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Can you point me in the direction of the plugins you mean? Because I haven't had problems with CPU levels for a long time now. Just curious.
That's not actually hard to do. I would be completely unsurprised were I to learn that Einstein would be unable to get consistent answers were he to repeatedly count on his own toes.

There is a great deal of difference between symbolic mathematics - calculus and the like - and arithmetic.

While not as bad as Einstein, I'm very poor at arithmetic as well.
Is it true that you cannot default on a collage loan in US? How is it legal? Isn't it the root cause of the problem.

(I'm not American, my knowledge is limited)
His actions at PyCon were not shameful, and his employer had to let him go to avoid being drawn into the witch hunt any more than they already had been. Perhaps I can blame his employer for not standing a little stronger, but mainly I'm going to blame the person who instigated the witch hunt in the first place. And Adria Richards, who as a developer evangelist is necessarily social media-savvy, knew exactly what she was doing when she took the incident onto Twitter.
You can't discharge a college loan via bankruptcy. You can certainly default on the same loan, but those are two different things.
Starting Up in Nigeria and Scaling Across Africa
Global inequality has a part to play here as well. But yes, it seems to be an almost deliberate plan to reinflate asset prices. And raising housing cost while wages are flat just exacerbates inequality.
Ask HN: Screen scraper's server is fully open
This company (call them ACME) who happen to be fairly big in the industry, screen scrapes our website backend (our users give them access) and updates data into our DB quite regularly. They're the most active ip address in our logs.

Because I like to look at logs fairly regularly, their new IP address gave me concern so I did a quick lookup and port scan. They happen to have open FTP access with anonymous login enabled.

What's worse is that their whole C: drive (Windows server) is viewable through the exposed FTP (apart from user directories) and from a quick glance, their application code which does the screen scraping is visible to anyone.

This code also includes config files (connection strings to DB, etc.) and of course the code which screen scrapes our site and many others.

What do we do? Contacting them and then being accused of server breach etc is not my idea of the foreseeable future and everything that comes with it.

There is an unfortunate tendency, especially here in the litigation happy US, to pursue the person who does the right thing by warning of possible security issues. I don't want to join that list.

In terms of their own security issues, this might be an issue and keeping quiet will protect our interests at least.

What would you do?
>This tracker provides movement visualization of transit data published by transit agencies and operators from all over the world. The movements are mostly based on static schedule data. Wherever real-time data is available it is also included in the visualization.

Really cool.
Have you a citation? I don't doubt you but if you can provide a reliable cite, I'd be into writing a letter to my congresscritters.
Capital controls used to be a thing back in the Bretton Woods era. They were abolished as everyone likes the sound of foreign money coming in, without realising it can be as dangerous as massive cash outflows.

Running the property market as an export market is not a long term sustainable solution.
There are 4,000 homeless people in Portland.
You must not know much about ethics.
Cybersecurity in the maritime industry, are our ports secure?
Ironically, many San Francisco companies are opening offices in Portland, as they can't find enough local staff.

But most don't permit remote work - otherwise one could remote into SFO.
I'm wondering why playing this game doesn't feel like work.
Ask HN: Is mortality a bug, a feature, or a hardware limitation?
I am sitting in Hospice with a family member and i cannot decide. If you feel the need to make a defense of your answer, please be objective and respectful.
Norm looks very nice, thanks for posting. I haven't had a chance to look at the internals, but do you think it could be ported to C#?
I used another head shot, with a two-thirds view profile, and it also gave "smoking car".
I am not an US citizen so it is hard to call me bigot with relation to US dual intent visas. But H1-B is used to fuck both the foreigners and the domestic US programmers.
I'm aware of the difference between residency and citizenship, that's not the issue. I deny what they are offering is typically something requiring residency. Anecdotally- I don't have residency (or citizenship to be clear) in Singapore but have government ID there I use for their services.

If they plan to expand the program to allow things typically afforded to residents of a country then that would be something. I doubt it however.
10 Linux dream jobs: What's yours?
I think it probably was more than worth the effort. This is of course not his main source of income, but it certainly strengthens his reputation as one of the foremost experts on C++.

At a company I worked for previously, some people thought it would be nice to invite him for giving a talk. Even though there was a reasonable budget available, it still didn't go through because the guy is apparently pretty expensive.
I am not at all versed in anything you have mentioned, but i'd like to ask: is your team/company/property at risk in any way or are you purely a spectator?
The article characterizes crackpots who claim there are serious problems with the underpinnings of science that can be rectified with college level or even high-school level math.

It doesn't actually find a calculation flaw in Einstein's work.
Published on Wednesday, 01 April 2009 08:17
Please read the article, not just comment on the headline.
Correlation is not causation. Just because Elon Musk did so does not mean that rate of success among car crashing CEOs is not lower than the rest of them.

You've got to look at a nominal case, the median, not the outlying example to justify your mistakes.
Never used Airbnb but it looks pretty cool.

I have used Uber -- and I love the concept of free people making side deals with property/time they have to earn a little extra cash. Been going on forever. Likely will continue. With or without some kind of community oversight.

Which brings me to my point: must we always be swinging one way or another on a pendulum? For the vast majority of transactions, it seems like we've solved this for both sides of the transaction, buyer and seller. The remaining piece is negative externalities.

Part of the problem here is that most anything you do in life is going to have some sort of negative externalities, the only thing that changes is the magnitude -- much the same concept as anything you consume is a poison, the only thing that changes is the dosage.

It just seems that the scales will always be tipped against guys like Airbnb or Uber. If a million people rent an Airbnb apartment and one person gets killed or raped? Headlines will say "Airbnb leads to killing and rape on the east side!" If the same numbers happen in a hotel? No headlines.

So even as a libertarian I'm in favor of some reasonable kind of accommodation between banning and complete laizzez faire. The problem is that I've yet to see anyone define "reasonable" in a way that doesn't sound like a knee-jerk reaction.

And let's face it, these kinds of transactions will continue no matter how many city councils vote them down. The problem needs a public airing and 100 possible solutions tried. I'm sure one will work. Perhaps some sort of insurance with all risk factors made public? Neighbor rents out his apartment as an Airbnb and partygoers destroy your yard? File a claim. You get your yard back, Airbnb has somebody who handles these problems, and the neighbor's insurance rates go up. We see this a lot with driving: the ticket isn't much of a concern for folks, but the rising insurance rates hurt for a long time afterwards.
The Defining Decade - Why your twenties matter and how to make the most of them now by Meg Jay
One of my very best friends has an Android phone and a ChromeBook. She knows a lot more about computers than do most people who aren't engineers, but even so I expect she could use someone to admin them for her.

She's a bartender at a strip club.
2003 -> Vista was the big change. All others were minor by comparison.

Plus we were talking about the deployment/upgrade technology.
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IL2CPP Internals: A Tour of Generated Code (Unity3D)
I think making two bookmarklets (push current URL and fetch next URL) for this service. Would improve it's usefulness dramatically.
My background seems to be significantly different from most people here - what you've written there is something I'd like to learn about, but have no idea where to start.

I've copied your code, hit "F12" in Firefox, but where do I paste it? Where/how does it run?

How can I learn the basics of this stuff without wading through the mindless tutorials intended for people who have never coded?

For reference, I've written safety-critical real-time embedded systems in assembler and C, and these days I write number-theory and expert systems code in Python.

Where can I start that doesn't patronise me to death?
Does your friend actually need you to visit them? Or is there help and support that you can provide from a distance?

For example, you could put together a package of information for their city and the type of problem they're having, and have that delivered to them. Then you can ask them if they are okay calling the agencies you identified or if they want you to call on their behalf, or if they have someone else that they want to onow but that they haven't told yet.

Also, please don't forget to protect yourself. You can't help your friend as much if you are ill.
I used to discuss these kind of theories online. Or, rather, these kind of people would visit the forums/boards I used to visit, and then present their "great ground shaking theories". As the author here states, most of these theories had fundamental flaws. New particles named after themselves that didn't explain anything the model of physics does today. Or the theories weren't consistent with observations, for instance they failed to explain how pushing one object of 1kg into another object would end up.

Most of these people were old, many engineers (edit: which the article agrees with) with a former basic knowledge of physics. They kinda reminds me of the old professor in the movie "Proof", that has lost grip on reality and invented his own "proofs". Or the movie "A beautiful mind" when he's on his worst. It's a bit sad, really.
Correct, it only impacts support, not functionality, while for Windows functionality is impaired.
Which is at odds with his/her propertarian rhetoric. Either s/he believes in the absolute right of property ownership, or s/he doesn't.
I wasn't criticizing Einstein's theories, I was criticizing Einstein's arithmetic.

In a letter to Mt. Wilson observatory, he requested that they point their telescope just off the edge of the sun in full daylight - NOT during an eclipse - to determine whether the stars whose light passed through the sun's gravity would be out of place with respect to the positions of those stars when the sun was not nearby.

He was apparently unaware that to point an observatory scope that close to the sun - I don't recall whether it was the 100" or the 60" - would melt the glass photographic plate.

His calculations of where the stars would be, was wildly inaccurate.

Someone - a Mt. Wilson astronomer I expect but don't really know - had to point out to Einstein that he required an eclipse. I expect someone else had to do the arithmetic for the African eclipse expedition.

In my original post I clearly distinguished symbolic mathematics from arithmetic. I've studied some tensor calculus, while straightforward in principle it is conceptually quite difficult to follow.

Einstein had his tensors right what he did not have correct was "2 + 2". I mean like he'd try that computation then come up with "5".
At the moment, spectator. But if someone else who stumbles upon this server and has other motives, they could be able to dig further and gain access to DB files.

Then we would be at risk since I assume that's where they store our user credentials needed to login to our website backend and make updates. Although, that will be least of our worries since we can simply reset the username/passwords that have accessed out sites since we have activity logs.
How to Minimize Politics in Your Company(2010)
I tried to argue with a crackpot once and even recommended psychiatric help if needed and all it did was make me feel terrible, it did not convince the crackpot. Needless to say I've now resigned to just ignoring them altogether.
Changetip integrates with soundcloud
Oh boy, that's a teacher that's given up.
Why not use WebRTC for chat these days?
I've studied special relativity through graduate school at UCSC.

While I haven't exactly studied general relativity in a formal way I've attended quite a few talks on it by cosmologists and the like.

I was an astronomy major at Caltech, but switched to Physics when I realized I prefer to build telescopes rather than look through them. Astronomers don't build telescopes; Opticians do that. However Physicists commonly build their own experimental apparatus.
SHOW HN: sumurai - I bet you can't add numbers
I understand how people can find this fun, but not how they can find it "just as good" as Threes!. The graphics are a blatant ripoff, albeit of a lower quality, and the game mechanic is simply way less inventive.

Threes! had attention to detail — in the mechanics, in the visuals, and especially in the music. These ripoffs have none of that.

I can't help but wonder whether we are promoting the tradition of cheap, carelessly made mobile games as opposed to the finely-crafted products. This is why many developers have started to steer clear of the mobile market.

(I don't mean to ruin everyone's fun, just commenting on the larger scheme of things)
in the console window of the browser tools in chrome or firefox. https://developer.chrome.com/devtools#console note: javascript always runs in the context of a root object. in the browser, it's the window object. if the webpage has multiple frames, you might have to select the correct frame for the console to execute the js in.
Nice segue from 'a crackpot' to 'them'. They have labels pasted all over them so no difficulty in crossing to the other side of the street.
I didn't realize I missed that version of the internet so much.
Your comment appeared, disappeared then reappeared. It seems to be here to stay now.

Perhaps this is some bug in HN's CMS.
Bottom line is people are looking for a better lifestyle, not just a cool tech job. So yes we will continue to come, and maybe even marry local ladies.
'ALL YOUR JOBS ARE BELONG TO US'
Progress update on Todoed.co Alpha
More likely a caching bug, I'd say.
It's about imposing tariffs on across-the-border transactions.

> but allowing international kleptocrats to launder / hide their money in western cities is hardly the most moral choice one could propose.

This would be a political decision which should be treated as such.
Not sure how I'd feel if my optician prescribed me a telescope.
Walk Me Alarm Clock – An iOS app that walks you up
Rather than downvoting me, perhaps you'd like to explain why it is ethical to permit anyone to sell their property to anyone they please.

Ethics can be viewed as a way of determining what one should not be permitted to do.
Great game. I like the incremental discoveries of new obstacles (linked blocks for example) or new mechanisms (lateral movement to combine numbers).
Modified with sorting pieces by value:

https://gist.github.com/inDream/c4c1eb78faf2742c5e58

Highest score: 20x3
So you still didn't open the article? :/
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The app is built with simple and easy to use features to help and not to confuse with the process of setting up an alarm.

There is no snooze function. Notifications are fired every 30 seconds if the app is in the background or phone is locked.

The tricky part is that every time the alarm rings, you will have to walk different number of steps to turn it off.

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IIRC student loan debt was made non-dischargeable by bankruptcy when the government started guaranteeing all student loans. This is the reason why tuition has been increasing so dramatically, because for the banks, making a loan is free of risk. Because supply of money is basically unlimited, schools can increase tuition each year.
Cisco’s Profit and Sales Beat Wall Street Forecasts
You should use the right terminology. H-1B is a non-immigrant visa, though it allows the possibility of becoming an immigrant in the US.

A more accurate phrase is "guest workers", but given your context you probably meant to use the word "foreigners". Someone on the flip side might use the phrase "indentured servant".

In the larger debate, the criticisms are well known (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Criticisms_of_the_pro... ), and many seem both of substance and disconnected to xenophobia. For example, some opponents to the current H-1B process want the H-1B visa holder to be able to change jobs without losing their place in line for the green card, which would benefit the ex-pat worker whose options are otherwise "grin-and-bear-it" at a hated job or leave the US.

As such, it's likely that your prediction of bigotry based on the information you read, has a high enough error rate, and a strong likelihood of poisoning the discussion, that it's not worthwhile to state.
A prof at a small college I know apparently found something wrong with relativity. Tried to publish, but got brushed off in the peer review. The troublesome thing was that his reaction was "fine, I'll go back to teaching, then". A little bitter, but he just gave up. Maybe he was just wrong, but he's smart and definitely not fanatical.
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Call for Google to Show Its Right to Be Forgotten Workings
This is the best mode yet since it's not just a frantic rush.

You're onto something here.

I think the gameplay of this variant would be much deeper if the ticker only ticked when you didn't make a match.
Alibaba Needs to “Globalize,” Says Its New CEO
Does Wordpress release security update for those who stick to older versions?
Yes, exactly this, thank you for bringing this up.

Wages are flat across most sectors, and Portland's job market for supporting higher wages has not improved much. There's been some growth in tech (Disclaimer: I'm very much in Portland tech), but the jury is very much out on how stable this is going to be long-term, as much of this growth is investment-driven and not profitable. Beyond a few small IPOs, there's been unusually large growth of what I could try to describe as artisinal restaurants, food carts and other craftswork type businesses. It's not a bad thing at all, but it simply isn't going to justify these outlandish prices. The skyrocketing cost of living is a serious threat to the businesses and people that made Portland unique and interesting in the first place.

To give a contrast, I have friends in Minneapolis/St. Paul who were able to find very good 2k+ sqft homes for around $200k, in good neighborhoods within Minneapolis proper. This region ranks first among the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the number of Fortune 500 companies per capita, across highly diversified sectors. Within that stable jobs infrastructure, housing has not tripled, and they still use appraisals. Something is definitely not right here.
> It wouldn't take more then 10-20 minutes with a label maker.

That does introduce a human error based point of failure though - a few from a batch could have their labels mixed up.

Given how blackblaze's setup is described someone powering off the wrong drive or entire node by mistake due to a misidentified non-failed drive will not affect service at all, the built-in resilience to hardware failure will easily cover this, but there will still be some impact if only in the wasted man-time (for the original error and any resulting investigation & relabelling effort) and any light performance degradation as the affected node is brought back into service.

So for the number of drives they use, perhaps the manufacturers labelling the drives in a consistent manner is valuable enough to complain about not being the case.
I can't wait til I can use Servo with a basic HTML based UI on Win7 - like Phoenix 0.1 for WinXP, picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Phoenix_0... History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Naming
Electrons have a temperature? Didn't know that.
Going native with React, an introduction
It has been helpful to her so far, that I've been emailing her every day for months.

I've known her for many years but only recently have we become close.

She presents a false front, in that she appears to be a great deal stronger than she really is. Like a picture of a stone wall, rather than real stone.

Over the last couple weeks I've been asking her for some advice about my work. While she's been, strictly speaking, helpful, she's also been quite harshly critical. I got a mail from her a few days ago expressing her furious anger at not being able to get medical care, to which I replied - loosely speaking - "Call 9-1-1".

I didn't hear from her for several days, I prayed that she was in the hospital yet feared that she was dead. Finally she emailed me this evening, she is in the hospital.

She is completely convinced that she has not a friend in the world. That's not even remotely true but she is convinced of it. So while strictly speaking there _is_ a great deal I could do from here, there is a lot more to do were I there in person.
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How to Get People to Find More about Your App
But what does that have to do with the linked-to article?
opticians make telescopes. Optometrists write prescriptions for eyeglasses. Optometric opticians make eyeglass lenses.

Opthalmologists diagnose and treat disease of the eyes. An optometrist can perform an opthalmological exam but cannot prescribe medicine nor practice eyeball surgery.
A flaw in the Apple Watch leaves it absurdly vulnerable to thieves