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I'm well aware of what happened to the Pandits; Kashmiris have surrendered their right to self-determination by being party to that sad debacle. What I don't understand is how with the Sachar Commission report, with no Muslims in the Army officer Corps of any appreciable number, one Muslim in the higher intelligence apparatus, and 90% of governmental power in the hands of Hindus and those who wish Hindus well, you can have this sad-sack attitude of Hindu civilizational doom.

My family that stayed behind after Partition was thanked with spit, brickbats, and a reduction of their pension for the Indian Police Service to token levels and my family that went to Pakistan was made constitutionally second class citizens and had their voting rights taken away merely for being part of an unpopular community, so please forbear from lecturing me about the "evils" of "Muslims" and "sickulars", we have long personal experience in both.
this is actually a striking good analogy
Wow, nothing new for any HN regulars, but its good to see the situation put so bluntly to a group of non-techy people.

The only thing I'd possibly criticize is that he doesn't explicitly point out that the "secure systems for everyone" aren't really available due to deliberate steps by "those in power" to cripple "secure systems". His argument that there are more people who will do good with any given system than bad, isn't considered by those who consider the possibility of something "bad" being done with the system a reason to cripple and limit the system for all users.

Overall, I'll be recommending a bunch of non-techy people watch that quick video.
It's not that easy - I think they would need to ask the US military as a whole to leave.
I feel similar, but it's not just because of surveillance but also because of torture, war, bullying smaller countries, financing terrorism and more.

In some areas its hard to evade products out of the United States of Central North America and my reaction is to lose interest in these thing altogether.
Really? My daughter hated the big city. "I can't even go outside alone".

Who knows, maybe she will move back when she is 20 and love it.
> If Nim doesn't change the major safety problems with C, why bother?

Probably for all the myriad of reasons that don't have to do with safety, and in which Nim is arguably better than Rust, C++, Python, or whatever language is most relevant to compare to.
More inefficient at vtol, but much more efficient at forward flight (wings are remarkably efficient at generating lift, compared to rotors). Specifically, more efficient in terms of effective range and carrying capacity.
Apologies -- just was bein' a bit snark about the engineering master race.
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1968, Czechoslovakia.

True, armed conflict would utterly devastate my homeland, but your statement is only partially true. And some form of devastation happened anyway, in mind of people living there. Results will be felt for generations.
> the enormous increases in human quality of life due to abundant and relatively cheap access to energy are greater than the costs generated by pollution.

I dare you to write down that thought, seal the envelope and tell your children to open it in 40 years.

Try this one weird trick; Future generations hate us!
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So the "fast attack" uses the GPUs to compute on-demand, not using precomputed values?
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Fair enough. I thought it was obvious that people try to game the system, but I can see how if others didn't think the same way it would be insightful.

On the other hand, what's the point of asking anything during an interview if people can lie then? I imagine these questions are still being asked because it's not all that easy to lie and still sound authentic. I also agree with you though. I think this whole idea of trying to find people to work at a company because this is their dream company is just a silly fantasy for 99.9% of companies. Unless you're Google, chances are slim that working is nothing more than a job.

This whole craze over wanting to love your work and being "passionate" and "excited" is getting out of hand. I feel like I see the word "excited" thrown around everywhere now.
Ok, so here it's used to cluster. There are tons of benchmark clustering datasets. Never seen it used on any of those.
Does it support managing dozens (up to 100) tabs like Firefox does with its Tab Groups feature? I'd find it very hard to use a browser that doesn't have a way to deal with tab explosion. Both Chrome and IE are virtually unusable with lots of tabs opened.
Like OP mentioned, all that boils down to the spec. It's easy to imagine that Word will have the crash handling behavior specced (and it does - someone in the thread linked to the KB article about that) and it will be different from some other application. In case of web applications, for example, there could be a global customizable generic exception handler that will provide some user friendly message, while collecting loads of data that will help devs to diagnose the problem.
The title is a little odd. Almost nothing on that page has anything to do with Windows 10 itself, and everything to do with server tooling and enterprise tooling.

Anyway, the most interesting and frankly groundbreaking thing on that page is the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics. Read about it here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2015/05/04/microsoft-a...

It is actually pretty cool.
I would highly recommend trying Wwoofing (World-wide Work on Organic Farms) sometime. The premise is that in return for your help on the farm, the host family provides you with food and accommodation for the duration of your visit.
My girlfriend and I spent just shy of a month in a little co-op in Goolawah, Australia, and almost two months on a little farm owned by a spritely old woman and her husband, just outside of Princeton. Waking up at 5AM to milk cows as the sun rises is a very liberating experience.
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I agree, emet, despite its stilted name, should be a core part of the OS. Nicer would be to bring something like bit9 into the fold as well. MS should really stop acting like the specter of monopoly still hangs over them and just deliver the best possible solutions they can. I know they don't want to upset partners, but you have to shore up your product when it's missing something important like that. I remember it took them forever to consider bundling AV into their product when it was painfully obvious it needed to address that shortcoming.
I didn't watch the video, but it seems like a common misconception. People don't like the idea of killing an animal with a name and personality for meat, so they think it must be impossible. But in reality, plenty of farmers develop bonds with the animals they will eventually kill.
Just being competent and knowing what you are talking about is a pretty good differentiator. I'm generally positive to odesk and have had mostly good experiences, but the truth is that I only end up hiring for about half the jobs I post there. For the other half I simply don't get applicants I feel comfortable with at any price.
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Thank you for posting this! I'll be sure do share the link with my team: a lot of people are looking at exceptions as they're some kind of voodoo that needs to be handled explicitly in every nook and cranny of the code.
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Why would they want to eliminate the race to the bottom? That is the main service they provide to employers.

The whole thing about work status: "I am available to work and will respond to invites right away" is nothing but a surrender of negotiating leverage by contractors to employers.
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How does this compare to dotPeek from JetBrains? https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/
> I've been thinking about this idea to build something like a "tech-farmer colony".

Now that is one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time. Knowing how farms work, I could find a ton of ways for this to be difficult, but we're engineers -- let's solve hard problems. :-)
It's either throw an extra key-value pair or throw an extra program name in front of the line to start. They're both trivially easy, and the latter has the advantage of being totally agnostic of anything other than the kernel.
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What I want to know is where are the state bar associations in all of this. I seem to recall several referrals from federal judges, which are generally treated with some dispatch.

The fact that they are still being allowed to operate (albeit now using the ADA to extort rather than the copyright law) is a travesty.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150104/12002529596/john-...
I am in that same trap, any advice for someone to break the shackles? especially for someone located in Pakistan?
A soothing voice is just a great compliment for eye candy! Re: Bob Ross, I just have to share this: https://imgur.com/eIT3AnT
Which breaking changes are there in io.js? I'm just curious, not been following it closely; but AngularJS 2.0 is a completely different API. You can't "migrate" an Angular 1 project to Angular 2, you need to rewrite it. That's understandably scary and horrible for some people.
The real problem is that in "business" instead of the bazaar, you often don't have the time to design something the "right" way because of "business requirements," so you end up in the same mess.
I agree. All I saw was a "Blast! This video can’t be played with your current setup." message, and thought that was it. Up/down cursors and scrollwheel don't work. I just started clicking on elements randomly to see why on Earth this might have been upvoted. Eventually I somehow triggered the scrollbar to move down and saw that there was some text to read!
I disagree with you on bit9. It heavily degrades performance on my work machine. I have nothing against the idea of bit9 but everything against its implementation.
It's such a sad shame that Germany has wiped any and all architectural detail or character from their buildings. It's really kind of sad looking at those boring, boorish buildings.
You probably mean 'sum', 'count' doesn't look like a valid aggregation method according to Graphite docs. Storing the sum would indeed provide a way to update the datapoints later by simply adding to the total. (I don't believe RRDTool allows that thought).

But it doesn't solve the Graphite problem - if two reports come in during the same step, you still lose the first one.
The field agents are likely the lowest rungs on the totem poles if they are anything like other distributed agencies. Management makes these kinds of calls and morale suffers when the workers and the management disagrees.

I would be curious to see some objective measurements of job satisfaction from the FBI, then compare that to the US Army, NSA and some private organizations with good and bad morale like Google and insurance companies.
Come on, acronyms aren't meant to be that simple.
They didn't even send email about this change, and now I see their "oDesk Team" tool doesn't track time so I can't work. Good news everyone!
I believe the range and speed are the assets of the V-22 compared to similar size helicopters.

http://helicopters.axlegeeks.com/compare/18-24/Sikorsky-CH-5...

As I understand it the main drawback of the V-22 is the drag effect of the "larger" blades in airplane mode. So I assume that NASA is testing tilt-rotor aircraft with more engines with smaller blades in hopes of increasing the range and speed over current tilt-rotor aircraft.
It's similar to people being afraid of flying, and in the same time don't mind hitting highway in crappy old car. Things blowing with people inside/around just works much better with our primary instincts.

If you're clever enough, you can realize this and actively fight it, but you'll end up feeling alone and surrounded with bunch of idiots. No-win scenario.
> For me the big difference is not between node/io.js for which a simple setting in your packages.json would be enough to sort out, but rather between es6 style modules and node style modules.

Setting the engine will separate things but this also means your package is now only available for that engine. npm doesn't give you a way to submit the same module multiple times to target different engines. So setting this limits the amount of environments your module. Maybe that's okay but the great thing about node + npm has been the ability to install and use any module you find; separating things would mean you'll come across modules you need and you might not be able to use. This kills the experience in my opinion.

> I'd probably rather have a separate repository for es6 style modules.

Why would you want one repository for ECMAScript 5 modules and one for ECMAScript 6? The end goal is to move everything towards ECMAScript 6 so would you want this to merge back into regular npm after a certain amount of time? Creating a different repository for modules that use language improvements seems like a bad idea to me. It's a good way to segregate modules from one another.
And that was my indirect way of deferring to someone farther down the path than me. But Wikipedia has a detailed overview:

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

I was surprised not to see Kalman listed in the people section. His contribution:

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

Turns out to be important sometimes - like when your sensors don't quite give you what you want. But when things get to that level, I call in a specialist to make sure it's done right - got one on speed dial, he does controls full time all the time.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the US has been going the way of BNW for a long time. This whole time we've been scared of 1984 being imposed on us that we've let BNW naturally creep in.
Great idea. As an occasional pianist, this would be fantastic right at the start of trying to learn a new piece, where I don't have a feel for the sound of it yet. I could have the sheet music up and "play" the correct rhythm while hearing the notes.

Once I mastered the piece I would never play it on here again though, for fear that it would interfere with muscle memory of the actual keys.
the only way to succeed to is to watch for new job posts and immediately bid. If there are already a few bids you don't have a chance.

Speaking as someone who occasionally hires people off of odesk, I've learnt to basically ignore any bids that come in the first few hours and give it at least 3-4 days before starting even to seriously evaluate candidates. I don't see how being the first bid vs the seventh bid should affect your chances of getting the job.
Few points of feedback on the interpreter site. Bear in mind I am not the target audience but I am a designer, and this site is unfinished.

* The image for Éva looks like something they'd take at border control for a refugee. Not a fitting profile image for a professional interpreter in the slightest. Also it's placement on the homepage hero image is bizarre. Her face is...reassuring though. Reminds me of a kind aunt. Probably a good vibe for your audience. Take a better photo that isn't a passport scan.

* The navigation font size is quiet small and does not have enough contrast to stand out against the background image. Most of the important text is small actually.

* The background image is actually quite nice I think – from what I can make out it isn't Hungarian though – very well might be wrong. I do think it's Roman mosaic feel lends credibility to her practise though.

* "...with a subversive sense of humour" — not sure this is applicable

* "...drug importation, human trafficking, rape and murder." — Human rights issues might be more suited here. Rape and Murder pull you out of focusing on her expertise.

Thats all for now. Good start. Keep working.
This is legitimately good news. I hope Chrome starts working with these Emoji soon. As of today, Windows 8.1 with Chrome latest, still doesn't display them on web-pages but strangely DOES display them if you select the emoji, right click, and look in the "Search [Engine] for '😃'" line.

In general, dealing with American's puritanicalism is very tiresome at times. Glad they allowed through a bad hand gesture <insert roll eyes emoji here>.
As someone who has used eLance (and is currently) I've found that the price is only a small factor in the quality you'll receive and -surprise surprise- you can weed out most candidates with up front communications before awarding the project. Once we've awarded a project to a developer (or a shop) we aggressively review code and their communication style. We've had good luck with devs at as little as $20/hr and failures with devs and shops (mostly shops) at as high as $75. The real failure is that non-technical people haven't a clue as to how to evaluate the work their receiving and think that they can go from having no relationship to a finished project in a couple of weeks. If I was completely non-technical and didn't have someone in my corner to evaluate my options for me, I would be scared to death- but then again I probably wouldn't know the pitfalls before me either so...

Our big thing is to fail fast. If you're new to us and giving us the heeby jeebies in the first week we'll cut our losses and find someone else.

If you're awarding a project purely to the lowest bidder then I feel you kind of get what you deserve.
My Grandma Yvette was a seriously enterprising woman who never missed an opportunity to save (or make) an extra buck. So, when I was about seven, she started raising chickens in her gazebo.

Unfortunately, she was also rather soft and she grew quite attached to her chickens...so attached that when the time came, she just gave them back to the farmer who had sold her the chicks!! :)
>Why would they want to eliminate the race to the bottom?

To attract better clients and engineers. oDesk gets 10% cut, so I guess they will be happy to get 10% of some 3-figure/hr engineer rather than $10/hr one.
Economy of scale when constructing. You can usually tell the age of a burb by how big its zones are. Some of the newest burbs have absolutely huge, staggering, sized zones.

I live in a burb thats a bit over fifty years old and there's no spot more than maybe 6 blocks from the arterial retail/commercial/restaurant strips? In some new burbs you can easily be over a mile from anything other than residential.

I will say that when I was a kid there was a lot more to do in big zones because obviously there's more basements and garages and back yards and just plain old more kids. I mean, there's only about 200 kids in my current subdivision so with a distribution of ages its quite likely that there's no one to hang out with in the neighborhood for my own kids, whereas that's never an issue in a bigger zone where there's always a friend in the same neighborhood to hang out with. Some modern zones are so big that entire elementary school districts live within the borders of single zone! Obviously those kids always have someone to hang out with in the neighborhood.

And of course the bigger the zone, the crazier the traffic on the roads between the zones, which sucks.
I don't know what you mean by a typical American city. There is nothing remotely distinguishing enoughly similar to an American city in those pictures of boring and bland versions of the already insignificant Bauhaus architectural style.
Usually you'd concatenate and minify deployed JavaScript anyway. Sometimes you get a license in that, sometimes you don't. I don't think that many people really copy that much JavaScript from live sites these days...
> The Bitcoin network is doomed to throw money out of the window, hundreds of millions every year for processing not even enough transaction to make a Raspberry Pi sweat.

The fundamental flaw is that you are correlating the hashing power with the number of transactions that can processed, but the two are unrelated. If there were 100MB blocks the hashing power could stay the same yet the number of transactions would be 100 times as large. One of the reasons bitcoin works so well is that this scenario will be phased in gradually. By the time transaction volume is 100 times what it is now, the electricity cost per transaction will be in line with the cost of a transaction, and the mining bonus per block will be less and less necessary and become a smaller part of the profit from mining.

Electricity cost will actually drop in price significantly due to solar, but again this doesn't even matter as the system of incentives drives mining.

As was mentioned before (not by me) this is extremely misleading at best (and really outright untrue). Mining costs adjust to the amount of money miners are making. The block rewards are supposed to be a temporary measure to gradually introduce more supply while being an extra reward to the miners as the network gets started. If mining wasn't profitable, miners wouldn't do it.

You could make an argument for transaction fees eventually being too expensive for typical transactions, but to say that mining is some inherent cost is ridiculous, since it adjusts to the amount of money that can be made by mining.

Crypto currencies are difficult for people to understand, because really it isn't common for people to have a good handle on proper incentive structures to drive people's behavior.
"The farm life works for some people"

I agree. I couldn't do farm, I have bad allergies to pollen, dust, and too much time under the sun and I become red as a lobster, and it is painful

But programming is what I love to do. So I will say "The programmer life works for some people"

I wouldn't call the original article "The death of a programmer", I would call it "The born of a farmer". He figure out were he feels happier, and that is good thing which sometimes means leaving behind what is hip for the masses, but that is not a failure, that is centering
I grew up in the suburbs and loved it. It was safe. I was allowed to go miles in any direction. I'd go 5 miles to Disneyland or 9 miles to El Dorado Park. I'd ride 3 miles to Knott's Berry Farm or 3 miles the closest mall. I could launch model rockets at the local school. There was some dirt patches where kids would make berms for riding their bikes on. My friends were all within a couple of miles. We'd play D&D and use peanut M&Ms as monsters. There was a bunch of hobbit stores just a mile away where I got model rocket parts and other hobby things.
For those who, like me, couldn't see the video, you might have more luck via its Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/126664436

The ViewTube FF plugin worked for me.
"just like I'm not growing my own vegetables..."

This keeps getting brought up, and I'm not really saying there's not a good business here, but the economics are vastly different. A tomato plant might save you $3 and provide you with a meal or two. If states aim to keep prices near current street prices, a good harvest from a few plants could provide north of $500 worth of value for a minimal outlay of money (quite possibly nothing) and little work.
Interesting. I find that a lot of employers look through bids and stop as soon as they think they've found something good. In my experience if you are higher than 5th you won't ever get a message regardless of the quality of those who bid before you.
There is a women-only gym there. And they probably put pics of women on the walls to make it clear to men. Awful.
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