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All of those positive things are also correlated with higher socioeconomic status. Are these traits imparted by college, or are they already present in the set of people likely to go to college?
why, because you haven't done it? your tone certainly doesn't convince me you have much else as a point.
Because why not:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.folklore.computers...

ACM Fellow for Reinventing Virtual Machines: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.compute...
Get the 2nd edition, of course. It's three times as long.

I don't know if I've ever really learned anything from Hacker's Delight, though. It's more of a cookbook. If I learned anything it's that a lot of dead CPU architectures were hard to program.
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In many databases, your suggested "where not exists" sub query might not actually protect you but just make the possible window to hit the race much smaller. What happens is that your database would evaluate the subquery, the rest of the where, commit another transaction and then finally run the insert part of your query.

There are no guarantees in the SQL standard that queries with subqueries should be atomic.

The only truly safe way to protect yourself is to fix the schema in a way that you can make use of unique indexes. Those are guaranteed to be unique no matter what.
I'm the tech lead for the Flywheel proxy. The original version of Flywheel actually started with PageSpeed (with a bunch of customizations to focus on compression). You can indeed emulate Flywheel's optimizations with the appropriate configuration options for PageSpeed. We ended up rewriting Flywheel (in Go) in part because we didn't need all of the complexity that PageSpeed provides, but also to streamline the process of running the service in Google's datacenters, rather than in an Apache or NGINX environment.
“I think that people and companies need to be convinced that everything we do in the cyber domain is lawful and appropriate and necessary,” (Emphasis mine)

Step 1, make this first point true at least (the second and third points will probably be debated until the heat-death of the universe).

Quite heartened by the rest of the article though; techies standing by their principles.
* Ease of use
* Publicly available image registry
* Dockerfiles

I should stress that last point - I dislike certain aspects of docker, but I love their system for building images. I want to somehow adapt it for building bare metal images.
what a terrible opening to the article. it's just a load of unsupportable rants against things the author doesn't personally like. he even tries to disclaim that in his prologue but provides nothing beyond the assertions.

there may be more substance later but once I hit the bullshit about "iFanboys" I decided not to bother. At best I'll just shake my head wondering why people think their personal anger is a compelling argument,
Funny, CenturyLink launched Gigabit in Seattle - 50 miles north of me, yet had people door knocking to "tell me about it, since I've probably seen the trucks". So I looked online, just to see if it was stealth. Nope.

I called, because the database online sometimes sucks. Nope.

And then the rep was "but we do have 24mbps at your address", "No, thank you, I have 150mbps with Comcast", and the rep replied, "What do you really need that much for? I'm pretty sure you don't and are just overpaying."

I didn't even bother beyond "I work from home. I need it. Thanks. Bye."
> Can you still turn off the GC? Lets say I don't like exceptions, and that I don't mind implementing library code on my own, would turning GC off impact anything else?

You can turn off the GC in the sense that memory allocation will always request more memory from the OS instead of occasionally starting a collect cycle. However, you can alternatively use manual memory management (malloc/free, allocators/RAII on top of that, etc.), which will never trigger the GC.

> How is the story for deploying executables to mac/win/lin? Is it as easy as C/C++?

Yes. I think for Posix systems, you can optionally link dynamically to the runtime/standard library.

> Also, do you know if anybody's shipped high quality games with it before?

IIRC, Remedy Games used D for engine scripting on XBox 360. Manu Evans talked about this at DConf 2013.

Here's a commercial indie game written in D:
http://www.inventivedingo.com/mayhemig
I wasn't judging you, haha. I'm just saying, it makes more strategic sense in general to bring yourself up to the level of others (however inflated) rather than bring others down to yours.
> I have no desire to lose my job, but I am most concerned that being fired would place future job prospects in jeopardy.

Unlikely. Firing, head-count reductions, etc. are a normal part of business today. If it happens, it happens--there's no shame in it. Sometimes, being let go can be a blessing in disguise.

Take steps to make sure you're safe and mentally happy. It's a job, not your life. If it's your life, you've just learned a lesson: Don't make your job your life.

You will bounce back. It's what (most) people do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443897
This is how I see it. NSA gonna NSA. NSA gonna maximize the amount of NSA it does. This is why we are SUPPOSED to have congressional oversight. It is quite literally the point of congressional oversight; to keep things from getting out of control. To ensure the US citizen's and the US's ideals and interests are being served in organizations who have every incentive to pursue their own self-interests. However 9/11 happened and they were able to capitalize big time on fear. Our intelligence community does way to much serving its own interests under the guise of serving US interests IMHO.

However, I believe it is ALSO dangerous to have all this information as pointed out by the OP. Again, this is why we are supposed to have congressional oversight and why transparency and secret courts are such hot issues.
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> Many of the examples looked borderline to me.

Check out the fourth panel of the article. It doesn't take much to turn 'borderline' into 'awful'.
To add some followup thoughts, I am often incredibly frustrated when I have to spend 5 minutes reading two thousand words to find information that could have been contained in fifty.

In a similar vein are youtube howto videos which spend 2+ minutes with bad animations, awkward greetings, begging for likes, and rambling irrelevant introductions followed by the actually useful 15 seconds of content.

I have similar problems with university lectures, textbooks, and, professionally, finding any information in documentation. It might be specific to my style of brain wiring; I find low-information-density media to be at times almost debilitatingly frustrating.
better yet, try and seperate the parts naturally and with minimal cutting / effort. Roast chickens can be picked apart pretty easily if you go at it right; you can also just smash through the bones with a knife. Try the former.
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That's how it should work but until relatively recently it had some annoying hitches with clients which claimed to support gzip but were buggy[1], which meant you had to maintain a list of clients to never enable compression for. One of those clients is IE6 so I'm not terribly surprised that they put it off – for a site as widely visited as the BBC, even a small percentage of visitors means a potentially large number of complaints.

I still don't think that excuses not implementing it by now but I'd bet the explanation starts with some engineer having a bad week and not wanting to relive the experience.

1. Some major CDNs and caching proxies like nginx also haven't bothered to implement Vary but that doesn't matter for this particular scenario since they don't appear to be using any of them.
I absolutely agree with your rationale for not wanting to opt in; we appreciate that this is a highly privacy-sensitive topic and one that users need to make up their own minds about.
Wow, those things are so much faster than the Phantom 2 we have at the office.
Yep, I had a similar problem and had to deliberately not read more fiction because I had to study engineering and stuff. Now, with the busyness of life, its a lot easier though. Like you said, the introversion may have made it more attractive to just escape into the excitement of a fiction book.
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As someone who will be typing it very frequently, I wish the more verbose and obvious version had won out.
This is not strictly true. In most cases, Chrome uses an encrypted (HTTP/2) connection to the Flywheel proxy which would bypass by ISP-side middleboxes. However, some carriers are downgrading the Flywheel connection to HTTP for the purposes of implementing adult content filtering; see https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3517349. So we do "remove the mobile carrier from the circuit" in most cases.
Being able to read a webpage is not a universal right.

So you oppose consciousness-raising of an issue, to make people aware of it? You oppose "Hey designers, here are some issues to think of"?

It's perfectly reasonable to expect a user of the webpage to make it usable for themselves

The solutions you offer are sledgehammers. Better to just be a good designer who is inclusive, than demand users monochrome their entire operating system just to read your site. I mean, that's even worse than "This page is best viewed in Browser X".
Regarding the list of permission, my reaction was no wonder. Just couple of days ago, I got this news that Flipkart is going to start something in advertisement domain. They( and almost every other internet company?) want as much data as they can gather.
The problem is not only with reading, but uninterrupted concentrating on a single cognitive task.

Children do have the same behavior, before they learn to sit down and concentrate.

We are becoming children again. Everything should be super easy. This is what sells. A tablet for example has the haptics of a babies device.
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There are only five books on that list.
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Potentially even worse, Google had an excellent per application permissions system they were working on in Android 4.2 & 4.3 called App Ops that worked similarly to iOS, but that project appears to have now been cancelled: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/android-app-ops/
I have found that since reading Aaron Schwartz's "I Hate the News"[1] I can read more. I consciously try to avoid the morning news routine, replacing it with a chapter of whatever book I'm reading.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
Is there a decent technical writeup of how the 370 worked in practice? I love hearing about the old mainframe tech of yore.
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In your position I would be looking for another job the moment I was put on 30 day review, if I hadn't already started.

It's easy to find another job when you have one. While, given your specialty, I wouldn't expect you to have a lot of trouble even after getting fired, it's still not going to be quite as easy as it will be while you're still in this job. Start tomorrow!
This line: "You do not need to provide any personally identifying information in order to use Chrome" is intended to cover pretty much all of the cases you describe. I'm not going to speculate on legal issues.
A example

http://testedanswers.com/questions/-JnsPQy6vOyqDF3FpOrR
> "I think that people and companies need to be convinced that everything we do in the cyber domain is lawful and appropriate and necessary," Mr. Carter told students and faculty at Stanford.

Right, because what they're doing in the cyber domain isn't lawful. Naturally they'll fix that retroactively.

> He urged the next generation of software pioneers and entrepreneurs to take a break from developing killer apps and consider a tour of service fending off Chinese, Russian and North Korean hackers...

Yeah, exploitation of vulnerability isn't partisan or nationalistic. While narrowly possible, it isn't really practical to fend off Chinese hackers without also fending off American ones, and vise versa.

> ...even as he acknowledged that the documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor, "showed there was a difference in view between what we were doing and what people perceived us as doing."

I can't help but picture these hacks that shill for the administration like cheaters who've been caught trying to talk their way out of it.

"Baby, I know I said I was visiting my grandma last night, and while I admit that leaked photograph of me kissing and groping my former lover is authentic, I swear to you it's not like that! The kiss had to be collected in case it was needed in the future but it's not cheating because I wasn't feeling into it at the time. You've got to understand there's a difference in view between what we were doing and what people perceived us as doing. I lied to keep you safe! Think of the greater good baby!!"
"Intuitive" means "consistent with prior experience".

If that prior experience is using a prism in a box to take the spectrum of the sun or various kinds of electric lights, and then studying where the bright and dark bands come from? Or shining a laser pointer at a hair to see the diffraction pattern?

Well, playing with that stuff for fun means that a lot of the QM stuff doesn't seem nearly as bizarre as it's said to be.

But then, heavier-than-air flying machines were for a while considered impossible, rather than merely counterintuitive. And now you can get kits to make small ones at the toy store.
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This is hardly the same comparisone since it's not possible to publish them in braille on a monitor. And publishing a picture of the braille letters wouldn't even help since the blind person still couldn't read them.

Braille users are able to read text using a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display but that's not the same thing as a monitor.

Using grey text on grey backgrounds is much more similar to publishing all your text in images which makes is inaccessible to the blind person unless they install OCR software. But hey that's cool it's on them anyway right?
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I am working on a bootstrapped startup on my nights and weekends while maintaining my big corp job. The only computer I have is my work laptop, so I have been using that for everything. Could I run into issues if I get a startup to the point of success and profits and then quit my job?

FYI: I am in CA and my startup is in no way related to what I work on at my day job.
> > "and how I image most people read most of the time."

> I wish I knew if this were true.

I think it really depends on the book (or part of the book) you are reading. Often the start of a book will be designed to grab your attention, but its possible to lose interest part way through the book, or have to concentrate harder to finish chapters.

Its common - my high school English teacher told us about it way back many years ago.
I got excited for 100 books, then I saw "Part one" and got excited for 20-50 then I got to the article and was like 5!? Well, regardless, thanks for recommendations and looking forward to the next 19 parts.
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Why is there a problem at $6,500 MRR for a lot of companies?
"See the list of permission used by the app below"

The permissions demanded by android apps have moved from alarming to out and out clownish.

Imagine consenting to this:

"modify or delete the contents of your USB storage"

they are asking you to backdoor your own device.
The sizes varied but most of them were fiction. One day I read seven in an evening. It's not that special. It was the result of a highly insular life spent not doing much other than read.
So basically, this means c++ template meta-programming is no longer pure (i.e. side-effects can happen during meta-programs) right ?

If so, this is quite big news, similar to when people realised the extent to which SFINAE could be abused. Not exactly sure this is a good thing though.

Ironically, I think some of Stroustrup's goals for c++11/14 were to lower the need for complex template wizardry... Well, now we will have it complex AND stateful !
I was reading this article when the urge to check HN's comments to this article struck me. Then I decided to write this comment about it in the browser, to paste when I would be done reading.
Do you work in big data ? I do and have never actually seen a company do "big data" without needing to. At enterprise level it is often a pretty sizeable investment e.g. buying dedicated appliances and hiring expensive teams and so generally quite a number of architects and engineers are involved in the decision.

And I would disagree that Hadoop is a big waste of money. There isn't anything else really that comes close to its cost effectiveness once you reach a certain data size.
Get a computer. Your own computer. This just isn't a lot of money.

A builder needs tools. Get your own tools, build your own stuff. Have no worries. Simple as that.

If anything, owning no other machine does beg the question of how you got it all kicked off, doesn't it?
So the best solution is not to have a reward? Or not to have a publicized reward? Or don't depend on the public on bug hunting? Or just hope on goodwill?
Hi Msabalau -- Building a Facebook page is an important part of building our brand and engaging with users to nurture leads -- not only to convert in the short-term, but to build long lasting relationships. It's especially important for us because our products are simple digital downloads that go for as little as $1.50 each, so we need lifelong customers.

We did not buy likes and I am not concerned with how many people like our page. I'm concerned with our engagement rate and reach -- which is (now) phenomenal. In the campaigns I have administered (after the incident that the article reported), I've created carefully targeted campaigns with high-quality copy. The New Republic article, however, discusses our first campaign, which was unfortunately low-quality and poorly targeted. Instead of learning that we hadn't created a good ad by seeing bad engagement, we learned by having our page overrun with fake likes who could not be removed. That's not a typical response for an ad buy, which is a real problem with Facebook's system.

Thanks for reading the story!

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> In what areas would D excel?

Making games? :) I'm half joking here, Kenta Cho has made tons of shoot'em up games, mostly written in D (and released as Open Source) for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_Games
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Ask HN: Any Atlassian/HipChat employees willing to answer a couple questions?
A recruiter reached out from the Austin office. I respect what you guys do as a company, and I was hoping to ask some questions about the general culture, interview process, etc.

Twitter is the easiest way I can think of to exchange info (@loeschg)
>I am not even sure about that. It is there because it is already there. By that I mean it is a giant bureaucratic investment project with billions of dollars flowing through. Many careers (oh look job creation!), business opportunities, support, training, etc tied into it.

"It's there because it's there" is probably true, but that doesn't preclude the "population control" part. Such a system, will: 1) fight tendencies for change that doesn't play well with it ("self preservation"). 2) Find ways to justify its existance and funding, including targeting people, labelling them as "threats", and convincing politicians and the public about its necessity.

For targets of such a system think Aaron Swartz, Snowden, Assange, activists and such (and back to the past: the red scare, the huge FBI files and government interference with people like MLK, etc).

>But not because some cabal of Illuminati wanted to read sexting messages of every person on earth.

No, but a cabal of high ranking officials and corporations wanted a multi-billion system they could profit from, and have forever wanted a populace that plays by the establishment rules. It doesn't have to involve ancient orders to be a conspiracy, all power decisions taken behind closed doors and in a non democratic way are.
Depends on what you signed when you started your job. Standard I am not a lawyer disclaimer goes here.

Seriously computers are cheap go buy one.
The issue here is that Flipkart is not poor. It is one of the largest private companies in India, with valuations at $11 billion. They have already spun off their costlier operations (such as courier and warehousing) into separate companies which they have since sold off.

The only thing flipkart is doing right now is tech and sales. They are definitely not "limited" by money or IT resources.
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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?"

This is precisely the reason I don't actively participate in Twitter or Facebook :)
> Quite heartened by the rest of the article though; techies standing by their principles.

Funny principles, those.

Ads, privacy violations, more ads, dark patterns, some more ads.
>This is why we are SUPPOSED to have congressional oversight.

Gongressional oversight, in the form of some special briefings, and meetings and such, means nothing. In a real democracy what you should have is oversight by the people, in an open and transparent system. Congress itself doesn't have that oversight (what with gerrymandering et al).
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Squirrel is nasty. I hunted a lot as a kid, and we'd get squirrel if we couldn't get something tasty like pheasant that day. They're hard to skin, and they're full of tiny bones. You could stew them in a pressure cooker to break down the meat as much as possible, but there were still those damned bones.

Rabbit was much better, but you had to be careful cleaning it (rabbit bladders can EXPLODE), and Dad hated rabbits... chasing rabbits is the worst habit a bird dog can develop.
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That's a great model. It has proper nosewheel steering, and can throttle back to taxi speed. They taxi it out to the runway and take off properly. When they land, they taxi back to the parking area. That's much closer to normal aircraft operations than most model aircraft.

That video is from 2012. By now, it would probably have an autopilot and camera.