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> "National Security" means "the financial health of Verizon"

I think there's a chain of reasoning by which that can make sense, and which doesn't include cronyism:

1. National Security is dependent upon the "health" of the economy of the country;

2. therefore, any corporation providing a large-enough part of a nation's GDP is effectively part of its war engine just as surely as if it were producing bullets or tanks or MREs;

3. therefore, an attack on any company of that scale is an attack on the country's economy, and thus an attack on that country.

It's scary how easily this chain of reasoning comes to mind, and how few objections I can think of to it.
Teachings about "game" can be very effective at taking someone who is underachieving with the ladies based on their natural status level, and turning them into a slight overachiever. Much of "game" is simply counter-programming to prevailing myths. I got a lot of my romantic advice growing up from female friends. It turns out the advice was really, really bad advice, and it ended up sabotaging my efforts. Most advice from females is based on how they wish men they are already attracted to would act. It is not advice about how to build attraction.

But, there are also a number of schlubby, boring, low-status guys who read PUA material, play the "cocky comedy" and numbers game at a bar, and who end up bitter and rejected. They may even get a reputation as being that "creepy pick-up artist type." You can only fake being high-status so much.

The better "game" books will tell you how to raise your status. Models by Mark Manson does this. They will talk about lifting weights, how to dress well, building a social group where you get invited to house parties, finding a status hierarchy where you can be a winner, cultivating interests that allow you to be a good conversationalist, etc, etc.

Status is, almost by definition, the epitome of something where "fake it til you make it" works. Once you are regarded by others as having high status, you then have high status.

Yes and no. Any status avenue that is too easy, gets overpopulated and becomes low status. It is not like it is easy to be regarded as having high status by other people. You have to find some edge and work at it, or else get very lucky. It's hard for me to think of someone who wasn't naturally good looking or athletic, who got their high-status through faking it rather than by working at it.
I meant what I said.

Nobody can experience happiness by giving in to whims and random urges without considering the long term.

However, the good for a human being does consist in enjoying life and experiencing good emotion.

So, this was a false dichotomy:

> I'm not arguing that we should completely give ourselves over to our base urges, but acknowledging they exist, that everyone has them, and that they can be a wonderful thing would be a great start.

To be specific, the options are not: deny pleasure on the one hand, or give in to short-term base urges on the other hand with no thought to the consequences.

That is a false dichotomy.
On a related note, Google penalises websites with longer load times. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2010/04/using-site...
I am the author of Passpie and one of my goals with passpie was that it should be as configurable as possible. Pass(http://www.passwordstore.org) is a great and mature cli application and as with any great applications there are alternatives.

History (undo/redo) is planned on passpie, probably using git as well.

Some ideas are:
passpie history --list
passpie history --undo XYZ
passpie history --redo ABC
passpie history --backend git --redo 123
passpie history --sync

You may like pass you may like passpie you may like both. :)
For this little project, I just grabbed a template used by a very popular Github page. Looks like the font does not play well with Windows. I just switched it to good ol’ reliable Helvetica.
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> This creates exclusivity that somebody well-intentioned, but without an account [...] wouldn't be able to overcome.

Right, which is why we're generally opposed to restrictions on posting despite the headaches of being a public optionally-anonymous forum. We don't want to miss the chance of having, say, Alan Kay show up to comment on PARC, or someone who did a Ph.D. on a topic make an account to comment on it.

But posting to a monthly Who Is Hiring thread isn't really a serendipity thing. You have to know a bit about the community to do it—and if you do know a bit about the community, getting to 5 or 10 karma is easy. Even if it took a while, you wouldn't likely miss a thread, because they stay open for 2 weeks.

We've been getting a lot of emails from people asking how to post jobs in these threads, and although we always answer them, I sometimes do so with a sinking feeling that these are probably not quite the sort of posts the community wants to see more of. A very small karma threshold—just enough to be a speed bump—would probably take care of most of that. However I'm not attached to the idea.

Edit: I should add that we wouldn't do this without looking at the data first. "Looking at the data" in this case means looking at all the comments posted to those threads by accounts below a certain karma and/or age. If there were lots of high-quality posts in there, we wouldn't do it.
I never found C's transition from source code to hardware to be confusing. I struggle to comprehend why so many people, some longtime professional programmers, have trouble understanding what a linker does.

On the other hand, I downloaded the CUDA SDK. I couldn't even figure out where the GPU compiled code even resided. I suppose I was just supposed to take it as it "just works" (and it did), but it all left me highly uncomfortable.
I agree, but for a slightly different reason.

Only large(ish) companies have recruiters that are also employees. Most small startups have no one in that role, and medium sized startups would be more likely to have a freelance consultant than an employee. (Our startup has used a consultant for more specialised or senior roles).

Its seems strange that we'd want to let the Google/FB/Apple etc HR folk post, but not "Sally Smith, consultant to UltraSecretLabs.io"

It seems the easiest rule is what you suggest, ban them all - you can only post roles that you're personally involved in.
> some mew - perhaps maybe with a lot of further innovation - blockchain inspired tech

There is no other way to get a decentralized global ledger. Well, if there is, it would be a huge discovery, just like bitcoin was.

> It's become beyond obvious that existing Bitcoin blockchain technology has no real ability to scale

Once you have the ledger, you don't need to put every transaction on it. Lots of them can happen off the chain.

So yeah, your "obvious" is another word for "wrong".
You are right, I have no idea of the economics and would probably fail quickly.

I wouldn't try to open it not where rich people live or work, but a marginal area that serves as a destination for after work drinks and the like where there is some sort of scene. Someplace like Red Hook in Brooklyn.

Maybe do cross promotion with other local artisans as well.

Really, I don't want to run a restaurant, I just want good sandwiches. I'll stick to supporting good sandwich shops.
A "terrorist" is anyone who does something that could potentially harm the rulers' interests.
The precedent goes back a lot further than that, It's almost an American tradition it's been going on so long. There was a law passed in 1798, the Alien & Sedition Acts, that was used to jail people who were against the so called Quasi-war on the grounds they were dangerous to national security. Howard Zinn discusses it in the book "A People's History of the United States".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
I don't know about this cp/m backport as MSX-DOS but can tell that CP/M programs ran unmoddified: dbase II and a texteditor I forgot the name were ported from TRS-80 and required a software driver to achieve 64 columns or an external card for 80 cols. In Brazil we have plenty of msx 1 and reverse engineered msx2 boards.
"The authors have designed and tested a custom n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (nMOS) chip (the Digitar chip), which computes 16 independent notes, each with a sampling rate of 20 KHz." Kevin Karplus and Alex Strong, "Digital Synthesis of Plucked-String and Drum Timbres", Computer Music Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 43-55. That was way more voices than they could get from microprocessors of the day.

In the early 1980's, the big excitement in Stanford EE and CS was that you could take the new VLSI course and they'd actually fab your chip for you if you made it to the end of the course. (Actually, each student project just got a small section of the whole mask; enough chips were manufactured so that everyone could get a few, and they'd just wire the pins to different pads for each particular project's ICs.) I remember Alex showing off his first working Digitar chip to my officemate at the time, Danny Sleator (who is also credited in the paper), using the ice cube technique.
I'm all for doing what you can to up your pay because, at the end of the day, that's the only concrete way a company can show that it values you.

However, quaterly seems a bit extreme to the point of being nagging/needy. Consider how your relationship with someone changes if they kept asking the same question. I would think at some point you would become the "ugh, he's asking for a raise again" guy. So the worst case isn't a NO. The worst case is you get filed as "that guy".

Maybe space it out while asking for bigger ones?

How many times have you asked for a raise with this schedule?
Okay, so I get hung up on details, but "below the fold"? It's 2015.

Meanwhile, this is a good issue to bring up, publicize, and discuss. A worthwhile post.
Incredible comment. Maybe link to the source?
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> Of course you can use WOFF2 as a Base64 encoded string:
> ...
> url('data:font/woff2;base64,...') format('woff2'),
> url('data:font/woff;base64,...') format('woff');

Please, pretty please don't Base64 the WOFF and WOFF2 fonts in the same file. That's basically just inflating your font size by a guaranteed 80% or so. A browser supporting WOFF2 is guaranteed to support WOFF!

I'd honestly recommend waiting until WOFF2 support is better before you use them at all unless you have server-side support detection. In a year or so it'll make sense. Now? Not so much. [1]

I do believe you should base64 encode your WOFF fonts and link the others. In fact, I wrote a tool for that (if you are pulling fonts from Google's or some other service). [2]

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=woff2

[2] https://github.com/mmastrac/webfont-dl
I remember reading about Bitcoin a couple of years ago and expressing disbelief that many of the major advantages being heralded were little more than fantasy, these were:

* Micro-transactions.

* Replacing practically everything related to money in developing countries.

From this thread it is clear that many of those dreams are still very much dreams - the ever growing energy and resource requirements to participate significantly in the network is staggering, the amount of storage required for the blockchain is a burden to even tech-aware users (unless of course one would want to trust a third party...), and now it would seem that there are minimum bandwidth requirements which sit outside what is possible in even modest parts of the USA - impossible to achieve in places where the main link to the internet is a satellite.

If I was feeling particularly optimistic I would say that Bitcoin has been shown to be unscalable in it's current form. Further, the network itself tends towards centralization because of the ever growing storage, processing and bandwidth requirements.

I look forward to seeing where the future of crypocurrencies leads us- there is so much promise.
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I'm quite surprised there isn't a general "sigh of relief"
that this is happening...

HN is a tech news community, where many if not most of you who are working have tech salaries that can easily pay for the new Coursera pricing...

everyone knows the tech industry is volatile in the way that every few months, a new technology comes out that sends IT professionals scrambling to learn it in order to, not stay ahead of the pack, but just to keep up with the pack.

the enormous amount of free tech/programming/CS theory/knowledge from Coursera and others have created more competition in terms of tech jobs.

By principle, all members of our society deserves access to quality education, especially in the STEM areas. But let's face it -- this is good news for existing professionals in IT...for the most part ;-)
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> Anti War has always meant Terrorist to the FBI.

No, it used to mean "subversive" to the FBI (and other law enforcement, even before there was an FBI) -- but then, "terrorist" wasn't even a category law enforcement used or was concerned about when they were first concerned about anti-war activists. (Heck, when law enforcement first started being concerned about it, "terrorist" still mainly referred to governments using of terror against their own population.)
Can I propose something like

- REMOTE(global)

- REMOTE(continental US)

- REMOTE(UK work hours)

A number of employers consider "Remote" to mean come in to the office once a month, but many job seekers think of remote as live on the other side of the world.

Encouraging some disambiguation would help.
I have no idea what the original post said, because it appears to have been too godawful to even stay in the thread, but I saw nothing in kika's that sounded like racism. Just seems like the commenter is opposed to whatever groups are pushing the treatment he says killed his mom -- hard to fault somebody for that.
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What part of Australia are you in? It's not all stores, but McDonald's have started turning their Australian stores into restaurants. Gone are the days of taking a number and waiting around for your grease stained paper bag. I am in Brisbane (Queensland) and a few of the McDonald's in my area have this "Create Your Taste" in which you can actually build your own burger and meals from a massive touch-screen if you like. The burger comes out on a wooden like chopping board and the chips in a basket, similar to how your food comes out somewhere like Grill'd. https://mcdonalds.com.au/create-your-taste - this article on Lifehacker shows you what the new McDonald's is like now: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/10/taste-test-inside-mcdon... (Ignore the part about it only being available in a single store, there are a few of them around now.)

It's funny in the US McDonald's in particular is struggling as well as Subway and others in the face of upstarts like In-N-Out burger, but here in Australia McDonald's is innovating and becoming the benchmark for a new kind of McDonald's.
I prefer this method any day. Most people in the younger generations don't have a house phone line, much less a fax machine. It's so annoying to me when I have to send something to a company and the only method they accept is a fax. Luckily that has changed quite a bit in the past few years.
You need to talk to a lawyer. It's possible that you could re-negotiate the contract with your client (I assume you already have some kind of contract) so that it explicitly makes the client responsible for anything they asked you to do on behalf of their own clients. If the client refused to take on that responsibility, then you might consider refusing to do the work.
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I do actually have ADHD myself as well (clinically diagnosed and everything), and you are indeed right—ADHD makes it harder to get entrapped by such addictions. I was using the idea as a shorthand (which I guess by the downvotes is a Very Bad Thing I should never do?) America doesn't have an ADHD problem—it has a dopaminergic imbalance problem, but in the other direction which people don't talk about nearly ever. America has a hypomania problem.

The "Protestant work ethic" is what you get when social mores are mostly decided by people who are unable to get bored. Given that America was founded by such people, the gene pool experienced a heavy selection effect toward hypomanic tendencies and hasn't recovered since. (America's immigration policies only accepting what amount to extremely hard workers continue this trend.)
Hm... it appears that this claim is contrary to most beliefs, by people who have jobs involving them knowing things like this.
I think Colin's argument is that an HR employee of FooBar, who isn't going to be directly involved in the role, offers no more value to the community than a "middle person" would and we don't want/need either of them.
I wasn't thinking anywhere near 50. Perhaps 10 at most. More likely 5 would be enough.
Earthsea is pretty cool.

Ursula K Le Guin grew up in Asia. Her father had this copy of the Tao Te Ching, something Le Guin later rendered in English. She worked with it with the ear of a poet, spent decades working on it, throughout her writing career. Earthsea superficially resembles a Western, Tolkien-esque high fantasy, but its thematic core is rooted in the Tao Te Ching and similar streams.
These boards were $666 in 1976, about $4K in today's money. Plus you had supply a TV, power supply, keyboard, and punch tape reader. That was twice my income in those days.
It's time we turned social networks into real communities
You don't need the address of a variable: you can use the plain variable just fine, and most C code does a lot of that.

What a pointer does is add a level of indirection: so instead of having a value "an integer" you can have a value which is "the location of an integer". A variable holding such a value can be assigned the location of any integer variable, and importantly can also be reassigned the location of a different integer variable.

The additional indirection also means that you can link one data structure to another without including one as an integral part of the other.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9635076
Great comment! I never knew about this before.
Yes, though myth is also related to romanticising, through exaggeration and emphasising universal elements. e.g. cowboys, pirates, war, police have been mythologised. Really, almost any story that stirs does so by evoking these universals.

I suppose naval architecture has its own traditions, a lore of heroes, conflict, inventive solution and disaster. hmmm the tale of the Titanic is one of the most mythic events of modern times - and naval architecture is right at the center.

Does programming have lore? i.e. mythic stories? Figures like Turing and Babbage certainly have mythic stature, but don't seem quite right. Maybe something descended from the telegraph operators of Edison's era. Or perhaps some science fiction characters (like DNA on asking the right question), or Murphy's Law?

Perhaps we move so fast (though often reinventing unnecessarily) that lore becomes dated too quickly?
That all sounds precisely as doable if you replace bitcoin with dollars.
C is syntactic sugar over ASM
More to the point, they don't need to use Bitcoin at all.
AIUI, you're exactly right. He wore two arm guards because he kept hitting his arm. Of course, my source for this is reddit comment threads back when Avengers first came out, so make of that what you will.
Thanks a lot for this link. It's awesome.
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Every movie Pixar makes tries to push the bounds of animation in some way. Monsters, Inc. was specifically focusing on animating hair properly.
Brisbane, but I also speak for my experiences in Melbourne and Sydney in the last ~year, as well as smaller cities such as the Gold Coast, Mackay, Rockhampton, Albury and several others more recently than that (when I travel for work).

I cannot remember ever having a McD's employee bring me my meal when seated. For as long as I can remember (nearing a decade) it has been pick-up-over-counter, with the more recent addition of having a number on your receipt with a screen showing when your order is ready.

My local one has the Create Your Taste but I've not yet been to it. That only appeared in the last 1-2 months for me (Annerley). The fact that they're doing create your own was impressive enough to me but if they're now serving it to you at a table then that's pretty incredible. They've spent so much time nailing down their service times that I would have thought the staffing limitaions on running food out would be too high. I have to hand it to them for their efficiency.

edit: I've not yet been to one with the Create Your Taste thing, by the way. If the service at table is limited to those, then that explains it. But equally, I've only seen that at a couple of outlets too so I wouldn't exactly call it widespread here.
Flipboard assumed DOM is slow. I don't even think they created a prototype to see how slow DOM is.

I implemented this in few hours. Works on iOS, Android 4+ and WP

- Demo for mobile: http://premii.com/play/flipboard-style-news/

- I am using it in real app here. http://reddit.premii.com/#/r/news/
> Flash sites, apps and games also earned a bad reputation for eating up CPU, loading too long, doing too much and running poorly. And it was mostly due to the culture of the developers.

That's one reason. The other reason is that all Flash runtimes other than the heavily-optimizied primary implementation for Windows universally suck. That ends up being a rather large pain point when developers are more likely than average users to be running Mac or Linux.
by a weird coincidence, i was just watching a video where steve jobs talks about that early sale of the 50 computers. it is interesting in its own right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJKlc4m5D50
>It must be nice to be able to just make up and use a method for identifying "narcissists" without having to test whether the people you're identifying as narcissists are, in fact, narcissists. In my opinion, if this is how you do research you can hardly call what you do science.

This is rampant in socio/psycho academia and professionals. Not saying ALL of them are like this but in general, it is not a quantitative or strictly scientific field. Lot of the work done in this industry is self-fulfilling prophecies and their time is mostly spent on fabricating/bending truths and hard facts and say "here's a statistically significant outcome therefore assholes are great leaders".

It's laughable and I've stopped reading the article because I felt like it's built on the same shoddy science work and poor understanding of statistics and it's significance.
He's not lying. I got the ability to post within hours of my site being posted by just Tweeting it. But the be fair, I also didn't know that's how it worked and had to ask Ryan on Twitter before it happened.
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