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I'm one of those drivers who hates sharing roadways with bikers. It's not that I have to share, but between slowing traffic down, pure safety concerns for the biker (who I as the automobile driver am responsible for in the case of an accident) and the generally shitty entitled attitude lots of bike riders seem to have (probably earned from dealing with irritated drivers like me) I get my hackles raised every time I see one on the roads. Bikes aren't automobiles no matter how much we debate about it. They shouldn't be sharing the road with cars.

But you know what? I'm absolutely in favor of this kind of road engineering. Regardless of making traffic faster or not, it's just smart design. Between roads, sidewalks and bike lanes, this provides a designated travel area for everybody regardless of the mode they choose to travel with. Bikes shouldn't be sharing the road with cars, they should have their own designated travel areas.

It eliminates all three of my issues in one swoop and provides equitable space for sharing the travel conduits in a city. In fact, it would probably get me out on a bike more often.
And Windows Phone was never to be heard from again (in whichever way you want to take it).
That is not a fair comparison at all.

1. An x86 emulator doesn't need to allocate much. It's probably an interpreter. It can parse x86 instructions straight from a byte vector, and use another byte vector for the RAM.

2. V8 and Firefox have much better garbage collectors than D, because they need their GC to be fast, and so they've made sure it is.

3. Higgs is a much more complex piece of software than this.

4. The 4 seconds time, as I pointed out, is at least 75% GC (but possiby more). That's the whole point of the blog post. It shouldn't be possible for the GC to take most of the execution time.
>Helping people maintain their privacy

Businesses aren't people.
Actually, I would disagree.

Microsoft's hubris caught up with them in mobile, and they learned some valuable lessons. I would say they are better off now as the Microsoft they are today than they would have been if they had been carved up.
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Elixir is an amazing language on top of a time-tested VM and incredible concurrency model. It's been a while since I've been so excited about a language.

It's an incredibly cohesive language that doesn't appear to have any serious flaws, as far as I can see. It's impressive that it's come so far along in such a short amount of time.
Site only supports TLS 1.1 (not TLS 1.2), only 1 cypher is available for use

TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA (0x5)
Apple's Watch can't cure all of our wearable ills
I think the Big Thing is not the naming itself, but what is being signaled by it.

If Microsoft can actually pull it off, I think a single OS that works well enough on all form factors could be awesome. I imagine writing native apps that are responsive like the web apps we have today.

(I'll never use or endorse it if I can't side-load apps though! There's no way I'm moving into any kind of walled-garden.)
Yes. Perhaps hitting the optimum form at 45 would be ideal. So 4 would start becoming clearer at 40 and then start degenerating after 45.
It's not arbitrary, the number of house pets is limited to the number of households that can have pets plus the number of animal shelters we have. Once that number is exceeded, the options are set the animals free or find humane ways to control the population. Depending on where you live, setting them free could be a good option or it could be terrible. If the animals have no survival instinct left, they will be left alone to starve to death or die from sickness. In the city, they may be hit by cars, or they might attack other pets. They might even make other pets sick by biting them. They can easily become a nuisance in populated areas, although rural areas have a larger domain for stray animals.

There's no one walking into your house saying "there's too many pets in the world" and shooting Lassie. They only get put down when there is no one left to take care of them.

If you think it's arbitrary, why don't you adopt every homeless pet? If you can't do that, then you have to accept that there is such a thing as overpopulation, that we're there, and that there are limited options for how to deal with the problem.
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I agree, but the celebrity photos incident is famous outside of Reddit so it's a good discussion point to use as a bridge to the other reprehensible sections of Reddit to someone unfamiliar with Reddit.
There is [1] if the user is used to it showing something and it's showing another. This is the core problem with modes.

What people have to understand is that it doesn't matter how clearly you think you're labeling it, if it breaks the user expectation, it's not clear at all - and an experienced user reads even less, which is the case of a pilot.

Once the pilot develops an habit of, e.g., switching the vertical speed display from feet/s to degrees during final approach (and that may have been what happened), and one day he forgets to switch, or the mode button malfunctions, or double clicks by mistake... there you have a recipe for disaster.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness
Nope.

That's the reason why I haven't been interested in purchasing a Moto 360, Galaxy Gear, Sony Smartwatch, or similar. The Apple Watch is no different.

The Pebble is the only remotely interesting smartwatch around, but I haven't got one simply because the benefit doesn't out-weigh the cost (although if someone gave me one for free I'd give it a fair shake).

The real question for me is: What does a smartwatch do that the cellphone in my pocket does not? The fitness stuff is one answer, but frankly a $350 fitness tracker is a little expensive relative to other products in that category readily available (e.g. Fitbit @ $99).
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It is a big thing for the decision makers inside Microsoft. Windows phone had it's own executive, who are now no longer a threat to the remaining executives.

What I've noticed about commercials is that when it comes to non-founder companies (companies no longer controlled by their founders), is that the target of the commercials is not really customers. It's the management, and sometimes, their "bosses", investors. An example is the countless "we're no 1" commercials. Nobody goes and touts their products or services actual advantages, or even goes so far as simply saying they're the "best". Best would matter to customers. No 1 tells you something about sales figure (and is easy to fake), and why would customers care about sales figures (except in extreme cases) ?

The message here is simply that there's a management change, and this is big news and to be celebrated, political foes have been slain, new victors have been chosen and crowned, this is a victory to be shouted off of roofs everywhere, because that's what people who decided to push this message feel.
Communicate to code
>Today is a great time to be a writer. There are virtually no middlemen between you putting together a sentence and millions being able to read it.

I'm wondering if any journalist has thought about the idea of a subscription model. For example, charging something like $5 a month to read all articles on their site or releasing long-form articles that cost $1 each.
I agree with you that the traffic speed improvements being due to the bike lanes is poorly supported.

But still, this shows that there is room for intersection/street design improvements that do not slow down cars while making it safer for bikes.
You don't do anything that could jeopardise your position. Your first step is to get help.

If you haven't been paid in full
Speak to your employer first to try to sort the problem informally.

If this doesn't work, talk to Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and
Arbitration Service), Citizens Advice or your trade union
representative.

You have the right to go to an Employment Tribunal to get your money.

I was in a similar position a few years ago. We were told though that the company was in financial difficulty. We later found out that the company had been withholding pensions payments (and PPP employer payments). It is a illegal and your employer can be prosecuted. If you have similar concerns then you can report them:

http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/individuals/reporting...

The following links will help you:

- ACAS: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1461

- Citizen's Advice: http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice.htm#searchb...

- Gov: https://www.gov.uk/understanding-your-pay/deductions-from-yo...

If your employer is refusing the talk to you, then you are left with little choice but to move on to arbitration. That's what ACAS are there for.

Approach the whole thing calmly. Do not get angry and make stupid mistakes (like deleting websites or code). Do not shout and scream at your employer. Remain calm and civil. I often like to pretend that I am acting as a consultant for myself when dealing with situations like this. It helps you to remain more impartial.

Your job is first to understand exactly what is owed. Then you need to extract £x.xx from your employer. You then would also like an explanation if they feel like keeping you in their employment. Then should you choose to leave, because their explanation was not to satisfaction, then you would like a letter of recommendation. However, do not quit until you speak to Citizen's advice first. There maybe implications if you quit before your resolve your greviances.
Why? And would you do it 1x, or 100x?

Note that you'd do it for free (you would even cover your costs) and the issue expressed is that journalism doesn't pay.
Yes, it is.

http://www.google.com/wallet/faq.html#tab=faq-security
When I see things like that, I can't help but think that if you want performance, you've gotta go C.

Otherwise, you get stuff like this, that's just impossible to reason about.
curl -I http://xiv.in/GYBX3

...

Location: http://s.xiv.in/GYBX3

...

Why one useless redirection?
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Intention is incredibly important when doing advertising. Consider the difference between "Looking for a new car this weekend" vs. "just bought a new car the weekend".
It reminds me a little of the time Microsoft marketing went crazy and stamped the ".Net" brand moniker on just about any product they could.
Fun fact, wild bananas are tiny and full of seeds. There's a lot of money being spent sequencing and understanding bananas in order to fight this kind of problem.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48150458/ns/technology_and_science...

Because of how domesticated bananas are reproduced, it's a good lesson on the problems with monoculture.
Sorry to hear! As a fellow Chicago cyclist, I recommend using bike lanes as much as possible. I will go out of my way to stay on designated bike lanes. Also, the Lake path is useful during the work week. But, throughout the years, I have noticed drunk driving does rise on the weekend nights. I do my best to stay off the streets then.
But quite unlike modern OpenGL, which does not simulate physics at all.
How many allocations do you actually make to compile a single variable used 60000 times? I still claim you don't have to allocate much too for that particular input, as long as you use vectors/arrays, the ones you also recognize Bellard probably uses and which I've mentioned in my top comment as the right way to make your code faster. It's really as simple as that.
"I get my hackles raised every time I see one on the roads. Bikes aren't automobiles no matter how much we debate about it. They shouldn't be sharing the road with cars."

Horses must really piss you off then.
I've built something similar recently however also solved client/server synchronisation. You make me want to clean it up and put it on Github. The only difference is that the backend API is HATEOAS.
An unfortunate side-effect of the protected-lane type bike lanes is that pedestrians feel much safer there too. They are right next to the sidewalks, and as sidewalks become overcrowded and overflow (very common in NYC) the bike lane turns into a sidewalk extension. The result is a very dangerous mix of walkers, joggers, luggage carriers, hotdog cart pushers, strollers, and everything else crowding the bike lane, and creating a very dangerous situation.
A cyclist is just a brief inconvenience. It's the same as a school bus or slow driver in a lane requiring you to go around.

Every bike on the road is one less car causing traffic. It's crazy to want infrastructure for JUST cyclists when the road is a perfectly good way to travel.
Sure, you'd want to be compensated for time and risk, but on the other hand you don't want to saddle the company with a ton of debt. It depends on how much money you're talking about. Either way, the point remains that it shouldn't be paid for with equity.
It's the concept. It objectifies women. A hackfest is not a nightclub or a dating site. Having to constantly turn down sexual advances is awkward, and many times physically dangerous, and it has an effect of excluding women from spaces.

It's basic male entitlement to think that women should be receptive to their advances, at any time and in any place. Having to fend off creepy, socially awkward men makes conferences and the tech field as a whole incredibly hard to be in as a woman, and as a result, computer science is dragging literally all of STEM down with its grossly imbalanced gender ratio.
1.45 million pounds for a 3 bedroom? OMFG. "Life circumstances", indeed!
By 'disabling', I hope you just mean 'turning off'.
Google’s studied silence on net neutrality has finally broken
I don't think there is really no one paying for it. At least where I am from you can buy 100+ really obscure magazines at larger railway stations for example. I doubt the magazines will generate large profits, but seem to be self sustaining and at least some of them have content you would not easily find on the web. Even with tablets, it is more pleasant to leaf through a 10 Dollar magazine about design, than the equivalent app. High quality magazines should still have some advantages over online advertising for some brands and they select specific audiences probably as efficient as elaborate online analytics. If you bought a magazine about miniature railroads or gardening, noone needs to store your purchase history to infer what products you might want to buy.
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IMO, what would be cool would be an open API where you don't need any kind of developer key to create a short link.

Isn't Bitly free too?
They seem to be indexing Bing too ;) https://www.google.com/search?num=20&pws=0&hl=en&q=site%3Aht...
My only print subscription is Bloomberg Businessweek. Seeing the week's cover in my mailbox is a highlight of my Saturday. But I got three years for $20.
Ask HN: Is something happening with HN's ranking algo?
I think I started to see a lot more submissions with relatively low number of upvotes and even smaller number of comments on the front page.
The end of the Apple spectacle
Wow, this is great. Was struggling with my touchpad for a few seconds until I remembered I have a touchscreen (which, other than this, I use for nothing).
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Another idea would be to auto select the link when you click it. This means you could have a "workflow" similar to: click, cmd/ctrl + c, done
Pretty Cool! I wonder if it's possible / how hard it would be to port to Pebble.
I like your suggestion a lot
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I don't know if you're joking, but horses aren't much fun to share a road with either. They're slower than the traffic and literally defecate anywhere. It's positively impressive how much urine can be left behind at a stop light.
Breeze.js seems like it would be the framework agnostic version of this (I think). Its got client caching, querying, and change tracking.

http://www.breezejs.com/
If limited options is a myth then what is the option that you propose?

Don't just say "don't kill them" if you don't have a legitimate proposal for what to do with them instead.
The Apple Watch and The Internet of Things
Sorry that I haven't checked if the author can possibly be "she" before I wrote the sentence. The probability is low, even if I'd prefer it to be otherwise. Corrected.
I think this is a great project but I think that the true problem with image processing these days is infrastructure. Image processing is a rather compute heavy task when you start seeing an influx of traffic. I'll openly announce that I'm one of the founders at http://6px.io, a hosted solution for image processing.
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I'm OK with the occasional cyclist. It is when there is a group of 30 from a club riding in a pack, going 15 MPH, on a 45 MPH highway with not a lot of passing areas that get irritating. The other thing that I don't like is having to pass the same cyclist several times in traffic. They pass you on the right when traffic is stoped, but don't move over so you can pass them on the left when traffic starts to move again.
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> and why would customers care about sales figures (except in extreme cases) ?

Because most people go with the crowd. Conformity isn't as popular in the tech crowd as it is in the main stream.
Branchable is a hosting service. The wiki software it uses is http://ikiwiki.info

What like about ikiwiki is that instead of always running as daemon, it's launched via a git post-update hook. After regenerating static html for the content you've changed it's done. It does support editing content via a web interface, but all that needs is CGI. The downside is that you need a thorough understanding of unix permissions to make it work.

https://ikiwiki.info/rcs/git/
Where Does Scope Come From?
Work done for free is worth exactly what you pay for it: nothing.
The vibration feedback and glancable message letting you leave the phone in your pocket or bag lets you go back to a less distracted life. The extra effort to dig the phone out stops you from responding unless important. Carrying just the phone doesn't have the barrier.

I think a hassle free smart watch changes a significant portion of a highly connected person's day, lets them be more free, more productive, more organic.
People around where I live are smart enough to keep their horses off of the roads and onto horse trails (or in a trailer when they're transporting them). And despite having hundreds of miles of dedicated bike trails I still get stuck behind some guy in full bike kit going 15 mph in the middle an undivided 2 lane 45 with double yellow at least once a week.

Being a 15-20 minutes late because he couldn't be bothered to drive his bike to one of the bike trails to play 'Tour De France' is beyond irritating.
Yes, seriously. Beats headphones didn't add anything new to headphones except looking cool (and mostly because of the brand name and not because they look particularly good). None of the Apple products you mentioned were like that—they all added significant innovative features in addition to having a beautiful form. The hipness of the brand followed that instead of leading it.
I always enjoy a well-formulated counterposition to not sweating the details and favoring shipping quickly. I've found the trick with these delightful "details" is that users are often unaware of their appreciation for them. That is, these are things that are "felt and not seen". They are unaware the experience is better with them but would feel the degradation if they were removed.
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10-20 is the normal threshold to make the front page, the past few days haven't exactly reflected this, due to large influx of Apple related posts.
The beauty of code
Come on, do you really think that the marketing department at Microsoft (or other company of similar size) is in charge? Strategy is being decided by their higher-ups, only details of operations are on them.
Or, y'know, a cubic Bezier interpolation.
Github is using some weird heuristics for detecting languages, and, apparently, multiple 'fun' tokens bends it towards Clojure in this case. I'm not sure if this way of language detection will ever work with PFront, as it is a mixture of many DSLs. Actually, Clojure itself must be hard to detect properly, as it is a proper meta-language.
Reminds me of the cat that years ago inhabited Powell's technical bookstore (in Portland OR). The grayish feline was a inconspicuous mascot. Sometimes seen calmly striding among the bookshelves, with little attention to the humans milling about but mostly was ensconced in some private retreat.

I used to go there frequently to hunt down computer books, but remember most enjoyably not only the store cat, but even more the collection of CD's that were sold way back when.

In the early 90's, with those CD's I was introduced to Linux 1.0, and FreeBSD 2.0, Walnut Creek and other names that endure in my memory. It was a very exciting time. Thanks for giving me that pleasure for a moment once again.
Ugh, when I lived in San Francisco, I concluded that the burritos were pretty awful when compared to burritos from the south, particularly San Diego - as far as 'American' style burritos go. Granted, this isn't the typical SF burrito, but my heart sinks each time I hear anyone rave about any burrito from the mission of the rest of SF.

Before anyone gets combative, yes, I also must admit that the basis for comparison isn't equal, because they're of different styles.
Stripe is hiring engineering managers
Over the course of building Stripe, we've focused on hiring great people, and making sure we have an awesome organization for them to be a part of. Our managers help sustain both of these. We look for people who care deeply about supporting engineers and making others more effective and efficient. We generally look for a diversity of experience, and our ideal manager candidates are ones that are quite different from any of our managers today.

Today we have a VP of engineering and 3 engineering managers for a rapidly-growing team of almost 70 engineers. We craft management roles around the strengths of the individuals we hire, so the role isn't singularly defined, but you should get in touch if you're interested in chatting: gdb@stripe.com.
Agreed, a watch is a kind of fire-and-forget item: it has to work when you need it and to be forgotten the rest of the time!!! If I need to charge it every night (even every week), I won't use it. But maybe I'm not geek enough...
Moreover, I don't see enough added-value in this kind of devices right now.
BTW... isn't it possible for that kind of devices to recharge like "forever" watch, only by the move of the hand?
Had the pleasure of meeting Elijah on a two day work trip to LEX. Airport cabbie drove me to Woodford, dropped me off, and didn't charge to wait while I toured. Elijah was entirely indifferent to my presence.

Aside from Charleston, Lexington is one of the friendliest places I've been in the States. Highly recommend the distillery tours as well as the air museum.
Just be very careful you know what you're buying. Many of Seiko's automatic watches don't last more than a day without movement.

The "Perpetual" range is just an automatic watch with a backup battery. You have to wear it daily to get it to run for "free," and it is really only going to last 12 hours on the stored energy before the battery has to kick in.

The batteries won't last forever even if you do wear it daily. They degrade.
P.S. PFront implementation is available here: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase
the idea of buying things online and picking them up at stores may not seem very exciting

It's great for clothes even if they don't deliver within hours. You get the full selection from the whole chain/manufacturer but can still try them on without shipping back when they don't fit.