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This post is a little long. Anyone who is curious, Rodney Mullen invented the 1st flip trick on skateboarding and about 80% of the flip tricks you see today on video or tv. He has an interesting take on skateboarding where he states you have to try and fail over and over with physical pain to land 1 trick. This process of physical failure to achieve, gives skateboarders a good lesson in life.
Full blog post coming, but 14.04 was never vulnerable. glibc 2.17 was the last vulnerable version.
Ideally you'd only need chutes big enough for the cabin and that it would detach and parachute down. Would probably still be prohibitively expensive, but a fun thought exercise.
Still seems like a false dichotomy to me. Subscribe to Netflix and pirate your content if you have a firm believe in being DRM free while rewarding the creators of content you consume.
Does anyone know if this annotates actual JavaScript implementation (V8, SpiderMonkey) like it does for Ruby?
Yes, there's a lot going on in tech in Nashville, as a look at http://cal.nashvl.org/ will attest.
I can't agree with you enough. I wish I closed my post with the exact word you wrote.
Ask HN: Graduating high school this spring, college or a coding bootcamp after?
Hey Hacker News!

Wanted to get some input from a community familiar with the tech world about a decision I'm trying to make. I want to go into software/web development for a career, and with high school finishing up for me it seems I have two fairly reasonable paths I could take. One would be attending university and obtaining a bachelor's or master's degree in CS, the other is attending one of the well-regarded bootcamps or similar schools such as Hacker School in NYC. I've applied to a few of the bootcamps and have a few interviews coming up, but I'm not sure if attending one of these and building up a coding portfolio of my own is equivalent to a college degree in the tech industry, even if it probably should be equivalent or better. Another factor is the time and money involved. 3 months in a bootcamp or hacker school and less than $20,000 cost vs. 4 years of university and probably $60,000-80,000 of debt upon graduation. What do you guys think? Any input is appreciated!
Clearly you've never played any game competitively (e.g. broodwar, cs); there are even 'creative' games in the traditional sense for that matter, where you design things (e.g. minecraft, DF, wc3,...). Most of those don't usually have the shortcircuited feedback loop that brings someone into addiction however. I disagree there's anything fundamental about gaming that's better than other activities other than the lack of exercise. Mastering a game in skill/strategy or crafting maps/mods can bring as much joy as anything else. I'd equate some games with playing music for the closest traditional perspective.

I'd expect them surpass any meatspace activity actually. It's hard to compete with the limitless degrees of freedom from a game (specially when we get more inputs/sensitive feedback). And I'm not at all uncomfortable with that. Having fun is quite productive, one just has to safeguard the more longlasting joys of life, like having a successful career, family relations, etc.
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Going anonymous for that one...

I am in a similar situation. I am trying to bootstrap my startup, and someone who has exactly the same idea got some funding - I don't know how much, I would guess between $500k and 1M.

I spoke to the guy about two months before he got his funding, to see if we could work together, and at the end I chose not to because it was clear to me that he had no clue on how to build the product we both had in mind.

How did I react to the news of his funding? I personally took it well. I am not too worried about competition given the size of our market, so it validates my idea. And if things don't go well with my unfunded startup, I will probably be able to get a job for him, so it becomes an insurance for me.

So, unless your product is in a very small niche, you shouldn't worry about that. I don't recall his exact essay, but Paul Graham said that what kills startups is not competition, but rather the lack dynamism to try and try new ideas.

best of luck!
Perpetually low interest rates are a big concern to pretty much everyone in the industry apart from those employed at the Fed. Europe just cut their rates to negative. That means that investors have to pay countries to hold their money for them (I'll lend you $100, pay me back $99 in a few years).

I loved the (very defensive) Bloomberg headline yesterday: Owners of Negative Yielding Sovereign Bonds Say They're No Fools [0]

The idea is that every country is trying to devalue their currency in order to help exports and domestic producers stay competitive. The countries are newly emboldened by the fact that rates have been very low for very long without much inflation. But economics never works exactly like its described in textbooks. I fear that if this all explodes we could have high inflation with a stagnant economy with no magic levers to pull to address both problems. In that case, it will be about survival.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2015-01-26/owners-of-neg...
Since the game itself runs inside a custom designed virtual machine, are not all versions "ports"?

The amazing thing is that he targeted multiple platforms right from the get-go in a particularly elegant way and didn't let that turn into a multi-year yak-shaving "game platform" exercise.
Yahoo Reports $1.1B in Revenue for 2014, Up 95% YOY
Ansible playbook to patch GHOST (and restart services) on Debian/Ubuntu
The time to index is certainly dependent on their size, but I don't see how this sort of a/b tests on SEO wouldn't work on other sites.

The sample size of pages they have to play with, and the fact that they get indexed within a couple of days does make it all the more viable though.
I'm all for it. The winners here are the poor who get behind reasonable wheels, so they can improve their lives. The losers are some greedy suckers who believe in the future performance promises of some mutual fund.

"I bought into an investment backed by a loan to some poor people to get cars ... boy did I get taken for a ride!" :)
I could talk about this for hours... But really, it's quite a bit of work and really specific to your area. Since you're looking to do a small area, you probably won't have enough capital to bury fiber which is a shame because that's when you start getting the biggest bang for the buck. There's a couple different angles you need to assess.

Politics/Bureaucrats -- what laws are in place to prevent you from deploying in X fashion? Can you bury fiber? Do you have to string across utility poles? If so, who owns the poles? (It'll either be the city or a utility company) What are their rates? What are the requirements to get quotes for their rates? (CenturyLink requires you to be a part of an NDA/Non-Compete Agreement program if you are reselling competitive services)

Business -- how many people are you looking to service? What's the absolute max you could potentially service? (usually subdivisions are zoned with a specific max amount of households) How many would you like to service? What is an acceptable cost? (I found $100 is the sweet spot for gigabit fiber) What kind of customers will you be servicing? (mostly soccor moms who will browse the internet from 11a-3p, young families who embrace video streaming from 8p-11p, retirees who only care about email and facebook from 9a-12p, etc.)

Technical -- how much bandwidth do you really need? Chances are you can actually service 100 or so residential customers with just a single gigabit ethernet connection. How much fiber will you need to run to everyone? The easiest thing to do is run single-mode fiber connected to a media converter in their house. Depending on how you can do "huts" (as google has dubbed them) you will probably do single cisco ToR switch with 48 spf+ ports for 40 customers. You will dedicate 4 ports for uplink connectivity via LACP and have 4 stand-by ports should one be bad. Scale this out as needed.

This will also be specific to your area -- but expect $10k/mile to run conduit to a hut with an additional $2k/mile for different fiber pulls. You would usually run conduit and some kind of fiber at the same time -- probably 96 strand single-mode. But that's up to you.

Not sure what else you need to know. That should be a good starting ground. The bulk of our capital was for fluid insurance bonds. About 80% of our working capital was going to be tied into those while we laid the fiber.
You could hedge that risk by shorting the BABA stock at the same time you own YHOO. That way, you have no exposure to BABA.
the most common source of js memory leaks in my experience is devs forgetting to clean up event listeners.
You can buy domain names for a hefty price tag, but it is still doable for someone with some money.
That's a shame, because in my opinion this article is well worth a read, and the content far more important than a small typo.
Those just aren't sufficient IMO.

I like being able to listen to music when I have no internet connection.

I like being able to listen to something when the original was taken down.

I like being able to listen to something that the vendor no longer offers.

I like having smart playlists in my library and on my devices that automatically update themselves based on meta data such as what I've played recently.

Unfortunately I like being able to use my music program on an operating system of my choosing as well, and am looking for an iTunes replacement. But then replacement can't be worse than the original. That's a deal breaker.
Brett's father had retrofit a metal lock on his Celeron computer to prevent his son from gaming. (age 12)

he was in the tenth grade .. he stopped bathing or brushing his teeth regularly.

Basically these parents have 100k to shell out on rehab but they can't trust their 12 year old to be obedient, and they completely neglect his basic hygiene. This is parenting bordering on abuse.
Lucky you fly the long EZ (1982)
I think he's officially in Phoenix, but he's on the other side of South Mountain. So Pecos.
These tax loopholes are disgusting. All these greedy millionaires assholes.
It did years ago, but hasn't in a while. Since then, Apple Update would pre-select to install Quicktime and Safari when you updated iTunes unless you purposely unchecked them each time.
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Huh, you're right. It's user-set. Go figure.
As long as streaming is available on all the devices I wish to use it on (that used to include Linux, but nowadays it's not my "daily driver"), then I'm okay with transparent DRM for streaming or rentals, too.
Hmm... what does an MRI scanner update do? I would have thought a system like that would just record whatever it gets from its sensors and any updates needed would only apply to the analysis and visualization software... Do the updates actually modify what the hardware does during scanning? Or, is it all painfully coupled because some sort of interactivity is required during scanning?
> I had a marathon night involving building a new server stack and migrating all hosted sites there by 8 a.m.

This is because of a shortcut that somebody took when building your server originally, by failing to make the deployment reproducible.

> ...where one of the packages I relied on suddenly became unsupported

I've never heard of this happening in any Linux distribution. Can you be more specific? Did you choose to use some third party source for a package here? If so, how can you expect your distribution's developers to support you going off-piste in a way that they never claimed to support in the first place?

> Old, dodgy, out-of-date servers exist exactly because updates are butthole-puckering, because everyone's been burned at least once by a "minor" update, and because once the damage is done, undoing it is horrifyingly difficult.

You might want to look into "DevOps". The idea is that you script your deployments together with automated tests for them. There are many tools to help you do this now. With this in place, nothing you've stated is true any more.
I get a better focus when I work without internet - I normally go working in a public library for that, and don't ask if I can get the wifi.

It requires me to be very familiar with the libraries/language I am using, so I can't do it when I want to explore some new tools, but when I do it, I put emacs full screen and I think I can get much higher levels of concentration.
Paying for a DRM-encumbered service is not really consistent with a "firm belief in being DRM free".
That doesn't work. I search for Bob Robot. I see Bob Saget (wtf) and other celebrities named Bob. OK that's not helpful.

Oh finally, Bob Robot comes up. I click it. It says "Bob Robot isn't on Hangouts right now..." Well I don't want that. I want to send an SMS.

OK let's look for a green chat icon. Nope, just a smile button to put emojis in there.

This is OSX's Chrome plugin as stated.
As a lover of the humanities and social 'sciences', I am always cheered up when a postmodernist snaps out of it, so we can actually have intelligible conversations again.

Paraphrasing famous modernist designer Massimo Vignelli, postmodernism was/is a critique, at best. It doesn't actually provide a worldview.

To me, it's intellectual madness. Fun, in moderation. Useful, to shake things up.
> The idea is that every country is trying to devalue their currency in order to help exports and domestic producers stay competitive. The countries are newly emboldened by the fact that rates have been very low for very long without much inflation. But economics never works exactly like its described in textbooks. I fear that if this all explodes we could have high inflation with a stagnant economy with no magic levers to pull to address both problems. In that case, it will be about survival.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about this.
thanks especially for the tip about restarting the system, just in case.
What's the point of this DRM? It's not like you can't decode and record.
To say nothing of youtube-dl.
While I do not know him personally, he was involved with an institution that I have some association with.

It is not well known but he has a spiritual side as well. This is a book made from conversations on spirituality.

http://books.google.com/books/about/God_is_a_person.html?id=...
Agreed with the interpretation of the OP's article and agree with the general sentiment of building something that's perfect on the backend while ignoring the need to get customers is just wrong.

That said, for anyone reading this, only a sith deals in absolutes and I'd like to share my experience of working with two companies that thought it was fine for tech to take a back seat and for customers to be the driving point.

The first company was an erp company. They still run on fox pro. Yes. Fox pro. They've built a relatively feature stable foundation which they can keep selling to customers. Great right? Customers clearly don't care about the tech running in the background. If you are in there just for the money that works I guess. And that was the problem of customers over tech approach. The UIs were shoddy. There were bugs. The UX ended up making users go through frustrating processes to complete tasks. Report generation was slow. There was a mountain or two of technical debt in the code base that had no tests. And while the money kept rolling in, it felt wrong to keep pushing the product when it wasn't something we ourselves couldn't fall in love with.

The second example is an ecommerce company that I worked at that kept pushing ahead with feature after feature on one tight deadline to a tighter deadline right after. The result was a system that eventually started seeing >10 second load times. We also had a process where customers would come and pay us offline (online payments are still in early days where I am) and the system would slow down heavily during peak hours. But again, the customers were coming so my personal feelings on long load times and long wait times was just nonsense right? Again. Money or love? Which comes first?

At this point I need to say that my personal choice is love first. If making money means I have to sacrifice the love for the experience I'd rather not do it at all. This is just the other side of the coin of going (IMO) deep into the mantra of 'customers don't care about tech'.

Ultimately this is just my opinion. I thought it would be worth sharing. Cheers :)
Not for nothing, but Vso (stall speed with full flaps) in the CIrrus SR22 is still 59 knots (68mph/109kmh) and remember airframes don't have the same crash safety features that automobiles do. It's a lot slower than an airliner's would be but you're not exactly gently touching down.
Also a brief tutorial on how it works. See in particular the comment by Max Martinsson on how to do it in a replicated scenario.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/postgres_external_tr...
I was on my phone before. Here's a more complete response.

> that's exactly because they are less stimulating, or to put it bluntly, boring.

Sports are hardly boring, at least if you enjoy the particular sport you're playing. Which isn't true for everyone, so this is one that can be dropped off a lot of people's lists.

Going outside can often be stimulating, if you're open to it. I don't get to do it as much as I'd like, but camping or at least hiking is fun. I went to a friend's wedding in November in a state park. I stayed at the lodge in the park and from my window I had a fantastic view of the trees in their autumn colors, blanketing the mountains. A friend and I hiked a few miles of trails, seeing the waterfalls and river from various angles. A very memorable and enjoyable experience. My only regret is that my girlfriend couldn't make the trip, but it gives me something to show her in the future. And then there's stargazing, or catching rare or uncommon events like a lunar eclipse or a total solar eclipse. I still remember the time in high school my dad snagged a couple pairs of night vision goggles and drove us out to the middle of the desert to watch a meteor shower. That was 15 or so years ago and the memory is still strong in my mind.

Dating is hardly less stimulating than games. I've, admittedly, not got much experience because, well, my 20s were wasted. But, I've never experienced this level of fear and exhilaration and happiness all rolled into one moment in anything other than dealing with someone I loved.

Hanging out with friends is a broad thing. While not video games, my friends and I play boardgames, card games and tabletop RPGs. For me, I count these as distinct from video games because they require enough effort to setup and play that they can't touch the addictiveness of video games. We also go to the nearby big (hah!) city's downtown and have a good time checking out local productions of plays and art by local artists at the galleries. Eating at restaurants with interesting cuisine. All these things are stimulating, and to a variety of senses. And it's a shared experience with people I care about and that care about me, making it an emotionally satisfying experience.
How can I dilute a partner that has added absolutely no value to my company?
At the very early stages my company we joined an "incubator" that has proven completely worthless over time. Now that I have new investors coming in, they are questioning that incubator's worth and its complicating negotiations with them. Is there a way in which that incubator can be diluted down or to have them grant part of their shares to new investors?
Nothing but respect for that. You've pushed me over the edge and I've preordered one now :)
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Take a look at the privacy policy: https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html

"Technical information collected from the use of Google Fiber Internet for network management, security or maintenance may be associated with the Google Account you use for Fiber, but such information associated with the Google Account you use for Fiber will not be used by other Google properties without your consent. Other information from the use of Google Fiber Internet (such as URLs of websites visited or content of communications) will not be associated with the Google Account you use for Fiber, except with your consent or to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request."
RealPlayer was capable - just barely - of streaming sort-of watchable video over 56k. That really was revolutionary at the time.
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Being expensive is how they got to revenue that supports a billion dollar valuation in such a short time.
Saudi Aramco is probably the largest but since they aren't publicly traded, we don't really know. Estimates put their annual profit at ~$180 billion, so their quarterly revenue would be ~2.5x Apple's.
We don't pull in the C code yet, but that's coming soon. We actually have the ability to do that (we do it for Ruby, clearly), but we need to do some more work to make it happen for Javascript.
The short answer is that Apple is willing to not try to check all the boxes in favor of building something which works for most people.
Flickr stagnated for nearly a decade post-acquisition.
I'm not sure I follow. What contracting job is there with paid parental leave from the employer/customer? Do you mean a job where you work for a "job shop" which is your employer of record but are actually working at client sites? If so, I can see how that would work out.

But that's not what the GP was describing, in which firing someone is no big deal because "we hired them on a short term basis anyway". But if you accept that as legit, I claimed, why are you even complaining about maternity leave, since you seem to be okay with people being hired on short term bases with no such promises, which is somehow all okay because "hey you made it clear from the beginning"?

IOW, the GP seems to be saying "Don't treat workers as disposable! You can just get a disposable worker to fill in for them!"