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At that point people will pull out their guns and play a real-world version of Half Life 2.
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This criticism of unemployment statistics is parroted whenever an unemployment discussion is had. But those discouraged worker numbers are tracked too. They tend to go together, and the recent news about hiring increases is not due to a massive increase in discouraged workers.

Sometimes there really is a net increase in employment.
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When I flew my parrot drone with the bumpers it was noticeably more sluggish, and a slight breeze would push it around. The instructions actually say to remove it for outdoors flight.
I would have tried running 'strings'on the process's memory instead of gdb. Ugly, but likely would have worked with some manual intervention.

As to 'cp' vs 'cat': neither is a builtin, so they both are risky. What if you also accidentally did a rm -rf / on that system?

Mac OS X doesn't have a /proc filesystem, so I cannot test it, but from reading the man page

read -N 1000000000 /proc/53165/exe $bash

should read all of bash into $bash, if it isn't ridiculously large, and

echo -nE $bash > myBash

should then complete the copy.
I think I may have just ruled out a client problem, I just tried it in Chrome and it has the same behavior. Are the specific steps still useful or should I follow up with the nginx folks instead?
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shadowstats is junk science.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8235378
Interesting but who generates the other two graphs and what is their source of data?
The FCC has to look at use of the RF space as a whole. Blocking Wifi inside a conference center is a good use of RF space for the purposes of the conference, but it's arguably a local maximum - if blocking technology were to come into widespread use the overall environment would be highly degraded. Suppose the landlord of the apartment building next to me wanted to squeeze out a little more rent and offered fast powerful wifi for all his tenants (blocking any attempts by the tenants at establishing sharing), but degraded the wifi in my house at the same time as an unfortunate side-effect.
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I worked for a cellular location company a decade ago, and the system was mostly used by US cell phone companies to meet the e911 US government requirements.

The (entirely reasonable, at least at the time) most telling requirement was 95% of calls needed to be located within X meters (50 IIRC) of the real location.

The other 5%? They could be on the moon.

Perhaps things have tightened up, but physics prevents it from being 100% (never mind all the system changes always occurring - new towers, new equipment, new staff, ...).

End result for those in the know: Use a land line, if you have a choice. If you don't, using a cell phone is still better than shouting in the woods.

Another interesting point: most calls were from car wrecks, and these were usually reported multiple times (like ~40 911 calls per wreck from different people - average from metropolitan area).

So playing the odds, its a safe system. But there will always be unlucky 911 callers - especially out in the boonies.
Open question: How do you stop an assassin when the assassin is a poisonous robotic bumblebee?

What about one hundred poisonous robotic bumblebees?

You might think these unfeasible near term, but a drone that simply flies high and drops 300 dumb, poison-tipped flechettes (think capillary-powered syringe tips) is feasible today, isn't it?

(Sorry for the derail, I think the product looks great, I'm just commenting on the rapid development pace of drones so far, wondering what implications might be in another ten years)
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I don't think it's really automation that's hurting US workers so much as outsourcing. Globally there are significantly more factory workers doing low to moderately skilled tasks now than at any point in history. We just don't pay them much because there is currently a massive oversupply globally and transportation is cheap.

However, wages in India and China are rising rapidly so that may change fairly quickly.
My mistake. My head immediately went to "acquisition" instead of "investment." Nonetheless, it is interesting how these investment decisions (and valuations) are made.
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It's not like Linux lacks disk image formats, though, like cloop (used by Knoppix). It's just that when you don't have to distribute weird metadata like resource forks, what's the point of using a whole filesystem versus a tar file?
You are massively overestimating the time dilation on that trip. You need to be getting into the 90%c range before you start getting into decent amounts of time dilation and then you start hitting into the increase in energy required for the same acceleration, as your nuclear power plant or whatever has also slowed down along with you, while you are increasing in effective mass.

edit - also, it is Alpha Centauri
Why are cp and cat "risky"?
>I love the autonomous following, which I guess is the big reveal here.

I love it too, although the previous version of the IRIS had this feature as well.

I want someone to take the out put First Person View camera on the drone and port it to an Occulus Rift so you can walk around, viewing yourself in third person mode.
Looking through the specs the flight time is just 16-22 minutes. How close are we to some sort advancement in that area, as that seems to limit the possibilities somewhat?

Is this a 'when batteries become magical' thing?
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Please don't actually do this. Ruby is not a functional language, if your project really needs to be functional all the way through just use Haskell or whatever. Otherwise just pull out the parts of your code would benefit from being expressed in functional style into a module and work on implementing a proper DSL.
Managers should be able to build and run the application (assuming its an application) and fix minor bugs, including going through review and check-in. The size of the technical issues they should touch with their own hands scales at least linearly with the size of the team. On a small team there is no problem with the manager being deep in the code. On a team with more than five people the size of things they should be dealing with starts to drop pretty precipitously, and by the time they are up to 15 or 20 people they should be doing not much more than the odd cosmetic tweak.

The reason for this is that life is a personnel problem, and as the team gets larger than 5 you just don't have that much room in your brain to accommodate the different modes of thinking required for dealing with people and code (or maybe you do: I don't, but my brain is particularly small, or so I've been told.)

With regard to the manager you described: they are simply a bad manager. Good managers are always working to facilitate their team's progress. Doing things like calling a meeting to harass over-worked people into working harder is bad management, and no amount of technical hands-on will change that. So my prediction is getting a person like that into the code won't help.
My experience with micro instances convinced me that they are basically a scam to get people to invest time in AWS. It seems they are designed specifically to throttle CPU and other resources in order to encourage people to use the expensive types of servers.

Digital Ocean works great for me. Not a massive ripoff, and actually works. One thing, if you use a 512mb instance for $5/month, probably want to make sure you create a swap file.
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All of the above, and more.
Yes, that should be the reason for purchasing a new computer. But that doesn't mean that components should be failing in that amount of time. My first logic board issue happened just outside the 1 year window in 2008, but this was an Nvidia issue... So can't blame Apple right? I would say that the logic board design was horrible regardless of the issues with the chip solder, based on my experiences even with the replacement I got from the recall in 2010. I agree with you on paying for high quality, but well made should include not breaking down.

Also, these days the reasons for upgrading that you mention are diminishing. We all know the limits of Moore's law were being reached, and I was able to upgrade my MBP to 6 GB of memory (Apple's weird limitations on it causing 8 GB not to work?) and put an SSD in it for a solid computing experience sans the other issues.
I'm not using the drone, but we got the radios that 3drobotics designed and they're great. The firmware is written by Tridge (of Samba fame) and the arducopter people use it heavily.
Yeah, I guess people do (I use a Mac, so I'm not subject to those regulations). I know that when you plug in a thumb/regular drive or phone, it tells you that an unlock code is needed
I wonder if it's simply the case that they are more popular in the US. Every house I have lived in has had a dishwasher (some are smart enough to figure out when dishes are clean and stop, instead of just using a timer), and it's generally expected that apartments will have one also.

Washing machines typically have settings for the type of clothes that are inside. And while I've never used one, the robotic Roomba vacuums are cheap and seem to be pretty popular.

If it is indeed the case that uptake of these items is much higher in the US, it would be very interesting to understand why. I doubt very much that it's cost since they're available at multiple price points. Maybe it's something like the reason why essentially no US homes have an electric kettle while essentially no UK homes don't have one. IOW, it's cultural!
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Well, it usually installs from source, but that's not really the point. It's a package manager, it is trivial to give it it's own home, (and thankfully they made that an easy thing to do), but to throw it in that /usr/local bucket by default? It seems like a decision that requires real justification and the reasons I have seen seem pretty weak.

I mean, in the end it seems like almost nobody cares, but it's always been a pet peeve of mine.
Sorry for the accidental delete, I'd somehow posted twice and deleted the wrong one.
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Good points!

As a manager, I absolutely hate: "Your team looks to you for leadership." The disturbing thing is, mine kinda does. :) I hope it's because they're untrained in the arts of conflict resolution and "Imagine yourself as more than 1 person". Society relentlessly drills people as hyper-individualized followers. (If it's not just training, may god have mercy on their souls...)

Instead of "emotional", better terms might be societal and psychological? For example, part of my training in the male gender is obnoxious use of abstractions unsupported by the particular situation. When people do this, my thoughts turn savage. (Naturally, I try not to do it except when preceded by, "Don't know if it applies, but please let's consider...")

Breaking ties & whatnot reinforces your position as boss. This can contradict goals like promoting others as leaders. (Say, in proportion to their disempowerment in society. Because overall they need to be more observant than the more aristocratic types on top.)

On firing, is it so hard to help them find a job elsewhere?

On rough edges... the more assholish your team, the more rough edges you'll need to show. But ideally, one should escalate from more discreet routes.
Pretty much, the more magical (where magical=low weight + high capacity) the battery, the more flight time. At least on my fairly simple quad, the batteries are the most weighty item.
The follow feature is killer. One day maybe when people go places drones will always follow, will really help for safety/documentation. For instance a trip into the Grand Canyon or a skiing trip if things went awry. Battery life, networking/communication distance needs to be much longer but there are so many possibilities. Maybe we'll see Russian videos with drones in addition to their dash cams that follow their drive.
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there are some serious problems with current http use. it's almost gore.
I am on Sprint, would like to test my 9-1-1 coverage, but unsure how without making a false 9-1-1 call.
Mistake #1: Thinking it is a good idea to use AngularJS or any other JS framework that reimplements loading a page.
Ask HN: Who gets VPN access at your company?
At my current company, VPN access is very hard to get. You have to ask your manager, and fill out a form, and he has to approve it, and then pass the request to systems etc etc. As a result hardly anyone has it.

How widespread is VPN access at your company? Does everyone get it, or only a select few? Also what is the size of your company? Mine is around 400 people.
I like the new terms, especially the parts that they've highlighted. Glad that they're taking a strong stance on the issues that worry new users of social networks
> Is this a 'when batteries become magical' thing?

Basically, yes.

To get more power you need a bigger battery, but if you have a bigger battery you are carrying more weight and thus need more power, so you quickly reach a point of diminishing returns.

Batteries are improving (and stronger/lighter materials to build with are helping as well), but nowhere near the sort of Moore-ish improvement we are used to seeing in other places.
Nice! Is this already integrated with $firebaseSimpleLogin (angularfire)?
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In reality this is a problem. When everyone around you is making more, things tend to cost more - e.g. real-estate in silicon valley is atrociously expensive for what you get, so you need a solid dual income or high-earner single income to afford a house - as the aggregate of these go up, your ability to afford a house or an upgrade diminishes.
>... claim that the wet plate methods were better matched to the printing technologies of the time (albumen prints)

That could well be, and people would have legitimate esthetic reasons for their preferences. However silver-gelatin dry plates and papers were both on the rise in the 1880's.

Arguably, "much easier" is "technologically better", but naturally it doesn't mean better in every possible way...
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Get that offer in writing and ask a lawyer first. Probably if there were something illegal its company X who's doing wrong but you don't want to be in the middle of that.

Said that, there is a sentence by Julio Cortazar (as I remember) that applies in this kind of problems and I found really useful: "When someone says that he will go, he's already gone". Go.
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I run a small web design studio, and even if my clients have some backup systems in place, there were couple of big disaster and lost data.

What is a safe and reasonable cheap way to store those (DB, FTP) backups?

Is AWS a way to go?

What about services like http://www.backupmachine.com/ and https://www.codeguard.com/ ?

My dream is to find some open-source system which I can install on AWS and run as my self-hosted codeguard.com solution.

Any suggestions?
Don't be so very sure about that: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/iq180_vs_8...

Yes, you can get a greater tonal range in a single capture if you're shooting B&W and know your way around the Zone System, but that is the sole remaining real benefit. And unless you're contact printing at the original negative size (and don't mind the inevitable damage to your neg or the quality loss of an interneg), you'd want to have at least a digital intermediate step between negative and print (unless you're turned on by contrast masking, spotting and bleaching under a loupe).
I blogged last week about setting up Heroku git push style deploys on a cheap VPS. This is really easy to do, but it is not the Heroku experience with scaling, fault recovery, plugins, etc.

Hopefully not too far off topic, but there are other hosting options to also look at:

Microsoft BizSpark: I was accepted a while back, and I am using it to try to get a business idea off the ground. Basically free hosting for a few years to get new business ideas started. I am using a Linux server. Microsoft Azure is pretty cool, and worth a look.

IBM BlueMix: I recently became interested in BlueMix because I am helping a customer use the IBM Watson system in their application. Anyway, if you are already familiar with the Cloud Foundry command line tools, then there is no learning curve for using BlueMix. You can host an app that uses 512MB RAM for free. As you increase RAM and other resources, then it starts to cost.
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Fascinating, never thought about these implications before for network carriers.
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Does anyone really have to explain why granting VPN access is very risky? All you need is one rogue employee.

No one has VPN access where I work, 30 employees.
That reminds me strongly of what the Ocsigen[1] project has been doing for years: Eliom as a web framework that generates both server and client side code via js_of_ocaml.

Unfortunately, it kinda suffers from a not so shiny website, cluttered documentation and high complexity. I kinda dream of those things being solved, then it would be a really appealing option.

[1] http://ocsigen.org/
Na'ama and the idea are awesome. congrats on the raise and good luck!
People seem to not take into consideration the concept of staying in the game. Facebook bought WhatsApp for the users, not necessarily to become Facebook users but to prevent them from becoming users of a competitor. Yahoo needs to make acquisitions so they can stay relevant and connected, otherwise they may not have any chance of succeeding in a much bigger way with all of their offerings.
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Hi HN,

What's the best practice as far as recording a single use script without bloat?

The project I'm working on now uses both Git and JIRA (issue tracker) for workflow organization.
I see. As I said I don't live in the city so I don't know why people do whatever they do there. Looks like I stand corrected, apparently in some cases using Uber everyday is cheaper than owning a car in SF.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/technology/personaltech/wi...

On a sort of related note, why do Uber and Lyft create so much drama? Brazenly sabotaging each other, burning shit, super-conspicuous launch parties, etc. Does this drum up more customers or something? I don't know about you, but a company whose job it is to get me safely from point A to point B in a motor vehicle pulling crap like this doesn't exactly sit well with me.
I read Tumblr was a few weeks away from running out of cash at the time Yahoo bought them. While I agree the jury is still out on the Tumblr/Yahoo acquisition, I do think they could have bought a nearly insolvent company a bit cheaper than they did.

That being said, maybe they did get it on the cheap if WhatsApp went for $19B.
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Erm, how is this okay?
In setting up (and verifying) several VoIP E-911 systems and other PSTN phone systems, I've made dozens of "test" calls without issue. When the dispatcher answers, just tell them that you are testing 911 service and that you would like to verify that you got connected to the correct dispatching center.

I've never had one of the dispatchers become upset at this - they want your 911 calls to succeed just as much as you do.
> what rights do I have to disable it?

Your rights probably are limited to calling the police, like pretty much any other non-immediate danger legal situation that involve applying the use of force.
> "[someLanguage] practice problems"
It might also be fall under "Études"

such as 'Études for Elixir'
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001642

which is a collection of exercises that slowly introduce you to a programming language.

I can read stuff out of a book, but I won't have that 'muscle memory' until I've spent that time in Vim and the compiler/REPL. So that when something new gets thrown my way, I'm not having to think back to the basics.
Still, perhaps a good idea to help learn Monads if Ruby is your native programming language. Its helped me, as Haskell is still weird to my eyes
i would have compared hyperloop more to something like pipelines than trains..
The lack of pay is the main issue...a lot of women simply cannot afford to take the unpaid time off work.
There's about 20 of us in the office, and maybe 5 or so that have VPN access. If you don't need it, you dont get it.

Conversely, I used to work for a big red o, and everyone had VPN, with access cards etc.

Depends on the job/environment. Usually if you need it, you'll be granted it.
This would be an amusing way to funnel lots of money directly into Google's pockets, I guess.
At my last job (ClearChannel, now iHeartMedia), it took a form and approvals from my manager and several department heads including IT and HR. There were 10,000+ employees there. At my current job, we've grown from 7 to 35 since I've been here, and everyone has a VPN login, but few people use it.