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>> I mean, how many of you actually read through the entire article, WITHOUT checking your email, or flipping to twitter/fb to tell the world about this good article you just found?

Like you it really took me some effort, I had to force myself to stay engaged, not skip over whole paragraphs and not flip to something else.

But I got there!
Kinda related: Apple's blog post on how they borrowed an idea from D, about assert statements: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=15
Same here. I bought the desk lamp (needed a new one as well as the option to charge my N4). I have exactly the same problem as you do. It starts to charge, but after a few seconds the dim light on the lamp starts to blink and the phone stops charging.

I have tried to position the phone in various ways, but the result is always the same. Question now is: is the N4 flawed or is the Ikea QI flawed?
Crockford talks about the bad features added to ES6, one of them class which he said is most requested by Java developers programming javascript.At the end of the talk he show way how to move out of classes/new in javascript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGEjv3Tqo0&feature=youtu.be...
It seems she changed the color of her hair several times. That sounds very messy indeed. At least typical women's magazine readers can probably relate to the extreme emotional turmoil that signifies.
Since she's one half of the divorce in question, wouldn't it be a little sociopathic if it were unbiased?
why would it ?
Congrats on your license.

w8lvn here, licensed since the age of 13. Ham radio led to an interest in electronics and engineering, engineering school led to an interest in computers, computers led to a career, obsession, pastime. I still do ham radio. In 2000, six of us from our local club went to Vanuatu to put it on the air for the WWDX contest. And we were the first to post online results during the event. Combining two obsessions.

And yes, put up whatever wire you can get away with (more effective to ask for permission than forgiveness), go HF.

Also, connect with a club in your area, they may have operating events. Field Day (last full weekend in June) is particularly welcoming to newcomers.

If you don't already have contacts in a club, shoot me an email (at website noted in my profile) and perhaps I can help.

There are so many different activities in Ham Radio--public service as noted in the article, moonbounce, DXing, contesting, AMSAT, mobile. I often load up my suburban with a 54 inch mast on the top and head for the Hiline--US2 along North Dakota and Montana and put rare counties on the air.

ex-yj0vn
I firmly agree, never burn your bridges. A bit like Karma or wearing a seat belt, you never know when it will pay back but, it will pay back.
Pretty conflicted about this story. I am... not surprised by any of the details in it, and I'm not fond of startup founder hero worship. But I'm uncomfortable with this kind of public airing of grievances.

If Musk wrote this kind of piece about her, he'd come across as a massive asshole. But then, he's clearly the one with far more power, and he'd be punching down the power gradient, kicking her when she's down. Does that make a difference? I'm genuinely not sure.
Great read, but speaking as someone who lives on one of those houseboats (and passes through Islington occasionally), please don't consider a canal a safe place to 'ditch' potentially exploding things in future.
Android starting from 4.4 does have a privacy feature that allows you to control what data out of permissions a particular app can access, on my phone I have turned everything off for everything. P.S. I don't have any google app
Is planting trees really a problem? I was under the impression that trees basically plant themselves if you let them.

Also don't think you can simply replant the rain forest.
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While I can't help with your immediate crisis, if you ever want to talk startup strategies just ping my email (in profile). squirrel in London has a great gesture I'd like to pay forward now I'm back home in Brisbane, of always being willing to buy you lunch, learn about what you're building, and offer to help / connect in anyway I can.
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So back to your point, a lot of universities teach computer architecture based on MIPS since it was defined by Patterson and Hennessy (Hennessy also co-founded MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and went into production with MIPS R2000 based on the MIPS I ISA).

MIPS is a very popular architecture, having shipped in over 800 million devices last year.

Now these universities that teach MIPS in their coursework have a chance to enhance the course by giving students access to the RTL too. When those students leave university, they will have the skills required to understand and work with a commercially-available CPU architecture.
I think it's probably more the constant belittling, criticism, and massive power imbalance that was stressful? sigh
Elon's perspective: http://www.businessinsider.com/correcting-the-record-about-m...
I think the suggestion was that you could use "chicos y chicas." But I don't imagine any native Spanish speaker would find chicos discriminatory.
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"There are people serving life sentences for minor shoplifting."

So don't repeatedly shoplift and you won't have any problem. Seems fair to me.
wealthy people had a lot of influence over the government
and were able to lobby for extreme punishments to protect their fortunes

Such as candles
There's a lot of pain here, and the article is of course one-sided and feels rather unnecessary to me (but I'm sure necessary to her).

All that said, surviving the loss of a child is rare. It's a nuclear explosion of the rawest emotion and pain that I've only, luckily, observed from the outside looking in. If things weren't rock solid before, it's difficult to imagine they would survive what must be the most horrible experience a human being can suffer.
I agree - I think most of the numbers in the article don't really explain why this is so interesting.

To me, this is the key part of the proposal, if the technique scales:

"at around 15% of the cost of traditional methods."
They might be valued highly, but they aren't having strong revenue streams, they still make 2.4Rs loss per 1Re revenue, hardly profitable.
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Can you recommend some good references for introduction to amateur radio?
Maybe the higher ups thought about that and invited the relevant engineers (or their boss) from Google and the likes at their offices in the Pentagon or some other place. At least that is not fakable.
I think they are making a mistake, there is a reason why the internet was created, and forcefully migrating all users to the mobile app is wrong, it defeats the purpose of having a website which anyone can handle, the news might be that flipkart is shutting down its mobile website, shutting down the main website is like shooting yourself with a pistol :D
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Yes, deforestation is a problem. You can't replenish a tree line if you don't have a tree there in the first place. So, this is something that will have beneficial effects - especially in a region like the Amazon, where deforestation is proceeding at a horrendous pace.

And replenishing the rainforest is done research - its been worked out how to do it. The problem is its really labor intensive, so this is why the drone-delivery is key.

Use drones to replant key species, watch the rainforest re-grow over 10 - 20 years.
I'm pretty certain that the people who popularised it in the west generally do _not_ claim to have invented it.
You need to look no further than the third sentence of the article to answer your question:

"26 billion trees are currently being burned down every year while only 15 billion are replanted."
“Technology is so easy compared to people.”
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What an awful title. "Messiest divorce"? The only thing that makes it messy is the staggering amount of money involved and the fact that Elon lives in the public eye. It sounds like there is no dispute over the kids, which is what really makes a divorce messy.
If people in the bottom half of the law school class are using LSATs, it's a waste and they should stop.

The top half of the class is still doing okay.

Of course, everyone thinks they are in the top half.
A lot of the comments here are about technical detail. But knowing the technical details is just a prerequisite.

Half the job is having a sense for technologies.

* You will have projects dropped on you that you literally never heard of 24 hours before, and you will be expected to be able to support them. ... and, with some experience, you will.

* People will come to you with great new technologies! ... that you'll get a sense of disaster about. You will need to articulate your concerns in a manner that doesn't piss off everyone invested in the bad idea.

* Be humble, don't turn into an expert beginner. (Look that up.)

* Find other sysadmins to drink and bitch about work with. Your geekosphere will keep you balanced, help your career and be a vital source of info.

Politics is the other half of the job, even though you're expected to be a consummate techie. Treat every email as a press communication, it'll be picked over like one.

* This is not a technology festival, it's an organisation that does something. Always look from that angle.

* The BOFH stories are stories. Nobody, anywhere, actually wants to deal with the grumpy BOFH, in any circumstance.

I have been a sysadmin for 15 years. I fully expect to be gainfully employed until age 100 if I want to, because even in the future, nothing works.
The Spectrum was underclocked - the Z80A can run at 4MHz. Like many machines of the period, the 3.5MHz comes from the display timings (or very much appears to). There's a good diagram here: http://www.zxdesign.info/vidparam.shtml. Summary: 2 pixels/cycle makes 224 cycles per line; (224 cycles/line) * (312.5 lines/PAL frame) * (50 PAL frames/sec) = 3,500,000 (cycles/sec).

(I don't know if there was a 7MHz clock that was divided by 2, or what, or if the thing could genuinely produce 2 pixels per cycle.)

4MHz was somewhat high compared to the 6502-based systems that made up some of its competition, but for many operations the Z80 doesn't run terribly efficiently. Opcode fetch takes 4 cycles and memory read/write takes 3 cycles, making the memory bandwidth of a 4MHz Z80 about that of a slighty-more-than-1MHz 6502. (The 6502 would read or write 1 byte every cycle.) This downplays the value of the Z80's register set and 16-bit operations, though; 6502 zero page is a bit of a poor substitute in many cases, because you lose a cycle from having to read the address byte.

(Compare INC $xx - 5 x 6502 cycles, 2 x opcode, 1 x read, 1 x dummy, 1 x write - with - with INC r - 4 x Z80 cycles, all opcode fetch and then it's done. On the other hand, ADC A,n takes the Z80 8 cycles, because it has to read 2 opcode bytes - something the 6502 will get through in 2.)
Beaker supports multiple languages at the same time in the same notebook, and the code can communicate. You can set a variable in one language, and read it in another language, and it just works, magically.
I don't know why this is on HN, but here is Elon's version of things: http://www.businessinsider.com/correcting-the-record-about-m...

"In addition to paying all of her household expenses and anything related to the children, I send Justine $20,000 (after tax) per month for clothing, shoes and other discretionary items."

I guess two lessons HN readers can take from this are:

a) Don't get married if possible. If she was just his girlfriend, this would be only a bad breakup story apart from the kids, which leads to....

b) If you do get married, don't have kids with the person you married if you are having constant interpersonal conflicts with them. Five kids probably turned the divorce pretty messy. No kids + the post-nup she signed might have made it more clean-cut.
> Upstream vendors will never set values that are strict. Because in that case, people would have too much difficulty to get things working.

If the upstream software author won’t fix it, and the Debian Maintainer (packager) won’t fix it, and if the Debian Technical Committee chooses not to overrule the Debian Maintainer, then it’s probably not actually a problem.

> if you have configured at least two name servers, or that your time is properly configured, and no false-tickers are present. Things which no upstream vendor even can configure for you.

This, on the other hand, does sound like a nice set of features, but this is then no longer a “Security audit” tool. Ideally, of course, these kinds of checks should be integrated into their respective programs/packages.

> you are the new system administrator and have to deal with the "great" work of the previous one.

Either you know that you can’t trust the previous sysadmin, in which case you have to reinstall anyway, or you start out trusting them, in which case you wait until you actually find something bad, and only then reinstall. I don’t really think this use case is very useful.
I remember seeing this when it was originally written. While I laud Elon's professional accomplishments, it's not hard to accept that he has some massive faults when it comes to personal relationships, not unlike many successful entrepreneurs before him. At the same time, my immediate reaction to this piece was that Justine Musk is a professional novelist. Her job is to use words and her writing to entertain people, part of that entertainment being making people feel certain emotions and thoughts through the stories she tells. I couldn't read this without taking her side of the story with a grain of salt.
> Distro repos do provide many of the packages you need for development because you need to be able to compile all of the C++ applications and libraries in the distro repo, of which there are many.

I think it's more along the lines of the distro's package manager's responsibilities should be different from the language's PM. Although I do find myself in agreement with you that the distro's PM is sufficient for C/C++
The underlying problem is humans harvesting wood.

>I would be sceptical about using this to stop desertification.

Take a closer look at the Permaculture movement and the extremely effective science developed around that scene on the subject of stopping desertification - where this article specifically mentions trees being dropped from the sky, that's merely the outer limit. Grassland-dropping drones would also be effective - its not just trees-as-species, but all the other bio-sphere in between that matters.

Farmers using drones to drop mantis-packs is another potential use .. the sky is literally the limit. What we don't have, is the drone systems that can be readily deployable.

Yet.
Paraphrasing from that article: "So, realising I had created a bomb, I surrounded the bomb in shrapnel and took it to a crowded part of the city".
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That doesn't imply that it's technical issues that prevent replanting. In many regions of the earth, people simply don't care about replanting. And as I said, I don't think you can just replant a burnt down forest.
I wish I knew what Brad Johnston’s idea for correct English pluperfect construction was. The article doesn’t explain it, and reading his comments on other websites doesn’t give me a good “ground-up” explanation, it only points out where other people are wrong.
I went looking for a video of this in action but only found the following which features some rudimentary animations: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mo07q

So good job on getting some press- let's see some hardware in action so we have something to get excited about.
I think the real answer is that things don't need to be necessary to exist. Options are just another way to structure investment. They exist because someone decided to create them, and they continue to exist because humans don't like losing things they already have.
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Sounds like every marriage, except perhaps for the power imbalance. Then again, why is it a power imbalance just because somebody is a billionaire? And I'm pretty sure she will get some money out of it, you can not prenup away everything.

Ah, here it is in another article: "In addition to paying all of her household expenses and anything related to the children, I send Justine $20,000 (after tax) per month for clothing, shoes and other discretionary items.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/correcting-the-record-about-m... "

And "According to the marital agreement, Justine would receive approximately $20 million dollars after tax".

What a horrible life it must be.
People who own a lot of land that is useless because its a desert.

Combine drone-planting with permaculture, and you've got a $Trillion terra-forming industry just waiting to happen ..
"why" is the most important information ever.

I've been in my present position five years. Knowing where the bodies are buried (because I buried half of them) turns out to be one of my most useful functions, and whenever I am asked such a question I add the answer to the internal wiki ...
Part of the point is that the article is just dead wrong. "I prefer HHVM's approach here as it shows us where we called the function with the bad data". HHVM says line 6, which is the end of the function, not where the function was called. In fact, they go on to state "not where the function is defined that we are calling with bad data." while still having said "PHP says it occurred on line 9" But line 9 IS where the function was called with bad data. The article misinterpreted the 2 errors...
In a California divorce, the wealthier spouse must pay both sides of the battle even if they are not the aggressor.

Holy misaligned incentives, Batman.
Energy from renewals is cheap and plenty. Generation is not the problem. Storage is.

In Germany, there is excess energy in the system when the sun is shining/wind blowing, even with many conventional plants shut off. It goes to the point, where negative energy prices are traded on the exchange markets.

But with renewals, you can't guarantee or augment the capacity you have at a certain time.

With the artifical fuels, we can store practically unlimited amounts of energy when it is available. The efficiency loss is a drawback. But it really doesn't matter much.
Why are we re-visiting this 5 years later?
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I know of at least a billion women who would trade places with her.

All that whining about how badly she was treated. He asked her to dye her hair, the horror. She had financial access to pretty much any activity one can imagine, and she chose to be bored and whiny instead of busy doing something cool.
Yeah, was going to say, this would most readily be addressed by randomly plotting in Spherical Polar Coordinates and then converting.
Why "faults"? It sounds as if he said "take it or leave it", isn't that fair? Why do you have to have a specific personality to be accepted? Nobody is forced to marry the guy.
I think there is a mistake with this article. They were and already have shut down their mobile website. There is no official statement the they are going to shut down their website.
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Can anyone comment on how the author flooded HTTP requests to the endpoint URLs? Did he use developer tools in his browser and execute his own JavaScript, or use CURL in a tight loop with the cookie and CSRF token from his browser session?
I've always been strongly in the stateful web app camp, and I don't find anything hacky about sticky sessions:) But I think the divide between the stateless and stateful camps may come down to a combination of initial technologies used, and web application complexity.

At some point, with a complex enough application, reconstituting all of the required session data and state for each request becomes a massive performance bottleneck, and stateful sessions solve that very nicely. Most app tiers support session failover pretty nicely, and many clients I've worked with have logic where if the session doesn't exist (i.e. if their session's sticky server has crashed or been removed) then reconstitute the state based on a cookie value. Either approach gives you the best of both worlds - the performance of stateful sticky sessions, and the cluster flexibility of stateless.

But with simpler applications, with less session data/state to manage then stateless is probably fine.
Zabbix to monitor hardware,
logstash/elasticsearch (kibana for UI) to monitor service logs,
Sentry for application level logs

At least this is what we're moving to at work.
Marriage is probably a high risk factor for entrepreneurs.

"In a California divorce, the wealthier spouse must pay both sides of the battle even if they are not the aggressor."

"I even had to endure her attempt to enjoin my companies, which would have required her participation and permission in every significant corporate decision."
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That doesn't really say anything about whether the checkpoints are effective or not.

If they are ineffective, I'd not expect any attacks to be stopped at the checkpoint due to its ineffectiveness.

If they are effective, I'd not expect any attacks to be stopped at the checkpoint because the attackers know about the checkpoint. If they don't know how to get past it, they will not start the attack.

We do know that before checkpoints where introduced in the early '70s there were a lot more hijackings. In 1969 there were over two dozen hijackings to Cuba, for example. Airline hijackings went way down after checkpoints were introduced and made it so you had to have a more sophisticated plan to get a gun onto a plane than simply tossing it into your carryon bag.
Any chance you'll support Rust or Go in the future? Our company doesn't deal with the JVM at all - mostly Python and Go currently.
The job title might change (and has changed).

I flatly do not believe the job will disappear until humans stop building technologies, and fucking them up. So, not any time soon.
350 Million people with depression is a bigger number than I previously thought... I wonder if this technique (MCBT) could somewhat be implemented in a mobile app that assists/guides you during the day...
Nah, the documentation package is about 40 pages. The cv though, yes, is about 2 pages. I included a 1 page resume, and a 3-4 page curriculum vitae, to get around the annoyance of having a wide variety of experience, yet wanting to be terse, and to avoid the whole, "I see you have programmed in C++, but we needed a C programmer" problem.
> It's not that sysadmins are going to disappear, it's just that with IaaS and the automation tooling that's been developed in the past decade teams don't need to be nearly as large. The role has also changed.

The sysadmin's role is to automate themselves out of a job: you should not need to do anything twice.

For some reason, the job never disappears and new stuff keeps coming along.

(I do know one guy who successfully automated most of this job. He got bored and got a new job.)