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In my experience, many micro-USB cables that won't charge simply have worn plugs. That is, if you wiggle it just right, it will charge, but when you leave it lying on the desk it won't. However a new cable of the exact same SKU will fit so tight you can hang the phone from a wall socket with it. I think this is good engineering, because something will wear out, and it's much less bother to replace a $2 cable than it is to fix a worn-out USB jack in your phone.
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Sepp-tics?
Really depends on the manufacturing cost of the pump vs. the cost of shipping it. One of the really interesting things for me with the rental model is that if they kept the timer circuitry in it, they'd be able to collect a LOT of wear data. You can do in-house testing, but getting access to that level of field data is hard.
@@ applies the previously applied macro, so after applying the macro (including the move to next line, but see below too) you can you just hold down @ and quickly go through as many lines as you need. If you overshoot, you can just press u a few times.

Another tip: when you forget to add the move to next line to your macro, you don't have to start over. You can append to a macro, just use the upper-case register name instead. So to append a down and move to beginning of line to macro 'a', you'd type qAj0
Even better don't use default ports. Or have a second ssh that doesn't except any IP address at port 22 and than have your non-standard port with keys and limited user names and if possible a white list of your IP addresses.
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Since when has Intel been hit equally?
SYSLOG! For the love of god, please support syslog! I work as a consultant supporting a SIEM, and the amount of hoops we need to jump through to get logs from Windows servers is crazy compared to changing one line in a syslog.conf file. I actually dread when a client says "we're an all Windows environment" because wow initial setup just got that much harder.

And if we want to install a syslog forwarder on their domain controllers... no one ever trusts software installed on their domain controllers. Everyone trusts a single line in syslog.conf.
`kj` has worked really well for me (except, actually, when trying to write a blog post about a recent trip to Reykjavik, but that's the one time it's bitten me versus the shitton of time it's saved). I also have `zkj` mapped to `<ESC>:w<CR>` to save AND exit insert mode.
There are a few areas where brick and mortar still beats online. I can't buy clothes online because I don't have a "standard" fit and I'm picky, so I need to try everything on. I would never buy raw food online, again, I'm picky and I want to make sure I get optimal quality fruits and veggies. Alcohol can't reasonably be sold online, and shipping liquids is pretty sketchy anyways. I'd only buy flowers online if I didn't really care about the person I'm giving them to, so I'd rather pick the bouquet out in person.

Really, the only thing online retailers have killed or will kill is electronics and knick-knack stores.
While I agree neither of those things are things to be seriously worried about as social issues (currently), I think one of them deserves some critical thought.
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So was josteink's!
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"Roll the video back or forwards to know exactly where the thief is."

This is happening collaboratively today on Nextdoor.com when there is a crime in the neighborhood.

"What does your camera show, Mr. Neighbor, at such-and-such time and date?"
That is a truly awful analogy.

The entire point of PKI is that the public key is meant to be public. The impact on your security if a properly-created public key gets out is absolutely nil. I don't see any reason to hide them, save for an irrational belief that only comes from not knowing how the math works.
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>> You forget that the employees are also taking a risk.

I don't know how it is in most countries, but in the United States, an employee gets unemployment when they get laid off. A founder gets nothing when the company goes under.

Also, I know of a lot of companies that consider self-employment the same thing as unemployment. I've made more money as a freelancer in the last 3 years than I ever made working for anyone, and I've produced more code in that time to boot, so I think it's been a pretty good measure of my productivity. But as far as your run-of-the-mill cunsoltoware company is concerned (and let's face it, the long-tail of such companies is the majority of places where your average software developer can expect to get hired), I might as well have been on a 3 year vacation.

So IDK, seems like there are a lot more implicit risks to being a founder other than just "everything could go belly up and I have no retirement".
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This article has more info:

http://readwrite.com/2015/06/02/pinterest-buyable-pins

And here's their promotional video:

https://about.pinterest.com/en/buy-it
Etsy moves to buy Pinterest in the next week. This would seriously undercut their market.

Though how will this handle people pinning other people's products? Does the pinner get a cut if someone buys someone else's product through their pin? How do you verify legitimate retailers?
I'll take that over the inconsistency of the "clearing the neighborhood" rationale for Pluto's exclusion.
I've been doing something similar using a virtual machine running Windows 7 and a whole host of really stupid VPN solutions to connect to customer networks. I ran sshd via Cygwin, which logged me into /bin/sh, from which I could actually start cmd.exe. Presumably, I could also have started PowerShell had I tried it.

It's nice to see that they are offering an official way to do this.
The "8MB bug" (https://communities.intel.com/thread/24205) was the most notorious, but I remember also some bricked Intel SSDs too.
Flash translation layers don't really need to be offloaded for the sake of performance. You need some kind of controller to multiplex access to a dozen or more flash chips from a narrow PCIe link, so you might as well throw in an ARM core to do the translation and wear leveling and garbage collection, and then you can stick a few supercaps in the drive too and have a robust hardware platform.
> I'm assuming that means the police are running their own nodes and logging any traffic to go through them, but that's pure guesswork.

This is not how tor works. Every connection uses several nodes, and unless they control the entire chain they cannot determine both the origin and the destination of the traffic.

Unless you mean you (or one of your compromised servers) were running an exit node?
Providing childcare on site would not affect the conference experience of others.
People dying is beneficial to humanity in countless ways.

People not dying is the "travesty", and preventing death is probably one of the worst things you could do to humanity.
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Agreed, especially when it comes to sizing for items like shoes and clothes. I'm curious what changes will come from Pinterest's side.
Woah, I misread this for theync (NSFW!!) and wondered what that's doing on HN...
If the story this article tells us is true, the FPGA part(i.e. the "personality ") is optimizied by the guys at convey , which created a variety of profiles for specific application areas - and that supposed to take most of the burden of understanding of an FPGA from the programmer, and he really have to understand a high level view of that "personality".

Of course until actually using such tools, it's hard to tell. But the fact micron, a huge company which most likely is interested in big businesses ackuired convey, is a good sign to the use of such tools for the mass market and not just a bunch of highly trained experts.
when I learned about f and F a whole new world opened up for me. It never ceases to amaze me how amazing vim is. Another quick thing I recently learned (yes, novice vim user here) is stuff like this

\includegraphics{test.png}

if you stand inside the curly brackets and type ciB (change in Brackets) you get this

\includegraphics{}

with your cursor active inside the brackets, just awesome ..
Also in 5 years those vans will be self-driving.
I suspect this is because they think thunderbolt 1 and perhaps even 2 do not have the bandwidth to give satisfying graphics performance. This might change with thunderbolt 3.
That's a cultural perspective. If you didn't expect everyone you meet to eventually die within a hundred years, the fact that they all were would be a travesty.

In some respect, it's no different than if everyone died at fifty years of age. That's a travesty, yet something close to that was the norm for millennia. We expect more now.
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As a reminder, this is an area of medical research where you don't have to stand to one side and hope. Providing meaningful support to specific early stage research programs in rejuvenation research is well within the capabilities of most people making average developer salaries.

Look at the few hundred people who joined the Methuselah Foundation's 300 [1] over the past decade, and collectively their individual contributions of $1000/yr helped to launch early SENS research and provided seed investment in Organovo, now a successful tissue engineering concern and whose founders are a steadfast part of the New Organ initiative [2].

Or look at the crowd centered around Longecity [3] who have raised $10,000 here and $20,000 there for discrete projects in aging research, ranging from exploratory laser ablation of lipofuscin (not a success, but a worthy attempt at a technology demonstration) to a SENS project to demonstrate allotopic expression in two mitochondrial genes (did quite well, thank you). Early stage research is cheap, falling over yourself cheap. Meaningful cutting edge projects can run for a few tens of thousands of dollars over six months - you just have to know who to fund.

Fortunately there are good, responsible, aggressive research organizations out there like the SENS Research Foundation [3] that are coin slots for rejuvenation research and advocacy: you can be sure that money goes to good uses, funding areas of research that need unsticking and accelerating, picking those programs that have the best expectation values. You can put in a few thousand and be in good company with hundreds of other people, many from the tech industry, who have decided that it is well worth giving a small fraction of what you make each year to help ensure that when we are old there will be treatments to prevent the medical conditions that presently harm our parents and grandparents.

What use is it making a good wage, enough to greatly influence the medical technology of your future, while sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing but hoping? Who else is going to make a difference if not you? You have the choice of living the same life as before, and suffering and dying in great pain at the end, or making a better future for everyone. It really seems like a no-brainer to me. There are few places where so little money can produce so great a beneficial outcome at this time.

[1]: http://mfoundation.org/300

[2]: http://neworgan.org

[3]: http://longecity.org

[4]: http://sens.org
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Find out who made money by shorting it, there's your list of suspects, or at least co-conspirators (if this turns out to be a hack).
Yes it is, and insulin is hard, but antibodies are even harder, mostly to do with the manufacturing platform "CHO". Also insulin is still more expensive than it should be due to patent ever greening.

We would see prices of antibodies go down if the manufacturing could be switched to something "not CHO" but the IP landscape is locked up by a company! They will expire in 10 years or so.
By any sane measure, Minecraft was a "successful" product by the time even the first developer was hired. The risk was over.
Competent developers near economic hubs like Stockholm should find jobs pretty easily (unless I'm mistaken). I fail to see the risk for employees, especially in a nordic wellfare state like sweden.
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I have a feeling that some country is going to become significantly wealthy simply by becoming the world's data storage where data is protected from the heinous hands of our governments.

All of this is somewhat only a nuisance at the moment even though it is ever increasingly revealing real implications. Just imagine though what happens when these governments that have shown such blatant disregard for even the most fundamental legal code of our country and have essentially committed high treason against the Constitution and America's people gain access to mind reading technology even beyond what is already possible through inferences based on your online activities, and written and verbal thoughts.
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For any Michigan peeps the state is going to kick off national civic hacking day weekend with an event at the State Historical Museum in Lansing called Code Michigan Connect on Friday, June 5.

If you're interested in open data or civic hacking you will want to attend.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-michigan-connect-tickets-16...
I believe they also have Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 education and if we include the phone OS: Windows 10 mobile and Windows 10 mobile enterprise.
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I think this is a cool idea; however, after paying $299 you only get 5 calm and 5 energy strips that are guaranteed for one time use. After that they cost $19.99 for another 5. This would be a very expensive "habit".
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I'd love to hear ideas on this.

I am dismayed, nay, infuriated that we waste taxpayer dollars in such a manner when the returns have been found to be non-existent. Yet, I read about atrocities committed every day by ISIS and the US government sits back and does little.

This is not the world I want to live in, and I have no idea how to solve these non-technical problems.

EDIT: Regarding downvotes and the replies as of 1433272217:

If ISIS wants us to engage them, we just sit back and allow them to rape whole villages and sell women into the sex trade?

You don't go to war for oil. You go to war for human rights and to prevent the slaughter and abuse of innocent people.
Will the source for the shim be released?
python-mode or jshint2.vim? I don't think that they are "just fancy. Bringing linting into the editing window is more helpful (to me personally at least) than having a separate process running with it.

(Note: I turn rope off in python-mode because it's horribly inefficient, and sometimes causes Vim to delay reacting to user input)
Good answer, thank you for responding in such detail
There might be other reasons not to want these public keys to be published. For example, suppose there is an anonymous developer on a controversial project (maybe one that litigious companies don't want to exist?) who has chosen to have two GitHub accounts, one with the developer's legal name and one with a pseudonym.

If the developer is using the same key with both accounts, GitHub knows about the connection between them, but the larger public doesn't -- until the keys are published.

Another possible source of risk that would relate more to publishing the comment fields (which GitHub apparently chose not to do) is letting an attacker know which client devices to try to steal or compromise in order to get access to a developer's account. (Not a cryptographic attack at all!) It might still be possible to make some guesses about this if you know, for instance, that a developer bought a new laptop in a given week and then added a new key and either did or did not deactivate the old one.

Public keys that are used for confidential communications from the public or for signing publicly-released data probably ought to be distributed widely. But public keys that are used to authenticate to a service also reveal nonpublic facts about the number and activation and deactivation of devices that are used to access that service. If someone is crawling these records and noticing the timing of changes, it may help for planning attacks -- again, noncryptographic ones.
So... is this an app? A device? What?

Also, this website needs editing for spelling and grammar.

Edit: It's apparently a car diagnostic port dongle that connects to an app, but I don't really see the point of this over Automatic, which already does all the "car stuff" and integrates with a bunch of services, and Waze, which handles the "social navigation" aspect and has a huge user base.
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Cygwin has all of those things and ssh server support.
The problem with corruption is that, in the absence of careful enforcement, you don't have to choose. Blatter has had both power and, I'd wager, a great deal of money for quite some time now.
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In such a situation, the benefits of trying would accrue to the human who risks trying and is changed by the experience.
The IFE system on a 747 I was on a couple of years ago was running Windows 98, complete with graphical boot screen :-) (Edit: Removed airline, I like them too much.)
> You'll probably want to wrap your data in some error correcting code, too.

I've found that using hashes and sending duplicates of the data seems to weed out any transmission issues in a one way system.
I think this is a strategy by Apple, and will eventually backfire. But then again what do I know about consumer preferences, I am typing this on a Toshiba Satellite PS25-607--that is literally held together with tape, and opened so many times I can visualize the screw holes?
What's next? Banning people with mental disabilities from conferences/anywhere else really because they might inconvenience you? Banning disabled people because they might require more space and block your view?

And what the f* are you even talking about here?
"in hopes of educating people far less privileged that said baby."
I think it's completely legit for you to pick your partners.

Can you comment on the 5 day warning, though?

Speaking as a quality professional with some experience with billing, the idea of identifying and transitioning to a new payment processor with proper testing and zero business downtime within 5 days isn't very realistic. If a company abstracted their payments up front, great, but for a small firm it's likely there's tight coupling there. Customer communication also isn't instant, and I assume subscription authorizations have to be transitioned as well--probably by the customers themselves.

It would be one thing if you stopped people at the door, but once they're dependent this seems rather harsh unless they've somehow egregiously violated business ethics in a way that's harmed you. You're pretty much guaranteeing a business interruption, and that can be fatal for a small firm.

And from a strictly pragmatic point of view, this is the sort of action that would make me hesitant to pick you for an upcoming project. When I judge risk vs. worst case outcome, the very fact that your worst case is a surprise interruption would put you on the wrong side of the line even at a low risk.

This is essentially a provider uptime decision, and it's easy to see this as unpredictable between 5-9s and zero. That's not a good quality for a payment processor.
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I disagree. Under Gates early on I felt the developer love.
I literally have lost blood to some of my projects, but I have a hardware component to my tinkering.