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I'm curious about all these comments about how much time it takes to maintain these systems. I've run a Debian+Courier+Spamassassin+Roundcube setup for over a decade for friends and family, and the maintenance required has been quite minimal. I have a script that emails me when security updates are available, and apt-get upgrade just takes a few seconds. Every couple of years I have to upgrade the Debian version, but that rarely takes more than a couple of hours. Outside of that, it just runs and runs.

Having said that, I am comfortable doing all that Linux sysadmin stuff, so maybe that's the difference. And if I were offering email accounts to people I didn't know, that would be an entirely different maintenance challenge.
Right. The GameCube discs don't work in the drive. But the Wii U hardware is still compatible with GameCube games. (A Wii U can naively run GameCube games without any modifications. So if Nintendo released one on their online store, for example, you could download and run it without any emulation)
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I took the multiple choice coding test and passed! They then scheduled me a phone interview with Ammon Bartram. Here I got to share some of the projects I've worked on and he tested my proficiency with some general open ended questions. After we chat, I felt pretty good about the 3rd and final screen sharing interview. I was wrong. My environment was setup, and we jumped right into the challenges over Google Hangouts. There were 3 of them, the one I chose to complete in C# was printing a spiral shape of N length to stdout. This seemed pretty easy at first, but proved to be a bit more difficult. (Involves recursion over a 2-dimensional array.) I finished the task, just not within our 45 minute window. Ammon also stumped me on some very fundamental aspects of C# which I believe ultimately led to their decision. Lesson learned: You might know how to piece together a perfectly good application using resources on stack overflow but that doesn't make you elite. The more proficient you are in speaking to memory management within your applications, the better. Definitely an awesome experience and something I will be trying again in the future.
The free trial is great, loads of lessons there :)
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Hm, let's check wikipedia,

"Evolutionism was a common 19th century belief that organisms inherently improve themselves through progressive inherited change over time, and increase in complexity through evolution. The belief went on to include cultural evolution and social evolution."

And more to the point:

"In modern times, the term evolution is widely used, but the terms evolutionism and evolutionist are seldom used in the scientific community to refer to the biological discipline as the term is considered both redundant and anachronistic, though it has been used by creationists in discussing the creation-evolution controversy. Apart from the use of the word by creationists, it is also often used by theists to imply a worldview that is essentially naturalistic."
Dependency injection was one of the barrier of entry for me. This is a huge milestone.
This is such a stupid comment. There are lots of specialists in India, isn't it possible that Snapdeal just doesn't appeal to them? Snapdeal is not exactly building anything ground breaking and a job at Snapdeal is nothing to write home about, for a specialist. They just come off as a shitty Flipkart/Amazon clone. All of my experiences buying from them was unsatisfactory.
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I need to get a phone for work. I'm so tired of Apple's phones, and heard terrible things about Android. But I've really liked Windows 8 on my wife's Surface Pro. So I'm gonna go with a Windows Phone.

Can you recommend a model? (I'm okay with either a 2-year contract or pay-as-you-go.) We're going to be in the city tonight and I need one ASAP so I'm gonna get one at the local Best Buy.
Although I'm an atheist, I find this to be somewhat disturbing.

Creationism, regardless of its mythological background, still is part of Humanity and any conclusions about it should be drawn by the individual, not the State or teachers.

They'd be better off spending more time with Critical Thinking, Scientific Method and Logic, powerful tools to genuinely understand Religion and not just take "facts" for granted.
And this is what I said above, we can achieve a form of understanding by using experiments and a theoretical foundation to explain the results.
You are not correct. Evolution have been observed in nature and artificially reproduced many many times. Just look at dogs. Separate species of fruit flies have been evolved in a laboratory setting.
Yes, it's definitely a tradeoff. I wouldn't think distance field modeling will ever be mainstream in design for manufacturing, just like CSG won't be. They are mainly useful in direct visualization. There may be lost of niches such as content creation for gaming etc where other representations can be useful.
I'd amend that to "someone evil who's built up a 'good' reputation for long enough that they dominate search rankings...." I don't know that what sourceforge is doing is a unique situation, but it's AFAIK not a common one. It's not going to have the same effect if I start bundling open source installers with malware and hosting them on my own, for example.
It looks like they are literally signing up the offenders for their own newsletters in these popups, so the title is appropriate.
> proper geometrical kernel (like CGAL)

Wow, that looks amazing. Thanks for the pointer!

http://www.cgal.org/

(Pretending to add value, it's eminently googleable)
Until you have achieve the desired mobility, then tweak it to walk upright instead of using 4 legs, and insert a Watson enabled chip into it.
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I'm ok with those as long as they react to ESC key .. otherwise it's instantly close tab

What I hate the most are those install alerts, during page load, which then ends up being a phonegap/cordoba of SAME site (!)

..or to be redirected to "m.example.com" because they think that an special diminished experience best fit for my perfectly capable phone
Because those are not pop-ups. They are simply area of the websites positioned with CSS along with some JS for the fadeIn/fadeOut on page load and on click of the "x" button.
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The issue isn't whether you're editing text or visually interacting. It's that there's a tension between abstraction (parameterized models) and WYSIWYG editing.
Though you are correct that interest rates are very low, I believe it is disingenuous to quote the rate of a gilt with a maturity under 10 years. (You have mentioned the 2-year gilt.)
Yeah, they always had a horribly confusing UI that made it non-obvious how to get to a project's homepage, even -- the thing that should be front and centre! However, I did enjoy playing around with their compile farm when they had that. Think it only lasted a couple of years, though.
As I've noted in another comment below.

Kids in Scotland can study Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies if they want - which is, I believe, a far more appropriate context for religious beliefs than a science class.
If you have very stringent requirements for "learning a language", than barely anyone other than native speakers can quality. For example, I speak English for decades, but I know I don't speak exactly like a native.
Also interesting is that /r/mylittlepony is not on the My Little Pony Island but on the neighbouring anime subcontinent. The visualisation is not only fun to look at but can actually help understand communities better.
I've definitely noticed a trend in technical blogs/ newsletters (some of which have been featured on HN) throw up a "like this article? Sign up for our newsletter" popup after you start to scroll down the page.

"I don't fucking know if I like this article, you're interrupting me while I'm still in the middle of reading it!"
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How do I tactfully express a few key points of advice from this article to my manager? He's generally a good manager, just very bad at:

> 14. Don’t shoot down ideas until it’s necessary.

> 25. Don’t judge too quickly; you’re right less often than you think. Even if you’re sure you’re right in any given case, wait until everyone’s opinion is heard.

> 30. Most conflict happens because people don’t feel heard. Sit down with each person and ask them how they feel. Listen carefully. Then ask again. And again. Then summarize what they said back to them. Most of the time that will solve the problem.

> 34. Use non-violent communication — it’s the best method I know of to critique people’s behavior without offending them. It smells like a management fad, but it really works (I promise).

Number #34 includes a link to an article on non-violent communication which pretty much sums up why I feel stressed and pressured at work all the time. It's not so much the deadlines, although they are stressful sometimes, it's more my managers communication style.

> Say you’re an early employee at a startup. You’re probably working 12 to 14 hours a day doing the work of three people. So which question would you prefer to hear from a teammate?

A. Will you get your work done this week?
B. What do you need to hit your deadline this week?

The first is an example of a closed question. It requires a “yes” or “no” response and does nothing to acknowledge your dedication or address your feelings about it. You know there’s a right answer and a wrong answer, and just knowing that is likely to make you tense, agitated and defensive.

http://firstround.com/review/power-up-your-team-with-nonviol...

My manager is constantly asking type A questions. It took my a long time to understand why I felt so pressured and this is exactly why. He just wants to hear yes and if he hears no, it feels like I've done something wrong. He is willing to help if that's the case, but every meeting feels like a hostile negotiation.
I assume that when you say "I'm not arguing for either theory" that you're attempting to come across as balanced in some way. Which is sad, because not arguing for the theory with a massive weight of evidence behind it is completely ridiculous.

I'm not sure whether you're referring to the Big Bang or abiogenesis when you say "magically appeared out of nothing," but either way, there's a great deal of evidence that these events did actually happen, even if the exact mechanism for how it happened is not known. In contrast, creationism is outright fiction, like Star Wars or Harry Potter.

There really is not any middle ground here.
You don't understand what evolution is. It really a name, and needs no proof.

Basically, there are a few known facts: (1) organisms die, (2) organisms reproduce, (3) the offspring are different from each other and from the parents, (4) the differences are more or less random, (5) dying is not random but a consequence of external forces, and (6) external forces are relatively constant. From these facts, it logically follows that over generations (or ofganisms reproducing ans dying), the living organisms will become more and more adapted to the environment. To avoid this long and detailed explanation, we just call this process evolution.

It's completely the same as e.g. the word "evaporate" - instead of saying that kinetic energy causes H2O molecules to become more and more excited, and slowly breaks the H bonds between molecules, so that they can move freely inspace (gas), we just say "water evaporates".
Doesn't work on Firefox on Linux either. Chromium works.
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It's very common for property owners to be required to allow access to another property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement

Basically, he entered into a contract as part of buying property and now he does not want to abide by it. Which suggests doing business with him is a terrible idea.
I actually can't find any information on their site that that's the case either. I'd have thought they would mention that if it were the case, and this looks a bit different from any of the Boston Dynamics ones I could find.
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In m_st's defense, this wasn't really an "arcade" version of SMB, but rather they took an NES, slapped 10 games in it, and put it in an arcade cabinet (not literally, but functionally).

Most games that originated on the arcade and later became console games were usually ports. However, in the case of PlayChoice 10, all of these games originated on the NES, and were "ported" (but mostly unmodified) from the NES.

So when sehugg thought they were playing an arcade game, they were actually playing a (slightly modified) NES.

Mario Bros. arcade was ported to the NES, and it was modified. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros.#Reception
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Can you produce a link to a repeatable experiment in which one species is being "evolved" from another?
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The core developers behind it were always Open Source advocates.. but we were always at a war with the corporate overlords.
The government argued there was no need for a ban because it trusted teachers' judgement, but in at least one primary school, that trust was misplaced: the principal invited an evangelical group in to preach to the children and hand out books that taught creationism as scientific fact.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/parents-outr...
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There are plenty of great Stanford students but they're going to come to you. The purpose of an elite education (these days) is to give people the confidence to go out into the world. This means that the overlooked talent is probably not going to fit the "Stanford Wallflower" bill, but be somewhere that most VCs wouldn't deign to look.

Driving across the street to Stanford "to identify and build new teams after seeing interactions" to scout talent isn't being proactive. It's what the rest of Sand Hill Road is already doing. If you're really serious about finding the best talent, broaden your search. Don't count the white Stanford males out, of course, but look in the "flyover" states, or for older programmers, or for women, or for parents who might be interested in programming because of the remote-work possibilities. Look outside of the US, even.

VCs are good at telling the 7s Who Look Like Them apart from the 5s Who Look Like Them, and that's about where it ends. That makes them better at assessing talent than a great many in the business world, but they're missing out on an incredible amount of information.
"Sending it over the wire in plaintext is probably being less of an issue now (as it seems the most used hosts are doing TLS),"

Unfortunately, no, TLS in the SMTP world is basically a joke, security-wise. It can inconvenience a passive interceptor, but crumbles in the face of an active adversary, due to the fact that $NOBODY does cert checking, and consequently, nobody can do cert checking, because it would break their mail server, because nobody does cert checking properly.
Sounds like you're not working in a technology company, where technology is in the DNA of the company.

PMP certified dev managers without any dev experience (I'll emphasise the last bit), in my experience, have been universally poor. There's too big a gap to fill between project management language (which is what pmp or prince gives you) and building something through modern development practices. If you have some very strong engineering leads who can fill the gap and translate then that might work but it's a dynamic I've never seen balanced correctly. Most successful technology/software companies that I know don't work this way which is why I made my original comment above.

Addressing your desire to move in to management, the first thing you need to do is express a desire to move in to management and then you need to figure out (communicate with your current boss) how to get from here to there. The simplest way I've seen this achieved is by being part of a growing organisation as there's always lots of opportunities. It's much easier to get an internal promotion than moving to management externally, but you could set those expectations through the interview process... "I'm really interested in a senior engineer position but my ambition is to move in to management. Do you see me being able to fulfil that ambition with your company?"
Your Mac firmware security is completely broken
Since HN started 8 years ago, the most interesting new projects have shifted from being mostly software to becoming more hardware. Now hardware and software is eating the world.
You are my hero! I aspired to be brave enough to drag paints out and risk painting a terrible picture.

(well, not painting in my case but its moral equivalent. Public speaking, risking making comments at work that could be important but just as well might be stupid, etc).
Because in the documentation screenshots he provides it clearly shows that AirBNB "pre-approved," that is, recommended this malicious lying guest.
I've never understood this design. Someone came to your website to do something. Why is the first thing you do is give them a bad experience?
It was banned from science classes, they didn't ban theology.
I don't see why Dropbox is on there. That's just a sign in/register window for a service that requires an account.
I'm not sure, because some of them are actually used to log in to sites. You'd have to have an exhaustive blacklist, or some heuristics that block common copy-and-paste versions but wouldn't block all of them.

If you only care about the text on a page, Readability will pull it out and show it to you in a plain style. https://www.readability.com/ Safari already has this built-in, and it's in Firefox Beta so it should be in the next shipping version.
Great release, kudos to the team.
Looks interesting. Just signed up, and it seems to be more of a learning web than a linear course, which is cool.
Everyone is talking about Playchoice 10 (which I never saw), but the Wal-Mart nearest to my house had "VS. Super Mario Bros" when I was a kid. It was like alternate reality Mario. Super Mario Bros with harder levels.

http://www.mariowiki.com/VS._Super_Mario_Bros.
I disagree. With mass production/farming/entertainment/etc you can provide for N number of people with N/k people. This has not always been the case. There were things not getting done, so when automation came along it freed up people to get some of the less critical things done. I believe we are rapidly moving into a time when there are not more things to be done and we actually have an excess of people (see China and India for examples). I knew it was a huge risk to my rep to post that, but hey, gotta get the idea out there.

More specifically, lets say it takes 10,000 people to meet the needs of 12,000 people. You might then think it takes 20,000 to support 24,000, but you'd be wrong. Increasing production does not scale that way, there is a sort of viable minimum after which scaling is easier. So 5000 people would not be able to serve 6000 because there isn't the critical mass needed to do everything (these number are purely fictional of course).

It's like mining. It takes a lot of people to dig and move earth, but once society gets advanced enough we can have bulldozers and dump trucks, and as you need more mining you just use bigger machinery rather than more machinery with more operators - or you make them autonomous so there fewer operators.

TL;DR the number of people it takes to provide for a society is not directly proportional to the size of the population.
Would you say this about other subjects, or just the origins of life and the universe?

Would you say that schools should not exclusively teach that 2+2=4, but give the students tools and allow them to draw their own conclusions? Should schools allow students to reach their own conclusions as to whether the Earth is flat, or whether the Sun is pulled across the sky by chariots?

Schools should absolutely teach creationism, in the same classes where they teach Greek mythology, Hindu gods, Native American creation stories, etc. And that is exactly what happens here. To quote the article, "...creationism can be taught in religious and moral education...."
"Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Government"

What's disturbing in this? It's not like they are going to hang everyone who mentions anything about creationism....
S/he seems excited and wanted to reinforce that with something more than an upvote. Frankly if his/her comment adding nothing, yours took away from the thread because it has a negative and discouraging tone to it.

Be nicer my friend. We are all friends here.
SourceForge wasn't bought by VA, it was started as a skunkworks projects by 4 developers inside of VA. Once the site started to get traction is when the corporate overlords started taking notice and forcing the horrible Ads, and now crapware onto the site.
I fully expected the post intro screen to be playable, would have been epic :)
My perception is that a good job is one that doesn't feel like a job. I remember a French vineyard owner say : "I want to teach my children how to run this place, because then they never have to work again".
Nintendo has experimented with releases on non-Nintendo hardware before, even during the NES/Famicom era. They released a port of of Super Mario Bros. with original levels for the NEC PC-8801 called Super Mario Bros. Special. It was special all right: no scrolling, just flick screen graphics like Prince of Persia. And only four colors so the sprites were dithered and ugly.

Then there was the educational game market, with Nintendo licensing out Mario characters to Software Toolworks and others to produce educational PC games like Mario Is Missing and Mario Teaches Typing.

Then there was the CD-i but I'm not really counting that since it was the remnants of a deal to produce a SNES CD add-on.

I don't think this is going to be a move to mobile phones -- even though it's a money press to pivot from hard-to-produce good console games to shitty in-app-purchase-laden mobile-phone shovelware and that's just what Sega and Konami are doing. I think they will use mobile software to supplement the console experience. Imagine booting up a Pokémon Garden app that lets you check on the health of your Pokémon when you don't have your 3DS with you.
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Yes! Is it bad to say I was disappointed when it wasn't?
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I was impressed by the number of listings (and really interesting seeming listings) -- great job.
When I'm forced to provide an email address to access wifi but the email address doesn't have to be valid, I typically use something like pr@ or press@ the responsible organisation's mail domain.
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Page layout doesnt look right on my android 5.1 tablet chrome even after I requested the desktop version.