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I like the style. He draws attention to things that would get lost if he just stated them in the most concise form possible.

I also find it easier to ingest; I wish I had known about this guide a few years ago. I learned socket programming from man pages. It's an experience I don't want to recommend.
In general, yes. Students going out of state drives up their costs sometimes 2-3x higher than staying in-state. With some exceptions like PA where going out-of-state might be cheaper. I really only know PA as being particularly expensive because I knew so many people from there. I'm not sure what the current list of affordable states and unaffordable states are.
Google wants to be your wireless carrier with encrypted connection
That's what happens when you use VS to develop node apps.
Generally not. Most local organizations (Washington, DC) that help the homeless advise against handing out cash to panhandlers. I do contribute once a year to a hunger fund that pays for a dinner program.
I might buy that argument if the student and the professor shared the profits.

They don't.

Instead, the student is bound to pay every last cent of the education. Nowhere, other than court punishments and child support are debts protected against bankruptcy.

So yes, if I pay for it, I own it or I control it.

Edit: You misunderstand. I said servant, and I mean servant; not slave. Webster: "a person who is hired to do household or personal duties such as cleaning and cooking". Even the McDonalds cashier is that, when taking my order.
There's a new line of attack you might not be aware of. Well protected by his own armed security Bloomberg is now the most effective gun controller (he and his people engineered the Colorado debacle, and gerrymandering is likely to keep it all), and he's pursuing deceptive transfer laws through state initiatives, with initial success in Washington state.

These laws ostensibly regulate private transfers, but in the fine print are aimed directly at hindering the creation of new gun owners and otherwise trapping us in flypaper, by criminalizing the lending and renting of guns even under supervision. The Washington state officials say they won't enforce that part of the law, but....

Next up are Nevada and Oregon, last time I heard about this.
Another one is making any sort of external web request; you should never use your web server to do this.
Thank you, I couldn't agree more, I have always felt the Internet Archive is a highly underrated resource!
Ha. Pretty damn saavy store clerk
INFOGRAPHIC: The history of China and all human civilization in one chart
Microsoft just turned 40, and it’s actually looking pretty good
I think from the BSD point of view, contributing back is seen more of a weak social obligation than a legal one. You contribute back because it's a nice thing to do for those giving you free stuff, not because of section 6 paragraph 1 of some ten page legal document.

Asking people to consider it is the right thing to do. Switching license would defeat the entire point.
All about the Dodgers new tech accelerator
Migrationsverket is the Swedish Immigration authority. They say at http://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/P... :

> You cannot choose the country where your application for asylum is examined (the Dublin Regulation)

> According to the Dublin Regulation, a person who flees to Europe must seek protection in the first safe country that he or she comes to.

> When you apply for asylum in Sweden, the Swedish Migration Agency begins by investigating whether it is Sweden or another EU country that is responsible for handling your application for asylum. If you have received a visa to enter another EU country, have certain types of residence permit in another EU country, or have applied for international protection (asylum) in another EU country on your way to Sweden, you may need to go back to that EU country. These rules can be found in the Dublin Regulation.

as well as:

> You should apply for asylum at Sweden's border. If you have already entered Sweden, you may apply at one of the Swedish Migration Agency's application units located in Gävle, Göteborg, Malmö, Märsta, Norrköping and Stockholm.

Do note that this question is very off-topic for this site.
The banner on the old KSP website said "Kerbal is awesome -Elon Musk"

EDIT: According to the changelog, "Elon Kerman" has been added to the name pool.
The article suggests, though, that other compact cars had a similar bumper and fuel tank design, including sharp objects near the tank. The issue wasn't unique or exceptional. The one cherry-picked metric that came out of it was that the Pinto experienced puncture for rear end collisions at a marginally lower speed than other cars, and, after regulations were put in place to increase that minimum, fatality rates were not affected at all.

Any fatality effect is noise compared to the other causal factors in fatal accidents: highway design, speed, weight of the objects of collision, level of alcohol intoxication. And even factors within Ford's control trumped the Pinto gas tank design in importance. It's just that one particularly grisly and tragic death makes for some really bad PR.

Disclaimer: I've got no knowledge of the Pinto case besides hearsay and what's in this article.
Could you elaborate or provide links?
It has its difficulties (deployment?) but I'm really enjoying it.

Anything specific? What kind of environments are you deploying in?
Have you tried to do so? I've seen coherent, well-written letters from a large number of students influence the direction a course took (it was redesigned from the ground up for the next year), and both student and peer evaluations of teaching are definitely a factor in tenure decisions - and depending on the position, may be a major factor.

But I'd start with laying out concrete things, rather than "embarrassed and ashamed".
This is SUPER awesome. I can't wait till it's production ready but maybe I'll play around with it a bit on side projects.
More formal and comprehensive, absolutely. If you want something that's more friendly to neophytes, Beej's guide is the way to go. It's quite literally what they used in my upper div intro to Networking course at UCLA years ago.
Sorry, I forgot "dear mods" :)
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra (origin disputed)
I met Elon Musk when we were teenagers;insane demands of success -Justine Musk
That's not a very realistic view of things. First of all, a professor's job consists of many things, of which teaching is just one. Depending on the institution, your tuition may be a very miniscule portion of the professor's paycheck. Finally, even if they're solely a lecturer and payed entirely from tuition, what you want isn't necessarily what other students want, so unless you've hired the prof as a private tutor...
I think it's a nice gesture as long as you are polite about it. I would be happy that someone read the content and wanted to help improve it.
If you don't mind highly technical hard SF, Schild's Ladder is also very good. It's not explicitly spelled out in the text, but it serves as a good pseudo-sequel to Diaspora.

Egan's publisher recently ran off a new printing of many books in his back catalog that were hard to find in the US.

http://www.amazon.com/Schilds-Ladder-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/1597...
Richard Branson, as least in his public persona. Perhaps it takes a small company who has nothing better to do than gamble. Trying for the homer, or failing.

Once you get past a certain size, perhaps the $$ people take over. At least until disaster stares them in the face, and this article makes the point that the typical "management hire" is well(?) trained to avoid disaster. Although they tend to call it avoiding change.
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Nice, I haven't played for about a year and a half, back when it was pure sandbox. Guess I'll have to queue it up in Steam, although I'm having trouble displacing Endless Legend and EU4.
Ask HN: How to get part-time consulting work?
I'm a software engineer experienced in backend development (C++, Python, Ruby). Currently a lead engineer in an European FinTech company, I'd like to transition to consulting by the end of the year.

My plan is to start consulting part-time on the side and then gradually transition to full-time consulting. My biggest problem is this: I don't know where/how to find (part-time) clients.

Do you have any experience in finding part-time consulting work?
Squad has hired several prominent modders.
Personally I am always thrilled to get grammar/typo fix pull requests to my projects. It means someone cared enough about the project to go through the effort of making a PR just to alleviate a small aesthetic problem!
Agreed, GP's post was about the technical merits of PS. PowerShell may be the greatest thing since virtual desktops, but that doesn't help me until PS 3.0 is included in the OS by default. Since my customer base is decidedly conservative on OS upgrades, it's going to be a while until I can try out any of those great PS features.
If you go to a state university, odds are your professor is largely paid by the taxpayers, either of the state or the U.S. via the NSF/NIH/DoE etc.

Professors are not your employees, and the notion that you should get your class "the way you want" - especially considering a likely double digit number of students all wanting it their way - is absurd.
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I want higher marks than you.

The professor should clearly give me them.

Well, bring them to me. I can't be bothered actually going to class.
This perspective is in my opinion entirely misguided.

The incentive of a private organization is to find ways to profit off you. That desire leads to fairly predictable behavior.

On the other hand, a government owns you and has true power over you.

While the odds of a company abusing this information is much more likely, it's damage to you (abusing you with unwanted ads, etc) is far less bad than how a government would use such info to abuse you.

Another dimension to this is that if a private company establishes a monopoly on your information, it's position is all but permanent. It's possible for a whole slough of similar companies to acquire the same information, therefore nullifying each others monopoly and power over you. With a government this is not the case.
Tell me about it. I TA for a physics class for premeds, and while they may find some passing interest in the course, they certainly don't care to learn it...and actually, I agree. May be a general knowledge of physics for someone going into medicine might be somewhat beneficial, but do I really expect my doctor to care about calculating the net force on a spaceship between the earth and the moon? Really?

I'm still at a loss for understanding why physics is required for the MCAT.
If I bought large quantities of textbooks written by Party Authors and used them to support my tables and benches...would that lead to an execution for corruption or a higher CRO for ingenuity? ;)
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/aerospace/aviation/softw...

An article on the topic. The summary, IMO, is that no one acquiring major systems (defense or otherwise) seems to properly understand the costs and risks of software. More money spent up front on their design, development and test framework would have significantly reduced the risks while (naturally) costing more early on, but should reduce costs over the lifetime. They ignore this and spend more after the deadlines have passed as a consequence.
Google buys patents before they become weapons
> I've never been able to figure out why/how Jq got so much larger so much faster.

I offer this in the sense of constructive criticism: for me, it's because your examples are scary. Here's the command you give for reading a URL of a photo uploaded to reddit (in file foo.json):

$ jshon -e data -e children -e 0 -e data -e url < foo.json

Here's the jq equivalent:

$ jq -r '.data.children[0].data.url' < foo.json

which looks an awful lot like every other tree parser I've used. Now suppose I want to get all the URLs with jq? That's just:

$ jq -r '.data.children[].data.url' < foo.json

In Jshon, I have to rewrite the query as:

$ jshon -e data -e children -a -e data -e url -u < foo.json

That is, replacing the "-e 0" (get item at index 0) with "-a" (do the rest for all items). The jq equivalent changes ".children[0]" to ".children[]", which to my poor muddled brain more clearly represents what I'm asking for. For me, jq's query language maps well onto how I think about the problem. Jshon's does not. That's why I use one and not the other.

Again, I offer this sincerely. Even if I don't personally use it, I love when cool ideas cross-pollinate from one project to another and I'm glad there's more than one player in the space. Thanks for your work!
And how could I forget: David Langford, "BLIT"[1], and "Different Kinds of Darkness"[2].

> BLIT (which stands for Berryman Logical Image Technique) is a short science-fiction story written by author David Langford. It features a setting where highly dangerous types of images called "basilisks" have been discovered; these images contain patterns within them that exploit flaws in the structure of the human mind to produce a lethal reaction, effectively "crashing" the mind the way a computer program crashes when given data that it fails to process.

1: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

2: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of...
http://www.warplife.com/jobs/telecommute/

There will be lots more there soon. I wasn't working on the site for a while but I picked it back up again just last week.

My former client Pete Burnight might have some advice for you, he was very helpful to me when I was just starting out. Be advised that he's rather high-strung. Real nice guy he only pretends to be pissed off all the time.

http://www.photopete.com/contact/index.html

Pete wrote the user interface for AppleLink.
The point is that it wouldn't really be at the expense of others - it doesn't matter if it's dark if the players are blind.

(Yes, restricting them to only playing at night may cause scheduling conflicts but it's a joke and of course omits such details.)
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True, that's an interesting point.
Please submit the original article, per HN guidelines: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/the-best-a...

As for the headline claim, I'm sure this is true for people who work in design, but outside that field I seriously doubt TNR would prejudice anyone's job application. The designer making this claim sounds ridiculously self-absorbed.
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Popcorn Time isn't fixing that problem. Studios / Law firms / whoever can jump on the torrent, grab all the seeding IPs, and go to town.

All Popcorn Time does is include a built in search & video player. The actual torrenting part is the same as using a normal torrent client.

Where do you find out about the torrents? How do you get Popcorn Time updates? Right now that comes from a server somewhere. They want to make this part of the app P2P as well. Those are the P2P changes they are talking about.
+1 for Diaspora, if you have any interest in trans-humanism this book has one of the most plausible/believable post-singularity worlds I have encountered.
The problem with this is that society does not accept failure. Fail a few times in college and your GPA is irreparably damaged, you have to spend extra time (and money, oh god the money) retaking courses you "should" have passed on the first go.

I find myself gaining the most from courses where the professor destroys me. I spend all semester struggling with certain concepts and then at some point towards the end, once I've been exposed to the bigger picture, everything falls together and all the previous material I didn't understand now makes sense. The problem is that I've already been evaluated for the material. If I get a D in a course and retake it and get an A should I still have that D on that record, even though I arguably know the material better than someone who got a B on their first go?

While failure is probably the best way to learn, society conditions people to avoid failure like the plague.
I'm taking today off.
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I have definitely had life-changing professors who taught be extremely valuable lessons who were poorly rated on that site. And one of the worst professors I ever had (like if I build a time machine I'm going back to tell myself not to take his class) was highly rated on that site.
The sum total of the following links: DoD will be investing, through parterships with executives of companies that acquire technology from startups, like Facebook, and with partnerships with Silicon Valley Venture Capital Firms to invest in companies that increase the national cybersecurity posture of the US (attack and defense) and to limit funding to technology that it thought to harm the national security of the US (E2E encryption solutions are specifically mentioned). The past few months have seen many defense officials making their way through silicon valley to meet with executives and VC firms, including the Admirial and soon-to-be-representative of the State Department.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/24/department-of-defense-cre...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/us/white-house-takes-cyber...

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27974832/defense-secr...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/science/pentagon-looking-f...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/technology/the-pentagon-as...

http://www.hngn.com/articles/87223/20150424/secretary-defens...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/23/defense-department-sili...

http://cryptome.org/2015/04/dod-cyber-strategy-2015.pdf
I have finite attention. Attention (time and effort) is probably more important to my learning than the quality of my teacher. Without attention you fail. With infinite attention you get a perfect grade.

When you take a hard course it consumes a disproportionate amount of attention. Even if the teacher is bad at his/her job a harsh grading scheme will drive you to spend hours in the library. You will learn a lot because you are burning valuable attention; attention other classes can not have. So such a class necessarily good? Of course not. Not if the learning benefit is outweighed by learning opportunity cost.

So regarding the finding of the study

The better the professors were, as measured by their
students' grades in later classes, the lower their
ratings from students.

I'm not confident that performance in later classes of the same sequence is a fair measure of learning; what matters to me is performance in ALL later classes. How do evaluations correlate then?
love it. a cool feature for the visualizations after the first would be to show the SSE for the OLS line vs whatever configuration you picked.
There's a crucial decision the Toyota engineers made, as described by the article, which was that if the stuck accelerator was not preventing the driver from using the brake and slowing the vehicle, then the stuck accelerator is acceptable (we're talking about a small number of reports) and no fix should be made.

It's not easy to understand why they would make that decision. I imagine a stuck pedal is likely to cause confusion in a driver. It would take some time before a driver will process what is happening, and realize that the accel pedal is indeed stuck. It seems like surely it would cause accidents.

Furthermore, it's not a tough problem to design a pedal that moves back and forth in high humidity or high temperatures that a car interior is going to see. And it's not expensive.

But we're seeing this fault in isolation. The engineers are likely thinking, "Suppose we fix this problem. That's fixed, and it cost $2 per car. Now, what are the 1000 other items that could fail and cause a similar moment of confusion, of the kind that might contribute, or seem to contribute to an accident? What will it cost to fix all of them, because fixing just one doesn't solve the problem."
The iAPX 432 failed for a very good reason: its performance was infamously abysmal. The performance of the iAPX 432 is actually the subject of one of my favorite systems paper of all time: Robert Colwell's "Performance Effects of Architectural Complexity in the Intel 432"[1] -- a paper that I love so much that I wrote a reasonably detailed review of it decades after it was published.[2]

[1] http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/bcantrill/public/colwell-432...

[2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/07/18/revisiting-the-intel-...
It's a difficult question, I've thought quite a bit about it.

Begging has increased massively in my city over the past few years (common in most of northern Europe)[1][2].

Some thoughts on this (totally understand if people disagree, it's a difficult topic):

- These people are obviously poor and miserable. Feeling sorry for them is a natural and human thing.

- But, if everyone were begging all humans would starve to death. It's not scalable.

- There are ~1 billion people on less than $1 a day (even with PPP adjustment that's probably less than most beggars make).

- Begging is sort of a 'squeaky wheel gets the grease' allocation method. It's likely that there is someone else that would need the money more.

- It feels like a bad thing to incentivize.

- These people have harsh lives, and often they've started with unfavorable odds. But I think it's more useful to focus aid/effort on structural issues, like fighting corruption, improving world trade, good institutions, education, etc (in both developed and developing countries).

- Human civilization as it stands today is a product of long, hard struggle. Most people have lived grim lives.

- Mostly an anecdote, but I watched a movie called 'Last Train Home'[3], about a Chinese family that works 12+ hours a day, 51 weeks per year. They saw their kids 1 week per year. That's quite the struggle. I'd guess most people watching the movie would feel that these parents lived a harder life than many people begging in rich western cities.

I'm not arguing these are in any way optimal (or even good choices), but things I've donated to are Transparency International, Amnesty and Wikipedia.

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/half-swedes-want-ban-begging-319327

[2] http://www.newsweek.com/influx-roma-norway-leads-begging-ban...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Train_Home_(film)
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Some of the most valuable things I learned, and have done good things for my career, were in those "unrelated" 120 credits.
After playing a few days with AsciiDoc, I definitely like it, but it still doesn't solve basic legal document requirements like the references. Maybe I will submit a request to extend it.
Not fun. Sidekiq is pretty closely married to Redis datastructures unfortunately.

However there are clones like Shoryuken [1] that would be easier to port.

[1] https://github.com/phstc/shoryuken
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The Oregon situation was particularly questionable, and I was saddened that I591 was narrowly defeated.

The chaos agent in me was hoping that 591 would pass alongside 594, to see how the state would have to reconcile directly conflicting bills. Sadly, 591 was massively outspent.
When I'm hacking something together, I log things in... Slack.

As it grows into a seemingly useable feature, I might move it to GA or Mixpanel.

When it gets to be large and stable, then it goes into syslog
An interesting paper. "The Myth of the Ford Pinto Case":

http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pint...
One really cool thing about MESSENGER is that its mission was extended by using its solar panels as a sail, and save some fuel. It's actually the first solar-sail use to date.