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I don't think anyone particularly likes public transport or car transport. It's just a matter of what's necessary, what's available, what's frictionless, what's affordable.

So in Texas where driving may be affordable, necessary because there is no alternative, frictionless because businesses buy huge plots for car parking and perhaps slightly cheaper and more ubiquitous gas stations, a car makes sense. Particularly in an environment where everyone has one and we tend to want to conform.

Then take Amsterdam (where I live). Most amenities are nearby, walking distance. Separate bike lanes on every single street. Everyone uses bikes. Parking is crap (canal parking is a nightmare) and expensive, as are cars and gas compared to rather ubiquitous tram, bus and metro service and a strong intercity train network. A car is more expensive, gives more friction, and wholly unnecessary.

The exception is if you work far outside the city. Train is fine but a personal car can be a bit more dependable and more flexible despite a nice train system.

In short, I think it makes a lot of sense to expect say a stereotypical Texan to be fine not having or needing a car in say a city like Amsterdam. He certainly wouldn't feel restricted to walk or use public transportation, rather my point is, that he'd feel restricted having to use a car in a city not designed for cars. I can't imagine anyone driving everywhere in Amsterdam. (the far suburbs are perhaps the exception, what we call 'outside the ring', but even then italian-style scooters are more popular than cars here)
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Sorry, my mistake -- the code changed slightly from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3, and the annotation didn't get cross-posted. I've updated it!
The way I read it, the concern he is raising is that such a thing was even discussed. There are a lot of "serious people" that seem to think that optics are incredibly important in international politics (or at least, they emphasize them, maybe they have some more cynical reasons for doing so).
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Living in the rural midwest, the concept of clapping on 2 and 4 was a foreign concept to most people I knew growing up. I lucked out because my dad was a music teacher. He caught me clapping on 1 and 3 once and promptly fixed it. Thanks Dad!
I wouldn't trust anyone at Comcast to walk my dog, much less spy on me.
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My point is that they still fail. Both liquid and solid boosters are a lot more mature than hybrids, no doubt. But I'm not so sure that either is fundamentally more reliable. And for hybrids to mature, somebody has to use them.

"Liquid/liquid engines, by any measure, are orders of magnitude more stable."

What do you mean by stable?

A reason to go with hybrids, at least on paper, is that they are mechanically simple but throttlable, hopefully combining the simplicity of a solid booster with the ability to throttle and shutdown of a liquid.

Of course, much of that also applies to blowdown liquid systems, and I personally find a blowdown methane/lox system particularly compelling. I figure Virgin wanted to avoid cryogens, though.
I found it liberating, like a weight I didn't even know I'd been carrying had been lifted. I can't even ride transit regularly due to a disability but I felt lighter being able to walk and bike and able use transit on my (fairly common) good days to go anywhere.
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bigger cities in most first world countries generally have more expensive housing

This is partly because they're innately more desirable locations -- people are willing to pay more to live in a city with major sports teams, museums, opera houses, universities, shopping centers, etc.

housing prices to income ratios

The most recent statistics I've seen show Vancouver as having the highest housing price to income ratio; while Vancouver's median housing price is relatively modest (closer to Santa Barbara than San Francisco or San Jose), Vancouver's median household income is quite low (around the same as Minneapolis or Baltimore).

Interestingly, if you look at Vancouver's recent housing price trends, you'll see two very different trends: Prices of detached houses have roughly doubled in the past 8 years, while prices of condos have barely kept up with inflation. This makes perfect sense in terms of geography: There is no more land available for detached houses in Vancouver, but condo construction is booming (a few years ago Vancouver had more units of condos under construction than New York).
Ok, Less likely than the chance your computer will spontaneously catch fire while running your code. Less likely than the chance the sun will emit a colossal solar flare and engulf the earth in a firey death.
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We have a Django stack :) https://bitnami.com/stack/django
The spacecraft part.
An event is the start of a note or drum strike.
This already exists in Hungary:
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2011/06/22/hungary-to-ta...
Note that John O’Sullivan is a zealous conservative commentator of the O'Reilly sort and by spreading this article you are letting him set the narrative, not the marginalized groups he attacks (which he even lists: "[Muslims], Christians, Gays, feminists, [...], ethnic activists").
Just use the wrong finger.
Which companies use ASP.NET in Houston?
Bodes well for Rust as a server language. No GC, and almost as pleasant to write as a high level language. And with memory safety and a compiler that catches errors like crazy.
I hear it clearly at 0:40.
Your forgetting the countless times that a test pilot has saved the aircraft/spacecraft from destruction. If it was unmanned and flown by computer, it would have been a fireball.

At least one shuttle flight would have been lost if the crew didn't fly manually to correct for a malfunction. STS-4 PIO'd on landing and would have crashed if auto-stabilization wasn't overridden by the pilot.
I basically hate every one of these services that I've ever used. Crashy, resource-intensive clients.

At work we use HipChat which is "better than skype", but still pretty crap. In stark contrast to the rest of the Atlassian suite which is basically good.

IRC, in the form of irssi+screen on some kind of unix host, is however awesome. There's no great mobile solution, and OTR crypto should be available on top.

What's amazing to me is so many companies in this space and so much money and all the products suck.
It looks like this is in the specific context of Java application servers. Is that correct? Can anyone explain how the advice generalizes?
And there's been another article now showing that someone else was able to successfully obtain a certificate for that same .onion address.
Assuming unique MAC addresses is a very poor assumption.

At one company I worked at we once received a huge shipment of ethernet cards (several thousand) that all had the same MAC address. We didn't realize it until customers who had purchased multiple pieces of equipment began to call in.

I've heard several similar anecdotes from other engineers at other companies.

Yeah, very bad assumption.
That's classic.

There's a common variation without the student. The prof just pauses after saying "obvious", puts down the chalk, stares at the blackboard, runs out and then comes back, says "it is indeed obvious" and continues the lecture.
First time I've seen "foreign despots" listed as a marginalized group.
I believe you can use IRC clients to connect to both HipChat and Slack.
I read Thorough in high school. So it's not that atypical...
(wow, -4! I guess I need to choose my wording even more carefully! Sorry about seemingly not taking the right side here, people!)
How do you even manage to kill not one but three people with shrapnel during a pressure test? Proper safety procedure demands that anything potentially shrapnel-producing is contained within an enclosure and that engineers are outside the area while testing takes place.

The whole incident indicates a lax safety culture.
Agreed. I just tried it and it doesn't do anything on Chrome on Yosemite.
well when everything is an offense to someone your going to need a right to offend just to say something they don't agree with.

groups have become adept with identity politics, they use it to stop debate. When your ideas are unpopular you instead lay claim that the attack is bigoted because the disagreement stems from the the identity of the person's whose idea was debated, not their idea. This allows one side to effectively stifle debate and run amok
This is pretty cool and well done, but I kind of wish there was no need for this to exist.
It seems that as the world progresses to higher level language, bit manipulations and binary calculation are the realm of dinosaurs.
A related thesis can be found in: 'Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought' by Jonathan Rauch.

Which has actually been sitting on my to-read list for a while. Has anyone read this?
You're right, it seemed strange to edit his quote, but I figured out a way to do it without putting words in his mouth.
Do most phones actually respond to pings?
Also doesn't work on Firefox on Yosemite.
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This analysis shows that websites are increasingly composed of many assets spread across many different servers. And it suggests that trying to go against this heterogeneity trend is wasted effort, as CDNs are always improving.

That said -- are there teams out there actively trying to centralize everything? e.g., pre-computing all the assets needed to serve a page and delivering it in as few bundles as possible from a single host?
Good post, but is pinging the broadcast address really "passive network surveillance"? My definition of "passive" involves never sending new network traffic.
I suppose we'll have some post-course experience shared on the internet, but I fail to see the point of the course only from the news article. Maybe I lack creativity?

Although I agree that "[...] the Internet is actually making us smarter.", I wonder what will students write after a semester of 3-hour weekly lectures surfing the web.
The benefits of prototype inheritance have always seemed rather dubious to me. The programmer wants to express that there are a bunch of objects with the same structure and behavior; the compiler needs to know which objects have the same structure and behavior. Forcing both sides to pretend that each object is a unique and special snowflake when that is both counterfactual and inconvenient for all involved seems pretty silly. That said, C++/Java-style class-based o.o. is no panacea either and having both things in a single language is just crazy.
Goodness yes, I've listened to it a bunch of times and the pre-switch and after-switch difference is obvious, but the transition is like magic to me - I can't hear it, I can only realize that it happened.
Yes, this is definitely an active scan. However, hooking in to DHCP syslogs would still be passive. It's nice that the author provided an active alternative in cases where you might not have access to the DHCP logs.
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I think he's referencing the "Resolution on Combating Defamation of Religions"

http://www.un.org/press/en/2009/gashc3966.doc.htm
You still left in "ethnic activists". I assume white nationalists are included, as well?

Identity politics are doomed to anachronism and detriment.
There is also at least an order of magnitude between their maximum altitudes.
Great! In only 41 words, and seemingly off-the-cuff, you've crafted a perfectly reasonable definition of an 'acceptably physically safe space'.

The term 'safe' should never have been brought over like this to apply to psychological comfort. With physical safety, there is a clear and obvious event around which related concepts can be built: the event of physical damage to the body. We can point to those events, and it is easier to trace back a chain of cause-and-effect and discuss reasonable domains of responsibility.

With 'emotionally safe' spaces, there is no line that prevents the notion from being abused, and substituted for "the absence of anything I don't like".
No idea on Mike Pall, he has not given any visible clues.
HN is already fairly liberal (this includes me) and it does not hurt to have a conservative opinion here from time to time.
My outlook of life changed in many ways, but I find myself more aware of the world around me and I'm, I think, more cynical.

More tired too. Everything feels like a chore. If I don't focus on myself, I let my hygiene go more than I usually would. I am a monkey, living in a capitalist dream... or nightmare. But all of this is the left over from the depression.

I feel I am a more loving person. Empathy was a skill that I severely lacked before. I can connect more easily with people now.
I'm sure Firefox can do the same thing (allow you to create a shortcut to open a Firefox window in chromeless mode to a website), but I'm not sure how - hence only mentioning Chrome.
Basically eLua gives you some extra low memory support plus a build system and drivers for microcontrollers that have a standard interface.
A lot of platforms (iOS) also spoof MAC addresses too
Large, powerful, democracy. Pick two.

You can have a powerful democracy with a small number of constituents because then an individual has a realistic capacity to rally his neighbors and make change when something sour is going on.

You can have a large democracy when the government's power is strictly limited to a small well-defined area of influence, because then most constituents can realistically remain informed about that specific area of influence.

You cannot have a large, powerful democracy. A large democracy with many powers can't resemble a direct democracy because constituents can't realistically remain informed on so many issues. But it also can't resemble a republic because that forces voters to choose between e.g. the party that promotes censorship and the party that promotes police militarization, without sufficient influence to affect the position of either party.

The problem is that more and more of the things people describe as "democracies" are large and powerful.
XMPP clients (e.g. Pidgin/Adium).

But they block OTR (at least HipChat does), and you lose most of the functionality.
Are you sure? I get the impression we're not very good at recognizing other life forms, or alternative forms of intelligence.
It's already a problem -

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/10/27/man-spends-six-months...
Don't forget "broadsheet" newsletters (caused by another tax).
> Any proof of this?

The OIC has historically been one key agent pushing for international declarations and laws providing a general protection against "defamation of religion", largely through the Human Rights Council, and has often been successful in declarations on this issue through the HRC, and from their into resolutions passed by the General Assembly.

The US and EU have engaged in recent years in dialogue on this issue with the OIC (mostly, a dialogue focussed on ensuring that individual rights were protected and on making that the focus rather than defamation of religion), and one result of that dialogue has been the ending the OICs campaign on the issue in 2011. [1]

So, the WSJ piece distorts the facts in two ways (the OIC has specifically sought an international ban on defamation of religions generally, not on "blasphemy" under the terms of any particular religion, and, more importantly, while the dialogue the WSJ piece points to did, in fact, occur, its purpose and effect was not to reinforce the campaign the WSJ misrepresents, but to deflect that campaign.)

> My natural inclination is to say that this is conspiracy theorist territory that should have no proper place in the WSJ.

The "conspiracy theorist territory" part is, IMO, accurate; while it may not have a proper place in the WSJ by some standards, its pretty typical of the editorial content of the WSJ even before it became News Corp property. Even when the Journal's reputation for news content was rarely questioned (which is much less the case now than it was a couple decades ago), its editorial content was generally recognized as being more than slightly rightward tilted, and often far-right fringe.

[1] http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/03/24/idINIndia-558617201...
So the 'proof' is the skink is still a skink?
True belief here is one actually held. A belief is also not by definition the opposite of evidence, certainty or rationality. It's just something accepted as true, due to evidence or despite it, certain or uncertain, rational or irrational.
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I think we disagree about what ethnic activists are, I just saw it as people who campaign for recognition as a valid group of humans (e.g. Palestinians).
This is cool!

This have the problem that most phone devices does not reply to ping; that's why software like fing[1] need to send an ARP to each ip in the network space; every client in the network is required to answer those.

[1] http://overlooksoft.com/fing
> One of the core features of liberalism, especially Anglo-American liberal democracy, has been a tolerance of divergent opinions.

An interesting workaround attempt I've seen some self-proclaimed liberals use is the "intolerance of intolerance" argument [0]. "Hate speech," they would argue, is an expression of intolerance, so it's acceptable (some would say necessary) to be intolerant of such speech.

I'm not a fan of the concept, because it essentially redefines the pejorative usage of "intolerance" to something more like "intolerance of things which I think should be tolerated." It becomes fairly circular, because now we're just saying that we ought to tolerate those things which we believe we ought to tolerate.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
There is no free speech without accountability. In both the cases of censorship and unmoderated speech, silencing of opinion takes place. In the former the silencing is through authority fiat; in the latter, by "shouting down", misrepresenting foes, making threats, and poisoning discussion from the inside.

In both cases, there's a presumption that some actors will aim only to "win," and thus treachery is necessary. However, if we treat political discussions as an iterated game like that of Prisoner's Dilemma, then what we really need to know to make a good decision is, "who is saying this and are they credible?" If they are not credible, then "tit for tat" applies and we eliminate their opinion in computing upsides and downsides to a policy.

At the low level where politics are encountered, of course, we don't have visibility to that kind of information. We have lengthy texts and short zingers that build arguments that may or may not be credible, and we have to go through them one by one.
Just had a quick look and I was confused after clicking on the "Learn More" button. I kept clicking the "Why should I try this?" and getting no reaction.

I did not realised that I had to continue to scroll to see more details.
But then you might accidentally find yourself in an unsafe space one day. Its better to convert enough people to your opinions about safe spaces, and eventually force the world to conform to your vision.
Somewhat similar to some of the posted ones, my father relays me this story about a professor he TA'd for:

The professor taught a class with a single student enrolled, who would sometimes show up late. However, the professor would always start the lecture on time regardless, and so the student would have to quickly take notes to catch up. If the professor filled up the board before the student arrived, he would simply begin overwriting the old material, and the student, once he arrived, would be in a race with the professor to copy it down before it was erased. One day, the student missed the class entirely, and the professor gave the entire lecture to an empty room.

I thought this story was apocryphal, but my dad said it's likely true, as it was fairly specific about this professor.
It's doubtful that an entire manufacturer was aware or attempted to solve this.
This could also read:
"At Penn, students get credit for going to college."
"1. They didn't stay with rubber/nitrous."

This you believe so strongly because a news story stated it?

Wait for the accident report. It will say "rubber".
They already do. Postgres and SQL Server have UUID types.
Makes sense. The fun will be when we have moderately accurate methods to extract information straight out of the brain (if your password is cAt and the prosecution shows you pictures of animals and see which parts of the brain lit when you see cow, dog and cat and guess that the password is feline in nature)

Then the fifth will have a hard time.
Thing is that there are already tests out there that test for programming ability but they tend to either be very academic and mathematically focused like project euler or on trivia related to specific languages or technology.

When you have a working team, chances are that you already know most peoples strengths and weaknesses as it relates to the job function, so a test isn't so useful in finding areas for improvement. When hiring someone new you are either looking for people with the same skill set or a complimentary one.

The problem remains that the best hires are probably in enough demand and know that they can get a job without having to take your test, especially if they need to pay to take it, so the people most likely to try and get a good score will be the worse hires who have a strong incentive to try and game the test which would be easy if the questions don't change often.

Also, if the test were proven to be a reliable assessment of skills across the entire industry then people who scored highly on the test would quickly start asking for much higher salaries. But what employers are looking for is to get a lower salary on employees who have a good skill match for the employers specific problems even if the don't score well in some areas. So there is a reason for employers to develop their own tests.
The growth seems baked into this (really high) valuation to me.
Are you a professional quote maker?
nostromo should know better than to submit content from the editorial section of the WSJ. This is a low-quality source.
Very nice I laughed my AO. Goddammit for years I wondered why the damn printer kept saying PC LOAD LETTER. It was a revelation when I eventually discovered why. A disappointing revelation since in my part of the world you never see and basically can't buy letter size paper (we use A4). Shame about the cat but it will crystalise the cat total cost of ownership.
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We can get better conservative opinions than WSJ editorials.
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You are certainly very good at finding evidence to validate your prejudice.
Maybe you have to be a capable engineer to evaluate others. But you could still potentially do better then HR.

As for GPAs, read http://qz.com/180247/why-google-doesnt-care-about-hiring-top...
> I've never seen anyone dig through VCS history to gain a better understanding of code.

I'm actually going through the ancient CVS history of Mozilla Firefox in order to learn about a relatively poorly understood piece of code that's still in there to this day:

http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2014/07/07/docshell-in-a-nutshell-...

and

http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2014/08/10/docshell-in-a-nutshell-...
"2. Like the sort used on Antares?"

I think Paul McCartney was about 23 years old when the engines powering that Antares launch vehicle were fabricated in Russia in their race against the Americans to the moon. An antique liquid/liquid vs an inadequately qualified hybrid: no winners.
I usually use name.com. Nice UI and decent prices/coupons available
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