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> But the girl in the video truly believes she's a warrior and that can't end well.

Does she? For all one can tell she seems to believe she knows what she's doing when she's using a sword in HEMA. Does an experienced kendo, aikido, taekwondo, <insert established MA here> fighter think of himself as a "warrior"?

I'd sure hope not. In fact I'd hope nobody today really thinks of himself as a "warrior". A soldier maybe, but even then it seems a bit antiquated and out of place. And worrying, if they would carry that notion over into their civil life.

If you're trained to disarm actual attackers in actual violent conflicts in actual life-or-death scenarios (not staged fights where both fighters use a formal style and fight with any kind of ruleset), maybe it's somewhat understandable you'd think of yourself as a warrior. But that is no more applicable to her than it is to a participant in any other martial art.

You seem to project some kind of anachronistic grandeur onto the notion of being a real "warrior". It's a sport. Like the vast majority of martial arts today already are.

You're right, an HEMA "world champion" (or whatever) likely couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag in a realistic life-or-death situation. But that holds true for any martial art taught as a sport.

And unless your day job (or geographical circumstance) involves an extremely high chance of getting into those situations, there's no reason this should matter. And if you do have a high chance of getting in those situations, why the fuck would you care about what kinds of martial arts are performed as a sport?

Aside: in any HEMA fight I would rather bet my money on the one with the better reflexes and legwork. And although I've seen big guys with almost feline grace, generally big blokes tend to overvalue their size/strength advantage and underestimate the importance of speed and balance. And I'm not sure I'd ever bet any amount of money on a paid actor who has been taught what kind of moves look good to a television audience. We're talking about free fighting, not choreography here.
I thought the whole point was that it was an "in-game style" real-time rendering of somebody using keyboard/mouse to walk around inside the virtual environment. That's what makes it impressive and noteworthy.

Am I wrong about that? If it's a pre-rendered animation, it's certainly not state-of-the-art.
How about a system that doesn't rely on opaquely modifying the global supply of fiat currency while simultaneously tying the destruction of the created money to an exponential penalty curve where you're essentially required to scrap around the planet performing services on demand for others who contracted under other penalty curves, lest their 'investors' get 'hurt'?
Sadly as zfs isn't as widely available as I'd like, you can use LVM to provide snapshots.

Its not as friendly as ZFS snapshots, but it is at least available in centos 5 https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Ma...

(sadly somethings need long term support)
For the masses who spend the majority of their time watching sports, movies, tv, thinking about celebrities... How is gaming wasting their lives? What value do these other things have that gaming does not?

I submit that hedonism is a purpose unto itself, that all recreational activities hold equal value to our species (~none), differing value to the individual, and that people should simply do whatever they enjoy, right now.

Working towards a potentially better future that may never happen is not necessarily the right thing.
Everyone - repeat after me:

SEO DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION!

I repeat:

SEO DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION!

If one improves a factor on their own site, it doesn't mean that will make a lick of difference in rankings because:

1. That may not be the factor holding a site back, and

2. It may be the site is performing as good as possible because users do not want that type of site in the SERPs.

SERP construction - what goes where - has a bigger impact on rankings than any one other factor, e.g. maps vs images versus news, and that has less to do with one's own site, and more to do with user feedback.
the CAP theorem only applies when dealing with mutable shared state. that's reason enough to go immutable.
Is the camera filming from the HC-130 Hercules airplane?
I think as far as last mile costs goes, 100mbit or 1gbit, it isn't much different in price. It's running the wire in the first place.

And 1gbit is impressive like gmail was. It blows everyone out of the water because their competitors stagnated.
bko, sorry to be OT, but where did you learn about finance?
This is a good idea in general. However, every version of ssh that I could test (going back to Ubuntu 8.04) uses getaddrinfo() rather than gethostbyname() and is therefore safe.
Selling opposites is a pretty basic marketing gambit. The exclusive must-have, the affordable luxury item, etc.
Ask HN: How do I work with a frustrated boss?
Hi folks,

I'm a junior level programmer at my company. I was hired in less than a year ago.

Lately the company has been adding in more process in our work. Instead of spending 75% of my time coding, I'm now cutting to 30-50% due to the amount of documenting and overhead that is now required for each production change.

This adds up over time and the team is growing increasingly displeased with it.

I had a bi-weekly meeting with my boss today, and he just came from a meeting with HIS boss. He was quite frustrated and mentioned process issues that the team was not following. He also mentioned in our conversation (very briefly) that he was "this close to snapping". There wasn't anything I did here... he has said several times he was very pleased with my work. The source of his frustration was completely out of my control.

That's not to say he's a bad boss! He's normally a great guy. In fact, prior to management, he was a senior programmer for ~10 years. His style isn't "What do we need done" but rather "What obstacles can I remove for you?".

So my question to you folks: how do I deal with a frustrated boss (or coworker)? And how do I make the most of this situation?
the class list would be rendered by looking up the teacher's name. a rendering can be cached with a timestamp (it was valid as of this time) and then the most recent render can be stored. by setting a dirty flag whenever data changes, you can update dependencies when they are fetched and then memoize the results.
It's semantics but just in case "Viewed from London, buccaneering was a low-budget way to wage war on England's rival, Spain. So, the English crown licensed buccaneers with letters of marque, legalizing their operations in return for a share of their profits." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccaneer
As far as I can tell, sshd has always used getaddrinfo() which is not vulnerable (rather than gethostbyname() which is). Can anyone confirm?

According to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8954458 , getaddrinfo() uses gethostbyname() internally. So, is a default 'UseDNS yes' ssh setup vulnerable or not?
What makes you think that the solution they implemented was a good one, and should have worked?
To get some ideas, watch The Social Network.
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A perfect demonstration of this problem is when you search Amazon for "Asus zenbook".

It gives me a hundred results with various SKUs and model years and I have NO idea as a consumer which one is the best fit for me.
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Thanks, doing that already... Just wanted to hear from people who have experienced this problem to learn how they managed it if at all.
You do realize this post was not about recommendations, right?
That's a really interesting thought, could you provide some sources?
Better keyboard, (infinitely) better touchpad, better chassis (to the touch).

The places where my hands interact with the machine are much more efficient and pleasing on a mac than any other machine (which is sad, because I LOVED my Thinkpads in the early 2000s).
Spotify premium, uploading anything they don't have, and using Offline Mode?
What real life good habits has programming given you? (2008)
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I'm making my way through the 2nd edition now. As a software guy who occasionally writes close-to-the-metal firmware, I wish I'd read the book a lot earlier.

It's fun to wire up a few transistors and other components and see them behave the way your calculations said they would.

It's also fun to be talking to hardware engineers about firmware, and then drop into a discussion about the circuit at hand. Sometimes it makes their eyes bug out. :-) Sometimes you can even save money by suggesting a different approach that software can make better use of.
They also need to open source iOS (also sarcasm)
Communicating by email is very effective as a way to promote rubber-ducking (http://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/). Unless you want to look like an idiot, you generally take the time to think out and present your ideas in a cogent way when it is through email. Get somebody in a face-to-face or phone meeting, and things go all hand-wavy way too fast.
This may be another reason to use roundabouts instead of stop lights or stop signs at intersections.
The open file dialog is exactly that to "open" a file. I find the fact that you can do that on Windows stupid and inconsistent.
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And a netbook.
That has never been their plan and I have never heard that said.
It's not black and white. Many hobbies, which might appear useless for society in general, at least provide personal enrichment. Someone that spends their time programming video games is not helping feed people, but it is helping them become a better programmer. Also, it's well established that humans need rest and recreation to be productive workers.
This all assumes you have a solid Internet connection. Some of us have to watch movies offline most of the time.
All-time favorite: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Recent favorite: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
It is bad, and yet, it isn't. I would give just about anything to own a business throwing off net profits of ~$650 million per year, or half that, or even 10% of that. Many people feel the same way you do - the market currently assigns a negative value to this $650 million annual income - but I think it's not a terrible thing to have coming in.
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> whereas I don't think doing drugs for several days straight (at least without doing anything else) is common among even the most serious addicts

Let's use alcohol as an example. For someone who has been drinking heavily for a while coming off alcohol can be dangerous, even fatal. This means that people have to permanently drink, or risk death. To qualify for a medically supervised in-patient detox in England you need to drink 40 units per day. That's one litre of spirits at 40% ABV. (34 US fluid ounces of 80 proof liquor). That's 9 cans of Special Brew per day. That level of drinking is not rare.

But other drugs are similar. People addicted to opiates sometimes resort to acquisitive crime or prostitution. That suggests that they need, not just want, the money for drugs and that drug use is pretty much continuous.
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Even if it used gethostbyname() , I fail to understand how one would supply an invalid IP address to an sshd program? It calls an IP resolver after the TCP connection has been established, reading off the IP from there. From what I understood from their exim HELO example, one has to feed in a crazy IP "address" to gethostbyname() to trigger the bug.
Isn't that similar to the way the productivity (the economic metric) is measured though ?
dissolve the corporation - rebrand and start a new one. Hollywood use to do this in the 80's to avoid residual payments.
I also can not recommend the "frequent upgrades" model.

When systems would be more stable and less problems would occur at updates, this would be right. But the reality is simply different. My experience is, that on many updates there are surprises:

- software that once was good, just has gone garbage since the last version

- some problems with not so common software combinations that was not found from package maintainers

- some device drivers that do not cooperate

- desktop environments that do no longer support some options as before or just have gone bad

- legacy data is not supported by newer application versions or some subtle problems with this data occur ...

- ....

Also, when upgrades would be possible without hassle and troubles, that model could work -- but it just is not. For example: I wanted to install a newer Ubuntu version on my hosted server. But the automatic upgrade process explicitly says, that it should not be done via a remote session. So for a hosted system, I have to fall back to a complete new install (backup data, fresh install, complete new configuration, re-install backed up data).

Also, when you get into trouble, it is not possible to easily go back to the last stable version (in this situation, virtualized systems are very useful).

In such a case, it is clear, that I don't want to give up my life to always have the newest stuff on my server.

I regret, that OpenBSD is not for me (unless OpenBSD does never suffer from those troubles).
I'm surprised that this doesn't mention Fukuyama's "end of history" idea [1].

When it looks like the world is full of liberal democracies and nations becoming liberal democracies, history feels less compelling.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history
Very neat, from a theoretical perspective. Doing the work on the printer with postscript was a neat hack that I'm not sure I'd have thought of.

Unfortunately, the reason one would use a Venn diagram in the first place is to provide an accessible, "at-a-glance" insight regarding set overlap. The 12-set diagram linked at the bottom of the article fails at this task miserably.
Mockery and ridicule are powerful tools. This is a good application for them.
I don't know about that. I ran 10 technical preview for about a month as a last ditch effort and it drove me to actually buy my first apple device ever when offered an upgrade from work. It was really just more of the same with a vista-esque start menu.
No, I think that is what YOU want. That isn't the case.
No one is doing better than they are doing. If they can do better then they should do better weather or not Uber exists.
https://xkcd.com/810/

I think that problem requires at least as much space as the brain module that determines "usefulness", which means quite a lot of space.
I remember being such an undergrad at UC Berkeley. I'd walk into Physics 7A at the beginning of the semester with wide-eyed admiration for the teaching staff, undisguised interest to learn all about Townes's lasers, Smoot's universe, etc., and a wild wondering of "when can I do that stuff?"

Then I'd get put in my place by the first few homeworks. Then would came the midterms, which all happen at 7-10pm so I got to walk out of the Dwinelle Hall into appropriately hopeless darkness and a gnawing fear I might not make it out alive. And, as the Fall semester continues, the days get shorter while the material gets harder until even the basic equations of the class seem to be hinting that My Ass = F'd. But, after a lot of flailing and struggling, most of us survive the class with a renewed respect for how hard physics is, how inexplicable gyroscopic motion can be, how brilliant the profs are, and also how willing they are to spend their time teaching dumb undergrads like me the ways of the universe.
> The places where my hands interact with the machine are much more efficient and pleasing on a mac

In general I'll agree with you but there is ONE thing that I don't like on Macs and still exists to this day (I believe). The notch in the aluminum below the trackpad to make it easy to open the machine has sharp left and right right angles, and that pokes me from time to time.

I figure that's one of those 'this looks better' things, but it wasn't a problem on the older machines that had physical latches and a button to open the lid.
Apple wouldn't be able to book all the profit in Australia; R&D is done in the states obviously so that value add could be booked over there taxed at US rates. So say an iPhone costs $300 to produce and sells for $600, it might be exported to Australia at $400 or $500, with tax on the difference going to the US.
The big thing is that they let you use it for free, get hooked, and then when your team is all in on using it, paying the $60/user per year is worth the upgrade. They made their base product good enough that you don't need the full version... until you do.

There were interviews from last year where he talked about slowly converting teams from free to paid.

I use slack for a side project with 15 or so people involved and while we're using the free version, it is on the list of things to pay for once we have some sort of revenue.
For people with >2 servers, that might be the right solution, but for the others, scripting deployment might be just more overhead.
When you start generating revenue. You'll need to provide a business plan that correlates sign-ups to revenue generated and some credible extrapolation based upon your market growth to date.
> I'll take a static analysis tool that will find a buffer
> overrun at compile time over a runtime that blows up the
> program in production, every time.

Then you'll love Rust, where the compiler is essentially one ultra-comprehensive static analyzer. :)
C++ lacks the necessary higher-level abstractions to write memory-safe code. It is vulnerable to iterator invalidation, use-after-free, dangling references, and so forth. RAII does not provide the necessary guarantees.
The issue isn't that your boss is frustrated per se, it's that he seems to have little to no leverage with his boss -- to the point that he vents to you.

Power is an inherited property, so if your boss has little leverage, then you have very little power or reason to hope that things will change. Take from that what you will.
I know you said sarcasm, but Apple is selling the last gen iphones at a competitive price against Samsung mid range in India.

For example: the iPhone 4S, 5c and 5s are 17,500 and 23,000 37500 Indian Rupees respectively. Compare that to the Galaxy S4 at ~26000 grand 2 at 17000, galaxy note 3 at 34000.

Atleast in India, the last gen Apple phones seem to be priced competitively with the last gen Samsung phones. This is just comparing the lowest models, and not getting into the specs, ofcourse.
Just think of it as 9.4 iPhones per second.
>> I would rather run Windows on an Macbook Pro than any of the other hardware

I honestly don't get why people often say that Macbooks are the best Windows laptops.

I have always found the Windows on Mac experience to be sub-par with respect to the key placement, driver behavior, and oversensitive scrolling with Apple mice.

I far prefer running Windows on a similarly equipped PC laptop. On the two Macbooks that I have run BootCamp on, I have always found it somewhat painful dealing with the subtle but noticeable differences related to the keyboard and pointing devices.
If you sell at a way where you can make a profit, it's not predatory pricing.
> There was a time a couple of years ago when Android looked like it might gain enough momentum to sweep them away,

Could you expound on when that was? I remember their market share dipping as Android grew much faster, but I don't remember it every really looking like they'd disappear.
Assuming you have control or influence over 51% of the shareholding, then why not just issue more shares?
But you surely have to face the side that goes in the vain of simplistic pop music: it exists because people consume it; enforcing the production of more "refined" content won't make people switch to it. The solution of course is improving education (in a broad sense including cultural and political awareness).

On the other hand, while simply producing quality content can't change the picture, it sure doesn't hurt either. Take the BBC, National public radio, or a state sponsored network in Brazil called TV Cultura (culture TV), which has great content if not the most popular.
RMB is pretty strong, and Apple's 2nd largest market is China, so they are somewhat protected.
Heh, funny that Apple would be forced to hire Samsung to build their carrier given where they are forced to source their processors.
newsletter? no. Blog about driving around the world following my dreams and passions? yes. http://theroadchoseme.com

(yes, I know you were joking. I'm not :) )
Probably more abstract, but you could definitely use a wiki-style web page. You could have a "Get Started" page for new folks. Documentation for applications and internal services can be included in one place as well. Additionally, make use of the search features. It's also really easy to get updated - you don't need to shuffle docs around and get the latest version, etc.
+10 - assuming that it is still feasible in 201x !
If they mess with transistor man, riot.
Fair enough! It's always interesting to hear these cases of ideas that must have been in the air. I've heard it said that if Einstein got hit by a bus, Lorentz (or someone) probably would have gotten Special Relativity wrapped up eventually, but that perhaps nobody else would have come up with General Relativity even yet.
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I think Penn and Teller[1] did a good job of explaining vaccinations in layman's terms (though I doubt anyone here actually needs an explanation of how or why vaccinations work.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
Undergrad and MBA but I barely learned anything about structured products through any of my classes. Its mostly through working in the industry. It's very hard to find good data, especially market data for these more esoteric products (spreads, yields, assumptions). A lot of companies make a lot of money selling this data (I mean A LOT). For instance, a weekly financial newsletter on asset backed securities (~10 pages long, pdf, emailed out) is $3,500 a year [0]. It's a good read though and definitely contains info you can't find in other media outlets

Anyway, if you're interested in structured products, I would just google '[structured product] primer'. There are a lot of great primers publicly available. Most are really old (2006 - present) but don't let that put you off. All the fundamentals are the same and they're definitely worth a read. Some are more relevant since they're still being structured. Examples include ABS (which include prime and subprime auto) and CLOs (collateralized loans). Others (like non-agency, subprime, most CDOs) are not. This [1] book was also helpful and more in-depth than most primers.

Feel free to pm me for more info.

[0] https://www.abalert.com/subscriber/subscribe_now.pl
[1] http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111800674...
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Are you saying CAP doesn't apply to immutable shared state, or something else, i.e., what do you mean by "state"?