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A chatroom for digital nomads in SE Asia
It's hosted on Slack (https://slack.com/), which is available for Mac, Android & iPhone. There is a different chatroom for each country, private groups and messaging.

Enter your email in the form (link below) and I will invite you.

https://www.sendicate.net/subscribe/5if5xc

After you've been invited you can access the chatroom via the link below or through one of the listed apps.

https://nomadnet.slack.com/

Mac: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slack-team-communication/id618783545?mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Slack&hl=en

iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slack-team-communication/id618783545?mt=8
Non-addictive stimulant? Maybe it isn't chemically addictive, but all stimulants have the possibility for psychological dependency. Trading one dependency for another is not what I would consider to be progress.
Two other main sources of the hardware are captured (and in many cases i suspect actually bought while reported as captured

There's a site[1] that tracks captured/destroyed tanks and other hardware based on photo and video evidence from both mainstream and social media. It's interesting to see how the hardware changes hands (sometimes more than once), but predominant flow is definitely Ukraine->Rebels.

[1]: http://lostarmour.info/spoils/
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>you can't leave if you don't know the leave command?

Hah, for many that is Vim itself!
Meet Green Bean, a module for hacking into appliances
Once rms stepped down as a maintainer development around GNU Emacs seemed to have significantly improved. It is amazing to see the progress. Although the 24.4 release keeps waiting.
Have you messed around with om-tools[0] from Prismatic? It provides some more tooling to make working with Om a little bit easier.

[0]: https://github.com/Prismatic/om-tools
Depends on the role.

Some "DevOps" are "SysAdmin with a little development" while others are "Development with a little SysAdmin."

But for either you need to likely be comfortable setting up a WAMP or LAMP environment (and similar popular software, Nginx, IIS, postgresql, Cassandra, memcached, etc). along with decent familiarisation in scripting both (e.g. bash + PowerShell) and a good solid grasp in whatever languages they use (e.g. Java, Python, etc).

Overall most DevOps positions are unpaid for the qualifications they require and expect unreasonable levels of knowledge. There are people who could do DevOps but they have enough experience now so that they'd never take the salaries offered for the majority of DevOps roles (i.e. you rarely see medium-large companies after DevOps, they prefer two specialists and pay each more).

I'd definitely be careful with DevOps, unless it is a sub-10 person business they're likely just trying to cheap out on either development or systems support. In either case it speaks badly of a company.
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There are plenty[0] of examples on the github page for Om.

[0]: https://github.com/swannodette/om#applications-built-with-om
Cloudflare probably is easier than running your own servers and configuring them correctly - I don't know since I haven't used them myself.

But it sounds like you're not very familiar with the importance of the private key. If anyone else other than the bank obtains the bank's private key, the bank would consider that a serious failure, since it means others could impersonate them. The whole point is that you shouldn't give your private key to anyone else, and that without that key, others can't impersonate you.

This "keyless SSL" scheme allows the bank to set up an entity it controls which knows the key. This entity delegates to cloudflare the ability to pretend to be the bank on a request-by-request basis, without divulging the key to anyone. If cloudflare gets compromised, the bank can stop that delegation on demand, the compromise is closed and the key is kept safe.
Big torque from an engine sounds impressive but in reality only power matters. You can always change gear ratios to get more torque, which means more force to the ground.

Power determines how fast you will accelerate, how fast your top speed is, etc. It's all about conservation of energy.
> q is also very expensive

You're probably aware since it's not a big community, but the 32-bit version of kdb+ is available for free now for any purpose. The 64-bit version still cost an arm and a leg, and I'm sure they're relying on most use cases for the language requiring more then what you can fit into 32-bit address space.
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I have been using Ex mode for it's REPL like qualities while learning vimscript, it's a useful feature if you are writing vim plugins or doing complex search/replace operations.

Will a similar conversation happen with Replace mode? I use this mode less than Ex mode and it has a useful key bind (R) that could be recycled.
I absolutely agree. I wanted to get a MVP out the door quickly. I'll put something together this weekend.
Here are some test pictures taken while flying on a "Vomit Comet"

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...
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Describing Sauron as a 'necromancer' is akin to calling Gandalf a 'fireworks manufacturer'. It's a small part of their skillsets, and not what they've built their personal brand around.
...the article is about online courses.
To me, having to think about what service person 1 uses compared to person 2, etc... that's way harder than using phone numbers.

And besides, with those services, I am sending messages to usernames, not to people... except for Facebook, in which case I am sending to one of many thousands of John Does who are on Facebook.
To serve SSL for your domain, Cloudflare needs a certificate for your domain issued by an accepted CA, which someone needs to buy.

The only way for them to set that up would be to become a CA, get browsers to accept their master certificate and then issue their own certs for their clients.
Cool project. Unbearable background music. My speakers were pretty low and it still hurt my ears (literally -- not complaining based on taste).
If you want the really good engineers from those companies, they're often making more than $120k - they can be making up to $160k.

Speaking as an engineer who has already been pitched at by others working on startups due to my formidable scalable productivity in my domain (while only being in the Bay area for 4 months), I prefer the security of a good salary and a good amount of stock. It would be very hard to convince me to leave without offering some level of immediate financial security.

Note: I work at a startup that raised a Series A round - I was offered $140k + signing bonus & generous stock options. I believe the company has been very happy with my results so far.
Yeah, it does seem like in general in science, we only see "we tried to do X and it didn't work" papers AFTER someone has published a paper that says "surprisingly, we tried to do X which shouldn't work and it did!".

The example that comes to mind is pluripotent stem cells (see e.g. discussion at http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo... ) where publications only really advance knowledge about the "dogma" of a field when someone finds a way to publish results that oppose it.
Ok, it wasn't a loaded question (promise), but seeing that you feel that way about Gmail you may be interested in a new email product we've been building over the last year called Sortd.

It tries to create a radically enhanced email experience (Email 2.0 if you will) without the necessity to switch to a new email client. We call it a Smart Skin for Gmail because it transforms the Gmail Inbox into something much more - allowing you to place emails on a set of priority lists along side your tasks, with drag and drop sorting, due dates etc.

If you are interested, you are welcome to skip the Private Beta queue by going to http://get.sortd.com - I created an invite code for you (use HN27182818284).

Do you think there's something in this?
It's mainly up due to a good earnings report in August, and good guidance going forward.

If the breach doesn't hurt earnings, why should the stock price move?
I switched to FreeBSD a couple of years ago, partly for the sake of ZFS which is a first-class filesystem on that platform. FreeBSD was much more similar to Linux than I expected, and where there were differences, the FreeBSD way was usually simpler. My system has been stabler ever since, and I no longer fear to hit the "update" button.
One wonders what's wrong with using the phrase "offline reading" or "electronically-disconnected reading" to denote this style of reading we used to simply call... "reading." Alas, I suppose it's simply not catchy enough for the neo-digital age.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/salmond-vot... ;)
I have worked a lot with DevOps people in general. The best ones had following :
- Amazing shell scripting and linux command weaponry.
- They keep up with the latest tools like docker, new relic or puppet
- They over monitor stuff using tools like ganglia, zabbix, logstash(splunk), datadog, etc.
- They have flexible mindset (to do quick hacks) to buy time for dev team.
- They have flexible time schedule. (act to an alert at 3 AM)
- They consider themselves to be part of Dev team, admin team, DB team and are clear in communicating their ideas.
Doubtful. If he had, he would be able to provide more reasoning than 'netbeans is awesome, its the best and nothing is better!!". How about specifics on what you think netbeans does thats better? For example in what way do you find the git support better? Because as someone who regularly use IntelliJ IDEA I feel that it is better in every way (which is why I use it). What I'm getting at is blanketly saying 'X program is the best it does B better than Y" is useless, and wont provide anyone looking for a new IDE any information on why they should try X over Y. What makes its implementation better? I want actual descriptions, and images, and actual use cases.</ramble>
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Awesome - its cool idea for sure
Yeah, I remember when I was first learning Linux, I was pretty much thrown into the deep end with nobody to help me much. I got into vim to edit a text file, and was... completely lost at sea. I figured out how to install nano and have never touched another Linux text editor since.
> The US is very similar to the Westminster system and has the same major underlying problem: with no attempt towards proportionality, very few people end up with their first choice of representation.

Actually, I'd say the bigger problem is that with no attempt towards proportionality, very many people end up with only their last choice of representation in at least some bodies of government -- that is, they are represented, in at least one body of government and possibly at all levels of government, exclusively by people who they view (and who view them) as enemies.
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I wouldn't necessarily equate SAP and "enterprise software" so much. My experience with SAP's systems is a summer internship for them and 2 years at an employer where I entered time-tracking and expense info into one of their programs. The entire system is basically a database engine developed a long time ago and impossible to re-engineer now so what you're seeing is an artifact of the past. That might be why SAP and their tcodes seem so bizarre.

Enterprise software suffers from its own problems but not all enterprise software looks and feels like SAP.
No. This mode was introduced specifically for virtualization so that the IOMMU will only restrict access to a guest machine's memory, such as when KVM is in use:

http://lwn.net/Articles/329174/

The only case in which this would help is when ZFS is on the host and a device passed through to a guest malfunctions.
So, plenty of downvotes from people who presumably don't understand Twitpic and can't actually write a rational fact-based reply. Might as well have stayed on Reddit....
Bram hasn't complained about their usage of the name (unlike the Standard Markdown fiasco). And as a Vim user what they're doing seems what Vim always wanted to do before Bram was sidetracked by other projects: they're making Vi Improved. A lot of the changes they're making seem to be redoing the Vim internals using 21st century software development practices (continuous integration: builds, tests, linting, refactoring, removing deprecated bits, etc).

I actually hope that Neovim is temporary and Bram can gracefully accept the Neovim code as the official Vim once Neovim is stable. And Vim can become "Legacy Vim", supporting modes and OSs Neovim doesn't support anymore. Vim itself does the same thing - it has downloads for older versions in order to support MS DOS, for example (I'm not 100% sure about this - the www.vim.org page gives me a "Connection reset" right now - but I remember it doing this).
Target stock was fine until they put out this press release that updated guidance lower due to reduced sales after the announcement:
http://investors.target.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=65828&p=irol-new...
This is like dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 in a website - code gets cleaner at the expense of a minor group of users getting a worse experience. I think it is a good tradeoff.
+1 for Reagent. Best UI library that I've ever used. Om is really confusing to me and requires too much configuration to make it usable. Reagent works out of the box and just makes so much sense. It never feels like you're using a framework, it just feels like using a tool to abstract away the complexity of rendering from your UI logic. It's really enjoyable to use. Then again it hasn't been updated in six months so there's that...
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The way I am reading this, even if you went paid you'd barely cover your costs (given how time consuming it is for you to bug fix). Plus without the free "trial" you'd struggle to attract paid customers, but while the paid "trial" exists people can just re-register to get all their files or otherwise only needed one page anyway so won't pay.

So my question is this: How much does running the service cost? If it is fairly inexpensive to run you could go a mixed "ad supported" and freemium model, with zero more bug fixes. Just sell what you have.

Instead of selling PDF conversion you sell convenience. You give your paid users an identical product but allow them to queue up dozens, even hundreds, of files via some basic desktop program maybe. Alternatively auto-magical conversion via email (PDF comes in, plain text goes out). Plus turn off ads (e.g. make free users wait 20 sec on an ad page).

The vast majority of your revenue would come from adverts, and while it might never be a screaming success, it might at least make a little profit year upon year and eventually pay for the effort you put into it.

But if it is expensive to run as is then I have nothing. You'll just have to try to make the paid model work.
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I posted this because, although the article is pretty clearly biased in favor of this price fixing methodology in this case, I found it interesting from a business perspective.

The belief I've heard most commonly is that the practice outlined in the article is price fixing, and is therefore illegal. It would appear that Leegin Creative Leather Products Inc. v. PSKS Inc., 2007 hasn't been applied in any major retail circumstance; otherwise I think knowledge of this exception to anti-trust would be more common.

Contact lens use is widespread enough that this may hit the mass media at some point, and I think we may even see a lawsuit that challenges the assertion that contact lens consumers benefit from RPM.
I do realise I am quite cynical in my comments but FWIW I do like the look of your product- it seems to be 'leaner' and more targeted towards usability.
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> The truth is that the (economically) Western European countries have been bending backwards for years (decades) to help them and that we have been treated badly every step of the way

Bending backwards how, helping who and being treated badly how?

> aggression, violence, trust, and intelligence are all partially inherited.

As we're talking about cultural and societal conflicts, are you suggesting that genetic aggressive or violent tendencies are part of arab/muslim DNA? It's this level of nonsense that seems so pervasive, sometimes spoken out literally, but often merely implied. It fits perfectly in the creation of the 'other' as edward said puts it, or the untermensch we're all familiar with. If you're not saying it, it definitely seems you're implying it. And there's tons of this in Europe, e.g. a quote from Rushton's wiki:

>> In 2009 Rushton spoke at the Preserving Western Civilization conference in Baltimore. It was organized by Michael H. Hart for the stated purpose of "addressing the need" to defend "America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and European identity" from immigrants, Muslims, and African Americans.[36][37] In his speech, Rushton said that Islam was not just a cultural, but also a genetic problem. He thought the religion and issues associated with it were not just a condition of the belief system. His theory was that Arabs have an aggressive personality with relatively closed, simple minds, and were less amenable to reason.[38] The Anti-Defamation League described the conference attendees as "racist academics, conservative pundits and anti-immigrant activists".[39]

As for the first point on plenty of respect for decent people, are you an immigrant minority? Well I can see you're not. (where are you from, btw?) I am. I've been cussed at in the street, spit on and told to go back to my 'own country'. I'm Dutch born, Dutch mother, jewish girlfriend, atheist, university educated, entrepreneur, but as I'm also an arab and look like one, I get 'plenty of respect'. And there's literally not a single arab I'm friends with or a relative to who hasn't had this experience (although I don't know THAT many). In fact my neighbour isn't my neighbour anymore, he was a teacher here but he and his family moved back to North-Africa after his wife was spit on years ago. As for your other points on islam, what islam? You say it as if it's a singular thing. I'm not a muslim, an atheist in fact, but for me to talk about 'islam' without any context is as ridiculous as saying we should criticize water because it's the leading cause of drowning. Without context asking if 'water' is 'good' or 'islam' is 'good' is laughably silly.
Sauron is exclusively referred to in The Hobbit as a "necromancer"; I see nothing wrong with this.
I have seen a little bit of work in the area of people using laser engravers (you can get one for about $2k out of china) as minimal SLS machines. Other than that I don't think there is any SLS printer in the hobbyist arena.
Having been around this a lot in my life, my answer would be it is totally dependent on the individual. As jpetersonmn mentioned, people with Autism in general have a wide range of abilities and those with Aspergers can vary significantly from very mild to fairly significant.

From my experiences, usually they are amazing people and extremely intelligent and have some abilities I really admire. Of course, many times social interactions can be tough for them, reading body language, facial expressions etc are also not usually something they excel at naturally. However depending on their severity level, most can be taught to do things that come natural to those of us without Aspergers. A friends son with Aspergers has learned to read facial expressions better, but it took him quite a bit of effort to learn to do it fast enough so that conversations run fairly smoothly. But I'd never rule him out from doing whatever he wanted.

While I have no personal knowledge of someone with Aspergers running a startup, I would say that absolutely they could run their own business and excel. But it would all depend on the severity of their condition and their support network.
I'm using it at work on a daily basis almost.
Their expense + flight / hotel booking system is surprisingly OK relative to enterprise software, they also have a mobile app which is pretty great.

It's quite a complex topic, lot's of corporate policies to enforce, and basically they had to develop all the tech facade that Kayak, Expedia etc have (flight and hotel booking) as well as a lot of financial logic for expenses.

There is a lot of money in enterprise software... I wish more YC startups would tackle that area...
ZFS on CoreOS anyone? [CoreOS does have btrfs support]
Where I was at we had a planning board and that was fine for incoming work. Tasks that could be done within a couple of days were fine as well; we did have a sort of 'current' board. The difficulty was only really for long running tasks that took more than a week.

From the way you are describing it typically the current board was emptied each week? New tasks were only brought in at the beginning of the week?

Did you break down larger tasks into chunks that could be handled within one week? If so, how did you track progress within multi-month projects if they were broken down into small pieces?
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> That was the theory pushed fairly successfully by many social reformers in the 60's and early 70's. The net result, or at least the concurrent event, was a massive crime wave.

The US have never invested in social security levels anywhere near the Scandinavian countries.

> more than half are committed by a demographic group that is pretty much nonexistent in Scandinavia.

Except that when you control for factors that correlate strongly with social status, the race effect disappears almost entirely. The US has a poverty problem first and foremost.
Yeah I love FreeBSD. I wish more people gave it a chance before rushing to ZFS FUSE. Granted things are a little different now that ZoL is around and has proven to be stable, but it always struck me as a little odd that some would point blank refuse to even try FreeBSD yet welcome the lesser tested and poorer performing solution of running ZFS in FUSE. But each to their own I guess.
You may want to try https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe Does exactly what you describe wanting, and very well IMHO.
True, but the original photos are not on Twitpic, and they can always right-click and save them from the web interface.

Anyway, that's an extreme case, and web services are typically not set up to deal with extreme (in fact, totally hypothetical) cases.

I still haven't seen anybody put up a rational counter-argument. Does that mean nobody can?
I doubt it. Apart from the fact that at least I find replace mode useful, I think their main reason is not just because most people don't use it, but also because ex mode behaves inconsistently.
This. ZFS, MAC, LLVM, good docs, good manual pages, awesome stability, up to date ports and packages. What is there not to like?

On the subject of the article, FreeBSD supports DMAR (VT-d) as well but I'm not sure how this protects data in context to ZFS.

I have two ZFS root machines on FreeBSD, one server and one laptop. ZFS is nothing short of wonderful.