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I'm not a fan of this idea, that said I've seen it done right and done poorly.

Done poorly - Google - Typing on a screen to get your badge is always a slow, painful process. Trying to have an event with several people who all have to sign in demonstrates how much of a painful bottleneck this can be.

Done well - Hacker Dojo - Multiple kiosks with real keyboards. You can sign in and (at some events) get a badge super quickly.

The code for the hacker dojo kiosks is open source and available here (https://github.com/hackerdojo) along with a bunch of other useful tools.
Y2K wasn't hype: if we hadn't done the work, the outcome would have been moderately gruesome. (Not world-ending-apocalyptic gruesome, but not-getting-paid-for-a-month-and-the-stock-market-crashed gruesome.)

Indeed, it was largely due to Y2K resilience preparations that the Federal Reserve managed to keep running on 9/11:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astoni...

Upshot: it might look like hype, but sometimes it's actually the symptom of a bullet dodged just in time. (Which is why I hope that this time next year, when we look back at the Ebola outbreak, there will be plenty of folks saying "nope, it was overhyped fear-mongering".)
Why is everything like this at Stanford? Why not some other schools for a change?
I'm sure your mileage does vary, but in every company I've worked for 90% of revenue was already going to employee salary. At that point, raises are not an option because the employees are not bringing in enough money to pay themselves more. So, the challenge becomes how to raise general workplace happiness with a small amount of revenue set aside from salary, bills, taxes, ect... Thus, potato chips. Even (the occasional) sweet macbook is cheap compared to a full month of paychecks.
> these bikes were riding 4 wide on a single lane road, and they had a car in front of them driving between 15-20mph with their hazard lights on, presumably in an attempt to keep cars from passing them.

How repugnant and arrogant. I'd pass out of spite alone.
Wow been wanting something like this for awhile now. Seamless desktop web experience, really enjoying this.
3c wouldn't help, since bike lanes do not keep bikes three feet away from cars.

3d seems prohibitively expensive for most places in the US.

3e wouldn't really help anything unless the tax was ridiculously high and could pay for separate bike paths. Given how few people actually commute by bike in most places, this would make a bicycle about as expensive as a Benz, so this doesn't seem very reasonable to me and I'm sure it wouldn't make me happy at all if I rode a bike.

3a and 3b seem like the most practical solutions, honestly. Not because cyclist safety is not a concern, but because we do not have good options available to protect it. They don't make cyclists happy, but I mean, tax laws don't make me happy. If it's unreasonably expensive to give someone special accommodations, sometimes you just can't even if you'd like to.
But then they'd have to cover stuff like focusing on sales from the start of a business, developing a business model, and making money (from customers) ASAP.

(In case of confusion, I have my tongue in cheek ;-) These topics will surely be covered in the content somewhere if it's about building a business.)
I for one am looking forward to a day where strangers don't have to see my awful handwriting. Although the thought of touching a tablet that all of the infected patients before me have touched might keep me to the pen and paper.
1) You need to talk to a lawyer (don't have any Bay Area references, sorry)

2) Don't pay them until you talk to a lawyer.

3) At-will is at-will and businesses are the ones who pushed for this concept, so don't lose any sleep over exercising your right to quit at-will (though I do think it is good professional behavior to give 2 weeks notice, especially if it will help wrap up any loose ends). The timing will always be unfortunate if the company sees you as a high-value contributing employee.
these figures are deceptive considering the UK's comparatively-socialist tax attitude. The biggest thing I would point out is that we have nationalised free healthcare for everyone, which takes a big bite out of PPP but also means that being poor isn't a health concern. We also have a pretty comprehensive benefits system which, although unpopular, provides a large safety net for the unemployed, disabled and otherwise non-working.

The UK isn't some pauper state where everyone's living on the breadline, we just take a different approach to the USA.

[edit] replaced GDP with PPP for better clarity/relevance.
When I highlight the browser address bar, I should be able to just say “The Economist” and have it automatically find the address in my favorites and go there.

Would be nice, but not as good as 'Computer_name...anything new in the Economist?' 'There's a provocative analysis of the arms trade and some particularly egregious punning of the sort you claim to despise.'

I have a marvelous scheme to stimulate market demand for such services, but this comment is insufficiently well-funded to contain it.
I don't get it. Why would two tractors be side by side in a single lane road? You can barely fit one on a single lane.

I think one of us is confused about the exact setup we're talking here. But of course it is wholly irrelevant; some time ago a cab in NYC jumped the curb and crushed a tourists leg, yet I'm not here screaming for cabs to be banned from the roads or asking the cab driver association why they think they can drive on the sidewalk.
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Docker is one of those FOSS that I always want to actively contribute to, but I don't lest they seem to be doing great without any help.
how do you figure? I would ask the author the same question.

To me, building a robot to get yourself a Burning Man ticket is the definition of radical self-reliance.

I get the non-commoditification, gifting economy as a goal, but the demand for tickets outstripped the supply long ago. If you want to go, you have cleverness alone to get to the front of the pack. I'd feel building a robot to get the jump would be worlds better than allowing a scalper to profit from the purchase.
This is the kind of debate you gey with independence topics. It's an emotional topic, not a rational one.
I'm curious as to how Docker.io and CoreOS.com live in harmony... I mean, CoreOS is built around Docker.io as a core piece, but I can see it overshadow docker proper in terms of money to be made in the long run.

It will definitely be interesting.
Weird. The URL on the second link is identical to the one I submitted. Wonder why the HN link de-duper didn't catch it.
Neat! I hand't heard of Telescope before, and it looks sweet (a lot like Discourse in some ways). How much code did you have to write to get this up and running?
As someone who grew up in a farm house and shared many roads with tractors/combines/etc, this is absolutely correct. In fact, I've never seen or heard of tractors driving side by side on a road (except, I suppose, if one tractor were trying to pass the other, but this would be highly unlikely).
That's per capita and has rather little to do with the overall size of the UK's economy. The US is very rich and even its poorest states are doing pretty well.

The UK's GDP is substantially bigger than that of any state of the US. (UK: about $2.5T; California: about $1.9T.)
What feature was removed? I'm a developer of BazQux Reader and can't remember that I removed any major feature.
To be fair CPU performance has massively improved since '07, however, it just doesn't matter because everything you wanted to do is fast enough.

If you take an modern game and run it on an '07 PC it will be very slow at max settings.

Back in 06-07 it you needed a 15x15K drives and a controller with 256 MB of cache RAM to hit 800 MB/sec random read/write. Now you can drop in two $200 SSDs
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Sure, minimal amount needed for safety should be in the kernel. That can also be somewhat federated if you like. Much of a kernel is not hardware access though, it is things like filesystems and sockets way on top of hardware.
And "almost all" numbers are irrational, so you sort of do need a reason to be rational.
I think this question should have been "Ask HN: Should I hide my participation in furry fandom from future employers". You list a lot of technical points and features about your project, but it doesn't seem like those have much to do with the question: you could have written it closed source and in Haskell, and the question would be the same.

To answer that question, "do you want to work somewhere where you are required to hide part of your identity?"
That's all well and good but a slew of actual virologists disagree with this, citing examples such as no viruses affecting humans ever changing from being spreadable via bodily fluid/direct contact to becoming aerosol. This includes all viruses that have ever been known to affect human beings.

So, yes, while it is theoretically possible, it is extremely unlikely and really not worth discussing because no good can come from it.
Because most of the speakers live within driving distance of Stanford?

I would love for more schools to offer course on entrepreneurship. I'm not sure if I was ready for one while I was in college though.
Quoting Rob Pike on his Slashdot interview:

We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
Gods I hope not. VMWare's change resistance, pricing model, and overall attitude and (lack of) responsiveness to customers is not something I want to see applied to a project like Docker.
So why don't investors discount a valuation because the fact that revenue is undefined, and not treat it like a near divide by zero?
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I've linked to an article from a reputable source on the matter below. However, I would say that having lived in Bay Area, France and the UK, despite the fact that the headline figures place France and the UK below California, France and the UK feel wealthier than those numbers would suggest. I suspect the difference lies in better public amenities and provisions in Europe.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Voices/2014/...
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The flaw in this is that our mobility and density is unprecedented, so things that were not feasible for a startup plague in the past may now be feasible.
Ask HN: What's missing from “learn code in browser” sites?
I think increasing programming literacy is an incredibly important problem to solve. At the very least I want to help my friends in the process of career transitions consider retraining to be a programmer. So I looked online to find some examples of these "learn code in browser" sites, which should be a very convenient way to get started. Here's an example list: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/21/5-ways-to-learn-code-from-the-comfort-of-your-own-browser/

For people with more experience using these, and teaching programming in general, what do you think is missing from these services? What would you do to improve them?

Cheers
To me the last paragraph seems a bit funny - "In an unusual blog posting in April, three top U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials expressed opposition to laws banning direct sales, saying they could harm consumers."

Maybe the FTC should investigate the way current dealer sales operate if they care about protecting consumers.
What legitimate reasons are there to remain part of the UK, other than "Less pain of separation"?

I hear the UK say, "If you stay with us, we promise to give you more power!" Well, why don't you go ahead and give it NOW, and that would probably swing Scotland to a firm "No". Which makes me think the UK is lying, and Scotland would get no substantial improvement in autonomy.
No, but the next question is, "Does a place that does not impose some degree of secrecy about one's identity even exist?"
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"Much of the problem with floating point is that we intuitively expect it to follow the math rules we're familiar with, but they seem to, but often don't."

Well... maybe. I don't think most people have the foggiest idea what floating point numbers are, or what the Real numbers they approximate are, so the idea that people (a) have a solid understanding of Math (let's just say Real Analysis) and that (b) this solid understanding is violated by the behavior of floating point numbers is a bit of a stretch.

E.g. I doubt many programmers realize that 1/10 doesn't have a finite binary expansion.
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This article, as well as the nytimes.com op-ed piece, misquote/misinterpret the 2012 Canadian study that supposedly showed transmission from pigs to monkeys via air.

From the text of the study:

"Under conditions of the current study, transmission of ZEBOV could have occurred either by inhalation (of aerosol or larger droplets), and/or droplet inoculation of eyes and mucosal surfaces and/or by fomites due to droplets generated during the cleaning of the room."

Also from the study:

"The experimental setting of the present study could not quantify the relative contribution of aerosol, small and large droplets in the air, and droplets landing inside the NHP cages (fomites) to EBOV transmission between pigs and macaques. These parameters will need to be investigated using an experimental approach specifically designed to address this question."

People need to be careful about how they read these academic articles. The authors of the two aforementioned news articles misinterpreted the findings of the study in a way that supports their personal viewpoints.

I do agree that this issue needs attention, but not misinformation.

Link to actual study:
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00...
Ahh cool! Wasn't sure if they either had/have an api to integrate with (MerchNow). Good luck with the app!
There's a post by Sam Altman which argues that founders should negotiate for a 30-40k cap for processing Series A paperwork.
Someone was collecting all the times it got references on HN. It was useful the first few times, after that it became a race to see who could post "FRIST", er, "BETTERIDGE" in each comment section.
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There are selection pressures against infections that kill the host. That may explain why highly quickly-lethal viruses are rare.
Do exactly what this person says. It's the smartest move here.
There's no obvious, singular definition of "is" for something like that tower. You have to describe it via a generating process or an equation. If you ask for the values "x" such that "x = sqrt(2)^x" then you need to consider the chance there are multiple such "x"es. If you consider it the limit result of continually applying f(x) = sqrt(2)^x then you'll get the least fixed point.
With that in mind, I remember being particularly interested in the way, during the gore/bush election recounts and court battles, the "rule of law" turn of phrase was suddenly injected into common (tv news) discourse and repeated ad nauseam.

I'd never heard that term being used in low-brow discourse before, and suddenly we heard it from every news source, every five minutes.
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Because in general, consumption drives economic growth which makes life better for everyone, whilst retained earnings allow complacent corporations to avoid innovating because they have big enough war chests to scare potential competition away. I can't fathom why you consider that to be a better alignment of incentives.
You can't have your cake and eat it to; either everyone follows all the traffic laws (including you) or no one follows all the traffic laws.
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Android is not a good example, for one, the usecase is almost no different to the desktop, except for the issue with power efficiency . secondly, the real time part of the system, ie. the controllers, doesn't run android. It rather runs L4 in the baseband processor - a microkernel.
Are you actually suggesting that having unplanned kids out of wedlock before you are ready is a good idea? Because otherwise, I don't see the absurdity. It's unquestionably expensive and if you don't want it, it does not have value that you would seek out, so yes, we can say it's a huge money sink.
I just had to create a package with my CSS: http://www.telesc.pe/docs/custom-themes/

and tweak two lines of JavaScript to alter the number of results per day.

To install it I followed this:

http://www.telesc.pe/docs/installing-telescope/

Used this to deploy:

https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up

On a 1GB Ram 30GB SSD Disk node-v0.10.30 on Ubuntu 14.04 Digital Ocean droplet

And got the domain on google domains, and that's it.
> That won't be a problem as there are no bikes on the highway.

You've never been outside of a city, have you?
I think people may get that notion from the enforced redistribution of money from the rich to the poor side of it.

You can argue about which works, but the capitalists and the communists and the socialists do all claim to want the greatest wealth for the greatest number.
I'm a little amazed that none of the comments in this thread mention the EU. If the Scots go for "Independence in Europe" as Salmond has said they will, surely that would be the model for Catalonia or Flanders to follow.
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Yes, smaller countries are more agile. A great number of issues in diverse, expansive countries can be solved with a greater focus on regionalism. The Chinese have approached this problem recently (post 1978) by increasing regional autonomy. See the various reforms implemented since 1978 leading up to their adoption of the M-form[1]. There is also the argument that signals can pass more easily through a more distributed system, meaning greater ability for decision makers to make informed decisions.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-form
I'm just curious, what exactly is the use case for a mail daemon on a single free-standing machine? (I'm not trolling here, btw.)
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Anyone know of an existing online front-end connected to Google Maps for this data?
That's an over-simplification, as when you get down to it, there are plenty of things that don't use the file API on UNIX, or at least have convenient wrappers so you're not blindly calling 'ioctl' left and right. I'm thinking specifically of the socket API for bind/connect/accept, the inotify interface, with inotify_* functions, the (less commonly used these days) serial port API, with the tc* and cf* functions.

> It may be that it's a fault of this implementation of an OO operating system.

I'm not convinced it's just this implementation. When everything's an object, there's additional overhead as a programmer trying to use the API.

File based API - Open a file using the same 'open' call you've always used, and then call 'read' or 'write' (or even 'ioctl') on the file descriptor. Call 'close' when done. There may be multiple files you need to access to get the particular behavior you want.

Object based API - Browse around the docs until you find that particular subsystem's API. Read a bunch. Finally instantiate the object you need. Set all of the objects various properties. Call CreateObject(object, options). Wait, go back and create a options object. Set all of the properties on that object as well. Try that until you figure out you needed to call CreateObjectEx instead. Hit your head on the desk for a couple hours until you figure out that you also need to call RunObject, and that one of the parameters on the options object was set wrong.

As a programmer, the file-based API is just a layer of indirection to make things easier, and shouldn't be considered a limiting factor.

Then again, there's this article about Event Tracing on Windows, that makes me think it's just this iteration of OO-based operating system, and a better designed API would do us all a favor.

http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0029.html
Many people have suggested removing the tax loophole that is interest on debt. It might have to be coordinated but I would not be surprised if it happens.
> I love where I live and I'm not leaving.

This is a big motivation for me as well. I live in Salt Lake City and all winter long I can ski at dawn before every day of work, and all summer long I can climb 11k' mountains 20 minutes from my house - benefits I'd be hard-pressed to recreate anywhere else. Moving to NY, SF, etc would be miserable for me as well (I've lived in NY). There are plenty of reasons remote workers prefer to be remote, not just the obvious ones! (Family, grew up there, etc).

The rest of my team is scattered across Europe, so the time difference can make an impact, but once everyone trusts one another I don't notice it making a big difference.
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Small nations would join forces in larger unions. That is, when it's advantageous for two nations to be part of a union, but neither wants to truly merge with the other, you get things like the EU. A deeper hierarchy, i.e. small governments which are themselves working as part of a larger government might lead to better local policies than what we have now.
While I admire the hacker spirit behind this, and can definitely respect that people want working firmwares on perfectly good hardware...

What these people will eventually discover is that, unlike Android, which was based on open-source from the get-go, they will meet the wall where they will find issues they simply cannot solve.

They should look into porting Android to iPhones instead.
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"ever-enlarging group that uses Siri and Google Now"

I was curious where we are on the stereotypical fad graph, the upswing, the plateau of disillusionment, the decline, whatever. Turns out its VERY hard to find usage stats.

"In the wild" I've never seen any human being use siri or now, other than fooling around a couple years back when it was new. My wife and I both have Now equipped phones and its mostly just an annoyance when it detects an upward swipe.

Anecdotally I find voice UI much like having printer support on my phone. Something I imagine would be insanely useful, so of course I have an app that can print to my printer. What an amazing network of possibilities. But in practice I never use it. Ever. Once to verify it works. Yup, it works. Never printed anything again. To some extent this is just "owning a laser printer" in general, which I really don't need and will not replace when it eventually breaks.
Well I'll be damned. Those sneaky bastards. Thanks for pointing this out.
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Well, in the end it is a trade-off - smaller countries are easier to understand and therefore easier to govern because they are less complex and probably more homogeneous. On the other hand you will lose some efficiency in comparison to larger countries because the relative overhead of running the country will increase. If somebody ever tried to figure out where the sweet spot might be?