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Mandrake was my first distro as well, haven't used it in ~14 years I guess.

I remember downloading it over a 56k modem that kept disconnecting at night and when I was at work, it took about a week! Sadly, I knew no Linux users in person.

But it was totally worth it. I can still remember the sense of adventure first installing and running Linux. And then I installed some dev tools, and it was like this OS was calling me to write code. I started to code and haven't stopped since...
Can you tell us how he was?
I don't think it is heartbreaking only for people who knew him. He did throw a big part (if not all) of his life away :-/
He is scheduled for another trial for attempted murder, so I am afraid he will never get out of jail.
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How to Design Programs 2E

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

This book is much more than the intro to programming that it appears to be. It is a foundational approach for producing robust programs, regardless of your implementation language or level of experience.
Poisson distributions are completely random, so I'm guessing you mean either a uniform or normal distribution.

failrate is making a reference to the Thomas Pynchon novel "Gravity's Rainbow", in which the Poisson distribution of the bombing of London is a major plot point.

And I do believe the author is correct by claiming it is a Poisson distribution, since we are talking a number of events per km^2.
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Purely because this tripped us up today:

There is a breaking change to how $cookies works, which is only listed under one of the RC releases in the change log: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/v1.4.0/CHANGELOG....
So strategic business agreements are now considered a "hostile takeover"?
I have seen a lot of such cases as well, always the best is not to accept it in the first place and offer giving a test on an open source project for example.
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> it never made sense to have it in Qatar in the first place

Nor in Russia, especially considering they are at war with their neighbors, under sanctions, and how the anti-gay laws will treat gay fans and players.

We have unofficial reports of Putin gifting officials with bribes. If this investigation continues, we'll see a lot more than just Qatari corruption here.
> ...but I don't get how the US can go after foreign nationals not on US soil for something that was done outside the US and not an attack on the US.

Some combination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (where a company can be prosecuted in the US for bribing officials abroad) mixed with RICO. The RICO part might not even be necessary, but it would allow them to go after anyone in the organization if they felt like it. I'm betting Blatter is sweating bullets right now.
This has been posted numerous times.
Which merely shows that for enough money people will look the other way on deadly human rights violations and slave labor.
Given the partisan drum thumping around the issue, I wouldn't want to guess what someone meant.

(example: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/12/obama-amnest... )
Still, the BSD license requires reproduction of the license text and copyright headers (and for a while, advertising on the package). I don't see those in many C libraries.
1 long year to launch it... :P
At a large company I won't name, for the new buildings, the president ordered that no-one (except for the president of course) would have an enclosed office.

The results were not what he would have wanted: management now commandeers the conference and meeting rooms almost all the time.

And the buildings are incredibly awful for individual workers (absolutely no privacy at all, either a totalitarian no-sound approach or complete chaos, no private phone calls, etc.)
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You don't blow up just any track: you blow up bridges because they take so much more time to build or repair.

As for the targeting: you have to go really low. British bombers attacked the gestapo hq in Copenhagen by going so low that their bombs were dropped into the sides of the building (consequently, although that wasn't the plan, a number of prisoners who had been housed in cells in the top floor managed to escape).

Of course you can only do something like that if you are willing to paint a huge target on yourself because you will be very easy to shoot down.
You are looking at this from a fixed point in time. Places like Detroit had a problem because they pumped land prices then let them collapse.

The answer is not to pump land prices by stopping the banks ramping them.

The UK is not doing well. If you look at flawed indicators like GDP, 10% of which is made up of imputed rent, then yes you will be fooled.

"Facts" can be distorted, in particular GDP.

The parts of the UK that are affordable are not affordable as the wages there are far lower. The loan to value in many places is bad and only tenable due to ultra-low rates which the UK is now boxed into.

Really I disagree with every single line.
> Why should they? Microsoft has nothing to gain from doing so

Tell us what can benefit Oracle by suing Google.

> Wine is also something done explicitly to create compatability, Google made sure Android was not compatible with "regular" Java.

Android is compatible with Java syntax. And even Java ME, the java developed for mobile platforms, is not compatible with regular java so, what is your point?
I actually bought Mandrake at the store, Office Max I believe.

First linux I could get to work with my video card--after a couple of weeks trying with redhat. Sound was another story--I don't think I got it working.

~15 years ago, I think.
ah Yggdrasil! I used to get the full updates as a data CD (with fun cover art) stuck between the tech books of my local University's bookstore; because the download over dialup would've been prohibitive. ok... next nostalgic old fart can top that with leased Darpa 10Base2 lines.
I guess it depends on the material you're looking at. The system designer would probably be the best person to ask. Are you going to make it out of 1018 or a36, or are you going to use something that's higher performance? Does the increased cost of the stronger steel get offset by the reduced weight?

You can get a36 for about $1/lb in small quantities. You can get corten (a588) for about $2/lb in small quantities. But the a588 has a yield strength about 50% higher than the a36, so strength-for-strength it's a pretty decent deal.

If you need 1" of a36 then you're going to need only 2/3" of a588 so it's only 33% more expensive. Combine that with the weathering properties which can reduce your maintenance intervals substantially (this is the same steel they make sea containers out of) and your lifetime cost might well be lower.

Further since your tubes now weigh less you might be able to get away with either smaller pylons or greater pylon spacing, both of which might be advantageous.

So you're right that the strain is non-trivial but that's only if you pick basically the toughest, least strong steel available. It's pretty easy to go stronger and to not lose too much toughness and gain other desirable features such as corrosion resistance, and in the process make the strain less significant relative to the elastic region.
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does this service support Indonesia? i want to sell digital good i need payment system that use just only bankaccount
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This is a growing trend with all sports, especially when it comes to new stadium agreements.
Completeness is subjective here, but I understand where you're coming from.
Something similar happened to me, but I was never provided with the "programming test".

My interview for a freelance gig was wrapping up, and the COO asked if I would be willing to "fix a few bugs in the system" to see if I were a "good fit" for the project. I asked point blank if they were asking me to do work for free. He responded that no, he was not, and that the task would take no more than 30 minutes to an hour. I said that I would be happy to take a programming test, or provide some other proof of competency, but that it's pretty non-standard to ask me to fix bugs in a system for free, especially for a limited hour freelance gig.

Up until that point, we were discussing project time lines, handing over of logins, and my number of hours of availability. I got an email the next day saying that they were going to go another direction. Likely, trying to fund some other suckers to fix their bugs for free.
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What we've found is that the best folks want a (paid) trial - not because they want us to trial them, but because they want to trial us. Works out for everyone.
It's ridiculous how many completely irrelevant permissions they demand!

Facebook's laundry list of permissions is perhaps the best example of how Android's permission system is completely broken.
It's not a conspiracy, what tend to happen is you post a bunch of articles and then the parent starts picking at 1 point in 1 article as if that invalidates all of them and you get drawn into this long tiresome discussion with what is nothing but a crackpot using loads of anecdotes or worse, blog posts, against large scientific studies. And quite often it's nonsense any way, they just misunderstand it.

For some reason working conditions and working hours are incredibly emotive subjects, similar to women in tech, that tend to bring out the irrational side of otherwise lucid HN posters.
Hey everybody, look at FIFA over there!

Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department (26 May 2015)

Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation... nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.

Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents.

...the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and its lobbyists met with the State Department officials who oversee enforcement of human rights policies. Clinton’s State Department the next year approved a one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the country. The increase included authorizations of almost 50,000 items classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents, biological agents and associated equipment” after the State Department did not authorize the export of any of such items to Algeria in the prior year.

...Goldman Sachs paid Bill Clinton $200,000 to speak to “approximately 250 high level clients and investors” in New York, according to State Department records obtained by Judicial Watch. Two months later, the State Department approved a $675 million foreign military sale involving Hawker Beechcraft -- a company that was then part-owned by Goldman Sachs. As part of the deal, Hawker Beechcraft would provide support to the government of Iraq to maintain a fleet of aircraft used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Goldman Sachs has also contributed at least $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to donation records.

Stephen Walt, a Harvard University professor of international affairs, told IBTimes that the intertwining financial relationships between the Clintons, defense contractors and foreign governments seeking weapons approvals is “a vivid example of a very big problem -- the degree to which conflicts of interest have become endemic.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons...
Marx's Capital is available here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/, and there's a great free/open course to help you get through it here: http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/.

It's a fairly hard read, but I've gotten through the first few chapters so far and found it very insightful.
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Curious. What is your objection to the personality tests? I took one for a new job once, and I felt uneasy about it, but can't really articulate why.
Can you explain why you might choose to use this instead of a more standard method such as a Voronoi tessalation [0]?

[0] http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/8033015
As far as I can tell, what's upvote heaven is complaining about how nonexistent bad comments get lots of upvotes. I don't see any comments in this thread that meet your description, while the top is mostly comments explaining why this move makes sense. There are quite a few kneejerk "the US is evil" comments, but it's not about playing nice, it's about thinking the US government is the devil and SpaceX is sullied by the association. I don't see any comments saying the US should just keep buying Russian engines.
He might've been closer than he was making out to be. Yours is an unwarranted assumption.
If you want to be taken seriously, you need to be able to differentiate between subjective and objective things ("there is no right or wrong") for starters.

Then it would be great if you could just accept valid points when they're staring you in the face.

My purchasing power or personal history has nothing to do with whether handing out things that cost something to produce is sustainable or not. Hint: it's not.

But nevermind. So much sophistry is spewing out of your mouth that you're most likely a psychopath. Yes, I realize I haven't proven anything, so there's no need to point that out. I'm either right or I'm wrong.. and yes, here in the real world, there's this thing called "truth".
> Bundling dependencies for production environments has always been and always will be a terrible idea.

If you are not bundling dependencies how do you rollback a deploy that migrated to a new version of a dependency? If you rollback your code, you also have to do something to rollback the dependency.

For Python, I currently rebuild a virtualenv from scratch on each deploy, but it just feels like a poor solution. Docker containers seem like an interesting way to package these dependencies in a way that is portable, where a deploy is just pushing a new version of the Docker container. Is there a Better Way(tm) that doesn't involve me needing to deal building OS packages for all of my virtualenv dependencies?

(I'll note that several dependencies have C extensions, and are thus not pure Python -- e.g. `itsdangerous` depends on `pycrypto` was has extensions.)
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Rust's goal is to be memory safe and high level without depending on a garbage collector, which is very important for many problems. That Rust is comparable with high level languages is a big accomplishment, as nobody compares C++ with these languages.

Nim does not have the same goals. Which IMHO makes it a lot less interesting, because if you're allowed a garbage collector, then you can talk about Java / the JVM, .NET, Haskell, Ocaml, Erlang, Go and the list can continue.
I was the first (or second depend of the point of view) employee of Mandriva back in 1999, quite a journey since then. Sad to see them gone
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Turns out crimes aren't mutually exclusive. Not sure that prosecuting a crime is a "false flag" either.
I actually switched to RedHat a few weeks or months later, I can't recall exactly why, and I do have some memories of playing music with XMMS on those first distros.
That's a good insight. We should make sure we frame the trial the right way so both sides see the benefit of it.

One big downside of trials is they exclude people who are already employed...ah well, can't win 'em all.
Despite having the good fortune of being born into quite significant privilege (I'm a white, tall, straight guy born to middle class parents in a western country - if anyone has been playing life on the easiest difficulty level it's me) I'm actually a socialist & believe in income redistribution (choosing to live in Germany has something to do with it - it's much more of a socialist welfare state with high taxes & wealth redistribution than the country I was born in - I would have been making more money and paying less taxes if I stayed there).

Obviously we can't completely equalize the playing field (like tall, good looking people getting better opportunities etc), but I do think we should do as much as we practically can. That's why yes, I do think we should strive for open borders even though it will be significantly non-beneficial to me as a birth-lottery winner.

Although practically I think it will only work out if all or almost all countries will open their borders at the same time, to prevent 100s of millions of people moving into any single country at once. I don't think this will happen in my life time but I sure hope it does.

And on a more concrete note - if I'll have a chance of helping someone from a poor country come to Germany e.g. via offering them employment/visa sponsorship - I will prefer doing that compared to hiring a local.
very well put.
seems like the debate is always between offices vs everyone huddled around on bean bags (exaggeration). but what about open desks with some partial privacy while having accessible offices for meetings and calls. this setup has been working out well in the past 5 places i've worked at. It's good because when things come up (production issues or other teams having issues that may affect you later) you are not withdrawn from it. If your job is solitary and you shouldn't be bothered with daily stuff offices may be the way to go, but in my experience that has been quiet isolating for people and even managers.

it's kind of like the Agile debate. Either you adhere to it 100% or it's a FAIL. What about taking all the parts that work for you and adopting them according to local culture. I get that it's no longer pure Agile but it can still partially work (i.e. having scrums and sprints and frequent releases but without having to work 12 hr days to meet the sprint if things come up etc). sorry about off point but the 2 debates have always been similar to me.
the US invaded Iraq, and kill people everywhere in the world on a regular basis too, overthrow governments, helps dictators and lie to people all the time. Nobody gets ahead when you only look for scapegoats and with Manichaeism as a policy.

We are bringing back the world into the 20st century, this will be a big problem.
Confused you with Atomic Object[0] at first, although they aren't exactly in the same field as you.

[0]: https://atomicobject.com/
Its especially impressive when you consider WW1 had a 50 year advantage in perfecting the art of killing people.
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My point is that the initial assumptions never hold because we can never say "We know this is how it is going to turn out". We can say "This is how we hope it is going to turn out."

YAGNI embraces this lack of knowledge explicitly, as you quote from the article, and my quote from five posts up.

We're not saying that YAGNI is always better in any specific sample, we're saying YAGNI is an optimal strategy across the entire range of samples.
>because there isn't necessarily a direct correlation between the instructions the programmer writes and the resulting machine code

If there was, then it wouldn't be "portable"
What kind of programming are you looking for exactly? Web Development? Or, Mobile app programming? Or maybe even desktop programming?
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Seems like the obvious solution. I know Automattic (makers of Wordpress, among other things) does that.
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Assumption of validity isn't the only path. In Australia there is no assumption of validity; the court essentially re-examines the patent when a suit is brought. This doesn't necessarily increase costs/time either, the Federal Court (has patent jurisdiction in Australia) exercises pretty decent case management to ensure that frivolous suits are quickly dealt with.
Moonlighting may not be for you. I was a freelancer full time for a couple of years and situations like this happened all the time.

What happens if you need to work extra hours for your day job? The moonlighting gig will suffer and the client will most likely be breathing down your neck to get the job finished asap.

You also can't get used to the new income (IE: spending more), because it's going to be difficult to maintain these hours.
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And the importance of it. Saying NO often allows you to say YES when it matters.
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This is like asking a carpenter to prove their skills by building you a deck, in a day, for free. Good luck. Any work performed should be paid, period.
"As for the granting of the World Cup, what has so upset the Anglophonic world is that someone else outspent England and US efforts to purchase the World Cup. "

I think that "what has so upset the Anglophonic world", plus several other countries and people that are not anglophone, was that that "outspending" was very likely due to corruption.
> Where do you get the contents of 'records' from?

I download the "newest" and "news" pages every 15 minutes or so, then collate the data.

> If we merge bbc.com and bbc.co.uk, we
> end up with 125 / 10,000. I suppose
> that isn't that many compared to others,

It's less than some, but not as many as, say, nytimes.com or techcrunch.com. But it's a major news site, so I'm not surprised people read it and go "Oh, that's interesting, I'll click the HN bookmarklet and submit it."

> ... still higher than I think it should be.

What do you think it "should be?"

> A nice solution might be to remind people,
> ... that it's better to go to the source ...

I personally find it useful to read a non-technical overview, and then if interested, go and find the technical version. Often the article with technical details borders on unreadable.
At least on iOS, they have to ask to use location services. Granted, it doesn't say "so we can tell your contacts exactly where you are..." but for iOS users at least, the default should always be "No" when an app asks. Then decide later.