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The recyclability issue is discussed in the eastbayexpress article linked by anigbrowl in reply to one of the sibling comments.

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Coffee companies are well aware of the problem. The second brewing system Keurig introduced, the Vue system, tried to address the issue of recyclability in what the company called "an incremental step on our environmental journey." The system doesn't work with the original K-Cup packs, which are made from number seven plastic, a blended plastic that's nearly impossible to recycle. Instead, the Vue capsules use a plastic cup made from polypropylene, number five plastic, and users can peel the foil lid and filter away from the cup.

The cups are then recyclable — in theory. The problem is the cups are too small to be captured in most recycling facilities where machinery separates objects by size and density, said Mark Oldfield, assistant director of public affairs for California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Most facilities filter out items under two-inches in diameter. In any case, number five plastic is rarely recycled in California, Oldfield said. "It's very difficult to deal with something like that," he added. "It's something where convenience is trumping our typical mantra of reducing and recycling."
author here: the Interest Investment is for specific startups that are cash-flow positive (and deemed by an investor to be very likely to re-pay & that would be a valuable asset regardless). I spend most of the year in Colombia, and the challenge I've seen in LATAM is that there many profitable startups that don't necessarily fit the VC model (Ex: they likely won't become $100M companies, but they will be profitable). However, many of these companies do need capital to grow quickly & yet they don't have the credit to do so via traditional banks. The idea for is that investors interested in being involved with the tech scene can invest and receive more predictable returns (that they are used to, most emerging market investors aren't familiar at all with tech investments) and cash-flow startups can find a new avenue to grow.
> a race war, war with Islam, or some similarly catastrophic political event.

At least one of those is, essentially, already in-progress. At least one of those is, essentially, a farce.

Determining which is which is left as an exercise for the reader.
One term I didn't see on the page, but you should look into examples of if you already haven't, is "structure editor". That's the notion of a source code editor which doesn't allow free-form text editing, but creation of well-formed language semantics.
I agree and did the same thing. I think it would also help if there was a sample "update e-mail" so users can get a feel for what value the site adds (e.g. vs Mint's e-mails). Otherwise, I'm hesitant to link my accounts without knowing what I'll get out of it.
> Is this a true "leak"?

By most people's definition of the term, sure. It ends up being a loss of memory within an object or set of objects that no longer have any practical use to the application and the irreclaimable memory can grow over time.

> Maybe a reference cycle is hard/impossible to GC

This is basically the issue.

It is relatively common (particularly among younger programmers who haven't been bitten by this already) to have a situation where you have an Android Activity that creates and holds a reference to an event listener which traps a reference to the activity itself. If the Activity doesn't clean up the the listener reference in its onDestroy (which is an Android lifecycle callback, not related to the Java GC) and neither reference is a WeakReference you wind up with a listener object which references the activity and an activity which references the listener object, neither of which is suitable for naive garbage collection... so now you have this lingering Activity object that is probably no longer associated with the application's window but lives on. If the app is designed such that the user keeps pathing through this Activity and the activity consumes lots of memory, it isn't hard to get fatal OOMs from this situation.
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Basically, anything that can be compiled into a single binary, or has the least dependencies and best portability.
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I have never heard of haxe, it sounds very interesting and I will definitely have a look at it.

I have noticed that JavaScript seems to have never ending support. Strangely I have never been tempted to go full JavaScript, probably due to me not having much exposure to it in my day to day work.

Thank you very much for the feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
I've been working with GaN parts for RF after being out of the hardware game for a few years. GaN was around but nowhere near as prolific as it is now. I thought SiC would have made more inroads than it has. GaN parts just seem incredible in every way (to someone like me at least) - amazing performance, efficiency, power handling in such a small package, more impressive impedance matching on wideband parts - it's just a shame the basic problem of harmonics still hasn't been whisked away by magic :)
Restricted article.

ps: for a reason, printfriendly manage to extract the content http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=site&url=http%3A%...

Funny because a quick inspection of the DOM got me nowhere near that content.
Ah, you misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean to imply that penetration tests, when done well, have no lasting value. I simply meant to imply that without a code freeze, there is always the chance of a new vulnerability creeping in no matter how well you follow checklists, best practices, or retain knowledge about types of vulnerabilities and how not to build them.

For that reason, automated testing on a continuous basis is important.

This is the same reason that you don't QA an application once a year. UIs change, requirements change, and for that you write integration tests, unit tests, etc.

Does that clarify things a bit? I didn't mean to imply Matasano did a poor job of educating their customers; in fact, I think you're among the best.
"What a buy-out does is take money out of the equation. It makes it so that everyone who is there for financial reasons has a financial reason to leave."

Unless you're not confident enough that you'd be able to get a job in those X months, either because of your skills or there not being jobs around.

Also, even if you like your coworkers, or want to acquire skills, if the ship is going down and you feel confident enough that you'd be getting another job quickly, then you might jump ship anyway.
Doesn't this go against the MVC grain -- UI / model separation of concerns?
No, I think he's talking about the initial, chemical explosion that sets off the fission + fusion part, at least in the old bombs.
When someone says the "Well, if you've got nothing to hide..." argument around me, I immediate ask for their wallet/purse, keys to car & house and cell phone (with password/unlock pattern). The usual reply is something to the effect of "Why would I give those to you?" I respond with, "Because you have nothing to hide, right?"

Most of the time, the conversation quickly devolves due to the fact that I'm not the Police. Which is obviously irrelevant; but many people can't see the forest of their rights through the trees of an "authority figure".

Occasionally someone gets my point and conceeds that they, like everyone else, have things that are private.
This is a large multinational with an outstanding track record of acquisitions. The plan was pretty good.
The title takes on a striking significance about 3/4 of the way through the article. I bet most readers won't see that coming. I sure didn't.
I'm still curious about specifics - can you link to a US, MD-granting institution that doesn't require an undergraduate degree?

EDIT: I'm aware that this used to be the case but I don't believe that any schools still allow this.
Isn't that illegal, though?
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I upvoted this comment because I really like the idea of "I built this because I wanted to". I like the idea of Show HNs as an "I made this thing for me, and not for any other reason". Thanks for posting your project!
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Show me where it suggests automated testing as a regular part of your SDLC. It recommends applying patches, coding to secure guidelines / best practices, doing code reviews, and running an automated or manual pen test at least once a year. Nowhere does it state in Requirement 6 that you should build automated testing into your SDLC.

Reference: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/pci_dss_v2.pd...
Spot on. Perhaps best to try starting higher than you think and slowly lower until you start getting gigs.
I don't think free college works without some sort of strings attached work. It exists in Austria and the quality of students and colleges is terrible. Everybody and their dog go to colleges now dropping the quality to abysmal levels. There is no proper selection happening.
Then they'll simply complain that you're only "motivated by money" and that you "don't really want to be part of this team". This is, of course, ignoring the fact that everyone is motivated by money, and almost none of their employees would still be working there if they stopped paying.
They also need to stop slapping the product name "Surface" onto everything.
Not sure about the details of the German system

In France tuition in Public universities is free

Of course it depends on your scores on the Bac and on the Prep school that follows it (to get ready for the exams)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccalaur%C3%A9at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_gr...
The German school system divides students into three distinct groups starting in the fourth grade, meaning the decision is made in the third [1]. The three divisions are 1. Hauptschule (central, lower-level school) 2. Realschule (technical school) and 3. Gymnasium (uni-prep school). Once placed into one of these three tracks, it's very difficult to switch between them - more so in the later years, since they each have a different number of years required in order to graduate.

Over the past few years, the system has been changing to allow parents greater say in their children's future, resulting in the same mixups that happen in the United States when parents can override course placement decisions. I can go into more detail on this if anyone wants.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany#Secondary_...
That makes sense. We will add that. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks, yeah- i should really start a blog but just haven't got around to it.
>But what actually happened was that people who were good at their job, and could find work elsewhere, left. So they would have had all of the top talent leave the company and the remaining employees would be the people who did just enough to get by.

I remember this being an issue with General Motors near bankruptcy (2008) too. They couldn't lay off union workers, and figured it would be cheaper to offer them buyouts than keep paying their above-market salaries.

There too, people pointed out that the only takers would be the best workers, who can easily find work elsewhere, and they'd be left with the ones who can't.
> I don't get why people are so keen on the per-hour model.

There's not going to be one correct answer to this question - per-hour rate or total project cost. And regardless of which one is best an hourly rate is still a useful productivity metric.

With the hourly model you're protected as a freelancer. Regardless of the number of revisions, if the project takes 10 hours or 100 hours, you will get paid. (Though if the hours required are going to increase 10-fold you'd better communicate that to the client.)

I have several clients who prefer the hourly rate model. Which is fine by me. It helps me hit my weekly/monthly/quarterly goals. Also, we both save on the administrative headaches of having to spec out, estimate and approve every single change. And as a freelancer anything that reduces my non-billable work is a big plus.

The downside for me: the client gains any increase in my productivity. If I increase my productivity per hour by 25% it takes me less time and I make less money. But the client still receives the same amount of value from my work, and pays less for it. And since most skilled workers become more skilled and more prolific over time this productivity transfer almost always occurs.

Fixed cost projects can be more lucrative since I pocket any productivity gains. Imagine I've secured a $2000 fixed-cost project. If I can knock it out in five hours, I've secured an effective rate of $400/hr. The downside, of course, is if my productivity lags - say I spend 100 hours on the project - then my effective rate plummets to $20/hr.

Every fixed-cost project should be measured hourly. Even a big-ticket project will suck if you work yourself into a minimum wage to complete it. I use the hourly metric to determine productivity. When this metric starts to drop during a fixed-cost project, that's when I reach out to the client to figure out a budget increase.

So - which one is better? Hourly or fixed-cost? Most of the time it doesn't really matter. If I'm working a fixed-cost project and my productivity metric falls, I ask for more money. If I'm working an hourly project and it's going to take more time implement revisions, I'll tell the client and get approval. Regardless of the project type if the scope changes you're going to need to ask for more money/hours.

BUT - if the project is in a domain I have deep knowledge in, and I can be relatively assured of a fixed scope (with only minor changes), I will go fixed-cost every time. I want to capture my productivity and maximize my profit from it.
Yes py2exe and freeze etc. I agree the tooling for python is very good and I find the community to be one of the better ones as you have mentioned.

Coming from a pure Microsoft background, and that not being C# but databases and cubes, I find some of the freedom in the ways of working with Python "scary" at times. Microsoft tends to build a nice set of tracks that their developers seem to follow so it all ends up very corporate and "best practice". (Just my personal opinion) It thus feels like there are much more "training wheels" applied for beginners in something like C# and .Net than what you have in most open source technologies.

Thanks again for your replies.
Seriously. Just play a few hours of DayZ and you learn that there is no such thing as a stronghold if the enemy has the same guns you do. In fact, being stuck in one place makes you extremely vulnerable. If a fight happens, people on both sides will die. And no matter how well you shoot, you'll run out of ammo, or just get shot by a guy you couldn't see.

That is the problem I see with this kind of "prepping": its isolationism. The focus in such a situation should not be an every-man-or-family-for-itself attitude. The focus should be on getting all the people who aren't "zombies" together to begin rebuilding long-term living solutions.

Besides, turning away starving people and keeping everything for yourself is just plain wrong.

All that is not to say that there wouldn't be "bandits", and that it wouldn't be necessary to defend the "good guys." But the fundamental attitude seems wrong to me.
It's just a few programmes like med where people get selected strongly. Even there you can get in if you're okay with waiting for a few years. Usually you just register at the university and begin studying there.
> ResearchGate is currently down for maintenance, but we'll be back online very soon.

Do you have a mirror?
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This is a very generalizing argument. Universities are free (paid by taxes obviously) in Finland, but there is no such thing like what you describe. In here the only prerequisite is that you have finished high school, then you can take the entry exams.. It's also not uncommon for someone to go into a university later in their life. My cs courses had a good bunch of people in their fifties re-educating themselves.
Seeing yet another android related open source project by square, I'd like to use the opportunity to leave a huge "thank you" here.

Between Picasso, Retrofit and especially okhttp, square has done such an amazing job to make android developers lives so much easier. The three projects are a pleasure to work with, have excellent documentation and very clear APIs.

So, yeah, a huge heartfelt "thank you" from me.
Their current job might be "good enough" in that the benefits of switching are not significantly over the costs of switching. But when you add 3 months of salary to the equation, that might tip the scales.
> It's a pretty big contrast between that mindset and the common prepper/survivalist mindset.

That's an excellent point. The "prepper" mindset seems to be about isolationist survival, Castaway style. That's not a good long-term mindset. If a real Bad Thing happened, after the immediate aftermath, people would need to start coming together to rebuild societies and communities and infrastructures, not disappearing into the wilderness.
It hooks into ncurses and executes some HTTP requests. It's incredibly simple and you know what? It just works.

Virtually any language is suitable for something like this.
I would love to read a study of how many person-hours of productivity are lost annually to people waiting for laptops and projectors to cooperate so that the meetings can begin.
Agreed, without details for others to learn from this post seems little more than self-promotion.
Czech have similar system. It is easy to get into technical university if you know some math. Real hard are humanities, some art schools take perhaps 0.5% of applicants.
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Part of 'funding' college for everybody isn't just giving them the money to go to college, it's making sure public institutions have enough capacity to handle those students.

Instead of increasing grants, I think directly lowering tuition cost for public universities would force private universities to become more efficient and lower their tuition costs too... non-zero tuition makes for an interesting tension where public and private can compete in different ways (possibly making the system as a whole better than one with only, or mostly, free public colleges)
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That's funny, but it is a real issue preppers often dismiss. If you sit on a big cache o stuff, and have nothing else to offer for the rest of the community, what's going to prevent them from taking it away from you.

Though I suspect that in any sort of emergency where the scenario resembles TEOTWAWKI, SHTF, etc, a big proportion of the robbing bands will be preppers who find out the hard way that the only thing in the stash that works as expected is the assault rifle.
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However, by pricing yourself high you opened the table to negotiation. Better that than enter low and they accept on the first try, in which case you know you've undersold yourself.
It's been eons since I touched this stuff, but the article said that they're on GaAs on Si wafers for a substrate. Is that the usual these days?

ISTR that SiC was always a PITA to grow on decent/cheap substrates, which may have held it back. That and it didn't have the whole blue LED industry driving it.
I think you're both right. Those rugged rural folks may live a few miles apart, but they know their neighbors better than people who live in apartment buildings, and when bad things happen, they pull together. In contrast, many people in apartment buildings wouldn't trust their neighbors to pick up their mail.
We are a small web and app development team in Orange County, CA. We have launched a few apps and we want to team up with a super entrepreneur and build out their tech business. We are holding a contest and we will choose the most exciting app idea and entrepreneur. Can you guys help share this around the web? Thanks!
There is the community college followed by state university combo. This can be quite affordable and help students adjust up to the university system if they were ill prepared in high school.
What's racial about it? I agree that it's rather absurd and short-sighted--not to mention selfish and smacking of hubris--but what's racial about it?
From my understanding only one one major (Eli Lilly) now has a serious AD program - all the others have effectively walked away after losing tens of billions [1]. I have to say that Biogen’s antibody [2] is looking interesting. If I had to invest my own money in AD I would spend it on better early detection/sub-population classification and then on developing monoclonal antibodies targeting each sub-population.

1. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/01/23/alzheimers_t...

2. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/03/20/biogens_alzh...
>Doesn't change the fact that habitual drinking is alcoholism

Alcoholism is a specific thing. Can't be defined however we want it. If it doesn't have the withdrawal symptoms and negative health effects it's not alcoholim, even if people are drinking each day.

It's not very effective to jugde habitual drinking in a different cultures (e.g. continental Europe, a french farmer drinking a glass or two a day in a family dinner / fiest of friends / coffee shop context) with experiences from your own cultural environment (some suburban housewive etc drinking everyday on the border of alcoholism).
Lets me guess - it's really really good for all the poor people from impoverished, war-stricken countries?

Or if you want a daily dose of extreme left-wing nonsense, subscribe to The Guardian or your country's equivalent.
After reading halfway thru the article, I was reminded about Compostable K Cups. These are a paper lid, cardboard ring, and paper mesh, without the plastic cup cover.
Wow, 0.5%! What does the market for Czech art-school graduates look like? Is there more demand than supply?
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There are cuban coders? I thought the internet was nearly illegal down there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba
Wow.

Another big offender is non-recyclable yogurt cups. Does anyone have figures on those?
Well, it is not that selective.

According to the "Bildungsbericht 2014" 50% of all persons eligible to enter tertiary education do so [0]. In 2013 51.7% of people in the relevant age groups (18 - 21) were eligible for enrollment in a tertiary education program [1].

These are just some quickly researched numbers. Feel free to criticize!

On a personal note: I am a german student and trust me, even at institutions regarded to be high-tier (e.g. LMU Munich), you will find lots of people that should have rather entered an apprenticeship for example.

[0]: http://www.bildungsbericht.de/daten2014/wichtige_ergebnisse_... (in german)

[1]: http://www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/Tabelle-2.5.85.html
Red wedding.
There is other side of this.

State will only pay for education it finds useful. So there will be lot of engineers and doctors. But some narrow fields might might accept only 0.01% of applicants.

Not saying it is good or bad. Humanities are mostly affected, I guess we only need 3 sociologist per 1 million people. But also entire Germany in 2006 had only 20 graduates who knew howto control atomic reactors.
Then it would be a good addiction, like caffeine.

I am very biased against alcohol due to some very bad experience with it.

I do see the positive effects from low dosage consumption - relaxation, better sleep, a clearer mind. All of which can be achieved with meditation or some other meds like Phenibut or even Xanax.
In France you don’t even have any entry exams for universities.
That's right. Note that there are other Z-pinch fusion designs which use the Z-pinch to directly trigger fusion reaction without going through a fission intermediary.