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She doesn't literally say that; the reference to being killed is a fairly well-known quote that attempts to illustrate that women often feel physically threatened in ways that men can't appreciate.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/188039-men-are-afraid-that-w...
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Interesting. I'm not sure I understand how California can make laws regulating companies in any part of the world.
> I hate to say this (& will be downvoted)

I stopped reading at that point and downvoted you.
Plot twist: it's the founder's cell phone.
The problem isn't theoretical, just sufficiently unlikely for them to take no action at this point. Consider the scenario where my phone is stolen and the thief transfers money out of my bank account with Venmo (which has no passcode or similar auth). It's unlikely, but not theoretical.
1) We will also need to hire a 'pretentious <-> English' translator just to communicate with this guy. He's probably also very opinionated and difficult to get along with.

2) His state-of-the-art code won't work on any of our deployed systems without lengthy and expensive upgrading or backporting.

3) We'll have to get all of our clients to upgrade their systems, or spend a ton of money and time adding compatibility layers.

4) None of our other developers will be able to maintain his code, and hiring someone to replace him would not be easy or cheap.

5) If we need to hire a 3rd-party agency for something, they wouldn't be able to work with him or his code either. It could cost us a fortune.

He may be brilliant, but basically, we'll have to treat everything that he does as disposable, just as we would with a clueless newb who knows nothing about programming. And we can't entrust him with anything important.
I wonder how they are able to pay for 3rd party transactions with Stripe? Charging the customer's credit card with Stripe then paying with your own payment method incurs a transaction fee and potentially chargebacks

(Disclaimer: co-founder of Perssist, a tech-enhanced virtual assistant service)
> And yes, the .45 specifically has a hell of a recoil, though the weight of the slide has a lot to do with it as well. Just remember your basic physics: if you're ejecting a 20g projectile at 1200fps, the 600g slide is going to travel backwards at 40 fps (which is still very fast).

The 1911 I believe was designed around a ~230 grain projectile (15 grams) that fired at about 850ft/s. There are some 185gr. rounds on the market today that do advertise the 1150-ish ft/s. velocity, but I find in practice that the feel isn't markedly different.

Along those lines, it's important to note that "felt recoil" is perceived somewhat differently to different people (grip strength, hand size, body type), and some people are simply more sensitive to recoil than others. Case in point: I don't find the 1911's recoil to be particularly notable; some think it kicks like a mule. If you're firing heavier projectiles, it'll feel like more of a push than a snap, but it's definitely not unpleasant (the impulse of the recoil is just as important). The 185gr. rounds tend to be a bit snappier (shorter, faster recoil), but still manageable. I'd classify "hell of a recoil" as anything from .44 magnum on up, and there's plenty of large, really ugly calibers out there that are probably very unpleasant to shoot (500S&W comes to mind). The .45ACP is definitely not one unless you're shooting it from a much smaller gun.

Since we're on the topic of felt recoil and considering it is also a function of the weight of the gun, I'd much rather shoot a 1911 than some of the tiny .380 autos on the market like the Ruger LCP [1]. If it's unpleasant to shoot, you're not as likely to practice with it. Even the smaller calibers can hurt if the gun is light enough. :)

[1] http://www.ruger.com/products/lcp/models.html
Some engineering jobs may require a PE (http://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe) certificate, which--although it appears to vary from state to state--requires a four-year engineering degree. Also, most companies in the position to hire a chemical engineer to, say, design and implement a process to distill liquid oxygen, are conservative enough not to entertain the idea of putting an uncredentialed worker on the team. When you're building a plant with the unfortunate capability to explode, poison, or asphyxiate a town, well, isn't it fair to expect that the number of autodidact engineers doing significant work on these projects is close to zero?
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No. I mean it's a repetitive discussion which just creates noise. Everyone says the same things every time. I should never have even replied.
Interesting !

I've noticed that finding software isn't too much of a problem, but getting stuff like tilable images + materials or video seems quite tricky - how do you get round that, or do you just generate everything algorithmically / use electric sheep for it?
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There are some slight errors in the animation. Details, but those are important when talking about classics.

Better animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6SmlOEzNBs

Watch the barrel. In the OP the entire barrel floats up and down slightly. That's incorrect. The breech end of the barrel moves up and down, the other end not so much. This is important because the angle between the barrel and the next round doesn't change in the former. Check the vid at about 3:24, after the assembly, to see what I'm talking about.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRMcTlbWTs

And the recoil animation is wrong. The gun in the OP is recoiling while the bullet is still in the barrel. That's logical, but in reality recoil only gets going after the bullet is away. Once it's out of the way the remaining propellants really accelerate, causing the bulk of the recoil. That's why recoil doesn't impact accuracy. Flinching in anticipation of recoil is another matter.

Watch this gun at 00:10 and note it doesn't move until the bullet is long gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um9Eos9bJDk

Proper 1911 recoil animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3IFJXxyEs&list=PL1469B47BB...
This could be handy as a Slack chat bot
Well it's not hidden because they tell you up front, before the order is placed, how much it will cost. If they told you $20 and asked for $25 when they got there, that would be a hidden fee. Like AT&T saying you can get cable for $20/mo, but your cable bill always ends up being $32.88.
Ask HN: Virtual Assistant to recommend?
Hi,

It's my first time outsourcing a task and am wondering if anyone who has experience with virtual assistants can recommend someone? I basically need someone to look up some information on a website and copy the results.

Thanks in advance.
Whatever you do, please don't spread your ideas to anyone else. We're already dealing with the baby-killing anti-vaccination movement. We don't need more deaths.

Want an answer to your question? "How can such a complex system with unknown unknowns be tested?" Slowly, and a little bit at a time until we have a better understanding. Better to build upon past successes than to throw it all out and start over with your complete misunderstanding of biology.

I realize I may be responding to a troll, but there really are people out there who think like this and are in danger of causing innocent deaths with their 'opinions'.
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Agreed, this has obviously got some nice buzz, but never would I want to be the person having to run this business.

Lots of manual work for little fees. They could hire/ outsource, but the quality will drop and prices will hike.

They might be able to find a niche of people willing to pay a lot for simple things they could probably do easily themselves (like ordering food, or booking a flight), and use that extra money to outsource, but something tells me that market is pretty small.

It's interesting, I'm curious to see if this can turn into a company.
Funny, my kids (10 and 11) can shoot a 1911. The glocks and m&p9s jam constantly. Yet all of them are perfectly reliable when I shoot them. All handguns will jam (I've seen revolvers do it). Also the army acceptance tests of the 1911 showed it shooting thousands of rounds with no failures.

The M9s have an awful reputation from the sandbox. Likely a lot of it was magazine related.

Also, your characterizations of the .45 "putting someone on their ass" is complete crap. Handguns simply do not have that kind of power (nor to most rifles).
> My in-laws and all their friends in that area sticks with Verizon for this reason.

How does that help? My Verizon phone used to roam onto Canadian networks if I got too close to the border.

> ATT needs to find a way to be smarter about geo-location and not just randomly switch around when one is near the border.

No kidding. It's not like they don't know exactly where you are.
I love this idea, but I'm absolutely terrified of the possible implications from a liability standpoint.

When you guys get slammed with fraud, give me a shout.
They can't, but if you make CA mad and they decide to sue you, you'll be out much more than it would've cost to just copy and paste a boilerplate privacy policy. A great deal of legal mechanics work this way -- sure, someone can't technically make that kind of mandate, but since it costs a lot of money and time to have a court case where that kind of thing gets proven, you're better off just making sure no one even tries.

Pretty much any civil action is similar. Unless it's on a massive scale, ask a lawyer what you should do when someone appears intent on pushing a frivolous copyright suit on you. Sure, you have every right to use that content, but do you have the tens of thousands of dollars (minimum) and months or years in court to prove it? It's practically always easier to just accept that you've been bullied out of exercising your rights and replace the contested content with something that the claimant won't launch a frivolous suit over. Lawsuits are only worthwhile when the workaround is more expensive, which is often a hard standard to meet -- that's why most cases end in settlement.
Way to go, Mike! Exciting that this is blowing up on you.
> International roaming is one reason I switched to T-Mobile.

It's nice that it doesn't cost any extra, but in my limited experience with it (in Canada and the UK), it is extremely slow. It's fine for having your phone picking up your mail, but things like Google Maps don't seem to work so well, and anything that involves uploading speech for recognition just seems to fail.
Yes, cancer occurs in healthy ecosystems. The process of tumorgenesis has a lot of variables that we're still unwinding.

There is another cancer out there that is deadlier, and makes a lot of people a lot of money too through questionable means. It goes by names of holistic medicine and "questioning big medicine". It's a gang of the uninformed, led by charlatans and frauds preying on the sick and the dying, spewing their effluent without regard. It metastizes in communities of those looking for some sort of hope beyond hope, infecting these vulnerable communities. You, good sir, are that cancer. You, good sir, with your ignorance lead people to death with your ignorance. I hope, good sir, that you educate yourself, before you cause any more pain, suffering, and death.
Unknowns. Its not my theory either.

Think of this like a craftsman. Just like programmers don't use the scientific method to adopt & evolve practices.

It's a cultural phenomena that utilizes anecdotal accounts to advance the practice.

Advantages & Disadvantages. It seems more useful in environments with many variables, like life.
Numbers being extremely wrong in the demo picture made me upset
What's really fun, and probably even more confusing to the casual observer, is that most (all?) of the clip-fed firearms you'd remove the clip from after loading also had an internal magazine. So you're absolutely right! Especially when the terms refer to two completely different parts.

Some samples that come to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannlicher_M1895

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_C96 (the old "broom-handle" mauser)

I'm sure there's a few others. I saw a couple on Forgotten Weapons (they have a really great Youtube channel--check it out sometime) besides these two, but their names escape me.
Thank you for the info. I'll stop doing that.
Perhaps Chrome's MITM detection should only ignore private certs (for web filtering) if configured so via Group Policy or similar mechanism?
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I don't speak French.
> My pet theory is that the M1 is a big source of the current conflation of "clip" and "magazine".

Huh, never thought about that. I'd imagine one way to test this theory might be to examine changes in the colloquial use of both terms relative to specific firearms and proximity to WWII.

Although, as I pointed out in another comment, some firearms used both: An internal clip-fed magazine. Bet that's an even better source for confusion. :)
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It's a pretty transparent attempt at reverse psychology, and a form of vote-begging.

Intstead try, "I hope I don't offend anyone by saying this, but..."
Without a process you're using correlation implies causation. Which can lead to a lot of wrong turns. Especially when that correlation is based on anecdotal non repeatable massively multi variate data like you said.

Could be true, could be a dead end, don't put as much weight as you did on it.
I'm a programmer who eats healthy & practices yoga. I don't make money from cancer patients.

You are demonizing many techniques. Are you saying that there is only one way to medicine, and that is large drug companies & established professional organizations?

How do new practices & techniques get off the ground in such an environment? Is it possible to be healthy & treat disease independent of these companies in your opinion?

Also, where is the archeological evidence of cancer epidemics in ancient times?
Non-POSIX options that may break compatibility at the user space (scripts, etc). Some people also include GCC stuff that is not standard compatible.
It's part of the secret sauce. If Magic is worth something, then so is knowing their numbers.
I'm surprised why no one has mentioned the fact that the recruiter hinted the candidate and that the candidate could've prepared that convoluted answer beforehand. I would've certainly not hired him. Also, it is stupid to measure if a candidate knows some graph algorithm that you learn in CS 101 or some new js features that no one in their sane mind would use in prod, you should probably be more worried about thought process, concepts of modularity, maintenability and experience.
The typeface of the older design appears as Helvetica on OSX. Edit: realized this is likely due to changing the default font years ago, unbeknownst improving the experience of sites like these. New typeface is certainly an improvement either way.
It's a bit old, but "The Beekeepers Lament" is a wonderful book about the realities of honey bees in America.

http://www.amazon.com/Beekeepers-Lament-Billion-Honey-Americ...
This was pretty funny, actually. They saw the old version I mentioned above. I was surprised when someone posted it on there and I was actually glad that the reaction was lukewarm, because we didn't think we were ready to launch.

And then...boom.
Offtopic: your iPhone is pretty long :) or you used something like Stitch It! ?
We noticed that people were more confused by the ambiguity of the nondescript fee, than us just saying that we'd tell you the total amount. You are right though, we do need to figure out a better way to explain this. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Note that the plan9 version does some extra work so that it can send the entire buffer in one write() operation. This is because Plan 9 guarantees that messages smaller than the size of a pipe buffer are sent as an atomic write, given a sufficiently large recieve buffer on the other end.

This simplifies quite a bit of code that reads and writes commands into ctl files.
Yeah, we've been receiving a lot of requests like this. Right now we are doing our best to handle them all because we believe that happy users will be purchasing customers. We'll have to see how it goes.
This is the key point. Tomasetti and Vogelstein (2015) arguably demonstrated that most types of cancer are primarily stochastic. But it's the primarily deterministic types of cancer that account for most morbidity and mortality.
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If anyone finds this in the future, resetting my router fixed the problem.
The story is really about what’s wrong with this process. You say the candidate should have written production code. And yet, this isn’t a production problem, it’s a made-up CS101 problem. How does it make sense to ask a CS101 question, but not accept a CS101 answer? Likewise, how does it make sense to give a CS101 answer without knowing what the interviewer is looking for in an answer?

How do we know this is the code this person would write in production if we don’t give him a real-world problem to solve and ask him to solve it in a real-world way?

If it’s legit to assume that this person only knows how to write theoretical code from one answer, it’s also legit to assume that the company only has theoretical problems to solve from one question.

In reality, it’s insane to presume anything from one answer. If you want to know what this person writes in production, you ask about that. This is an experienced programmer being interviewed, how does it make sense to terminate the interview after asking one poorly-given question?

Really, this is about a failure to communicate on both sides. For questions like this, if you don’t make it clear what you are looking for, you aren’t really testing their technical competence, you’re testing their ability to guess the answer you’re looking for.

Likewise, if you aren’t given clear guidance about what kind of answer the interviewer is seeking, your responsibility is to ask for guidance, not to rush off and give the answer you think suits your agenda for showing off or for sparking the conversation you want to have.

Failing either or both parties actually talking to each other, this isn’t a technical question at all.
Cost of testing should work to the benefit of alternative approaches, shouldn't it? It's not very expensive to give a massage or lead meditation.

The problem is, whether due to variability of practices or some other factors, in the best case, practitioners cannot reliably say if their treatment offers any benefit. Without statistics there is simply no way to identify a useful treatment; people are horrible at correctly identifying correlations on their own when the data are in any way nuanced.

So, it seems morally and intellectually hazardous to suggest alternative medicine when there is no credible way to show that helps anyone other than the purveyors of crystals, water-molecule-aligning bottles, wellness seminars, etc.

But ah, we do know that placebos have some benefit. So have a placebo instead!
@burrows - thank you for this ! Copy paste has been so much a pain that it is the single biggest reason for me to consider a Mac. I am envious of the mac people who copy paste effortlessly from a gvim session on to a remote tmux vim session.
I can see how it's perceived that way. Fwiw, that was my frustration of down votes for unpopular, well meaning, statements.

Thank you for the communication & attitude tip. I'll adopt it.
California has a similar, but much larger, hydroelectric plant where the California Aqueduct reaches the Los Angeles basin.[1] It's reversible; it can be used either for power generation and pumping. LA Water and Power usually pumps water uphill late at night when power is cheap, then lets it down in midafternoon when power is expensive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaic_Power_Plant
Seriously this article is pretty offensive to Tasmanians - I am one.

There are also inaccuracies - Glenorchy isn't the roughest suburb.

The museum is an absolute wonder though and I strongly encourage people coming here to look at it.
> and the parliament didn't have enough votes to remove him from office (it was done anyway).

It would be kind of irresponsible not to appoint an acting president, considering that the incumbent one has just been removed from the country by the military of a country that's just invaded a region of yours, don't you think? I mean, even if the Ukrainian parliament accepted Yanukovich's escape as reasonable, it would have to assume that he was being held hostage by the aggressor?

> All of the sources I can find including Girkin's own testimony put him in Ukraine in April at the earliest. Can you point to something specific?

Sure, straight from the horse's mouth: Girkin himself tells the date of his arrival in Crimea: February 21 (his interview I posted above).

> The United States considers the Trans-Pacific Partnership key for national security concerns

Well, the US does not go around invading the countries that refuse to sign the deal. They negotiate politically and economically, and Russia should have done the same.

> Academi (Blackwater) was in Ukraine as early as January...

Can you point to a source? Also, in what capacity? For the most part, the protesters were unarmed, and those that were had wooden shields, clubs, and hardhats - hardly a Blackwater style operation?

> The NGOs you mentioned made up large numbers of the Euromaiden protestors that occupied Central Square.

Again, can you point to the source? It's not an abstract thing for me, as some of my friends were actually on that square.

> We're talking about installing juntas

Poroshenko's cabinet is not a junta, by any stretch of imagination (or the meaning of the word). And he hasn't been "installed".

> ... and influencing politics.

That's perfectly acceptable, as long as it's legal (which it has been, AFAICT).
Evolution uses a similar process. Life seems to successfully evolve.
as am I, it just goes to show that the patriarchy is, as always, literally raping womyn of color, such as myself.
What if argc == 1 in the OpenBSD version ? You evaluate *++argv which is not defined.
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ProductHunt is just a useless hype machine for starts that don't hold any real value at all.
Well, there are historical records of cancer, but it's a bigger problem now because people are getting old enough often enough to succumb to it, and it is being diagnosed as cancer and not as "dropsy" or who-knows-what in lieu of superficially visible tumors.