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That would be a great idea!
But that's not how it was phrased at all. It was more like "I liked this thing, then I didn't like it because it didn't scale in a certain aspect as I wanted to so peace". I think studies of use cases are valuable but this was not one.
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I landed 2 solutions (sales) engineering jobs in NYC with the help of 2 different 3rd party recruiters and they were excellent. No hoops, no extra BS. They really helped me zero in on the positions that fit with my goals and experience, so I wasn't wasting time.

Coding positions might be a whole different ballgame, though. I probably wouldn't have much patience for coding tests with a recruiter which undoubtedly makes the process harder for all 3 parties.
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> The time when you could build your own computer from parts has been long past.

This is simply not true. You may choose not to build your own computer, but the components are no less available than before -- in fact, commoditization has made them more affordable than ever before.
Can my girlfriend come?
A lot of the talk lately has been linking older fathers to a rise in autism. The theory being that higher chance of mutations with sperm as you get older (and as you have been introduced to more radiation, carcinogens, etc).

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/health/mental-illness-risk...
This sounds like what are usually called savants (historically were called "idiot savants", but thankfully the language changed) with some unique talent alongside some significant issues. It's probably likely he would outgrow the hitting and biting through various therapy, but impossible to guess much else.
So basically .. we have the freedom of the internet ... buut we can't do business on the internet unless we hire 20 accountants 5 accounting managers, 2 layers and we will still be limited to just working within europe?
I'm using the Saraswat definition of memory safety (though he called it "type safety"), which admits data races but not things like use-after-free. You're right that Rust has a stronger guarantee of data race freedom. But most recent systems programming languages don't even guarantee memory safety in parallel mode.
>> performance needs a very careful eye

> Clearly implying that performance doesn't require a careful eye on MySQL

This is highly ironic, since you later say:

> you suck at logic

Funny chap!

(My point was that all the extra features in PostgreSQL give you more solution space, but not all of the solution space is suited to your problem. You have to watch out you're using the specific features in a way that pays off. Whereas MySQL is a bit like a hammer; you need to shape your problem like a nail, otherwise you won't be able to hit it at all. But when you do hit it, it mostly works. It's not a precision instrument though.)

>> makes it easy to do silly things, like turn off referential integrity in a slow query to boost performance.

> Which is really misleading, because it ships with most of that stuff off.

MySQL ships with referential integrity turned on - InnoDB is the default back end. Care to explain more?

(Personally, I wouldn't use MyISAM for my phone book, never mind in production.)
Fair point, but it seems relevant to acknowledge that the American campaign finance system as presently organized is exactly isomorphic to the "selling political power" you mention above.
Ask HN: Selling Software and Sarbanes-Oxley?
A while back a friend and colleague of mine told me something that I found a bit incredible: that Sarbanes-Oxley imposed special accounting rules that made it complex and cumbersome to sell software via the old licensing models, and that this is one reason almost everyone is moving toward software-as-a-service in the cloud.

He said SOX imposed onerous per-feature accounting requirements that made it really hard to sell "boxed" (with or without a physical box) software, etc.

I have been unable to find any information on this one way or another, so I wanted to ask around here: is there any truth to this? Is this a reason that larger vendors have moved away from actually selling software as opposed to SaaS?

Or is it just that SaaS offers recurrent income?
Yeah,this site is barely functional on my Nexus 5.
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https://www.patreon.com/taxes

seems to be empty for me.
Interesting take on Israel cyber motives/capabilities
This has nothing to do with eyes.

Dozens of other packages have a much larger install base than Wordpress.

Wordpress has 32(!) CVE's tagged with "Exec Code" (remote code execution) alone. The last one a mere 6 months old.

If you know another project that comes even remotely close to that then I'd be genuinely curious which one that would be?
Free time didn't evaporate. People stopped (broadly speaking) trying to do constructive hobbies in their free time. Radio Shack's high point was when there were only ~3 TV stations available and movies were an event. In parallel, the range of products available exploded, and the complexity of hobby-type gadgets increased beyond hobbyist capability. Used to be one could, say, go to Radio Shack and buy mundane parts to build a computer from scratch - now you can get an HD-screen wireless-broadband dual-camera tablet for a 2-digit price tag ... what's the point of building?

Yes, there is a healthy & robust community of builders, hackers, & gadgeteers - but they're outside of the mainstream, different from when people at large built things out of boredom.
Ahh, the joys of total banking deregulation...
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An obviously smart guy who doesn't know how to tell a story OR provide enough technical detail to the curious.

Who's the audience for this post?

Script programmers who never had to turn a computer off and on because they popped the wrong number of arguments off the stack before returning from a function?

Kernel hackers who didn't already see the checkins?

People who Google a problem after their kernel upgrade fails with obscure messages, who then receive no information on how to solve the problem?

Context is everything. From the title on down, this has none. If you're not going to take the time to do it right, let the commit messages tell the story.

I love learning about systems and I love a good "hunt down an obscure bug" story but this post offers neither.
This is just a tactic by the government to control opposing opinions.

I fear this sort of control if and when the Internet is classified as a utility.
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Well, it depends on your definition of "systems programming language", but Go for example is memory-safe if GOMAXPROCS = 1.
That's very high up the list, bulk shipping of standardized boxes is the favorite solution atm, but didn't do in-depth cost comparisons etc.

Just was stuck for a few days in the Alps with the overhead bin luggage for Bali on the way back to SF, so i feel your pain.

How would you prefer to have it handled?
Everybody with a different point of view, like the elected Government in Greece from 1946 and it's voters.

You share this trait with Syriza and many Greeks today it seems, who are also quick to call people Nazis.
1) Why do you want to retain the executive that helped run the business into the ground?

It's not just "executives." Most of the staff gets paid bonuses, essentially as part of their salaries.

And there was a desire to keep these companies as on-going concerns. If you suddenly ax their pay, they quit. You can say "good riddance, they caused the problem!" But you still want to leave these companies as on-going concerns, by definition: they got bailed out.

It's not simply a matter of sweeping out all the old traders and bringing in new traders to decode the books. You need people with direct experience, if for no other reason than to unwind the deals. And you need to pay them market wages. You can point out, correctly, how high those market wages are. That still doesn't mean you can keep the company running by trying to cram down their wages.

This ESPECIALLY goes for a company that is going out of business. No one wants to work at a company that is going bankrupt; they'd rather look for a new job instead. You need to pay people extra money to stick around while the ship is sinking.
This isn't scroll hijacking. This -> http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/#menu=source-page is scroll hijacking. Just because it's animating when you scroll doesn't mean it's hijacking.

Hijacking is specifically altering the speed and or movement of the scroll.
Linux command line battle.net chat client (maybe irssi plugin? :o). StealthBot is only for windows, sadly.
It's funny that this got downvoted grey: my sense is that it really gets under nerd skin that tech isn't a great example of a meritocracy.
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> So you're saying unemployment is higher?

Also underemployment: there are a lot of people working part time who would like to be working full time.

My main point, though, is that there is no shortage of leisure time, and that can't be a reason for Radio Shack's decline. How could there not be enough leisure time when the average American over 18 still watches 5 hours of TV a day? [0] Maybe unemployed people can't afford to shop at Radio Shack, but that's not the argument being made in the article.

[0] http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch...
I'm not sure this blog post could have been any less dramatic. He could have not written it I suppose, but he brings up valid points that are probably useful for everyone who might be using or interested in Nim. I don't think the attitude here should be "if you don't have anything good to say don't say anything at all."
The license is one benefit, yes... but the StrongLoop PM also has support for deployment across multiple machines and integration with nginx for load balancing. And everything can be monitored (including across machines) from a single GUI: StrongLoop Arc.

pm2 is great, but this is not an "added features" play, StrongLoop wrote this process manager from scratch based on experience with very large enterprise clients. In other words, this is a new beast entirely!
Thanks for the support and for the kind feedback!
Definitely will keep it in mind for further developments ;)
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This is why I do absolutely nothing on a new phone until it's been unlocked, rooted, wiped and Cyanogenmod-ed.
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I clicked thinking that too!
Bitcoin exchanges are like the stock market with no regulation, which leads to things like this.
What about Guadalajara?

- Further north (albeit slightly) than Mexico City, and thus even closer to New York and San Francisco (if those proximities are in indeed your criteria)

- Major (relative to Mexico, at least) tech hub, making the perfect setting for programmers, remote sysadmins, and other folks who would appreciate living in a place populated by like-minded folks

- Birthplace of mariachi music (!)
I think Sandstorm in principle is the sort of thing that would run and deploy Owncloud. It doesn't happen to have it in its list of apps at the moment. Similarly there's indieboxproject.org, which has a lot fewer apps, but it does support Owncloud.
You refer to a boycott which was a response to persecution that Nazis commenced right when they were able to, post January 1933.

This was not about bankers. It was a boycott due to Nazis starting to do what Hitler had promised to do, to start his actions on the road to the Holocaust.

Yes, this kind of claims are typical of anti-Semitic nutjobs. I don't throw such accusations for no reason; I throw them because it is repugnant to claim that the Jews brought their misfortunes to themselves by this or that boycott or by being bankers or whatever. There are many Web sites that make a big deal about this "Judea against Germany". And it's mostly disgusting stuff.
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Hi. I am a scientist finishing my PhD in Cell Biology (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PEOoXukAAAAJ&hl=en). I am also the founder of The Winnower (https://thewinnower.com/), a DIY science publishing platform I launched last May. I have many great ideas on how to move scientific publishing forward towards more transparency and accessibility but I am a non-technical founder with no easy way to implement them. I have since the inception of The Winnower been paying devs to work part time on growing/maintaining The Winnower. This is less than ideal and I am looking for someone who really wants to fix science publishing.

If you are that person, please let me know so we can talk! jnicholson@thewinnower.com
Without meaning to single you out: message board nerds like us have a bad habit of writing as if this observation was a keen bit of insight about piracy, but it's in fact a classic economic problem: the problem of free-riders.

If you want to see it in action in a setting where we don't get derailed so easily by its implications, consider vaccination.
Failing to load for me on Firefox 35.0.1 with the Disconnect add-in. Working fine in IE.

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"SoundManager V2.97a.20140901 (HTML5-only mode)" application-96c626561436c4678adfdaf2587c9beb.js:20912
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For file syncing, this came up on hacker news once upon a time: http://syncthing.net/
Sure, we even think about providing daycare on site, so if you want to spend some quality time as couple / young parents that should be a good experience.
Kodak's case was very interesting too. I have an aunt that worked at Kodak's medical imaging division in the early 2000s (if memory serves.) At the time, Kodak was actively taking the most profitable new divisions and selling them off to keep the core film business in operation. Essentially it was a case of executive-assisted company suicide.

My aunt's division was sold to the Canadian conglomerate/private equity firm Onex, and the employees for the most part retained their jobs.

Revenue has been flat at around $2.6 Billion, not having grown much under Onex, which as a PE firm focused initially on cutting costs (terrible strategy in the land grab that was medical imaging in the mid-2000s.)

Sure, Kodak made a huge strategic error, one that is common to older firms, to stick to its original bread and butter of film at the expense of new profit centers, even as that medium collapsed.

But the real lesson is that the process for helping companies die is in dire need of study and executive education. There has to be a better way than the status quo.
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None, really, I wasn't trying to show such difference. Of course the same thing applies to many kinds of wealth.

Except land, which you cannot very easily move from one jurisdiction to another.

Edit: One recent example of the latter comes to my mind, of course. This is the case of properties in Crimea, now annexed by Russia. This is effectively a jurisdiction change. And it has some practical consequences, of course, although maybe not immediately related to tax; Crimean people need to register their properties into the Russian system, because Ukrainian property ownership is not recognized by the new powers-that-be. And registering is not free, and not even cheap, from what I hear.
IMO the only things that have pushed Apple to the heights it's at right now are:

1) Steve Jobs' story
2) "Apple as a status symbol"

#1 will probably make them strong for a long time in the consumer's eye, but #2 will fade with time, as I think it's safe to say open-source is a provably stronger model than closed-source. As long as they embrace closed-source, innovation on their platforms will suffer in the long run, and as a result they will (over time) be incapable of producing a better product than their competition.
As underlines mentioned, Switzerland has a similar concept of apprenticeships. The aspect I appreciate most (and as far as I am aware somewhat separates the Swiss system from others) is the permeability between the trade and academic spheres.

The vocational schooling (as discussed in the article) consists of two parts; technical skills and general education. The latter part is divided into two groups: apprentices are required to either complete the mandatory program or invest some extra effort and earn a high school equivalency diploma (Berufsmaturität) at the same time. Students who fail theirs drop to the standard program and continue their apprenticeship.

Upon completion, those who chose to get a Berufsmatur hold the necessary certifications to get into any University of Applied Sciences in their field and pursue a Bachelor's or Master's degree. Access to general Universities is limited to those holding a "proper" Matura, but there even is a one-year program for people with a Berufsmatur to attain a full Matura. Universities again are (to some degree) required to offer part-time programs, so studying and working at the same time is possible.

Finally, students who finished an UAS BSc/MSc are generally admitted to standard Universities. Some terms (between half a semester and a full year of extra classes required) may apply, but there actually is a reasonable path from dropping out of "proper" high school to getting an MSc or possibly even a ScD/PhD.

Just like Tobi I consider myself a kinesthetic learner. School never really piqued my interest, so my performance was lackluster. I went for an apprenticeship instead, combined it with a Berufsmatur, later on with a BSc in Computer Science and as I am now finishing my MLaw in Cybercrime/Information Security, I am barely a year or two older than most of my peers but hold (including the apprenticeship) around a decade of professional experience. (Usually four instead of five days a week, so feel free to subtract a 20% dicsount.)
I would argue that the security of what one would put in Owncloud is more important, as an individual, than what one would put into Drupal. But you can correct me on that, I haven't really used a CMS.
Well, the parent was suggesting how Radio Shack (which has/had thousands of stores) could have reinvented itself. Any such reinvention therefore would need to take their existing retail footprint into account.

There obviously are small niche firms that cater to the maker market without aggressively expanding. Of course they're not public companies--which investors do generally expect to grow.
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This is a really interesting idea, though maybe a bit too expensive and, ah, "hip" for my tastes. (Currently hopping from Airbnb to Airbnb flatshare, paying $1000 or less a month for housing with internet and utilities included. Would be even cheaper if I wasn't in Western Europe.)

I've been thinking lately of where I would like to live for most of my late twenties and early thirties. I'm definitely a bit of a loner, but at the same time, I like living as part of a close-knit community. I wish I could find a little "tribe" of self-directed folks roughly my age in an old, creaky house somewhere in the mountains... or on a remote island... or in a forest, or something. Just people working on their projects, tending to their garden, raising some chickens (or maybe some kids), enjoying the fresh air, and mostly living away from the rest of society. An art commune for the 21st century, I guess.

Unfortunately, if such a place exists, I doubt it has a website, and I especially doubt they'd take in strays. Guess I'd have to organize it myself. It's too bad I don't know anyone else who'd want to live like this. (And even if I did, who knows if we'd get along?)

Maybe I'll just go and become a hermit.
But you scroll this page the exact same way you do any other page. The visual treatment is different, but the scrollbar is exactly the same. This certainly isn't scrolljacking in the normally accepted sense.
My autistic daughter is 3. She holds her arms up to me and says "scratch". I gently rub her arms with my fingertips. If I stop she will hold her arms out again and says "scratch". I have never heard of "Wilbarger Protocol" before reading this article but it exactly describes what my daughter is prompting me to do.

I once asked my daughter's therapist what she would be like as an adult. They politely decline to answer that question. Now I know why.
Those classified as on the 'upper end' of the spectrum may be less apt to seek an official diagnosis due to the potential for stigma. Parents of low-functioning children want an autism diagnosis as it allows for services in schools and some insurance coverage for therapies outside school.

The parent of a high-functioning child may only want a diagnosis when the child nears adulthood, in order to get adult services.

Many of those diagnosed are indeed 'fine', and some might be almost unrecognizable as autistic to an untrained eye. Once you've been around children with autism for a long time, you understand which traits reveal their condition.

Long sessions of social interaction aren't likely to happen unless they are forced. Kids in classes are given several breaks a day, and might start at periods of 1-2 minutes without a break and build to 10-15 minutes without a break.
For 1, you can use tumblr as your media CDN, i.e. post photos, videos and other bandwidth heavy stuff, and use the tumblr API to access and display them on your website / blog.
Datatau is like a ghost town, has been for ages. Kind of a shame too :/
As an electronics hobbyist since the 1960's, the only places where I have ever been able to walk in and buy parts with good service were quirky little shops run by like-minded proprietors. I do not think a corporate business model for B&M stores catering to non-mainstream hobbies has ever existed.

RS's transition into cell phones, a mass market commodity, was perhaps the only possible decision that could have maintained their enormous real estate footprint. But with neither low prices nor excellent customer service, their demise was just a matter of time.

The internet's capability to serve the long tail has enabled a golden age for makers, with manufacturers and distributors of every scale providing products, and forums where every manner of making is supported. What RadioShack and your local electronics part counter was ever able to supply, even at their peak, is pathetic compared with the present situation.

Yeah, we can't walk in and idly browse around for ideas and inspiration. That's what your browser is for.
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You guys negotiate a discount with a carrier like Fedex/UPS (or even just use EasyPost.com), and I can ship my gear ahead of me to one of the other locations. I think having a printer on site for shipping labels would be more than sufficient.
The freedoms that allow data races are the very same ones allowing implementing concurrent data structures. To the best of my knowledge, there are no static proof systems (other than model checkers, which aren't really static) that guarantee correctness of concurrent DSs yet allow implementing all (or most) correct ones.

You can either sacrifice your guarantees or your use of efficient data structures. Of course, you can always wrap the implementation in some "unsafe" designation, and then declare the whole black box to be correct.

Of course, efficient, general-purpose concurrent data structures usually require a GC.