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Blade Runner Scene Recreated with Unreal Engine 4
But everything CAN be improved by only adding silicon to it!
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This is very nice, but I genuinely wonder how software like Datomic can be monetized, when open-source alternatives (clones) pop up so quickly.
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Google, Red Hat, and VMware Announce CoreOS Container Support
I agree with you. Instead of optimizing for battery life by constantly checking & adjusting my charging, I'd rather live my life focusing on other things. What I do is super simple: plug it in whenever possible.
Zidisha is looking for remote volunteers / interns
Thanks for being so transparent.

Already been eyeing kubernetes, reading this just makes me want to use it even more.
Flexible hours, especially start times. Other than that, market rate salary. I really couldn't care less about anything else. Keep the ping pong table - just stay off my ass about showing up at 9AM every day.

(This assumes standard health/dental/vision coverage and casual dress code, which should be prerequisites at this point)
Not secure at all.
I don't think you can put someone in the "worst ever" category without bankruptcy. There has been a lot of very shitty CEOs over the years, some of them criminal.
Bulk international dialing is pretty much just as expensive as local dialing. (Essentially free)
Three Reasons Apple Should Acquire IBM
I think it really comes down to how much enjoyment one gets out of programming. If you thoroughly enjoy the process, you are more likely to put in the time and effort (in fact it will feel effortless), and you will be thinking about it all the time. Then there are those who don't mind programming, or maybe even see it as a chore, but choose to do it anyway.
Still, lots of govt ones. North Lanarkshire has 300!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west...
> That should be specific to a dark brown Chinese person; not to an African American.

If the preference were an idealized optimal algorithm, perhaps; but people are adaptation-executers. The simplest rule is 'lighter skin means richer', and so when one runs into an African, it's not necessarily perfect. (Although given how many poor African immigrants there are in China now, I'm not sure that's a bug rather than a feature.)
By all direct accounts the state amply met their burden of proof in this case. The case didn't turn on the bash history; that was part of a much larger pattern of facts.

Just before leaving an incredibly sensitive job in the single most competitive part of the financial sector for a job paying 3x at an arch-competitor of his current firm, a programmer cloned a huge collection of source code --- the majority of which was proprietary and not open source taken from the single most sensitive technical asset at his firm, an asset which his new 3x job at the competitor was to reproduce, and uploaded it to an offshore Subversion hosting service nobody had ever heard of before. Later, he is shown to have presented portions of that code to his new firm.

The only people on HN who think this is OK have that view solely because they think it's OK to do virtually anything to Goldman Sachs, because of the abuses Goldman Sachs has inflicted on the world's giant squid population.

That is a fine and intellectually coherent position to take: firms who harm giant squids do not deserve the protection of law. But people holding that position should be clearer about it, and constrain themselves to squid-based arguments.
This is hard to exploit if the CSRF token is a few characters from the cookie that identifies the user. Setting a new value for the cookie would log the user out.
Right, because voip has a reputation for sounding great and being reliable.

(/s)
Cute, but not quite. Those are still executed in some order. Not like algebra which is a set of expressions that are all true over all time.
About one in twelve men has some kind of colour weakness. If you're relying on the ability to distinguish between colours on hue or saturation alone, you're making it difficult or impossible for one in twelve men to use your product.

It's not that hard: if you need to distinguish a small number of colours, make them sufficiently different in luminosity: if you wouldn't be able to tell the colours apart on a greyscale photo copy, someone will be unable to use it. If you need to distinguish between a large number of colours, use additional clues (e.g. labels, patterns, etc) other than the colour itself.

It's not "not easy to distinguish between all colours". It's impossible to distinguish between some colours, making the map itself meaningless. This is akin to having a heatmap where the "hottest" and "coldest" areas are indicated with the same colour: the result is useless unless you're specifically interested in "average" vs "extremes" (with no regard for direction).
It's probably used to weed out targets such as the blog author, who know it's a scam already, rather than connecting them to a real person and wasting the attacker's time.
Take the meds; if you aren't able to feel like you can do the other things, your depression might be too severe for those to help anyway. I didn't realize I was depressed for a number of years, until my wife forced me to go. I am now on medication and I feel much improved.

The wrong medicine will dull your focus (I had a very bad sedative reaction to Lexapro) but the right ones will make you feel more normal. My work is the same as it was before, except I am happier now.
Why don't device manufacturers code this kind of thing into their power/battery drivers?
These powerstrips are expensive enough to have a $5 ARM or MIPS core driving their software. And yes, I'm aware that they are a tiny minority of connected devices - I just wanted to point out that there's a class of devices that have problems with encryption.
Lies. Everybody knows there are no enterprise developers any more. /s
Is there anything that can be done to make LWN.net look a bit nicer? There's often very good and interesting content on there - for which I'm grateful! - but the presentation really is rather a throwback to the pre-CSS days.
Personally I believe that the best insights don't come from customers. As Jobs said, "Customers don't know what they want"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2011/10/17/five-danger...

People working in IT data centers didn't work with cloud much, so they didn't understand the advantages. It's very dangerous to do product design in an echo chamber.
Harvard's endowment is $36billion. I think they are doing ok.
This is the most recent I could find, I can't vouch for the accuracy/truthfulness of the data though:

https://www.aei.org/publication/texas-great-american-job-mac...
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Uber Blog – 4 Years Moving NYC
I think the idea is that caller ID forwarding should be implemented in some authenticated or verifiable way. I hesitate to call credential forwarding a solved problem, but surely a modern protocol design could do a lot better than the current free-for-all, I-am-who-I-say-I-am system.
> "Beauty" has always been entirely socially constructed. There is no such thing as beauty, even when Beyonce "creates it".

I think you might benefit from reading
"Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review" http://www.jonathanstray.com/papers/Langlois.pdf , Langlois et al 2000.
The original version of the "10x" idea didn't require the productivity distribution to be bimodal - it could be a bell curve or skewed bell curve with high variance. I think it's contextual as well - if you're working on a project that's just at the edge of your present abilities, your productivity is going to be pretty marginal compared to someone who's done it before and has strong aptitude at it.

I think it's silly to simply sort programmers into two buckets.

It does make a lot of sense though to try to attract and retain good programmers though - having a programmer who's at the 75th percentile of productivity instead of the 50th percentile is going to give you a big boost in productivity if productivity is high variance. It also makes sense to try to match programmers to projects that they have good aptitude and motivation for.
Yes! Like musicians that have tunes running through their head constantly. Or poets that turn every phrase over in their minds.

Did you ever dream of debugging your children? That if you could only find the right breakpoint to set, you could adjust them and fix something? Then you are truly a programmer.
This is probably not a good place to discuss this particular issue.
Is It OK for Employers to Seek Out ‘Digital Natives’?
I'm not on the "unlimited vacation" system, but I've heard that companies like this because you can still stop employees from taking any more days than they did before (by guilt trips or just not approving days off), and if someone quits they don't have to pay out unused accrued vacation time.

So if you ever quit a job with "unlimited vacation," be sure you've taken more vacation than you would have accrued on a traditional system? Otherwise they're screwing everybody and getting away with it.
It will verify the number/extension called as being a valid target for further attacks. In most situations nothing worse than that would happen.

I have however seen a slightly different breed of attack, where an attacker calls a victim (usually a switchboard attendant) and asks to be transferred to extension 9190. If this happens, they dial the rest of a 1-900 number and rack up charges.
But if he or she is an employee its not their code the Law is quiet clear on that.

Ford line workers don't own the cars that come of the line do they.
> Paid vacation days set in policy (I will assume "unlimited" means none.)

I liked the way my current employer dealt with this. When I was coming on, they mentioned that they had an unlimited vacation policy for exempt employees, but that non-exempt employees got 4 weeks a year as a benchmark to consider. The result is that a lot of people in our group seem to take vacations roughly as if they got 4 weeks of vacation a year but don't have to count it or worry about running over a bit. It also helps that there's a culture of actually taking substantive vacation and not working insane hours and such.
I don't have any immediate answers, but I did want to quickly thank you for having the courage to reach out, rather than just suffering silently. This is something with which many of us struggle on a regular basis.
> HOWEVER - there is almost no chance of him ever piloting a US spacecraft based largely on where the manned space program is.

I personally do not think this is true. There are at least 5 spacecraft under development right now that would need pilots: NASA Orion, Boeing CST, SpaceX Dragon, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic. Even if some of these fold, it still seems likely that at least 2-3 spacecraft would need crews at the same time. This is on top of ISS crew commitments.

I think we're in a lull right this minute, as we were after Apollo, but I think it's easy to mistake that for the future. If your friend will be still be in flying shape in 5-10-15 years, I predict there will be a number of opportunities to fly into space.

I do wonder about the future of non-pilot, non-engineer astronauts. Aside from the ISS, all the craft flying or under development would seem to demand a small crew of engineers. As opposed to the Space Shuttle program, which had enough seats for teachers, chemists, etc. to qualify and fly. For example a woman I knew in college flew on the Space Shuttle with a bachelor of geology and a few years teaching high school.
http://1dollarscan.com/
> Where do you put the settings and search buttons?

My opinion:

1. They go on the remote controller itself as magnifying glass and gear buttons, if you have that luxury. If there is no UI pointer, there is no need to provide anything else.

2. If you have a UI pointer, icons (gear, magnifying glass) or word links (settings, search), upper-right is most intuitive but lower-right may work also.
Also:

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

"The agreement was signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy."

and:

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

Initially: "Germany, Italy and Japan"

then:

"Hungary (20 November 1940), Romania (23 November 1940), Bulgaria (1 March 1941) and Yugoslavia (25 March 1941), as well as by the German client state of Slovakia (24 November 1940). Yugoslavia's adherence provoked a coup d'état in Belgrade, and Italy and Germany responded by invading Yugoslavia"

Note that some countries first signed and only then the Nazi regimes came to power in them. Hard time in Europe then.
Organized group warfare? Do you mean bar fights or nation-states and insurgents? What proportion of humans take part in acts of organized group warfare? Saying war is natural to humans is to selectively ignore that the vast majority seem to prefer peace and/or don't have time for the war games.

The decisions and designs of organized group warfare are in the hands of an extremely small few and they are constantly trying to balance the application of their wealth between keeping domestic subversion at bay while clumsily dumping bombs and bodies around the world to "preserve peace."

War is not an undeniable urge, it's a choice. It's proven morally corrupt in most recent applications and this searching for some innate reasoning is an attempt to give hawks a way out of their cognitive dissonance. It's killing for duty, profit, and fun. You always have a choice.
I think American culture as a whole demonizes people who work hard and try to not be too cool or edgy.
He is patenting logical gate scheme that can produce average of two int in a single instruction. You can average two ints any way you want and not owe royalties ...
Exceptional. Armed with this info, this will surely save me a ton of money over time, especially if I can get my employees to adopt this reasoning. I've been dying for this answer for years now.
Clever. I'd like to see an Enron or Compaq tee.
>He was cleared by a federal court of the crime, but they found an obscure statute under which to charge him at another level of law for what was essentially the same action.

I am not knowledgeable about the specifics of this case, but the way that you stated the situation, this isn't double jeopardy.

Double jeopardy concerns trying someone for the same crime. If it is a different law that he is charged with (even for the same 'action' as previously charged), it isn't double jeopardy.
By that logic anyone using private browsing mode on a web browser should is suspect.

And personally, I would delete shell history on principle when leaving a job. I also delete my browser cookies and stored passwords etc. With the big plastered on warnings everywhere that all computer activity is monitored and recorded, it should be entirely reasonable to assume that these copies are redundant and disposable.

I have a lot of people I have to interact with that insist on force me to login to their stupid sftp servers using plaintext passwords and they configure their servers to force interactive mode. And I very likely have PHI in my command history, too. There's absolutely no reason to not delete shell history when leaving a job, particularly now that HITECH means that I can be personally criminally prosecuted for data breaches.

Besides, what constitutes "deleting shell history"? The way bash works by default, the last closed terminal deletes all the history of the other terminals.

Does Goldman Sacks require users to maintain full shell history files as a condition of employment or as part of their expected work behavior or work product? I very, very much doubt it.
Code is worthless. The person that wrote it can be priceless.
Yet more programmer/tech industry denigration propped up by completely unproven assertions.

Firstly most of this is based on the idea that as a programmer you are only either great or shit, and that this is somehow a problem of the industry rather than just being something entirely human and normal in ANY WALK OF LIFE (the best and the rest).

Secondly, there's this awful assertion that this purported industry problem has resulted in a less diverse industry. (What does that even mean, other ethnicities & women can't handle pressure as well as white men?)

But imagine how frustrating it must be to be a woman with a decade of experience
and have someone assume that she doesn't know what she is talking about.

^ This just comes out of nowhere, someone assuming that a woman programmer "doesn't know what she is talking about" is not related to any point he's made previously.
Equity is an investment, and like any investor you need to be smart it. You should evaluate how your investment (stock options) are doing on a regular basis (quarterly or semi-annually) with your management or CEO. Ask the tough questions, talk about metrics/milestones, talk about growth, talk about future prospects. Evaluate and re-evaluate.

If you believe in the company, where it’s going, and the company has the numbers/growth to back-it-up, your equity can be extremely lucrative and life-changing

But it’s only lucrative if you’re willing to go the distance (3-7 years). Over this time, you should receive multiple grants and can build significant ownership in the company (along with earning a market salary)
Star Wars day
excellent - what software does this? Built into the OS or a separate application?
Take the meds.

Expect this to be a journey - you have to try several and you may end up on a combination (I take four). If you're dozy at work as for some ritalin to help. I hope you have health insurance :( Also, if you go through 'high' periods you're not depressed, you have bipolar 2.

Take the meds. This shit literally saved my life.
A lot of laptops allow for various trickle charging modes.
Generally they stay charged between 90 and 100% (charges to 100 then wait until 90), some allow for charging to 80.

In my experience there can be memory effects when fully capping at 80% over the years, though.
The "actual work part" provides the filtering that leaves you with relevant people so you don't end up in a hackathon with lots of wantrepreneurs.
> "anyone can become a concert pianist"

There's a huge range of skill between "concert pianist" and "no good at piano." That's kind of the point of the speech, I think

There are hundreds of pianists with a very high degree of skill, but that are not concert pianists. Many are essentially freelancers and take gigs as they come-- choir accompanist, pit orchestra pianist, keyboardist in a band, resident organist in a church... etc.. Many of those pianists are quite skilled and talented, even if they are nowhere near skilled and talented enough to be a reknowned "concert pianist" like Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Alicia de Larrocha, Mituko Uchida, etc..

The excessive focus on the idea of a "concert pianist" talent leads to this situation where the day to day programmers aren't getting the credit they deserve. For more on the under-appreciated musician analogy: watch the movie Waiting for Guffman and pay attention to the musicians. The dialog in the movie basically never acknowledges them. They're completely taken for granted by the other characters, but they are impeccable-- easily the most professional performers in the production. There's one point where one is playing the trumpet and timpani at the same time. I think that's the idea-- solid, productive programmers not being recognized for their talent, because they're compared to some incredibly high ideal.

Though there's also this dunning-kruger thing where lots of mediocre programmers think they are way more skilled than they actually are either because they're the best programmer in their little bubble, because they're a devout adherent to some specific coding religion, but haven't ever really been measured against an objective standard. Specifically because there are so many words wasted on "rock stars" and "ninjas" as well as blubbers and someone's personal experience with some horrible developer whose incompetence caused so many problems, etc...
I was in, or am in, a very similar spot. I've struggled with depression to the point where I got almost nothing done with work. I had the same fear you did about dulled focus, but you're right: it is silly to worry about that if you aren't productive already.

A few months ago I went on Prozac. I still struggle with focus and getting work done and there are some other negative side effects, but crucially I am able to think more clearly about the situation. I'm now working on strategies myself to get myself to a better place long term.

I'd advise taking the medication -- it's unlikely to put you in a worse spot, and very likely to put you in a better spot. From that better spot you will see more avenues you can pursue.
Object Pascal Handbook
Is your machine even operational? My macbook air from 2011 (with Yosemite) is sluggish to the point of being unbearable to use and just collects dust.
Switching cities / jobs helped me a lot.
I work with a Mumtaz, are you telling me he's a lady?
It just feels higher because you're seeing your marginal tax rate instead of average tax rate. If you get a raise and look at the paycheck before and after the raise, the difference in net pay vs gross pay will be similar to what you see with your bonuses. As the other commenter said, it doesn't change your total tax bill at the end of the year.

I don't know standard practices, but my last bonus check at federal income tax, social security, federal medicare, and state income tax deductions, but no deductions for insurance or anything (and I wouldn't expect to see those.) I do have deductions for my 401(k) and such, but that's still my money, just going to a different account.
I don't know, I've been programming since I was 8 (on my brother's calculator) and I still write horrendous code pretty frequently.
What's the advantage of still having the cookie with some value in it when we use a random token as a hidden form value plus this token being stored on the server? Your suggestion seems overly complex to me, so maybe I'm missing an attack vector that can be mitigated by throwing salts, hashing and a cookie at the issue.
My Sony VAIO had this 7 years ago.
Define "much less than 100%" Even for software management positions, I don't think I've ever seen a place that gives more than a 25% bonus and that would be considered very high.
I think most people would be quite pleased if gas prices were half of their current level (especially in Europe, where they are significantly higher than in the US). Plus you don't have to do oil changes ;)
Libntru 0.4 released
> or set your power drivers to do it for you.

Pray tell me how. (Macbook Pro 2010.)
For people who want to keep learning about this stuff, this book has some similar information in easily-digestible chunks: http://www.amazon.com/Things-Designer-People-Voices-Matter/d...
Is it possible they do, and the battery level indicator you're looking at is lying to you?
And in some countries you can just park pretty much anywhere and you'll only worry will be potential parking tickets.
GE Intelligent LED Lighting Connects with Apple HomeKit Ecosystem
> Am I missing something?

Yes, you're missing the fact that it's trivial and demonstrates virtually no creativity.
I archived the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150504173515/https://blog.mozi...