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People don't dread going to jury duty because of any sort of dress code. I wore jeans and a t-shirt to jury duty last time I was called.

They dread going to jury duty because they'd rather spend their time doing something that contributes to their own personal well being (doing a job, raising a family, having fun).
I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

Well OK...

More or less like writing any kind of virus.

Apple likes to claim that OS X is more secure. In reality, most of those who write malware own Windows boxen.
Soy and other vegetable proteins are the most resource efficient to make. You have to feed insects something, they don't make all aminoacids.

Now bacteria and in particular cyanobacteria, that is the future. That is a 10x performance over current crops.
I don't compete for such RFPs (I'm actually kind of on the other side of the table at the moment :) ).

However, I have friends whose companies do, and yes, they've made a sustainable career out of this sort of work.

The key "secret" is that, by the time the RFP comes out... it's almost always too late. It's much better to have built rapport with the organization, know its needs... and at least over here, the RFP will be written with one or several products or companies in mind.

There are several very good answers here (dagw's point of finding the lower limit is a great one), and I've also seen other good posts here on HN, I'll see if I can dig some up.
Having encrypted information on your computers is a liability. It could be misconstrued as information you have access to and relevant to whatever criminal charges you might have against you. Failure to provide the encrypted information, even though you know you can't decrypt it, can land you in jail for life.

But that's pretty obscure and unlikely.
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As a side note - I wish more interviewers would ask debugging related questions. I had a couple coworkers at Google who would try them ("Here's some code with some bugs in it. Identify them, or talk me through how you would identify them"), but they were definitely in the minority. Debugging is its own skill, very different from writing green-field code, and yet a large portion of the time we spend as professional software developers is spent debugging.
Yeah, I've actually used Emacs off and on for almost 30 years. For the past 10, I've used IntelliJ a lot more.

C-M-x / is cool too. It will show all possible results in another window.

My point is that modern tools work better out of the box. Emacs packages have evolved but that don't ship standard and that creates resistance for new users. There are actually a few solutions so that requires research and experimentation (i.e. more time). ido, auto-complete, cedet ? Helm looks like it might be the new power user tool?

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Helm
In airline accidents, the NTSB and first responders handle the black box recovery. The airline doesn't touch the unit itself. The NTSB techs read the data and CVR audio.

Airlines are not allowed to comment on the investigation (including interpreting black box data) so the only official version is that of the NTSB.

I've never heard of an airline accident in the US where public or passenger video (cellphone or otherwise) contradicted the black box data.
There is quite a big difference. At the computer I have a myriad of distractions available at a click away.
If you had bothered to read my previous post, you'd know that I won't have my mano or metate because I will have lost them both to YOU in a frivolous bet.

I'll look into those bundled pipes. You figure out how to fend off the co-op members when we try to break into their granary. They don't care much for city folk down there.
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I hadn't really thought about that. My wife is a feminist and it is one of the things that drew me to her. She has definitely helped me recognize these kinds of things in the past. And I have become more sensitive to this, but clearly I have a ways to go.

Thanks for bringing this up.
I certainly think that you could solve a puzzle and still have it down as meditation. In fact, that's sort of what a zen koan is. However, a koan would be designed to be tough to crack, but simple in structure (as opposed to complex). There's something to be said for learning to operate the brain in ways that are different to the sort of logical, problem solving kind of operational state that I'm sure many here (myself included) spend most of their time in. A koan is designed to make that part tired until it gives up. In that way, the inability to make progress with the puzzle itself is a design feature of a koan. But working on it produces a sort of meta-progress that has to do with the mind. Meditation is weird in that way, in that it's not about learning to play the piano, but learning to play the piano player. So to speak.

Also, boredom goes away eventually. Single minded, laser focus attention is one thing that this practice cultivates, and the kind of focus that I'm talking about is mutually exclusive with boredom.

Also, the shit your brain will make up and entertain you with once the chatter dies down is absolutely fascinating all in itself.
I don't know - but in SourceTree's preferences, you can tell it to "Use System Git". On a Mac, if your system's git isn't what it ought to be, then do `brew install git` (assuming you have Homebrew installed) and make it use that git rather than the Apple one.
so basically you are getting $865M for drawing pretty charts?
Itching is also a symptom of anxiety, so it could be that Morgellons patients get into a vicious circle of anxiety causing itching, which then causes more anxiety.

You can see an extreme example of this itching in alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal - apparently it causes feelings of your skin crawling.
Amazon just unveiled one-hour delivery. That was my idea. I'm crushed.
No, I meant what I said. Specifically, I was referring to this[1], where the EP says regulators should consider splitting up search engines from other commercial services.

That doesn't mean I believe they well split them up - nor does the resolution say that, it's just a recommendation - but it does mean they're increasing the pressure on Google, and so potentially on Android as well.

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/2014...
Why do people create dumb apps?
For quite a long time, I only used my Win2k box through a Linux IP Masquerading gateway. But during a long stay at a hotel, while looking for a new place to live, I noticed that my dialup modem activity lights flickered even when I myself wasn't doing anything online.

I asked a friend who recommended a firewall product whose name escapes me just now. Most coders think of a "firewall" as a way to keep bad packets out. This firewall would also keep bad packets _in_.

It identified the miscreant as the Welchia worm. What Welchia does is to install some completely legitimate Win2k security updates, as well as installing itself on some other Win2k box.

The only really _bad_ thing it did was to slow down my network.
The only one here I've been able to try was Divvy. Thought it was pretty useful in the pre-multidrag days.
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For C/C++/etc., there's all the suggestions you can eat on this page: http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html

For code completion, I had decent success with company-mode and its clang backend. This was a good return on time invested as it took all of about 5 minutes to set up and worked immediately on both Linux and Mac OS X (only requirement is clang-3.something, I think - apparently works on Windows too, albeit unsupported). Initially I found it a bit slow, but after switching off the while-you-type completions I became much happier.

More recently I've started using rtags (https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags) for code browsing. This was a bit tricker to set up, as I had to build my own copy of clang and llvm (rtags needs a more recent copy than company-mode so the one from the Linux package manager wasn't good enough). Luckily this wasn't too hard - the official instructions are perfectly clear - and it was relatively plain sailing from then on.

Compared to Visual Studio or Xcode the results overall are inferior. The browsing or completion fails more often than VS/Xcode, even with system symbols, for reasons I have yet to investigate, and of course it's far from plug-and-play, particularly in terms of automatically getting the right header paths for the current project. But it's proving workable, and is a huge improvement over ctags, particularly for C++.
It also contributes to sexual harassment. It's a bit evil, basically.
reddit.com/r/meditation is pretty decent
The inn's English homepage: http://www.ho-shi.co.jp/jiten/Houshi_E/home.htm

Rates start from Y9900/person (~US$83) for a midweek stay with two meals, although better rooms and meals can cost considerably more.

Reviews seem a bit mediocre though: this is a large ryokan geared for large groups, and not particularly luxurious as far as these things go.
For jobs where tipping is expected, in most states the expected tips can be taken away from the minimum wage - so a server could be paid $2 per hour + tips.
I'd be completely cool with that, were the implementation of that feature to only communicate between devices that I myself own.
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Are any of these systems open source?
Thanks. Is there a specific time of the day that this should be done? This seems really simple for what meditation has been advertised by some camps and "gurus". I can give five such minutes for the betterment.
Perhaps you are a tumbler, or a government man. Either way, you should keep one step ahead of yourself.
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As I said I am mentally ill. If I tell my own mother something she disagrees with or does not understand, she regards it as a symptom of my mental illness.

For example I told her that I am a webmaster, and that it costs me money to register my domains and host my sites.

She regards such statements as evidence that I have not been taking my medicine, and will, from time to time, call the police to get me involuntarily held in a psychiatric hospital, whose staff will agree that I must be delusional, because I claim to be a webmaster.
I see after a Google search that it has been mostly popular press outlets without experienced medical reporters who have commented on this story so far. For the most part, what we are seeing online are recycled editions of the study group's press release. The underlying journal publication "Mindfulness-based cancer recovery and supportive-expressive therapy maintain telomere length relative to controls in distressed breast cancer survivors" is open-access,[1] so medically knowledgeable people here can read the study and check whether its methodology makes sense.

I note that the lead author of the study, Linda E. Carlson, is part of a group of cancer researchers promoting "integrative" approaches to cancer treatment. Another cancer researcher commenting on this approach thinks that "integrative" cancer therapy so far promises much more than it can actually deliver in improved patient outcomes.[2] The original headline of the Fast Company article submitted here, already changed by the Hacker News moderation team, is surely wrong, and it's not at all clear that this extraordinary claim will replicate if an independent group of researchers attempt to replicate the results. If I or any of my loved ones should happen to have a case of cancer (which is rather rare in my family), I will ask for advice on how to treat it from a doctor who practices science-based medicine.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.29063/full

[2] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/selling-integrative-onco...
My iPhone doesn't make a peep in silent mode using either the builtin camera app or Camera+.
Exactly. This isn't some love relationship, it's about keeping the family name in the company. The manager loses his family name but gets the perk of inheriting a company out of it.
True, it's possible to write modes for other languages in IDEs, but I get the sense it's much more work than it is with Emacs, so Emacs has modes for more languages than the heavy IDEs like IntelliJ.
"Or don't pay a living wage."

Why does every job have to pay a "living wage"? Almost all the pizza delivery folks I knew were doing it part-time for extra cash. Pizza delivery is not a long term career. This notion that every job is a career job is just silly and is detrimental to our youth trying to pick up extra cash and some experience.
As andyjpb said, it's encoded in the foreign key.

Many ORMs have capabilities for "implicit joins" with either lazy or eager loading of the foreign rows, for example the latest Entity Framework from Microsoft.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj713564.aspx

If you like that kind of "automagic" things, check out Genexus:

http://www.genexus.com/global/home?en

it's a 4GL programming environment that has as one of its main strengths that kind of implicit joins and automatic retrieval of data you mention, as long as you follow the naming conventions.

It's a REALLY fast way to build your standard line-of-business application (and it automatically generates iOS and Android apps too), but it falls apart for any other use, and it's UI is not that flexible usually.
> Then your proof would be rejected by the compiler.

Only for some types of mistake, surely. If that was always the case, we'd have a compiler that could read minds.

> As for whether you're proving the right thing or the wrong thing, a type system is no less helpful than a test suite.

Really? I can write down in my test suite, "assert (add 1 1) == 2". Anyone can come along and look at that and make sure it matches the spec. We can add additional tests for various bounds, and possibly use a quickcheck-like tool in addition, and for 99.99% of use cases be happy and confident that we're at least writing the right thing.

What's the type for that and does it actually have any resemblance to "the add function adds two numbers together", or do I have to read a couple of papers and have a background in university-level math to convince myself that the proof actually does what it says?
No, it's not an insult. I just think it's crazy that anyone sits around fretting about the artistic merits of Instagram photos. I don't see how one person's crummy photo has any bearing on someone else's seriously good photo. You or I can type any gibberish into a text box on the internet, and it has just as much right to exist there as anything else. And it doesn't affect how good anyone else's writing is. So no one worries about it, and I don't see why anyone worries about crummy photos either.

I have a BA in CS :)
I've tried quite a few things and the most useful thing for me has been https://www.headspace.com/ . It's "daily" guided meditation (that after not too long is barely guided). The narrator's voice is really good, not too hippie, very calming. Everything is pleasant and well-designed.

This was also pretty good, if you'd rather read a book: http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi...
The shills are everywhere, man. Who knows? You could even be a double-shill.
I haven't actually tried this for quite a long time. Perhaps Apple added a silent mode so as to compete with Android.

There's a lot of stuff that at one time would only work on jailbroken devices, only for Apple to "add support" for it as a result of some App becoming a huge hit at the Cydia App store.

At first one could not even take still photos programmatically, the user had to use Apple's own App for that. But Snapture - if I remember correctly - was able to do it on jailbroken devices, so Apple added the public API so that Snapture would be sold on the App Store, rather than through Cydia.
Things which transparently use Git on Windows seem likely to bundle their own copy of Git in their installer. I don't know of specific examples, but if this happens it may be trickier for average people to stay safe. Worse, I don't know how to generate a list of such programs.
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Ancient, indeed.
On 64bit architectures V8 promotes at 32bits.

(and if we talk about optimizing compilation things are getting more complicated as there int31, int32 and float64
can all coexist and you can have 31-bit integer stored in a float64 value - if operation was specialized for floating point values)
Ask HN: How do I get my motivation back?
I have always been fascinated with computers. I am in my mid-twenties and I figured out how the hardware worked with no English and no internet, and that was almost 20 years ago.

Up until a few years ago, I used to code. PHP, MySQL, HTML, and C# were what I was into. Then suddenly, something happened and I lost interest. Started gaming, Ultima Online and World of Warcraft. Coding became what I did after playing games.

During this time, I got a BA in Linguistics but afterwards, I wanted a degree in computing so I enrolled in an MSc in CS. Completed with Merit, now I don't know what to do.

I am looking for graduate schemes and jobs. I am alone at home, with all the time in the world, but instead I watch movies and TV shows. I feel horrible doing so.

I have also been battling depression and am on two different medications. Friends call me lazy, but I just don't have the motivation for it. I LOVE computers and there is nothing more interesting to me than computers.

I want to learn more, but I don't know how. I come here and see you guys comment on threads, try to understand. But it intimidates me.

For example, I want to learn Node and Angular. There are tons of stuff available online that I can learn from but I am comparing myself to professionals and then lose motivation. I know C, I know Linux, I know some Java, so I am capable, but I lack motivation.

What to do? How do I read through and build and read more and expand and so on?
We've been inoculated with skepticism about the origin of our itches.
> I don't just mean that in the dismissive sense that their stores are unpleasant (which they are)

They once were, but I've noticed a marked improvement lately. The newly opened Walmart locally is very nice, clean, and well lit. The local grocery is a dump in comparison[1].

1) no, I don't have this home town sympathy for the local grocery store since it did some bad things in the past that makes Walmart look like a saint in comparison.
- If you register for a MOSS then you pay VAT in euros, but you may have charged your customer in a local currency (GBP, DKK, CZK or SEK). You need to use the exchange rate at the day of the sale

I'm not sure this is exactly correct. For the UK, the guidance[1] at the moment says:

"If you charge or invoice customers in a currency other than the one used by the MSI and you record that price in your accounts in the foreign currency, you must:

- convert it into the MSI currency at the end of each quarter

- use the conversion rate published by the European Central Bank (ECB) on the last working day of the quarter

However, if to meet VAT invoicing or other accounting requirements you convert the foreign currency into the MSI currency using an agreed published daily or monthly conversion rate, you can use this converted figure when completing your quarterly VAT MOSS return."

In the above, "Member State of Identification (MSI) is the state in which you’ve registered for VAT MOSS."

So it looks as though there are three possibilities here:

1. If you charge customers in your own native currency, then you just have to apply their location's tax rate on the transaction, instead of applying your local tax rate as at present.

2. If you charge customers in their own currency (or any other that isn't your native one) then you have two options:

2a. You convert the amount charged to your native currency at the time of the charge, and use that figure and the customer location's tax rate to calculate the tax due.

2b. You record the transaction in its actual currency at the time of the charge, and then later you convert to your native currency according to the standardised exchange rate published by the ECB at the end of each quarter, use that figure to calculate the tax due, and use these figures when you file your MOSS return for the quarter that just finished.

But I'm not an accountant, and like many here I've spent too much time in recent weeks just trying to get straight answers and figure out what all the "guidance" really means, not to mention trying to find out minor details like what the current tax rates to use for each location actually are (including variations within individual member states) and how we're supposed to keep up with any changes in the future. So don't take my word for anything, I'm just trying to interpret some official guidance like everyone else...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-dig...
Given that NTFS is closed-source, can we know if these protections are actually sufficient now?
I tend to put /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin on my $PATH, which nicely solves that problem.
I'd be disinclined to describe what you'd notice as that might lead to you looking for those milestones in particular. Everyone is probably wired a little bit differently and may end up noticing different things. If one were given to drama, one could say that part of the practice is to sort of walk out into the wilderness and purposefully NOT bring a map, making exploration a part of the game.

To give you an example (with the disclaimer above in mind), I've a friend who noticed that he doesn't need as much sleep when he meditates regularly. Stop meditating, need for sleep increases. That's not the case for me, I need about the same amount of sleep regardless of amount of meditation. If I'd been told that less sleep is achievable, I might have been discouraged by the fact that this particular perk is nowhere to be seen for me. But I happen to know not to use another person's map for my personal wilderness.

For me, focus, patience, attention, memory and a very even (almost immutable, lately) temper are some of the things that have come out of this.
This video should be broadcasted to every politician remotely involved in industry, job creation, research or education (yes, that means probably all of them) to show how a succesful technology really is the (slow) product of an entire ecosystem combined with great minds of all kinds.
If they did use a user account system with capabilities (CD burning would be one of them) this couldn't have happened. That probably a million other possibilities.
Thanks, I didn't know about that bombing.
Hyperdock is another
>> Also, the shit your brain will make up and entertain you with once the chatter dies down is absolutely fascinating all in itself.

I had thought that the absence of chatter only helps in calmness and lessening the anxiety. What kind of stuff/shit?
Thanks for the additional info, be great to see those on the page as I had the exact same questions.

Really like the movie - amazing photography, especially how the hot springs became like their own character through the sublime water shots.

I'd be really curious to hear more about how the hotel has changed over time and endured. I'd also be very interested to hear more about the daughter taking over as this is a microcosm of a lot of tradition bending taking place in the country.