that get a lot of prestige - law, medicine, business management, etc - all require that you understand a variety of fields, or are at least greatly aided by understanding a second field in depth in addition to the one primarily related to your career.

Similarly, if you're not competent in a few fields (math, reading, writing, basic computer operation), you're simply going to lose out to more competent peers in the workplace.

Finally, your annotation makes an extremely important point: people we see making breakthroughs in fields - the truly top tier academics for instance - are well known for working in multiple fields and having wide interests. You cite an example yourself when you mention Neumann, who made contributions to a wide variety of math, led the team that invented the first computer, worked on several military projects, and contributed to a few tangential fields occasionally, for example applying game theory (which he invented) to economics.

In reality, the truly dominant people tend to be polymaths, and the middle to middle-top tier tend to be highly specialized.
If you think the current state of affairs in America isn't a problem you simply need to look to the above article. Disgraceful, hopefully he dies in prison.
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What kind of a website is this? A couple of lines for an article, no sources and some shitty "how to get benefits" ads on the sidebar? Come on now.
I am always astonished (not in the positive meaning) by the length of theses sentences. The maximum sentence in Germany is 15 years (except for a life long sentence for murder, which could be longer).

(disclaimer: I am a volunteer/part time judge)

Edit:

I'd like to add that I will not comment in public whether I think the sentence is appropriate or not, as I don't ever want anybody in a trial to accuse me of a biased opinion, although I highly doubt that anyone of "my" indicted people will ever read HN.
I'm shocked but also feel like I've seen something like this happening before, or at least some source speculating on it's possibility. Is there a precedent for this kind of corruption in the U.S? Elsewhere?
Should of been death really, It should be treason to tamper with the criminal justice system in a manner that puts innocent people in prison.
It's somewhat similar to the parenting book analogy used in (I think) Freakonomics, isn't it? It's not the fact that a parent buys parenting books that makes them a good mother or father. It's the fact that they're the type of parent who would buy those books, who cares about their children, etc, that makes them a good mother or father.
Its called "early warning". Hopefully sensors near the earthquake will warn humans miles away.
I'm still waiting for and/or planning to create a directed graph of dependencies between different subjects.
I cannot help but wonder if you actually got what the article says. Sure, forcing your 4 year old to practice some skill for hours each day might lead to her becoming a "stand-out star" in that field. But will it also lead to her becoming a confident, balanced, loving, gentle and caring person?

Will you look back to her childhood without regrets? Will she?
I have seen them set up in the jetway after you show your ticket to the airline attendant.
Allow me to pick your brain: Do you think it's unfair in this kind of sentence? Any kind of sentence over 15 that doesn't qualify for life under German law?
as a ùaybe futur lobbyist, i will say that it's more the feeling and the act that count more that the sum. The feeling of power and f the system or abuse the system, or maybe he liked more the idea of sending people to jail more than the money. Sade in one of his book make a story where a judge made things in a brothel with a windows that have a see on the execution. I think that you have to think about the feelings more than the sum of money.

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In this case it really couldn't be high enough.

Looking forward to the system wide audit of all people sentenced by all judges over the last 2 decades to make sure this hasn't happened elsewhere.
This is interesting, but I feel like I have no real knowledge of the situation to give a good vote. I voted 'yes' as I assumed, after looking at the map, that most Scots want it.

It doesn't matter to me, though. I'm not Scottish!
I agree with you - I think when a parent asks "what should my 4 year old know", they are looking for that statistical reference:

"Most kids, by the age of 4 know X, know or are in the process of learning Y and probably don't yet grasp Z. if they already know Z, but don't know X, it's not a big deal, they'll get it shortly."

Clearly "My kid knows X, Y and Z" isn't what the parent is looking for. I don't care what your kid can do, quite probably my kid can do a bunch of stuff yours can't and vice versa, I don't really care that your kid can do X and mine can do Z, I don't think less of your parenting, nor your child that they can't do Z and it's not a big deal to me that yours can do X.

When I ask the question, what I'm really asking is so much more complicated: "Is my kid equipped with enough of the understanding and skills they require to feel at home and confident in the grade they're in, while still learning at an optimal pace for them? Are they keeping up with what's being taught or are they struggling? Are they engaged or disruptive? If they're disruptive, is it because they're struggling to keep up and have disengaged because they've lost hope, or is it because they already understand everything they're being taught and are bored? Are they more/less advanced than the majority of the class, do I need to consider keeping them back a year because they're struggling with a lot of material, do I need to fast-track them ahead a year so they're a better social/educational fit with their peers? Do I need to consider some private tutoring for X, Y or Z because they're struggling or because they've hit the ceiling for their peer group for that subject?"

So when I ask "What should my 4 year old know", what I'm really looking for is some assurance: "Relax, your kid is a perfect fit for the grade she's in, she's an amazing child, she's made friends, she's happy, she's engaged, she participates, she's got the confidence to speak, she listens well to instruction and to her peers, she understands and retains information well - she's on par with the rest of her class, a bit ahead in X, a bit behind in Y, but nothing that you need to spend any time worrying about. Just concentrate on having fun with her and enjoying her childhood, she's doing fine."
I've never even clicked "threads" before. The fact that I've used HN for years and never even thought to click "threads" means it is insufficient for me. What are "threads"? Are they any conversation I participate in or only ones I've started? If I make a post, is every comment on it in "threads"? I'll keep checking that link and see what shows up there.

I think what the other person suggested "threads (12)" might make it sufficient. If there was a growing number next to "threads" I would have clicked it years ago.
Don't underestimate the value of people simply knowing what's happening. There's a big difference (translating to greater safety) between reactions of "WTF?" vs "here it comes!"