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> Only the most trivial libraries actually support it.

... what kind of nonsense is that? Almost every library supports static linking to a basic degree at least. Heck, I statically link giant things like Qt and Boost every day at work.
Freestyle has been a very successful marketing concept, mostly for Coca-Cola. Less so for the stores that adopt the machine. It isn't exactly driving traffic into the stores like Coke had promised. They've also had a slew of maintenance problems.

Pepsi has had time to catch up and has recently launched Spire, their multi-flavor machine. They chose a simpler approach and skipped the whole microfluidic flavor cartridge thing. It's simply a revamped fountain/flavor dispenser with a new interface. It works just as well as Freestyle IMO, and actually has an advantage of using less physical space up front (but still needs the whole syrup stack behind the scenes)

http://www.pepsispire.com/
Quick scan and an inline search, was surprised to not see the Bindonce library referenced.

https://github.com/Pasvaz/bindonce

Is this not that viable? I was recently reading about it, seemed like a winner to me (but I've never used it).
I really like the content marketing approach DO took.

If you google for some standard server maintenance problem (e.g. migrating from Apache to nginx), it's usually DO which is ranked first. Their posts are relatively high quality, and there are a lot of them, enough to cover many common problems. For example: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migr...

It doesn't show annoying pop ups, anything like that, but after visiting those pages many times you might decide to give DO a go. Well, that's what I did.

Also, some people say that similar cheap VPS providers exist for a long time and what DO did was put a nice simple UI. That proves that to create a successful product, you don't need some new complicated features that your competitors do not offer. Making interactions with the system easier, improving user onboarding process by reducing friction can go a long way.
You've perfectly identified the battle, but, sadly,
I suspect the war has already been lost.

No way! We're FINALLY seeing an uptick in the open hardware front. Open hardware like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards, as well as a ton of new IoT startups (like Spark and their Photon), and the bevy of open sensors (like Grove's) are drastically lowering the barrier to entry for hardware tinkering and even garage-style production. Just check out Seeedstudio's online shop to see how many different hackable hardware options we now have.

For $20 you can buy a WiFi "kit" that you can plug an array of $10-20 sensors onto. That opens up A LOT of doors for people to either create budget hardware products to sell, or for inexperienced home users to piece devices together. If wifi/gps/gsm chips and sensors can be plugged together like Legos, and if software can be "beamed" to it from their Phone, then you now have a perfect breeding ground for cheap, open hardware products available to the masses.

I look on to the next 5 years with nervous excitement; I myself have even begun planning a cheap cloud storage device using nothing but an RPi, external hardrives, and a few parts from Newegg that I can assemble in a couple minutes. That's an open replacement for Apple's TimeCapsule that anyone could put together in 10 minutes if a kit of the parts were sold to them.
Do you still enjoy it? The reason I ask is that I go through slumps where I just don't have any creative juice left for a while.
Putin and most of the Russian government are criminals, so it is not hard to see why they are doing it.
ha, a Monday response on Friday.
> I'm no fan of systemd, but do we really need to be nitpicking its every failing?

Yes. When some developers are pushing down your (and mine) throat critical software that sucks _that_ much, that's the least someone can do.
The trouble always was being able to find all those missing pieces when the download took a long time. These scenes really encouraged a level of interaction with other users that is kind of missing today. Knowing someone who was consistently available and trading favors was somewhat common.
Seems it is down, Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.air...
I forgot to mention that. He applied at large and small companies but, the kicker is, he's all set for retirement, doesn't need the money, and only wants to bring in about $20K to $30K so he can help fund a non-profit he likes.
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The article states that every month the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics asks all men who are not working and not receiving unemployment benefits what their situation is.

How does this process work? Having been in this population, I know for certain nobody from the government has ever asked me for this information.
> What the content producers want is their own walled garden.

And that is, exactly, what they cannot have. There are plenty of ways to make money from digital content, but there is no way to control it. All you do is teach people how to find the stuff illegally, such as on the pirate bay, on youtube, on grooveshark or on watch series.

Or, perhaps even more dangerous, find some other content - that was what I did when I couldn't find some particular bands on Spotify. Turned out the bands I found instead were better.
Isn't that why RAR files were so popular for a while? Instead of just zipping up a 500MB file into a 350MB file for faster downloading, the .r01, .r02, etc. was perfect for downloading smaller chunks and only needing to find the bits you missed if something went wrong.

I have no idea if that's why it was done that way but it sure seemed to fit well. I'm pretty sure usenet is still a popular way to "pirate" TV shows and movies and such. It's just not as well known since it typically requires you to pay for access these days with most ISPs dropping support (and I doubt they'd allow access to the TV/movie groups anyway).
How many Americans would move to Russia vs Russians moving to America?

Apples and oranges my friend. Using the same academic tone, one could make even North Korea sound like a great civilized place to be, but then when you get there it isn't anything.
I guess I don't have a lot of exposure since I did not announce any concrete project. But I'm not seeing a lot of hiring ads... Maybe it's because I'm not fluent in .net, javascript or java.

I don't answer so many stackoverflow questions, but I use bitbucket regularly, several stackexchange accounts, several programming-oriented forums...

I guess it boils down to immigration policy...
I code that people can buy some more crap.
A bit nit picky but you got a double "so" in:

"We store your responses so so it's clear what you've been working on."
A lightweight alternate to this would be a script that emails you via mutt or another command-line email program in cron every day with the reply-to set to your bosses address:

mutt -s 'Daily status.' -e 'my_hdr Reply-To: bosses-address' your-address

Though some problems with this approach are:
1. Your emails would be prefixed with 'Re:'
2. Configuring mutt or other command-line email programs require some setup.
3. Your computer needs to be running when the cron job is set to execute.
So you think the population just got less moral recently? How about the fact that cheap food has less nutrition per calorie, and people have less money available in their food budget now. So they eat more calories because high-calorie food is what they can afford.
Hey! Look at me learning something!

Good info. Thanks.
Originally because it was fun and helped pay the bills. More and more recently I code to better understand things I'm thinking about or build small tools that are useful to me.
Actually, in simple terms it's like having a big credit card with $50m in a line of credit. Saying this is funding is like saying I just received $5,000 every time I open a credit card.
Work smarter, not harder. That's how to keep a job :)
There's quite a lot of disability fraud going on, some of it downright shocking.

Example #1: A couple of weeks ago, my brother, an orthopedist, had a 26-year-old man come in for an ankle sprain. In the course of working up the ankle -- mildly sprained, no problem -- he found that the patient doesn't work and is on 100% disability. Why? Because of acne. Yes, acne. Apparently when he was 19 or 20 he had such severe acne that someone deemed him unable to work and he was approved for 100% disability. Even though his skin now is perfectly clear, with some minor acne scarring the only remaining blemish, this man will likely never work a day in his life -- he will be drawing a disability check from the government for the next 60 years.

Example #2: Another brother is a police officer. Or was. He recently retired, at age 52, and now will draw a $70,000/year pension for the next few decades, which is a separate but related issue. But he tells me that -- even though he didn't personally take advantage of this ploy -- it is routine for retiring police officers and firefighters to go to "friendly" doctors and have those doctors certify them as disabled so they can get disability checks in addition to their pensions. It's called "taking the disability topper" or "getting DA'd."
The prosecution has every incentive to cast Ulbrecht in the worst light possible before the trial begins. Because they're not actually at trial yet, they can make claims that won't actually hold up to scrutiny in court. As others have already pointed out, if he really did order people's murders, wouldn't the prosecution indict him for it?

All that aside, it seems a big leap for Ulbrecht to make from online drug-deal middleman to someone calling out hits on people. He's not Don Corleone or Avon Barksdale, he's some tech kid with really poor judgement. I actually find the government's claim that he tried to hire an undercover as a hitman completely credible. It also seems to speak to the idea that he had no idea what he was doing and was completely out of his element.
I was going to sign up, but halfway through realized I can't do it without actually providing a payment method (in spite of the credit). I hope you got the $10 credit for my initial sign-up though.
Not really. I haven't worked on anything especially challenging lately. There is only so much enjoyment that can be gained from tweaking a CSS file here or there for 8 hours a day. By the time I get home I have no desire to work on anything else.
There's a core-utils in rust repo https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
Instead of a linked list to store hash collisions, it's using linear probing, which just uses the next open spot in the table. (Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, it looks like they're indexing into the table correctly to me)
Another myth is that the designers of Social Security in the US did not expect lifespans to increase over time; we are actually a little below target right now on expected lifespans.
If I recall correctly I think at some point Ocaml required a paid developer licence to be obtained from Inria. Has this changed or am I just misinformed?
That is likely one way the future will go, however there is a gag limit that will be reached - and likely fairly early - where the viewers won't like the shows. Also your choices are limited, if Tyrian Lannister suddenly runs around with an iPad your viewers are going to abandon your show.
I use and enjoy DigitalOcean. Good community docs, good support all around. I've referred a few people to it as well. I'm hoping they keep their support/pricing even if they get big.
"application error" ...is this site written in angularjs? If so I think we have the answer to that title! :)
Putin has started Russia-Ukraine war in February and Russian troops has downed MH17 using Russian AA complex. So he is responsible obviously.

Putin regime has killed several journalists.

The gay thing is not so clear, he may be gay himself.
Ask HN: How do you handle your personal photo library?
I've finally accumulated enough photos in iPhoto that I believe it is time to move/expand to something else. I have the library sufficiently backed up, but more wondering workflows/software/services for managing large collections of personal photos.

So I propose the question to you, how do you handle your photo library? What services do you use (be it cloud/local nas/etc...)? Best software for viewing/managing the collection? Any kind of workflow tips/tricks (i.e. how to combine photos from all the different devices into one collection)?
I think if you go looking you'll find cases where entrapment is brought up as a defense to murder charges. The bigger issue with entrapment is that it usually requires the defendant to concede the charged crime; to say he was entrapped into ordering a murder, Ulbricht would have to surrender any defense involving him not giving that order, or believing the order was anything other than what it appeared to be.
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It's a bit like Big Data and Deep Learning. As soon as those terms came around almost nobody is left working on Small Data and Shallow Learning.
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"Do this or we will kill your family" from an undercover cop?
Its also a good way to automate yourself out of a job.
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/rldemo...
While I think it's very appropriate to question media portrayals, I think you crossed a line in suggesting that russian treatment of gays is "a meme." (If I'm interpreting you too strongly, I apologize, but please just skim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia a bit, especially the section on "national law"; for me at least this leaves very little of the governments stance to question)

Similarly, when given such data as ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_R... ) it's very hard to suspect there isn't something amiss; this theory guided as well with russia's likely history of using assassinations as a tool prior. (I hate to bring up the Alexander Litvinenko case as that it's probably been beaten to death, but I think it's fair to say it doesn't lend me to trust the Russian govt.)

It's all fine and good to call for fact checking, but to neglect to take in the same facts you so loudly call for, you do yourself a great disservice.
Well if you are stranded half way across The Sahara, I think you'd fork out $7
When I was younger, the first real thing that grabbed me was magic (after reading, of course!).

To me, programming is like magic. It's that aha moment that you can induce in people (and yourself), that leaves them baffled and amazed (the sanskrit word for this is ascarya, wonderment).

Unfortunately, computer programs share two unfortunate aspects of magic:

(1) The trick, once repeated, rarely evokes the same reaction in the audience.[0]
(2) The implementation details are often mundane and boring (to laymen) when compared to the effect produced.

[0] i.e., I don't experiences moments of amazement every time I do a Google Search, but I certainly did the first time!

edit: formatting.
Right. Also, banning all VPNs would make commerce very difficult. And the Party loves commerce.

I'm sure they'd love to stifle all non-party-endorsed political discussion, but they're in a difficult position which is getting more and more difficult with every year. It will be interesting to see how the situation evolves.
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Why is it on my PC running windows or Linux, I have to sometimes reboot but not on my Android phone?
I like creating stuff. If money (and time I guess) weren't an issue, I'd do more than code: electronics, machining, etc. Hopefully one day I can afford a nice lathe.
Really curious how you feel about Litvinenko's work with MI6. Western agent and traitor to Russia should be non-controversial and not bad from Western point of view, but how about the dirtbag?
Yes. The recent policy is similar to Section 28, a British policy enacted in 1988 and only finally repealed in 2003. Though the text of the law talks of "protecting children", its effect has been to stifle the freedoms of gay people to talk openly about their sexuality.

Further, the Russian government has presided over an incredibly well-documented increase in violence towards gay people. The notion in the above report that Russian gay people enjoy greater freedoms than those in the US is utterly specious.

That the author takes John C. Dvorak seriously should tell you everything you need to know.
That would be one strategy for making the next generation of kids experts in networking, but for the scheme to work you would be putting whatever lame ass the government can hire to implement the system against every hacker in that country. The government would have to win every time, the hacker only once - and he would instantly get respect and social standing in his circles.
In Colorado 80% of medical marijuana patients were 20-30 old men with chronic pain.
>silhouette of a bearded man clutching at his scalp

Can you show the logo?
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Easy does it
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I've been following my DO allocation using New Relic. When I first signed up, I noticed the hypervisor stealing from my allocation. Not a lot, but some. After a week or two, however, this ceased. I can now report that for almost a year now I have been receiving my full allocation. I am very pleased with DO, but based on the good things that I've read on here, I'll give Linode a shot if DO ever drops the ball horrendously.
I do not find the idea that some dude sitting on a mountain of Dunning-Krugerrands might write an email allocating some tiny percentage of them to the project of getting rid of someone inconvenient to his business.

I would find the story less believable if it involved Ulbricht actually meeting some shadowy figure in the the parking lot of a Target or whatever. But nobody has alleged that he effectively ordered a killing; he appears to have just had a casual email exchange about it.

The factual complexity of the murder narrative, and the degree of dedicated intent Ulbricht didn't pay to it, seems like good reason not to base the case against him on it.
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I'm not suggesting censorship of any sort. I'm certainly the same way. I'm just suggesting level-headedness and a willingness to take or leave it and move on with life.
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Your Linux desktop gets kernel updates, your Android phone (depending on the manufacturer) doesn't, or doesn't very often at all.

Windows ~~doesn't~~ have to reboot when adding drivers/kernel modules since Vista, but most legacy installers will still force you too. And best practice dictates you should.
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> AFAIK, there are no more planned syntactic changes before
> 1.0.

I wouldn't count on this. :) The bar for breaking changes will continue to rise as we approach 1.0, but until that stable release is cut nothing is safe. Even the upcoming 1.0.0-alpha release in January will contain no concrete guarantee of syntax stability.
I don't think so either. The impression I get is that this covers retention policies for communications incidentally acquired during intelligence operations. A (perhaps poor) example might be, a raid on safehouse that yields hard drive that contains email records, where some of those emails are unrelated communications with a US citizen - it sounds like records like that would now be destroyed after 5 years if there is no specified need to keep them. Sound right?
because it is fun!
I love this thread because it peels back layers of time. I'll go next: There was piracy on the BBSes! :) And let's not forget the binaries groups on Usenet.
Bear in mind this is isohunt.to, which has no relation whatsoever to the old Isohunt: http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-to-from-zero-to-the-8th-bigg...
Because I love software engineering and computer science and besides many other things that involves coding too.
I used to work in a place just like that. Soul sucking. I feel for ya, man.
Youare supposed to put your knife down and then use your fork in your right hand to eat; not eat with two hands like a starving savage.
I would take this offline right away:

system("ls -l /");
Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you, tckr. Since initial delivery, we have made some great strides at reducing bandwidth usage. Just to be clear, we only hear about this being a problem for users with really small uplink bandwidth. As a co-founder at Space Monkey, I've subjected myself and my family to living with Space Monkey on this type of a link -- I have the lowest tier DSL connection available from my ISP in my own home and run Space Monkey there without problem currently.

We have recently delivered shared folder functionality via the web client, and are working on shared folders for the desktop as well. I've been personally using a beta version of desktop shared folders for collaboration for over a year. We want to make sure we nail this experience before releasing it more broadly.

Thanks for backing us early on! Hope you might give us another look at some point in the future.
Yeah, I can switch from one distro to another. That's a choice I have. But it's not so simple as you make it sound.

Switching distros is like moving to a new city. If you stay in the same state (or at least in the same country) it isn't too disorienting. But switching to something completely different (like on another continent, or going from an RPM-based to deb-based distro) will require some significant effort to adapt to the new situation.

We pick our distro of choice based on a number of factors. Just because it has some downsides doesn't mean we have to move immediately. But that doesn't mean we can't give (constructive!) feedback if there are problems.
I know that propaganda of sex to children had been forbidden last year (which makes one wonder, has it really been legal before 2013?), did not know this one. Any links would be appreciated. I can read and write Russian so the law's name would be good enough for me.
> Well, you're already arguing for something more liberal than current law.

Sure, but my point still stands :) Your friend shouldn't be allowed to copy their purchase and send it to you. They should be allowed to send you their purchase as a gift. People need to understand that just because something is digital it's not suddenly ok to endlessly copy and distribute it for free. What gives you the right? It may be unfortunate that the copyright owner of the show you like hasn't secured publishing/distribution rights in your country yet, but that doesn't give you the right to copy it for free because you really want to watch it.

> The movie companies put a technological mechanism in place to make that not work (in violation of EU regulations, but nothing seems to have happened about that), and got laws passed to make it illegal to circumvent that mechanism.

Yes, and I agree on this point. Region blocking sucks and it kills the gifting to an international friend scenario.

> But making the real argument, if it's my DVD, I should be able to copy it.

For your own personal use, yes.
You can safely use that as the Ruby is run in a limited contained env. Feel free to run `rm -rf` too
It's quite possible there will be a relative loss of status. You might go from being -- say -- in the top decile or oven top few percentiles of income/wealth in Russia, to being in a middle decile in Zurich, even if you are quite comfortable or your absolute income or disposable income ends up being larger.
I remember the agony of having downloaded 50+ separate RAR files via dial-up and having one or several of the RAR files corrupted or missing.
Skip the glacier and use crashplan for backup. Cheaper, and better options for restoring your data (like having a drive mailed to your house vs. pulling it over the WAN).